cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Does size really matter? : a theoretical and empirical analysis of the argument that middle powers are qualitatively different from other states in the system
Creators: name: Bendiksen, Lise Merete
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the argument that middle powers in their foreign policies are qualitatively different from other states. Over time, what started as a term referring to states of medium capabilities has come to imply a certain type of state behavior. In common language today, it is typical for a middle power to engage in mediating, peacekeeping, cooperation-building and the like. The aim is to perform a critical analysis of both the theoretical and empirical substances of such statements. Theoretically, this involves discussing how the argument of the qualitative difference is constructed. What exactly is a middle power, and what are the behavioral characteristics commonly ascribed to such states? Empirically, it involves using this theoretical structure to locate possible middle powers in the system, and to evaluate their behavior on a few variables against the performance of other states. The results indicate that the idea of the qualitatively different middle power can be subject to more theoretical rigor than has previously often been the case. When this framework is tested empirically, the results show a weak basis for some of the most commonly claimed examples of middle power behavior. Overall, this investigation finds little empirical support for the argument that middle powers are qualitatively different.
Multifunctional Agriculture: How to Provide Incentives to Farmers?
Creators: name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: In this paper we anlyse the meaning of multifunctionality at farm level. After defining the concept, a number of examples are given to illustrate problems in delivery of non-commodity outputs. Based on a general micro-economic model, it is shown that farmers' behavior will depend on personal characteristics as well as on relative prices. Next, Instruments to give incentives to farmers to engage in the delivery of non-commodity outputs are discussed as well as the possibility of collective action. The paper ends with some conclusions and recommendations for further research and discussion.
IRAC Photometric Analysis and the Mid-IR Photometric Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies
Creators: name: Magdis, G. E.
name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Huang, J. -S.
name: Fazio, G. G.
name: Willner, S. P.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present photometric analysis of deep mid-infrared observations obtained by Spitzer/IRAC covering the fields Q1422+2309, Q2233+1341, DSF2237a,b, HDFN, SSA22a,b and B20902+34, giving the number counts and the depths for each field. In a sample of 751 LBGs lying in those fields, 443, 448, 137 and 152 are identified at 3.6microns, 4.5microns, 5.8microns, 8.0microns IRAC bands respectively, expanding their spectral energy distribution to rest-near-infrared and revealing that LBGs display a variety of colours. Their rest-near-infrared properties are rather inhomogeneous, ranging from those that are bright in IRAC bands and exhibit [R]-[3.6] > 1.5 colours to those that are faint or not detected at all in IRAC bands with [R]-[3.6] < 1.5 colours and these two groups of LBGs are investigated. We compare the mid-IR colours of the LBGs with the colours of star-forming galaxies and we find that LBGs have colours consistent with star-foming galaxies at z~3. The properties of the LBGs detected in the 8microns IRAC band (rest frame K-band) are examined separately, showing that they exhibit redder [R]-[3.6] colours than the rest of the population and that IRAC 8microns band can be used as a diagnostic tool, to separate AGN dominated objects from normal star-forming galaxies at z~3
description: Accepted for publication at MNRAS
Additional file 5 of Global, regional, and national quality of care of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 1990–2017
Creators: name: Khanali, Javad
name: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza
name: Azangou-Khyavy, Mohammadreza
name: Saeedi Moghaddam, Sahar
name: Rezaei, Negar
name: Kolahi, Ali-Asghar
name: Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen
name: Mohammadi, Esmaeil
name: Rezaei, Nazila
name: Yoosefi, Moein
name: Keykhaei, Mohammad
name: Farzi, Yosef
name: Gorgani, Fateme
name: Larijani, Bagher
name: Farzadfar, Farshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. The global trend of QCI in female, male, and both from 1990 to 2017.
The cosmic neutrino background as a collection of fluids in large-scale structure simulations
Creators: name: Chen, Joe Zhiyu
name: Upadhye, Amol
name: Wong, Yvonne Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A significant challenge for modelling the massive neutrino as a hot dark matter is its large velocity dispersion. In this work, we investigate and implement a multi-fluid perturbation theory that treats the cosmic neutrino population as a collection of fluids with a broad range of bulk velocities. These fluids respond linearly to the clustering of cold matter, which may be linear and described by standard linear perturbation theory, or non-linear, described using either higher-order perturbation theory or N-body simulations. We verify that such an alternative treatment of neutrino perturbations agrees closely with state-of-the-art neutrino linear response calculations in terms of power spectrum and bispectrum predictions. Combining multi-fluid neutrino linear response with a non-linear calculation for the cold matter clustering, we find for a reference nuLambdaCDM cosmology with neutrino mass sum of 0.93 eV an enhancement of the small-scale neutrino power by an order of magnitude relative to a purely linear calculation. The corresponding clustering enhancement in the cold matter, however, is a modest ~0.05%. Importantly, our multi-fluid approach uniquely enables us to identify that the slowest-moving 25% of the neutrino population clusters strongly enough to warrant a non-linear treatment. Such a precise calculation of neutrino clustering on small scales accompanied by fine-grained velocity information would be invaluable for experiments such as PTOLEMY that probe the local neutrino density and velocity in the solar neighbourhood.
description: 34 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Matches accepted version. Code available at https://github.com/joechenUNSW/gadget4-nu_lr
Myskow, Jozef (Hrsg.), Studia ekumeniczne (Ökumenische Studien)
Creators: name: Gorka, Leonard
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 2 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 2
Agriculture in Transformation: The Restructuring of Farm Enter in Central and Eastern European Countries during the Transition Process
Creators: name: Tillack, Peter
name: Schulze, Eberhard
name: Tillack, Peter
name: Schulze, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Ten years of transition processes in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) have changed the ownership structure as well as the structures and legal forms of enterprises in agriculture considerably. The farm structures in Eastern Europe developed under the influence of various collectivisation models. These influenced the course of the transformation process and therefore the development of new entrepreneurial and farm structures to a great extent. In addition also the effects of other political, social and economic factors with different weights can be noticed in the individual countries. Considering labour organisation and relation to markets, four different types of farm enterprises have evolved in the Central European and East European states during the transformation process: (a) Family farms for a mere self-sufficiency (Subsistence farms) (b) Family farms with a predominant orientation towards the market (c) Market-oriented joined family farms (d) Market-oriented farms with hired labour In the future farms and agricultural enterprises of all different types can have good prospects and therefore also the different sizes connected with them. For this reason the same should be valid for all types of farms and in the long term competition should decide, which types are going to compete. The preference or discrimination of a certain type by the agrarian policy needs to be avoided. The state also needs to develop the infrastructure in rural areas, to improve the prospects of farms that are deprived in this respect.
Additional file 6 of Global, regional, and national quality of care of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 1990–2017
Creators: name: Khanali, Javad
name: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza
name: Azangou-Khyavy, Mohammadreza
name: Saeedi Moghaddam, Sahar
name: Rezaei, Negar
name: Kolahi, Ali-Asghar
name: Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen
name: Mohammadi, Esmaeil
name: Rezaei, Nazila
name: Yoosefi, Moein
name: Keykhaei, Mohammad
name: Farzi, Yosef
name: Gorgani, Fateme
name: Larijani, Bagher
name: Farzadfar, Farshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Age-specific Quality of Care Index in Global and SDI quintiles’ level in 1990 and 2017.
Teaching Physics Through Emerging Disruptive Technology of Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Kumar, Amit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190202 Computer Gaming and Animation
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190303 Technical Writing
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Recent technological advances provide the appropriate mechanism required by the Physics teachers to make thelearning process more efficient. The structured activities with innovative products and services can creatively applyknowledge. The challenge that Physics teachers face making the subject interesting, attractive, relevant, etc. may bemade so by the use of proper technological driven products. The new National Education Policy (NPE-2020)mentions some of the recent technologies that are going to be embedded in both school and higher learning centers.This paper describes the plausible use of one such emerging technology i.e. augmented reality in Physicseducation. The pedagogy thus devised, may have the capability to overcome many problems as faced byconventional methods of online teaching-learning. This paper also lists some of the advantages and challenges, theaugmented reality faces during its preliminary applications in studying Physics. The conclusions solicit theaugmented reality use in science and engineering institutes with the suggestions and future scope of work.
Quantum Circuit Complexity of Primordial Perturbations
Creators: name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
name: Quintin, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum circuit complexity of cosmological perturbations in different models of the early universe. A natural measure for the complexity of cosmological perturbations is based on the symplectic group, allowing us to identify complexity with geodesics in the hyperbolic plane. We investigate the complexity of both the mode functions and the physical perturbations, arguing that the latter often provides a more insightful description of the physics involved. In all models the total complexity reached is rather large. Inflationary perturbations may be represented by a comparatively simple quantum circuit, while the perturbations during a matter-dominated contracting phase present the most rapid growth in complexity. Ekpyrotic perturbations reside in the middle and are distinguished by the smallest growth of complexity before horizon exit. Our analysis serves to highlight how different cosmological models achieve the same end result for the perturbations via different routes and how all models show a pronounced sensitivity to initial conditions.
description: 32 pages, 12 figures. Replaced to match published version
Photoinduced spin crossover in Fe-picolylamine complex: A farinfrared study on single crystals
Creators: name: Okamura, H.
name: Matsubara, M.
name: Nanba, T.
name: Tayagaki, T.
name: Mouri, S.
name: Tanaka, K.
name: Ikemoto, Y.
name: Moriwaki, T.
name: Kimura, H.
name: Juhasz, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Far-infrared spectroscopy has been performed on [Fe(2-picolylamine)3]Cl2EtOH (Fe-pic) single crystals, to probe changes in the molecular vibrations upon the photoinduced and temperature-induced spin crossovers. Synchrotron radiation has been used as the farinfrared source to overcome the strong absorption and the small sizes of the samples. Absorption lines due to FeN6 cluster vibrations, observed below 400 cm-1, show strong intensity variations upon the crossover due to the deformation of FeN6 between high-spin and low-spin states. However, they remain almost unchanged between the photo- and temperature-induced high-spin states. This is in sharp contrast to the lines at 500-700 cm-1 due to intramolecular vibrations of the picolylamine ligands, which show marked variations between the two high-spin states. It is concluded that the most important microscopic difference between the two high-spin states arises from the ligands, which is likely to reflect different states of intermolecular bonding between them.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Web-based software applications for frailty assessment in older adults: a scoping review of current status with insights into future development
Creators: name: Chang, Riley
name: Low, Hilary
name: McDonald, Andrew
name: Park, Grace
name: Song, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search terms and controlled vocabulary for the literature search using the electronic databases.
title: Policy for Consortium Organizations Registering More Than 10.000 DOIs
Creators: name: Cousijn, Helena
name: Dreyer, Britta
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2024

description: In 2020, the DataCite General Assembly approved the introduction of consortium membership, where a group of like-minded organizations come together to collectively participate in DataCite’s community and governance activities and use DataCite’s DOI services. To limit the gap between the fees for Direct Members and Consortium Organizations and encourage active users to participate in DataCite governance, the fee model included the following provision: ‘Consortium Organizations that expect to register more than 10.000 DOIs annually should transfer to Direct Membership within the following calendar year, or pay the additional membership fee (2.000€ annually) while remaining part of the consortium. This ensures that there is appropriate cost recovery based on the impact of cost drivers.’
Additional file 2 of Web-based software applications for frailty assessment in older adults: a scoping review of current status with insights into future development
Creators: name: Chang, Riley
name: Low, Hilary
name: McDonald, Andrew
name: Park, Grace
name: Song, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Google Search Strings for Websites.
Viscoelasticity Estimation of Sports Prosthesis by Energy-minimizing Inverse Kinematics and Its Validation by Forward Dynamics
Creators: name: Shimane, Yuta
name: Ishigaki, Taiki
name: Kim, Sunghee
name: Yamamoto, Ko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we present a method for estimating the viscoelasticity of a leaf-spring sports prosthesis using advanced energy minimizing inverse kinematics based on the Piece-wise Constant Strain (PCS) model to reconstruct the three-dimensional dynamic behavior. Dynamic motion analysis of the athlete and prosthesis is important to clarify the effect of prosthesis characteristics on foot function. However, three-dimensional deformation calculations of the prosthesis and viscoelasticity have rarely been investigated. In this letter, we apply the PCS model to a prosthesis deformation, which can calculate flexible deformation with low computational cost and handle kinematics and dynamics. In addition, we propose an inverse kinematics calculation method that is consistent with the material properties of the prosthesis by considering the minimization of elastic energy. Furthermore, we propose a method to estimate the viscoelasticity by solving a quadratic programming based on the measured motion capture data. The calculated strains are more reasonable than the results obtained by conventional inverse kinematics calculation. From the result of the viscoelasticity estimation, we simulate the prosthetic motion by forward dynamics calculation and confirm that this result corresponds to the measured motion. These results indicate that our approach adequately models the dynamic phenomena, including the viscoelasticity of the prosthesis.
Best practices review of five recommendations for FAIR software
Creators: name: Jyl Boline
name: Das, Samir
name: Ibrahima Faye
name: Wojtek Goscinski
name: Hellgren-Kotaleski, Jeanette
name: Hicks, Ramona
name: Kennedy, David
name: Leergaard, Trygve
name: Martone, Maryann
name: Mouček, Roman
name: Venugopal, Sharmila
name: Wachtler, Thomas
name: Abrams, Mathew
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this document is to solicit community feedback on the Five Recommendations for FAIR Software, guidelines that aim to apply the FAIR principles directly to software to improve research software development, which was submitted to INCF for endorsement as a Best Practice. The document contains the INCF Standards and Best Practices Committee's review of the Five Recommendations for FAIR Software, and the criteria in which it was evaluated (open, FAIR, testing and implementation, governance, adoption and use, stability and support, and comparison to similar standards). The committee felt there was no need for it to go through the formal review process and decided to put it up for community review in a fast-track process. In this fast-track process, only the main categories of the criteria were addressed. If the community feedback reveals a need for more thorough vetting of this best practice, the SBP committee will launch one at that time. For the next 60 days, we are seeking community feedback on PyNN.

 About the Five Recommendations for FAIR Software: This project applies the FAIR principles directly to software to improve research software development. They give five recommendations to make software more FAIR along with some suggestions for how to meet them. In addition, they offer a Python package that can test a GitHub repository for compliance, the output of which can be used to create a badge that visualizes compliance with these recommendations. The recommendations are: Use a publicly accessible repository with version control Add a License Register your code in a community registry Enable citation of the software Use a software quality checklist
Cultura umanistica e approccio organizzativo: il presunto bivio dell’educazione degli adulti in Italia
Creators: name: Cornacchia, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Abstract: In Italy the development of Adult Education has been characterized by the presence of two lines of investigation, often presented as in opposition to each other: a “humanistic” current, focused on the existential dimension of the person, and an organizational one linked to the functional aspects of training. Now this estimated distance can be reduced only if it were to be adopted the “capability approach” by Amartya Sen as a new economic paradigm: this theory has the merit to introduce parameters other than profit or wealth to evaluate the people well-being.

Abstract: In Italia lo sviluppo dell’educazione degli adulti è stato caratterizzato dalla pre­senza di due orientamenti, spesso presentati come tra loro in contraddizione: un orientamento “umanistico”, focalizzato sulla dimensione esistenziale della persona e un orientamento orga­nizzativista, collegato agli aspetti funzionali dell’apprendimento. Ora questa distanza tra le due prospettive può essere ridimensionata soltanto se si riesce ad adottare il “capability ap­proach”, proprio di Amartya Sen come nuovo paradigma economico: questa teoria ha, infatti, il merito di introdurre parametri diversi dal profitto o dalla ricchezza al fine di valutare lo stato di benessere della gente.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia
Decoherence induced by a composite environment
Creators: name: Lombardo, Fernando C.
name: Villar, Paula I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decoherence induced by the environment over a composite quantum system, comprising two coupled subsystems A and B, which may be a harmonic or an upside-down oscillators. We analyze the case in which the B-subsystem is in direct interaction with a thermal bath, while the other remains isolated from the huge reservoir. We compare the results concerning the decoherence suffered by the A-subsystem.
description: 4 pages, one figure. To appear in Phys. Rev. A
The Role of Environmental Payments in Sustaining Farm Incomes: A Four Year Study of Farm Businesses in an Upland Area of the UK
Creators: name: Tate, Graham J.
name: Park, Julian R.
name: Stansfield, J.M.
name: Tate, Graham J.
name: Park, Julian R.
name: Stansfield, J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: A representative sample of both participant and non-participant case study farms was examined over a three-year period in the Shropshire Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area of the UK from 1997 to 2000. The effects on farm business viability were monitored and results compared with two relevant sub samples of Farm Business Survey recorded farms. The study showed that farming profitability declined sharply over the study period but that participant case study farm profitability exceeded that of non-participants by an average of £4024 per year. This was attributable to a combination of factors which included larger average farm size, the ESA premium and more intensive farming operations. Subsidies received by both types of farms were almost totally on the "per head" basis and averaged £270 per hectare. Without these both classes of farms would have been highly unprofitable. The status of the ESA premium compared with these figures was an average of 4.5 percent of business turnover or £2358 per farm, well below that of headage based subsidies. Return on capital invested in land was consistently low, suggesting that even with these levels of subsidies the long-term future of these farms could be uncertain. The results achieved were consistent with those obtained from the Farm Business Survey data provided for the two relevant sub-samples.
Charmonium at CLEO-c
Creators: name: Miller, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented on Charmonium using data collected with the CLEO III and CLEO-c detectors at the Psi(2S) and Psi(3770). Measurements include, the first observation of the hc(1P1) state, the electronic widths of the J/Psi and Psi(2S), the two photon width of the Chic2 and hadronic decays of the Psi(2S).
description: To be published in the Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, July 2005, Lisboa, Portugal
Additional file 3 of Web-based software applications for frailty assessment in older adults: a scoping review of current status with insights into future development
Creators: name: Chang, Riley
name: Low, Hilary
name: McDonald, Andrew
name: Park, Grace
name: Song, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3. Health domains and examples.
Use of Information, Product Innovation and Financial Performance on Belgian Glasshouse Holdings
Creators: name: Taragola, Nicole
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Lierde, Dirk
name: Taragola, Nicole
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Lierde, Dirk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management

description: In order to meet the changing needs and preferences of consumers it will be important for Belgian glasshouse growers to change from a production-driven to a customer-driven strategy. More than ever, use of information and product innovation become critical factors in the changing competitive environment. The aim of the research is to analyse the relationship between business and managerial characteristics, use of information sources, product innovation and financial performance of the firm. The results indicate that the average Belgian glasshouse grower makes low use of external information sources for production decisions. However an important variation in information use can be observed among the growers. The results reveal that vegetable producers make more use of external information than producers of ornamental plants, which can be related to their co-operational organization. Although the predictors of information use can vary substantially across information sources, the results reveal that, independent of sector differences, the value attached to "creativity and innovation" is an important determinant of information use. A significant positive relationship was found between the use of information and product innovation. The results indicate that product innovation and financial performance are associated, however this association was only statistically significant for the growers of ornamental plants.
The use of semantic organization by children with autism
Creators: name: Privett, Janine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a semantic network exists for children with autism. Ten children participated in the study: five with autism or Aspergers syndrome and five controls. The subjects ranged in age from 9;8 to 14;11 and had normal non-verbal IQs as measured by the Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence-2. Children in the two groups were matched exactly for auditory-verbal memory span as measured by the recall of 10 unrelated words after a 30 second filled delay and they were required to have a receptive vocabulary level of at least 7 years as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised. All subjects participated in an experimental memory task with two conditions: 1) a free-recall task with lists of eight related words to be remembered after a 30 second filled delay, and 2) a cued-recall task with similar lists and delays. There were two trials in each condition. A semantic network would be evident if the subjects grouped categorically related words upon recalling the list of words, or if subjects' recall was aided by either clustering or being given category names as cues. Findings revealed similar results for both subjects with autism and control subjects with or without category cues. Results further indicate that individuals in both groups clearly used clustering strategies, and that both groups benefited from clustering and from category cues. These findings demonstrate the existence of a semantic network for children with autism.
Non-linear response of molecular junctions: The polaron model revisited
Creators: name: Galperin, Michael
name: Nitzan, Abraham
name: Ratner, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A polaron model proposed as a possible mechanism for nonlinear conductance [Galperin M, Ratner M A, and Nitzan A 2005 Nano Lett. 5 125-30] is revisited with focus on the differences between the weak and strong molecule-lead coupling cases. Within the one-molecular level model we present an approximate expression for the electronic Green function corresponding to inelastic transport case, which in the appropriate limits reduces to expressions presented previously for the isolated molecule and for molecular junction coupled to a slow vibration (static limit). The relevance of considerations based on the isolated molecule limit to understanding properties of molecular junctions is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Modeling of the Connection Between the Ecological Farming and Farm Sizes under Hungarian Conditions
Creators: name: Takacs, Istvan
name: Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin
name: Takacs, Istvan
name: Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Nowadays, the spread of ecological farming occurs in an ever-accelerating rate in Europe. In the beginning of the 1990s, this process started in Hungary too. Primarily, horticultural bioproduct have appeared on the market; however, farms, which can be regarded as a sample, formed out relatively fast, and made products qualified as plough-land bulk goods, first of all for export, but a stratum in Hungary also starts to interest for these products. In our research, we looked for an answer to the question, how the economic condition system of ecological production forms out in Hungarian circumstances, on which farm sizes farming can be made profitably. We started by adapting the earlier model researches that current farm sizes in Hungary, are too small yet, so that one could make profitable production, at the same time, farmers, who affiliate in time, may reach extra sales revenues in comparison to the traditional (factory-) farming, by producing bio-products, which, however, can ensure the capacity of living of such farms, which were in unliveable under the earlier circumstances. Simultaneously with the spread of ecological farming, this advantage will decrease, therefore the time factor has an important role, at the same time, the capacity expansion not confirmed with consumers' demands, takes this income advantage away. Under Hungarian circumstances, according to the present conditions 1) depending on the extent of the bio extra price 2) the income level covering the costs, reduces the profitable farm size from about 100 ha to 20-60 ha. This gives hope for farmers, whose farm size is considerably smaller (under 10 ha) that the farm size, on which profitably production can be made, is in a relatively reachable distance. To realize this, the state should definitely urge the farms on this, by the available direct and indirect tools.
Additional file 4 of Web-based software applications for frailty assessment in older adults: a scoping review of current status with insights into future development
Creators: name: Chang, Riley
name: Low, Hilary
name: McDonald, Andrew
name: Park, Grace
name: Song, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 4. Web-based applications and associated scores assigned during analysis.
The Propeller Regime of Disk Accretion to a Rapidly Rotating Magnetized Star
Creators: name: Romanova, Marina M.
name: Ustyugova, Galina V.
name: Koldoba, Alexander V.
name: Lovelace, Richard V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propeller regime of disk accretion to a rapidly rotating magnetized star is investigated here for the first time by axisymmetric 2.5D magnetohydrodynamic simulations. An expanded, closed magnetosphere forms in which the magnetic field is predominantly toroidal. A smaller fraction of the star's poloidal magnetic flux inflates vertically, forming a magnetically dominated tower. Matter accumulates in the equatorial region outside magnetosphere and accretes to the star quasi-periodically through elongated funnel streams which cause the magnetic field to reconnect. The star spins-down owing to the interaction of the closed magnetosphere with the disk. For the considered conditions, the spin-down torque varies with the angular velocity of the star omega* as omega*^1.3 for fixed mass accretion rate. The propeller stage may be important in the evolution of X-ray pulsars, cataclysmic variables and young stars. In particular, it may explain the present slow rotation of the classical T Tauri stars.
description: 5 pages with 4 figures, LaTeX, macros: emulapj.sty, avi movies are available at http://www.astro.cornell.edu/us-russia/disk_prop.htm
Non-diagonal anisotropic quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Tam, Pok Man
name: Kane, Charles L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a family of Abelian quantum Hall states termed the non-diagonal states, which arise at filling factors $ν=p/2q$ for bosonic systems and $ν=p/(p+2q)$ for fermionic systems, with $p$ and $q$ being two coprime integers. Non-diagonal quantum Hall states are constructed in a coupled wire model, which shows an intimate relation to the non-diagonal conformal field theory and has a constrained pattern of motion for bulk quasiparticles, featuring a non-trivial interplay between charge symmetry and translation symmetry. The non-diagonal state is established as a distinctive symmetry-enriched topological order. Aside from the usual $U(1)$ charge sector, there is an additional symmetry-enriched neutral sector described by the quantum double model $\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{Z}_p)$, which relies on the presence of both the $U(1)$ charge symmetry and the $\mathbb{Z}$ translation symmetry of the wire model. Translation symmetry distinguishes non-diagonal states from Laughlin states, in a way similar to how it distinguishes weak topological insulators from trivial band insulators. Moreover, the translation symmetry in non-diagonal states can be associated to the $\mathbf{e}\leftrightarrow\mathbf{m}$ anyonic symmetry in $\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{Z}_p)$, implying the role of dislocations as two-fold twist-defects. The boundary theory of non-diagonal states is derived microscopically. For the edge perpendicular to the direction of wires, the effective Hamiltonian has two components: a chiral Luttinger liquid and a generalized $p$-state clock model. Importantly, translation symmetry in the bulk is realized as self-duality on the edge. The symmetric edge is thus either gapless or gapped with spontaneously broken symmetry. For $p=2,3$, the respective electron tunneling exponents are predicted for experimental probes.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures, published version
Creating A More Coordinated Agro-Food System for Non-GM Grains - A Case Study of Japanese Mandatory Labeling System
Creators: name: Tachikawa, Masashi
name: Inoue, Sotaro
name: Watanabe, Yasuo
name: Tachikawa, Masashi
name: Inoue, Sotaro
name: Watanabe, Yasuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agribusiness
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Production Economics

description: n August 1999, the Japanese government decided to introduce mandatory labeling for genetically modified (GM) food starting from April 2001. Under the labeling system, certain types of processed food such as oil and sweeteners from corn are exempted from labeling, since scientific verification tests detecting GMO ingredient cannot be applied persuasively. The result of the introduction of labeling system was contrary to the initial expectation of the Japanese government. That is, the shift from conventional grain, which might contain GMO, to Non-GMO has been observed very rapidly among various actors consisting of the US-Japanese agro-food system. Those actors made a major effort to create an identity preserved (IP) handling system to procure Non-GM grains from the US. The establishment of IP handling system, however, has raised various socio-economic issues, such as the distribution of additional costs among actors, further coordination among trading partners, liability issues for certification, and so on. In this paper, we would like to focus on two major crops, soybean and corn, which represent strong relationships between the US-Japanese agro-food system and, try to understand what kind of outcomes are observed from the major shift to Non-GMO and what kind of factors are working behind those outcomes. The shift to Non-GMO forces all actors of the agro-food system to engage in IP handling, and vertical coordination will be much more typical among them as they move to procure Non-GM grains. This means that the US-Japanese agro-food system becomes a more coordinated one than before.
Poisson integrators
Creators: name: Karasözen, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview of Hamiltonian systems with noncanonical Poisson structures is given. Examples of bi-Hamiltonian ode's, pde's and lattice equations are presented. Numerical integrators using generating functions, Hamiltonian splitting, symplectic Runge-Kutta methods are discussed for Lie-Poisson systems and Hamiltonian systems with a general Poisson structure. Nambu-Poisson systems and the discrete gradient methods are also presented.
description: 30 pages
Factors Determining Iran's Share in World Agricultural Markets
Creators: name: Moghaddasi, Reza
name: Moghaddasi, Reza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This study concentrates on identifying the main influential factors on Iran's share in world pistachios and raisins,as two main agricultural export products,markets.To do so different econometric models are estimated using panel data for the period 1980-2002.The main findings indicate that relative prices (domestic to world) and exchange rate explain the majority of Iran's market share variations.Also volatility of prices has negative effect on market share implying that importer countries are sensitive to price variations.
People, trade and training: the needs of Morocco agricultural enterprises facing EU markets
Creators: name: Ismaili, Mohamed
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Ismaili, Mohamed
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The Mediterranean area is the core of an increasing exchange of goods and people. A distinctive feature of present trends in international relationship is the importance of factors that are beyond the mere exchange of goods. In particular, foreign investment, the creation international enterprises and training and personal growth of actors that are involved in the production process are key elements of the present scenario. The objective of this paper is to discuss the need of education and training in Morocco agricultural and agri-food enterprises in view of the increasing connection with the EU economy. In particular, attention is focused on the need brought about by the increased product quality requirements and by the installment of EU and US enterprises in Morocco. The study is carried out as a preliminary activity of the TEMPUS project STRIDE 4, through a survey of about thirty Morocco enterprises. The preliminary results show a strong need for training and information. The questionnaire shows a high degree of awareness about gaps and problems in meeting EU consumer expectations. At the same time, most respondents already show a clear positive strategy toward meeting such needs and many enterprises in fact are already adequate to many quality requirements. The main focus of the training required is on the interface between technical and marketing activities. Continuous education and life long learning are also perceived as major needs. In the background, the research shows the need of a more consistent understanding of each other's institutions and cultural settings, as well as of a long term process of learning through collaborative training, production and research.
title: At-Grade Intersections versus Grade-Separated Interchanges
title: (An Economic Analysis of Several Bypasses)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In an effort to reduce traffic in central business districts, bypasses have been built to provide through traffic a circumferential route and also to ease the burden of traffic in downtown areas. In many cases, though, bypasses have created a serious accident potential because they were built with at-grade intersections and no access control. This has led to commercial developments along the bypass and congestion at major intersections. When congestion increases at an intersection, traffic signals must be installed; this increases vehicle operating and time costs and creates a rear-end collision potential. In some cases, the bypass circumvents a relatively small town where congestion is not an immediate problem, but there is still an accident problem at the at-grade intersections. Bypasses have been built in this manner because of the high initial cost of grade-separated interchanges and access control. Retrospective analyses of several bypasses were undertaken to determine if accident cost savings along with time and operating cost savings would have justified higher initial costs of interchanges. Such analyses may serve to justify needed improvements and to guide design decisions on future facilities.  The high initial cost of an interchange limits its use to those locations where the required expenditure can be justified. The conditions to be considered in reaching a rational decision are the applicable warrants:      a freeway development,     elimination of bottlenecks or spot congestion,     elimination of hazards,     site topography,     road-user benefits, and     traffic volume warrant.   On urban bypasses, Warrants 2, 3, 5, and 6 could be considered applicable in most cases. This study will be concerned only with Warrants 3 and 5.  When considering highway improvements, it is essential to view the investment as a business enterprise in which the economic costs of highways are matched by future economic benefits to the state, community, and individual user. Since the motor vehicle itself accounts for about 88 percent of the total cost of highway transportation, with highway construction accounting for the remaining 12 percent, the highway designer must consider the effects of highway design on the running cost of motor vehicles. The principal benefits of highway improvements accrue to those who travel the highway. These benefits reach the road user primarily through the operating cost of motor vehicles, reduction in highway accidents, and reduction in travel time. Such market factors are those on which a dollar value can be placed. There are also the nonmarket consequences of comfort and convenience.
Deformation properties of the BCP energy density functional
Creators: name: Robledo, L. M.
name: Baldo, M.
name: Schuck, P.
name: Viñas, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the deformation properties of the newly postulated BCP energy density functional (EDF). The results obtained for three isotope chains of Mg, Dy and Ra are compared to the available experimental data as well as to the results of the Gogny-D1S force. Results for the fission barrier of $^{240}$Pu are also discussed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Home Bias in U.S. Beer Consumption
Creators: name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Matschke, Xenia
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Matschke, Xenia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Home bias
subject: beer
subject: country of origin
subject: demand
subject: differentiated products

description: We apply the Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) market equilibrium model (BLP) to data from 30 brands of beers sold in 12 U.S. cities over 20 quarters (1988-92) to estimate the consumers' taste for beer characteristics (price, alcohol content, and calories) as well as for the cultural region of origin (USA, Anglo-European, Germanic, and countries bordering the U.S.). Consumer heterogeneity is allowed with respect to age, income and gender. Overall we end up with 7,200 beer brand observations (30x12x20) and 13,920 (58 random draws x 12 x 20) consumer observations. Empirical results indicate that indeed there is home bias with respect to European beers and somewhat less so with respect to beers from bordering countries (Mexico and Canada). Home bias is more accentuated among older males who are more affluent. Furthermore, the own-price elasticities and the cross price elasticities of demand are higher for foreign beers, indicating a higher degree of loyalty and differentiation for domestic beers.
Accidents Associated with Highway Bridges
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to identify those principal features of bridges which may be related to accident frequency and severity and to provide some further insights toward highway safety. Accident data from interstate and parkway (toll) routes and from primary and secondary systems were compiled and summarized. The major findings were:      Bridge-related accidents, particularly involving severe accidents, were significant percentages of the total accident experience on interstates and parkways.     There were fewer bridges per mile on the primary and secondary highway system and a lower percentage of bridge related accidents than on interstates and parkways.     The severity of bridge-related accidents was higher than the severity of all accidents,     The severity of bridge-related accidents on primary and secondary highways was almost identical to the bridge-related accidents on the interstate and parkway systems.     Collisions with entrance posts resulted in more fatal accidents than other accidents involving bridge structures.     The benefit of full-width shoulders was illustrated,     Guardrail protection at bridge piers has proven less than totally effettive. A very limited number of accidents involved earth mounds. Further development of earth mounds may be warrented.     Openings between parallel bridges on divided highways create a recognized hazard.     The high percentage of nighttime accidents suggests a problem with visibility of the structure,     An exceptionally high percentage of accidents occurred during snowy or icy conditions,     On primary and secondary highways, several fatal accidents occurred at bridges with curved approaches,     The bridge railing was inadequate on some of the bridges on primary and secondary highways.     One-lane bridges on the secondary system constitute a hazard.