cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Orthomus barbarus Dejean 1828
Creators: name: Ghannem, Samir
name: Touaylia, Samir
name: Boumaiza, Moncef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Orthomus
Orthomus barbarus

description: Orthomus barbarus Dejean, 1828
 Material examined. Sousse, 2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, 20 January 2013 .
 Collection sites. The species was caught under stones and pieces of dead wood.
 Distribution. North Africa: Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt. Europe: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France (Bedel 1895; Antoine 1955; Löbl & Smetana 2003).
description: Published as part of Ghannem, Samir, Touaylia, Samir & Boumaiza, Moncef, 2015, Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity in Center and Southern Tunisia., pp. 177-184 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715689
Probabilistic bounds on best rank-one approximation ratio
Creators: name: Kozhasov, Khazhgali
name: Tonelli-Cueto, Josué
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A69, 26C05, 41A50

description: We provide new upper and lower bounds on the minimum possible ratio of the spectral and Frobenius norms of a (partially) symmetric tensor. In the particular case of general tensors our result recovers a known upper bound. For symmetric tensors our upper bound unveils that the ratio of norms has the same order of magnitude as the trivial lower bound $1/\sqrt{n^{d-1}}$, when the order of a tensor $d$ is fixed and the dimension of the underlying vector space $n$ tends to infinity. However, when $n$ is fixed and $d$ tends to infinity, our lower bound is better than $1/\sqrt{n^{d-1}}$.
description: 26 pages
Plant community response to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment varies across an alpine tundra moisture gradient
Creators: name: Gasarch, Eve I.
name: Seastedt, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Background: The extent to which nutrient availability influences plant community composition and dynamics has been a focus of ecological enquiry for decades. Aims: Results from a long-term nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) addition experiment in alpine tundra were used to evaluate the importance of the two nutrients in structuring plant communities in three communities that differed in their snow cover amounts and duration and soil moisture characteristics. Methods: A factorial N and P experiment was established in three meadows differing in initial vegetation composition and soil moisture. Plant and soil characteristics were measured after 20 years, and the dissimilarity among meadows and treatments were measured using permutational analysis of variance. Results: Plant species richness declined uniformly across the three meadow types and in response to N and N + P additions, while both evenness and the Shannon diversity index finding indicated that nutrient additions had the highest impact on moister habitats. Overall, N impacts overshadowed changes attributed to P additions, and the N and N + P plots in wet meadow sites were the least diverse and scored the lowest dissimilarity averages among treatments. Dissimilarity estimates indicated that the control and P plots in the dry meadow community were more distinct in composition than all other plots, and especially those in the moist or wet meadows. Above-ground biomass of grasses and sedges (graminoids) increased with N additions while forbs appeared to show responses dictated in part by the graminoid responses. The most abundant grass species of moist and wet meadow, Deschampsia cespitosa, dominated N and N + P plots of the wet sites, but did not show a N response in moist areas in spite of its general abundance in moist meadow. Competition from other plant species in the moist areas likely diminished the D. cespitosa response and contributed to the resilience of the community to nutrient enrichment. Conclusions: Initial community composition, as influenced by the specific moisture regime, appears to control the extent to which changes in nutrient resources can alter plant community structure. Long-term fertilization tends to support most but not all findings obtained from shorter-termed efforts, and wet meadows exhibit the largest changes in plant species numbers and composition when chronically enriched with N.
Plant community response to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment varies across an alpine tundra moisture gradient
Creators: name: Gasarch, Eve I.
name: Seastedt, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Background: The extent to which nutrient availability influences plant community composition and dynamics has been a focus of ecological enquiry for decades. Aims: Results from a long-term nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) addition experiment in alpine tundra were used to evaluate the importance of the two nutrients in structuring plant communities in three communities that differed in their snow cover amounts and duration and soil moisture characteristics. Methods: A factorial N and P experiment was established in three meadows differing in initial vegetation composition and soil moisture. Plant and soil characteristics were measured after 20 years, and the dissimilarity among meadows and treatments were measured using permutational analysis of variance. Results: Plant species richness declined uniformly across the three meadow types and in response to N and N + P additions, while both evenness and the Shannon diversity index finding indicated that nutrient additions had the highest impact on moister habitats. Overall, N impacts overshadowed changes attributed to P additions, and the N and N + P plots in wet meadow sites were the least diverse and scored the lowest dissimilarity averages among treatments. Dissimilarity estimates indicated that the control and P plots in the dry meadow community were more distinct in composition than all other plots, and especially those in the moist or wet meadows. Above-ground biomass of grasses and sedges (graminoids) increased with N additions while forbs appeared to show responses dictated in part by the graminoid responses. The most abundant grass species of moist and wet meadow, Deschampsia cespitosa, dominated N and N + P plots of the wet sites, but did not show a N response in moist areas in spite of its general abundance in moist meadow. Competition from other plant species in the moist areas likely diminished the D. cespitosa response and contributed to the resilience of the community to nutrient enrichment. Conclusions: Initial community composition, as influenced by the specific moisture regime, appears to control the extent to which changes in nutrient resources can alter plant community structure. Long-term fertilization tends to support most but not all findings obtained from shorter-termed efforts, and wet meadows exhibit the largest changes in plant species numbers and composition when chronically enriched with N.
Laemostenus (Pristonychus) algerinus Gory 1833
Creators: name: Ghannem, Samir
name: Touaylia, Samir
name: Boumaiza, Moncef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Laemostenus
Laemostenus algerinus

description: Laemostenus (Pristonychus) algerinus Gory, 1833
 Material examined. Kairouan (El Guatranya), 1 ♀, 28 August 2013 .
 Collection sites. The specimen was collected under stones.
 Distribution. North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco. Europe: Spain, France, Italy (Bedel 1895; Antoine 1955; Löbl & Smetana 2003).
 Faunistic studies are a useful tool to get a better knowledge of the distribution of carabids in different localities and ecosystems of Tunisia. The structure of vegetation affects carabid spatial distribution maybe due to the microclimatic differences found in different plant structures, as well as perhaps due to the differentiation of faunal communities and faunal interactions by plant architectures (den Boer 1977; Luff 1998).
  In this study, a total of 19 species belonging to 3 subfamilies were collected from different localities. Of the three subfamilies studied here, Harpalinae is the most abundant with 16 species (84.2% of total), while the subfamily Carabinae is the less abundant with 2 species (10.5% of total). The subfamily Scaritinae is only represented by 1 species (5.2% of total). The subfamily Harpalinae with 19,000 species is the richest group of ground beetles (Lorenz 2005). Carabids respond more to the physical structure of the environment than to the species composition (Brose 2003; Jeanneret et al. 2003).
 More effort must be made to get more information about the spatio-temporal distribution of carabid species in all ecosystems of the country to help to identify and locate endemic species, rare or endangered species for conservation.
description: Published as part of Ghannem, Samir, Touaylia, Samir & Boumaiza, Moncef, 2015, Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity in Center and Southern Tunisia., pp. 177-184 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on pages 182-183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715689
Anthidium affine Morawitz 1873
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Anthidium
Anthidium affine

description: Anthidium affine Morawitz, 1873
 Material examined: Province of Markazi: Saveh, 35°06′N 49°59′E, 1 ♀, X.2009 .
 Distribution in Iran: Fars (Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 194, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Markovian Noise Modelling and Parameter Extraction Framework for Quantum Devices
Creators: name: Brand, Dean
name: Sinayskiy, Ilya
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have been widely used as a test bed for quantum dynamics. This work provides a new hardware-agnostic framework for modelling the Markovian noise and dynamics of quantum systems in benchmark procedures used to evaluate device performance. As an accessible example, the application and performance of this framework is demonstrated on IBM Quantum computers. This framework serves to extract multiple calibration parameters simultaneously through a simplified process which is more reliable than previously studied calibration experiments and tomographic procedures. Additionally, this method allows for real-time calibration of several hardware parameters of a quantum computer within a comprehensive procedure, providing quantitative insight into the performance of each device to be accounted for in future quantum circuits. The framework proposed here has the additional benefit of highlighting the consistency among qubit pairs when extracting parameters, which leads to a less computationally expensive calibration process than evaluating the entire device at once.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Cloning of the growth hormone receptor and its muscle-specific mRNA expression in black Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
Creators: name: W. Ji
name: G. Sun
name: X. Duan
name: B. Dong
name: Y. Bian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. The cDNA sequence of the growth hormone receptor (GHR) from the black Muscovy duck was obtained and compared to the mRNA expression of GH in the breast and leg muscles during 2-13 weeks of age using quantitative RT-PCR. 2. The cDNA sequence of the Muscovy duck GHR gene is 1903 bp in length, with an 1830 bp coding region that encodes 609 amino acids. It exhibits > 92.9% homology with the poultry GHR cDNA and amino acid sequences. 3. Overall, GHR mRNA expression was highest at 2 weeks and lowest at 13 weeks of age, exhibiting different profiles in different muscles. In the breast muscles, GHR mRNA level declined sharply at 2-4 weeks, maintained at a plateau at 4-10 weeks and decreased slightly at 10-13 weeks. In the leg muscles, a gradual and slow decrease was observed during the whole period of 2-13 weeks. 5. Robust extra-pituitary GH mRNA expression was detected in the muscles and the expression profile was highly correlated with that of GHR mRNA, in contrast to the inverse correlation between the pituitary GH and tissue GHR levels shown previously. 6. These data suggest that the locally synthesised GH in the muscles, rather than the pituitary GH, is more closely associated with GHR and may be more critical for the regulation of muscle growth and contribute to the tissue-specific effects of GH.
Anthidium dalmaticum Mocsary 1884
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Anthidium
Anthidium dalmaticum

description: Anthidium dalmaticum Mocsáry, 1884
 Material examined: Province of Isfahan: KAshAn, 34°00′N 51°20′E, 1 ♂, VIII.2012 .
 Distribution in Iran: Tehran (Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 194, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Highly Scalable Single List SPIHT
Creators: name: Al-Janabi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 80103 Computer Graphics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80106 Image Processing

description: A highly scalable image compression system produces a compressed image that can be easily decoded at several bit-rates (qualities) and resolutions (sizes). This is a very interesting feature in the heterogeneous environments of the Internet to satisfy the different user’s requests. This paper proposes a new algorithm termed Highly Scalable-Single List-SPIHT (HS-SLS). The proposed HS-SLS algorithm produces a highly scalable bit-stream that is both rate and resolution scalable. The flexible bit-stream of the HS-SLS encoder can easily be adapted to various resolution requirements at any bit-rate using a very simple scaling process that is performed on-the-fly and without the need to decode the bit-stream. A unique feature of the new algorithm is that it has low memory requirement and low complexity due to its simple memory management. In addition, the size of the usable memory is fixed and thus can be predefined which avoids the dynamic memory allocation problem. These features make the HS-SLS algorithm very suitable for hardware implementation. The price paid for these valuable features is very slight decrement in the algorithm's performance as compared to the original SPIHT algorithm.
Pengenalan Rangkakerja Metodologi dalam Kajian Penyelidikan: Satu Kajian Kes
Creators: name: Hua, Ang Kean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Anthropology
subject: Geography

description: Rangkakerja metodologi dalam kajian penyelidikan melancarkan proses mengumpul data. Kajian penyelidikan dikategorikan kepada penyelidikan kualitatif dan penyelidikan kuantitatif. Penyelidikan kualitatif merujuk kepada kajian yang dijalankan memerlukan pemerhatian yang teliti, manakala penyelidikan kuantitatif merujuk kepada kajian yang dijalankan melibatkan statistik. Kajian penyelidikan kualitatif dan kuantitatif dapat ditentukan melalui data primer atau data sekunder. Data primer didefinasikan sebagai data yang berasal dari sumber asli atau pertama, manakala data sekunder didefinasikan sebagai data yang telah dikumpulkan oleh pengkaji lain. Data primer boleh dikategorikan kepada aktif dan pasif. Data primer aktif boleh dibahagikan kepada menemu ramah secara langsung (melalui bersemuka antara penyelidik dan responden) dan menemu ramah secara tidak langsung (contohnya melalui telefon, surat, teknologi). Data primer pasif boleh dibahagikan kepada berstruktur dan bersifat rahsia, berstruktur dan bersifat terbuka, tidak berstruktur dan bersifat rahsia serta tidak berstruktur dan bersifat terbuka. Data sekunder melibatkan bentuk tulisan seperti jurnal, buku, majalah, rekod-rekod lepas, laporan dan dokumen, internet, tesis, cerpen, surat khabar), serta pandangan dan pendengaran (ucapan, tayangan gambar dan video, lagu, cerita). Walaupun data sekunder mempunyai kelebihan dan kelemahan, namun data sekunder dan data primer bergantung antara satu sama lain dalam membantu penyelidik menyelesaikan masalah masyarakat melalui pencapaian objektif kajian atau hipotesis kajian dalam kajian penyelidikan.
Low_Memory_SPIHT__Algorithm.pdf
Creators: name: Al-Janabi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: This paper proposes a new rate scalable image compression algorithm termed Single List-SPIHT (SLS). The proposed SLS algorithm has very low memory requirements as it needs about six times less memory than the original SPIHT. This is achieved by using a single list and two state mark bitmaps instead of the three lists that are used by the original SPIHT. In addition, the proposed SLS has simpler memory management because once a pixel is added to the list, it will never be removed. This will permit to implement the list as a simple ordered array that is accessed sequentially. Moreover, the size of the list can be predefined which avoids the dynamic memory allocation problem. This memory reduction and management simplification make the SLS algorithm very suitable for hardware implementation. Furthermore, SLS has better compression performance as compared to the original SPIHT. The price paid for these features is very slight increment in the algorithm's complexity as compared to the original SPIHT.
Low_Complexity_Image_Compression_using_Subband_Coding_of_the_DCT_Coefficients.pdf
Creators: name: Al-Janabi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: This paper proposes a new algorithm termed Quad-Tree-DCT (QT-DCT). QT-DCT is a low complexity algorithm that combines the good energy compaction ability and the simplicity of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) used by JPEG standard, and the global and embedding properties of Subband Coding (SBC) systems. The proposed QT-DCT reorders the DCT coefficients into subbands. Then these subbands are coded (bit-plane by bit-plane) using quad-tree decomposition method. The main contribution of the proposed QT-DCT algorithm is that it has better Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and lower complexity than JPEG image compression standard and some existing algorithms that have about the same complexity. In addition, QT-DCT produces an embedded compressed bit-stream which is able to achieve any compression bit-rate very easily. This is a very desirable feature for the modern requirements represented by the Internet.
Hedonic Diversity Games: A Complexity Picture with More than Two Colors
Creators: name: Ganian, Robert
name: Hamm, Thekla
name: Knop, Dušan
name: Schierreich, Šimon
name: Suchý, Ondřej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hedonic diversity games are a variant of the classical Hedonic games designed to better model a variety of questions concerning diversity and fairness. Previous works mainly targeted the case with two diversity classes (represented as colors in the model) and provided some initial complexity-theoretic and existential results concerning Nash and individually stable outcomes. Here, we design new algorithms accompanied with lower bounds which provide a complete parameterized-complexity picture for computing Nash and individually stable outcomes with respect to the most natural parameterizations of the problem. Crucially, our results hold for general Hedonic diversity games where the number of colors is not necessarily restricted to two, and show that -- apart from two trivial cases -- a necessary condition for tractability in this setting is that the number of colors is bounded by the parameter. Moreover, for the special case of two colors we resolve an open question asked in previous work (Boehmer and Elkind, AAAI 2020).
description: A preliminary version appeared in AAAI '22
Preprint: A robust peptidomics mass spectrometry platform for measuring oxytocin in plasma and serum
Creators: name: Wilson, Steven Ray
name: Brandtzaeg, Ole Kristian
name: Johnsen, Elin
name: Lundanes, Elsa
name: Leknes, Siri
name: Seip, Knut Fredik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 30108 Separation Science
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biomarkers
subject: 110106 Medical Biochemistry: Proteins and Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)

description: Current approaches to measuring the cyclic peptide oxytocin in plasma/serum are associated with poor selectivity and/or inadequate sensitivity. We here describe a high performance nano liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry platform for measuring OT in human plasma/serum. The platform is extremely robust, allowing laborious sample clean-up steps to be omitted. OT binds strongly to plasma proteins, but a reduction/alkylation procedure breaks this bond, allowing ample detection of total OT. The method showed excellent quantitation properties, and was used to determine total OT levels to 0.5-1.2 ng/mL (evaluated with human plasma and cord serum). The method is compatible with accessible mass spectrometry instrumentation, finally allowing selective and easily comparable oxytocin measurements.
Anthidium (Anthidium) strigatum
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Anthidium
Anthidium strigatum

description: Anthidium (Anthidium) strigatum (Panzer, 1805)
 Material examined: Province of Guilan: RudsAr, 36°42′N 50°18′E, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, VI.2007 .
  Distribution in Iran: Alborz, Kermanshah (Esmaili & Rastegar 1974), Fars (Keshtkar et al. 2012), Iran (no locality cited) (Izadi et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) prevents pro-oxidant effects of H2O2 in SK-N-BE(2) human neuroblastoma cells
Creators: name: Falone, Stefano
name: Marchesi, Nicoletta
name: Osera, Cecilia
name: Fassina, Lorenzo
name: Comincini, Sergio
name: Marialaura Amadio
name: Pascale, Alessia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose The redox milieu, together with reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, may play a role in mediating some biological effects of extremely-low-frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF). Some of us have recently reported that a pulsed EMF (PEMF) improves the antioxidant response of a drug-sensitive human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell line to pro-oxidants. Since drug resistance may affect cell sensitivity to redox-based treatments, we wanted to verify whether drug-resistant human neuroblastoma SK-N-BE(2) cells respond to a PEMF in a similar fashion. Materials and methods SK-N-BE(2) cells were exposed to repeated 2 mT, 75 Hz PEMF (15 min each, repeated 3 times over 5 days), and ROS production, Mn-dependent superoxide dismutase (MnSOD)-based antioxidant protection and viability were assessed after 10 min or 30 min 1 mM hydrogen peroxide. Sham controls were kept at the same time in identical cell culture incubators. Results The PEMF increased the MnSOD-based antioxidant protection and reduced the ROS production in response to a pro-oxidant challenge. Conclusions Our work might lay foundation for the development of non-invasive PEMF-based approaches aimed at elevating endogenous antioxidant properties in cellular or tissue models.
Stelis scutellaris Morawitz 1894
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Stelis
Stelis scutellaris

description: Stelis scutellaris Morawitz, 1894
 Material examined: Province of Kerman: Jiroft, 28°50′N 57°35′E, 1 ♂, IV.2010 .
  Distribution in Iran: Sistan & Baluchestan (Soraya Mohtat et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
USCORE: An Effective Approach to Fully Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation
Creators: name: Belouadi, Jonas
name: Eger, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The vast majority of evaluation metrics for machine translation are supervised, i.e., (i) are trained on human scores, (ii) assume the existence of reference translations, or (iii) leverage parallel data. This hinders their applicability to cases where such supervision signals are not available. In this work, we develop fully unsupervised evaluation metrics. To do so, we leverage similarities and synergies between evaluation metric induction, parallel corpus mining, and MT systems. In particular, we use an unsupervised evaluation metric to mine pseudo-parallel data, which we use to remap deficient underlying vector spaces (in an iterative manner) and to induce an unsupervised MT system, which then provides pseudo-references as an additional component in the metric. Finally, we also induce unsupervised multilingual sentence embeddings from pseudo-parallel data. We show that our fully unsupervised metrics are effective, i.e., they beat supervised competitors on 4 out of our 5 evaluation datasets. We make our code publicly available.
description: Accepted at EACL 2023 (main track)
Lithurgus tibialis Morawitz 1875
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Lithurgus
Lithurgus tibialis

description: Lithurgus tibialis Morawitz, 1875
 Material examined: Province of Mazandaran: BAbol, 36°30′N 52°35′E, 1 ♀, X.2009 .
  Distribution in Iran: Alborz (Talebi et al. 1995).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Epidemic processes on self-propelled particles: continuum and agent-based modelling
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Jorge P.
name: Paoluzzi, Matteo
name: Levis, Demian
name: Starnini, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most spreading processes require spatial proximity between agents. The stationary state of spreading dynamics in a population of mobile agents thus depends on the interplay between the time and length scales involved in the epidemic process and their motion in space. We analyze the steady properties resulting from such interplay in a simple model describing epidemic spreading (modeled as a Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible process) on self-propelled particles (performing Run-and-Tumble motion). Focusing our attention on the diffusive long-time regime, we find that the agents' motion changes qualitatively the nature of the epidemic transition characterized by the emergence of a macroscopic fraction of infected agents. Indeed, the transition becomes of the mean-field type for agents diffusing in one, two and three dimensions, while, in the absence of motion, the epidemic outbreak depends on the dimension of the underlying static network determined by the agents' fixed locations. The insights obtained from a continuum description of the system are validated by numerical simulations of an agent-based model. Our work aims at bridging soft active matter physics and theoretical epidemiology, and may be of interest for researchers in both communities.
Auto-correlative weak-value amplification under strong noise background
Creators: name: Huang, Jing-Hui
name: Hu, Xiang-Yun
name: Dada, Adetunmise C.
name: Lundeen, Jeff S.
name: Jordan, Kyle M.
name: Chen, Huan
name: An, Jian-Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By choosing more orthogonality between pre-selection and post-selection states, one can significantly improve the sensitivity in the general optical quantum metrology based on the weak-value amplification (WVA) approach. However, increasing the orthogonality decreases the probability of detecting photons and makes the weak measurement difficult, especially when the weak measurement is disturbed by strong noise and the pointer is drowned in noise with a negative-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this article, we investigate a modified weak measurement protocol with a temporal pointer, namely, the auto-correlative weak-value amplification (AWVA) approach. Specifically, a small longitudinal time delay (tiny phase shift) $τ$ of a Gaussian pulse is measured by implementing two simultaneous auto-correlative weak measurements under Gaussian white noise with different SNR. The small quantities $τ$ are obtained by measuring the auto-correlation coefficient of the pulses instead of fitting the shift of the mean value of the probe in the standard WVA technique. Simulation results show that the AWVA approach outperforms the standard WVA technique in the time domain with smaller statistical errors, remarkably increasing the precision of weak measurement under strong noise background.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Study on Properties Analysis of Knitwear After Acid Wash
Creators: name: Khalil, Elias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 91012 Textile Technology
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: This article deals with the investigation on the effect of the acid washing (with thermocol balls and potassium permanganate) on different properties of three knitted garments (Single Jersey 100% Cotton T-shirt, Single Jersey 95% Cotton 5% Spandex T-Shirt and 1×1 Rib100% Cotton T- Shirt). Typical washing procedures and techniques were followed and then physical properties were analyzed under standard condition. It is observed that fabric weight, CPI, WPI, spirality and shrinkage increase while bursting strength, stitch length absorbency decrease after washing treatment. PH of all the samples is under controlled and lies between 7 – 8. There is no change in pilling, colorfastness to wash, water and dry rubbing while a little bit decrease in wet rubbing.
Enhancing Digital Health Services: A Machine Learning Approach to Personalized Exercise Goal Setting
Creators: name: Fang, Ji
name: Lee, Vincent CS
name: Ji, Hao
name: Wang, Haiyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The utilization of digital health has increased recently, and these services provide extensive guidance to encourage users to exercise frequently by setting daily exercise goals to promote a healthy lifestyle. These comprehensive guides evolved from the consideration of various personalized behavioral factors. Nevertheless, existing approaches frequently neglect the users dynamic behavior and the changing in their health conditions. This study aims to fill this gap by developing a machine learning algorithm that dynamically updates auto-suggestion exercise goals using retrospective data and realistic behavior trajectory. We conducted a methodological study by designing a deep reinforcement learning algorithm to evaluate exercise performance, considering fitness-fatigue effects. The deep reinforcement learning algorithm combines deep learning techniques to analyse time series data and infer user exercise behavior. In addition, we use the asynchronous advantage actor-critic algorithm for reinforcement learning to determine the optimal exercise intensity through exploration and exploitation. The personalized exercise data and biometric data used in this study were collected from publicly available datasets, encompassing walking, sports logs, and running. In our study, we conducted The statistical analyses/inferential tests to compare the effectiveness of machine learning approach in exercise goal setting across different exercise goal setting strategies.
Neural Estimation of the Rate-Distortion Function With Applications to Operational Source Coding
Creators: name: Lei, Eric
name: Hassani, Hamed
name: Bidokhti, Shirin Saeedi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A fundamental question in designing lossy data compression schemes is how well one can do in comparison with the rate-distortion function, which describes the known theoretical limits of lossy compression. Motivated by the empirical success of deep neural network (DNN) compressors on large, real-world data, we investigate methods to estimate the rate-distortion function on such data, which would allow comparison of DNN compressors with optimality. While one could use the empirical distribution of the data and apply the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm, this approach presents several computational challenges and inaccuracies when the datasets are large and high-dimensional, such as the case of modern image datasets. Instead, we re-formulate the rate-distortion objective, and solve the resulting functional optimization problem using neural networks. We apply the resulting rate-distortion estimator, called NERD, on popular image datasets, and provide evidence that NERD can accurately estimate the rate-distortion function. Using our estimate, we show that the rate-distortion achievable by DNN compressors are within several bits of the rate-distortion function for real-world datasets. Additionally, NERD provides access to the rate-distortion achieving channel, as well as samples from its output marginal. Therefore, using recent results in reverse channel coding, we describe how NERD can be used to construct an operational one-shot lossy compression scheme with guarantees on the achievable rate and distortion. Experimental results demonstrate competitive performance with DNN compressors.
The effect of the patient–physician relationship on health-related quality of life after cardiac rehabilitation
Creators: name: Weeger, Sebastian
name: Farin, Erik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose The patient–physician relationship has effects on adherence and health outcomes in chronic diseases. This prospective study investigates the effect of the patient–physician relationship on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in the context of cardiac rehabilitation. Methods Three hundred and thirty-eight German patients filled out questionnaires at the start and end of rehabilitation and at 6 months follow-up. Patient–physician relationship variables surveyed were patient involvement (perceived involvement in care scales), trust in the physician, patient satisfaction (PHYSAT) and physician’s communicative behaviour (KOVA). After adjusting for multiple confounders, hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to predict the influence of the patient–physician relationship on HRQOL after rehabilitation. We further examined clinical relevance using minimal clinically important differences (MCID). Results In the hierarchical regression analyses, 42.8–54.9% of the variance at the end of rehabilitation and 22.4–40.5% at follow-up were explained. The patient–physician variables patient satisfaction, physician’s emotionally supportive communication and effective and open communication accounted for 1.4–2.6% of the variance and proved statistically and clinically significant for HRQOL change. Further predictors for better HRQOL were higher income and less trait anger. Conclusion Aspects of the patient–physician relationship are significant predictors for patients’ HRQOL after rehabilitation. Rehabilitation physicians should emotionally support the patients and communicate in an effective and open manner to enhance HRQOL.Implications for rehabilitationAspects of the patient–physician relationship have effects on adherence and clinical outcomes in chronic diseases.In this cardiac sample, the patient–physician relationship had an influence on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after inpatient rehabilitation.Rehabilitation physicians should emotionally support and encourage the patients and communicate with them in an effective and open manner to enhance patients’ HRQOL. Aspects of the patient–physician relationship have effects on adherence and clinical outcomes in chronic diseases. In this cardiac sample, the patient–physician relationship had an influence on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after inpatient rehabilitation. Rehabilitation physicians should emotionally support and encourage the patients and communicate with them in an effective and open manner to enhance patients’ HRQOL.
Land allocation, boundary demarcation and tenure security in tribal areas of South Africa
Creators: name: Hull, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 90999 Geomatic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This study investigates land allocation processes, boundary demarcation, and associated land tenure security in tribal areas of South Africa. The research design is that of a descriptive multiple-case study to interrogate indigenous knowledge in this area. Four themes related to customary land allocation processes in South Africa have emerged from the data: Applicant, Authority, Acceptance and Allocation. These themes are used as the basis for comparison across the cases. The case studies are also used to test a published conceptual model of land tenure security. The results suggest that tenure in the study areas is secure overall. The study concludes that the processes of land administration and the systems used to demarcate boundaries are (mostly) suitable to protect land rights and thus provide security of land tenure. Also the tested conceptual model of land tenure security can be used to indicate the state of tenure security for a particular case, though improvements are suggested.
Coelioxys haemorrhoa Forster 1853
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Coelioxys
Coelioxys haemorrhoa

description: Coelioxys haemorrhoa Förster, 1853
 Material examined: Province of Kurdistan: Qorveh, 35°15′N 47°40′E, 1 ♀, VIII.2013 .
  Distribution in Iran: Guilan (Tavakkoli et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Event-aided Direct Sparse Odometry
Creators: name: Hidalgo-Carrió, Javier
name: Gallego, Guillermo
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce EDS, a direct monocular visual odometry using events and frames. Our algorithm leverages the event generation model to track the camera motion in the blind time between frames. The method formulates a direct probabilistic approach of observed brightness increments. Per-pixel brightness increments are predicted using a sparse number of selected 3D points and are compared to the events via the brightness increment error to estimate camera motion. The method recovers a semi-dense 3D map using photometric bundle adjustment. EDS is the first method to perform 6-DOF VO using events and frames with a direct approach. By design, it overcomes the problem of changing appearance in indirect methods. We also show that, for a target error performance, EDS can work at lower frame rates than state-of-the-art frame-based VO solutions. This opens the door to low-power motion-tracking applications where frames are sparingly triggered "on demand" and our method tracks the motion in between. We release code and datasets to the public.
description: 16 pages, 14 Figures, Page: https://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/eds
title: 03_0872
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Decomposition of enveloping algebras of simple Lie algebras and their related polynomial algebras
Creators: name: Campoamor-Stursberg, Rutwig
name: Marquette, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decomposition problem of the enveloping algebra of a simple Lie algebra is reconsidered combining both the analytical and the algebraic approach, showing its relation with the internal labelling problem with respect to a nilpotent subalgebra. A lower bound for the number of generators of the commutant as well as the maximal Abelian subalgebra are obtained. The decomposition problem for the exceptional Lie algebra $G_2$ is completely solved.
A New Era of Quantum Materials Mastery and Quantum Simulators In and Out of Equilibrium
Creators: name: Kennes, Dante M.
name: Rubio, Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a perspective on the burgeoning field of controlling quantum materials at will and its potential for quantum simulations in and out equilibrium. After briefly outlining a selection of key recent advances in controlling materials using novel high fluence lasers as well as in innovative approaches for novel quantum materials synthesis (especially in the field of twisted two-dimensional solids), we provide a vision for the future of the field. By merging state of the art developments we believe it is possible to enter a new era of quantum materials mastery, in which exotic and for the most part evasive collective as well as topological phenomena can be controlled in a versatile manner. This could unlock functionalities of unprecedented capabilities, which in turn can enable many novel quantum technologies in the future.
Megachile (Megachile) centuncularis
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile centuncularis

description: Megachile (Megachile) centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Material examined: Province of Semnan: ShAhrood, 35°30′N 55°30′E, 1 ♂, IV.2012 .
  Distribution in Iran: Fars (Khodaparast et al. 2011; Khodaparast & Monfared 2012).
  Plant association: Medicago sativa Linnaeus (Fabaceae), Euphorbia sp. (Euphorbiaceae), Epilobium hirsutum (Onagraceae) (Khodaparast & Monfared 2012).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753