cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stenchaetothrips langkawiensis Ng & Mound
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Stenchaetothrips
Stenchaetothrips langkawiensis

description: Stenchaetothrips langkawiensis Ng & Mound
(Figs. 23–26)
 This Malaysian species is newly recorded from Japan and Taiwan. It is very similar to S. indicus (Ramakrishna & Margabandhu), which is widespread in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Brazil, Jamaica and Trinidad, by having uniformly yellow slender body (Figs. 23, 26) but the latter species can be distinguished from by abdominal tergites with no microtrichia on posterior margins (Mound, 2011; Ng & Mound, 2012). Male is unknown in Japan.
 Specimens examined. JAPAN, Honshu: Ibaraki Pref., Yawara-mura, on side of the river Kokai-gawa: 23 females on leaves of Miscanthus sinensis [Poaceae], 25.vii.2008, M. Masumoto (TUA); 22 females on leaves of Miscanthus sinensis, 29.vii.2008, M. Masumoto (TUA). Kyushu: Kagoshima Pref., Yaku-shima Is., Senbironotaki Falls, 1 female on bamboo leaves, 10.iii.2000, T. Tsutsumi (FU). Ryukyus: Okinawa Pref., Ishigaki-jima Is., Takeda-rindou: 1 female on grass, 17.viii.1989, T. Nonaka & S. Okajima; 1 female on grass, 16.i.1991, S. Okajima (TUA); 6 females, host unknown, 28.iii.1998, T. Tsutsumi (FU). TAIWAN: Pintung Hsien, Kenting National Park, 1 female, 19.iii.1984, S. Okajima (TUA). nr. Taipei, Yangmingshan, 1 female, 27.iii.1993, S. Okajima (TUA).
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Avalanche Dynamics in Wet Granular Materials
Creators: name: Tegzes, P.
name: Vicsek, T.
name: Schiffer, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the dynamics of avalanching wet granular media in a rotating drum apparatus. Quantitative measurements of the flow velocity and the granular flux during avalanches allow us to characterize novel avalanche types unique to wet media. We also explore the details of viscoplastic flow (observed at the highest liquid contents) in which there are lasting contacts during flow, leading to coherence across the entire sample. This coherence leads to a velocity independent flow depth at high rotation rates and novel robust pattern formation in the granular surface.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures in color, REVTeX4, for smaller pdfs see http://angel.elte.hu/~tegzes/condmat.html
Fragilicetus velponi Bisconti & Bosselaers 2016, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Bisconti, Michelangelo
name: Bosselaers, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Balaenopteridae
Fragilicetus
Fragilicetus velponi

description: FRAGILICETUS VELPONI SP. NOV.
 Holotype: Item no. NMR 999100007727, housed at the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands (hereinafter, NMR).
 Type locality: The specimen was found along the southwest border of the Deurganckdock, approximately 12 km north-west of Antwerp city centre and 4 km north of the village of Kallo (Fig. 1). The Deurganckdock is an artificial excavation located on the left side of the Scheldt River. The geographical coordinates of the discovery site are 51°17′05″N, 4°15′30″E.
 Formation and age: The specimen was found in situ in the Kattendijk Sand Member of the Kattendijk Sands Formation (Early Pliocene, Zanclean), about 3 m above the basal gravel, at a depth of about 21.5 m below the Tweede Algemene Waterpassing (TAW; Fig. 2). TAW is the standardized (rectified) second general water level (main level of the sea at Ostend at low tide). The Belgian standard TAW is 2.33 m lower than the Dutch, German, and French standards. At the discovery site, the basal gravel of the Kattendijk Sand Member is in contact with and on top of the Rupel clay (Oligocene, firmed by Louwye et al. (2004). Based on these correlations, the estimated age of the holotype skeleton of F. velponi is approximately 5 Mya.
 Diagnosis: As for genus.
 Etymology: Velpon is the brand of the glue used in the preparation of the holotype skull.
description: Published as part of Bisconti, Michelangelo & Bosselaers, Mark, 2016, Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti), pp. 450-474 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (2) on pages 452-453, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12370, http://zenodo.org/record/5364570
The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry
Creators: name: Castagnino, Mario
name: Lara, Luis
name: Lombardi, Olimpia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we address the problem of the arrow of time from a cosmological point of view, rejecting the traditional entropic approach that defines the future direction of time as the direction of the entropy increase: from our perspective, the arrow of time has a global origin and it is an intrinsic, geometrical feature of space-time. Time orientability and existence of a cosmic time are necessary conditions for defining an arrow of time, which is manifested globally as the time-asymmetry of the universe as a whole, and locally as a time-asymmetric energy flux. We also consider arrows of time of different origins (quantum, electromagnetic, thermodynamic, etc.) showing that they can be non-conventionally defined only if the geometrical arrow is previously defined.
title: Educational Technologies for Incarcerated Students: Challenges and Recommendations
Creators: name: Mitchell, Mandy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: educational technology, PELL grants, incarceration, prison, prison education programs, incarcerated students
subject: Government, Politics and Law

description: Two recent, historic developments make it crucial to zero in on how prisons integrate technology into their higher education programs that impact the quality of life for the 1.2 million persons incarcerated in the U.S. First, the coronavirus pandemic caused a widespread turn to educational technology (edtech), primarily in the form of videoconferencing platforms, learning management systems (LMS), and cloud-based office software suites. Edtech's extensive reach during lockdown laid a foundation for continued reliance on heavily tech-mediated modes of learning, even as "zoom school" revealed the limits of remote education for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Second, Congress restored incarcerated persons' access to Pell grant money for higher education expenses in 2021. As postsecondary prison educational programming expands, new institutions, practices, and norms defining tech use in these programs will emerge. Section I of this brief recommends two “best practices” policies for tech use in prison higher education programs. These measures promise to improve incarcerated higher ed students' digital literacy and protect them from edtech-facilitated programming that does not truly support their interests. Section II identifies three institutional barriers to implementing effective edtech policy in prison higher educational programming, recommending three corresponding systems-level reforms. Section III discusses the utilitarian framework most commonly invoked in debates about the value of prison educational programming, recommending that human rights and communicative ethical frameworks inform policymaking. With their more robust conception of human needs and sociality, these frameworks provide better support for policies aiming at rehabilitation.
Additional file 1 of The co-development of personalised 10-year breast cancer risk communications: a ‘think-aloud’ study
Creators: name: Gorman, Louise S.
name: Ruane, Helen
name: Woof, Victoria G.
name: Southworth, Jake
name: Ulph, Fiona
name: Evans, D. Gareth
name: French, David P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
The Boundary State Formalism and Conformal Invariance in Off-shell String Theory
Creators: name: Laidlaw, M.
name: Semenoff, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalization of the boundary state formalism for the bosonic string that allows us to calculate the overlap of the boundary state with arbitrary closed string states. We show that this generalization exactly reproduces world-sheet sigma model calculations, thus giving the correct overlap with both on- and off-shell string states, and that this new boundary state automatically satisfies the requirement for integrated vertex operators in the case of non-conformally invariant boundary interactions.
description: 19 pages, 0 figures
Questionnaire on farm management, biosecurity, health and antibiotic use in livestock farming (METAPRO_D-PhD05-4.1)
Creators: name: Bosco R. Matamoros
name: La Ragione, Roberto M.
name: Gonzalez-Zorn, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antimicrobial resistance
Livestock farming

description: OHEJP Project: METAPRO When taking samples of animal origin, in addition to the information regarding which farm they originate from, and which animals have been sampled, it is imperative that information regarding the conditions in which the animals are housed, and are handled is also obtained. All this information aids the data analysis and allows accurate comparisons to be made between farms. Therefore, we have designed a comprehensive questionnaire in order to collect all the necessary data. The questionnaire is divided into 15 sections and attempts to cover basic farm data as well as data about management, sanitary conditions or antibiotic use. In addition, the questionnaire is provided in both English and Spanish, in order to facilitate the collection of data according to the country where the samples are obtained within the METAPRO project. We consider that this deliverable should be made public in case any member of the One Health EJP consortium or other projects intends to carry out any sampling on farms so that they can use this questionnaire directly or use it as a basis for the creation of one that is closer to their requirements.
Core pinning by intragranular nanoprecipitates in polycrystalline MgCNi_3
Creators: name: Cooley, L. D.
name: Song, X.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Larbalestier, D. C.
name: He, T.
name: Regan, K. A.
name: Cava, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nanostructure and magnetic properties of polycrystalline MgCNi_3 were studied by x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry. While the bulk flux-pinning force curve F_p(H) indicates the expected grain-boundary pinning mechanism just below T_c = 7.2 K, a systematic change to pinning by a nanometer-scale distribution of core pinning sites is indicated by a shift of F_p(H) with decreasing temperature. The lack of scaling of F_p(H) suggests the presence of 10 to 20% of nonsuperconducting regions inside the grains, which are smaller than the diameter of fluxon cores 2xi at high temperature and become effective with decreasing temperature when xi(T) approaches the nanostructural scale. Transmission electron microscopy revealed cubic and graphite nanoprecipitates with 2 to 5 nm size, consistent with the above hypothesis since xi(0) = 6 nm. High critical current densities, more than 10^6 A/cm^2 at 1 T and 4.2 K, were obtained for grain colonies separated by carbon. Dirty-limit behavior seen in previous studies may be tied to electron scattering by the precipitates, indicating the possibility that strong core pinning might be combined with a technologically useful upper critical field if versions of MgCNi_3 with higher T_c can be found.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRL
Plasmon effect on the Coulomb pseudopotential $μ^*$ in the McMillan equation
Creators: name: Sano, Kazuhiro
name: Seo, Mithuki
name: Nakamura, Kohji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the Coulomb pseudopotential $μ^*$ in the McMillan equation applying to the superconductivity of heavily doped semiconductors. Systematic calculation using the first-principles calculation suggests that $μ^*$ should be considered as a variable quantity depending on carrier density $n$ in semiconductors, although it is usually considered as a constant about 0.1. To clarify $n-$dependence of $μ^*$, we solve the McMillan equation inversely for $μ^*$ by combining the result of the first-principles calculation and that of experiments. It indicates that $μ^*$ decreases with $n$ and becomes negative under $n \sim 5 \times 10^{-21}[{\rm cm^{-3}}]$. This reduction is explained by the effect of plasmon which may play an important role in the superconductivity of low carrier systems such as heavily doped semiconductors.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Consequences of Dale's law on the stability-complexity relationship of random neural networks
Creators: name: Ipsen, J. R.
name: Peterson, A. D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the study of randomly connected neural network dynamics there is a phase transition from a `simple' state with few equilibria to a `complex' state characterised by the number of equilibria growing exponentially with the neuron population. Such phase transitions are often used to describe pathological brain state transitions observed in neurological diseases such as epilepsy. In this paper we investigate how more realistic heterogeneous network structures affect these phase transitions using techniques from random matrix theory. Specifically, we parameterise the network structure according to Dale's Law and use the Kac-Rice formalism to compute the change in the number of equilibria when a phase transition occurs. We also examine the condition where the network is not balanced between excitation and inhibition causing outliers to appear in the eigenspectrum. This enables us to compute the effects of different heterogeneous network connectivities on brain state transitions, which can provide new insights into pathological brain dynamics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Sunius propinquus
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius propinquus

description: Sunius propinquus (BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE, 1867)
 Material examined:
 Portugal: 1 ex., Coimbra, leg. Paulino (NHMW). Spain: 1 ex., Castilla-La Mancha, Sierra de Segura, ca. 15 km W Yeste, Calar de Sima, 38°21'N, 02°29'W, 1430 m, deep canyon with Corylus, grass, moss, and ferns, sifted, 15.III.2008, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Madrid, Tres Cantos, Arroyo de Tejada, VIII.2001, leg. Anichtchenko (cSha); 2 exs., Madrid, Casa del Campo (NHMW). France: 1 ex., Nord, Lille, leg. Pandellé (NHMW); 1 ex., Centre, Loiret, Gien, leg. Pyot (NHMW); 3 exs., Provence, Var, La Seyne, leg. Tholin (NHMW). Italy: A ex., Liguria, Laigueglia, 8.V.1959, leg. Liberti (NHMW).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 456, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Stenchaetothrips minutus
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Stenchaetothrips
Stenchaetothrips minutus

description: Stenchaetothrips minutus (van Deventer)
(Figs. 27–31)
 Thrips minuta van Deventer, 1906: 281.
 Female macroptera. Body pale brown to brown, head to thorax often barely paler than abdomen; antennal segment I shaded, II shaded with distal half yellow, III to IV yellow, V yellow with distal third slightly shaded, VI shaded with basal half pale, VII shaded; fore wings pale brown with basal fifth pale; all legs yellow. Head (Fig. 27) rounded at cheeks. Ocellar setae III situated at margin of ocellar triangle. Postocular setae III the longest, II and IV smaller than remaining setae, III and V slightly behind setal row. Antennal segment (Fig. 28) II with some microtrichial rows on dorsal surface, VI the longest. Pronotum (Fig. 27) weakly sculptured with wide spaced transverse striae, with about 30 discal setae; posteroangular setae I almost as long as setae II and 0.5 times as long as pronotal median length; posteromarginal setae I the longest. Mesonotum without CPS anteromedially. Metascutum (Fig. 29) with CPS. Fore wing first vein with seven basal and three distal setae, Mesothoracic endofurca with spinula very weak. Abdominal tergites VI and VII (Fig. 30) with very small teeth at each side; tergite VIII (Fig. 31) with posteromarginal comb complete; tergite IX with both anterior and posterior pairs of CPS; sternites without discal setae; sternite I without microsetae anteromedially.
 Male. Unknown in Japan.
 Specimens examined. JAPAN, Ryukyus: Okinawa-hontou Is., 3 females (TUA); Ishigaki-jima Is., 2 females (FU). TAIWAN, Chiai-hsien, Kuantzulin, 4 females on grass, 1.iv.1993, T. Nonaka & S. Okajima (TUA).
 Distribution. Japan (Ryukyus), Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Hawaii, Brazil.
 Comments. This species appears to be very similar to S. mucunae as discussed below.
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on pages 13-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Additional file 7: of Novel analytical methods to interpret large sequencing data from small sample sizes
Creators: name: Lichou, Florence
name: Orazio, Sébastien
name: Dulucq, Stéphanie
name: Etienne, Gabriel
name: Longy, Michel
name: Hubert, Christophe
name: Groppi, Alexis
name: Monnereau, Alain
name: François-Xavier Mahon
name: Turcq, Béatrice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: File S7. Detailed manual and annotated script. (DOCX 49 kb)
title: Supratentorial hemangioblastoma without facilitated diffusion: a treacherous imaging diagnosis
Creators: name: Neves Paiva de Castro, Pedro
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 22-year-old male presented with a holocranial headache for three months. Two days ago, the patient manifested a recent worsening of the symptoms. The patient also referred to an episode of retrograde amnesia one day ago. Imaging studies were performed.

description: 22 years, male
Universal expansion with spatially varying $G$
Creators: name: Christodoulou, Dimitris M.
name: Kazanas, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the expansion of the universe under the assumptions that $G$ varies in space and the radial size $r$ of the universe is very large (we call this the MOND regime of varying-$G$ gravity). The inferred asymptotic behavior turns out to be different than that found by McCrea & Milne in 1934 and our equations bear no resemblance to those of the relativistic case. In this cosmology, the scale factor $R(t)$ increases linearly with time $t$, the radial velocity is driven by inertia, and gravity is incapable of hindering the expansion. Yet, Hubble's law is borne out without any additional assumptions. When we include a repulsive acceleration $a_{\rm de}$ due to dark energy, the resulting universal expansion is then driven totally by this new term and the solutions for $a_{\rm de}\to 0$ do not reduce to those of the $a_{\rm de}\equiv 0$ case. This is a realization of a new Thom catastrophe: the inclusion of the new term destroys the conservation of energy and the results are not reducible to the previous case in which energy is conserved.
description: Submitted to MNRASL. Matching the version considered for publication
Development of a thesaurus of place-names for the Royal Geographical Society library
Creators: name: Hammond, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Development of a thesaurus of place-names for the Royal Geographical Society library
Enhancing biodiversity preservation on privately owned land: An analysis of New Zealand’s policy approach
Creators: name: Lane, Helen R.
name: Alexander, Robert R.
name: Lane, Helen R.
name: Alexander, Robert R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: New Zealand Environmental Policy
subject: Biodiversity
subject: Landowner Incentives

description: A large amount of New Zealand’s critical remaining habitat for endemic species is located on private land. In its biodiversity strategy, the government proposes several types of economic incentives to encourage voluntary conservation by private landowners. This research investigates the factors affecting the likely response by landowners to those incentives, with a particular focus on the overall potential efficacy of the biodiversity strategy in preventing additional biodiversity loss. A case study approach is used to examine the application of the principal policy tools proposed in the strategy, and regional variations in policy implementation are considered. The analysis suggests that the government’s initiatives are not likely to achieve the desired result of ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity. Additional incentive measures are needed, particularly where larger areas of vegetation are concerned. The current voluntary approach favours individual landowners who already have a preference to conserve. Those who do not are excluded by the current policy approach, leaving large areas of native vegetation vulnerable to destruction or neglect.
Generalization of Boltzmann Equilibration Dynamics
Creators: name: Sherman, Travis J.
name: Rafelski, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel approach in the study of transport phenomena in dense systems or systems with long range interactions where multiple particle interactions must be taken into consideration. Within Boltzmann's kinetic formalism, we study the influence of other interacting particles in terms of a random distortion of energy and momentum conservation occurring when multi-particle interactions are considered as binary collisions. Energy and momentum conservation still holds exactly but not in each model binary collision. We show how this new system differs from the Boltzmann system and we note that our approach naturally explains the emergence of Tsallis-like equilibrium statistics in physically relevant systems in terms of the long since neglected physics of interacting and dense systems.
description: 4 pages, references and clarifications added
The Marginal External Cost of Obesity in the United States
Creators: name: Parks, Joanna C.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Okrent, Abigail M.
name: Parks, Joanna C.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Okrent, Abigail M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Public Economics

description: Over the past five decades in the United States both total medical expenditures and the proportion of medical expenditures financed with public funds have increased significantly. A substantial increase in the prevalence of obesity has contributed to this growth. In this study we measure the external cost of obesity, in the form of publicly funded health-care expenditures, and how this cost changes when the distribution of obesity in the population changes. We use a continuous measure of obesity, BMI, rather than discrete weight categories to represent the distribution of obesity and changes in it. We predict that a 1-unit increase in BMI for every adult in the United States would increase annual public medical expenditures by $38.7 billion. This estimated public cost equates to an average marginal cost of $175 per year per adult for a one unit change in BMI for each adult in the U.S. population. Separately, we estimate that if every U.S. adult who is now obese (BMI 30) had a BMI of 25 instead, annual public medical expenditures would decline by $173.7 billion (in constant 2008$), or 17.2% of annual public medical expenditures in 2008. Assuming a socially optimal BMI of no more than 25, we estimate that the prevalence of obesity in 2008 resulted in a deadweight loss of $216.7 billion in 2008.
The self-induced approach to decoherence in cosmology
Creators: name: Castagnino, Mario
name: Lombardi, Olimpia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we will present the \QTR{it}{self-induced approach} to decoherence, which does not require the interaction between the system and the environment: decoherence in closed quantum systems is possible. This fact has relevant consequences in cosmology, where the aim is to explain the emergence of classicality in the universe conceived as a closed (non-interacting) quantum system. In particular, we will show that the self-induced approach may be used for describing the evolution of a closed quantum universe, whose classical behavior arises as a result of decoherence.
An analysis of sugarcane harvesting options in the Tully mill area using dynamic and linear programming
Creators: name: Lawes, Roger A.
name: Wegener, Malcolm K.
name: Lawes, Roger A.
name: Wegener, Malcolm K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: sugarcane
subject: dynamic programming
subject: linear programming
subject: databases
subject: sql

description: Sugarcane in a perennial crop harvested annually over a six-month season from June to December. Each crop cycle consists of a plant crop followed by several ratoon crops. Time of harvest influences both commercial cane sugar (CCS) content in the current season and yield in the following season. Legislative requirements force growers to harvest some of their cane during sub-optimal periods and growers have to decide the order in which to harvest blocks when both yield and sugar content that determine block returns are uncertain. Industry data about yield and (CCS) stored in a MS Access database were used in a dynamic programming analysis of potential harvest sequences. Optimal harvest patterns were identified given industry constraints on cane harvested in several equal time periods during the season.
Sunius ovaliceps
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius ovaliceps

description: Sunius ovaliceps (FAUVEL, 1878)
 Material examined:
 Algeria: 2 exs., Mouzaïa, IV.1909 (NHMW, cAss); 1 ex., locality not specified (NHMW). Morocco: 1 ex., Arsila, leg. Quedenfeldt (NHMW); 1 ex., Tetuan, leg. Quedenfeldt (NHMW); 1 ex., locality not specified (NHMW). Spain: 10 exs., Murcia, Jumilla, 1200 m, 1.III.2003, leg. Lencina (cAss); 1 ex., Castilla-La Mancha, Sierra de Segura, Sierra de Cujón, 38°28'N, 02°21'W, 1460 m, grass and moss near rocks sifted, 15.III.2008, leg. Assing (cAss); 3 exs., Cuenca (NHMW); 2 exs., Andalucía, Algeciras (NHMW); 1 ex., Andalucía, locality not specified, leg. Reitter (NHMW); 1 ex., Sierra de Guadarrama, leg. Moczarski (NHMW); 1 ex., Madrid, Casa del Campo (NHMW); 1 ex., Madrid env., leg. Moczarski (NHMW); 2 8s., Castilla-León, Palencia, leg. Paganetti (NHMW); 1 ex., Castilla-León, León, Caboalles, leg. Paganetti (NHMW); 1 ex., Navarra, Artajona, 42.63°N, 1.78°W, 470 m, 20.VIII.2008, leg. Andújar & Arribas (cAss).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 456, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
title: Corporate Ethical Dilemmas and Relational Decision Making
Creators: name: Wieland, Josef
name: Geraldo Schwengber, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05tbp1g38
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: LEIZ Case Study 7
Vicinal Surface with Langmuir Adsorption: A Decorated Restricted Solid-on-solid Model
Creators: name: Akutsu, Noriko
name: Akutsu, Yasuhiro
name: Yamamoto, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the vicinal surface of the restricted solid-on-solid model coupled with the Langmuir adsorbates which we regard as two-dimensional lattice gas without lateral interaction. The effect of the vapor pressure of the adsorbates in the environmental phase is taken into consideration through the chemical potential. We calculate the surface free energy $f$, the adsorption coverage $Θ$, the step tension $γ$, and the step stiffness $\tildeγ$ by the transfer matrix method combined with the density-matrix algorithm. Detailed step-density-dependence of $f$ and $Θ$ is obtained. We draw the roughening transition curve in the plane of the temperature and the chemical potential of adsorbates. We find the multi-reentrant roughening transition accompanying the inverse roughening phenomena. We also find quasi-reentrant behavior in the step tension.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures (png format), RevTeX 3.1, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Where should out water go? Assessing trade-offs in water allocation in the Namoi River Catchment
Creators: name: Letcher, Rebecca A.
name: Watson, W.D.
name: Hall, Nigel H.
name: Letcher, Rebecca A.
name: Watson, W.D.
name: Hall, Nigel H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: water allocation
subject: capital
subject: economic model
subject: dynamic programming
subject: linear programming

description: The Namoi river catchment in northern NSW is an important irrigation region. Water resources in this region are increasingly stressed. Both surface and groundwater supplies are overallocated in many areas of the catchment. Management options to reduce allocations in line with available supply and environmental requirements are expected to have long term social, economic and environmental implications. One water resource, off-allocation water, is currently unallocated. This means that no user is currently given a property right to this resource and it is available for re-allocation to alternative users, including the environment. This paper outlines an integrated economic-hydrologic modelling tool which has been developed to estimate regional scale economic and environmental trade-offs associated with alternative water allocation policies. A detailed description of the economic modelling component is provided. In particular the way in which capital investment decisions are treated in the model are described. The sensitivity of the model to assumptions about the cost of investing in additional capital is shown and results for the application of the model to a number of policy scenarios are presented.
Thrips alliorum
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Thrips
Thrips alliorum

description: Thrips alliorum (Priesner)
(Figs. 54–61)
 Taeniothrips alliorum Priesner, 1935: 128.
 Female macroptera. Body uniformly dark brown; antennal segment III yellow often with apex slightly darker; fore wings pale, or barely shaded with base pale; all femora dark brown, fore tibia brownish yellow with outer margin darker, mid and hind tibiae dark brown with apex pale, all tarsi brownish yellow; prominent body setae dark brown. Head (Fig. 54) slightly constricted just behind compound eyes and straight at cheeks. Ocellar setae III outside ocellar triangle, posterolateral to fore ocellus, about twice as long as longitudinal diameter of hind ocellus. Postocular setae all small, setae I behind setal row. Antennae (Fig. 55) 8-segmented, segment II without microtrichia, IV to VI pedicelate. Pronotum (Fig. 54) weakly sculptured with transverse striae medially, with 22– 25 discal setae; posteroangular setae 2 pairs, setae I distinctly longer than setae II; posteromarginal setae 3 pairs, setae I the longest. Mesonotum with CPS anteromedially. Metascutum (Fig. 56) sculptured with narrow spaced longitudinal striae having small lines between striae medially; median pair of setae far from anterior margin; CPS absent. Fore wing first vein with six or seven basal and three distal setae. Abdominal tergites V to VII (Fig. 57) with lines of sculpture slightly extending to mesad of S1 setae; tergite II with 3 lateral marginal setae; tergite VIII (Fig. 58) without fine long posteromarginal comb, but small scattered microtrichia and small scallops present; tergite IX with two pairs of CPS; sternite I with a few microsetae anteromedially; sternites III to VII with 10–14 discal setae arranged in irregular line; sternite VII (Fig. 59) with S1 setae much far from posterior margin; pleurotergites with a few discal setae and without ciliate microtrichia.
 Male microptera. Body colour slightly paler. Abdominal sternal discal setae fewer. Abdominal tergite IX (Fig. 60) with S1 setae much anterior to level of S2 setae and arranged in transverse line with MD setae, subequal in length to S2 setae; sternites III to VII (Fig. 61) each with a large oblong pore plate.
 Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyus), China, Korea, Hawaii, Taiwan.
 Biology. This species breeds only on Allium fistulosum [Liliaceae].
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Household Animal Raising Behaviour in China’s Developed Regions: The Case of Zhejiang Province
Creators: name: Liu, Xi-An
name: Guo, Qing-Fang
name: Teng, Hua-Yong
name: Liu, Xi-An
name: Guo, Qing-Fang
name: Teng, Hua-Yong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Due to the dominant role of household animal raising in China’s animal production, an improved understanding of household animal raising practices is essential to study China’s feedgrain markets. It is also noted that the level of local economic development affects animal raising practices and the development of feedgrain markets. This paper reports the findings from a rural household survey we conducted recently in a China’s coastal and developed province. It was specially designed to examine issues related to household animal raising practices such as animal raising scale, sources of feed, feed processing and feeding efficiency in a developed area. Discussed also are implications of the findings on China’s regional feedgrain markets.
Quantum transport in non-Hermitian impurity array
Creators: name: Zhang, K. L.
name: Yang, X. M.
name: Song, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the formation of band gap bound states induced by a non-Hermitian impurity embedded in a Hermitian system. We show that a pair of bound states emerges inside the band gap when a parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) imaginary potential is added in a strongly coupled bilayer lattices and the bound states become strongly localized when the system approaches to the exceptional point (EP). As a direct consequence of such $\mathcal{PT}$ impurity-induced bound states, an impurity array can be constructed and protected by energy gap. The effective Hamiltonian of the impurity array is non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) type and hosts Dirac probability-preserving dynamics. We demonstrate the conclusion by numerical simulations for the quantum transport of wave packet in right-angle bends waveguide and $Y$-beam splitter. Our finding provides alternative way to fabricate quantum device by non-Hermitian impurity.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Friction law for dense granular flows: application to the motion of a mass down a rough inclined plane
Creators: name: Pouliquen, Olivier
name: Forterre, Yoel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of the spreading of a granular mass released at the top of a rough inclined plane was investigated. We experimentally measure the evolution of the avalanche from the initiation up to the deposit using a Moiré image processing technique. The results are quantitatively compared with the prediction of an hydrodynamic model based on depth averaged equations. In the model, the interaction between the flowing layer and the rough bottom is described by a non trivial friction force whose expression is derived from measurements on steady uniform flows. We show that the spreading of the mass is quantitatively predicted by the model when the mass is released on a plane free of particles. When an avalanche is triggered on an initially static layer, the model fails in quantitatively predicting the propagation but qualitatively captures the evolution.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, to be published in J. Fluid Mech
Additional file 1: of Strategies to reduce diagnostic errors: a systematic review
Creators: name: Abimanyi-Ochom, Julie
name: Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage
name: Catchpool, Max
name: Firipis, Marnie
name: Sithara Wanni Arachchige Dona
name: Watts, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Search Strategies. (DOCX 17 kb)
The Sociological Image Nation
Creators: name: Beaty, Bart
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: This article points to the origins of the comics format in nineteenth-century Geneva as a way to think through some of the fundamental questions posed by the use of comics production to report social scientific findings. Surveying the articles in this special issue, a case is built for the importance of transdisciplinary approaches in the field of sociology and elsewhere.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021)
Elastic properties of proteins: insight on the folding process and evolutionary selection of native structures
Creators: name: Micheletti, Cristian
name: Lattanzi, Gianluca
name: Maritan, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We carry out a theoretical study of the vibrational and relaxation properties of naturally-occurring proteins with the purpose of characterizing both the folding and equilibrium thermodynamics. By means of a suitable model we provide a full characterization of the spectrum and eigenmodes of vibration at various temperatures by merely exploiting the knowledge of the protein native structure. It is shown that the rate at which perturbations decay at the folding transition correlates well with experimental folding rates. This validation is carried out on a list of about 30 two-state folders. Furthermore, the qualitative analysis of residues mean square displacements (shown to accurately reproduce crystallographic data) provides a reliable and statistically accurate method to identify crucial folding sites/contacts. This novel strategy is validated against clinical data for HIV-1 Protease. Finally, we compare the spectra and eigenmodes of vibration of natural proteins against randomly-generated compact structures and regular random graphs. The comparison reveals a distinctive enhanced flexibility of natural structures accompanied by slow relaxation times at the folding temperature. The fact that these properties are intimately connected to the presence and assembly of secondary motifs hints at the special criteria adopted by evolution in the selection of viable folds.
description: Revtex 17 pages, 13 eps figures
Policy Analysis Using a Village Model: Land-Use in Vietnam
Creators: name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
name: Hertzler, Greg
name: Marsh, Sally P.
name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
name: Hertzler, Greg
name: Marsh, Sally P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land-use policy
subject: village model
subject: agricultural development

description: Land-use in Vietnam is an important issue in the future economic growth of the country. There is a long history of many radical changes in land-use policy. Vietnam has become a leading exporter of rice (its main agricultural crop) and thus is subject to the variability of world prices. An extensive survey of some 400 farm households in Vietnam has recently been completed and some of the results are used to provide a description of a small number of households. A report is given on the development of a model, designed to reflect some of the basic economic behaviour of a village for use in examining various policy alternatives and eventually changes in land use and land use policy.
Sunius melanocephalus
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius melanocephalus

description: Sunius melanocephalus (FABRICIUS, 1793)
 Sunius anatolicus ASSING, 1995: 269; syn. n.
 Material examined:
 Czech Republic: 2 exs., Praha, leg. Skalitzky (NHMW); 1 ex., Praha (NHMW); 1 ex., Brandýs n. L., 10.V.1896 (NHMW); 1 ex., Brandýs n. L. (NHMW). Austria: 1 ex., Wiener Wald, Hadersdorf, leg. Skalitzky (NHMW). Caucasus region: 3 exs., " Kaukas ", leg. Leder (NHMW, cAss). Turkey: 5 exs. [partly teneral], Samsun, 21 km NNE Havza, 41°09'N, 35°45'E, 950 m, Quercus-Carpinus forest, litter and moss sifted, 19.VII.2008, leg. Assing & Schülke (cAss, cSch); 1 ex., Samsun, 26 km NNE Havza, 41°11'N, 35°46'E, 800 m, Quercus-Carpinus forest, litter sifted, 19.VII.2008, leg. Schülke (cSch); 1 ex., Samsun, 31 km NE Havza, 41°12'N, 35°52'E, 670 m, Fagus forest, litter sifted, 19.VII.2008, leg. Assing (cAss); 10 exs. [partly teneral], Samsun, 33 km SW Samsun, road Kavak-Asarcık, 7 km SE Kavak, 41°03'N, 36°07'E, 470 m, Quercus-Carpinus forest, litter sifted, 20.VII.2008, leg. Assing & Schülke (cAss, cSch); 1 ex., Isparta, Sultan Dağları, W Cankurtaran, 38°15'N, 31°23'E, 1550 m, 17.IV.2008, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss); 9 exs., locality not specified [" Lyciae Taurus ", " Lyc. Taurus ", etc.] (NHMW).
 Sunius anatolicus was originally described as a distinct species and subsequently considered a subspecies of S. melanocephalus (ASSING 1995, 2008). The types of S. anatolicus are distinguished from non-Turkish S. melanocephalus by a slightly different shape of the apex of the aedeagus and by usually longer elytra and hind wings. The distribution was postulated to be confined to southwestern Anatolia (ASSING 1995). In the meantime, however, numerous specimens with intermediate character states have been examined, and specimens with a similar external and sexual morphology as the types of S. anatolicus have also been recorded from various localities in northern Anatolia, so that the earlier hypothesis that S. anatolicus should represent a distinct (sub-) species is implausible also for zoogeographic reasons. Based on the data now available, it appears more likely that the observed differences are an expression of intraspecific variation. Consequently, S. anatolicus is here placed in the synonymy of S. melanocephalus.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 457, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Doing Social Sciences Via Comics and Graphic Novels. An Introduction
Creators: name: Barberis, Eduardo
name: Grüning, Barbara
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: Visual communication is far from new and is almost as old as the social sciences. In the last decades, the interest in the visual dimension of society as well as towards the visual as expression of local and global cultures increased to the extent that specific disciplinary approaches took root --- e.g. visual anthropology and visual sociology. Nevertheless, it seems to us that whereas they are mostly engaged in collecting visual data and analyzing visual cultural products, little attention is paid to one of the original uses of visual material in ethnographic and social research, that is communicating social sciences. Departing from some general questions, such as how visualizing sociological concepts, what role non-textual stimuli play in sociology, how they differentiate according to the kind of public, and how we can critically and reflexively assess the social and disciplinary implications of visualizations of empirical research, we collect in the special issues contributions from social scientists and comics artists who materially engaged in the production of social sciences via comics and graphic narratives. The article is divided into three parts. Firstly, we briefly address the rollercoaster history of encounters between sociology and the sequential art. Secondly, we reconstruct the dynamics and processes which lead to the institutionalization of a transnational field of comics studies. Finally, we introduce the contributions collected in the special issue, based on the persona experiences of social scientists, sometimes in collaboration with illustrators.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021)