cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
When and Where They Enter: African American Women and Their Use of Social Network Sites
Creators: name: Harris, Lori E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Information technology--Management
African American Women
Marketing--Social media

description: This study investigated African American women's use of social network sites (SNS) with a primary focus on Facebook.  Eight African American women from the University of Chapel Hill campus were interviewed to determine how African American women use SNS, what their information seeking needs were when using SNS and what facilitators or barriers they encounter. Based on the results of the study, the data revealed that African American women are prolific users of SNS.  There are a variety of reasons that African American women use SNS which include fulfilling both personal and professional needs.  Furthermore, participants expressed an overwhelming concern about privacy issues inherent in Facebook as well as advertisements that have no relational or added value to their lives as African American women.  These findings demonstrate the importance of expanding the range of study as it relates to the everyday use by African American women of social network sites.
Capitalizing on provincial capital status: A novel strategy for Winnipeg
Creators: name: Wight, Ian
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Manitoba--Capital and capitol
subject: City planning--Manitoba--Winnipeg

description: There are some provincial capitals in Canada where capital status really counts and really seems to benefit the city in question, as is perhaps the case in places like Victoria, Quebec City and Regina. But there are others - perhaps Toronto, Halifax, and St. John's for example - where capital status hardly registers on their political and economic "screens." Winnipeg is clearly in the latter category, with no "perhaps" about it!
description: Part of the Canadian portrait: Canadian provincial and territories cities section.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6538/Wight.pdf?sequence=3
Measuring the Impact of Body Worn Cameras (BWC) on Data Management and Record Retention for Law Enforcement Agencies
Creators: name: Kreft, Justin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016
Subjects: Electronic government information
Public records--Management
Public records--Government information

description: This study examines the rates of data production for US law enforcement agencies deploying Body Worn Camera and DashCam systems. Analysis estimates that local law enforcement agencies can reasonably expect to produce 33.9 individual video files, totaling 11.1 hours of video, and (depending on the video capture quality) requiring between 10-20 gigabytes of storage space per officer, per month. The study also demonstrates that video file production rates from existing DashCam systems can be an effective benchmark when considering the implementation of a Body Worn Camera system. Finally, the study finds that of all implementation policies examined, only two policies demonstrated significant positive impact on video capture rates: 1) if officers were required to inform citizen of camera in operation, and 2) if officers were allowed to view footage prior to making a shift report.
Toronto: Evolving capital of Ontario
Creators: name: Glover, Robert
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Ontario--Capital and capitol
subject: City planning--Ontario--Toronto

description: Although Toronto is the capital of Ontario, the provincial government is a relatively small component in the diversified economic base of Canada's largest city. Yet, a nineteenth-century decision to move the legislative assembly from downtown to the University of Toronto's lands gave the government a prominent site in the framework of the city's urban design. The legislature now sits at the head of University Avenue in Queen's Park, the largest open space in the downtown area.
description: Part of the Canadian portrait: Canadian provincial and territories cities section.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6539/Glover.pdf?sequence=3
La capitale nationale du Québec
Creators: name: Filion, Serge
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Aménagement de la ville--Québec (Province)--Québec
subject: Québec (Province)--Capitale

description: Le Québec a accompli un bond prodigieux au cours des cinquante dernières années dans le domaine du développement économique, social et urbain. Quand j'étais jeune, plusieurs d'entre nous allions à la messe de minuit en voiture à cheval avec des briques chaudes pour se réchauffer les pieds. Depuis lors, même le climat s'est réchauffé. D'une société traditionnelle, rurale et ecclésiale, le Québec d'après-guerre est passé résolument à l'économie de marché, à l'industrialisation massive et, enfin, à l'ère de la mondialisation et des hautes technologies. Nous rêvons désormais d'une insertion et d'une contribution exemplaires au développement de la planète terre, sans barrières et sans limites autres que celles qu'imposent notre savoir-faire et notre taille relative modeste. Aussi, l'heure est au choix des créneaux et des niches à partir desquels nous voulons offrir notre expertise aux autres sociétés après l'avoir solidement implantée chez nous. Le développement et l'aménagement urbains de la capitale nationale du Québec devront faire preuve de la meilleure façon de construire une ville viable et belle aux yeux de taus les observateurs tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger.
description: Une partie du Un portrait canadien : Villes des provinces canadiennes et des territoires section.
description: Part of the Canadian portrait: Canadian provincial and territories cities section.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6540/Filion.pdf?sequence=3
Usability Evaluation of A Clinical Knowledge Summaries System
Creators: name: Zhang, Chunxi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Interface design
Clinical decision support
Usability testing

description: Physicians frequently raise questions during patient visits and around half of those questions are not even pursued due to various reasons. These unanswered questions represent huge knowledge gap and could lead to negative treatment outcomes. Internet technologies have been developing rapidly. On one hand, Internet provides us numerous information resources. On the other hand, Internet brings us voluminous increase in information and knowledge needs. To make medical information more easily accessible and to facilitate physicians' decision making process, we designed and developed a system that called the Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) to automatically extract and synthesize relevant medical evidence from major resources including UpToDate and PubMed. We performed a usability study involving 10 physicians to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction associated with the use of the system. Physicians in general found CKS intuitive to use and the information delivered valuable in adding in their knowledge gaps.
title: Der Inflation Reduction Act und seine Folgen für die deutsche Wirtschaft
title: Risiken, Potenziale und Handlungsbedarfe
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Petersen, Thieß
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Subventionen
subject: Ökologische Transformation
subject: Import
subject: Export
subject: Volkswirtschaft

description: Die USA fördern die ökologische Transformation ihrer Wirtschaft gegenwärtig mit erheblichen finanziellen Mitteln. Das hat auch Auswirkungen auf Deutschland. In unserem aktuellen Focus Paper werden die potenziellen makroökonomischen Konsequenzen dieser Subventionen für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft untersucht und mögliche wirtschaftspolitische Antworten skizziert.
Special Issue: Opportunities and challenges of EU farm-to-fork strategy
Creators: name: Fiore, Mariantonietta
name: Sauvée, Loïc
name: Wiśniewska-Paluszak, Joanna
name: Fiore, Mariantonietta
name: Sauvée, Loïc
name: Wiśniewska-Paluszak, Joanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: agribusiness
subject: business models
subject: farm-to-fork
subject: food industry
subject: rural development
subject: R & D policy
subject: system innovation

description: In the context of the Farm-to-Fork strategy towards climate and natural resources neutralization, all players in agri-food value chain actors and stakeholders – citizens, consumers and business – cope with new challenges based on a better understanding of the complex interrelations between public health, ecosystems, value chains, consumption patterns, and planetary boundaries. From a managerial perspective, several dimensions appear crucial. The first one is circularity, i.e. the move from line to circular models which brings opportunities and threats in terms of quality management standards, procurements arrangements and skills for this circular turn. The second dimension is inclusiveness, with the renewed roles of farming systems as part of complete sustainable agri-food chains, with the core topic of social-environmental inclusivity within either existing agrifood companies or business models from scratch. The third dimension is path-dependency for conventional firms, with knowledge, technological and/or organizational lock-in, along with roles for newcomers and startups in this business model transformation, as well as the place and role of innovation ecosystems. The articles of this special issue offer constrasted view of these challenges.
$η^\prime$ meson mass from topological charge density correlator in QCD
Creators: name: JLQCD Collaboration
name: Fukaya, H.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Cossu, G.
name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Kaneko, T.
name: Noaki, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flavor-singlet component of the eta prime meson is related to the topological structure of the SU(3) gauge field through the chiral anomaly. We perform a 2+1-flavor lattice QCD calculation and demonstrate that the two-point function of a gluonically defined topological charge density after a short Yang-Mills gradient flow contains the propagation of the eta prime meson, by showing that its mass in the chiral and continuum limit is consistent with the experimental value. The gluonic correlator does not suffer from the contamination of the pion contribution, and the clean signal is obtained at significantly lower numerical cost compared to the conventional method with the quark bilinear operators.
description: 11pages, 5figures, minor corrections, to appear in PRD
Sherds catalogue for the Żebbuġ phase: The MaltaPot project (MPotCatalogueZB2023v1)
Creators: name: Richard-Trémeau, Emma
name: Brogan, Catriona
name: Betts, John Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: archaeology
neolithic
pottery
Maltese Islands

description: This catalogue was compiled as part of the MaltaPot project at the University of Malta. This project aims to understand better the nature of the materials used in Neolithic Malta, mainly dating to the Għar Dalam, Skorba (Early Neolithic), and Żebbuġ (Late Neolithic) phases. This catalogue presents sherds from the Żebbuġ phase, photographs, microphotographs, and descriptions of sherds and their archaeological contexts. This catalogue was prepared thanks to the information from the National Museum of Archaeology (NMA), Malta, and the FRAGSUS project. The project used multiple techniques to characterise the pottery sherds, such as microscopy, polarised light microscope, X-Ray Fluorescence or X-Ray Diffraction. Although the results of these analyses await publication, this catalogue presents the sherds which were analysed using these destructive techniques to provide comparative material whilst safeguarding information about the characteristics of these sherds which have been partially destroyed. Data collection was carried out between 2018-2020 and 2023. This catalogue was compiled in 2023. This document is a PDF document; to access the original photographs and data, please email the authors.
Spectral Alignment of Correlated Gaussian matrices
Creators: name: Ganassali, Luca
name: Lelarge, Marc
name: Massoulié, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we analyze a simple spectral method (EIG1) for the problem of matrix alignment, consisting in aligning their leading eigenvectors: given two matrices $A$ and $B$, we compute $v_1$ and $v'_1$ two corresponding leading eigenvectors. The algorithm returns the permutation $\hatπ$ such that the rank of coordinate $\hatπ(i)$ in $v_1$ and that of coordinate $i$ in $v'_1$ (up to the sign of $v'_1$) are the same. We consider a model of weighted graphs where the adjacency matrix $A$ belongs to the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) of size $N \times N$, and $B$ is a noisy version of $A$ where all nodes have been relabeled according to some planted permutation $π$, namely $B= Π^T (A+σH) Π$, where $Π$ is the permutation matrix associated with $π$ and $H$ is an independent copy of $A$. We show the following zero-one law: with high probability, under the condition $σN^{7/6+ε} \to 0$ for some $ε>0$, EIG1 recovers all but a vanishing part of the underlying permutation $π$, whereas if $σN^{7/6-ε} \to \infty$, this method cannot recover more than $o(N)$ correct matches. This result gives an understanding of the simplest and fastest spectral method for matrix alignment (or complete weighted graph alignment), and involves proof methods and techniques which could be of independent interest.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures. Figures and paper organization updated, typos corrected. Remark 4.2. added
Generalized Hamming weights for almost affine codes
Creators: name: Johnsen, Trygve
name: Verdure, Hugues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We define generalized Hamming weights for almost affine codes. We show how various aspects and applications of generalized Hamming weights for linear codes, such as Wei duality, generalized Kung's bound, profiles, connection to wire-tap channels of type II, apply to the larger class of almost affine codes in general. In addition we discuss duality of almost affine codes,and of the smaller class of multilinear codes. We also give results about weight distributions of infinite series of almost affine codes, each series obtained from a fixed code by extending the code alphabet.
Anforderungen an zukunftsfähige Verkehrskonzepte für Berlin-Brandenburg
Creators: name: Heinze, G. Wolfgang
name: Kill, Heinrich H.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: Verkehrskonzepte
subject: Nachfragetrends
subject: Verdichtungsräume
subject: ländliche Räume
subject: „Speckgürtel“
subject: transport concepts
subject: demand trends
subject: conurbations
subject: rural areas
subject: „commuter belt“

description: Zukunftsfähig können Verkehrskonzepte nur sein, wenn sie Nachfragetrends nutzen. Wichtige Tatbestände und Systemtendenzen für die Region werden in 20 Thesen präsentiert. Dabei werden kurz- und langfristige Lösungsmuster erkennbar. Mit dem Nahziel, innovative Betätigungsfelder für Planer, Fahrzeugbauer und Betreiber zu finden, wird das bereits jetzt Machbare oder sogar längst Überfällige auf vier Politikfelder (verdichtete Gebiete, ländliche Regionen, Umland von Agglomerationen, Konversionsmaßnahmen und Neuausweisung von Flächen) verdichtet. Fernziel ist ein neues Verkehrssystem als zukunftsfähige Entwicklung der Verkehrs- und Siedlungsstruktur von Berlin-Brandenburg.
description: Transport concepts can only be sustainable if expected long-term demand trends are taken into account. Important facts and tendencies of system dynamics for the region are discussed in 20 theses. Short- and long-term solution patterns can be r ecognized. The immediate aim is to open up new fields of activity for planners, vehicle manufacturers and operators. Thereby future opportunities or even overdue changes are compressed into four policy areas. They are (1) densely populated areas, (2) rural regions, (3) the "commuter belt" outside the congested areas, (4) conversion measures, rezoning and „brownfield redevelopment“. The long-term objective is a new transport system as sustainable development of the transport and settlement structure of Berlin-Brandenburg.
A characterization of the family of secant lines to a hyperbolic quadric in PG(3,q), q odd
Creators: name: Pradhan, Puspendu
name: Sahu, Bikramaditya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a combinatorial characterization of the family of lines of P G(3, q) which meet a hyperbolic quadric in two points (the so called secant lines) using their intersection properties with the points and planes of PG(3,q).
description: 13 pages
Low-energy enhancement in the γ-ray strength functions of $^{73,74}$Ge
Creators: name: Renstrøm, T.
name: Nyhus, H. -T.
name: Utsumoniya, H.
name: Schwengner, R.
name: Goriely, S.
name: Larsen, A. C.
name: Filipescu, D. M.
name: Gheorghe, I.
name: Bernstein, L. A.
name: Bleuel, D. L.
name: Glodariu, T.
name: Görgen, A.
name: Guttormsen, M.
name: Hagen, T. W.
name: Kheswa, B. V.
name: Lui, Y. -W .
name: Negi, D.
name: Ruud, I. E.
name: Shima, T.
name: Siem, S.
name: Takahisa, K.
name: Tesileanu, O.
name: Tornyi, T. G.
name: Tveten, G. M.
name: Wiedeking, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $γ$-ray strength functions and level densities of $^{73,74}$Ge have been extracted up to the neutron separation energy S$_n$ from particle-$γ$ coincidence data using the Oslo method. Moreover, the $γ$-ray strength function of $^{74}$Ge above S$_n$ has been determined from photo-neutron measurements, hence these two experiments cover the range of E$_γ\approx$ 1-13 MeV for $^{74}$Ge. The obtained data show that both $^{73,74}$Ge display an increase in strength at low $γ$ energies. The experimental $γ$-ray strength functions are compared with $M1$ strength functions deduced from average $B(M1)$ values calculated within the shell model for a large number of transitions. The observed low-energy enhancements in $^{73,74}$Ge are adopted in the calculations of the $^{72,73}$Ge(n,$γ$) cross sections, where there are no direct experimental data. Calculated reaction rates for more neutron-rich germanium isotopes are shown to be strongly dependent on the presence of the low-energy enhancement.
Individual Differences in Approving of Moral Tradeoffs for Political Ends
Creators: name: Zell, Anne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Correlational study, online survey of people who voted for Trump in the 2020 election, conducted approximately 3 months after Biden's inauguration.
Predictive Modelling to Identify Risk Factors Leading to Opioid Addiction
Creators: name: Shah, Nidhi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Prescription Opioid Abuse continues to be a significant and growing problem in the United States. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, more than 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Considering the graveness of the situation, this project aims at briefly studying the current trends and literature pertaining to the opioid epidemic and coming up with preventive measures. This was done by studying prevalent literature and data available on this subject to analyze patterns and trends of opioid addiction to help identify risk factors, using predictive modelling.
Monkeypox Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers: A Call to Action
Creators: name: Singer, Randi
name: Johnson, AK
name: Zemlak, JL
name: Shensa, A
name: Singer, Rebecca
name: Costales, C
name: Chiu, K
name: Stamps, J
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description supplied
Hoffmannia arborescens Donn. Sm.
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Hoffmannia
Hoffmannia arborescens

description: Hoffmannia arborescens Donn.Sm.
Terrestrial herbs to shrubs. Distribution in PILA 300–3000
 m, low elevation mixed forest, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, cloud forest, low elevation oak forest, high elevation oak forest. Global distribution: Costa Rica, Panama. Records: L. Acosta 2365 (INB), J. Bittner 1749 (INB, MO), K. E. Blum 2643 (MO), K. E. Blum 2599 (MO), A. Fernández 647 (CR, INB, MO), B. Hammel 1404 (MO), B. Hammel 1440 (MO), B. Hammel 5813 (MO), A. Rodríguez 10636 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), A. Rodríguez 10759 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), A. Rodríguez 11941 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), D. Santamaría 5728 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), D. Solano 3992 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), D. Solano 5051 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), D. Solano 5184 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), D. Solano 5195 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), N. Zamora 4104 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), N. Zamora 4154 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), N. Zamora 4165 (BM, INB, MO, PMA), N. Zamora 4198 (BM, INB, MO, PMA).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
Frictional state evolution laws and the non-linear nucleation of dynamic shear rupture
Creators: name: Viesca, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We assess if a characteristic length for a non-linear interfacial slip instability follows from theoretical descriptions of sliding friction. We examine friction laws and their coupling with the elasticity of bodies in contact and show that such a length does not always exist. We consider a range of descriptions for frictional strength and show that the area needed to support a slip instability is negligibly small for laws that are more faithful to experimental data. This questions whether a minimum earthquake size exists and shows that the nucleation phase of dynamic rupture contains discriminatory information on the nature of frictional strength evolution.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, and supplementary material
กระบวนการพัฒนาแผนแม่บทงานวิจัยสำหรับองค์กรอย่างมีส่วนร่วมในคณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล
Creators: name: ยุทธพล ผ่องพลีศาล
Publisher: name: คณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล
Year: 2561
Subjects: แผนแม่บท;การมีส่วนร่วม;งานวิจัย

description: วารสารการพัฒนางานประจำสู่งานวิจัย, 5, 1, 54-60
Analysis of Sun/Moon Gravitational Redshift tests with the STE-QUEST Space Mission
Creators: name: Wolf, Peter
name: Blanchet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The STE-QUEST space mission will perform tests of the gravitational redshift in the field of the Sun and the Moon to high precision by frequency comparisons of clocks attached to the ground and separated by intercontinental distances. In the absence of Einstein equivalence principle (EP) violation, the redshift is zero up to small tidal corrections as the Earth is freely falling in the field of the Sun and Moon. Such tests are thus null tests, allowing to bound possible violations of the EP. Here we analyze the Sun/Moon redshift tests using a generic EP violating theoretical framework, with clocks minimally modelled as two-level atoms. We present a complete derivation of the redshift (including both GR and non-GR terms) in a realistic experiment such as the one envisaged for STE-QUEST. We point out and correct an error in previous formalisms linked to the atom's recoil not being properly taken into account.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
The Keystone Connection: Developing the School Library as a Cultural Institution
Creators: name: Campbell, Kimberly J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: School Libraries--Lifelong Learning
Museum-library relations
School Libraries--Independent Learning
School Librarianship--Aims and Objectives

description: Looking for ways to create a dynamic school library program that does not place boundaries on the learning lives of students, this paper explores the role of the school librarian as an essential link between students and teachers in schools and the learning environments in the community beyond. Building from John Dewey's arguments that waste in education is due to isolation and that once children begin to attend school, they are required to set aside "the ideas, interests, and activities that predominate in [the] home and neighborhood," as well as David Carr's vision of the school library as the cultural institution that resides within the school, this paper's goals are: to describe an alternative approach to the school library program; to illustrate connections and learning experiences with cultural institutions within the community and beyond; and to develop the image of the school library as a cultural institution itself.
Phase transitions in Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Ghodrati, Mahdis
name: Naseh, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Hawking-Page phase diagrams in the Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend (BHT) massive gravity theory for different solutions, such as the phase transitions between vacuum $\text{AdS}_3$ and BTZ black hole, warped $\text{AdS}_3$ and warped BTZ black hole in grand canonical and in non-local/quadratic ensembles, Lifshitz black hole and the new hairy black hole solutions. We observe that except for the black holes in quadratic ensemble, for other cases in the non-chiral theory of BHT the phase diagrams are symmetric with respect to the direction of angular momentum, as we expected. We conclude that for presenting the phase diagrams of warped $\text{AdS}_3$ black holes, only the grand canonical ensemble should be used.
description: v4: 14 pages, 9 figures, published version
Traceability issues of honey from the consumers' perspective in Romania
Creators: name: Pocol, Cristina Bianca
name: Šedík, Peter
name: Glogovețan, Alexandra-Ioana
name: Brumă, Ioan Sebastian
name: Pocol, Cristina Bianca
name: Šedík, Peter
name: Glogovețan, Alexandra-Ioana
name: Brumă, Ioan Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: honey authenticity
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: traceability
subject: adulteration

description: The Romanian honey market is facing a problem related to traceability, especially when honey is produced in more than one country and its origin is indicated as a blend of EC and non-EC honeys. The increase of honey adulteration has consequences on both consumers and honey producers with considerable negative effects. The aim of the study was to identify the factors that influence honey purchasing behaviour and to evaluate consumers’ awareness related to honey adulteration in Romania among selected age segments. An online survey was conducted between 2020-2021 on a sample of 1,233 respondents. The questionnaire covered aspects related to purchasing behaviour and honey adulteration, complemented with socio-demographic questions. The data were evaluated using descriptive, non-parametric and multivariate statistics. The results showed that the most important factors considered during the purchasing process by Romanian honey consumers were health factor and country of origin followed by producer reputation and ecological aspect, while the least important were discounts, promotion and brand reputation. The older respondents are more aware of honey adulteration and know better that crystallisation is an indicator of quality. This study provides important information for policymakers and the whole beekeeping chain in Romania. Education in terms of honey authenticity and traceability will help consumers to choose local honey of high quality and to avoid adulterated products. This consumption and purchasing behaviour will discourage producers from honey counterfeiting.
DropLeaf: a precision farming smartphone application for measuring pesticide spraying methods
Creators: name: Brandoli, Bruno
name: Spadon, Gabriel
name: Esau, Travis
name: Hennessy, Patrick
name: Carvalho, Andre C. P. L.
name: Rodrigues-Jr, Jose F.
name: Amer-Yahia, Sihem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pesticide application has been heavily used in the cultivation of major crops, contributing to the increase of crop production over the past decades. However, their appropriate use and calibration of machines rely upon evaluation methodologies that can precisely estimate how well the pesticides' spraying covered the crops. A few strategies have been proposed in former works, yet their elevated costs and low portability do not permit their wide adoption. This work introduces and experimentally assesses a novel tool that functions over a smartphone-based mobile application, named DropLeaf - Spraying Meter. Tests performed using DropLeaf demonstrated that, notwithstanding its versatility, it can estimate the pesticide spraying with high precision. Our methodology is based on image analysis, and the assessment of spraying deposition measures is performed successfully over real and synthetic water-sensitive papers. The proposed tool can be extensively used by farmers and agronomists furnished with regular smartphones, improving the utilization of pesticides with well-being, ecological, and monetary advantages. DropLeaf can be easily used for spray drift assessment of different methods, including emerging UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) sprayers.
description: Submitted to Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1711.07828
Reproductive ecology of Sichuan digging frogs (Microhylidae: Kaloula rugifera)
Creators: name: Chen, Wei
name: Ren, Lina
name: He, Dujuan
name: Wang, Ying
name: Pike, David
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2015

description: Abstract. We investigated the reproductive ecology of Sichuan digging frogs (Microhylidae: Kaloula rugifera) in Mianyang, China during the wet season of 2013. Male Sichuan digging frogs first appear at temporary ponds following the first heavy rain of the wet season and initiate calling. Females arrive at ponds shortly after males. Male frogs chorus extensively throughout the wet season during the evenings and nights following rainstorms. Female frogs leave the pond after laying eggs, and likely only lay one clutch annually. Amplexus lasted up to three hours. Females were larger than males in terms of body size, but we found no evidence of size-assortative mating. Clutch size varied from 920 to 2200 eggs, with egg diameter ranging from 1.33 to 1.93 mm. Larger female frogs laid more eggs, and there was no correlation between egg number and egg size. Tadpoles hatched from eggs within 18-20 hours of oviposition, and grew for 30-40 days before complete metamorphosis occurred. The initial body length of tadpoles ranged from 3-5 mm snout-vent length. Growth was fastest immediately after hatching, and declined asymptotically with increasing tadpole body size. Overall, Sichuan digging frogs have a breeding biology characterized by strong male-male competition with prolonged breeding coinciding with the annual wet season. Keywords. Breeding ecology; Kaloula rugifera; life history; mating system
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 10 No 1 (2015)
How the aggregation of oxygen vacancies in rutile based TiO$_{2-δ}$ phases causes memristive behavior
Creators: name: Heckel, Wolfgang
name: Wehlau, Michael
name: Maisel, Sascha B.
name: Frauenheim, Thomas
name: Knaup, Jan M.
name: Müller, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of a comprehensive and systematic ab-initio based ground-state search for the structural arrangement of oxygen vacancies in rutile phase TiO$_2$ provide new insights into their memristive properties. We find that O vacancies tend to form planar arrangements which relax into structures exhibiting metallic behavior. These meta-stable arrangements are structurally akin to, yet distinguishable from the Magnéli phase. They exhibit a more pronounced metallic nature, but are energetically less favorable. Our results confirm a clear structure-property relationship between segregated oxygen vacancy arrangement and metallic behavior in reduced oxides.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, corrected typos, enhanced phrasing and clarity
Sherds Catalogue: A Review of Malta's Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares (MPotCatalogueReview2023v1)
Creators: name: Emma, Richard-Trémeau
name: Brogan Catriona
name: John, Betts
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neolithic
Archaeology
Catalogue
Pottery
Photographs
Microphotographs

description: This catalogue was compiled as part of the MaltaPot project at the University of Malta. This project aims to understand better the pottery manufactured in Neolithic Malta, mainly dating to the Għar Dalam, Skorba (Early Neolithic), and Zebbuġ (Late Neolithic) periods. This catalogue will be associated with a submitted paper reviewing the Pre-Temple Wares in Malta and will be released concomitantly to the paper if accepted. This document is a PDF; the data and photographs can be accessed by contacting the authors. This catalogue was compiled in 2023. Data collection was carried out between 2018-2020 and 2023. This catalogue was compiled in 2023. Data collection was carried out between 2018-2020 and 2023.
Approximating Stochastic Evolution Equations with Additive White and Rough Noises
Creators: name: Cao, Yanzhao
name: Hong, Jialin
name: Liu, Zhihui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60H35, 65M60

description: In this paper, we analyze Galerkin approximations for stochastic evolution equations driven by an additive Gaussian noise which is temporally white and spatially fractional with Hurst index less than or equal to $1/2$. First we regularize the noise by the Wong-Zakai approximation and obtain its optimal order of convergence. Then we apply the Galerkin method to discretize the stochastic evolution equations with regularized noises. Optimal error estimates are obtained for the Galerkin approximations. In particular, our error estimates remove an infinitesimal factor which appears in the error estimates of various numerical methods for stochastic evolution equations in existing literatures.
description: 32 pages
Self-similar fault slip in response to fluid injection
Creators: name: Viesca, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 45, 74, 76, 86

description: There is scientific and industrial interest in understanding how geologic faults respond to transient sources of fluid. Natural and artificial sources can elevate pore fluid pressure on the fault frictional interface, which may induce slip. We consider a simple boundary value problem to provide an elementary model of the physical process and to provide a benchmark for numerical solution procedures. We examine the slip of a fault that is an interface of two elastic half-spaces. Injection is modeled as a line source at constant pressure and fluid pressure is assumed to diffuse along the interface. The resulting problem is an integro-differential equation governing fault slip, which has a single dimensionless parameter. The expansion of slip is self-similar and the rupture front propagates at a factor $λ$ of the diffusive lengthscale $\sqrt{αt}$. We identify two asymptotic regimes corresponding to $λ$ being small or large and perform a perturbation expansion in each limit. For large $λ$, in the regime of a so-called critically stressed fault, a boundary layer emerges on the diffusive lengthscale, which lags far behind the rupture front. We demonstrate higher-order matched asymptotics for the integro-differential equation, and in doing so, we derive a multipole expansion to capture successive orders of influence on the outer problem for fault slip for a driving force that is small relative to the crack dimensions. Asymptotic expansions are compared to accurate numerical solutions to the full problem, which are tabulated to high precision.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Toxic effects of carbaryl on the histology of testes of Bufotes variabilis (Anura: Bufonidae)
Creators: name: Cakici, Ozlem
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2015

description: This study was designed to investigate histopathologic effects of carbaryl on the testes of adult toad, Bufotes variabilis. To that end, animals were exposed to carbaryl once by oral gavage (low dose: 50 µg/g, medium dose: 100 µg/g and high dose: 200 µg/g). After 96 h, toads were euthanized. In low-dose group, some seminiferous tubules lost their regular shape. Also, the enlargement of interstitial spaces among tubules and germ cell necrosis were determined. A weak hemorrhage was observed among some tubules. In medium-dose group, germ cell necrosis was detected in many seminiferous tubules. This time, a weak hemorrhage was detected within tubules. In the high dose group, an increase in the number of disorganized tubules were observed. Vacuolization and necrosis in germ cells of seminiferous tubules were frequently seen. According to these findings, carbaryl caused dose-related histopathological damage in testis of B. variabilis. Based on these findings, this study clearly shows that carbaryl affects male fertility in B. variabilis.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 10 No 1 (2015)
Hoffmannia liesneriana L. O. Williams
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Hoffmannia
Hoffmannia liesneriana

description: Hoffmannia liesneriana L.O.Williams
Terrestrial herbs or shrubs. Distribution in PILA 0–1100
 m, low elevation mixed forest, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest. Global distribution: Costa Rica, Panama. Records: G. Herrera 3054 (MO).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
MaltaPot Skorba photograph collection (MPotPhotosS2023v1)
Creators: name: Emma, Richard-Trémeau
name: Brogan Catriona
name: Betts, John Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: archaeology
Neolithic
pottery
Material Culture
Maltese islands
Photographs

description: This collection of photographs was compiled as part of the MaltaPot project at the University of Malta. This project aims to enhance the understanding of pottery technology and provenancein Neolithic Malta, mainly dating to the Għar Dalam, Skorba (Early Neolithic), and Zebbuġ (Late Neolithic) phases. This collection presents sherds from the Skorba phase, photographs, and microphotographs and lists their archaeological contexts and form. This collection was prepared thanks to the information from the National Museum of Archaeology (NMA), Malta, and the FRAGSUS project. The project used multiple techniques to characterise the pottery sherds, such as microscopy, polarised light microscope, X-Ray Fluorescence or X-Ray Diffraction. This collection presents the sherds not analysed using these destructive techniques, although they had a section ground flat for microphotography. Data collection was carried out between 2018-2020 by Dr Brogan. The document was compiled by 2023 Ms Richard-Trémeau. Photographs can be used if credited. This upload contains a PDF document and two zip files with the macroscopic photograph (Exterior surface) and the microphotographs. This upload complements the upload MaltaPot Għar Dalam photograph collection (MPotPhotosGD2023v1); 10.5281/zenodo.7941624  
Case studies of multi-day 3He-rich solar energetic particle periods
Creators: name: Chen, Nai-hwa
name: Bucik, Radoslav.
name: Innes, Davina. E.
name: Mason, Glenn. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Impulsive solar energetic particle events in the inner heliosphere show the long-lasting enrichment of 3He. Aims. We study the source regions of long-lasting 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events Methods. We located the responsible open magnetic field regions, we combined potential field source surface extrapolations (PFSS) with the Parker spiral, and compared the magnetic field of the identified source regions with in situ magnetic fields. The candidate open field regions are active region plages. The activity was examined by using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and STEREO together with radio observations from STEREO and WIND. Results. Multi-day periods of 3He-rich SEP events are associated with ion production in single active region. Small flares or coronal jets are their responsible solar sources. We also find that the 3He enrichment may depend on the occurrence rate of coronal jets.
description: 7page, 4 figures
RepliCATS aggregation methods for bushel papers
Creators: name: Hanea, Anca
name: Wintle, Bonnie
name: Fidler, Fiona
name: Wilkinson, David
name: Hartman, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Methods for mathematically aggregating numerical estimates elicited from individuals of a group evaluating credibility signals for scientific papers from the social and behavioural sciences.
What Makes a Book "Dirty"?: Defining "Sexually Explicit" Content in Books Banned for Teens
Creators: name: Burchett, Brittany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017
Subjects: Books, prohibited
Libraries--Censorship
Young adults' libraries--Book selection
Young adults' libraries--Collection Development
Libraries--Special collections--Young adult fiction

description: According to data collected by the American Library Association, the #1 reported reason a book is banned or challenged is for “sexually explicit” content. The majority of these books were challenged due to concerns about teenager readers. The ALA provides no definition on this term which could guide librarians in selecting content and responding to these challenges. The goal of this paper was to create a definition of the “sexually explicit” challenge. This was done through a qualitative content analysis of the sexual content in fifteen books that received this complaint between the years of 2015 and 2015. A single definition could not be created from the varied results. However, eleven overarching themes relating to sexual content emerged. These themes provide guidance as to what librarians can expect to find in a book that receives this challenge.
Equidistribution of affine random walks on some nilmanifolds
Creators: name: He, Weikun
name: Lakrec, Tsviqa
name: Lindenstrauss, Elon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study quantitative equidistribution in law of affine random walks on nilmanifolds, motivated by a result of Bourgain, Furman, Mozes and the third named author on the torus. Under certain assumptions, we show that a failure to having fast equidistribution is due to a failure on a factor nilmanifold. Combined with equidistribution results on the torus, this leads to an equidistribution statement on some nilmanifolds such as Heisenberg nilmanifolds. In an appendix we strengthen results of de Saxce and the first named author regarding random walks on the torus by eliminating an assumption on Zariski connectedness of the acting group.
Basal frequency of micronuclei and hematological parameters in the Side-necked Turtle, Phrynops hilarii (Duméril & Bibron, 1835)
Creators: name: Latorre, Maria
name: López González, Evelyn
name: Siroski, Pablo
name: Poletta, Gisela
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The present study aimed to evaluate basal frequency of micronuclei (MN) and hematological values in adult Phrynops hilarii in order to propose this aquatic turtle, broadly distributed in our region, as a biological monitor for future studies of environmental pollution assessment. Thirty-two adult turtles from a semi-natural environment located at the Zoological Experimental Station (Santa Fe, Argentina) were used. Blood samples were taken and the following parameters were determined: basal frequency of MN (BFMN), total red blood cells (RBC) count, hematocrit (Ht), hemoglobin (Hb), total and differential white blood cells (WBC). The BFMN determined for the species was 3.56 ± 1.39, while hematological parameters showed the following reference values: 0.937 ± 0.12 x106 RBC/µl, 27062.50 ± 4565.43 WBC/mm3, hematocrit 18 ± 1.81% and Hb concentration 4.80 ± 0.45 g/dl. Differential WBC counts were: 76 ± 2.90% for lymphocytes, 20.12 ± 2.56% for heterophils, 1.5 ± 0.19% for monocytes, and 2.12 ± 0.61% for eosinophils, while no basophils were observed in any of the samples analyzed. No differences were observed between males and females in any of the variables analyzed. Data provided in this work could be useful as reference values for future studies of natural regions where P. hilarii occurs, employing this species as a sentinel organism for genotoxic and immunotoxic evaluation of environmental pollutants.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 10 No 1 (2015)