cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perdita (Cockerellia) albomaculata Timberlake 1980
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita albomaculata

description: Perdita (Cockerellia) albomaculata Timberlake, 1980
[Holotype: UCRC; ♀ 99.78 km south of El Crucero, Baja California Sur, Mexico; 6 Nov 1965]
Perdita albomaculata spans the length of the peninsula and has records in BC and BCS in the Lower Colorado, Vizcaíno Desert and La Giganta Ranges. The female type specimen is vouchered in the UCRC, and there are other verified specimens vouchered at BBSL and the SDNHM (Timberlake 1980). See fig. 36.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Filth
Creators: name: Koles, Mary Emma
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Filth explores the primordial intersection of shame, family, sexuality, adolescence, nature, and empathy through the following: the body, the imagination, and the landscapes that proffer such navigation. The problem Filth seeks to communicate through images, tone, and diction is a humanistic and sometimes presumptuous "imagining" of others' circumstances. No human observations other than the author's own experiences have informed this thesis; methodology in portraying aforementioned human instinct involves mere speculation and emotion. The result of the author's imagination and imaging is these pages of poetry and fiction, which have led the author to the conclusion that feeling, above all---for others both loved and imagined---is essential to true happiness in life.
Ilybius pleuriticus LeConte 1850
Creators: name: Hicks, B. J.
name: Larson, D. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Ilybius
Ilybius pleuriticus

description: Ilybius pleuriticus LeConte
 Instar I. Colour. Dorsal surface of head, thorax and abdomen with a contrasting pattern of longitudinal dark brown and pale yellowish­brown stripes. Legs, urogomphi and ventral body surface pale yellowish brown. Head (Fig. 1C). HL 5 1.18 mm; HW 5 1.09 mm. Sides of head parallel. Legs (Fig. 5). Femora with one proximal setae in PV series. Abdomen (Fig. 2C). Abdominal segments with numerous setae and spinulae. Terga 1–7 with dark spiniform setae; two dorsal, two ventral submedial and one lateral on each side. Sterna 1–3 with two small pale submedial setae; sterna 4–7 with two dark submedial spiniform setae, other small lighter coloured setae present but not prominent. LAS 0.44 times UT. Siphon relatively long, SI/LAS 5 0.38. Urogomphus with U4 spiniform, pale in colour and 0.27 times the length of U3; U2 and U3 longer, setiform and dark in colour.
 Instar III. Colour (Fig 6C). Body darker than previous instars but still with evident contrasting pattern of pale and dark stripes. Head (Fig 7C). HL 5 2.44 mm, HW 5 2.29 mm. Sides of the head narrowing anteriorly. Legs (Fig. 10). Femora secondary dorsal setae: profemur—five to seven; mesofemur five to seven, metafemur seven or eight; femora with spinulae in AV series. Abdomen (Fig. 11C). Dorsal surface with numerous short spiniform setae, primary setae setiform. LAS/UT 5 0.63
 Ecology. Both adults and larvae of I. pleuriticus were collected from large bog pools and along the edges of ponds. They were common among emergent vegetation but were also collected further out from the edge. In one instance, a gravid female was collected in a temporary pool and this adult laid several eggs that hatched in mid­September. The collection of instar I larvae and the hatching dates support the general univoltine life history pattern described by Hicks and Larson (1995) for Ilybius from Newfoundland.
description: Published as part of Hicks, B. J. & Larson, D. J., 2000, Descriptions And Recognition Of Larvae Of Some Northern North American Species Of Ilybius Erichson (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 36-59 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0036:darolo]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900141
Looming perception in daily cigarette smokers: Impact on anxiety, motivation, and behavior
Creators: name: McDonald, David Owen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cigarette smoking has been linked to millions of American deaths and a host of life-threatening diseases, yet the majority of current smokers demonstrate a lack of motivation to quit. One established factor that influences this motivation is smokers' perception of vulnerability towards smoking-related illness, a form of threat appraisal. The present study attempted to increase smokers' perceived vulnerability through guided imagery sequences. Seventy two daily smokers underwent imagery exercises in a Control Condition or Looming Condition that portrayed smoking-related health consequences as rising in risk. Between group differences revealed that those in the Looming Condition experienced a greater increase in anxiety during the exercises as well as non-significant trends that suggested increases in motivation to quit, self-efficacy, and perceived probability that they would experience smoking-related illness. At a one-month follow-up there were also non-significant trends suggesting a reduction in smoking, more treatment seeking, and quit attempts in the predicted direction.
Additional file 4 of Gut microbiota and age shape susceptibility to clostridial enteritis in lorikeets under human care
Creators: name: Minich, David
name: Madden, Christopher
name: Navarro, Mauricio A.
name: Glowacki, Leo
name: French-Kim, Kristen
name: Chan, Willow
name: Evans, Morgan V.
name: Soares, Kilmer
name: Mrofchak, Ryan
name: Madan, Rushil
name: Ballash, Gregory A.
name: LaPerle, Krista
name: Paul, Subhadeep
name: Vodovotz, Yael
name: Uzal, Francisco A.
name: Martinez, Margaret
name: Hausmann, Jennifer
name: Junge, Randall E.
name: Hale, Vanessa L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Microbial community diversity in healthy CZA birds by sex, species, and age. Healthy birds across all time points: Microbial diversity (Shannon Diversity Index and Observed Features) did not differ significantly by a,d) sex, b,e) species, or c,f) age (Kruskal Wallis: Shannon sex p = 0.77, species p = 0.25, age p = 0.89; Observed Features sex p = 0.93, species p = 0.18, age p = 0.08).
Cross-Boundary Learning Experience Urges HE Institutions to Change Evidence From an Italian Case-Study
Creators: name: Potestio, Andrea
name: Magni, Francesco
name: Bertuletti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: apprenticeship
higher education
Italy
qualitative research

description: Context: Italy has one of the lowest numbers of apprenticeships within higher education in Europe (Cedefop, 2021). Cultural reasons and rigid regulations prevent many Italian Universities from opening their courses to dual paths. Methods: a qualitative research highlights the strengths and weaknesses of a pioneering apprenticeship programme for undergraduates, which has been launched in 2017 by the University of Bergamo. Findings: the apprenticeship programme which is taking place at this University represents an excellent learning opportunity, both for apprentices and employers, but it seems that its results depend more on apprentices’ effort to link work experience to scientific knowledge, than specific didactic or organizational arrangements. Conclusions: teachers’ and apprentices’ collaboration should be improved, also creating formal occasions to interrelate academic studying and work practice, while all stakeholders involved have to empower tutors’ role as cross-institutional figures, which can ask for study plan’s customization and training on the job implementation.
Looming perception in daily cigarette smokers: Impact on anxiety, motivation, and behavior
Creators: name: McDonald, David Owen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Cigarette smoking has been linked to millions of American deaths and a host of life-threatening diseases, yet the majority of current smokers demonstrate a lack of motivation to quit. One established factor that influences this motivation is smokers' perception of vulnerability towards smoking-related illness, a form of threat appraisal. The present study attempted to increase smokers' perceived vulnerability through guided imagery sequences. Seventy two daily smokers underwent imagery exercises in a Control Condition or Looming Condition that portrayed smoking-related health consequences as rising in risk. Between group differences revealed that those in the Looming Condition experienced a greater increase in anxiety during the exercises as well as non-significant trends that suggested increases in motivation to quit, self-efficacy, and perceived probability that they would experience smoking-related illness. At a one-month follow-up there were also non-significant trends suggesting a reduction in smoking, more treatment seeking, and quit attempts in the predicted direction.
Towards a renormalizable standard model without fundamental Higgs scalar
Creators: name: Gies, Holger
name: Jaeckel, Joerg
name: Wetterich, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility of constructing a renormalizable standard model with purely fermionic matter content. The Higgs scalar is replaced by point-like fermionic self-interactions with couplings growing large at the Fermi scale. An analysis of the UV behavior in the point-like approximation reveals a variety of non-Gaussian fixed points for the fermion couplings. If real, such fixed points would imply nonperturbative renormalizability and evade triviality of the Higgs sector. For point-like fermionic self-interactions and weak gauge couplings, one encounters a hierarchy problem similar to the one for a fundamental Higgs scalar.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Assessing Agricultural Policy for Targeted Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Rakotoarisoa, M.A.
name: Randriamamonjy, J.
name: Rakotoarisoa, M.A.
name: Randriamamonjy, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Assessing how the policy of taxing agricultural export to boost government revenues while subsidizing food production to improve food security has affected the African agriculture is a requisite for investment and fiscal policy reforms. I estimate the substitution and endowment effects of the mix of government taxes and subsidies on the mix of agricultural commodities in selected Sub-Saharan African countries. The commodities are divided into cash commodity, importable food, and non-tradable food categories. Result show that changes in the ratio of taxes on any two commodity categories lead to commodity substitution but the cross-effects are asymmetric and counterintuitive. A higher tax on cash commodity relative to tax on importable food causes relatively more harms to the production of importable food than to the production of the cash commodity. More important, the endowment effects are found to be greater than these substitution effects, representing 60-to 70% of the policy effects on output levels. Sub-Saharan Africa s quest to reform its agriculture sector must thus consider that the relative level of assistance matters most. The priority before assisting any targeted subsector would be to increase the amount of investment resources for the whole sector; reshuffling resources without increasing them provokes unintended consequences. Acknowledgement :
Longitudinal Pooling & Consistency Regularization to Model Disease Progression from MRIs
Creators: name: Ouyang, Jiahong
name: Zhao, Qingyu
name: Sullivan, Edith V
name: Pfefferbaum, Adolf
name: Tapert, Susan F.
name: Adeli, Ehsan
name: Pohl, Kilian M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many neurological diseases are characterized by gradual deterioration of brain structure and function. Large longitudinal MRI datasets have revealed such deterioration, in part, by applying machine and deep learning to predict diagnosis. A popular approach is to apply Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to extract informative features from each visit of the longitudinal MRI and then use those features to classify each visit via Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). Such modeling neglects the progressive nature of the disease, which may result in clinically implausible classifications across visits. To avoid this issue, we propose to combine features across visits by coupling feature extraction with a novel longitudinal pooling layer and enforce consistency of the classification across visits in line with disease progression. We evaluate the proposed method on the longitudinal structural MRIs from three neuroimaging datasets: Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI, N=404), a dataset composed of 274 normal controls and 329 patients with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), and 255 youths from the National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA). In all three experiments our method is superior to other widely used approaches for longitudinal classification thus making a unique contribution towards more accurate tracking of the impact of conditions on the brain. The code is available at https://github.com/ouyangjiahong/longitudinal-pooling.
description: Accepted by Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
Gender and Income Effects of Smartphone Use: The Case of Rural China
Creators: name: Ma, W.
name: Grafton, Q.
name: Renwick, A.
name: Ma, W.
name: Grafton, Q.
name: Renwick, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research and Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The diffusion of mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) has important implications for rural economic development. While previous studies have investigated the potential contributions of mobile ICTs to agricultural production and poverty reduction, wider incomes effects of the use of updated ICTs such as smartphones have hardly been analyzed. To bridge this knowledge gap, we analyze the determinants and income effects of smartphone use, using an endogenous switching regression model and building on a household-level survey data from rural China. Our findings indicate that gender, farmers education, farm size, and off-farm work participation are main drivers of smartphone use, and smartphone use increases farm income, off-farm income and household income significantly. Further, we find that the income effects of smartphone use are heterogeneous between the male who use smartphones and work off farm and their female counterparts. Acknowledgement : The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Lincoln University within the seed fund project (INT5056).
Perdita (Epimacrotera) dissimulans Timberlake 1954
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita dissimulans

description: Perdita (Epimacrotera) dissimulans Timberlake, 1954
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ La Laguna, Sierra Laguna, Baja California Sur, Mexico; October 14, 1941]
Perdita dissimulans is an endemic species of the Cape Tropical Region in BCS. The holotype is from Sierra La Laguna (Timberlake 1954). See fig. 37.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 6 of Gut microbiota and age shape susceptibility to clostridial enteritis in lorikeets under human care
Creators: name: Minich, David
name: Madden, Christopher
name: Navarro, Mauricio A.
name: Glowacki, Leo
name: French-Kim, Kristen
name: Chan, Willow
name: Evans, Morgan V.
name: Soares, Kilmer
name: Mrofchak, Ryan
name: Madan, Rushil
name: Ballash, Gregory A.
name: LaPerle, Krista
name: Paul, Subhadeep
name: Vodovotz, Yael
name: Uzal, Francisco A.
name: Martinez, Margaret
name: Hausmann, Jennifer
name: Junge, Randall E.
name: Hale, Vanessa L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6. Seasonality in gut microbiota in healthy CZA lorikeets. a) Microbial community composition (Unweighted UniFrac) and b) diversity (Shannon Diversity Index) by season (November 2018, February 2019, September 2019). There were significant shifts in microbial composition by season (PERMANOVA p = 0.001), and microbial diversity decreased significantly between November 2018 and September 2019 (Kruskal-Wallis *p < 0.001). (Also see Fig. 1.)
Market Conditions of International VET Providers: German Providers in Comparison to Market Leaders
Creators: name: Peters, Susanne
name: Meyne, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational education and training
VET service providers
market conditions
comparison

description: Context: Vocational education and training (VET) is a highly complex phenomenon world-wide, being multidimensional and having diverse structures. Additionally, very different actors define the functions of a national (or even regional) VET system. The paper contributes to a better understanding of approaches and strategies of one selected actor: VET providers on international markets. Approach: We wonder which conditions and characteristics can be determined regarding the markets of VET-related services, with a special regard to Anglo-Saxon countries in comparison to Germany. A qualitative approach is useful here as there seem to be structural causes but only little research in this field exists. We interviewed 9 VET providers and analysed literature about VET systems of the countries of interest. Findings: In Anglo-Saxon countries, more and more full-fee-paying learners and organisations are available and the VET providers’ self-perception regarding their businesses can be de-scribed as trade and commerce. This goes along with the observation that the education system does not play a role – as long as you think in terms of skills. This is the case in liberal market-driven VET approaches, but in Germany, it is not. Here, rather, a holistic and integrated development of knowledge and transferable skills for work and life make up vocational education. Conclusions: Offering niche products, in the sense of the product focus rather than differenti-ation, seems to be a working strategy. Furthermore, we state that markets for VET-related services are successfully developing where state provision is rather weak, e.g. when the state provides a rather limited supply (the privatisation of the education system), or when the VET-related service is not covered by public educational offers (e.g. in highly specialised IT). English, as the native language of the USA, the UK and Australia, is a decisive competitive advantage.
Supplementary materials and methods from Mere presence of co-eater automatically shifts foraging tactics toward ‘fast and Easy' food in humans
Creators: name: Ogura, Yukiko
name: Masamoto, Taku
name: Kameda, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Competition for food resources is widespread in nature. The foraging behaviour of social animals should thus be adapted to potential food competition. We conjectured that in the presence of co-foragers, animals would shift their tactics to forage more frequently for smaller food. Because smaller foods are more abundant in nature and allow faster consumption, such tactics should allow animals to consume food more securely against scrounging. We experimentally tested whether such a shift would be triggered automatically in human eating behaviour, even when there was no rivalry about food consumption. To prevent subjects from having rivalry, they were instructed to engage in a ‘taste test' in a laboratory, alone or in pairs. Even though the other subject was merely present and there was no real competition for food, subjects in pairs immediately exhibited a systematic behavioural shift to reaching for smaller food amounts more frequently, which was clearly distinct from their reaching patterns both when eating alone and when simply weighing the same food without eating any. These patterns suggest that behavioural shifts in the presence of others may be built-in tactics in humans (and possibly in other gregarious animals as well) to adapt to potential food competition in social foraging.
The Undeserved Marginality of the Initial Italian VET System: Searching for Key Actions for Promotion
Creators: name: Perini, Marco
name: Pellegrini, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: guidance networks
vocational education and training
promotion
system visibility

description: Context: Even after the establishment of the Italian dual system, the opinion and level of knowledge of the population about the Italian VET system (in particular, the parents of the lower secondary school students) do not seem to correspond to the increase in awareness by the Italian Government and Regions. Methods: The study is conducted by mixing qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In the first exploratory part of the research, the opinions of students’ parents and teachers were collected through an online survey (91 participants), while the second part (still in progress) in-volves the administration of semi-structured interviews to teachers belonging to the student guidance networks. Results: The results analysed so far show that most of the survey respondents do not know the characteristics of the VET programs and the possibilities available for the students. In particular, 75% of the sample is unaware of the existence of a fourth year, or approximately 60% are unaware of the existence of the dual system and of the possibility of undertaking an apprenticeship. Considering that 40% of the surveyed people deal with guidance in schools, it is possible to assert that the situation is worrying. Several proposals for action have been identified for the promotion of the VET system in Italy. Conclusions: The study confirms the dichotomous form of the visibility of the Italian VET system. On the one hand, the strengths and potentials of the training offer and learning con-texts are valued, on the other hand, a widespread misunderstanding of the VET system, including by key people in guidance systems, emerges. As already mentioned, in the next stages of the research project we intend to identify specifically what are the possible actions to unhinge this situation.
Supplementary Material from Phylogenetic clustering and rarity imply risk of local species extinction in prospective deep-sea mining areas of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone
Creators: name: Macheriotou, Lara
name: Rigaux, Annelien
name: Derycke, Sofie
name: Vanreusel, Ann
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: An understanding of the forces controlling community structure in the deep sea is essential at a time when its pristineness is threatened by polymetallic nodule mining. Because abiotically defined communities are more sensitive to environmental change, we applied occurrence- and phylogeny-based metrics to determine the importance of biotic versus abiotic structuring processes in nematodes, the most abundant invertebrate taxon of the Clarion– Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), an area targeted for mining. We investigated the prevalence of rarity and the explanatory power of environmental parameters with respect to phylogenetic diversity (PD). We found evidence for aggregation and phylogenetic clustering in nematode amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and the dominant genus Acantholaimus, indicating the influence of environmental filtering, sympatric speciation, affinity for overlapping habitats and facilitation for community structure. PD was associated with abiotic variables such as total organic carbon, chloroplastic pigments equivalents and/or mud content, explaining up to 57% of the observed variability and providing further support of the prominence of environmental structuring forces. Rarity was high throughout, ranging from 64 to 75% unique ASVs. Communities defined by environmental filtering with a prevalence of rarity in the CCFZ suggest taxa of these nodule-bearing abyssal plains will be especially vulnerable to the risk of extinction brought about by the efforts to extract them.
Risk Attitude, Technical Efficiency and Adoption: An Integrated Approach to Climate-Smart Rice Production in the Jianghan Plain, China
Creators: name: Tong, Q.
name: Swallow, B.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Tong, Q.
name: Swallow, B.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Rice production in China is under pressure to adapt to changing weather conditions and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. This paper explores the possibilities for achieving climate-smart agriculture among rice farmers in the Jianghan Plain of China. Data for 873 rice plots are analyzed using Stochastic Frontier Analysis to simultaneously estimate a production function and factors associated with technical efficiency. The production analysis shows the importance of climate variables to production, while use of climate-smart practices, including insurance, conservation tillage, and crop rotations all have the extra benefit of reducing technical inefficiency. However, risk aversion complicates these relationships. We found that most farmers are risk averse and that risk aversion has a negative effect on technical efficiency and U-shaped effects on the purchase of insurance and use of soil-conserving practices. Soil conserving practices are least likely to be used by risk neutral farmers, while insurance is most likely to be purchased by risk neutral farmers. Crop insurance that appeals to the most risk averse farmers appears to be a high priority for encouraging climate-smart agriculture in this region where climate has such large impacts on crop production. Acknowledgement : The authors gratefully acknowledge ?nancial support from the Natural Sciences Foundation of China (41501213); the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2662017PY045); the Key Project for Studies of Philosophy and Social Sciences by Ministry of Education (15JZD014); the program of China Scholarship Council (No. 201706760038).
Decelerating Flows in TeV Blazars: A Resolution to the BL Lac -- FR I Unification Problem
Creators: name: Georganopoulos, Markos
name: Kazanas, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: TeV emission from BL Lacertae (BL) objects is commonly modeled as Synchrotron-Self Compton (SSC) radiation from relativistically moving homogeneous plasma blobs. In the context of these models, the blob Lorentz factors needed to reproduce the corrected for absorption by the diffuse IR background (DIRB) TeV emission are large ($δ\gtrsim 50$). The main reason for this is that stronger beaming eases the problem of the lack of $\sim$ IR-UV synchrotron seed photons needed to produce the de-absorbed $\sim $ few TeV peak of the spectral energy distribution (SED). However, such high Doppler factors are in strong disagreement with the unified scheme, according to which BLs are FR I radio galaxies with their jets closely aligned to the line of sight. Here, motivated by the detection of sub-luminal velocities in the sub-pc scale jets of the best studied TeV blazars, MKN 421 and MKN 501, we examine the possibility that the relativistic flows in the TeV BLs decelerate. In this case, the problem of the missing seed photons is solved because of Upstream Compton (UC) scattering, a process in which the upstream energetic electrons from the fast base of the flow `see' the synchrotron seed photons produced in the slow part of the flow relativistically beamed. Modest Lorentz factors ($Γ\sim 15$), decelerating down to values compatible with the recent radio interferometric observations, reproduce the $\sim $ few TeV peak energy of these sources. Furthermore, such decelerating flows are shown to be in agreement with the BL - FR I unification, naturally reproducing the observed BL/FR I broad band luminosity ratios.
description: Accepted in ApJL
Sartre and Nishitani: Toward developing a socially engaged Zen ethics
Creators: name: Park, Peter
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This project is a comparative textual study of the ontologies and ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre and Nishitani Keiji in order to establish a basis for a socially engaged Zen Buddhist ethics as exemplified in the Engaged Buddhism movement. Initially, I develop a Sartrean ethics of fraternity based on a movement from independent self-centered personal freedom to an interdependent universal freedom. However, shortcomings of this Sartrean ethics are illustrated through examining Nishitani Keiji's Zen Buddhist philosophy of emptiness. Finally, Mahayana Buddhist philosophers including Vimalakirti, Nagarjuna, and Dogen are brought out to develop a socially engaged Buddhism which has become actualized in today's Engaged Buddhism movement.
Curculio flavescens
Creators: name: Frank W. Pelsue, Jr.
name: Zhang, Runzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Curculio
Curculio flavescens

description: Curculio flavescens (Roelofs)
Figs. 14–15, 35
description: Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 125-142 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on page 133, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900225
From birth associations to field stars: mapping the small-scale orbit distribution in the Galactic disc
Creators: name: Coronado, Johanna
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Trick, Wilma H.
name: El-Badry, Kareem
name: Rybizki, Jan
name: Xiang, Maosheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars born at the same time in the same place should have formed from gas of the same element composition. But most stars subsequently disperse from their birth siblings, in orbit and orbital phase, becoming 'field stars'. Here we explore and provide direct observational evidence for this process in the Milky Way disc, by quantifying the probability that orbit-similarity among stars implies indistinguishable metallicity. We define the orbit similarity among stars through their distance in action-angle space, $Δ(J,θ)$, and their abundance similarity simply by $Δ$[Fe/H]. Analyzing a sample of main sequence stars from Gaia DR2 and LAMOST, we find an excess of pairs with the same metallicity ($Δ\mathrm{[Fe/H]}<0.1$) that extends to remarkably large separations in $Δ(J,θ)$ that correspond to nearly 1 kpc distances. We assess the significance of this effect through a mock sample, drawn from a smooth and phase-mixed orbit distribution. Through grouping such star pairs into associations with a friend-of-friends algorithm linked by $Δ(J,θ)$, we find 100s of mono-abundance groups with $\ge 3$ (to $\gtrsim 20$) members; these groups -- some clusters, some spread across the sky -- are over an order-of-magnitude more abundant than expected for a smooth phase-space distribution, suggesting that we are witnessing the 'dissolution' of stellar birth associations into the field.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Practical-Oriented Approach to TVET Entrepreneurship Training
Creators: name: Ovchinnikova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: entrepreneurship
business skill
curriculum development
education and training opportunity

description: The purpose of the study is to find an answer to the question: “what extent teachers' knowledge of entrepreneurship affects the overall college ecosystem”. To achieve the main purpose, we used Longitudinal studies and make pilot projects in three colleges in Russia in different cities. Our research was conducted in several steps: (1) collecting the data to understand the weaknesses and needs of the target audience; (2) build the necessary competencies of teachers; (3) capture the opportunity to develop an ecosystem that can teach students with entrepreneurial competencies. The results of the research showed that the knowledge of entrepreneurship is crucial for teachers if they want to build a friendly ecosystem for students’ development. This study reaffirms and enriches the understanding of entrepreneurial learning in TVET organizations. With the help of this new educational program, we helped teachers to understand entrepreneurial learning (some of them want to be an entrepreneur after the pilot program) and students to gain the necessary competencies for future life and work.
SELFCHECKGPT: Zero-Resource Black-Box Hallucination Detection for Generative Large Language Models
Creators: name: Manakul, P
name: Liusie, A
name: Gales, MJF
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics
Year: 2023

description: Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 are capable of generating highly fluent responses to a wide variety of user prompts. However, LLMs are known to hallucinate facts and make non-factual statements which can undermine trust in their output. Existing fact-checking approaches either require access to the output probability distribution (which may not be available for systems such as ChatGPT) or external databases that are interfaced via separate, often complex, modules. In this work, we propose "SelfCheckGPT", a simple sampling-based approach that can be used to fact-check the responses of black-box models in a zero-resource fashion, i.e. without an external database. SelfCheckGPT leverages the simple idea that if an LLM has knowledge of a given concept, sampled responses are likely to be similar and contain consistent facts. However, for hallucinated facts, stochastically sampled responses are likely to diverge and contradict one another. We investigate this approach by using GPT-3 to generate passages about individuals from the WikiBio dataset, and manually annotate the factuality of the generated passages. We demonstrate that SelfCheckGPT can: i) detect non-factual and factual sentences; and ii) rank passages in terms of factuality. We compare our approach to several baselines and show that our approach has considerably higher AUC-PR scores in sentence-level hallucination detection and higher correlation scores in passage-level factuality assessment compared to grey-box methods.
Evaluating The Effect of Regional Trade Quota Policy on The Market Integration : A Case Study of The Indonesian Beef Industry
Creators: name: Utami, A.
name: Brummer, B.
name: Utami, A.
name: Brummer, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This paper aims at analyzing the effect of regional trade quota policy to the market integration in the Indonesian beef industry which combines both vertical and spatial analysis. A panel co-integration approach was employed using monthly data covering nine producer areas and 18 consumer areas during 2008 until 2014. The degree of market integration was analyzed by applying a panel heterogeneous model developed by Pesaran-Shin and Smith (1999) from 117 trade pairs. The results found that the quota policy has a significant effect in the adjustment process between prices along the supply chain in the whole trade pairs. The study also confirmed the significant effects of several other variables representing the trade cost, and the degree of self-sufficiency rate in explaining the transmission of prices. Acknowledgement :
Polariton fluids for analogue gravity physics
Creators: name: Jacquet, M. J.
name: Boulier, T.
name: Claude, F.
name: Maitre, A.
name: Cancellieri, E.
name: Adrados, C.
name: Amo, A.
name: Pigeon, S.
name: Glorieux, Q.
name: Bramati, A.
name: Giacobino, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analogue gravity enables the study of fields on curved spacetimes in the laboratory. There are numerous experimental platforms in which amplification at the event horizon or the ergoregion has been observed. Here, we demonstrate how optically generating a defect in a polariton microcavity enables the creation of one- and two-dimensional, transsonic fluid flows. We show that this highly tuneable method permits the creation of sonic horizons. Furthermore, we present a rotating geometry akin to the water-wave bathtub vortex. These experiments usher-in the possibility of observing stimulated as well as spontaneous amplification by the Hawking, Penrose and Zeld'ovich effects in fluids of light.
description: Accepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: special issue on Analogue Gravity. V3 with some typos corrected and amended abstract
Sartre and Nishitani: Toward developing a socially engaged Zen ethics
Creators: name: Park, Peter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This project is a comparative textual study of the ontologies and ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre and Nishitani Keiji in order to establish a basis for a socially engaged Zen Buddhist ethics as exemplified in the Engaged Buddhism movement. Initially, I develop a Sartrean ethics of fraternity based on a movement from independent self-centered personal freedom to an interdependent universal freedom. However, shortcomings of this Sartrean ethics are illustrated through examining Nishitani Keiji's Zen Buddhist philosophy of emptiness. Finally, Mahayana Buddhist philosophers including Vimalakirti, Nagarjuna, and Dogen are brought out to develop a socially engaged Buddhism which has become actualized in today's Engaged Buddhism movement.
Additional file 7 of Gut microbiota and age shape susceptibility to clostridial enteritis in lorikeets under human care
Creators: name: Minich, David
name: Madden, Christopher
name: Navarro, Mauricio A.
name: Glowacki, Leo
name: French-Kim, Kristen
name: Chan, Willow
name: Evans, Morgan V.
name: Soares, Kilmer
name: Mrofchak, Ryan
name: Madan, Rushil
name: Ballash, Gregory A.
name: LaPerle, Krista
name: Paul, Subhadeep
name: Vodovotz, Yael
name: Uzal, Francisco A.
name: Martinez, Margaret
name: Hausmann, Jennifer
name: Junge, Randall E.
name: Hale, Vanessa L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 7. Altered microbial diversity and composition in CZA lorikeets with enteritis. Microbial composition and diversity in healthy lorikeets, lorikeets with enteritis, and lorikeets that died or were euthanized due to enteritis (post-mortem). a) Microbial composition (Unweighted UniFrac) was significantly altered (PERMANOVA p = 0.001) and b) microbial diversity (Shannon Diversity Index) was significantly decreased (Kruskal-Wallis *p < 0.005, **p < 0.0005, ***p < 0.00001) in lorikeets with enteritis or post-mortem lorikeets. c) Taxa bar plots showing taxonomic distributions within healthy lorikeets, lorikeets with enteritis, and post-mortem lorikeets. Clostridium perfringens is denoted in orange and is found at signiciantly increased abundances in enteritis and post-mortem samples. (Also see Fig. 2.)
Moving to Despair? Internal Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan
Creators: name: Kosec, K.
name: Chen, J.
name: Mueller, V.
name: Kosec, K.
name: Chen, J.
name: Mueller, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase incomes, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of mental health by evaluating the impacts of internal migration on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique longitudinal study in rural Pakistan which surveyed individuals in 1991 and again in 2013 14. We account for selection into migration using covariate matching. Those who migrated during this period have roughly 35 to 40 percent higher consumption per adult equivalent, yet they are 6 percentage points less likely to report being in excellent health, 5 to 7 percentage points more likely to report having been sick in the last four weeks, and 12 to 14 percentage points less likely to report feeling either happy or calm. Our results suggest that deteriorating physical health coupled with feelings of relative deprivation underlie the disparity between economic and mental well-being. Thus, despite substantial monetary gains from migration, people may be happier and less mentally distressed remaining at home. If traditional market mechanisms cannot reduce psychic costs, it may be more constructive to address regional inequality by shifting production rather than workers across space. Acknowledgement :
Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Dual Gluon Mass in the Confining Region of QCD
Creators: name: Kumar, Alok
name: Parthasarathy, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dual Meissner Effect description of QCD in the confining region provides $\frac{1}{q^4}$ behaviour for the gluon propagator and involves the dual gluon mass $m$ as a parameter. This is used in the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the quarks in the infrared region to exhibit chiral symmetry breaking for light quarks. Using the light quark condensate as input, the dual gluon mass is determined and its importance in showing the asymptotic free behaviour of the extrinsic curvature coupling in the rigid QCD string is discussed.
description: 11 pages, Accepted for Publication in Phys.Lett.B
Entry, Exit and Transformation An research on the employment flexibility of the Rural Labor in China (1998-2015)
Creators: name: Zhang, T.
name: Zhang, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Based on nationally representative survey data, this paper investigates the mechanism of employment flexibility of rural labor in China. By analyzing the dynamic adjustment process (the entry and exit of different industries and sectors), we find that the new entering off-farm workers and off-farm workers exiting the non-agricultural industry/sector play a main role in the employment flexibility, rather than the off-farm workers smoothly transfer among different non-agricultural industries/sectors in the labor market. To explain the difficulty of rural laborers employment transformation, we establish the empirical model for multiple regression analysis and the estimation shows that the relative lack of human capital is still the main factor. Acknowledgement :
Perdita (Epimacrotera) nigriventris Timberlake 1954
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita nigriventris

description: Perdita (Epimacrotera) nigriventris Timberlake, 1954
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ 24.14 km north of San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, September 29, 1941]
This species spans from Arizona, USA to BCS. We reviewed 12 specimens including the allotype (♂), and three paratypes (2 ♀, 1 ♂) collected in the Central Desert, 15 mi. N. San Ignacio, BCS, and one paratype (♀) collected in the Gulf Coast region in San Pedro, BCS (CASC). See fig. 37.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Tugas dampak Virus Corona terhadap industri pariwisata
Creators: name: Yuatama, Ilham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140216 Tourism Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: 150604 Tourism Marketing
subject: 160513 Tourism Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: tugas resume