cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Alternative Approaches To Locating The Food Insecure: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence From South India
Creators: name: Chung, Kimberly
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Ramakrishna, Jayashree
name: Riely, Frank Z.
name: Chung, Kimberly
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Ramakrishna, Jayashree
name: Riely, Frank Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: This paper reports on two methods used for identifying alternative indicators of chronic and acute food insecurity. A need for alternative indicators exists since many of the "benchmark" or "gold standard" indicators (such as household income or dietary intake) are too cumbersome to be of practical use in food aid targeting. The ideal alternative indicator should be statistically reliable, yet straightforward to collect and analyze. The study uses data collected in four villages in the Indian Semi-Arid Tropics to illustrate two methods for identifying the alternative indicators. A qualitative methodology included ethnographic case studies of at-risk households, participatory mapping of vulnerable households within a community, food charts, and seasonality charts. The quantitative methods included both economic and nutrition surveys. The data were collected over three rounds in 1992-93 from 324 households in south-central India. For the qualitative work, we used both the villagers' perceptions of food insecurity as well as the ethnographers' observations to generate a list of indicators for these areas. Triangulation among the various qualitative methods was used to validate the indicators suggested. For the quantitative study, we used statistical methods to test the strength of association between each indicator and six benchmark measurements of food security. The benchmark measurements were derived from dietary recall, anthropometric, and blood data. The dietary data were used to generate a benchmark for chronic and acute households' food insecurity. The anthropometric data were used to construct benchmarks of chronic and acute preschooler food insecurity. Finally, serum measures of vitamin A and iron adequacy were used to generate benchmarks of household micronutrient insecurity. We tested a core set of alternative indicators against each of these benchmarks. The majority of the alternative indicators were drawn from a review of the food security literature as well our own qualitative work in the study sites. Other indicators were included as they represent information that is typically available in secondary data sets collected by governments and research institutions.
Awakening of two $γ$-ray high redshift flat-spectrum radio quasars in the southern hemisphere
Creators: name: Li, Shang
name: Sun, Lu-Ming
name: Liao, Neng-Hui
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-redshift blazars are valuable tools to study the early Universe. So far only a handful of $γ$-ray blazars have been found at redshifts above 3. $γ$-ray signals are detected in the direction of PMN J2219-2719 ($z=3.63$) and PMN J2321-0827 ($z=3.16$) by analyzing the 10-year $Fermi$-LAT Pass 8 data. PMN J2219-2719 is not distinguished from the background in the global analysis. During the 5-month epoch, the TS value is 47.8 and the flux is more than 10 times of the 10-year averaged flux. In addition, the angular distance between the $γ$-ray position and the radio position of PMN J2219-2719 is only ${0.04}^{\circ}$. Moreover, the $γ$-ray and infrared light curves of long time scale are very similar, which support the association between the $γ$-ray source and PMN J2219-2719. The global analysis of PMN J2321-0827 suggest a new $γ$-ray source, during the flare phase, the TS value is 61.4 and the $γ$-ray flux increased significantly. The association probability suggests that PMN J2321-0827 may be the counterpart of the new $γ$-ray source. In the future, the number of high-redshift $γ$-ray sources will increase by combining $Fermi$-LAT and the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 2 of Factors affecting uptake and completion of isoniazid preventive therapy among HIV-infected children at a national referral hospital, Kenya: a mixed quantitative and qualitative study
Creators: name: Serah Kajuju Ngugi
name: Muiruri, Peter
name: Odero, Theresa
name: Onesmus Gachuno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Interview guide. Caregivers’ interview guide
A Food Demand System Based on Demand for Characteristics: If There is " Curvature" in the Slutsky Matrix, What Do the Curves Look Like and Why?
Creators: name: Bouis, Howarth E.
name: Bouis, Howarth E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: A food demand system is proposed, based on demand for energy, variety, and tastes of foods. By specifying utility as an explicit function of these characteristics, the entire matrix of demand elasticities can be derived for n foods and one nonfood from prior specification of just four elasticities, while avoiding any assumption of separability between foods. This framework can explain why poorest groups often are most price-responsive, but also can account for highest price-responsiveness by middle income groups. The system is applied to published food consumption data for urban and rural populations in Pakistan. Elasticities are compared with those obtained in a published Pakistan study applying an almost ideal demand system (AIDS).
Additional file 3 of Factors affecting uptake and completion of isoniazid preventive therapy among HIV-infected children at a national referral hospital, Kenya: a mixed quantitative and qualitative study
Creators: name: Serah Kajuju Ngugi
name: Muiruri, Peter
name: Odero, Theresa
name: Onesmus Gachuno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Interview guide. Healthcare providers’ interview guide
Theory of light diffusion in disordered media with linear absorption or gain
Creators: name: Lubatsch, A.
name: Kroha, J.
name: Busch, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed, microscopic transport theory for light in strongly scattering disordered systems whose constituent materials exhibit linear absorption or gain. Starting from Maxwell's equations, we derive general expressions for transport quantities such as energy transport velocity, transport mean free path, diffusion coefficient, and absorption/gain length. The approach is based on a fully vectorial treatment of the generalized kinetic equation and utilizes an exact Ward identity (WI). While for loss- and gainless media the WI reflects local energy conservation, the effects of absorption or coherent gain are implemented exactly by novel, additional terms in the WI. As a result of resonant (Mie) scattering from the individual scatterers, all transport quantities acquire strong, frequency-dependent renormalizations, which are, in addition, characteristically modified by absorption or gain. We illustrate the influence of various experimentally accessible parameters on these quanitities for dilute systems. The transport theory presented here may set the stage for a theory of Random Lasing in three-dimensional disordered media.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, published version, some minor changes, typos corrected
Temporarily-Aware Context Modelling using Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Activity Detection
Creators: name: Fernando, Tharindu
name: Sridharan, Sridha
name: McLaren, Mitchell
name: Priyasad, Darshana
name: Denman, Simon
name: Fookes, Clinton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel framework for Speech Activity Detection (SAD). Inspired by the recent success of multi-task learning approaches in the speech processing domain, we propose a novel joint learning framework for SAD. We utilise generative adversarial networks to automatically learn a loss function for joint prediction of the frame-wise speech/ non-speech classifications together with the next audio segment. In order to exploit the temporal relationships within the input signal, we propose a temporal discriminator which aims to ensure that the predicted signal is temporally consistent. We evaluate the proposed framework on multiple public benchmarks, including NIST OpenSAT' 17, AMI Meeting and HAVIC, where we demonstrate its capability to outperform state-of-the-art SAD approaches. Furthermore, our cross-database evaluations demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach across different languages, accents, and acoustic environments.
[O II] Emission in Quasar Host Galaxies: Evidence for a Suppressed Star Formation Efficiency
Creators: name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The [O II] 3727 line, a commonly used estimator of star formation rate in extragalactic surveys, should be an equally effective tracer of star formation in the host galaxies of quasars, whose narrow-line regions are expected to produce weak low-ionization emission. Quasar spectra generally show little or no [O II] emission beyond that expected from the active nucleus itself. The inferred star formation rates in optically selected quasars are typically below a few solar masses per yr, and some significantly less. Quasars do not appear to occur coevally with starbursts. Recent observations, on the other hand, reveal abundant molecular gas in low-redshift quasars. These two results suggest that the star formation efficiency in quasar host galaxies is somehow suppressed during the active phase of the nucleus. The low star formation rates also imply that the nonstellar nucleus powers the bulk of the thermal infrared emission in radio-quiet quasars.
description: To appear in ApJ. 6 pages
Additional file 1 of Factors affecting uptake and completion of isoniazid preventive therapy among HIV-infected children at a national referral hospital, Kenya: a mixed quantitative and qualitative study
Creators: name: Serah Kajuju Ngugi
name: Muiruri, Peter
name: Odero, Theresa
name: Onesmus Gachuno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Form. Data abstraction form
Search for half-metallic ferrimagnetism in V-based Heusler alloys Mn$_2$VZ (Z$=$Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn)
Creators: name: Ozdogan, K
name: Galanakis, I
name: Sasioglu, E
name: Aktas, B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a state-of-the-art full-potential electronic structure method within the local spin density approximation, we study the electronic and magnetic structure of Mn$_2$V-based full Heusler alloys: Mn$_2$VZ (Z=Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and Sn). We show that small expansion of the calculated theoretical equilibrium lattice constants restores the half-metallic ferrimagnetism in these compounds. Moreover a small degree of disorder between the V and Z atoms, although iduces some states within the gap, it preserves the Slater-Pauling behaviour of the spin magnetic moments and the alloys keep a high degree of spin-polarisation at the Fermi level opening the way for a half-metallic compensated ferrimagnet.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Mass, Angular Momentum and Thermodynamics in Four-Dimensional Kerr-AdS Black Holes
Creators: name: Olea, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the connection between the Lorentz-covariant counterterms that regularize the four-dimensional AdS gravity action and topological invariants is explored. It is shown that demanding the spacetime to have a negative constant curvature in the asymptotic region permits the explicit construction of such series of boundary terms. The orthonormal frame is adapted to appropriately describe the boundary geometry and, as a result, the boundary term can be expressed as a functional of the boundary metric, extrinsic curvature and intrinsic curvature. This choice also allows to write down the background-independent Noether charges associated to asymptotic symmetries in standard tensorial formalism. The absence of the Gibbons-Hawking term is a consequence of an action principle based on a boundary condition different than Dirichlet on the metric. This argument makes plausible the idea of regarding this approach as an alternative regularization scheme for AdS gravity in all even dimensions, different than the standard counterterms prescription. As an illustration of the finiteness of the charges and the Euclidean action in this framework, the conserved quantities and black hole entropy for four-dimensional Kerr-AdS are computed.
description: 15 pages,no figures,few references added,JHEP format
Long term planning of block caving operations using mathematical programming tools
Creators: name: Rubio, Enrique
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the past very rudimentary methods have been used to plan and schedule the extraction of ore from block cave operations. The basic assumption of these methods has been that the movement of ore through the draw points is smooth and can be done in a specified sequence. There are many operational research tools available to allocate resources and schedule operations in an optimum way. Many of these were developed specifically for the manufacturing and service industry. Although some optimization and scheduling tools have been used in open pit mines, few have been applied in underground mining. The principle of scheduling systems reviewed in this research is the link between strategic goals and production scheduling. Two strategic goals in particular have been formulated in this research the maximization of NPV and the optimization of the mine life in block caving. Both of these goals have required the integration of geomechanical aspects of the ore extraction, resource management, mining system and metallurgical parameters involved in the mineral extraction. One of the main results obtained in this thesis is the integration of mine reserves estimation and development rate as a result of the production scheduling. Traditionally these parameters have been computed independent of the production scheduling. The second contribution made by this research was the formulation of link between the draw control factor and the angle of draw. This relation was built in to the actual draw function to compute schedules with high performance in draw control. Case studies have been used as an example of the application of an operational research approach to scheduling in a block caving operation. Future research has also been outlined to approach the problem of linking the short and the long term planning, which has been resolved using mathematical programming tools. It is proposed to integrate the actual reconciliation process into the scheduling so operational information can be used to reproduce variability of the current long term planning models.
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the December 2004 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Klose, Steven L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2002-2009 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: • Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms, and • Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) December 2004 Baseline. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the December 2004 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing annual cash flow deficits and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2009.
Phosphorus-rich stars with unusual abundances are challenging theoretical predictions
Creators: name: Masseron, T.
name: García-Hernández, D. A.
name: Santoveña, R.
name: Manchado, A.
name: Zamora, O.
name: Manteiga, M.
name: Dafonte, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Almost all chemical elements have been made by nucleosynthetic reactions in various kind of stars and have been accumulated along our cosmic history. Among those elements, the origin of phosphorus is of extreme interest because it is known to be essential for life such as we know on Earth. However, current models of (Galactic) chemical evolution under-predict the phosphorus we observe in our Solar System. Here we report the discovery of 15 phosphorus-rich stars with unusual overabundances of O, Mg, Si, Al, and Ce. Phosphorus-rich stars likely inherit their peculiar chemistry from another nearby stellar source but their intriguing chemical abundance pattern challenge the present stellar nucleosynthesis theoretical predictions. Specific effects such as rotation or advanced nucleosynthesis in convective-reactive regions in massive stars represent the most promising alternatives to explain the existence of phosphorus-rich stars. The phosphorus-rich stars progenitors may significantly contribute to the phosphorus present on Earth today.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Measuring Food Insecurity: The Frequency and Severity of "Coping Strategies"
Creators: name: Maxwell, Daniel G.
name: Maxwell, Daniel G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Defining and interpreting food security, and measuring it in reliable, valid and cost-effective ways, have proven to be stubborn problems facing researchers and programs intended to monitor food security risks. This paper briefly reviews the conceptual and methodological literature on food insecurity measurement, describes a particular method for distinguishing and measuring short-term food insecurity at the household level, and discusses ways of generalizing the method. The method developed enumerates the frequency and severity of strategies relied on by urban households when faced with a short-term insufficiency of food. This method goes beyond more commonly-used measures of caloric consumption to incorporate vulnerability elements of food insecurity as well as the deliberate actions of household decision-makers when faced with food insufficiency.
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the December 2004 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Zimmel, Peter
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Feldman, Paul A.
name: Schumann, Keith D.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Zimmel, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Bill) on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2002-2009 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming and ranching operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: - Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms. - Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) December 2004 Baseline. The primary objective of the analysis is to determine the farms’ economic viability by region and commodity through the life of the 2002 Farm Bill. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers and ranchers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the December 2004 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing annual cash flow deficits and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2009. This report is organized into ten sections. The first section summarizes the process used to develop the representative farms and the key assumptions utilized for the farm level analysis. The second section summarizes the FAPRI December 2004 Baseline and the policy and price assumptions used for the representative farm analyses. The third through sixth sections present the results of the simulation analyses for feed grain, wheat, cotton, and rice farms. The seventh through ninth sections summarize simulation results for dairy, cattle and hog farms. Two appendices constitute the final section of the report. Appendix A provides tables to summarize the physical and financial characteristics for each of the representative farms. Appendix B provides the names of producers, land grant faculty, and industry leaders who cooperated in the panel interview process to develop the representative farms.
Additional file 6 of Survival outcomes and clinical benefit in patients with acute myeloid leukemia treated with glasdegib and low-dose cytarabine according to response to therapy
Creators: name: Cortes, Jorge E.
name: Heidel, Florian H.
name: Fiedler, Walter
name: B. Douglas Smith
name: Robak, Tadeusz
name: Montesinos, Pau
name: Candoni, Anna
name: Leber, Brian
name: Mikkael A. Sekeres
name: Pollyea, Daniel A.
name: Ferdinand, Roxanne
name: Weidong Wendy Ma
name: O’Brien, Thomas
name: O’Connell, Ashleigh
name: Chan, Geoffrey
name: Heuser, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S2. Treatment-emergent all-causality adverse events* occurring during first 90 days and after 90 days of therapy
ID-Conditioned Auto-Encoder for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Creators: name: Kapka, Sławomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce ID-Conditioned Auto-Encoder for unsupervised anomaly detection. Our method is an adaptation of the Class-Conditioned Auto-Encoder (C2AE) designed for the open-set recognition. Assuming that non-anomalous samples constitute of distinct IDs, we apply Conditioned Auto-Encoder with labels provided by these IDs. Opposed to C2AE, our approach omits the classification subtask and reduces the learning process to the single run. We simplify the learning process further by fixing a constant vector as the target for non-matching labels. We apply our method in the context of sounds for machine condition monitoring. We evaluate our method on the ToyADMOS and MIMII datasets from the DCASE 2020 Challenge Task 2. We conduct an ablation study to indicate which steps of our method influences results the most.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, conference
Fjords in viscous fingering: Selection of width and opening angle
Creators: name: Ristroph, Leif
name: Thrasher, Matthew
name: Mineev-Weinstein, Mark B.
name: Swinney, Harry L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our experiments on viscous fingering of air into oil contained between closely spaced plates reveal two selection rules for the fjords of oil that separate fingers of air. (Fjords are the building blocks of solutions of the zero-surface-tension Laplacian growth equation.) Experiments in rectangular and circular geometries yield fjords with base widths 1/2 lambda_c, where lambda_c is the most unstable wavelength from a linear stability analysis. Further, fjords open at an angle of 8.0 degrees plus or minus 1.0 degree. These selection rules hold for a wide range of pumping rates and fjord lengths, widths, and directions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. The APS version of this article is available at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v74/e015201
LOCATIONAL DYNAMICS OF BRAZILIAN WINEGROWING: NEW REGIONS IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL AND IN THE SÃN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY AREA
Creators: name: Schneider, Luciane
name: Moraes, Marcia Azanha Dias Ferraz De
name: Marques, Pedro Valentim
name: Schneider, Luciane
name: Moraes, Marcia Azanha Dias Ferraz De
name: Marques, Pedro Valentim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Brazilian Winemaking
subject: Geographic expansion
subject: Locational decision factors

description: The objective of the research is to identify the locational factors that influenced the decision to expand winemaking activity into other regions of Brazil. In recent years, winemaking has expanded into new regions in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Serra do Sudeste and Campanha) and into the São Francisco River Valley (states of Bahia and Pernambuco) - regions where this activity had not previously been carried out. Rio Grande do Sul, the state with the largest production volume, produces around 90% of all Brazilian wine. Expansion has taken place both inside and outside the state. Primary data were collected through direct interviews with winemakers for the purpose of identifying the factors that drive the locational decision-making process. It was shown that the Brazilian winemaking activities are conditional to the spatial distribution of the productive resources: the companies are concerned about the quality of the end product (wine), which is optimized by the quality of the raw materials (grapes). This, in turn, depends on the edaphic and climatic conditions in the productive region. Another factor that is considered important in winemaking expansion decision-making activities in the country has arisen from the current physical constraints in Serra Gaúcha: a large part of the available land lies in Permanent Protection Areas (APP), and the rest would be very expensive to acquire. This has had also an influence on the decision to shift activities to other regions.
State Funded Marketing and Promotional Activities to Support a State's Winery Business; Are There Economic Returns? A Case study using Texas Senate Bill 1370's support of the Texas Wine Industry
Creators: name: Hanagriff, Roger D.
name: Lau, Michael H.
name: Rogers, Sarah L.
name: Hanagriff, Roger D.
name: Lau, Michael H.
name: Rogers, Sarah L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics

description: Texas wineries were surveyed regarding their participation in wine marketing activities, annual changes in gross sales, and level of sales growth attributed to Texas Department of Agriculture’s funding support. The response from the 93 registered Texas wineries was 53 wineries, which was a 57 percent response rate. Senate Bill 1370 allocated $725,000 for marketing and promotion of Texas wines. Combining the $725,000 with the normal funding of $250,000 creates $975,000 in annual support to the Texas wine industry to be used in marketing Texas wine. The most utilized funded activities are promotional materials and wineries attending TDA supported wine events. Ninety-two percent of Texas wineries recognized an increase in awareness for the Texas wine industry and attribute 49 percent of the increase to state marketing efforts and use of state funding. As previously mentioned, a portion of TDA marketing funds were directed towards supporting wine events in Texas attracting large numbers of consumers for promotional opportunities. Consumers attending these events were surveyed and one result found that 68 percent of consumers reported these events encouraged them to purchase more Texas wines. Annual economic impact results from all funding activities were $2.16 per $1 of funding of total direct sales increases, $3.93 per $1 of funding in economic impacts of increases in sales and $.40 per $1 of funding in valued added impacts (based on IMPLAN Type II Economic Multiplier values). It is apparent that both direct and indirect economic results were positive towards program funding and created economic growth in local economies.
Technology adoption and farmer efficiency in multiple crops production in eastern Ethiopia: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric distance functions
Creators: name: Alene, Arega D.
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Alene, Arega D.
name: Zeller, Manfred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Multiple outputs
subject: Distance functions
subject: DEA
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: Ethiopia

description: This study compares the empirical performances of the parametric distance functions(PDF) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) with applications to adopters of improved cereal production technology in eastern Ethiopia. The results from both approaches revealed substantial technical inefficiencies of production among the sample farmers. Technical efficiency estimates obtained from the two approaches are positively and significantly correlated. However, the DEA approach is shown to be very sensitive to outliers as well as to the choice of orientation. The PDF results are relatively more robust. The results from the preferred PDF approach revealed that adopters of improved technology have average technical efficiencies of 79%, implying that they could potentially raise their food crop production by an average 21% through full exploitation of the potentials of improved varieties and mineral fertilizer. The results confirm that food production even under improved technology involves substantial inefficiency. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential underlying factors influencing farmer efficiency under improved technology, such as poor extension, education, credit, and input supply systems.
title: Home office e a indústria de publicidade no Brasil
Creators: name: Schouch, Lucas
name: Peterman, Juliana
Publisher: name: ICNOVA, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Year: 2021

description: Este artigo remonta ao início da pandemia no Brasil, olhando especificamente para o campo publicitário e o período de adaptação ao trabalho remoto, com o objetivo macro de identificar a possível convergência, ou não, dos grupos de lideranças e empregados da indústria de publi- cidade, sobre o home office. E ainda, mais especificamen- te, entender quais são estes pontos nos quais os habitus destes dois grupos de profissionais se diferem. A partir da observação empírica do campo e pesquisa documental em reportagens na mídia especializada em publicidade, percebemos uma importante diferença entre a opinião de empregadores e de empregados de agências de publicidade do país, e isso motivou a realização de uma pesquisa quantitativa com profissionais da área. Mais es- pecificamente, pretendemos responder à seguinte questão: Quais as principais diferenças no habitus de empregados e de empregadores da indústria de publicidade, e que implicam nas suas percepções sobre o home office na pandemia? Apresentamos aqui os resultados dessa cole- ta, sob a perspectiva analítica do campo e do habitus. Os resultados apontam para uma importante oposição entre as opiniões desses dois grupos no campo publicitário, bem como uma significativa preocupação dos empregadores especialmente com os clientes e com as entregas da empresa, o que difere em muito das preocupações dos empregados.
description: Schouch, Lucas Juliana Peterman. 2021. Home office e a indústria de publicidade no Brasil. Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, no 55: 118–141. DOI
Additional file 1 of Multi-level considerations for optimal implementation of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy to treat people living with HIV: perspectives of health care providers participating in phase 3 trials
Creators: name: Mantsios, Andrea
name: Murray, Miranda
name: Tahilin S. Karver
name: Davis, Wendy
name: Noya Galai
name: Princy Kumar
name: Swindells, Susan
name: U. Fritz Bredeek
name: García, Rafael Rubio
name: Antela, Antonio
name: Gomis, Santiago Cenoz
name: Bernáldez, Miguel Pascual
name: Czarnogorski, Maggie
name: Hudson, Krischan
name: Walters, Nicki
name: Kerrigan, Deanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Understanding Consumer’s Attitude on Fish Quality and Marketing Aspects in the Greek Market
Creators: name: Batzios, Christos
name: Moutopoulos, D.K.
name: Siardos, G.
name: Batzios, Christos
name: Moutopoulos, D.K.
name: Siardos, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Fish market
subject: consumer survey
subject: fish marketing issues
subject: categorical regression

description: During the last decade the Greek fish market experienced significant changes affecting both the supply and the demand of fish. Fisheries have faced significant problems, such as overfishing and low productivity. Similarly, the undoubtedly rapid development of the aquaculture sector was followed by an intense competition and low prices for fish. On the other hand, the traditional Greek consumer’s attitude on fish products is rapidly changing mainly due to socio-economic factors. Within this framework, the consumers play a critical role that of being the link between supply and demand. Thus, the analysis of the consumer’s attitude concerning basic quality and marketing aspects on marine captured and farmed fish market could be a useful tool towards a more rational organization of the distribution roots. For this purpose, research was carried out and a total of 395 consumers, randomly selected in terms of demographic and socio-economic dispersion criteria, were asked to fill in a questionnaire covering aspects of fish marketing and quality aspects, such as consumers’ “sensitivity on fish freshness issues”, “sensitivity on marketing issues” and “reasons for choosing fish as food” in their family. regarding Data were statistically analyzed using categorical regression in an effort to identify the effect of basic classification variables of consumers’ origin and socioeconomic status into their sensitivity on fish quality and marketing aspect
Spintronic devices as quantum networks
Creators: name: Ionicioiu, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore spintronics from a quantum information (QI) perspective. We show that QI specific methods can be an effective tool in designing new devices. Using the formalism of quantum gates acting on spin and mode degrees of freedom, we provide a solution to a reverse engineering problem, namely how to design a device performing a given transformation between input and output. Among these, we describe an orientable Stern-Gerlach device and a new scheme to entangle two spins by transferring the entanglement from orbital to spin degrees of freedom. Finally, we propose a simple scheme to produce hyper-entangle electrons, i.e., particles entangled in both spin and mode degrees of freedom.
description: 6+ pages, many figs
Context Prior for Scene Segmentation
Creators: name: Yu, Changqian
name: Wang, Jingbo
name: Gao, Changxin
name: Yu, Gang
name: Shen, Chunhua
name: Sang, Nong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent works have widely explored the contextual dependencies to achieve more accurate segmentation results. However, most approaches rarely distinguish different types of contextual dependencies, which may pollute the scene understanding. In this work, we directly supervise the feature aggregation to distinguish the intra-class and inter-class context clearly. Specifically, we develop a Context Prior with the supervision of the Affinity Loss. Given an input image and corresponding ground truth, Affinity Loss constructs an ideal affinity map to supervise the learning of Context Prior. The learned Context Prior extracts the pixels belonging to the same category, while the reversed prior focuses on the pixels of different classes. Embedded into a conventional deep CNN, the proposed Context Prior Layer can selectively capture the intra-class and inter-class contextual dependencies, leading to robust feature representation. To validate the effectiveness, we design an effective Context Prior Network (CPNet). Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that the proposed model performs favorably against state-of-the-art semantic segmentation approaches. More specifically, our algorithm achieves 46.3% mIoU on ADE20K, 53.9% mIoU on PASCAL-Context, and 81.3% mIoU on Cityscapes. Code is available at https://git.io/ContextPrior.
description: Accepted to CVPR 2020. Code is available at https://git.io/ContextPrior
Additional file 2 of Multi-level considerations for optimal implementation of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy to treat people living with HIV: perspectives of health care providers participating in phase 3 trials
Creators: name: Mantsios, Andrea
name: Murray, Miranda
name: Tahilin S. Karver
name: Davis, Wendy
name: Noya Galai
name: Princy Kumar
name: Swindells, Susan
name: U. Fritz Bredeek
name: García, Rafael Rubio
name: Antela, Antonio
name: Gomis, Santiago Cenoz
name: Bernáldez, Miguel Pascual
name: Czarnogorski, Maggie
name: Hudson, Krischan
name: Walters, Nicki
name: Kerrigan, Deanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Modelling the Impact of 2003 CAP Reform on Crop Production: The case of Durum Wheat in Italy
Creators: name: Esposti, Roberto
name: Lobianco, Antonello
name: Esposti, Roberto
name: Lobianco, Antonello
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Italian Agriculture
subject: Commodity Market Models

description: This paper aims to summarize some of the major results emerging from simulating the impact of the CAP reform (the so-called Fischler Reform or Luxembourg Agreement, LA) within the AG-MEMOD model of the agri-food sector in Italy. The paper shows how the model generates impacts when alternative policy scenarios (Agenda 2000 vs. LA) are specified. As major evidence of this impact in the Italian case, the crop sector is dealt with in detail. In particular, the case of supplementary payments for durum wheat clarifies how the reform may specifically affect Mediterranean agriculture and how alternative specifications of the regime switch in durum wheat support relevantly influence the impact.
Thermal transport in compensated semimetals: a mystery explained
Creators: name: Zarenia, Mohammad
name: Principi, Alessandro
name: Vignale, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the electronic thermal conductivity of clean compensated semimetals can be greatly enhanced over the electric conductivity by the availability of an ambipolar mechanism of conduction, whereby electrons and holes flow in the same direction experiencing negligible Coulomb scattering as well as negligible impurity scattering. This enhancement -- resulting in a breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law with an anomalously large Lorenz ratio -- has been recently observed in two-dimensional monolayer and bilayer graphene near the charge neutrality point. In contrast to this, three-dimensional compensated semimetals such as WP$_2$ and Sb are typically found to show a reduced Lorenz ratio. This dramatic difference in behavior is generally attributed to different regimes of Fermi statistics in the two cases: degenerate electron-hole liquid in compensated semimetals versus non-degenerate electron-hole liquid in graphene. We show that this difference is not sufficient to explain the reduction of the Lorenz ratio in compensated semimetals. We argue that the solution of the puzzle lies in the ability of compensated semimetals to sustain sizeable regions of electron-hole accumulation near the contacts, which in turn is a consequence of the large separation of electron and hole pockets in momentum space. These accumulations suppress the ambipolar conduction mechanism and effectively split the system into two independent electron and hole conductors. We present a quantitative theory of the crossover from ambipolar to unipolar conduction as a function of the size of the electron-hole accumulation regions, and show that it naturally leads to a sample-size-dependent thermal conductivity.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Optimum Replacement Time for Cotton Pickers in Greece
Creators: name: Kitsopanidis, G.
name: Mygdakos, E.
name: Gemtos, T.
name: Kitsopanidis, G.
name: Mygdakos, E.
name: Gemtos, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: cotton pickers
subject: optimum replacement time
subject: costs
subject: net income

description: In this paper an attempt has been made to determine the optimum replacement time for cotton pickers under the technical and economic conditions in Greece. For this purpose, five relevant methods have been applied to analyze real data taken by 62 cotton pickers working in Central Greece. Three of the methods consider that the optimum replacement time for cotton pickers is the year when the accumulated annual depreciation is equal to the corresponding repair and maintenance costs or the year when the aforementioned annual expenses of the machine per working hour are minimum. The fourth method considers the year in which the accumulated average total costs per working hour or per hectare harvested is minimum, while the fifth method refers to the year in which the accumulated annual “standardized” net income received from the use of a cotton picker is maximum. Based on the results of this study the optimum replacement time of a cotton picker is the 14th –15th year of its productive life combined with 4500 –5000 working hours and 1450 – 1550 hectares harvested.
Quasinormal modes of Kerr-de Sitter black holes via the Heun function
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This note addresses quasinormal mode frequencies of four-dimensional asymptotically de Sitter rotating black holes. The main motivation is that Mathematica 12.1 has implemented a new family of special functions: Heun functions. Using the fact that Teukolsky's equations for Kerr-de Sitter black holes are mapped to Heun's equations, we are able to compute their quasinormal mode frequencies by the Heun function. In this approach, Mathematica normally evaluates these frequencies to arbitrary numerical precision in a few seconds. We further discuss an application to asymptotically flat rotating black holes.
description: 12 pages; A sample Mathematica notebook available, v2: References added
"Low-state" Black Hole Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
Creators: name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I summarize the main observational properties of low-luminosity AGNs in nearby galaxies to argue that they are the high-mass analogs of black hole X-ray binaries in the "low/hard" state. The principal characteristics of low-state AGNs can be accommodated with a scenario in which the central engine is comprised of three components: an optically thick, geometrically accretion disk with a truncated inner radius, a radiatively inefficient flow, and a compact jet.
description: 8 pages. To appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole Accretion on All Mass Scales, ed. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, and L. C. Ho (Dordrecht: Kluwer)