cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
«Nach neunzig Jahren»: per una rilettura delle Vorlesungen über Syntax di Jacob Wackernagel
Creators: name: Bologna, Maria Patrizia
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: A distanza di oltre novant’anni dalla seconda edizione (1926-1928) delle Vorlesungen über Syntax di Jacob Wackernagel, si propongono alcune considerazioni sulle celebri Lezioni dello «Sprachforscher philologischer Richtung» di Basilea. La rilettura alla luce degli sviluppi dell’indoeuropeistica rivela temi e spunti di forte impatto sulla ricerca successiva, lasciando anche intravedere come l’analisi di singoli fenomeni morfosintattici non manchi di una proiezione verso aspetti più generali.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
Appunti su Bernardo Bellini antiromantico
Creators: name: Colombo, Paolo
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Il contributo intende proporre un’indagine sulla militanza antiromantica che caratterizzò per circa un trentennio la produzione letteraria di Bernardo Bellini (1792-1876), attraversando il 1816 della querelle, la breve stagione del «Conciliatore», le diatribe suscitate, nella seconda metà degli anni Venti, dal montiano Sermone sulla mitologia e dai Lombardi alla prima crociata di Tommaso Grossi, fino ai primi anni Quaranta, che lo videro contrapposto, nella Torino di Carlo Alberto, all’esordiente ma già affermato Giovanni Prati. In ognuno di questi scontri, il poligrafo comasco diede prova di una vivace e spesso spregiudicata vena polemica, rivendicando (talora con tardivo accanimento) le ragioni della propria fazione, anche attraverso lo strumentale coinvolgimento di riconosciuti rappresentanti della recente tradizione poetica italiana, come Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo e Giacomo Leopardi.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
A casa del sarto. Appunti di lettura dai Promessi sposi
Creators: name: Facciotto, Gregorio
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Troppo spesso limitativi sono stati i giudizi che, in sede critica, il carattere del sarto manzoniano ha raccolto: l’angolatura da noi adottata mira invece ad una riconsiderazione, all’interno di una lettura tentativamente globale dei Promessi sposi, del significato specificamente letterario che il personaggio rivendicherebbe per sé. L’ipotesi è di scorgere, all’interno della casa borghigiana, un filo sottile ma tenace, nascosto ma intenzionale, in grado di legare l’episodio analizzato alla conclusione effettiva del romanzo: quasi che il narratore, a tale altezza dell’eroica fatica, una buona donna già avesse immaginato, a cucinare il sugo in anticipo di tutta la storia, il brodo di cappone per il giorno della festa. A conforto dell’intuizione, sono apparsi nel percorso segnali molteplici di luce - luce metanarrativa - o inviti chiari a leggere, nel fu Tommaso Dalceppo, nientemeno che una delle possibili controfigure testuali manzoniane.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
148. Non-radial pulsators
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: I have discussed Gaia variables in several essays, focusing on Cepheids (43), on RR~Lyrae (45), their detection and classification (61), their distribution across the Hertzsprung--Russell diagram (62), and in the context of citizen science (132). Here I look at some new insights into the non-radial g-mode pulsators in the SPB and Gamma Dor class.
Toward Better Outcomes for Natural Resource Management Decisions - The Potential of Public Deliberation
Creators: name: Hodge, Sandra
name: Southorn, Neil
name: Hodge, Sandra
name: Southorn, Neil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The type of public participation or community consultation process used by communities to resolve natural resource management issues will have a major impact on the types of decisions which result. A familiar process is the "expert" model where expertise is delivered to the community rather than reflecting a true collaborative learning process with community members. An alternative is deliberation, a community-based process where community members engage incollaborative learning and find courses of action valuable to the community as a whole, and not those which represent just a few interests. This paper discusses two case studies - the development of Water Sharing Plans by River Management Committees in New South Wales, Australia, and concern over potential intensive livestock operations in Saline County, Missouri, USA - and compares how the different processes were used to resolve natural resource management issues.
Nonlinear Evolutions and Non-Gaussianity in Generalized Gravity
Creators: name: Koh, Seoktae
name: Kim, Sang Pyo
name: Song, Doo Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to study the nonlinear evolutions of inhomogeneous spacetimes during inflation in generalized gravity. We find the exact solutions to the lowest order Hamilton-Jacobi equation for special scalar potentials and introduce an approximation method for general potentials. The conserved quantity invariant under a change of timelike hypersurfaces proves useful in dealing with gravitational perturbations. In the long-wavelength approximation, we find a conserved quantity related to the new canonical variable that makes the Hamiltonian density vanish, and calculate the non-Gaussianity in generalized gravity. The slow-roll inflation models with a single scalar field in generalized gravity predict too small non-Gaussianity to be detected by future CMB experiments.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures; added references
Time-dependent properties of interacting active matter: dynamical behavior of one-dimensional systems of self-propelled particles
Creators: name: Caprini, Lorenzo
name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an interacting high-density one-dimensional system of self-propelled particles described by the Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP) model where, even in the absence of alignment interactions, velocity and energy domains spontaneously form in analogy with those already observed in two dimensions. Such domains are regions where the individual velocities are spatially correlated as a result of the interplay between self-propulsion and interactions. Their typical size is controlled by a characteristic correlation length. In the present work, we focus on a novel and lesser-known aspect of the model, namely its dynamical behavior. To this purpose, we investigate theoretically and numerically the time-dependent velocity autocorrelation and spatio-temporal velocity correlation functions. The study of these correlations provides a measure of the average life-time and, thus, the stability in time of the velocity domains.
The orbit of the close spectroscopic binary epsilon Lupi and the intrinsic variability of its early B-type components
Creators: name: Uytterhoeven, K.
name: Harmanec, P.
name: Telting, J. H.
name: Aerts, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We subjected 106 new high-resolution spectra of the double-lined spectroscopic close binary epsilon Lupi, obtained in a time-span of 17 days from two different observatories, to a detailed study of orbital and intrinsic variations. We derived accurate values of the orbital parameters. We refined the sidereal orbital period to 4.55970 days and the eccentricity to e=0.277. By adding old radial velocities, we discovered the presence of apsidal motion with a period of the rotation of apses of about 430 years. Such a value agrees with theoretical expectations. Additional data is needed to confirm and refine this value. Our dataset did not allow us to derive the orbit of the third body, which is known to orbit the close system in approximately 64 years. We present the secondary of epsilon Lupi as a new beta Cephei variable, while the primary is a beta Cephei suspect. A first detailed analysis of line-profile variations of both primary and secondary led to detection of one pulsation frequency near 10.36 c/d in the variability of the secondary, while no clear periodicity was found in the primary, although low-amplitude periodicities are still suspected. The limited accuracy and extent of our dataset did not allow any further analysis, such as mode-identification.
description: 13+3 pages, 20 figures. Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepted
A clinical decision support system for detecting and mitigating potentially inappropriate medications
Creators: name: Redeker, Guilherme Alfredo
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Potentially inappropriate medications
Ontology
Inference rules
Alternative drugs recommendation
Drug scheduling optimisation
Rule-based approach
Clinical decision support system

description: Background: Medication errors are a leading cause of preventable harm to patients. In older adults, the impact of ageing on the therapeutic effectiveness and safety of drugs is a significant concern, especially for those over 65. Consequently, certain medications called Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) can be dangerous in the elderly and should be avoided. Tackling PIMs by health professionals and patients can be time-consuming and error-prone, as the criteria underlying the definition of PIMs are complex and subject to frequent updates. Moreover, the criteria are not available in a representation that health systems can interpret and reason with directly. Objectives: This thesis aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using an ontology/rule-based approach in a clinical knowledge base to identify potentially inappropriate medication(PIM). In addition, how constraint solvers can be used effectively to suggest alternative medications and administration schedules to solve or minimise PIM undesirable side effects. Methodology: To address these objectives, we propose a novel integrated approach using formal rules to represent the PIMs criteria and inference engines to perform the reasoning presented in the context of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS). The approach aims to detect, solve, or minimise undesirable side-effects of PIMs through an ontology (knowledge base) and inference engines incorporating multiple reasoning approaches. Contributions: The main contribution lies in the framework to formalise PIMs, including the steps required to define guideline requisites to create inference rules to detect and propose alternative drugs to inappropriate medications. No formalisation of the selected guideline (Beers Criteria) can be found in the literature, and hence, this thesis provides a novel ontology for it. Moreover, our process of minimising undesirable side effects offers a novel approach that enhances and optimises the drug rescheduling process, providing a more accurate way to minimise the effect of drug interactions in clinical practice.
Zaragoza: Microhistoria y reflexiones de las independencias hispanoamericanas (1814)
Creators: name: Molina Guerrero, Norberto
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Il seguente articolo è il risultato di un lavoro di ricerca relativo alla microistoria che evidenzia le caratteristiche sociali all’inizio del XIX secolo, quando si verificarono una serie di eventi politici e militari che portarono all’indipendenza delle nascenti repubbliche ispano-americane. Saragozza è una città situata ad Antioquia, nel nord della Colombia, che all’epoca era importante a causa del boom delle miniere d’oro. È in questo scenario che si è svolta una situazione giudiziaria con dettagli insoliti, definitiva per comprendere la dimensione dei processi storici in tutta l’America Latina.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
A New Method for Reduction of NH3 Emissions from Pig Housing Systems by Adding Sulphuric Acid to Slurry
Creators: name: Jensen, Jorgen E.
name: Norgaard, Nicolaj H.
name: Krabbe, Henning
name: Pedersen, Poul
name: Jensen, Jorgen E.
name: Norgaard, Nicolaj H.
name: Krabbe, Henning
name: Pedersen, Poul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Effects of adding sulphuric acid to slurry by flushing the waste pits were studied in a commercial finishing unit with four identical sections. Each section included 300 pigs on fully slatted floors. Waste pits in two control sections had a pull-plug system installed for removal of slurry. The other two sections had a new developed and patented waste handling system using a sulphuric acid treatment.
Lesions of the prefrontal cortex produce an impairment in rats’ behaviour on a time-place learning task
Creators: name: Thorpe, Christina Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This experiment examined the effect of medial prefrontal lesions on time-place learning in the rat. During the first phase, prior to lesioning, rats received training on an interval time-place task. Food was available on each of four levers for 3 consecutive minutes of a 12-min session. The levers provided food in the same sequence on all trials. Rats restricted the majority of their presses on each lever to the time in each session when it provided food and were able to anticipate when a lever was going to provide food. During the second phase half the rats received lesions that were restricted to the medial prefrontal cortex. Following these very restricted lesions, rats were impaired in timing of the intervals. They tended to continue pressing a lever after it stopped providing food (i.e., perseverated, as if their internal clock was running slow). The third phase involved changing the order in which the levers provided food. Lesions had no discernable effect on the rats' ability to learn the correct sequence of food availability. However, this change made the rats' timing impairment even more noticeable.
Genetically engineered IgG1 and nanobody oligomers acquire strong intrinsic CD40 agonism
Creators: name: Hesen, Nienke
name: Anany, Mohamed
name: Freidel, Andre
name: Baker, Mediya
name: Siegmund, Daniela
name: Zaitseva, Olena
name: Wajant, Harald
name: Lang, Isabell
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Most anti-CD40 antibodies show robust agonism only upon binding to FcγR+ cells, such as B cells, macrophages, or DCs, but a few anti-CD40 antibodies display also strong intrinsic agonism dependent on the recognized epitope and/or isotype. It is worth mentioning, however, that also the anti-CD40 antibodies with intrinsic agonism can show a further increase in agonistic activity when bound by FcγR-expressing cells. Thus, conventional antibodies appear not to be sufficient to trigger the maximum possible CD40 activation independent from FcγR-binding. We proved here the hypothesis that oligomeric and oligovalent anti-CD40 antibody variants generated by genetic engineering display high intrinsic, thus FcγR-independent, agonistic activity. We generated tetra-, hexa- and dodecavalent variants of six anti-CD40 antibodies and a CD40-specific nanobody. All these oligovalent variants, even when derived of bivalent antagonistic anti-CD40 antibodies, showed strongly enhanced CD40 agonism compared to their conventional counterparts. In most cases, the CD40 agonism reached the maximum response induced by FcγR-bound anti-CD40 antibodies or membrane CD40L, the natural engager of CD40. In sum, our data show that increasing the valency of anti-CD40 antibody constructs by genetic engineering regularly results in molecules with high intrinsic agonism and level out the specific limitations of the parental antibodies.
Initializing Successive Linear Programming Solver for ACOPF using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Sadat, Sayed Abdullah
name: Sahraei-Ardakani, Mostafa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A Successive linear programming (SLP) approach is one of the favorable approaches for solving large scale nonlinear optimization problems. Solving an alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problem is no exception, particularly considering the large real-world transmission networks across the country. It is, however, essential to improve the computational performance of the SLP algorithm. One way to achieve this goal is through the efficient initialization of the algorithm with a near-optimal solution. This paper examines various machine learning (ML) algorithms available in the Scikit-Learn library to initialize an SLP-ACOPF solver, including examining linear and nonlinear ML algorithms. We evaluate the quality of each of these machine learning algorithms for predicting variables needed for a power flow solution. The solution is then used as an initialization for an SLP-ACOPF algorithm. The approach is tested on a congested and non-congested 3 bus systems. The results obtained from the best-performed ML algorithm in this work are compared with the results of a DCOPF solution for the initialization of an SLP-ACOPF solver.
description: 6 pages, 16 figures, submitted to the 2020 IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
Quantification of a North American greenhouse hydrological cycle: using oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate from Early Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) turtles
Creators: name: C.A. Suarez
name: M.N. Frucci
name: T.B. Tompkins
name: M.B. Suarez
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary figure 1: Analysed oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate samples
Instability of defensive alliances in the predator-prey model on complex networks
Creators: name: Kim, Beom Jun
name: Liu, Jianbin
name: Um, Jaegon
name: Lee, Sung-Ik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of six-species food web is studied in the viewpoint of spatial interaction structures. Each species has two predators and two preys, and it was previously known that the defensive alliances of three cyclically predating species self-organize in two-dimensions. The alliance-breaking transition occurs as either the mutation rate is increased or interaction topology is randomized in the scheme of the Watts-Strogatz model. In the former case of temporal disorder, via the finite-size scaling analysis the transition is clearly shown to belong to the two-dimensional Ising universality class. In contrast, the geometric or spatial randomness for the latter case yields a discontinuous phase transition. The mean-field limit of the model is analytically solved and then compared with numerical results. The dynamic universality and the temporally periodic behaviors are also discussed.
description: 5 pages
Searching for Productivity and Competitive Advantage on New Zealand Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Woodford, Keith
name: Greer, John
name: Phillips, Amanda
name: Woodford, Keith
name: Greer, John
name: Phillips, Amanda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The New Zealand dairy industry is susceptible to volatile international prices, and depends on cost leadership at the farm level to maintain its international competitive advantage. The industry has accepted a target of 4% productivity improvement per annum. However, cost-based benchmarks of productivity are not used widely by farmers. It is argued that at the farm level, overall gains in resource efficiency need to be assessed in terms of cost per unit of output, and that these benchmarks need to be calculated in both cash and economic terms. These output-based cost benchmarks are tools both for assessing alternative technologies and for monitoring progress. However, they need to be used with discretion, and with recognition that strategic goals of increasing wealth through capital gain may on occasions take farmers in other directions.
Per una educazione illuministica. I «Racconti morali» di Giambattista Biffi: le fonti
Creators: name: Turchetti, Maria Francesca
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: L’articolo verte sulla figura dell’illuminista cremonese Giambattista Biffi (1736-1807), membro dell’Accademia dei Pugni, e sull’analisi dei suoi Racconti morali ad uso d’un fanciullo, autografi e inediti, conservati nella Biblioteca Statale di Cremona. Sono una decina di novelle scritte con un intento pedagogico per il marchesino Daniele Ala, primogenito del marchese Gian Francesco Ala, amico di Biffi. Dopo aver preso in esame il contesto familiare e quello storico in cui sono stati scritti – il periodo delle riforme asburgiche – e averne proposto una datazione, l’autrice identifica le fonti a stampa, sia italiane che straniere, dalle quali Biffi ricavò la trama delle novelle. Infine ne sottolinea la matrice illuministica che proponeva una educazione alla virtù intesa come utilità sociale, per il benessere e la felicità collettiva.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
Stabilization of one-dimensional Townes solitons by spin-orbit coupling in a dual-core system
Creators: name: Shamriz, Elad
name: Chen, Zhaopin
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently demonstrated that two-dimensional Townes solitons (TSs) in two-component systems with cubic self-focusing, which are normally made unstable by the critical collapse, can be stabilized by linear spin-orbit coupling (SOC), in Bose-Einstein condensates and optics alike. We demonstrate that one-dimensional TSs, realized as optical spatial solitons in a planar dual-core waveguide with dominant quintic self-focusing, may be stabilized by SOC-like terms emulated by obliquity of the coupling between cores of the waveguide. Thus, SOC offers a universal mechanism for the stabilization of the TSs. A combination of systematic numerical considerations and analytical approximations identifies a vast stability area for skew-symmetric solitons in the system's main (semi-infinite) and annex (finite) bandgaps. Tilted ("moving") solitons are unstable, spontaneously evolving into robust breathers. For broad solitons, diffraction, represented by second derivatives in the system, may be neglected, leading to a simplified model with a finite bandgap. It is populated by skew-antisymmetric gap solitons, which are nearly stable close to the gap's bottom.
description: to be published in CNSNS (Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation)
Non-Abelian tensor gauge fields and higher-spin extension of Standard Model
Creators: name: Savvidy, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest an extension of the Yang-Mills theory which includes non-Abelian tensor gauge fields. The invariant Lagrangian is quadratic in the field strength tensors and describes interaction of charged tensor gauge bosons of arbitrary large integer spin $1,2,...$. Non-Abelian tensor gauge fields can be viewed as a unique gauge field with values in the infinite-dimensional current algebra associated with compact Lie group. The full Lagrangian exhibits also enhanced local gauge invariance with double number of gauge parameters which allows to eliminate all negative norm states of the nonsymmetric second-rank tensor gauge field, which describes therefore two polarizations of helicity-two massless charged tensor gauge boson and the helicity-zero boson. The geometrical interpretation of the enhanced gauge symmetry with double number of gauge parameters is not yet known. We suggest higher-spin extension of the electroweak theory and consider creation processes of new tensor gauge bosons.
description: 14 pages, Latex, Talk given at Corfu Summer Institute, Corfu, Greece, 2005,the normalization of second Lagrangian has been changed
Systematik zur Evolution technischer Anforderungen
Creators: name: Lankeit, Christopher
Publisher: name: Universität Paderborn
Year: 2021

description: Der Umgang mit Komplexität, Schnittstellenvielfalt und Domänenvielfalt kann bei vernetzten und emergenten Systemen über eine übergeordnete Betrachtung und geführte Prozesse gelingen. Technischen Anforderungen kommt in allen Phasen der Entwicklung eine entscheidende Bedeutung zu. Sie eignen sich als Zieldefinition und Überprüfbarkeitskriterien sowohl in der Systemsynthese, als auch in der Systemanalyse.In dieser Arbeit wird ein Vier-Ebenen Modell von Anforderungen erläutert. In diesem werden technische Anforderungen sukzessive und systematisch detailliert. Ausgehend von Zielen werden funktionsorientierte Anforderungen, domänenübergreifende und domänenspezifische Anforderungen unterschieden. Diese Darstellungsform eignet sich für weitergehende Systemanalysen in Bezug auf die Durchgängigkeit und Vollständigkeit von Anforderungen. Die Vorgehensweise unterscheidet sich dabei von etablierten Prozessen durch die Konzentration auf die ingenieurwissenschaftliche Perspektive. Die formalen Ansätze des Software Engineerings, die bei kontinuierlichen Systemen schwierig einsetzbar sind, werden angepasst und für technische Systeme genutzt. Dabei wird auf eine konsistente Durchgängigkeit Wert gelegt. Die Systematik wird durch Analyseverfahren unterstützt, die zu verschiedenen Phasen des Entwurfs intelligenter technischer Systeme Rückschlüsse auf die Anforderungen zulassen und helfen, diese umzusetzen. Zur Evaluierung wird die Systematik an einem Beispiel aus der industriellen Praxis angewendet.
description: Dealing with complexity, interface diversity and domain diversity in connected and emergent systems can succeed via a superordinate view and guided processes. Technical requirements are of crucial importance in every phase of development.They are suitable as a goal definition and test criteria during system synthesis, analysis and integration. In this thesis, a model, based on four levels of requirements, is provided. Therein, technical requirements are successively and systematically detailed. Starting with goals, a distinction is made between function-oriented requirements, domain-spanning and domain-specific requirements. This representation is suitable for further system analyzes with regard to the consistency and completeness of requirements. The approach is characterized by focusing on the engineering perspective and can therefore be distinguished from established processes. The concepts of formal approaches from the software engineering domain, which are difficult to implement in continuous systems, are adapted, and used for the holistic development of intelligent technical systems. Consistency is targeted by a systematology. This is supported by analytical methods that allow conclusions about the requirements at various stages of the development of intelligent technical systems and help to realize them. To evaluate the systematology, it is applied to an industrial practice example.
Acceptance and Repayment of Agricultural Credit in Lombok Indonesia - Farmer's Perspectives
Creators: name: Sjah, Taslim
name: Russell, Iean W.
name: Cameron, Donald
name: Sjah, Taslim
name: Russell, Iean W.
name: Cameron, Donald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: agricultural credit
subject: acceptance
subject: repayment
subject: Lombok
subject: Indonesia

description: This paper analyzes farmer decisions regarding acceptance and repayment of agricultural credit in Lombok, Indonesia. A survey was conducted during July 2001- March 2002 in Central Lombok, where the current KKP government credit scheme is provided to agricultural producers. Three villages within the regency were sampled, representing various repayment rates of government credit. Data were collected using face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with 65 farmers who had made use of government or other sources of agricultural credit. Capital possession was found to be the starting point for farmers' decision-making in relation to credit use. As long as farmers had their own capital, they tended to avoid using credit, perceiving that credit from any source was risky. Farmers preferred to apply for government credit, rather than from private sources, because it had lower interest rates, a more suitable repayment schedule, and was considered less risky. In some situations however, private credit was preferred because of its simplicity and instant availability. In credit repayment, farmers' behavior was strongly influenced by their capability, character, and motivations, and these factors could be inter-connected. The findings have some implications for credit distribution, monitoring, repayment collection, and education and extension for clients.
Drug Repurposing Analysis for Colorectal Cancer through Network Medicine Framework: Novel Candidate Drugs and Small Molecules
Creators: name: Unal, Ulku
name: Gov, Esra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to reveal the drug-repurposing candidates for colorectal cancer (CRC) via drug-repurposing methods and network biology approaches. A novel, differentially co-expressed, highly interconnected, and co-regulated prognostic gene module was identified for CRC. Based on the gene module, polyethylene glycol (PEG), gallic acid, pyrazole, cordycepin, phenothiazine, pantoprazole, cysteamine, indisulam, valinomycin, trametinib, BRD-K81473043, AZD8055, dovitinib, BRD-A17065207, and tyrphostin AG1478 presented as drugs and small molecule candidates previously studied in the CRC. Lornoxicam, suxamethonium, oprelvekin, sirukumab, levetiracetam, sulpiride, NVP-TAE684, AS605240, 480743.cdx, HDAC6 inhibitor ISOX, BRD-K03829970, and L-6307 are proposed as novel drugs and small molecule candidates for CRC.
A First-Principles Nonequilibrium Deterministic Equation of Motion of a Brownian Particle and Microscopic Viscous Drag
Creators: name: Gujrati, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first-principles thermodynamic approach to provide an alternative to the Langevin equation by identifying the deterministic (no stochastic component) microforce F_{k,BP} acting on a nonequilibrium Brownian particle (BP) in its kth microstate m_{k}. (The prefix micro refers to microstate quantities and carry a suffix k.) The deterministic new equation is easier to solve using basic calculus. Being oblivious to the second law, F_{k,BP} does not always oppose motion but viscous dissipation emerges upon ensemble averaging. The equipartition theorem is always satisfied. We reproduce well-known results of the BP in equilibrium. We explain how the microforce is obtained directly from the mutual potential energy of interaction beween the BP and the medium after we average it over the medium so we only have to consider the particles in the BP. Our approach goes beyond the phenomenological and equilibrium approach of Langevin and unifies nonequilibrium viscous dissipation from mesoscopic to macroscopic scales and provides new insight into Brownian motion beyond Langevin's and Einstein's formulation.
description: 16 pages; 2 figures; some overlap with arXiv:1901.11192
Recent Results from the SIMPLE Dark Matter Search
Creators: name: Girard, TA
name: Giuliani, F.
name: Collar, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SIMPLE is an experimental search for evidence of spin-dependent dark matter, based on superheated droplet detectors using C$_{2}$ClF$_{5}$. We report preliminary results of a 0.6 kgdy exposure of five one liter devices, each containing $\sim$10 g active mass, in the 1500 mwe LSBB (Rustrel, France). In combination with improvements in detector sensitivity, the results exclude a WIMP--proton interaction above 5 pb at M$_χ$ = 50 GeV/c$^{2}$.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures,contribution to IDM2004, Sept. 6-10, 2004, Edinburgh, UK
Economic Evaluation of Phase Farming with Lucerne on the Esperance Sandplain
Creators: name: O'Connell, Michael
name: O'Connell, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This study examines the profitability of phase farming with lucerne for a farming system on the South Coast of Western Australia. Consistent with previous studies, lucerne appears promising within niches in the farming system. However, further improvements in the production and / or utilisation of lucerne are likely to be required before widespread adoption is financially attractive. Several important conclusions emerge from this study: The profitability of lucerne is primarily due to savings on supplementary feed costs over summer and autumn. While lucerne does provide benefits to following crops, the net impact of lucerne on the profitability of a farmer's cropping programme is likely to be negligible. The profitability and optimal area of lucerne is likely to be significantly higher on farms where prime lamb production occurs. This will especially be the case where lambs are sold as carryover stock in mid-late summer. The economic value of lucerne diminishes as a larger area is established. The implication of this is that just because some lucerne is good, more may not necessarily be better. Lucerne appears able to provide some reduction in recharge without a loss in profit. However, for the farming district examined in this study, the dominance of high recharge soil groups creates particular challenges. Significant improvements in lucerne production and / or utilisation will be required before it will compete with current land uses on some of the major soil groups.
iMirabilis_2 Expedition (iAtlantic) Science plan
Creators: name: Orejas, Covadonga
name: Abella, Joan Carles
name: Amaro, Teresa
name: Barbosa, Nadito
name: Barnhill, Kelsey
name: Brown, Robin
name: Calado, Antonio
name: Cardwell, Chris
name: Carreiro-Silva, Marina
name: De Clippele, Laurence
name: De Jonge, Danielle
name: Devey, Colin
name: Dinis, Herculano
name: Evans, Susan
name: Fiedler, Björn
name: Freitas, Rui
name: Gomes, Evandra
name: González-Solís, Jacob
name: Gori, Andrea
name: Gunn, Vikki
name: Gutiérrez-Zárate, Cristina
name: Hennige, Sebastian
name: Henry, Lea-Anne
name: Hidalgo, Manuel
name: Hoving, Henk-Jan
name: Huvenne, Veerle
name: Jones, Dan
name: Lopes, Carla
name: Militão, Teresa
name: Millo, Christian
name: Mosquera-Giménez, Ángela
name: Movilla, Juancho
name: Pérez, Irene
name: Puerta, Patricia
name: Roberts, John Murray
name: Robidart, Julie
name: Roper, Dan
name: Samuel, Robyn
name: Sardà, Mariona
name: Schumacher, Mia
name: Sherwood, Owen
name: Strong, James
name: Sweetman, Andrew
name: Thornalley, David
name: Veiga, Alfredo
name: Vélez-Belchí, Pedro
name: Vinha, Beatriz
name: Walk, John
name: Wardell, Catherine
name: Wölf, Anne-Cathrin
name: Wyatt, James
name: Yepes, Daniela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: iMirabilis_2
Science Plan
Cabo Verde
Research Expedition

description: The document is the Science Plan of the iMirabilis_2 expedition. The mission took place on the Spanish Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa from 23rd of July to 30th August 2021. The expedition was split into two phases, or legs, which had different objectives and involved different teams of people. Was a 6 week-long scientific research mission that explored the deep-sea ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean around Cabo Verde. During those 6 weeks, the scientists on board will use state-of-the-art equipment to undertake a number of experiments and surveys aimed to reveal information about the inhabitants and physical conditions in the water column and at the seafloor. In addition, a large part of the activities during the expedition have been dedicated to training and skills development for early career marine scientists.
Le lettere inedite di Michele Della Torre a Giovanni Della Casa (1547-1549) conservate nei mss. Vat. Lat. 14.834-14.835
Creators: name: Mondelli, Luca
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Le epistole conservate nei manoscritti Vat. Lat. 14.834-35, di pertinenza dellacasiana, sono state tradizionalmente connesse al nome di Giovanni Bianchetti, patrizio bolognese a noi pressoché sconosciuto, identificato come “agente romano” di Della Casa negli anni della nunziatura a Venezia (1544-1549). A seguito di uno studio autoptico condotto sui due volumi vaticani, sono emerse nuove lettere di altri corrispondenti, tra le quali spiccano quelle firmate da Michele Della Torre, vescovo di Ceneda e nunzio apostolico in Francia dal settembre 1547 all’agosto 1550. Queste missive, fino a oggi inedite, hanno statuto di originali e si presentano in buono stato di conservazione. Esse ci consegnano importanti informazioni relative alle fallimentari trattative intraprese da Francia, Stato pontificio, Venezia e Svizzeri per la costituzione di una lega in prospettiva antimperiale; inoltre, queste lettere indirizzate a Della Casa ci forniscono note interessanti inerenti alle strategie belliche attuate nell’ambito degli scontri tra Inglesi, Scozzesi e Francesi in ragione del cosiddetto brutale corteggiamento. Per quanto queste epistole si dimostrino una preziosa testimonianza per approfondire le relazioni diplomatiche intercorse tra il Regno di Francia, la Corte farnesiana e la Serenissima in anni tanto delicati, occorre sottolineare il fatto che Della Torre sembri rivolgersi a Della Casa soprattutto per chiedere uffici e mantenere i contatti con l’ambiente veneziano.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
Breaking the quantum PIN code of atomic synapses
Creators: name: Török, Tímea Nóra
name: Csontos, Miklós
name: Makk, Péter
name: Halbritter, András
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic synapses represent a special class of memristors whose operation relies on the formation of metallic nanofilaments bridging two electrodes across an insulator. Due to the magnifying effect of this narrowest cross-section on the device conductance, a nanometer scale displacement of a few atoms grants access to various resistive states at ultimately low energy costs, satisfying the fundamental requirements of neuromorphic computing hardware. Yet, device engineering lacks the complete quantum characterization of such filamentary conductance. Here we analyze multiple Andreev reflection processes emerging at the filament terminals when superconducting electrodes are utilized. Thereby the quantum PIN code, i.e. the transmission probabilities of each individual conduction channel contributing to the conductance of the nanojunctions is revealed. Our measurements on Nb$_2$O$_5$ resistive switching junctions provide a profound experimental evidence that the onset of the high conductance ON state is manifested via the formation of truly atomic-sized metallic filaments.
Ai margini di Aristofane: una lettura umanistico-rinascimentale di Pluto e Nuvole
Creators: name: Muttini, Micol
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: La storia della riscoperta di Aristofane nell’Umanesimo è affidata anche ai margini dei manoscritti dell’epoca, che ci conservano tracce di letture umanistico-rinascimentali delle commedie. Questi marginalia sono ancora sostanzialmente inediti e inesplorati: infatti, non è mai stata compiuta un’opera sistematica di studio degli esemplari manoscritti umanistici di Aristofane ai fini della pubblicazione di tali chiose. Nel presente saggio, intendo dare notizia al lettore di un fortunato rinvenimento: si tratta del codice Vat. Ottob. gr. 210 (sec. XVmed), in cui il testo greco della diade Pluto (ff. 168r-218v) e Nuvole (ff. 219v-274v) risulta corredato da un ricco patrimonio di postille marginali, di varia tipologia, fino ad oggi non segnalate. Il testimone manoscritto riveste una certa importanza nella storia della riscoperta di Aristofane in Occidente e nella tradizione umanistica degli studi aristofanei.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Slurry Separation
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Brian H.
name: Hjort-Gregersen, K.
name: Jacobsen, Brian H.
name: Hjort-Gregersen, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: With increased pressure to redistribute animal manure in order to lower the environmental pressure from agriculture, it seems obvious to consider processing slurry into nutrient rich fractions which can easily be transported. In this paper, an overall analysis of four different separation technologies is presented. The four technologies are Decanter, Funki Manura 2000, Green Farm Energy and Staring. These technologies are all implemented on a full scale in Denmark. In this paper both the economic and environmental aspects are considered, looking at the entire chain from stable to the field. The total investments range from 50,000 to 4 million Euros and the total net costs are from 1 to 7 Euros per tonne for the four different technologies. One of the clear environmental benefits is a better utilisation of phosphorus, but using phytase in feeding is a cheaper first step when reducing phosphorus surplus. Improved nitrogen utilisation is only apparent with the Staring and Green Farm Energy concepts. The conclusion is that the Funki Manura 2000 system is too expensive and the Decanter system a fairly cheap way to reduce phosphorus levels, but other benefits are limited. Staring and Green Farm Energy show the greatest potential, but these systems have not been running long enough to validate the expected results included in this paper.
On-Farm Benchmarking: How to Do It and How to Do It Better
Creators: name: Franks, J.R.
name: Collis, Jimi
name: Franks, J.R.
name: Collis, Jimi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: benchmarking
subject: comparative analysis
subject: processes
subject: industry standards
subject: methodology
subject: techniques

description: Benchmarking is the practice of establishing the relative performance of a business or enterprise against an appropriate standard, generally industry standards derived from a survey of farms. The Policy Commission into the Future of Farming and Food (2002) highlighted a need to spread and improve benchmarking on farms. The requirements of effective benchmarking are illustrated in a ten step framework. The ten steps illustrate the range of expertise and resources a manager requires before being able to justify allocating resources to benchmarking. A comparison of alternative farm surveys and methodologies used to collect, analyse and report industry standards illustrates the difficulties farmers can have in identifying appropriate, robust and accurate industry standards. It is concluded that there needs to be a thorough rationalisation of farm surveys and agreement on methodologies to make benchmarking more effective and more efficient.
Darcy's Law with a Source term
Creators: name: Jacobs, Matt
name: Kim, Inwon
name: Tong, Jiajun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a novel variant of the JKO scheme to approximate Darcy's law with a pressure dependent source term. By introducing a new variable that implicitly controls the source term, our scheme is still able to use the standard Wasserstein-2-metric even though the total mass changes over time. Leveraging the dual formulation of our scheme, we show that the discrete-in-time approximations satisfy many useful properties expected for the continuum solutions, such as a comparison principle and uniform $L^1$-equicontinuity. Many of these properties are new even in the well-understood case where the growth term is absent. Finally, we show that our discrete approximations converge to a solution of the corresponding PDE system, including a tumor growth model with a general nonlinear source term.
Drug repurposing analysis for colorectal cancer through network medicine framework: Novel candidate drugs and small molecules
Creators: name: Unal, Ulku
name: Gov, Esra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to reveal the drug repurposing candidates for colorectal cancer (CRC) via drug repurposing methods and network biology approaches. A novel, differentially co-expressed, highly interconnected, and co-regulated prognostic gene module was identified for CRC. Based on the gene module, polyethylene glycol, gallic acid, pyrazole, cordycepin, phenothiazine, pantoprazole, cysteamine, indisulam, valinomycin, trametinib, BRD-K81473043, AZD8055, dovitinib, BRD-A17065207, and tyrphostin AG1478 presented as drugs and small molecule candidates previously studied in the CRC. Lornoxicam, suxamethonium, oprelvekin, sirukumab, levetiracetam, sulpiride, NVP-TAE684, AS605240, 480743.cdx, HDAC6 inhibitor ISOX, BRD-K03829970, and L-6307 are proposed as novel drugs and small molecule candidates for CRC.
On the solution of a class of Cauchy integral equations
Creators: name: De Micheli, Enrico
name: Viano, Giovanni Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 45A05;45L05;45Q05;65R20

description: In a previous paper we have presented a new method for solving a class of Cauchy integral equations. In this work we discuss in detail how to manage this method numerically, when only a finite and noisy data set is available: particular attention is focused on the question of the numerical stability.
description: 19 pages, 5 Postscript figures