cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Macroeconomic and Sectoral Effects of the EAC Regional Integration on Uganda: A Recursive Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Creators: name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Mawejje, Joseph
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Mawejje, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Computable General Equilibrium
subject: Social Accounting Matrix
subject: recursive dynamic
subject: regional integration
subject: tariffs
subject: sectoral
subject: aggregate
subject: intra-regional trade
subject: macro-closures and simulation

description: The paper empirically examines the implications of the implementation of the EAC regional integration on the Ugandan economy. Specifically, it analyses the likely effects of the asymmetric tariff reduction on the macro variables and quantifies the sectoral growth effects on the industrial, agricultural and services sectors. It adopts the General Equilibrium Model (CGE) for the analysis based on the Uganda 2007 Social Accounting Matrix. The primary policy simulation is the asymmetric reduction of internal tariffs across East African countries under assumptions of unemployment and free movement of factors of production. Other policy simulations that change these assumptions are analysed. Results indicate that the aggregate impact of internal tariff reduction under conditions of unemployment and free movement of factors of production is positive with average GDP growth improving by up to 0.3 percentage points over the period 2008 – 2021. However, the reduction in tariffs has negative implications for tax collections with import duties contracting by 0.3 percentage points, with no significant gains in direct taxes revenues. The rise in exports to the EAC region leads to a decline in the trade deficit by 0.8 percent during the simulation period. There are also significant growth gains for agriculture, industry and services sectors with the former registering growth improvements of 1.2 percentage points and the other two 0.7 percentage points. Therefore, Uganda should optimise gains within the EAC regional integration framework through tariff reduction and free movement of factors of production. Finally, the government should address infrastructural constraints (energy and transport) to foster growth in the manufacturing sector within the EAC region.
MOESM2 of Urinary proteome of dogs with kidney injury during babesiosis
Creators: name: D. Winiarczyk
name: K. Michalak
name: L. Adaszek
name: M. Winiarczyk
name: S. Winiarczyk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2 Table S2. Proteins identified in urine from dogs with babesiosis.
Youth Engagement in Agriculture in Uganda: Challenges and Prospects
Creators: name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Lwanga, Musa Mayanja
name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Lwanga, Musa Mayanja
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Youth
subject: Agriculture
subject: Employment
subject: Occupation choice

description: The Ugandan population is to a large extent comprised of a high and increasing cohort of young people, close to 78 percent of the population is below the age of thirty. Evidence reveals that youth engagement in agriculture is declining amidst rising youth unemployment yet the services and industrial sectors despite growing at considerably faster rates have not created enough jobs for the burgeoning youthful labour force. This may have implications on food security, unemployment, and underemployment and may undermine the government efforts to drive economic growth through agriculture. Using data from the Uganda National Panel Survey data of 2005/6 and 2009/10, we examine youth employment dynamics across the different sectors and further provide insights into the determinants of youth participation in agriculture. Using the Uganda Census of Agriculture 2008/09, we further document the challenges and constraints inherent to the youth in agricultural production relative to adults. The findings reveal that youthful farmers are concentrated more in agricultural production. Furthermore, a relatively lower percentage of youth use improved inputs (such as improved seeds, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals and veterinary drugs). With this poor rate of adoption of appropriate inputs, productivity is likely to remain low and constrain the youth to subsistence farming. Furthermore, the youth are disenfranchised in the ownership and management of critical assets in agricultural production, especially land. Land tenure issues continue to impede many youths from engaging in agriculture, with the majority of youth using land without exclusive ownership rights. In addition, the results point to the fact that the youth are less likely to access credit, extension services and social capital (farmer group membership), all key factors in agricultural transformation. The in-depth analysis results seem to suggest that the youth with at least secondary education, males (both married and unmarried) and those youth residing in households with a large share of adults are less likely to engage in agriculture.
Additional file 2 of Comparative analysis of adeno-associated virus serotypes for gene transfer in organotypic heart slices
Creators: name: Liu, Zihou
name: Klose, Kristin
name: Neuber, Sebastian
name: Jiang, Meng
name: Gossen, Manfred
name: Stamm, Christof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Validation of mCherry fluorescence intensity as indicator for the number of live CMs present in heart slices of varying thickness. a Slices with a thickness of 100–300 µm were analyzed on day 0 for CM-specific mCherry expression by fluorescence microscopy. Notably, mCherry fluorescence intensity was not evenly distributed across the slice, which could be explained by mechanical damage occurring during the flattening of the originally curved LV cavity. Scale bars, 500 µm. b Quantification of mCherry fluorescence intensity normalized to that of 300-µm-thick slices. c Absorbance of formazan normalized to that of 300-µm-thick slices. In b and c, signals of three independent experiments with ten slices in total were quantified, and means and SDs (error bars) are given. Stars indicate significant changes with p less than 0.05.
Improving girl’s access to secondary schooling
Creators: name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
name: Barungi, Mildred
name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Girls’ secondary school enrolment
subject: policy options

description: Despite the successful implementation of the Universal Secondary Education policy in Uganda in 2007, overall secondary school enrolments have remained low, especially for girls. Among other reasons, high cost of schooling is cited as the major constraint limiting access to secondary education. Uganda’s National Development Plan proposes to attain gender equity in secondary school enrolments through the provision of bursaries/stipends to poor girls to enable them attend school. In this study, we examine the potential impacts of this policy proposal (policy I) and compare it with the alternative of providing free transport on top of the stipends (policy II). The findings indicate that both policy proposals would generate net benefits to society but more benefits would accrue to provision of tuition stipends only. Compared to policy II, policy I is more cost effective and therefore the preferred policy option.
Optimization of Pulses with Low Bandwidth for Improved Excitation of Multiple-Quantum Coherences in NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei
Creators: name: Sørensen, Jens Jakob
name: Nyemann, Jacob Søgaard
name: Motzoi, Felix
name: Sherson, Jacob
name: Vosegaard, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the commonly encountered problem when optimizing NMR pulses using optimal control that the otherwise very precise NMR theory does not provide as excellent agreement with experiments. We hypothesize that this disagreement is due to phase transients in the pulse due to abrupt phase- and amplitude changes resulting in a large bandwidth. We apply the GROUP algorithm that gives high fidelity pulses with a low bandwidth compared to the typical GRAPE pulses. Our results obtain a better agreement between experiment and simulations supporting our hypothesis and solution to the problem.
description: Accepted by J. Chem. Phys
The macroscopical sound of tori
Creators: name: Vernicos, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C24; 58C40; 74Q99

description: Take a torus with a Riemannian metric. Lift the metric on its universal cover. You get a distance which in turn yields balls. On these balls you can look at the Laplacian. Focus on the spectrum for the Dirichlet or Neumann problem. We describe the asymptotic behaviour of the eigenvalues as the radius of the balls goes to infinity, and characterise the flat tori using the tools of homogenisation our conclusion being that "Macroscopically, one can hear the shape of a flat torus".
description: 32 pages
An invariant of link cobordisms from Khovanov homology
Creators: name: Jacobsson, Magnus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q45, 57M25

description: In [Duke Math. J. 101 (1999) 359-426], Mikhail Khovanov constructed a homology theory for oriented links, whose graded Euler characteristic is the Jones polynomial. He also explained how every link cobordism between two links induces a homomorphism between their homology groups, and he conjectured the invariance (up to sign) of this homomorphism under ambient isotopy of the link cobordism. In this paper we prove this conjecture, after having made a necessary improvement on its statement. We also introduce polynomial Lefschetz numbers of cobordisms from a link to itself such that the Lefschetz polynomial of the trivial cobordism is the Jones polynomial. These polynomials can be computed on the chain level.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-53.abs.html
HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions in Uganda: A Policy Simulation
Creators: name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
name: Ahaibwe, Gemma
name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy
Industrial Organization
Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be a major health challenge in Uganda. The adult HIV/ AIDS prevalence rate had increased to 7.3 percent by 2011 from 6.4 percent in 2005/6. Consequently, understanding the programmes that can curb down the spread of the disease is both an economic and a public health priority. Previously, HIV/AIDS control programmes in Uganda have relied on the ABC strategy (Abstinence, Being Faithfull and Condon use). However, as the epidemic matured in Uganda, public health authorities have adopted additional programmes to combat the spread of HIV such as male circumcision and counselling as well as testing. This policy simulation estimates the potential costs and impact of rolling out two HIV prevention methods - Safe Male Circumcision and Voluntary Counseling and Testing- on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Using data from the recent Uganda Aids Indicator Survey 2011 as well as administrative cost data, we estimate the potential costs and impact of expanding the above two methods of HIV/AIDS control. Results from the policy simulation suggest that scaling up safe male circumcision to reach 66% of the uncircumcised males aged 15-49 years would result in averting almost 121,278 new HIV infections through 2020, resulting in an average cost per HIV infection averted of $885 and net cost savings per infection averted of US$ 6,515. On the other hand, scaling up VCT to full coverage (100%) among adults (15-49 years) would result in averting 113,813 new infections through 2020, resulting in an average cost per HIV infection averted of $948 and net savings per infection averted of US$ 6,452.
A Catalog of Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS Commissioning Data
Creators: name: Lee, B. C.
name: Allam, S. S.
name: Tucker, D. L.
name: Annis, J.
name: Blanton, M. R.
name: Johnston, D. E.
name: Scranton, R.
name: Acebo, Y.
name: Bahcall, N. A.
name: Bartelmann, M.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Ellman, N.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Infante, L.
name: Loveday, J.
name: McKay, T. A.
name: Prada, F.
name: Schneider, D. P.
name: Stoughton, C.
name: Szalay, A. S.
name: Vogeley, M. S.
name: Voges, W.
name: Yanny, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the study of dense galaxian environments with short (<1Gyr) dynamical time-scales. In this paper, we present an objectively defined catalog of CGs in 153 sq deg of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release (SDSS EDR). To identify CGs, we applied a modified version of Hickson's (1982) criteria aimed at finding the highest density CGs and thus reducing the number of chance alignments. Our catalog contains 175 CGs down to a limiting galaxy magnitude of r* = 21. The resulting catalog has a median depth of approximately z = 0.13, substantially deeper than previous CG catalogs. Since the SDSS will eventually image up to one quarter of the celestial sphere, we expect our final catalog, based upon the completed SDSS, will contain on the order of 5,000 - 10,000 CGs. This catalog will be useful for conducting studies of the general characteristics of CGs, their environments, and their component galaxies.
description: 61 pages, 15 figures (Figs. 13, 14, 15 are jpegs). Atlas of compact groups (Fig. 16) is available at http://home.fnal.gov/~sallam/LeeCG/ . Accepted for publication by the Astronomical Journal
MOESM3 of Emotional and behavioral problems, quality of life and metabolic control in NTBC-treated Tyrosinemia type 1 patients
Creators: name: Kimber Vliet
name: Ginkel, Willem
name: Jahja, Rianne
name: Daly, Anne
name: MacDonald, Anita
name: Laet, Corinne
name: Vara, Roshni
name: Yusof Rahman
name: Cassiman, David
name: Francois Eyskens
name: Timmer, Corrie
name: Mumford, Nicky
name: Bierau, Jörgen
name: Hasselt, Peter
name: Gissen, Paul
name: Goyens, Philippe
name: McKiernan, Patrick
name: Wilcox, Gisela
name: Morris, Andrew
name: Jameson, Elisabeth
name: Huijbregts, Stephan
name: Francjan Spronsen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Summarized results of correlation analyses between phenylalanine and tyrosine concentrations and neurocognitive outcome scores. Summarized results of correlation analyses between phenylalanine and tyrosine concentrations and neurocognitive outcome scores. Only scales with significant correlations, with p-values
MOESM3 of Urinary proteome of dogs with kidney injury during babesiosis
Creators: name: D. Winiarczyk
name: K. Michalak
name: L. Adaszek
name: M. Winiarczyk
name: S. Winiarczyk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3 Table S3. Common proteins for babesiosis and healthy dogs.
Additional file 1: of Landscape of transcriptional deregulation in lung cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Shu
name: Li, Mingfa
name: Ji, Hongbin
name: Fang, Zhaoyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. Co-expression between JUND or its neighborhood and its known target gene GADD45A. Three of JUNDâ s neighborhood genes with strongest co-expression with GADD45 were chosen for display. (PDF 93 kb)
Hot Super-Earths with Hydrogen Atmospheres: A Model Explaining Their Paradoxical Existence
Creators: name: Modirrousta-Galian, Darius
name: Locci, Daniele
name: Tinetti, Giovanna
name: Micela, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a new mechanism that could explain the survival of hydrogen atmospheres on some hot super-Earths. We argue that on close-orbiting tidally-locked super-Earths the tidal forces with the orbital and rotational centrifugal forces can partially confine the atmosphere on the nightside. Assuming a super terran body with an atmosphere dominated by volcanic species and a large hydrogen component, the heavier molecules can be shown to be confined within latitudes of $\lesssim 80^{\circ}$ whilst the volatile hydrogen is not. Because of this disparity the hydrogen has to slowly diffuse out into the dayside where XUV irradiation destroys it. For this mechanism to take effect it is necessary for the exoplanet to become tidally locked before losing the totality of its hydrogen envelop. Consequently, for super-Earths with this proposed configuration it is possible to solve the tidal-locking and mass-loss timescales in order to constrain their formation `birth' masses. Our model predicts that 55 Cancri e formed with a day-length between approximately $17-18.5$ hours and an initial mass less than $\rm \sim12 M_{\oplus}$ hence allowing it to become tidally locked before the complete destruction of its atmosphere. For comparison, CoRoT-7b, an exoplanet with very similar properties to 55 Cancri e but lacking an atmosphere, formed with a day-length significantly different from $\sim 20.5$ hours whilst also having an initial mass smaller than $\rm \sim9 M_{\oplus}$
description: 20 pages, 15 figures
Evaluation of method performance and matrix effect for 57 commonly used herbicides in some vegetable families using LC-MS/MS determination
Creators: name: Mohammed, Ali S.
name: Gouda A. Ramadan
name: Abdelkader, Ahmed I.
name: Sohair A. Gadalla
name: Ayoub, Mohsen M.
name: Alabdulmalik, Najat A.
name: Wasan A. AL Baker
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A modified QuEChERS method was employed with LC-MS/MS to evaluate the matrix effects of 12 different vegetables matrices in 57 globally used herbicides. The average recoveries of pesticides at different concentrations varied between 70 and 120%. The reproducibility expressed as relative standard deviation was <25%. The limit of quantitation was (0.005–0.01 mg/kg). The measurement uncertainty is lower than 40%. Three vegetables families: Cucurbitaceae, Solanaceae and leafy vegetables were selectd for study. Among the investigated commodities, leafy green vegetables have the highest matrix effects, MEs percentages ranged between (2 & 282%). The highest suppression in analytes response was observed for parsley with matrix ME (2–19%). Most of tested herbicides showed suppression extent at the lower fortified concentrations. Tomato recorded the highest enhancement in most of studied herbicides of MEs% ranged from (122 to 379%). Butachlor, chlorbromuron, fenoxaprop-p-ethyl, flufenacet, fluzafop-p-butyl, hexythiazox, prosulfocarb and pyriproxyfen showed ion suppresion for all vegetables matrices with MEs% ranged from (5 to 79%). Matrix effects (MEs) were evaluated by comparing the slopes of target analytes to prove reproducibility (n = 5). The current study emphasize using of matrix match calibration with these commodity pesticides combinations, whereas, ME’s were dependent on composition of analyte and co-eluting agents.
Nutrient status of cattle grazing systems in the western brazilian amazon
Creators: name: B. L. Rueda
name: K. C. McRoberts
name: R. W. Blake
name: C. F. Nicholson
name: J. F. Valentim
name: E. C. M. Fernandes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Low-input cultivated pastures to feed cattle have dominated land use after forest clearing for decades in the western Brazilian Amazon. This study was undertaken to help understand the inherent nutrient supply dynamics underwriting cattle performance on three farms in the state of Acre. We assessed soil chemical and physical properties associated over time with different land uses following forest clearing. This information permitted specifying a conceptual model of nutrient stocks and flows under the observed grazing system, which produced insights about the dynamics of soil nutrient degradation. Above ground forage mass, topsoil nutrient concentrations and soil bulk density were measured. Land covers were Brachiaria spp. grasses, a grass-Pueraria phaseoloides mix, cropland and forest. Most soil nutrient parameters initially decreased after clearing, gradually recovering over time with grass-only pastures; however, 20 yr-old pastures had 20% less forage mass. Most pasture system nutrients on these farms resided in topsoil and roots, where large stocks of mature forage supported soil fertility with recycled nutrients from litter. Estimates of partial topsoil nutrient balances were negative. This suggested that corresponding nutrient stocks and the accumulation of forage mass were probably maintained primarily through the sum of inflows from cattle excreta, the subsoil, soil organic matter, and litter mineralization with scant input of commercial fertilizer. Therefore, herd management to increase animal system productivity via higher stocking rates on vegetatively younger forage requires monitoring of nutrient stocks and flows and fertilization that assures replenishment of the nutrients extracted. Otherwise, rapid depletion of soil nutrient stocks will lead to system degradation and failure.
N=2 supergravity models with stable de Sitter vacua
Creators: name: Fre', Pietro
name: Trigiante, Mario
name: Van Proeyen, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present talk I shall review the construction of N=2 supergravity models exhibiting stable de Sitter vacua. These solutions represent the first instance of stable backgrounds with positive cosmological constant in the framework of extended supergravities (N >=2). After briefly reviewing the role of de Sitter space--times in inflationary cosmology, I shall describe the main ingredients which were necessary for the construction of gauged N=2 supergravity models admitting stable solutions of this kind.
description: Prepared for Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions, Leuven, Belgium, September 13-19 2002
MOESM1 of Regioselectivity of oxidation by a polysaccharide monooxygenase from Chaetomium thermophilum
Creators: name: Chen, Chen
name: Chen, Jinyin
name: Geng, Zhigang
name: Wang, Meixia
name: Liu, Ning
name: Li, Duochuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. SDS-PAGE of the purified Cu2+-CtPMO1 produced in Pichia pastoris. Figure S2. The N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of CtPMO1 using LC-MS/MS. Figure S3. MALDI-TOF-MS/MS analysis of m/z 525 from MALDI-TOF-MS analysis. Figure S4. Types of fragmentation of CtPMO1 C4- and C6-oxidized products (m/z 525). Figure S5. 1H NMR spetra of CtPMO1 soluble reaction products with PASC as substrate in DMSO-d 6 . Figure S6. Sequence alignment of CtPMO1 and NCLPMO9C using ClastalW2. Figure S7. Homology model of the catalytic domain of CtPMO1 using SWISS-MODEL. Figure S8. Homology model of CtPMO1 binding with cellopentaose. Figure S9. Identification of the mutated CtPMO1 soluble reaction products oxidized by Br2 using with PASC as substrate MALDI-TOF-MS. Table S1. List of primers used for PCR of the CtPMO1 protein. Table S2. Fragmentation analysis of the peak of DP3-2 (m/z 525) according to Additional file 1: Figure S3, S4.
The teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) leaves marketing chain in southern Benin: part time trade, contribution to livelihoods and environmental sustainability
Creators: name: Aoudji, Augustin K.N.
name: Adegbidi, Anselme
name: Dossou-Guédégbé, Odile
name: Akpovi, Richard W. Yao
name: Lebailly, Philippe
name: Aoudji, Augustin K.N.
name: Adegbidi, Anselme
name: Dossou-Guédégbé, Odile
name: Akpovi, Richard W. Yao
name: Lebailly, Philippe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: marketing
subject: NTFP
subject: teak leaves
subject: income
subject: food security

description: The marketing and the valorisation of teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) leaves were studied in southern Benin, in order to generate useful information to capture the livelihoods improvement potential of this non wood forest product (NTFP). 76 traders and 44 consumers of teak leaves were interviewed in nine markets purposely selected based on their functions in the marketing system. Traders provided information on their functions in the marketing system, the costs borne, and their revenues. In the consumers’ survey, respondents provided data on the consumption forms of teak leaves. The marketing channel consisted of a network of markets, with specialisation per functions in respect to their geographical pattern: rural - peri-urban - urban gradient. Rural women were the main stakeholders engaged in the trade of teak leaves. Three categories of traders were identified, namely collectors wholesalers-retailers, collectors-retailers, and retailers. The monthly net revenue was XOF 4,659–15,927 (USD 9.3–31.9) during the rainy season and XOF 6,621–21,655 (USD 13.2–43.3) during the dry season. These revenues were used to meet household’s needs, especially food supply, hence contributing to food security. Regarding the consumption, teak leaves were used mainly for packaging food products. As a substitute to polyethylene bags in food packaging, teak leaves offer a great potential to tackle environmental pollution in southern Benin.
ПОРЯДОК И ПРОЦЕСС МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ ПОСЛЕДСТВИЙ ЗЕМЛЕТРЯСЕНИЙ В УЗБЕКИСТАНЕ
Creators: name: Атабаев К.А., PhD, Атабаева М.М., Ташкентский государственный технический университет имени И.А. Каримова, Ташкент, Узбекистан.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Узбекистан, расположенный в сейсмически активной зоне Центральной Азии, сталкивается с высокими рисками землетрясений, которые могут серьезно повлиять на население, инфраструктуру и экономику. В статье рассматриваются методы моделирования последствий землетрясений, включая анализ сейсмической активности, оценку уязвимости зданий и инфраструктуры, а также прогнозирование потенциального ущерба. Применение современных технологий и подходов позволяет разрабатывать эффективные меры по снижению рисков и повышению готовности к чрезвычайным ситуациям. Это включает укрепление строительных норм, создание систем раннего предупреждения и обучение населения. Такие меры способствуют минимизации последствий землетрясений и обеспечению устойчивого развития регионов.

Ключевые слова: землетрясения, моделирование, ущерб, сейсмическая опасность, управление рисками,Узбекистан
Quantum dot optomechanics in suspended nanophononic strings
Creators: name: Vogele, Anja
name: Sonner, Maximilian M.
name: Mayer, Benjamin
name: Yuan, Xueyong
name: Weiß, Matthias
name: Nysten, Emeline D. S.
name: da Silva, Saimon F. Covre
name: Rastelli, Armando
name: Krenner, Hubert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optomechanical coupling of quantum dots and flexural mechanical modes is studied in suspended nanophononic strings. The investigated devices are designed and monolithically fabricated on an (Al)GaAs heterostructure. Radio frequency elastic waves with frequencies ranging between $f$=250 MHz to 400 MHz are generated as Rayleigh surface acoustic waves on the unpatterned substrate and injected as Lamb waves in the nanophononic string. Quantum dots inside the nanophononic string exhibit a 15-fold enhanced optomechanical modulation compared to those dynamically strained by the Rayleigh surface acoustic wave. Detailed finite element simulations of the phononic mode spectrum of the nanophononic string confirm, that the observed modulation arises from valence band deformation potential coupling via shear strain. The corresponding optomechanical coupling parameter is quantified to $0.15 \mathrm{meV nm^{-1}}$. This value exceeds that reported for vibrating nanorods by approximately one order of magnitude at 100 times higher frequencies. Using this value, a derive vertical displacements in the range of 10 nm is deduced from the experimentally observed modulation. The results represent an important step towards the creation of large scale optomechanical circuits interfacing single optically active quantum dots with optical and mechanical waves.
description: Submitted manuscript
Mulberry leaves as a feed source for livestock in Kenya: A Review
Creators: name: LM Mwai
name: AM Kingori
name: MK Ambula
name: LM Mwai
name: AM Kingori
name: MK Ambula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Mulberry leaf meal, Non-ruminants, Protein source, Ruminants

description: In Kenya, Mulberry is grown in less than a piece of an acre by most of the farmers. Current acreage of mulberry stands at 250, spread over Western, Nyanza, and Rift Valley and Coastal regions. Mulberry leaves are highly palatable and digestible (70-90%) to ruminants and can be fed to non-ruminants as part of feed ingredient. Protein content and essential amino acid profile in the leaves and young stems varies from 15 to 35% depending on the variety. The Mulberry leaves are highly applicable as supplements replacing concentrates for dairy cattle, as the main feed for goats and sheep, and as an ingredient in rabbits and pigs’ diets. Farmers growing mulberry fodder offer higher protein content to livestock than those relying on different varieties of Napier grass, which have failed to boost milk production despite the amounts fed. In non-ruminant production, fishmeal and soybean meals are the main source of protein. In ruminant production, cottonseed meal and canola meal are the main source of protein. These meals are expensive, inadequate in supply and of variable quality. This often leads to low egg production and poor-quality eggs, hence low income and poverty among farmers. Therefore, efforts have been made to identify locally available protein feed resources that can be used as a protein supplement for livestock. Mulberry leaf meal (MLM) has been identified as a locally available alternative protein and mineral source that are beneficial to livestock and have been proven to improve production.
Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B Meson Decays to Charmless Two-Body States Containing a K0
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
name: Collaboration, BABAR
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of branching fractions and \CP-violating asymmetries in decays of $B$ mesons to two-body final states containing a \Kz. The results are based on a data sample of approximately 88 million \upsbb decays collected with the \babar detector at the \pep2 asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at SLAC. We measure $\BR(\Bp\to\Kz\pip) = (22.3 \pm 1.7 \pm 1.1)\times 10^{-6}$, $\BR(\Bz\to\Kz\piz) = (11.4\pm 1.7\pm 0.8)\times 10^{-6}$, $\BR(\Bp\to\Kzb\Kp) < 2.5\times 10^{-6}$, and $\BR(\Bz\to\KzKzb) < 1.8\times 10^{-6}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic, and the upper limits are at the 90% confidence level. In addition, the following \CP-violating asymmetries have been measured: ${\cal A}_{CP}(\Bp\to\Kz\pip) = -0.05 \pm 0.08 \pm 0.01$ and ${\cal A}_{CP}(\Bz\to\Kz\piz) = 0.03 \pm 0.36\pm 0.11$.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Applying economics to networks: What analytical insight do we gain?
Creators: name: Baker, Derek
name: Baker, Derek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A case is made for theoretical and empirical specification of agribusiness systems as networks or netchains. This primarily involves characterization not only of the actors in value chains but also of the links between them. Selected recent work on applications of network analysis methods and approaches to economics generally, and agribusiness specifically, is discussed and extended to an empirical study of smallholder and informal dairy value chains in Tanzania and Uganda. Results are discussed in terms of network-related indicators and their economic and gender-related implications. A logical progression of hypotheses about network-mediated development impact is presented.
Some Remarks on the Coupling Prescription of Teleparallel Gravity
Creators: name: Mosna, Ricardo A.
name: Pereira, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a nonholonomic moving frame version of the general covariance principle, an active version of the equivalence principle, an analysis of the gravitational coupling prescription of teleparallel gravity is made. It is shown that the coupling prescription determined by this principle is always equivalent with the corresponding prescription of general relativity, even in the presence of fermions. An application to the case of a Dirac spinor is made.
description: LaTeX, 14 pages, minor changes, references updated. To appear in Gen. Relat. Grav
title: Pope as a Maker of Ballads
Creators: name: Dossin, Mary M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1967

description: The intriguing sub-title of Albert B. Friedman's book, The Balled Revival: Studies in the influence of Popular on Sophisticated Poetry, points to the crux of my thesis: was the most sophisticated poet of a very sophisticated literary age seriously influenced in his work by the popular ballads enjoyed by the common people? h brief but comprehensive examination of the status of the ballad in the early eighteenth century will show that ballads were at that time more widely enjoyed and admired than has often been thought. The second chapter will demonstrate, through a study of statements by Pope and of the ballads he wrote, that this poet was well aware of the popularity of ballads in his time and knew the fine points of ballad style and subject matter. Finally, a comparative study of Pope's "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" and a broadside ballad with a similar title will present strong evidence for Pope's probable adaptation of this ballad story in writing his elegy.
Market Imperfections and Subsistence Farming: The Case of Kosovo
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Desjeux, Yann
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Desjeux, Yann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Rural areas in Kosovo, although covering 60 per cent of the population, do not contribute much to the economic growth. One of the reasons for this situation is that agriculture is stagnating because most of the farms produce for self-consumption. Imports are thus required to meet the urban demand, particularly of wheat, milk and dairy products (Lingard, 2003). Transforming agricultural households into more commercialised farm operators would help generate additional income in rural areas. This paper investigates whether there are market deficiencies on input or output side, which would require government intervention in order to facilitate farm commercialisation. Agricultural households might not have access to output market due to an underdeveloped downstream sector and a lack of contractual relations with processors and traders. On the other side, local producers might not be preferred in comparison to imports as their production level is low with unsatisfactory and variable quality due to constraints on the input markets. This might be the case in Kosovo due to a lack of off-farm opportunities (and thus oversupply and underemployment of labour on-farm), a limited access to credit (resulting in underinvestment and low quality inputs used on-farm) and a high land fragmentation but missing institutions for land consolidation. The only exception is a pilot project Agriculture Land Utilisation project (ALUP) funded by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) which mainly provides technical assistance but does not have the financial capacity to proceed with a wide coverage of land consolidation in practice. To answer these questions, data from the Agricultural Household Survey (AHS) of 2004 are used and a methodology derived from a household model framework is applied.
AgEcon Search User Survey 2013
Creators: name: Kelly, Julia A.
name: Eells, Linda
name: Kelly, Julia A.
name: Eells, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: In October 2013 a 5-question user survey was initiated to assess current and desired uses of AgEcon Search. The survey was completed by 224 respondents over a 2-week period. This is the Executive Summary report on the survey.
A limbus mundi elucidation of habitability: the Goldilocks Edge
Creators: name: von Hegner, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The habitable zone is the circumstellar region in which a terrestrial-mass planet with an atmosphere can sustain liquid water on its surface. However, despite the usefulness of this concept, it is being found to be increasingly limiting in a number of ways. The following is known: (i) Liquid water can exist on worlds for reasons unrelated to its specific distance from a star. (ii) Energy sources can exist for reasons unrelated to the distance to a star. Furthermore, the habitable zone is based on both astronomy: the distance and stellar energy, and chemistry: liquid water and the right temperature. However, these factors are only part of the consideration. Thus, discussions of habitability and the possibility for the emergence of life on a world must consider the evolutionary principles that govern life as well as the laws that govern stellar and planetary science. This is important because the following is also known: (iii) The time window for the emergence of life is within 600 million years. (iv) The Earth was an extreme environment overall in the period when this window existed. (v) The first life was necessarily fragile. Therefore, chemical evolution must have taken place in a relatively protected and restricted environment. Thus, rather than as in the Goldilocks zone, which focuses too narrowly on the world as a whole, this paper suggests that it is better to focus on a particular region and time period on a world, in which fitting conditions for habitability exist. Thus, the following is suggested: The Goldilocks Edge is a spatial and temporal window on an astronomical body or planemo, where liquid solvents, SPONCH elements, and energy sources exist. Furthermore, since the mere presence of these do not in themselves necessarily lead to the emergence of life, this possibility only arises when these interact. Thus, the prebiotic spot will be suggested.
Morphological, genetic diversity and symbiotic functioning of rhizobia isolates nodulating cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) in soils of Western Kenya and their tolerance to abiotic stress
Creators: name: Odori, Carolyn
name: Ngaira, Jane
name: Kinyua, Johnson
name: Evans N. Nyaboga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Nitrogen is the most limiting nutrient for growth of most crop plants in sub-Saharan Africa and legume crops largely depend on fixed nitrogen from indigenous nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The identification and symbiotic characterization of indigenous rhizobia is the basis for inoculants formulation for sustainable legume production in the face of climate change. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diversity of indigenous rhizobia responsible for cowpea nodulation in farmers’ fields across three Counties of Western Kenya. The symbiotic performance of abiotic stress-tolerant rhizobia in their homologous cowpea was also assessed. The results showed high genetic variability among the rhizobia isolates based on morphology and ERIC-PCR fingerprinting. Nine indigenous rhizobia isolates tolerant to extreme temperature, salinity and pH were tested for symbiotic efficiency in a glasshouse experiment. The rhizobia isolates were able to efficiently nodulate cowpea and showed wide variations in their symbiotic efficiency (SE). Five isolates (M2bii, B6ii, B2i, V5ii and V11i) showed significantly higher SE (p nifH symbiotic gene sequencing and confirmed their identities as Bradyrhizobium and Rhizobium. These isolates have potential for inoculant formulation. The results indicates the existence of indigenous rhizobia isolates which can tolerate environmental stresses and are symbiotically effective and thus can be developed into inoculants to improve the productivity of cowpea in Kenya.
Physically-motivated dynamical algorithms for the graph isomorphism problem
Creators: name: Shiau, Shiue-yuan
name: Joynt, Robert
name: Coppersmith, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate classical and quantum physics-based algorithms for solving the graph isomorphism problem. Our work integrates and extends previous work by Gudkov et al. (cond-mat/0209112) and by Rudolph (quant-ph/0206068). Gudkov et al. propose an algorithm intended to solve the graph isomorphism problem in polynomial time by mimicking a classical dynamical many-particle process. We show that this algorithm fails to distinguish pairs of non-isomorphic strongly regular graphs, thus providing an infinite class of counterexamples. We also show that the simplest quantum generalization of the algorithm also fails. However, by combining Gudkov et al.'s algorithm with a construction proposed by Rudoph in which one examines a graph describing the dynamics of two particles on the original graph, we find an algorithm that successfully distinguishes all pairs of non-isomorphic strongly regular graphs that we tested (with up to 29 vertices).
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, with additions and corrections included
Evaluation of the Multifunctionality of Agricultural Areas as Part of an Integrated Land Use Planning Approach
Creators: name: Wagner, Klaus
name: Wagner, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Land Economics/Use

description: The INTERREG IIIB CADSES project “Integrated Land Use Planning” (ILUP, 2003 – 2006) is led by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water Management and Environment. Additional partners are Austrian Federal and Provincial Authorities which are competent for water management and regional planning. In an international cooperation with Czech Republic (Moravia basin), Germany (basins of the Danube side tributaries Vils and Rott) and Hungary (Raab basin) an integrated river basin management should be developed and implemented. The main focuses are risk management and prevention of floods through adapted land use. The sub-project of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics comprises a regional economic analysis of the river Ybbs basin (side tributary of the Danube) and an evaluation of different functions besides the production of goods and raw materials in the agricultural areas in four reference communities in the river Ybbs basin.