cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelos de agricultura sustentável: biodinâmica e sistema silvipastoril
Creators: name: Mascarenhas, Nágela M.H.
name: Furtado, Dermeval A.
name: Cavalcante, Cácio R.
name: Costa, António N.L. Da
name: Souza, Maria A. De
name: Mailson Gonçalves, Mailson Gregório
name: Oliveira, Airton G. De
name: Brito, Alicia N.S.L. De
name: Silva, Luís P.F.R. Da
name: Nogueira, Lídia P.S.
name: Dornelas, Karoline C.
name: Rodrigues, Raimundo C.M.
name: Medeiros Neto, Moises S. De
name: Paiva, Francisco J.S.
name: Silva, Semirames N.
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: O objetivo desta revisão foi comparar dois modelos de agricultura sustentáveis, demostrando as vantagens e desvantagens de ambos, correlacionando-os entre si. As diversas práticas agrícolas contemporâneas compreendem modelos alternativos de agricultura, como permacultura, agricultura biológica, orgânica, biodinâmica, que são consideradas sustentáveis, e modelos intensivos de produção, que apresentam vários pontos negativos, contrastando com os modelos alternativos. A busca por uma agricultura menos agressiva ao meio ambiente, que permaneça produtiva em longo prazo, tem sido uma preocupação constante de pesquisadores e produtores. Os modelos de agricultura assemelham-se entre si, o que os difere são apenas algumas práticas que não são permitidas em todos, e suas bases de fundamentação. Nesta revisão dois modelos foram mais abordados de forma simplificada, para a percepção dos seus conceitos e de suas bases fundamentais, mostrando o que os diferencia, e que mesmo assim os leva para um mesmo objetivo, criar um ecossistema independente de recursos externos.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, Vol. 43 No 3 (2020)
Colored condensates deep inside neutron stars
Creators: name: Blaschke, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is demonstrated how in the absence of solutions for QCD under conditions deep inside compact stars an equation of state can be obtained within a model that is built on the basic symmetries of the QCD Lagrangian, in particular chiral symmetry and color symmetry. While in the vacuum the chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken, it gets restored at high densities. Color symmetry, however, gets broken simultaneously by the formation of colorful diquark condensates. It is shown that a strong diquark condensate in cold dense quark matter is essential for supporting the possibility that such states could exist in the recently observed pulsars with masses of 2 $M_\odot$.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of "Wigner 111 -- Colourful \& Deep", Budapest, Hungary, 11-13 November 2013
title: Microalgal Enzymes with Biotechnological Application
Creators: name: Vingiani, Giorgio Maria
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this thesis was to address the current state of art of microalgal enzymes with biotechnological application, and to expand the current knowledge of enzymes with the potential to find proper application in industry or novel market niches, via their production and biochemical characterization. Available transcriptomic datasets were used to identify possible enzymes of interest. Specifically, after a review of the available scientific literature (Chapter 1) my experimental activities focused on different enzymes identified in the transcriptome of the marine diatom Cylindrotheca closterium.

 Studied enzymes were two di-n-butyl phthalate hydrolases (CcDBPH1-2), putatively involved in phthalate degradation (Chapter 2), two platelet activating factor- acetylhydrolase (CcPAF-AH1-2), involved in lipid metabolism and inflammation modulation, which role in diatom is still unknown (Chapter 3), a L-asparaginase (CcASNase), that is an enzyme with a well-supported market niche in cancer treatment and acrylamide mitigation (Chapter 4).

 The experimental pipeline of CcDBPH1-2, starting from transcript identification till protein functional activity studies, was completed and reached the stage of protein purification and activity assay. In addition, different bioinformatics analyses and cc_dbph1-2 expression by RT-qPCR in C. closterium grown with different concentrations of DBP were also performed confirming evidences of the protein bioremediation activity.

 The expression of CcPAF-AH1-2 was hampered by the strong toxic effect that recombinant proteins production induced in E. coli cells. However, the mutation of the catalytic serine 243 of CcPAF-AH2 allowed enzyme accumulation in 1L cultures.

 Finally, the expression of CcASNase was successful in BL21 (DE3) and Rosetta 2 (DE3) E. coli strains. However, the low amount of produced protein will need further optimization of the growth conditions.

 Overall, this PhD thesis represents a contribution to the growing number of studies aimed to unravel the application of microalgae as an eco-friendly and eco-sustainable source of novel enzymes for human applications.
Modified gravity models and the central cusp of dark matter halos in galaxies
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Davi C.
name: de Oliveira, Paulo L.
name: Fabris, Julio C.
name: Gentile, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N-body dark matter (DM) simulations point that DM density profiles, e.g. the NFW halo, should be cuspy in its center, but observations disfavour this kind of DM profile. Here we consider whether the observed rotation curves "close" to the galactic centre can favour modified gravity models in comparison to the NFW halo, and how to quantify such difference. Two explicit modified gravity models are considered, MOND and a more recent approach called RGGR (in reference to Renormalization Group effects in General Relativity). It is also the purpose of this work to significantly extend the sample on which RGGR has been tested in comparison to other approaches. By analysing 62 galaxies from five samples, we find that: i) there is a radius, given by half the disk scale length, below which RGGR and MOND can match the data about as well or better than NFW, albeit the formers have fewer free parameters; ii) considering the complete rotation curve data, RGGR could achieve fits with better agreement than MOND, and almost as good as a NFW halo with two free parameters (NFW and RGGR have respectively two and one more free parameters than MOND).
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables. Accepted in MNRAS
Application of remote sensing and GIS technique to analyze the land-use change: the case of Phu Giao district, Binh Duong province
Creators: name: Le, Trong Dieu Hien
name: Pham, Gia Huan
name: Nguyen, Tien Dat
name: Nguyen, Xuan Truong
name: Pham, Van Tat
Publisher: name: Journal of Vietnamese Environment
Year: 2017

description: Digital change detection is a helpful technique using multi-temporal satellite image for analyzing landscape exchange. The objective of this study is an attempt to assess the land-use changes in Phu Giao district, Binh Duong province, Vietnam in the period of fifteen years, from 2001 to 2015. Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image data files of years from 2001 to 2015 were collected on website of United States Geological Survey (USGS). Then, the images supervised were classified into five classes including perennial plant, annual plant, barren and urban land, and water body using Maximum Likelihood classification method in ENVI 4.7, and mapped using ArcGIS. The results show that during fifteen years, perennial land and urban land have been increased by 39.83% and 10.32%, while annual land and water body have been decreased by 1.37% and 5.35% accordingly, respectively. Phát hiện thay đổi số hóa là một kỹ thuật hiệu quả sử dụng hình ảnh vệ tinh đa thời gian cho phân tích thay đổi cảnh quan. Bài viết này là một sự cố gắng nhằm đánh giá sự thay đổi đất sử dụng ở huyện Phú Giáo, tỉnh Bình Dương, Việt Nam trong khoảng thời gian mười lăm năm từ năm 2001 đến năm 2015. Các file dữ liệu ảnh Landsat TM của các năm từ 2001 đến 2015 đã được thu thập trên trang web nghiên cứu Địa chất Hoa Kỳ (USGS). Sau đó, các hình ảnh giám sát được phân thành năm lớp bao gồm cả cây trồng lâu năm, cây trồng hàng năm, đất đô thị cằn cỗi và vùng nước sử dụng phương pháp phân loại Maximum Likelihood trong ENVI 4.7, và lập bản đồ bằng sử dụng ArcGIS. Kết quả cho thấy rằng trong suốt mười lăm năm, diện tích đất trồng cây lâu năm, đất đô thị đã được tăng tương ứng là 39,83% và 10,32%, trong khi đất đai hàng năm và vùng nước giảm 1,37% và 5,35%.
description: Journal of Vietnamese Environment, Vol 8 No 3 (2016)
Assessing the Ability of Satellites to Resolve Sea Surface Temperature Variability – The ATOMIC Region
Creators: name: Wick, Gary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presented at the GHRSST XXIII international science team meeting, 27 June-1 July 2022, online and in-person (Barcelona). #GHRSST23 Short abstract Direct measurements of the SST from multiple platforms deployed during the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) field campaign are used to evaluate the ability of satellite products to accurately represent the spatial SST variability. In situ SST measurements from the Research Vessel Ronald H. Brown, Saildrones, and drifters were collocated with five leading daily Level 4 SST analyses and two Level 3 single-sensor SST products during the period from January 1 to February 24, 2020. The absolute accuracy of the satellite products was generally good with random errors on the order of 0.2 K or less, though most exhibited a small cool bias of ~0.1 K. Sub-grid SST variability in the ATOMIC region was small (< 0.03 K) in relationship both to other regions and to uncertainties in the satellite products. Despite their absolute accuracy, the satellite products were unable to provide a reliable representation of SST spatial gradients within the ATOMIC domain on the scale of their respective grid resolutions. Correlations between satellite-derived and observed cell-to-cell SST differences were low, as the uncertainty in the satellite products dominated over small cell-to-cell variability in the region. The products better represented the spatial SST variability on scales of 1° or more. Simulations demonstrated that a satellite product precision of 0.05 K or less would be needed to successfully reproduce the observed SST spatial variability at the grid cell level, but this is challenging with current capabilities. Independent observations from the Arctic showed greater variability and a relaxed accuracy requirement.
Axonopsis rhopalopoda K. Viets 1929
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Axonopsis
Axonopsis rhopalopoda

description: Axonopsis rhopalopoda K. Viets, 1929
Material examined. 1/1/0, Kipungit River, Poring Hot Springs, Mt Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia, 6° 0 2.776 N 116° 41.432 E, alt. 568 m asl, 15-ix-2012.
Distribution. A species known from Sumatra, Java (K. Viets 1935) and Borneo (Wiles 1999).
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3876 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287281
Fitogenetic Resources Conservation in Seed Banks – review
Creators: name: Pirata, Madalena
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: Plants are essential for the ecosystem proper functioning. They are a source of food for many species, a source of oxygen, it is possible to collected compounds for the pharmaceutical industry and fibers for making clothing, they have a very important role in slowing down climate change and soil destruction. The possibility of losing some plant species is real, and there is a growing concern with the preservation of terrestrial flora. In this context, the conservation of germplasm through seed banks thus constitutes insurance against the extinction of plants in their natural habitat, and if a species is destroyed elsewhere, there will be seeds of that species for planting. A seed bank, is also, a source of controlled origin and quality material for scientific research.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, Vol. 43 No 3 (2020)
Decoy state measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution based on the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality
Creators: name: Zhang, Chun-Mei
name: Li, Mo
name: Li, Hong-Wei
name: Yin, Zhen-Qiang
name: Wang, Dong
name: Huang, Jing-Zheng
name: Han, Yun-Guang
name: Xu, Man-Li
name: Chen, Wei
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Treeviriyanupab, Patcharapong
name: Guo, Guang-Can
name: Han, Zheng-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) protocol is proposed to remove the detector side channel attacks, while its security relies on the assumption that the encoding systems are perfectly characterized. In contrast, the MDI-QKD protocol based on the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality (CHSH-MDI-QKD) weakens this assumption, which only requires the quantum state to be prepared in the two-dimensional Hilbert space and the devices are independent. In experimental realizations, the weak coherent state, which is always used in QKD systems due to the lack of an ideal single photon source, may be prepared in the high-dimensional space. In this paper, we investigate the decoy-state CHSH-MDI-QKD protocol with $s(3 \le s \le 5)$ intensities, including one signal state and $s-1$ decoy states, and we also consider the finite-size effect on the decoy-state CHSH-MDI-QKD protocol with five intensities. Simulation results show that this scheme is very practical.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Diamond electro-optomechanical resonators integrated in nanophotonic circuits
Creators: name: Rath, P.
name: Ummethala, S.
name: Diewald, S.
name: Lewes-Malandrakis, G.
name: Brink, D.
name: Heidrich, N.
name: Nebel, C.
name: Pernice, W. H. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diamond integrated photonic devices are promising candidates for emerging applications in nanophotonics and quantum optics. Here we demonstrate active modulation of diamond nanophotonic circuits by exploiting mechanical degrees of freedom in free-standing diamond electro-optomechanical resonators. We obtain high quality factors up to 9600, allowing us to read out the driven nanomechanical response with integrated optical interferometers with high sensitivity. We are able to excite higher order mechanical modes up to 115 MHz and observe the nanomechanical response also under ambient conditions.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Phytoremediation potential of Pteris vittata L. and Eleusine indica L. through field study and greenhouse experiments
Creators: name: Bui, Thi Kim Anh
Publisher: name: Journal of Vietnamese Environment
Year: 2017

description: This study focused on determining Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd) and Zinc (Zn) concentrations of indigenous plants Pteris vittata L. and Eleusine indica L. in greenhouse experiment and some mining sites in Bac Kan province, Vietnam. The results showed that the soils of surveyed mining areas contained 378 – 6753 mgkg-1 As, 3,210 - 21,312 mgkg-1 Pb, 15.6- 312 mgkg-1 Cd and 1,280-25,310 mgkg-1 Zn depending on the characteristics of each mining site. In both greenhouse and field, Pteris vittata L. was As hyperaccumulators, containing more than 0.1% As in its shoots. Eleusine indica L accumulate high concentrations of Pb (1,234-4,316 mgkg-1) and Zn (982-2,352 mgkg-1) in their roots. None of two plant species had high Cd accumulating ability in the root and shoot. The amounts of heavy metals in two species under the field condition smaller than in the greenhouse experiment when they grew nearly in the same soil. Both two plants are good candidates for phytoremediation of these mining sites. Nghiên cứu này nhằm đánh giá hàm lượng Asen (As), Cadimi (Cd), Chì (Pb) và Kẽm (Zn) của hai loài thực vật bản địa là Pteris vittata L. và Eleusine indica L. trong thí nghiệm nhà kính và tại một số điểm khai thác mỏ ở tỉnh Bắc Kạn, phía Bắc Việt Nam. Kết quả chỉ ra rằng, đất vùng mỏ khảo sát có chứa 378 – 6753 mgkg-1 As, 3210 - 21312 mgkg-1 Pb, 15,6- 312 mgkg-1 Cd và 1280-25310 mgkg-1 Zn phụ thuộc vào tính chất của từng điểm lấy mẫu. Trong cả thí nghiệm tại nhà kính và ngoài đồng ruộng, Pteris vittata L. đã được xác định là loài siêu tích lũy As, nó có chứa lượng As nhiều hơn 0.1% ở trong phần trên mặt đất của cây. Eleusine indica L tích lũy cao lượng Pb (1234-4316 mgkg-1) và Zn (982-2352 mgkg-1) trong phần rễ cây. Hai loài thực vật nghiên cứu không có khả năng tích lũy cao lượng Cd ở phần thân và rễ cây. Hàm lượng kim loại nặng tích lũy trong thực vật nghiên cứu ở ngoài thực địa nhỏ hơn trong thí nghiệm khi cùng mọc trên một loại đất ô nhiễm như nhau. Cả hai loài thực vật nghiên cứu là đối tượng tốt cho xử lý ô nhiễm tại các điểm mỏ khảo sát.
description: Journal of Vietnamese Environment, Vol 8 No 3 (2016)
INCEFA-SCALE Project – Overview of the Modelling Plans
Creators: name: Courtin, Stephan
name: Ancelet, Olivier
name: Beswick, Jack
name: Blakesley, Oliver
name: Cicero, Román
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: environmentally assisted fatigue
pressurized water reactor
stainless steel
finite element analyses
data mining

description: INCEFA-SCALE is a five-year project supported by the European Commission HORIZON2020 programme. It kicked off in September 2020 and is the successor to the INCEFA-PLUS programme. The objective is to continue work, advancing the ability to predict lifetimes of Nuclear Plant components when subjected to Environmental Assisted Fatigue (EAF) loading. The main issue addressed by INCEFA-SCALE is the transferability of laboratory-scale tests to real nuclear components. The project strategy will be (1) the development of comprehensive mechanistic understanding developed through detailed examination of test specimens and data mining, and (2) testing focussed on particular aspects of component-scale cyclic loading. From these data, one of the main objectives is to derive an EAF assessment procedure that can be used by assessors for the extrapolation of laboratory test data to real component geometries and conditions, for lifetime calculations. This paper will give an overview of the INCEFA-SCALE modelling plans and some illustrations on the 5 main topics that have been identified: (1) numerical analyses to support test design and interpretation, (2) data mining, (3) review of the codified methods, (4) fatigue damage modelling and noncodified approaches to better address for fatigue damage mechanisms, and (5) industrial application.
description: Open access abstract of PVP2023-101351
Axonopsis caeca, n. sp.
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Axonopsis
Axonopsis caeca

description: Axonopsis caeca n. sp.
(Figs. 34A–D)
Type series. Holotype female, Mahua stream, Mahua, Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia, 5° 47.838 N 116° 24.510 E, alt. 1052 m asl, 21-ix-2012 (RMNH).
Diagnosis. Lateral eyes reduced, anterior part of dorsum with a typical configuration of reticulate pattern, forming a series of curved parallel lines.
Description. Female: Colour pale yellow, idiosoma 425 long dorsally and 421 ventrally, 308 wide, eyes reduced. Dorsal shield 284 wide, with six pairs of glandularia, anteriorly broadly fused with ventral shield; excretory pore fused with dorsal shield, flanked by the sixth pair of glandularia. Dorsum anteriorly with a reticulate pattern forming a series of curved parallel lines. Cx-I and -II rugose, extending to anterior idiosoma margin. Venter anterolaterally with a ridge. Apodeme of gnathosoma very long. Suture lines of coxae obliterated. Between fourth leg sockets and genital field two pairs of glandularia, one large and one small. Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, fused with ventral shield. Length/height of P1-P5: 26/16, 45/38, 22/23, 46/26, 48/12. Length of I-leg-4–6: 51, 56, 46. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 66, 70, 52.
Male: Unknown.
Etymology. Named for the reduced lateral eyes.
Remarks. No representative of the subgenus has previously been found in the Oriental region. Axonopsis caspica Pešić & Saboori, 2006 from Iran (Pešić et al. 2006) is similar in the reduction of lateral eyes (a character state not mentioned in the original description), but differs in much broader anterior coxae and much longer ventral setae of P4. Axonopsis (Vicinaxonopsis) iranica Pešić, Jabaleh & Saboori, 2009 from Iran differs from A. caeca in the glandularia between the fourth leg sockets and genital field on each side more distanced from each other and a more stocky P4.
Distribution. Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3876 (1) on pages 57-58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287281
On a Class of Nonlocal Wave Equations from Applications
Creators: name: Beyer, Horst Reinhard
name: Aksoylu, Burak
name: Celiker, Fatih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47G10, 35L05, 74B99

description: We study equations from the area of peridynamics, which is an extension of elasticity. The governing equations form a system of nonlocal wave equations. Its governing operator is found to be a bounded, linear and self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. We study the well-posedness and stability of the associated initial value problem. We solve the initial value problem by applying the functional calculus of the governing operator. In addition, we give a series representation of the solution in terms of spherical Bessel functions. For the case of scalar valued functions, the governing operator turns out as functions of the Laplace operator. This result enables the comparison of peridynamic solutions to those of classical elasticity as well as the introduction of local boundary conditions into the nonlocal theory. The latter is studied in a companion paper.
description: 36 pages, 8 figures
YOSHLAR ORASIDA HUQUQIY SAVODXONLIKNING AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Xamdamov, Azizbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ma'lumki, insonning komillik darajasiga yetishi bilan bir qatorda uning ilmiy salohiyati ham yuksala boradi. Bunda huquqiy savodxonlikning ahamiyati katta bo'lib, huquqiy ong, huquqiy madaniyat, huquqiy bilim tushunchalari chambarchas bog'liqlikda shakllanadi.
An all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array data set
Creators: name: Zhu, X. -J.
name: Hobbs, G.
name: Wen, L.
name: Coles, W. A.
name: Wang, J. -B.
name: Shannon, R. M.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Burke-Spolaor, S.
name: Dai, S.
name: Keith, M. J.
name: Kerr, M.
name: Levin, Y.
name: Madison, D. R.
name: Osłowski, S.
name: Ravi, V.
name: Toomey, L.
name: van Straten, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of an all-sky search in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) Data Release 1 data set for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency range from $5\times 10^{-9}$ to $2\times 10^{-7}$ Hz. Such signals could be produced by individual supermassive binary black hole systems in the early stage of coalescence. We phase up the pulsar timing array data set to form, for each position on the sky, two data streams that correspond to the two GW polarizations and then carry out an optimal search for GW signals on these data streams. Since no statistically significant GWs were detected, we place upper limits on the intrinsic GW strain amplitude $h_0$ for a range of GW frequencies. For example, at $10^{-8}$ Hz our analysis has excluded with $95\%$ confidence the presence of signals with $h_0\geqslant 1.7\times 10^{-14}$. Our new limits are about a factor of four more stringent than those of Yardley et al. (2010) based on an earlier PPTA data set and a factor of two better than those reported in the recent Arzoumanian et al. (2014) paper. We also present PPTA directional sensitivity curves and find that for the most sensitive region on the sky, the current data set is sensitive to GWs from circular supermassive binary black holes with chirp masses of $10^{9} M_{\odot}$ out to a luminosity distance of about 100 Mpc. Finally, we set an upper limit of $4 \times 10^{-3} {\rm{Mpc}}^{-3} {\rm{Gyr}}^{-1}$ at $95\%$ confidence on the coalescence rate of nearby ($z \lesssim 0.1$) supermassive binary black holes in circular orbits with chirp masses of $10^{10}M_{\odot}$.
description: A few typos corrected, to match the published version, 13 pages, 11 figures
Erebaxonopsis kipungitensis, n. sp.
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Aturidae
Erebaxonopsis
Erebaxonopsis kipungitensis

description: Erebaxonopsis kipungitensis n. sp.
(Figs. 35A–D)
Type series. Holotype male, Kipungit River, Poring Hot Springs, Mt Kinabalu, 6° 0 2.776 N 116° 41.432 E, alt. 568 m asl, 15-ix-2012 (RMNH).
Diagnosis. Anterior margins of Cx-I/-II each with a group of teeth; IV-leg-1, IV-leg-3 and IV-leg4 with distoventral extensions.
Description. Male: Colour yellowish, idiosoma 428 long and 340 wide. Dorsal shield 324 wide, broadly fused anteriorly to ventral shield, with five pairs of glandularia. Lateral eyes reduced. Anterior margins of Cx-I/-II each with a group of teeth. Genital field with four pairs of acetabula, the three anterior in a transverse line, the fourth flanking the posterior gonopore. Genital skeleton 203 long, Length/height of P1-P5: 24/15, 40/30, 20/19, 54/23, 21/ 10; P1 with an posteriorly located dorsal seta, P2 stocky, P4 rather stocky, ventral margin somewhat bulging with one seta. Length of I-leg-4–6: 34, 38, 40. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 32, 35, 30; fourth legs stocky, IV-leg-1, -3 and – 4 with an anteroventral extension, IV-leg-1 with three heavy dorsal setae, IV-leg-3 short, IV-leg-4 widening anteriorly with a large, curved ventral seta, IV-leg-5 widened also anteriorly with 3 heavy anteroventral setae, IVleg-6 not modified. Legs without swimming setae.
Female: Unknown.
Etymology. Named after the type locality, the Kipungit River.
Remarks. The new species differs from all described species of the genus in the presence of anteroventral extensions on IV-leg 1 and -5. Erebaxonopsis nearctica Cook, 1974 (California), E. morimotoi Imamura, 1958 (Japan, only female known) and E. amamiensis Imamura, 1961 (Japan, only female known) have IV-leg-3 only with an anteroventral extension.
Distribution. Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3876 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287281
title: Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Lebanon
Creators: name: Ozkul, Derya
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2023

description: Lebanon is one of the most important countries to understand the dynamics of the refugee recognition regime. It has received a large number of displaced people, and since the arrival of Syrians, it has been the highest per capita refugee-hosting country in the world. It is, therefore, crucial to understand how displaced persons are received, how their asylum applications are assessed, and how their protection needs are met in the country. This report describes Lebanon’s refugee recognition regime and assesses UNHCR’s quality of recognition process and the quality of protection for asylum seekers and refugees. It provides an overview of existing legislation and brings together original insights from legal aid organisations, UNHCR staff, and asylum seekers and refugees. The report, outlined in seven sections, first gives an overview of the existing literature and then explains the methods.
Fertilização orgânica e regimes hídricos em mudas de maracujazeiro amarelo desenvolvidas na região semiárida
Creators: name: Alves, Jackson De Mesquita
name: Lima, Alex Serafim De
name: Mesquita, Francisco De Oliveira
name: Silva, Francisca Lacerda Da
name: Sousa, Caio Da Silva
name: Mesquita, Evandro Franklin De
name: Rodrigues Dos Santos, José Geraldo
name: Rocha, Josinaldo Lopes Araújo
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: Objetivou-se avaliar os efeitos das doses de biofertilizante com diferentes regimes hídricos sobre o crescimento e a fitomassa de mudas de maracujazeiro amarelo. O experimento foi desenvolvido utilizando um material ou substrato dos primeiros 20 cm de um Neossolo Flúvico Eutrófico. O delineamento utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado (DIC), com arranjo fatorial 5x2x2, referentes as doses de biofertilizante bovino (0; 200; 400; 600 e 800 mL) diluídos na razão de 1:2, níveis de substrato S1- 70% de solo (1400 mL) + 30% de esterco bovino (600 mL); S2 - 30% de solo (600 mL) + 70% de esterco bovino (1400 mL) e dois níveis de água no solo (ADS): L1 = 100 % da água disponível no substrato (ADS) e L2 = 60% de água disponível no substrato, com 4 repetições, totalizando 80 unidades experimentais. Após a semeadura aos 110 (DAS) foram avaliadas a Área foliar (AF); Fitomassa seca da parte aérea (FSPA); Fitomassa seca da raiz (FSR); Fitomassa seca total (FST); Relação raíz parte aérea (RRPA); Comprimento radicular (CR) e a Correlação de Pearson. Mudas de maracujazeiro em condições de estresse hídrico inibem seu crescimento, mas com biofertilizante e esterco bovino resultam em plantas com maior potencial vegetativo.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, Vol. 43 No 3 (2020)
Nanoparticles as a control for cyanobacterial bloom
Creators: name: Tran, Thi Thu Huong
name: Nguyen, Trung Kien
name: Nguyen, Thi Thuy Thi
name: Ha, Phuong Thu
name: Le, Thi Phuong Quynh
name: Do, Van Binh
name: Dinh, Thi Hai Van
name: Trinh, Quang Huy
name: Duong, Thi Thuy
Publisher: name: Journal of Vietnamese Environment
Year: 2017

description: This study aims to investigate the toxicity of copper material synthesized by chemical reduction method and effects of environmental variables on growth of phytoplankton community (dominated by Microcystis genus) in the Tien eutrophic lake, Hanoi, Vietnam. The variables analyzed include: physical (pH and Turbidity), chemical (content of NH4+, PO43- and copper metal), biological (con- tent of Chlorophyll-a, cell density). The characteristic of nanomaterial was confirmed by using UV- visible spectrophotometer, XRD, SEM and TEM methods. The CuNPs showed they spherical form and uniform size about 20-40 nm. The experimental results showed that the treated with CuNPs inhibition on growth against phytoplankton after 8 days. The cell density of phytoplankton commu- nity and Microcystis genus in samples exposure with CuNPs declined after 8 days from 647.037 and 467.037 down to 381.111 and 202.592, respectively. Mục đích của nghiên cứu này là khảo sát độc tính của vật liệu nano đồng được tổng hợp bằng phương pháp khử hóa học và ảnh hưởng của các yếu tố môi trường đến sinh trưởng và phát triển của quần xã thực vật nổi (chủ yếu là chi Microcystis) trong nước hồ Tiền phú dưỡng, tại Hà Nội, Việt Nam. Các thông số phân tích bao gồm: thủy lý (pH và độ đục), hóa học (hàm lượng amoni, photphat và hàm lượng đồng kim loại), sinh học (hàm lượng chất diệp lục, mật độ tế bào). Đặc trưng của vật liệu được xác định bằng các phương pháp quang phổ UV-VIS, XRD, SEM và TEM. Vật liệu nano đồng có dạng hình cầu, kích thước đồng nhất từ 20 đến 40 nm. Kết quả thử nghiệm sau 8 ngày cho thấy các mẫu có bổ sung vật liệu nano đồng ức chế sinh trưởng quần xã thực vật nổi ở nồng độ 1mg/l. Mật độ quần xã thực vật nổi và chi Microcystis trong mẫu xử lý với CuNPs đã giảm tương ứng sau 8 ngày từ 647.037 và 467.037 xuống còn 381.111 và 202.592.
description: Journal of Vietnamese Environment, Vol 8 No 3 (2016)
Extrasolar Binary Planets I: Formation by tidal capture during planet-planet scattering
Creators: name: Ochiai, H.
name: Nagasawa, M.
name: Ida, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated i) the formation of gravitationally bounded pairs of gas-giant planets (which we call "binary planets") from capturing each other through planet-planet dynamical tide during their close encounters and ii) the following long-term orbital evolution due to planet-planet and planet-star {\it quasi-static} tides. For the initial evolution in phase i), we carried out N-body simulations of the systems consisting of three jupiter-mass planets taking into account the dynamical tide. The formation rate of the binary planets is as much as 10% of the systems that undergo orbital crossing and this fraction is almost independent of the initial stellarcentric semi-major axes of the planets, while ejection and merging rates sensitively depend on the semi-major axes. As a result of circularization by the planet-planet dynamical tide, typical binary separations are a few times the sum of the physical radii of the planets. After the orbital circularization, the evolution of the binary system is governed by long-term quasi-static tide. We analytically calculated the quasi-static tidal evolution in later phase ii). The binary planets first enter the spin-orbit synchronous state by the planet-planet tide. The planet-star tide removes angular momentum of the binary motion, eventually resulting in a collision between the planets. However, we found that the binary planets survive the tidal decay for main-sequence life time of solar-type stars (~10Gyrs), if the binary planets are beyond ~0.3 AU from the central stars. These results suggest that the binary planets can be detected by transit observations at >0.3AU.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Assessment of the water quality downstream of Red River in 2015 (Vietnam)
Creators: name: Hoang, Thi Thu Hang
name: Nguyen, Trung Kien
name: Le, Thi Phuong Quynh
name: Dang, Dinh Kim
name: Duong, Thi Thuy
Publisher: name: Journal of Vietnamese Environment
Year: 2017

description: The Red River is strongly affected by climate and human activities, especially in the downstream area concentrating industrial zones, large urbans and powerful agricultural activities. The surface water is progressively susceptible to anthropogenic pollution. The physicochemical variables of surface water were determined at 5 sampling sites (Quyet Chien, Truc Phuong, Ba Lat, Nam Dinh and Gian Khau). At each site, water samples were taken monthly during the period from January to December 2015 to assess the effect of human activities on the surface water quality. The actual survey results showed that almost analyzed variables of the Red River water quality at the downstream were under the permitting limit values of the National technical regulation on surface water quality (QCVN 08:2015, column B1). The quality of water downstream of the Red River reaches the permissible value in surface water for the irrigation purposes, waterway and other purposes with low quality water requirements. The results provide dataset for subsequent studies on the annual variation of physical and chemical variables of Red River downstream water, as well as the scientific basis for the effective protection and management of water resources in Vietnam. Sông Hồng bị ảnh hưởng mạnh mẽ bởi khí hậu và các hoạt động của con người, đặc biệt là ở khu vực hạ lưu, nơi tập trung nhiều khu công nghiệp, nhiều đô thị lớn và các hoạt động nông nghiệp. Nước mặt đang dần bị ô nhiễm do con người. Các thông số hóa lý của nước mặt được xác định tại 5 trạm (Quyết Chiến, Trúc Phương, Ba Lạt, Nam Định và Gián Khẩu). Tại mỗi trạm, mẫu nước được lấy hàng tháng trong khoảng thời gian từ tháng 1 đến tháng 12 năm 2015 để đánh giá tác động của các hoạt động của con người đến chất lượng nước mặt. Kết quả khảo sát cho thấy, hầu hết các chỉ tiêu chất lượng nước ở hạ lưu của sông Hồng đều nằm trong giá trị giới hạn cho phép theo quy chuẩn kỹ thuật quốc gia về chất lượng nước mặt (QCVN 08: 2015, cột B1). Chất lượng nước ở hạ lưu của sông Hồng nằm trong giới hạn cho phép đối với mục đích tưới tiêu thủy lợi hoặc các mục đích sử dụng khác có yêu cầu nước chất lượng thấp. Kết quả thu được sẽ là cơ sở dữ liệu cho các nghiên cứu tiếp theo về sự thay đổi hàng năm của chất lượng nước hạ lưu sông Hồng, và cũng sẽ là cơ sở khoa học cho việc bảo vệ và quản lý tài nguyên nước một cách có hiệu quả tại Việt Nam.
description: Journal of Vietnamese Environment, Vol 8 No 3 (2016)
e-shape pilot S5-P7 - Rheticus® AquaculturePlus
Creators: name: AMODIO, Angelo
Publisher: name: GEO Knowledge Hub
Year: 2022
Subjects: Aquaculture
shellfishes
mussels
e-shape
Rheticus®
European Commission
H2020
Group on Earth Observation
GEO
EuroGEO
FAO's vision for sustainable food and agriculture
Water Resources Management Showcase

description: Aquafarmers faces new challenges due to the impact of extreme events mostly related to climate change, leading to changes in the sea temperature and phytoplankton, affecting growth rates and mortality of shellfishes and, therefore, the productivity of farms and the quality of products. As a consequence, aquafarmers can't rely totally on well-known and established farming practices. Using satellite data and derived measurements of water parameters and a model for shellfish growth, Planetek is delivering Rheticus® Aquaculture service, providing information to aquafarmers about mussels' growth rates, consisting of weekly bulletins with indicators calculated by the algorithms. Within the e-shape project, by organizing pilots in different plants in the Mediterranean Sea with the collaboration of the aquafarmers associations, we intend to scale up the adoption of the Rheticus® Aquaculture service in the Mediterranean and worldwide markets. We will pursue it by codesigning the service with the end-users, and adapting it to the different needs that different areas will require.AcknowledgmentThe e-shape project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 820852.
Improvements to the operation of wind power generators in Vietnam
Creators: name: Do, Nhu Y
name: Le, Xuan Thanh
Publisher: name: Journal of Vietnamese Environment
Year: 2017

description: In Vietnam, the number of wind power generators has been increased yearly. Because of geophysical characters, the generation of these generators has different properties. It depends much on wind’s characteristics as well as the generation technology. Based on simulation implemented on Matlab, the paper analyzes the stability of national networks at PCC nods containing the connection of wind power station when there is a change of wind’s velocity or when there is an earth fault in grid. The analyzing results are used to suggest solutions to improve the stability and effectiveness of the whole system. Các nhà máy điện gió đang ngày càng gia tăng ở Việt Nam, do cấu tạo địa lý nên đặc điểm của nguồn điện này khá khác biệt so với các nguồn điện truyền thống khác. Nguồn điện gió phụ thuộc nhiều vào đặc điểm của gió và công nghệ sử dụng để phát điện gió. Nội dung chính của bài báo là khảo sát mức độ ổn định của lưới điện kết nối các nguồn điện gió tại nút kết nối chung khi có sự thay đổi về tốc độ gió hoặc khi trong mạng xảy ra sự cố chạm đất thoáng qua, từ đó đề xuất giải pháp nâng cao ổn định, tin cậy và nâng cao hiệu quả làm việc của hệ thống.
description: Journal of Vietnamese Environment, Vol 8 No 3 (2016)
Anisotropy study of multiferroicity in the pyroxene NaFeGe$_2$O$_6$
Creators: name: Ackermann, M.
name: Andersen, L.
name: Lorenz, T.
name: Bohaty, L.
name: Becker, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the anisotropy of the dielectric, magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of the multiferroic clinopyroxene NaFeGe$_2$O$_6$. Pyroelectric currents, dielectric constants and magnetic susceptibilities as well as the thermal expansion and the magnetostriction were examined on large synthetic single crystals of NaFeGe$_2$O$_6$. The spontaneous electric polarization detected below $T_{\rm C}\simeq 11.6$ K in an antiferromagnetically ordered state ($T_{\rm N}\simeq 13$ K) is mainly lying within the $ac$ plane with a small component along $b$, indicating a triclinic symmetry of the multiferroic phase of NaFeGe$_2$O$_6$. The electric polarization can be strongly modified by applying magnetic fields along different directions. We derive detailed magnetic-field versus temperature phase diagrams and identify three multiferroic low-temperature phases, which are separated by a non-ferroelectric, antiferromagnetically ordered state from the paramagnetic high-temperature phase.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. (minor modifications and corrections of the text)
Die Offenbarung des Johannes - eine gläubige Relecture des Lebens in Zeiten der Krise
Creators: name: Alegre, Xavier
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 50 Nr. 3 (2014): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 50, Heft 3
Historical Transition of Community Currencies in Japan
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Shigeto
name: Miyazaki, Yoshihisa
name: Yoshida, Masayuki
Publisher: name: International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: classification
cluster analysis
issuing purposes
issuing forms
Japanese CCs

description: This study investigates the historical transition of diversifyingcommunity currencies (CCs) in Japan. We searched for papers, reports,newspaper articles, and websites about Japanese CCs to acquire allavailable information on CCs issued in Japan. We classify the types ofCCs by purpose and examine their development process by organizing thepurposes, issuing forms, and starting year for each CC.Our survey results show that 792 CCs were issued in Japan. The largestnumber of CCs was 130 issued in 2002. New CCs have gradually decreasedsince 2002, and approximately 15-20 CCs were issued annually since2008. The purpose of issuing CCs also changed; CCs aiming to “createconnections among people” were the most frequent, though this changedin 2002 to “revitalizing the regional economy.” The number of issuedCCs to “create connections among people” was in third place in 2011,while “promoting resource recycling” was second.To classify CCs in Japan, we conduct a cluster analysis using samplescores obtained by Hayashi’s quantification method type III as adependent variable for the issuing purpose. Many CCs issued in thefirst half of 2000 belonged to Cluster 4, “formation of people’sconnection and regional economic revitalization;” however, thoseissued in recent years belonged to Cluster 3, “forestry and regionaleconomic revitalization.” Although the number of new CCs decreaseddrastically in the past 15 years, CCs are clearly evolving as a toolfor solving social problems with changing issuing purposes.
title: Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: South Africa
Creators: name: Nalule, Caroline
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2023

description: This report examines South Africa’s refugee recognition regime which is typified by an individualised refugee status determination (RSD) system that sets it quite apart from other major refugee-hosting countries in Africa, whose major mode of refugee recognition is group-based. The report focuses on a twenty-year period (1998-2018) highlighting the various areas of contestation within the refugee protection space and South Africa’s adherence to its obligations, under both domestic and international law. Although extensive work has been carried out regarding the quality of RSD process in South Africa, gaps are still evident with respect to the refugee recognition institutions and their relational dynamics and how this impacts the refugee recognition regime and refugee protection generally. The report is based on desk research and original fieldwork in South Africa among various elites working in the refugee protection area as well as refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa drawn from three nationalities: Somalis, Ethiopians and Congolese from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Unity and Struggle v.3 no.6
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1974

description: This issue of Unity and Struggle volume 3, number 6, has a publication date of June 1974. Contributions of news articles, essays, illustrations, photographs, or advertisements are attributed to Chester Higgins Jr., Imamu Amiri Baraka, and Bibi Amina Baraka.
Ljania inconspicua, n. sp.
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Ljania
Ljania inconspicua

description: Ljania inconspicua n. sp.
(Figs. 36A–C)
Type series. Holotype female, Mahua stream at crossing with main road, Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia, 5° 45.225 N 116° 26.085 E, alt. 752 m asl, 22-ix-2012 (RMNH).
Diagnosis. Cx-IV without lateral suture lines, posterior extensions of fourth coxae narrow and pointed.
Description. Female: Idiosoma papillate, more dense in posterior third, subrectangular, colour pale yellow, 445 long and 350 wide. Dorsal shield 429 long and 308 wide, with two pairs of glandularia, the postocularia and two pairs of setae without glandularia, slightly indented just anterior to the middle, on the level of the only glandularium in the dorsal furrow. Suture lines Cx-II/III short, not extending to midline; suture of midline incomplete (interrupted); fourth coxae medially without interspace, lateral margins not visible as suture lines posterior margin medially straight, laterally line with a small, pointed, posteromedially-directed extension (30 long) embracing a glandulare. Genital plates 60 long and 48 wide. Length/height of P1-P5: 23/12, 31/22, 30/20, 42/ 20, 26/10; P4 widened anteriorly. Length of I-leg-4-6: 76, 76, 62; first legs longer than second legs. Length of IVleg-4–6: 86, 88, 68.
Male: Unknown.
Etymology. Named for the absence of lateral suture lines of the fourth coxae.
Remarks. Cx-IV without suture lines indicating the lateral margins, and with similarly narrow and pointed posterior extension are not found in any other Ljania species.
Distribution. Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3876 (1) on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287281