cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Impact of an Experimental Nutritional Intervention in Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Creators: name: Maluccio, John A.
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Behrman, Jere R.
name: Martorell, Reynaldo
name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
name: Stein, Aryeh D.
name: Maluccio, John A.
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Behrman, Jere R.
name: Martorell, Reynaldo
name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
name: Stein, Aryeh D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: early childhood nutrition
subject: education
subject: nutritional intervention
subject: Guatemala

description: Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by (1) using unique longitudinal data from a nutritional experiment with lifetime educational measures; (2) avoiding confounding the estimates by excluding potentially endogenous right-side variables; and (3) using estimators that allow for nonnormal distributions. Our results indicate significantly positive, and fairly substantial, effects of the randomized intervention a quarter century after it ended: increased grade attainment by women, via increased likelihood of entering and completing primary school and some secondary school; speedier grade progression by women; higher scores on cognitive tests for both men and women; and higher scores on educational achievement tests for both men and women. To account for possible biases in the calculation of standard errors and to control for sample attrition, alternative estimations were run and found to be robust.
Additional file 1 of Choosing and Doing wisely: triage level I resuscitation a possible new field for starting palliative care and avoiding low-value care – a nationwide matched-pair retrospective cohort study in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chih-Yuan Lin
name: Yue-Chune Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Top 20 categories of single-level clinical classifications: Palliative and usual care groups
Potential gravitational-wave signatures of quantum gravity
Creators: name: Agullo, Ivan
name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: del Rio, Adrian
name: Maggiore, Michele
name: Pullin, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to inform us on quantum aspects of black holes. Based on Bekenstein's quantization, we find that black hole area discretization could impart observable imprints to the gravitational-wave signal from a pair of merging black holes, affecting their absorption properties during inspiral and their late-time relaxation after merger. In contrast with previous results, we find that black hole rotation, ubiquitous in astrophysics, improves our ability to probe quantum effects. Our analysis shows that gravitational-wave echoes and suppressed tidal heating are signs of new physics from which the fundamental quantum of black hole area can be measured, and which are within reach of future detectors. Our results also highlight the need to derive predictions from specific quantum gravity proposals.
description: some comments and clarifications added; published version
1286: AB Albert Rodgers (photograph)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: A framed family memorial of a portrait photograph, within a frame depicting a battleship. Able Seaman Rodgers was killed at the Battle of Jutland, on HMS 'Indefatigable', on 30 May 1916 aged 21. His elder sister, the contributor's Grandmother had it on her lounge wall all her life. She touched it every night on her way to bed. He was son of Fred. Ernest and Sarah Rodgers, of 2, New St., Morley, Leeds.
Uniform large deviations for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with multiplicative noise
Creators: name: Gautier, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10 ; 60H15 ; 35Q55

description: Uniform large deviations for the laws of the paths of the solutions of the stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation when the noise converges to zero are presented. The noise is a real multiplicative Gaussian noise. It is white in time and colored in space. The path space considered allows blow-up and is endowed with a topology analogue to a projective limit topology. Thus a large variety of large deviation principle may be deduced by contraction. As a consequence, asymptotics of the tails of the law of the blow-up time when the noise converges to zero are obtained.
Fish Supply Projections by Production Environments and Species Types in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Dey, Madan Mohan
name: Paraguas, Ferdinand J.
name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Dey, Madan Mohan
name: Paraguas, Ferdinand J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The supply studies on the fisheries sector in India have been addressed at the disaggregated level by production environment and by species groups. These would be more imperative and useful for assessing the fish supply at the national level. The fish supply projections by species groups under different production environments have been obtained to a medium-term horizon, by the year 2015 under various technological scenarios. The study has concluded that the supply response to fish price changes has been stronger under aquaculture than marine environment in India. Price and technology have been reported as the important instruments to induce higher supply. The change in the relative prices of fish species would change the species-mix in the total supply. The fish production has been projected as 4.6-5.5 million tonnes of inland fish and 3.2-3.6 million tonnes of marine fish by the year 2015. More than 60 per cent of the additional fish production will be contributed by aquaculture and mainly by the Indian major carps.
RELAXIN AND ITS ROLE IN THE MECHANISMS OF PRETERM LABOR
Creators: name: Narkulova, Soxiba
name: Xudoyberdiyeva, Zarina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article explores the role of the hormone relaxin in the mechanisms of preterm labor. The functions of relaxin in the female body during pregnancy are examined, including its impact on the cervix, uterus, and birth canal tissues. The main mechanisms of preterm labor associated with elevated levels of relaxin are described, as well as its role in inflammatory processes and stress responses. The article also discusses current diagnostic methods, including the use of relaxin levels to predict the risk of preterm labor. Perspectives on the use of relaxin as a biomarker and therapeutic target for the prevention of preterm labor are also considered.
Relative and Marginal Effects of Fish Production on Family Income Inequality in Tripura: Decomposition of Gini by Income Sources
Creators: name: Singh, Kehar
name: Singh, Kehar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The extent of income inequality, contribution of alternative income sources to inequality as well as their relative and marginal effects with special reference to fish production in the West Tripura district of Tripura state have been examined for the year 2003-04. The data have been collected from 60 fish-farming households in three selected blocks by multi-stage random sampling method. The Gini has been decomposed by income sources using the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki, which views each source’s contribution to inequality as the product of its own inequality, its share of total income, and its correlation with the rank of cumulative total income. The study has indicated that to make the family income distribution more equitable among the fish-farming households, the fish production has a pivot role to play.
The social reproduction of gender identity through the production and reception of Lowland Maya figurines
Creators: name: Ruscheinsky, Lynn Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: From the earliest studies of Maya figurines to some of the most recent the possibility that these ceramic sculptures functioned as children's playthings has been raised but never pursued seriously as a topic of investigation. In addition to compiling evidence already available in the archaeological literature that supports this contention, I further investigate the possibilities that women produced these figurines for their children's use and therefore that these figurines represented a women's visual discourse. As well, this thesis explores uses for figurines as gift offerings in funerary contexts. I have chosen to investigate specifically the impact that figurines may have had on the formation of gender identity. I argue that figurines not only communicated the social values of their producers but may also have been instrumental in actively constructing the world of the individual through gender performance. I therefore examine figurine representations of women, men and children in relation to visual materials [primarily polychrome ceramics] assumed to be produced by men in an attempt to elucidate the contested nature of gender identity within Classic Maya households. I argue that instabilities and changes within gender relations could be understood as arising from power relations that were mediated through such visual imagery.
Analysis of Demand for Major Spices in India
Creators: name: Shinoj, P.
name: Mathur, V.C.
name: Shinoj, P.
name: Mathur, V.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: India is the largest producer, consumer, and exporter of spices in the world. The demand scenario for major spices in India has been comprehensively examined in the study. The shift in preferences of domestic consumers for food items, increasing urbanization and rising incomes, altered demographic and social factors and the changes in productivity of spices have brought about changes in the pattern of their consumption and demand. A two-stage budgeting framework, which is a recent development in the theory, of demand with quadratic terms of total expenditure / food expenditure and is an appropriate technique for computing the expenditure elasticities, has been employed to work out the expenditure elasticities for spices in India. The resultant expenditure elasticities range between 0.40 and 0.60 and do not show much disparity across different income classes or regions and over the years. Also, the household consumption demand projections for important spices in the country for the years 2005, 2010 and 2015 show that the domestic demand for spices would increase further in the coming years.
Qusay Hussein Interview
Creators: name: Institute For Diversity & Civic Life
name: Department Of Religious Studies
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Religions Texas
Muslim
Iraq
Faith
Austin, Texas
Doctors without borders
Interfaith Action of Central Texas
Visually Impaired
Disability
Migrant

description: This interview is with Qusay Hussein, an Iraqi former refugee who fled his native country to Jordan after losing his vision after a bomb blast detonation in Baghdad. After working with Doctors Without Borders in Jordan, Hussein moved to Austin, Texas in 2012. Hussein credits groups like Interfaith Action of Central Texas for supporting him through his transition. He now studies at the University of Texas at Austin and hopes to uplift those in need of help as a psychologist and motivational speaker.
Migratory Sheep and Goat Production System: The Mainstay of Tribal Hill Economy in Himachal Pradesh
Creators: name: Singh, D.R.
name: Kaul, Sushila
name: Sivaramane, N.
name: Singh, D.R.
name: Kaul, Sushila
name: Sivaramane, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The migratory and socio-economic aspects of sheep and goat flock-owners have been studied to examine yield, cost, income and employment in migratory sheep and goat production system in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh for the year 2001-02. A direct relation has been revealed between flock-size and resource endowments. Human labour has been found as the major cost component in the maintenance of this production system. Although, the contribution of sheep-rearing has been found higher to gross income, rearing of goats generates markedly higher income than of sheep on per animal basis. The flock business and family labour income in this system have been observed impressive and net income has been rated meagre for small flock-owners and nominal for large ones. This system has provided enough employment opportunities to family as well as hired labour. The existing breeds have been found good in terms of quality and quantity of meat, disease resistance and reproduction. The disease management technologies have been reported satisfactory, but medical facilities are not available at higher altitudes. The fodder availability at foothills and in plains during the winter season has been perceived as a major constraint, while the other constraints have been lack of marketing and processing infrastructure, low prices of output, high morbidity rate and wild animal attack. To enhance the profitability and sustainability of this system in the long-run, the study has suggested that the flock-owners need to be educated about the importance of timely vaccination and feeding of concentrate, roughages and feed supplements to the animals, specially during the winter season.
Riffle shuffles of decks with repeated cards
Creators: name: Conger, Mark
name: Viswanath, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 60J20 (Primary)

description: By a well-known result of Bayer and Diaconis, the maximum entropy model of the common riffle shuffle implies that the number of riffle shuffles necessary to mix a standard deck of 52 cards is either 7 or 11--with the former number applying when the metric used to define mixing is the total variation distance and the latter when it is the separation distance. This and other related results assume all 52 cards in the deck to be distinct and require all $52!$ permutations of the deck to be almost equally likely for the deck to be considered well mixed. In many instances, not all cards in the deck are distinct and only the sets of cards dealt out to players, and not the order in which they are dealt out to each player, needs to be random. We derive transition probabilities under riffle shuffles between decks with repeated cards to cover some instances of the type just described. We focus on decks with cards all of which are labeled either 1 or 2 and describe the consequences of having a symmetric starting deck of the form $1,...,1,2,...,2$ or $1,2,...,1,2$. Finally, we consider mixing times for common card games.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000675 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
2057: Pte R Johnston (Medal & Photograph)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: He was born 5 Feb 1896 in Kirk Street, Bolton, enlisted in Preston and survived the war and died aged 91 in November 1987. He lived at 58 Pleasant Street Bolton. His Victory Medal is mistakenly engraved 'Johnson' rather than Johnston.
Large Surface Magnetization in Noncentrosymmetric Antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Lund, Mike A.
name: Everschor-Sitte, Karin
name: Hals, Kjetil M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin-film antiferromagnets (AFs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are theoretically investigated. We demonstrate that the relativistic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) produces a large surface magnetization and a boundary-driven twist state in the antiferromagnetic N\' eel vector. We predict a magnetization on the order of $2.3\cdot 10^4$~A/m, which is comparable to the magnetization of ferromagnetic semiconductors. Importantly, the magnetization is characterized by ultra-fast terahertz dynamics and provides new approaches for efficiently probing and controlling the spin dynamics of AFs as well as detecting the antiferromagnetic DMI. Notably, the magnetization does not lead to any stray magnetic fields except at corners where weak magnetic monopole fields appear.
description: Finale version accepted by Physical Review B
Quantum Walk on a Line with Two Entangled Particles
Creators: name: Omar, Y.
name: Paunkovic, N.
name: Sheridan, L.
name: Bose, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of a quantum walk with two particles and study it for the case of a discrete time walk on a line. A quantum walk with more than one particle may contain entanglement, thus offering a resource unavailable in the classical scenario and which can present interesting advantages. In this work, we show how the entanglement and the relative phase between the states describing the coin degree of freedom of each particle will influence the evolution of the quantum walk. In particular, the probability to find at least one particle in a certain position after $N$ steps of the walk, as well as the average distance between the two particles, can be larger or smaller than the case of two unentangled particles, depending on the initial conditions we choose. This resource can then be tuned according to our needs, in particular to enhance a given application (algorithmic or other) based on a quantum walk. Experimental implementations are briefly discussed.
A Study on the Economics of Milk Processing in a Dairy Plant in Haryana
Creators: name: Chauhan, A.K.
name: Kalra, K.K.
name: Singh, Rajvir
name: Raina, B.B.
name: Chauhan, A.K.
name: Kalra, K.K.
name: Singh, Rajvir
name: Raina, B.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The economics of manufacturing of different dairy products, viz. ghee, full-cream milk, standardized milk, toned milk, double-toned milk, skimmed milk and ice-cream (processing only) have been reported. The study has been conducted in an ISO-9002 dairy plant situated in the north-eastern part of Haryana. It has been observed that all the products, except the double-toned milk are being produced above the recommended breakeven level. A comparison of unit manufacturing cost with unit price received by the plant for different products has revealed that ice-cream manufacturing has been the most profitable proposition among different dairy products, and standardized milk has provided the maximum profit margin among the milk pouches manufactured during the study period, 2000-01. The double-toned milk has revealed a loss. Therefore, the study has suggested that the quantity of double-toned milk production should be raised at least equal to the recommended break-even level to avoid losses, if there is a market demand for this product or the resources of this product could be shifted to some other profitable products.
On the assessment of social and cultural factors in technology updake in urban communities and developing countries: Interview with Daniela Zapata López and Jaime A Arboleda Palacio (CTA)
Creators: name: Banduka, Dusica
name: Schwarzenberger, Anke
name: Zapata Lopez, Daniela
name: A Arboleda Palacio, Jaime
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: CCU
CO₂
RenewableCarbon
Technology
Social Acceptance Urban Communities

description: The EU funded research project WaterProof is developing a CO2 conversion technology, converting CO2 from waste incineration and wastewater treatment into fomic acid using electrochemistry. 

In the final product stage, this technology will be transfered to the area of Medellin, Colombia. In this interview, Daniela Zapata López and Jaime A Arboleda Palacio from project partner Centre of Science and Technology of Antioquia (CTA) elaborate on the assessment of social and cultural factors in technology updake in urban communities and developing countries.
2059: Pte P Mahony (or Mahoney)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Patrick was born Apr 1898 in Co Down, Ireland; at enlistment in 1914 in Bury he resided at Drummond Street, Bolton; he survived the war and died aged 75 in April 1973.
Diversification of Indian Agriculture: Composition, Determinants and Trade Implications
Creators: name: Singh, N.P.
name: Kumar, Ranjit
name: Singh, R.P.
name: Singh, N.P.
name: Kumar, Ranjit
name: Singh, R.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The pattern of diversification across states/crops in India has been schematized and various determinants of diversification have been deciphered. To objectively confer the empirical resonance, values of Simpson index have been estimated. The diversification index (SID) has been found to range from 0.47 (WB) to 0.90 (Karnataka) in 1990-91 and from 0.40 (Orissa) to 0.92 (Karnataka) in 2000-01. The increase in diversification Index signifies shift towards non-foodgrain crops. In Karnataka, though the Index has increased, but the similar increases in area under foodgrain imply shift from coarse to fine cereals. Agricultural diversification is influenced by a number of infrastructural and technological factors. The coefficients have indicated that the presence of electricity and road density are negatively associated with the diversification. In the year 2001-02, large share of export earnings has come from non-traditional items, namely rice, fruits, vegetables, livestock and marine products, signifying positive boost to diversification. Indian agriculture has witnessed diversification with impressive improvements in the shares of livestock and fisheries sectors in the total income from agriculture. Within the crop sector, the diversification has largely been in favour of non-foodgrains crops in most of the states. However, diversification in these states has not been essentially for income generation, but also for the risk-mitigating proposition. However, harnessing the potential of diversification presupposes gradual restructuring of diversification hindering market institutions, infrastructure and quality standards.
title: Electronic structure simulations of energy materials: chalcogenides for thermoelectrics and metal-organic frameworks for photocatalysis
Creators: name: Aziz, Alex
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: A theoretical investigation of the electronic structure of chalcogenides for thermoelectric applications and metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for photocatalytic applications is presented in this thesis. The development of chalcogenide materials for thermoelectric applications presents an opportunity to move away from tellurium based materials, which are not cost-effective. Their mainstream realization is dependent on an increase in their efficiency. A combination of density functional theory and Boltzmann transport theory are used to investigate the electronic and phonon transport properties of chalcogenide materials. In the shandite family, the transport properties of Ni3Sn2S2 provide a useful rationalization of their behaviour. In Co3Sn2S2 indium substitutes tin preferentially at the interlayer sites, and leads to a compositionally induced metal-tosemiconductor-to-metal transition which is critical to its thermoelectric properties. Cu2ZnSnSe4 is the most promising of the quaternary chalcogenides and is investigated for thermoelectric applications. It is a p-type semiconductor and a combined theoretical and experimental analysis shows how its ZT can be optimized through doping. In the second part of this thesis, two classes of MOFs are investigated for their photocatalytic properties, porphyrin based MOFs (PMOFs) and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs). In both materials, DFT calculations are used to obtain the electronic band structure, which is then aligned with a vacuum reference. In these MOFs, as in chalcogenides, chemical substitution can be used to engineer the band structure for their optimal properties. In PMOFs metal substitution at the octahedral metal centre is able tune the band edge positions. Optimal properties were found by partial substitution of Al by Fe at the octahedral sites, while keeping Zn at the porphyrin centres. In ZIFs the band edge positions are mainly determined by the molecular linker and intrinsic photocatalytic activity can be achieved by mixing different linkers.
Turbulence Fingerprint on Collective Oscillations of Supernova Neutrinos
Creators: name: Abbar, Sajad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We bring to light a novel mechanism through which turbulent matter density fluctuations can induce collective neutrino flavor conversions in core-collapse supernovae, i.e., the leakage of flavor instabilities between different Fourier modes. The leakage mechanism leaves its notable fingerprint on the flavor stability of a dense neutrino gas by coupling flavor conversion modes on different scales which in turn, makes the flavor instabilities almost ubiquitous in the Fourier space. The most remarkable consequence of this effect is in that it allows for the presence of significant flavor conversions in the deepest supernova regions even in the absence of the so-called fast modes. This is yet another crucial impact of turbulence on the physics of core-collapse supernovae which can profoundly change our understanding of neutrino flavor conversions in the supernova environment.
description: Minor changes to match the version accepted for publication in PRD
Additional file 1 of Poor sleep quality and associated factors among prisoners of the Diredawa correctional facility in eastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yibeltal Getachew
name: Telake Azale
name: Necho, Mogesie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. A balance table for the study participant’s characteristics for inclusion and exclusion of prisoners in to the study.
Fast prototyping: CollectionBuilder's Minimal Computing Approach to Open-Source Collections and Exhibits
Creators: name: Mähr, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: digital humanities
digital history
public history
online exhibition
online collection
research software engineering
minimal computing

description: In the digital humanities, researchers frequently aspire to create online collections or exhibits but often face challenges in defining their precise needs. This presentation explores CollectionBuilder, a Jekyll-based static site generator, as a solution for these challenges. By leveraging minimal computing principles, CollectionBuilder facilitates rapid prototyping of digital collections while maintaining essential features such as digital longevity, adherence to FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability), enhanced accessibility for diverse audiences, and comprehensive metadata support. The talk will illustrate how CollectionBuilder's simplicity and efficiency, along with its extensive documentation and supportive open-source community, make it an ideal tool for developing sustainable, user-friendly digital humanities projects. Practical examples, including a case study of a project on the history of Basel, will demonstrate the platform's capabilities and effectiveness.
A binary star seen by PIONIER
Creators: name: Higa, Rebeca
name: López, Yanina
name: Szász, Gabriel
name: Soares, Marcos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: binary: visual
techniques: interferometric
PIONIER

description: In this presentation, we show the results achieved during the practical hands-on sessions of the VLTI-How Workshop 2022. The aim was to determine the orbital parallax and masses of the TZ Fornacis with high precision using optical long-baseline interferometry. We worked with PIONIER data obtained from the ESO archive, and we used parallax from GAIA DR3 to set the initial constraint for the angular semi-major axis. The ASPRO2 software from the JMMC suite was used to determine the optimal model and to explore how flux ratio and angular separation influence squared visibility and closure phase. Then we used LITPro software to fit the model and measure the companion's astrometric positions for individual epochs. Finally, we used the binaryFit.py code, provided by our lecturer Alexandre Gallenne, to fit the obtained astrometric positions to determine the orbital parameters, masses, and orbital parallax of TZ Fornacis.
Accounting for Impact of Environmental Degradation in Agriculture of Indian Punjab
Creators: name: Singh, Joginder
name: Sidhu, R.S.
name: Singh, Joginder
name: Sidhu, R.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Having witnessed a fast growth, the agriculture in Punjab has reached a plateau. To sustain even the existing level, the costs are increasing and natural resources are being depleted due to overuse. This study has examined the use of certain resources and its impact on the cost of production. The data have been collected from different primary and secondary sources. The fast increase in area under rice and wheat appears to be unsustainable due to the fast decline in water table. Therefore, the cost of pumping out water with electricity has been going up, shortage of electric power has resulted in increase in the number of electric and diesel tubewells, further escalating the cost of production. The replenishment of soil health due to depleting macro and micronutrients and increased pesticide-use have also been observed to increase the cost. Thus, the cost on account of these factors together has gone up by Rs 63/t in wheat and Rs 189/t in rice. The varietal diversity of wheat has decreased and that of rice crop has increased during the past two and a half decades. The policy measures to minimize excessive use of natural resources requires suitable input pricing, particularly for water resource, improving input-use efficiency and revamping market forces to encourage diversification of state agriculture from rice to alternative crops.
Digitale Sammlungen mit FAIR-Daten und Open Source Software erstellen: Eine Einführung in CollectionBuilder
Creators: name: Mähr, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: digital history
subject: public history
subject: online exhibition
subject: online collection
subject: minimal computing

description: Erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit dem CollectionBuilder, einer einfach zu bedienenden Open Source Software, zugängliche und gut organisierte digitale Sammlungen erstellen können. In dieser Coffee Lecture werden die FAIR-Prinzipien (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) erläutert und gezeigt, wie CollectionBuilder diese Prinzipien umsetzt, um den Aufbau, die Pflege und die Veröffentlichung digitaler Sammlungen zu erleichtern. Die Teilnehmenden erhalten praktische Einblicke und sehen Beispiele aus der Praxis, darunter die Fallstudie der Forschungsdatenplattform Stadt.Geschichte.Basel. Sie lernen, wie sie ohne tiefere technische Kenntnisse eigene digitale Sammlungen erstellen, anpassen und pflegen können. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Forschende, Bibliothekar*innen sowie an alle, die die Zugänglichkeit und Wirkung ihrer Forschungsdaten verbessern möchten.
Search for Small-Scale Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays above 10^19 eV with HiRes Stereo
Creators: name: Westerhoff, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for small-scale anisotropy in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays above 10^19 eV measured in stereo by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment. Performing an autocorrelation scan in energy and angular separation, we find that the strongest correlation signal in the HiRes stereo data set recorded between December 1999 and January 2004 is consistent with the null hypothesis of isotropically distributed arrival directions. These results are compared to previous claims of significant small-scale clustering in the AGASA data set.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; to appear in the proceedings of CRIS 2004, Catania, Italy, 31 May - 4 June 2004 (Nuclear Phys. B)
Additional file 2 of Lissencephaly in Shih Tzu dogs
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Sánchez, Diego Noé
name: Giovana Boff Araujo Pinto
name: Edval Fernando Thomé
name: Vânia Maria De Vasconcelos Machado
name: Amorim, Rogério Martins
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. DOC. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a healthy Shih Tzu dog. Transverse T1-weighted (a and b) and transverse and sagittal T2-weighted (c and d) imaging. The following structures were identified at the level of the interthalamic adhesion: marginal gyri (a); marginal sulci (b); middle ectomarginal gyri (c); ectomarginal sulci (d); middle suprasylvian gyri (e); middle suprasylvian sulci (f); middle ectosylvian gyri (g); caudal ectosylvian sulci (h); caudal sylvian gyri (i); pseudosylvian fissure (j); lateral rhinal sulci (k); splenial sulci (l); cingulate gyri (m) and corpus callosum (o) (a). The following structures were identified at the level of the mesencephalic aqueduct: marginal gyri (a); marginal sulci (b); middle ectomarginal gyri (c); ectomarginal sulci (d); caudal suprasylvian gyri (e); caudal suprasylvian sulci (f); ectosylvian gyri (g); lateral rhinal sulci (h); parahippocampal gyri (i) and caudal composite gyri (j) (b). In transverse and sagittal T2-weighted images, all anatomical structures were normal, including the lateral ventricles, quadrigeminal cistern and corpus callosum (c and d).
Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives of Sustainable Watershed Eco-System in Union Territory of Pondicherry
Creators: name: Nasurudeen, P.
name: Mahesh, N.
name: Nasurudeen, P.
name: Mahesh, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The study conducted in the Karaikal region of the Union Territory of Pondicherry during 2004-05 has made a comparison of watershed and conventional systems. The crop diversification index has been found 0.28 in watershed and 0.32 in the conventional system. The study has revealed that nearly all the farmers in the watershed and only 40 per cent in the conventional system apply organic fertilizers. Moreover, farmers apply more fertilizers in the conventional (235 kg/ha) than watershed (210 kg/ha) system. The index of yield stability for all the crops has been found to be 0.98 in the watershed and 0.84 in the conventional system. The gross return has been found higher by 11.65 per cent, and net return by 32.18 per cent in the watershed than the conventional system. The input self-sufficiency ratio has been found to be 0.52 in the watershed and 0.47 in the conventional system. The analysis has indicated that if the agricultural income were considered, there has been no significant variation in food security in the two systems. The analysis has further revealed that there is a potential in promoting watershed system of farming for which it is necessary to devise policies that will provide incentives to watershed farmers both directly and indirectly. Until effective biological measures of soil fertilization are introduced, polices could be adopted to promote the application of biological and chemical fertilizers in a balanced way, so as to maintain soil structure and sustain or increase crop yields.
Impact of Sugarcane Delivery Schedule on Product Value at Raw Sugar Factories
Creators: name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Garcia, Mercedes
name: Breaux, Janis B.
name: No, Sung Chul
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Garcia, Mercedes
name: Breaux, Janis B.
name: No, Sung Chul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: dextran
subject: milling
subject: product value
subject: raw sugar factories
subject: scheduling
subject: sugarcane industry

description: Conversion to combine harvesters has resulted in Louisiana sugarcane growers delivering a more perishable product to raw sugar factories. Dextran formation increases as the time between harvest and milling is extended. Milling of freshly cut sugarcane reduces the formation of dextran and associated economic losses. One approach available to factories to reduce dextran formation is to extend the harvested sugarcane delivery schedule to the mill. A simulation model was developed to evaluate alternative delivery schedules at raw sugar factories. Economic losses in product value associated with dextran formation were estimated and compared for various extended delivery schedules.
Kinematic Study of the Blazar S5 0716+714
Creators: name: Bach, U.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Ros, E.
name: Britzen, S.
name: Tian, W. W.
name: Kraus, A.
name: Witzel, A.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a multi-frequency study of the structural evolution of the VLBI jet in the BL Lac object 0716+714 over the last 10 years. We show VLBI images obtained at 5 GHz, 8.4 GHz, 15 GHz and 22 GHz. The milliarcsecond source structure is best described by a one-sided core-dominated jet of ~10 mas length. Embedded jet components move superluminally with speeds ranging from 5 c to 16 c (assuming z=0.3). Such fast superluminal motion is not typical for BL Lac objects, however it is still in the range of jet speeds typically observed in quasars (10 c to 20 c). In 0716+714, younger components, that were ejected more recently, seem to move systematically slower than the older components. This and a systematic position angle variation of the inner (1 mas) portion of the VLBI jet, suggests an at least partly geometric origin of the observed velocity variations. The observed rapid motion and the derived Lorentz factors are discussed with regard to the rapid Intra-Day Variability (IDV) and the gamma-ray observations, from which very high Doppler factors are inferred.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, minor language editing and a reference added in section 1 to match the accepted version; Figs. 3 & 4 are in colors now
On the decoupled Markov group conjecture
Creators: name: Glück, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J27, 47D06, 47D07, 47B65

description: The Markov group conjecture, a long-standing open problem in the theory of Markov processes with countable state space, asserts that a strongly continuous Markov semigroup $T = (T_t)_{t \in [0,\infty)}$ on $\ell^1$ has bounded generator if the operator $T_1$ is bijective. Attempts to disprove the conjecture have often aimed at glueing together finite dimensional matrix semigroups of growing dimension - i.e., it was tried to show that the Markov group conjecture is false even for Markov processes that decouple into (infinitely many) finite dimensional systems. In this article we show that such attempts must necessarily fail, i.e., we prove the Markov group conjecture for processes that decouple in the way described above. In fact, we even show a more general result that gives a universal norm estimate for bounded generators $Q$ of positive semigroups on any Banach lattice. Our proof is based on a filter product technique, infinite dimensional Perron-Frobenius theory and Gelfand's $T = \operatorname{id}$ theorem.
description: 8 pages
2061: H E Johnston (Photograph)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Regiment not known, but probably Royal Artillery by Cap Badge. He commented that he worked on Gun Carriages. After the war he emigrated to Canada. He was born in Kirk Street, Bolton in 1891 and married to Catherine O'Connor from Middlesborough. Before the war he served in the Territorials. He died in Ontario, Canada in October 1954 aged 63.
Before the Bricks and Mortar: A Case Study of a New Generation Cooperative’s Planning Process
Creators: name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Kenkel, Philip L.
name: Holcomb, Rodney B.
name: Kenkel, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: market entry strategies
subject: “matrix” assessment
subject: new generation cooperative
subject: strategic planning

description: To generate additional income for their members, many cooperatives consider forward integrating into processing activities. However, many market, industry, and economic issues must be considered before choosing a value-added processing activity to pursue. Gathering the necessary information to evaluate various processing opportunities is a considerable undertaking and may require the expertise of university personnel, economic development specialists, and possibly professional consultants. Using an Oklahoma new generation cooperative case study, this paper outlines a market assessment process for value-added ventures.
Surface Green's functions and quasiparticle interference in Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Pinon, Sarah
name: Kaladzhyan, Vardan
name: Bena, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the exact analytical technique introduced in Phys. Rev. B 101, 115405 to recover the surface Green's functions and the corresponding Fermi-arc surface states for various lattice models of Weyl semimetals. For these models we use the T-matrix formalism to calculate the quasiparticle interference patterns generated in the presence of impurity scattering. In particular, we consider the models introduced in Phys. Rev. B 93, 041109(R) (A) and Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 076801 (B), and we find that, as opposed to observations previously obtained via joint density of states and spin-dependent scattering probability, the inter-arc scattering in the quasiparticle interference features is fully suppressed in model A, and very small in model B. Our findings indicate that these models may not correctly describe materials such as MoTe2, since for such materials inter-arc scattering is clearly visible experimentally, e.g., in Nature Phys. 12, 1105-1110 (2016). We also focus on the minimal models proposed by McCormick et al. in Phys. Rev. B 95, 075133, which indeed recover significant inter-arc scattering features.
Asymmetry parameter for nonmesonic hypernuclear decay
Creators: name: Barbero, Cesar
name: Galeao, Alfredo P.
name: Krmpotic, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive general explicit expressions for a shell-model calculation of the intrinsic asymmetry parameter, $a_Λ$, in nonmesonic weak hypernuclear decay. They include the effects of three-body kinematics in the final states of the decay and correctly treat the contribution of transitions originating from single-proton states beyond the s-shell. The expressions are particularized to the cases of $^5_Λ$He and $^{12}_Λ$C and used for the calculation of $a_Λ$ in several one-meson-exchange models. Besides the strictly local approximation usually adopted for the transition potential, we also consider the addition of the first-order nonlocality terms. We find values for $a_Λ$ ranging from -0.62 to -0.24, in qualitative agreement with other theoretical estimates but in contradiction with some recent experimental determinations.
description: RevTex, 10 pages, 1 figure, submitted for publication. v2: 16 pages, 1 correction made, more detail and 4 appendices added, numerical results and conclusions unchanged
title: The capture, release and recapture of occupational health and safety
Creators: name: Arthur, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: This study will observe the British state’s capture, release and recapture of occupational health and safety (OHS). The state incrementally ‘captured’ OHS via the passing of the nineteenth-century factories acts. The state developed new forms of intervention that grew in scope and ambition. However, such growth was problematic; the state gradually became overloaded by the accumulation of factories acts. Correspondingly, the state observed a surge of voluntary initiatives to prevent workplace accidents. Motivated by these developments, the state ‘released’ some of its responsibilities to non-departmental public bodies and non-state actors through the enactment of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The ‘release’ facilitated a network of non-departmental public bodies and non-state actors to expand and develop into a formidable OHS network. However, within just a few years of its existence, the OHS network was confronted by successive governments that sought to limit its autonomy and ‘recapture’ OHS.
Geometrical Statistics--Classical and Quantum
Creators: name: Bengtsson, Ingemar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a review of the ideas behind the Fisher--Rao metric on classical probability distributions, and how they generalize to metrics on density matrices. As is well known, the unique Fisher--Rao metric then becomes a large family of monotone metrics. Finally I focus on the Bures--Uhlmann metric, and discuss a recent result that connects the geometric operator mean to a geodesic billiard on the set of density matrices.
description: Talk at the third Vaxjo conference on Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of foundations