cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Creators: name: Kuosmanen, Timo
name: Kortelainen, Mika
name: Kuosmanen, Timo
name: Kortelainen, Mika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental valuation within ECBA framework that is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and does not demand any price estimation for environmental impacts using traditional revealed or stated preference methods. We show that DEA can be modified to the context of CBA by using absolute shadow prices instead of traditionally used relative prices. We also discuss how the approach can be used for sensitive analysis which is an important part of ECBA. We illustrate the application of the DEA approach to ECBA by means of a hypothetical numerical example where a household considers investment to a new sport utility vehicle.
[Elicitation of verb paradigms, three stories]
Creators: name: García Cortés, María Agustina
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 9 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 6-25 of related field notes. Stories are "When I Get Married" (003), "What You Did in Filomeno Mata" (006), and "What I Did with My Grandmother" (009), with transcription and glossing on pp. 13-15, 19-21, and 24-25, respectively.
Monitoring of insects with public participation (MIPP; EU LIFE project 11 NAT/IT/000252): overview on a citizen science initiative and a monitoring programme (Insecta: Coleoptera; Lepidoptera; Orthoptera)
Creators: name: Mason, Franco
name: Roversi, Pio Federico
name: Audisio, Paolo
name: Bologna, Marco Alberto
name: Carpaneto, Giuseppe Maria
name: Antonini, Gloria
name: Mancini, Emiliano
name: Sabbatini Peverieri, Giuseppino
name: Mosconi, Fabio
name: Solano, Emanuela
name: Maurizi, Emanuela
name: Maura, Michela
name: Chiari, Stefano
name: Sabatelli, Simone
name: Bardiani, Marco
name: Toni, Ilaria
name: Redolfi De Zan, Lara
name: Rossi De Gasperis, Sarah
name: Tini, Massimiliano
name: Cini, Alessandro
name: Zauli, Agnese
name: Nigro, Giulio
name: Bottacci, Alessandro
name: Hardersen, Sönke
name: Campanaro, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: The LIFE project “MIPP” - Monitoring of Insects with Public Participation (11 NAT/IT/000252) is focused on selected insect species (five Coleoptera, three Lepidoptera, one Orthoptera), all included in the annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive (HD) 92/43/EEC. One important aim is a citizen science initiative where every person may become a citizen scientist and collect faunistic data on the above species throughout Italy. Another objective of the project MIPP is the development of standard methods for monitoring the conserva- tion status of the five target beetle species. One innovative method employed is a sniffer-dog (“Osmodog”), trained to find the rare and endangered hermit beetle, Osmoderma eremita, which lives in veteran, hollow trees. The dog detects the strong smell of mature peach produced by adult males and an odor produced by the larvae. Another objective of the project MIPP is the dissemination of topics such as HD, Natura 2000, importance of dead-wood, Life projects, insect monitoring and conservation.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
Additional file 1 of Male with an apparently normal phenotype carrying a BRCA1 exon 20 duplication in trans to a BRCA1 frameshift variant
Creators: name: Block, Ines
name: Mateu-Regué, Àngels
name: Do, Thi Tuyet Nhu
name: Miceikaite, Ieva
name: Sdogati, Daniel
name: Larsen, Martin J.
name: Hao, Qin
name: Nielsen, Henriette Roed
name: Boonen, Susanne E.
name: Skytte, Anne-Bine
name: Jensen, Uffe Birk
name: Høffding, Louise K.
name: De Nicolo, Arcangela
name: Viel, Alessandra
name: Tudini, Emma
name: Parsons, Michael T.
name: Hansen, Thomas V. O.
name: Rossing, Maria
name: Kruse, Torben A.
name: Spurdle, Amanda B.
name: Thomassen, Mads
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Tables and Figures.
First PCR isolation of Crithidia mellificae (Euglenozoa: Trypanosomatidae) in Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Italy
Creators: name: Cersini, Antonella
name: Antognetti, Valeria
name: Conti, Raffaella
name: Velletrani, Fabiana
name: Formato, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: Crithidia mellificae (Langridge & McGhee, 1967) is a trypanosomatid described in Apis mellifera (Linnaeus, 1758). The pathological effects of this parasite on the host are not well known. In this short communication, we report the first isolation of this pathogen in Italy, as realized in December 2013. The detection of Crithidia spp. was obtained by applying two PCR protocols that target the sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cytb) and the sequence of small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSUrRNA), respectively. The PCR products were subjected to sequencing, which confirmed that the strain belonged to Crithidia mellificae.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
Efficient strain-induced light emission in lonsdaleite germanium
Creators: name: Suckert, Jens René
name: Rödl, Claudia
name: Furthmüller, Jürgen
name: Bechstedt, Friedhelm
name: Botti, Silvana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lonsdaleite germanium has a direct band gap, but it is not an efficient light emitter due to the vanishing oscillator strength of electronic transitions at the fundamental gap. Transitions involving the second lowest conduction band are instead at least three orders of magnitude stronger. The inversion of the two lowest conduction bands would therefore make hexagonal germanium ideal for optoelectronic applications. In this work, we investigate the possibility to achieve this band inversion by applying strain. To this end we perform ab initio calculations of the electronic band structure and optical properties of strained hexagonal germanium, using density functional theory with the modified Becke-Johnson exchange-correlation functional and including spin-orbit interaction. We consider hydrostatic pressure, uniaxial strain along the hexagonal c axis, as well as biaxial strain in planes perpendicular to and containing the hexagonal c axis to simulate the effect of a substrate. We find that the conduction-band inversion, and therefore the transition from a pseudo-direct to a direct band gap, is attainable for moderate tensile uniaxial strain parallel to the lonsdaleite c axis.
Carbon Nanoarch Encapsulating Fe Nanowire on Ni (111)
Creators: name: David, Melanie
name: Kishi, Tomoya
name: Kisaku, Masanori
name: Nakanishi, Hiroshi
name: Kasai, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stable structures of Fe-filled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on Ni(111), using density functional theory calculations. We find stable geometries and electronic states for the nanotube on Ni(111). We propose the possibility that the C-C bonds of carbon nanotube are broken by Fe wire and Ni surface. That is, when Fe-filled SWNT(3, 3) adsorb on Ni(111) surface, SWNT transforms into arch-like structure.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 22 April 2005. submitted to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 22 April 2005
Urban Environmental Health and Sensitive Populations: How Much are the Italians Willing to Pay to Reduce Their Risks?
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Chiabai, Aline
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Chiabai, Aline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: We use contingent valuation to elicit WTP for a reduction in the risk of dying for cardiovascular and respiratory causes, the most important causes of premature mortality associated with heat wave and air pollution, among the Italian public. The purpose of this study is three-fold. First, we obtain WTP and VSL figures that can be applied when estimating the benefits of heat advisories, other policies that reduce the mortality effects of extreme heat, and environmental policies that reduce the risk of dying for cardiovascular and respiratory causes. Second, our experimental study design allows us to examine the sensitivity of WTP to the size of the risk reduction. Third, we examine whether the WTP of populations that are especially sensitive to extreme heat and air pollution such as the elderly, those in compromised health, and those living alone and/or physically impaired is different from that of other individuals. We find that WTP, and hence the VSL, depends on the risk reduction, respondent age (via the baseline risk), and respondent health status. WTP increases with the size of the risk reduction, but is not strictly proportional to it. All else the same, older individuals are willing to pay less for a given risk reduction than younger individuals of comparable characteristics. Poor health, however, tends to raise WTP, so that the appropriate VSL of elderly individuals in poor health may be quite large. Our results support the notion that the VSL is individuated.
Lipoplex-mediated gene transfer : Influence of selected chemotherapeutic agents on transgene expression
Creators: name: Nicholson, Lynn Karen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The ultimate goal of anticancer therapies should be the elimination and/or suppression of tumour cells. Lipid-based gene transfer systems have been employed in promoting transgene expression of exogenous DNA whose products are capable of performing these roles. Since improvements in antitumour efficacy may be obtained by combining gene therapy with other therapeutic modalities such as chemotherapy, it is pertinent to characterize the influence of conventional cytotoxic drugs upon transgene expression, achieved following use of a lipoplex-mediated gene transfer system. SKOV-3 human ovarian carcinoma and B16/BL6 murine melanoma cells were used as in vitro models to evaluate levels of transgene expression. Lipoplexes, [DODAC/DOPE (1:1 mol ratio) liposomes complexed with plasmid DNA containing the luciferase or chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene] were added to cells that had been pre-exposed for 24h to various cytotoxic drugs. Transgene expression levels were established 48h post-transfection. Two in vivo models were also established to evaluate whether chemotherapeutic agents would affect transgene expression following lipoplex-mediated gene transfer. C57BL/6 mice bearing B16/BL6 tumours were injected intraperitoneally with lipoplexes, three days after receiving an intravenous drug injection equivalent to the maximum therapeutic dose. The second model analyzed transgene expression in spleen and bone marrow samples from CD1 mice. Lipoplexes were intravenously administered to mice 3,7, 14 or 21 days after they had received an intravenous drug injection equivalent to the maximum therapeutic dose. In both models, transgene expression was determined 24h post-transfection. In vitro cytotoxicity data indicates that lipoplexes did not influence the sensitivity of SKOV-3 or B16/BL6 cells to cisplatin, doxorubicin, vincristine or bleomycin. Transgene expression levels increased, decreased or remained the same (relative to lipoplex only controls), depending upon the drug, its concentration and the cell type. Combining chemotherapy with an intraperitoneal model for lipoplex-mediated gene transfer did not affect transgene expression levels evaluated in B16/BL6 tumours. The in vivo intravenous model measuring spleen and bone marrow transfection levels showed that all selected drugs caused some inhibition of transgene expression. These results suggest that DNA damage is not a mechanism by which to increase gene transfer by lipoplexes, rather drug-induced alterations in cellular uptake and processing of lipoplexes are believed to be responsible for inducing changes (increases or decreases) in transgene expression.
Functional species traits of carabid beetles living in two riparian alder forests of the Sila plateau subject to different disturbance factors (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Creators: name: Mazzei, Antonio
name: Bonacci, Teresa
name: Gangale, Carmen
name: Pizzolotto, Roberto
name: Brandmayr, Pietro
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: We studied carabid beetle assemblages found in riparian black alder forests in the Sila plateau (Southern Apennines). These carabid assemblages are characterized by a high incidence of endemic small-sized, low dispersal, highly stenotopic (hygrophilic), and trophycally specialized species. To evaluate the influence of anthropogenic disturbance on these insects, we compared carabid assemblage of an old undisturbed forest (65-170y, wilderness landscape) with that of a younger, partly grazed stand (40-60y, cropland landscape). The carabid assemblage of the disturbed stand was characterized by a higher number of species, but showed a lower incidence of zoophagous specialists and brachypterous beetles, with many species probably coming from an adjacent cropland. However, the disturbed stand maintains almost 80% of the core species found in the older forest, which suggests that these insects are not particularly sensitive to disturbance factors represented by periodic wood harvesting and extensive cattle grazing.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
Who is the best coach of all time? A network-based assessment of the career performance of professional sports coaches
Creators: name: Erkol, Şirag
name: Radicchi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two large datasets consisting of all games played among top-tier European soccer clubs in the last 60 years, and among professional American basketball teams in the past 70 years. We leverage game data to build networks of pairwise interactions between the head coaches of the teams, and measure their career performance in terms of network centrality metrics. We identify Arsene Wenger, Sir Alex Ferguson, Jupp Heynckes, Carlo Ancelotti, and Jose Mourinho as the top 5 European soccer coaches of all time. In American basketball, the first 5 positions of the all-time ranking are occupied by Red Auerbach, Gregg Popovich, Phil Jackson, Don Nelson, and Lenny Wilkens. We further establish rankings by decade and season. We develop a simple methodology to monitor performance throughout a coach's career, and to dynamically compare the performance of two or more coaches at a given time. The manuscript is accompanied by the website coachscore.luddy.indiana.edu where complete results of our analysis are accessible to the interested readers.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 10 tables. Interested readers can access complete results of our analysis at coachscore.luddy.indiana.edu
Carpophilus zeaphilus, a new sap beetle species acclimatized in Italy (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Creators: name: Audisio, Paolo
name: Scaramozzino, Pierluigi
name: Sabatelli, Simone
name: Mancini, Emiliano
name: Cline, Andrew Richard
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: Carpophilus zeaphilus Dobson, 1969 (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Carpophilinae) is an Afrotropical species that has become widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Mediterranean areas in recent years. The species was first recorded from Europe in Portugal and Spain nearly thirty years ago, and it was later intercepted in Sicily near Trapani in 1991. A few specimens of this species were collected in April, 2015 in a sparsely forested area near Rome, which suggests a recent acclimatization into peninsular Italy. Specimens were taken on flowering trees of Prunus spinosa L. (Rosaceae), an unusual occurrence for most introduced species of Carpophilinae that are normally associated with rotten fruit and other decomposing vegetal matter.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
Prodesmodon copei Estes 1964
Creators: name: Sahni, Ashok
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1972
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Caudata
Batrachosauroididae
Prodesmodon
Prodesmodon copei

description: Prodesmodon copei Estes, 1964
Prodesmodon copei is represented in the Judith River Formation by a number of dentaries and maxillae from Clambank Hollow. Although all the specimens are distinctly smaller than those from the Lance Formation figured by Estes (1964, pp. 90, 91), they are included in the same species. Morphology of the dentary and the form of the teeth is exceedingly similar in specimens from the two formations. As the present dentaries are incomplete, it is impossible to count the teeth on the lower jaw but the number appears to be less in the Campanian specimens. The teeth are pleurodont and vary considerably in size. The front teeth in AMNH 8479, except for the anteriormost two or three, are quite large (height 0.8 mm.) as compared with the teeth in the posterior part of the dentary. Enlargement of the anterior teeth is accompanied by a corresponding deepening of the jaw. A small foramen is present at the base of each tooth. Externally, the dentary is smooth and is strongly curved in dorsal view.
description: Published as part of Sahni, Ashok, 1972, The vertebrate Fauna of the Judith River formation, Montana, pp. 319-416 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147 (6) on page 349, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3382461
Applications of Dynamic Programming to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Review and Prognosis
Creators: name: Kennedy, John O.S.
name: Kennedy, John O.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Farmers are faced with many decision problems in crop and livestock production which are multistage and stochastic. There have been many applications of dynamic programming (DP) to such decision problems, many primarily for illustrative purposes. It is argued that the advent of farmer access to computers will lead to on-farm use of DP. Applications of DP to forestry, fisheries and agricultural policy are also reviewed. The scope and limitations of DP are discussed, and the close relationship between DP and control theory is examined.
New states above charm threshold
Creators: name: Eichten, Estia J.
name: Lane, Kenneth
name: Quigg, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revise and extend expectations for the properties of charmonium states that lie above charm threshold, in light of new experimental information. We refine the Cornell coupled-channel model for the coupling of c-cbar levels to two-meson states, defining resonance masses and widths by pole positions in the complex energy plane, and suggest new targets for experiment.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, uses RevTeX. Added references. Corrects transcription error for 3D1 states in Table III
New Anillina from South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar and Seychelles Islands (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Bembidiini)
Creators: name: Giachino, Pier Mauro
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: The Author describes two new genera of Bembidiini Anillina (Carabidae): Afranillus gen. n. of the Paranillus phyletic lineage and Afrodipnus gen. n. of the Microtyphlus phyletic lineage and the following new species: Paranillus madecassus sp. n. from Ankarafantsika N.P. (NW Madagascar); Paranillus banari sp. n. from Ranomafana N.P. (Madagascar); Afranillus schuelei sp. n. from Silaka Nat. Res. (Eastern Cape, RSA); Argiloborus praslinicus sp. n. from Praslin Is. (Seychelles); Caeconannus bulirschi sp. n. from Franschhoek pass (Western Cape, RSA); Caeconannus occidentalis sp. n. from Koloniesbos (Western Cape, RSA); Caeconannus orientalis sp. n. from Amatola Mts (Eastern Cape, RSA); Microdipnites zicsii sp. n. from Kwamkoro (Tanga reg., Tanzania); Pelonomites mahunkai sp. n. from Kwamsambia For. (Tanga reg., Tanzania); Afrodipnus transvaalianus sp. n. from Roberts Drift (S. Transvaal, RSA). Comparative morphological data are provided and discussed.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
Graphic Analysis: Applications in Agricultural Economics
Creators: name: Waugh, Frederick V.
name: Waugh, Frederick V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the Introduction: Graphic analysis has always been an important tool in agricultural economics research. It has a long and honorable history in the former Bureau of Agricultural Economics, its successor agencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and in the land-grant colleges. The graphic tool is almost indispensable in preliminary analysis. In recent years, it has been too much neglected. Fancy, super-refined mathematics and electronic computations are wonderful things, but they are of little practical use unless they describe relationships that actually exist in the real world. One of the main ways to find out about these relationships is through graphics.
description: This publication supersedes Graphic Analysis in Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Handbook No. 128.
Calling for a new strategy to measure environmental (habitat) diversity in Island Biogeography: a case study of Mediterranean tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Creators: name: Fattorini, Simone
name: Dapporto, Leonardo
name: Strona, Giovanni
name: Borges, Paulo A.V.
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2015

description: Many recent researches in island biogeography attempted to disentangle the effects of area per se and “habitat diversity” on species richness. However, the expression “habitat diversity” in this context should be avoided, because habitats can be only recognized by referring to the resources needed by a particular species. What is really measured in such researches is some form of “environmental heterogeneity”. Although habitat heterogeneity can be measured in various ways, most researches in island biogeography simply used the number of biotopes (typically classified as land cover categories). However, not all biotopes have the same surface. On the basis of the area occupied by each land cover category, it is possible to calculate indices of environmental diversity, evenness and dominance, as commonly done in community ecology research. These indices can be used to investigate the role of environmental diversity in determining species richness. We used the tenebrionid beetles inhabiting twenty-five small islands around Sicily (Central Mediterranean) to illustrate these concepts. We found that both area per se and environmental heterogeneity contributed to determine species richness. Moreover, we found that the relationship between species richness and environmental homogeneity followed a power function model. This indicates that environmental homogenization may determine a rapid, non linear decline in species richness.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 47 No. 1 (2015)
XMMU J134736.6+173403: an eclipsing LMXB in quiescence or a peculiar AGN?
Creators: name: Carpano, S.
name: Altieri, B.
name: King, A. R.
name: Nucita, A.
name: Leisy, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We report the discovery of a peculiar object observed serendipitously with XMM-Newton. We present its timing and spectral properties and investigate its optical counterpart. Methods. The light curve of the X-ray source, its spectrum, and the spectrum of the best optical counterpart are presented and analyzed. Results. The X-ray flux decreases by a factor of 6.5 within 1 h and stays in a low state for at least 10 h, thereby suggesting the presence of an eclipse. The spectrum is very soft, a power law with a slope of Gamma~2.8, and does not change significantly before and after the flux drop. The source is spatially coincident within few arc-seconds with a Seyfert~2 galaxy belonging to a galaxy pair. Conclusions. Although the background AGN seems the best counterpart, neither the temporal nor the spectral properties of the X-ray source are compatible with it. We investigate the possibility of having a foreground low-mass X-ray binary in quiescence, where the companion is not detected in the optical wavelength.
description: Accepted in A&A as a Research Note. 4 pages, 4 figures
Thermodynamic length, geometric efficiency and Legendre invariance
Creators: name: Cafaro, Carlo
name: Luongo, Orlando
name: Mancini, Stefano
name: Quevedo, Hernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic length is a metric distance between equilibrium thermodynamic states that asymptotically bounds the dissipation induced by a finite time transformation of a thermodynamic system. By means of thermodynamic length, we first evaluate the departures from ideal to real gases in geometric thermodynamics with and without Legendre invariance. In particular, we investigate ideal and real gases in the Ruppeiner and geometrothermodynamic formalisms. Afterwards, we formulate a strategy to relate thermodynamic lengths to efficiency of thermodynamic systems in both the aforementioned frameworks in the working assumption of small deviations from ideality. In this respect, we propose a geometric efficiency definition built up in analogy to quantum thermodynamic systems. We show the result that this efficiency is higher for geometrothermodynamic fluids. Moreover, we stress this efficiency could be used as a novel geometric way to distinguish ideal from non-ideal thermal behaviors. In such a way, it could be useful to quantify deviations from ideality for a variety of real gases. Finally, we discuss the corresponding applications of our recipe to classical thermodynamic systems, noticing that our findings could help geometrically grasping the nature of different metrizations on manifolds of equilibrium thermal states.
description: 17 pages; 3 figures
A Dynamic Programming Approach to the Economic Control of Weed and Disease Infestations in Wheat
Creators: name: Fisher, Brian S.
name: Lee, R.R.
name: Fisher, Brian S.
name: Lee, R.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Weeds and fungal diseases cause significant losses to grain crops in Australia. In many cases cultural methods of control are effective. However, it is often difficult for farm decision-makers to select the optimum crop rotation, from an economic point of view, given the technical constraints they face. A decision to plant a particular crop will have implications for both current and future profitability because the current decision will alter the constraints faced by the decision-maker in subsequent periods. Dynamic programming is used to solve the rotation problem faced by grain growers in north-western New South Wales in areas where the weed, wild oats (A vena falua or A vena ludoviciana), and the disease, crown rot (Fusarium graminearum Group I), have a significant effect on wheat yields. The solutions to the dynamic programming problem suggest that in many circumstances a stable rotational pattern is appropriate. In the present case the model is solved for a set of conditions which is relevant to only a small part of the wheat-belt of New South Wales. However, the method can be applied to aid decision-making in individual cases where the user may wish to change the underlying agronomic assumptions of the model.
A new species of Otiorhynchus from central Asia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Creators: name: Magnano, Luigi
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2014

description: is described and illustrated the parthenogenetic species Otiorhynchus (Eprahenus) cooteri sp. n. from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, close to the amphigonic O. aksudshabaglinus Bajtenov, 1974 from an adjoining area of Kazakhstan. The new species is allied with other central asiatic O. (Eprahenus), with all of which is shortly compared, whereas other members of the subgenus occurring in the Caucasus and surrounding area appear rather distantly related with the ones here considered. Otiorhynchus kasakhstanicus Arnoldi, 1964 is moved to O. (Zariedus) Reitter, 1912 from O. (Eprahenus) Reitter, 1912.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 46 No. 1-2 (2014)
Additional file 1 of DiCleave: a deep learning model for predicting human Dicer cleavage sites
Creators: name: Mu, Lixuan
name: Song, Jiangning
name: Akutsu, Tatsuya
name: Mori, Tomoya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Tables and Figure.
A detector for continuous measurement of ultra-cold atoms in real time
Creators: name: Figl, C.
name: Longchambon, L.
name: Jeppesen, M.
name: Kruger, M.
name: Bachor, H. A.
name: Robins, N. P.
name: Close, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first detector capable of recording high-bandwidth real time atom number density measurements of a Bose Einstein condensate. Based on a two-color Mach-Zehnder interferometer, our detector has a response time that is six orders of magnitude faster than current detectors based on CCD cameras while still operating at the shot-noise limit. With this minimally destructive system it may be possible to implement feedback to stabilize a Bose-Einstein condensate or an atom laser.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to optics letters
Induction and Exploitation of Subgoal Automata for Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Furelos-Blanco, Daniel
name: Law, Mark
name: Jonsson, Anders
name: Broda, Krysia
name: Russo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present ISA, an approach for learning and exploiting subgoals in episodic reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. ISA interleaves reinforcement learning with the induction of a subgoal automaton, an automaton whose edges are labeled by the task's subgoals expressed as propositional logic formulas over a set of high-level events. A subgoal automaton also consists of two special states: a state indicating the successful completion of the task, and a state indicating that the task has finished without succeeding. A state-of-the-art inductive logic programming system is used to learn a subgoal automaton that covers the traces of high-level events observed by the RL agent. When the currently exploited automaton does not correctly recognize a trace, the automaton learner induces a new automaton that covers that trace. The interleaving process guarantees the induction of automata with the minimum number of states, and applies a symmetry breaking mechanism to shrink the search space whilst remaining complete. We evaluate ISA in several gridworld and continuous state space problems using different RL algorithms that leverage the automaton structures. We provide an in-depth empirical analysis of the automaton learning performance in terms of the traces, the symmetry breaking and specific restrictions imposed on the final learnable automaton. For each class of RL problem, we show that the learned automata can be successfully exploited to learn policies that reach the goal, achieving an average reward comparable to the case where automata are not learned but handcrafted and given beforehand.
description: Published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
On the microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and beyond
Creators: name: Nath, Mihir Ranjan
name: Sen, Surajit
name: Gangopadhyay, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and its modification when the difference in temperature between the system and the surroundings is very large is discussed. When the system of interest is interacting with a small bath, the effect of the dynamical evolution of the bath variables is important to find out its dynamical feedback on the system. As in the usual system-bath approach, however, the bath is finally considered to be in thermal equilibrium and thereby provides an effective generalization of the Born-Markov master equation. It is shown that the cooling at early time is faster than that predicted by Newton's law due to the dynamical feedback of the bath.
description: 16 pages, 1 Figure, Typos corrected
A new species of Smicromyrme from Israel (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)
Creators: name: Lo Cascio, Pietro
name: Grita, Flavia
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2014

description: Smicromyrme bartolozzii sp. n. is described from a female specimen collected in a coastal desert of Israel. The new species is similar to S. ellipsifera (Gribodo, 1884), known for some localities of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt and Djibouti. Sculpture of the pygidial plate, punctuation of the head and some morphological features of mesosoma are the main differential characters between both species.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 46 No. 1-2 (2014)
Magnetic Anisotropy in Spin-3/2 with Heavy Ligand in Honeycomb Mott Insulators: Application to CrI$_3$
Creators: name: Stavropoulos, P. Peter
name: Liu, Xiaoyu
name: Kee, Hae-Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ferromagnetism in the two-dimensional CrI$_3$ has generated a lot of excitement, and it was recently proposed that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in Iodine may generate bond-dependent spin interactions leading to magnetic anisotropy. Here we derive a microscopic spin model of S=3/2 on transition metals surrounded by heavy ligands in honeycomb Mott insulators using a strong-coupling perturbation theory. For ideal octahedra we find Heisenberg and Kitaev interactions, which favor the magnetic moment along the cubic axis via quantum fluctuations. When a slight trigonal distortion of the octahedra is present together with the SOC, three additional interactions arise, comprised of the off-diagonal symmetric $Γ$ and $Γ^\prime$, and single-ion anisotropy. The resulting magnetic anisotropy pins the moment perpendicular to the honeycomb plane as observed in a single-layer of CrI$_3$, suggesting the significance of SOC and trigonal distortion in understanding magnetism of two dimensional Mott insulators. Comparison to the spin-orbit coupled $J_{\rm eff}$= 1/2 and S=1 models is also presented.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. Reorganized sections and added new author and new section
Additional file 1 of Liver shape analysis using statistical parametric maps at population scale
Creators: name: Thanaj, Marjola
name: Basty, Nicolas
name: Cule, Madeleine
name: Sorokin, Elena P.
name: Whitcher, Brandon
name: Bell, Jimmy D.
name: Thomas, E. Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
Nonequilibrium transport through parallel double quantum dots in the Kondo regime
Creators: name: Yang, Y. -F.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend a perturbative, nonequilibrium renormalization group approach to multi-orbital systems and apply it for studying transport through two parallel quantum dots coupled electrostatically. In general, the conductance shows pronounced Kondoesque peaks at three voltages. One of these peaks disappears if, as in some experiments, one of the dots is decoupled from one of the two leads. For an asymmetric coupling to the leads, also negative differential conductances are possible. This is a genuine nonequilibrium effect, accompanying the Kondoesque peaks. Moreover, a criterion to distinguish spin and orbital Kondo effect in such a system is discussed.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures; 2nd version as published in Phys. Rev. B with an extended outlook paragraph and some additional references
[Elicitation of vocabulary, story "What I Did in 6th Grade"]
Creators: name: García Cortés, María Agustina
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 5 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 105-114 and 1-6, respectively, of related field notes. Story is file 003, with transcription and glossing on pp. 112-113.
การเปรียบเทียบผลการใช้โปรแกรมฝึกกระโดดเชือกกับโปรแกรมฝึกกระโดดขึ้นลงบนม้านั่งที่   มีต่อสมรรถภาพพลังกล้ามเนื้อขาของนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 4-6 โรงเรียนเทศบาลวัดหลวงราชาวาส สาธิตมหาวิทยาลัยรามคำแหง อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดอุทัยธานี
Creators: name: ธนกฤต  สีมาก
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครสวรรค์
Year: 2015
Subjects: สมรรถภาพพลังกล้ามเนื้อขา, โปรแกรมฝึกกระโดดเชือก, โปรแกรมฝึกกระโดดขึ้นลงบนม้

description: No 8, Vol 5, วารสารวิชาการเครือข่ายบัณฑิตศึกษา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏภาคเหนือ
ForSE: a GAN based algorithm for extending CMB foreground models to sub-degree angular scales
Creators: name: Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta
name: Puglisi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ForSE (Foreground Scale Extender), a novel Python package which aims at overcoming the current limitations in the simulation of diffuse Galactic radiation, in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments (CMB). ForSE exploits the ability of generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) to learn and reproduce complex features present in a set of images, with the goal of simulating realistic and non-Gaussian foreground radiation at sub-degree angular scales. This is of great importance in order to estimate the foreground contamination to lensing reconstruction, de-lensing and primordial B-modes, for future CMB experiments. We applied this algorithm to Galactic thermal dust emission in both total intensity and polarization. Our results show how ForSE is able to generate small scale features (at 12 arc-minutes) having as input the large scale ones (80 arc-minutes). The injected structures have statistical properties, evaluated by means of the Minkowski functionals, in good agreement with those of the real sky and which show the correct amplitude scaling as a function of the angular dimension. The obtained thermal dust Stokes Q and U full sky maps as well as the ForSE package are publicly available for download.
description: Version 2
สมรรถภาพกลไกและดัชนีมวลกายของนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 4-6 กลุ่มโรงเรียนเทศบาลนครนครสวรรค์
Creators: name: ศิริชัย  พัฒน์จันทร์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครสวรรค์
Year: 2015
Subjects: สมรรถภาพกลไก, ดัชนีมวลกาย, โรงเรียนเทศบาลนครนครสวรรค์

description: No 8, Vol 5, วารสารวิชาการเครือข่ายบัณฑิตศึกษา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏภาคเหนือ
NMBP-16 Ambassadors - Cooperation as cornerstone of our success
Creators: name: Alfaro Serrano, Beatriz
name: Resch, Susanne
name: Hristozov, Danail
name: Schmid, Otmar
name: Stöger, Tobias
name: Rumbo, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: DIAGONAL, HARMLESS and SUNSHINE are EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects addressing the call topic “Safe by design, from science to regulation: multi-component nanomaterials”. The three sister projects joined forces since the very beginning, in 2021, collaborating on the challenges related to safe and sustainable multicomponent nanomaterials (MCNMs).

This poster was created jointly by the three projects to inform the broader community about their collaborative approach. For cross-cutting topics, so-called “Ambassadors” were appointed to facilitate cross-project knowledge exchange and scientific discussion. The installed task forces formed by the Ambassadors representing each of the three projects were well embedded in the EU NanoSafety Cluster ecosystem and can serve as best practice example of efficient and fruitful cross-project collaboration.

This poster was presented at the NMBP-16 booth during the NanoTox 2024 conference (23-25 September 2024, Venice, Italy).

 

Acknowledgement: These projects have received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 Research & Innovation Programme under grant agreement n° 953152 (DIAGONAL), n° 953183 (HARMLESS) and n° 952924 (SUNSHINE).
Vornicescu, Nestor: Contributii aduse di slujitori bisericesti pentru independenta de stat a Romaniei in anii 1877/1878
Creators: name: Heyer, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 27 Nr. 4 (1978): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 27, Heft 4
Additional file 1 of Indigofera suffruticosa aerial parts extract induce G2/M arrest and ATR/CHK1 pathway in Jurkat cells
Creators: name: Tran, Hong-Loan
name: Lai, Kuei-Hung
name: Chang, Hsun-Shuo
name: Chen, Yi-Siao
name: Wang, Hui-Chun
name: Yang, Shuen-Shin
name: Chang, Hsueh-Wei
name: Hsu, Chin-Mu
name: Yen, Chia-Hung
name: Hsiao, Hui-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Antibodies used in this study. Supplementary Fig. S1. Representative plot of Annexin V staining results. This figure is related to Fig. 2D. Supplementary Fig. S2. The caspase-3/7 activities in Jurkat cells after 12 h of ISAE treatment were assessed by Caspase-Glo® 3/7 assay (Promega) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The graph was expressed as fold changes to control group. Supplementary Fig. S3. Relative quantitative analysis of tryptanthrin, indigo, and indirubin in ISAE. The selected ion current chromatograms of the ISAE extract, tryptanthrin, indigo, and indirubin were carried out through MS full scan experiment in positive mode. The relative abundance of the three selected compounds in ISAE extract were calculated based on comparing the peak area ratios with standard compounds. Supplementary Fig. S4. Cell gating for cell cycle analysis. For cell cycle analysis, cells were gated using forward scatter (FSC) and side scatter (SSC) properties. This helped in excluding cell debris and selecting the desired cells (within the black circle) for analysis. The gating area was established based on the solvent control group (0 μg/mL of ISAE) and was consistently applied to all other groups. This illustration corresponds to Fig. 2A. Original images of western blot. Multiple exposure images of WB.
Non-reciprocal response of a two-dimensional fluid with odd viscosity
Creators: name: Hosaka, Yuto
name: Komura, Shigeyuki
name: Andelman, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the linear hydrodynamic response of a two-dimensional active chiral compressible fluid with odd viscosity. The viscosity coefficient represents broken time-reversal and parity symmetries in the 2D fluid and characterizes the deviation of the system from a passive fluid. Taking into account the hydrodynamic coupling to the underlying bulk fluid, we obtain the odd viscosity-dependent mobility tensor, which is responsible for the non-reciprocal hydrodynamic response to a point force. Furthermore, we consider a finite-size disk moving laterally in the 2D fluid and demonstrate that the disk experiences a non-dissipative lift force in addition to the dissipative drag one.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
A helium spread among the main sequence stars in NGC 2808
Creators: name: D'Antona, F.
name: Bellazzini, M.
name: Caloi, V.
name: Pecci, F. Fusi
name: Galleti, S.
name: Rood, R. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the color distribution of the main sequence of the Globular Cluster NGC 2808, based on new deep HST-WFPC2 photometry of a field in the uncrowded outskirts of the cluster. The color distribution of main sequence stars is wider than expected for a single stellar population, given our (carefully determined) measurement errors. About 20% of the sample stars are much bluer than expected and are most plausibly explained as a population having a much larger helium abundance than the bulk of the main sequence. We estimate that the helium mass fraction of these stars is Y ~ 0.4. NGC 2808 may have suffered self-enrichment, with different stellar populations born from the ejecta of the intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars of the first generation. In addition to the Y=0.40 stars, roughly 30% of the stars should have Y distributed between 0.26-0.29 while 50% have primordial Y, to explain also the peculiar horizontal branch morphology. Three main stages of star formation are identified, the first with primordial helium content Y ~ 0.24, the second one born from the winds of the most massive AGBs of the first stellar generation (6-7msun), having Y ~ 0.4, and a third one born from the matter ejected from less massive AGBs (~ 3.5-4.5msun) with Y ~ 0.26-0.29. For a long hiatus of time (several 10^7yr) between the second and third generation, star formation might have been inhibited by the explosion of late Supernovae II deriving from binary evolution.
description: accepted for publication on "The Astrophysical Journal"
Diplacodes lefebvrii in Sardinia, a new species for the Italian fauna (Odonata: Libellulidae)
Creators: name: Rattu, Andrea
name: Leo, Piero
name: Moratin, Raynald
name: Hardersen, Sönke
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2014

description: Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842) is a libellulid dragonfly, which is common and widespread in Africa and across the Indian Ocean. While this species is fairly common in the south and east of the Mediterranean, its European range is confined to Cyprus, the island of Rhodes and the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Here we report the first record of D. lefebvrii for Italy, which was captured near Cagliari (Sardinia) on 11.IX.2013. In October 2014, a population of the same species was observed at a small wetland on the island “Isola di San Pietro” (Sardinia). Here the observed sex ratio of D. lefebvrii was strongly biased in favour of females and only a single male was observed.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 46 No. 1-2 (2014)