pinecone/core-2020-05-10-deduplication huggingface dataset:
Genomics and Physiological Approaches\ud
for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought\ud
Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Chickpea ranks third among pulses, fifth among grain legumes, and 15th among\ud
grain crops of the world. In 2006, the world chickpea cultivation area was 10.7 Mha\ud
with over 8 Mha grown in India, Pakistan, and Iran, with a further 1 Mha grown in\ud
other countries of Asia, the Middle East, and Canada. Total production was 8.4 Mt,\ud
and the average yield was 772 kg/ha (FAOSTAT 2006). Although chickpea is\ud
cultivated in about 50 countries, 95% of its area is in the developing countries\ud
where South Asia alone covers almost 71% of the world chickpea harvested area.\ud
Most of the chickpea harvested is consumed locally and the global trade is about\ud
12% of the total production. The global demand for chickpea is projected to be\ud
11.1 Mt in 2010. Under optimum growing conditions, the yield potential of\ud
chickpea is 6 t/ha (Singh 1987), which is much higher than the current global\ud
yield average of ~0.8 t/ha (Ahmad et al. 2005)
Search for anomalous production of prompt like-sign lepton pairs at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Contributor: Paul Douglas Jackson of School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Extent: 41p.An inclusive search for anomalous production of two prompt, isolated leptons with the same electric charge is presented. The search is performed in a data sample corresponding to 4.7 fb⁻¹ of integrated luminosity collected in 2011 at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Pairs of leptons (e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, and μ ± μ ±) with large transverse momentum are selected, and the dilepton invariant mass distribution is examined for any deviation from the Standard Model expectation. No excess is found, and upper limits on the production cross section of like-sign lepton pairs from physics processes beyond the Standard Model are placed as a function of the dilepton invariant mass within a fiducial region close to the experimental selection criteria. The 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section of anomalous e ± e ±, e ± μ ±, or μ ± μ ± production range between 1.7 fb and 64 fb depending on the dilepton mass and flavour combination.The ATLAS collaboratio
Ruminative self-focus, negative life events, and negative affect.

addresses: Mood Disorders Centre, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK. n.j.moberly@ex.ac.uknotes: PMCID: PMC2682175types: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tCopyright © 2008 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2008, Vol. 46, Issue 9, pp. 1034 – 1039 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.06.004Ruminative thinking is believed to exacerbate the psychological distress that follows stressful life events. An experience-sampling study was conducted in which participants recorded negative life events, ruminative self-focus, and negative affect eight times daily over one week. Occasions when participants reported a negative event were marked by higher levels of negative affect. Additionally, negative events were prospectively associated with higher levels of negative affect at the next sampling occasion, and this relationship was partially mediated by momentary ruminative self-focus. Depressive symptoms were associated with more frequent negative events, but not with increased reactivity to negative events. Trait rumination was associated with reports of more severe negative events and increased reactivity to negative events. These results suggest that the extent to which a person engages in ruminative self-focus after everyday stressors is an important determinant of the degree of distress experienced after such events. Further, dispositional measures of rumination predict mood reactivity to everyday stressors in a non-clinical sample
Responding to climate change as a transformative stressor through metro-regional planning

This paper characterises climate change as a "transformative stressor". It argues that institutional change will become increasingly necessary as institutions seek to reorientate governance frameworks to better manage the transformative stresses created by climate change in urban environments. Urban and metropolitan planning regimes are identified as central institutions in addressing this challenge. The operationalisation of climate adaptation is identified as a central tenet of a comprehensive urban response to the transformative stresses that climate change is predicted to create. Operationalisation refers to climate adaptation becoming incorporated, codified and implemented as a central tenet of urban planning governance. This paper has three purposes. First, it examines conceptual perspectives on the role of transformative stressors in compelling institutional change. Second, it establishes a conceptual approach that characterises climate change as a transformative stressor requiring institutional change within planning frameworks. Third, it reports emergent results and analysis from an empirical inquiry which examines how the metro-regional planning regime of Southeast Queensland has responded to climate change as a transformative stressor via institutional change and the operationalisation of climate adaptation.Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of EnvironmentFull Tex
Exploring structured documents and query formulation\ud
techniques for patent retrieval

This paper presents the experiments and results of DCU in CLEF-IP 2009. Our work applied standard information retrieval (IR) techniques to patent search. Different experiments tested various methods for the patent retrieval, \ud
including query formulation, structured index, weighted fields, document filtering, and blind relevance feedback. Some methods did not show expected good retrieval effectiveness such as blind relevance feedback, other \ud
experiments showed acceptable performance. Query formulation was the key to achieving better retrieval effectiveness, and this  was performed through assigning higher weights to certain document fields. Further experiments showed that for longer queries, better results are achieved but at the expense of additional computations. For the best runs, the retrieval effectiveness is still lower than for IR applications for other domains, illustrating the difficulty of patent search. The official results have shown that among fifteen participants we achieved the seventh and the fourth ranks from the mean average precision (MAP) and recall point of view, respectively
Prospects of Measuring the Angular Power Spectrum of the Diffuse Galactic Synchrotron Emission with SKA1 Low

The Diffuse Galactic Syncrotron Emission (DGSE) is the most important diffuse foreground component for future cosmological 21-cm observations. The DGSE is also an important probe of the cosmic ray electron and magnetic field distributions in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy. In this paper we briefly review the Tapered Gridded Estimator (TGE) which can be used to quantify the angular power spectrum C-l of the sky signal directly from the visibilities measured in radio-interferometric observations. The salient features of the TGE are: (1) it deals with the gridded data which makes it computationally very fast, (2) it avoids a positive noise bias which normally arises from the system noise inherent to the visibility data, and (3) it allows us to taper the sky response and thereby suppresses the contribution from unsubtracted point sources in the outer parts and the side lobes of the antenna beam pattern. We also summarize earlier work where the TGE was used to measure the C-l of the DGSE using 150MHz GMRT data. Earlier measurements of C-l are restricted to l <= l(max) similar to 10(3) for the DGSE, the signal at the larger values is dominated by the residual point sources after source subtraction. The higher sensitivity of the upcoming SKA1 Low will allow the point sources to be subtracted to a fainter level than possible with existing telescopes. We predict that it will be possible to measure the C-l of the DGSE to larger values of l(max) with SKA1 Low. Our results show that it should be possible to achieve l(max) similar to 10(4) and similar to 10(5) with 2 minutes and 10 hours of observations respectively
Coherent J/psi photoproduction in ultra-peripheral PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV with the CMS experiment

The cross section for coherent J/psi photoproduction accompanied by at least one neutron on one side of the interaction point and no neutron activity on the other side, X[n]0[n], is measured with the CMS experiment in ultra-peripheral PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 159 inverse microbarns, collected during the 2011 PbPb run. The J/psi mesons are reconstructed in the dimuon decay channel, while neutrons are detected using zero degree calorimeters. The measured cross section is dsigma[coh, X[n]0[n]] / dy(J/psi) = 0.36 +/- 0.04 (stat) +/- 0.04 (syst) mb in the rapidity interval 1.8 &lt; abs(y) &lt; 2.3. Using a model for the relative rate of coherent photoproduction processes, this X[z, n, z] measurement gives a total coherent photoproduction cross section of dsigma[coh] / dy(J/psi) = 1.82 +/- 0.22 (stat) +/- 0.20 (syst) +/- 0.19 (theo) mb. The data strongly disfavour the impulse approximation model prediction, indicating that nuclear effects are needed to describe coherent J/psi photoproduction in gamma + Pb interactions. The data are found to be consistent with the leading twist approximation, which includes nuclear gluon shadowing
The incidence of debris disks at 24 μm and 670 Myr

We use Spitzer Space Telescope 24 µm data to search for debris disks among 122 AFGKMstars from the ~670 Myr clusters Hyades, Coma Ber, and Praesepe, utilizing a number of advances in data reduction and determining the intrinsic colors of main-sequence stars. For our sample, the 1σ dispersion about the main-sequence V - KS, KS-[24] locus is approximately 3.1%. We identify seven debris disks at 10% or more (≥3σ confidence level) above the expected KS-[24] for purely photospheric emission. The incidence of excesses of 10% or greater in our sample at this age is 5.7+3.1-1.7%. Combining with results from the literature, the rate is 7.8+4.2-2.1% for early-type (B9-F4) stars and 2.7+3.3-1.7% for solar-like (F5-K9) stars. Our primary sample has strict criteria for inclusion to allow comparison with other work; when we relax these criteria, three additional debris disks are detected. They are all around stars of solar-like type and hence reinforce our conclusion that disks around such stars are still relatively common at 670Myr and are similar to the rate around early-type stars. The apparently small difference in decay rates between early-type and solar-like stars is inconsistent with the first-order theoretical predictions that the later type stellar disks would decay an order of magnitude more quickly than the earlier type ones
Pooling and expanding registries of familial hypercholesterolaemia to assess gaps in care and improve disease management and outcomes: Rationale and design of the global EAS Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Studies Collaboration.

BACKGROUND: \ud
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The potential for global collaborations to better inform public health policy regarding major non-communicable diseases has been successfully demonstrated by several large-scale international consortia. However, the true public health impact of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a common genetic disorder associated with premature cardiovascular disease, is yet to be reliably ascertained using similar approaches. The European Atherosclerosis Society FH Studies Collaboration (EAS FHSC) is a new initiative of international stakeholders which will help establish a global FH registry to generate large-scale, robust data on the burden of FH worldwide. ----- \ud
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METHODS: \ud
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The EAS FHSC will maximise the potential exploitation of currently available and future FH data (retrospective and prospective) by bringing together regional/national/international data sources with access to individuals with a clinical and/or genetic diagnosis of heterozygous or homozygous FH. A novel bespoke electronic platform and FH Data Warehouse will be developed to allow secure data sharing, validation, cleaning, pooling, harmonisation and analysis irrespective of the source or format. Standard statistical procedures will allow us to investigate cross-sectional associations, patterns of real-world practice, trends over time, and analyse risk and outcomes (e.g. cardiovascular outcomes, all-cause death), accounting for potential confounders and subgroup effects. ----- \ud
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CONCLUSIONS: \ud
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The EAS FHSC represents an excellent opportunity to integrate individual efforts across the world to tackle the global burden of FH. The information garnered from the registry will help reduce gaps in knowledge, inform best practices, assist in clinical trials design, support clinical guidelines and policies development, and ultimately improve the care of FH patients
Adversus singularitates: The ontology of space-time\ud
singularities

I argue that there are no physical singularities in space-time. Singular\ud
space-time models do not belong to the ontology of the world, because\ud
of a simple reason: they are concepts, defective solutions of Einstein's field\ud
equations. I discuss the actual implication of the so-called singularity theorems.\ud
In remarking the confusion and fog that emerge from the reification of\ud
singularities I hope to contribute to a better understanding of the possibilities\ud
and limits of the theory of General Relativity
Facetting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution

Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, ?? 2018 ESO. Content in the UH Research Archive is made available for personal research, educational, and non-commercial purposes only. Unless otherwise stated, all content is protected by copyright, and in the absence of an open license, permissions for further re-use should be sought from the publisher, the author, or other copyright holder.The new generation of radio interferometers is characterized by high sensitivity, wide fields of view and large fractional bandwidth. To synthesize the deepest images enabled by the high dynamic range of these instruments requires us to take into account the direction-dependent Jones matrices, while estimating the spectral properties of the sky in the imaging and deconvolution algorithms. In this paper we discuss and implement a wide-band wide-field spectral deconvolution framework (DDFacet) based on image plane faceting, that takes into account generic direction-dependent effects. Specifically, we present a wide-field co-planar faceting scheme, and discuss the various effects that need to be taken into account to solve for the deconvolution problem (image plane normalization, position-dependent PSF, etc). We discuss two wide-band spectral deconvolution algorithms based on hybrid matching pursuit and sub-space optimisation respectively. A few interesting technical features incorporated in our imager are discussed, including baseline dependent averaging, which has the effect of improving computing efficiency. The version of DDFacet presented here can account for any externally defined Jones matrices and/or beam patterns
Deeper H.E.S.S. observations of Vela Junior (RX J0852.0-4622): Morphology studies and resolved spectroscopy

Aims. We study γ-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J0852.0−4622 to better characterize its spectral properties and its distribution over the SNR. Methods. The analysis of an extended High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) data set at very high energies (E > 100 GeV) permits detailed studies, as well as spatially resolved spectroscopy, of the morphology and spectrum of the whole RX J0852.0−4622 region. The H.E.S.S. data are combined with archival data from other wavebands and interpreted in the framework of leptonic and hadronic models. The joint Fermi-LAT-H.E.S.S. spectrum allows the direct determination of the spectral characteristics of the parent particle population in leptonic and hadronic scenarios using only GeV-TeV data. Results. An updated analysis of the H.E.S.S. data shows that the spectrum of the entire SNR connects smoothly to the high-energy spectrum measured by Fermi-LAT. The increased data set makes it possible to demonstrate that the H.E.S.S. spectrum deviates significantly from a power law and is well described by both a curved power law and a power law with an exponential cutoff at an energy of Ecut = (6.7 ± 1.2stat ± 1.2syst) TeV. The joint Fermi-LAT-H.E.S.S. spectrum allows the unambiguous identification of the spectral shape as a power law with an exponential cutoff. No significant evidence is found for a variation of the spectral parameters across the SNR, suggesting similar conditions of particle acceleration across the remnant. A simple modeling using one particle population to model the SNR emission demonstrates that both leptonic and hadronic emission scenarios remain plausible. It is also shown that at least a part of the shell emission is likely due to the presence of a pulsar wind nebula around PSR J0855−4644.H.E.S.S. Collaboration: H. Abdalla … R. Blackwell … P. DeWilt … J. Hawkes … J. Lau … N. Maxted … G. Rowell … F. Voisin … et al
MEF2 is an in vivo immune-metabolic switch.

Infections disturb metabolic homeostasis in many contexts, but the underlying connections are not completely understood. To address this, we use paired genetic and computational screens in Drosophila to identify transcriptional regulators of immunity and pathology and their associated target genes and physiologies. We show that Mef2 is required in the fat body for anabolic function and the immune response. Using genetic and biochemical approaches, we find that MEF2 is phosphorylated at a conserved site in healthy flies and promotes expression of lipogenic and glycogenic enzymes. Upon infection, this phosphorylation is lost, and the activity of MEF2 changes—MEF2 now associates with the TATA binding protein to bind a distinct TATA box sequence and promote antimicrobial peptide expression. The loss of phosphorylated MEF2 contributes to loss of anabolic enzyme expression in Gram-negative bacterial infection. MEF2 is thus a critical transcriptional switch in the adult fat body between metabolism and immunity
Mirror symmetry for G 2-manifolds : twisted connected sums and dual tops.

Recently, at least 50 million of novel examples of compact G 2 holonomy manifolds have been constructed as twisted connected sums of asymptotically cylindrical Calabi-Yau threefolds. The purpose of this paper is to study mirror symmetry for compactifications of Type II superstrings in this context. We focus on G 2 manifolds obtained from building blocks constructed from dual pairs of tops, which are the closest to toric CY hypersurfaces, and formulate the analogue of the Batyrev mirror map for this class of G 2 holonomy manifolds, thus obtaining several millions of novel dual superstring backgrounds. In particular, this leads us to conjecture a plethora of novel exact dualities among the corresponding 2d   N  = 1 sigma models
Production activities and economic dependency by age and gender in Europe : A cross-country comparison

We compare selected European countries using an economic dependency ratio which emphasizes the role of age-specific levels of production and consumption. Our analysis reveals large differences in the age- and gender-specific level and type of production activities across selected European countries and identifies possible strategies to adjust age-specific economic behaviour to an ageing population. The cross-country differences in economic dependency of children and elderly persons are largely determined by the age at which people enter, respectively exit, the labour market. The ability of the working age population to support children and elderly persons in turn is strongly influenced by the participation of women in paid work. We also provide a measure for the age-specific production and consumption in form of unpaid household work. The inclusion of unpaid household work leads to a decrease of the gender differences in production activities and indicates that the working age population supports children and elderly persons not only through monetary transfers but also through services produced by unpaid work (e.g. childcare, cooking, cleaning. . .). Given the available data, we cannot distinguish the age profile of consumption by gender and have to assume – in case of unpaid work - that each member of the household consumes the same. Hence, our results have to be regarded as a first approximation only. Our paper aims to argue that a reform of the welfare system needs to take into account not only public transfers but also private transfers, in particular the transfers in form of goods and services produced through unpaid household work
The electricity consumption versus economic growth of the Polish economy

The aim of this contribution is an investigation of causal interdependences between electricity consumption and GDP in Poland. Our research was conducted for total electricity consumption as well as for the industrial consumption of electricity. In order to reflect the causality between GDP and electricity consumption properly we performed our investigations in a three–dimensional framework with employment chosen as an additional variable. We used reliable quarterly data from the period Q1 2000 – Q4 2009. In order to check the stability of the causalities the investigations were performed on two samples: a full sample and a pre–crisis (i.e. Q1 2000 – Q3 2008) subsample. We applied both traditional methods as well as some recently developed econometric tools.
We found feedback between total electricity consumption and GDP as well as between total electricity consumption and employment. We also found unidirectional causality running from industrial electricity consumption to employment and no direct causal links between industrial electricity consumption and GDP. In addition, all these findings were, in general, not seriously affected by the financial and economic crisis of 2008. A significant exception is the causal effect of industrial electricity consumption on employment, which was more pronounced after the crisis of 2008.
A coarse graining for the Fortuin-Kasteleyn measure in random media

By means of a multi-scale analysis we describe the typical geometrical
structure of the clusters under the FK measure in random media. Our result
holds in any dimension greater or equal to 2 provided that slab percolation
occurs under the averaged measure, which should be the case in the whole
supercritical phase. This work extends the one of Pisztora and provides an
essential tool for the analysis of the supercritical regime in disordered FK
models and in the corresponding disordered Ising and Potts models.Comment: 55 pages, 6 figure
CDT meets Horava-Lifshitz gravity

The theory of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) attempts to define a
nonperturbative theory of quantum gravity as a sum over space-time geometries.
One of the ingredients of the CDT framework is a global time foliation, which
also plays a central role in the quantum gravity theory recently formulated by
Ho\v{r}ava. We show that the phase diagram of CDT bears a striking resemblance
with the generic Lifshitz phase diagram appealed to by Ho\v{r}ava. We argue
that CDT might provide a unifying nonperturbative framework for anisotropic as
well as isotropic theories of quantum gravity.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures. Typos corrected, a few remarks added