cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Teoría psicoanalítica y estética neobarroca : De donde son los cantantes de Severo Sarduy
Creators: name: Fernández, Hilda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The objective of this thesis is to analyze the novel De donde son los cantantes (1967) by the Cuban writer Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. This novel challenges its own significance by virtue of its complex structure and linguistic proliferation, displaying a superposition of multiple voices, discourses and possibilities of interpretation. The novel's aesthetics, based on the formal procedures of artificialization, parody and simulation, are measured against its major theoretical influences, namely the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan. Coming from a clinical psychoanalytic background, the present work arises from the interest to reveal a suitable methodology for accessing Sarduy's text from the psychoanalytical perspective. In order to strengthen and highlight the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, we chose to approach the novel by applying Sarduy's own theoretical production, on Baroque and Neo-baroque aesthetic. This provided the underlying methodology for analyzing the novel and decoding its ciphered aesthetic. The latter produced access to certain coding elements of the novel's aesthetic, such as the intratextual (syntagmatic grammas) and intertextual elements (the poem Salamandra by Octavio Paz) not previously acknowledged by the critics. Further, an additional interpretation of the novel was explored: the notion of the pleasure of the text (an element addressed, but not comprehensively analyzed, by the critics). De donde son los cantantes poses the question of "Cubanity", which Sarduy answers by reasserting the importance of Lacan's notion of the subject. In this thesis, the central concept of Lacanian theory, "the subject of the unconscious structured like a language", present throughout the whole novel, is divided into four categories: 1) the subject of the unconscious is constituted by language; 2) the subject doesn't know itself; 3) the subject possesses an structural lack; 4) the subject desires a lost object. We conclude that the novel's question is responded by the author in his very act of writing, at a level of the singular, with a celebration of language and humor. Through his particular aesthetic, Sarduy considers the writing as a useless act, made for pleasure and for parody, which subverts the hegemony of sense and underestimates literature as a transitive and communicative act of writing.
The Computational Structure of Spike Trains
Creators: name: Haslinger, Robert
name: Klinkner, Kristina Lisa
name: Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neurons perform computations, and convey the results of those computations through the statistical structure of their output spike trains. Here we present a practical method, grounded in the information-theoretic analysis of prediction, for inferring a minimal representation of that structure and for characterizing its complexity. Starting from spike trains, our approach finds their causal state models (CSMs), the minimal hidden Markov models or stochastic automata capable of generating statistically identical time series. We then use these CSMs to objectively quantify both the generalizable structure and the idiosyncratic randomness of the spike train. Specifically, we show that the expected algorithmic information content (the information needed to describe the spike train exactly) can be split into three parts describing (1) the time-invariant structure (complexity) of the minimal spike-generating process, which describes the spike train statistically; (2) the randomness (internal entropy rate) of the minimal spike-generating process; and (3) a residual pure noise term not described by the minimal spike-generating process. We use CSMs to approximate each of these quantities. The CSMs are inferred nonparametrically from the data, making only mild regularity assumptions, via the causal state splitting reconstruction algorithm. The methods presented here complement more traditional spike train analyses by describing not only spiking probability and spike train entropy, but also the complexity of a spike train's structure. We demonstrate our approach using both simulated spike trains and experimental data recorded in rat barrel cortex during vibrissa stimulation.
description: Somewhat different format from journal version but same content
Bulaea lichatschovii
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Bulaea
Bulaea lichatschovii

description: Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel)
(Figs 26, 27)
Coccinella lichatschovii Hummel, 1827: 43 (Type locality: ‘Eurasia mer.’).
Bulaea flavidula Mulsant, 1850: 73 (lectotype; UCCC).— Gordon 1987: 12 (lectotype designation). Synonymized by Crotch 1874: 105.
Bulaea lichatschovii: Crotch, 1874: 105; Kapur & Bhaumik 1966: 446; Poorani 2002a: 319; Ren et al. 2009: 178; Yu 2010: 139; Kovář 2007: 600.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.50–5.50 mm; width: 3.50–4.20 mm. Form elongate oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head (Fig. 27a) yellow with a pair of black spots or a larger black basal macula. Pronotum yellow with 6–7 black spots. Each elytron with nine black spots (Fig. 26a), spots of variable size, often lighter in colour or large and confluent with one another. Spermatheca (Fig. 27g, h) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh); Central and West Asia; Afghanistan; Mediterranean region; North and Central Africa.
Prey / associated habitat. Collected on beetroot (label data). F̧rsch (1967) reported that it feeds on the pollen of Chenopodiaceae. Ozbek & Cetin (1991) reported sugar beet, lentil and alfalfa as its host plants. Ali et al. (2014) recorded it as feeding on different species of aphids on wheat and mustard pollen in the deserts of Sindh Province of Pakistan, but rarely from agricultural fields. The label data of specimens of B. lichatschovii examined from Rajasthan also show Chenopodium sp. as the host plant. Iqbal et al. (2017) illustrated the colour morphs of this species in Pakistan and recorded three host plants (Krascheninnikovia ceratoides (Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae), Artemisia vulgaris and A. maritima (Asterales: Asteraceae)).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected in April (Kapur & Bhaumik 1966); June–August (Iqbal et al. 2017).
Notes. Kapur & Bhaumik (1966) recorded it from Rajasthan and provided notes on its distribution. Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) illustrated the habitus and the genitalia from China. Iqbal et al. (2017) recorded it from Pakistan.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
UBVRI Light Curves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Jha, Saurabh
name: Kirshner, Robert P.
name: Challis, Peter
name: Garnavich, Peter M.
name: Matheson, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present UBVRI photometry of 44 type-Ia supernovae (SN Ia) observed from 1997 to 2001 as part of a continuing monitoring campaign at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The data set comprises 2190 observations and is the largest homogeneously observed and reduced sample of SN Ia to date, nearly doubling the number of well-observed, nearby SN Ia with published multicolor CCD light curves. The large sample of U-band photometry is a unique addition, with important connections to SN Ia observed at high redshift. The decline rate of SN Ia U-band light curves correlates well with the decline rate in other bands, as does the U-B color at maximum light. However, the U-band peak magnitudes show an increased dispersion relative to other bands even after accounting for extinction and decline rate, amounting to an additional ~40% intrinsic scatter compared to B-band.
description: 84 authors, 71 pages, 51 tables, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Version with high-res figures and electronic data at http://astron.berkeley.edu/~saurabh/cfa2snIa/
Approximate Methods for State-Space Models
Creators: name: Koyama, Shinsuke
name: Pérez-Bolde, Lucia Castellanos
name: Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla
name: Kass, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: State-space models provide an important body of techniques for analyzing time-series, but their use requires estimating unobserved states. The optimal estimate of the state is its conditional expectation given the observation histories, and computing this expectation is hard when there are nonlinearities. Existing filtering methods, including sequential Monte Carlo, tend to be either inaccurate or slow. In this paper, we study a nonlinear filter for nonlinear/non-Gaussian state-space models, which uses Laplace's method, an asymptotic series expansion, to approximate the state's conditional mean and variance, together with a Gaussian conditional distribution. This {\em Laplace-Gaussian filter} (LGF) gives fast, recursive, deterministic state estimates, with an error which is set by the stochastic characteristics of the model and is, we show, stable over time. We illustrate the estimation ability of the LGF by applying it to the problem of neural decoding and compare it to sequential Monte Carlo both in simulations and with real data. We find that the LGF can deliver superior results in a small fraction of the computing time.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures. Different pagination from journal version due to incompatible style files but same content; the supplemental file for the journal appears here as appendices B--E.
Effect of plant density on growth and yield attributes of different onion varieties
Creators: name: Md. Ibrahim Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: An investigation was carried out at the Farm of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh, during the period from November, 2018 to June, 2019 to study the effect of plant spacing on growth, yield and yield contributing characteristics of different onion varieties. There were three levels of plant spacing viz. 10x10 cm, 20x15 cm and 20x10 cm and three varieties viz Binapiaz-1, Binapiaz-2 and Taherpuri in rabi season and in kharif plant spacing viz. 20x10 cm, 20x15 cm, 30x10 and 30x20 cm and two varieties viz Binapiaz-1 and Binapiaz-2 were used for the study. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. The plant spacing showed significant effects on most of the parameters studied among the varieties. It is clearly revealed that the wider spacing gave the highest result in bulb diameter (80.2 and 40.1 mm) in both kharif-1 and rabi season; but the closer spacing produced highest yield of bulbs (9.4 and 6.93 t ha-1). Significant effect was found on the growth, yield components and yield of bulb among the three varieties. The highest bulb yield (7.6 and 5.02 t ha-1)was produced from Binapiaz-1 in both rabi and kharif season and the lowest (6.1 t ha-1) was in Taherpuri cultivar in rabi season while Binapiaz-2 gave lowest yield (4.55 t ha-1) in kharif season. The combined effect of plant spacing and variety demonstrated a significant variation. In rabi season, highest yield (9.3t ha-1) was found in closer spacing i.e 10x10 cm in Binapiaz-1 followed by Binapiaz-2 (8.7t ha-1) while in kharif season, highest yield (6.95t ha-1) was found from Binapiaz-1 with 10x10 cm plant density. It was found that Binapiaz-1 performed better in respect of yield and other parameters in closer plant arrangement both in rabi and kharif season.
The anisotropy of the power spectrum in periodic cosmological simulations
Creators: name: Rácz, Gábor
name: Szapudi, István
name: Csabai, István
name: Dobos, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical gravitational force on a torus is anisotropic and always lower than Newton's $1/r^2$ law. We demonstrate the effects of periodicity in dark matter only $N$-body simulations of spherical collapse and standard $Λ$CDM initial conditions. Periodic boundary conditions cause an overall negative and anisotropic bias in cosmological simulations of cosmic structure formation. The lower amplitude of power spectra of small periodic simulations are a consequence of the missing large scale modes and the equally important smaller periodic forces. The effect is most significant when the largest mildly non-linear scales are comparable to the linear size of the simulation box, as often is the case for high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. Spherical collapse morphs into a shape similar to an octahedron. The anisotropic growth distorts the large-scale $Λ$CDM dark matter structures. We introduce the direction-dependent power spectrum invariant under the octahedral group of the simulation volume and show that the results break spherical symmetry.
Estimation of a Composite Food Demand System for the United States—A Revisit
Creators: name: Luo, Haobo
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Luo, Haobo
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Differential-form demand system
subject: iterative seemingly unrelated regression
subject: Engel aggregation
subject: Homogeneity
subject: Symmetry
subject: Uncompensated and compensated elasticities

description: We revisit the composite food demand system for the United States covering the period from 1953 to 2008. We were unable to produce elasticity measures that are as close or similar to those reported in Huang and Haidacher (1983), although the same demand system specification was employed. Our results based on the more recent data set of 1982-2008 show that most of the own-price elasticities are negative and statistically significant, varying from -.1861 (poultry) to -.9476 (nonfood). In general, the estimated own-price elasticities appear to be smaller in magnitude or more inelastic than previously reported. In contrast, we estimate the significant income elasticities for food vary from .5172 (dairy) to 4.6687 (fish), while Huang and Haidaicher (1983) report their income elasticities to vary from -.6343 (fruits) to .5748 (fats & oils). The estimated income elasticities for nonfood group appear to remain fairly constant among different studies, ranging from 1.0407 to1.2035.
Bulaea lividula subsp. bocandei Mulsant
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Bulaea
Bulaea lividula
Bulaea lividula bocandei mulsant

description: Bulaea lividula bocandei Mulsant
(Fig. 28)
Bulaea bocandei Mulsant, 1850: 71, 1016 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: Senegal); Gordon, 1987: 12.
Bulaea lividula Mulsant 1850: 1016 (Type locality: Spain).
Bulaea lividula bocandei: Kovář 2007: 600; Poorani et al. 2017: 195.
Diagnosis: Length: 4.60–5.40 mm; width: 3.40–4.20 mm. Form (Fig. 28a) elongate oval, broadest around shoulders of elytra; dorsum convex and glabrous. Head creamy yellow, posteriorly black. Pronotum creamy yellow with black maculae as follows: two lateral, circular spots, a pair of oblique spots around middle and a smaller, circular median spot above scutellar shield. Scutellar shield anteriorly yellow, borders and apex blackish. Elytra bright yellow with 19 black spots, a common sutural spot on scutellar shield and nine spots on each elytron arranged in a 1-2-3-2-1 pattern, first two rows of spots on anterior half, third row of spots around middle and the last two rows in posterior half, penultimate pair of spots coalesced to form a large transverse macula. Abdominal postcoxal lines (Fig. 28e) apically strongly recurved, incomplete. Tarsal claws (Fig. 28f) almost simple with a very small median bulge or projection. Male genitalia (Fig. 28h–j) and spermatheca (Fig. 28g) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand); Pakistan; Africa: Eritrea; Asia: United Arab Emirates, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen; North Africa: Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania (F̧rsch 2005; Kovář 2007; Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017)
Prey / associated habitat. Found in association with a halophytic plant, Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort. (Chenopodiaceae), known to be common in mangroves (Poorani et al. 2017). All the life stages of the beetle were observed on this plant and gut contents indicated pollen feeding. Abdel-Dayem et al. (2017) recorded it on Ziziphus nummularia (Burm.f) Wight & Arn. (Rhamnaceae).
Note. It appears to be rarely collected. Poorani et al. (2017) redescribed it with illustrations from South India.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Controlling epidemic diseases based only on social distancing level
Creators: name: Dias, Samaherni M.
name: Queiroz, Kurios I. P. de M.
name: Martins, Allan de M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The World Health Organization (WHO) made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To the COVID-19 outbreak, there is no vaccination and no treatment. The only way to control the COVID-19 outbreak is sustained physical distancing. In this work, a simple control law was proposed to keep the infected individuals during the COVID-19 outbreak below the desired number. The proposed control law keeps the value of infected individuals controlled only adjusting the social distancing level. The stability analysis of the proposed control law is done and the uncertainties in the parameters were considered. A version of the proposed controller to daily update was developed. This is a very simple approach to the developed control law and can be calculated in a spreadsheet. In the end, numerical simulations were done to show the behavior of the number of infected individuals during an epidemic disease when the proposed control law is used to adjust the social distancing level.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
OT-Flow: Fast and Accurate Continuous Normalizing Flows via Optimal Transport
Creators: name: Onken, Derek
name: Fung, Samy Wu
name: Li, Xingjian
name: Ruthotto, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping between an arbitrary probability distribution and a standard normal distribution; it can be used for density estimation and statistical inference. Computing the flow follows the change of variables formula and thus requires invertibility of the mapping and an efficient way to compute the determinant of its Jacobian. To satisfy these requirements, normalizing flows typically consist of carefully chosen components. Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are mappings obtained by solving a neural ordinary differential equation (ODE). The neural ODE's dynamics can be chosen almost arbitrarily while ensuring invertibility. Moreover, the log-determinant of the flow's Jacobian can be obtained by integrating the trace of the dynamics' Jacobian along the flow. Our proposed OT-Flow approach tackles two critical computational challenges that limit a more widespread use of CNFs. First, OT-Flow leverages optimal transport (OT) theory to regularize the CNF and enforce straight trajectories that are easier to integrate. Second, OT-Flow features exact trace computation with time complexity equal to trace estimators used in existing CNFs. On five high-dimensional density estimation and generative modeling tasks, OT-Flow performs competitively to state-of-the-art CNFs while on average requiring one-fourth of the number of weights with an 8x speedup in training time and 24x speedup in inference.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
IMPACTO DEL TLCAN EN EL COMERCIO AGRÍCOLA
Creators: name: Crawford, Terry L.
name: Crawford, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: NAFTA
subject: agriculture
subject: trade
subject: Mexico
subject: Canada
subject: United States
subject: investment.

description: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a comprehensive trade liberalizing agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This is especially true for Agricultural trade between Mexico, and the United States. Agricultural trade barriers between Mexico and the United States were completely eliminated on January 1, 2008. The agreement facilitates cross-border investment, phytosanitary standards, cooperation regarding the environment and labor, and set up a dispute resolution procedure, and regular consultation procedures. Each of the countries entered NAFTA hoping to gain greater market access and growth in trade, as well as access to capital, technology, a favorable trade advantage and other gains. The question is, were these expectations met? NAFTA countries did not stop with NAFTA as their only regional trade agreement. Each of these added agreements reduced the advantage initially gained by NAFTA producers, as barriers were also reduced for other competitors. Foreign direct investment on all industries has increased from US $15 billion in 2003 to US $95 billion in 2008, but probably less than hoped for because after 2000 more capital and jobs began to flow to China and India. Industry continues to seek low cost labor, and Mexico is no longer the cheapest labor market. However agricultural trade increased between NAFTA partners from US $10 billion in 1989 to US $67 billion in 2008 with greater integration of agricultural markets. Mexico's total agricultural exports (to all countries) approached US $16.9 billion in 2008. Corresponding imports in 2008 totaled about US $23.2 billion. Mexico's NAFTA imports grew from almost US $4 billion in 1993 to US $14 billion in 2009. Mexico's NAFTA Agricultural export grew from US $2.9 to US $12.3 billion for the same period.
The physical meaning of the "boost-rotation symmetric" solutions within the general interpretation of Einstein's theory of gravitation
Creators: name: Antoci, S.
name: Liebscher, D. -E.
name: Mihich, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The answer to the question, what physical meaning should be attributed to the so-called boost-rotation symmetric exact solutions to the field equations of general relativity, is provided within the general interpretation scheme for the ``theories of relativity'', based on group theoretical arguments, and set forth by Erich Kretschmann already in the year 1917.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure; text to appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
An Improved Weighting Algorithm to Achieve Software Compensation in a Fine Grained LAr Calorimeter
Creators: name: Issever, C.
name: Borras, K.
name: Wegener, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An improved weighting algorithm applied to hadron showers has been developed for a fine grained LAr calorimeter. The new method uses tabulated weights which depend on the density of energy deposited in individual cells and in a surrounding cone whose symmetry axis connects the interaction vertex with the highest energy cluster in the shower induced by a hadron. The weighting of the visible energy and the correction for losses due to noise cuts are applied in separate steps. In contrast to standard weighting procedures the new algorithm allows to reconstruct the total energy as well as the spatial energy deposition on the level of individual calorimeter cells. The linearity and the energy resolution of the pion signal in the momentum interval 2 GeV/c <= p <= 20 GeV/c studied in this analysis are considerably improved in comparison to the standard weighting algorithm as practiced presently by the H1 collaboration. Moreover the energy spectra reconstructed with the new method follow in a broad interval a Gaussian distribution and have less pronounced tails.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, to be published in NIM; fig5b and fig11 have been corrupted during transfer to arXiv and are replaced
DESARROLLO DE LA CREATIVIDAD Y DE LA INNOVACIÓN EN LA FORMACIÓN EN PROYECTOS EMPRESARIALES AGROPECUARIOS.Caso: Programa Académico en Administración de Empresas Agropecuarias de la Universidad De La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia
Creators: name: Murcia Cabra, Hector Horacio
name: Murcia Cabra, Hector Horacio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Entrepreneurial potential
subject: pedagogical models
subject: entrepreneurial projects
subject: creativity and innovation.

description: There are many global efforts to promote the enterprise and entrepreneurial approaches and within them it is important to consider the role of educational institutions. The definition and implementation of pedagogical models related to science and technology, research, creativity and innovation, are goals that must accompany the motivation and the development of entrepreneurial skills. It is believed that, in addition to the personal strengths the entrepreneurs should have, one of the factors linked to the strengthening of its options is the design and development of entrepreneurial projects. Research programs and projects conducted at the Academic Program of Agrarian Enterprises Management from De La Salle University; confirm that the inclusion of pedagogical techniques of creativity and innovation contributes to a better formulation of entrepreneurial projects. It follows that it is not enough to teach basic techniques for creativity and innovation because it is necessary to enhance the progress of the projects. The research concludes that the educational sectors should continue working on the promotion and implementation of creativity and innovation, setting up permanent structures to support business initiatives.
Subcellular localization of tobacco MAPKs
Creators: name: Clegg, Alana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Plants effect intracellular changes in response to a variety of external stimuli. Harpin, a bacterial elicitor from the bean halo-blight pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv phaseolicola, and megaspermin, an oocyte elicitor secreted by Phythophtora megasperma H20, are both known to elicit a hypersensitive response (HR) iii tobacco. These elicitors also induce phosphorylation of a 48 kDa protein and a 46 kDa protein that have been identified as the Salicylic A c i d Induced Protein Kinase (SIPK), and Wound Induced Protein Kinase (WIPK) mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) respectively. Previous work has shown that transient over-expression of SIPK causes lesion formation in tobacco leaves, suggesting a possible role for SIPK in regulating tobacco HR signaling. Extracellular Regulated Kinase (ERK), a mammalian homologue to SIPK and WIPK, has been shown to localize to different parts of the cell in response to a variety of stresses. The objective of this study was to determine the subcellular localization of the tobacco MAPKs, SIPK and WIPK, in response to challenge by harpin and megaspermin. Using both SIPK-GFP proteins and in situ immunolabeling of SIPK and WIPK, it was determined that the tobacco MAPKs were localized predominantly in the cytoplasm, with some nuclear localization. Upon challenge with harpin and/or megaspermin the phosphorylated forms of the probed MAPKs showed strong nuclear localization. In elicitor induced tobacco cultures, immunolabeling results showed strong nucleolar localization within the nucleus. These results are consistent with the model that activation of ERK-homologues by intracellular effectors leads to translocation of the activated MAPK from the cytoplasm to the nucleus, most likely to effect transcriptional regulation of stress-related genes.
DEL AGUA 2030, EL MÉXICO QUE TODOS QUEREMOS. COMISIÓN NACIONAL DEL AGUA ORGANISMO DE CUENCA: CUENCAS CENTRALES DEL NORTE
Creators: name: Fernandez Martinez, Patricia Del Carmen
name: Gutierrez Santana, Oscar
name: Fernandez Martinez, Patricia Del Carmen
name: Gutierrez Santana, Oscar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Conscience, need, water agenda 2030.
Callicaria Crotch
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Callicaria

description: Genus Callicaria Crotch
Callicaria Crotch, 1871: 6.
Type species: Caria superba Mulsant, 1853 (by monotypy).
Pseudosynonycha Kurisaki, 1923: 101. Type species: Synonycha japonica Kurisaki, 1914: 443, by original designation; Sasaji 1971: 294.
Diagnosis. Size large (13–15 mm), with a characteristic body outline broadest around the middle and narrowed towards both ends; coloration carmine red with black maculae (Fig. 29a–c).Anterior clypeal margin straight.Antenna (Fig. 29d) longer than frons, last three antennomeres forming a tight and compact club. Pronotum distinctly narrower than elytra, lateral sides slightly arcuate to almost straight, anterolateral corners sharply rectangular, posterolateral corners angulate. Scutellar shield prominent, triangular, about 1/10 th as broad as pronotum. Elytra basally distinctly wider than pronotum, lateral sides broadly explanate. Prosternal carinae present, posteriorly slightly divergent. Mesoventrite anteriorly deeply emarginate. Elytral epipleuron entire, broad, outer half distinctly inclined below. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete (Fig. 29e), reaching the posterior margin of abdominal ventrite 1. Middle and hind tibiae with a pair of apical spurs. Tarsal claws appendiculate.
Distribution. Mainly Oriental, also distributed in some parts of Palaearctic Asia (India; Himalayas; China; Japan; Taiwan).
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it in the Synonycha- group of genera, but it was not included in their molecular analysis.
Included species. It is a monotypic genus known by the type species, Callicaria superba (Mulsant) with a distribution restricted to the colder parts of northwestern and northeastern regions of India, Nepal and Bhutan.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 46-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Multi-Armed Bandits for Minesweeper: Profiting from Exploration-Exploitation Synergy
Creators: name: Lordeiro, Igor Q.
name: Haddad, Diego B.
name: Cardoso, Douglas O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A popular computer puzzle, the game of Minesweeper requires its human players to have a mix of both luck and strategy to succeed. Analyzing these aspects more formally, in our research we assessed the feasibility of a novel methodology based on Reinforcement Learning as an adequate approach to tackle the problem presented by this game. For this purpose we employed Multi-Armed Bandit algorithms which were carefully adapted in order to enable their use to define autonomous computational players, targeting to make the best use of some game peculiarities. After experimental evaluation, results showed that this approach was indeed successful, especially in smaller game boards, such as the standard beginner level. Despite this fact the main contribution of this work is a detailed examination of Minesweeper from a learning perspective, which led to various original insights which are thoroughly discussed.
description: To be published in IEEE Transactions on Games (ISSN 2475-1510 / 2475-1502)
PEÑOLES EN LA AGROINDUSTRIA EMPRESA ORGULLOSAMENTE MEXICANA
Creators: name: Molina, Julio C.
name: Araiza, Salvador E.
name: Molina, Julio C.
name: Araiza, Salvador E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Peñoles
subject: agro-industry
subject: metallurgical complex
subject: inorganic chemical products.

description: Penoles began operations in 1887 as a mining company. It currently controls more than 20 active companies involved in exploration, mining, foundation and refining of precious metals and industrial and developing inorganic chemical product which integrates different companies involved in the production of agrindustrial products, is the world's largest producer refined silver, metallic bismuth and sodium sulfate; operates the non-ferrous metallurgical complex in Latin America's largest and fourth worldwide in terms of value of production. It occupies a dominant position in the domestic market for gold, refined lead and zinc oxide, magnesium oxide, ammonium and magnesium sulfate, mining and metallurgical operations are among the most efficient in terms of operating costs worldwide. It is one of the largest net exporters of Mexico with sales of more than 30 countries to which distributes more than 58% of its production.
Predicting Potential Invasive Species Distribution: An Application to New Zealand Mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: Lim, Youngah
name: Gopinath, Munisamy
name: Chan, Samuel
name: Harte, Michael
name: Lim, Youngah
name: Gopinath, Munisamy
name: Chan, Samuel
name: Harte, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Invasive species
subject: New Zealand mudsnail
subject: Gravity model
subject: Maxent model
subject: Risk assessment

description: Invasive species have become a major concern for researchers, private industries, and policymakers. From the respect of deriving effective and efficient management to invasive species, the risk assessment of invasive species is a necessary and reliable starting point. In this study, we will employ a gravity model and a maximum entropy method to estimate the relative risk of New Zealand mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest. This study will not only give an insight of integrated risk assessment models considering anthropogenic and ecological factors together, but also provide an empirical implication for relative risk of New Zealand mudsnail distribution in a spatial context.
description: Quantitative approach for invasive species risk assessment
How Hertzian solitary waves interact with boundaries in a 1-D granular medium
Creators: name: Job, Stephane
name: Melo, Francisco
name: Sokolow, Adam
name: Sen, Surajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform measurements, numerical simulations, and quantitative comparisons with available theory on solitary wave propagation in a linear chain of beads without static preconstrain. By designing a nonintrusive force sensor to measure the impulse as it propagates along the chain, we study the solitary wave reflection at a wall. We show that the main features of solitary wave reflection depend on wall mechanical properties. Since previous studies on solitary waves have been performed at walls without these considerations, our experiment provides a more reliable tool to characterize solitary wave propagation. We find, for the first time, precise quantitative agreements.
description: Proof corrections, ReVTeX, 11 pages, 3 eps (Focus and related papers on http://www.supmeca.fr/perso/jobs/)
Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies
Creators: name: Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla
name: Thomas, Andrew C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider processes on social networks that can potentially involve three factors: homophily, or the formation of social ties due to matching individual traits; social contagion, also known as social influence; and the causal effect of an individual's covariates on their behavior or other measurable responses. We show that, generically, all of these are confounded with each other. Distinguishing them from one another requires strong assumptions on the parametrization of the social process or on the adequacy of the covariates used (or both). In particular we demonstrate, with simple examples, that asymmetries in regression coefficients cannot identify causal effects, and that very simple models of imitation (a form of social contagion) can produce substantial correlations between an individual's enduring traits and their choices, even when there is no intrinsic affinity between them. We also suggest some possible constructive responses to these results.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures. V2: Revised in response to referees. V3: Ditto
A Resolved Debris Disk around the G2V star HD 107146
Creators: name: Ardila, D. R.
name: Golimowski, D. A.
name: Krist, J. E.
name: Clampin, M.
name: Williams, J. P.
name: Blakeslee, J. P.
name: Ford, H. C.
name: Hartig, G. F.
name: Illingworth, G. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present resolved scattered-light images of the debris disk around HD 107146, a G2 star 28.5 pc from the Sun. This is the first debris disk to be resolved in scattered light around a solar-type star. We observed it with the HST/ACS coronagraph, using a 1.8'' occulting spot and the F606W (broad V) and F814W (broad I) filters. Within 2'' from the star, the image is dominated by PSF subtraction residuals. Outside this limit, the disk looks featureless except for a northeast-southwest brightness asymmetry that we attribute to forward scattering. The disk has scattered-light fractional luminosities of $(L_{Sca}/L_*)_{F606W}=6.8 \pm 0.8 \times 10^{-5}$ and $(L_{Sca}/L_*)_{F814W}=10 \pm 1 \times 10^{-5}$ and it is detected up to 6.5'' away from the star. To map the surface density of the disk, we deproject it by $25^\circ \pm 5^\circ$, divide by the dust scattering phase ($g_{F606W} = 0.3 \pm 0.1$, $g_{F814W} = 0.2 \pm 0.1$) and correct for the geometric dilution of starlight. Within the errors, the surface density has the same shape in each bandpass, and it appears to be a broad (85 AU) ring with most of the opacity concentrated at 130 AU. The ratio of the relative luminosity in F814W to that in F606W has the constant value of $1.3\pm0.3$, with the error dominated by uncertainties in the value of $g$ in each filter. An examination of far infrared and submillimeter measurements suggests the presence of small grains. The colors and the derived values of $g$ are consistent with the presence of dust particles smaller than the radiation pressure limit. The dust generated by the creation of a small planet or the scattering and circularization of a large one, are possible scenarios that may explain the shape of the surface density profile.
description: To appear in ApJ Letters Figure 3 in the original version had the wrong vertical scale. In this version it has been replaced by the correct one
Gender and Sexuality Linguistic Taboos: A Case of Mɔ and Nnyabi in Ewe and Mampulli
Creators: name: Amenorvi, Cosmas Rai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Literature

description: This paper investigates the cultural underpinnings that govern the use or disuse of sexually explicit Ewe and Mampulli verbs mɔ and nnyabi (have sex) among native Ewe and native Mampulli speakers. A longitudinal study approach and interviews were employed to collect data over a twelve-month period among Ewe speakers of Aflao in the Volta Region of Ghana and Mampulli speakers of Nalerigu in the North East Region. Findings reveal that the cultural underpinnings that govern these taboo words are, first, the Ewe and Mampulli cultures regard sex act as a sacred thing and that using such explicit words in talking about it is too raw and uncultured; second, both cultures are patriarchal or male dominant; third, they permit polygamy but frown on polyandry; finally, the two cultures frown on homosexuality. This study provides a window into the Ewe and Mampulli cultures, and by extension the African culture, as regards the topic of sexuality. Moreover, it would enable the reader to fathom why the dominant African culture’s position on homosexuality is not a question of hatred but of culture clash.
Callicaria superba
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Callicaria
Callicaria superba

description: Callicaria superba (Mulsant)
(Fig. 29)
Caria superba Mulsant, 1853a: 159 (Type locality: “les Indes”).
Callicaria superba: Crotch 1874: 170; Korschefsky 1932: 271; Poorani 2002a: 322; Ren et al. 2009: 178.
Pseudosynonycha japonica Kurisaki, 1923: 104–105; Sasaji 1971: 294.
Diagnosis. Length: 11.00–12.00 mm; width: 9.00– 10.50 mm. Form (Fig. 29a–c) subcircular, broadest around base of elytra, narrowed in posterior half, convex. Dorsum dark blood red to orange-red, pronotum with a pair of oblong oval median black spots above basal margin on either side of scutellar shield, scutellar shield black, each elytron with seven black spots arranged in a 1-3-3 pattern (Fig. 29a, b) as follows: spot 1 on humeral callus, three spots forming a transverse line before middle, outer one reaching elytral margin, transverse, three spots at about two-thirds, forming a concave band towards apex; occasionally elytral spots coalesce, forming larger maculae (Fig. 29c). Ventral side reddish brown, except pro-, meso-and metasterna black, abdomen medially black and elytral epipleura partially black. Male genitalia (Fig. 29g, h) and spermatheca (Fig. 29f) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: northeastern region (Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Himalayas; Nepal; Bhutan; China; Tibet; Taiwan; Japan.
Prey/associated habitat. Associated with adelgids (Adelges spp.), aphids (Aiceona litseae Basu & Hille Ris Lambers, Aphis gossypii Glover, Prociphilus fraxini (Fabricius), Tuberculatus indicus Ghosh)) and psyllids (Anomoneura mori Schwarz).
Associated with adelgids infesting silver fir, aphids associated with Litsea polyantha, Alnus nitida, Cedrus deodara, Quercus incana, Quercus serrata, Spiraea lindleyana, and Eupatorium odoratum (label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during May–June, August and November in north and northeastern regions (Singh & Singh 1985).
Notes. Sasaji (1971) described this genus and species in detail. Kamoi & Imata (1978) studied its life history. In Japan, Kamei (1978) studied its life history on the mulberry psyllid, Anomoneura mori Schwarz.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
A Sensitivity-based Approach for Optimal Siting of Distributed Energy Resources
Creators: name: Gautam, Mukesh
name: Bhusal, Narayan
name: Benidris, Mohammed
name: Singh, Chanan
name: Mitra, Joydeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a sensitivity-based approach for the placement of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power systems. The approach is based on the fact that most planning studies utilize some form of optimization, and solutions to these optimization problems provide insights into the sensitivity of many system variables to operating conditions and constraints. However, most of the existing sensitivity-based planning criteria do not capture ranges of effectiveness of these solutions (i.e., ranges of the effectiveness of Lagrange multipliers). The proposed method detects the ranges of the effectiveness of Lagrange multipliers and uses them to determine optimal solution alternatives. Profiles for existing generation and loads, and transmission constraints are taken into consideration. The proposed method is used to determine the impacts of DERs at different locations, in the presence of a stochastic element (load variability). This method consists of sequentially calculating Lagrange multipliers of the dual solution of the optimization problem for various load buses for all load scenarios. Optimal sizes and sites of resources are jointly determined in a sequential manner based on the validity of active constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through several case studies on various test systems including the IEEE reliability test system (IEEE RTS), the IEEE 14, and 30 bus systems. In comparison with conventional sensitivity-based approaches (i.e., without considering ranges of validity of Lagrange multipliers), the proposed approach provides more accurate results for active constraints.
description: This paper has been accepted and presented in PMAPS 2020 conference
Estimating $β$-mixing coefficients
Creators: name: McDonald, Daniel J.
name: Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla
name: Schervish, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The literature on statistical learning for time series assumes the asymptotic independence or ``mixing' of the data-generating process. These mixing assumptions are never tested, nor are there methods for estimating mixing rates from data. We give an estimator for the $β$-mixing rate based on a single stationary sample path and show it is $L_1$-risk consistent.
description: 9 pages, accepted by AIStats. CMU Statistics Technical Report