cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Convergent calculations of double ionization of helium: from ($γ$,2e) to (e,3e) processes
Creators: name: Kheifets, A. S.
name: Bray, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first absolute (e,3e) measurements, by Lahmam-Bennani et al [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 59}, 3548 (1999)], have been recently approximately reproduced by Berakdar [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 85}, 4036 (2000)] and supported by Jones and Madison [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91}, 07321 (2003)], but with widely differing conclusions. The former indirectly implied that the Born-CCC-based calculations of Kheifets et al [J. Phys. B {\bf 32}, 5047 (1999) were invalid due to the reliance on the 1st Born approximation. The latter argued that the 1st Born approximation was valid, but the wrong initial state was used. We investigate these claims and find that the original calculations of Kheifets et al are reproduced whether the 2nd Born approximation is incorporated or if we use a ground state similar to that of Jones and Madison, but appropriately corrected as done by Le Sech and co-workers [J. Phys. B {\bf 23}, L739 (1990)].
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Trypanidius irroratus Monne & Delfino 1980
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Trypanidius
Trypanidius irroratus

description: 6. Trypanidius irroratus Monné & Delfino, 1980
Type locality — Venezuela, Aragua: Rancho Grande. (FAUV). Distribution — Venezuela, Colombia.
 Trypanidius irroratus Monné & Delfino, 1980: 320, fig. 2; Galileo & Martins, 2003e: 265 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Robust data-driven learning and control of nonlinear systems. A Sontag's formula approach
Creators: name: Becerra-Mora, Yeyson A.
name: Acosta, José Ángel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93DXX

description: An interlaced method to learn and control nonlinear system dynamics from a set of demonstrations is proposed, under a constrained optimization framework for the unsupervised learning process. The nonlinear system is modelled as a mixture of Gaussians and the Sontag's formula together with its associated Control Lyapunov Function is proposed for learning and control. Lyapunov stability and robustness in noisy data environments are guaranteed, as a result of the inclusion of control in the learning-optimization problem. The performances are validated through a well-known dataset of demonstrations with handwriting complex trajectories, succeeding in all of them and outperforming previous methods under bounded disturbances, possibly coming from inaccuracies, imperfect demonstrations or noisy datasets. As a result, the proposed interlaced solution yields a good performance trade-off between reproductions and robustness. The proposed method can be used to program nonlinear trajectories in robotic systems through human demonstrations.
description: Preprint submitted to journal (under review). 25 pages, 6 figures, font 12pt
Additional file 1 of Identification of biomarkers of chronic kidney disease among kidney-derived proteins
Creators: name: Higashisaka, Kazuma
name: Takeya, Sonoko
name: Kamada, Haruhiko
name: Obana, Masanori
name: Maeda, Makiko
name: Kabayama, Mai
name: Yamamoto, Koichi
name: Ishida, Nanan
name: Isaka, Ryo
name: Tsujino, Hirofumi
name: Nagano, Kazuya
name: Tomiyama, Noriyuki
name: Rakugi, Hiromi
name: Fujio, Yasushi
name: Kamide, Kei
name: Tsutsumi, Yasuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Identified kidney-derived proteins and their efflux:influx expression ratios in seven individuals.
Discovery of Peculiar Radio Morphologies with ASKAP using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Creators: name: Gupta, Nikhel
name: Huynh, Minh
name: Norris, Ray P.
name: Wang, Rosalind
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Andernach, Heinz
name: Koribalski, Bärbel S.
name: Galvin, Tim J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a set of peculiar radio sources detected using an unsupervised machine learning method. We use data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope to train a self-organizing map (SOM). The radio maps from three ASKAP surveys, Evolutionary Map of Universe pilot survey (EMU-PS), Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins pilot survey (DINGO) and Survey With ASKAP of GAMA-09 + X-ray (SWAG-X), are used to search for the rarest or unknown radio morphologies. We use an extension of the SOM algorithm that implements rotation and flipping invariance on astronomical sources. The SOM is trained using the images of all "complex" radio sources in the EMU-PS which we define as all sources catalogued as "multi-component". The trained SOM is then used to estimate a similarity score for complex sources in all surveys. We select 0.5\% of the sources that are most complex according to the similarity metric, and visually examine them to find the rarest radio morphologies. Among these, we find two new odd radio circle (ORC) candidates and five other peculiar morphologies. We discuss multiwavelength properties and the optical/infrared counterparts of selected peculiar sources. In addition, we present examples of conventional radio morphologies including: diffuse emission from galaxy clusters, and resolved, bent-tailed, and FR-I and FR-II type radio galaxies. We discuss the overdense environment that may be the reason behind the circular shape of ORC candidates.
description: Accepted in PASA, 23 pages, 16 figures
Collectively enhanced chiral photon emission from an atomic array near a nanofiber
Creators: name: Jones, Ryan
name: Buonaiuto, Giuseppe
name: Lang, Ben
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Olmos, Beatriz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emitter ensembles interact collectively with the radiation field. In the case of a one-dimensional array of atoms near a nanofiber, this collective light-matter interaction does not only lead to an increased photon coupling to the guided modes within the fiber, but also to a drastic enhancement of the chirality in the photon emission. We show that near-perfect chirality is already achieved for moderately-sized ensembles, containing 10 to 15 atoms. This is of importance for developing an efficient interface between atoms and waveguide structures with unidirectional coupling, with applications in quantum computing and communication such as the development of non-reciprocal photon devices or quantum information transfer channels.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
INCORPORATING SITE QUALITY AND SUBSTITUTION EFFECTS INTO A LAKE RECREATIONAL DEMAND MODEL
Creators: name: Caulkins, Peter
name: Bouwes Sr., Nicolaas W.
name: Caulkins, Peter
name: Bouwes Sr., Nicolaas W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Land Economics/Use

description: The authors develope a multinominal, logit model that estimates (1) how recreationists allocate their lake visits among alternative sites and (2) how frequently they participate in lake recreation during the year. Estimation procedures confirm the hypothesis that substitutes and quality characteristics are important determinants of demand for lake recreation.
A trustless architecture for blockchain-based IoT applications using constrained devices
Creators: name: Pincheira Caro, Miguel Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Despite the increasing interest in blockchain as a possible solution to replace centralized IoT architectures, previous work failed to provide a direct role for the sensing devices, i.e., direct interaction with the blockchain without additional components. Moreover, few studies focus on permissionless blockchains, even if it is the most secure platform for developing blockchain-based applications. This thesis presents an architecture that considers constrained sensing devices as direct actors on a public blockchain network. A public blockchain network allows the seamless inclusion of several unknown actors, and smart contracts provide a platform to develop complex IoT applications. The research followed an iterative DSR approach; designing, building, and evaluating new IT artifacts using two case studies in the agricultural IoT domain. These cases fostered two exploratory studies that diverged from the main IoT domain; however, they also provide novel contributions to blockchain-based applications. Thus, the novel architecture tackles three problems of current blockchain-based IoT systems i) constrained sensing devices as direct actors on a blockchain system, ii) permissionless blockchain networks and iii) smart contracts as an IoT application platform. Furthermore, the exploratory analyses examine two challenges of blockchain-based applications i) user experience and monetary costs and ii) data sharing and decentralized storage.
Analysis of the latest and expected developments around the European Commission's policy around sustainability, agriculture, and the future of food
Creators: name: Evangelisti, Martina
name: Rovegno, Caterina
name: Urbani, Daniele
name: Basiripanah, Tina
name: Bebi, Camilla
name: Del Rio, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Corporate matter
European Commission
Sustainability
Agriculture
Future of food

description: The European Commission's strategic initiatives on sustainability, agriculture, and the future of food represent a cornerstone in the transition towards a competitive, sustainable, and resilient EU food system. Building on frameworks such as the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy, these initiatives aim to address pressing challenges while leveraging opportunities across the agri-food value chain. The dialogue on the future of EU agriculture brings together Member States, industry stakeholders, NGOs, and academia to shape a shared vision for the Union's agri-food sector and to drive transformative change through policies that support sustainability, innovation, and equitable economic returns. This deep dive explores the policy context shaping these developments, focusing on: i) Analysing the key voices and opinions of stakeholders regarding the evolution of sustainability in food systems, identifying their perspectives, ambitions, and concerns; ii) Exploring how the new EC senior administration and the European Parliament are addressing sustainability in food systems, including whether this concept may shift towards other drivers that are more or less compatible with sustainability and iii) Assessing the potential impacts of the new policies being implemented, under different scenarios, on EFSA's core topics such as food safety, animal health, and plant health, ensuring alignment with policy developments and emerging challenges.
RECREATIONAL BOATING AND THE CONGESTION FACTOR: SOME NEW EMPIRICAL' RESULTS
Creators: name: Szmedra, Philip
name: McClelland, Jown W.
name: Smathers Jr., Webb M.
name: Szmedra, Philip
name: McClelland, Jown W.
name: Smathers Jr., Webb M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: This paper presents a model for measuring the effects of waterway congestion on willingness to travel, as a proxy for willingness to pay. The data originated from a survey of registered boatowners in Georgia conducted during the summer of 1980. The empirical results suggest that, over the range of the data, congestion does not negatively influence willingness to travel with boat-in-tow and infact has a positive, large and significant effect.
Improving Reverse Correlation
Creators: name: Koopmann-Holm, Birgit
name: Kevane, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170110 Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Research using reverse correlation paradigms has become frequent over the last decade. In this paradigm, participants choose between a large number of image pairs, according to a prompt (e.g., “please choose the face that most resembles a trustworthy face”). The image pairs are generated by imposing random noise on the pixels that make up the image of a base face. The patterns of choices by participants are then used to compute an “average” matrix of noise pixels that, when imposed onto the base face, reflect an underlying shared mental construct of the “face” of the attribute. However, examinations of the reliability and validity of this approach remain rare. In the present paper, we examine the effects of filtering out data from individual participants or trials to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of composite images. We focus on order effects of trials, compliance and reliability effects, as well as the diagnostic quality of image pairs. We present different diagnostic methods to examine these three aspects using data from six reverse correlation studies conducted both in-lab and online with diverse samples (i.e., from Burkina Faso, Germany, and the U.S.) using two different base faces (i.e., Black and White). For each of the six studies, we compare the composite images of the complete sample to composite images that exclude non-complier respondents or non-diagnostic image pairs. Our R scripts are publicly available for easy implementation of our suggestions in related research.
Probing the Extent of Vertical Mixing in Brown Dwarf Atmospheres with Disequilibrium Chemistry
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sagnick
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Batalha, Natasha E.
name: Karalidi, Theodora
name: Marley, Mark S.
name: Visscher, Channon
name: Miles, Brittany E.
name: Skemer, Andrew J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence of disequilibrium chemistry due to vertical mixing in the atmospheres of many T and Y-dwarfs has been inferred due to enhanced mixing ratios of CO and reduced NH$_3$. Atmospheric models of planets and brown dwarfs typically parameterize this vertical mixing phenomenon with the vertical eddy diffusion coefficient, $K_{\rm zz}$. While $K_{\rm zz}$ can perhaps be approximated in the convective regions in the atmosphere with mixing length theory, in radiative regions the strength of vertical mixing is uncertain by many orders of magnitude. With a new grid of self-consistent 1D model atmospheres from $T_{\rm eff}$ of 400 - 1000 K, computed with a new radiative-convective equilibrium python code PICASO 3.0, we aim to assess how molecular abundances and corresponding spectra can be used as a probe of depth-dependent $K_{\rm zz}$. At a given surface gravity, we find non-monotonic behavior in the CO abundance as a function of $T_{\rm eff}$, as chemical abundances are sometimes quenched in either of two potential atmospheric convective zones, or quenched in either of two possible radiative zones. The temperature structure and chemical quenching behavior also changes with gravity. We compare our models with available near-infrared and M-band spectroscopy of several T and Y-dwarfs and assess their atmospheric vertical mixing profiles. We also compare to color-magnitude diagrams and make predictions for JWST spectra. This work yields new constraints, and points the way to significant future gains, in determining $K_{\rm zz}$, a fundamental atmospheric parameter in substellar atmospheres, with significant implications for chemistry and cloud modeling.
description: Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 31 Pages, 22 Figures. The model grid will be released via Zenodo
Variational cluster approach to correlated electron systems in low dimensions
Creators: name: Potthoff, M.
name: Aichhorn, M.
name: Dahnken, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A self-energy-functional approach is applied to construct cluster approximations for correlated lattice models. It turns out that the cluster-perturbation theory (Senechal et al, PRL 84, 522 (2000)) and the cellular dynamical mean-field theory (Kotliar et al, PRL 87, 186401 (2001)) are limiting cases of a more general cluster method. Results for the one-dimensional Hubbard model are discussed with regard to boundary conditions, bath degrees of freedom and cluster size.
description: 4 pages, final version with minor changes
Trypanidius maculatus Monne & Delfino 1980
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Trypanidius
Trypanidius maculatus

description: 8. Trypanidius maculatus Monné & Delfino, 1980
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Jacareacanga. (MNRJ). Distribution — Brazil (Pará, Mato Grosso), Paraguay.
 Trypanidius maculatus Monné & Delfino, 1980: 319; Julio et al., 2000: 53 (holotype).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Testing general relativity via direct measurement of black hole kicks
Creators: name: Mahapatra, Parthapratim
name: Favata, Marc
name: Arun, K. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asymmetric emission of gravitational waves during a compact binary coalescence results in the loss of linear momentum and a corresponding "kick" or recoil on the binary's center of mass. This leads to a direction-dependent Doppler shift of the ringdown gravitational waveform. We quantify the measurability of the kick imparted to the remnant black hole in a binary black hole merger. Future ground- and space-based gravitational-wave detectors will measure this effect to within $\sim 2\%$ to $\sim 30\%$ for a subset of their expected observed sources. Certain binary configurations in the LISA band may allow a sub-percent-level measurement of this effect. This direct measurement of black hole kicks can also facilitate a novel test of general relativity based on linear momentum balance. We formulate this kick consistency test via measurement of a null variable that quantifies the difference between the inferred kick (using numerical relativity) and that observed via the Doppler-shifted ringdown signal. This null variable can be constrained (at 90\% confidence) to $\sim 10\%$ to $30\%$ with Cosmic Explorer and to $\sim 3\%$ to $12\%$ with LISA.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Students’ intentions to practice primary care are associated with their motives to become doctors: a longitudinal study
Creators: name: Pfarrwaller, Eva
name: Voirol, Lionel
name: Piumatti, Giovanni
name: Karemera, Mucyo
name: Sommer, Johanna
name: Gerbase, Margaret W.
name: Guerrier, Stéphane
name: Baroffio, Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Details on statistical analysis. The additional file presents details of the generalized linear mixed model used to analyze the relation between motives to become a doctor and primary care career intentions and provides further explanations about the interpretation of the results of this analysis.
Particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres: transition between electrosphere and force-free regimes
Creators: name: Cruz, Fábio
name: Grismayer, Thomas
name: Chen, Alexander Y.
name: Spitkovsky, Anatoly
name: Fonseca, Ricardo A.
name: Silva, Luis O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free pulsar magnetospheric regimes. A new extension of the PIC code OSIRIS to model pulsar magnetospheres using a two-dimensional axisymmetric spherical grid is presented. The sub-algorithms of the code and thorough benchmarks are presented in detail, including a new first-order current deposition scheme that conserves charge to machine precision. It is shown that all plasma injection schemes produce a range of magnetospheric regimes. Active solutions can be obtained with surface and volume injection schemes when using artificially large plasma injection rates, and with pair production-based plasma injection for sufficiently large separation between kinematic and pair production energy scales.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures, submitted to A&A
Prestressing effect of shape memory alloy reinforcements under serviceability tensile loads
Creators: name: Beßling, Markus
name: Czaderski, Christoph
name: Orlowsky, Jeanette
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Iron-based shape memory alloy
subject: Shape memory effect
subject: Pre-stress
subject: Tensile tests
subject: Textile reinforced concrete
subject: 690

description: Repairing and strengthening of existing aged steel-reinforced concrete structures is a major challenge. Today, much of the repair work completed is insufficient and brittle. A promising new solution for repair and strengthening tasks is the use of iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA). The pre-strained Fe-SMA components enable the pre-stressing of existing building components due to the heat-triggered contraction of the steel. Thus, deflections can be reduced or even recovered. In addition, the cracking process can be adapted, and an improvement in the load, under which the first crack appears, is possible. In this paper, the effects of pre-stress generated by activated Fe-SMA rebars, which were centrally embedded inside of a concrete specimen, are shown. The objective of the study is to quantify the improvement in the loads of the first crack and show the influences of the pre-stressing on the load-bearing behavior and the cracking process. For this purpose, axial tensile tests were performed on concrete bars with height, width, and length of 50 mm, 70 mm, and 900 mm, respectively. These were compared to usual construction steel rebars, pre-strained but nonactivated Fe-SMA rebars, and activated Fe-SMA steel rebars. The evaluation of crack patterns and openings was done using digital image correlation (DIC). The pre-stressing of the concrete causes an increase in the first crack loads of more than 150%, which indicates a clear improvement in the state of serviceability limit.
description: Buildings;11(3)
On the vacuum free boundary problem of the viscous Saint-Venant system for shallow water in two dimensions
Creators: name: Li, Hai-Liang
name: Wang, Yuexun
name: Xin, Zhouping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we establish the local-in-time well-posedness of classical solutions to the vacuum free boundary problem of the viscous Saint-Venant system for shallow water in two dimensions. The solutions are shown to possess higher-order regularities uniformly up to the vacuum free boundary, although the depth degenerates as a singularity of the distance to the vacuum boundary.
 Since the momentum equations degenerate in both the dissipation and time evolution, there are difficulties in constructing approximate solutions by the Galerkin's scheme and gaining higher-order regularities uniformly up to the vacuum boundary for the weak solution. To construct the approximate solutions, we introduce some degenerate-singular elliptic operator, whose eigenfunctions form an orthogonal basis of the projection space. Then the high-order regularities on the weak solution are obtained by using some carefully designed higher-order weighted energy functional.
Polymers with attractive interactions on the Husimi tree
Creators: name: Serra, Pablo
name: Stilck, Juergen F.
name: Cavalcanti, Welchy L.
name: Machado, Kleber D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the solution of models of self-avoiding walks with attractive interactions on Husimi lattices built with squares. Two attractive interactions are considered: between monomers on first-neighbor sites and not consecutive along a walk and between bonds located on opposite edges of elementary squares. For coordination numbers q>4, two phases, one polymerized the other non-polymerized, are present in the phase diagram. For small values of the attractive interaction the transition between those phases is continuous, but for higher values a first-order transition is found. Both regimes are separated by a tricritical point. For q=4 a richer phase diagram is found, with an additional (dense) polymerized phase, which is stable for for sufficiently strong interactions between bonds. The phase diagram of the model in the three-dimensional parameter space displays surfaces of continuous and discontinuous phase transitions and lines of tricritical points, critical endpoints and triple points.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
VALUE OF BIG GAME FROM MARKETS F
Creators: name: Livengood, Kerry R.
name: Livengood, Kerry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Recreational use of forest and rangeland increasingly conflicts with market uses such as timber and cattle production. Past studies have estimated the value of recreational activities and sites but such values cannot be used to determine the benefits of management practices conducted to alter wildlife stocks. An empirical estimate of the demand for whitetailed deer is developed in the framework of the hedonic method based on market values for hunting leases in Texas. Values for deer are compared to values for cattle to illustrate comparability of values and incentives for mapagement of habitat for deer production.
Tunneling spectroscopy of c-axis epitaxial cuprate junctions
Creators: name: Zhou, Panpan
name: Chen, Liyang
name: Sochnikov, Ilya
name: Wu, Tsz Chun
name: Foster, Matthew S.
name: Bollinger, Anthony T.
name: He, Xi
name: Božović, Ivan
name: Natelson, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically precise epitaxial structures are unique systems for tunneling spectroscopy that minimize extrinsic effects of disorder. We present a systematic tunneling spectroscopy study, over a broad doping, temperature, and bias range, in epitaxial c-axis La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$/La$_{2}$CuO$_{4}$/La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ heterostructures. The behavior of these superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) devices is unusual. Down to 20 mK there is complete suppression of c-axis Josephson critical current with a barrier of only 2 nm of La$_{2}$CuO$_{4}$, and the zero-bias conductance remains at 20-30% of the normal-state conductance, implying a substantial population of in-gap states. Tunneling spectra show greatly suppressed coherence peaks. As the temperature is raised, the superconducting gap fills in rather than closing at $T_{c}$. For all doping levels, the spectra show an inelastic tunneling feature at $\sim$ 80 meV, suppressed as $T$ exceeds $T_{c}$. These nominally simple epitaxial cuprate junctions deviate markedly from expectations based on the standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Working together to achieve success : involving parents in the transition from elementary to secondary school
Creators: name: Hollander, Carly
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Parent participation in a child's education has been shown to increase student success in various ways. As students get older, parent participation tends to decrease. However, research shows that during the transition from elementary to secondary school, parent participation is very important to student success. This paper examines the research on how parent participation impacts a child's academic success and how parents and schools can work collaboratively during the transition from elementary to secondary school to facilitate success for adolescents. A family literacy program aimed at engaging parents in supporting their grade 8 children's school success is outlined.
A statistical analysis of COVID-19 for the Houston Area
Creators: name: Baum, Jack Edward
name: 0000-0002-9698-538X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
Decision analysis

description: To support planning by a major academic medical center in Houston, we provide a decision tool. A Texas COVID-19 pandemic forecast model is developed and scaled down to the greater Houston area to project the number of new cases, disease prevalence, and hospitalizations. Given the daily expected disease prevalence in the greater Houston area and a hypothetical number of daily regular patient visits, a probabilistic model informs decision-makers of the likelihood that x or more COVID-19 cases enter a facility. The COVID-19 projections are immediately needed to guide daily admittance decisions during the course of the outbreak.
Momentum-resolved linear dichroism in bilayer MoS$_2$
Creators: name: Volckaert, Klara
name: Rostami, Habib
name: Biswas, Deepnarayan
name: Marković, Igor
name: Andreatta, Federico
name: Sanders, Charlotte E.
name: Majchrzak, Paulina
name: Cacho, Cephise
name: Chapman, Richard T.
name: Wyatt, Adam
name: Springate, Emma
name: Lizzit, Daniel
name: Bignardi, Luca
name: Lizzit, Silvano
name: Mahatha, Sanjoy K.
name: Bianchi, Marco
name: Lanata, Nicola
name: King, Phil D. C.
name: Miwa, Jill A.
name: Balatsky, Alexander V.
name: Hofmann, Philip
name: Ulstrup, Søren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inversion-symmetric crystals are optically isotropic and thus naively not expected to show dichroism effects in optical absorption and photoemission processes. Here, we find a strong linear dichroism effect (up to 42.4%) in the conduction band of inversion-symmetric bilayer MoS$_2$, when measuring energy- and momentum-resolved snapshots of excited electrons by time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We model the polarization-dependent photoemission intensity in the transiently-populated conduction band using the semiconductor Bloch equations and show that the observed dichroism emerges from intralayer single-particle effects within the isotropic part of the dispersion. This leads to optical excitations with an anisotropic momentum-dependence in an otherwise inversion symmetric material.
description: 10 pages including supporting information, 3 figures in the main paper and 4 figures in the supporting information
Design of Compact Bandpass Filters based on Fractal Defected Ground Structure (DGS) Resonators
Creators: name: Ali, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Modified Minkowski fractal geometry has been found to be attractive for microwave circuit designers because of its high
space-filling property. This property will lead to the design of compact circuits; meeting the requirements of the modern
communications systems to be with small size. In this paper, the design of a compact microstrip Bandpass Filters (BPF) has been proposed based on the modified Minkowski fractal (DGS) resonators. The proposed BPF structure is composed of two coupled resonators etched as fractal DGS structures. Results reveal that as the iteration level of fractal based DGS becomes higher, more compact filter structure will result in. Furthermore, the presented DGS structures with fractal-shaped resonators can be adopted to design compact planar BPFs with reasonable performances. The performance curves offered by the resulting filters are characterized by the low loss across the passband and high rejection levels outside it with steep roll-off in both edges of passband. Measured results of a fabricated prototype of a 2nd iteration fractal DGS BPF have shown reasonable agreement with those predicted by simulation. Measured results of a 2nd iteration fractal DGS BPF have shown satisfactory agreement as compared with simulation results. There is a slight shift of the lower edge of the passband response of the transmission characteristics, while the upper edge is s very close. The results have shown that the filter has reasonable performance characteristics with considerable reduction of higher harmonics. The compact
size of the proposed filter together with the realized high selectivity will make it suitable for a broad range of the recently available wireless communication services.
The local fundamental group of a Kawamata log terminal singularity is finite
Creators: name: Braun, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F35, 14B05, 14J45, 32S50

description: We prove a conjecture of Kollár stating that the local fundamental group of a klt singularity $x$ is finite. In fact, we prove a stronger statement, namely that the fundamental group of the smooth locus of a neighbourhood of $x$ is finite. We call this the regional fundamental group. As the proof goes via a local-to-global induction, we simultaneously confirm finiteness of the orbifold fundamental group of the smooth locus of a weakly Fano pair.
description: minor corrections, added Corollary 5 and some references
Tropidozineus tersus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Tropidozineus
Tropidozineus tersus

description: 13. Tropidozineus tersus (Melzer, 1931)
Type locality — Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Itatiaia. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina).
 Ozineus tersus Melzer, 1931b: 5, fig. 1; Zikán & Zikán, 1944: 37 (distr.); Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 62 (type); Zajciw, 1972a: 64 (distr.).
 Tropidozineus tersus; Monné & Martins, 1976: 68.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Molecular beam epitaxy of CuMnAs
Creators: name: Krizek, Filip
name: Kašpar, Zdeněk
name: Vetushka, Aliaksei
name: Kriegner, Dominik
name: Fiordaliso, Elisabetta M.
name: Michalicka, Jan
name: Man, Ondřej
name: Zubáč, Jan
name: Brajer, Martin
name: Hills, Victoria A.
name: Edmonds, Kevin W.
name: Wadley, Peter
name: Campion, Richard P.
name: Olejník, Kamil
name: Jungwirth, Tomáš
name: Novák, Vít
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the growth of the tetragonal polymorph of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs by the molecular beam epitaxy technique. We explore the parameter space of growth conditions and their effect on the microstructural and transport properties of the material. We identify its typical structural defects and compare the properties of epitaxial CuMnAs layers grown on GaP, GaAs and Si substrates. Finally, we investigate the correlation between the crystalline quality of CuMnAs and its performance in terms of electrically induced resistance switching.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures and supplementary material
Curriculum-based Sensing Reduction in Simulation to Real-World Transfer for In-hand Manipulation
Creators: name: Tao, Lingfeng
name: Zhang, Jiucai
name: Zheng, Qiaojie
name: Zhang, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simulation to Real-World Transfer allows affordable and fast training of learning-based robots for manipulation tasks using Deep Reinforcement Learning methods. Currently, Sim2Real uses Asymmetric Actor-Critic approaches to reduce the rich idealized features in simulation to the accessible ones in the real world. However, the feature reduction from the simulation to the real world is conducted through an empirically defined one-step curtail. Small feature reduction does not sufficiently remove the actor's features, which may still cause difficulty setting up the physical system, while large feature reduction may cause difficulty and inefficiency in training. To address this issue, we proposed Curriculum-based Sensing Reduction to enable the actor to start with the same rich feature space as the critic and then get rid of the hard-to-extract features step-by-step for higher training performance and better adaptation for real-world feature space. The reduced features are replaced with random signals from a Deep Random Generator to remove the dependency between the output and the removed features and avoid creating new dependencies. The methods are evaluated on the Allegro robot hand in a real-world in-hand manipulation task. The results show that our methods have faster training and higher task performance than baselines and can solve real-world tasks when selected tactile features are reduced.
Urgleptes bicoloratus Gilmour 1960
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Urgleptes
Urgleptes bicoloratus

description: 4. Urgleptes bicoloratus Gilmour, 1960
Type locality — Guatemala, Quiché: Nebaj. (AMNH). Distribution — Guatemala.
 Urgleptes bicoloratus Gilmour, 1960d: 16, fig. 8; Chemsak et al., 1992: 148 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Towards Constructing a Corpus for Studying the Effects of Treatments and Substances Reported in PubMed Abstracts
Creators: name: Stefchov, Evgeni
name: Angelova, Galia
name: Nakov, Preslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50

description: We present the construction of an annotated corpus of PubMed abstracts reporting about positive, negative or neutral effects of treatments or substances. Our ultimate goal is to annotate one sentence (rationale) for each abstract and to use this resource as a training set for text classification of effects discussed in PubMed abstracts. Currently, the corpus consists of 750 abstracts. We describe the automatic processing that supports the corpus construction, the manual annotation activities and some features of the medical language in the abstracts selected for the annotated corpus. It turns out that recognizing the terminology and the abbreviations is key for determining the rationale sentence. The corpus will be applied to improve our classifier, which currently has accuracy of 78.80% achieved with normalization of the abstract terms based on UMLS concepts from specific semantic groups and an SVM with a linear kernel. Finally, we discuss some other possible applications of this corpus.
description: medical relation extraction, rationale extraction, effects and treatments, bioNLP
Momentum spectroscopy of 1D phase fluctuations in Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Richard, S.
name: Gerbier, F.
name: Thywissen, J. H.
name: Hugbart, M.
name: Bouyer, P.
name: Aspect, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the axial momentum distribution of Bose-Einstein condensates with an aspect ratio of 152 using Bragg spectroscopy. We observe the Lorentzian momentum distribution characteristic of one-dimensional phase fluctuations. The temperature dependence of the width of this distribution provides a quantitative test of quasi-condensate theory. In addition, we observe a condensate length consistent with the absence of density fluctuations, even when phase fluctuations are large.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
The Change Process: Clients' Perspectives and Understanding of Change During Psychological Therapy
Creators: name: Mount, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Change process
service user perspective
CBT
qualitative

description: Background: Talking therapies, predominantly Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), represent a key approach to supporting mental health distress in the UK. CBT is beneficial for many individuals, yet it is common to ‘relapse’ and there are a significant number of individuals for whom it is unhelpful. Although research can evidence its effectiveness, decades of studies have yet to find clarity on the change mechanisms, the central tenet of therapy. Researchers propose that understanding how therapy works is a complex multifactorial process that has perhaps been skewed by a dominant quantitative approach. As the site of change and largest contributing variable of change, clients’ viewpoint is considered critical to the success of therapy. However, clients' perspective of how therapy works is limited and conflicting within the literature. Aims: To gain clients’ perspectives by exploring their understanding of how change occurs in therapy, as well as exploring how clients define change in therapy. Method: Drawing on a critical realist approach, this study utilised qualitative methods. Ten self-selecting participants who experienced positive change through CBT in NHS secondary care services partook in semi-structured interviews. Interview transcripts were analysed using Thematic Analysis. Results: Three main themes were identified from participants accounts: ‘Change as changeable’, ‘External help’ and ‘It’s not magic’. Conclusions: Findings highlighted the nonlinear, dynamic, complex and individualised process of change in therapy. A working definition of participants’ understanding of change has been offered, which can be utilised in research, policy and practice. Participants emphasised common factors of change. A Perceptual Control Theory framework was considered as one possible explanation of participants’ experiences as it was able to account for descriptions of change more than other theories. Implications of the study and further research ideas have been presented.
A real-time transient detector and the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue
Creators: name: Evans, P. A.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Bearmore, A. P.
name: Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J.
name: Osborne, J. P.
name: Campana, S.
name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Cenko, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue (LSXPS) and real-time transient detector. This system allows us for the first time to carry out low-latency searches for new transient X-ray events fainter than those available to the current generation of wide-field imagers, and report their detection in near real-time. Previously, such events could only be found in delayed searches, e.g. of archival data; our low-latency analysis now enables rapid and ongoing follow up of these events, enabling the probing of timescales previously inaccessible. The LSXPS is, uniquely among X-ray catalogues, updated in near real-time, making this the first up-to-date record of the point sources detected by a sensitive X-ray telescope: the Swift-X-ray Telescope (XRT). The associated upper limit calculator likewise makes use of all available data allowing contemporary upper limits to be rapidly produced on-demand. These facilities, which enable the low-latency transient system are also fully available to the community, providing a powerful resource for time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics.
description: Replaced with post-refereeing accepted version of the paper. To appear in MNRAS. 12 pages, plus 18 of appendices. For the sake of rainforests, printing the appendices is not advised. For the sake of sanity, nor is reading them