cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How did farmers act? An ex-post validation of normative and positive mathematical programming for an agent-based sector model
Creators: name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Mohring, Anke
name: Zimmerman, Albert
name: Mann, Stefan
name: Mack, Gabriele
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Mohring, Anke
name: Zimmerman, Albert
name: Mann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: agent-based sector model
subject: positive mathematical programming
subject: ex-post validation

description: This study evaluates normative (NMP) and positive (PMP) mathematical programming methods for the recursive dynamic agent-based sector model SWISSland, which determines production decisions for 3400 farm-level models for the ex-post period 2005 to 2012. This study clearly shows that PMP for crop production activities improves the forecasting performance of farm based agent-based models compared to NMP. It also shows that combining PMP and NMP could be a suitable approach for agent-based sector models. For short-term forecast PMP for all production activities and PMP combined with NMP lead to similar results. The results either show that PMP calibration based on revenues and PMP calibration based on the entropy approach lead to similar results. By combining PMP with NMP some limitations of PMP could be reduced. In branches where the adoption of new production activities is expected due to market, the NMP approach could be an appropriate solution.
Podogaster tranae Gauld & Bradshaw 1997
Creators: name: González-Moreno, Alejandra
name: Bordera, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Podogaster
Podogaster tranae

description: Podogaster tranae Gauld & Bradshaw 1997
 Distribution. Neotropical (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica).
 Habitat. Savannah.
 Phenology. July.
 Studied material. MEXICO. Yucatán State, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Ria Lagartos Station, Core II: 24. VI –08.VII.2009, 1 ♀ (CCBA).
description: Published as part of González-Moreno, Alejandra & Bordera, Santiago, 2011, New records of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Mexico, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2879 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2879.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285972
Neutrinoless double beta decay can constrain neutrino dark matter
Creators: name: Barger, V.
name: Glashow, S. L.
name: Marfatia, D.
name: Whisnant, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine how constraints can be placed on the neutrino component of dark matter by an accurate measurement of neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay and the solar oscillation amplitude. We comment on the alleged evidence for $0νββ$ decay.
description: Version to appear in PLB
Drivers of Regular Consumption of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in Urban Households of the Republic of Uganda
Creators: name: Madhavan-Nambiar, Padmanand
name: Florkowski, Wojciech
name: Chinnan, Manjeet
name: Resurrecion, Anna
name: Madhavan-Nambiar, Padmanand
name: Florkowski, Wojciech
name: Chinnan, Manjeet
name: Resurrecion, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Republic of Uganda
subject: regular consumption
subject: multivariate probit
subject: fresh fruits and vegetables
subject: socioeconomic factors

description: Malnutrition poses health risks for the people in the Republic of Uganda. An increased consumption of fruits and vegetables which are rich in nutrients can substantially reduce these risks. To efficiently implement programs enhancing consumption of fruits and vegetables, knowledge about the consumption pattern across households is essential. This study examines factors that affect the regular consumption of eight selected fresh fruits and seven selected fresh vegetables across urban households in Uganda. The multivariate probit regression method applied to household survey data identifies relevant factors. Results show that education, age, gender, number of children, and location are important factors determining regular consumption. Knowledge of these factors provides guidance for policy makers in public and private institutions for targeting specific segments of the population in urban locations for effective implementation of programs promoting fruit and vegetable consumption.
Rice value chain upgrading in Vietnam: Towards increasing sustainability
Creators: name: Rutsaert, Pieter
name: Demont, Matty
name: Rutsaert, Pieter
name: Demont, Matty
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Although Vietnam is one of the biggest rice exporters today, there is an urgent need to restructure the sector. To guide the transition from a quantity focused producer to a credible supplier of high quality rice, this study explores the diversity in value chains and the sector’s opportunities for sustainable value chain upgrading. During a participatory multi-stakeholder workshop participants from the public as well as the private sector were guided through several collective tasks to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of the Vietnamese rice sector, and the opportunities and threats (SWOT) the sector faces to become more sustainable. Subsequently, a Strategic Orientation Round (SOR) was used to evaluate the relative importance of the SWOT components. Results show that the stakeholders perceive the sector’s capability to grasp opportunities (including growing export and domestic markets) to be higher than its resilience to potential threats (including more stringent food safety regulations and global warming). Three different strategies are discussed for making rice value chains more sustainable: embodying, disembodying and internalizing sustainability.
HIKER: a halo-finding method based on kernel-shift algorithm
Creators: name: Sun, Shuangpeng
name: Liao, Shihong
name: Guo, Qi
name: Wang, Qiao
name: Gao, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new halo/subhalo finder, HIKER (a Halo fInder based on KERnel-shift algorithm), which takes advantage of a machine learning method -- the mean-shift algorithm combined with the Plummer kernel function, to effectively locate density peaks corresponding to halos/subhalos in density field. Based on these density peaks, dark matter halos are identified as spherical overdensity structures, and subhalos are bound substructures with boundaries at their tidal radius. By testing HIKER code with mock halos, we show that HIKER performs excellently in recovering input halo properties. Especially, HIKER has higher accuracy in locating halo/subhalo centres than most halo finders. With cosmological simulations, we further show that HIKER reproduces the abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos quite accurately, and the HIKER halo/subhalo mass functions and $V_{max}$ functions are in good agreement with two widely used halo finders, SUBFIND and AHF.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Sarcoplasmic reticular Ca 2+ -ATPase inhibition paradoxically upregulates murine skeletal muscle Na v 1.4 function
Creators: name: Liu, Sean X.
name: Matthews, Hugh R.
name: Huang, Christopher L.-H.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
/631/1647
/631/57
/631/443
article

description: Abstract: Skeletal muscle Na+ channels possess Ca2+- and calmodulin-binding sites implicated in Nav1.4 current (INa) downregulation following ryanodine receptor (RyR1) activation produced by exchange protein directly activated by cyclic AMP or caffeine challenge, effects abrogated by the RyR1-antagonist dantrolene which itself increased INa. These findings were attributed to actions of consequently altered cytosolic Ca2+, [Ca2+]i, on Nav1.4. We extend the latter hypothesis employing cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) challenge, which similarly increases [Ca2+]i, but through contrastingly inhibiting sarcoplasmic reticular (SR) Ca2+-ATPase. Loose patch clamping determined Na+ current (INa) families in intact native murine gastrocnemius skeletal myocytes, minimising artefactual [Ca2+]i perturbations. A bespoke flow system permitted continuous INa comparisons through graded depolarizing steps in identical stable membrane patches before and following solution change. In contrast to the previous studies modifying RyR1 activity, and imposing control solution changes, CPA (0.1 and 1 µM) produced persistent increases in INa within 1–4 min of introduction. CPA pre-treatment additionally abrogated previously reported reductions in INa produced by 0.5 mM caffeine. Plots of peak current against voltage excursion demonstrated that 1 µM CPA increased maximum INa by ~ 30%. It only slightly decreased half-maximal activating voltages (V0.5) and steepness factors (k), by 2 mV and 0.7, in contrast to the V0.5 and k shifts reported with direct RyR1 modification. These paradoxical findings complement previously reported downregulatory effects on Nav1.4 of RyR1-agonist mediated increases in bulk cytosolic [Ca2+]. They implicate possible local tubule-sarcoplasmic triadic domains containing reduced [Ca2+]TSR in the observed upregulation of Nav1.4 function following CPA-induced SR Ca2+ depletion.
MOESM14 of From spiral cleavage to bilateral symmetry: the developmental cell lineage of the annelid brain
Creators: name: Vopalensky, Pavel
name: Tosches, Maria
name: Achim, Kaia
name: Handberg-Thorsager, Mette
name: Arendt, Detlev
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 14: Figure S4. Establishment of bilateral clonal domains. This figure contains the details of the cell divisions and lineage of the bilateral founder cells. (A) The bilateral founders, descending from the 1 m-1122 cells, located more laterally, are generated in a perfect bilateral symmetry, reflected by a bilaterally symmetrical arrangement of the resulting lateral clones. All descendent lineages show full bilateral symmetry, as is apparent from the equivalent lineage history of right and left counterpart clones (bottom panel). (B-C) For the bilateral founders in the dorso-medial (B) and ventro-medial (C) regions descending from 1 m-1121 sublineages, the lineage history of the left and right founder is very different. These founders originate at different branches of the quadrant homologue lineage tree and in some cases even differ in the lineage depth (light green, red, and dark green clones in panel B; light green clones in panel C). Two bilateral founder pairs - 1a-1121211 and 1a-1121121 (light and dark blue clone in panel C) and 1b-12111aa and 1b-121121b (dark green in D) originate from single quadrants. Note, that the cell divisions occurring at the lateral-most edge of this largely asymmetrical medial domain produce again symmetrical clones (sand and light brown clones in panel B). (D) The origin of A|C symmetry: The cells 1 m-12 divide spirally to produce accessory prototroch cells 1 m-122 and 1 m-1212. Subsequent cell divisions within 1c-12 and 1a-12 clone occur in a bilateral mode resulting in fully bilateral domains stemming from the A and C quadrant.
Measuring the Out-of-Equilibrium Splitting of the Kondo Resonance
Creators: name: Lebanon, Eran
name: Schiller, Avraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experiment is proposed to measure the out-of-equilibrium splitting of the Kondo resonance in an ultrasmall quantum dot, by adding a third, weakly coupled lead to the standard two-lead quantum-dot system, and sweeping the chemical potential of that lead. Fixing the voltage bias between the source and drain leads, we show that the differential conductance for the current through the third lead traces the out-of-equilibrium dot density of states (DOS) for the two-lead system. This enables one to measure the dot DOS in the presence of an applied voltage bias. We show that this method is robust, and extends also to the case where the coupling to the third lead is no longer weak.
description: Submitted for publication March 19
title: Detection of multidrug-resistant Salmonella in native chickens by culture, polymerase chain reaction, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
Creators: name: Lotis M. Balala
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Culture
ELISA
IgG
MDR
Native chickens
PCR
Salmonella

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 3 (9 pages)
Meniscomorpha perfida Ugalde & Gauld 2002
Creators: name: González-Moreno, Alejandra
name: Bordera, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Meniscomorpha
Meniscomorpha perfida

description: Meniscomorpha perfida Ugalde & Gauld 2002
 Distribution. Neotropical (Costa Rica).
 Habitat. Coastal dune scrubland, savannah, dry forest.
 Phenology. Appendix I (Fig. 1).
 Studied material. MEXICO. Yucatán State, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Ría Lagartos Station, Post 024: 01–14.VII.2008, 1 ♀; 10–26.XI.2008, 2 ♀; 10–24. VI.2009, 1 ♀. Core II: 03–17. VI.2008, 2 ♀; 17. VI – 01.VII.2008, 1 ♂ (CCBA). Cuyo Station, Cemetery: 28.VII–12.VIII.2008, 1 ♀. Punta Meco: 10–24.IX.2008, 1 ♀; 13–27. V.2009, 1 ♀; 08–22.VII.2009, 2 ♂♂. 22.VII–06.VIII.2009, 1 ♀. Tekal: 01–15.IV.2009, 1 ♀; 13–27. V.2009, 1 ♀ (CEUA).
description: Published as part of González-Moreno, Alejandra & Bordera, Santiago, 2011, New records of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Mexico, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2879 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2879.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285972
Contract-farming in staple food chains: the case of rice in Benin
Creators: name: Velde, Katrien
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Velde, Katrien
name: Maertens, Miet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: Supply chain upgrading in domestic and staple food chains in developing countries is important for a more efficient supply to growing urban markets. Little research is done on institutional innovations, such as contract-farming, in these chains. Research on the impact of smallholder contract-farming largely focuses on export-oriented high-value commodities. In this paper, we assess the welfare implications of smallholder contract-farming in the rice sector in Benin, using farm-household survey data and applying propensity score matching and difference-in-difference estimation. We find that contract-farming is associated with higher rice incomes, higher yields, higher input use, increased commercialization and higher farm-gate prices.
MOESM4 of Characterization of resistance to a potent d-peptide HIV entry inhibitor
Creators: name: Smith, Amanda
name: Weinstock, Matthew
name: Siglin, Amanda
name: Whitby, Frank
name: J. Francis
name: Hill, Christopher
name: Eckert, Debra
name: Root, Michael
name: Kay, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4. Prevalence of PIE12-trimer resistant candidate compensatory amino acid mutations in Group M primary isolates containing Q577R.
title: Evaluation of the morphological and physiological changes of Saluyot (Corchorus olitorius) during seed maturation
Creators: name: Marjun C. Alvarado
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Saluyot
saluyot seeds
physiological maturity
moisture content
seed dry weight
seed maturity
seed science

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 4 (7 pages)
Symmetry Analysis In Inflationary Cosmology
Creators: name: Paliathanasis, Andronikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We approach the cosmological inflation thought symmetries of differential equations. We consider the general inflaton field in a homogeneous Friedmann--Lema\^ıtre--Robertson--Walker spacetime and with the use of conformal transformations we are able to write the generic algebraic solution for the field equations. We put emphasis on the inflationary models and we show how we can construct new inflationary models from already known models by using symmetry transformations.
description: 7 pages, no figures, published on the proceedings of "Modern Treatment of Symmetries Differential Equations and Applications, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand (2019)
Mehrauli Archaeological Park
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Himadri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mehrauli Archaeological Park
Medieval Indian History
Medieval Indian Architecture

description: Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi— with several significant monuments ranging from Pre-Sultanate to the Colonial Period— is not only a site of historical and archaeological interest but also attracts a large number of tourists all throughout the year. The place has stories etched in stone. Each of the structures, from Hauz-e-Shamsi to Dadabari Jain Mandir to Kaki's Dargah, has its own piece of anecdote to share. This article tries to give a general picture of the monuments situated within the Mehrauli Archaeological Park.
Female Employment reduces Fertility in Rural Senegal
Creators: name: Van Den Broeck, Goedele
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Van Den Broeck, Goedele
name: Maertens, Miet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: horticultural export
subject: female labour market participation
subject: female empowerment
subject: fertility rate
subject: Senegal JEL codes:

description: The recent horticultural export boom in Senegal has created new off-farm wage employment opportunities for the rural population, especially for women. We hypothesise that female wage employment may lower fertility rates through an income effect, an empowerment effect and a substitution effect, and address this question empirically using household survey data and two different regression techniques (a Difference-in-Differences estimator and an Instrumental Variable approach). We find that besides education, female employment has a significant negative effect on fertility rates. Reducing fertility rates is considered as a prerequisite for reaching the MDGs, and our finding implies that the horticultural export boom and associated employment may indirectly contribute to this.
Meniscomorpha romata Ugalde & Gauld 2002
Creators: name: González-Moreno, Alejandra
name: Bordera, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Meniscomorpha
Meniscomorpha romata

description: Meniscomorpha romata Ugalde & Gauld 2002
 Distribution. Neotropical (Costa Rica).
 Habitat. Coastal dune scrubland, savannah, dry forest.
 Phenology. Appendix I (Fig. 2).
 Studied material. MEXICO. Yucatán State, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Ría Lagartos Station, Post 024: 16. V –03. VI.2008, 1 ♂; 28.VII–12.VIII.2008, 1 ♀; 01–18.II.2009, 1 ♂; 27. V –10. VI.2009, 1 ♀; 24. VI –08.VII.2009, 1 ♀. Core II: 16. V –03. VI.2008, 1 ♂; 03–17. VI.2008, 2 ♂♂; 28.VIII–10.IX.2008, 1 ♂; 10–24.IX.2008, 1 ♂; 01– 18.II.2009, 1 ♀; 18.III–01.IV.2009 3 ♀; 24. VI –08.VII.2009, 1 ♀; 08–22.VII.2009, 2 ♀. Cuyo Station, Cemetery: 03–17. VI.2008, 2 ♀; 14–28.VII.2008, 1 ♂; 28.VII–12.VIII.2008, 1 ♀; 28.VIII–10.IX.2008, 1 ♀ (CCBA); 01–18.III.2009, 1 ♂; 18.III–01.IV.2009, 1 ♀; 10–24. VI.2009, 1 ♀. Punta Meco: 18.III–01.IV.2009, 3 ♀; 01– 15.IV.2009, 2 ♀. Sacbo: 10–24.IX.2008, 2 ♀; 01–18.III.2009, 3 ♀, 1 ♂; 13–27. V.2009, 2 ♀; 27. V – 10. VI.2009, 1 ♀; 10–24. VI.2009, 1 ♀; 24. VI –08.VII.2009, 1 ♀. Tekal: 28.VIII–10.IX.2008, 1 ♀; 01–18.III.2009, 1 ♀, 1 ♂; 18.III–01.IV.2009, 1 ♀, 1 ♂; 01–15.IV.2009, 1 ♀, 1 ♂; 15–29.IV.2009, 1 ♀; 13–27. V.2009, 2 ♀, 1 ♂ (CEUA).
description: Published as part of González-Moreno, Alejandra & Bordera, Santiago, 2011, New records of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Mexico, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2879 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2879.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285972
Flickering nanometre-scale disorder in a crystal lattice tracked by plasmonic flare light emission
Creators: name: Carnegie, Cloudy
name: Urbieta, Mattin
name: Chikkaraddy, Rohit
name: De Nijs, Bart
name: Griffiths, Jack
name: Deacon, William M.
name: Kamp, Marlous
name: Zabala, Nerea
name: Aizpurua, Javier
name: Baumberg, Jeremy J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/639/301/1005/1007
/639/301/357/354
/639/925/927/1021
/639/624/399/1098
/140/125
/132
/132/124
/119/118
article

description: Abstract: The dynamic restructuring of metal nanoparticle surfaces is known to greatly influence their catalytic, electronic transport, and chemical binding functionalities. Here we show for the first time that non-equilibrium atomic-scale lattice defects can be detected in nanoparticles by purely optical means. These fluctuating states determine interface electronic transport for molecular electronics but because such rearrangements are low energy, measuring their rapid dynamics on single nanostructures by X-rays, electron beams, or tunnelling microscopies, is invasive and damaging. We utilise nano-optics at the sub-5nm scale to reveal rapid (on the millisecond timescale) evolution of defect morphologies on facets of gold nanoparticles on a mirror. Besides dynamic structural information, this highlights fundamental questions about defining bulk plasma frequencies for metals probed at the nanoscale.
MASTER: Multi-Aspect Non-local Network for Scene Text Recognition
Creators: name: Lu, Ning
name: Yu, Wenwen
name: Qi, Xianbiao
name: Chen, Yihao
name: Gong, Ping
name: Xiao, Rong
name: Bai, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Attention-based scene text recognizers have gained huge success, which leverages a more compact intermediate representation to learn 1d- or 2d- attention by a RNN-based encoder-decoder architecture. However, such methods suffer from attention-drift problem because high similarity among encoded features leads to attention confusion under the RNN-based local attention mechanism. Moreover, RNN-based methods have low efficiency due to poor parallelization. To overcome these problems, we propose the MASTER, a self-attention based scene text recognizer that (1) not only encodes the input-output attention but also learns self-attention which encodes feature-feature and target-target relationships inside the encoder and decoder and (2) learns a more powerful and robust intermediate representation to spatial distortion, and (3) owns a great training efficiency because of high training parallelization and a high-speed inference because of an efficient memory-cache mechanism. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate the superior performance of our MASTER on both regular and irregular scene text. Pytorch code can be found at https://github.com/wenwenyu/MASTER-pytorch, and Tensorflow code can be found at https://github.com/jiangxiluning/MASTER-TF.
description: Accepted by Pattern Recognition. Ning Lu and Wenwen Yu are co-first authors
Solar-like oscillations in semiregular variables
Creators: name: Bedding, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Power spectra of the light curves of semiregular variables, based on visual magnitude estimates spanning many decades, show clear evidence for stochastic excitation. This supports the suggestion by Christensen-Dalsgaard et al. (2001) that oscillations in these stars are solar-like, i.e., stochastically excited by convection, with mode lifetimes ranging from years to decades.
description: To appear in "Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram" (Porto, July 2002), Eds. Thompson M.J., Cunha M.S. and Monteiro M.J.P.F.G. (Kluwer); corrected typo in first reference
Anatomy of Deconfinement
Creators: name: Hanada, Masanori
name: Jevicki, Antal
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Wintergerst, Nico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the weak coupling limit of ${\rm SU}(N)$ Yang-Mills theory and the ${\rm O}(N)$ vector model, explicit state counting allows us to demonstrate the existence of a partially deconfined phase: $M$ of $N$ colors deconfine, and $\frac{M}{N}$ gradually grows from zero (confinement) to one (complete deconfinement). We point out that the mechanism admits a simple interpretation in the form of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. In terms of the dual gravity theory, such breaking occurs during the formation of a black hole. We speculate whether the breaking and restoration of gauge symmetry can serve as an alternative definition of the deconfinement transition in theories without center symmetry, such as QCD. We also discuss the role of the color degrees of freedom in the emergence of the bulk geometry in holographic duality.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
title: Sustainable hydrogen production from oil palm trunk biomass: Optimization of hydrolysis and fermentation conditions with Clostridium beijerinckii PS-3
Creators: name: Pongsak Noparat
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: biofuel
oil palm trunk hydrolysate
Clostridium beijerinckii
renewable energy

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 5 (10 pages)
Meniscomorpha wasenia Ugalde & Gauld 2002
Creators: name: González-Moreno, Alejandra
name: Bordera, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Meniscomorpha
Meniscomorpha wasenia

description: Meniscomorpha wasenia Ugalde & Gauld 2002
 Distribution. Neotropical (Costa Rica).
 Habitat. Dry forest.
 Phenology. January, July.
 Studied material. MEXICO. Yucatán State, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Cuyo Station, Sacbo: 17.VI – 01.VII.2008, 1 ♀; 23.XII.2008 – 07.I.2009, 2 ♀ (CCBA), 24.VI –08.VII.2009, 1 ♀ (CEUA).
description: Published as part of González-Moreno, Alejandra & Bordera, Santiago, 2011, New records of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Mexico, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2879 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2879.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285972
title: Development of crispy-sweet pickled radish products by vacuum frying and water pretreatment
Creators: name: Krongsakda Phakthanakanok
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Crispy vegetable
Pickled radish
Preserved radish
Vacuum frying
Water pretreatment

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 6 (8 pages)
Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains
Creators: name: Beghin, John
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Swinnen, Jo
name: Beghin, John
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Swinnen, Jo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with special attention to the North-South context. We also attempt to better characterize when these measures constitute protectionism, a complicate task. We look at studies investigating public and private standards and across various quantitative approaches and countries. These standards have complex effects. The evidence is mixed regarding standards as catalyst for or impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and countries. The analysis of standard-like nontariff measures and their impacts does not lead to sweeping prescriptions for policy reforms. We identify more modest prescriptions and make some recommendations for fruitful research directions.
Agrarian Impact of Climate Change in Malawi: A Quantile Ricardian Analysis
Creators: name: Maganga, Assa
name: Malakini, Memory
name: Maganga, Assa
name: Malakini, Memory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate change
subject: agriculture
subject: net farm revenue

description: This paper measures the economic impact of climate on Malawian Agriculture using the theory of Ricardian rents. We use cross-sectional data on climate, hydrological, soil and household level data for a sample of 8,832 households. The results show that climate affects net farm revenue. There is a non-linear relationship between temperature and revenue on one hand and between precipitation and revenue on the other. Estimated marginal impacts suggest that global warming is counter-productive to net farm revenue. The empirical analysis reveals that 2.5°C increase in warming results in predicted losses of US$0.0081 billion and doubling warming to 5°C amplifies the losses to US$0.018 billion. Reducing precipitation by 7% trims net revenue by 8.13% on a per hectare basis. Undoubtedly, 14% reduction in precipitation is predicted to cause reasonably larger losses of about US$0.1161 billion. It can be inferred that this significantly demonstrates Malawi‟s dependence on rain fed agriculture.
title: Quality changes and FTIR characteristics of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) during frozen storage
Creators: name: Supawan Thawornchinsombut
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: House cricket
frozen storage
antioxidant glazing
DSC
FTIR

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 7 (9 pages)
Information Networks among Women and Men and the Demand for an Agricultural Technology in India
Creators: name: Magnan, Nicholas
name: Spielman, David J.
name: Gulati, Kajal
name: Lybbert, Travis
name: Magnan, Nicholas
name: Spielman, David J.
name: Gulati, Kajal
name: Lybbert, Travis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Social network analysis
subject: peer effects
subject: technology adoption
subject: learning externalities
subject: India

description: Although there is ample evidence of differences in how and where men and women acquire information, most research on learning household decision-making only considers access to information for a single, typically male, household head. This assumption is problematic in developing-country agriculture, where women play a fundamental role in farming. Using gender-disaggregated social network data from Uttar Pradesh, India, we analyze agricultural information networks among men and women.We test for gender-specific network effects on demand for laser land leveling—a resource-conserving technology—using data from a field experiment that combines a BDM auction with a lottery. We find that factors determining male and female links are similar, although there is little overlap between male and female networks. We also find evidence of female network effects on household technology demand, although male network effects are clearly stronger. Results indicate that extension services can better leverage female networks to promote new technologies.
Families index theory for Overlap lattice Dirac operator. I
Creators: name: Adams, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The index bundle of the Overlap lattice Dirac operator over the orbit space of lattice gauge fields is introduced and studied. Obstructions to the vanishing of gauge anomalies in the Overlap formulation of lattice chiral gauge theory have a natural description in this context. Our main result is a formula for the topological charge (integrated Chern character) of the index bundle over even-dimensional spheres in the orbit space. It reduces under suitable conditions to the topological charge of the usual (continuum) index bundle in the classical continuum limit (this is announced and sketched here; the details will be given in a forthcoming paper). Thus we see that topology of the index bundle of the Dirac operator over the gauge field orbit space can be captured in a finite-dimensional lattice setting.
description: Latex, 23 pages. v4: minor improvements, results unchanged; to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
Brain-Inspired Hardware for Artificial Intelligence: Accelerated Learning in a Physical-Model Spiking Neural Network
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Timo C.
name: Kungl, Akos F.
name: Müller, Eric
name: Schemmel, Johannes
name: Petrovici, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Future developments in artificial intelligence will profit from the existence of novel, non-traditional substrates for brain-inspired computing. Neuromorphic computers aim to provide such a substrate that reproduces the brain's capabilities in terms of adaptive, low-power information processing. We present results from a prototype chip of the BrainScaleS-2 mixed-signal neuromorphic system that adopts a physical-model approach with a 1000-fold acceleration of spiking neural network dynamics relative to biological real time. Using the embedded plasticity processor, we both simulate the Pong arcade video game and implement a local plasticity rule that enables reinforcement learning, allowing the on-chip neural network to learn to play the game. The experiment demonstrates key aspects of the employed approach, such as accelerated and flexible learning, high energy efficiency and resilience to noise.
Higgsstrahlung at NNLL$'+$NNLO Matched to Parton Showers in GENEVA
Creators: name: Alioli, Simone
name: Broggio, Alessandro
name: Kallweit, Stefan
name: Lim, Matthew A.
name: Rottoli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the Higgsstrahlung process within the GENEVA Monte Carlo framework. We combine the fully differential NNLO calculation with the higher-order resummation in the 0-jettiness resolution variable (beam-thrust). The resulting parton-level events are further showered and hadronised by Pythia8. The beam-thrust resummation is carried out to NNLL$'$ accuracy, which consistently incorporates all singular virtual and real NNLO corrections. It thus provides a natural perturbative connection between the NNLO calculation and the parton shower regime, including a systematic assessment of perturbative uncertainties. In this way, observables which are inclusive over the additional radiation are correct to NNLO, while the description of 0-jet-like resummation variables is improved beyond the parton shower approximation. We provide predictions for the 13 TeV LHC.
description: 20 pages, 15 figures. Version submitted to PRD
Neutrino oscillations and signals in beta and 0nu2beta experiments
Creators: name: Feruglio, Ferruccio
name: Strumia, Alessandro
name: Vissani, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming Majorana neutrinos, we infer from oscillation data the expected values of the parameters m_{nu_e} and m_{ee} probed by beta and 0nu2beta-decay experiments. If neutrinos have a `normal hierarchy' we get the 90% CL ranges |m_{ee}| = (0.7 - 4.6) meV, and discuss in which cases future experiments can test this possibility. For `inverse hierarchy', we get |m_{ee}| = (12 - 57) meV and m_{ν_e} = (40 - 57) meV. The 0nu2beta data imply that almost degenerate neutrinos are lighter than 1.05 h eV at 90% CL, competitive with the beta-decay bound. We critically reanalyse the data that were recently used to claim an evidence for 0nu2beta, and discuss their implications. Finally, we review the predictions of flavour models for m_{ee} and theta_{13}.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures. Version 2: footnote at page 21 added. Version 3: updated including SNO NC data. Version 4: addendum about KamLAND data at pages 25,26,27. Version 5: addendum about SNO salt data at pages 28,29,30
title: Supplementary potassium sulfate and potassium chloride fertilizers on yield and quality of Fujisawa Melon (Cucumis melo L.)
Creators: name: Pongpet Pongsivapai
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Melon
fertilizer
potassium chloride
potassium sulfate

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 8 (10 pages)
Using Machine Learning to disentangle LHC signatures of Dark Matter candidates
Creators: name: Khosa, C. K.
name: Sanz, V.
name: Soughton, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the prospects of characterising Dark Matter at colliders using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. We focus on the monojet and missing transverse energy (MET) channel and propose a set of benchmark models for the study: a typical WIMP Dark Matter candidate in the form of a SUSY neutralino, a pseudo-Goldstone impostor in the shape of an Axion-Like Particle, and a light Dark Matter impostor whose interactions are mediated by a heavy particle. All these benchmarks are tensioned against each other, and against the main SM background ($Z$+jets). Our analysis uses both the leading-order kinematic features as well as the information of an additional hard jet. We explore different representations of the data, from a simple event data sample with values of kinematic variables fed into a Logistic Regression algorithm or a Fully Connected Neural Network, to a transformation of the data into images related to probability distributions, fed to Deep and Convolutional Neural Networks. We also study the robustness of our method against including detector effects, dropping kinematic variables, or changing the number of events per image. In the case of signals with more combinatorial possibilities (events with more than one hard jet), the most crucial data features are selected by performing a Principal Component Analysis. We compare the performance of all these methods, and find that using the 2D images of the combined information of multiple events significantly improves the discrimination performance.
description: 21 figures, 6 tables, minor revision
Syzeuctus besamis Ugalde & Gauld 2002
Creators: name: González-Moreno, Alejandra
name: Bordera, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syzeuctus
Syzeuctus besamis

description: Syzeuctus besamis Ugalde & Gauld 2002
 Distribution. Neotropical (Costa Rica).
 Habitat. Coastal dune scrubland, savannah, dry forest.
 Phenology. Appendix I (Fig. 3).
 Studied material. MEXICO. Yucatán State, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Ría Lagartos Station, Core II: 22.X–10.XI.2008, 1 ♂. Cuyo Station, Sacbo: 16.V–03.VI.2008, 1 ♂; 03–17.VI.2008, 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; 17.VI– 01.VII.2008, 1 ♂; 23.XII.2008 – 07.I.2009, 1 ♀; 21.I–04.II.2009, 1 ♂; 13–27.V.2009, 1 ♀ (CCBA). Tekal: 22.X– 10.XI.2008, 1 ♂; 23.XII. 2008 – 07. I. 2009, 1 ♂; 04–18.II.2009, 3 ♂♂; 04–18.III.2009, 2 ♂♂; 18.III–01.IV.2009, 1 ♂ (CEUA).
description: Published as part of González-Moreno, Alejandra & Bordera, Santiago, 2011, New records of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Mexico, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2879 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2879.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285972
MOESM12 of From spiral cleavage to bilateral symmetry: the developmental cell lineage of the annelid brain
Creators: name: Vopalensky, Pavel
name: Tosches, Maria
name: Achim, Kaia
name: Handberg-Thorsager, Mette
name: Arendt, Detlev
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 12: Figure S3. A gene expression atlas of the episphere between 12 and 34 hpf. Contains whole-mount RNA in situ hybridization expression pattern for 23 genes at 7 stages (12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 30 and 34 hpf). (A) The expression of bHLH transcription factors. (B) The expression of klf and prox transcription factors. (C) The expression of neuronal differentiation markers. All panels are apical views with dorsal side on the top of the panel. Embryos were counterstained with DAPI to reveal the nuclei, axonal projections and ciliary band (green) were visualized using anti-acetylated-tubulin antibody staining.
title: Fermentation time optimization: Unleashing quality with microbial consortia in whey
Creators: name: Rafli Z. Kamil
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Fermentation
Lactic acid bacteria
Whey cheese
Whey product innovation

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 9 (8 pages)
title: Modelling and simulation of cathodic protection using magnesium sacrificial anode for steel Bent-Y-Pipe in seawater environment
Creators: name: Gardezi, Syed A. R.
name: Husnain, Naveed
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Corrosion potential
Sacrificial anodes
Cathodic protection
COMSOL Multiphysics
CP modeling
Y pipes

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 10 (9 pages)
Complete characterization of qubit masking
Creators: name: Liang, Xiao-Bin
name: Li, Bo
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of information masking through nonzero linear operators that distribute information encoded in single qubits to the correlations between two qubits. It is shown that a nonzero linear operator cannot mask any nonzero measure set of qubit states. We prove that the maximal maskable set of states on the Bloch sphere with respect to any masker is the ones on a spherical circle. Any states on a spherical circle on the Bloch sphere are maskable, which also proves the conjecture on maskable qubit states given by Modi et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230501 (2018)]. we provide explicitly operational unitary maskers for all maskable sets. As applications, different protocols for secret sharing are introduced.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Time dependent Entanglement Entropy in dissipative conformal theories: TFD approach
Creators: name: Dias, M.
name: Nedel, Daniel L.
name: Senise, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the TFD formalism is explored in order to study a dissipative time-dependent thermal vacuum. This state is a consequence of a particular interaction between two theories, which can be interpreted as two conformal theories defined at the two asymptotic boundaries of an AdS black hole. The initial state is prepared to be the equilibrium TFD thermal vacuum. The interaction causes dissipation from the point of view of observers who measure observables in one of the boundaries. We show that the vacuum evolves as an entangled state at finite temperature and the dissipative dynamics is controlled by the time-dependent entropy operator, defined in the non-equilibrium TFD framework. We use lattice field theory techniques to calculate the non-equilibrium thermodynamic entropy and the finite temperature entanglement entropy. We show that both grow linearly with time.
description: 30 pages. New figure and new subsection added. Some misprints corrected
title: Effect of Bacillus spp. seed dressing on germination and growth of rice cultivar Khao Dawk Mali 105
Creators: name: Supatra Khamriang
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Rice seed
Bacillus spp.
Seeding vigor index
Seed dressing

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 30, 1, 11 (8 pages)
Serotonin depletion amplifies distinct human social emotions as a function of individual differences in personality
Creators: name: Kanen, Jonathan W.
name: Arntz, Fréderique E.
name: Yellowlees, Robyn
name: Cardinal, Rudolf N.
name: Price, Annabel
name: Christmas, David M.
name: Apergis-Schoute, Annemieke M.
name: Sahakian, Barbara J.
name: Robbins, Trevor W.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
/631/477/2811
/692/53/2423
article

description: Funder: Gates Cambridge Trust; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005370
description: Abstract: Serotonin is involved in a wide range of mental capacities essential for navigating the social world, including emotion and impulse control. Much recent work on serotonin and social functioning has focused on decision-making. Here we investigated the influence of serotonin on human emotional reactions to social conflict. We used a novel computerised task that required mentally simulating social situations involving unjust harm and found that depleting the serotonin precursor tryptophan—in a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled design—enhanced emotional responses to the scenarios in a large sample of healthy volunteers (n = 73), and interacted with individual differences in trait personality to produce distinctive human emotions. Whereas guilt was preferentially elevated in highly empathic participants, annoyance was potentiated in those high in trait psychopathy, with medium to large effect sizes. Our findings show how individual differences in personality, when combined with fluctuations of serotonin, may produce diverse emotional phenotypes. This has implications for understanding vulnerability to psychopathology, determining who may be more sensitive to serotonin-modulating treatments, and casts new light on the functions of serotonin in emotional processing.