cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recursos Estratégicos em Propriedades Rurais Familiares
Creators: name: Dias, Marcelo Fernandes Pacheco
name: Pedrozo, Eugenio Avila
name: Dias, Marcelo Fernandes Pacheco
name: Pedrozo, Eugenio Avila
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Desempenho
subject: Análise Estratégica
subject: Teoria Baseada em Recursos
subject: Propriedade Familiar
subject: Performance
subject: Strategy Analysis
subject: Theory Based on Resources
subject: Family Real State

description: A agricultura familiar tem papel importante nos agronegócios. A manutenção desses agricultores é uma das preocupações prioritárias dos governos. Também é amplamente conhecido o fato que o desempenho das propriedades familiares varia significativamente. Esse artigo busca contribuir para a explicação do porquê dessa variação de desempenho, através da Teoria Baseado em Recursos (RBV). Nesse sentido, foi desenvolvido um estudo exploratório de 12 propriedades agrícolas familiares que tem seus resultados econômicos dos últimos 6 anos acompanhados pela Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Epagri. O objetivo central foi identificar as causas que sustentam um desempenho consistentemente e repetitivamente maior ao longo desse período. Os resultados indicam que as vantagens competitivas estão relacionadas ao processo de tomada de decisão do produtor rural na gestão da propriedade. As habilidades diferenciadoras encontradas foram: seleção adequada de inovações e investimentos, implementação das inovações, aprimoramento incremental do sistema de produção, monitoramento técnico e econômico. Essas habilidades encontradas têm valor estratégico, pois apresentam características de dependência do caminho e de grau de codificação do conhecimento.---------------------------The family farming has an important role in agribusiness. The support of these agriculturists is one of the priority concerns of the governments. It is also widely known the fact that the performance of family real states varies significantly. This article searches to contribute for the explanation of the reason of this variation in performance, through the Theory Based on Resources (RBV). In this sense, an explanatory study was carried out on 12 family farming real states which had their economical results followed in the last 06 years by EPAGRI – Company of Agriculture and Cattle Breeding Research. The main goal was to identify the causes that sustain a performance consistently and repetitively bigger in the course of this period. These results outpoint that the competitive advantages are related to the process of decision taken by the rural breeder in the real state management. The differential abilities found were: adequate selection of innovations and investments, implementation of innovations, incremental improvement of the production system, technical and economical tracking. These abilities found have a strategic value because present characteristics of dependence of the way and degree of knowledge codification.
TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTERNAL TRADE BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY
Creators: name: Rakhimboeva, Begoyim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses the development trends of foreign trade relations between the US and China and the impact of this process on the economy of Uzbekistan. The US and China are the largest economies in the world, and their trade relations affect significantly to global economic stability and development. By 2023, China's exports to the US are expected to reach $600 billion, while Uzbekistan's trade relations with China are projected to reach $1.5 billion, indicating the expansion of economic ties between the countries.
Resource theory of quantum coherence with probabilistically non-distinguishable pointers and corresponding wave-particle duality
Creators: name: Srivastava, Chirag
name: Das, Sreetama
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the fundamental features of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle, a manifestation of which is embodied in quantum coherence. Coherence of a quantum state is invariably defined with respect to a preferred set of pointer states, and there exist quantum coherence measures with respect to deterministically as well as probabilistically distinguishable sets of quantum state vectors. Here we study the resource theory of quantum coherence with respect to an arbitrary set of quantum state vectors, that may not even be probabilistically distinguishable. Geometrically, a probabilistically indistinguishable set of quantum state vectors forms a linearly dependent set. We find the free states of the resource theory, and analyze the corresponding free operations, obtaining a necessary condition for an arbitrary quantum operation to be free. We identify a class of measures of the quantum coherence, and in particular establish a monotonicity property of the measures. We find a connection of an arbitrary set of quantum state vectors with positive operator valued measurements with respect to the resource theory being considered, which paves the way for an alternate definition of the free states. We notice that the resource theory of magic can be looked upon as a resource theory of quantum coherence with respect to a set of quantum state vectors that are probabilistically indistinguishable. We subsequently examine the wave-particle duality in a double-slit set-up in which superposition of probabilistically indistinguishable quantum state vectors is possible. Specifically, we report a complementary relation between quantum coherence and path distinguishability in such a set-up.
description: 10 pages and 2 figures
Valoração Econômica do Engenho Central de Piracicaba (SP)
Creators: name: Joao, Livia Salla
name: Lima, Roberto Arruda De Souza
name: Joao, Livia Salla
name: Lima, Roberto Arruda De Souza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Valoração Econômica
subject: Disposição a Pagar
subject: Método de Valoração Contingente
subject: Economical Valuation
subject: Willingness to Pay
subject: Contingent Valuation Method

description: Este artigo apresenta a estimativa do valor econômico do Engenho Central de Piracicaba (SP). Trata-se de um conjunto fabril fundado em 1881, desativado em 1974 e reconhecido como patrimônio histórico, sendo posteriormente desapropriado pela Prefeitura e transformado em importante espaço cultural, artístico e recreativo. Para mensurar os valores de uso, de opção e de existência desta obra, foi escolhido o método da valoração contingente. Este método é uma das abordagens mais utilizadas para valoração de bens com características de não-exclusividade e não-rivalidade. Obteve-se disposição a pagar (DAP) nula, isto é, o valor atribuído ao Engenho Central pela população de Piracicaba foi nulo.-----------------------------------------This article presents an estimate of the economic value of Engenho Central, located in Piracicaba (SP). It was founded in 1881, deactivated in 1974 and recognized as historical patrimony. The Engenho Central turned into major cultural, artistic and recreational place. To measure the values of use, existence and option, was chosen the contingent valuation method. This method is one of the most commonly used approaches for valuation of assets with characteristics of non-exclusive and non-rivalry. The willingness to pay (WTP) was zero, that is, the Piracicaba population’s perceived no importance regarding the Engenho Central.
The Role of integrin-linked kinase (ILK) in cellular signalling
Creators: name: Attwell, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Integrins are a family of heterodimeric transmembrane receptors that link the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix, and mediate cell adhesion and bidirectional signalling. The Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) was identified as a protein capable of interacting with pi and P3 integrin subunits. ILK behaves as a potent oncogene, and is capable of transforming normal epithelial cells and forming tumours in nude mice. ILK is a serine/threonine kinase which phophorylates and activates PKB/Akt at serine-473, and phosphorylates and inhibits GSK-3cc/p at serine 21/9. When normal epithelial cells detach from the extracellular matrix, they undergo suspension-induced apoptosis, or anoikis. Because ILK links integrins to the anti-apoptotic PKB/Akt pathway, we investigated whether ILK elicits its oncogenic effects by inhibiting anoikis. Here, we show that ILK inhibits anoikis in a PKB/Akt-dependent manner. Furthermore, inhibition of ILK activity in cancer cell lines induced anoikis. In prostate cancer cells which are lacking expression of the upstream regulator of ILK, PTEN, inhibition of ILK activity, as well as re-introduction of PTEN induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. We also examined the role of ILK, and its interacting partners CH-ILKBP and paxillin, in focal adhesion formation and inside out signalling. We found that proper recruitment of and activation of ILK is crucial for P integrin activation, cell attachment, and migration, as well as the recruitment of its binding partners to focal adhesion complexes. The data presented here underscores the importance of ILK as a central regulator of the PKB/Akt pathway and anoikis, as well as integrin-mediated functions and focal adhesion formation. They also identify ILK as a potential novel target in tumour therapy.
Spin dependent transport of ``nonmagnetic metal/zigzag nanotube encapsulating magnetic atoms/nonmagnetic metal'' junctions
Creators: name: Kokado, Satoshi
name: Harigaya, Kikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Towards a novel magnetoresistance (MR) device with a carbon nanotube, we propose ``nonmagnetic metal/zigzag nanotube encapsulating magnetic atoms/nonmagnetic metal'' junctions. We theoretically investigate how spin-polarized edges of the nanotube and the encapsulated magnetic atoms influence on transport. When the on-site Coulomb energy divided by the magnitude of transfer integral, $U/|t|$, is larger than 0.8, large MR effect due to the direction of spins of magnetic atoms, which has the magnitude of the MR ratio of about 100%, appears reflecting such spin-polarized edges.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Synth. Metals
Efficient diastereoselective synthesis of cis-2-amino-1-indanol derivatives and cis- and trans-1-amino-2-indanol via Pd-catalyzed hydrogenation
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Ha
name: Ma, Eunsook
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: (±)-cis-2-amino-1-indanol was diastereoselectively synthesized from 1,2-indanedion-2-oxime in ethanol at 25 °C under 10% Pd/C-catalyzed hydrogenation conditions. Under the same hydrogenation condition, 1,2-indanedion-2-oxime and their derivatives having one and/or two electron-donating groups in aliphatic or aromatic part of indanyl ring were diastereoselectively reduced to racemic cis-2-amino-1-indanol derivatives. From 1,2-indanedion-1-oxime, (±)-trans-1-amino-2-indanol was obtained in ethanol at 25 °C over a 10% Pd/BaSO4 catalyst. In contrast, the 10% Pd/BaSO4-catalyzed hydrogenation reaction in ethanol at 45 °C afforded cis-1-hydroxyamino-2-indanol from 1,2-indanedion-1-oxime, followed by reduction to form (±)-cis-1-amino-2-indanol. The diastereoselectivity of β-aminoindanols was dependent on the Pd catalyst, reaction temperature, and pH of the reaction medium.
Interval Universal Approximation for Neural Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Zi
name: Albarghouthi, Aws
name: Prakriya, Gautam
name: Jha, Somesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To verify safety and robustness of neural networks, researchers have successfully applied abstract interpretation, primarily using the interval abstract domain. In this paper, we study the theoretical power and limits of the interval domain for neural-network verification. First, we introduce the interval universal approximation (IUA) theorem. IUA shows that neural networks not only can approximate any continuous function $f$ (universal approximation) as we have known for decades, but we can find a neural network, using any well-behaved activation function, whose interval bounds are an arbitrarily close approximation of the set semantics of $f$ (the result of applying $f$ to a set of inputs). We call this notion of approximation interval approximation. Our theorem generalizes the recent result of Baader et al. (2020) from ReLUs to a rich class of activation functions that we call squashable functions. Additionally, the IUA theorem implies that we can always construct provably robust neural networks under $\ell_\infty$-norm using almost any practical activation function. Second, we study the computational complexity of constructing neural networks that are amenable to precise interval analysis. This is a crucial question, as our constructive proof of IUA is exponential in the size of the approximation domain. We boil this question down to the problem of approximating the range of a neural network with squashable activation functions. We show that the range approximation problem (RA) is a $Δ_2$-intermediate problem, which is strictly harder than $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problems, assuming $\mathsf{coNP}\not\subset \mathsf{NP}$. As a result, IUA is an inherently hard problem: No matter what abstract domain or computational tools we consider to achieve interval approximation, there is no efficient construction of such a universal approximator.
Lattice Simulations with Chemical Potential
Creators: name: Schmidt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After giving an overview of recently invented methods for simulating lattice QCD at small mu/T, we discuss some results for bulk thermodynamic quantities of QCD matter coming from those methods. We focus on the transition line and the critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram.
description: Invited talk given at the Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004, Helsinki, Finland 16-19 June 2004
Direct and Inverse problems for time-fractional pseudo-parabolic equations
Creators: name: Ruzhansky, Michael
name: Serikbaev, Daurenbek
name: Tokmagambetov, Niyaz
name: Torebek, Berikbol T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R30

description: The purpose of this paper is to establish the solvability results to direct and inverse problems for time-fractional pseudo-parabolic equations with the self-adjoint operators. We are especially interested in proving existence and uniqueness of the solutions in the abstract setting of Hilbert spaces.
description: 18 pages
Lattice symmetry and emergence of antiferromagnetic quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Ebrahimkhas, Morad
name: Hafez-Torbati, Mohsen
name: Hofstetter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong local interaction in systems with non-trivial topological bands can stabilize quantum states such as magnetic topological insulators. We investigate the influence of the lattice symmetry on the possible emergence of antiferromagnetic quantum Hall states. We consider the spinful Harper-Hofstadter model extended by a next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping which opens a gap at half-filling and allows for the realization of a quantum Hall insulator. The quantum Hall insulator has the Chern number $\mathcal{C}=2$ as both spin components are in the same quantum Hall state. We add to the system a staggered potential $Δ$ along the $\hat{x}$-direction favoring a normal insulator and the Hubbard interaction $U$ favoring a Mott insulator. The Mott insulator is a Néel antiferromagnet for small and a stripe antiferromagnet for large NNN hopping. We investigate the $U$-$Δ$ phase diagram of the model for both small and large NNN hoppings. We show that while for large NNN hopping there exists a $\mathcal{C}=1$ stripe antiferromagnetic quantum Hall insulator in the phase diagram, there is no equivalent $\mathcal{C}=1$ Néel antiferromagnetic quantum Hall insulator at the small NNN hopping. We discuss that a $\mathcal{C}=1$ antiferromagnetic quantum Hall insulator can emerge only if the effect of the spin-flip transformation cannot be compensated by a space group operation. Our findings can be used as a guideline in future investigations searching for antiferromagnetic quantum Hall states.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
HCl-mediated transamidation of unactivated formamides using aromatic amines in aqueous media
Creators: name: Dhawan, Sanjeev
name: Girase, Pankaj Sanjay
name: Kumar, Vishal
name: Karpoormath, Rajshekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We report transamidation protocol to synthesize a range of secondary and tertiary amides from weakly nucleophilic aromatic and hetero-aryl amines with low reactive formamide derivatives, utilizing hydrochloric acid as catalyst. This current acid mediated strategy is beneficial because it eliminates the need for a metal catalyst, promoter or additives in the reaction, simplifies isolation and purification. Notably, this approach conventionally used to synthesize molecules on gram scales with excellent yields and a high tolerance for functional groups.
BReG-NeXt: Facial Affect Computing Using Adaptive Residual Networks With Bounded Gradient
Creators: name: Hasani, Behzad
name: Negi, Pooran Singh
name: Mahoor, Mohammad H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces BReG-NeXt, a residual-based network architecture using a function wtih bounded derivative instead of a simple shortcut path (a.k.a. identity mapping) in the residual units for automatic recognition of facial expressions based on the categorical and dimensional models of affect. Compared to ResNet, our proposed adaptive complex mapping results in a shallower network with less numbers of training parameters and floating point operations per second (FLOPs). Adding trainable parameters to the bypass function further improves fitting and training the network and hence recognizing subtle facial expressions such as contempt with a higher accuracy. We conducted comprehensive experiments on the categorical and dimensional models of affect on the challenging in-the-wild databases of AffectNet, FER2013, and Affect-in-Wild. Our experimental results show that our adaptive complex mapping approach outperforms the original ResNet consisting of a simple identity mapping as well as other state-of-the-art methods for Facial Expression Recognition (FER). Various metrics are reported in both affect models to provide a comprehensive evaluation of our method. In the categorical model, BReG-NeXt-50 with only 3.1M training parameters and 15 MFLOPs, achieves 68.50% and 71.53% accuracy on AffectNet and FER2013 databases, respectively. In the dimensional model, BReG-NeXt achieves 0.2577 and 0.2882 RMSE value on AffectNet and Affect-in-Wild databases, respectively.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing journal
Dynamic behaviour of Josephson-junction qubits: crossover between Rabi oscillations and Landau-Zener transitions
Creators: name: Shevchenko, S. N.
name: Kiyko, A. S.
name: Omelyanchouk, A. N.
name: Krech, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamic behaviour of a quantum two-level system with periodically varying parameters by solving the master equation for the density matrix. Two limiting cases are considered: multiphoton Rabi oscillations and Landau-Zener transitions. The approach is applied to the description of the dynamics of superconducting qubits. In particular, the case of the interferometer-type charge qubit with periodically varying parameters (gate voltage or magnetic flux) is investigated. The time-averaged energy level populations are calculated as funtions of the qubit's control parameters.
description: 7 pages with 5 figures
Additional file 2 of Effects of CO2 limitation on the metabolism of Pseudoclostridium thermosuccinogenes
Creators: name: Koendjbiharie, Jeroen Girwar
name: Post, Wilbert Berend
name: Martí Munar Palmer
name: Kranenburg, Richard Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 : Supplementary file 2. Cofactor flux analysis. Calculations of the cofactor flux analysis, based on the product yields obtained from the batch fermentations.
Signatures consistent with multi-frequency tipping in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Creators: name: Keane, Andrew
name: Krauskopf, Bernd
name: Lenton, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The early detection of tipping points, which describe a rapid departure from a stable state, is an important theoretical and practical challenge. Tipping points are most commonly associated with the disappearance of steady-state or periodic solutions at fold bifurcations. We discuss here multi-frequency tipping (M-tipping), which is tipping due to the disappearance of an attracting torus. M-tipping is a generic phenomenon in systems with at least two intrinsic or external frequencies that can interact and, hence, is relevant to a wide variety of systems of interest. We show that the more complicated sequence of bifurcations involved in M-tipping provides a possible consistent explanation for as yet unexplained behavior observed near tipping in climate models for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. More generally, this work provides a path towards identifying possible early-warning signs of tipping in multiple-frequency systems.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
The Welfare Effect of Organic Milk
Creators: name: Choi, Hee Jung
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
name: Choi, Hee Jung
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study analyzes the demands for organic and conventional milk at both brand level and commodity level adopting the multi-stage demand approach. The study also measures the consumer benefits from organic milk introduction and finds the welfare effect significant.
Lepton mixing and seesaw mechanism
Creators: name: Falcone, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of a typical model for fermion mass matrices, possibly based on the horizontal U(2) symmetry, we explore the effect of the type II seesaw mechanism on lepton mixings. We find that the combined contribution of type I and type II terms is able to explain the large but not maximal 1-2 mixing and the near maximal 2-3 mixing, while the 1-3 mixing angle is predicted to be small.
description: 7 pages RevTex4. Revise: comment and reference added
The Relative Cost Efficiencies of Commercial Banks, Rural Financial Institutions, and Microfinance Institutions in China
Creators: name: Wu, Ya
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
name: Gunter, Lewell F.
name: Wu, Ya
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
name: Gunter, Lewell F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: microfinance
subject: China
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: technical inefficiency
subject: scale efficiency

description: This study employed data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the comparative efficiency performance of selected commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated that commercial banks achieved higher level of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency than rural financial institutions (including RCCs) through the study period (2004-2007). Overall technical inefficiency seems to be more attributed to scale inefficiency rather than pure technical inefficiency for both commercial banks and rural financial institutions. The second pairwise comparison indicated that RCCs and CFPA are the most efficient institutions with efficiency scores of 1 while other MFIs experienced some overall technical inefficiency and scale inefficiency during the study period.
Phrynocaria circumusta
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Phrynocaria
Phrynocaria circumusta

description: Phrynocaria circumusta (Mulsant)
(Figs 163, 164)
Artemis circumusta Mulsant, 1850: 389 (Type material, MHNG; Type locality: Hong Kong).
Coelophora circumusta: Crotch 1874: 150; Korschefsky 1932: 291; Poorani 2002a: 328.
Lemnia (Artemis) circumusta: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 233.
Lemnia circumusta: Ren et al. 2009: 206.
Lemnia (Neoartemis) circumusta: Ukrainsky 2006 (replacement name for Artemis, preoccupied elsewhere).
Phrynocaria circumusta: Poorani et al. 2021: 119.
Diagnosis. Length:5.28–6.00mm;width: 4.50–5.30mm.Form(Figs163a, 164a)almost round,dorsum hemispherical, strongly convex and glabrous. Head and pronotum blood red or yellow. Elytra black with a pair of red anterior maculae of variable size on anterior margin (Fig. 163a), sometimes elytra largely reddish in anterior half, median area narrowly black and joined with a larger black macula occupying the apical one-fourth (Fig. 163b); rarely elytra reddish with four black spots arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern as illustrated (Fig. 164a, b). Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 163h) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 163j, k) and spermatheca (Figs 163i, 164c) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Manipur, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh); Nepal; Hong Kong; China; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.
Prey/associated habitat. Adults collected on mango, sorghum (‘cholam’) (Subramaniam 1924b), and pine (data label).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during April, June, and September (label data).
Notes. Subramaniam (1924b) gave brief notes on its distribution in India. It was also treated by Mader (1937), Rao & So (1967) and Poorani et al. (2021). Some of the records of P. circumusta from South India appear to be suspect in view of its resemblance to P. perfida Poorani, a species recently described from South India (Poorani et al. 2021).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 229-231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Household Consumption of Snacks at Home and Away from Home
Creators: name: Boonsaeng, Tullaya
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
name: Zhen, Chen
name: Boonsaeng, Tullaya
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
name: Zhen, Chen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: demand analysis

description: This study identifies how key economic and demographic variables affect U.S. households' expenditures on snacks.
De Gustibus Asparagus: Habits, Trade, and Welfare from Out of Season Imports of Fresh Vegetables
Creators: name: Ferrier, Peyton Michael
name: Zhen, Chen
name: Ferrier, Peyton Michael
name: Zhen, Chen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: vegetable
subject: translog
subject: asparagus
subject: habits
subject: virtual price
subject: welfare
subject: fresh
subject: frozen

description: Fresh vegetables, including asparagus, are now available in months outside of the domestic growing season for most U.S. consumers. We use the virtual price method to calculate the equivalent variation for increased availability in a demand system for fresh and frozen vegetables and find that virtual price of out-of-season asparagus is roughly 3 times higher than its in-season price in years prior to year round availability. We find the equivalent variation between 1986-1991 (when asparagus was available approximately half the year) and 1993-1999 (when it was available year round) to be 0.91 of consumer vegetable budgets, implying a welfare benefit of approximately $86 million annually. We also find evidence of habit formation for fresh but not frozen goods.
Phrynocaria eberti
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Phrynocaria
Phrynocaria eberti

description: Phrynocaria eberti (Bielawski)
(Fig. 165)
Coelophora eberti Bielawski, 1972: 304 (Holotype, ZSBSM; Type locality: Nepal).
Phrynocaria eberti: Miyatake 1985: 21; Poorani 2002a: 338.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.00–5.00 mm; width: 3.80–4.60 mm. Form almost circular, dorsum strongly convex and glabrous. This species can be identified by its orange to reddish to orange-yellow coloured body with five black spots on each elytron arranged in a 2-2-1 pattern as illustrated (Fig. 165a, b). Female abdomen (Fig. 165c) and spermatheca (Fig. 165d) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Nagaland); Nepal.
Notes. It was described from Nepal by Bielawski (1972). Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982) included it under Lemnia (s. str.) but Miyatake (1985) correctly assigned it to Phrynocaria. Only a single female from Nagaland (northeastern India) was examined and the male genitalia could not be studied.
Notes. It appears to be a rare species endemic to the Eastern Himalayan region. See Bielawski (1972) and Miyatake (1985) for more details / illustrations.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Cost-effective implementation of the Paris Agreement using flexible greenhouse gas metrics
Creators: name: Tanaka, Katsumasa
name: Boucher, Olivier
name: Ciais, Philippe
name: Johansson, Daniel J. A.
name: Morfeldt, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Greenhouse gas (GHG) metrics, that is, conversion factors to evaluate the emissions of non-CO2 climate forcers on a common scale with CO2, serve crucial functions upon the implementation of the Paris Agreement. While different metrics have been proposed, their economic cost-effectiveness has not been investigated under a range of pathways, including those temporarily missing or significantly overshooting the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. Here we show that cost-effective metrics for methane that minimize the overall cost of climate mitigation are time-dependent, primarily determined by the pathway, and strongly influenced by temperature overshoot. The Paris Agreement will implement the conventional 100-year Global Warming Potential (GWP100), a good approximation of cost-effective metrics for the coming decades. In the longer term, however, we suggest that parties consider adapting the choice of common metrics to the future pathway as it unfolds, as part of the global stocktake, if cost-effectiveness is a key consideration.
description: This is an initial version submitted for a journal peer-review
Additional file 1 of Is the modified household food security survey (HFSS) questionnaire a practical tool for screening food insecurity? Evidence from northwest of Iran
Creators: name: Helda Tutunchi
name: Ebrahimi-Mameghani, Mehrangiz
name: Asghari-Jafarabadi, Mohammad
name: Farrin, Nazila
name: Sirous Tabrizi
name: Elnaz Vaghef-Mehrabany
name: Alireza Ostadrahimi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Affirmative responses to questions of the short questionnaire. Supplemental Table 2. Association between the monthly income per capita and frequency of food groups / items consumption. Supplemental Table 3. Consumption frequency of food groups/ items related to whether subjects could afford to eat balanced meals.
Localization of a multiblock copolymer at a selective interface: Scaling predictions and Monte Carlo verification
Creators: name: Corsi, Andrea
name: Milchev, Andrey
name: Rostiashvili, Vakhtang G.
name: Vilgis, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the localization of a hydrophobic - polar (HP) - regular copolymer at a selective solvent-solvent interface with emphasis on the impact of block length $M$ on the copolymer behavior. The considerations are based on simple scaling arguments and use the mapping of the problem onto a homopolymer adsorption problem. The resulting scaling relations treat the gyration radius of the copolymer chain perpendicular and parallel to the interface in terms of chain length N and block size M, as well as the selectivity parameter χ. The scaling relations differ for the case of weak and strong localization. In the strong localization limit a scaling relation for the lateral diffusion coefficient D is also derived. We implement a dynamic off-lattice Monte - Carlo model to verify these scaling predictions. For chain lengths in a wide range (32 < N < 512) we find good agreement with the scaling predictions.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Nanovibration control
Creators: name: Greenall, Russ
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores techniques to actively control the position of large masses such as focusing magnets with precision on the order of 1 nm against vibrations. The technique applied (labeled as an "optical anchor") is to actively "stiffen" the support structure using an optical interference method to measure distance to a remote reference point. The magnet is modeled as a mass on a spring, with a piezo electric actuator. In this model, proportional and differential control applied to the piezo allows the mass to be critically damped and the spring coefficient to be arbitrarily increased. A digital implementation with finite sampling rate has a finite stable region in control parameter space. If there are more mechanical degrees of freedom, the stable region and the quality of control can be greatly reduced. An interferometric instrument design for remote distance measurement is discussed and measurement results reflecting an accuracy of 0.2nm RMS are demonstrated. The instrument requires only two light detectors in a Michelson interferometer configuration. The algorithm design is implemented at a 5KHz sample rate using a circa 2000 DSP processor with 4-byte floating point operations running at a 40 MHz clock rate. Control tests on a one degree-of-freedom experimental platform are performed using proportional and differential control. These tests demonstrate active control which significantly damps fundamental mode excitations but are insufficient to stiffen the system. More sophisticated models and algorithms will be necessary. Nevertheless, some insight is gained into techniques which will allow control on the nanometer scale against "standard" ground vibrations. In particular, a successful implementation of coherent ground disturbance modeling provides a three-fold reduction in RMS vibration of our test system over our simple PID control.
Statistical Properties of Turbulent Fluctuations Associated with Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection
Creators: name: Arrò, Giuseppe
name: Califano, Francesco
name: Lapenta, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Recent satellite measurements in the turbulent magnetosheath of Earth have given evidence of an unusual reconnection mechanism that is driven exclusively by electrons. This newly observed process was called electron-only reconnection, and its inter-play with plasma turbulence is a matter of great debate. Aims: By using 2D-3V hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell simulations of freely decaying plasma turbulence, we study the role of electron-only reconnection in the development of plasma turbulence. In particular, we search for possible differences with respect to the turbulence associated with standard ion-coupled reconnection. Methods: We analyzed the structure functions of the turbulent magnetic field and ion fluid velocity fluctuations to characterize the structure and the intermittency properties of the turbulent energy cascade. Results: We find that the statistical properties of turbulent fluctuations associated with electron-only reconnection are consistent with those of turbulent fluctuations associated with standard ion-coupled reconnection, and no peculiar signature related to electron-only reconnection is found in the turbulence statistics. This result suggests that the turbulent energy cascade in a collisionless magnetized plasma does not depend on the specific mechanism associated with magnetic reconnection. The properties of the dissipation range are discussed as well, and we claim that only electrons contribute to the dissipation of magnetic field energy at sub-ion scales.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Farm Size and Performance
Creators: name: Hadrich, Joleen C.
name: Olson, Frayne E.
name: Hadrich, Joleen C.
name: Olson, Frayne E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm size
subject: farm performance
subject: SEM models

description: Confirmatory Factor Analysis is used to determine the explanatory power of indicator measures for farm size and performance.
description: Replaced with revised version of poster 08/03/10.
Dual Magnetic Separator for TRI$μ$P
Creators: name: Berg, G. P. A.
name: Dermois, O. C.
name: Dammalapati, U.
name: Harakeh, P. Dendooven M. N.
name: Jungmann, K.
name: Onderwater, C. J. G.
name: Rogachevskiy, A.
name: Sohani, M.
name: Traykov, E.
name: Willmann, L.
name: Wilschut, H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The TRI$μ$P facility, under construction at KVI, requires the production and separation of short-lived and rare isotopes. Direct reactions, fragmentation and fusion-evaporation reactions in normal and inverse kinematics are foreseen to produce nuclides of interest with a variety of heavy-ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR. For this purpose, we have designed, constructed and commissioned a versatile magnetic separator that allows efficient injection into an ion catcher, i.e., gas-filled stopper/cooler or thermal ionizer, from which a low energy radioactive beam will be extracted. The separator performance was tested with the production and clean separation of $^{21}$Na ions, where a beam purity of 99.5% could be achieved. For fusion-evaporation products, some of the features of its operation as a gas-filled recoil separator were tested.
description: accepted by Nucl.Instr. Meth., final version
Self fulfilling prophecy? : electroal expectations and the rise of reform in 1993
Creators: name: Bittner, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The 1993 Canadian Federal Election marked a turning point in the Canadian political system, with the emergence of two new political parties, the decimation of the oldest party in Canada, and the beginning of more than a decade of Liberal dominance. A number of explanations have been put forth by scholars since 1993, and this study explores one possible explanation for the outcome of this election, by looking at the role of expectations in the campaign. There is growing evidence that voters incorporate more than political ideology or impressions of political parties into their decision-making processes, that campaigns do matter, and that voters are thinking forward to electoral outcomes when marking their ballots. A number of statistical models are incorporated into this study, in order to look at the pattern, sources, and impact of expectations in 1993. In sum, the data indicate that expectations did indeed play a role in influencing the outcome of the election, in particular, in influencing the vote for the Reform Party.
Ultrasound promoted environmentally benign, highly efficient, and chemoselective N-tert-butyloxycarbonylation of amines by reusable sulfated polyborate
Creators: name: Pise, Ashok A .
name: Ingale, Ajit P.
name: Dalvi, Navnath R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The sulfated polyborate catalyzed an efficient and chemoselective N-tert-butyloxycarbonylation of amines under ultrasonic irradiation is developed. A broad substrate scope has been demonstrated for N-Boc protection of various primary/secondary amines. It allows converting several aliphatic/aryl/heteroaryl amines, amino alcohol, aminoester, and chiral amines to their N-Boc-protected derivatives under solvent-free conditions with excellent yields. The protocol has several advantages such as easy catalyst, and product isolation, short reaction time, excellent yields, outstanding chemoselectivity, and catalyst recyclability, among others. This makes the process practicable, economical, and environmentally benign.
Phrynocaria funebris Crotch
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Phrynocaria
Phrynocaria funebris

description: Phrynocaria funebris Crotch
(Fig. 166)
Coelophora funebris Crotch, 1874: 154 (Type material, BMNH; Type locality: Bangalore).— Korschefsky 1932: 292.
Phrynocaria funebris: Poorani 2002a: 338; Poorani et al. 2021: 124.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.00 mm. Form broadly rounded, dorsum strongly convex and glabrous. Head and pronotum ochreous, pronotum with a black macula dilated on either side on posterior margin; elytra dark brown to black, lateral margins narrowly yellowish-ochreous (Fig. 166a, b). Head with eyes posteriorly strongly divergent. Elytral disc finely punctate, interspaces weakly reticulate. Ventral side yellowish brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 166c–e) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Karnataka). This species was originally described from Bangalore and appears to be rare as it is not represented in any of the major Indian collections.
Note. It is externally similar to Synona spp. and the melanic form of P. perrotetti (Mulsant) from which it can be separated by the male genitalia. Poorani et al. (2021) confirmed it as a valid species and redescribed it.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 232-234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 1 of Immunoreactivity to metal and silica associates with sarcoidosis in Dutch patients
Creators: name: Beijer, E.
name: B. Meek
name: X. Bossuyt
name: S. Peters
name: R. C. H. Vermeulen
name: H. Kromhout
name: M. Veltkamp
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Estimated odds ratios for sarcoidosis and JEM assigned exposure
Bubble generation in a twisted and bent DNA-like model
Creators: name: Larsen, Peter V.
name: Christiansen, Peter L.
name: Bang, Ole
name: Archilla, Juan F. R.
name: Gaididei, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DNA molecule is modeled by a parabola embedded chain with long-range interactions between twisted base pair dipoles. A mechanism for bubble generation is presented and investigated in two different configurations. Using random normally distributed initial conditions to simulate thermal fluctuations, a relationship between bubble generation, twist and curvature is established. An analytical approach supports the numerical results.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for Phys. Rev. E (in press)
Enhanced principle component method for fringe removal in cold atom images
Creators: name: Xiong, Feng
name: Long, Yun
name: Parker, Colin V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many powerful imaging techniques for cold atoms are based on determining the optical density by comparing a beam image having passed through the atom cloud to a reference image taken under similar conditions with no atoms. In practice the beam profile typically contains interference fringes whose phase is not stable between camera exposures. To reduce the error of these fringes in the computed optical density, an algorithm based on principle component analysis (PCA) is often employed. However, PCA is general purpose and not tailored to the specific case of interference fringes. Here we demonstrate an algorithm that takes advantage of the Fourier-space structure of interference fringes to further reduce the residual fringe signatures in the optical density.