cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Discourses on women in the Polish parliamentary debates : dominance and resistance in critical and feminist linguistic perspective
Creators: name: Renc-Roe, Joanna
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: This thesis constitutes a study of the dominant and resisting discourses on women in the Polish parliamentary debates using the combined perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and feminist linguistics. It provides a study of the discourses on women understood as dynamic ideological constmctions of gender in the political language. The analysis is aimed at highlighting issues of hegemonic power relations as well as possible resistance mechanisms in discourse using the dialectical understanding of discourse as social practice and its representation.

The understanding of discourse as a text is utilised in order to pinpoint some of the ideological investments of the main discourses on women in two Polish parliamentary debates concerned with gender issues. The CDA is utilised to carry out this analysis. The concepts of categorisation, frames and repertoires are selected to highlight the constructions of the two main discourses on women represented in the debates. This methodological approach provides means to explore the hegemonic power to define women as well as the power to resist the dominant constructions of femininity in the ‘texturing’ of the debates.

The second theoretical and methodological approach utilised for the study of another parliamentary debate on women’s issues is the feminist linguistic concept of the silencing mechanisms in interaction. This understanding of mechanisms of domination and resistance is applied to the study of one parliamentary debate conceived as a process and an interactive event. Using this perspective, I point out how domination of particular discourses/positions is achieved in the concrete discursive situation. This allows me to highlight another dimension of the power in discourse used to maintain or resist the dominant constructions of gender.
Characterization of the Immune Stimulated Release of Extracellular Vesicles from Murine Cells
Creators: name: Norrie, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Extracellular vesicles
Nanoscale Flow Cytometry
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis
Endogenous retroviruses
Retroviruses
CD4⁺ T-cells
Flow Cytometry

description: Introduction: Viruses, extracellular vesicles (EVs) and endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are types of sub-micron particles which are known to be released from a vast range of cell types, across many species. There are many medically relevant sub-micron particles which can enter healthy cells and enable the intercellular delivery of functional host-derived and foreign products, through their enclosed lipid layers. While multiple particle subsets have been identified, many of the properties, behaviors and biochemical functions have not been fully described and have yet to be characterized. Materials and Methods: CD4⁺ naïve T-cells were isolated from female C57BL6/N mice and stimulated with varying concentrations of PMA/I. In addition to concentration, the length of PMA/I activation was assessed. Supernatants and cells were harvested, filtered, and stained to be subsequently analyzed by Nanoscale Flow Cytometry, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis and Flow Cytometry. Particle populations were quantified and sorted by size, by NTA. Labelling dye CFSE was used in conjunction with fluorescently conjugated CD81 and CD9 antibodies to separate EVs, including exosomes, from background signal. Naïve T-cell purity, viability and levels of activation were assessed by flow cytometry using CD3, CD4 and CD62L antibodies and viability staining. Results: Increasing PMA concentration led to a global increase in particles by T-cells and a specific increase in smaller particle production and were demonstrated to be significant by Welch’s T-test, when compared to non-activated and DMSO controls (p<0.0001). In addition to concentration, activation length also correlated with increases in total particle counts and a specific increase in the secretion of smaller particles in comparison to non-activated and DMSO controls (p<0.0001). Labelling techniques by NFC revealed an increased presence of CFSE-CD81 positive and CFSE-CD9 positive particles secreted by T-cells, treated for 24 hours, compared to the 0- and 12-hour timepoints. Conclusion: This work demonstrates preliminary steps and outlines methods to begin assessing discrete particle populations and subsets secreted by murine naïve T-cells. Being able to identify patterns of particle secretions by naïve T-cells, especially under immune-stimulated conditions, may be the solution to uncovering the necessary information on EV physiology, that is required to understand the roles EVs play in pathology and how these conserved pathways may lead conditions to become exacerbated. This knowledge is essential to uncovering the roles EVs play in pathophysiology, and in the development of novel rapid diagnostic tests, to screen for cancers, infections, autoimmune disorders, and numerous other pathological conditions.
In-plane optical conductivity of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$: Reduced superconducting condensate and residual Drude-like response
Creators: name: Tajima, S.
name: Fudamoto, Y.
name: Kakeshita, T.
name: Gorshunov, B.
name: Železný, V.
name: Kojima, K. M.
name: Dressel, M.
name: Uchida, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature dependences of the optical spectra of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ with $x$=0.12 and 0.15 were carefully examined for a polarization parallel to the CuO$_2$-plane over a wide frequency range down to 8 cm$^{-1}$. Selection of well-characterized crystals enabled us to measure purely in-plane polarized spectra without any additional peak. The weight of superconducting (SC) condensate estimated from the missing area in $σ_1(ω$) well agrees with the estimate from the slope of $σ_2(ω$) vs 1/$ω$ plot, showing no evidence that the Ferrell-Glover-Tinkham sum-rule is violated in the optical spectrum. We demonstrate that the optically estimated SC condensate is much smaller than the value obtained from the $μ$SR measurement of magnetic penetration depth. We also find an anomalous increase of conductivity in sub-millimeter region towards $ω$=0 below $T_c$, which suggests the microscopic inhomogeneity in the superconducting state. Both observations are discussed in relation with the inhomogeneous electronic state that might be inherent to high-$T_c$ cuprates.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Simulating Topological Robustness of Fano Resonance in Rotated Honeycomb Photonic Crystals
Creators: name: Hajivandi, J.
name: Kaya, E.
name: Edwards, G.
name: Kurt, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fano resonance with a distinctive ultra-sharp, asymmetric line shape and high quality factor Q, is a widely occurring phenomena that has a large variety of optical, plasmonic and microwave manifestations. In this paper, we explore the characteristic robustness of the Fano resonance mode, which is topologically protected by manufacturing band inversion induced by breaking the mirror symmetry of a two-dimensional honeycomb photonic crystal (HPC), associated with C_6 point group symmetry. So the dark and bright topological edge modes appear in the band gap made by opening of the Dirac cone. Destructive and constructive interference of the dark and bright modes leads to the asymmetric line shape of the Fano resonance. The Fano resonance mode which is very sensitive to the environmental and geometrical perturbations, can be applied to sensor design. Here we demonstrate that the topological Fano resonance mode preserves its asymmetric, ultra-sharp line shape in the presence of the disorder, defects and cavities, and this has useful optical device applications such as in low threshold lasers, and extremely precise interferometers
Additional file 1 of Full-term low birth weight infants have differentially hypermethylated DNA related to immune system and organ growth: a comparison with full-term normal birth weight infants
Creators: name: Hayashi, Ikuyo
name: Yamaguchi, Ken
name: Sumitomo, Masahiro
name: Takakura, Kenji
name: Nagai, Narumi
name: Sakane, Naoki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flow chart illustrating the data of study participants.
Impact of Modern Agriculture Technology on Rice Production in Bihar
Creators: name: Singh, R. K. P.
name: Sinha, D. K.
name: Singh, L. N.
name: Singh, R. K. P.
name: Sinha, D. K.
name: Singh, L. N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The impact of modem rice technologies on growth in area, production and productivity of rice in Bihar has been studied. An assessment has been made about the change in the cost of production and profitability in rice production due to adoption of modem rice technologies. The study has covered three periods viz. 1981-82 to 1990-91, 1991-92 to 2000-01 and 1981-82 to 2000-01. The overall annual compound growth rate in area, production and productivity of rice have been found as 0.02, 2.89 and 2.87 per cent, respectively during the period 1980-81 to 2000-01. This shows that area under rice has remained almost stagnant but production and productivity have received an impetus in their growth. The study has revealed that adoption of modem technologies had a positive Impact on rice productivity and income to the farming households in Bihar.
Economic and Environmental Impact of Integrated Pest Management in Paddy A Case Study of Haryana
Creators: name: Singh, Alka
name: Kumar, Ranjit
name: Das, D. K.
name: Jain, P. K.
name: Singh, Alka
name: Kumar, Ranjit
name: Das, D. K.
name: Jain, P. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Farm Management
Food Security and Poverty

description: Although agricultural pests, weeds and pathogens are thought to destroy about 10-40 per cent of the gross agricultural production, pesticides alone are not now considered to be the perfect answer for controlling them. Alternatively, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) not only reduces pest Populations to satisfactory levels but is sustainable and non-polluting. This Paper has examined the pattern of pesticide use in paddy cultivation and has assessed the economic and environmental impacts of adoption of IPM practices in paddy in Haryana. It has been found that paddy crop is treated four times with pesticides with average use of 2.32 kg a.i. per hectare, of Which 54 per cent are insecticides and 43 per cent are herbicides. The expenditure on pesticide use has been observed to be influenced by the Pesticide price, IPM training in Farmers' Field Schools (FFS) and better crop management practices like optimum nitrogen application. In spite of their little experience as well as partial adoption of different IPM practices, higher net return and reduced unit cost of production have been observed under IPM practices in both basmati and non-basmati paddies on FFS than non-FFS (NFFS) farms. Use of technology even at this level has shown the potential of avoiding the pesticide risk hazards to different environmental categories by 20-30 per cent. Despite farmers' good knowledge of pesticide-related hazards to the environment, they are risk averse. Hence, improving farmers' knowledge of pest management by providing in-depth and intensive information and training along with educating them about its economic efficacy, would be crucial for enhancing IPM adoption.
Impact of Technological Intervention on Groundnut Productivity
Creators: name: Nagaraja, G. N.
name: Girish, Mamatha
name: Kumar, R. Shashi
name: Nagaraja, G. N.
name: Girish, Mamatha
name: Kumar, R. Shashi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: The productivity change due to application of bio-fertilizer in groundnut Production has been studied using the partitioning model. The study has been conducted in Koratagere taluk of Tumkur district in Karnataka. The data pertaining to kharifseason of 1998 have been collected from 30 farms each with and without bio-fertilizer application, growing JL-24 variety and TMV-2 variety of groundnut crop, selected randomly from three Villages. The algebraic definition of yield has been used to formulate the Productivity differential decomposing model in terms of bio-fertilizer and biological innovation and technology interaction. The results have shown a productivity change of 497.60 kg/ha, of which 36.41 per cent has been due to use ofbio-fertilizer in groundnut production. The study has suggested that there is a scope to raise productivity through application of eco-friendly technologies like bio-fertilizers.
Life cycle assessment of the Leonard S. Klinck building
Creators: name: Li, Herman
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A life cycle assessment was performed on the Leonard S. Klinck building at the University of British Columbia. The scope of the study was limited to the structure and building envelope from cradle to gate, with the functional unit of per square feet of academic building. Software used in the analysis included OnCenter’s OnScreen TakeOff for performing building takeoffs, and the Athena Institute Impact Estimator for calculating the environmental effects. The bill of materials generated for LSK indicated that the largest amounts of material present were batt insulation, gypsum board, concrete, glazing, and polyethylene vapour barrier. The results of the sensitivity analysis revealed that of the aforementioned materials, only additions to the amount of concrete present in the building envelope had any appreciable effect on the end total summary measures. Results from the building performance analysis of LSK using a one-dimensional heat conduction model showed that the energy payback period (where the embodied energy associated with increased insulation materials offset any potential energy savings) for improving the current building envelope to the UBC Residential Environmental Assessment Program’s (REAP’s) minimum standards was less than one year. The materials altered in this building performance analysis were the insulation in the roof and exterior walls, and the replacement of standard glazing with a high reflectivity variant. Since only these assemblies were altered, the results of the building performance analysis were consistent with those of the sensitivity analysis where an increase in insulation and glazing had no statistical significance on the end environmental impacts. [Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Socio-economic Impacts of Agricultural Land Drainage --- A Study from North-West India
Creators: name: Datta, K. K.
name: De Jong, C.
name: Roy, B. C.
name: Singh, S. B.
name: Datta, K. K.
name: De Jong, C.
name: Roy, B. C.
name: Singh, S. B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: At the global level, the annual losses of US $ 11.4 billion occur in agricultural production due to waterlogging. India is no exception to this menace and diverse statistics have shown that the problem is threatening agricultural production on 5.5 million to 13 million hectares. About one million hectare area is seriously affected, where agricultural production has been completely abandoned. To manage the problem in most fertile and irrigated areas, investment on drainage was initiated in the north-west region of India. This paper attempts to assess the benefits of installing sub-surface drainage for salinity control. The results have identified several farm-level benefits because of installing sub-surface drainage. These include (i) substantial increase in farm income, (ii) crop intensification and diversification towards high-value crops, and (iii) generation of employment opportunities. A proper management of this problem also helps in reducing income inequalities. Despite economic, social and environmental benefits, the adoption and acceptance of the subsurface drainage technology is always questioned, the specific reasons for which are: (i) indivisible nature of the technology, (ii) lack of collective action by the beneficiaries, (iii) conflicting objectives of the beneficiaries, and (iv) growing number of free riders. These could be controlled by appropriate institutional arrangements. The study has concluded that the technology dissemination without appropriate institutional arrangements might not yield the desired results.
Additional file 1 of What are the drivers of recurrent cholera transmission in Nigeria? Evidence from a scoping review
Creators: name: Elimian, Kelly Osezele
name: Somto Mezue
name: Musah, Anwar
name: Oyeronke Oyebanji
name: Ibrahima Soce Fall
name: Yennan, Sebastian
name: Yao, Michel
name: Abok, Patrick Okumu
name: Nanpring Williams
name: Omar, Lynda Haj
name: Thieno Balde
name: Kobina Ampah
name: Ifeanyi Okudo
name: Ibrahim, Luka
name: Arisekola Jinadu
name: Wondimagegnehu Alemu
name: Peter, Clement
name: Chikwe Ihekweazu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Methylation in HT22 cells and primary hippocampal neurons with and without isoflurane exposure
Creators: name: Klenke, Stefanie
name: Specking, Christian
name: Stegen, Maike
name: Engler, Andrea
name: Peters, Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Economic Analysis of Sprinkler and Drip Irrigation Technology in Haryana
Creators: name: Luhach, M. S.
name: Khatkar, R. K.
name: Singh, V. K.
name: Khatry, R. S.
name: Luhach, M. S.
name: Khatkar, R. K.
name: Singh, V. K.
name: Khatry, R. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The paper examines the water-use efficiency and economic worth of investment in sprinkler, drip and surface irrigation systems in Haryana using the primary data. The results have indicated considerable savings in water from sprinkler and drip irrigation methods. The sprinkler irrigation method has also been found to reduce operational costs as well as labour requirements. Using different project evaluation criteria, it has been suggested that it is worth to invest in the sprinkler and drip irrigation systems.
The Risk of Upper Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis and Primary Thromboprophylaxis with Low Dose Rivaroxaban in Oncology Patients with Central Venous Catheters
Creators: name: Ikesaka, Rick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Thrombosis
Cancer
Catheter

description: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common disorder which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis(UEDVT) is a relatively understudied subtype of VTE which is commonly associated with central venous catheters, cancer, and thrombophilia. The goal of this project was to better characterize the risk of UEDVT and to design and execute a pilot study that will demonstrate the efficacy of a strategy preventing the occurrence of VTE in a high-risk population for UEDVT. This M.Sc project, was conducted in three parts. Chapter 1 of the thesis outlines a systematic review of the literature which assessed the risk of VTE in UEDVT patients by search for and including data from studies with patients with prospectively enrolled symptomatic UEDVT. Chapter 2 describes the development and final protocol of the TRIM-Line pilot study, a randomized open-label study comparing 90 days of rivaroxaban 10mg po daily against the current standard of care (observation) in patients with active cancer and central venous catheters, two known risk factors for VTE. Finally in Chapter 3 the TRIM-Line study was executed as a pilot trial involving The Ottawa Hospital and the Juravinski Cancer Centre located in Hamilton. The study was conducted from March 2019 until February 2020. 105 patients underwent randomization at the two Canadian centres. The study met its prespecified feasibility endpoint average enrolment rate of 7.5 per month (95% CI:4.56, 10.44) at the coordinating Ottawa Hospital site and 2.0 per month (95% CI:0.87, 3.13) for the Juravinski Cancer Centre site. The randomized controlled trial met its enrollment targets and demonstrated that a full scale randomized controlled trial on the topic of prevention of cancer associated venous thromboembolism is feasible.
Technical and Water Use Efficiency in Methods of Irrigation in Thane District of Maharashtra
Creators: name: Talathi, J. M.
name: Hiremath, G. K.
name: Talathi, J. M.
name: Hiremath, G. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The paper has examined the nature of technological change in the irrigated crop production in the Thane district of Maharashtra by taking the crosssectional data from 173 farms. The Cobb-Douglas production function analysis on per hectare basis has indicated that human labour (0.0613) has a significant and positive influence on output in traditional method of irrigation (TMI). In the modern method of irrigation (MMI), fertilizer (0.4612) followed by human labour (0.3180) have significant but negative influence on crop productivity. In TMI farms the quantity of water used has been excess by 27 per cent over the economic optimum while in MMI farms, it has been only marginally higher (0.38%) over economic optimum. It reveals water conservation in MMI. The average Timmer technical efficiencies have been found as 49.97 per cent in TMI and 58.37 per cent in MMI for the irrigated crop production. There has been excessive use of factors of production (human labour, bullock labour, seed, manure, fertilizer, plant protection and irrigation expenses) to the extent of 78 to 92 per cent in TMI and 30 to 37 per cent in MMI, as revealed through frontier production function analysis for frontier users. It indicates the existence of much scope in efficient use of inputs in TMI.
Temporal Recalibration: Does Awareness Influence How We Perceive Time?
Creators: name: Bubna, Mikaela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Temporal recalibration
Motor-sensory temporal recalibration
Point of subjective simultaneity
Temporal order judgment
Simultaneity judgment

description: After exposure to a short, constant delay between voluntary movement and sensory stimuli, temporal recalibration (TR) arises to realign asynchronous stimuli. The objective of this study was to determine if awareness of the temporal lag between a motor response (i.e., a keypress) and a sensory event (i.e., a visual flash) is necessary for TR to occur. We further investigated whether manipulating the motor and judgment tasks required modifies the influence of awareness on TR due to the cognitive processes engaged. Participants (n = 22) were randomly divided between two groups (Group 1: Aware and Group 2: Unaware). The Aware group was told of the temporal lag between their keypress and visual flash at the beginning of the experiment, whereas the Unaware group was not. All participants completed 8 blocks of trials, in which the motor tasks (e.g., a single or repetitive tap), judgment tasks (e.g., judging the order of the keypress in relation to the visual flash or judging whether the two stimuli were simultaneous or not), and temporal lag between keypress and visual flash (e.g., a 0 ms or 100 ms lag) varied. TR was determined by comparing judgments between corresponding blocks of trials in which the temporal lag was 0 ms to 100 ms. Results revealed that both the Aware and Unaware groups of participants demonstrated TR across both motor and judgment tasks, and that the magnitude of TR did not vary across Aware and Unaware participants or tasks. Thus, results of the present study revealed that awareness of a temporal lag does not influence the magnitude of motor-sensory TR achieved.
Estimating Agricultural Acreage Responses to Input Prices: Groundwater in California
Creators: name: Stevens, Andrew W.
name: Stevens, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: How does agricultural land use respond to variation in the price of agricultural water? Answering this question is difficult in California where there is no well-functioning market for water. To overcome this challenge, I use variation in groundwater depth over space and time to proxy for the price of water. This makes sense in a setting where groundwater pumping is unregulated, meaning the effective price of pumped groundwater is the energy cost to pump it. I construct a panel of agricultural fields in Fresno County, California from 2008 to 2016, and estimate a fixed effects model to estimate groundwater depth's effect on transition probabilities between different categories of land cover. I find that groundwater depth reduces the likelihood that parcels will be planted to an annual crop, but increases the likelihood of fallowing land. Groundwater depth seems to have a less profound effect on choosing to plant perennial crops.
Agrilus fasciatellus Thomson 1878
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus fasciatellus

description: Agrilus fasciatellus Thomson, 1878
 Agrilus fasciatellus Thomson, 1878: 87 (typus MNHN).
 syn. Agrilus subfasciatus Gory, 1841: 231 (typus MNHN).
 Agrilus fucatus Obenberger, 1935 syn. nov. (2 sintypi NMPC, 1 sintypus NHML).
 Agrilus laelius Obenberger, 1935 syn. nov. (typus NMPC).
 Agrilus subfasciatellus Obenberger, 1936 syn. nov. (typus NMPC).
 Material examinado: 1 ex., Brasil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia, XI.1966, F. Plaumann leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 88, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Rho - Omega Splitting and Mixing in Nuclear Matter
Creators: name: Zschocke, S.
name: Kampfer, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the splitting and mixing of $ρ$ and $ω$ mesons in nuclear matter. The calculations were performed on the basis of QCD sum rules and include all operators up to mass dimension-6 twist-4 and up to first order in the coupling constants. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the scalar 4-quark condensates on both effects. In nuclear matter the Landau damping governs the $ρ- ω$ mass splitting while the scalar 4-quark condensates govern the strenght of individual mass shifts. A strong in-medium mass splitting causes the disappearance of the $ρ- ω$ mixing.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, Phys. Rev. C 70 (2004) 035207
Improving the Health Equity of Women Now and in the Post COVID-19 Era: Mobile Technology-Assisted Mental Health Interventions for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Creators: name: Saad, Ammar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pregnancy
Mobile Interventions
Common Mental Disorders
Health Equity
Prevention
Management

description: Pregnant and postpartum women often face high levels of psychological stress that increase the risk of common mental disorders (CMDs), such as depression and anxiety. This stress is often not met with timely mental health care and, therefore, may create health inequities. Mobile technology-assisted interventions represent a new opportunity for pregnant and postpartum women that may address health equity, especially during and after the COVID-19 era. We conducted an equity-focused systematic review and included 18 randomized and non-randomized controlled trials for analysis. Our results suggest that mobile interventions can prevent and manage depression across ethnicities and carry the potential to reduce psychological distress. Evidence on anxiety and utilization of care was limited and more research is needed among pregnant adolescents. Our collaborative research approach highlights the potential of mobile technologies and the need for active involvement of patients and other stakeholders in the co-creation and evaluation of mobile interventions.
DIFFERENTIAL TAXATION IN AGRICULTURAL CREDIT MARKET
Creators: name: Regmi, Madhav
name: Featherstone, Allen Merril
name: Regmi, Madhav
name: Featherstone, Allen Merril
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Public Economics
subject: Agricultural Credit
subject: Farm Credit System
subject: Corporate Income Tax
subject: Market Share
subject: Interest Rate

description: The farm credit system's profits on agricultural loans are exempted from state level corporate income tax. We use the variation in state level corporate income tax rate to identify its effect on the farm credit system's farm debt share and its consequences on borrowing costs for the farm loan. We find that a 10 percent rise in state level corporate income tax is associated with 2.1 percent increase in FCS total farm debt market share. For a 10 percent rise in the farm credit system's total farm debt market share leads to a 0.07 percent increase in the estimated interest rate of total farm debt. Moreover, the state level farm financial measures are also crucial in determining the change in market share of farm credit system and interest rate on the agricultural loan.
Predicting Soybean Yield with NDVI using a Flexible Fourier Transform Model
Creators: name: Xu, Chang
name: Katchova, Ani
name: Xu, Chang
name: Katchova, Ani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Crop Yield, Flexible Fourier Transform Model, Forecasting, NDVI, Remote Sensing.

description: We study how to incorporate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from remote sensing satellites to improve soybean yield predictions in ten major producing states in the United States. Unlike traditional methods which assume that a global OLS model applies to all observations, we account for geographical heterogeneity by using the Flexible Fourier Transform (FFT) model. Results show that there is considerable heterogeneity in how responsive soybean yield is to NDVI over the growing season. Out-of-sample cross-validation indicates that accounting for geographical heterogeneity improves the forecasts in terms of smaller prediction error compared to models assuming away geographical heterogeneity.
Agriculture in the European Community and the United States, 1958-68
Creators: name: Roenigk, William P.
name: Roenigk, William P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: European Community
subject: agricultural economy
subject: agricultural production
subject: consumption
subject: farm inputs
subject: land use
subject: prices
subject: trade
subject: U.S. agriculture

description: A statistical comparison and brief discussion of agriculture in the European Community and in the United States, relating to such topics as population, gross agricultural product, food consumption, farm size, agricultural production, farm inputs, and trade. Data are for 1958 and 1968 (or 1969).
Demand characterization for green and colored bell pepper: Does color affect the substitution possibilities between local and imported bell pepper?
Creators: name: Peguero, Felipe
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Peguero, Felipe
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Inverse AIDS
subject: colored and green Bell Pepper
subject: substitution possibilities
subject: complementary good

description: A Linear Approximation of the Inverse AIDS model is used to characterize the demand for green and colored bell pepper sourced locally, and imported from Mexico and other countries. This study seeks to answer the questions: Are green and colored bell pepper substitute or complementary goods? If they are substitutes, how big is the degree of substitution? Does that degree of substitution changes as the source changes (i.e. Mexico vs the U.S.). Results indicate that green and colored fresh bell pepper are substitutes. And that the degree of substitution between sources depends on whether the bell pepper is green or colored. The U.S.’s green bell pepper has greater substitutability than the U.S.’s colored bell pepper. Also, the demand for green bell pepper is more inflexible/elastic than the colored bell pepper. An interesting finding is that, according to the scale flexibility, the U.S.’s colored bell pepper is perceived by costumers as a luxury, while Mexico’s colored bell pepper is perceived as a necessity. And the opposite for green bell pepper.
An AGB Star with a Thick Circumstellar Shell
Creators: name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Durré, Mark
name: Uddin, Syed
name: Wang, Lifan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) is the terminal phase of red giant evolution with timescales of millions of years and a total mass lost from the star that is a significant fraction of the initial mass. Investigation of one of these stars, WISEA J173046.10-344455.5, a kpc in the direction of the center of the Galaxy, reveals a cool oxygen rich star with a dust shell of black-body temperature 1305 K.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASP
An Ultrasonic analog for a laser
Creators: name: Weaver, Richard L
name: Lobkis, Oleg I
name: Yamilov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements on ultrasonic systems analogous to random lasers. One system entails unstable ultrasonic feedback between distinct transducers, another involves a piezoelectric device that emits spontaneously and by stimulation. Both systems are found to exhibit behaviors similar to those of lasers. Over a wide range of parameters we observe narrow single emission lines, sensitivity to linear cavity properties, complex multi-mode emissions, and line narrowing.
Recession and Income Effect on the Private Label Products Demand: A Case Study of Fluid Milk
Creators: name: Zare, Samane
name: Sayed, Saghaian
name: Zare, Samane
name: Sayed, Saghaian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: private label, national brands, fluid milk, recession, household-level data

description: The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of recession and income on private label demand of different package sizes of fluid milk. we use household-level transaction data for private label and national brands of fluid milk, and household-level data from Nielsen Homescan panel which is comprised of detailed purchase information for more than 72,000 households who purchase fluid milk from all U.S. retailers. The data is recorded through the years, 2004-2014 which includes Great Recession. Non-linear pricing in the fluid milk makes the price of 0.5-gallon and 1-gallon close. In addition, differences between the average prices of private label and national brands in different package sizes of fluid milk differ unexpectedly. We find that the effect of income varies across different package sizes. Specifically, the share of private label 0.25-gallon fluid milk and income are negatively related, while the effect of income for the two other sizes is statistically insignificant. The share of private label fluid milk purchases increased during the recession and continue to increase at a higher rate after the recession up to the year 2012. Different specifications the data confirm these results.
Concept of temperature in multi-horizon spacetimes: Analysis of Schwarzschild-De Sitter metric
Creators: name: Choudhury, T. Roy
name: Padmanabhan, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In case of spacetimes with single horizon, there exist several well-established procedures for relating the surface gravity of the horizon to a thermodynamic temperature. Such procedures, however, cannot be extended in a straightforward manner when a spacetime has multiple horizons. In particular, it is not clear whether there exists a notion of global temperature characterizing the multi-horizon spacetimes. We examine the conditions under which a global temperature can exist for a spacetime with two horizons using the example of Schwarzschild-De Sitter (SDS) spacetime. We systematically extend different procedures (like the expectation value of stress tensor, response of particle detectors, periodicity in the Euclidean time etc.) for identifying a temperature in the case of spacetimes with single horizon to the SDS spacetime. This analysis is facilitated by using a global coordinate chart which covers the entire SDS manifold. We find that all the procedures lead to a consistent picture characterized by the following features: (a) In general, SDS spacetime behaves like a non-equilibrium system characterized by two temperatures. (b) It is not possible to associate a global temperature with SDS spacetime except when the ratio of the two surface gravities is rational (c) Even when the ratio of the two surface gravities is rational, the thermal nature depends on the coordinate chart used. There exists a global coordinate chart in which there is global equilibrium temperature while there exist other charts in which SDS behaves as though it has two different temperatures. The coordinate dependence of the thermal nature is reminiscent of the flat spacetime in Minkowski and Rindler coordinate charts. The implications are discussed.
description: 12 pages
Agrilus femina Curletti & Migliore 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus femina

description: Agrilus femina sp. nov.
 (Fig. 6)
 Etimologia: latim, femĭna, para indicar o sexo do holótipo.
Comprimento, 9,3 mm. Pubescência, quando presente, branco-acinzentada. Fronte bronzeada, amplamente sulcada longitudinalmente como o vértice, com pubescência no sulco, na base e ao longo do clípeo, que está em relevo com relação à linha frontal e separado por uma carena transversal. Gênas revestidas pela mesma pubescência. Antenas bronzeadas, lobadas no antenômero IV (lobo pouco acentuado). Carena pré-umeral inteira, junto à margem no ângulo anterior do pronoto. Carenas marginais fortemente distanciadas na frente, unidas posteriormente antes da base. Esclerito gular com margem anterior levemente incisa na parte mediana. Processo prosternal alargado no ápice. Ápice elitral com espinho situado no prolongamento da margem elitral externa. Látero-tergitos com pubescência uniforme. Lado ventral com pubescência uniforme nas metacoxas e no metepisterno. Urosternito I com linha longitudinal de pubescência mediana basal; II e III com mancha pubescênte lateral; V glabro. Pernas bronzeadas. Metatarso mais curto que a metatíbia: metatarsômero I tão longo quanto II + III + IV.
 Material tipo: Holótipo ♀: BRASIL, São Paulo, Juquitiba (Juquiá, 23°58’20”S, 47°01’24”W, 729 m), 27.XI.2010, G. Curletti leg. (MZUSP).
 Discussão: As quatro duplas de manchas pubescentes elitrais e a conformação do espinho apical caracterizam a espécie. Duas outras espécies brasileiras aproximam- -se morfologicamente a A. femina sp. nov.: A. inflatus Kerremans, 1897 do Amazonas e A. unicus Kerremans de Pernambuco. A. femina sp. nov. separa-se de A. inflatus pela diferente ditribuição da pubescência elitral; da segunda principalmente pela disposição diferente do espinho apical, na metade e não na margem externa.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Drop freezing: fine detection of contaminants by measuring the tip angle
Creators: name: Boulogne, François
name: Salonen, Anniina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we show that the shape of a freezing drop of water can be sensitive to the presence of impurities. We measure the tip angle of water drops frozen on a cold plate. The fine changes in tip angle are robustly captured by our image analysis method, which shows a deviation from that of pure water in solutions with salt (NaCl), polymer (PEG) and surfactant (TTAB) starting at concentrations of $10^{-6}$, $10^{-4}$ and $10^{-6}$ M respectively. The method could be adapted into a portable water purity tester, but the work also highlights the complexity of water freezing as it is influenced by trace concentrations of impurities.
Additional file 3 of Fine mapping of a Phytophthora-resistance locus RpsGZ in soybean using genotyping-by-sequencing
Creators: name: Bingzhi Jiang
name: Yanbo Cheng
name: Zhandong Cai
name: Li, Mu
name: Jiang, Ze
name: Ruirui Ma
name: Yeshan Yuan
name: Qiuju Xia
name: Nian, Hai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of the candidate genes of the RpsGZ locus. AgriGO (http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/) was used to analyse the candidate genes of the RpsGZ locus, and significantly enriched GO categories under molecular functions are shown in orange and yellow boxes.
Model study of generalized parton distributions with helicity flip
Creators: name: Scopetta, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalized parton distributions with helicity flip are studied in the quark sector, within a simple version of the MIT bag model, assuming an SU(6) wave function for the proton target. In the framework under scrutiny it turns out that only the generalized transversity distribution, H_T^q, is non vanishing. For this quantity, the forward limit is properly recovered and numerical results are found to underestimate recent lattice data for its first moment. Positivity bounds recently proposed are fulfilled by the obtained distribution. The relevance of the analysis for the planning of measurements of the quark generalized transversity is addressed.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures; shortened version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Magnetostrictive behaviour of thin superconducting disks
Creators: name: Johansen, Tom H.
name: Shantsev, Daniel V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux-pinning-induced stress and strain distributions in a thin disk superconductor in a perpendicular magnetic field is analyzed. We calculate the body forces, solve the magneto-elastic problem and derive formulas for all stress and strain components, including the magnetostriction $ΔR/R$. The flux and current density profiles in the disk are assumed to follow the Bean model. During a cycle of the applied field the maximum tensile stress is found to occur approximately midway between the maximum field and the remanent state. An effective relationship between this overall maximum stress and the peak field is found.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Supercond. Sci. Technol., Proceed. of MEM03 in Kyoto
Two-body tunnel transitions in a Mn4 Single-Molecule Magnet
Creators: name: Wernsdorfer, W.
name: Bhaduri, S.
name: Tiron, R.
name: Hendrickson, D. N.
name: Christou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-body tunnel picture of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) is not always sufficient to explain the measured tunnel transitions. An improvement to the picture is proposed by including also two-body tunnel transitions such as spin-spin cross-relaxation (SSCR) which are mediated by dipolar and weak superexchange interactions between molecules. A Mn4 SMM is used as a model system. At certain external fields, SSCRs lead to additional quantum resonances which show up in hysteresis loop measurements as well defined steps.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, ICM 2003 in Rome