cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Miltochrista dagmarae subsp. anaptigmena Volynkin & Černý, 2022, ssp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Černý, Karel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Miltochrista
Miltochrista dagmarae
Miltochrista dagmarae anaptigmena

description: Miltochrista dagmarae anaptigmena ssp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F273C71C-7FDF-4429-88B0-A3C017BC9260
(Figs 3–6, 11, 12, 16)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 3, 11): male, “SE Thailand | Prov. Ubon Ratchatani, 220 m, | Border of Nam Yuem NP / 14°25,37'N, 104°52,07'E, | 2.–3. XI. 2010 leg. K. Černý ” / “Slide | AV2867 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM/ ZSM, ex CKC).
 Paratypes. THAILAND: 1 male, 1 female, Nakhon Ratchasima [Prov.], Pan Chan Sao Po, 490m, 14°22.555'N 101°51.890'E, 1–3.IX.2008, T. Ihle leg., gen. prep. Nos.: AV2868 (male), AV2869 (female) (prepared by Volynkin); 2 males, 2 females, Sakhon Nakhon [Prov.], Phu Pan NP, 320m, 17°05.767'N 102°59.91'E, 5–7.XI.2010, K. Černý leg., gen. prep. Nos.: AV2578 (male), AV2577 (female) (prepared by Volynkin); 1 male, Chiang Mai [Prov.], Chiang Dao, Doi Din Daeng, 525m, 19°19'26''N 98°55'26''E, 1.XII.2005, K. Černý leg.; 2 males, 1 female, Chiang Mai [Prov.], Doi Suthep, 400m, 10–30.X.2016, T. Ihle leg. (all in CKC).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 8.0–8.5 mm in males and 10.0 mm in females. Miltochrista dagmarae anaptigmena ssp. n. (Figs 3–6) differs from the nominate subspecies (Figs 1, 2) in the somewhat narrower forewing having ante- and postmedial fasciae interrupted into rows of spots whereas the pattern of M. dagmarae dagmarae is reduced to the medial discal spot only. The male genital capsules of the two subspecies (Figs 9–12) are similar but distal saccular process of M. dagmarae anaptigmena ssp. n. is somewhat more elongate and markedly slenderer than in the nominate subspecies. The phalli of the two subspecies are alike. The vesica of the new subspecies is similar to M. dagmarae dagmarae but bears basally narrower distal cornuti. In the female genitalia, M. dagmarae anaptigmena ssp. n. (Fig. 16) is distinguished from the nominate subspecies (Fig. 15) by the somewhat broader ductus bursae.
 Distribution. The new subspecies is known from Northern, Eastern and Southeastern Thailand (Chiang Mai, Ubon Ratchatani, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Sakhon Nakhon Provinces).
 Etymology. The subspecific epithet originates from the Greek ‘αναπτηγμένος’ meaning ‘developed’ and refers to the developed ante- and postmedial fasciae.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2022, On the taxonomy of Miltochrista dagmarae Černý with descriptions of a new species and a new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), pp. 25-31 in Ecologica Montenegrina 60 on pages 26-30, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.60.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13239744
Partition MCMC for inference on acyclic digraphs
Creators: name: Kuipers, Jack
name: Moffa, Giusi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Acyclic digraphs are the underlying representation of Bayesian networks, a widely used class of probabilistic graphical models. Learning the underlying graph from data is a way of gaining insights about the structural properties of a domain. Structure learning forms one of the inference challenges of statistical graphical models. MCMC methods, notably structure MCMC, to sample graphs from the posterior distribution given the data are probably the only viable option for Bayesian model averaging. Score modularity and restrictions on the number of parents of each node allow the graphs to be grouped into larger collections, which can be scored as a whole to improve the chain's convergence. Current examples of algorithms taking advantage of grouping are the biased order MCMC, which acts on the alternative space of permuted triangular matrices, and non ergodic edge reversal moves. Here we propose a novel algorithm, which employs the underlying combinatorial structure of DAGs to define a new grouping. As a result convergence is improved compared to structure MCMC, while still retaining the property of producing an unbiased sample. Finally the method can be combined with edge reversal moves to improve the sampler further.
description: Revised version. 34 pages, 16 figures. R code available at https://github.com/annlia/partitionMCMC
The dissolution behaviour of selected oxides in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 slags
Creators: name: Monaghan, B. J.
name: Nightingale, S. A.
name: Chen, L.
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The dissolution of alumina and magnesia has been investigated using laser scanning confocal microscopy (alumina) and a rotating finger apparatus (magnesia) to assess the effects of temperature, composition and forced convection on the rate of dissolution in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 based slags. The two techniques have differing strengths and limitations, and provide complementary methods for studying dissolution. Alumina dissolution was studied for temperatures from 1477 to 1577°C. Based upon the data, the rate controlling mechanism was thought to be mass transfer control in the slag. The diffusion coefficients for the alumina particles are estimated to be in the range 10-11 to 10-10 m2.s. MgO degradation for sample rotation speeds of 50 to 800 rpm at 1500 and 1530°C was studied for both congruent and incongruent dissolution. The results show that the rate of dissolution for this is primarily controlled by a diffusion mass transfer mechanism for congruent dissolution except at the highest rotation speed. For incongruent dissolution, the mechanism is much more complex, with the morphology and distribution of the spinel reaction product having a significant effect. At high speeds and prolonged times, mechanical forces played a major role in the degradation process.
Miltochrista diasticta Volynkin & Černý, 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Černý, Karel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Miltochrista
Miltochrista diasticta

description: Miltochrista diasticta sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 292404A5-70FA-4E09-9352-A902D0D5F733
(Figs 7, 8, 13, 14)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 7, 13): male, “N- E. India | Assam, Nambor Reserv [e] | Forest, Garampani, H= 100 m | 26°30'N, 93°55'E. 21–29. Nov. 1997. | lg. V.Siniaev & M.Murzin ” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 2021- 242♂ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM/ ZSM).
 Paratype: INDIA: male, the same data as in the holotype, gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 346 / 2017 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM/ ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 8.0–9.5 mm in males. Miltochrista diasticta sp. n. (Figs 7, 8) is externally reminiscent of M. dagmarae anaptigmena ssp. n. (Figs 3–6) but distinguished by the somewhat more tapered forewing apex and the presence of the subapical grey suffusion on the hindwing. The male genital capsule of the new species (Figs 13, 14) differs from M. dagmarae (Figs 9–12) in the longer and proximally narrower uncus, the longer, more distally downcurved and thinner distal costal process, and the markedly thinner and symmetrical distal saccular processes whereas in the congener, the left process is remarkably longer than the right one. Additionally, in M. diasticta sp. n., the tegumen is longer than in M. dagmarae and the dorsal margin of the valva is more medially convex. The phallus of the new species is narrower than in the congener. Compared to M. dagmarae, the vesica of M. diasticta sp. n. is longer, broader and distally dilated, lacks the subbasal ventral and the subapical diverticula, and bears a longer medial cornutus, and a markedly longer distal cornutus situated more ventrally.
The female is unknown.
 Distribution. The new species is known from Northeast India (Assam).
 Etymology. The specific epithet originates from the Greek ‘διάστικτος’ meaning ‘speckled’ and refers to the forewing pattern consisting of diffuse spots.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2022, On the taxonomy of Miltochrista dagmarae Černý with descriptions of a new species and a new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), pp. 25-31 in Ecologica Montenegrina 60 on page 30, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.60.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13239744
Band Excitations in CePd$_3$: A Comparison of Neutron Scattering and ab initio Theory
Creators: name: Goremychkin, Eugene A.
name: Park, Hyowon
name: Osborn, Raymond
name: Rosenkranz, Stephan
name: Castellan, John-Paul
name: Fanelli, Victor R.
name: Christianson, Andrew D.
name: Stone, Matthew B.
name: Bauer, Eric D.
name: McClellan, Kenneth J.
name: Byler, Darrin D.
name: Lawrence, Jon M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intermediate valence compounds containing rare earth or actinide ions are archetypal systems for the investigation of strong electron correlations. Their effective electron masses of 10 to 50 times the free electron mass result from a hybridization of the highly localized $f$-electrons with the more itinerant $d$-electrons, which is strong enough that their properties are dominated by on-site electron correlations. To a remarkable degree, this can be modeled by the Anderson Impurity Model, even though the $f$-electrons are situated on a periodic lattice. However, in recent years, there has been increasing evidence that the dynamic magnetic susceptibility of intermediate valence compounds is not purely local, but shows variations across the Brillouin zone that have been ascribed to $f$-band coherence. So far, this has been based on simplified qualitative models. In this article, we present a quantitative comparison of inelastic neutron scattering from a single crystal of CePd$_3$, measured in four-dimensional (Q,$ω$)-space, with ab initio calculations, which are in excellent agreement on an absolute scale. Our results establish that the Q-dependence of the scattering is caused by particle-hole excitations within $f$-$d$ hybridized bands that grow in coherence with decreasing temperature.
description: 8 page article with 6 figures, 4 page supplementary information with 8 figures
Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Sex Work: A Double-Edged Sword for Occupational Health and Safety
Creators: name: Jiao, Sunny
name: Bungay, Vicky
name: Jenkins, Emily (Emily K.), 1981-
name: Jiao, Sunny
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Over the previous decade, there has been a notable shift within sex work marketplaces, with many aspects of the work now facilitated via the internet. Many providers and clients are also no longer engaging in in-person negotiations, opting instead for communications via technological means, such as through mobile phones, email, and the internet. By analysing the qualitative interviews of indoor-based providers, clients, and agency managers, this paper addresses the occupational health and safety concerns that indoor sex workers experience in the digital age, as well as how technology use can both support and hinder their capacity to promote their health and safety. Using thematic analysis, we arrived at three salient and nuanced themes that pertain to the intersection of sex work, technology use, and occupational health and safety: screening; confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure; and malice. As socio-political context can affect the occupational health and safety concerns that providers experience, as well as their capacity to prevent or mitigate these concerns, we highlight our findings in light of prevailing societal stigma and a lack of legal recognition and protections for sex work in Canada.
Estimation of subgraph density in noisy networks
Creators: name: Chang, Jinyuan
name: Kolaczyk, Eric D.
name: Yao, Qiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While it is common practice in applied network analysis to report various standard network summary statistics, these numbers are rarely accompanied by uncertainty quantification. Yet any error inherent in the measurements underlying the construction of the network, or in the network construction procedure itself, necessarily must propagate to any summary statistics reported. Here we study the problem of estimating the density of an arbitrary subgraph, given a noisy version of some underlying network as data. Under a simple model of network error, we show that consistent estimation of such densities is impossible when the rates of error are unknown and only a single network is observed. Accordingly, we develop method-of-moment estimators of network subgraph densities and error rates for the case where a minimal number of network replicates are available. These estimators are shown to be asymptotically normal as the number of vertices increases to infinity. We also provide confidence intervals for quantifying the uncertainty in these estimates based on the asymptotic normality. To construct the confidence intervals, a new and non-standard bootstrap method is proposed to compute asymptotic variances, which is infeasible otherwise. We illustrate the proposed methods in the context of gene coexpression networks.
Picardia Gibeaux 1994
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia

description: Genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994.
 Picardia Gibeaux, 1994a: 120 (Type species: Pterophorus imerinae Bigot, 1964, by original designation).
 Notes. From the genus Picardia, we excluded the species Crassuncus ecstaticus (Meyrick, 1932), which was previously added to it (Gielis 2011) and returned it to the genus Crassuncus. The wide uncus and the shape of the saccular process on the left valve in the male genitalia are the characteristic features of the genus Crassuncus.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
Supplementary Materials for Beneficial Microbes: Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BLa80 regulates the intestinal habit in adults with chronic constipation: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
Creators: name: Salo, E.
name: Roche, D.
name: Gomez-Martinez, V.B.
name: Cruz-Domenech, J.M.
name: Garcia-Mora, L.G.
name: Gabernet-Castello, C.
name: Freixenet, N.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320209
subject: Gastroenterology and hepatology
classificationCode: 300605
subject: Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity

description: Treatment with probiotics can help manage chronic constipation by softening the stools and possibly acting synergistically with front-line treatments. We assessed the efficacy of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BLa80 in maltodextrin as a food supplement in regulating the intestinal habit of subjects with chronic constipation with type 1 or 2 stools on the Bristol scale index and/or less than three stools per week. A multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was carried out in subjects aged 18 and over with chronic constipation. The study enrolled forty-six subjects who were randomised one-to-one to receive the potential probiotic in maltodextrin (n = 23) or a placebo (n = 23). Investigators assessed changes in intestinal habits by analysing the mean number of weekly stools and the stool types according to the Bristol Scale. Patients reported constipation symptoms with PAC-SYM (patient assessment of constipation – symptoms), and the impact on quality of life with PAC-QoL (patient assessment of constipation – quality of life) and GI-QLI (gastrointestinal quality of life index). Patients on the intervention group showed a greater tendency to normalise the type of stools than those in the placebo group. This difference towards regular stool types (type 3 and 4) was statistically significant at weeks 8 and 12 relative to week 4 (P-values = 0.006 and 0.027, respectively). The proportion of constipated patients in the experimental group dropped over time, while the rate slightly increased in the placebo group in a statistically significant manner at week 12 relative to week 4 (P = 0.037). Overall, the present study shows oral intake of B. animalis subsp. lactis BLa80 in maltodextrin for 12 weeks improves intestinal habits in subjects with chronic constipation. Our study provides evidence to the efficacy and safety use of this formulation as an effective tool for improving stool consistency in constipated patients.
Picardia betsileo Gibeaux 1994
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia betsileo

description: Picardia betsileo Gibeaux, 1994
 Picardia betsileo Gibeaux, 1994a: 122 (Type locality: Madagascar, Pays Betsileo, route du Sud at km 302, Ambatofitorahana Forest).
 Distribution: Madagascar.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
title: Digital Media Training for Pre-Service Teachers: A Comparison from a TTC in Malawi and a University in Massachusetts
Creators: name: Mwenifumbo, Lusayo
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: digital media
subject: pre-service teachers
subject: Malawi
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education
subject: Educational Methods

description: This study investigates the perceptions of pre-service teachers about integrating digital media into classroom teaching. It compares the perceptions of students at Machinga Teacher Training College in Malawi with those of students being trained as teachers at the University of Massachusetts, College of Education in Amherst. The study highlights three questions about effectively integrating digital media in a classroom. Firstly, how pre-service teachers perceive their preparation to use digital media; secondly, digital media tools they are familiar with and lastly challenges they expect to face. The study is based on data collected from individual interviews from 4 Malawi pre-service teachers at Machinga Teachers Training College and 3 pre-service teachers in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum in the College of Education at UMass Amherst. The study finds that, Malawi students focus mostly on hardware instructional technologies and focus primarily on software and applications for different digital media tools. The study indicates that pre-service teachers in both Machinga and Amherst receive little or no training on how to effectively integrate digital media in their classroom teaching. The study suggests that future policy makers strengthen the preparation of school teachers for effective use of digital media both in Machinga and Amherst.
Translation, Reliability and Validity of the Spanish Version of the Modified New Mobility Score (NMS-ES)
Creators: name: Prieto-Moreno, Rafael
name: Ariza-Vega, Patrocinio
name: Ortiz-Piña, Mariana
name: Ashe, Maureen C.
name: Romero-Ayuso, Dulce
name: Kristensen, Morten Tange
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The New Mobility Score (NMS) is an easy to administer self-report measure of functional ability, and is used worldwide as a hip fracture (HF) score, but a Spanish version does not exist. The aim of the study is to translate NMS into Spanish, and to measure its inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, and concurrent validity in a sample of Spanish speaking patients with HF. A reliability and validity study with a sample of 60 adults, 65 years or older (46 women and 14 men; mean age 81.7 years) with a hip fracture admitted consecutively to the acute trauma service of the Health Campus Hospital of Granada. The participants were interviewed during the first week after surgery by an occupational therapist or a physiotherapist. The statistical test used for analysis were: Cronbach’s α coefficient, McNemar–Bowker test, Bland–Altman plot, Spearman´s Rho, and Mann–Whitney U test. The Cronbach’s α coefficient was 0.90. No inter-rater systematic differences were found. We noted significant associations between the Spanish Version of the Modified New Mobility Score (NMS-ES) and selected health outcomes: Age, cognition, pre-fracture function, and basic mobility. The NMS-ES is a reliable and valid instrument to assess pre-injury functional levels for patients with HF in Spanish speaking countries.
Picardia delospilus
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia delospilus

description: Picardia delospilus (Meyrick, 1921)
 Pterophorus delospilus Meyrick, 1921: 421 (Type locality: Peru, Jurimaguas, Iquitos).
 Distribution: Peru, Ecuador.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
Picardia eparches
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia eparches

description: Picardia eparches (Meyrick, 1931)
 Pterophorus eparches Meyrick, 1931: 176 (Type locality: Uganda, Butandiga).
 Distribution: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania (Arenberger 2001; Kovtunovich et al. 2014); Zambia.
 Material: 1 male, 1 female, Zambia, Nyica National Park, Manyanjere Forest, 2082m, S 10.586, E 33.657, 18-19. X.2012, R. Murphy leg.
 Note. New for Zambia.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
An adaptive IGA-BEM with hierarchical B-splines based on quasi-interpolation quadrature schemes
Creators: name: Falini, Antonella
name: Giannelli, Carlotta
name: Kanduc, Tadej
name: Sampoli, Maria Lucia
name: Sestini, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The isogeometric formulation of Boundary Element Method (BEM) is investigated within the adaptivity framework. Suitable weighted quadrature rules to evaluate integrals appearing in the Galerkin BEM formulation of 2D Laplace model problems are introduced. The new quadrature schemes are based on a spline quasi-interpolant (QI) operator and properly framed in the hierarchical setting. The local nature of the QI perfectly fits with hierarchical spline constructions and leads to an efficient and accurate numerical scheme. An automatic adaptive refinement strategy is driven by a residual based error estimator. Numerical examples show that the optimal convergence rate of the BEM solution is recovered by the proposed adaptive method.
Families of Bianchi modular symbols: critical base-change p-adic L-functions and p-adic Artin formalism
Creators: name: Salazar, Daniel Barrera
name: Williams, Chris
name: Wang-Erickson, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field. In this article, we study the eigenvariety for $\mathrm{GL}_2/K$, proving an étaleness result for the weight map at non-critical classical points and a smoothness result at base-change classical points. We give three main applications of this; let $f$ be a $p$-stabilised newform of weight $k \geq 2$ without CM by $K$. Suppose $f$ has finite slope at $p$ and its base-change $f_{/K}$ to $K$ is $p$-regular. Then: (1) We construct a two-variable $p$-adic $L$-function attached to $f_{/K}$ under assumptions on $f$ that conjecturally always hold, in particular with no non-critical assumption on $f/K$. (2) We construct three-variable $p$-adic $L$-functions over the eigenvariety interpolating the $p$-adic $L$-functions of classical base-change Bianchi cusp forms. (3) We prove that these base-change $p$-adic $L$-functions satisfy a $p$-adic Artin formalism result, that is, they factorise in the same way as the classical $L$-function under Artin formalism. In an appendix, Carl Wang-Erickson describes a base-change deformation functor and gives a characterisation of its Zariski tangent space.
description: 29 pages, with a 3 page appendix by Carl Wang-Erickson. v7: Updated references. Final version, to appear in Selecta Math
Constant payoff in zero-sum stochastic games
Creators: name: Catoni, Olivier
name: Oliu-Barton, Miquel
name: Ziliotto, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91A05, 91A15, 91A50, 60J10

description: In a zero-sum stochastic game, at each stage, two adversary players take decisions and receive a stage payoff determined by them and by a controlled random variable representing the state of nature. The total payoff is the normalized discounted sum of the stage payoffs. In this paper we solve the "constant payoff" conjecture formulated by Sorin, Vigeral and Venel (2010): if both players use optimal strategies, then for any alpha>0, the expected discounted payoff between stage 1 and stage alpha/lambda tends to the limit discounted value of the game, as the discount rate lambda goes to 0.
Generating Text Sequence Images for Recognition
Creators: name: Gong, Yanxiang
name: Deng, Linjie
name: Ma, Zheng
name: Xie, Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, methods based on deep learning have dominated the field of text recognition. With a large number of training data, most of them can achieve the state-of-the-art performances. However, it is hard to harvest and label sufficient text sequence images from the real scenes. To mitigate this issue, several methods to synthesize text sequence images were proposed, yet they usually need complicated preceding or follow-up steps. In this work, we present a method which is able to generate infinite training data without any auxiliary pre/post-process. We tackle the generation task as an image-to-image translation one and utilize conditional adversarial networks to produce realistic text sequence images in the light of the semantic ones. Some evaluation metrics are involved to assess our method and the results demonstrate that the caliber of the data is satisfactory. The code and dataset will be publicly available soon.
Phenolic Composition, Antioxidant Capacity and Antibacterial Activity of White Wormwood (Artemisia herba-alba)
Creators: name: Mohammed, Muthanna J.
name: Anand, Uttpal
name: Altemimi, Ammar B.
name: Tripathi, Vijay
name: Guo, Yigong
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Artemisia herba-alba Asso. (Wormwood) is a wild aromatic herb that is popular for its healing and medicinal effects and has been used in conventional as well as modern medicine. This research aimed at the extraction, identification, and quantification of phenolic compounds in the aerial parts of wormwood using Soxhlet extraction, as well as characterizing their antimicrobial and anitoxidant effects. The phenolic compounds were identified in different extracts by column chromatography, thin layer chromatography (TLC), and high performance liquid chromatography. Five different fractions, two from ethyl acetate extraction and three from ethanolic extraction were obtained and evaluated further. The antimicrobial activity of each fractions was evaluated against two Gram-positive (Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus) and two Gram-negative microorganisms (Escherichia coli and Proteus vulgaris) using the disc-diffusion assay and direct TLC bioautography assay. Fraction I inhibited B. cereus and P. vulgaris, Fraction II inhibited B. cereus and E. coli, Fraction III inhibited all, except for P. vulgaris, while Fractions IV and V did not exhibit strong antimicrobial effects. Their antioxidant capabilities were also measured by calculating their ability to scavenge the free radical using DPPH method and the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay. Ethanolic fractions III and V demonstrated excellent antioxidant properties with IC50 values less than 15.0 μg/mL, while other fractions also had IC50 values less than 80.0 μg/mL. These antioxidant effects were highly associated with the number of phenolic hydroxyl group on the phenolics they contained. These extracts demonstrated antimicrobial effects, suggesting the different phenolic compounds in these extracts had specific inhibitory effects on the growth of each bacteria. The results of this study suggested that the A. herba-alba can be a source of phenolic compounds with natural antimicrobial and antioxidant properties which can be used for potential pharmaceutical applications.
Picardia leza Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin 2014
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia leza

description: Picardia leza Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014
 Picardia leza Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014: 489. (Type locality: N. Malawi, Nkhorongo).
 Distribution: Malawi.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
Reciprocal Space Imaging of Ionic Correlations in Intercalation Compounds
Creators: name: Krogstad, Matthew J.
name: Rosenkranz, Stephan
name: Wozniak, Justin M.
name: Jennings, Guy
name: Ruff, Jacob P. C.
name: Vaughey, John T.
name: Osborn, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intercalation of alkali ions into layered materials has played an essential role in battery technology since the development of the first lithium-ion electrodes. Coulomb repulsion between the intercalants leads to ordering of the intercalant sublattice, which hinders ionic diffusion and impacts battery performance. While conventional diffraction can identify the long-range order that can occur at discrete intercalant concentrations during the charging cycle, it cannot determine short-range order at other concentrations that also disrupt ionic mobility. In this article, we show that the use of real-space transforms of single crystal diffuse scattering, measured with high-energy synchrotron x-rays, allows a model-independent measurement of the temperature dependence of the length scale of ionic correlations along each of the crystallographic axes in a sodium-intercalated V$_2$O$_5$. The techniques described here provide a new way of probing the evolution of structural ordering in crystalline materials.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015
Creators: name: Forouzanfar, Mohammad H.
name: Alexander, Lily
name: Anderson, H. Ross
name: Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
name: Biryukov, Stan
name: Brauer, Michael
name: Burnett, Richard T.
name: Cercy, Kelly
name: Charlson, Fiona J.
name: Cohen, Aaron J.
name: Dandona, Lalit
name: Estep, Kara
name: Frostad, Joseph
name: Ferrari, Alize J.
name: Fullman, Nancy
name: Gething, Peter W.
name: Godwin, William W.
name: Griswold, Max
name: Hay, Simon I.
name: Kinfu, Yohannes
name: Kyu, Hmwe H.
name: Larson, Heidi J.
name: Liang, Xiaofeng
name: Lim, Stephen S.
name: Liu, Patrick Y.
name: Lopez, Alan D.
name: Lozano, Rafael
name: Marczak, Laurie
name: Mensah, George A.
name: Mokdad, Ali H.
name: Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar
name: Naghavi, Mohsen
name: Neal, Bruce
name: Reitsma, Marissa B
name: Roth, Gregory A.
name: Salomon, Joshua A.
name: Sur, Patrick J.
name: Vos, Theo
name: Wagner, Joseph A.
name: Wang, Haidong
name: Zhao, Yi
name: Zhou, Maigeng
name: Aasvang, Gunn Marit
name: Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu
name: Abate, Kalkidan Hassen
name: Abbafati, Cristiana
name: Abbas, Kaja M.
name: Abd-Allah, Foad
name: Abdulle, Abdishakur M.
name: Abera, Semaw Ferede
name: Abraham, Biju
name: Abu-Raddad, Laith J.
name: Abyu, Gebre Yitayih
name: Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi
name: Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi
name: Ademi, Zanfina
name: Adou, Arsène Kouablan
name: Adsuar, José C.
name: Agardh, Emilie Elisabet
name: Agarwal, Arnav
name: Agrawal, Anurag
name: Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar
name: Ajala, Oluremi N.
name: Akinyemiju, Tomi F.
name: Al-Aly, Ziyad
name: Plaß, Dietrich
name: Alam, Khurshid
name: Alam, Noore K. M.
name: Aldhahri, Saleh Fahed
name: Aldridge, Robert William
name: Alemu, Zewdie Aderaw
name: Tobollik, Myriam
name: Ali, Raghib
name: Alkerwi, Ala'a
name: Alla, Francois
name: Allebeck, Peter
name: Alsharif, Ubai
name: Altirkawi, Khalid A.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and subnational assessments spanning the past 25 years, this study can inform debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. Quelle: www.sciencedirect.com
Picardia negus Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich & Streltzov 2022, comb.nov.
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia negus

description: Picardia negus (Gibeaux, 1994) comb.nov.
Figs 1−2
 Oidaematophorus negus Gibeaux, 1994: 435 (Type locality: Ethiopia, Wondo-Genet).
 Distribution. Ethiopia.
 Material: 1 male, Ethiopia, Oromia southern Bale Mts., Harenna Forest, 1885 m, 6° 37.103 N, 39°46.422 E, 16-25. XI. 2014, D. Wiersbowsky leg; 1 female, Ethiopia, West Sheva, 2 km S. Ambo, 2160m. 08°58' S, 37°51'E, 19-20. X. 2008. O. Gorbunov leg.
 Note. Currently, when the male of this species became known, it is obvious that the male and female genital structure and the external characters of the adult show the attribution of this species to the genus Picardia. The description of the male genitalia of P. negus is provided below.
 Male genitalia. Valves narrow, elongated. Saccular process on left valve swollen, with serrated edges, located at base of valve. Saccular process on right valve quite thick, rod-like, not exceeding middle of valve in length. Uncus slightly extended medially and distally, acute apically. Anellus arms wide, asymmetric, left arm wider and shorter than right arm, right arm more narrow and slightly longer. Aedeagus thin, straight, almost twice shorter than valve in length.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
Taxonomy of Saliency Metrics for Channel Pruning
Creators: name: Persand, Kaveena
name: Anderson, Andrew
name: Gregg, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pruning unimportant parameters can allow deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce their heavy computation and memory requirements. A saliency metric estimates which parameters can be safely pruned with little impact on the classification performance of the DNN. Many saliency metrics have been proposed, each within the context of a wider pruning algorithm. The result is that it is difficult to separate the effectiveness of the saliency metric from the wider pruning algorithm that surrounds it. Similar-looking saliency metrics can yield very different results because of apparently minor design choices. We propose a taxonomy of saliency metrics based on four mostly-orthogonal principal components. We show that a broad range of metrics from the pruning literature can be grouped according to these components. Our taxonomy not only serves as a guide to prior work, but allows us to construct new saliency metrics by exploring novel combinations of our taxonomic components. We perform an in-depth experimental investigation of more than 300 saliency metrics. Our results provide decisive answers to open research questions, and demonstrate the importance of reduction and scaling when pruning groups of weights. We find that some of our constructed metrics can outperform the best existing state-of-the-art metrics for convolutional neural network channel pruning.
Picardia orchatias
Creators: name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya.
name: Kovtunovich, Vasily N.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Picardia
Picardia orchatias

description: Picardia orchatias (Meyrick, 1908)
 Pterophorus orchatias Meyrick, 1908: 511 (Type locality Rep. S. Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban). Pterophorus imerinae Bigot, 1964: 34 (Type locality: Madagascar, Imerina Plateau, Tananarive, Parc de Tzimbazaza).
 Distribution: Rep. S. Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania (De Prins & De Prins 2022); Kenya
 Material: 1 male, Kenya: Central, Castle Forest Lodge, S 0º 22'43'' E 37º18'32'', 2100 m, 05.XI.2012, D. Agassiz leg.
 Note. New for Kenya.
description: Published as part of Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, pp. 12-23 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 14, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13239758
Suprathermal Electrons from the Anti-Stokes Langmuir Decay Instability Cascade
Creators: name: Feng, Q. S.
name: Aboushelbaya, R.
name: Mayr, M. W.
name: Spiers, B. T.
name: Paddock, R. W.
name: Ouatu, I.
name: Timmis, R.
name: Wang, R. H. W.
name: Cao, L. H.
name: Liu, Z. J.
name: Zheng, C. Y.
name: He, X. T.
name: Norreys, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of parametric instabilities has played a crucial role in understanding energy transfer to plasma and, with that, the development of key applications such as inertial confinement fusion. When the densities are between $0.108n_c\lesssim n_e\lesssim 0.138n_c$ and the electron temperature is $T_e=$2.5 keV, anomalous hot electrons with kinetic energies above 100 keV are generated. Here, a new electron acceleration mechanism - the anti-Stokes Langmuir decay instability cascade of forward stimulated Raman scattering - is investigated. This mechanism not only explains anomalous energetic electron generation in indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion experiments (and, with that, future mitigation strategies for experiments on the National Ignition Facility), it also provides a new way of accelerating electrons to higher energy for applications such as novel X-ray sources.
description: 19 pages, 21 figures
Nurses’ Workplace Conditions Impacting Their Mental Health during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Creators: name: Havaei, Farinaz
name: Ma, Andy
name: Staempfli, Sabina
name: MacPhee, Maura
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Among health workers, nurses are at the greatest risk of COVID-19 exposure and mortality due to their workplace conditions, including shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), insufficient staffing, and inadequate safety precautions. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of COVID-19 workplace conditions on nurses’ mental health outcomes. A cross-sectional correlational design was used. An electronic survey was emailed to nurses in one Canadian province between June and July of 2020. A total of 3676 responses were included in this study. We found concerning prevalence rates for post-traumatic stress disorder (47%), anxiety (38%), depression (41%), and high emotional exhaustion (60%). Negative ratings of workplace relations, organizational support, organizational preparedness, workplace safety, and access to supplies and resources were associated with higher scores on all of the adverse mental health outcomes included in this study. Better workplace policies and practices are urgently required to prevent and mitigate nurses’ suboptimal work conditions, given their concerning mental health self-reports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Convergence of symmetrization processes
Creators: name: Bianchi, Gabriele
name: Gardner, Richard J.
name: Gronchi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A20, 52A39 (Primary) 28B20, 52A38, 52A40 (Secondary)

description: Steiner and Schwarz symmetrizations, and their most important relatives, the Minkowski, Minkowski-Blaschke, fiber, inner rotational, and outer rotational symmetrizations, are investigated. The focus is on the convergence of successive symmetrals with respect to a sequence of $i$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Such a sequence is called universal for a family of sets if the successive symmetrals of any set in the family converge to a ball with center at the origin. New universal sequences for the main symmetrizations, for all valid dimensions $i$ of the subspaces, are found, by combining two groups of results. The first, published separately, provides finite sets ${\mathcal{F}}$ of subspaces such that reflection symmetry (or rotational symmetry) with respect to each subspace in ${\mathcal{F}}$ implies full rotational symmetry. In the second, proved here, a theorem of Klain for Steiner symmetrization is extended to Schwarz, Minkowski, Minkowski-Blaschke, and fiber symmetrizations, showing that if a sequence of subspaces is drawn from a finite set ${\mathcal{F}}$ of subspaces, the successive symmetrals of any compact convex set converge to a compact convex set that is symmetric with respect to any subspace in ${\mathcal{F}}$ appearing infinitely often in the sequence. It is also proved that for Steiner, Schwarz, and Minkowski symmetrizations, a sequence of $i$-dimensional subspaces is universal for the class of compact sets if and only if it is universal for the class of compact convex sets, and Klain's theorem is shown to hold for Schwarz symmetrization of compact sets.
description: 29 pages. changes: following the suggestion of a referee, Section 3 of version 2 has been removed and has become the core of a new paper by the same authors titled "Full rotational symmetry from reflections or rotational symmetries in finitely many subspaces", also submitted to arXiv
The Determinants of Fuel Use in the Trucking Industry – Volume, Size and the Rebound Effect
Creators: name: Mulalic, Ismir
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: We analyse the determinants of trucking firm fuel use. We develop a simple model to show that trucking firm fuel use depends, in addition to the fuel price and the traffic volume, also on the output of the trucking firm’s production process (the movement of cargo) measured in ton- kilometres, characteristics of the truck stock, and congestion. We also analyse the rebound effect for road freight transportation, i.e. the percentage of increased energy efficiency that does not result in the reduction of fuel used. For the purpose of analysing the rebound effect for road freight transportation, we decompose the standard definition of the rebound effect for motor vehicles, i.e. the elasticity of traffic volume with respect to fuel cost, into the elasticity by which changes in fuel costs affects freight activity and the elasticity by which changes in freight activity affect traffic volume. We estimate these elasticities using a simultaneous-equation model based on aggregate time-series data for Denmark for 1980-2007. Our best estimates of the short run and the long run rebound effects for road freight transportation are 19% and 28%, respectively. We also find that an increase in the fuel price surprisingly has a small but significant negative effect on the fuel efficiency (measured here as vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) per litre of consumed fuel), i.e. a 1% increase in the fuel price decreases the fuel efficiency by 0.13% in the long run. However, less distance has to be driven for the same payload. An 1% increase in the fuel price decreases the VKT by 0.19% in the short run and 0.28% in the long run. Finally, a 1% increase in the fuel price results in a 0.19% reduction in the trucking firms’ overall fuel use.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2011): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Bloom filter variants for multiple sets: a comparative assessment
Creators: name: Calderoni, Luca
name: Maio, Dario
name: Palmieri, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we compare two probabilistic data structures for association queries derived from the well-known Bloom filter: the shifting Bloom filter (ShBF), and the spatial Bloom filter (SBF). With respect to the original data structure, both variants add the ability to store multiple subsets in the same filter, using different strategies. We analyse the performance of the two data structures with respect to false positive probability, and the inter-set error probability (the probability for an element in the set of being recognised as belonging to the wrong subset). As part of our analysis, we extended the functionality of the shifting Bloom filter, optimising the filter for any non-trivial number of subsets. We propose a new generalised ShBF definition with applications outside of our specific domain, and present new probability formulas. Results of the comparison show that the ShBF provides better space efficiency, but at a significantly higher computational cost than the SBF.