cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chandra and ASCA Observations of the X-ray-brightest T-Tauri Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
Creators: name: Imanishi, Kensuke
name: Tsujimoto, Masahiro
name: Koyama, Katsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Chandra ACIS and ASCA GIS results for a series of four long-term observations on DoAr 21, ROXs 21 and ROXs 31; the X-ray brightest T-Tauri stars (TTSs) in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud. In the four observations with a net exposure of ~600 ksec, we found six, three and two flares from DoAr 21, ROXs 21 and ROXs 31, respectively; hence the flare rate is fairly high. The spectra of DoAr 21 are well fitted with a single-temperature plasma model, while those of ROXs 21 and ROXs 31 need an additional soft plasma component. Since DoAr 21 is younger (~10^5 yr) than ROXs 21 and ROXs 31 (~10^6 yr), these results may indicate that the soft component gradually increases as T-Tauri stars age. The abundances are generally sub-solar and vary from element to element. Both high-FIP (first ionization potential) and low-FIP elements show enhancement over the mean abundances. An unusual giant flare is detected from ROXs 31. The peak luminosity and temperature are ~10^33 ergs s^-1 and ~10 keV, respectively. The temperature reaches its peak value before the flux maximum, and is nearly constant (4--5 keV) during the decay phase, indicating successive energy release during the flare. The abundances and absorption show dramatic variability from the quiescent to flare phase.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Fundamentos de governação democrática – “instituições jurídicas de um estado democrático”
Creators: name: Joaquim, Tomás Gabriel
Publisher: name: JURIS
Year: 2016

description: Quando se aborda a questão da democracia, regra geral, recorre- -se às suas origens, e não existem dúvidas que tem as suas raízes em Atenas, e aos antigos pensadores, tais como Heródoto e Aristóteles, e estadistas como Péricles ou Sólon. E, diga-se, este estudo não fugiu a esta metodologia. Neste estudo, em que se homenageia aquele que será sempre o nosso mestre e grande professor de Direito Constitucional, o objetivo fundamental é analisar as Instituições Jurídicas de um Estado Democrático, com realce para aquelas previstas no ordenamento jurídico angolano. Evidentemente que pela extensão do tema, impossível será abordá-los a todos, ou a algum deles sequer, com muita profundidade, que não é, também, o propósito do estudo. O fim é apresentar perspetivas nas quais o princípio democrático tem aplicação concreta, e qual a sua importância e fundamento no interior do Estado. De salientar que pouco ou quase nada existe escrito em termos de doutrina nacional, pelo que ter-se-á como base a doutrina estrangeira. A verdade é que do estudo feito, constatou-se a necessidade de maior e melhor estudo da Constituição Angolana, se o objetivo é a consolidação da democracia.
description: JURIS, Vol 1 No 1 (2016): Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Adérito Correia
La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936)
Creators: name: Mendoza, Manuel Pulido
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies

description: (2007) La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936). Tesis doctoral en filología hispánica. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura. Director, Dr. José Luis Bernal Salgado. 795 pp. Esta tesis doctoral, La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936), se propone el estudio del género de la biografía como parte de las escrituras biográficas (biografismo) que notaron un especial auge editorial durante la década anterior a la Guerra Civil en España. Se trata de una investigación de la historia de la literatura española a través de este género que surge y se desarrolla en estos años, como respuesta a la recepción de modelos extranjeros. Se estudiará igualmente la influencia del género en diferentes modalidades coetáneas de prosa de ficción (biografía novelada y novela pseudo-biográfica). Para ello se abordará la recepción de los modelos extranjeros en la crítica literaria española de la época y la versión al español de dichos modelos. La práctica biográfico-literaria española no puede comprenderse sin la atención a los primeros aspectos teóricos sobre los géneros biográficos en España, por lo que haremos referencia a ellos en diversas ocasiones a lo largo de los capítulos siguientes. Es algo conocido pero poco estudiado el hecho de que el mercado editorial español dedicara una atención especial a las biografías literarias y las biografías noveladas durante estos años. Haremos un análisis detenido de algunas de las obras más interesantes según las cuestiones temáticas abordadas en este análisis del biografismo.Pulido Mendoza, Manuel (2007) La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936). Tesis doctoral en filología hispánica. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura. Director, Dr. José Luis Bernal Salgado. 795 pp.
Deep Learning for space-variant deconvolution in galaxy surveys
Creators: name: Sureau, Florent
name: Lechat, Alexis
name: Starck, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deconvolution of large survey images with millions of galaxies requires to develop a new generation of methods which can take into account a space variant Point Spread Function (PSF) and have to be at the same time accurate and fast. We investigate in this paper how Deep Learning (DL) could be used to perform this task. We employ a U-Net Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture to learn in a supervised setting parameters adapted for galaxy image processing and study two strategies for deconvolution. The first approach is a post-processing of a mere Tikhonov deconvolution with closed form solution and the second one is an iterative deconvolution framework based on the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Our numerical results based on GREAT3 simulations with realistic galaxy images and PSFs show that our two approaches outperforms standard techniques based on convex optimization, whether assessed in galaxy image reconstruction or shape recovery. The approach based on Tikhonov deconvolution leads to the most accurate results except for ellipticity errors at high signal to noise ratio where the ADMM approach performs slightly better, is also more computation-time efficient to process a large number of galaxies, and is therefore recommended in this scenario.
To own forest or not? Vertical integration in pulp and paper sector
Creators: name: Korhonen, J.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Toppinen, A.
name: Korhonen, J.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Toppinen, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: vertical integration
subject: industrial forest ownership
subject: transaction cost theory
subject: logistic regression

description: Vertical integration in forest industry refers to firms that provide large portion of wood from their own or controlled forests. Access to resources and competition for cost effective acquisition of industrial raw material are some of the main concerns and advantages for globalized forestry corporations. However, quantitative studies in this topic are still lacking especially at the global scale. This analysis is based on the logistic regression analysis on dichotomous variable whether company owns forest land or not. Data is based on sample of 52 forest companies reported in TOP 100 A Global Forests, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey, and the information provided with regards to corporate forest holdings and corporate financial performance available in corporate sustainability and other reports for year 2012. In results, we see that decision on vertical integration is significantly affected by the firm size, sales and profitability of the company. The influence of location and other relevant factors of firm performance are discussed to the extents that the data allows.
La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936)
Creators: name: Mendoza, Manuel Pulido
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies

description: (2007) La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936). Tesis doctoral en filología hispánica. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura. Director, Dr. José Luis Bernal Salgado. 795 pp. Esta tesis doctoral, La biografía moderna en España (1926-1936), se propone el estudio del género de la biografía como parte de las escrituras biográficas (biografismo) que notaron un especial auge editorial durante la década anterior a la Guerra Civil en España. Se trata de una investigación de la historia de la literatura española a través de este género que surge y se desarrolla en estos años, como respuesta a la recepción de modelos extranjeros. Se estudiará igualmente la influencia del género en diferentes modalidades coetáneas de prosa de ficción (biografía novelada y novela pseudo-biográfica). Para ello se abordará la recepción de los modelos extranjeros en la crítica literaria española de la época y la versión al español de dichos modelos. La práctica biográfico-literaria española no puede comprenderse sin la atención a los primeros aspectos teóricos sobre los géneros biográficos en España, por lo que haremos referencia a ellos en diversas ocasiones a lo largo de los capítulos siguientes. Es algo conocido pero poco estudiado el hecho de que el mercado editorial español dedicara una atención especial a las biografías literarias y las biografías noveladas durante estos años. Haremos un análisis detenido de algunas de las obras más interesantes según las cuestiones temáticas abordadas en este análisis del biografismo.
Performance indicators in the wood products industry – a review and study of a saw mill supply chain
Creators: name: Larsson, M.
name: Stendahl, M
name: Roos, A.
name: Larsson, M.
name: Stendahl, M
name: Roos, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Production Economics

description: There is a need for customized tools capable of providing more holistic, integrated information about forest-based SCs. This study evaluates uses (current and potential) of performance indicators (PIs) for enhancing SC management in the wood industry. Literature on PIs in SCs is reviewed, and current use of PIs is analyzed in a survey study. The review distinguished PIs may be related to strategic, tactical or operational levels, and associated time horizons. As illustrated in Table 1, they may be financial (largely related to strategic goals) or non-financial (largely related to operational performance and the behavior of actors). Frameworks and methods for developing PIs depend vary according to the purpose. Goals of performance monitoring are described on retailing, processing and rounwood procurement levels. The case study reveals a clear negative correlation between customer orientation and distance from the market, i.e. a high degree of ‘responsiveness’ at the retailer end and concentration on efficiency at the supplier end of the supply chain. Further studies, including mapping exercises,and the combined effort to identify key performance areas, and developing performance indicators and measurements, are suggested.
Hyperaspis (Hyperaspis) duvergeri Fursch 1985
Creators: name: Canepari, Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Hyperaspis
Hyperaspis duvergeri

description: Hyperaspis (Hyperaspis) duvergeri Fürsch, 1985
 Material examined. Italy, Sardinia, Sassari prov., Burgos, 10.III.2003, L. Fancello leg., 7 ex (CCC).
 Remarks. First record for Sardinia (Canepari 2004). This species is recorded from all mainland Italy, Sicily, Ponza Island (Latium), Giglio Island (Tuscany), Corsica, southern France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Dalmatia (Croatia) and Hungary (Canepari et al. 1985; Canepari 2004, 2007; Kovář 2007).
description: Published as part of Canepari, Claudio, 2009, New data on some Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Mediterranean Region, pp. 394-399 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 398
Vortices in the SU(2)-Higgs model -- Vortices and the covariant adjoint Laplacian
Creators: name: Bertle, Roman
name: Faber, Manfried
name: Hirtl, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortices in the SU(2)--Higgs model: The presence of a fundamental Higgs in the SU(N)-Higgs model yields color screening at some finite distance. Whereas the transition to the Higgs "phase" is accompanied by a suppression of projected center vortices, there is nearly no influence of color screening on the vortex properties in the confined "phase". Hence the behavior of the Wilson loop can be described in both phases within the vortex picture of confinement. Vortices and the covariant adjoint Laplacian: Laplacian center gauge is a method to localize center vortices in SU(N) gauge theory. We show that the eigenvectors of the covariant adjoint Laplacian identify vortices for a special class of gauge field configurations. However, for Monte Carlo generated configurations, modified approaches are required.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures; Lattice2001(confinement)
Hybrid mesons from anisotropic lattice QCD with the clover and improved gauge actions
Creators: name: Luo, Xiang-Qian
name: Mei, Zhong-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study hybrid mesons from the clover and improved gauge actions at $β=2.6$ on the anisotropic $12^3\times36$ lattice using our PC cluster. We estimate the mass of $1^{-+}$ light quark hybrid as well as the mass of the charmonium hybrid. The improvement of both quark and gluonic actions, first applied to the hybrid mesons, is shown to be more efficient in reducing the lattice spacing and finite volume errors.
description: Lattice2002 (spectrum)
Hyperaspis (Hyperaspis) inexpectata Gunther 1959
Creators: name: Canepari, Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Hyperaspis
Hyperaspis inexpectata

description: Hyperaspis (Hyperaspis) inexpectata Günther, 1959 resurrected name
 Material examined. Italy, Sardinia, Medio Campidano prov., Villacidro, Rio Cannisoni, 401 m, 19- 25.V.2008, D. Whitmore leg., Malaise trap, 2 ex (CCC).
 Remarks. First record for Sardinia (Audisio et al 1995; Canepari 2004). This species is recorded from central Europe, southern France, Spain, Bosnia, southern Italy, Dalmatia (Croatia) and Crete (Greece) (Canepari et al. 1995; Canepari 2004). Kovář (2007) lists Hyperaspis (Hyperaspis) inexpectata as a synonym of H. (H.) concolor Suffrian, 1843. Hyperaspis inexpectata Günther, 1959, as considered by Canepari et al. (1985), is different from H. concolor Suffrian, 1843. I could not examine the holotype of Hyperaspis inexpectata, but this group of species needs further revision.
description: Published as part of Canepari, Claudio, 2009, New data on some Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Mediterranean Region, pp. 394-399 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 398
Treating irregularities in carbon price and discount schedule: resolving a nightmare for forest economics?
Creators: name: Price, C.
name: Willis, R.
name: Price, C.
name: Willis, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: irregular cash flows
subject: carbon price
subject: discounting
subject: tree disease

description: Classical forest economics posits an optimal sequence of constant rotations. Projected variation of discount rate changes optimal rotation through time, as does projected relative price change for multiple products. These factors greatly increase the difficulty of calculating NPV of multirotation forestry projects, for traditional timber production or for multiple purposes. If, however, a given schedule of time-dated carbon prices is used, combined with set discount rates, a spreadsheet solution is practical and feasible. A given sequence of rotation lengths can be evaluated and compared with alternative sequences. Beyond when both discount rate and carbon prices are projected to stabilise, classical formulas can be used for perpetual series of constant rotations. Among the consequences of using government-mandated values are: very high value for most commercial forest crops; very long optimal rotation; favour for no-thinning regimes. Bizarre consequences include a negative carbon account for regimes which are carbon-neutral; a positive or negative value of a regime, depending on start date; a crop’s being more valuable if infected with a serious disease.
Tiling Finite Planes
Creators: name: Khairabadi, Jalal
name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
name: Rebvar Hosseini
name: Alizadeh, Zohreh Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Theoretical Computer Science
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A set of natural numbers tiles the plane if a square- tiling of the plane exists using exactly on square of side length n for every n in the set...
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Vermont Bird Records Committee
Creators: name: McFarland, Kent
name: Cox, Ken
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Vermont Bird Records Committee (hereafter VBRC or the Committee) held its annual meeting on 10 November 2018 at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich, Vermont. The 38th annual report of the VBRC covers the evaluation of 50 records involving 28 species and 3 subspecies or ‘identifiable subspecific forms’. Forty-three records were accepted (86%) with the majority decided unanimously.
 There were no first state records for any species during this period. Notable state reports included the second record for Marbled Godwit (​Limosa fedoa)​ , the fourth state record for Pink-footed Goose (​Anser brachyrhynchus​), and third through eighth records for Trumpeter Swan (​Cygnus buccinator​), and other species. There were no rare nesting reports submitted. A detailed list of reports is included.
 The Vermont Bird Checklist remains at 387 species, representing 22 orders and now 63 families. The names of the birds and their taxonomic arrangement follow the American Ornithological Society Checklist of North American Birds Seventh Edition (1998) and 60th supplement (June 2019). The checklist includes one extinct species (Passenger Pigeon [​Ectopistes migratorius]​ ​), two extirpated (Loggerhead Shrike [​Lanius ludovicianus​]​ and Henslow’s Sparrow [​Ammodramus henslowii​]​), six hypothetical occurrences, and nine introduced species. With the addition of Hooded Warbler as breeding in 2017, there have now been 203 species found breeding in the state. The checklist can be viewed and downloaded at http://vtecostudies.org/wildlife/wildlife-watching/vbrc/bird-checklists/​. Species taxonomy and nomenclature follow the 7th edition of the AOS Checklist of North American Birds and supplements (see http://www.americanornithology.org/content/checklist-north-and-middle-american-birds​). Nomenclature for subspecies or ‘identifiable subspecific forms’ follows taxonomy of The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World (Version 2019), available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/​.
Dual-reference Age Synthesis
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Hu, Bingzhang
name: He, and Jun
name: Guan, Yu
name: Shao, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Age synthesis methods typically take a single image as input and use a specific number to control the age of the generated image. In this paper, we propose a novel framework taking two images as inputs, named dual-reference age synthesis (DRAS), which approaches the task differently; instead of using "hard" age information, i.e. a fixed number, our model determines the target age in a "soft" way, by employing a second reference image. Specifically, the proposed framework consists of an identity agent, an age agent and a generative adversarial network. It takes two images as input - an identity reference and an age reference - and outputs a new image that shares corresponding features with each. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets (UTKFace and CACD) demonstrate the appealing performance and flexibility of the proposed framework.
Far infrared and Radio emission in dusty starburst galaxies
Creators: name: Bressan, Alessandro
name: Silva, Laura
name: Granato, Gian Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the nature of the FIR/Radio correlation by means of the most recent models for star forming galaxies. We model the IR emission with our population synthesis code, GRASIL (Silva et al. 1998). As for the radio emission, we revisit the simple model of Condon & Yin (1990). We find that a tightFIR/Radio correlation is natural when the synchrotron mechanism dominates over the inverse Compton, and the electrons cooling time is shorter than the fading time of the supernova rate. Observations indicate that both these conditions are met in star forming galaxies. However since the radio non thermal emission is delayed, deviations are expected both in the early phases of a starburst, when the radio thermal component dominates, and in the post-starburst phase, when the bulk of the NT component originates from less massive stars. This delay allows the analysis of obscured starbursts with a time resolution of a few tens of Myrs, unreachable with other star formation indicators. We suggest to complement the analysis of the deviations from the FIR/Radio correlation with the radio slope to obtain characteristic parameters of the burst. The analysis of a sample of compact ULIRGs shows that they are intense but transient starbursts, to which one should not apply usual SF indicators devised for constant SF rates. We also discuss the possibility of using the q- radio slope diagram to asses the presence of obscured AGN. A firm prediction of the models is an apparent radio excess during the post-starburst phase, which seems to be typical of a class of star forming galaxies in rich cluster cores. We discuss how deviations from the correlation, due to the evolutionary status of the starburst, affect the technique of photometric redshift determination widely used for high-z sources.
description: accepted by A&A, 16 pages
A responsabilidade civil dos médicos
Creators: name: Dias, Nélia Daniel
Publisher: name: JURIS
Year: 2016

description: Não se trata de um assunto novo em termos de discussão na nossa doutrina e em termos internacionais. Quando se fala em responsabilidade civil dos médicos fala-se também e muito do erro médico mas também englobamos outras situações associadas aos atos dos médicos como é o caso da necessidade do consentimento informado e esclarecido do doente. Exatamente pela complexidade que este sensível tema assume é que se costuma dizer de forma cirúrgica que “não há doenças, há doentes”. Com esta expressão pretende vincar-se uma circunstância que, para nós juristas que investigamos e escrevemos sobre estas matérias, que nos leva a reiterar: cada organismo responde individualmente à doença e ao tratamento médico. Qualquer caso de responsabilidade médica jamais poderá ser encarado com a simplicidade de outros casos de responsabilidade civil com base em outras circunstâncias. A este propósito certa doutrina espanhola fala em circunstancialidade, isto é, a impossibilidade de firmar em regras fixas os aspetos a ter em conta na hora de realizar o ato médico e as circunstâncias concretas de cada caso. Finalmente, e se errar é próprio dos humanos, o problema surge quando assistimos à persistência do erro médico. Nessa altura, em que chamamos a atenção para uma situação que merece um olhar de novo sem que o médico se digne pelo menos a pensar no que lhe é pedido, já entramos numa área dolosa em que a responsabilização do médico se confunde, algumas vezes, com determinados atos criminosos e no nosso entendimento depois de investigado cremos que deve ser punido como tal. O que dizer senão que dos médicos é esperado que pelo menos esgotem todo o seu saber e empenho na resolução dos casos que chegam à sua atenção. Não se pode nem deve exigir menos do que isso quando se fala de uma vida humana.
description: JURIS, Vol 1 No 1 (2016): Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Adérito Correia
Cosmoparticle physics - the Challenge to the Millenium
Creators: name: Khlopov, M. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmoparticle physics offers the exciting challenge for the new Millenium to come to the true knowledge on the basic natural laws and on the way, they govern the creation and evolution of the Universe with all the forms of its present energy content. The theory of everything, the true history of the Universe, based on it, the new sources of energy release and the new means of energy transfer should come from the prospects of cosmoparticle physics. We may be near the first positive results in this direction. The methods of cosmoparticle physics are briefly reviewed.
description: 12 pages, Opening talk at 5 International Conference on Cosmoparticle physics "Cosmion-2001", dedicated to 80 Anniversary of Andrei D. Sakharov, Moscow-St.Petersburg, 21-31 May 2001; to be published in "Gravitation and Cosmology", V.8 (2002), Supplement
Two Regime Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Creators: name: Singh, Bhavini
name: Rajendran, Lalit
name: Vlachos, Pavlos P
name: Bane, Sally
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cooling process associated with the flow induced by a spark plasma discharge generated between a pair of electrodes is measured using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (S-PIV) and background oriented schlieren (BOS). Density measurements show that the hot gas kernel initially cools fast by convective cooling, followed by a slower cooling process. The cooling rates during the fast regime range from being 2 to 10 times those in the slower regime. An analytical model is developed to relate the cooling observed in the fast regime from BOS, to the total entrainment of cold ambient fluid per unit volume of the hot gas kernel, measured from S-PIV. The model calculates the cooling ratio to characterize the cooling process and shows that the cooling ratio estimated from the density measurements are in close agreement with those calculated from the entrainment. These measurements represent the first ever quantitative density and velocity measurements of the flow induced by a spark discharge and reveal the role of entrainment on the cooling of the hot gas kernel. These results underscore that convective cooling of the hot gas kernel, in the fast regime, leads to approximately 50% of the cooling and occurs within the first millisecond of the induced flow.
Choragus aurolineatus Abeille de Perrin 1893
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Choragus
Choragus aurolineatus

description: Choragus aurolineatus Abeille de Perrin, 1893
 Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Iglesias, Marganai, 700 m, UTM 32S 0462853 4355582, 5.VIII – 13.IX.2005, G. Chessa leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex (CNBFVR); same data but 16. VI - 14.VII.2006, 2 ex (CCO CNBFVR); Medio Campidano prov., Villacidro, Rio Cannisoni, 401 m, UTM 32S 468459 4362806, 19 – 24. V.2006, M. Bardiani, D. Birtele, P. Cornacchia & D. Whitmore leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex (CCO).
 Notes. The occurrence of this anthribid in Italy and in Europe was firstly reported by Abbazzi et al. (1999), a series of specimens having been collected in two localities of Tuscany, central Italy. No additional data were reported by Pedroni (2004), Rheinheimer (2004) or Alonso-Zarazaga (2004).
 Four specimens were caught by Malaise traps at two localities (see above): these are the first records for Sardinia. At the first site this species was trapped in a Quercus ilex (Fagaceae) forest, at the second in a clearing with Q. ilex and Q. suber trees along a stream.
Nothing is known on the biology of this rare species, only occurring in Algeria (Rheinheimer 2004) and in the above-mentioned Italian regions.
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 422
Barriers to continued administration of direct oral anticoagulants between acute hospital and subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities in Japan
Creators: name: Hisanao Akiyama
name: Nukui, Saki
name: Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objectives: To investigate whether direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) therapy at acute hospitals is continued after transfer to subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities in Japan. Methods: Acute hospitals routinely transfer patients to nearby subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities after acute stroke treatment. To elucidate the status of antithrombotic therapy, particularly DOAC therapy, we conducted a questionnaire survey of chief physicians at 33 subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities in the vicinity of Kawasaki City. Results: Responses were received from 23 hospitals and geriatric health services facilities (5 convalescent and rehabilitation hospitals, 5 chronic hospitals, 13 geriatric health services facilities). The number of convalescent hospitals responding, ‘no problem with DOAC administration’ before transfer to subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities increased from 4 (80%) at the introduction of DOACs to 5 (100%) presently. The number of chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities also increased from 1 (20%) to 3 (60%) and 4 (30.8%) to 5 (38.5%), respectively, albeit not significantly. The number of convalescent hospitals, chronic hospitals, and geriatric health services facilities requesting pre-transfer change of oral anticoagulants decreased from 20% to 0%, 60% to 40%, and 69.2% to 61.5%, respectively. All convalescent hospitals continued DOAC therapy after transfer. However, only 40.0% of chronic hospitals and 46.2% of geriatric health services facilities used DOACs in the present period. Warfarin was used instead at 3 (60%) chronic hospitals and 7 (53.8%) geriatric health services facilities and antiplatelet drugs were used at 1 hospital/facility each (20% and 7.7%, respectively). Nine (39.1%) hospitals and facilities cited high DOAC costs for the switch. Conclusions: Convalescent hospitals have incorporated DOAC use and readily accept patients receiving DOACs at transferring hospitals. Conversely, many chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities eventually switch from DOACs to warfarin or antiplatelet drugs due to cost. Efforts to resolve these barriers to continued administration of DOACs between acute hospitals and subacute or chronic hospitals and geriatric health services facilities in Japan are needed as soon as possible.
Three-dimensional numerical simulation of 1GeV/Nucleon U92+ impact against atomic hydrogen
Creators: name: de Aldana, Javier R. Vazquez
name: Roso, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of 1GeV/Nucleon U92+ projectiles against atomic hydrogen is studied by direct numerical resolution of the time-dependent wave equation for the atomic electron on a three-dimensional Cartesian lattice. We employ the fully relativistic expressions to describe the electromagnetic fields created by the incident ion. The wave equation for the atom interacting with the projectile is carefully derived from the time-dependent Dirac equation in order to retain all the relevant terms.
description: 12 pages and 7 figures included in the text
Lagrangian Irreversibility and Eulerian Dissipation in Fully-Developed Turbulence
Creators: name: Picardo, Jason R.
name: Bhatnagar, Akshay
name: Ray, Samriddhi Sankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the issue of Lagrangian irreversibility in the context of recent results [Xu, et al., PNAS, 111, 7558 (2014)] on flight-crash events in turbulent flows and show how extreme events in the Eulerian dissipation statistics are related to the statistics of power-fluctuations for tracer trajectories. Surprisingly, we find that particle trajectories in intense dissipation zones are dominated by energy gains sharper than energy losses, contrary to flight-crashes, through a pressure-gradient driven take-off phenomenon. Our conclusions are rationalised by analysing data from simulations of three-dimensional intermittent turbulence, as well as from non-intermittent decimated flows. Lagrangian irreversibility is found to persist even in the latter case, wherein fluctuations of the dissipation rate are shown to be relatively mild and to follow probability distribution functions with exponential tails.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: The Role of Soft-Law in Adjudicating Corporate Human Rights Abuses: Interpreting the Alien Tort Statute in the Light of the UN Guiding principles on Business and Human Rights
Creators: name: Corcione, Elena
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: UNGPs
subject: leverage
subject: human rights
subject: ATS
subject: corporations
subject: supply chain

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2021 6(3), 1293-1306
description: European Forum Insight of 20 January 2022
description: I. Introduction. - II. Some remarks on the features of cocoa supply chain. - III. The interpretation of the ATS and the Nestlé case: a tug-of-war between courts. - IV. The relevant role and content of UNGPs. - V. Lessons from European case-law. - VI. A re-assessment of Nestlé v. Doe in the light of the UNGPs. - VII. Concluding remarks.
description: In the last years, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been used as main reference for human rights litigation against corporations in the US. However, subsequent interpretation of the ATS by the US Supreme Court has progressively narrowed its scope of application, so that now it hardly can be considered as a viable legal basis for claims against human rights abuses occurred overseas in supply chains. In the recent Nestlé case, the US Supreme Court affirmed that general corporate activity in the US territory cannot be a sufficient basis to overcome the presumption against extraterritoriality set in the Kiobel case. The risk of leaving a wide range of human rights violations without an effective remedy in the US is tangible. A solution may be to look at the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) as the international guidance to corporate responsibility to respect human rights as a tool to interpret domestic law accordingly and recognize the duty of lead companies to use leverage over their business partners to prevent violations. The lessons learned from recent European domestic case-law is paradigmatic in this sense and may be a source of inspirations for future UNGPs-oriented reading of the ATS.
Machine Learning Systems for Highly-Distributed and Rapidly-Growing Data
Creators: name: Hsieh, Kevin
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: e usability and practicality of any machine learning (ML) applications are largely in fluenced by two critical but hard-to-att ain factors: low latency and low cost. Unfortunately, achieving low latency and low cost is very challenging when ML depends on real-world data that are highly distributed and rapidly growing (e.g., data collected by mobile phones and video cameras all over the world). Such real-world
data pose many challenges in communication and computation. For example, when training data are distributed across data centers that span multiple continents, communication among data centers can easily overwhelm the limited wide-area network bandwidth, leading to prohibitively high latency and high cost. In this dissertation, we demonstrate that the latency and cost of ML on highly distributed and rapidly-growing data can be improved by one to two orders of magnitude
by designing ML systems that exploit the characteristics of ML algorithms, ML model structures, and ML training/serving data. We support this thesis statement with three contributions. First, we design a system that provides both low-latency and low-cost ML serving (inferencing) over large-scale and continuously-growing datasets, such as videos. Second, we build a system that makes ML training over geodistributed datasets as fast as training within a single data center. Th ird, we present a first detailed study and a system-level solution on a fundamental and largely overlooked problem: ML training over non-IID (i.e., not independent and identically distributed) data partitions (e.g., facial images collected by cameras varies according to
the demographics of each camera’s location).
Pulsar Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Guseinov, O. H.
name: Yazgan, E.
name: Ozkan, S.
name: Tagieva, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct and investigate the pulsar luminosity function using the new catalogue which includes data for 1315 radio pulsars. The luminosity functions are constructed for 400 and 1400 MHz separately, and they are compared. Also, the luminosity functions excluding the binary millisecond pulsars and other pulsars with low magnetic fields are constructed. The 1400 MHz luminosities as a function of characteristic age and as a function of magnetic field for radio pulsars, anomalous X-ray pulsars and dim radio quiet neutron stars are presented and the implications of the pulsar luminosity function on these new kind of neutron stars are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A
Shipwrecked Heritage and the 'Midas Touch' of Colonialism: Owning Hybrid Histories
Creators: name: Williams, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: shipwrecks
cultural heritage
hybridity

description: This dissertation focuses broadly on how groups own a shared history, whether through doing so by legal property rights or by intellectual or cognitive ownership. It uses examples of material that by its nature is an assemblage from a variety of groups, and indeed at the time, different worlds: ships and their associated cargo between the ‘Old World’ and the ‘New World’ from the 16th to the 19th century. Because these wrecks carry the material of multiple nations both past and present, and due to their locations in international water, ships offer unique opportunities for stakeholders to emerge beyond the boundary of the nation state, which often defines archaeological ownership. Rather than shipwrecked assemblages or ‘treasure’ representing just one category of value, be it monetary, national, or educational, these ‘amphibious’ pieces link both land and sea, public and private property, and tangible and intangible heritage. Using interviews with curators and experts in the field of underwater cultural heritage, a case study, and two databases of shipwrecks with their associated material and ownership battles, the discussion will reveal the tension of owning colonial cargo, and the need for a solution that calls for co-owning hybridity.
description: Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Gates Cambridge Academic Development Funding, Trinity College Rouse-Ball Eddington Fund for Research
Coherent Relation between Structure and Conduction of Infinite Atomic Wires
Creators: name: Ono, Tomoya
name: Yamasaki, Hideki
name: Egami, Yoshiyuki
name: Hirose, Kikuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a theoretical analysis concerning the geometrical structures and electrical conduction of infinite monatomic gold and aluminum wires in the process of their elongation, based on first-principles molecular-dynamics simulations using the real-space finite-difference method. Our study predicts that the single-row gold wire ruptures up to form a dimer coupling structure when the average interatomic distance increases up to more than 3.0 A, and that the wire is conductive before breaking but changes to an insulator at the rupturing point. In the case of the alumi-num wire, it exhibits a magnetic ordering due to the spin polarization, and even when stretched up to the average interatomic distance of 3.5 A, a dimerization does not oc-cur and the wire keeps a metallic nature.
description: 10 pages and 6 figures. accepted to Nanotechnology
Training Multiscale-CNN for Large Microscopy Image Classification in One Hour
Creators: name: Datta, Kushal
name: Hossain, Imtiaz
name: Choi, Sun
name: Saletore, Vikram
name: Ambert, Kyle
name: Godinez, William J.
name: Zhang, Xian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing approaches to train neural networks that use large images require to either crop or down-sample data during pre-processing, use small batch sizes, or split the model across devices mainly due to the prohibitively limited memory capacity available on GPUs and emerging accelerators. These techniques often lead to longer time to convergence or time to train (TTT), and in some cases, lower model accuracy. CPUs, on the other hand, can leverage significant amounts of memory. While much work has been done on parallelizing neural network training on multiple CPUs, little attention has been given to tune neural network training with large images on CPUs. In this work, we train a multi-scale convolutional neural network (M-CNN) to classify large biomedical images for high content screening in one hour. The ability to leverage large memory capacity on CPUs enables us to scale to larger batch sizes without having to crop or down-sample the input images. In conjunction with large batch sizes, we find a generalized methodology of linearly scaling of learning rate and train M-CNN to state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy of 99% within one hour. We achieve fast time to convergence using 128 two socket Intel Xeon 6148 processor nodes with 192GB DDR4 memory connected with 100Gbps Intel Omnipath architecture.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Development of computer-based algorithms for unsupervised assessment of radiotherapy contouring
Creators: name: Yang, Huiqi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Radiotherapy
segmentation
automatic
lung
cancer
texture
watershed
active contour
graph-cut
superpixels
contouring
delineation
outlining
quality assurance
computation
automated
carcinoma
texture analysis
clinical trial

description: INTRODUCTION: Despite the advances in radiotherapy treatment delivery, target volume delineation remains one of the greatest sources of error in the radiotherapy delivery process, which can lead to poor tumour control probability and impact clinical outcome. Contouring assessments are performed to ensure high quality of target volume definition in clinical trials but this can be subjective and labour-intensive. This project addresses the hypothesis that computational segmentation techniques, with a given prior, can be used to develop an image-based tumour delineation process for contour assessments. This thesis focuses on the exploration of the segmentation techniques to develop an automated method for generating reference delineations in the setting of advanced lung cancer. The novelty of this project is in the use of the initial clinician outline as a prior for image segmentation. METHODS: Automated segmentation processes were developed for stage II and III non-small cell lung cancer using the IDEAL-CRT clinical trial dataset. Marker-controlled watershed segmentation, two active contour approaches (edge- and region-based) and graph-cut applied on superpixels were explored. k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) classification of tumour from normal tissues based on texture features was also investigated. RESULTS: 63 cases were used for development and training. Segmentation and classification performance were evaluated on an independent test set of 16 cases. Edge-based active contour segmentation achieved highest Dice similarity coefficient of 0.80 ± 0.06, followed by graphcut at 0.76 ± 0.06, watershed at 0.72 ± 0.08 and region-based active contour at 0.71 ± 0.07, with mean computational times of 192 ± 102 sec, 834 ± 438 sec, 21 ± 5 sec and 45 ± 18 sec per case respectively. Errors in accuracy of irregularly shaped lesions and segmentation leakages at the mediastinum were observed. In the distinction of tumour and non-tumour regions, misclassification errors of 14.5% and 15.5% were achieved using 16- and 8-pixel regions of interest (ROIs) respectively. Higher misclassification errors of 24.7% and 26.9% for 16- and 8-pixel ROIs were obtained in the analysis of the tumour boundary. CONCLUSIONS: Conventional image-based segmentation techniques with the application of priors are useful in automatic segmentation of tumours, although further developments are required to improve their performance. Texture classification can be useful in distinguishing tumour from non-tumour tissue, but the segmentation task at the tumour boundary is more difficult. Future work with deep-learning segmentation approaches need to be explored.
description: Funded by National Radiotherapy Trials Quality Assurance (RTTQA) group