cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE ROLE OF FORECASTING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ISSUES AT ENTERPRISES OF THE MINERALS SECTOR IN THE CONTEXT OF NEW CHALLENGES AND THREATS
Creators: name: Tseytlin, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2022
Subjects: forecasting
environmental risk
threats and challenges
environmental engineering tasks
minerals sector enterprises

description: The paper outlines the principal threats and challenges that are facing the minerals sector of Russia and the world, including the EU carbon tax, ban on imports of certain products in different countries of the world (for instance, on asbestos-containing products and high-sulphur and high-ash coals), shortage of land in mining countries, and/or changes in land planning regulations. These threats and challenges are considered in their relationship with environmental safety issues at mines and in mining areas. Related environmental engineering tasks are examined. The role of forecasting in the accomplishment of these tasks and in environmental risk reduction is highlighted. The author proposes a systemic eco-technological approach to effective comprehensive forecasting of mining area’s environment quality.
Environmental Regulation Stringency and U.S. Agriculture
Creators: name: Abayateye, F.
name: Skolrud, T.
name: Galinato, G.
name: Abayateye, F.
name: Skolrud, T.
name: Galinato, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: To understand the likely impact of federal policies on nonpoint agricultural water pollution, we require a robust measure of state-level environmental regulation stringency. The objective of this paper is to derive and characterize state level environmental regulation stringency across states and over time. We compute a measure of environmental regulation stringency for the agricultural sector from 1960-2004 by calculating the shadow price of polluting inputs. We find evidence suggesting an increase in regulation stringency across all regions over the sample period, with the exception of the corn belt region, which has decreased in stringency. With few exceptions, regions of the U.S. with the highest proportion of farms see the lowest levels of regulation stringency. Acknowledgement :
THE ROLE OF STUDYING TECTONIC FACTORS IN REDUCING THE RISKS OF EXPLORATION
Creators: name: Khuraman Mukhtarova
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2022
Subjects: structure
rock
stratum
horizon
prospects

description: A comprehensive study of geophysical, geological, tectonic, lithofacies, petrophysical and a number of other factors of oil and gas content and their changes in space over time make it possible to develop the foundations of the main criteria for predicting the distribution of oil and gas territories and the development of hydrocarbon deposits. In order to assess the prospects for prospecting for oil and gas accumulations and reduce the risks of ineffectiveness of exploration and further development and drilling operations in the lower section of the Productive Strata (PS) of the western side of the South Caspian Basin (SKV), based on the available material and taking into account the large number of published works, We considered the tectonic criteria and conditions for the preservation of the formed accumulations of hydrocarbons in the South Absheron archipelago, in the example of the Gum-Deniz and Bahar areas. By specifying the development of uplifts, tectonic faults and the lithofacies composition of more ancient sediments, paleostructural analysis can provide significant assistance in identifying promising areas for prospecting and exploration, and ultimately thereby significantly reduce the risks of inefficiency in drilling operations.
Dynamic Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in Multibeam Satellite Systems
Creators: name: Efrem, Christos N.
name: Panagopoulos, Athanasios D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Power consumption is a major limitation in the downlink of multibeam satellite systems, since it has a significant impact on the mass and lifetime of the satellite. In this context, we study a new energy-aware power allocation problem that aims to jointly minimize the unmet system capacity (USC) and total radiated power by means of multi-objective optimization. First, we transform the original nonconvex-nondifferentiable problem into an equivalent nonconvex-differentiable form by introducing auxiliary variables. Subsequently, we design a successive convex approximation (SCA) algorithm in order to attain a stationary point with reasonable complexity. Due to its fast convergence, this algorithm is suitable for dynamic resource allocation in emerging on-board processing technologies. In addition, we formally prove a new result about the complexity of the SCA method, in the general case, that complements the existing literature where the complexity of this method is only numerically analyzed.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Leucothyreus stephanus Ohaus 1918
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Leucothyreus
Leucothyreus stephanus

description: L. stephanus Ohaus, 1918: 361
BRAZIL: Santa Cruz
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
A computer algorithm for the BGG resolution
Creators: name: Hemelsoet, Nicolas
name: Voorhaar, Rik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a computer algorithm to explicitly compute the BGG resolution and its cohomology. We give several applications, in particular computation of various sheaf cohomology groups on flag varieties. An implementation of the algorithm is available at https://github.com/RikVoorhaar/bgg-cohomology.
Additional file 3 of Ready for SDM: evaluating a train-the-trainer program to facilitate implementation of SDM training in Norway
Creators: name: Kienlin, Simone
name: Marie-Eve Poitras
name: Stacey, Dawn
name: Nytrøen, Kari
name: Kasper, Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. MAPPIN'SDM coding sheet.
Field-angle resolved magnetic excitations as a probe of hidden-order symmetry in CeB6
Creators: name: Portnichenko, P. Y.
name: Akbari, A.
name: Nikitin, S. E.
name: Cameron, A. S.
name: Dukhnenko, A. V.
name: Filipov, V. B.
name: Shitsevalova, N. Yu.
name: Cermak, P.
name: Radelytskyi, I.
name: Schneidewind, A.
name: Ollivier, J.
name: Podlesnyak, A.
name: Huesges, Z.
name: Xu, J.
name: Ivanov, A.
name: Sidis, Y.
name: Petit, S.
name: Mignot, J. -M.
name: Thalmeier, P.
name: Inosov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to magnetic order formed by electrons' dipolar moments, ordering phenomena associated with higher-order multipoles (quadrupoles, octupoles, etc.) are more difficult to characterize because of the limited choice of experimental probes that can distinguish different multipolar moments. The heavy-fermion compound CeB6 and its La-diluted alloys are among the best-studied realizations of the long-range-ordered multipolar phases, often referred to as "hidden order". Previously the hidden order in phase II was identified as primary antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) and field-induced octupolar (AFO) order. Here we present a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of collective excitations in the phase II of CeB6. Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) in fields up to 16.5 T reveals a new high-energy mode above 14 T in addition to the low-energy magnetic excitations. The experimental dependence of their energy on the magnitude and angle of the applied magnetic field is compared to the results of a multipolar interaction model. The magnetic excitation spectrum in rotating field is calculated within a localized approach using the pseudo-spin presentation for the Gamma8 states. We show that the rotating-field technique at fixed momentum can complement conventional INS measurements of the dispersion at constant field and holds great promise for identifying the symmetry of multipolar order parameters and the details of inter-multipolar interactions that stabilize hidden-order phases.
description: 15 pages with 13 figures + Supplemental Material
The Impact of Biofortified Iron Bean Adoption on Productivity, and Bean Consumption, Purchases and Sales
Creators: name: Vaiknoras, K.
name: Larochelle, C.
name: Vaiknoras, K.
name: Larochelle, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This study evaluates the treatment effect of adoption of biofortified iron beans in Rwanda on household yields, bean consumption from own-production and purchases, bean sales, and the probability of being a net seller of beans. Because the adoption decision could be endogenous to these outcomes, we use an instrumental variable approach to quantify the impacts of adoption. Some of the iron bean varieties provide yield gains (measured as multiplication ratio, i.e. quantity harvested/quantity planted) of 19-25% over traditional varieties. Iron bean adoption also increases household consumption of own-produced beans by 14%. It reduces the probability of purchasing beans to meet consumption needs by 13% and reduces total purchases by 3.9 kg per adult equivalent on average. Finally, adoption increases the probability that a household sells beans by 16% and increases the probability that it is a net seller of beans by 14%. These findings are promising for the continued adoption of iron beans in Rwanda and elsewhere and provide evidence that biofortified crops are a good investment for nutrition, food security, and poverty reduction. Acknowledgement :
Random planar curves and Schramm-Loewner evolutions
Creators: name: Werner, Wendelin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some of the results that have been derived in the last years on conformal invariance, scaling limits and properties of some two-dimensional random curves. In particular, we describe the intuitive ideas that lead to the definition of the Schramm-Loewner evolutions SLE, we define these objects, study its various properties, show how to compute (probabilities, critical exponents) using SLE, relate SLE to planar Brownian motions (i.e. the determination of the critical exponents), planar self-avoiding walks, critical percolation, loop-erased random walks and uniform spanning trees.
description: (Final?) version of the Notes of the lectures delivered at the Saint-Flour summer school (July 2002). 100 pages, 16 figures. To appear in Springer L.N
Leucothyreus stibeutes Ohaus 1924
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Leucothyreus
Leucothyreus stibeutes

description: L. stibeutes Ohaus, 1924: 183
GUYANA
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Observation of Parity Nonconservation in Moller Scattering
Creators: name: The SLAC E158 Collaboration
name: Anthony, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in fixed target electron-electron (Moller) scattering: A_PV = -175 +/- 30 (stat.) +/- 20 (syst.) parts per billion. This first direct observation of parity nonconservation in Moller scattering leads to a measurement of the electron's weak charge at low energy Q^e_W = -0.053 +/- 0.011. This is consistent with the Standard Model expectation at the current level of precision: sin^2θ_W(M_Z)_MSbar = 0.2293 +/- 0.0024 (stat.) +/- 0.0016 (syst.) +/- 0.0006 (theory).
description: Version 3 is the same as version 2. These versions contain minor text changes from referee comments and a change in the extracted value of Q^e_W and sin^2\theta_W due to a change in the theoretical calculation of the bremsstrahulung correction (ref. 16)
Semileptonic B decay results from early Belle II data
Creators: name: Fodor, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility, Belle, at the Japanese KEK laboratory. The main operation of SuperKEKB has started in March 2019, and collisions ran until July 2019, achieving a peak luminosity of $5.5\times 10^{33}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. The results presented here were obtained from a subset of collected data of 0.41 fb$^{-1}$. In the poster presented at the conference the first results from studying semileptonic $\textit{B}$-meson decays were shown. The performance of the Full Event Interpretation (FEI) tagging was analysed. The $B^0 \rightarrow D^{*-} \ell^+ ν_{\ell}$ mode was rediscovered, using the untagged approach.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of the XXIX International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (Lepton Photon 2019), 5-10 August 2019, Toronto, Canada
Leucothyreus subcoriaceus Ohaus 1931
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Leucothyreus
Leucothyreus subcoriaceus

description: L. subcoriaceus Ohaus, 1931: 245
BRAZIL: Pará
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Additional file 4 of Identification of aberrant innate and adaptive immunity based on changes in global gene expression in the blood of adults with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Horiuchi, Fumie
name: Yoshino, Yuta
name: Kumon, Hiroshi
name: Hosokawa, Rie
name: Kiwamu Nakachi
name: Kawabe, Kentaro
name: Iga, Jun-Ichi
name: Shu-Ichi Ueno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. All significantly up- and downregulated genes according to the results of RNA sequencing.
Modulation of heat transport in two-dimensional group-III chalcogenides
Creators: name: Wan, Wenhui
name: Song, Ziwei
name: Zhao, Shan
name: Ge, Yanfeng
name: Liu, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically investigated the modulation of heat transport of experimentally accessible two-dimensional (2D) group-III chalcogenides by firstprinciples calculations. It was found that intrinsic thermal conductivity (kappa) of chalcogenides MX (M = Ga, In; X = S, Se) were desirable for efficient heat dissipation. Meanwhile, we showed that the long-range anharmonic interactions played an important role in heat transport of the chalcogenides. The difference of kappa among the 2D group-III chalcogenides can be well described by the Slack model and can be mainly attributed to phonon group velocity. Based on that, we proposed three methods including strain engineering, size effect and making Janus structures to effectively modulate the kappa of 2D group-III chalcogenides, with different underlying mechanisms. We found that tensile strain and rough boundary scattering could continuously decrease the kappa while compressive strain could increase the kappa of 2D group-III chalcogenides. On the other side, the change of kappa by producing Janus structures is permanent and dependent on the structural details. These results provide guilds to modulate heat transport properties of 2D group-III chalcogenides for devices application
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Lyapunov exponents for random perturbations of coupled standard maps
Creators: name: Blumenthal, Alex
name: Xue, Jinxin
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37H15 (Primary), 37D25 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we give a quantitative estimate for the sum of the first $N$ Lyapunov exponents for random perturbations of a natural class $2N$-dimensional volume-preserving systems exhibiting strong hyperbolicity on a large but noninvariant subset of phase space. Concrete models covered by our setting include systems of coupled standard maps, in both `weak' and `strong' coupling regimes.
description: 29 pages
Additional file 1 of SPL36 Encodes a Receptor-like Protein Kinase that Regulates Programmed Cell Death and Defense Responses in Rice
Creators: name: R. A. O. Yuchun
name: J. I. A. O. Ran
name: W. A. N. G. Sheng
name: W. U. Xianmei
name: Y. E. Hanfei
name: P. A. N. Chenyang
name: L. I. Sanfeng
name: Dedong, Xin
name: Z. H. O. U. Weiyong
name: D. A. I. Gaoxing
name: H. U. Juan
name: R. E. N. Deyong
name: W. A. N. G. Yuexing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Genetic analysis of the lesion mimic phenotype in F2 populations. Table S2. Distribution of primers used to detect polymorphisms on each chromosome. Table S3. Primers used for mapping. Table S4. Primers used for vector construction. Table S5. Primers used for qRT-PCR. Figure S1. Analysis of salt stress in wild type and spl36. A Wild-type and mutant seeds on 200 mM NaCl at 9 days of culture. B Analysis of relative germination rates of wild-type and mutant seeds after salt stress. C Analysis of growth potential in wild type and mutant seeds on 200 mM NaCl at 9 days of culture. D Analysis of stem length in wild type and mutant plants after 9 days of salt stress treatment. Figure S2. Structural prediction of the protein encoded by SPL36. A Predicted protein structure of SPL36. B Protein domains of SPL36. C Alignment of the conserved amino acid sequences of SPL36 homologs in various organisms.
Accounting for the Impacts of Changing Configurations in Temperature and Precipitation on U.S. Agricultural Productivity
Creators: name: Njuki, E.
name: Bravo-Ureta, B.
name: Njuki, E.
name: Bravo-Ureta, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The objective of this study is to investigate how changing configurations in temperature and precipitation are transmitted to productivity growth in the U.S. agricultural sector. In doing so, we account for farm heterogeneity in production possibilities and the considerable variations in weather and other physical characteristics of the environment. In contrast, the received literature on productivity growth assumes that firms share the same production possibilities and only differ with respect to their level of inefficiency. We do this by implementing a Random Parameters approach in a Stochastic Production Frontier framework. The resulting parameter estimates are used to decompose a multiplicative TFP index that yields measures of technological progress, technical efficiency change, environmental, and scale-mix efficiency. Our results indicate that even after accounting for knowledge stocks generated from investments in research and development there are significant reductions in productivity growth, primarily driven by weather anomalies. Acknowledgement : This study was partially funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant number 2016-67012-24678 and 2016-67024-24760.
The CDF MiniPlug Calorimeters at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Goulianos, K.
name: Gallinaro, M.
name: Hatakeyama, K.
name: Lami, S.
name: Mesropian, C.
name: Terashi, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two MiniPlug calorimeters, designed to measure the energy and lateral position of particles in the pseudorapidity region of 3.6
description: Presented at `Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics; 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors', Biodola, Italy, 25-31 May 2003. 2 pages
Dust Reddening in SDSS Quasars
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Cooper, Ariana S.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Berk, Daniel E. Vanden
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Szokoly, Gyula P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the form of extragalactic reddening toward quasars using a sample of 9566 quasars with redshifts 0 0.1; less than 1% have E_{B-V} > 0.2, where the extinction is relative to quasars with modal colors. Reddening is uncorrelated with the presence of intervening narrow-line absorption systems, but reddened quasars are much more likely to show narrow absorption at the redshift of the quasar than are unreddened quasars. Thus the reddening towards quasars is dominated by SMC-like dust at the quasar redshift.
description: 29 pages including 8 figures. AJ, September 2004 issue
The physical studies and interaction with anti-apoptotic proteins of 2-(bis(cyanomethyl)amino)-2-oxoethyl methacrylate molecule
Creators: name: Yalcin, S.
name: Sas, E. B.
name: Cankaya, N.
name: Ercan, F.
name: Kurt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work 2-(bis(cyanomethyl)amino)-2-oxoethyl methacrylate (CMA2OEM) molecule has been characterized theoretically. First, the potential energy surface has been calculated to find the lowest energy state of the molecule. After the most stable state of the molecule, Mulliken atomic charge and nonlinear-optical properties were investigated. Also in the study, binding poses of CMA2OEM molecule and anti-apoptotic proteins, such as BCL-2, BCL-w, MCL-1, AKT1 and BRAF were investigated. The molecular docking results showed that the most stable complex was obtained with this molecule and BRAF protein. The molecular docking results showed that the most stable complex was obtained with this molecule and serine/threonine-protein kinase protein. This study suggested that molecular docking approach may be a potential tool to identify the hydrogen bond interactions in order to treat a disease. Finally, this new ligand could pave the way to experimental studies.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
QED processes in peripheral kinematics at polarized photon-photon and photon-electron colliders
Creators: name: Bakmaev, S.
name: Bartos, E.
name: Galynskii, M. V.
name: Kuraev, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calibration QED process cross sections for experiments on planned electron-photon and photon-photon colliders for detecting the small angles scattered particles are calculated. These processes describe the creation of two jets moving sufficiently close to the beam axis directions. The jets containing two and three particles including charged leptons, photons and pseudoscalar mesons are considered explicitly. Considering the pair production subprocesses we take into account both bremsstrahlung and double photon mechanisms. The obtained results are suitable for further numerical calculations.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
The Feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI): Smartphone Pictures for Affordable Crop Insurance
Creators: name: Ceballos, F.
name: Kramer, B.
name: Robles, M.
name: Ceballos, F.
name: Kramer, B.
name: Robles, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance. Under PBI, loss assessments are based on damage visible from a time-series of pictures taken by the farmer using regular smartphones. PBI aims at boosting uptake, trust, and understanding of insurance by reducing basis risk as well as costs of and delays in loss assessment, and by engaging farmers to participate directly, with one s own pictures being more tangible than other indices. Results from a pilot implementation in the rice-wheat belt of India speak to PBI being a feasible and valuable alternative to existing insurance products. Damage is visible from smartphone pictures, farmers can take pictures of sufficient quality for loss assessment, and PBI helps reduce severe downside basis risk at minimal cost. Acknowledgement : We gratefully acknowledge Braulio Britos and Matt Krupoff for excellent research assistance; and Azad Mishra, Siddhesh Karekar, Dr. Mann S. Toor, Koen Hufkens, Michael Mann, and Eli Melaas. We received valuable suggestions from participants at G ttingen University, PARM K-Sharing and Learning Workshop; IPA s 3rd Annual Researcher Gathering on Financial Inclusion and Social Protection; CEAR Academic Pre-Conference in Microinsurance; and the Regional Dialogue on The Role of Agricultural Research in the Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Agricultural Insurance. Funding support was provided by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).
Converrucosisporites Potonie & Kremp 1954
Creators: name: Legrand, Julien
name: Pons, Denise
name: Nishida, Harufumi
name: Yamada, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Converrucosisporites

description: Genus Converrucosisporites Potonié & Kremp, 1954
TYPE SPECIES. — Converrucosisporites triquetrus (Ibrahim, 1933) Potonié & Kremp, 1954.
description: Published as part of Legrand, Julien, Pons, Denise, Nishida, Harufumi & Yamada, Toshihiro, 2011, Barremian palynofloras from the Ashikajima and Kimigahama formations (Choshi Group, Outer Zone of south-west Japan), pp. 87-135 in Geodiversitas 33 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n1a6, http://zenodo.org/record/4597011
The Impact of Finance on Welfare of Smallholder Farm Household in Ghana
Creators: name: Nordjo, R.
name: Adjasi, C.
name: Nordjo, R.
name: Adjasi, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: This study estimates the effect of access to finance on smallholder farmer s welfare in the Northern Region of Ghana. Using field survey data, we compared the average difference in welfare between farmers with access to finance and non-equivalent control groups. By adopting Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Propensity Score Weighting (PSW) to control selection bias, the results of the econometric estimation indicate that access to finance has a positive and significant effect on the welfare of smallholder farmers. The result provides evidence that smallholder farmers participation in financial services must be promoted. Thus, policy towards extending finance to smallholder farmers must be adopted. Acknowledgement : I am extremely indebted to my supervisor, Prof Charles K.D Adjasi, for his advice, dedication, guidance, and exceptional mentorship. I also thank the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Ghana to help me secure funding for my fieldwork.
Convergence Theory and Conditional Convergence in Countries of Sub Saharan Africa from 1990-2015
Creators: name: Huffman, W.
name: Huffman, N.
name: Huffman, W.
name: Huffman, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper examines the hypothesis of conditional convergence in income per person for Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries over the most recent twenty-five year period, 1990-2015. The income data are in 2011 PPP$ from the Penn-World Table 9.0 (2017). This is the first study to use them in a study of convergence of per capita income in SSA. New conditioning variables are identified and included in the econometric model of growth. This is important because it might suggest where organizations (e.g., the World Bank or aid agencies) should invest to yield the most economic growth. The main results are for the largest 35 SSA countries, and they include: average per capita income in 2011 PPP$ grew at 1.1 percent over the period of 1990-2014; and conditional convergence is occurring, i.e., countries lagging behind in 1990 grew faster over the subsequent 25 years. Countries with a larger share of the labor force in agriculture in 1990 grew slower, as do countries in central Africa. Former British colonies tend to grow faster. External support for new agricultural technology or increased nutrition and food availability that increases agricultural productivity would reduce the share of labor in agriculture and increase future growth performance. Acknowledgement : Authors are Economics Student, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Professor of Economics, Iowa State University. We thank Arun Kandanchatha for helpful comments. We thank the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station for financial support.
The Chemical Enrichment History of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy from the Infrared Calcium Triplet
Creators: name: Pont, Frederic
name: Zinn, Robert
name: Gallart, Carme
name: Hardy, Eduardo
name: Winnick, Rebeccah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to lift the age-metallicity degeneracy of the red giant branch (RGB) in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). Metallicities are derived from the equivalent widths of the infrared Calcium triplet lines at 8498, 8542, and 8662 A, calibrated with data from globular clusters, the open cluster M67 and the LMC. For a substantial portion of the sample, the strength of the Calcium triplet is unexpectedly high, clearly indicating that the main stellar population of Fornax is significantly more metal-rich than could be inferred from the position of its RGB in the CMD. We show that the relative narrowness of the RGB in Fornax is caused by the superposition of stars of very different ages and metallicities. The metallicity distribution in Fornax is centered at [Fe/H]= -0.9, with a metal-poor tail extending to [Fe/H] ~= -2. While the distribution to higher metallicities is less well determined by our observations, the comparison with LMC data indicates that it extends to [Fe/H] ~ -0.4. By comparing the metallicities of the stars with their positions in the CMD, we have derived the complex age-metallicity relation of Fornax. In the first few Gyr, the metal abundance rose to [Fe/H] ~ -1.0 dex. The enrichment accelerated in the past ~ 1-4 Gyr to reach [Fe/H] ~ -0.4 dex. More than half the sample is constituted of star younger than ~ 4 Gyr, thus indicating sustained recent star formation in Fornax. These results indicate that the capacity of dwarf spheroidal galaxies to retain the heavy elements that they produce is larger than expected. (Abridged)
description: 36 pages, 19 figures, to appear in Astronomical Journal, January 2004
Design of optical neural networks with component imprecisions
Creators: name: Fang, Michael Y. -S.
name: Manipatruni, Sasikanth
name: Wierzynski, Casimir
name: Khosrowshahi, Amir
name: DeWeese, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the benefit of designing scalable, fault resistant optical neural networks (ONNs), we investigate the effects architectural designs have on the ONNs' robustness to imprecise components. We train two ONNs -- one with a more tunable design (GridNet) and one with better fault tolerance (FFTNet) -- to classify handwritten digits. When simulated without any imperfections, GridNet yields a better accuracy (~98%) than FFTNet (~95%). However, under a small amount of error in their photonic components, the more fault tolerant FFTNet overtakes GridNet. We further provide thorough quantitative and qualitative analyses of ONNs' sensitivity to varying levels and types of imprecisions. Our results offer guidelines for the principled design of fault-tolerant ONNs as well as a foundation for further research.
Leucothyreus subcupreus Blanchard 1851
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Leucothyreus
Leucothyreus subcupreus

description: L. subcupreus Blanchard, 1851: 239
BRAZIL: Bahia
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Additional file 5 of Identification of aberrant innate and adaptive immunity based on changes in global gene expression in the blood of adults with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Horiuchi, Fumie
name: Yoshino, Yuta
name: Kumon, Hiroshi
name: Hosokawa, Rie
name: Kiwamu Nakachi
name: Kawabe, Kentaro
name: Iga, Jun-Ichi
name: Shu-Ichi Ueno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Results of gene ontology for the significantly upregulated genes.
Additional file 6 of Identification of aberrant innate and adaptive immunity based on changes in global gene expression in the blood of adults with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Horiuchi, Fumie
name: Yoshino, Yuta
name: Kumon, Hiroshi
name: Hosokawa, Rie
name: Kiwamu Nakachi
name: Kawabe, Kentaro
name: Iga, Jun-Ichi
name: Shu-Ichi Ueno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S3. Results of gene ontology for the significantly downregulated genes.
Transport Statistics of Bistable Systems
Creators: name: Jordan, Andrew N.
name: Sukhorukov, Eugene V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the transport statistics of classical bistable systems driven by noise. The stochastic path integral formalism is used to investigate the dynamics and distribution of transmitted charge. Switching rates between the two stable states are found from an instanton calculation, leading to an effective two-state system on a long time scale. In the bistable current range, the telegraph noise dominates the distribution, whose logarithm is found to be universally described by a tilted ellipse.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Regulation of Transcriptional Elongation by RNA Polymerase II
Creators: name: Yankulov, Krassimir Yankov
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1994

description: Transcriptional attenuation by RNA polymerase II (pol II) has been shown to regulate the expression of many genes (Spencer and Groudine, 1990) but the mechanism of this control has been poorly understood. In this thesis I present data which indicate that in X.laevis oocytes transactivator proteins stimulate transcriptional elongation by pol II. Transcription complexes activated by recombinant factors bound to promoter elements in synthetic genes have high competence to elongate meaning they are able to read through pausing and termination sites efficiently. Furthermore, activation domains differ in the processivity of the transcription they stimulate from a given promoter. In contrast, non-activated transcription and transcription "squelched" by a non-binding factor mostly terminates prematurely. A general transcription factor, TBP, is found to stimulate initiation, but not elongation of pol II transcription. These results suggest that programming the competence of RNApolymerase II to elongate is an integral part of the initiation step which is controlled by activators co-operating with the basal transcriptional machinery. The positive effect of transcriptional activators on pol II processivity is counteracted by the suppressor of transcriptional elongation DRB (Dichlororibofuranosyl-benzimidazole) and by protein kinase inhibitors such as H-8 and H-7. Here I characterise a transactivator binding CTD-protein kinase which is highly sensitive to DRB, H-7 and H-8. This protein kinase co-purifies with the general transcription factor TFIIH on affinity chromatography resins and has properties indistinguishable from the TFIIH associated kinase. I suggest that the effect of DRB on transcriptional elongation is mediated by inhibition of the TFIIH associated kinase activity. The human protein BM28, which is analogous to the yeast MCM2 and MCM3 proteins, has been proposed to participate in DNA replication. In this thesis I include experiments which indicate that BM28 is also essential for pol II transcription in X.laevis oocytes.
Additional file 8 of Identification of aberrant innate and adaptive immunity based on changes in global gene expression in the blood of adults with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Horiuchi, Fumie
name: Yoshino, Yuta
name: Kumon, Hiroshi
name: Hosokawa, Rie
name: Kiwamu Nakachi
name: Kawabe, Kentaro
name: Iga, Jun-Ichi
name: Shu-Ichi Ueno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S5. Results of gene ontology for all 479 genes included in the MEbrown4 module.
Multiband RadioAstron space VLBI imaging of the jet in quasar S5 0836+710
Creators: name: Vega-García, L.
name: Lobanov, A. P.
name: Perucho, M.
name: Bruni, G.
name: Ros, E.
name: Anderson, J. M.
name: Agudo, I.
name: Davis, R.
name: Gómez, J. L.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Lisakov, M.
name: Savolainen, T.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detailed studies of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) require high-fidelity imaging at the highest possible resolution. This can be achieved using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at radio frequencies, combining worldwide (global) VLBI arrays of radio telescopes with a space-borne antenna on board a satellite. We present multiwavelength images made of the radio emission in the powerful quasar S5 0836+710, obtained using a global VLBI array and the antenna Spektr-R of the RadioAstron mission of the Russian Space Agency, with the goal of studying the internal structure and physics of the relativistic jet in this object. The RadioAstron observations at wavelengths of 18cm, 6cm, and 1.3cm are part of the Key Science Program for imaging radio emission in strong AGN. The internal structure of the jet is studied by analyzing transverse intensity profiles and modeling the structural patterns developing in the flow. The RadioAstron images reveal a wealth of structural detail in the jet of S5 0836+710 on angular scales ranging from 0.02mas to 200mas. Brightness temperatures in excess of $10^{13}$\,K are measured in the jet, requiring Doppler factors of $\ge 100$ for reconciling them with the inverse Compton limit. Several oscillatory patterns are identified in the ridge line of the jet and can be explained in terms of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability. The oscillatory patterns are interpreted as the surface and body wavelengths of the helical mode of the KH instability. The interpretation provides estimates of the jet Mach number and of the ratio of the jet to the ambient density, which are found to be $M_\mathrm{j}\approx 12$ and $η\approx 0.33$. The ratio of the jet to the ambient density should be conservatively considered an upper limit because its estimate relies on approximations.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures (9 extra figures in Appendix), in press; Astronomy and Astrophysics
Melolontha sulcicollis Ohaus 1931
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Melolontha
Melolontha sulcicollis

description: L. sulcicollis Ohaus, 1931: 246
BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Trade and Development: Proceedings of the Winter 1986 Meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium
Creators: name: Shane, Mathew D.
name: Shane, Mathew D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural development
subject: agricultural trade
subject: economic growth
subject: trade liberalization
subject: international agricultural research
subject: technical transfer

description: Trade is both a driving force for economic growth and economic growth is a major determinant of agricultural trade. This meeting was held at the International Wheat and Maize Research Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico and focused on how trade and economic development are related. Three separate sections comprise the set of papers presented at the meeting. The first, representing the theme day, involved four papers focusing on the relationship between trade and development. The second focused on CIMMYT's role in generating agricultural development through the transfer of high yielding wheat varieties to Third World countries. The third presented a set of short related papers are presented on a variety of topics of current interest.
Converrucosisporites sp.
Creators: name: Legrand, Julien
name: Pons, Denise
name: Nishida, Harufumi
name: Yamada, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Converrucosisporites

description: Converrucosisporites sp.
(Fig. 5N, O)
Converrucosisporites sp. A, Legrand, Palynologie des dépôts Jurassique supérieur et Crétacé inférieur du Japon, et provinces paléofloristiques du sud-est asiatique: 136, pl. III, fig. 2 (2009).
OCCURRENCE. — Ashikajima Fm (rare).
DESCRIPTION
Trilete microspore. Amb rounded triangular. The laesurae are long, rather indistinct, and seem to extend to the 3/4 of the spore radius. The two faces are covered by rounded verrucae of various sizes (0.5 to 3 µm high and 1 to 6 µm in diameter), distributed side by side or sometimes contiguous. Near the equator, some elongated verrucae can be sparsely observed. The exine is about 0.5 µm thick. Equatorial diameter = 30-35 µm.
BOTANICAL AFFINITIES
Cyatheales?
description: Published as part of Legrand, Julien, Pons, Denise, Nishida, Harufumi & Yamada, Toshihiro, 2011, Barremian palynofloras from the Ashikajima and Kimigahama formations (Choshi Group, Outer Zone of south-west Japan), pp. 87-135 in Geodiversitas 33 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n1a6, http://zenodo.org/record/4597011
ISSUES AND OPTIONS RELATED TO THE REPORTING AND ANALYSIS OF RETAIL PRICES AND PRICE SPREADS FOR BEEF
Creators: name: Commodity Economics Division
name: Commodity Economics Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Retail prices
subject: price spreads
subject: wholesale value
subject: farm value
subject: beef

description: Retail prices and price spreads for Choice beef have been published by USDA for over 50 years. These data are of interest to a wide range of groups, including market participants, consumers, researchers, and policymakers. The marketing of beef has changed dramatically over the past 20-30 years, resulting in changes in the mix of beef products being sold. As a consequence, conceptual price measurement problems have been raised regarding the validity of procedures used to drive retail prices and price spreads for beef. This report discusses some of the issues regarding the current reporting of retail beef prices and price spreads and presents options for adapting current procedures to reflect changes in product mixand marketing practices for beef.
Measurement of the shear strength of a charge-density wave
Creators: name: O'Neill, K.
name: Cicak, K.
name: Thorne, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have explored the shear plasticity of charge density waves (CDWs) in niobium triselenide samples with cross-sections having a single micro-fabricated thickness step. Shear stresses along the step result from thickness-dependent CDW pinning. For small thickness differences the CDW depins elastically at the volume average depinning field. For large thickness differences the thicker, more weakly pinned side depins first via plastic shear. A simple model describes the qualitative features of our data, and yields a value for the CDW's shear strength of approximately 9.5*10^3 N/m^2 and a lower bound for the elastic shear modulus of 2.1*10^4 N/m^2. These values are orders of magnitude smaller than the CDW's longitudinal modulus but are much larger than corresponding values for flux-line lattices, and may explain the relative coherence of the CDW response.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
SHARE LEASING AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY
Creators: name: Bernat, G. Andrew
name: Bernat, G. Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Share leasing
subject: resource allocation
subject: land leasing
subject: production efficiency
subject: risk and uncertainty
subject: principal-agent problem
subject: bargaining
subject: implicit contracts

description: This report reviews the current economic literature 'on the relationship between type of land lease and agricultural resource allocation. Current economic theory of land leasing does not provide a completely satisfactory explanation of lease choice in U.S. agriculture primarily because of deficiencies in the treatment of bargaining and part-owner operators. In addition, results from the literature on the principal-agent problem and on implicit contracts have not been fully exploited in the landleasing literature.