cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cooperative member commitment, trust and social pressure -- the role of members’ participation in the decision-making
Creators: name: Hao, J.
name: Hao, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Member commitment
subject: trust
subject: social pressure
subject: member participation

description: Though we can find the separate research of the antecedents of member commitment, there has been little systematic research into member commitment within agricultural cooperatives, especially the way how these antecedents (or correlates) affect member commitment. Using a sample of 391 farmer cooperative members in China, this study investigates whether trust and social pressure affect cooperative member commitment and if so, whether the effect is mediated by member participating in the decision-making process. Our study finds that trust is positively associated with three components of member commitment – affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment, while social pressure is positively related to normative commitment. Participation plays a partially mediating role between trust and social pressure and member commitment. Generally, these findings offer empirical evidence on the important role of cooperative chairman between members and Chinese cooperatives and on the influence of social pressure with Chinese characteristics in maintaining cooperative membership.
Corvus cyanopogon Wied
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Corvus
Corvus cyanopogon

description: Corvus cyanopogon Wied
Corvus cyanopogon Wied, 1821: 137 (Ribeirâo da Cajaseira, Bahia).
Now Cyanocorax cyanopogon (Wied, 1821). See Allen, 1889: 227; Hellmayr, 1934: 23; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 223; Dickinson, 2003: 506; and dos Anjos, 2009: 584.
SYNTYPES: AMNH 6773, juvenile female, ‘‘ Brazilien’ ’; AMNH 6774, male, ‘‘Brasilien, Provincia da Bahia,’’ Brazil. From the Maximilian Collection.
COMMENTS: In his original description, Wied noted that many specimens were shot, for the species was not shy. Allen (1889: 227) listed these two specimens as syntypes of C. cyanopogon. They were formerly mounted. There is also a syntype in RMNH (Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 64).
Hellmayr (1934: 23) identified the type locality as the Rio Cachoeira, one of the headwaters of the Rio Ilhéos, Bahia.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 114, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
Deep near-infrared observations of W3 Main star forming region
Creators: name: Ojha, D. K.
name: Tamura, M.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Fukagawa, M.
name: Sugitani, K.
name: Nagashima, C.
name: Nagayama, T.
name: Nagata, T.
name: Sato, S.
name: Pickles, A. J.
name: Ogura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a deep JHKs-band imaging survey of the W3 Main star forming region, using the near-infrared camera, SIRIUS, mounted on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope. The near-infrared survey covers an area of ~ 24 sq. arcmin with 10 sigma limiting magnitudes of ~ 19.0, 18.1, and 17.3 in J, H, and Ks-band, respectively. We construct JHK color-color and J/J-H and K/H-K color-magnitude diagrams to identify young stellar objects and estimate their masses. Based on these color-color and color-magnitude diagrams, a rich population of YSOs is identified which is associated with the W3 Main region. A large number of previously unreported red sources (H-K > 2) have also been detected around W3 Main. We argue that these red stars are most probably pre-main sequence stars with intrinsic color excesses. We find that the slope of the Ks-band luminosity function of W3 Main is lower than the typical values reported for the young embedded clusters. The derived slope of the KLF is the same as that found by Megeath et al. (1996), from which analysis by Megeath et al. indicates that the W3 Main region has an age in the range of 0.3--1 Myr. Based on the comparison between models of pre-main sequence stars with the observed color-magnitude diagram we find that the stellar population in W3 Main is primarily composed of low mass pre-main sequence stars. We also report the detection of isolated young stars with large infrared excesses which are most probably in their earliest evolutionary phases.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures in JPEG format. Accepted for the publication in ApJ. The preprint is also available at http://www.tifr.res.in/~ojha/W3Main.html
Gender Analysis Of The Access To Factors Of Rice Production In Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Kinkpe, T.
name: Fiamohe, R.
name: Saito, K.
name: Kinkpe, T.
name: Fiamohe, R.
name: Saito, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land and mechanization
subject: agricultural knowledge
subject: chemical inputs
subject: rice cropping in SSA
subject: Gender

description: This paper aims to assess the access to rice production factors in SSA and its determinants. The data were collected from 268 farmers. The results show that male farmers had larger land for rice cultivation than females. They had lower access to extension service, chemical fertilizer and mechanization for land preparation than females. Both males and females used children for bird and rat control. The experience, the membership to associations, the education and the cropping system are the determinants. Holistic approach taking into account gender and youth is needed for enhancing the access to various rice production factors in SSA.
Theory of Analogous Force on Number Sets
Creators: name: Canessa, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general statistical thermodynamic theory that considers given sequences of x-integers to play the role of particles of known type in an isolated elastic system is proposed. By also considering some explicit discrete probability distributions p_{x} for natural numbers, we claim that they lead to a better understanding of probabilistic laws associated with number theory. Sequences of numbers are treated as the size measure of finite sets. By considering p_{x} to describe complex phenomena, the theory leads to derive a distinct analogous force f_{x} on number sets proportional to $(\frac{\partial p_{x}}{\partial x} )_{T}$ at an analogous system temperature T. In particular, this yields to an understanding of the uneven distribution of integers of random sets in terms of analogous scale invariance and a screened inverse square force acting on the significant digits. The theory also allows to establish recursion relations to predict sequences of Fibonacci numbers and to give an answer to the interesting theoretical question of the appearance of the Benford's law in Fibonacci numbers. A possible relevance to prime numbers is also analyzed.
description: RevTeX, PostScript Fig, To Appear Phys. A
Separating Bohr denseness from measurable recurrence
Creators: name: Griesmer, John T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B30

description: We prove that there is a set of integers $A$ having positive upper Banach density whose difference set $A-A:=\{a-b:a,b\in A\}$ does not contain a Bohr neighborhood of any integer, answering a question asked by Bergelson, Hegyvári, Ruzsa, and the author, in various combinations. In the language of dynamical systems, this result shows that there is a set of integers $S$ which is dense in the Bohr topology of $\mathbb Z$ and which is not a set of measurable recurrence. Our proof yields the following stronger result: if $S\subseteq \mathbb Z$ is dense in the Bohr topology of $\mathbb Z$, then there is a set $S'\subseteq S$ such that $S'$ is dense in the Bohr topology of $\mathbb Z$ and for all $m\in \mathbb Z,$ the set $(S'-m)\setminus \{0\}$ is not a set of measurable recurrence.
description: 20 pages
Examining the relationship between biofuel and food crops markets in Brazil
Creators: name: Silva, E.
name: Lima, R.
name: Silva, E.
name: Lima, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: The objective of this article is to discuss the relationship between biofuels and food crop markets in Brazil, from August 2004 to August 2017. Prices of ethanol and food commodities (sugar, soybean and corn) were used to estimate a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The system also included Real/Dollar exchange rate, policy and seasonal dummies, and an exogenous variable representing international oil price. The results suggest the occurrence of linkages between biofuel and food commodity markets in Brazil. Thus, it is crucial that the development of public policies to pursue the objective of increasing the supply of renewable and less pollutant fuel do not conflict with the goals of food security.
Where is the butter? Tracking recent butter and curd price changes across major milk producing regions in Poland
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
name: Klepacka, A.M.
name: Florkowski, W.J.
name: Revoredo-Giha, C.
name: Klepacka, A.M.
name: Florkowski, W.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper analyzes prices of two important food products of consumers in Poland, namely butter and curd to establish market integration of these two very different products and the recent large increase of butter prices. Poland is the fourht largest milk producer in the European Union and a butter exporter. The analysis focusos on two major milk producing regions. The analysis uses series of weekly butter and curd prices for each region for the period from January 5, 2014 to November 5, 2017. Addtionally, an indicator of the phasing of the EU milk quota system is included in the analysis. The modeling approach verifies the presence of "one price" by testing the series for stationarity and cointegration confirming the latter. Ultimately, the analysis uses the Vector Error Correction model and the first-differences of observations confirming very strong spatial integratoin of the two regional market. Interestingly, the markets for both butter and curd in two regions remaind strongly integrated although butter is subject to inetrnational trade, wheres curd is exclusively sold on the dmoestic market and its prices remaind mostly unaffected by the butter prices fluctuations.
Towards All Loop Supergravity Amplitudes on $AdS_5 \times S^5$
Creators: name: Bissi, A.
name: Fardelli, G.
name: Georgoudis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the four point function of the superconformal primary of the stress-tensor multiplet in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang Mills, at large 't Hooft coupling and in a large $N$ expansion. This observable is holographically dual to four graviton amplitudes in type IIB supergravity on $AdS_5 \times S^5$. We construct the most trascendental piece of the correlator at order $N^{-6}$ and compare it with the flat space limit of the corresponding two loops amplitude. This comparison allows us to conjecture structures of the correlator/amplitude which should be present at any loop order.
description: 7 pages. V2: reformatted for Phys. Rev. D, accepted version
A Simple Statistical Model for Analysis of QGP-droplet (Fireball) Formation
Creators: name: Ramanathan, R.
name: Mathur, Y. K.
name: Gupta, K. K.
name: Jha, Agam K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the density of states for quarks and gluons using the `Thomas - Fermi model' for atoms and the `Bethe model' for nucleons as templates. With parameters to take care of the plasma (hydrodynamical) features of the QGP with a thermal potential for the interaction, we find a window in the parametric space of the model where observable QGP droplets of $ \sim $ 5 fm radius can occur with transition temperature in the range 140 MeV to 250 MeV. By matching with the expectations of Lattice Gauge estimates of the QGP-hadron transitions, we can further narrow the window, thereby restricting the allowed values of the flow-parameters of the model.
description: LaTex 11 pages, 8 figures
Quantum direct cause across the Cherenkov threshold in circuit QED
Creators: name: Lin, Jhen-Dong
name: Chen, Yueh-Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Cherenkov radiation triggered by qubit acceleration simulated by superconducting circuit. By analyzing the radiation probability, we confirm the existence of Cherenkov speed threshold, implying that simulating superluminal qubit motion is possible for such a scenario. A question immediately arises: Is such motion compatible with the causality principle? To address the question, we perform a causality test on the simulating system based on the recently developed notion of temporal quantum correlations, pseudo-density matrix and temporal quantum steering. The results suggest that single-mode approximation breaks down even when the system is restricted in weak coupling regime.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Cyanocitta pulchra Lawrence
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta pulchra

description: Cyanocitta pulchra Lawrence
Cyanocitta pulchra Lawrence, 1876: 163 (Ecuador, Quito).
Now Cyanolyca pulchra (Lawrence, 1876). See Hellmayr, 1934: 46–47; Blake and Vaurie, 1962; Dickinson, 2003: 505; and dos Anjos, 2009: 575.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 42301, sex?, ‘‘Quito,’’ Ecuador, undated, from A.H. Alexander. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.
COMMENTS: When Lawrence named this species, he apparently had the single specimen, which he had obtained from A.H. Alexander, a New York taxidermist (Wynne, 1969: 4). A second specimen was cataloged as AMNH 42302, also a ‘‘Quito’’ specimen obtained from Alexander and also undated. I was unable to find this specimen in the collection but do not believe that Lawrence had more than one specimen when he named pulchra.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 113, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
The Effectiveness of High Sugar Warning Labels on Breakfast Cereals
Creators: name: Allen, S.
name: Goddard, E.
name: Allen, S.
name: Goddard, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Many approaches have been suggested in various countries to improve the public’s diet, especially that of children. One potential mechanism to influence food choice is to implement warning labels on less healthy food products, specifically those consumed frequently by children, to help parents make more informed food purchases. The objective of this study is to determine whether an explicit, text-based warning label would affect the breakfast cereal purchases of parents who have children aged 8-12 in the home. We explore how their responsiveness to a warning label is affected by their individual characteristics, in particular nutrition knowledge, and how receiving information about the warning label influences their choices. Our findings indicate that although parents would be less likely to choose a product with a warning label, there is significant heterogeneity in responsiveness, and in many cases people are WTP more to get a desired brand than to avoid a warning label.
Additional file 5 of Causes of short birth interval (kunika) in Bauchi State, Nigeria: systematizing local knowledge with fuzzy cognitive mapping
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Ivan
name: Umaira Ansari
name: Omer, Khalid
name: Yagana Gidado
name: Baba, Muhammad Chadi
name: Adamu Ibrahim Gamawa
name: Andersson, Neil
name: Cockcroft, Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Full text in Spanish version.
title: Inhabiting the "zone of uninhabitability"
Creators: name: Ilić, Dejan
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: This thesis consists of four parts: in the first part, Judith Butler’s theory on subject and subjection is analyzed and interpreted within the framework of classical liberal tradition represented through the work of Isaiah Berlin, as well as within the anthropological and psychoanalytical thought of Mary Douglas and Julia Kristeva in order to outline the space for liberty within the world of socially constructed subjects.
 Butler’s insights on socially constructed identities and possibility of freedom then serve as a ground for interpretation of three works of literature which are usually considered almost unapproachable: Samuel Becket’s Unnamable, David Albahari’s Koan of the Story and Judita Salgo’s Road to Birobidzan. The aim is to demonstrate that some theoretical problems of interpretation of works of literature could be solved within the theoretical contexts that are broader than the context of literary criticism itself. For example, if we are talking about the features of a narrator or other fictional characters, we implicitly or explicitly assume a whole set of definitions of what the person, self, or identity is. On the other hand, once we choose a broader theoretical framework, we ought to use all of those tools developed within literary theory for the purposes of interpretation. At the beginning of the chapter on Beckett’s The Unnamable it is said that we could not use “old-fashioned” tools to interpret twentieth-century fiction. However, at the end of that chapter it turns out that it is possible to interpret The Unnamable in terms of the “classical” knowledge of literary criticism and particularly within the genre framework of the novel of formation. It becomes possible to do this by choosing an appropriate, broader theoretical framework, in this case - Butler’s theoretical discussion on the possibility of agency of social constructed subjects.
Cellular automata and Lyapunov exponents
Creators: name: Tisseur, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37B15;37A35;37A25

description: In this article we give a new definition of some analog of Lyapunov exponents for cellular automata . Then for a shift ergodic and cellular automaton invariant probability measure we establish an inequality between the entropy of the automaton, the entropy of the shift and the Lyapunov exponent.
Diversity of secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans Supplemental Information
Creators: name: Drott, Milton
name: Bastos, Rafael Wesley
name: Rokas, Antonis
name: Ries, Laure N.A.
name: Gabaldon, Toni
name: Goldman, Gustavo H
name: Keller, Nancy P.
name: Greco, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60505 Mycology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1: Secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters identified in the A4 reference genome of Aspergillus nidulans. Table S2: Accession numbers of the contig determined to contain the viridicatumtoxin biosynthetic gene cluster in Aspergillusspp. and Penicilliumspp. Table S3: List of the major secondary metabolites produced by the three isolates; Y = detected, N = undetected, *predicted compound. Figure S1: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for austinol. (B) Mass spectrum of austinol. Figure S2: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for sterigmatocystin. (B) Mass spectrum of sterigmatocystin. Figure S3: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for emericellamide A. (B) Mass spectrum of emericellamide A. Figure S4: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate and from a known producer of viridicatumtoxin, selecting the mass for viridicatumtoxin. The red asterisk indicates the peak corresponding to viridicatumtoxin. (B) Mass spectrum of viridicatumtoxin.
Unfair trading practices in the dairy farm sector: Insights from an EU field survey
Creators: name: Di Marcantonio, F.
name: Ciaian, P.
name: Castellanos, V.
name: Di Marcantonio, F.
name: Ciaian, P.
name: Castellanos, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Unfair trading practices
subject: food chain
subject: dairy farmers
subject: EU

description: This paper examines the incidence of unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the dairy food supply chain. Drawing insights from data collected through a field survey among dairy farmers in five selected EU regions (France, Germany, Poland and Spain) we seek to understand the presence of UTPs across different stages of contract formulation and execution. The survey data were collected in 2017 and gathered 1248 observations. We identify a total of 29 types of UTPs across all different phases of contract development. Results show that 93% of surveyed farmers have reported at least one UTP, whereas 46% of surveyed farmers have reported at least three UTPs. The highest share of UTPs was found in the contract content followed by contract negotiation and contract execution. Further, our results suggest that there is not a strong relationship between the occurrence of UTPs and contract completeness although it is heterogeneous between studied regions.
Hilbert space built over connections with a non-compact structure group
Creators: name: Okolow, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantization of general relativity in terms of SL(2,C)-connections (i.e. in terms of the complex Ashtekar variables) is technically difficult because of the non-compactness of SL(2,C). The difficulties concern the construction of a diffeomorphism invariant Hilbert space structure on the space of cylindrical functions of the connections. We present here a 'toy' model of such a Hilbert space built over connections whose structure group is the group of real numbers. We show that in the case of any Hilbert space built analogously over connections with any non-compact structure group (this includes some models presented in the literature) there exists an obstacle which does not allow to define a *-representation of cylindrical functions on the Hilbert space by the multiplication map which is the only known way to define a diffeomorphism invariant representation of the functions.
description: 45 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e, the discussion of results extended
UBC Bookstore Plastic Bag Alternative
Creators: name: Ali, Ali
name: Ng, Melanie
name: Wang, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Single-use plastic bags have become a common household item since the 1970s. These are supplied nearly everywhere from grocery stores, to clothing stores and bookstores. Used to hold groceries, trash, and many other everyday items, they are immensely useful. Single use plastic bags however, have a destructive impact on the environment. UBC is a leader in global sustainability with UBC achieving a 34 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 2007, a reduction of campus water consumption by 50 percent since 1999, and natural gas consumption by 30 percent since 2014. In 2014, UBC created a Zero Waste Action Plan aiming to increase waste diversion towards an 80% target, and reduce waste disposal each year. However, the UBC Bookstore’s plastic bag usage has been increasing more than 100% since 2012. Despite trying to reduce the usage and offering other alternatives, the purchase and usage of plastic bags continues to increase in the Bookstore. The UBC Bookstore is considered to be one of the biggest patrons of single use plastic carrier bags on UBC campus. Therefore, implementing an environmentally friendly, affordable alternative to single use carrier bags is an important change that will align with UBC’s Zero Waste Action Plan. The purpose of our research was to identify an alternative to the single use plastic carrier bags offered currently at the UBC Bookstore. The alternative to the single use carrier bags needs to have minimal environmental impact and also meet the needs of the UBC Bookstore’s customers. To inform our decisions a thorough understanding of the current bag alternatives are required through a meta-analysis. A meta-analysis was done through UBC’s online database and Google Scholar. 3 governmental documents and 2 peer-reviewed papers were found to be used for this project. Findings from the literature reviews have provided us with insights regarding alternatives options suitable for the UBC Bookstore. Overall, the best ‘sustainable’ alternative found was to reduce or eliminate the usage of bags itself, and maximise the number of times reused. This report will provide recommendations for future research and actions taken by UBC Bookstore. The following includes an experimental design to determine how a psychological intervention can reduce the consumption of single-use carrier bags among customers, and further research surrounding carrier bag alternatives. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Cyanocitta stelleri subsp. ridgwayi Miller and Griscom
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta stelleri
Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi miller and griscom

description: Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi Miller and Griscom
Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi Miller and Griscom, 1925: 7 (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala).
Now Cyanocitta stelleri ridgwayi Miller and Griscom, 1925. See Hellmayr 1934: 65; Phillips, 1986: 44–45; Greene et al, 1998: 3–5; Dickinson, 2003: 507; and dos Anjos, 2009: 568–569.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 42316, [female by measurements], collected at Volcan de Fuego, 14.28N, 90.57W (Selander and Vaurie, 1962), Sacatepéquez /Chimaltenango, Guatemala, on 18 September 1859, by Osbert Salvin (no. 1373). From the Salvin Collection (no. 20440) via the George N. Lawrence Collection.
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. In addition to the holotype, Miller and Griscom examined four paratypes, three males and one female. Paratypes in AMNH: Quetzaltenango, AMNH 399373 (Dwight no. 56411, Smith no. 19015), 11 November 1919, AMNH 399374 (56413, 19206), 26 November 1919, AMNH 399375 (56412, 19117), 18 November 1919, three males, all collected by Austin Paul Smith. I did not find the female paratype at AMNH, either in the catalog or in the collection.
Hellmayr (1934: 65) expressed doubts about the validity of ridgwayi, and Phillips (1986: 44–45) and Dickinson (2003: 507) did not recognize it; Greene et al. (1998: 3–5) and dos Anjos (2009: 568–569) did recognize it.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on pages 112-113, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
Calculation of coupling constant g_phi-pi-gamma in QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Aydin, Coskun
name: Yilmaz, A. Hakan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling constant of g_phi-pi-gamma decay is calculated in the method of QCD sum rules. A comparison of our prediction on the coupling constant with the result obtained from analysis of the experimental data is performed.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Understanding the importance of off-farm employment for rural development: Evidence from Senegal
Creators: name: Van Hoyweghen, K.
name: Van Den Broeck, G.
name: Maertens, M.
name: Van Hoyweghen, K.
name: Van Den Broeck, G.
name: Maertens, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Farm Management
International Development

description: This paper uses household-level panel data from two survey rounds in Senegal, to estimate the impact of rural off-farm wage employment on household welfare and rural development. Our case-study contains a dynamic off-farm wage employment sector, including agricultural and non-agricultural, casual and yearround employment. We use four welfare indicators, household income, poverty, variability of income, and vulnerability, and two econometric models. Overall, we find that off-farm wage employment increases the welfare of rural households. Our results refute the idea that casual employment is not able to lift the poor and vulnerable out of poverty. In addition, casual and short-term employment decreases the variability of income, which implies an income-smoothing effects for rural households facing downwards shocks and liquidity constraints. We find that when households are casual employed over a longer period of time, they experience a self-employment income growth. This can be due to knowledge spill-over effects, investment effects, or a combination of both. We are carefully positive about the positive impact casual employment can have on rural development. Our results imply that policymakers should take into account agricultural and casual wage employment, as these are accessible for poor households and our results indicate that it can improve their welfare.
Diversity of secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans supplemental information
Creators: name: Drott, Milton
name: Bastos, Rafael Wesley
name: Rokas, Antonis
name: Ries, Laure N.A.
name: Gabaldon, Toni
name: Goldman, Gustavo H
name: Keller, Nancy P.
name: Greco, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60505 Mycology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1: Secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters identified in the A4 reference genome of Aspergillus nidulans. Table S2: Accession numbers of the contig determined to contain the viridicatumtoxin biosynthetic gene cluster in Aspergillusspp. and Penicilliumspp. Table S3: List of the major secondary metabolites produced by the three isolates; Y = detected, N = undetected, *predicted compound. Figure S1: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for austinol. (B) Mass spectrum of austinol. Figure S2: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for sterigmatocystin. (B) Mass spectrum of sterigmatocystin. Figure S3: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate, selecting the mass for emericellamide A. (B) Mass spectrum of emericellamide A. Figure S4: (A) UHPLC-HRMS extracted ion chromatogram of the crude extracts for each isolate and from a known producer of viridicatumtoxin, selecting the mass for viridicatumtoxin. The red asterisk indicates the peak corresponding to viridicatumtoxin. (B) Mass spectrum of viridicatumtoxin.
La qualité du lait a-t-elle un prix ? Une estimation hédonique de la valeur des attributs spécifiques du lait de vache
Is there a price for milk quality? A hedonic function estimate of dairy milk specific attributes.
Creators: name: DESBOIS, Dominique
name: DESBOIS, Dominique
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2112
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: qualité du lait
subject: régression hédonique
subject: signes de qualité
subject: Réseau d’Information Comptable Agricole
subject: France

description: Dans le contexte d’une fin programmée du système des quotas laitiers, la valorisation du lait est une variable clé de la rentabilité des exploitations laitières. Le lait de vache tire sa valeur des différents produits de sa transformation. Les signes d’origine et de qualité constituent un facteur majeur de différenciation pour les spécialités fromagères mais aussi pour le beurre et la crème. Ainsi, la valorisation du lait dépend de sa composition mais aussi d’attributs qualitatifs du produit laitier ayant trait à son origine et sa typicité. Basé sur le Réseau d’Information Comptable Agricole (RICA), ce travail a donc pour objectif d’estimer la valeur implicite pour le producteur des attributs quantitatifs et qualitatifs du lait au moyen d’une méthodologie de régression hédonique grâce à des données de panel dans une période de forte variation du prix de ce produit (2006-2008). Sur cette base, nous donnons des estimations des prix implicites de la matière grasse et de la matière protéique, ainsi que la valorisation des différents signes officiels et professionnels de qualité compte tenu des contextes régionaux de production et de transformation étudiés.
Additional file 1 of Point-of-care detection of lactate in cerebrospinal fluid
Creators: name: Stephani, C.
name: A. H. K. Choi
name: O. Moerer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Pearson correlation plot demonstrating the correlation between 512 measurements of glucose in CSF and serum in mmol/l.
Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paradisaeidae
Parotia
Parotia duivenbodei

description: Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild
Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild, 1900b: 100 (Dutch New Guinea).
Now considered a hybrid Parotia sefilata X Lophorina superba. See Rothschild, 1911: 355, pl. 5; Hartert, 1919: 128; Stresemann, 1930: 12; Mayr, 1962d: 204; Gilliard, 1969: 64–65; Fuller, 1995: 80–85; and Frith and Beehler, 1998: 512– 513, pl. 14 (7).
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679117, [adult male], collecting locality unknown, purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Rothschild had a single specimen. While a specimen of this form in MNHN was said to come from inland of Yaour (Waar) Island, this was not the case with Rothschild’s specimen. Van Renesse van Duivenbode had many bases of operation along the north coast of New Guinea from which he regularly collected not only natural history items but any products of the country that were marketable.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 111, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
A new semiempirical formula for exotic cluster decays of nuclei
Creators: name: Balasubramaniam, M.
name: Kumarasamy, S.
name: Arunachalam, N.
name: Gupta, Raj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new semiempirical formula, with only three parameters, is proposed for cluster decay half-lives. The parameters of the formula are obtained by making a least square fit to the available experimental data. The calculated half-lives are compared with an other model-independent scaling law proposed earlier by Horoi {\it et al}. Also, the calculated results of this formula are compared with the recent results of the preformed cluster model for $^{12}$C and $^{14}$C emissions from different deformed and superdeformed Nd and Gd parents. The results are in good agreement with experiments as well as other models.
description: 3 figures
Systematic literature review of the global burden of illness of mantle cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Neerav Monga
name: Garside, Jamie
name: Quigley, Joan
name: Hudson, Moira
name: O’Donovan, Peter
name: O’Rourke, John
name: Tapprich, Christoph
name: Parisi, Lori
name: Davids, Matthew S.
name: Tam, Constantine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Background: Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a rare and aggressive disease, accounts for approximately 5% of all B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. Evidence on the burden of this disease, for patients and healthcare providers, is scarce. Methods: Four systematic literature reviews were developed to identify epidemiological, real-world clinical, economic and humanistic burden data on patients with MCL. Electronic databases searched included MEDLINE and Embase, NHS EED and Econlit. Results: Eight epidemiological studies, 19 clinical burden, 2 economic impact and 0 quality of life studies were identified. The range of standardized MCL incidence rates was 0.1–1.27/100,000. Overall survival rates of patients at 3 years differed by age at diagnosis (≤65 years: 76–81%, >65 years: 46–64%) and disease stage (stage I: 73–80%, stage IV: 48–53%). Outcomes were poorer in previously treated patients, and those with later stage or blastoid disease, and improved with more recent diagnosis/treatment. Hospitalization is a major contributor to healthcare cost and differs by therapy toxicity. Conclusions: We identified significant data gaps for many G20 countries for epidemiology, real-world clinical, economic and humanistic burden. These literature reviews demonstrate the ongoing unmet need for MCL patients globally. Future research to further understand the real-world impact of MCL is needed along with new therapeutic options to improve patient outcomes.
Hypergraph min-cuts from quantum entropies
Creators: name: Walter, Michael
name: Witteveen, Freek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The min-cut function of weighted hypergraphs and the von Neumann entropy of pure quantum states are both symmetric submodular functions. In this note, we explain this coincidence by proving that the min-cut function of any weighted hypergraph can be approximated (up to an overall rescaling) by the entropies of quantum states known as stabilizer states. This implies that the min-cuts of hypergraphs are constrained by quantum entropy inequalities, and it shows that the recently defined hypergraph cones are contained in the quantum stabilizer entropy cones, as has been conjectured in the recent literature.
description: 5 pages
Frustrated Kondo impurity triangle: A simple model of deconfinement
Creators: name: König, Elio J.
name: Coleman, Piers
name: Komijani, Yashar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concepts of deconfinement and topological order are of great current interest for quantum information science and for our understanding of quantum materials. Here, we introduce a simple model of three antiferromagnetically coupled Kondo impurities, a Kondo triangle, which can be used to further extend the application of these concepts to electronic systems. We show that, by tuning the magnetic frustration, the Kondo triangle undergoes a quantum phase transition between two phases of unbroken symmetry, signaling a phase transition beyond the Landau paradigm. We demonstrate that the frustrated spin liquid phase is described by a three-channel Kondo (3CK) fixed point and thus displays an irrational ground state degeneracy. Using an Abrikosov pseudofermion representation, this quantum state is categorized by an emergent U(1) gauge field and its projective symmetry group. The gauge theory is deconfining in the sense that a miniature Wilson loop orders and topological defects (instantons in the gauge field) are expelled. This phase persists in the presence of moderate Kondo screening until proliferation of topological defects leads to a quantum phase transition to an unfrustrated Fermi liquid phase. Based on this evidence, we propose that the 3CK phase displays topological order in a similar sense as gapless spin liquids.
description: 8 pages with 4 figures + Appendices
A study of HI-selected galaxies in the Hercules cluster
Creators: name: Iglesias-Páramo, J.
name: van Driel, W.
name: Duc, P. -A.
name: Papaderos, P.
name: Vílchez, J. M.
name: Cayatte, V.
name: Balkowski, C.
name: O'Neil, K.
name: Dickey, J.
name: Hernández, H.
name: Thuan, T. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study is aimed at a sample of 22 galaxies detected in the blind VLA HI survey of the Hercules cluster by Dickey (1997), 18 of which were selected on an HI line width smaller than 270 km/s and 4 others with only tentative optical counterparts on the Palomar Sky Survey. Sensitive single-dish HI line spectra were obtained for 20 of them, and for one (47-154) the VLA detection was not confirmed. Optical surface photometry was obtained of 10 objects, for 8 of which optical spectroscopy was obtained as well. Based on various selection criteria, two (ce-143 and ne-204) can be classified as dwarfs. The objects of which optical observations were made show star formation properties similar to those of published samples of actively star forming galaxies, and approximately half of them have properties intermediate between those of dwarf galaxies and low-luminosity disc galaxies. No optical redshifts could be obtained for two of the galaxies (sw-103 and sw-194) and their physical association with the HI clouds detected at their positions therefore remains uncertain. Unique among the objects is the Tidal Dwarf Galaxy ce-061 in a tail of the IC 1182 merger system.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Some properties of cellular automata with equicontinuity points
Creators: name: Blanchard, Francois
name: Tisseur, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37A05;37A60;37B15

description: We investigate topological and ergodic properties of cellular automata having equicontinuity points. In this class surjectivity on a transitive SFT implies existence of a dense set of periodic points. Our main result is that under the action of such an automaton any shift ergodic measure converges in Cesaro Mean.
Toward a statistical mechanics of four letter words
Creators: name: Stephens, Greg J.
name: Bialek, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider words as a network of interacting letters, and approximate the probability distribution of states taken on by this network. Despite the intuition that the rules of English spelling are highly combinatorial (and arbitrary), we find that maximum entropy models consistent with pairwise correlations among letters provide a surprisingly good approximation to the full statistics of four letter words, capturing ~92% of the multi-information among letters and even "discovering" real words that were not represented in the data from which the pairwise correlations were estimated. The maximum entropy model defines an energy landscape on the space of possible words, and local minima in this landscape account for nearly two-thirds of words used in written English.
Coherence Based Model Preiidctions for Galactic Spiral Arm Spacing, Evolution and Minor Spiral Arms
Creators: name: Thavarajah, Rogan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of spiral arm structure and evolution in the Milky Way, M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy), and M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy), based on the coherence-dark coherence resonance model. The study provides high-precision predictions for major spiral arm spacing, matching observed data within <5% deviation.

It also introduces spiral arm phasing and dephasing cycles, predicting that arms periodically fade and reform every ~500 million years (Myr) due to coherence energy dynamics. Observational evidence for such cycles is discussed, along with forecasted phase shifts in specific galaxies.

Additionally, the paper predicts the existence of minor spiral arms at specific radial intervals (e.g., 3.8–4.2 kpc in M51) that remain undetected in current surveys. These minor arms result from higher-order resonance nodes and are prime targets for JWST, ALMA, and Vera Rubin Observatory observations.

This work combines spatial and temporal modeling of spiral arms, providing a testable, predictive framework that addresses long-standing challenges in galactic structure theory.