cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rapidity dependence of antiproton to proton ratios in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=130 GeV
Creators: name: BRAHMS Collaboration
name: Bearden, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements, with the BRAHMS detector, of the antiproton to proton ratio at central and forward rapidities are presented for Au+Au reactions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=130 GeV, and for three different collision centralities. For collisions in the 0-40% centrality range we find $N(\bar{\rm p})/N({\rm p}) = 0.64 +- 0.04 (stat.) +- 0.06 (syst.) at y ~0, 0.66 +- 0.03 +- 0.06 at y ~ 0.7, and 0.41 +- 0.04 +- 0.06 at y ~ 2. The ratios are found to be nearly independent of collision centrality and transverse momentum. The measurements demonstrate that the antiproton and proton rapidity densities vary differently with rapidity, and indicate that a net-baryon free midrapidity plateau (Bjorken limit) is not reached at this RHIC energy.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Semiclassical Dispersion Corrections efficiently improve Multi-Configurational Theory with Short-Range Density-Functional Dynamic Correlation
Creators: name: Stein, Christopher J.
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-configurational wave functions are known to describe electronic structure across a Born-Oppenheimer surface qualitatively correct. However, for quantitative reaction energies, dynamical correlation originating from the many configurations involving excitations out of the restricted orbital space, the active space, must be considered. Standard procedures involve approximations that eventually limit the ultimate accuracy achievable (most prominently, multi-reference perturbation theory). At the same time, the computational cost increase dramatically due to the necessity to obtain higher-order reduced density matrices. It is this disproportion that leads us here to propose a MC-srDFT-D hybrid approach of semiclassical dispersion (D) corrections to cover long-range dynamical correlation in a multi-configurational (MC) wave function theory which includes short-range (sr) dynamical correlation by density functional theory (DFT) without double counting. We demonstrate that the reliability of this approach is very good (at negligible cost), especially when considering that standard second-order multi-reference perturbation theory usually overestimates dispersion interactions.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Synthesis of some new indeno[1′,2′:3,4]fluoreno[1,2-d]oxonine-5,11,16,21-tetraones and oxocyclohex-1-en-1-yl-hydro-1H-xanthen-1-ones
Creators: name: Antar A. Abdelhamid
name: Shaaban K. Mohamed
name: Amer, Amer A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical 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: Plant Biology

description: The novel oxonine 2, 4 have been synthesized by the reaction of 1,3-indandione with 4-bromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde and/or 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde in the presence of 1,3-diaminopropan-2-ol as green basic catalyst. On the other hand, the reaction of 1,3-cyclohexanediones with 2-hydroxy aromatic aldehydes under the same reaction condition afforded xanthenone derivatives 9-11.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY--DISCUSSION
Creators: name: Wyckoff, J.B.
name: Wyckoff, J.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: One would have to be quite presumptuous to feel that he could read five papers as dissimilar as the ones we are dealing with here today and come out with all common elements. While all but one consider the general area of rural development policy, there is a considerable range in their orientation and scope. The common elements in the papers are that they outline some agricultural policy objectives deemed appropriate to the situation in their countries of origin. Secondly, they all recommend or examine some implementation policy designed to achieve the policy objectives defined. Finally, they assess what the degree of success of these implementation policies has been or would be in achieving the policy objectives.
АҲМАД ИБН ЯҲЁНИНГ "АЛ-БАЛАЗУРИЙ" НИСБАСИГА ТАРИХЧИЛАР ТОМОНИДАН БИЛДИРИЛГАН ФИКРЛАР
Creators: name: Умматалиев, Соҳибжон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу мақолада VIII-IX асрларда Аббосийлар давлатида яшаган машҳур тарихчи Аҳмад ибн Яҳё ал-Балазурийнинг ҳаёти, илмий фаолияти ва унинг "ал-Балазурий" нисбаси ҳақида батафсил маълумотлар келтирилган. Муаллиф, Балазурийнинг асл келиб чиқиши, унинг тарихий асарлари ва нисбасининг келиб чиқиши ҳақида турли манбаларга таяниб, изоҳлар беради. Шунингдек, Балазурий нисбасининг "балозур" деб аталадиган ўсимлик номи билан боғлиқлиги ва бу ўсимликнинг тиббий хусусиятлари ҳақида ҳам маълумотлар келтирилган. Мақолада, шунингдек, Балазурийнинг бошқа олимлар билан қиёсланиб, уларнинг нисбалари ва улар орасидаги фарқлар ҳақида ҳам сўз юритилган.
Canadian Rural Policy Mostly a Regional Matter
Creators: name: Freshwater, David
name: Freshwater, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Canadian rural policy, despite differences in legislative procedure and allocation priorities, could hold many lessons for U.S. policymakers. The revived U.S. interest in block grant transfers to the States, for example, is similar to longstanding Canadian programs, which have traditionally stressed local economic planning. For Federal assistance to work well it must be comprehensive and designed to outlast the administration that implements it. Canada's programs, while sharing some features with U.S. programs, are often delivered in a manner that encourages rural areas to make a long-term commitment to integrating programs into a broader development strategy.
Investigating the transcriptional regulation of BCL11A in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Tsang, Nicola Hoi Yee
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Breast Cancer
Triple-negative Breast Cancer
BCL11A
Transcription
CRISPR-Cas9
RIME
DEK
SSRP1
PSIP1

description: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide. It can be classified into several subtypes based on the histological expression of Estrogen, Progesterone and HER-2 receptors. The most aggressive subtype of breast cancer is called Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and is clinically defined by the absence of the three receptors mentioned above. These TNBC patients have the poorest prognostic outcome among the subtypes and highest mortality rate due to the lack of targeted treatments. A recent study has shown the expression of the transcription regulator BCL11A, to be upregulated specifically in TNBC compared to the other subtypes of breast cancer. In addition, BCL11A has also been experimentally demonstrated to be an oncogene in these aggressive tumours, thus making it an interesting target for new drug developments. However, little is known about how BCL11A is regulated at the transcriptional level in breast cancer. To tackle this problem, this project implements a novel proteomic approach utilising the Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats – CRISPR associated 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) technology, to identify putative transcriptional regulators of BCL11A in TNBC. The first step of this project involves the identification of regulatory sites on BCL11A that display high transcriptional regulations. This was achieved using the CRISPR-Cas9 knock-out approach. We then employed the mutated catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) to target these sites and to pull down proteins in close proximity. This novel approach led to the identification of DEK, SSRP1 and PSIP1 as potential regulators of BCL11A’s expression. Experimentally, I found knocking- down DEK, SSRP1 and PSIP1 resulted in a reduction in BCL11A’s expression in TNBC. These results highlight a novel approach for the identification of transcription regulators of BCL11A’s in TNBC and potential targets for therapeutic interventions for these patients.
description: Scottish International Education Trust
Thyroxine - Molecule of the Month April 2020 [Archived version]
Creators: name: Thompson, Mike
name: Ting, Becky
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This is the Molecule of the Month entry for April 2020 about thyroxine. It is a pdf archive version of the HTML webpage.
Leveraging genomic and molecular variations to understand the regulatory landscape in human cancers and differentiating stem cells
Creators: name: Urban, Lara Hanne
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Statistical Genomics
Computational Genomics
Human Cancer Genomics
Transcriptomics
Mutational Signatures
Single-cell Genomics
DNA methylation
Alternative Splicing

description: Genetic and molecular variations are closely intertwined; while genetic factors drive phenotypic differences ranging from gene expression to organismal traits, phenotypic variations are the target of evolutionary selection, what eventually results in genetic changes. As technological advances have resulted in high-throughput assays for different molecular dimensions, it has become challenging to turn these large-scale data into meaningful insights and to delineate biological cause and consequence. In this thesis, I use computational modelling to detect and understand biologically meaningful associations between genetic variation and gene expression alterations. First, we use data across 27 human cancer types to probe associations between different genetic factors and gene expression levels. We describe the tumours' regulatory landscape that is highly heterogeneous across cancer types, and quantify the relationship between gene expression and various genetic features that characterise local and global mutational burden as well as distinct mutational processes. Next, we study the relationship between genetic and epigenetic variation and alternative splicing. This analysis extends studies of splicing events in bulk data to variability in splicing between single cells from the same tissue: We analyse DNA methylation and alternative splicing across single cells derived from one human donor to characterise splicing variation and its determinants across genes. Thus, we identify relevant genetic determinants of splicing in induced pluripotent stem cells as well as during their differentiation, and a significant contribution of DNA methylation to splicing variation across cells. Finally, we show how gene expression-mutagenesis screens can be applied to understand complex mutational signatures, using the cancer hallmark of DNA repair deficiency as an example. The molecular cause and consequence of homologous recombination repair deficiency are not yet fully understood. We explore genome-wide molecular aberrations caused by this repair deficiency beyond the few previously known genes. Our preliminary results point towards a genetically dominant effect of BRCA1 mutagenesis. Taken together, this thesis highlights novel dimensions of genotype-phenotype associations in highly heterogeneous molecular datasets. We describe the complex regulatory landscape across human cancer types, as well as molecular alterations and relevant epigenetic effects in differentiating pluripotent stem cells.
description: This PhD was funded by an EMBL PhD Fellowship, financed by the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number N635290).
XMM-Newton observation of the bursting pulsar GRO J1744-28 in quiescence
Creators: name: Daigne, F.
name: Goldoni, P.
name: Ferrando, P.
name: Goldwurm, A.
name: Decourchelle, A.
name: Warwick, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory performed a pointed observation of the bursting pulsar GRO J1744-28 in April 2001 for about 10 ks during a program devoted to the scan of the Galactic center region. After the discovery of this source by BATSE in December 1995 during a very active bursting phase, it has been in quiescence since April 1997. We present here the first detection of GRO J1744-28 in its quiescent state at a position which is consistent with previous high-energy positions (but not consistent with a proposed IR counterpart). The observed luminosity of the source in quiescence is about 6 orders of magnitude weaker than the luminosity in outburst.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; to be published in A&A
Additional file 2 of Contributions and challenges of community pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Durand, Claire
name: Douriez, Eric
name: Chappuis, Aude
name: Poulain, Frédérique
name: Yazdanpanah, Yazdan
name: Lariven, Sylvie
name: Lescure, François-Xavier
name: Peiffer-Smadja, Nathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Interview guide.
Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect from Electron Interactions
Creators: name: Li, Songci
name: Levchenko, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the impact of electron-electron interactions on the temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in disordered conductors. The microscopic analysis is carried out within the diagrammatic approach of the linear response Kubo-Streda formula with an account of both extrinsic skew-scattering and side-jump mechanisms of the anomalous Hall effect arising in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate the importance of electron interactions in the Cooper channel even for nominally non-superconducting materials and find that the corresponding low-temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall conductivity is asymptotically of the form $\sqrt{T}/\ln(T_0/T)$ in three dimensions and $\ln[\ln(T_0/T)]$ in two dimensions, where the scale of $T_0$ is parametrically of the order of Fermi energy. These results, in particular, may provide an explanation for the recently observed unconventional temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in HgCr$_2$Se$_4$.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Explicit and implicit large eddy simulations of free jets
Creators: name: Tzuo Wei It Kuan
name: Cocetta, Francesco
name: Szmelter, Joanna
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper presents studies of a turbulent free jet focusing on the comparison of the efficiency and accuracy obtained using the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and the Implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES) approaches. The solutions are obtained by solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using an unstructured mesh-based Non-oscillatory-Forward-in-Time (NFT) integration framework [1, 2]. The integration builds upon the second-order-accurate high-resolution Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Transport Algorithm (MPDATA). The capabilities to adequately capture essential turbulent free jet features in both the LES and ILES approaches are demonstrated in the presented work, with the LES simulations carried out at Reynolds number Re = 1.0×104 . Both approaches show good agreement when compared against experiments of Panchapakesan et al. [3] and Hussein et al. [4], with the ILES approach showing a better prediction of the near-field development of the jet. The flexibility of the numerical scheme is also highlighted through numerical investigations with different mesh topologies.
Tarsals of the miniscule insectivorous mammal Batodonoides from the Eocene of San Diego County, California
Creators: name: Zack, Shawn P.
name: Penkrot, Tonya A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Isolated astragali and calcanei of one of the smallest known living or extinct mammals, the geolabidid lipotyphlan Batodonoides powayensis, are identified and described from early and late Uintan (middle Eocene) strata in San Diego County, California. The morphology of the tarsus of Batodonoides appears to be most consistent with arboreal or scansorial locomotion. Prior assessments of geolabidid relationships have allied the group with lipotyphlans, particularly soricids and Solenodon, but the tarsus of Batodonoides shows no particular similarity to any extant lipotyphlan family. Instead, there are unexpected tarsal similarities to the extinct Nyctitheriidae, suggesting that geolabidids may have their origins among Paleocene and Eocene nyctitheres. Results of a phylogenetic analysis are consistent with a relationship either to Solenodon or to Nyctitheriidae. When geolabidids and nyctitheres are allied, the latter group shifts from the euarchontan stem to the lipotyphlan stem, potentially reconciling two divergent views on the relationships of nyctitheres. Batodonoides provides an additional example of the impact of nondental material in challenging established views of the affinities of early Cenozoic ‘insectivores.’
Detection of molecular hydrogen in a near Solar-metallicity damped Lyman-alpha system at z_abs~2 toward Q 0551-366
Creators: name: Ledoux, C.
name: Srianand, R.
name: Petitjean, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of H_2, CI, CI*, CI** and Cl I lines in a near Solar-metallicity ([Zn/H]=-0.13) damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) system at z_abs=1.962 observed on the line of sight to the quasar Q 0551-366. The iron-peak elements, X=Fe, Cr and Mn are depleted compared to zinc, [X/Zn] -0.8, probably because they are tied up onto dust grains. Among the three detected H_2-bearing clouds, spanning 55 km s^-1 in velocity space, we derive a total molecular hydrogen column density N(H_2)=2.6x10^17 cm^-2 and a mean molecular fraction f=2N(H_2)/(2N(H_2)+N(HI))=1.7x10^-3. The depletion of heavy elements (S, Si, Mg, Mn, Cr, Fe, Ni and Ti) in the central component is similar to that observed in the diffuse neutral gas of the Galactic halo. This depletion is approximately the same in the six CI-detected components independently of the presence or absence of H_2. The gas clouds in which H_2 is detected always have large densities, n_H>30 cm^-3, and low temperatures, T_01
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, to appear in A&A; added reference in Sect. 5
Mixed-fidelity CFD Simulations for Aero-engines: A Fan-intake Interaction Study
Creators: name: Ma, Yunfei
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mixed-fidelity
Fan-intake Interaction

description: Engine system consists of complex components, where aerodynamics can be coupled. In these coupled problems, flow separation may exist and the multiscale turbulence needs to be finely resolved to obtain an accurate solution. A high-fidelity simulation in such scenarios, however, is still infeasible for industrial applications due to the limitation of current computational resources. To make it possible, a mixed-fidelity CFD method based on the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed. In this hierarchical method, geometries can be replaced by forces, i.e. the standard IBM or eIBM, whereas turbulence can be resolved by the Large Eddy Simulation. The thesis proposed this method and applied it to an important issue for engine design: fan-intake interaction. The method was validated on a Darmstadt Transonic Rotor with a distortion generator to replicate the unsteady distortion at incidence, the NASA Rotor 67 with steady pressure distortion, and a triangular prism for turbulence statistics. The results indicated that this method can accurately simulate the performance map, separation transfer and total pressure distributions, compared to the experimental data and Direct Mesh Resolved (DMR) case. The method was then applied to reveal the mechanism of fan influence on intake distortion. It was shown that there are two aspects of such influence: the suction effect of a fan can accelerate the flow in the upstream and directly change its streamline curvature; on the other hand, the recirculating flows can also intensify the turbulence, indirectly increase the mixing process and finally alleviate the distortion. The main flow effect was further investigated in different parameters of fan type, location and distortion size. Results showed that a tip-loaded fan is more effective in suppressing intake separation; a nearer fan to the upstream has more significant reduction of distortion; a greater distortion can be suppressed more. These results demonstrate that a fan can be an essential component for intake distortion control. Further investigations of the results from RANS and LES interpreted the dominance of the influence via main flow or turbulence. It was found that stronger main flow acceleration by a fan can mitigate the inaccuracy of turbulence models. This indicates that for a short intake design, conventional turbulence models may be capable of predicting flow separation.
description: China Scholarship Council, EPSRC Grant EP/L000261/1
Observation of Shock-Front Separation in Multi-Ion-Species Collisional Plasma Shocks
Creators: name: Byvank, Tom
name: Langendorf, Samuel J.
name: Thoma, Carsten
name: Hsu, Scott C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe shock-front separation and species-dependent shock widths in multi-ion-species collisional plasma shocks, which are produced by obliquely merging plasma jets of a He/Ar mixture (97% He and 3% Ar by initial number density) on the Plasma Liner Experiment [S. C. Hsu et al., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 46, 1951 (2018)]. Visible plasma emission near the He-I 587.6 nm and Ar-II 476.5-514.5 nm lines are simultaneously recorded by splitting a single visible image of the shock into two different fast-framing cameras with different narrow bandpass filters (589 +/- 5 nm for observing the He-I line and 500 +/- 25 nm for the Ar-II lines). For conditions in these experiments (pre-shock ion and electron densities ~5*10^14 cm^-3, ion and electron temperatures of ~2.2 eV, and relative plasma-merging speed of 22 km/s), the observationally inferred magnitude of He/Ar shock-front separation and the shock widths themselves are < 1 cm, which correspond to ~50 post-shock thermal ion-ion mean free paths. These experimental lengths scales are in reasonable qualitative and quantitative agreement with results from 1D multi-fluid simulations using the Chicago code. However, there are differences between the experimentally-inferred and simulation-predicted ionization states and line emission intensities, particularly in the post-shock region. Overall, the experimental and simulation results are consistent with theoretical predictions that the lighter He ions diffuse farther ahead within the overall shock front than the heavier Ar ions.
Wakarumbia aurea Dvorak & Bocak 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dvorak, M.
name: Bocak, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Wakarumbia
Wakarumbia aurea

description: Wakarumbia aurea sp. nov.
(Figs 1–2)
 Type material. Holotype. Male, C. Sulawesi, 38 km SE of Pendolo vill., 1200 m, 119.46.55E 2.14.03S, 10.– 11. July 2001, Bolm lgt. (LMBC). Paratype. 1 female, ditto (LMBC).
 Differential diagnosis. The brightly yellow elytra are characteristic for two species from the central Sulawesi: W. amporiwensis Bocak, 2001 and W. aurea sp. nov. These species differ in the shape of the basal part of their phallus which is very short and abruptly widened in W. amporiwensis and much slenderer in W. aurea (Figs 1–2). These species differ externally in the black apex of elytra in W. aurea and uniformly yellow elytra in W. amporiwensis, but the coloration of the net-winged beetles is often variable and dissection of the male genitalia is necessary for a reliable identification.
 Description. Body small to medium sized, thorax, cranium and elytra except very small apical part brightly yellow, tarsi, apexes of tibiae and abdomen light brown. Head small, partly hidden by pronotum, eyes large, hemispherically prominent, eye diameter 1.18 times eye distance. Pronotum flat, 1.21 times wider than long at midline, disc shining, covered with dense short pubescence. Antennae compressed, antennomeres 3– 11 parallel-sided to slightly serrate, antennomere 3 2.5 times longer than maximum width, apical antennomeres apparently slenderer. Elytra parallel-sided, 3.64 times longer than width at humeri, with regular rectangular reticulate cells, elytral costae with long erect setae. Male genitalia with robust basal part, narrower in middle part, apical third wide (Figs 1–2).
 Measurements. BL 5.50 mm, HW 1.25 mm, PL 0.70 mm, PW 0.85 mm, EL 4.55 mm, Ediam 0.39 mm, Edist 0.33 mm.
 Distribution. Sulawesi, the vicinity of the Pendolo lake.
 Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the coloration of the pronotum and elytra.
description: Published as part of Dvorak, M. & Bocak, L., 2009, Ten new species of Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999 from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with a key to males of the genus, pp. 51-61 in Zootaxa 2282 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2282.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5305595
DECISION-MAKING ON THE AFRICAN FARM
Creators: name: Cleave, John H.
name: Cleave, John H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Farm Management
International Development

description: The fundamental nature of decision-making on the African farm is analytically similar to decision-making anywhere. The decision-maker has control over a number of factors or resources which he can define quantitatively and qualitatively more or less precisely according to their nature and the relevant time horizon, and, subject to a series of constraints and influences, he has a range of choices in his use of these factors to achieve several identifiable objectives. To synthesize an African farm would be to identify and value these resources, objectives, constraints and the choice of crops and techniques, it being taken as axiomatic that smallholders make rational decisions and respond to economic incentives. However, too little is known about the competition for farm resources and the nature of farmers' aims and constraints to accurately evaluate the efficiency of their decisions,and the limited aims of this paper are: to examine the nature and interactions of the variables involved, drawing on the insights provided by observations of adjustments to economic pressures recorded in a number of investigations into African farming; and to indicate interesting areas for further research. l/ But first a note on the decision unit with which we are concerned.
The Cognitive Underpinnings of Ideological Thinking
Creators: name: Zmigrod, Leor
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ideology
Cognitive Flexibility
Political Psychology
Ideological Cognition

description: The collective ideologies of the 20th and 21st century have illustrated the horrifying scale of human atrocities that can be committed in the name of ideological groups and causes. While philosophers and historians have developed rich accounts of the societal factors shaping the forces behind participation in collective ideologies, there has been remarkably little rigorous scientific investigation into the cognitive and neural factors that can increase an individual’s susceptibility to ideological dogmatism and extremism. The aim of the current doctoral research was therefore to examine what psychological traits make some individuals more vulnerable to ideological thinking than others. Theory-driven and data-driven approaches were employed to map out the cognitive underpinnings of ideological thinking. A series of large online studies encompassing over 1,500 participants revealed that ideological rigidity may be rooted in cognitive rigidity, such that the rigidity with which individuals process and evaluate neutral stimuli predicts the rigidity and extremity of their ideological beliefs. This relationship was corroborated across multiple ideological domains, including nationalism, religion, political partisanship, dogmatism, and extremist attitudes, uncovering a tight link between low-level perceptual processes and high-level ideological attitudes. Furthermore, a data-driven approach using Bayesian analyses was adopted to study the cognitive and personality signatures of political conservatism, nationalism, religiosity, and dogmatism. This exposed that psychological dispositions can predict ideological attitudes substantially better than traditional demographic variables, challenging the dominant perspective in the social sciences that socioeconomic indicators are the most powerful predictors of how citizens vote and what they believe. This research program therefore suggests that ideological attitudes are amenable to careful cognitive and computational analysis. The findings signify that individual differences in our cognitive dispositions may underpin the intensity of our ideological adherence – and so a rigorous scientific study of the ideological mind may illuminate pertinent societal questions facing modern democracies.
description: Gates Cambridge Trust
TRAINING FOR FARM MANAGEMENT DECISIONMAKING
Creators: name: Longsworth, John
name: Menz, Kenneth M.
name: Longsworth, John
name: Menz, Kenneth M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Farm Management
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The objectiye of this paper is to discuss a farm management training course designed to develop allocative ability. The paper consists of three sections. The first section briefly emphasizes the importance of allocative ability in relation to farm management decisionmaking. The second section describes in some detail certain aspects of the training program in farm management at the University of Queensland. Finally, we discuss the course in relation to educational principles.
title: 02_1163
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
A Behavioural Framework for Evaluating the Process of Economic Development
Creators: name: Yetley, Mervin J.
name: Deaton, Brady J.
name: Yetley, Mervin J.
name: Deaton, Brady J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The need for more comprehensive development models to capture the behavioural dynamics of peasants in subsistence economies was emphaiszed at the 1976 IAAE Conference (Deaton; Mbithi; and Shapiro). This emphasis is consistent with Polanyi's claim that as a social being, man acts to "safeguard his social standing, his social claims, [and] his social assets" (p. 46). From this perspective, Deaton posited a general model of satisfaction maximization and illustrated the policy significance of the hypothesized behavioural relationships. The purpose of this paper is to extend the above thinking by: (1) presenting a conceptual framework of essential relationships for a satisfaction maximization model by drawing on three bodies of thought--economic anthropology, adoptiondiffusion (sociology), and production economics; (2) analyzing selected interrelationships; and (3) discussing the significance and implications of the model for economic development.
Generating correlated networks from uncorrelated ones
Creators: name: Ramezanpour, A.
name: Karimipour, V.
name: Mashaghi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider a transformation which converts uncorrelated networks to correlated ones(here by correlation we mean that coordination numbers of two neighbors are not independent). We show that this transformation, which converts edges to nodes and connects them according to a deterministic rule, nearly preserves the degree distribution of the network and significantly increases the clustering coefficient. This transformation also enables us to relate percolation properties of the two networks.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, Revtex4
A Guide to Teaching Agricultural Economics in Nonspecialist Courses in a Developing Economy: Experience of Teaching for Rural Change in Malawi
Creators: name: Green, D. A.G.
name: Green, D. A.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Development

description: Bunda College of the University of Malawi provides all university level agricultural education in Malawi. Currently there are around 240 students, with a planned expansion to about 420. College entrants are largely from rural backgrounds. On qualifying, a wide range of occupations is open to students: after three years of training, diplomates find employment in both public and private sectors; after five years, graduates are employed predominantly in the public sector. There are 40 staff members distributed over a wide range of disciplines constituting the School of Agriculture, which is grouped into four departments : agricultural engineering, crop production, livestock production, and rural development. The latter is multidisciplinary, and during 1976-78 was headed by a professor of agricultural economics. Throughout 1975-78, considerable time was concentrated on restructuring the curricula for the general degree and diploma in agriculture. The present curricula and experience of their development provide bases for discussion and the identification of recurrent themes and guidelines. There is no claim to perfection; curriculum development is a dynamic process. Experience from the microcosm of a single university college can provide insights which pragmatic academic staff may appreciate more readily than generalizations from surveys.
Analysing Vibrational Circular Dichroism: Confidence Levels for Absolute Chirality Assignment
Creators: name: Lam, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Chirality
Absolute Chirality
Cheminformatics
Chemoinformatics
DFT
Density Functional Theory
Spectroscopy
Chiroptical Spectroscopy

description: The application of chiroptical methods such as vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy is valuable in the assignment of absolute chirality. Assignment of chirality traditionally involves visual comparison of calculated and experimental spectra which can be subjective and time consuming. Experimental VCD spectra for 40 compounds were acquired on different VCD spectrometers over the course of this work. To these data were added several compounds from published literature for which VCD data was already available. By successive trials over a dataset containing 60 compounds and their VCD spectra, various automated methods for interpretation of VCD spectra are developed and investigated, with the aim of achieving a confidence level assignment algorithm for absolute chirality. The algorithm functions by comparing baseline-corrected VCD spectra of a compound with theoretically predicted spectra for each enantiomeric form. The prediction method for VCD spectra involves conformational searching at the molecular mechanics level to find stable conformational minima, followed by quantum calculations using density functional theory (DFT) to find the vibrational modes. DFT calculations are performed using the B3LYP and B3PW91 functionals, in conjunction with the 6-31G(d,p) and cc-pVTZ basis sets. Comparison between calculated and observed data is performed using a novel multiplicative percentage scoring method, scanning through a range of scale factors between 0.95 and 1.00. The degree of similarity is given a score ranging from -100% to +100%, with percentage values given such that uncertain cases need not be ignored or overconfidently assigned, but can be realistically evaluated according to existing spectral data. This analysis is optimised using a database of 30 pairs of small-molecule organic compounds, including many drug-like and drug precursor molecules. Through these and further computational methods we present a reliable and time-efficient method for determination of absolute chirality, with the aim of developing into a standardized procedure for small-molecule organic compounds.
description: This project was carried out with the support and funding of AstraZeneca R&D, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Multi-Component Extension of CAC Systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Dan-Da
name: van der Kamp, Peter H.
name: Zhang, Da-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper an approach to generate multi-dimensionally consistent $N$-component systems is proposed. The approach starts from scalar multi-dimensionally consistent quadrilateral systems and makes use of the cyclic group. The obtained $N$-component systems inherit integrable features such as Bäcklund transformations and Lax pairs, and exhibit interesting aspects, such as nonlocal reductions. Higher order single component lattice equations (on larger stencils) and multi-component discrete Painlevé equations can also be derived in the context, and the approach extends to $N$-component generalizations of higher dimensional lattice equations.
Inferring differences between networks using Bayesian exponential random graph models
Creators: name: Lehmann, Brieuc Charles Louis
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Statistical network analysis
Exponential random graph models
Statistical neuroimaging
Bayesian statistics

description: The goal of many neuroimaging studies is to better understand how the functional connectivity structure of the brain changes with a given phenotype such as age. Functional connectivity can be characterised as a network, with nodes corresponding to brain regions and edges corresponding to statistical dependencies between the respective regional time series of activity. A typical neuroimaging dataset will thus consist of one or more networks for each individual in the study. Most statistical network models, however, were originally proposed to describe a single underlying relational structure such as friendships between individuals or hyperlinks between web pages. As a result, the development of these models has largely been restricted to the single network case. While one could in principle fit a single network model to each individual separately, it is not always straightforward to combine these individual results into a single group result. In the first half of the thesis, we propose a multilevel framework for populations of networks based on exponential random graph models. By pooling information across the individual networks, this framework provides a principled approach to characterise the relational structure for an entire population. We use the framework to assess group-level variations in functional connectivity, providing a method for the inference of differences in the topological structure between groups of networks. Our motivation stems from the Cam-CAN project, a neuroimaging study on healthy ageing. Using this dataset, we illustrate how our method can be used to detect differences in functional connectivity between a group of young individuals and a group of old individuals. In the second half of the thesis, we shift our focus to dynamic functional connectivity (dFC). Recent studies have found that using static measures may average over informative fluctuations in functional connectivity. Several methods have been developed to measure dFC in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, spurious group differences in measured dFC may be caused by other sources of heterogeneity between people. We use a generic simulation framework for fMRI data to investigate the effect of such heterogeneity on estimates of dFC and find that, despite no differences in true dFC, individual differences in measured dFC can result from other (non-dynamic) features of the data. We then add a natural and novel extension to our multilevel framework by inserting time windows as an intermediate level between time points and subjects. Using magnetoencephalography data from the Cam-CAN study, we apply our method to detect differences in time-varying connectivity between a young group and an old group.
Wakarumbia decepta Dvorak & Bocak 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dvorak, M.
name: Bocak, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Wakarumbia
Wakarumbia decepta

description: Wakarumbia decepta sp. nov.
(Figs 3–4)
 Type material. Holotype. Male, W. Sulawesi, 8 km W of Mamasa (Nepe), 950 m, 119.20.32E 2.56.13S, 29.– 31. June 2001, Bolm lgt. (LMBC). Paratype. Male, W. Sulawesi, 8 km W of Mamasa (Nepe), 950 m, 119.20.32E 2.56.13S, 29.–31. June 2001, Bolm lgt. (LMBC).
 Differential diagnosis. W. decepta sp. nov. resembles W. kundratai sp. nov. in general appearance, but these species differ in the shape of male genitalia. Those of W. decepta are characteristic in the slenderer basal part of the phallus compared with W. kundratai (Figs 3–4 and 9–10). Additionally, these species can easily be distinguished by the relative size of the eyes.
 Description. Body medium-sized, dark brown to black, only pronotal carinae and margins light brown, mouthparts and bases of femora testaceous. Head small, partly hidden by pronotum, eyes small, hemispherically prominent, their frontal distance 1.33 times eye diameter. Antennae compressed, antennomere 3 2.1 times longer than maximum width, antennomeres 3–11 gradually slenderer to apex. Pronotum flat, 1.24 times wider than long, with well developed pronotal carinae, disc shining, covered with sparse long pubescence. Elytra parallel-sided, 2.92 times longer than width at humeri, reticulate cells mostly irregular, transverse to quadrate. Phallus slender, with long tubular part, slightly slenderer in middle of its length, apical part symmetrical (Figs 3–4).
 Measurements. BL 5.52 mm, HW 1.54 mm, PL 0.83 mm, PW 1.03 mm, EL 4.50 mm, Ediam 0.33 mm, Edist 0.44 mm.
 Distribution. Sulawesi, the Mamasa valley.
 Etymology. The specific name, meaning ‘deceiving’, refers to the high similarity with other dark colored species and difficult identification of this species according to the general appearance.
 FIGURES 1–12. Male genitalia. 1– 2 W. aurea; 3– 4 W. decepta; 5– 6 W. hanae; 7– 8 W. hirsuta; 9– 10 W. kundratai; 11– 12 W. linearis.
description: Published as part of Dvorak, M. & Bocak, L., 2009, Ten new species of Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999 from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with a key to males of the genus, pp. 51-61 in Zootaxa 2282 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2282.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5305595
Upgrading Workers' Skills Not Sufficient to Jump-Start Rural Economy
Creators: name: Teixeira, Ruy A.
name: Mishel, Lawrence
name: Teixeira, Ruy A.
name: Mishel, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Enhanced job skills benefit rural individuals, but a high-quality rural labor force by itself will not guarantee rural development. Data from the past two decades show a decreasing rate of growth in demand by employers for quantifiable skills (like level of education). Although policymakers predict an increasingly skilled and service-oriented workforce in the 1990's, a rural development strategy based solely on upgrading workforce skills may still miss the point.
Planning conservation priority areas for marine mammals accounting for human impact, climate change and multidimensions of biodiversity
Creators: name: Li, Linjie
name: Tang, Yanli
name: Dong, Hao
name: Zhao, Linlin
name: Liu, Changdong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: marine mammals; marine protected areas; multidimensional biodiversity; human impact; climate change

description: These folders contain the data, code, and generated results related to the study titled "Planning conservation priority areas for marine mammals accounting for human impact, climate change, and multidimensions of biodiversity." The materials are organized as follows: the "data" folder includes datasets used in the analysis, the "code" folder contains scripts for conducting the analyses, and the "result" folder holds the output generated during the study.