cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Real-Time Apple Detection System Using Embedded Systems With Hardware Accelerators: An Edge AI Application
Creators: name: Mazzia, Vittorio
name: Salvetti, Francesco
name: Khaliq, Aleem
name: Chiaberge, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Real-time apple detection in orchards is one of the most effective ways of estimating apple yields, which helps in managing apple supplies more effectively. Traditional detection methods used highly computational machine learning algorithms with intensive hardware set up, which are not suitable for infield real-time apple detection due to their weight and power constraints. In this study, a real-time embedded solution inspired from "Edge AI" is proposed for apple detection with the implementation of YOLOv3-tiny algorithm on various embedded platforms such as Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in combination with Intel Movidius Neural Computing Stick (NCS), Nvidia's Jetson Nano and Jetson AGX Xavier. Data set for training were compiled using acquired images during field survey of apple orchard situated in the north region of Italy, and images used for testing were taken from widely used google data set by filtering out the images containing apples in different scenes to ensure the robustness of the algorithm. The proposed study adapts YOLOv3-tiny architecture to detect small objects. It shows the feasibility of deployment of the customized model on cheap and power-efficient embedded hardware without compromising mean average detection accuracy (83.64%) and achieved frame rate up to 30 fps even for the difficult scenarios such as overlapping apples, complex background, less exposure of apple due to leaves and branches. Furthermore, the proposed embedded solution can be deployed on the unmanned ground vehicles to detect, count, and measure the size of the apples in real-time to help the farmers and agronomists in their decision making and management skills.
Priocera cocha Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera cocha

description: Priocera cocha OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 36, 89, 122)
 HOLOTYPE: ♀. Type locality: Ecuador: 28 km NE Campo Cocha, 15-30-III-2001, F. Hovore (WFBM). PARATYPE: one specimen. Ecuador: Provincia de Sucumbios, Shushufindi, 11- VIII- 1997, 215 m, Fred G. Andrews (CSCA).
 D i a g n o s i s: Mostly testaceous; elytra tricolorous, each elytron with small dark brown spots, one at humerus, one premedial, proximal to epipleural margin, 2 near middle, flanking yellow transverse spot, a faintly visible brown fascia at posterior 3/4 th, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at base near mesoscutellum, one premedial near epipleural margin, one postmedial near sutural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.2 mm. Form: As in Fig. 122. Head: Cranium finely punctate; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 22/22. Thorax: Pronotun with 2 tumescenses, disc finely punctate (PW /PL 65/95); elytral disc with very conspicuous basal carina, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded (EL /EW 215/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 36.
V a r i a t i o n: The available specimens are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during March and August, one at 215 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 89). This species is known from Ecuador.
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet " cocha " is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
PRICES PAID INDEXES FOR MAJOR U.S. CROPS
Creators: name: Fryar, Ed
name: Houck, James P.
name: Fryar, Ed
name: Houck, James P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: Commodity-specific Prices Paid Indexes and Prices Received/Prices Paid ratios are calculated for corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat. These are compared to the current U.S.D.A. indexes. Target prices are recalculated using the commodity-specific Prices Paid Indexes and then compared to the actual tartet prices for the 1976-73 period.
Superconducting-like heat current: Effective cancellation of current-dissipation trade off by quantum coherence
Creators: name: Tajima, Hiroyasu
name: Funo, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Producing a large current typically requires large dissipation, as is the case in electric conduction, where Joule heating is proportional to the square of the current. Stochastic thermodynamics offers a framework to study nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small fluctuating systems, and quite recently, microscopic derivations and universal understanding of the trade-off relation between the current and dissipation have been put forward. Here we establish a universal framework clarifying how quantum coherence affects the trade-off between the current and dissipation: a proper use of coherence enhances the heat current without increasing dissipation, i.e. coherence can reduce friction. If the amount of coherence is large enough, this friction becomes virtually zero, realizing a superconducting-like ``dissipation-less'' heat current. Since our framework clarifies a general relation among coherence, energy flow, and dissipation, it can be applied to many branches of science. As an application to energy science, we construct a quantum heat engine cycle that exceeds the power-efficiency bound on classical engines, and effectively attains the Carnot efficiency with finite power in fast cycles. We discuss important implications of our findings with regard to the field of quantum information theory, condensed matter physics and biology.
description: 17pages, 2 figures
The Peculiar X-ray Transient IGR 16358-4726
Creators: name: Patel, S. K.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Tennant, A.
name: Woods, P. M.
name: King, A.
name: Ubertini, P.
name: Winkler, C.
name: Courvoisier, T. J. -L.
name: van der Klis, M.
name: Wachter, S.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Phillips, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The new transient IGR 16358-4726 was discovered on 2003 March 19 with INTEGRAL. We detected the source serendipitously during our 2003 March 24 observation of SGR 1627-41 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the 1.7 x 10^{-10} ergs s^{-1} cm^{-2} flux level (2-10 keV) with a very high absorption column (N_H=3.3(1) x 10^{23} cm^{-2}) and a hard power law spectrum of index 0.5(1). We discovered a very strong flux modulation with a period of 5880(50) s and peak-to-peak pulse fraction of 70(6)% (2-10 keV), clearly visible in the x-ray data. The nature of IGR 16358-4726 remains unresolved. The only neutron star systems known with similar spin periods are low luminosity persistent wind-fed pulsars; if this is a spin period, this transient is a new kind of object. If this is an orbital period, then the system could be a compact Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB).
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Additional file 6 of Bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) proteins regulate melanocyte differentiation
Creators: name: Archit Trivedi
name: Aanchal Mehrotra
name: Baum, Caitlin E.
name: Lewis, Brandon
name: Tupa Basuroy
name: Blomquist, Thomas
name: Trumbly, Robert
name: Filipp, Fabian V.
name: Vijayasaradhi Setaluri
name: Serna, Ivana L. De La
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S4. Publicly available ChIP-seq data in normal human melanocytes, SK-MEL-5 melanoma cells (GSM1968282), 501 melanoma cells (GSM1517751), and neonatal human epidermal melanocytes (NHEM) (GSM2842798) with the indicated antibodies at the MITF target genes that are down-regulated by (+)JQ1 treatment.
ANALYSIS OF IRRIGATION POTENTIAL IN THE SOUTHEAST: FLORIDA, A SPECIAL REPORT
Creators: name: Bajwa, Rajinder Singh
name: Bajwa, Rajinder Singh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation growth
subject: drought
subject: freeze damage
subject: consumptive water use
subject: irrigation cost
subject: National Resource Inventory

description: The doubling of population in Florida between 1960-80 brought about increasing demands for water by agricultural and urban-industrial activities. Irrigated acreage remained highly concentrated in the central counties around Lake Okeechobee, where climatic factors are especially conducive to the production of specialty crops such as citrus, vegetables, tropical fruits, and sugarcane. Prolonged drought during the early 1960's stimulated significant growth in the region's irrigated acreage. In recent years, other U.S. regions and Mexico have provided Florida with intense competition in the market for specialty crops. Florida has 1.2 million acres of unirrigated cropland and another 1.5 million acres of pastureland in soil classes I, II, and III, which represent potential area for irrigation development.
Polistes wattii CAMERON 1900
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes wattii

description: Polistes wattii CAMERON, 1900
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Kerman prov., 2♀♀, 06.v.2019 Bardsir 29.9477 N 56.5622 E, 2000 m, 3♀♀, 06.v.2019 Bardsir 20 km NE 30.0287 N 56.7294 E, 2153 m, 3♀♀, 07.v.2019 Ravar 31.2981 N 56.8011 E, 1171 m, 2♀♀, 09.v.2019 Bam 29.0898 N 58.3270 E, 1113 m, 4♀♀, 10.v.2019 Bam 4 km E 29.1162 N 58.4294 E, 1000 m, 3♀♀, 11.v.2019 Bam 8 km NE 29.1500 N 58.4674 E, 956 m, 1♀, 12.v.2019 Jiroft 28.6847 N 57.7123 E, 716 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: RAHMANI et al. (2020).
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species, pp. 1105-1121 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1117, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038766
Are Champions an Effective Strategy for Improving Knowledge Use and Outcomes in Healthcare Settings?
Creators: name: Santos, Wilmer John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: champions
implementation
facilitation
innovation use
health care
systematic review
effectiveness

description: The effectiveness of champions in increasing the use of innovations and improving outcomes across health care contexts is not well synthesized in the literature. A systematic review was conducted using the JBI systematic review method. A total of 35 studies (37 articles) were included in the review. The use of champions was related to improvements in system/facility use of innovations. However, the evidence pertaining to causal relationships between use of champions and use of innovations or outcomes is currently inconclusive according to the findings of systematic review. Key limitations of the included primary studies were the use of observational study designs (n = 28) and the lack of detailed description of the champion strategy (n = 26). Future studies that evaluate the effectiveness champions should:1) clearly describe the champion strategy in detail, 2) use experimental design in conjunction to process evaluation, 3) and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of deploying champions.
Five Stellar Populations in M22 (NGC 6656)
Creators: name: Lee, Jae-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Ca-CN-CH photometry of the metal-complex globular cluster (GC) M22 (NGC 6656). Our photometry clearly shows the discrete double CN-CH anticorrelations in M22 red giant branch (RGB) stars, due to the difference in the mean metallicity. The populational number ratio between the two main groups is n(G1):n(G2) = 63:37(+/-3), with the G1 being more metal-poor. Furthermore, the G1 can be divided into two subpopulations with the number ratio of n(CN-w):n(CN-s) = 51:49 (+/-4), while the G2 can be divided into three subpopulations with n(CN-w):n(CN-i):n(CN-s) = 24:32:44 (+/-5). The proper motion of individual stars in the cluster shows an evidence of internal rotation, showing the G2 with a faster rotation, confirming our previous results from radial velocities. The cumulative radial distributions (CRDs) of individual subpopulations are intriguing in the following aspects: (1) In both main groups, the CRDs of the CN-s subpopulations are more centrally concentrated than other subpopulations. (2) The CRDs of the the G1 CN-s and the G2 CN-s are very similar. (3) Likewise, the G1 CN-w and the G2 CN-w and CN-i have almost identical CRDs. We also estimate the relative helium abundance of individual subpopulations by comparing their RGB bump magnitudes, finding that no helium abundance variation can be seen in the G1, while significant helium enhancements by Delta Y = 0.03 ~ 0.07 are required in the G2. Our results support the idea that M22 formed via a merger of two GCs.
description: Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2020, 888, 6
Marketing Plan for Interactive Sustainability Centre Report
Creators: name: Sahai, Aayush
name: Ranas, Alissa
name: Chen, Annie
name: Hoy, Bradley
name: Araki-Young, Michael
name: Yee, Terence
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: First being formed in 1999, AMS Sustainability is the current leader in campus sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Focusing on working with different companies and initiatives to create a more sustainable future. AMS Sustainability wants to create a long-term culture change in the student body. The AMS Interactive Sustainability Centre (ISC) was created to help AMS Sustainability achieve its overarching goal of creating a net-zero student society. As there was no physical location for AMS sustainability-related clubs to collaborate on campus, the ISC was born. The main feature of the ISC is its private meeting room space, supported by a television dashboard showing sustainability metrics for the AMS Nest and additional information for the Sustainability Project Fund (SPF). Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Bovicola limbatus
Creators: name: Kazim, Abdul-Rahman
name: Houssaini, Jamal
name: Tappe, Dennis
name: Heo, Chong-Chin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Trichodectidae
Bovicola
Bovicola limbatus

description: Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844)
Trichodectes limbatus Gervais, 1844: 313, pl. 48: fig. 4.
Trichodectes climax major Piaget, 1885: 86, pl. 9: fig. 5.
Trichodectes madagascariensis Mjöberg, 1910: 64, figs 38–39.
Trichodectes painei Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914: 90, figs 1A–D.
Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Ewing, 1929: 123.
Bovidoecus painei (Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914); Bedford 1929: 519.
Bovicola painei (Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914); Bedford 1932b: 362.
Bovicola major (Piaget); Emerson 1940: 105.
Bovicola sachtlebeni Kéler, 1937: 314, figs 1–2.
Bovicola wernecki Kéler, 1937: 317.
Damalinia (Bovicola) limbata (Gervais, 1844); Hopkins 1949: 504, 533.
Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Werneck 1950: 62.
Damalinia limbata (Gervais, 1844); Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.
Bovicola (Bovicola) limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Price et al. 2003: 253.
Type host: Capra hircus angorensis (Shaw, 1800) —Angora goat.
Type locality: Not given in the original description.
Malaysian host: Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758.
Malaysian locality: “West Malaysia ”, Peninsular Malaysia (Mustaffa-Babjee 1969).
Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica.
Remarks: Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae and both common parasites of goats (Durden, 2019) and morphologically similar. Sebei et al. (2004) separated the males of Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae by the morphology of their gonopods (e.g. presence of terminal flaps in B. caprae, but absent in B. limbatus). In Peninsular Malaysia, only one record of B. limbatus has been reported by Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); however, considering that there are no figures and no mention of genitalia or gonopods of the male, it is not possible determine with certainty the species that Mustaffa-Babjee (1969) examined. Further studies are needed to investigate the occurrence and prevalence of B. limbatus and B. caprae in Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, pp. 40-60 in Zootaxa 5263 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7797797
Towards French Smart Building Code: Compliance Checking Based on Semantic Rules
Creators: name: Bus, Nicolas
name: Roxin, Ana
name: Picinbono, Guillaume
name: Fahad, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Manually checking models for compliance against building regulation is a time-consuming task for architects and construction engineers. There is thus a need for algorithms that process information from construction projects and report non-compliant elements. Still automated code-compliance checking raises several obstacles. Building regulations are usually published as human readable texts and their content is often ambiguous or incomplete. Also, the vocabulary used for expressing such regulations is very different from the vocabularies used to express Building Information Models (BIM). Furthermore, the high level of details associated to BIM-contained geometries induces complex calculations. Finally, the level of complexity of the IFC standard also hinders the automation of IFC processing tasks. Model chart, formal rules and pre-processors approach allows translating construction regulations into semantic queries. We further demonstrate the usefulness of this approach through several use cases. We argue our approach is a step forward in bridging the gap between regulation texts and automated checking algorithms. Finally with the recent building ontology BOT recommended by the W3C Linked Building Data Community Group, we identify perspectives for standardizing and extending our approach.
Absolute Timing of the Crab Pulsar with RXTE
Creators: name: Rots, Arnold H.
name: Jahoda, Keith
name: Lyne, Andrew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have monitored the phase of the main X-ray pulse of the Crab pulsar with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) for almost eight years, since the start of the mission in January 1996. The absolute time of RXTE's clock is sufficiently accurate to allow this phase to be compared directly with the radio profile. Our monitoring observations of the pulsar took place bi-weekly (during the periods when it was at least 30 degrees from the Sun) and we correlated the data with radio timing ephemerides derived from observations made at Jodrell Bank. We have determined the phase of the X-ray main pulse for each observation with a typical error in the individual data points of 50 us. The total ensemble is consistent with a phase that is constant over the monitoring period, with the X-ray pulse leading the radio pulse by 0.0102+/-0.0012 period in phase, or 344+/-40 us in time. The error estimate is dominated by a systematic error of 40 us in the radio data, arising from uncertainties in the variable amount of pulse delay due to interstellar scattering and instrumental calibration. The statistical error is 0.00015 period, or 5 us. The separation of the main pulse and interpulse appears to be unchanging at time scales of a year or less, with an average value of 0.4001+/-0.0002 period. There is no apparent variation in these values with energy over the 2-30 keV range. The lag between the radio and X-ray pulses may be constant in phase (rotational) or constant in time (linear pathlength). We are not (yet) able to distinguish between these two interpretations.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND GASOHOL: SIMULATION OF SOME POLICY ALTERNATIVES
Creators: name: Meekhof, Ronald L.
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
name: Holland, Forrest D.
name: Meekhof, Ronald L.
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
name: Holland, Forrest D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The utilization of agricultural production to meet the nation's energy needs has emerged as a significant issue in public policy and legislative debate. One of the major types of programs being discussed are those encouraging gasohol production. The research evaluates the implications of alternative gasohol programs; for a large segment of the food and agricultural sector-corn and soybean producers consumers, and taxpayers. The impacts on corn and soybean prices, production, acreage planted, carryover stocks, exports, and commodity program expenditures are presented. The research findings indicate that alcohol production levels below 2.0 billion gallons do not result in serious dislocations in the agricultural sector. As the level of alcohol production increases and more grain is required, corn prices rise significantly, stocks fall to extremely low levels, exports decline, and government expenditures increase greatly.
Felicola siamensis Emerson 1964
Creators: name: Kazim, Abdul-Rahman
name: Houssaini, Jamal
name: Tappe, Dennis
name: Heo, Chong-Chin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Trichodectidae
Felicola
Felicola siamensis

description: Felicola siamensis Emerson, 1964
Felicola siamensis Emerson, 1964a: 4, figs 1–3.
Felicola (Lorisicola) siamensis Emerson, 1964a; Price et al. 2003: 258.
Felicola (Lyalicola) siamensis Emerson, 1964a; Mey 2021: 199.
Type host: Prionailurus bengalensis (Kerr, 1792) —Leopard cat.
Type locality: Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Peninsular Malaysia.
Malaysian host: Prionailurus bengalensis.
Malaysian locality: Kuala Pilah (Negeri Sembilan) Peninsular Malaysia (Emerson 1964a).
Geographical distribution: Peninsular Malaysia.
Remarks: The adult male and female of Felicola siamensis were described by Emerson (1964a), noting that they were morphologically similar to Felicola hercynianus Kéler, 1957, with the former species easily distinguished by the fewer number of setae on abdominal sternites and tergites IV-VII in the females, and the narrower basal junction between the endomera in the male genitalia (Emerson 1964a). There is no information on the ecology of F. siamensis.
description: Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, pp. 40-60 in Zootaxa 5263 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7797797
Additional file 1 of Perspectives of general practitioners and nursing staff on acute hospital transfers of nursing home residents in Germany: results of two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fassmer, Alexander Maximilian
name: Pulst, Alexandra
name: Spreckelsen, Ove
name: Hoffmann, Falk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Original version of the questionnaire on general practitioners.
Osmia leaiana
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Osmia
Osmia leaiana

description: Osmia leaiana (Kirby, 1802)
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Relation Extraction without Supervision
Creators: name: Papanikolaou, Yannis
name: Roberts, Ian
name: Pierleoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel framework to deal with relation extraction tasks in cases where there is complete lack of supervision, either in the form of gold annotations, or relations from a knowledge base. Our approach leverages syntactic parsing and pre-trained word embeddings to extract few but precise relations,which are then used to annotate a larger cor-pus, in a manner identical to distant supervision. The resulting data set is employed to fine tune a pre-trained BERT model in order to perform relation extraction. Empirical evaluation on four data sets from the biomedical domain shows that our method significantly outperforms two simple baselines for unsupervised relation extraction and, even if not using any supervision at all, achieves slightly worse results than the state-of-the-art in three out of four data sets. Importantly, we show that it is possible to successfully fine tune a large pre-trained language model with noisy data, as op-posed to previous works that rely on gold data for fine tuning.
title: Characterization of human gene products homologous to fission yeast multi-drug resistance determinants
Creators: name: Montesanti, Annalisa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: Novel mechanisms involved in the resistance to cytotoxic agents have been recently described both in fission yeast and in mammalian cells. The work described in this thesis was focused on novel determinants of multi-drug resistance in mammalian cells and their possible mechanism of action.

 Human Pohl, a highly conserved subunit of the regulatory particle of the 26 S proteasome complex, has been shown to confer moderate resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs and ultraviolet light in mammalian cells by a P-gp-independent mechanism. The mechanism by which HA-Pohl causes drug resistance was investigated. Using constitutive and inducible expression of HA-tagged Pohl in mammalian cells, it was found that most overexpressed Pohl is not associated with the 26S proteasome complex. The cells expressing HA-Pohl exhibited elevated protein levels of the two AP-1 components, c-Jun and c-Fos, associated with an increased stabilisation of c-Jun possibly caused by an interaction between HA-Pohl and c-Jun. Furthermore, HA-Pohl overexpression led to an increase in AP-1 transcriptional and DNA binding activities. As c-Jun and c-Fos are both degraded by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway, it is proposed that Pohl is able to negatively modulate the ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis of transcription factors with consequent alteration of cellular drug susceptibility.

 PWPl is member of the WD-40 repeat protein family and is the closest known human relative of the fission yeast pwpl+ multi-drug resistance gene. It is shown here that overexpression of human Pwpl in mammalian cells leads to multi-drug sensitivity possibly via positive modulation of the AP-1 DNA binding and transcriptional activity. Preliminary data obtained using an RNA anti-sense strategy, together with data obtained elsewhere, suggest that human Pwpl might have a role in the regulation of cell growth.
Intracluster Light in Nearby Galaxy Clusters: Relationship to the Halos of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Anthony H.
name: Zabludoff, Ann I.
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the surface brightness distribution of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in each of 24 galaxy clusters at 0.03-r_e relation than that of the elliptical fundamental plane. We interpret this outer component as a population of intracluster stars tracing the cluster potential. The two components are strongly aligned (|Δθ|<10\degr) in roughly 40% of the clusters. When they are not aligned, the components tend toward high degrees of misalignment, suggesting that accretion of infalling material may change the orientation of some BCGs for a time. The extent of the outer component and its similar elongation to published cluster galaxy distributions indicates that the evolution of the intracluster light is tied to the cluster as a whole rather than to the BCG.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures (1 color), accepted to ApJ; replaces submitted version
Nonstationary self-gravitating configurations of scalar and electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Tchemarina, Ju V
name: Alekseeva, E G
name: Tsirulev, A N
name: Nuraliev, N K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mathematical modeling of gravitating configurations of physical fields is one of the priority directions of the modern theory of gravity. Most of the exact solutions constructed within the framework of the general relativity are static or stationary configurations. This is due to the objective complexity of solving the Einstein equations under the assumption of nonstationarity. We present an approach to constructing nonstationary configurations of a spherically symmetric nonlinear real scalar field and the electromagnetic field, which areassumed both to be minimally coupled to gravity. It is based on the isolation of one invariant equation written in terms of the characteristic function and scalar field potential. Using the proposed method, an exact nonstationary solution with a nontrivial topology of space-time will be constructed.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, presented at the 4th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA-2018)
Biodiversity Engagement : Accessible Language and Strategies : Stimulating Community Engagement in Biodiversity Conservation within the University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus
Creators: name: Lau, Virginia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Although communities' actions do not always reflect people’s knowledge over the repercussions of climate change, most are well aware of the need to reduce carbon emission. On the other hand, biodiversity, which is mutually reinforced with climate change and is at the highest risk of irreversibility according to the planetary boundary, has not been given proportional awareness among the general public as compared to the urge of carbon emission mitigation. The reason being is very likely due to the complexity of the biodiversity concept and difficulty to communicate this issue to the general public. Given that most remain unaware of the significance of biodiversity conservation, in consultation with UBC’s Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program, this paper is prepared to suggest potentials to raise biodiversity awareness and changing community behaviour in the vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC). In order to find out potential solutions for raising biodiversity awareness on campus, a definition of “Biodiversity” and research over communication challenges of biodiversity conservation will be further elaborated in the paper along with a list of recommendations to develop strategies to engage community members with biodiversity conservation. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Cooperation of niche-constructing organisms through prisoner's dilemma games
Creators: name: Phathutshedzo Netshabumu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Prisoner's Dilemma Games
niche constructions
linearization
Honours

description: Niche construction basically means that all organisms modify their environments. Our studies focused on how the cooperator and defectors interact through Prisoner’s Dilemma Games. We also focused on how the cooperators responded to the resources through niche constructions. Our system was solved by determining the equilibrium points and their stability by linearization, and the dynamical stable exit when the death rate is higher that the baseline birth rate, and the cooperation exist. Only the population of cooperation can be able to survive in this rough environment through niche construction, since we assume that only cooperator have the influence in the environment. But Defectors population cannot survive. Also the numerical simulations showed that, the assortment is a necessary condition for the evolution of cooperation in the ecological part.
description: Submitted in fulfillment of Honours degree
Priocera aperturosa Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera aperturosa

description: Priocera aperturosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 27, 91, 105)
 HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande, 6-VI-01973, G. Ekis (FSCA). PARATYPES: Two specimens. México: Estado de Chiapas, Las Rosas, at lights, 12-III-1963, R. C. Bechtel, E. I. Schlinger (EMEC); 6 km NW Teopisca, 30-VI-1-VII-1977, 1.830 m, E. M. Fisher (WFBM).
 D i a g n o s i s: Castaneous, except antenna testaceous and elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, elytral apical 1/5 th, sides of humeral angle, and basal half of epipleural margin testaceous; each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one spheroid at middle of basal margin, one premedial irregularly shaped near epipleural margin, one transverse, postmedial near sutural margin; abdomen testaceous.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 105. Head: Frons wrinkled, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 32/26. Thorax: Pronotum wrinkled at sides, coarsely punctate at middle, with 2 tumescenses, slight fissure at middle (PW /PL 95/130); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend to elytral apex, latter rounded (EL /EW 340/80); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Inner ventral margin of phallobasic lobe with spine; aedeagus as in Fig. 27.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 8.0- 9.5 mm; width 2.0-3.0 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during March and June, the holotype at 1,000 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 91): The species is known from México and Venezuela.
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, aperturosa, is a compound name that stems from the Latin aperture (= hole) and the suffix - osus (= abundance). I refer to the extensive distribution of the asetiferous punctures on the elytral disc.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1157-1158, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Spain: Determinants of Corn Import Demand
Creators: name: Haley, Mildred M.
name: Normile, Mary Anne
name: Haley, Mildred M.
name: Normile, Mary Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Grain quality
subject: corn
subject: Spain
subject: grain trade
subject: European Community
subject: European Union
subject: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

description: The main determinants of Spanish demand for imported corn are Spain's adherence to the EC's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the U.S.-EC Enlargement Agreement. Spain's adoption of the CAP raised corn prices, leading livestock producers to substitute less expensive feed ingredients, and increased protection from imports. Spain's entry into the EC resulted in slightly higher domestic corn production, lower imports, and lower consumption. The Enlargement Agreement requires Spain to import 2.3 million tons per year of corn and other feed ingredients. Quality considerations are secondary to agricultural policy in determining the quantity and source of Spain's corns imports. The new CAP for grains will reduce Spanish corn production.
STATISTIK USULLAR ASOSIDA AHOLI VA DEMOGRAFIK JARAYONLARNING AMALIY TAHLILI
Creators: name: Siroj, Zarina Rustambekovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Aholini statistik o‘rganishning iqtisodiy-ijtimoiy jihatlari juda ko‘p bo‘lib, iqtisodiy tarmoqlarning rivojlanishida ishchi kuchi sifatida qatnashadigan aholi, bozorlarda iste'molchi vazifasini ham bajarishi yuqoridagi jihatlardan eng asosiylari hisoblanadi.
Venezuela: Determinants of Corn Import Demand
Creators: name: Setia, Parveen
name: Dusch, Erin
name: Setia, Parveen
name: Dusch, Erin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Venezuela
subject: corn
subject: quality
subject: imports
subject: economics

description: Venezuelan feed manufacturers and livestock producers rely on imported feed grains because domestic feed supplies, mainly sorghum, are available only for a few months of the year. The United States is the traditional supplier of yellow corn to the Venezuelan market. 'However, interviews conducted in the spring of 1992 revealed that Venezuelan feed manufacturers perceive a decline in U.S. corn quality and are now supplementing their supplies with some corn from Argentina. Although quality and price are important to Venezuelan feed manufacturers, timely and reliable supplies also influence purchase decisions.
Relativistic Mean-Field Approach in Nuclear Systems
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaodong
name: Xu, Ruirui
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Ma, Zhongyu
name: Ge, Zhigang
name: Zhang, Hongfei
name: van Dalen, E. N. E.
name: Muether, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new scheme to study the properties of finite nuclei is proposed based on the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach starting from a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. The relativistic structure of the nucleon self-energies in nuclear matter depending on density, momentum and isospin asymmetry are determined through a subtracted T-matrix technique and parameterized, which makes them easily accessible for general use. The scalar and vector potentials of a single particle in nuclei are generated via a local density approximation (LDA). The surface effect of finite nuclei can be taken into account by an improved LDA (ILDA), which has successfully been applied in microscopic derivations of the optical model potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering. The bulk properties of nuclei can be determined in a self-consistent scheme for nuclei all over the nuclear mass table. Calculated binding energies agree very well with the empirical data, while the predicted values for radii and spin-orbit splitting of single-particle energies are about 10 \% smaller than the experimental data. Basic features of more sophisticated DBHF calculations for finite nuclei are reproduced.
Costs and Benefits of Irradiation Versus Methyl Bromide Fumigation for Disinfestation of U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Imports
Creators: name: Forsythe, Kenneth W.
name: Evangelou, Phylo
name: Forsythe, Kenneth W.
name: Evangelou, Phylo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Irradiation
subject: methyl bromide
subject: ozone
subject: economies of size
subject: welfare
subject: fruit and vegetable imports
subject: phytosanitary

description: For plant products considered potential conveyors of exotic pests, methyl bromide (MB) fumigation is the principal method of import quarantine treatment approved in the United States. Its use is to be phased out. Irradiation is an alternative for disinfestation of certain fruits and vegetable imports. Its _high average unit treatment costs could be moderated if treatment could be concentrated at a few ports of entry, capturing economies of size. The economic gains from trade of using irradiation, if other treatment is not possible, would greatly exceed the economic costs due to a change from MB fumigation to irradiation.
Magnetic properties of X-Pt (X=Fe,Co,Ni) alloy systems
Creators: name: Paudyal, Durga
name: Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri
name: Mookerjee, Abhijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of Fe-Pt, Co-Pt and Ni-Pt alloy systems in ordered and disordered phases. The influence of various exchange-correlation functionals on values of equilibrium lattice parameters and magnetic moments in ordered Fe-Pt, Co-Pt and Ni-Pt alloys have been studied using linearized muffin-tin orbital method. The electronic structure calculations for the disordered alloys have been carried out using augmented space recursion technique in the framework of tight binding linearized muffin-tin orbital method. The effect of short range order has also been studied in the disordered phase of these systems. The results show good agreements with available experimental values.
description: 21 pages, 4 eps figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Economic and Environmental Effects of Nitrogen Testing for Fertilizer Management
Creators: name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Keim, Russ W.
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Keim, Russ W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Nitrogen fertilizer
subject: nitrogen testing
subject: water quality
subject: production risk
subject: technology adoption
subject: switching regression

description: Concern about nonpoint source pollution of water resources has resulted in a search for new technologies and farming practices that can reduce agriculture's contribution to pollution and enhance environmental quality. This report assesses the potential of information technology (soil and tissue nitrogen testing) to improve nitrogen (N) fertilizer management and reduce N losses to the environment. A simultaneous equations model is developed to assess factors associated with the adoption of N testing and the impact of N testing on N fertilizer use, corn yields, and net returns to corn growers. Implications of N testing for environmental quality are also derived.
Robust Self-Supervised Learning of Deterministic Errors in Single-Plane (Monoplanar) and Dual-Plane (Biplanar) X-ray Fluoroscopy
Creators: name: Chow, Jacky C. K.
name: Boyd, Steven K.
name: Lichti, Derek D.
name: Ronsky, Janet L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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: Fluoroscopic imaging that captures X-ray images at video framerates is advantageous for guiding catheter insertions by vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists. Visualizing the dynamical movements non-invasively allows complex surgical procedures to be performed with less trauma to the patient. To improve surgical precision, endovascular procedures can benefit from more accurate fluoroscopy data via calibration. This paper presents a robust self-calibration algorithm suitable for single-plane and dual-plane fluoroscopy. A three-dimensional (3D) target field was imaged by the fluoroscope in a strong geometric network configuration. The unknown 3D positions of targets and the fluoroscope pose were estimated simultaneously by maximizing the likelihood of the Student-t probability distribution function. A smoothed k-nearest neighbour (kNN) regression is then used to model the deterministic component of the image reprojection error of the robust bundle adjustment. The Maximum Likelihood Estimation step and the kNN regression step are then repeated iteratively until convergence. Four different error modeling schemes were compared while varying the quantity of training images. It was found that using a smoothed kNN regression can automatically model the systematic errors in fluoroscopy with similar accuracy as a human expert using a small training dataset. When all training images were used, the 3D mapping error was reduced from 0.61-0.83 mm to 0.04 mm post-calibration (94.2-95.7% improvement), and the 2D reprojection error was reduced from 1.17-1.31 to 0.20-0.21 pixels (83.2-83.8% improvement). When using biplanar fluoroscopy, the 3D measurement accuracy of the system improved from 0.60 mm to 0.32 mm (47.2% improvement).
Economic Models for Dairy Policy Analysis: Issues and Applications, A Workshop Proceedings
Creators: name: Blayney, Don P.
name: Blayney, Don P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy
subject: econometrics
subject: national economic models
subject: policy analysis
subject: spatial economic models
subject: supply management

description: Policy analysis of the U.S. dairy industry is of interest to dairy economists and analysts, both inside and outside government. A workshop on modeling the U.S. dairy industry was held by the NC-198 regional research committee on October 31, 1991. Five papers were presented, covering theoretical and empirical issues related to modeling the U.S. dairy industry for policy analysis. The theoretical issues covered related to statistical estimation of model parameters. Alternative dairy industry simulation models, spatial equilibrium models, and a study based on the linkage of existing models were discussed.