cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3672: Three Mitchell Brothers of Huddersfield
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Stanley served with the West Riding Regiment and survived the war. It is thought that Stanley was in the training battalion. George died at Passchendale on the 06/10/1917. He served with the 1st/5th Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment and is remembered on CWGC's Tyne Cot Memorial. He had been awarded the Military Medal in 1916. The photo was taken the week before George was killed.
Abandoning Coffee under the Threat of Violence and the Presence of Illicit Crops. Evidence from Colombia
Creators: name: Ibáñez, Ana María
name: Muñoz, Juan Carlos
name: Verwimp, Philip
name: Ibáñez, Ana María
name: Muñoz, Juan Carlos
name: Verwimp, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: selection model
subject: armed conflict
subject: and agricultural production

description: This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique panel data set for Colombian coffee-growers. We identify two channels. First, we examine the direct impact of conflict on agricultural production through the change in the percentage of the farm allocated to coffee. Second, we explore how conflict generates incentives to substitute from legal agricultural production to illegal crops. Following Dercon and Christiaensen (2011), we develop a dynamic consumption model where economic risk and the risk of violence are explicitly included. Theoretical results are tested using a parametric and semi-parametric approach. We find a significant negative effect of the risk of violence and the presence of illegal crops on the decision to continue coffee production and on the percentage of the farm allocated to coffee. Results are robust after controlling for endogeneity bias and after relaxing the normality assumption.
Optical Spectra and Localization of Excitons in Inhomogeneous Helical Cylindrical Aggregates
Creators: name: Didraga, C.
name: Knoester, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the linear optical properties of helical cylindrical molecular aggregates accounting for the effects of static diagonal disorder. Absorption, linear dichroism, and circular dichroism spectra are presented, calculated using brute force numerical simulations and a modified version of the coherent potential approximation that accounts for finite size effects. Excellent agreement between both approaches is found. It is also shown that the inclusion of disorder results in a better agreement between calculated and measured spectra for the chlorosomes of green bacteria as compared to our previous report, where we restricted ourselves to homogeneous cylinders [J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 11474 (2002)]. We also investigate the localization properties of the excitons responsible for the optical response. By analyzing an autocorrelation function of the exciton wave function, we find a strongly anisotropic localization behavior, closely following the properties of chiral wave functions which previously have been found for homogenoeus helical cylinders [J. Chem. Phys. 121, 946 (2004)]. It is shown that the circular dichroism spectrum may still show a strong dependence on the cylinder length, even when the exciton wave function is localized in a region small compared to the cylinder's size.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution and the quantum ergodicity transition: a phase space perspective
Creators: name: Karmakar, Sourav
name: Keshavamurthy, Srihari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) impacts the dynamics of reactions in a profound way. Theoretical and experimental studies are increasingly indicating that accounting for the finite rate of energy flow is critical for uncovering the correct reaction mechanisms and calculating accurate rates. This requires an explicit understanding of the influence and interplay of the various anharmonic (Fermi) resonances that lead to the coupling of the vibrational modes. In this regard, the local random matrix theory (LRMT) and the related Bose-statistics triangle rule (BSTR) model have emerged as a powerful and predictive quantum theories for IVR. In this Perspective we highlight the close correspondence between LRMT and the classical phase space perspective on IVR, primarily using model Hamiltonians with three degrees of freedom. Our purpose for this is threefold. First, this clearly brings out the extent to which IVR pathways are essentially classical, and hence crucial towards attempts to control IVR. Second, given that LRMT and BSTR are designed to be applicable for large molecules, the exquisite correspondence observed even for small molecules allows for insights into the quantum ergodicity transition. Third, we showcase the power of modern nonlinear dynamics methods in analysing high dimensional phase spaces, thereby extending the deep insights into IVR that were earlier gained for systems with effectively two degrees of freedom. We begin with a brief overview of recent examples where IVR plays an important role and conclude by mentioning the outstanding problems and the potential connections to issues of interest in other fields.
description: Accepted Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys Perspective article, 36 pages, 15 figures (reduced size)
Propriedade intelectual e organização da P&D vegetal: evidências preliminares da implantação da Lei de Proteção de Cultivares
Creators: name: Carvalho, Sergio Medeiros Paulino De
name: Salles-Filho, Sergio L. M.
name: Paulino, Sonia R.
name: Carvalho, Sergio Medeiros Paulino De
name: Salles-Filho, Sergio L. M.
name: Paulino, Sonia R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: breeders' rights
subject: seed market
subject: research in plant breeding
subject: public and private complementary partnership
subject: UPOV
subject: anti-trust police

description: This article discusses the recent Brazilian strategy in the field of intellectual property rights applied to new varieties and seeds. Intel-lectual property is here understood as an economic tool to articulate and to coordinate the economic and technical agents involved in the process of development and diffusing of new varieties and seeds. The article deals with data from the National Service on Variety Protection and also with data from the Brazilian seed market. Among the main findings it shows that the recent strategy of EMBRAPA (the national public resear-ch institution) along with the recent emergence of foundations of seed production and commercialization (formed by small seed producers in different regions of the country), has caused important changes in the seed market structure. Of course, this movement has not been equal among all species and all market branches, but it is actually impressive among some of them (like corn and soybean seed markets). In this process, public research institutions can play an important role, especially if they are capable to build strong capabilities in dealing not only with genetics and seed production, but also with the national and the international regulatory frameworks.
Testing the Universality of the (U-V) Color-Magnitude Relations for Nearby Clusters of Galaxies
Creators: name: McIntosh, Daniel H.
name: Zabludoff, Ann I.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Caldwell, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed U-V CMR analysis for 3 local (z<0.06) Abell (A85, A496, A754) galaxy clusters, with 637 total spectroscopic members down to 0.1L^star. We find that these clusters have similar CMRs with a mean color of U-V=1.4 at M_V=-20+5logh, and narrow limits of intrinsic color scatter [0.047,0.079] and slope [-0.094,-0.075]. The core cluster population of red galaxies follow CMRs that are in close agreement with that of Coma. We test how sensitive the CMR uniformity is to variations in color aperture size and sample selection, and find slightly wider limits of scatter [0.047,0.112] and slope [-0.104,-0.054]. This upper limit for U-V scatter is consistent with z_form>1.2 for the bulk of the stars in red cluster galaxies, and a maximum age spread of 5.2 Gyr. We note that none of the slopes exhibit a break as claimed by Metcalf et al., and using colors from equal-light apertures does not remove the CMR slope. Our findings expand the single Coma data point and provide a much-needed z=0 base-line for comparisons to high-z cluster U-V CMRs. The CMR scatter range in low-z clusters is consistent with that found in high-z clusters, suggesting little evolution in the stars of red cluster galaxies out to z~1. To identify the most recently accreted galaxies, we divide each cluster's membership into 3 galaxy populations based on CMR-relative U-V color. Blue galaxies make up 18-23% of each cluster's galaxy counts above 0.1L^star. We test the hypothesis that CMR-relative color represents rough cluster infall times and find that blue galaxies are spatially, kinematically, and morphologically distinct from red cluster members. These distinctions provide further evidence that bluer members are indeed more recently accreted field spirals as expected in an hierarchical universe. (abridged)
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 27 pages, Latex using emulateapj5.sty and onecolfloat.sty (included), 12 figures. This updated submission (v2) is only to provide link to version with full resolution Figs. 9-11 at http://www.astro.umass.edu/~dmac/Papers/cmr.hires.ps
title: Community-oriented maturity model for innovation in tourism
Creators: name: Lechleitner, Florian Franz
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Innovationsmanagement
subject: Maturity Model
subject: Tourismus
subject: Innovation Management
subject: Maturity Model
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird ein Reifegradmodell zur Analyse der Zuverlässigkeit von Innovationsprozessen in Tourismusgebieten entwickelt. In der Einleitung werden die Motivationen sowie eine Problemdefinition zum Forschungsgegenstand erläutert. Um einen klareren Kontext bieten zu können, wird anschließend der aktuelle wissenschaftliche Forschungsstand in Bezug auf Innovationstheorie und Reifegradmodelle skizziert und bildet die theoretische Grundlage der Arbeit. Darauffolgenden wird die Entwicklung des „Community-oriented Maturity Model for Innovation in Tourism“ dokumentiert. Im Zuge der Entwicklung unterläuft das Modell einer ersten Pilot-Anwendung in zwei Tourismusgebieten in Österreich. Die theoretischen Annahmen, das Modell selbst sowie die Ergebnisse aus der Pilot-Anwendung werden ebenfalls evaluiert. Abschließend werden die Einschränkungen des Modells diskutiert und weitere Forschungsfragen, die sich im Rahmen der Evaluierung ergeben haben, in der einer Conclusio zusammengefasst.
description: This diploma thesis focuses on the development of a maturity model for the analysis of the reliability of innovation processes in tourist areas. The introduction includes the motivations as well as a definition of the problem of the research subject. To put the research as well as the new maturity model in a clearer context, the current state of scientific research about innovation theory and maturity models will then be outlined building the theoretical foundation of this work. The development of the "Community- oriented Maturity Model for Innovation in Tourism" will be documented. As part of its development, a first pilot application was conducted in two Austrian tourist areas. The theoretical assumptions, the model itself and the results from the pilot application will be evaluated subsequently. Based on the pilot application of the model as well as the feedback of tourism experts, its limitations and further research questions that emerged during the evaluation will be summarised.
3190: 3 Thackley brothers - the Whitfields part 2
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Hubert Whitfield was born on 16th November 1888. In the 1911 census he was living with his parents Edward and Mary at 2 North St, Thackley and worked for his father as a ‘General Mason’. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1915 – the newspaper account of Bateson’s death says he ‘went out’ to the front in May 1915, a statement which is contradicted by the Medal Index Card. The enlistment date of 10th May is given by the Bradford Roll of Honour. His M.I.C. gives the date he entered a Theatre of War as 6th November 1915, when he landed in Egypt. There is no other record of his military service until 19th July 1919 (Medal & Award Roll) when he was transferred to ‘Class Z’ (Army Reserve) and demobilized into civilian life.

Neither Edward nor Hubert is recorded post-1918 in the Electoral Register, although Edward had been registered to vote from the 1890s up to 1915. Hubert continued to live with his parents at 24 North Street as the 1939 Register records:

Edward Whitfield, b. 25th October 1861, General Builder
Hubert Whitfield, b. 16th November 1888 General Builder
Martha E[liza] Whitfield, b. 9th June 1891 House Keeper
(one entry is redacted)

In 1947 Hubert married Alice Butters. When he died on 30th January 1967 in Bradford Royal Infirmary, the administration of his estate was granted to his brothers and partners (retired) in the family firm, Charles Ernest and William Edward Whitfield.

No documents relating to his life are in the extensive collection of documents, photos and objects left by his brother Bill (William Edward) but there are photos of soldiers of the Royal Engineers, some of whom must be of Hubert. The two shown here appear to be of the same man. They are both of a soldier of the Royal Engineers – on the left the man’s cap badge and shoulder title, on the right the boy is wearing the R.E. badge on his lapel. I initially thought this would be Hubert’s family group, but for reasons above I suggest the boy and woman are a brother (Charles or George) and sister (Martha, Mary, Evelyn) of Hubert.
title: First row transition metal compounds for the oxygen evolution reaction
Creators: name: Schuch, Jona
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this work was to find alternative catalyst systems for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline solutions. The state-of-the-art catalyst systems consist mainly of expensive and rare noble metal catalysts, like platinum, iridium, or ruthenium compounds. First-row transition metal compounds were identified to be promising alternatives for noble metal catalyst systems. For this purpose, in the first part of this work, manganese-based oxides (MnOx) were investigated. Firstly, the manganese-based oxides were synthesized as thin films by a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process onto titanium substrates. By varying the deposition process parameters, different MnOx phases were produced and subsequently characterized. Afterwards, the determined process parameters were used to successfully deposit the MnOx catalysts onto several other substrate materials. It was shown that the catalytic activity of the manganese oxides for the OER is influenced by the oxidation state of the manganese and, in addition, by the contact between the catalyst and the used substrate material. In particular, a strong reduction of the catalytic activity was found for the deposition onto titanium substrates, which was attributed to the formation of a native oxide layer on the titanium surface, inhibiting a low resistive charge carrier transport. In the second part of this work, powdered nano-structured cobalt boride compounds were analyzed as a starting material to investigate their applicability for the alkaline OER. In a second step, a ternary compound was formed by the incorporation of iron (Co1-xFex)2B and nickel (Co1-xNix)2B (with 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5) into the dicobalt boride system. The transition metal borides were synthesized by a low-temperature solution synthesis with a subsequent calcination step. For the electrochemical investigation, the binary and ternary compounds were embedded into NafionTM containing ink and drop coated on polished glassy carbon substrates. It was shown that the transition metal borides oxidize under OER reaction conditions forming metal oxide/hydroxide or rather an oxyhydroxide species. The activity of the di-cobalt borides (Co2B) was improved by an incorporation of up to 50wt% of iron or up to 20wt% of nickel. Especially the incorporation of up to 30wt% of iron showed a positive impact on the onset potential of the OER. Finally, the stability of the best performing catalysts was confirmed over an extended time period.
Fatores que afetam a freqüência e o atraso escolar, nos meios urbano e rural, de São Paulo e Pernambuco
Creators: name: Pontili, Rosangela Maria
name: Kassouf, Ana Lucia
name: Pontili, Rosangela Maria
name: Kassouf, Ana Lucia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: education
subject: rural and urban areas
subject: public policies

description: Many studies in the economic field have showed the importan-ce of education to increase the wellbeing of the society. Trying to improve the educational indicators, in the 90’s, many changes were implemented in the Brazilian public school system. The objective of the present study is to evaluate school infrastructure and family characteristics affecting children’s decision to study or to drop out from school (frequency and school delay in primary and secondary levels), comparing the urban and rural areas of Pernambuco and São Paulo. The results showed that poli-cies that would increase parents’ schooling and/or family income would increase frequency and decrease delay in school. However, policies that would improve the schools’ infrastructure and consequently the quality of the schools would have to take the socio-economic aspects of the region into consideration as well as the type of objective to be reached. Moreo-ver, the investments should be focused on rural areas where educational indicators are far behind.
A competitividade do regadio em Portugal no contexto da Nova Política Agrícola Comum: o caso de uma exploração agrícola no Alentejo
Creators: name: Fragoso, Rui Manuel Sousa
name: Marques, Carlos
name: Fragoso, Rui Manuel Sousa
name: Marques, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: CAP reform
subject: mathematical programming
subject: Alentejo (region of Portugal).

description: The 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform consti-tutes a reinforcement of the main objectives of the previous reforms of 1992 and of 2000, namely the promotion of the agricultural competitive-ness, the multiple functions of the rural and agricultural areas and the sustainable resource exploitation. The direct production aids in the most Common Market Organizations are replaced by an only payment for each farm, subject to echo-conditionality and limits on the agricultural systems changes. This article evaluates the impacts of 2003 CAP reform on the Portugal irrigation competitiveness in the Alentejo region farms. The effects of the only payment in the agricultural returns, the main changes in the crop patterns and in the agricultural incomes were studied. They are also appraised direct social economic and environmental impacts of the adjustments produced with the 2003 CAP reform. The followed methodology is a discreet stochastic programming model. This model maximizes the expected income and minimizes the risk at the farm level. It was used to assess the crop patterns and the farm inco-me in the short and in the long term, in the scenarios of the 2000 CAP and the of the 2003 CAP.
Estrutura fundiária das regiões Norte e Noroeste do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: 1972 a 1998
Creators: name: Souza, Paulo Marcelo De
name: Ponciano, Niraldo José
name: Mata, Henrique Tome Da Costa
name: Souza, Paulo Marcelo De
name: Ponciano, Niraldo José
name: Mata, Henrique Tome Da Costa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agrarian structure
subject: Gini index
subject: land distribution.

description: The work has as objective to investigate, using data publi-shed by the Institute for Colonization and Land Reform (INCRA), the changes in land distribution in the North and Northwest regions of the Rio de Janeiro state, in the period from 1972 to 1998. The Gini index, the average area, the percentage of the area corresponding to the 5% largest landholders, and the percentage of the area corresponding to the 50% smallest landholders, were used to describe the profile of the land distribution. The results show significant differences between the studied regions. Although both regions have a concentrated agrarian structure, the land distribution is worst in the North region. It was still observed that the agrarian structure of these regions has not presented significative changes in the period.
Additional file 4 of NetConfer: a web application for comparative analysis of multiple biological networks
Creators: name: Nagpal, Sunil
name: Krishanu Das Baksi
name: Bhusan K. Kuntal
name: Mande, Sharmila S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S31-S37. List of figures corresponding to ‘case study 2’ as described in the manuscript.
Estrutura de mercado da indústria de refino de açúcar na região Centro-Sul do Brasil
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Laura Poggi
name: Moraes, Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias De
name: Rodrigues, Laura Poggi
name: Moraes, Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: refined sugar industry
subject: market concentration
subject: exogenous sunk cost
subject: Price

description: The aim of the present work was to evaluate the refined sugar industry in Brazil and to identify its market behavior in the central region in Southern Brazil. Accordingly, this study analyzed the influence of dis-tinct levels of competition concerning price and entrance barriers on the market structure, described by Sutton (1991). Some exogenous factors, such as public regulation, sectorial organization, and strategies to set up costs, were also verified to determine the market sector’s concentration. Results of the present study were compared to those reported by Sutton (1991). The result evidences the high index of set up costs and existence of barriers of entrance. The industry of refining sugar in Brazil was ini-tiated with small and average commercial groups, with a regionally-con-centrated sector. During the regulated period the industry was highly con-centrated (by the 1980s the CR4 was about 80%). In the 1990s, there was a great entrance of new brands and consequently a decline in the leader brand (União). One of the reasons that such industry is highly concen-trated is the huge sunk cost. Like the refined sugar industry analyzed in other countries, the Brazilian refined sugar industry presented, in 2003, high exogenous sunk cost in relation to the size market.
Additional file 3 of NetConfer: a web application for comparative analysis of multiple biological networks
Creators: name: Nagpal, Sunil
name: Krishanu Das Baksi
name: Bhusan K. Kuntal
name: Mande, Sharmila S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S21-S30. List of figures corresponding to ‘case study 1’ as described in the manuscript.
The back-to-back region in e^+e^- energy--energy correlation
Creators: name: de Florian, D.
name: Grazzini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the back-to-back region in the energy--energy correlation in e^+e^- collisions. We present the explicit expression of the O(as^2) logarithmically enhanced contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We study the impact of the results in a detailed comparison with precise LEP and SLC data. We find that, when hadronization effects are taken into account as is customarily done in QCD analysis in e^+e^- annihilations, the extracted value of as(M_Z) is in good agreement with the current world average.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Inventory Control and Valuation Practices of Local Cooperative Grain Elevators
Creators: name: Ackley, Richard M.
name: Ackley, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: The control and valuation of grain inventories is a major problem for cooperative grain elevators. Management must periodically inspect and assess the amount of grain stored. The inventory control has special application to grain because the quality and quantity of grain can change in a relatively short time as a result of shrinkage, insect or rodent damage, hot spots, and other causes. The objectives of this study were (1) to describe various methods of inventory control and valuation, with emphasis on responsibility for administration, on methods of pricing, and on estimating and accounting for shrinkage of grain inventories; and (2) to identify the areas where different methods are used by local cooperative grain elevators within a 17-State grain-producing region.
Irrigação como Estratégia de Adaptação de Pequenos Agricultores às Mudanças Climáticas: aspectos econômicos
Creators: name: Cunha, Dênis Antônio Da
name: Coelho, Alexandre Bragança
name: Féres, José Gustavo
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
name: Souza, Elvanio Costa De
name: Cunha, Dênis Antônio Da
name: Coelho, Alexandre Bragança
name: Féres, José Gustavo
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
name: Souza, Elvanio Costa De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Climate change
subject: smallholder
subject: adaptation
subject: irrigation.

description: This paper aims to analyze whether Brazilian smallholder farmers who adopt irrigation methods would be more resilient to climate change when compared to smallholders producing rainfed crops. We developed a treatment effects model, based in the Propensity Score Matching technique, which can explain irrigation adoption and net revenues simultaneously. Temperature and precipitation projections for 2010-2099 were used considering different climate scenarios according to the 4th Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Results confirmed the efficiency of irrigation as an adaptive strategy. For all simulation scenarios, land values of irrigators are, on average, approximately twice the value of rainfed smallholders. It can be concluded that there is need of public policies focused on developing strategies to cope with global warming effects in the agricultural sector. Moreover, given the importance of irrigation adoption as an adaptive measure, it is needed to encourage the expansion of credit lines for irrigation investments, especially for less capitalized farmers.
SurfaceNet+: An End-to-end 3D Neural Network for Very Sparse Multi-view Stereopsis
Creators: name: Ji, Mengqi
name: Zhang, Jinzhi
name: Dai, Qionghai
name: Fang, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) tries to recover the 3D model from 2D images. As the observations become sparser, the significant 3D information loss makes the MVS problem more challenging. Instead of only focusing on densely sampled conditions, we investigate sparse-MVS with large baseline angles since the sparser sensation is more practical and more cost-efficient. By investigating various observation sparsities, we show that the classical depth-fusion pipeline becomes powerless for the case with a larger baseline angle that worsens the photo-consistency check. As another line of the solution, we present SurfaceNet+, a volumetric method to handle the 'incompleteness' and the 'inaccuracy' problems induced by a very sparse MVS setup. Specifically, the former problem is handled by a novel volume-wise view selection approach. It owns superiority in selecting valid views while discarding invalid occluded views by considering the geometric prior. Furthermore, the latter problem is handled via a multi-scale strategy that consequently refines the recovered geometry around the region with the repeating pattern. The experiments demonstrate the tremendous performance gap between SurfaceNet+ and state-of-the-art methods in terms of precision and recall. Under the extreme sparse-MVS settings in two datasets, where existing methods can only return very few points, SurfaceNet+ still works as well as in the dense MVS setting. The benchmark and the implementation are publicly available at https://github.com/mjiUST/SurfaceNet-plus.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), May 2020
The great northern wilderness : political exiles in the People’s Republic of China
Creators: name: Wang, Ning
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the spring of 1957, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouraged intellectuals and students to speak out against the abuses of Party and government officials, with the avowed intention of improving governance. But when criticisms were directed at a wide range of Party policies, the CCP launched the Anti-Rightist Campaign. Those who had called for intellectual and political freedoms, and for curbing corruption, were accused of political subversion. In a nation-wide crackdown, more than half a million Chinese, including intellectuals, Party cadres and government employees, were punished with labels of "rightists" or "counterrevolutionaries." The CCP sent these people to the countryside or to distant frontier regions to engage in "ideological remolding" through manual labor. This thesis focuses on the life, behavior and psychological experiences of those banished from central organizations to Beidahuang in northeastern Manchuria. Three types of political exiles are examined—the rightists in army farms, the ultra-rightists in labor reeducation camps, and the counterrevolutionaries in labor reform camps. In Beidahuang, the political exiles were deployed as forced labor in agriculture, forestry, construction, and other sectors. Treated as political outcasts, they suffered physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Communist officials. Internecine strife exacerbated their misery. Their banishment coincided with the most serious famine (1959-1962) in modern Chinese history. Food shortages, hard labor, and a lack of sufficient medical care resulted in high death rates. Under political pressure, many exiles acknowledged that they had commited errors or "crimes" and made considerable efforts to show signs of repentance, in order to redeem themselves. The end of their banishment to Beidahuang in the early 1960s did not end their torment, which was followed by long-lasting political discrimination. This study reveals the suffering of a specific population of political exiles, but also engages larger issues such as political persecution, forced migration, and the nature of CCP rule.
A model for the onset of transport in systems with distributed thresholds for conduction
Creators: name: Elteto, Klara
name: Antonyan, Eduard G.
name: Nguyen, T. T.
name: Jaeger, Heinrich M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model supported by simulation to explain the effect of temperature on the conduction threshold in disordered systems. Arrays with randomly distributed local thresholds for conduction occur in systems ranging from superconductors to metal nanocrystal arrays. Thermal fluctuations provide the energy to overcome some of the local thresholds, effectively erasing them as far as the global conduction threshold for the array is concerned. We augment this thermal energy reasoning with percolation theory to predict the temperature at which the global threshold reaches zero. We also study the effect of capacitive nearest-neighbor interactions on the effective charging energy. Finally, we present results from Monte Carlo simulations that find the lowest-cost path across an array as a function of temperature. The main result of the paper is the linear decrease of conduction threshold with increasing temperature: $V_t(T) = V_t(0) (1 - 4.8 k_BT P(0)/ p_c) $, where $1/P(0)$ is an effective charging energy that depends on the particle radius and interparticle distance, and $p_c$ is the percolation threshold of the underlying lattice. The predictions of this theory compare well to experiments in one- and two-dimensional systems.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PRB
Additional file 2 of NetConfer: a web application for comparative analysis of multiple biological networks
Creators: name: Nagpal, Sunil
name: Krishanu Das Baksi
name: Bhusan K. Kuntal
name: Mande, Sharmila S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1-S20. List of figures demonstrating various functionalities of NetConfer.
Nonperturbative functional renormalization group for random field models: the way out of dimensional reduction
Creators: name: Tarjus, Gilles
name: Tissier, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a non-perturbative functional renormalization group approach for the random field O(N) model (RFO(N)M) that allows us to investigate the ordering transition in any dimension and for any value of N including the Ising case. We show that the failure of dimensional reduction and standard perturbation theory is due to the non-analytic nature of the zero-temperature fixed point controlling the critical behavior, non-analycity which is associated with the existence of many metastable states. We find that this non-analycity leads to critical exponents differing from the dimensional reduction prediction only below a critical dimension d\_c(N)<6, with d\_c(N=1)>3.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Revtex4, minor corrections
Postać św. Stanisława w wybranych publikacjach krakowskiej drukarni Schedlów
Creators: name: Czerenkiewicz, Michał
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: History
subject: 200510 Latin and Classical Greek Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: A paper on the Latin literary works dealing with the figure of St. Stanislaus the Martyr (1030-1079), published in Krakow in 17th century by the Schedels' printing shop.
Paper published in: Jabłoński, Mariusz (ed.), 'Śladami Świętego Stanisława w 940. rocznicę śmierci biskupa męczennika,' Kraków 2019: 141-8.
Agricultura Familiar, Gênero e Dinâmicas Sociais: um estudo sobre a construção territorial do assentamento Nova Lagoa Rica
Creators: name: Viana Silva, Camila Marques
name: Valente, Ana Lucia Eduardo Farah
name: Viana Silva, Camila Marques
name: Valente, Ana Lucia Eduardo Farah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Family farming
subject: gender
subject: territorial approach
subject: agrarian reform
subject: public policy.

description: This paper consists in an analysis about some women who are trying to be, through the Ampal (Associação das Mulheres do Projeto de Assentamento Nova Lagoa Rica, in Portuguese) work experience, in Paracatu (Minas Gerais State), a protagonist in the family farming field. Furthermore, this article tries to understand how the gender issue is inserted in the settlement’s process of territorial building, seeking to emphasize some dimensions of communitarian life. The study, conducted in 2006, is based on technician-methodological perspective of Anthropology, which has been conducted by two guidelines: the requirement of the field research and a case study. The results have shown that activities that results in asymmetry of relations between men and women have still been reproduced in the scope of family farming, which does not help to reduce gaps in rural areas. However, it also shows that there is an opposite trend from women agriculturists who, through group work, have started an emancipating process to know their own needs. This analysis also enables to elaborate some considerations about public policies that intend to support family farming with gender emphasize.
title: 02_1738
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
3160: John Duesbery, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: John Duesbery served with the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters. He died on 15th September 1916. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. His name on the memorial, on the CWGC records and on his death penny is misspelled as Dewsbury.

John wrote a letter to his mother in his notebook from the battlefield where he lay dying (see photo). He wrote, ‘I have been here for 24 hours and never seen a living soul’. The notebook made it back to his mother but John’s body was not found.

Other letters home describe the build up to the battle where John would be killed. “On 2nd Aug 1916," he writes, "I expect we shall be having a rough time of it in a few days time from now but I cannot give anymore particulars." Then on 31st August he writes to say he is out of the trenches after 6 days and is, "just behind the firing line for a little rest." He also wrote, " we are going to make a big charge about 10th September."
Additional file 1 of NetConfer: a web application for comparative analysis of multiple biological networks
Creators: name: Nagpal, Sunil
name: Krishanu Das Baksi
name: Bhusan K. Kuntal
name: Mande, Sharmila S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Comparison of NetConfer features with other tools.
An epidemiological survey of chlamydial & gonococcal infections in a Canadian Arctic community : determinants of sexually transmitted infections among remote Inuit populations
Creators: name: Steenbeek, Audrey Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Research Problem Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) pose serious health problems for Canadian Inuit people. This is compounded by ineffective screening and disease prevention strategies. Programs will have little impact on reducing infection rates if they do not target accurate disease prevalence and key determinants of transmission. Methods A cross-sectional survey (Part A) was conducted among Inuit males and females (ages 15-65 years) in a Baffin community. Participants (n = 181; mean age = 29.6) were screened for chlamydia/gonorrhea and interviewed. The questionnaire, which followed the Theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behaviour, was used to collect information on demographics, use of health services, sexual histories, STI and contraceptive knowledge, high-risk behaviours, perceived risk and barriers of condom use. A random sample (n = 100) was selected from Part A for the longitudinal cohort. Individuals were followed every two months post baseline for four follow-up visits. At each visit, participants were screened for chlamydia/gonorrhea and questioned about their sexual/social networks and condom use. Networks were developed through "snowball"sampling. Results Overall, 35 cases of chlamydia were detected, with 21 detected at baseline and 14 during followup. The combined cases gave an overall prevalence of 15.6% in comparison with 2.7% that was previously estimated. No gonorrhea was detected. The strongest predictors for STIs included: female gender (OR 2.45, CI: 0.55, 10.89), recent STI (OR 9.82, CI: 2.70, 35.77) and a history of greater than 2 previous STIs (OR 1. 47, 0.92, 2.30). Chlamydia prevalence decreased by at least 22% post baseline screening and treatment intervention. Major barriers to condom use included: embarrassed to purchase condoms, discussing condom use, and fear of giving a bad impression. There were no significant differences between males and females (p = 0.73) and between the age groups (p = 0.67) regarding condom use. Conclusion Consistent with the literature, the results support universal screening use in populations with greater then 1 0% chlamydia prevalence. Screening should especially target individuals with prior history of chlamydia and/or gonorrhea. Universal screening, prompt treatment and comprehensive contact tracing are strongly recommended for STI prevention in all Inuit communities.
First principles determination of some static and dynamic properties of the liquid 3$d$ transition metals near melting
Creators: name: del Rio, B. G.
name: Pascual, C.
name: Rodriguez, O.
name: González, L. E.
name: González, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an ab initio molecular dynamics simulation study of several static and dynamic properties of the liquid 3d transition metals. The calculated static structure factors show qualitative agreement with the available experimental data, and its second peak displays an asymmetric shape which suggests a significant local icosahedral short-range order. The dynamical structure reveals propagating density fluctuations whose dispersion relation has been evaluated; moreover, its long wavelength limit is compatible with their respective experimental sound velocity. Results are reported for the longitudinal and transverse current spectral functions as well as for the respective dispersion relations. We also analyze the possible appearance of transverse-like low-energy excitations in the calculated dynamic structure factors. Several transport coefficients have been evaluated and compared with the available experimental data.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
A Juventude Rural do Assentamento Florestan Fernandes no Município de Florestópolis (PR)
Creators: name: Costa, Fernando Luis Martins
name: Ralisch, Ricardo
name: Costa, Fernando Luis Martins
name: Ralisch, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural youth
subject: family succession
subject: rural settlement
subject: agricultural policy.

description: The possibility of a crisis in family farming referring on the succession of the company is concerning when some children leave the property because they are not able or do not want to be a farmer. This is a situation that could affect the socioeconomic viability of rural settlements of Agrarian Reform. Therefore, the objective of this case study was to know desires, future perspectives and the reality experienced by the young residents of the rural settlement Florestan Fernandes, located in Florestópolis (PR), since these young actors could continue to use gained batches. It was concluded that the majority of these young people have great interest in continue living and working in the batches with their parents, but the limitation of the family earnings in agricultural activities and the lack of their own income force young people to choose leaving the property to seek new opportunities.