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PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND: TRANSITIONS OF THE RURAL POOR
Compared to their urban counterparts, the rural poor are more likely to be employed, more apt to be members of married-couple families, less likely to be children, less likely to be minority, and more likely to have assets but a negative income. This paper examines poverty rates and factors that affect mobility in and out of poverty among major categories of the rural poor. Particular attention is paid to farm workers and the rural farm population in the South. It endeavors to identify both structural conditions that perpetuate rural poverty and government interventions that ameliorate human suffering and break the cycle of poverty reproduction.Community/Rural/Urban Development,
ATTITUDES TOWARD GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF A NATIONAL SURVEY
This study reports results from a nationwide survey of public attitudes toward agriculture. The study focuses on attitudes toward government involvement in agriculture across regions of the county and residential categories.Political Economy,
Process benchmarking in the fruit and vegetable supply chain
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an international process benchmarking and to compile models of best practice business processes. The results of our international process benchmarking study allowed us to develop a framework, comprising three models, for better meeting customers’ needs. The first model presents how to understand and meet customers’ needs generally. The second model comprises those operations, work practices and business processes, which are essential in meeting customers’ needs. The third model (organisation designing model) helps the company to check, whether or not the operations, work practises and business processes of the second model can be found in and applied to the company.process benchmarking, customers’ needs, business processes, organisation designing model, Agribusiness,
A generalization of the injectivity condition for Projected Entangled Pair States
We introduce a family of tensor network states that we term semi-injective
Projected Entangled-Pair States (PEPS). They extend the class of injective PEPS
and include other states, like the ground states of the AKLT and the CZX models
in square lattices. We construct parent Hamiltonians for which semi-injective
PEPS are unique ground states. We also determine the necessary and sufficient
conditions for two tensors to generate the same family of such states in two
spatial dimensions. Using this result, we show that the third cohomology
labeling of Symmetry Protected Topological phases extends to semi-injective
PEPS.Comment: 63 page
Classification of Matrix Product States with a Local (Gauge) Symmetry
Matrix Product States (MPS) are a particular type of one dimensional tensor
network states, that have been applied to the study of numerous quantum many
body problems. One of their key features is the possibility to describe and
encode symmetries on the level of a single building block (tensor), and hence
they provide a natural playground for the study of symmetric systems. In
particular, recent works have proposed to use MPS (and higher dimensional
tensor networks) for the study of systems with local symmetry that appear in
the context of gauge theories. In this work we classify MPS which exhibit local
invariance under arbitrary gauge groups. We study the respective tensors and
their structure, revealing known constructions that follow known gauging
procedures, as well as different, other types of possible gauge invariant
states
Comparison of musculoskeletal networks of the primate forelimb
Anatomical network analysis is a framework for quantitatively characterizing the topological organization of anatomical structures, thus providing a way to compare structural integration and modularity among species. Here we apply this approach to study the macroevolution of the forelimb in primates, a structure whose proportions and functions vary widely within this group. We analyzed musculoskeletal network models in 22 genera, including members of all major extant primate groups and three outgroup taxa, after an extensive literature survey and dissections. The modules of the proximal limb are largely similar among taxa, but those of the distal limb show substantial variation. Some network parameters are similar within phylogenetic groups (e.g., non-primates, strepsirrhines, New World monkeys, and hominoids). Reorganization of the modules in the hominoid hand compared to other primates may relate to functional changes such as coordination of individual digit movements, increased pronation/supination, and knuckle-walking. Surprisingly, humans are one of the few taxa we studied in which the thumb musculoskeletal structures do not form an independent anatomical module. This difference may be caused by the loss in humans of some intrinsic muscles associated with the digits or the acquisition of additional muscles that integrate the thumb more closely with surrounding structures
Electron Scattering in AlGaN/GaN Structures
We present data on mobility lifetime, , quantum lifetime, ,
and cyclotron resonance lifetime, , of a sequence of high-mobility
two-dimensional electron gases in the AlGaN/GaN system, covering a density
range of cm. We observe a large discrepancy
between and (/6) and explain it as
the result of density fluctuations of only a few percent. Therefore, only
--and not -- is a reliable measure of the time between
electron scattering events in these specimens. The ratio
increases with increasing density in this series of samples, but scattering
over this density range remains predominantly in the large-angle scattering
regime
Swinging in the breeze : division 1 athletes\u27 experience of a coaching transition
The purpose of this study was to achieve a rich description of Division I athletes\u27 experience of a coaching transition. To obtain a meaningful description of this phenomenon, an existential-phenomenological dialogue was utilized. The existentialphenomenological dialogue, as Pollio, Henley, and Thompson (1997) noted, is a method or path that seems natural to attain a proper description of the human experience. This dialogue, a second person interaction between the researcher and the co-researcher (i.e. the participant), is critical. The investigator, assumed a respectful position to the real expert, the co-researcher (Pollio, et al. 1997). The phenomenological interview utilizes a single original question directing the participant to describe his or her experience. All questions henceforth flowed from the dialogue generated by this question in an openended and unstructured manner. Eight athletes were interviewed with each of the interviews lasting an average of 60 minutes. Upon completion and transcription of the interviews, an analysis of the data occurred using three hermeneutic approaches (i.e., group interpretation, idiographic interpretation, and nomothetic interpretation). Utilizing a Gestalt ground/figure perspective, five major themes emerged (1) Change, (2) Expectations, (3) Bonding, (4) Acclimation or Transitional Alienation, and (5) Growth to form the figure of the thematic structure. These themes were set against the ground of performance. In addition, an existential core emerged from these dialogues. This core, the athlete-coach relationship, represented the situation or world through which the experience of a coaching transition for these individuals was lived. Follow-up interviews confirmed these themes
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