cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Short-term conservation education influences Ugandan adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes and investment decisions
Creators: name: Bogese, Michael
name: Y. Ho, Jackie
name: O’Donnell, Claire
name: Otali, Emily
name: Tusiime, Patrick
name: Ross, Elizabeth
name: Kahlenberg, Sonya
name: Machanda, Zarin
name: McAuliffe, Katherine
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Environmental education research methods often focus on measuring changes in people’s attitudes toward conservation. While attitudes are an important indicator of change, it is critical to target incentivised behaviour because conservation efforts often involve behavioural changes that are costly to one’s self (e.g., reducing water use, purchasing pricier alternatives). In the present study, we measured both attitudes and behaviours in a short-term conservation education program near the primate-rich Kibale National Forest in Western Uganda. Adolescents (N = 59) participated in a three-hour curriculum over three weeks integrated into an after-school wildlife club. After almost 30 years of successful primate conservation education in this region, we chose a novel taxonomic group (bats) for this study. Our pre-registered study had two conditions: an experimental condition, in which students learned about bats as an important local pollinator species, and a control condition, in which students learned about the moon. Only the experimental condition emphasised conservation's delayed benefits. We compared attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours pre- and post- curriculum. To capture behaviour, we employed an investment task in which participants could invest their own resources in a ‘fund’ to support work relating to bats or the moon, depending on condition. Across both conditions, participants showed positive shifts in attitudes and knowledge from pre- to post-measures and showed increased investments in bat- and moon-related funds. These findings reveal that short-term conservation education influences adolescents’ investment decisions as well as their attitudes and knowledge. Our method can easily be edited for conservation education of any species including endangered primates.
Indiens Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe: Das Beispiel der 'Hill Stations' im Himalaya
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2024

description: Südasien, Bd. 18 Nr. 1/2 (1998): 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit - Ist Sri Lankas Teilung noch zu vermeiden?
Examining the relationship between optimism and patience using data from the Socio-Economic Panel
Creators: name: Hügel, Julia
name: Leder, Johannes
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study investigates the relationship between trait optimism and temporal discounting using a representative German sample from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
Table S1: Shallow groundwater salinization of the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Matheson, Edward J.
name: Hamilton, Stewart M.
name: Kyser, Kurt
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S2: Measured δ34SSO4 values. The data collection methodology is present in section 'Laboratory Analysis'. Sample IDs are the same as initiation sampling by Hamilton et al. (2011), see Hamilton (2015) for complete geochemical datasets
Table S2: Shallow groundwater salinization of the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Matheson, Edward J.
name: Hamilton, Stewart M.
name: Kyser, Kurt
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S2: Measured δ34SSO4 values isotopic values for field duplicates included in laboratory analyses
A series of multidimensional MOFs incorporating a new N-heterocyclic building block: 5,5′-Di(pyridin-3-yl)-3,3′-bi(1,2,4-triazole)
Creators: name: Yao, Peng-Fei
name: Meng, Jun-Rong
name: Cui, Lian-Sheng
name: Yong-Le Gan
name: Hai-Ye Li
name: Huang, Fu-Ping
name: Bian, He-Dong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Using the N-heterocyclic building block 5,5′-di(pyridin-3-yl)-3,3′-bi(1,2,4-triazole) (3,3′-H2dbpt), four 3-D coordination polymers with diverse connectivity, [M(3,3′-dbpt)]n, M=Co (1), M=Ni (2), M=Zn (3), and [Cd2(3,3′-dbpt)Cl2]n (4), were constructed. By changing the central metal ions, 3,3′-H2dbpt had three different coordination modes. Consequently, 1–3, which are isostructural, have a 3-D 4-connected topology with (42.84) Schläfli symbol. 4 has a 3-D (4, 6)-topology, with (43.63)2(46.66.83) Schläfli symbol. Both 1 and 2 reveal weak antiferromagnetic behavior. In addition, 3 and 4 exhibit purple and blue emission bands, respectively. These results indicate that 3,3′-H2dbpt is an excellent multi-connection linker to construct MOFs with interesting structures and properties.
A series of multidimensional MOFs incorporating a new N-heterocyclic building block: 5,5’-Di(pyridin-3-yl)-3,3’-bi(1,2,4-triazole)
Creators: name: Yao, Peng-Fei
name: Meng, Jun-Rong
name: Cui, Lian-Sheng
name: Yong-Le Gan
name: Hai-Ye Li
name: Huang, Fu-Ping
name: Bian, He-Dong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: By using the N-heterocyclic building block 5,5’-di(pyridin-3-yl)-3,3’-bi(1,2,4-triazole) (3,3′-H2dbpt), four 3D coordination polymers with diverse connectivity, [M(3,3′-dbpt)]n, M=Co (1), M=Ni (2), M=Zn (3) and [Cd2(3,3′-dbpt)Cl2]n (4), were constructed. By changing the central metal ions, 3,3′-H2dbpt had three different coordination modes. Consequently, 1-3, which are isostructural, have a 3D 4-connected topology with (42.84) Schläfli symbol. 4 has a 3D (4, 6)-topology, with (43.63)2(46.66.83) Schläfli symbol. Both 1 and 2 reveal weak antiferromagnetic behavior. In addition, 3 and 4 exhibit purple and blue emission bands, respectively. These results indicate that 3,3′-H2dbpt is an excellent multi-connection linker to construct MOFs with interesting structures and properties.
MORE ON INTERVAL-VALUED INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SOFT MULTI SETS
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Anjan
name: Ajoy Kanti Das
name: Abhijit Saha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In 2013, Mukherje et al. developed the concept of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft multi set as a mathematical tool for making descriptions of the objective world more realistic, practical and accurate in some cases, making it very promising. In this paper we define some operations in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft multi set theory and show that the associative, distribution and De Morgan’s type of results hold in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft multi set theory for the newly defined operations in our way. Also, we define the necessity and possibility operations on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft multi set theory and study their basic properties and some results.
Near-Infrared Variability Study of the Central 2.3 arcmin x 2.3 arcmin of the Galactic Centre II. Identification of RR Lyrae Stars in the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster
Creators: name: Dong, Hui
name: Schodel, Rainer
name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Nogueras-Lara, Francisco
name: Gallego-Cano, Eulalia
name: Gallego-Calvente, Teresa
name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Morris, Mark R.
name: Do, Tuan
name: Ghez, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of strong and spatially highly variable interstellar extinction and extreme source crowding, the faint (K>15) stellar population in the Milky Way's nuclear cluster is still poorly studied. RR Lyrae stars provide us with a tool to estimate the mass of the oldest, relative dim stellar population. Recently, we analyzed HST/WFC3/IR observations of the central 2.3'x2.3' of the Milky Way and found 21 variable stars with periods between 0.2 and 1d. Here, we present a further comprehensive analysis of these stars. The period-luminosity relationship of RR Lyrae is used to derive their extinctions and distances. Using multiple approaches, we classify our sample as four RRc, four RRab and three candidates, ten binaries. Especially, the four RRabs show sawtooth light curves and fall exactly onto the Oosterhoff I division in the Bailey diagram. Compared to the RRabs reported by Minniti et al, 2016, our new RRabs have higher extinction (A_K>1.8) and should be closer to the Galactic Centre. The extinction and distance of one RRab match those for the nuclear star cluster given in previous works. We perform simulations and find that after correcting for incompleteness, there could be no more than 40 RRabs within the nuclear star cluster and in our field-of-view. Through comparing with the known globular clusters of the Milky Way, we estimate that if there exists an old, metal-poor (-1.5
description: 33 pages, 10 figures. The paper has been accepted to be published in MNRAS
Resonant absorption of electromagnetic waves in transition anisotropic media
Creators: name: Kim, Kihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mode conversion and resonant absorption phenomena occurring in a slab of a stratified anisotropic medium, optical axes of which are tilted with respect to the direction of inhomogeneity, using the invariant imbedding theory of wave propagation. When the tilt angle is zero, mode conversion occurs if the longitudinal component of the permittivity tensor, which is the one in the direction of inhomogeneity in the non-tilted case, varies from positive to negative values within the medium, while the transverse component plays no role. When the tilt angle is nonzero, the wave transmission and absorption show an asymmetry under the sign change of the incident angle in a range of the tilt angle, while the reflection is always symmetric. We calculate the reflectance, the transmittance and the absorptance for several configurations of the permittivity tensor and find that resonant absorption is greatly enhanced when the medium from the incident surface to the resonance region is hyperbolic than when it is elliptic. For certain configurations, the transmittance and absorptance curves display sharp peaks at some incident angles determined by the tilt angle.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MDMO-PPV AND MDMO-PPV/ [6,6]-PHENYL C61-BUTYRIC ACID 3-ETHYLTHIOPHENE ESTER THIN FILMS
Creators: name: Omer, Bushra Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90604 Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits

description: Thin films of a conjugated polymer Poly [2-methoxy-5-(3’,7’-dimethyloctyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MDMO-PPV) were prepared from chloroform, 1,2dichlorobenzene and toluene solutions by spin coating technique on quartz substrates. Absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the polymer thin films prepared from different solvents were measured. The UV-vis absorption and PL spectra of MDMO-PPV films was affected by solvents used for spin coating. Further, with Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) it has been demonstrated that the surface morphology of MDMO-PPV: [6,6]-Phenyl C61-butyric Acid 3- ethylthiophene Ester thin films depends strongly on preparation condition (solvents).
Regioselective Radical Arene Amination for the Concise Synthesis of ortho-Phenylenediamines.
Creators: name: Gillespie, James E
name: Morrill, Charlotte
name: Phipps, Robert J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: The formation of arene C-N bonds directly from C-H bonds is of great importance and there has been rapid recent development of methods for achieving this through radical mechanisms, often involving reactive N-centered radicals. A major challenge associated with these advances is that of regiocontrol, with mixtures of regioisomeric products obtained in most protocols, limiting broader utility. We have designed a system that utilizes attractive noncovalent interactions between an anionic substrate and an incoming radical cation in order to guide the latter to the arene ortho position. The anionic substrate takes the form of a sulfamate-protected aniline and telescoped cleavage of the sulfamate group after amination leads directly to ortho-phenylenediamines, key building blocks for a range of medicinally relevant diazoles. Our method can deliver both free amines and monoalkyl amines allowing access to unsymmetrical, selectively monoalkylated benzimidazoles and benzotriazoles. As well as providing concise access to valuable ortho-phenylenediamines, this work demonstrates the potential for utilizing noncovalent interactions to control positional selectivity in radical reactions.
Modular vector fields attached to Dwork family: $\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ Lie algebra
Creators: name: Nikdelan, Younes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 32M25, 37F99, 14J15, 14J32

description: This paper aims to show that a certain moduli space $\textsf{T}$, which arises from the so-called Dwork family of Calabi-Yau $n$-folds, carries a special complex Lie algebra containing a copy of $\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$. In order to achieve this goal, we introduce an algebraic group $\sf G$ acting from the right on $\textsf{T}$ and describe its Lie algebra ${\rm Lie}({\sf G})$. We observe that ${\rm Lie}({\sf G})$ is isomorphic to a Lie subalgebra of the space of the vector fields on $\textsf{T}$. In this way, it turns out that ${\rm Lie}({\sf G})$ and the modular vector field ${\sf R}$ generate another Lie algebra $\mathfrak{G}$, called AMSY-Lie algebra, satisfying $\dim (\mathfrak{G})=\dim (\textsf{T})$. We find a copy of $\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ containing ${\sf R}$ as a Lie subalgebra of $\mathfrak{G}$. The proofs are based on an algebraic method calling "Gauss-Manin connection in disguise". Some explicit examples for $n=1,2,3,4$ are stated as well.
description: 21 pages
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0087
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0087, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Saulon-la-Chapelle et Saulon-la-Rue, Fénay, Noiron et la rivière Cent-fonds (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 179 (11 H 1075), 70 folios, f. 0087, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Leveraging Continuous Integration for enhanced eResearch on High Performance Computing Clusters.
Creators: name: Menzies, Ignatius
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Training
Skills
Analytics
Tools
Software
Infrastructure

description: Continuous Integration (CI) is essential in modern software development, enabling frequent code integration, automated testing, and rapid feedback. In eResearch, CI enhances reproducibility and efficiency, but High Performance Computing (HPC) environments pose unique challenges, such as hardware diversity, job scheduling, resource management requirements, and strict administrative policies.

We developed a system that integrates CI with HPC to validate changes to bioinformatic workflows. Our system uses GitHub Actions, runners hosted on Google Cloud Platform, and the National Computational Infrastructure s Gadi supercomputer. Any committed changes to workflows trigger a job on Gadi, running the amended workflow with a sample dataset and a suite of tests.

This approach regularly integrates code changes, reducing the likelihood of errors in production workflow runs. The tests run on the same hardware as the production workflows, ensuring consistency. While frequently running small validation jobs consumes resources, it significantly reduces errors during much larger production jobs. This system leverages existing HPC access mechanisms, requiring less internal integration with HPC administration compared to other frameworks and tools like Jacamar CI and Jenkins plugins.

By leveraging CI, we can significantly enhance the quality, productivity, and resource efficiency of eResearch on HPC infrastructures.
Dark matter contribution to $b\to s μ^+ μ^-$ anomaly in local $U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}$ model
Creators: name: Baek, Seungwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a local $U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}$ model to explain $b \to s μ^+ μ^-$ anomaly observed at the LHCb and Belle experiments. The model also has a natural dark matter candidate $N$. We introduce $SU(2)_L$-doublet colored scalar $\widetilde{q}$ to mediate $b \to s$ transition at one-loop level. The $U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}$ gauge symmetry is broken spontaneously by the scalar $S$. All the new particles are charged under $U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}$. We can obtain $C_9^{μ,{\rm NP}} \sim -1$ to solve the $b \to sμ^+μ^-$ anomaly and can explain the correct dark matter relic density of the universe, $Ω_{\rm DM} h^2 \approx 0.12$, simultaneously, while evading constraints from electroweak precision tests, neutrino trident experiments and other quark flavor-changing loop processes such as $b \to s γ$ and $B_s-\overline{B}_s$ mixing. Our model can be tested by searching for $Z'$ and new colored scalar at the LHC and $B \to K^* ν\overlineν$ process at Belle-II.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households
Creators: name: Mueller, Valerie
name: Doss, Cheryl
name: Quisumbing, Agnes
name: AGNES QUISUMBING 0000-0002-5429-1857
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination. Labour shortages arise from the migration of a head’s child. However, the migration of the head’s sons produces a greater burden, particularly on female heads/spouses (in Ethiopia) and brothers (in Malawi). Gains from migration in the form of increased total net income justify the increased labour efforts in Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests households in Malawi substitute hired for migrant family labour at the expense of total household net income.
Linear-Time Algorithm in Bayesian Image Denoising based on Gaussian Markov Random Field
Creators: name: Yasuda, Muneki
name: Watanabe, Junpei
name: Kataoka, Shun
name: Tanaka, kazuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider Bayesian image denoising based on a Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) model, for which we propose an new algorithm. Our method can solve Bayesian image denoising problems, including hyperparameter estimation, in $O(n)$-time, where $n$ is the number of pixels in a given image. From the perspective of the order of the computational time, this is a state-of-the-art algorithm for the present problem setting. Moreover, the results of our numerical experiments we show our method is in fact effective in practice.
200.000 Bäume für Kathmandu Metropolitan City
Creators: name: Kreutzberger, Stefan
name: Schmelzer, Rolf
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2024

description: Südasien, Bd. 18 Nr. 1/2 (1998): 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit - Ist Sri Lankas Teilung noch zu vermeiden?
Symptom Endorsement Blindness
Creators: name: van Helvoort, Daniël
name: Merckelbach, Harald
name: Otgaar, Henry
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Article: Worsening of self-reported symptoms through suggestive feedback. Content of registration: Material and Data. Topic: Assessing whether acceptance of symptom information and escalation of subsequent symptom ratings occurs under conditions that negate conformity effects.
Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households
Creators: name: Mueller, Valerie
name: Doss, Cheryl
name: Quisumbing, Agnes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination. Labour shortages arise from the migration of a head’s child. However, the migration of the head’s sons produces a greater burden, particularly on female heads/spouses (in Ethiopia) and brothers (in Malawi). Gains from migration in the form of increased total net income justify the increased labour efforts in Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests households in Malawi substitute hired for migrant family labour at the expense of total household net income.
Open science study 2019; factors for practicing OS by ECRs ('Exploring factors that influence the practice of Open Science by early career health researchers: a mixed methods study')
Creators: name: Zecevic, Ksenija
name: houghton, catherine
name: Lee, Hopin
name: Toomey, Elaine
name: Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
name: Noone, Chris
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Library and Information Science
subject: Cataloging and Metadata
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The study aims to explore the views, experiences and factors influencing open science practices amongst early career researchers working in health research. The study design is a convergent mixed method design, combining questionnaire and interview data.
Near-Infrared Variability Study of the Central 2.3 arcmin x 2.3 arcmin of the Galactic Centre I. Catalog of Variable Sources
Creators: name: Dong, Hui
name: Schodel, Rainer
name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Nogueras-Lara, Francisco
name: Gallego-Cano, Eulalia
name: Gallego-Calvente, Teresa
name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Morris, Mark R.
name: Do, Tuan
name: Ghez, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used four-year baseline HST/WFC3 IR observations of the Galactic Centre in the F153M band (1.53 micron) to identify variable stars in the central ~2.3'x2.3' field. We classified 3845 long-term (periods from months to years) and 76 short-term (periods of a few days or less) variables among a total sample of 33070 stars. For 36 of the latter ones, we also derived their periods (<3 days). Our catalog not only confirms bright long period variables and massive eclipsing binaries identified in previous works, but also contains many newly recognized dim variable stars. For example, we found δScuti and RR Lyrae stars towards the Galactic Centre for the first time, as well as one BL Her star (period < 1.3 d). We cross-correlated our catalog with previous spectroscopic studies and found that 319 variables have well-defined stellar types, such as Wolf-Rayet, OB main sequence, supergiants and asymptotic giant branch stars. We used colours and magnitudes to infer the probable variable types for those stars without accurately measured periods or spectroscopic information. We conclude that the majority of unclassified variables could potentially be eclipsing/ellipsoidal binaries and Type II Cepheids. Our source catalog will be valuable for future studies aimed at constraining the distance, star formation history and massive binary fraction of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster.
description: has been accepted to be published in MNRAS, 64 pages, 26 figures. The complete lists of table 3, 4, 8 and 9 will be published online
Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Rural Malawi
Creators: name: Darko, Francis Addeah
name: Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
name: Kilic, Talip
name: Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. The poverty measures included per capita consumption expenditure, relative deprivation in terms of per capita consumption expenditure, poverty gap and severity of poverty; and the measures of food insecurity included caloric intake and relative deprivation in terms of caloric intake. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of agricultural productivity was estimated with a household fixed effects estimator, a two-part estimator or a correlated-random effect ordered probit estimator. The results indicate that growth in agricultural productivity has the expected welfare-improving effect. In terms of economic magnitude, however, both the direct effect and economy-wide spillover effect (in the non-farm sector) of a percentage increase in agricultural productivity on the poverty and food security measures are small. Efforts to effectively improve the welfare of rural agricultural households should therefore go beyond merely increasing agricultural (land) productivity.
Physical activity in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy in Arabic speaking countries: a scoping review protocol.
Creators: name: Alfouzan, Haifa
name: Kerr, Claire
name: Clarke, Sonya
name: Brown, Malcolm
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Arabic countries
subject: Cerebral palsy
subject: Physical activity

description: This is protocol for a scoping review about physical activity in children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years with cerebral palsy and resident in Arabic speaking countries. The objective of this scoping review is to identify evidence in relation to physical activity patterns (type, intensity and duration and frequency), factors that influence participation in physical activity, and interventions targeting physical activity in this population. This scoping review will provide an understanding of the types of studies conducted and the concepts examined, identifying evidence gaps. In doing this we aim to collate evidence that can be used to inform practice and future research, in relation to increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour in children with cerebral palsy in Arabic countries.
Glass-Like Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructures of a Complex Anisotropic Crystal
Creators: name: Weathers, Annie
name: Carrete, Jesus
name: Degrave, John P.
name: Higgins, Jeremy M.
name: Moore, Arden L.
name: Kim, Jaehyun
name: Mingo, Natalio
name: Jin, Song
name: Shi, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Size effects on vibrational modes in complex crystals remain largely unexplored, despite their importance in a variety of electronic and energy conversion technologies. Enabled by advances in a four-probe thermal transport measurement method, we report the observation of glass-like thermal conductivity in ~20 nm thick single crystalline ribbons of higher manganese silicide, a complex, anisotropic crystal with a ~10 nm scale lattice constant along the incommensurate c axis. The boundary scattering effect is strong for many vibrational modes because of a strong anisotropy in their group velocities or diffusive nature, while confinement effects are pronounced for acoustic modes with long wavelengths along the c axis. Furthermore, the transport of the non-propagating, diffusive modes is suppressed in the nanostructures by the increased incommensurability between the two substructures as a result of the unusual composition of the nanostructure samples. These unique effects point to diverse, new approaches to suppressing the lattice thermal conductivity in complex materials.
The first record of the Southwest Asian Badger Meles canescens (Mammalia: Mustelidae) from Afghanistan
Creators: name: Nasratullah Jahed
name: Ostrowski, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The first record of the Southwest Asian Badger Meles canescens (Mammalia: Mustelidae) from Afghanistan
TRT-5-François Berdougo
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (9 pages).
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0248r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0248r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran
Creators: name: Rad, Shahrokh Pashaei
name: Taylor, Brian
name: Roshanak Torabi
name: Aram, Ebrahim
name: Abolfathi, Giti
name: Rezvan Afshari
name: Borjali, Fatemeh
name: Ghatei, Maryam
name: Fouzihe Hediary
name: Jazini, Farzaneh
name: Kiah, Vala Heidary
name: Mahmoudi, Zeynab
name: Safariyan, Fatemeh
name: Seiri, Maryam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Wide ranging surveys of the ant fauna of Iran have enabled us to add a further 30 named species to the country list. A review of almost all the published literature and of photographs of unidentified specimens within the public domain gives a grand total of 248 species, from seven subfamilies and 37 genera. In the majority of instances, our own specimens were compared with type images available from antweb.com. This has led us to propose new or revised status for Cataglyphis turcomanica Crawley 1920, Lepisiota integrisquama (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929), Lepisiota surchanica (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929) and Messor obscurior Crawley 1920. We note that the total includes a number of what may be misidentifications and a small number of named species that seem unlikely to occur in Iran.
Global Finite-Time Attitude Consensus of Leader-Following Spacecraft Systems Based on Distributed Observers
Creators: name: Gui, Haichao
name: de Ruiter, Anton H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper addresses the leader-following attitude consensus problem for a group of spacecraft when at least one follower can access the leader's attitude and velocity relative to the inertial space. A nonlinear distributed observer is designed to estimate the leader's states for each follower. The observer possesses one important and novel feature of keeping attitude and angular velocity estimation errors on second-order sliding modes, and thus provides finite-time convergent estimates for each follower. Further, quaternion-based hybrid homogeneous controllers recently developed for single spacecraft are extended and then applied, by establishing a separation principle with the proposed observer, to track the leader's attitude motion. As a result, global finite-time attitude consensus is achieved on the entire attitude manifold, with either full-state measurements or attitude-only measurements, as long as the network topology among the followers is undirected and connected. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methods.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Pollination dynamics in a changing tropical forest landscape
Creators: name: Sharma, Manju Vasudevan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Little is known of pollination in the canopies of tropical trees or plants in which flowering is a rare event. I investigate reproductive success as a function of floral resources, pollinator guilds and the breeding habit in two tree species - Nothapodytes nimmoniana and Myristica dactyloides, and one monocarpic shrub Strobilanthes kunthianus, each representing a different forest type in the Western Ghats of India. Using three distinct approaches, I ask if pressures on the plant populations (from harvesting of plant resource or habitat degradation) have an impact on pollination outcomes. In the two canopies, the pollinator assemblage consisted of small diverse insects with some degree of specialisation (Coleopterans on Myristica and Dipterans on Nothapodytes). Bees were abundant in the montane grassland mass bloom of Strobilanthes, assuring 100% pollination efficiency. There was no pollen limitation in the three species, but in Nothapodytes, I provide evidence for a shift in insect diversity and a possible decrease in fruiting in populations where floral density is altered either naturally or from disturbance. An indirect measure of fruiting success in Myristica highlighted the influence of non-forest matrix and over-harvesting on mutualisms. In two species, I examine the evolutionary setting in relation to pollination dynamics: polygamous individuals seem to guard against decline in mates or pollinators in Nothapodytes and a set of adaptive floral traits render Strobilanthes protection from fruiting failure. I suggest that species with multiple pollinators may not be resilient to fluctuations, since generalists are just as sensitive to disturbances as specialists. Also, in forest canopies, there is a frequent overlap of functional guilds: a change in faunal assemblage could have a cascading effect on pollination processes. Habitat conservation is the key to maintaining connectivity between pollinator foraging resources that may be located in different forest types.
Look No Further: Adapting the Localization Sensory Window to the Temporal Characteristics of the Environment
Creators: name: Bruce, Jake
name: Jacobson, Adam
name: Milford, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T40

description: Many localization algorithms use a spatiotemporal window of sensory information in order to recognize spatial locations, and the length of this window is often a sensitive parameter that must be tuned to the specifics of the application. This letter presents a general method for environment-driven variation of the length of the spatiotemporal window based on searching for the most significant localization hypothesis, to use as much context as is appropriate but not more. We evaluate this approach on benchmark datasets using visual and Wi-Fi sensor modalities and a variety of sensory comparison front-ends under in-order and out-of-order traversals of the environment. Our results show that the system greatly reduces the maximum distance traveled without localization compared to a fixed-length approach while achieving competitive localization accuracy, and our proposed method achieves this performance without deployment-time tuning.
description: Pre-print of article appearing in 2017 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. v2: incorporated reviewer feedback
An analysis of learning in weightless neural systems
Creators: name: Bradshaw, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: This thesis brings together two strands of neural networks research - weightless systems and statistical learning theory - in an attempt to understand better the learning and generalisation abilities of a class of pattern classifying machines. The machines under consideration are n-tuple classifiers. While their analysis falls outside the domain of more widespread neural networks methods the method has found considerable application since its first publication in 1959. The larger class of learning systems to which the n-tuple classifier belongs is known as the set of weightless or RAM-based systems, because of the fact that they store all their modifiable information in the nodes rather than as weights on the connections. The analytical tools used are those of statistical learning theory. Learning methods and machines are considered in terms of a formal learning problem which allows the precise definition of terms such as learning and generalisation (in this context). Results relating the empirical error of the machine on the training set, the number of training examples and the complexity of the machine (as measured by the Vapnik- Chervonenkis dimension) to the generalisation error are derived. In the thesis this theoretical framework is applied for the first time to weightless systems in general and to n-tuple classifiers in particular. Novel theoretical results are used to inspire the design of related learning machines and empirical tests are used to assess the power of these new machines. Also data-independent theoretical results are compared with data-dependent results to explain the apparent anomalies in the n-tuple classifier's behaviour. The thesis takes an original approach to the study of weightless networks, and one which gives new insights into their strengths as learning machines. It also allows a new family of learning machines to be introduced and a method for improving generalisation to be applied.
Antiferromagnetic resonance excited by oscillating electric currents
Creators: name: Sluka, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In antiferromagnetic materials the order parameter exhibits resonant modes at frequencies that can be in the terahertz range, making them interesting components for spintronic devices. Here, it is shown that antiferromagnetic resonance can be excited using the inverse spin-Hall effect in a system consisting of an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a normal-metal waveguide. The time-dependent interplay between spin-torque, ac spin-accumulation and magnetic degrees of freedom is studied. It is found that the dynamics of the antiferromagnet effects the frequency-dependent conductivity of the normal metal. Further, it is shown that in antiferromagnetic insulators, the resonant excitation by ac spin-currents can be orders of magnitude more efficient than excitation by the current-induced Oersted field.
description: Version 2: A sign error which I found in the previous version has been corrected. According changes have been made to the text, equations and figures. Apart from that, excitation by spin-torque and Oersted field are now compared under the condition of constant power injection. A new figure and references have been added
Increasing the Participation of Women in Aerospace
Creators: name: Soares, Joana
name: Costa, Ana
name: Quaiela Costa
name: Luiz Campos
name: Lamberti, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: STEM
Women
Gender equality
Aerospace
PARE

description: The aerospace is not a gender-balanced sector, thus being a consequence - albeit not exclusively - of the existing gender stereotypes in education as such the factors that affect the professional career of women which may not be too apparent in childhood but may have effects in secondary school and university. There are several aspects that influence the participation of women in Aerospace. The implementation of interventions that could enable substantial and sustainable changes regarding the increase of women interest in the aerospace sector, improving, at the same time, the women’s self-confidence in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects, is needed.
Design of functionalized folic acid–chitosan nanoparticles for delivery of tetracycline, doxorubicin, and tamoxifen
Creators: name: P. Chanphai
name: T.J. Thomas
name: H.A. Tajmir-Riahi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Design of functionalized folic acid–chitosan nanoparticles for delivery of tetracycline, doxorubicin, and tamoxifen
Design of functionalized folic acid-chitosan nanoparticles for delivery of tetracycline, doxorubicin and tamoxifen
Creators: name: P. Chanphai
name: T. J. Thomas
name: H. A. Tajmir-Riahi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Design of functionalized folic acid-chitosan nanoparticles for delivery of tetracycline, doxorubicin and tamoxifen
On the 1-3-5 conjecture and related topics
Creators: name: Wu, Hai-Liang
name: Sun, Zhi-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E25, 11D85, 11E20, 11F27, 11F37

description: The 1-3-5 conjecture of Z.-W. Sun states that any $n\in\mathbb N=\{0,1,2,\ldots\}$ can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2$ with $w,x,y,z\in\mathbb N$ such that $x+3y+5z$ is a square. In this paper, via the theory of ternary quadratic forms and related modular forms, we study the integer version of the 1-3-5 conjecture and related weighted sums of four squares with certain linear restrictions. Here are two typical results in this paper: (i) There is a finite set $A$ of positive integers such that any sufficiently large integer not in the set $\{16^ka:\ a\in A,\ k\in\mathbb N\}$ can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2$ with $x,y,z,w\in\mathbb Z$ and $x+3y+5z\in\{4^k:\ k\in\mathbb N\}$. (ii) Any positive integer can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+2w^2$ with $x,y,z,w\in\mathbb Z$ and $x+y+2z+2w=1$. Also, any sufficiently large integer can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+2w^2$ with $x,y,z,w\in\mathbb Z$ and $x+2y+3z=1$.
description: 19 pages
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0314r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0314r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0314r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v