cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GUAM: DEVELOPMENT OF A SERVICE-ORIENTED ECONOMY
Creators: name: Krueger, Russell Carl
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The economy of the United States Territory of Guam is dominated by a large military establishment and by tourism. The dissertation measures the economy of Guam by estimating a basic set of income and production accounts, and analyzes the peculiar economic structure which is heavily concentrated in services and lacks an industrial and agricultural base. An inadequate statistical and theoretical base existed to analyze the causes of the very rapid growth of Guam or develop long-term economic development programs. An estimate of gross domestic income and product, covering 1972 through 1976, was made to determine the structure of the economy. Data were obtained primarily from corporate and personal income tax records, commodity trade statistics, and government reports. Estimates of total production were made using the commodity-flow method which traces intersectoral goods demand. An analysis of the unusual economic structure follows. An input-output type tracing of demand flows reveals major leakages from the economy because of the import requirements of the export sectors and personal consumption. Local production is not stimulated and there are enclave tendencies in the economy. Local government acts to spread employment demand, but does not stimulate industrial activity. Four factors are isolated which affect the economic structure of the economy. The small size of the economy places major constraints on industrialization. The tourist industry is a capital intensive export sector which requires a sophisticated support apparatus, but does not stimulate the whole economy. An unbalanced trade structure makes the economy vulnerable to external disturbance and imports threaten local production. Finally, the government strongly affects the flow of demand through the economy and increases welfare through provision of services. It is concluded that an expanded linkage concept similar to a recent proposal by Hirschman that includes consumption and governmental links is appropriate to analyze the economy of small, constrained economies such as Guam. The approach can be modified, however, to focus on the role of income distribution in economic development.
Meristacarus longisetosus Mahunka 1978
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Meristacarus
Meristacarus longisetosus

description: Meristacarus longisetosus Mahunka, 1978
 Larva: Schatz 1994b (Ds) Protonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds) Deutonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds) Tritonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Open Research at AGU and Wiley
Creators: name: Erdmann, Chris
name: Stall, Shelley
name: Smith, Hannah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data availability statements
Data Management Plan
Research Data Management Lifecycles
Research Outcomes

description: Data Management Plans (DMPs) and Data Availability Statements (DAS) provide context on activities and outcomes in Research Data Management Lifecycles (RDMLs) and encompass different aspects of the scholarly communication process. On the one hand, DMPs ensure researchers’ compliance with research funding and research organizations’ requirements, to carefully manage and appropriately share research data and outputs. On the other hand, DAS are integrated into scientific publishers' workflows to promote the availability of their publications’ underlying research data and outputs. Efforts are underway to standardize the structure and content of DMPs and DAS at both technical and policy levels. In this session you will hear from four key stakeholder groups regarding their approaches towards addressing challenges and opportunities in DMPs and DAS: Dutch Research Council (NWO) - Champions research data management policy alignment with research funders in Europe. One of the first organizations to implement Science Europe core requirements for DMPs, NWO actively promotes these requirements to other stakeholders. American Geophysical Union (AGU) - Advances data/software sharing policies and approaches in publishing through a broad coalition of partners and stakeholders. Beginning with its position statement on data (1997), AGU continues to improve its guidance and move towards machine-actionable DAS and research articles. Research Data Alliance (RDA) DMP Common Standards Working Group (WG) – Develops a community-wide information model, as well as specifications and access mechanisms for machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs). The WG recently released its maDMP recommendations for fostering greater collaboration, integration, and automation of maDMPs across research workflows. Argos - An open extensible service through OpenAire that simplifies the management, validation, monitoring and maintenance of DMPs. Argos constructs DMPs as machine-actionable outputs that are also shared through Zenodo according to Open and FAIR practices. Furthermore, the Argos paradigm inspires discussions and solutions towards the automation, linking, and machine-actionability of DAS and DMPs.
The French Open Science policy
Creators: name: Dacos, Marin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Open Science policies
France

description: This talk was given by Marin Dacos on the occasion of a panel discussion that was part of OPEN SCIENCE FAIR 2021 (20 September 2021). Video is available online on YouTube. This panel seeks to bring together policy makers at various levels of decision making (institutional, funder, regional, national) to discuss in practical terms the challenges and opportunities of open science adoption and implementation they encounter, as well as the ones posed towards international cooperation specifically in line with Unesco’s recommendations for the global community.
GUAM: DEVELOPMENT OF A SERVICE-ORIENTED ECONOMY
Creators: name: Krueger, Russell Carl
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The economy of the United States Territory of Guam is dominated by a large military establishment and by tourism. The dissertation measures the economy of Guam by estimating a basic set of income and production accounts, and analyzes the peculiar economic structure which is heavily concentrated in services and lacks an industrial and agricultural base. An inadequate statistical and theoretical base existed to analyze the causes of the very rapid growth of Guam or develop long-term economic development programs. An estimate of gross domestic income and product, covering 1972 through 1976, was made to determine the structure of the economy. Data were obtained primarily from corporate and personal income tax records, commodity trade statistics, and government reports. Estimates of total production were made using the commodity-flow method which traces intersectoral goods demand. An analysis of the unusual economic structure follows. An input-output type tracing of demand flows reveals major leakages from the economy because of the import requirements of the export sectors and personal consumption. Local production is not stimulated and there are enclave tendencies in the economy. Local government acts to spread employment demand, but does not stimulate industrial activity. Four factors are isolated which affect the economic structure of the economy. The small size of the economy places major constraints on industrialization. The tourist industry is a capital intensive export sector which requires a sophisticated support apparatus, but does not stimulate the whole economy. An unbalanced trade structure makes the economy vulnerable to external disturbance and imports threaten local production. Finally, the government strongly affects the flow of demand through the economy and increases welfare through provision of services. It is concluded that an expanded linkage concept similar to a recent proposal by Hirschman that includes consumption and governmental links is appropriate to analyze the economy of small, constrained economies such as Guam. The approach can be modified, however, to focus on the role of income distribution in economic development.
Is tenure Security Pro-poor? Decomposing Welfare Effects
Creators: name: Ayalew, H.
name: Ayalew, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: We examine the impact of land tenure security on household welfare among poor house- holds in rural Ethiopia. Using the 2005 land title certification program as a quasi- experiment, we exploit the variation in the differential timing of certification between treated and control groups. Estimated results from binary and continuous treatment effect models point out that land tenure security significantly improves the welfare of poor households in rural Ethiopia. This effect varies depending on the length of house- hold's treatment duration. Households who have longer treatment duration receive a higher average welfare gain from the program. We also decompose the welfare effects of the program into different channels. Hired labor is the main mediator through which land title certification affects household welfare. Acknowledgement : I gratefully acknowledge Henrik Hansen, Finn Tarp, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, John Rand, Edward Samuel Jones, Yonas Alem, Benedikte Bjerge, Alexandra Orsola-Vidal, Kuranda Morgan, Daley Kutzman, for their invaluable comments on earlier versions; participants of the work in progress seminar at the University of California Berkeley, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Gothenburg, University of Copenhagen, Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen, World Bank 2016 Land and Poverty Conference, the Nordic Conference in Development Economics in Copenhagen, Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference at Oxford University for helpful suggestions and comments.
Chemotaxis in uncertain environments: hedging bets with multiple receptor types
Creators: name: Hopkins, Austin
name: Camley, Brian A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eukaryotic cells are able to sense chemical gradients in a wide range of environments. We show that, if a cell is exposed to a highly variable environment, it may gain chemotactic accuracy by expressing multiple receptor types with varying affinities for the same signal, as found commonly in chemotaxing cells like Dictyostelium. As environment uncertainty is increased, there is a transition between cells preferring a single receptor type and a mixture of types - hedging their bets against the possibility of an unfavorable environment. We predict the optimal receptor affinities given a particular environment. In chemotaxing, cells may also integrate their measurement over time. Surprisingly, time-integration with multiple receptor types is qualitatively different from gradient sensing by a single type -- cells may extract orders of magnitude more chemotactic information than expected by naive time integration. Our results show when cells should express multiple receptor types to chemotax, and how cells can efficiently interpret the data from these receptors.
Observation of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in Soudan 2
Creators: name: The Soudan 2 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of oscillations of atmospheric muon neutrinos are observed in the 5.90 fiducial kiloton-year exposure of the Soudan 2 detector. An unbinned maximum likelihood analysis of the neutrino L/E distribution has been carried out using the Feldman-Cousins prescription. The probability of the no oscillation hypothesis is 5.8x10-4. The 90% confidence allowed region in the sin**(2theta), Delta m**2 plane is presented.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys Rev D
Meristacarus porcula Grandjean 1934
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Meristacarus
Meristacarus porcula

description: Meristacarus porcula Grandjean 1934
 Larva: Grandjean 1934a (Ds, FB); Grandjean 1934g (DsP); Grandjean 1949 (DsP); Schatz 1994b (DsP) Protonymph: Grandjean 1934a (Ds); Grandjean 1934g (DsP); Grandjean 1949 (DsP); Schatz 1994b (DsP) Deutonymph: Grandjean 1934a (Ds); Grandjean 1934g (DsP); Grandjean 1949 (DsP); Schatz 1994b (DsP) Tritonymph: Grandjean 1934a (Ds); Grandjean 1934g (DsP); Grandjean 1949 (DsP); Schatz 1994b (DsP)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Strain-Tuned Magnetic Anisotropy in Sputtered Thulium Iron Garnet Ultrathin Films and TIG/Au/TIG Valve Structures
Creators: name: Vilela, Gilvânia
name: Chi, Hang
name: Stephen, Gregory
name: Settens, Charles
name: Zhou, Preston
name: Ou, Yunbo
name: Suri, Dhavala
name: Heiman, Don
name: Moodera, Jagadeesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Defining the magnetic anisotropy for in-plane or out-of-plane easy axis in ferrimagnetic insulators films by controlling the strain, while maintaining high-quality surfaces, is desirable for spintronic and magnonic applications. We investigate ways to tune the anisotropy of amorphous sputtered ultrathin thulium iron garnet (TIG) films, and thus tailor their magnetic properties by the thickness (7.5 to 60 nm), substrate choice (GGG and SGGG), and crystallization process. We correlate morphological and structural properties with the magnetic anisotropy of post-growth annealed films. 30 nm thick films annealed at 600 °C show compressive strain favoring an in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IPMA), whereas films annealed above 800 °C are under a tensile strain leading to a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). Air-annealed films present a high degree of crystallinity and magnetization saturation close to the bulk value. These results lead to successful fabrication of trilayers TIG/Au/TIG, with coupling between the TIG layers depending on Au thickness. These results will facilitate the use of TIG to create various in situ clean hybrid structures for fundamental interface exchange studies, and towards the development of complex devices. Moreover, the sputtering technique is advantageous as it can be easily scaled up for industrial applications.
description: The following article has been accepted by Journal of Applied Physics
Does Farmer s Identity Make a Difference in Efficiency in Dairy Farms Conducting Educational Tourism? Evaluation by Slacks-based Measure DEA Models
Creators: name: Ohe, Y.
name: Ohe, Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Whether farm management conducting tourism activity becomes more efficient or not is an important theoretical and empirical question for the promotion of tourism in agriculture. Thus, this study theoretically and empirically evaluated the efficiency of Educational Dairy Farms (EDFs) that provide educational tourism by DEA. The financial data were collected by the author s survey of these farms located around the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Based on the theoretical framework that stipulates that the efficiency of farm activity is determined by a farmer s identity, a bilateral slacks-based measure (SBM) model applied to empirically evaluate efficiency. The results revealed that those farmers that engage in processing milk products and direct selling have higher efficiency than those who do not. This is because having an enlarged identity that provides a wider perspective on farm activity enables these farmers to create demand and reduce marginal cost. This wider perspective was nurtured through the network of educational tourism activity. Thus, educational tourism activity by dairy farmers can nurture a new business opportunity and lead to efficient farm resource allocation. Acknowledgement : This study was funded by Japan Dairy Association (J-milk). The author is grateful for the cooperation from the Japan Dairy Council, Kanto Dairy Cooperatives and Chiba Dairy Cooperatives, and EDFs that cooperated for the implementation of this study.
Vertical passenger transportation and its manufacturing industry: An introductory analysis
Creators: name: Lynn, Henry D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Ask the average person to name the major transportation systems and the chances are that he would omit one of the largest. Vertical transportation, which included both elevators and electric stairways, is not an eye-catching or outwardly glamorous method of travel. Therefore, few people are aware of its tremendous size.
Branes, Strings, and Odd Quantum Nambu Brackets
Creators: name: Curtright, T. L.
name: Zachos, C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of topological open branes is controlled by Nambu Brackets. Thus, they might be quantized through the consistent quantization of the underlying Nambu brackets, including odd ones: these are reachable systematically from even brackets, whose more tractable properties have been detailed before.
description: 12 pp, 1 fig, LateX2e/WS-procs9x6 macros. Contribution to the proceedings of QTS3, 10-14 Sep 2003, Cincinnati, World Scientific (SPIRES conf C03/09/10)
Meristacarus sundensis Hammer 1979
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Meristacarus
Meristacarus sundensis

description: Meristacarus sundensis Hammer, 1979
 Larva: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FLg, FGn, LSA) Protonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FLg, FGn, LSA) Deutonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FGn, LSA) Tritonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FLg, LSA)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Near-IR Properties of Galaxy Clusters: Luminosity as a Binding Mass Predictor and the State of Cluster Baryons
Creators: name: Lin, Yen-Ting
name: Mohr, Joseph J.
name: Stanford, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the near-infrared properties of galaxies within 27 galaxy clusters using data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). For a subsample of 13 clusters with available X-ray imaging data, we examine both the properties of the galaxies and the intracluster medium. We show that the K-band luminosity is correlated with cluster mass, providing a binding mass estimate accurate to 45%. The mass to light ratio in our ensemble increases by a factor of ~2 over the cluster mass range (10^{14}-10^{15}M_sun). We examine the total baryon fraction, showing that it is an increasing function of cluster mass. Using the mass to light ratio of massive clusters, we find that Omega_M=0.19+/-0.03; using the total baryon fraction we find that Omega_M=0.28+/-0.03, in good agreement with recent cosmic microwave background anisotropy constraints. Differences between these two estimates suggest that the K-band mass to light ratio in massive clusters may be lower than that in the universe by as much as \~30%. We examine the stellar mass fraction, the ICM mass to stellar mass ratio and the cluster iron mass fraction. The stellar mass fraction decreases by a factor of 1.8 from low to high mass clusters, and the ICM to stellar mass ratio increases from 5.9 to 10.4 over the same mass range. Together, these measurements suggest a decrease of star formation efficiency with increasing cluster mass and provide constraints on models of the thermodynamic history of the intracluster medium. The cluster iron mass to total mass ratio is constant and high, suggesting that some efficient, and uniform enrichment process may have taken place before the bulk of stars in cluster galaxies formed.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, to appear in ApJ, July 10, 2003 issue, v2: minor corrections to text throughout
Navier-Stokes equations in a curved thin domain, Part III: thin-film limit
Creators: name: Miura, Tatsu-Hiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 35B25, 35Q30, 76D05, Secondary: 35R01, 76A20

description: We consider the Navier-Stokes equations with Navier's slip boundary conditions in a three-dimensional curved thin domain around a given closed surface. Under suitable assumptions we show that the average in the thin direction of a strong solution to the bulk Navier-Stokes equations converges weakly in appropriate function spaces on the limit surface as the thickness of the thin domain tends to zero. Moreover, we characterize the limit as a weak solution to limit equations, which are the damped and weighted Navier-Stokes equations on the limit surface. We also prove the strong convergence of the average of a strong solution to the bulk equations towards a weak solution to the limit equations by showing estimates for the difference between them. In some special case our limit equations agree with the Navier-Stokes equations on a Riemannian manifold in which the viscous term contains the Ricci curvature. This is the first result on a rigorous derivation of the surface Navier-Stokes equations on a general closed surface by the thin-film limit.
description: 122 pages, typos corrected, references updated. This paper is the last part of the divided and revised version of arXiv:1811.09816
Supergravity backgrounds corresponding to D7 branes wrapped on Kahler manifolds
Creators: name: Kruczenski, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider supergravity solutions corresponding to D7 branes wrapped on Kahler manifolds with a U(1)_R twist such that some supersymmetry is preserved. We find a class of 1/4-BPS backgrounds where a D7-brane is wrapped on a T^2 torus with a metric of non-constant curvature. Similarly to the flat D7-brane case, the solution has a singularity at finite radius. We also discuss the case where the D7-brane is wrapped on a 4-dimensional non-compact manifold. The field theories on the D7 brane have N=1 supersymmetry in 6 and 4 dimensions respectively.
description: 20 pages, No figures. LaTeX. v2: Reference added
How does the outdoor play space afford aspects of physical literacy development?
Creators: name: Joshi, NIla
name: Rainham, Daniel
name: Spencer, Rebecca
name: Turner, Joan
name: Truong, Son
name: Stone, Michelle
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Unstructured play is essential to children’s health and development and affords them the opportunity to develop physical literacy (PL): the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to be active for life. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to explore how the outdoor play space with loose parts (LP) (e.g. wood, crates, buckets) affords aspects of PL development in children attending before and after school programs in Nova Scotia, Canada. Methods: Using a quasi-experimental, multi methods design, LP will be integrated in an intervention site with a control site set as a comparison. Children’s PL will be captured through the process of behavioural mapping (BM). Using BM, children’s fundamental movement skills and physical activity behaviour will be observed and recorded, comparing the observations pre-post the implementation of the LP intervention, and to the control site. At the end of the intervention, go-along interviews will be conducted with children at the intervention site to capture the affective components of PL. Anticipated Results: Preliminary findings from our previous work (PLEY project) demonstrates that outdoor LP play diversifies children’s movements. Similar findings are expected for this project. Conclusions: To date, aspects of PL in the context of outdoor LP play have not been explored using BM. This project will be a critical step to understanding how we can support quality outdoor play experiences for children while optimizing their health and wellness. Funding: This project is funded by Research Nova Scotia.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Choice of product mix and agricultural subsidies - evidence from a quasi-experiment in Agenda 2000 CAP reform
Creators: name: Simola, A.
name: Simola, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: We study the effect of the Agenda 2000 CAP reform on the choice of crop mix with a differences-in-differences regression model. In our analysis, we exploit a quasi-experimental setting between Finnish agricultural subsidy regions that emerged in the reform. The variation catches the causal effect between coupled subsidies and planting decision. We found that changes in payments to individual crops explain changes in crop mixes. However, the observed causal effect does not fully conform to theoretical predictions. Additionally, the effect is small and is easily confounded by small changes in natural conditions. The results indicate that changes even in coupled subsidies may only have small impact on production decisions as yet unexplored factors prevent the incidence from being perfect. Acknowledgement : I want to thank my supervisors Dr. Elias Eini and Reaserch Director Marita Laukkanen for many useful advices on this paper.
Growth and Instability in Agriculture - A case of maize production in India
Creators: name: Kiran, A.S. Shashi
name: Umesh, K.B.
name: Shankara, M.H.
name: Kiran, A.S. Shashi
name: Umesh, K.B.
name: Shankara, M.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Maize (Zea mays L) is one of the most versatile emerging crops having wider adaptability. Globally, maize is known as queen of cereals. According to advance estimate it is cultivated in 8.49 m ha (2010-11) mainly during Kharif season. Forty five per cent of the total maize, produced in India is being used as human food and 52 per cent goes to feed industry. This study was an attempt to estimate the growth rate and to identify the sources of instability in maize production in India. The study is based on time-series data for 60 years (1950-51 to 2009-10) on area, production and productivity of maize in India. Exponential growth rate, Instability index and Hazel s decomposition analysis were used. The area under maize during the study period increased at significant growth rate of 1.17 per cent while production at growth rate of 3.08. The variation around the trend (instability index 14.65) and the variation around mean (CV 53.84 %) was more in case of production than in area and productivity. Increase in mean yield accounted for 61.42 per cent of the increase in production. Variance of production of maize was mainly due to factor other than area and producttivity. Acknowledgement : I dedicate this work to my parents Shri. Shivalingappa, A.N and Smt. Tharamathi, K.S. and my lovely wife Jayalakshmi, G.S. I also thank my sister Nandini, (brother-in-law) Kiran, Thanvitha, Kushal and all Kalmane family members. All VRS and GKVK friends for their lovely friendship, love, help and care and for enjoyable and memorable moments. I place on record with deep sense of gratitude to my esteemed guru Dr. K.B. Umesh, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, U. A. S., Bangalore for all the efforts he took beyond the call of duty and constant encouragement.
Does Formal Credit Constraint Restrain Agricultural Production?
Creators: name: Wang, J.
name: Bi, S.
name: Lyu, K.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Wang, J.
name: Bi, S.
name: Lyu, K.
name: Zhang, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: This study adopts econometric models to link the formal credit constraints with agricultural output and short-term investment in rural China. The empirical results show that formal credit constraint does impinge significantly on agricultural production, and credit-constrained farmers mostly depend on family endowment. In case where the formal credit demand is fully met, the average output per mu will increase by 14.6%. According to further analysis, formal credit constraints have a differential impact on short-term agricultural inputs. Demand-side credit constraint restrains the purchase to agricultural machinery service, while supply-side credit constraint has negative effects on fertilizer inputs, but not on seed, pesticide inputs and labor hiring. Acknowledgement : The paper was supported by the Programs of National Natural Science Found of China (NSFC) (71573262), China Agriculture Research System (CARS-02), as well as the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP-IAED-2018-03).
A bright, high rotation-measure FRB that skewers the M33 halo
Creators: name: Connor, Liam
name: van Leeuwen, Joeri
name: Oostrum, L. C.
name: Petroff, E.
name: Maan, Yogesh
name: Adams, E. A. K.
name: Attema, J. J.
name: Bast, J. E.
name: Boersma, O. M.
name: Dénes, H.
name: Gardenier, D. W.
name: Hargreaves, J. E.
name: Kooistra, E.
name: Pastor-Marazuela, I.
name: Schulz, R.
name: Sclocco, A.
name: Smits, R.
name: Straal, S. M.
name: van der Schuur, D.
name: Vohl, Dany
name: Adebahr, B.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: van Cappellen, W. A.
name: Coolen, A. H. W. M.
name: Damstra, S.
name: van Diepen, G. N. J.
name: Frank, B. S.
name: Hess, K. M.
name: Hut, B.
name: Loose, G. Marcel
name: Lucero, D. M.
name: Mika, Á.
name: Moss, V. A.
name: Mulder, H.
name: Oosterloo, T. A.
name: Ruiter, M.
name: Vedantham, H.
name: Vermaas, N. J.
name: Wijnholds, S. J.
name: Ziemke, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of a bright fast radio burst, FRB\,191108, with Apertif on the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The interferometer allows us to localise the FRB to a narrow $5\arcsec\times7\arcmin$ ellipse by employing both multibeam information within the Apertif phased-array feed (PAF) beam pattern, and across different tied-array beams. The resulting sight line passes close to Local Group galaxy M33, with an impact parameter of only 18\,kpc with respect to the core. It also traverses the much larger circumgalactic medium of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. We find that the shared plasma of the Local Group galaxies could contribute $\sim$10\% of its dispersion measure of 588\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. FRB\,191108 has a Faraday rotation measure of +474\,$\pm\,3$\,rad\,m$^{-2}$, which is too large to be explained by either the Milky Way or the intergalactic medium. Based on the more moderate RMs of other extragalactic sources that traverse the halo of M33, we conclude that the dense magnetised plasma resides in the host galaxy. The FRB exhibits frequency structure on two scales, one that is consistent with quenched Galactic scintillation and broader spectral structure with $Δν\approx40$\,MHz. If the latter is due to scattering in the shared M33/M31 CGM, our results constrain the Local Group plasma environment. We found no accompanying persistent radio sources in the Apertif imaging survey data.
Mixacarus (Mixacarus) brevipes
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Mixacarus
Mixacarus brevipes

description: Mixacarus (Mixacarus) brevipes (Banks, 1947)
 Larva: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds)
 Protonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds); Schatz 1994b (Ds)
 Deutonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds)
 Tritonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds); Schatz 1994b (Ds)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Laps or lengths? The effects of different exercise programs on asthma control in children
Creators: name: Carew, Chris
name: Cox, Des W
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Introduction: Exercise training has been shown in numerous studies to improve lung function and asthma control in children with asthma. Swimming has been shown to be of benefit in children with asthma, but which form of exercise is better for asthmatics has not been determined to date. The aim of this study was to examine if swimming improved lung function and asthma symptoms in asthmatic children when compared with different forms of exercise and a control group. Methods: Subjects with asthma were randomly assigned to either one of three different exercise training groups (swimming, football, and basketball) or a control group. Spirometry was performed before and after and the subjects were asked to keep asthma diaries and perform daily peak flow measurements. Results: 41 children and adolescents between the ages of 9 and 16 participated in the study. After completing the training, children across all three exercise programs had significantly higher forced vital capacity (FVC) percentage values when compared to the control group. The swimming group demonstrated a significant increase in the percentage peak expiratory flow (PEF) following the exercise program when compared with the control group (78.3 ± 9.3 versus 89.0 ± 14.9, p = 0.04). All children on exercise training programs reported an improvement in their asthma symptoms via asthma diaries. Conclusion: This study suggests that a swimming training program is more beneficial in terms of peak flow measurements when compared with other exercise training programs.
Vertical passenger transportation and its manufacturing industry: An introductory analysis
Creators: name: Lynn, Henry D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains

description: Ask the average person to name the major transportation systems and the chances are that he would omit one of the largest. Vertical transportation, which included both elevators and electric stairways, is not an eye-catching or outwardly glamorous method of travel. Therefore, few people are aware of its tremendous size.
Identification of symmetry-protected topological states on noisy quantum computers
Creators: name: Azses, Daniel
name: Haenel, Rafael
name: Naveh, Yehuda
name: Raussendorf, Robert
name: Sela, Eran
name: Torre, Emanuele G. Dalla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Identifying topological properties is a major challenge because, by definition, topological states do not have a local order parameter. While a generic solution to this challenge is not available yet, a broad class of topological states, namely symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states, can be identified by distinctive degeneracies in their entanglement spectrum. Here, we propose and realize two complementary protocols to probe these degeneracies based on, respectively, symmetry-resolved entanglement entropies and measurement-based computational algorithms. The two protocols link quantum information processing to the classification of SPT phases of matter. They invoke the creation of a cluster state, and are implemented on an IBM quantum computer. The experimental findings are compared to noisy simulations, allowing us to study the stability of topological states to perturbations and noise.
description: Published version
Parties and Politics in the Lebanese Society
Creators: name: Aridi, Bashir A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Lebanon is an Aramaic word meaning white, the characteristic of its snowy mountains. Its area which consists of 4,000 square miles is occupied by 1,320,000 inhabitants and is situated at the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. Most of its topographical structure is mountainous, which ranges from small hills to a height of about 9,000 feet with a few scattered plains and about thirteen rivers upon which the Lebanese agriculture and power plants depend. Its climate in its variations resembles that of California, giving a variety of agricultural products.
Parties and Politics in the Lebanese Society
Creators: name: Aridi, Bashir A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Lebanon is an Aramaic word meaning white, the characteristic of its snowy mountains. Its area which consists of 4,000 square miles is occupied by 1,320,000 inhabitants and is situated at the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. Most of its topographical structure is mountainous, which ranges from small hills to a height of about 9,000 feet with a few scattered plains and about thirteen rivers upon which the Lebanese agriculture and power plants depend. Its climate in its variations resembles that of California, giving a variety of agricultural products.
Women's self-help groups, decision-making, and improved agricultural practices in India
Creators: name: Raghunathan, K.
name: Raghunathan, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural extension workers and the relevance of advice they provide is poor. We investigate whether another platform that of women s self-help groups could be an effective way of improving access to information, women s empowerment in agriculture, improved agricultural practices, and production diversity. We used cross-sectional data on close to 3000 women from 5 states in India, and employ nearest-neighbor matching models to match SHG and non-SHG women along a range of pre-determined characteristics. We find that participation in an SHG increases women s access to information and their participation in some agricultural decisions, but has limited impact on agricultural practices or outcomes. Other constraints like income and social norms could be limiting the translation of knowledge into practice. Since SHGs are uniquely placed to change even these constraints, it is important to identify and account for them when advocating the use of these groups in improving agriculture and livelihoods. Acknowledgement : This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The opinions expressed here belong to the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of A4NH or CGIAR. We acknowledge the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the research project Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies, OPP1132181. The authors would also like to thank Purnima Menon for useful feedback on this paper.
Disability Discrimination, the Duty to Make Adjustments and the Problem of Persistent Misreading
Creators: name: Taylor, Alice
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The statutory duty to make adjustments contained in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) is one mechanism to promote substantive equality in Australia. In theory, it requires duty-bearers to adjust existing practices to accomodate a person's needs. However, in Sklavos v Australasian College of Dermatologists, it was established that a duty-bearer is only required to make adjustments for persons with disabilities where the reason for the refusal to make adjustments is based on the disability itself. This removes the positive aspect of the duty from the requirement and it makes it almost impossible for a claimant to prove their claim. This is not the first time that an Australian appellate court has effectively removed the positive duty aspects of the duty to make adjustments. This article will consider the reasons why higher courts in Australia appear to struggle to give meaning to such a duty. It will outline the purpose of the duty to make adjustments, before considering the approach of Australian courts to the duty. It will conclude by considering the different approaches adopted to such a duty in comparable jurisdictions and suggest reforms to the current Australian approach.
Protostellar Disk Dynamos and Hydromagnetic Outflows in Primordial Star Formation
Creators: name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Blackman, Eric G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Are magnetic fields important in primordial star formation? Assuming that star formation occurs via an accretion disk that is turbulent, initially because of local gravitational instability, we calculate the disk structure for realistic accretion rates. We predict that local gravitational viscosity is able to drive accretion, without the disk fragmenting. We then estimate the rate of dynamo amplification of seed magnetic field. Turbulence in a stratified disk can be helical, with different signs of the helicity in each hemisphere. This provides a key ingredient for production of global scale magnetic fields whose sign of flux is sustained over many orbit times. The resulting fields can drive collimated protostellar outflows that reduce the star formation efficiency from the initial gas cloud, especially once the protostar has contracted to the main sequence, at ~100 Msun. We estimate that the outflows are powerful enough to eject some material from the host dark matter halo and to initiate relatively strong magnetization of the local intergalactic medium. Close to the protostar, the outflow acts to shield the disk and equatorial regions from radiative feedback, such as ionizing photons, and this may enable accretion up to relatively large stellar masses. We conclude that magnetic fields cannot be ignored from models of primordial star formation.
description: 16 pages, accepted to ApJ
Quantum Bandits
Creators: name: Casalé, Balthazar
name: Di Molfetta, Giuseppe
name: Kadri, Hachem
name: Ralaivola, Liva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum version of the bandit problem known as {\em best arm identification} (BAI). We first propose a quantum modeling of the BAI problem, which assumes that both the learning agent and the environment are quantum; we then propose an algorithm based on quantum amplitude amplification to solve BAI. We formally analyze the behavior of the algorithm on all instances of the problem and we show, in particular, that it is able to get the optimal solution quadratically faster than what is known to hold in the classical case.
description: All your comments are very welcome!
Mixacarus (Mixacarus) chapmani Wallwork 1962
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Mixacarus
Mixacarus chapmani

description: Mixacarus (Mixacarus) chapmani Wallwork, 1962
 Deutonymph: Wallwork 1962c (Ds)
 Tritonymph: Wallwork 1962c (Ds)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
A funder's perspective on DMPs
Creators: name: Cruz, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data availability statements
Data Management Plan
Research Data Management Lifecycles
Research Outcomes

description: Data Management Plans (DMPs) and Data Availability Statements (DAS) provide context on activities and outcomes in Research Data Management Lifecycles (RDMLs) and encompass different aspects of the scholarly communication process. On the one hand, DMPs ensure researchers’ compliance with research funding and research organizations’ requirements, to carefully manage and appropriately share research data and outputs. On the other hand, DAS are integrated into scientific publishers' workflows to promote the availability of their publications’ underlying research data and outputs. Efforts are underway to standardize the structure and content of DMPs and DAS at both technical and policy levels. In this session you will hear from four key stakeholder groups regarding their approaches towards addressing challenges and opportunities in DMPs and DAS: Dutch Research Council (NWO) - Champions research data management policy alignment with research funders in Europe. One of the first organizations to implement Science Europe core requirements for DMPs, NWO actively promotes these requirements to other stakeholders. American Geophysical Union (AGU) - Advances data/software sharing policies and approaches in publishing through a broad coalition of partners and stakeholders. Beginning with its position statement on data (1997), AGU continues to improve its guidance and move towards machine-actionable DAS and research articles. Research Data Alliance (RDA) DMP Common Standards Working Group (WG) – Develops a community-wide information model, as well as specifications and access mechanisms for machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs). The WG recently released its maDMP recommendations for fostering greater collaboration, integration, and automation of maDMPs across research workflows. Argos - An open extensible service through OpenAire that simplifies the management, validation, monitoring and maintenance of DMPs. Argos constructs DMPs as machine-actionable outputs that are also shared through Zenodo according to Open and FAIR practices. Furthermore, the Argos paradigm inspires discussions and solutions towards the automation, linking, and machine-actionability of DAS and DMPs.