cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EL PAPEL DEL ADMINISTRADOR DE AGRONEGOCIOS EN LA SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA
Creators: name: Guerra E., Guillermo A.
name: Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo
name: Cabral Martell, Agustin
name: Alvarado Martinez, Luis Felipe
name: Alvarado Martinez, Tomas Everardo
name: Arras Vota, Ana Maria
name: Moreno Medina, Salomon
name: Guerra E., Guillermo A.
name: Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo
name: Cabral Martell, Agustin
name: Alvarado Martinez, Luis Felipe
name: Alvarado Martinez, Tomas Everardo
name: Arras Vota, Ana Maria
name: Moreno Medina, Salomon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food security
subject: transgenic
subject: organics
subject: agro ecological
subject: hydroponics
subject: greenhouse
subject: agribusiness manager.

description: For decades, food security has been a worldwide problem affecting the poorest in order to find a possible solution to this dilemma that not only continues, but constantly grows with the increase in population. Agriculture, as the main food supplier, has evolved and increased its productivity, and has expanded its agricultural frontiers, since previous decades, in its attempts to solve this problem. If predominant conventional agriculture (mainly dedicated to productivity) is complemented with substantial increase of transgenic, organic, agroecological, greenhouse and hydroponic crops, it will be more feasible to avoid the loss of forest, the damage and loss of soils and at the same time diminish food insecurity. Within this context, the agribusiness manager and other professionals related with the farming and economic activities, have given an ample and important contribution. From the management of agriculture at local, national and international levels to the management of livestock and other related enterprises, being the bases of food production in any country, agricultural administrators have substantially helped to solve the problem. Their contribution can also be seen in education, investigation, training and political design.
Signs of Gay Life in the 24th Century: homosexuality in Star Trek Fan Films.
Creators: name: Pérez-Gómez, Miguel Ángel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Star Trek
Fan films
Fandom
Songvid
LGTBIQ+ fandom
Participative culture
Amateur fiction cinema

description: Abstract.

From its inception, Star Trek has generated a very active fan community which may well have given the fullest measure of the fandom phenomenon as we know it. Since the appearance of the first thematic fanzine, Spockanalia (1967), fan fiction has become a regular staple of the fandom grown around the TV series created by Gene Roddenberry. Slash fiction is a variety of fan fiction devoted to exploring homosexual relationships between the main characters of the series, above all that between Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Nowadays, fan films, as direct inheritors of the traditional fan fiction, explore never before revealed homosexual relationships within the Star Trek universe, with such outstanding examples as the 'Blood and Fire' episode of Star Trek: Phase II, from a rejected script originally written for Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Star Trek: The Hidden Frontier, both protagonized by homosexual characters.
Interpretation of the Galactic gamma-ray excess with the dark matter indicated by $^8$Be and $^4$He anomalous transitions
Creators: name: Jia, Lian-Bao
name: Li, Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The long-standing Galactic center gamma-ray excess could be explained by GeV dark matter (DM) annihilation, while the DM interpretation seems in tension with recent joint limits from different astronomical scale observations, such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies, the Milky Way halo and galaxy groups/clusters. Motivated by $^8$Be and $^4$He anomalous transitions with possible new interactions mediated by a vector boson $X$, we consider a small fraction of DM mainly annihilating into a pair of on-shell vector boson $X X$ followed by $X \to e^+ e^-$ in this paper. The Galactic center gamma-ray excess is explained by this DM cascade annihilation. The gamma rays are mainly from Inverse Compton Scattering emission, and the DM cascade annihilation could be compatible with joint astrophysical limits and meanwhile be allowed by the AMS-02 positron observation. The direct detection of this model is also discussed.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted by CPC
The Future of Hard and Electromagnetic Probes at RHIC
Creators: name: Harris, John W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Potential near- and long-term physics opportunities with jets, heavy flavors and electromagnetic probes at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented. Much new physics remains to be unveiled using these probes, due to their sensitivity to the initial high density stage of RHIC collisions, when quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation is expected. Additional physics will include addressing deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration, properties of the strongly-coupled QGP and a possible weakly-interacting QGP, color glass condensate in the initial state, and hadronization. To fully realize the physics prospects of the RHIC energy regime, new detector components must be added to existing experiments, the RHIC machine luminosity upgraded, and a possible new detector with significantly extended coverage and capabilities added.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Hard Probes 2004, International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Oblitosaurus Sánchez-Fenollosa & Verdú & Cobos 2023, gen.nov.
Creators: name: Sánchez-Fenollosa, Sergio
name: Verdú, Francisco J.
name: Cobos, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Ornithischia
Ankylopollexia
Oblitosaurus

description: Oblitosaurus gen.nov.
 Etymology: The generic name Oblitosaurus from ‘oblitus’ (Latin), meaning forgoưen, because its bones are the last to be studied from the Barrihonda-El Humero fossil site. And from ‘sauros’ (Greek), meaning lizard.
 Type species: Oblitosaurus bunnueli gen. et sp. nov.
 Diagnosis: As for type and only species (see below).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Fenollosa, Sergio, Verdú, Francisco J. & Cobos, Alberto, 2023, The largest ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of Europe sheds light on the evolutionary history of basal ankylopollexians, pp. 1013-1033 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 (4) on page 1015, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad076, http://zenodo.org/record/10470514
Factors Affecting Wine Purchase Decisions and Presence of New York Wines in Upscale New York City Restaurants
Creators: name: Preszler, Trent L.
name: Schmit, Todd M.
name: Preszler, Trent L.
name: Schmit, Todd M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Substantial industry and winery efforts in recent years have centered on improving access of New York wines into upscale restaurants in New York City (NYC), albeit with limited success. A survey of upscale restaurants and wine stores in NYC was conducted to identify important attributes influencing wine purchase decisions and to better understand the primary factors affecting the level of New York wines included on restaurant wine lists. Larger restaurants with higher entrée prices and a larger dependence on wine sales were shown to include fewer New York wines, while restaurants serving higher proportions of Riesling, Cabernet Franc, and domestic wines included more. A wine’s collective regional and varietal reputation was found to influence overall wine purchasing decisions, indicating that marketing efforts targeted on these attributes may be a beneficial strategy.
Gravitational wave spectra from strongly supercooled phase transitions
Creators: name: Lewicki, Marek
name: Vaskonen, Ville
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study gravitational wave (GW) production in strongly supercooled cosmological phase transitions, taking particular care of models featuring a complex scalar field with a U$(1)$ symmetric potential. We perform lattice simulations of two-bubble collisions to properly model the scalar field gradients, and compute the GW spectrum sourced by them using the thin-wall approximation in many-bubble simulations. We find that in the U$(1)$ symmetric case the low-frequency spectrum is $\proptoω$ whereas for a real scalar field it is $\proptoω^3$. In both cases the spectrum decays as $ω^{-2}$ at high frequencies.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. published version
Additional file 1 of MicroRNA and mRNA profiling in the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Creators: name: Parkes, Joanna E.
name: Thoma, Anastasia
name: Lightfoot, Adam P.
name: Day, Philip J.
name: Chinoy, Hector
name: Lamb, Janine A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Methods and Results
Testing LMC Microlensing Scenarios: The Discrimination Power of the SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey
Creators: name: Rest, A.
name: Stubbs, C.
name: Becker, A. C.
name: Miknaitis, G. A.
name: Miceli, A.
name: Covarrubias, R.
name: Hawley, S. L.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Olsen, K.
name: Prieto, J. L.
name: Hiriart, R.
name: Welch, D. L.
name: Cook, K. H.
name: Nikolaev, S.
name: Huber, M.
name: Prochtor, G.
name: Clocchiatti, A.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Garg, A.
name: Challis, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing the nature and spatial distribution of the lensing objects that produce the previously measured microlensing optical depth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) remains an open problem. We present an appraisal of the ability of the SuperMACHO Project, a next-generation microlensing survey directed toward the LMC, to discriminate between various proposed lensing populations. We consider two scenarios: lensing by a uniform foreground screen of objects and self-lensing by LMC stars. We have carried out extensive simulations, based upon data obtained during the first year of the project, to assess the SuperMACHO survey's ability to discriminate between these two scenarios. We find that the event rate itself shows significant sensitivity to the choice of the LMC luminosity function, limiting the conclusions which can be drawn from the absolute rate. If instead we determine the differential event rate across the LMC, we will decrease the impact of these systematic biases and render our conclusions more robust. With this approach the SuperMACHO Project should be able to distinguish between the two categories of lens populations. This will provide important constraints on the nature of the lensing objects and their contributions to the Galactic dark matter halo.
description: 40 pages, 9 figures, to appear in ApJ 634 (2005)
Forecasting Future Sales and Profit for Value-Added Agriculture
Creators: name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: Parcell, Joseph L.
name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: Parcell, Joseph L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This research analyzes factors affecting product and profit lifecycles for new value-added products. The methodology presented shows how sales and profits evolve and how exogenous factors such as initial marketing efforts affect sales and profits. Results indicate that producers can increase the level of profits over time through initial marketing efforts. The theoretical model is applied to a quality cattle program to assess the analytical performance of the model.
Singlet-triplet splitting, correlation and entanglement of two electrons in quantum dot molecules
Creators: name: He, Lixin
name: Bester, Gabriel
name: Zunger, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting with an accurate pseudopotential description of the single-particle states, and following by configuration-interaction treatment of correlated electrons in vertically coupled, self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot-molecules, we show how simpler, popularly-practiced approximations, depict the basic physical characteristics including the singlet-triplet splitting, degree of entanglement (DOE) and correlation. The mean-field-like single-configuration approaches such as Hartree-Fock and local spin density, lacking correlation, incorrectly identify the ground state symmetry and give inaccurate values for the singlet-triplet splitting and the DOE. The Hubbard model gives qualitatively correct results for the ground state symmetry and singlet-triplet splitting, but produces significant errors in the DOE because it ignores the fact that the strain is asymmetric even if the dots within a molecule are identical. Finally, the Heisenberg model gives qualitatively correct ground state symmetry and singlet-triplet splitting only for rather large inter-dot separations, but it greatly overestimates the DOE as a consequence of ignoring the electron double occupancy effect.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. B
CHROMA model for H2IOSC
Creators: name: Sichera, Pietro
name: Cristofaro, Salvatore
name: Mazzagufo, Laura
name: SPAMPINATO, DARIA
name: DEL GROSSO, ANGELO MARIO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CLARIN
Digital Scholarly Editing
FAIR principles
TRUST principles
Digital Humanities
Computational Philology
CHROMA
H2IOSC

description: The development of computational models and tools for philologically curated digital editions poses dual challenges: defining functional specifications for the reference community and ensuring sustainability and adherence to open science principles. Requirements analysis benefits from user stories describing application scenarios, while issues in process management and technologies require solutions for resource accessibility and longevity. The CHROMA model (http://serverchroma.cnr.it/) offers an integrated approach rooted in projects like "Bellini Digital Correspondence" and "Pirandello Nazionale". It treats text as a complex multidimensional object through an editorial process involving:

Creating digital surrogates of primary sources via IIIF protocol;

Segmentation and text recognition using HTR/OCR environments by using eScriptorium tool;

Separating textual and paratextual planes;

Representing structural and semantic phenomena through XML/TEI, RDF, and Domain-Specific Languages;

Assisted encoding with software tools for realigning different versions of editions e.g., Bertalign and NormaTEI;

Integrating linguistic and lexicographic analyses by using NLP tools;

Extracting information and generating knowledge graphs by means of semantic Web technologies and Ontologies;

Connecting to authority records via LOD. 

The edition's fruition involves interactive visualization tools like TEIPublisher or EVT. Long-term technological standards ensure academic sustainability and synergy with the H2IOSC project. This workflow is part of pilot projects of the H2IOSC infrastructure such as the "Text Transcription Environment" and will be included in the initiative's marketplace as possible tool in docker deployment flavor. The CLARIN bazaar has discussed the model's conceptual choices and explored the proposed process in depth.
Youth psychosis & family involvement : narratives of a working alliance
Creators: name: O’Brien, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Youth psychosis often represents a tumultuous disruption to individual and family life. Researchers and family advocates have recommended mental health service providers work with family caregivers of the seriously mentally ill as "partners" and "allies" in the recovery effort. Little research has examined the experiences and process interactions of these potential partners as they seek to form a working alliance in the context of treatment planning. A qualitative study conducted as a narrative phenomenology was undertaken to explore the experiences related to family involvement in an early psychosis intervention program of a family caregiver, a youth recovering from psychosis, and his primary social worker. A core narrative representing the illness and recovery journey and their perspectives on family involvement was extracted from a joint interview with all three participants. In individual follow-up interviews participants further elaborated on themes related to the effects of illness on personal agency, autonomy and their relationships. Results also addressed how participants constructed "recovery" as well as how the family member participated as an advocate and established a collaborative relationship with the social worker.
Optical excitations and thermoelectric properties of 2D holey graphene
Creators: name: Singh, Deobrat
name: Shukla, Vivekanand
name: Ahuja, Rajeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, holey graphene (HG) has successfully synthesized at atomic precision of hole size and shape. This shows interesting physical and chemical properties for energy and environmental applications. Shaping of the pores also transforms semimetallic graphene to semiconductor holey graphene, which opens new door for its use in electronic applications. We systematically investigated the structural, electronic, optical and thermoelectric properties of HG structure using first-principles calculations. HG was found to have a direct band gap with 0.65 eV (PBE functional), 0.95 eV (HSE06 functional) and HSE06 functional is in good agreement with experimental results. For the optical properties, we use single-shot G0W0 calculations by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation to determining the intralayer excitonic effects. From the absorption spectrum, we obtained the optical gap of 1.28 eV and a week excitonic binding energy of 80 meV. We have found the large values of thermopower of 1662.59 $μ$V/K and better electronic figure of merit, ZT$_{e}$ as 1.13 from the investigated thermoelectric properties. Our investigations exhibit strong and broad optical absorption in the visible light region, which makes HG monolayer a promising candidate for optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Scale Free Networks from Self-Organisation
Creators: name: Evans, T. S.
name: Saramaki, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how scale-free degree distributions can emerge naturally from growing networks by using random walks for selecting vertices for attachment. This result holds for several variants of the walk algorithm and for a wide range of parameters. The growth mechanism is based on using local graph information only, so this is a process of self-organisation. The standard mean-field equations are an excellent approximation for network growth using these rules. We discuss the effects of finite size on the degree distribution, and compare analytical results to simulated networks. Finally, we generalise the random walk algorithm to produce weighted networks with power-law distributions of both weight and degree.
description: 33 Pages. Revised discussion of finite size effects
Characterization of disturbance sources for LISA: torsion pendulum results
Creators: name: Carbone, L.
name: Cavalleri, A.
name: Dolesi, R.
name: Hoyle, C. D.
name: Hueller, M.
name: Vitale, S.
name: Weber, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A torsion pendulum allows ground-based investigation of the purity of free-fall for the LISA test masses inside their capacitive position sensor. This paper presents recent improvements in our torsion pendulum facility that have both increased the pendulum sensitivity and allowed detailed characterization of several important sources of acceleration noise for the LISA test masses. We discuss here an improved upper limit on random force noise originating in the sensor. Additionally, we present new measurement techniques and preliminary results for characterizing the forces caused by the sensor's residual electrostatic fields, dielectric losses, residual spring-like coupling, and temperature gradients.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication Classical and Quantum Gravity
Evaluation of social capital promotion in rural development programmes: a methodological approach
Creators: name: Pisani, Elena
name: Franceschetti, Giorgio
name: Pisani, Elena
name: Franceschetti, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: social capital
subject: rural development programmes
subject: evaluation
subject: index

description: The academic literature makes evident that the main immaterial contribution of the LEADER approach (LA) consists in the promotion of social capital in rural areas. Therefore the insertion of LA in the framework of Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) should be considered as a powerful opportunity to promote rural development initiatives by means of a bottom-up methodology, much more focused on social relationships among local actors. These aspects open new opportunities also in terms of evaluations of RDPs and of LA, in the context of the already established Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF). The objective of this paper is to present a methodology for the definition of the Relative Index of Social Capital Promotion (RISCP) to be used in the ongoing evaluation of RDPs. The RISCP doesn’t represent an impact indicator, but it measures the potential social capital that could be promoted by means of the logic of intervention of selected measures of the RDPs.
Relational Reflection Entity Alignment
Creators: name: Mao, Xin
name: Wang, Wenting
name: Xu, Huimin
name: Wu, Yuanbin
name: Lan, Man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Entity alignment aims to identify equivalent entity pairs from different Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which is essential in integrating multi-source KGs. Recently, with the introduction of GNNs into entity alignment, the architectures of recent models have become more and more complicated. We even find two counter-intuitive phenomena within these methods: (1) The standard linear transformation in GNNs is not working well. (2) Many advanced KG embedding models designed for link prediction task perform poorly in entity alignment. In this paper, we abstract existing entity alignment methods into a unified framework, Shape-Builder & Alignment, which not only successfully explains the above phenomena but also derives two key criteria for an ideal transformation operation. Furthermore, we propose a novel GNNs-based method, Relational Reflection Entity Alignment (RREA). RREA leverages Relational Reflection Transformation to obtain relation specific embeddings for each entity in a more efficient way. The experimental results on real-world datasets show that our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, exceeding by 5.8%-10.9% on Hits@1.
description: 10 pages, Accepted by CIKM2020
B_d mixing and prospects for B_s mixing at D0
Creators: name: Bose, Tulika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement of the B_s oscillation frequency via B_s mixing analyses provides a powerful constraint on the CKM matrix elements. The study of B_d oscillations is an important step towards B_s mixing and a preliminary measurement of Delta m_d has been made with ~250 pb^-1 of data collected with the upgraded Run II D0 detector. Different flavor tagging algorithms have been developed and are being optimized for use on a large set of B_s mesons that have been reconstructed in different semileptonic decay modes.
description: Poster presented at the XXIV Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC04), Boston, USA, June 2004, 4 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures
Additional file 4 of Genome-wide identification and characterisation of Aquaporins in Nicotiana tabacum and their relationships with other Solanaceae species
Creators: name: Rosa, Annamaria De
name: Watson-Lazowski, Alexander
name: Evans, John R.
name: Groszmann, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Phylogeny of Arabidopsis, tomato, rubber tree, rice, soybean and tobacco AQPs. Phylogenetic analysis of tobacco AQPs with those from species belonging to a diverse set of plant species from across the angiosperm lineage: Arabidopsis (Brassicales), tomato (Solanales), rubber tree (Malpighiales), rice (Poales) and soy bean (Fabales). Tree was generated using the neighbour-joining method from MUSCLE-aligned protein sequences. Confidence levels (%) of branch points generated through bootstrapping analysis (n = 1000). AQP subfamilies annotated are TIP (blue), NIP (purple), XIP (yellow), PIP (orange), SIP (green).
Homotopy coherent theorems of Dold-Kan type
Creators: name: Walde, Tashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16D90, 18E05, 18E30, 18G30, 18G35, 55U10, 55U15

description: We establish a large class of homotopy coherent Morita-equivalences of Dold-Kan type relating diagrams with values in any weakly idempotent complete additive $\infty$-category; the guiding example is an $\infty$-categorical Dold-Kan correspondence between the $\infty$-categories of simplicial objects and connective coherent chain complexes. Our results generalize many known 1-categorical equivalences such as the classical Dold-Kan correspondence, Pirashvili's Dold-Kan type theorem for abelian $Γ$-groups and, more generally, the combinatorial categorical equivalences of Lack and Street.
description: 31 pages
Direct payments and rent extraction by land owners: Evidence form New Member States
Creators: name: Van Herck, Kristine
name: Vranken, Liesbet
name: Van Herck, Kristine
name: Vranken, Liesbet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land rental prices
subject: Farm subsidies
subject: New member states

description: Since the accession of the eight Central and Eastern European countries, farmers in these countries started to receive substantial agricultural subsidies. Agricultural subsidies alter farmer production incentives and thus factor demand and factor prices. Hence, agricultural support has an impact on land rents. This paper analyses the impact of the introduction of direct payments on land rents in the new member states and correlates econometrically land rental price data with support measures while controlling for other effects. The impact of direct payments on land rents is not only found to be statistically significant, but also economically important as 15% of the direct payments are capitalized in land rents in the new member states.
Coccinella longifasciata Liu
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella longifasciata

description: Coccinella longifasciata Liu
(Fig. 53a)
Coccinella longifasciata Liu, 1962: 262 (Type locality: China); Ren et al. 2009: 186, 187; Yu 2010: 114.
Coccinella nigrovittata Kapur, 1963: 37 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Tibet).— Poorani 2002a: 326; Synonymized by Kovář 2007: 611; Yu 2010: 114.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.20–5.00 mm; width: 2.10–3.80 mm. Form (Fig. 53a) elongate oval, widest just behind middle of body length, moderately convex and glabrous. Head black with a pair of pale testaceous or whitish frontal spots, one each near inner margin of eye; pronotum black except anterior and lateral margins paler, yellowish; scutellar shield black; elytra yellowish-testaceous, with a short, elongate oval spot immediately behind scutellar shield; each elytron with a black discal vitta, slightly oblique, starting from humeral callus and extending to about 5/6th the elytral length (from Kapur 1963). Genitalia not studied.
It is readily separated from its Indian congeners by its distinctly elongate form and the presence of the elytral vittae. It is superficially similar to Oenopia adelgivora Poorani, which is elongate with three pale brown elytral stripes but smaller in size with a much narrower form. Kapur (1963) found its size and general shape were comparable with Oenopia billieti (Mulsant), a Himalayan species but the genitalia were different in the latter.
Distribution. Tibet, Mount Everest.
Note. See Kapur (1963) for detailed description (as C. nigrovittata) with illustrations. Kapur (1963) commented that it appeared to be an aberrant species of Coccinella in view of the elongate shape of the body and the coloration of the pronotum and elytra. Coccinella longifasciata Liu, 1962 and C. nigrovittata, which was described around the same time by Kapur (1963) were synonymized by Kovář (2007). Ren et al. (2009) illustrated the habitus and the male genitalia of C. longifasciata and Yu (2010) also included it in his conspectus on Chinese Coccinellini.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 78-81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
“FADN - FER system description and its exploitability in Agricultural Policies impact evaluation: the system can accept further development specification in order to assist Policies design and evaluation?”
Creators: name: Esposito, Laura
name: Macri, Antonio
name: Tommasi, Irene
name: Esposito, Laura
name: Macri, Antonio
name: Tommasi, Irene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Policies Evaluation
subject: subsidies
subject: type of farming

description: In this paper we examined subsides received from actions set in motion by the two Pillars of EU Structural Policies. Data come from Fadn-Fer system that collects a large number of variables regarding results and economical behaviour of farmers active in the rural areas, including business and public entrepreneurs. Both FADN register and FER questionnaire collect data on CAP and RD contributes received to perform activities proposed by CAP/RD Pillars and measures; then FADN -FER databases can be used for Policies evaluation exercises as well as to improve Policies’ design and targets. The available vectors of data have been analyzed through an approach that aims to represent the principal financial records and figures of the EU structural policies in two cycles: the first period for the cycle 2000-2006 and the second period for the first two years of the cycle 2007-2013.
Towards a cost-effectiveness analysis of the measurement of biodiversity indicators
Creators: name: Targetti, Stefano
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Cuming, David
name: Targetti, Stefano
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Cuming, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: biodiversity
subject: cost-effectiveness
subject: indicator costs

description: A comprehensive quantification of biodiversity in farming systems would require a very significant amount of work (and funds) even for a small area. Therefore, biodiversity indicators are needed to solve the problem of the measurement feasibility. Even though the issue of cost and effectiveness is central for the evaluation of the indicators, only the latter is discussed in detail in the scientific literature. This work presents a cost analysis based on the direct gathering of records from a farm-scale biodiversity survey (EU-FP7, BioBio - “Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming systems”) where the analysis of costs is part of the project. It is a simple method for comparing different indicators by their ratio of cost/effectiveness. Here we present the results from the French case study (Gascony Hills, Midi-Pyrenees Region).
Excited Baryon Spectroscopy from Lattice QCD: Finite Size Effect and Hyperfine Mass Splitting
Creators: name: Sasaki, Kiyoshi
name: Sasaki, Shoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of the finite-size effect is carried out for spectra of both ground-state and excited-state baryons in quenched lattice QCD using Wilson fermions. Our simulations are performed at beta=6.2 with three different spatial sizes, La~1.6, 2.2 and 3.2 fm. It is found that the physical lattice size larger than 3 fm is required for delta states in all spin-parity (J^{P}=1/2^{+/-}, 3/2^{+/-}) channels and also negative-parity nucleon state (J^{P}=1/2^{-}) even in the rather heavy quark mass region. We also find a peculiar behavior of the finite-size effect on the hyperfine mass splittings between the nucleon and the delta in both parity channels.
description: 21 pages, REVTeX, 14 figures included, typos corrected, and references added
Deep Neural Network for Respiratory Sound Classification in Wearable Devices Enabled by Patient Specific Model Tuning
Creators: name: Acharya, Jyotibdha
name: Basu, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The primary objective of this paper is to build classification models and strategies to identify breathing sound anomalies (wheeze, crackle) for automated diagnosis of respiratory and pulmonary diseases. In this work we propose a deep CNN-RNN model that classifies respiratory sounds based on Mel-spectrograms. We also implement a patient specific model tuning strategy that first screens respiratory patients and then builds patient specific classification models using limited patient data for reliable anomaly detection. Moreover, we devise a local log quantization strategy for model weights to reduce the memory footprint for deployment in memory constrained systems such as wearable devices. The proposed hybrid CNN-RNN model achieves a score of 66.31% on four-class classification of breathing cycles for ICBHI'17 scientific challenge respiratory sound database. When the model is re-trained with patient specific data, it produces a score of 71.81% for leave-one-out validation. The proposed weight quantization technique achieves ~4X reduction in total memory cost without loss of performance. The main contribution of the paper is as follows: Firstly, the proposed model is able to achieve state of the art score on the ICBHI'17 dataset. Secondly, deep learning models are shown to successfully learn domain specific knowledge when pre-trained with breathing data and produce significantly superior performance compared to generalized models. Finally, local log quantization of trained weights is shown to be able to reduce the memory requirement significantly. This type of patient-specific re-training strategy can be very useful in developing reliable long-term automated patient monitoring systems particularly in wearable healthcare solutions.
The challenge of environmental monitoring: the example of HNV farmland
Creators: name: Peppiette, Zelie
name: Peppiette, Zelie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: HNV
subject: High Nature Value
subject: environmental monitoring.

description: Assessment of the environmental outcomes associated with agricultural and rural policy is becoming increasingly important. The High Nature Value (HNV) Farmland indicator included within the EU's Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for rural development is taken as an example of the parameters used for environmental monitoring. The different methods used across the EU to estimate the extent and condition of HNV farmland are compared, and issues and challenges related to different approaches are discussed.
Chronic corticosterone regulates 5-HT₁A but not 5-HT₂A agonist-induced serotonin receptor-mediated functions
Creators: name: Lamarre, Amanda Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: There has been much research on serotonin (5-HT) 1A and 2A receptor activity, and speculation on how these receptors are implicated in the etiology of depression. Moreover, interest has been focused on mechanisms through which corticosteroids interact with these receptors to produce biochemical, physiological and behavioural changes. The 5-HT[sub 1A] and 5-HT[sub 2A] receptors appear to be controlled by corticosteroids in a biphasic manner; low corticosteroid levels exert influence on 5-HT[sub 1A] receptor activity, while high levels activate 5-HT[sub 2A] receptors. It is therefore reasonable to speculate that 5-HT[sub 1A] receptor activity predominates during normal conditions, while during times of prolonged stress, receptor activity shifts to 5-HT[sub 2A]. The purpose of this research was to investigate the hypothesis that elevated corticosterone levels cause a shift from predominantly 5-H[sub 1A] to 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor activity and that this happens over a particular time course. Corticosterone (20 mg/kg) or its vehicle was chronically administered to rats for 14 days. During this time, rats were tested at six time points on a number of 5-HT[sub 1A] and 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor-mediated physiological and behavioural measures. Overall, it was found that after 12 days of administration, rats receiving corticosterone exhibited an attenuation of the hypothermic response produced by the 5-HT[sub 1A] agonist 8-hydroxy-2(di-n-propylamino) tetralin. However, over the entire course of administration, corticosterone did not potentiate any effects produced by the 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor-agonist 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4- iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane on 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor-mediated behaviours. These results are discussed in relation to the interaction between serotonin and HPA-axis functioning in Major Depression.
SU(3) Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients for Baryon-Meson Coupling at Arbitrary N_c
Creators: name: Cohen, Thomas D.
name: Lebed, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present explicit formulae for the SU(3) Clebsch-Gordan coefficients that are relevant for the couplings of large N_c baryons to mesons. In particular, we compute the Clebsch-Gordan series for the coupling of the octet (associated with mesons, and remains the correct representation at large N_c) to the large N_c analogs of the baryon octet and decuplet representations.
description: 8 pages, no figures, ReVTeX
Extreme values of the derivative of Blaschke products and hypergeometric polynomials
Creators: name: Kovalev, Leonid V.
name: Yang, Xuerui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 30J10, Secondary 33C05, 33C45

description: A finite Blaschke product, restricted to the unit circle, is a smooth covering map. The maximum and minimum values of the derivative of this map reflect the geometry of the Blaschke product. We identify two classes of extremal Blaschke products: those that maximize the difference between the maximum and minimum of the derivative, and those that minimize it. Both classes turn out to have the same algebraic structure, being the quotient of two hypergeometric polynomials.
description: Corrected typos, added references
Asian Rice Policies and WTO Commitments on Domestic Support Under Existing and Proposed Doha Round Provisions
Creators: name: Yang, Min-Hsien
name: Blandford, David
name: Yang, Min-Hsien
name: Blandford, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: domestic support
subject: rice
subject: WTO
subject: Taiwan
subject: Asia

description: We examine current rice policies in four major Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan), their relationship to current WTO disciplines, and to those proposed under the Doha negotiations. WTO disciplines have prompted some changes in rice policies, but disciplines of domestic support are unlikely to impose serious constraints in the future. Using the example of Taiwan, we examine how existing support policies could be changed to reduce domestic distortions and satisfy WTO commitments. Changing from existing amber box payments to those that would likely qualify for inclusion under the blue or green boxes could allow greater market orientation in Taiwan’s rice market, while satisfying food security and farm income support objectives.
VINTERGATAN II: the history of the Milky Way told by its mergers
Creators: name: Renaud, Florent
name: Agertz, Oscar
name: Read, Justin I.
name: Ryde, Nils
name: Andersson, Eric P.
name: Bensby, Thomas
name: Rey, Martin P.
name: Feuillet, Diane K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the VINTERGATAN cosmological zoom simulation, we explore the contributions of the in situ and accreted material, and the effect of galaxy interactions and mergers in the assembly of a Milky Way-like galaxy. We find that the initial growth phase of galaxy evolution, dominated by repeated major mergers, provides the necessary physical conditions for the assembly of a thick, kinematically hot disk populated by high-[$α$/Fe] stars, formed both in situ and in accreted satellite galaxies. We find that the diversity of evolutionary tracks followed by the simulated galaxy and its progenitors leads to very little overlap of the in situ and accreted populations for any given chemical composition. At a given age, the spread in [$α$/Fe] abundance ratio results from the diversity of physical conditions in VINTERGATAN and its satellites, with an enhancement in [$α$/Fe] found in stars formed during starburst episodes. Later, the cessation of the merger activity promotes the in situ formation of stars in the low-[$α$/Fe] regime, in a radially extended, thin and overall kinematically colder disk, thus establishing chemically bimodal thin and thick disks, in line with observations. We draw links between notable features in the [Fe/H] - [$α$/Fe] plane with their physical causes, and propose a comprehensive formation scenario explaining self-consistently, in the cosmological context, the main observed properties of the Milky Way.
description: MNRAS in press. Movies available at http://www.astro.lu.se/~florent/vintergatan.php
Forecasting Housing Prices: Dynamic Factor Model versus LBVAR Model
Creators: name: Li, Yarui
name: Leatham, David J.
name: Li, Yarui
name: Leatham, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Housing market
subject: DFM
subject: LBVAR
subject: dynamic PCA

description: The purpose of this paper is to compare the forecasting power of DFM and LBVAR models as they are used to forecast house price growth rates for 42 metropolitan areas in the United States. The forecasting performances of these two large-scale models are compared based on the Theil U-statistic.
On the Possibility of a New Boson X^0 (214 MeV) in Sigma^+ -> p mu^+ mu^-
Creators: name: Deshpande, N. G.
name: Eilam, G.
name: Jiang, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the existence of the state X^0 (214 MeV) in Sigma^+ -> p mu^+ mu^- decay found by the HyperCP collaboration. We assume that a fundamental spin zero boson X^0 coupled to quarks leads to flavor changing s -> d X^0 process. We estimate the scalar and pseudoscalar coupling constants by considering Sigma^+ -> p X^0 and K^+ -> pi^+ X^0 processes, and find that pseudoscalar coupling dominates. We then evaluate the branching ratios for K_L -> pi^0 pi^0 X^0, pi^+ pi^- X^0 and Omega^- -> Xi^- X^0 decays. All these rates are found to be in the measurable ranges. We also comment on X^0 coupling to muons and constraints from muon g-2.
description: 6 pages; typos corrected, references added, 7 pages
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide identification and characterisation of Aquaporins in Nicotiana tabacum and their relationships with other Solanaceae species
Creators: name: Rosa, Annamaria De
name: Watson-Lazowski, Alexander
name: Evans, John R.
name: Groszmann, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. AQP subfamily alignments for genes with incorrect protein sequences reported in Edwards et al. (2017). In red is the Edwards et al. (2017) predicted protein sequence and in black is the curated protein sequence from this study. Figure S2. Alignment of regions surrounding Histidine 207 in NtAQP1 (NtPIP1;5 s). Partial regions of a protein sequence alignment surrounding Histidine 207 of the NtAQP1 (NtPIP1;5) identified in this study, against the seemingly erroneous NtAQP1 sequence reported in (Biela et al., 1999; NCBI AF024511 and AJ001416) and closest BlastP matches from various other Solanaceae species. Figure S3. Phylogeny of Arabidopsis, tomato, rubber tree, rice, soybean and tobacco AQPs. Figure too large for this PDF; See Additional file 4. Figure S4. Phylogeny of Arabidopsis and currently identified Solanaceae AQPs. Phylogenetic trees for each AQP sub-family were generated using the neighbour-joining method from MUSCLE aligned protein sequences. Confidence levels (%) of branch points generated through bootstrapping analysis (n = 1000). Solanaceae species included in this phylogeny include; N.sylvestris (orange), N.tomentosiformis (blue), tomato (green), potato (brown) and tobacco (black). Arabidopsis genes are coloured red. Black stars indicate NtAQPs which did not have an obvious tomato ortholog. Figure S5. Sequence alignment of C-terminal tails of NtPIP and NtNIP proteins. Serine residues in red are those predicted to be phosphorylated by NetPhos 3.1 (prediction score ≥ 0.8). Underlined red serine residues in GmNOD26, SoPIP2;1 and AtPIP2;1 have been experimentally confirmed as being phosphorylated in plants. Bold residues indicate the substitution of strongly conserved positively charged Lys(K)/Arg(R) residues to a His(H) residue (blue) occurring in NtPIP1;5 and NtPIP2;1 proteins. Figure S6. Comparisons of expression profile between AQPs from tobacco (NtAQPs and NtAQPt, genes), Nicotiana sylvestris (N.syl) and Nicotiana tomentosiformis (N.tom). Correlations of relative transcript abundances was compared in two-dimensions; (i) between AQPs within a given tissue (vertically) and (ii) a given AQP across tissues (horizontally). Figure S7. Tissue-specific expression patterns of tomato XIP isoforms (SlPXIP1;1-SlXIP1;6) and the tobacco NtXIP1;7 sister genes. Comparison of relative gene expression in roots, leaves and flowers of tobacco NtXIP1;7 sister genes (blue) against all the tomato XIP isoforms (red, SlXIP1;1-SlXIP6), with potato orthologs (brown), in an attempt to find matches between the various XIPs which were difficult to assign orthology based on protein sequence alone.