cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainability of greening measures by Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020 in new climate scenarios in a Mediterranean area
Creators: name: Cortignani, Raffaele
name: Dono, Gabriele
name: Cortignani, Raffaele
name: Dono, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: greening measures
subject: agricultural supply analysis
subject: mathematical programming
subject: sustainability

description: Sustainable management of natural resources and climate action together form one of the three objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014–2020. They are addressed by replacing the existing direct payments under Pillar 1 with a basic payment topped up by an additional payment conditional on farmers undertaking “agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment”, under a policy referred to as greening. In this study, the impact of greening was assessed using a Discrete Stochastic Programming model that describes the farm production in a Mediterranean agricultural area in different climate scenarios. The results show that greening is not beneficial throughout the study area. Some farm types are particularly affected because of the recent price increase for maize silage for biogas. However, greening appears to have a positive impact on chemical use, particularly nitrogen. The application of the measures greening in the current climate scenario seems to have a more significant impact respect to the future climate scenario.
Cyclochlamydidae Dijkstra & Maestrati 2012
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Henk H.
name: Beu, Alan G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Cyclochlamydidae

description: Key to genera of Cyclochlamydidae occurring in Australia   1 Shell small, triangular prodissoconch on lv, smooth or radially and/or commarginally sculptured on lv, rv with hexagonal microstructure................................................................................................................. Cyclochlamys
—— Shell small with a weakly inflated prodissoconch on lv........................................................... 2
 2 Shell smooth or radially and/or commarginally sculptured on lv, many specimens posteriorly oblique, rv with hexagonal microstructure................................................................................................................... Chlamydella
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), pp. 113-330 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670, http://zenodo.org/record/5299017
Governance of Ecosystem Services: insights from Life+ Making Good Natura project
Creators: name: Marino, Davide
name: Gaglioppa, Pierluca
name: Schirpke, Uta
name: Guadagno, Rossella
name: Marucci, Angelo
name: Palmieri, Margherita
name: Pellegrino, Davide
name: Gusmerotti, Natalia
name: Marino, Davide
name: Gaglioppa, Pierluca
name: Schirpke, Uta
name: Guadagno, Rossella
name: Marucci, Angelo
name: Palmieri, Margherita
name: Pellegrino, Davide
name: Gusmerotti, Natalia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Natura 2000 network
subject: ecosystem services
subject: PES
subject: local communities
subject: governance
subject: management
subject: natural resources
subject: protected area

description: The Natura 2000 network is the cornerstone of EU Biodiversity Strategy aimed at halting the loss of biodiversity and services natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide to human populations. The Member States are mainly responsible to implement conservation strategies through management plans and conservation measures, but in many cases the level of development and execution of these instruments is very low due to scarce financial resources, and management effectiveness is rarely achieved. This paper presents first insights from Life+ Making Good Natura (MGN) project and highlights costs and benefits associated to 2 out of 21 Natura 2000 study sites in Italy in order to define the basis for a new governance approach relied on the qualitative and quantitative valuation of ecosystem services (ES) and suitable for reaching management effectiveness. To date, the habitat cover of the agro-forest sites and socio-economic data for the core area and a buffer zone of 20 km, gathered through questionnaires to management authority, have been analyzed. After mapping and assessing the most important ES for each site based on spatial data and on the information from the questionnaires, meetings with local public and private stakeholders were organized in order to discuss the identified ES and their social and economic importance for the area. Preliminary results suggest that quantification of costs related to the Natura 2000 network is a crucial point within a systematic approach to environmental accountability that allows to measure and assess management bodies’ management strategy effectiveness and efficiency and to redefine Natura 2000 sites conservation priorities. Furthermore, in a general context of stagnant and uncertain funding for biodiversity conservation, also the need of defining a wide range of governance and management tools, referring to the policy mix instruments, seems urgent.
Reinforcement learning for optimal error correction of toric codes
Creators: name: Colomer, Laia Domingo
name: Skotiniotis, Michalis
name: Muñoz-Tapia, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply deep reinforcement learning techniques to design high threshold decoders for the toric code under uncorrelated noise. By rewarding the agent only if the decoding procedure preserves the logical states of the toric code, and using deep convolutional networks for the training phase of the agent, we observe near-optimal performance for uncorrelated noise around the theoretically optimal threshold of 11%. We observe that, by and large, the agent implements a policy similar to that of minimum weight perfect matchings even though no bias towards any policy is given a priori.
description: v2: includes more details on teh Reinforcement learning algorithm used as well as the parameters of the neural network, and training phase of the agent
Poverty Exit and Entry in Poor Villages in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Yumei
name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Chen, Kevin
name: Diao, Xinshen
name: Zhang, Yumei
name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Chen, Kevin
name: Diao, Xinshen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: poverty dynamics
subject: hazard model
subject: China
subject: lagging region

description: Rapid economic growth in China’s booming regions has left other areas of the country lagging behind. We shed light on the poverty dynamics of one such region by analyzing a census-like survey of three administrative villages of Guizhou province in 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011. While the absolute poverty rate is decreasing sharply in the sample, households are highly vulnerable to shocks, and rates of entry or re-entry into poverty are high. Using logistic regression and multivariate a hazard model, we look for the determinants of both poverty exit and entry. We find that poverty entry and exit are both related to household characteristics, assets, and social capital. Rural-urban migration strongly increases the probability of poverty exit, while poverty entry is associated with disease and some major life events. Our results also point to informal networks and government transfers as means of poverty alleviation, and highlight the importance of smart targeting.
valuta asing dan pasar uang internasional
Creators: name: Evit Surya Saputra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: valuta asing
uang internasional

description: Pasar uang adalah keseluruhan permintaan dan penawaran danadana atau surat-surat berharga yang mempunyai jangka waktu satu tahun atau kurang dari satu tahun dan dapat disalurkan melalui lembaga-lembaga perbankan. Di pasar uang ini diperjualbelikan instrumen kredit jangka pendek. Kredit yang dimaksud bisa berupa kredit harian (0n Call), kredit bulanan ( Prolongasi ) maupun kredit tiga bulanan (Belening). Adanya pasar uang ini beranjak dari kondisi prekonomian dunia yang tidak stabil, bahkan telah terjadinya krisis moneter secara global, sehinga timbullah pemikiran untuk diadakannya sistem simpan pinjam, kredit baik jangka pendek maupun jangka panjang seperti SBI, SBPU, SUN, Repurchase Agrement, dan diharapkan dapat membantu di saat krisis moneter. Pasar uang adalah keseluruhan permintaan dan penawaran danadana atau surat-surat berharga yang mempunyai jangka waktu satu tahun atau kurang dari satu tahun dan dapat disalurkan melalui lembaga-lembaga perbankan. Di pasar uang ini diperjualbelikan instrumen kredit jangka pendek. Kredit yang dimaksud bisa berupa kredit harian (0n Call), kredit bulanan ( Prolongasi ) maupun kredit tiga bulanan (Belening). Adanya pasar uang ini beranjak dari kondisi prekonomian dunia yang tidak stabil, bahkan telah terjadinya krisis moneter secara global, sehinga timbullah pemikiran untuk diadakannya sistem simpan pinjam, kredit baik jangka pendek maupun jangka panjang seperti SBI, SBPU, SUN, Repurchase Agrement, dan diharapkan dapat membantu di saat krisis moneter.
Multiple perfectly-transmitting states of a single-level at strong coupling
Creators: name: Jussiau, Étienne
name: Whitney, Robert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transport through a single-level system placed between two reservoirs with band-structure, taking strong level-reservoir coupling of the order of the energy-scales of these band-structures. An exact solution in the absence of interactions gives the nonlinear Lamb shift. As expected, this moves the perfectly-transmitting state (the reservoir state that flows through the single-level without reflection), and can even turn it into a bound-state. However, here we show that it can also create additional pairs of perfectly-transmitting states at other energies, when the coupling exceeds critical values. Then the single-level's transmission function resembles that of a multi-level system. Even when the discrete level is outside the reservoirs' bands, additional perfectly-transmitting states can appear inside the band when the coupling exceeds a critical value. We propose observing the bosonic version of this in microwave cavities, and the fermionic version in the conductance of a quantum dot coupled to 1D or 2D reservoirs.
description: Published version plus extra appendices (9 pages with 6 figures)
Steady State Behavior of Mechanically Perturbed Spin Glasses and Ferromagnets
Creators: name: Dean, David S.
name: Lefèvre, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A zero temperature dynamics of Ising spin glasses and ferromagnets on random graphs of finite connectivity is considered, like granular media these systems have an extensive entropy of metastable states. We consider the problem of what energy a randomly prepared spin system falls to before becoming stuck in a metastable state. We then introduce a tapping mechanism, analogous to that of real experiments on granular media, this tapping, corresponding to flipping simultaneously any spin with probability $p$, leads to stationary regime with a steady state energy $E(p)$. We explicitly solve this problem for the one dimensional ferromagnet and $\pm J$ spin glass and carry out extensive numerical simulations for spin systems of higher connectivity. The link with the density of metastable states at fixed energy and the idea of Edwards that one may construct a thermodynamics with a flat measure over metastable states is discussed. In addition our simulations on the ferromagnetic systems reveal a novel first order transition, whereas the usual thermodynamic transition on these graphs is second order.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Anguipecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder 1938
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Henk H.
name: Beu, Alan G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Anguipecten

description: Key to species of Anguipecten from Australia
 1 Shell c. 50 mm high, lv flat and rv weakly inflated, auricles short and almost equal, 12–14 primary radial plicae, secondary radial riblets on ribs and interstices, byssal notch shallow, byssal fasciol lacking, ctenolium weakly developed......................................................... A. picturatus
—— Shell with 8 primary radial plicae............................................................................................. 2
 2 Shell c. 37 mm high, lv flat and rv weakly inflated, auricles almost equal, 8 primary radial plicae, secondary radial riblets in late growth stage on lirae and interstices, byssal notch distinct, byssal fasciole weak, ctenolium rudimentary........................................................... A. simoneae
—— Shell with 20–25 primary radial plicae...................................................................................... 3
 3 Shell c. 70 mm high, valves weakly inflated, auricles short and almost equal, 20-25 obsolete primary radial plicae, byssal notch and byssal fasciole almost lacking in adult stage, ctenolium rudimentary.............................................................................................. A. superbus
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), pp. 113-330 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2) on page 177, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670, http://zenodo.org/record/5299017
Assessment of Sustainable Production in rural areas
Creators: name: Chatzinikolaou, Parthena
name: Manos, Basil D.
name: Kiomourtzi, Fedra
name: Chatzinikolaou, Parthena
name: Manos, Basil D.
name: Kiomourtzi, Fedra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: sustainable planning
subject: multicriteria analysis
subject: optimization of agricultural production

description: This paper presents a model for sustainable planning and optimization of agricultural production. The model is a mathematical programming model, based on multicriteria techniques, and is used as a tool for the analysis and simulation of agricultural production plans, as well as for the study of impacts of the various policies in agriculture. The model can achieve the optimum production plan of an agricultural region combining in one utility function different conflicting criteria as the maximization of gross margin and the minimization of fertilizers used, under a set of constraints for land, labour, available capital, common agricultural policy etc. The proposed model was applied to the region of Thessaly, in central Greece. In all prefectures, the optimum production plan achieves greater gross return, les fertilizers use, and less irrigated water use than the existent production plan.
Estimating Food Quality from Trade Data: An Empirical Assessment
Creators: name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Pacca, Lucia
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Pacca, Lucia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Quality estimates
subject: Nested logit
subject: Food products
subject: International trade.

description: Recent developments in international trade theory give growing emphasis to the quality of the exported products, showing that it affects both the direction of trade and the countries’ export performances. However, as quality is unobservable, a measurement problem clearly emerges. In this paper we measure product quality relying on a nested logit demand structure developed by Berry (1994) and then applied to trade data by Khandelwal (2010). Our main goal is to investigate the reliability and the properties of the estimated qualities, focusing on the EU food sector, where the growing attention on quality and safety issues is leading to an increase in the demand for high quality products. Main results give credence to the accuracy of the quality estimates, which display some interesting properties. Indeed, the quality rankings we draw are in line with the expectations, and quality growth proves to be strongly correlated with TFP growth. Moreover, results reveal that the competitive strategy of countries (high-quality vs. low-price) tends to change when moving from OECDs to non-OECDs. Finally, we provide evidence that the quality and price components of export unit values behave differently when testing their relationship with trade costs.
Additional file 1 of An Italian individual-level data study investigating on the association between air pollution exposure and Covid-19 severity in primary-care setting
Creators: name: Pegoraro, Valeria
name: Heiman, Franca
name: Levante, Antonella
name: Urbinati, Duccio
name: Peduto, Ilaria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. Table 1S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia. Sensitivity analysis with PM10 exposure assessed during the 14-day period preceding the Index Date (i.e., date of first Covid-19 registration). Table 2S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia. Sensitivity analysis with PM10 exposure assessed during the 7-day period preceding the Index Date (i.e., date of first Covid-19 registration). Table 3S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia in men. Table 4S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia in women. Table 5S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia in 65 years younger subjects. Table 6S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia in subjects aged ≥65 years. Table 7S – Estimates from the multiple mixed-effect logistic regression model evaluating the likelihood of experiencing pneumonia in never smoking subjects.
Maximal nonassociativity via fields
Creators: name: Lisonek, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We say that $(x,y,z)\in Q^3$ is an associative triple in a quasigroup $Q(*)$ if $(x*y)*z=x*(y*z)$. Let $a(Q)$ denote the number of associative triples in $Q$. It is easy to show that $a(Q)\ge |Q|$, and we call the quasigroup maximally nonassociative if $a(Q)= |Q|$. It was conjectured that maximally nonassociative quasigroups do not exist when $|Q|>1$. Drápal and Lisoněk recently refuted this conjecture by proving the existence of maximally nonassociative quasigroups for a certain infinite set of orders $|Q|$. In this paper we prove the existence of maximally nonassociative quasigroups for a much larger set of orders $|Q|$. Our main tools are finite fields and the Weil bound on quadratic character sums. Unlike in the previous work, our results are to a large extent constructive.
description: 13 pages. Minor editorial changes
Even-odd parity effects in conductance and shot noise of metal-atomic wire-metal(superconducting) junctions
Creators: name: Kim, Tae-Suk
name: Hershfield, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the conductance and shot noise in transport through a multi-site system in a two terminal configuration. The dependence of the transport on the number of atoms in the atomic wire is investigated using a tight-binding Hamiltonian and the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In addition to reproducing the even-odd behavior in the transmission probability at the Fermi energy or the linear response conductance in the normal-atomic wire-normal metallic(NAN) junctions, we find the following: (i) The shot noise is larger in the even-numbered atomic wire than in the odd-numbered wire. (ii) The Andreev conductance displays the same even-odd parity effects in the normal-atomic wire-superconducting(NAS) junctions. In general, the conductance is higher in the odd-numbered atomic wire than in the even-numbered wire. When the number of sites ($N$) is odd and the atomic wire is mirror symmetric with respect to the center of the atomic wire, the conductance does not depend on the details of the hopping matrices in the atomic wire, but is solely determined by the coupling strength to the two leads. When $N$ is even, the conductance is sensitive to the values of the hopping matrices.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
The dust effects on galaxy scaling relations
Creators: name: Pastrav, Bogdan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate galaxy scaling relations are essential for a successful model of galaxy formation and evolution as they provide direct information about the physical mechanisms of galaxy assembly over cosmic time. We present here a detailed analysis of a sample of nearby spiral galaxies taken from the KINGFISH survey. The photometric parameters of the morphological components are obtained from bulge-disk decompositions using GALFIT data analysis algorithm, with surface photometry of the sample done beforehand. Dust opacities are determined using a previously discovered correlation between the central face-on dust opacity of the disk and the stellar mass surface density. The method and the library of numerical results previously obtained are used to correct the measured photometric and structural parameteres for projection (inclination), dust and decomposition effects in order to derive their intrinsic values. Galaxy disk scaling relations are then presented, both the measured (observed) and the intrinsic (corrected) ones, in the optical regime, to show the scale of the biases introduced by the aforementioned effects. The slopes of the size-luminosity relations and the dust vs stellar mass are in agreement with values found in other works. We derive mean dust optical depth and dust/stellar mass ratios of the sample, which we find to be consistent with previous studies of nearby spiral galaxies. While our sample is rather small, it is sufficient to quantify the influence of galaxy environment (dust, in this case) when deriving scaling relations.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, and 16 additional Appendix pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS (February 12)
Agricultural Production under Climate Change: The Potential Impacts of Shifting Regional Water Balances in the U.S.
Creators: name: Marshall, Liz
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Malcolm, Scott A.
name: Williams, Ryan
name: Marshall, Liz
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Malcolm, Scott A.
name: Williams, Ryan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: climate change
subject: adaptation
subject: agriculture
subject: irrigation shortage
subject: water resources
subject: Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming (REAP) model
subject: regional crop production

description: General circulation models predict significant and accelerating changes in local patterns of precipitation and temperature over the next century. The vulnerability of agriculture to climate change will depend on both the biophysical impacts of climate change on crop yields and on the agricultural system’s ability to adapt to changing production conditions. Shifts in the extent and distribution of irrigated and dryland production are a potentially important adaptation response. Farmer flexibility to adapt may be limited, however, by changing availability of irrigation water under future climate conditions. This study uses a suite of models to explore the biophysical and economic impacts of climate change on U.S. fieldcrop production under several potential future climate projections, and the potential limits and opportunities for adaptation arising from shifting regional water balances. Study findings suggest that the impacts of irrigation shortage on cropland use vary by region but that the net impacts on national production of surface-water irrigation shortages attributable to climate change are small relative to the direct biophysical impacts of climate change on yield.
Antibody-dependent enhancement of ORFV uptake into host cells
Creators: name: Tang, Xidian
name: Zhang, Chenyibo
name: Geng, Qingru
name: Chen, Dekun
name: Ma, Wentao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Orf virus (ORFV) has been demonstrated to infect both goat non-immune cells, specifically goat epithelial cells, and goat blood immune cells. Our previous studies have indicated that ORFV gains entry into goat epithelial cells via clathrin-mediated endocytosis and macropinocytosis pathways. However, the pathway by which ORFV enters goat blood immune cells has not yet been elucidated. Our findings revealed a differential viral internalization pathway in ORFV-infects goat immune cells contrasting the internalization pathways in goat epithelial cells, potentially involving an antibody-related mechanism. Therefore, our hypothesis posits that ORFV gains entry into goat immune cells via the antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) pathway. Our experimental findings confirm the presence of the ADE effect in ORFV-infected goat immune cells, mediated by Fc receptors (FcRs) as demonstrated in antibody-blocking experiments. Furthermore, the ADE effect was also observed in goat epithelial cells. Nevertheless, the ADE effect observed in goat epithelial cells was not found to be dependent on the interaction between the virus-antibody complex and Fc receptors, as demonstrated by antibody-blocking experiments. Instead, it is suggested that an alternative mechanism involving the complement factor and complement receptors (CRs) may be responsible. Overall, this research offers insights into the unique ADE pathway of ORFV infection in different cell types, offering a novel perspective on the infection and pathogenic mechanisms of ORFV.
The Complexity of Flow Expansion and Electrical Flow Expansion
Creators: name: Wagner, Dorothea
name: Wolf, Matthias
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2021

description: FlowExpansion is a network design problem, in which the input consists of a flow network and a set of candidate edges, which may be added to the network. Adding a candidate incurs given costs. The goal is to determine the cheapest set of candidate edges that, if added, allow the demands to be satisfied. FlowExpansion is a variant of the Minimum-Cost Flow problem with non-linear edge costs. We study FlowExpansion for both graph-theoretical and electrical flow networks. In the latter case this problem is also known as the Transmission Network Expansion Planning problem. We give a structured view over the complexity of the variants of FlowExpansion that arise from restricting, e.g., the graph classes, the capacities, or the number of sources and sinks. Our goal is to determine which restrictions have a crucial impact on the computational complexity. The results in this paper range from polynomial-time algorithms for the more restricted variants over NP-hardness proofs to proofs that certain variants are NP-hard to approximate even within a logarithmic factor of the optimal solution.
Supplementary File 2 of publication "Interoperable nanosafety data using semantic modeling and linked data knowledge graphs"
Creators: name: Ammar, Ammar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary File 2 of publication "Interoperable nanosafety data using semantic modeling and linked data knowledge graphs"

Results of a federated SPARQL query integrating NanoLinks-KG nanomaterial types with adverse outcomes from AOP-Wiki.
Thermodynamically consistent space-time discretization of non-isothermal mechanical systems in the framework of GENERIC
Creators: name: Schiebl, Mark Georg
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: Strukturerhaltende Raum-Zeit Integration
GENERIC
Molekulardynamik
Thermo-Viskoelastizität
Finite Elemente Methode

description: The present work addresses the design of structure-preserving numerical methods that emanate from the general equation for non-equilibrium reversible-irreversible coupling (GENERIC) formalism. Novel energy-momentum (EM) consistent time-stepping schemes in the realm of molecular dynamics are proposed. Moreover, the GENERIC-based structure-preserving numerical methods are extended to the context of large-strain thermoelasticity and thermo-viscoelasticity.
Cost-of-illness analysis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) management in the Philippines
Creators: name: Villanueva, Anthony Russell
name: de Leon, Donnah
name: Encarnacion, Patrick James
name: Cunanan, Elaine
name: Estabillo, Amor Patrice
name: Gonzales, Christianne Jade
name: Kimwell, Miharu Jay
name: Mallari-Catungal, Marizel
name: Taneo, Mary Joy
name: Tan-Lim, Dianne Danielle
name: Tiongco, Richard Henry Perlas
name: Togonon-Leaño, Jennifer Ivy
name: De Lara-Valenzona, Maria Rhodora
name: Yu, Danny
name: Crisostomo, Arlene Cabotaje
name: Montilla, Precious Juzenda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: To conduct the first comprehensive cost-of-illness analysis for chronic kidney disease (CKD) management in the Philippines, estimating direct medical, direct non-medical, and indirect costs across all disease stages and renal replacement therapies (RRT). A combined top-down and bottom-up quantitative approach was employed. Cost data were collected through facility surveys, literature reviews, and expert panel input. The analysis included cost estimated for both non-diabetic and diabetic CKD scenarios across all stages and RRT modalities. Direct medical costs, transportation costs, and productivity losses were calculated for each CKD stage and RRT option. Annual costs for CKD management increased progressively with disease advancement, ranging from PHP 44,610.36 to PHP 116,590.24 for non-diabetic patients and PHP 46,451.88 to PHP 120,948.12 for diabetic patients, excluding complication-related expenses. Significant cost increases were observed between stages G2–G3a and G3b–G4. Analysis of RRT showed comparable annual direct medical costs across modalities (∼PHP 401,000–560,000), with differences primarily observed in annual direct non-medical and indirect costs, which were lower in transplant recipients compared to patients on maintenance dialysis (PHP 37,920–246,480 for dialysis; PHP 3,160 for KT recipients). The study primarily focused on urban and semi-urban healthcare facilities, potentially limiting generalizability to rural areas. Long-term cost trajectories and quality-of-life measures were not captured due to the cross-sectional nature of the data. This analysis provides crucial evidence supporting early detection and intervention strategies in CKD management. It suggests the promotion of peritoneal dialysis as a cost-effective first-line therapy and highlights the long-term economic benefits of kidney transplantation. The findings have significant implications for health policy and clinical practice in the Philippines, offering a foundation for evidence-informed decision-making to improve CKD management sustainability and patient outcomes.
Dynamical systems methods and statefinder diagnostic of interacting vacuum energy models
Creators: name: Panotopoulos, Grigoris
name: Rincon, Angel
name: Videla, Nelson
name: Otalora, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study three interacting dark energy models within the framework of four-dimensional General Relativity and a spatially flat Universe. In particular, we first consider two vacuum models where dark energy interacts with dark matter, while relativistic matter as well as baryons are treated as non-interacting fluid components. Secondly, we investigate a third model where the gravitational coupling is assumed to be a slowly-varying function of the Hubble rate and dark energy and dark matter interact as well. We compute the statefinders parameters versus red-shift as well as the critical points and their nature applying dynamical systems methods. In the case of only an interaction term, our main findings indicate that i) significant differences between the models are observed as we increase the strength of the interaction term, and ii) all the models present an unique attractor corresponding to acceleration. On the other hand, when we allow for a variable gravitational coupling, we find that i) the deviation from the concordance model depends of both the strength of gravitational coupling parameter and the interaction term, and ii) there is an unique attractor corresponding to acceleration.
description: Revised version, accepted for publication in EPJC
Additional file 1 of The role of undergraduate medical students training in respect for patient confidentiality
Creators: name: Beltran-Aroca, Cristina M
name: Ruiz-Montero, Rafael
name: Labella, Fernando
name: Girela-López, Eloy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Mesopeplum Iredale 1929
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Henk H.
name: Beu, Alan G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Mesopeplum

description: Mesopeplum Iredale, 1929
 Mesopeplum Iredale, 1929: 162. Type species (by original designation): Mesopeplum caroli Iredale, 1929 (= Chlamys fenestrata Hedley, 1901); Recent, New South Wales, Australia.
 Dendopecten Hertlein, 1936: 26. Type species (by original designation): Pecten dendyi Hutton, 1902; early Pliocene, Momoe-a-toa Shellbed, Chatham Island, New Zealand.
 Diagnosis. Mesopeplini with weakly subdivided radial plicae or costae on large radial plicae (five plicae in many species); left valve flat to weakly convex, right valve strongly convex; pre-radial dissoconch with reticulate commarginal and antimarginal microsculpture; radially sculptured area of disc with widely spaced commarginal lamellae; internal rib carinae prominent near ventral margin; resilial teeth prominent early in ontogeny but weak or absent in late ontogeny; ctenolium obsolete or almost so in late ontogeny in some species, functional in others.
 Distribution. Late Eocene–Recent. New Zealand, temperate Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and southern Queensland, living in the littoral to bathyal zones on soft sediment.
 For fossil records see Beu & Maxwell (1990), Beu (1995) and Beu & Darragh (2001). The holotype of Mesopeplum polymorphoides (Zittel, 1865) (Beu et al., 2012: fig. 11B) from Glen Massey Formation at Waikato South Head, southwest Auckland, is early Whaingaroan in age, and so late Eocene (Priabonian). Also, a specimen of a typical Mesopeplum species collected by Prof. T. Kotaka from the Point Elizabeth section, north of Greymouth, Westland (IGPS96853) is Kaiatan or Runangan in age (Bartonian– Priabonian). Mesopeplum definitely occurs in late Eocene rocks in New Zealand, although suitable facies for it apparently are rare.
 Discussion. Hertlein (1969, p. N366) treated Mesopeplum and its supposed junior synonym Notochlamys Cotton, 1930 as a subgenus of Semipallium Jousseaume in Lamy, 1928, placed in the Decatopecten group. Currently Mesopeplum and Notochlamys are considered to be valid genera (Waller, 1991) with different ancestries. Mesopeplum was placed in Mesopeplini by Waller (2006a) whereas Notochlamys is retained in Pedini.
 Figure 28. Distribution of Mesopeplum fenestratum (Hedley).
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), pp. 113-330 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2) on page 173, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670, http://zenodo.org/record/5299017
Education as a basic characteristic of sociocultural stratification
Creators: name: Reshetnikov, Ivan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: In this paper, we will consider education as a factor influencing the way of life, embodied in value orientations, within the framework of sociocultural stratification. Education is an important factor in the socio-cultural stratification of society, primarily because it determines the value orientations of the representatives of the stratum, and is also an important resource for the development of society.
Bractechlamys Iredale 1939
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Henk H.
name: Beu, Alan G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Bractechlamys

description: Bractechlamys Iredale, 1939
 Bractechlamys Iredale, 1939: 366. Type species (by original designation): Bractechlamys evecta Iredale, 1939 (= Pecten vexillum Reeve, 1853). Recent, 0.5 ml SE of Lizard Island, QLD, 19 fathoms [35 m]; widespread in tropical western Pacific.
 Diagnosis. Decatopectinini with 8–15 primary radial plicae, some species with nodules on plicae; with secondary radial riblets; shape oblong to subcircular; with prominent intermediate teeth, a relatively deep byssal notch, prominent costae on auricles, and an obsolete ctenolium.
 Distribution. Recent. Tropical Indo-West Pacific and eastern Atlantic, living in the littoral to sublittoral zones amongst coral rubble on soft sediment.
 Discussion. Grau (1959: 120) and subsequently Hertlein (1969: N366) treated Bractechlamys, together with Comptopallium Iredale, 1939 and Complicachlamys Iredale, 1939, as junior synonyms of Semipallium Jousseaume in Lamy, 1928 in the Decatopecten group. Waller (1972a: 245) pointed out that Semipallium has reticulate (“shagreen”) microsculpture, lacking on Bractechlamys and its relatives, and belongs in tribe Pedini. At present Bractechlamys is treated as a valid genus, placed in Decatopectinini by Waller (1986: 40).
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), pp. 113-330 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2) on page 181, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670, http://zenodo.org/record/5299017
What explains price volatility changes in commodity markets? Answers from the world palm-oil market*
Creators: name: Voituriez, Tancrede
name: Voituriez, Tancrede
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: Price insurance
subject: Volatility
subject: Commodity market
subject: Chaotic dynamics

description: What are the sources of commodity price volatility changes? Based on observation of the palm-oil market (1818-1999), our hypothesis is that the superimposition of short-distance operators located near the export supply, whose expectation horizon is limited to a few weeks, and long-distance operators further from the export supply, whose expectation horizon exceeds six months to one year, is responsible for volatility changes and market instability. Because of the superimposition of expectations horizons, volatility grows along with the development of short-distance trade. We support this hypothesis using a trader-behavior model derived from Day and Huang [J. Econ. Behavior Org. 14 (1990) 299] and Day [Complex Economic Dynamics, Vol. I. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA]. Our simulation results challenge the argument that trade liberalization and market enlargement necessarily reduce commodity prices volatility.© 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Additional file 1 of Impact of systematic screening for AmpC-hyperproducing Enterobacterales intestinal carriage in intensive care unit patients
Creators: name: Manquat, Elsa
name: Dorze, Matthieu Le
name: De Ponfilly, Gauthier Pean
name: Benmansour, Hanaa
name: Rishma Amarsy
name: Cambau, Emmanuelle
name: Soyer, Benjamin
name: Chousterman, Benjamin Glenn
name: Jacquier, Hervé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary table 1a. Prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E) in intestinal carriage screening and respiratory samples paired by patients. Supplementary table 1b. Prevalence of Enterobacterales producing AmpC cephalosporinase (HLAC-E) in intestinal respiratory samples paired by patients. Supplementary table 1b. Prevalence of Enterobacterales producing AmpC cephalosporinase (HLAC-E) in intestinal cephalosporins (3GCR-E) in intestinal carriage screening and respiratory samples paired by patients.
Patterns of responses in time trade-off studies: a latent class analysis of health states worse than dead
Creators: name: Smith, Adam B.
name: Mealing, Stuart
name: Joseph, Andria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The study was to characterize participant responses in a time trade-off (TTO) task involving states worse than dead (WTD) to determine patterns of congruence and incongruence. The online TTO task involved 4 hypothetical health states describing a rare paediatric condition. Participants completed the task from a parental perspective with a 10-year time horizon. Mean health utilities were derived for the health states (HS). Congruence patterns were defined a priori as “perfect”, i.e. completely logical sequence of health state utilities, “incongruent”, reversal of the most and least severe HS utilities, and “mixed” congruence. A multinomial regression and latent class analysis (LCA) were applied to elucidate congruence patterns. A total of 322 participants completed the TTO (49% females; average age 43 years). Perfect congruence response patterns were observed in only 11.5% (37) participants; 99 participants (30.8%) had incongruent response patterns and 186 (57.8%) a mixture. Two (most severe) HS were rated WTD by the “mixed”, but only one HS was rated WTD by the “perfect” congruence group, who rated the other 3 HS better than dead. The multinomial regression identified age and gender as potential factors influencing congruence patterns; the most impactful factor was the number of stated rated WTD. The LCA was not able to identify a single class of perfectly congruent responders. This online TTO did not allow further exploration of individual choices through post-task participant interviews. Facets of TTO tasks such as states WTD may introduce an additional cognitive burden on participants and impact on congruence. However, incongruence was observed even within ostensibly perfectly congruent responses; conversely incongruent response patterns showed some internal coherence. Removing the latter in favour of the former may therefore also introduce bias. A balance may need to be struck between sacrificing perfect congruence and the inclusion of some incongruence to achieve greater representativeness of health state utilities.
Bractechlamys Iredale 1939
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Henk H.
name: Beu, Alan G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Bractechlamys

description: Key to species of Bractechlamys from Australia
 1 Shell c. 30 mm high, amost circular, valves nearly equal, rv slightly more inflated than lv, 11–13 radial ribs, byssal notch moderately deep, byssal fasciole narrow, ctenolium with 3–4 teeth................................................ B. oweni
—— Shell oblong, with 9–11 radial plicae........................................................................................ 2
 2 Shell c. 60 mm high, oblong, valves inflated and almost equally convex, 9–11 radial plicae, secondary radial riblets in late growth stage, byssal notch shallow, byssal fasciole moderately wide, ctenolium laking or rudimentary in adult stage............................................... B. vexillum
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), pp. 113-330 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2) on page 182, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670, http://zenodo.org/record/5299017
Supernarrow Dibaryons
Creators: name: Fil'kov, L. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis of the experimental search for supernarrow dibaryons (SNDs) have been performed. The sum rules for SND masses have been constructed. The calculated values of the SND masses are in good agreement with the existing experimental values. It has been shown that the SND decay leads to the formation of N* with small masses. Experimental observations of N* is an additional confirmation of the possibility of the SND existence.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures. Journal version with corrected typos