cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Online Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Inverter-based Volt-VAR Control
Creators: name: Liu, Haotian
name: Wu, Wenchuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The distributed Volt/Var control (VVC) methods have been widely studied for active distribution networks(ADNs), which is based on perfect model and real-time P2P communication. However, the model is always incomplete with significant parameter errors and such P2P communication system is hard to maintain. In this paper, we propose an online multi-agent reinforcement learning and decentralized control framework (OLDC) for VVC. In this framework, the VVC problem is formulated as a constrained Markov game and we propose a novel multi-agent constrained soft actor-critic (MACSAC) reinforcement learning algorithm. MACSAC is used to train the control agents online, so the accurate ADN model is no longer needed. Then, the trained agents can realize decentralized optimal control using local measurements without real-time P2P communication. The OLDC with MACSAC has shown extraordinary flexibility, efficiency and robustness to various computing and communication conditions. Numerical simulations on IEEE test cases not only demonstrate that the proposed MACSAC outperforms the state-of-art learning algorithms, but also support the superiority of our OLDC framework in the online application.
description: 11 pages; submitted to IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid on 2020.6.4
Beyond the GenerAsians : Intergenerational programming and Vancouver’s Chinatown
Creators: name: Tang, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Applying the "age" lens, this paper asks: how can intergenerational programming move the current Vancouver Chinatown Revitalization process towards a more ageintegrated and life course-oriented approach? In addition, a meta-question is: How can intergenerational programming assist diverse populations (i.e. younger and older people) collectively search for new meanings for Chinatowns in transition? The qualitative and quantitative methods used in this research include reviewing literature, primary documents, city documents, unpublished works, and conference papers. Basic demographic analyses, community interviews, and surveys were conducted. As a member of the Vancouver Chinatown Revitalization Committee and intern at the City of Vancouver, personal observations were also made between 2002 and 2004. This research adopts the Community for all Ages model to evaluate Vancouver's Chinatown revitalization process and makes recommendations that move it towards intergenerational programming - a mechanism to respond to key challenges from the "age lens": changing age demographics, the diversifying Chinese-Canadian community in Vancouver, and aging institutions in Chinatown. Challenging traditional theories of generations and assimilation, the results of this research illustrate the need for planners, policymakers, and community workers to recognize the diverse stories and experiences along the age continuum and to adopt a life-course approach in moving communities from age-segregation to age-integration. Identifying some key issues for implementation and future research, this study has implications for the application of intergenerational programming in Vancouver's Chinatown but also in other Chinatowns currently facing similar challenges.
Caracterización del proceso de decisión de compra de leche en la Región de La Araucanía, Chile
Creators: name: Vinuela, Juan Manuel
name: Schnettler, Berta
name: Sepulveda, Nestor
name: Catalan, Patricia
name: Vinuela, Juan Manuel
name: Schnettler, Berta
name: Sepulveda, Nestor
name: Catalan, Patricia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Conjoint analysis
subject: Fluid milk
subject: Purchase behavior.

description: The milk consumption in Chile has persisted between 124 and 134 Ls per capita since 1996, numbers that are below the recommendations of national and international health organizations, in spite of the promotion instances of its consumption created by public and private institutions of the country. In order to characterize the decision-making process in milk consumer’s purchase in supermarkets in Temuco, Araucania Region of Chile, and to determine the relevance of the brand as attribute of selection, a survey to 400 persons was made. Considering the answers of the survey, 92,7% declare to be milk consumers. It was found that the family group carried out milk consumption daily. Supermarket’s offer, family and personal preferences mainly influenced the purchase decision. And this process takes less than four minutes. This decision was based on the milk flavor, fat content and the price. The preference over a particular a brand was mainly based on the trust it generated on the consumer. Women made the purchase decision and bought the milk. 45,6% showed to consume fluid milk, 25,1% powder milk, and 29,4% both of them. There was a high degree of conformity in the product bought after its consumption; the common answer on the contrary case corresponded to a change of brand. Using conjoint analysis, it was determined that the brand had a 55,2% of relative relevance in the decision-making process, compared to the packaging and the price.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
Additional file 2 of Association of [1H]-MRS quantified liver fat content with glucose metabolism status
Creators: name: Wang, Yun-Sheng
name: Ye, Jun
name: Cao, Yong-Hong
name: Zhang, Rong
name: Han, Xiao-Fang
name: Zou, Ling-Ling
name: Kuang, Lei
name: Zhang, Ji
name: Lian, Hu
name: Xia, Jin-Xiang
name: Zhang, Qiu
name: Dai, Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Correlation of LFC with parameters regarding insulin resistance and β-cell function.
Food Safety Risk Perceptions as a Tool for Market Segmentation: The U.S. Poultry Meat Market
Creators: name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Hallman, William K.
name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Rimal, Arbindra
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Hallman, William K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This study explores the application of risk perceptions as a segmentation tool in the poultry meat market. Principal component analysis is used to examine data from a 2006 survey on a potential avian influenza outbreak in the U.S. The results suggest that the perceived level of safety of poultry meat will drive consumption choices in the case of an avian influenza outbreak. Based on the perceived safety level, the poultry meat product market was categorized into those that are home cooked and from familiar brands, the technological/novel, and organic/fast food poultry products, with the first category being perceived as the safest and the third as the least safe. The results also show significant differences in public trust in the avian influenza information provided by the government, poultry producers, politicians, and the media.
Quantifying uncertainties in neutron-alpha scattering with chiral nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces
Creators: name: Kravvaris, Konstantinos
name: Quinlan, Kevin R.
name: Quaglioni, Sofia
name: Wendt, Kyle A.
name: Navratil, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Modern ab initio theory combined with high-quality nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) interactions from chiral effective field theory (EFT) can provide a predictive description of low-energy light-nuclei reactions relevant for astrophysics and fusion-energy applications. However, the high cost of computations has so far impeded a complete analysis of the uncertainty budget of such calculations. Purpose: Starting from NN potentials up to fifth order (N4LO) combined with leading-order 3N forces, we study how the order-by-order convergence of the chiral expansion and confidence intervals for the 3N contact and contact-plus-one-pion-exchange low-energy constants (cE and cD) contribute to the overall uncertainty budget of many-body calculations of neutron-He elastic scattering. Methods: We compute structure and reaction observables for three-, four- and five-nucleon systems within the ab initio frameworks of the no-core shell model an no-core shell model with continuum. Using a small set of design runs, we construct a Gaussian process model (GPM) that acts as a statistical emulator for the theory. With this, we gain insight into how uncertainties in the 3N low-energy constants propagate throughout the calculation and determine the Bayesian posterior distribution of these parameters with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Representing rape : a semiotic analysis of rape myths in three popular films
Creators: name: Bleackley, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This essay considers the representation of rape in three popular films and how these depictions may reinforce or undermine ideas surrounding rape, gender and normative sexual behaviour. Often rape myths (female sexual availability and male sexual aggression) are mobilized in conjunction with the depiction of rape, and it is through this mobilization of rape myths that explorations of normative sexual behaviour and gender are considered. Each of the three films examined (The Accused, Boys Don't Cry and Pulp Fiction) depict a different type of rape (the gender of the victim is different in each), offering a considerable opportunity to explore issues of sexual violence and gender, especially masculinity. Significantly, these films also inadvertently comment on issues of race and class through their representation of rape. Taken together, the three films reflect an androcentric heteronormative view of sexual behaviour and gender, where male sexual aggression toward women is possibly justifiable and gender is conceived of as binary (masculine or feminine) and fixed. A critique of these sexual codes indicates the necessity of rejecting the binary conceptions of sex, gender and sexual behaviour in favour of more fluid conceptualizations. In this instance sex, gender and sexual behaviour would be understood as a range of behaviours and identities rather than as an either/or alternative and thus be inclusive and not exclusive of a wider range of identities, desires and expressions.
The Impact of Product Attribute Wording on Consumer Acceptance of Biotechnology Applications in Produce
Creators: name: Novotorova, Nadezhda K.
name: Mazzocco, Michael A.
name: Novotorova, Nadezhda K.
name: Mazzocco, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: A better understanding of consumer preferences for and behavior toward genetically modified (GM) foods is essential for designing new market strategies and information policies for GM products. A sample of Midwest consumers was administered one of two nearly identical conjoint questionnaires to identify the influence of attribute wording on consumer preferences. Respondents value “GM” negatively, while referring to the same attribute as “reduced environmental impact” (REI) results in a positive valuation. The inclusion of both the method of production (GM) and its specific benefits may provide consumers with more information with which to make choices among products.
Organic Price Premiums Paid for Fresh Tomatoes and Apples by U.S. Households: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan Data
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Houston, Jack E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Using multivariate regression on data composed of prices, produce characteristics, demographics, and interactions, this study investigates organic price premiums paid by U.S. consumers for fresh tomatoes and apples, two of the top organic produce sellers, and identifies factors explaining variation in price premiums. The econometric problem of each buyer having multiple records in the purchase data is addressed in the estimation procedure.
Roles of quantum coherences in thermal machines
Creators: name: Latune, C. L.
name: Sinayskiy, I.
name: Petruccione, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some of the oldest and most important applications of thermodynamics are operations of refrigeration as well as production of useful energy. Part of the efforts to understand and develop thermodynamics in the quantum regime have been focusing on harnessing quantum effects to such operations. In this review we present the recent developments regarding the role of quantum coherences in the performances of thermal machines --the devices realising the above thermodynamic operations. While this is known to be an intricate subject, in part because being largely model-dependent, the review of the recent results allow us to identify some general tendencies and to suggest some future directions.
description: Review paper, 12 pages, 2 figures.Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Oenopia guerini
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia guerini

description: Oenopia guerini (Mulsant)
(Fig. 149)
Alesia guerini Mulsant, 1850: 345; 1866: 233 (Holotype, UCCC; Type locality: India).—Crotch 1874: 174; Korschefsky 1932: 305.—Synonymized by Poorani et al. 2023: 469.
Micraspis guerini: Gordon 1987: 21 (lectotype designation).
Coelophora walteri Sicard, 1913: 503 (Holotype, MNHN; Type locality: India).— Korschefsky 1932: 298.—Synonymized by Poorani et al. 2023: 469.
Oenopia walteri: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 70.— Poorani 2002a: 338; Poorani 2002b: 101.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.25–3.75 mm; width: 3.00– 3.25 mm. Form (Fig. 149a–c) broadly rounded to slightly oval, dorsum strongly convex and glabrous. Head yellow in male, with a median longitudinal black band in female. Pronotum yellow, with a black band along posterior margin and a pair of median spots, sometimes fused with basal band. Elytra yellow, with an anchor-shaped, black marking in posterior half forming four cells, anterior pair large and transverse, posterior pair smaller, obliquely oval; external margins of elytra black. Ventral side black, except anterior half of prothoracic hypomeron and inner half of elytral epipleura yellowish, tibial apices and tarsi yellowish brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 149g, h) and spermatheca (Fig. 149f) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh; Kerala; Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills; Pulney hills).
Prey/associated habitat. Collected on apple (label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during March and October (label data).
Note. The distribution of O. guerini in India is discontinuous and it has been recorded from Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh (label data). It appears to be a rare species.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Vortex oscillations in confined Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with 1D optical lattice
Creators: name: Isoshima, Tomoya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic Boson gases trapped in a composite potential of a harmonic potential and an optical lattice potential. We found a series of collective excitations that induces localized vortex oscillations with a characteristic wavelength. The oscillations might be observed experimentally when radial confinement is tight. We present the excitation spectra of the vortex oscillation modes and propose a way to experimentally excite the modes.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures. Title, abstract and references are updated
Microvariability in AGNs: study of different statistical methods II. Light curves from simulated images
Creators: name: Zibecchi, L.
name: Andruchow, I.
name: Cellone, S. A.
name: Carpintero, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper, we studied two statistical methods used to analyse the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs): the C and F statistics. Applying them to observed differential light-curves of 39 AGNs, we found that, even though the C criterion cannot be considered as an actual statistical test, it could still be a useful parameter to detect variability, whereas F is a good detector of non-variability. In order to test these results under controlled input conditions, so that the different error sources could be individually evaluated, we generated a series of synthetic differential light curves simulating astronomical images with different atmospheric conditions, such as cloud cover, seeing or sky brightness, as well as several types of intrinsic variability of the AGN, all with a specific instrumental configuration. Having obtained light curves for each case, we applied both statistics to them in order to test their reliability. We found that a weight factor should always be used with these indices. The F test has a tendency to classify noisy non-variable curves as variable (i.e. false positives), although it is reliable and robust to correctly classify non-variable curves. On the contrary, although the C index tends to give false negatives, we found that whenever the C index indicates a source to be variable, it effectively is. Finally, light curves with low amplitude variabilities are more likely to be affected by changes in atmospheric conditions.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. On-line material only available in the MNRAS website
Additional file 1 of A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of bipolar disorder among homeless people
Creators: name: Ayano, Getinet
name: Shegaye Shumet
name: Getachew Tesfaw
name: Light Tsegay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Screenshot of document results from the three databases. This additional material shows snapshot of number of studies identified during the database search PubMed (n = 2712), Embase (n = 200), and Scopus (n = 316).
Export Vegetable Production in Kenya under the EurepGAP Standard: Is Large “More Beautiful” than Small?
Creators: name: Mausch, Kai
name: Mithofer, Dagmar
name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Waibel, Hermann
name: Mausch, Kai
name: Mithofer, Dagmar
name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Waibel, Hermann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This paper defines three types of typical certified farms in Kenyan export production: smallholder farms, large-scale contracted farms, and exporter-owned farms. It assesses their economic performance, compares the financial cost of compliance with the EurepGAP standard, and analyses transaction costs. Results show that larger farms are not generally performing more efficiently compared to smallholders who implemented the EurepGAP standard. Despite higher monitoring costs as a result of the introduction of standards, smallholder vegetable producers remain an important source for the exporter companies.
Additional file 2 of A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of bipolar disorder among homeless people
Creators: name: Ayano, Getinet
name: Shegaye Shumet
name: Getachew Tesfaw
name: Light Tsegay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Excluded full text studies with reasons of exclusion. The major reasons for the exclusion includes: (a) Not measured the prevalence of bipolar disorder (n = 8): (b) the study population was not homeless people (n = 8); (2) reviews (n = 2); (3) duplicate (n = 2).
Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Delay of Super-Massive Black Hole Growth
Creators: name: Cruz, Akaxia
name: Pontzen, Andrew
name: Volonteri, Marta
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Tremmel, Michael
name: Brooks, Alyson M.
name: Sanchez, Nicole N.
name: Munshi, Ferah
name: Di Cintio, Arianna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with physically motivated models of super-massive black hole (SMBH) formation and growth, we compare the assembly of Milky Way-mass ( $M_{\mathrm{vir}} \approx 7 \times 10^{11}$ $M_{\odot}$ at $z = 0$) galaxies in cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. Our SIDM model adopts a constant cross-section of 1 cm$^2$/g. We find that SMBH formation is suppressed in the early universe due to SIDM coring. SMBH-SMBH mergers are also suppressed in SIDM as a consequence of the lower number of SMBHs formed. Lack of initial merger-driven SMBH growth in turn delays SMBH growth by billions of years in SIDM compared to CDM. Further, we find that this delayed growth suppresses SMBH accretion in the largest progenitors of the main SIDM galaxies during the first 5 Gyrs of their evolution. Nonetheless, by $z = 0.8$ the CDM and SIDM SMBH masses differ only by around 0.2 dex, so that both remain compatible with the $M_{BH}-M_{*}$ relation. We show that the reduced accretion causes the SIDM SMBHs to less aggressively regulate star formation in their host galaxies than their CDM counterparts, resulting in a factor of 3 or more stars being produced over the lifetime of the SIDM galaxies compared to the CDM galaxies. Our results highlight a new way in which SIDM can affect the growth and merger history of SMBHs and ultimately give rise to very different galaxy evolution compared to the classic CDM model.
Alkoxycarbonylphenyl 4-alkoxycinnamate liquid crystals with antiparallel packing
Creators: name: Tabassum, Jamila
name: Aziz, Aftab
name: Muhammad, Khushi
name: Tahir, Muhammad Nawaz
name: Vieira, André A.
name: Bechtold, Ivan H.
name: Hameed, Shahid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A series of cinnamates with two flexible chains, one as alkoxy and the other as alkoxycarbonyl, has been synthesised to investigate mesomorphic behaviour. Single crystal X-ray measurements demonstrated the crystalline structure and a dimer packing was predicted due to H-bonding interactions. Most of the compounds show SmA phase only on cooling. Only the member with shortest chains exhibited nematic along with SmA phase. A monotropic SmC phase was observed for compounds with octyloxy group. However, X-ray diffraction studies demonstrated that the SmA to SmC phase transition is not accompanied by a significant interlayer spacing reduction, which was associated to strong intermolecular interactions within the layers. In all the compounds, the mesophase supercools prior to crystallisation.
Oenopia kirbyi Mulsant
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia kirbyi

description: Oenopia kirbyi Mulsant
(Fig. 150)
Oenopia kirbyi Mulsant, 1850: 425 (Lectotype, OUM; Type locality: ‘Kasia hills”).— Poorani 2002a: 337; Poorani 2002b: 102; Yu 2010: 99–100.
Gyrocaria kirbyi: Miyatake 1965: 66.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.70–3.90 mm; width: 3.00– 3.20 mm. Form (Fig. 150a–d) oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head black. Pronotum black with anterolateral corners yellow. Ground colour of elytra bright lemon yellow, with four black spots, margins black, sutural black stripe broad and medially wider (Fig. 150a–d).Ventral side black except elytral epipleura yellowish. Male genitalia (Fig. 150f, g) and spermatheca (Fig. 150e) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Eastern Himalayas; Bhutan; Nepal; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos.
Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Aphidoidea: Aphis fabae Scopoli, A. fabae solanella Theobald, Aphis gossypii Glover, Aphis paraverbasci Chakrabarti, Aphis spiraecola Patch (as A. citricola van der Goot), Brevicoryne brassicae (Linnaeus), Capitophorus formosartemisiae (Takahashi), Cervaphis rappardi indica Basu, Coloradoa rufomaculata (Wilson), Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), Eulachnus thunbergii (Wilson), Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy), Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus), Myzus persicae (Sulzer), Pineus sp., Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch), Sitobion rosaeiformis (Das), and Tuberculatus indicus Ghosh. Collected in association with aphids feeding on peach, almond, maize, Cucumis sativus, Quercus serrata, Solanum nigrum, and Duranta repens. Feeds on aphids infesting Bidens pilosa in Nepal (Sajan et al. 2019).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during February, March–June, August, and October–December in north and northeastern regions.
Notes. Poorani (2002b) treated it in her review of Indian Oenopia. Ghosh et al. (1986) studied its biology. See Poorani (2002), Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) for description and illustrations of the genitalia / immature stages.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Optimizing stochastic trajectories in exact quantum jump approaches of interacting systems
Creators: name: Lacroix, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum jump approach, where pairs of state vectors follow Stochastic Schroedinger Equation (SSE) in order to treat the exact quantum dynamics of two interacting systems, is first described. In this work the non-uniqueness of such stochastic Schroedinger equations is investigated to propose strategies to optimize the stochastic paths and reduce statistical fluctuations. In the proposed method, called the 'adaptative noise method', a specific SSE is obtained for which the noise depends explicitly on both the initial state and on the properties of the interaction Hamiltonian. It is also shown that this method can be further improved by introduction of a mean-field dynamics. The different optimization procedures are illustrated quantitatively in the case of interacting spins. A significant reduction of the statistical fluctuations is obtained. Consequently a much smaller number of trajectories is needed to accurately reproduce the exact dynamics as compared to the SSE without optimization.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, revised version
Disconnections in US and EU Agricultural Policy and Trade Negotiations: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach
Creators: name: Young, Linda M.
name: Hansen, Kathleen C.
name: Young, Linda M.
name: Hansen, Kathleen C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Political Economy
subject: This article investigates aspects of the institutions and decision making processes in the United States and the European Union that affect the coordination of domestic farm programs and trade negotiations for agriculture in each entity. We explore how current institutions and processes contribute to a level of incoherence - or lack of coordination - between domestic farm programs and trade negotiations in the United States. Constructs from transaction cost politics with an emphasis on the decision to delegate authority from the principal to an agent are used to understand how institutional processes affect the coordination of domestic legislation.

description: This article investigates aspects of the institutions and decision making processes in the United States and the European Union that affect the coordination of domestic farm programs and trade negotiations for agriculture in each entity. We explore how current institutions and processes contribute to a level of incoherence - or lack of coordination - between domestic farm programs and trade negotiations in the United States. Constructs from transaction cost politics with an emphasis on the decision to delegate authority from the principal to an agent are used to understand how institutional processes affect the coordination of domestic legislation.
Net ecosystem production of three coastal Douglas-fir stands at different stages of development after harvesting
Creators: name: Humphreys, Elyn R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Forest harvesting and succession have a major impact on the dynamics of carbon exchange between forests and the atmosphere. This thesis examines the differences in stand-level fluxes of carbon dioxide (C02) and the biophysical factors, which affect respiration and photosynthesis in three different coastal Douglas-fir stands at different stages of development after harvesting. The eddy covariance technique was used to measure stand-level CO2 fluxes in Douglas-fir stands established in 2000, 1988, and 1948 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. A portable soil chamber system was used to measure CO2 efflux from the soil in each stand. One year of measurements (2002) was used to contrast net ecosystem production (NEP) between the three stands, while three consecutive years (September 2000 to September 2003) were used to examine interannual variability in NEP in the recently clearcut-harvested stand. Total annual NEP, ecosystem respiration (Re) and gross ecosystem production (GEP) increased with increasing stand age. In 2002, the 3-year-old stand was a large carbon (C) source (NEP = -610 g C m~2 y_ 1), the 14-year-old stand was a small C source (NEP = -130 g C m - 2 y_ 1), and the 53-year-old stand was a moderate C sink (NEP = 250 g C m~2 y- 1). Seasonal variations in both soil and ecosystem respiration were related to soil temperature, while within- and between-stand variability in soil respiration was related to the concentration of soil nitrogen. Differences in annual Re in these forests were better related to productivity than to soil temperature. Seasonal variations in NEP differed between stands and were related to differences in stand structural characteristics such as canopy roughness, leaf area, biomass, species composition and phenology. The effect of advection on NEP estimates was greatest in the 53-year-old stand and was also related to these structural characteristics as well as site characteristics. In the first three years after harvesting, leaf area increased with the growth of Douglas-fir seedlings, and pioneer and understory species in the youngest stand. Changes in the relationships between respiration and soil temperature and between GEP and radiation were linked to leaf area index. Results from this study emphasize the importance of stand structure and succession as well as site characteristics and weather variability on C exchange processes.
Gauge-Field-Induced Torsion and Cosmic Inflation
Creators: name: Kasem, Ammar
name: Khalil, Shaaban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inflation in the framework of Einstein-Cartan theory is revisited. Einstein-Cartan theory is a natural extension of the General Relativity, with non-vanishing torsion. The connection on Riemann-Cartan spacetime is only compatible with the cosmological principal for a particular form of torsion. We show this form to also be compatible with gauge invariance principle for a non-Abelian and Abelian gauge fields under a certain deviced minimal coupling procedure. We adopt an Abelian gauge field in the form of "cosmic triad". The dynamical field equations are obtained and shown to sustain cosmic inflation with a large number of e-folds. We emphasize that at the end of inflation, torsion vanishes and the theory of Einstein-Cartan reduces to the General Relativity with the usual FRW geometry.
Unsupervised Deep Learning Methods for Biological Image Reconstruction and Enhancement
Creators: name: Akçakaya, Mehmet
name: Yaman, Burhaneddin
name: Chung, Hyungjin
name: Ye, Jong Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, deep learning approaches have become the main research frontier for biological image reconstruction and enhancement problems thanks to their high performance, along with their ultra-fast inference times. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining matched reference data for supervised learning, there has been increasing interest in unsupervised learning approaches that do not need paired reference data. In particular, self-supervised learning and generative models have been successfully used for various biological imaging applications. In this paper, we overview these approaches from a coherent perspective in the context of classical inverse problems, and discuss their applications to biological imaging, including electron, fluorescence and deconvolution microscopy, optical diffraction tomography and functional neuroimaging.
description: To appear in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Additional file 2 of Barriers to advance care planning: a qualitative study of seriously ill Chinese patients and their families
Creators: name: Cheung, Johnny T. K.
name: Au, Doreen
name: Ip, Anthony H. F.
name: Chan, Jenny
name: Kenway Ng
name: Lok Cheung
name: Yuen, Jacqueline
name: Hui, Elsie
name: Lee, Jenny
name: Lo, Raymond
name: Woo, Jean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Appendix B – Interview guide for family caregiver.
Two Phase Collective Modes in Josephson Vortex Lattice in Intrinsic Josephson Junction Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$
Creators: name: Kakeya, I.
name: Wada, T.
name: Nakamura, R.
name: Kadowaki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Josephson plasma excitations in the high $T_c$ superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ have been investigated in a wide microwave frequency region (9.8 -- 75 GHz), in particular, in magnetic field applied parallel to the $ab$ plane of the single crystal. In sharp contrast to the case for magnetic fields parallel to the c axis or tilted from the $ab$ plane, it was found that there are two kinds of resonance modes, which are split in energy and possess two distinctly different magnetic field dependences. One always lies higher in energy than the other and has a shallow minimum at about 0.8 kOe, then increases linearly with magnetic field. On the other hand, another mode begins to appear only in a magnetic field (from a few kOe and higher) and has a weakly decreasing tendency with increasing magnetic field. By comparing with a recent theoretical model the higher energy mode can naturally be attributed to the Josephson plasma resonance mode propagating along the primitive reciprocal lattice vector of the Josephson vortex lattice, whereas the lower frequency mode is assigned to the novel phase collective mode of the Josephson vortex lattice, which has never been observed before.
description: 11 pages and 10 figures
Evaluating Economic Performance of Food Manufacturing Industries: An Analysis of the U.S. Pacific Northwest States
Creators: name: Bolotova, Yuliya
name: Asiseh, Fafanyo
name: Bolotova, Yuliya
name: Asiseh, Fafanyo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agriculture
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This study develops a simple methodology of the analysis of the effectiveness of economic performance of food manufacturing industries and applies this methodology to analyze the effectiveness of economic performance of food manufacturing industries in the U.S. Pacific Northwest States (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington). The methodology is based on five ratios constructed using U.S. Economic Census data on value added, value of shipments, number of production workers, cost of materials, and capital expenditures. A regression model is estimated to test whether the overall effectiveness of economic performance measured as the share of value added in value of shipments is a function of the effectiveness of the use of individual groups of resources (i.e. production workers, capital, and materials). The major implication of the results of econometric analysis for business decision-making is that affecting the level of the effectiveness of the use of individual groups of resources makes it possible to affect the level of the overall effectiveness of production and marketing activities.
Teaching Case Study — Overcoming National Regulations Limiting International Trade: Creekstone Farms and BSE
Creators: name: Harling, Kenneth
name: Lyford, Conrad P.
name: Harling, Kenneth
name: Lyford, Conrad P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The emergence of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as a major food safety issue sets the situation for a firm level opportunity. The Japanese government banned imports of cattle and beef from the U.S. when it established the first cases of BSE there and refused to lift barriers because the Japanese viewed U.S. efforts to eliminate the BSE threat as inadequate. Creekstone Farms of Kentucky saw an opportunity in this situation as the Japanese and Korean governments agreed to imports of its beef if guaranteed BSE-free. The USDA has to decide whether to allow Creekstone to do this testing so that it can export its beef. The decision is difficult because many stakeholders have opposing views.
Fundamental Physical and Resource Requirements for a Martian Magnetic Shield
Creators: name: DuPont, Marcus
name: Murphy, Jeremiah W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mars lacks a substantial magnetic field; as a result, the solar wind ablates the Martian atmosphere, making the surface uninhabitable. Therefore, any terraforming attempt will require an artificial Martian magnetic shield. The fundamental challenge of building an artificial magnetosphere is to condense planetary-scale currents and magnetic fields down to the smallest mass possible. Superconducting electromagnets offer a way to do this. However, the underlying physics of superconductors and electromagnets limits this concentration. Based upon these fundamental limitations, we show that the amount of superconducting material is proportional to $B_c^{-2}a^{-3}$, where $B_c$ is the critical magnetic field for the superconductor and $a$ is the loop radius of a solenoid. Since $B_c$ is set by fundamental physics, the only truly adjustable parameter for the design is the loop radius; a larger loop radius minimizes the amount of superconducting material required. This non-intuitive result means that the "intuitive" strategy of building a compact electromagnet and placing it between Mars and the Sun at the first Lagrange point is unfeasible. Considering reasonable limits on $B_c$, the smallest possible loop radius is $\sim$10 km, and the magnetic shield would have a mass of $\sim 10^{19}$ g. Most high-temperature superconductors are constructed of rare elements; given solar system abundances, building a superconductor with $\sim 10^{19}$ g would require mining a solar system body with several times $10^{25}$ g; this is approximately 10% of Mars. We find that the most feasible design is to encircle Mars with a superconducting wire with a loop radius of $\sim$ 3400 km. The resulting wire diameter can be as small as $\sim$5 cm. With this design, the magnetic shield would have a mass of $\sim 10^{12}$ g and would require mining $\sim 10^{18}$ g, or only 0.1\% of Olympus Mons.
Transport Coefficients in Color Superconducting Quark Matter
Creators: name: Manuel, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport coefficients of dense quark matter are needed to study properties of compact stars. They can tell us about the cooling, vibrational and rotational properties of the star. We report below a computation of the shear viscosity in the CFL phase at low temperature T. CFL quark matter behaves as a superfluid, and at low T its transport properties are dominated by the collisions of superfluid phonons.
description: 5 pages; talk given in Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM 2004), Helsini, Finland, June 2004
The Casimir Energy for a Hyperboloid Facing a Plate in the Optical Approximation
Creators: name: Schroeder, O.
name: Scardicchio, A.
name: Jaffe, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field that obeys Dirichlet boundary conditions on a hyperboloid facing a plate. We use the optical approximation including the first six reflections and compare the results with the predictions of the proximity force approximation and the semi-classical method. We also consider finite size effects by contrasting the infinite with a finite plate. We find sizable and qualitative differences between the new optical method and the more traditional approaches.
description: v2: 14 pages, 11 eps figures; typo in eq. (21) removed, clarification added, fig. 10 improved; version published in Phys. Rev. A
Excitation Spectrum and Superfluid Gap of an Ultracold Fermi Gas
Creators: name: Biss, Hauke
name: Sobirey, Lennart
name: Luick, Niclas
name: Bohlen, Markus
name: Kinnunen, Jami J.
name: Bruun, Georg M.
name: Lompe, Thomas
name: Moritz, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold atomic gases are a powerful tool to experimentally study strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. In particular, ultracold Fermi gases with tunable interactions have allowed to realize the famous BEC-BCS crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of molecules to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid of weakly bound Cooper pairs. However, large parts of the excitation spectrum of fermionic superfluids in the BEC-BCS crossover are still unexplored. In this work, we use Bragg spectroscopy to measure the full momentum-resolved low-energy excitation spectrum of strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gases. This enables us to directly observe the smooth transformation from a bosonic to a fermionic superfluid that takes place in the BEC-BCS crossover. We also use our spectra to determine the evolution of the superfluid gap and find excellent agreement with previous experiments and self-consistent T-matrix calculations both in the BEC and crossover regime. However, towards the BCS regime a calculation that includes the effects of particle-hole correlations shows better agreement with our data.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, supplementary material
Oenopia octovittata Canepari
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia octovittata

description: Oenopia octovittata Canepari
(Fig. 152)
Oenopia octovittata Canepari, 2012: 364 (Holotype, Erfurt; Type locality: Nepal).
Diagnosis. Length: 4.00– 4.50 mm; width: 2.80–3.20 mm. Form (Fig. 152a, b) broad oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head yellow, basally black. Pronotum pale yellow with a black median macula, basally broad and narrowed towards apex. Scutellar shield black. Elytra red with four black spots on each elytron arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern and a sutural black stripe. Ventral side black except legs yellowish. Female genitalia and spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 152c), with a very elongate, tubular infundibulum.
Distribution. Nepal.
Notes. This species needs more detailed study as it is close to O. billieti and the shape of the spermatheca and the infundibulum are strikingly similar to those of O. billieti var. testacea Kapur. The images of the holotype and paratype (Erfurt), obtained through the courtesy of Dr. Mathias Hartmann, Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, are given here.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502