cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Embracing Difference in Intersex Variations.
Creators: name: Kamoun, Camilia
name: Dalke, Katharine B
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description:
US medical providers have historically tried to prevent the harms of stigma by “normalizing” the sex of children with intersex variations/differences of sex development (I/DSD), also called variations of sex characteristics (VSC). Meanwhile, adults with I/DSD have reported suffering resulting from even well-meaning pediatric protocols. Revised care models, intended to be informed by bioethics, were designed with the intention to avoid this suffering. However, if clinical ethics cannot imagine a future in which sex diversity is accepted and affirmed, clinical care risks enacting the future it aims to avert: an adult struggling with trauma, shame, and internalized stigma. US intersex adults have reported poor general and mental health and sexual well-being. In a community survey of US adults with I/DSD, 61.7% screened positive for depressive symptoms, and 31.8% reported a lifetime suicide attempt, markedly higher than the US lifetime prevalence of 4.6%. In service of the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s goal to “support efforts to raise resilient individuals who have genital differences,” a paradigm that radically destigmatizes I/DSD is overdue.
Specialty Crop Participation in Federal Risk Management Programs
Creators: name: Raszap Skorbiansky, Sharon
name: Astill, Gregory
name: Rosch, Stephanie
name: Higgins, Elizabeth
name: Ifft, Jennifer
name: Rickard, Bradley
name: Raszap Skorbiansky, Sharon
name: Astill, Gregory
name: Rosch, Stephanie
name: Higgins, Elizabeth
name: Ifft, Jennifer
name: Rickard, Bradley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: specialty crops
subject: risk management
subject: crop insurance
subject: noninsured crop disaster assistance
subject: organics
subject: Federal Crop Insurance Program
subject: FCIP
subject: Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
subject: NAP
subject: USDA
subject: Economic Research Service
subject: ERS

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers various risk management products to farmers through the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP), and for crops in counties where FCIP is not available, through the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP). All FCIP insurance products are actuarially sound (total premiums paid are calculated to equal or exceed total claims paid), requiring a substantial amount of data to price. Only some counties generate sufficient data to create products for specialty crops like fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture, and nursery crops. This study characterizes recent changes in FCIP and NAP use by specialty crop farmers, compares differences among conventional and organic farms, and investigates the reasons some farmers choose whether to participate in these programs. Specialty crop growers increased the value of their crops insured by FCIP products from about $12 billion in 2011 to about $21 billion in 2020 (not adjusted for inflation). In 2017, FCIP or NAP covered a significant portion of acreage for many crops.
Innowacyjne kultury organizacyjne w grupach producentów rolnych
Innovative Organizational Cultures in Agricultural Producer Groups
Creators: name: Domagalska-Grędys, Marta
name: Domagalska-Grędys, Marta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: innovative organizational culture
subject: conditions of innovative culture within agriculture producer groups
subject: functional and interpretative paradigm

description: The primary aim of the research was to determine the conditions of four innovative organizational cultures within the network of agricultural producer groups (ad hoc, incubator, daredevils, performance). The objectives of auxiliary research included determination of dominant values and patterns of behavior within innovative organizational cultures of agricultural producer groups. For the purpose of achievement of the above mentioned objectives the perspective of functionalist and interpretative paradigm was applied, including the principle of triangulation (methodological and theoretical). The context of innovation culture was formed by quantitative data (indicators of group dynamics, legal form, number of innovations, the state of group relations) as well as qualitative data (opinions of the participants of different cultures on the significance of the terms “innovation” and “innovative measures” constraints / drivers of innovation; identification of stimulating innovation in agricultural producer groups, production profile). The research was conducted by means of a questionnaire conducted among agricultural producer groups in Małopolska in 2016. The analyses confirmed the most frequent occurrence of innovation in two cultures: daredevils and effectiveness. Innovation constraints of mainly external nature and the main initiators of innovation in agricultural producer groups were identified. The cultures studied were focused on priority tasks and recognition of any “action” as opposed to a total lack of commitment. The research also revealed dichotomous behaviour of members of the culture of innovation, reflected in both conservative and modern actions. The results show that the development (alteration) of the existing cultures can follow along revolutionary and evolutionary patterns.
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties?
Creators: name: Werner, Annika
name: Heinisch, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: While the functions of political parties have been extensively defined in the political science literature, it is still an open question whether citizens attribute the same roles to parties. Established theories of parties emphasize their linkage functions geared towards representation or effectiveness. This article investigates where citizens locate parties within these perspectives and whether their understanding of party functions is connected to their democratic values, preference for democratic institutions, and evaluations of the democratic systems. We base our exploratory investigation on original data from a survey run in the UK and Australia in 2020, which includes novel survey instruments measuring citizens’ preferences for party behaviour. The findings show that citizens rate both representation and effectiveness highly and that their preferences are unrelated to their support for democracy. Significant effects of preferences for representative vs direct democracy and the evaluation of their country’s democracy indicate that dissatisfied citizens are more likely to value representation. Importantly, we identify a large group of respondents who cannot choose between representation and effectiveness, which has theoretical and measurement implications.
Electromagnetic nucleon-delta transition in the perturbative chiral quark model
Creators: name: Pumsa-ard, K.
name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Cheedket, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the perturbative chiral quark model to the gamma N -> Delta transition. The four momentum dependence of the respective transverse helicity amplitudes A(1/2) and A(3/2) is determined at one loop in the pseudoscalar Goldstone boson fluctuations. Inclusion of excited states in the quark propagator is shown to result in a reasonable description of the experimental values for the helicity amplitudes at the real photon point.
description: 25 pages
Additional file 2 of Assessing the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the wheat pathogen Parastagonspora nodorum
Creators: name: Haseena Khan
name: McDonald, Megan C.
name: Williams, Simon J.
name: Solomon, Peter S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table of primer sequences used in this study.
STUDY OF CAPTIVE SONGBIRD MIGRATORY RESTLESSNESS, ZUGUNRUHE, BY DIRECT AND VIDEO ACTIVITY OBSERVATION BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE AUTUMNAL MIGRATION PERIOD
Creators: name: Evans, Hannah L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Zugunruhe, the German word for migratory restlessness, is partly characterized bymigratory birds’ increased activity prior to and during their migration period, particularly afterdusk. This study examined this agitated behavior by daytime observation and nighttime video,supplemented with weight and overnight food choice data. The working hypothesis was that arange of captive migratory birds’ normal restlessness behavior before, during, and after theAutumnal migration period could be identified to differentiate Zugunruhe from aberrantbehaviors resulting from health or other issues. The study consisted of eight subject migratorysongbirds across six species and two nonmigratory songbirds (used as a comparative baseline),residing in the Smithsonian National Zoo collection.Qualitative analyses confirmed daytime and heightened nighttime activity during themigratory period, and also suggested that gender, species, and the captive subjects’idiosyncrasies may affect their Zugunruhe. Quantitative analysis, utilizing paired t-Tests,scatterplots, bar and software activity graphs were less definitive. Paired t-Tests determined thatthe null hypotheses – that the mean difference between particular variables being tested wasequal to zero – could be rejected for some samples and not others. This may result from thesmall sample size and limited four-month study duration. Weight scatterplots confirmed someZugunruhe patterns. A study over multiple migratory seasons and with larger samples ofcaptive and nonmigratory songbirds, may produce data that could reject more null hypotheses.
ความไวต่อสารเคมีกำจัดแมลงของยุงลายบ้านดื้อสารไพรีทรอยด์ระดับพันธุกรรม
Creators: name: จักรวาล ชมภูศรี
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2564
Subjects: ความไวต่อสารเคมีกำจัดแมลง, การกลายพันธุ์, ยีน para, โปรตีนโซเดียมแชนเนล, ยุงลายบ้านดื้อสารไพรีทรอยด์ระดับพันธุกรรม

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 47, เพิ่มเติมที่ 2, 1303-1318
STUDY OF CAPTIVE SONGBIRD MIGRATORY RESTLESSNESS, ZUGUNRUHE, BY DIRECT AND VIDEO ACTIVITY OBSERVATION BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE AUTUMNAL MIGRATION PERIOD
Creators: name: Evans, Hannah L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Zugunruhe, the German word for migratory restlessness, is partly characterized bymigratory birds’ increased activity prior to and during their migration period, particularly afterdusk. This study examined this agitated behavior by daytime observation and nighttime video,supplemented with weight and overnight food choice data. The working hypothesis was that arange of captive migratory birds’ normal restlessness behavior before, during, and after theAutumnal migration period could be identified to differentiate Zugunruhe from aberrantbehaviors resulting from health or other issues. The study consisted of eight subject migratorysongbirds across six species and two nonmigratory songbirds (used as a comparative baseline),residing in the Smithsonian National Zoo collection.Qualitative analyses confirmed daytime and heightened nighttime activity during themigratory period, and also suggested that gender, species, and the captive subjects’idiosyncrasies may affect their Zugunruhe. Quantitative analysis, utilizing paired t-Tests,scatterplots, bar and software activity graphs were less definitive. Paired t-Tests determined thatthe null hypotheses – that the mean difference between particular variables being tested wasequal to zero – could be rejected for some samples and not others. This may result from thesmall sample size and limited four-month study duration. Weight scatterplots confirmed someZugunruhe patterns. A study over multiple migratory seasons and with larger samples ofcaptive and nonmigratory songbirds, may produce data that could reject more null hypotheses.
Additional file 1 of An introduction to new robust linear and monotonic correlation coefficients
Creators: name: Tabatabai, Mohammad
name: Bailey, Stephanie
name: Bursac, Zoran
name: Tabatabai, Habib
name: Wilus, Derek
name: Singh, Karan P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Simulation results produced using RStudio version 1.3.1073.
Elite polarization and democratic backsliding in Tunisia: tracing agency-driven mechanisms
Creators: name: Rivera-Escartin, Adrià
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Recent research has identified a strong correlation between polarization and democratic backsliding. The creation of antithetical groups in society is a necessary element in this type of autocratization process. Nevertheless, the agency-driven mechanisms through which elite polarization becomes harmful for democracy have been less explored in the literature. By resorting to process tracing methodology, the article analyses how elite polarization contributed to derailing the democratization process in Tunisia. The article identifies three necessary mechanisms through which elite polarization became a risk for democracy: politicization reinforcing pre-existing party cleavages; exclusion politics based on ontological contestation (“either us or them”); and the systematic delegitimization of democratic institutions and processes. In Tunisia, Parti Destourien Libre’s (PDL) political campaign followed these steps creating the context in which President Saied could start a democratic backsliding process.
“DESCENDEND FROM IMMIGRANTS AND REVOLUTIONISTS:” THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Creators: name: Herlihy, Kristin R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: In 1909, the Connecticut Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with the help of John Foster Carr, set out to help Americanize Italian Immigrants to the United States, helping them become part of American society. This effort took the form of the written Guide to the United States for the Information of the Immigrant Italian (1910), published first in Italian, followed shortly by Yiddish and English. In 1920 the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution took over these efforts, helping the Guide reach millions of immigrants in over a dozen different languages. These Guides reveal inherent biases against immigrants in the form of who the DAR believed could become Americans, the DAR’s fear of losing American values such as democracy and liberty from the influx of immigrants, while simultaneously revealing the role the American Revolution played in creating a national identity. The responses to the Guide from the public, government officials, and the DAR themselves indicate the conceived severity of the issue of immigration in the 1910s and 1920s and the DAR’s solution to the problem.
พฤติกรรมการจัดการสุขาภิบาลเพื่อป้องกันโรคไข้เลือดออกและปัจจัยที่เกี่ยวข้องในชุมชนเมือง ในจังหวัดพิษณุโลก
Creators: name: เพชรอุมา ธีระไพโรจน์
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2564
Subjects: การจัดการสุขาภิบาล, โรคไข้เลือดออก, ชุมชนเมือง, พฤติกรรม

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 47, เพิ่มเติมที่ 2, 1319-1329
On the Field Equations of Kaluza's Theory
Creators: name: Ivanov, Rossen I.
name: Prodanov, Emil M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field equations of the original Kaluza's theory are analyzed and it is shown that they lead to modification of Einstein's equations. The appearing extra energy-momentum tensor is studied and an example is given where this extra energy-momentum tensor is shown to allow four-dimensional Schwarzschild geometry to accommodate electrostatics. Such deviation from Reissner-Nordstrom geometry can account for the interpretation of Schwarzschild geometry as resulting not from mass only, but from the combined effects of mass and electric charge, even electric charge alone.
description: 14 pages, two sections added and title changed. To appear in Physics Letters B
“DESCENDEND FROM IMMIGRANTS AND REVOLUTIONISTS:” THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Creators: name: Herlihy, Kristin R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In 1909, the Connecticut Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with the help of John Foster Carr, set out to help Americanize Italian Immigrants to the United States, helping them become part of American society. This effort took the form of the written Guide to the United States for the Information of the Immigrant Italian (1910), published first in Italian, followed shortly by Yiddish and English. In 1920 the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution took over these efforts, helping the Guide reach millions of immigrants in over a dozen different languages. These Guides reveal inherent biases against immigrants in the form of who the DAR believed could become Americans, the DAR’s fear of losing American values such as democracy and liberty from the influx of immigrants, while simultaneously revealing the role the American Revolution played in creating a national identity. The responses to the Guide from the public, government officials, and the DAR themselves indicate the conceived severity of the issue of immigration in the 1910s and 1920s and the DAR’s solution to the problem.
Additional file 1 of The influence of gender on clinical examination skills of medical students in Jordan: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Sabet, Farnaz
name: Sohaib Zoghoul
name: Alahmad, Murad
name: Qudah, Heba Al
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Blank copy of the survey.
The Role of Long-lived Excitons in the Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Molecular Polaritons
Creators: name: Liu, Bin
name: Menon, Vinod M.
name: Sfeir, Matthew Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of modifying molecular dynamics in strongly coupled exciton-polariton systems is an emerging topic in photonics due to its potential to produce customized chemical systems with tailored photophysical properties. However, before such systems can be realized, it is essential to address the open questions concerning the nature and strength of electronic interactions between exciton-polaritons and localized excited states in chemical system as well as the proper way to measure such interactions. Here, we use transient optical spectroscopy to investigate dynamical interactions between exciton-polaritons, singlet excitons, and triplet excitons in a molecular singlet fission system that is strongly coupled to an optical microcavity. We identify some of the major limitations to modify molecular dynamics in the strong coupling regime. Simultaneous excitation of cavity polaritons and 'reservoir' states, defined as dark polaritons and dark excitons (e.g. triplets) from coupled molecules and excitons from uncoupled molecules, always occurs. In addition, slow conversion from reservoir states to cavity polaritons results in minimal changes to the overall population dynamics. Furthermore, we demonstrate how in addition to the usual population dynamics, transient optical measurements on microcavities reveal information pertaining to modification of the exciton-polariton transition energies due to changes in the population of molecular excited states and the exciton-photon coupling conditions. As a consequence of weak interactions between reservoir states and cavity polaritons, judicious design considerations are required to achieve modified chemical dynamics, necessitating the use of molecular systems with long excited-state lifetimes or strong coupling approaches that require a small number of molecules.
Szkody łowieckie – nowe podejście do problemu
Wildlife Damage to Agricultural Crops – A New Approach to the Problem
Creators: name: Flis, Marian
name: Rataj, Bogusław
name: Flis, Marian
name: Rataj, Bogusław
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: wildlife damage to crops
subject: wild boar
subject: liability for wildlife damage to crops
subject: compensation to farmers
subject: changes in hunting law

description: The problem of crop damage due to wildlife has become quite important in recent years. Growing discontent of harmed farmers with damages estimating procedures as well as insufficient amounts of compensation helped change the existing legislation in this area. According to the new rules, which were to have taken effect on 1 January 2017, the damage in a given area was to be assessed by a committee consisting of representatives of competent provincial governors, the victims and the representatives of lessees or managers of controlled hunting zones within the area where the damage occurred. However, the entry into force of the new statute was postponed to 1 January 2018 due to technical and economic factors. The funds for the fulfillment of obligations in this respect are to be canvassed from contributions paid by lessees and managers of controlled hunting zones to a specially created Compensation Fund. The annual volume of these contributions will be based on a quota of particular game species, for which liability for damages has been guaranteed by the statute and which is planned to be shot in a given hunting season multiplied by the quota ratios fixed for individual species. According to the state as at the last hunting season, those contributions would mount to almost PLN 90 million. The estimating costs that have hitherto been incurred by hunters, will be paid from the state budget.
ผลของโปรแกรมการส่งเสริมสุขภาพที่ประยุกต์ส่วนผสมการตลาดเชิงสังคมต่อความรู้เรื่องโรคไข้เลือดออกของนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 6 อำเภอองครักษ์ จังหวัดนครนายก
Creators: name: ปะการัง ศรีมี
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2564
Subjects: โรคไข้เลือดออก, ส่วนผสมทางการตลาดเชิงสังคม, การป้องกันโรค, โปรแกรมการส่งเสริมสุขภาพ

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 47, เพิ่มเติมที่ 2, 1330-1340
An algorithm to perform POVMs through Neumark theorem: application to the discrimination of non-orthogonal pure quantum states
Creators: name: Rabelo, Wilson R. M.
name: Rodrigues, Alexandre G.
name: Vianna, Reinaldo O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a protocol to perform the optimal quantum state discrimination of $N$ linearly independent non-orthogonal pure quantum states and present a computational code. Through the extension of the original Hilbert space, it is possible to perform an unitary operation yielding a final configuration, which gives the best discrimination without ambiguity by means of von Neumann measurements. Our goal is to introduce a detailed general mathematical procedure to realize this task by means of semidefinite programming and norm minimization. The former is used to fix which is the best detection probability amplitude for each state of the ensemble. The latter determines the matrix which leads the states to the final configuration. In a final step, we decompose the unitary transformation in a sequence of two-level rotation matrices.
description: 12 pages, including a matlab code
การศึกษารูปแบบการจัดการเฝ้าระวังควบคุมป้องกันโรคไข้เลือดออกในชุมชนชายแดน อำเภอเชียงแสน จังหวัดเชียงราย
Creators: name: อสมาภรณ์ วงค์แพทย์
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2564
Subjects: รูปแบบการจัดการเฝ้าระวังควบคุมป้องกันโรค, ชุมชนชายแดน, ไข้เลือดออก

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 47, เพิ่มเติมที่ 2, 1341-1361
Leeu Gamka, Karoo, SA Station Inventory File
Creators: name: Whitehead, Benjamin
name: Janse van Rensburg, Melody
name: Quiros, Diego
name: Sloan, Alastair
name: Shaw Kahle, Beth
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370609
subject: Seismology and seismic exploration

description: This contains an inventory file XML with the station and response information for the stations used in the manuscript.Manuscript: Seismic swarm in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, highlights the presence of critically stressed faults in an area of proposed shale gas explorationAbstract: Stable continental region seismicity is now recognised as a significant source of hazard and the combination of shale gas exploration and wastewater disposal dramatically increases the likelihood of failure of critically stressed structures. Here, we describe a natural swarm of earthquakes that occurred within the Karoo Basin, South Africa, in the vicinity of the crustal-scale structure associated with the Beattie magnetic anomaly. The cluster began suddenly in 2007, in an area of little prior seismicity, and is characterised by earthquakes with predominantly low magnitudes, however the largest event was ML 4.8. A short-term geophone deployment characterized the depth extent and trend of microseismicity, which runs WNW-ESE and spans the lower parts of the sedimentary cover down to, and perhaps into, the upper crystalline basement. Focal mechanisms suggest that the earthquakes involve left-lateral strike-slip motion. Ambient noise tomography reveals a prominent velocity transition concordant to the trend of the microseismicity within the sedimentary units. These results suggest that a critically stressed fault extends from the proposed target for shale gas exploration down to the basement, and so the necessary preconditions for significant induced seismicity may be met.
Building Communities with Culture: Appalachia Rising
Creators: name: Pierce, Jaime
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: This paper proposes a sustainable development model for communities that have experienced exploitation and oppression. It reviews research on the creative economy, arts-based community development, creative placemaking, asset-based development, and participatory development, or community-based development. Central Appalachia is principal in the paper, which intends to identify ways Appalachian communities can mobilize their artistic and cultural assets to address the region’s history of economic and cultural exploitation. Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY is an arts and cultural organization actively contributing to local, regional, and national development, finding ways to mobilize local culture and assets in a community-driven development strategy. This paper posits that Appalshop’s model, which possesses attributes of asset-based, participatory, and arts-based development as well as creative placemaking and a democratic organizing process, can be instrumental to helping communities with a history of exploitation and oppression build a future of economic and cultural ownership.
Additional file 1 of Essential newborn care practice and its associated factors in Southwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abebe, Haimanot
name: Adane, Daniel
name: Shitu, Solomon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. English Version Questionnaire.
Multi-partite quantum cryptographic protocols with noisy GHZ states
Creators: name: Chen, Kai
name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a wide class of distillation schemes for multi-partite entangled states that are CSS-states. Our proposal provides not only superior efficiency, but also new insights on the connection between CSS-states and bipartite graph states. We then apply our distillation schemes to the tri-partite case for three cryptographic tasks--namely, (a) conference key agreement, (b) quantum sharing of classical secrets and (c) third-man cryptography. Moreover, we construct ``prepare-and-measure'' protocols for the above three cryptographic tasks which can be implemented with the generation of only a single entangled pair at a time. This gives significant simplification over previous experimental implementations which require two entangled pairs generated simultaneously. We also study the yields of those protocols and the threshold values of the fidelity above which the protocols can function securely. Rather surprisingly, our protocols will function securely even when the initial state does not violate the standard Bell-inequalities for GHZ states.
description: Revised Version, 21 pages, 7 figures. We have added a third-man cryptography protocol. Our protocols for the three cryptographic tasks can be implemented with the generation of only a single entangled pair at a time. This gives significant simplification over previous experimental implementations which require two entangled pairs generated simultaneously
Building Communities with Culture: Appalachia Rising
Creators: name: Pierce, Jaime
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper proposes a sustainable development model for communities that have experienced exploitation and oppression. It reviews research on the creative economy, arts-based community development, creative placemaking, asset-based development, and participatory development, or community-based development. Central Appalachia is principal in the paper, which intends to identify ways Appalachian communities can mobilize their artistic and cultural assets to address the region’s history of economic and cultural exploitation. Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY is an arts and cultural organization actively contributing to local, regional, and national development, finding ways to mobilize local culture and assets in a community-driven development strategy. This paper posits that Appalshop’s model, which possesses attributes of asset-based, participatory, and arts-based development as well as creative placemaking and a democratic organizing process, can be instrumental to helping communities with a history of exploitation and oppression build a future of economic and cultural ownership.
Skala i uwarunkowania ubóstwa rodzin rolniczych w Polsce
Scale and Determinants of Poverty of Farming Families in Poland
Creators: name: Dudek, Michał
name: Dudek, Michał
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: poverty
subject: absolute poverty
subject: relative poverty
subject: rural families

description: The article focuses on changes in the scale of poverty among Polish farming families in 2004–2015 and describes selected determinants thereof. Two types of poverty, namely extreme and relative ones were considered. The study shows that the scale of poverty among farming population fluctuated and slightly decreased. This was due to changes in economic situation, particularly in the labour market in terms of unemployment. The analysis of the survey data also revealed that the risk of poverty was alleviated by taking up employment by the members of farming families or by receiving pensions or social benefits. This was the case of the majority of families running small farms, where non-agricultural income constitutes a relatively important source of income. The study also showed that to a relatively great extent poverty was the problem of large families and farmers running small subsistence farms. The data reported in the article were drawn from both public statistics on the living conditions of households and field surveys conducted by IAFE-NRI in 76 villages located across Poland.
การสอบสวนโรคกรณีเสียชีวิตด้วยโรคพิษสารพาราควอตจากการรับสัมผัสทางผิวหนังในอำเภอท่ามะกา จังหวัดกาญจนบุรี กรกฎาคม 2563
Creators: name: อิทธิพล จรัสโอฬาร
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2564
Subjects: สารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืช, พาราควอต, ปัจจัยเสี่ยง, สุขภาพ

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 47, เพิ่มเติมที่ 2, 1362-1369
Kapitał społeczny sołtysów
Social Capital of Village Heads (Sołtys)
Creators: name: Ptak, Arkadiusz
name: Ptak, Arkadiusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: social capital
subject: sołectwo
subject: gmina’s auxiliary administration unit
subject: local authority
subject: local government elite

description: The main goal of the article is to assess the level of social capital of village heads (sołtys) in Poland. The applied measure refers to formal membership of NGOs and political parties. The theory of social capital of Pierre Bourdieu was adopted as theoretical perspective. The study was conducted in 2014 and 2015 in two regions (voivodships) – Lubelskie and Wielkopolskie, which differ from each other in terms of history and social characteristics. The data comes from a quantitative research on 380 village heads and from auxiliary interviews with local governments’ representatives. The results show a very high level of social capital of village heads, however, with a certain profile. The strictly social activity of sołtys is significantly more common than the political activities (ca 70% of the leaders declared membership of NGOs while 15% of respondents were members of political parties). The crucial factor determining the level of the social capital of village heads is the social activity of their parents. As for Local Action Groups, the membership is related to village head’s level of education and source of income. The activity of village heads in political parties bears relation to the sex, age and job status. A high level of social capital as well as strong social networks allow leaders to succeed in elections to local governments. Over 70% of village heads running for the seats in the municipal councils succeeded with being elected. The results of the study suggest that rural leaders from Wielkopolskie are endowed with more social capital compared to those from Lubelskie.
Artificial Food Coloring Differentially Affects Alpha and Gamma Electroencephalography (EEG) Power in College Students with ADHD
Creators: name: Kirkland, Anna E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in children, and over half of these individuals carry the diagnosis into adulthood. Dietary exposure to artificial food coloring (AFC) has been reported to worsen symptoms of ADHD in children, but the validity of these findings has been debated. Furthermore, no studies have been completed to date examining the potential effects of AFC on young adults with ADHD. The current study examined the effects of AFC on brainwave activity of college students with and without ADHD. Participants (mean (SD) age of 20 (1.3) yrs) with (n=18) and without (n=41) ADHD completed baseline testing, including the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and 4 minutes of eyes-closed resting-state EEG. After avoiding AFC in the diet for 2 weeks, the ADHD group and 11 controls (referred to as Extended Controls or EC) were randomized to a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover challenge lasting three days each over two consecutive weeks. The challenge materials consisted of either 250 mg of combined AFC disguised in chocolate cookies or placebo chocolate cookies. The ASRS and EEG measures were collected at the end of each 3-day exposure. ASRS scores significantly differed at baseline between the ADHD and control group (p<0.001), confirming significantly elevated symptoms in the ADHD group. There were no differences between the ADHD and control group in any EEG frequency band at baseline. The ADHD group experienced a significant decrease in relative alpha power (p=0.04) and an increase in mean gamma power (p=0.05) in the posterior region (Pz, P3, P4, P7, P8, P9, P10, T7, T8, O1, O2) when challenged with AFC relative to placebo. There were no significant EEG changes in the EC group across challenge periods. Importantly, no changes were noted in ASRS scores across challenge periods in either group, but there was a marginally significant negative correlation between relative alpha power and the ASRS when exposed to AFC in the ADHD group (r= -0.49, p=0.06). These results indicate that AFC in the diet can change the brainwave activity of college students with ADHD, specifically in the mid and high frequency bands, but not in those without ADHD. More research is needed to better understand the underpinnings of how AFC changes brainwave activity, and if such changes are related to clinically meaningful symptom changes or more sensitive measures of attention not captured by the ASRS.
Artificial Food Coloring Differentially Affects Alpha and Gamma Electroencephalography (EEG) Power in College Students with ADHD
Creators: name: Kirkland, Anna E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in children, and over half of these individuals carry the diagnosis into adulthood. Dietary exposure to artificial food coloring (AFC) has been reported to worsen symptoms of ADHD in children, but the validity of these findings has been debated. Furthermore, no studies have been completed to date examining the potential effects of AFC on young adults with ADHD. The current study examined the effects of AFC on brainwave activity of college students with and without ADHD. Participants (mean (SD) age of 20 (1.3) yrs) with (n=18) and without (n=41) ADHD completed baseline testing, including the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and 4 minutes of eyes-closed resting-state EEG. After avoiding AFC in the diet for 2 weeks, the ADHD group and 11 controls (referred to as Extended Controls or EC) were randomized to a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover challenge lasting three days each over two consecutive weeks. The challenge materials consisted of either 250 mg of combined AFC disguised in chocolate cookies or placebo chocolate cookies. The ASRS and EEG measures were collected at the end of each 3-day exposure. ASRS scores significantly differed at baseline between the ADHD and control group (p<0.001), confirming significantly elevated symptoms in the ADHD group. There were no differences between the ADHD and control group in any EEG frequency band at baseline. The ADHD group experienced a significant decrease in relative alpha power (p=0.04) and an increase in mean gamma power (p=0.05) in the posterior region (Pz, P3, P4, P7, P8, P9, P10, T7, T8, O1, O2) when challenged with AFC relative to placebo. There were no significant EEG changes in the EC group across challenge periods. Importantly, no changes were noted in ASRS scores across challenge periods in either group, but there was a marginally significant negative correlation between relative alpha power and the ASRS when exposed to AFC in the ADHD group (r= -0.49, p=0.06). These results indicate that AFC in the diet can change the brainwave activity of college students with ADHD, specifically in the mid and high frequency bands, but not in those without ADHD. More research is needed to better understand the underpinnings of how AFC changes brainwave activity, and if such changes are related to clinically meaningful symptom changes or more sensitive measures of attention not captured by the ASRS.
Additional file 1 of The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management
Creators: name: Asamani, James Avoka
name: Ismaila, Hamza
name: Plange, Anna
name: Ekey, Victor Francis
name: Ahmed, Abdul-Majeed
name: Chebere, Margaret
name: Awoonor-Williams, John Koku
name: Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Staffing Norms for CHPS. Table S2. Staffing Norms for Health Centres. Table S3. Staffing Norms for Polyclinics. Table S4. Categorisation of Primary Hospitals. Table S5. Staffing Norms for Primary Hospital. Table S6. Staffing Norms for Regional Hospitals. Table S7. Staffing Norms for Teaching Hospitals. Table S8. Staffing Norms for District/Municipal/Metropolitan Health Directorates. Table S9. Staffing Norms for Regional Health Directorates. Table S10. Staffing Norms for Health Training Institutions.
AN ANALYSIS OF PROFITABILITY AND FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF AGRO-ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION (AEI) TECHNIQUES IN YATTA SUB- COUNTY, KENYA
Creators: name: WANGO, VIRGINIAH
name: MBURU, JOHN
name: NYIKAL, ROSE
name: ONWONG'A, RICHARD
name: WANGO, VIRGINIAH
name: MBURU, JOHN
name: NYIKAL, ROSE
name: ONWONG'A, RICHARD
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agro-ecological intensification (AEI) technique, adoption, profitability, Poisson model

description: Decline in soil fertility is considered as one of the most important causes of low agriculture productivity in sub-Sahara Africa. Initiatives to address soil fertility through use of inorganic fertilizers have yielded below average results in increasing productivity. Agro-ecological intensification (AEI) techniques use alternative knowledge and local materials to improve soil fertility and increase productivity. There is, however, little evidence of the economic viability and adoption levels of the AEI technique. There is a gap in understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of AEI techniques and the profitability of this innovation. This study assessed the profitability, level of adoption and factors influencing adoption of agro-ecological intensification technique in Yatta Sub-county, Kenya. Household survey data on demographic characteristic, soil management practices, production and yield from a sample of 140 randomly selected households in Yatta Sub-county was collected. Gross margin analysis and Poisson regression model were used to analyze the data on profitability and factors influencing adoption respectively. Farmers adopted various components, farm yard (95%), crop diversity (77%), compost manure (76%), utilization of crop residue (72%), cover cropping (57%) and crop rotation (54%). About 40 percent of farmers had adopted at least one component of the AEI techniques while 28 percent of surveyed farmers had fully adopted all components studied. Gross margin analysis showed that farmers practicing AEI technique increased their yield and attained higher profits than farmers without the technique. Results from the Poisson Regression model showed that farm income, age, level of education of household head, and number of extension contacts, among other factors, had significant influence in adoption of the agro-ecological intensification techniques. These findings give insight into the potential for further development of agro-ecological intensification techniques. Policies that enhance adoption through targeted extension should be encouraged.
Additional file 2 of The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management
Creators: name: Asamani, James Avoka
name: Ismaila, Hamza
name: Plange, Anna
name: Ekey, Victor Francis
name: Ahmed, Abdul-Majeed
name: Chebere, Margaret
name: Awoonor-Williams, John Koku
name: Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. HRH Requirements, Gaps and Cost Estimates by Category of Staff, June 2018
Additional file 1 of Assessing the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the wheat pathogen Parastagonspora nodorum
Creators: name: Haseena Khan
name: McDonald, Megan C.
name: Williams, Simon J.
name: Solomon, Peter S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table of gRNA sequences.