cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Living standards, terms of trade and foreign ownership: reflections on the Australian mining boom
Creators: name: Gregory, Robert G.
name: Gregory, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: economic growth
subject: foreign ownership
subject: real GDP
subject: resource booms
subject: terms of trade.

description: Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by sustained export price increases (trading gains) rather than export volume increases. Since 2003, the terms of trade changes – through their direct trading gain effect and indirect real GDP effects – have increased Australian living standards. The increase, measured from official data and relative to the United States, is about 25 per cent; an increase that probably places Australian living standards well above those of the United States. But official data inadequately adjusts for foreign ownership of mining resources suggesting that this estimate is probably a little too high.
Violations of the equivalence principle in a dilaton-runaway scenario
Creators: name: Damour, T.
name: Piazza, F.
name: Veneziano, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a version of the cosmological dilaton-fixing and decoupling mechanism in which the dilaton-dependence of the low-energy effective action is extremized for infinitely large values of the bare string coupling $g_s^2 = e^ϕ$. We study the efficiency with which the dilaton $ϕ$ runs away towards its ``fixed point'' at infinity during a primordial inflationary stage, and thereby approximately decouples from matter. The residual dilaton couplings are found to be related to the amplitude of the density fluctuations generated during inflation. For the simplest inflationary potential, $V (χ) = {1/2} m_χ^2 (ϕ) χ^2$, the residual dilaton couplings are shown to predict violations of the universality of gravitational acceleration near the $Δa / a \sim 10^{-12}$ level. This suggests that a modest improvement in the precision of equivalence principle tests might be able to detect the effect of such a runaway dilaton. Under some assumptions about the coupling of the dilaton to dark matter and/or dark energy, the expected time-variation of natural ``constants'' (in particular of the fine-structure constant) might also be large enough to be within reach of improved experimental or observational data.
description: 32 pages, 1 figure, minor changes
Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Creators: name: Sorokina, Vera S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Dasyphora

description: Genus Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
 Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 409. Type-species: Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826, by designation of Evenhuis et al. (2010: 63).
 Dasyphora gussakovskii Zimin, 1947
 Dasyphora gussakovskii Zimin, 1947: 117 [Russian] & 119 [English]. Type-localities: Tajikistan, Hissar Mts, Gafil’abad, Kondara valley; Kyrgyzstan, Ugam Mts, Kizyl-tam, upper course of River Ugama; China, Xinjiang, Sulu-sakal valley, 25 km east of Irkashtam. Syntypes 1♂ 6♀, ZIN (Pont, 2004: 91).
 Siberian records: Altay Mts (Sychevskaya, 1978: 82 – females of D. gussakovskii or D. paraversicolor).
 General distribution: Palaearctic Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, North-west China).
 Dasyphora paraversicolor Zimin, 1951
 Dasyphora paraversicolor Zimin, 1951: 194. Type-localities: Kyrgyzstan, Dmitrievskoye, Kirgizskiy Alatau; China, River Khuan-khe, Khuan-chan, eastern range of Qilian Shan [Nanshan Mts]. Syntype 1♂, ZIN (Pont, 2004: 92).
 Siberian records: valley of River Yenisey, forest steppe: Krasnoyarskiy Kray (Minusinsk, Shushenskoe), Respublika Tyva (Kyzyl, Cherbi) (Sychevskaya, 1974: 129); East Siberia (Pont, 1986a: 106).
 General distribution: Armenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Far East, North and Northwest China, Pakistan.
 Dasyphora pratorum (Meigen, 1826)
 Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826: 78. Type-locality: Germany, Stolberg. Lectotype ♂, MNHN (designated by Pont, 1986b: 240).
 Siberian records: West Siberia (Pont, 1986a: 106).
 General distribution: Palaearctic Region, from Europe east to West Siberia, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
 Dasyphora setitibia Zimin, 1951
 Dasyphora setitibia Zimin, 1951: 193. Type-locality: Russia, East Siberia, River Ulakhan-an, left tributary of River Lena. Holotype ♂, ZIN (Pont, 2004: 92).
 Siberian records: Respublika Altai, Ongudayskiy Rayon, environs of Ten’ga village [as “Kyzyldzhim, east Ten’gi in Biyskiy Okrug” in the original], Krasnoyarsk, Zabaykal’e [Transbaykalia], Kyakhta [as “Troitskosavsk” in the original], Respublika Sakha: Khangalasskiy Ulus, Ulakhan-an and Bestyakh [as “River Ulakhan-an, left tributary of River Lena, in Yakutskiy Okrug” in the original] (Zimin, 1951: 193); Novosibirskaya Oblast’ (Sorokina, 2006a: 227); near Biysk and Altay Mts (Sychevskaya, 1978: 82); Respublika Sakha [Yakutiya]: Yakutsk, Khomustakh nasleg, Tommot (Sychevskaya, 1972: 146); Valley of River Yenisey, taiga: Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseysk (Sychevskaya, 1974: 129); West and East Siberia (Pont, 1986a: 107).
 General distribution: East Palaearctic Region, from Russia (West and East Siberia), Tajikistan, Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Sorokina, Vera S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, An annotated catalogue of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Siberia 2597, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 2597 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2597.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5318926
Hadronic observables from SIS to SPS energies - anything strange with strangeness ?
Creators: name: Weber, H.
name: Bratkovskaya, E. L.
name: Cassing, W.
name: Stoecker, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate $p, π^\pm, K^\pm$ and $Λ$(+$Σ^0$) rapidity distributions and compare to experimental data from SIS to SPS energies within the UrQMD and HSD transport approaches that are both based on string, quark, diquark ($q, \bar{q}, qq, \bar{q}\bar{q}$) and hadronic degrees of freedom. The two transport models do not include any explicit phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It is found that both approaches agree rather well with each other and with the experimental rapidity distributions for protons, $Λ$'s, $π^\pm$ and $K^\pm$. Inspite of this apparent agreement both transport models fail to reproduce the maximum in the excitation function for the ratio $K^+/π^+$ found experimentally between 11 and 40 A$\cdot$GeV. A comparison to the various experimental data shows that this 'failure' is dominantly due to an insufficient description of pion rapidity distributions rather than missing 'strangeness'. The modest differences in the transport model results -- on the other hand -- can be attributed to different implementations of string formation and fragmentation, that are not sufficiently controlled by experimental data for the 'elementary' reactions in vacuum.
description: 46 pages, including 15 eps figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. C
Sexuelle Gesundheit, im Speziellen die Selbstbefriedigung, erwachsener Frauen* und Männer* zwischen 20 und 30 Jahren mit einer kognitiven Behinderung : Bedarfsanalyse sexualpädagogischer und sexualtherapeutischer Unterstützung be-züglich der sexuellen Gesundheit und der Selbstbefriedigung erwachsener Frauen* und Männer*, welche mindestens seit zwei Jahren in einer Institution für Menschen mit einer Behinderung leben
Creators: name: Kälin-Carrer, Raffaella
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sexuelle Gesundheit
subject: Selbstbefriedigung
subject: kognitive Behinderung
subject: DDC::6** Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::61* Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird anhand vier qualitativer Interviews mit Frauen* und Männern* mit einer kognitiven Beeinträchtigung der Bedarf an sexualpädagogischen und sexualtherapeutischen Interventionen im Kontext einer Institution erforscht. Mit Leitfaden-interviews in adäquater Sprache wird die Zielgruppe direkt befragt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt, unter Einbezug der sexuellen Gesundheit der Teilnehmenden, auf dem Erleben und Ge-stalten der Selbstbefriedigung. Anhand der Auswertung nach Mayring und der Konzepte der Institutionen wird der Bedarf an sexualtherapeutischer und sexualpädagogischer Un-terstützung evaluiert.
Additional file 9: Figure S9. of Diversification of non-visual photopigment parapinopsin in spectral sensitivity for diverse pineal functions
Creators: name: Koyanagi, Mitsumasa
name: Wada, Seiji
name: Kawano-Yamashita, Emi
name: Hara, Yuichiro
name: Kuraku, Shigehiro
name: Kosaka, Shigeaki
name: Kawakami, Koichi
name: Tamotsu, Satoshi
name: Tsukamoto, Hisao
name: Shichida, Yoshinori
name: Terakita, Akihisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Characterization of LWS opsin-expressing cells in the zebrafish pineal organ. (PDF 3655 kb)
4D MRI: Robust sorting of free breathing MRI slices for use in interventional settings
Creators: name: Gulamhussene, Gino
name: Joeres, Fabian
name: Rak, Marko
name: Pech, Maciej
name: Hansen, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purpose: We aim to develop a robust 4D MRI method for large FOVs enabling the extraction of irregular respiratory motion that is readily usable with all MRI machines and thus applicable to support a wide range of interventional settings. Method: We propose a 4D MRI reconstruction method to capture an arbitrary number of breathing states. It uses template updates in navigator slices and search regions for fast and robust vessel cross-section tracking. It captures FOVs of 255 mm x 320 mm x 228 mm at a spatial resolution of 1.82 mm x 1.82 mm x 4mm and temporal resolution of 200ms. A total of 37 4D MRIs of 13 healthy subjects were reconstructed to validate the method. A quantitative evaluation of the reconstruction rate and speed of both the new and baseline method was performed. Additionally, a study with ten radiologists was conducted to assess the subjective reconstruction quality of both methods. Results: Our results indicate improved mean reconstruction rates compared to the baseline method (79.4\% vs. 45.5\%) and improved mean reconstruction times (24s vs. 73s) per subject. Interventional radiologists perceive the reconstruction quality of our method as higher compared to the baseline (262.5 points vs. 217.5 points, p=0.02). Conclusions: Template updates are an effective and efficient way to increase 4D MRI reconstruction rates and to achieve better reconstruction quality. Search regions reduce reconstruction time. These improvements increase the applicability of 4D MRI as a base for seamless support of interventional image guidance in percutaneous interventions.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Citric acid as feed additive in diet of rabbit- effect on growth performance
Creators: name: Uddin, M.J.
name: Islam, K.M.S.
name: Reza, A.
name: Chowdhury, R.
name: Uddin, M.J.
name: Islam, K.M.S.
name: Reza, A.
name: Chowdhury, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Citric acid
subject: Growing rabbit
subject: Performance

description: The experiment was conducted for a period of 56 days using 24 growing rabbits (4 to 6 weeks old) to evaluate the effect of citric acid (CA) on the growth performance. Concentrate mixture was fortified by 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% CA to 4 different groups of rabbit considering 6 in each. Green grass and concentrate mixture were supplied on ad-libitum basis. Growth rate increased 5, 8 and 12% respectively in 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% CA supplemented groups (P>0.05). Total dry matter (DM) intake decreased numerically due to increased level of CA whereas, growth velocity increased with increased level of CA. Insignificant difference observed in terms of feed conversion ratio (FCR-DM intake/weight gain) among different groups but improved 6, 16, and 8 % respectively in 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% CA offering groups. Over all numerically better performance obtained due to addition of CA in rabbit diet. So, it may be concluded that the CA up to level of 1.5% in diet may have positive effect on growth performance of growing rabbit.
title: Development of Polymer Modified Pelletised Bitumin for Utility Reinstatements and Emergency Pothole Repair
Creators: name: Al Hawesah, H
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2027

description: The quality of asphalt pothole repair in carriageways depends on several important factors, such as the selection of patching material and the choice of repair technique. Conventional hot mix plants operate to support large paving projects, making production more economic with high volume output. When small repairs and maintenance are needed, it can be challenging to maintain small quantities of hot asphalt at a sufficient temperature, especially in the case of winter maintenance. Consequently, the repair materials cannot be compacted to the desired level on some occasions. Thus, producing high quality asphalt materials for low-volume and hand-laid applications including potholes patching and utility reinstatements has lways been a problem. This research aimed to develop a pelletised polymer modified bitumen (PPMB) with reduced temperature sensitivity for low volume applications. The effect of the developed binder PPMB on the asphalt has been evaluated in terms of stiffness, permanent deformation (wheel track test, creep test and indentation test) and fatigue life test, durability (water sensitivity and freeze-thaw cycle) in comparison with the conventional patching materials. The results showed that the highest penetration index (low temperature sensitivity) has been achieved by modifying bitumen with 20% rubber and 2% wax to produce polymer modified bitumen (PMB). Hence, the developed PMB has been incorporated with 5% filler (limestone) and then pelletised and coated with 1% paper sludge ash to produce PPMB. The outcomes showed that PPMB improved the asphalt properties in terms of stiffness, permanent deformation and fatigue life test, water sensitivity and freeze-thaw cycle; this is due to the development of a strong bonds between the PPMB and the aggregate resulting in stronger and more durable asphalt compared to the traditional hot mix asphalt. Furthermore, the self-compacted mastic asphalt has been developed by incorporating PPMB and fine aggregate. The results demonstrated that modifying the mastic asphalt with 2% gilsonite and 3% low density polyethene has improved the sensitivity to permanent deformation (creep test, wheel track test and indentation test), resistance for water sensitivity and long-term ageing compared to the unmodified mastic asphalt. This implies that the modified mastic asphalt could be used in heavy traffic due to its mechanical and durability properties. The overall results indicated that using the PPMB to produce asphalt and modified mastic asphalt is a successful alternative to the traditional patching materials in different applications.
Effect of heat stress on blood parameters in indigenous sheep
Creators: name: Rana, M.S.
name: Hashem, M.A.
name: Sakib, M.N.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Rana, M.S.
name: Hashem, M.A.
name: Sakib, M.N.
name: Kumar, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Heat stress
subject: Sheep
subject: Red blood cell
subject: Hemoglobin
subject: White blood cell
subject: Packed cell volume

description: The research was conducted to study the effect of heat stress on blood parameters in indigenous sheep. Nine sheep were divided into three groups which were almost similar in age, sex and weight. Three groups were divided as zero hour (T0), four hours (T4) and eight hours (T8) heat exposure to direct sunlight. During experimental period temperature–humidity index (THI) value was calculated as 27.09 which indicate T4 and T8 groups were subjected to heat stress condition for at least four hours and eight hours respectively every day. The amount of red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb%) and packed cell volume (PCV%) were increased significantly (p<0.05) with the increase of heat stress but the amount of white blood cell (WBC) had no significant difference (P>0.05) among the treatment groups. It can be concluded that heat stress had significant changes on some blood parameters in indigenous sheep.
The prismatic Sigma 3 (10-10) twin bounday in alpha-Al2O3 investigated by density functional theory and transmission electron microscopy
Creators: name: Fabris, S.
name: Nufer, S.
name: Elsaesser, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic structure of a prismatic $Σ3$ $(10\bar{1}0)$ twin boundary in \aal2o3 is characterized theoretically by ab-initio local-density-functional theory, and experimentally by spatial-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), measuring energy-loss near-edge structures (ELNES) of the oxygen $K$-ionization edge. Theoretically, two distinct microscopic variants for this twin interface with low interface energies are derived and analysed. Experimentally, it is demonstrated that the spatial and energetical resolutions of present high-performance STEM instruments are insufficient to discriminate the subtle differences of the two proposed interface variants. It is predicted that for the currently developed next generation of analytical electron microscopes the prismatic twin interface will provide a promising benchmark case to demonstrate the achievement of ELNES with spatial resolution of individual atom columns.
MOESM10 of RADIX: rhizoslide platform allowing high throughput digital image analysis of root system expansion
Creators: name: MariĂŠ, Chantal Le
name: Kirchgessner, Norbert
name: FlĂźtsch, Patrick
name: Pfeifer, Johannes
name: Walter, Achim
name: Hund, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 10. Increase of lateral roots after solution change above the last formed lateral.
An optimal regularity result for Kolmogorov equations and weak uniqueness for some critical SPDEs
Creators: name: Priola, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show uniqueness in law for the critical SPDE $$ dX_t = AX_t dt + (-A)^{1/2}F(X(t))dt + dW_t,\;\; X_0 =x \in H, $$ where $A$ $ : dom(A) \subset H \to H$ is a negative definite self-adjoint operator on a separable Hilbert space $H$ having $A^{-1}$ of trace class and $W$ is a cylindrical Wiener process on $H$. Here $F: H \to H $ can be continuous with at most linear growth (some functions $F$ which grow more than linearly can also be considered). This leads to new uniqueness results for generalized stochastic Burgers' equations and for three-dimensional stochastic Cahn-Hilliard type equations which have interesting applications. To get weak uniqueness we also establish a new optimal regularity result for the Kolmogorov equation $ λu - Lu = f$ on $H$, where $λ>0$, $ f: H \to {\mathbb R}$ is Borel and bounded and $L$ is the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator related to the SPDE when $F=0$. In particular we show that the first derivative $Du : H \to H$ verifies $Du(x) \in \text{dom}((-A)^{1/2})$, for any $x \in H,$ and moreover $$ \sup_{x \in H} |(-A)^{1/2}Du (x)|_H = \| (-A)^{1/2}Du \|_{0} \le C \, \| f\|_{0}. $$
description: to appear in AOP
Rutripalpidae Sokolow 1934
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
name: Gerecke, Reinhard
name: Sabatino, Antonio Di
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Rutripalpidae

description: Family RUTRIPALPIDAE Sokolow, 1934   Genus Rutripalpis Sokolow, 1934
 Rutripalpis limicola Sokolow, 1934
Records from the study area: Montenegro: Gerecke & Tuzovskij (2001).
Habitat: Crenobiont; in weakly seeping helocrenes.
Distribution: Central Europe, Balkan.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Smit, Harry, Gerecke, Reinhard & Sabatino, Antonio Di, 2010, The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Balkan peninsula, a revised survey with new records and descriptions of five new taxa 2586, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 2586 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2586.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094440
Flat bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiming
name: Wang, Yimeng
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Ueno, Keiji
name: Tutuc, Emanuel
name: LeRoy, Brian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through giving rise to the electronic band structure of the material. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the twist angle between the layers becomes an additional degree freedom for the resulting heterostructure. As this angle changes, the electronic band structure is modified leading to the possibility of flat bands with localized states and enhanced electronic correlations. In transition metal dichalcogenides, flat bands have been theoretically predicted to occur for long moiré wavelengths over a range of twist angles around 0 and 60 degrees giving much wider versatility than magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Here we show the existence of a flat band in the electronic structure of 3° and 57.5° twisted bilayer WSe2 samples using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Direct spatial mapping of wavefunctions at the flat band energy have shown that the flat bands are localized differently for 3° and 57.5°, in excellent agreement with first-principle density functional theory calculations.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures. Added data for 57 degree twist angle sample
MOESM2 of RADIX: rhizoslide platform allowing high throughput digital image analysis of root system expansion
Creators: name: MariĂŠ, Chantal Le
name: Kirchgessner, Norbert
name: FlĂźtsch, Patrick
name: Pfeifer, Johannes
name: Walter, Achim
name: Hund, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Constructional drawing of the imaging station (units:mm).
A Time-to-Digital Converter-based Correction Method for Charge Measurement through Area Integration
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiajin
name: Zhao, Lei
name: Dong, Ruoshi
name: Deng, Peipei
name: Ma, Cong
name: Lu, Jiaming
name: Liu, Shubin
name: An, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-precision charge measurement can be achieved by the area integration of a digitized quasi-Gaussian signal after the signal passes through the shaper and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The charge measurement contains an error due to the uncertainty of the first sampled point of a signal waveform. To reduce the error, we employ a time-to-digital converter (TDC) to measure the uncertainty precisely, and we design correction algorithms to improve the resolution of the charge measurement. This work includes analysis and simulations of the proposed algorithms and implementation of them in an FPGA device. Besides, the tests are also conducted to evaluate the performance of the correction method. Test results indicate that the resolution of the charge measurement is successfully improved from 0.231% to 0.126% by using a signal from the shaping circuit (with the amplitude of 2 V, and leading and trailing edges of about 80 ns and 280 ns, respectively) digitized at the sampling rate of 62.5 Msps.
Quantum optimal transport with quantum channels
Creators: name: De Palma, Giacomo
name: Trevisan, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new generalization to quantum states of the Wasserstein distance, which is a fundamental distance between probability distributions given by the minimization of a transport cost. Our proposal is the first where the transport plans between quantum states are in natural correspondence with quantum channels, such that the transport can be interpreted as a physical operation on the system. Our main result is the proof of a modified triangle inequality for our transport distance. We also prove that the distance between a quantum state and itself is intimately connected with the Wigner-Yanase metric on the manifold of quantum states. We then specialize to quantum Gaussian systems, which provide the mathematical model for the electromagnetic radiation in the quantum regime. We prove that the noiseless quantum Gaussian attenuators and amplifiers are the optimal transport plans between thermal quantum Gaussian states, and that our distance recovers the classical Wasserstein distance in the semiclassical limit.
Food security and morbidity of elderly in disadvantaged rural Bangladesh
Creators: name: Quaddus, M.A.
name: Bauer, S.
name: Quaddus, M.A.
name: Bauer, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Food security
subject: Elder Morbidity
subject: Health status
subject: VGF card

description: The study was undertaken to assess the food consumption level, prevalence of food insecurity and health status of elderly in the disadvantaged rural area of Bangladesh. Data were collected from fifteen villages in three vulnerable regions (river-flooded, hilly and coastal) through self-completed questionnaire. Descriptive statistics of sociodemographic characteristics of 282 households, food frequency and overall health status of elderly were measured. Economic, demographic and some other household characteristic factors influencing food insecurity of elderly people was estimated using binary logistic regression model. Socio-demographic factors influencing morbidity of elderly people were estimated using Chi-square statistics. Socioeconomic conditions of the studied areas were poor and they spent above 83% of their income for food. Rice, wheat, pulses and vegetables were the highly consumed and fruits and sweets were the less consumed foods by the elderly people. One-fourth and two-third of the elderly people had eaten fish and meat, respectively less than a week. Food insecurity was inversely associated with household income and level of education of elderly people and positively associated with number of household member. Food security was 3.5 times more likely to the oldest elder (75 years) as compared with older elder (< 75 years). Elderly people of age group 75 years and over were more prevalence of morbidities and 23.8% elders were suffering from severe morbidity. Also they suffered from treatment facilities. Higher age, low income, food insecurity and anxiety were the major causes of their morbidity. No significant morbidity differentials existed among different sexes, farm size and study locations. Proper intervention programs should be designed and implemented to control the prevalence of health and food availability for the elderly.
Retrofit einer Kommunikationsstruktur in einem Industrieterritorium mittels Niedrigenergieweitverkehrsnetz
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Philipp
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anlage mit intelligenter Sensorüberwachung
subject: Siemens Simatic S7-1200
subject: Niedrigenergieweitverkehrsnetz
subject: Kommunikationsstruktur
subject: DDC::6** Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::62* Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Aufbau eines Niedrigenergieweit-verkehrs-netzes in einer Industrieanlage, welche über das Modbus Protokoll angesteuert und ausgelesen wird. Es handelt sich konkret um das Auslesen von Druck-, Füllstands- und Durchfluss-sensoren sowie das Auslesen von Ventilstellungen in einer Industrieumgebung, welche aktuell noch über ein veraltetes System, das mittels Modems kommuniziert, ausgelesen wird. Außerdem soll eine Pumpe und ein Ventil angesteuert werden. Um den Verkabelungsaufwand zu minimieren und effektiv zur Verringerung des Energieverbrauchs beizutragen, werden batteriebetriebene Module eingesetzt, die mittels Niedrigenergieweitverkehrsnetz mit einer Basisstation kommunizieren. Diese Basisstation kommuniziert dann mittels Modbus Protokoll mit einer Siemens SPS, die für die Auswertung und Steuerung der genannten Aktoren und Sensoren verantwortlich ist. Zur Veranschaulichung und Steuerung des Prozesses werden die verschiedenen Komponenten auf einem Siemens Simatic HMI Comfort Panel dar-gestellt.
Einfluss Grüner Werbung auf das Kaufverhalten deutscher Konsument*innen
Creators: name: Peisker, Lisa Marie
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Grüne Werbung
subject: Bedürfniserkennung im Kaufprozess
subject: Wirkung Werbeversprechen
subject: Kaufpräferenzen
subject: Greenwashing
subject: DDC::3** Sozialwissenschaften::30* Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt sich mit Grüner Werbung und deren Einfluss auf die Bedürfniserkennung im Kaufprozess deutscher Konsument*innen. Das Ziel ist dabei, herauszufinden, ob Grüne Werbung sich positiv auf die Bedürfniserkennung auswirkt und somit stärker zum Kauf von Produkten anregt als Nicht-Grüne Werbung. Dazu wird unter anderem betrachtet, welche Wirkung Werbeversprechen sowie Bildgestaltung auf Konsument*innen haben. Um sich ein Bild machen zu können, wie Grüne Werbung von deutschen Konsument*innen wahrgenommen wird, wurde eine quantitative Datenerhebung durchgeführt. Bestandteil dieser war ein Vergleich von Grüner und Nicht-Grüner Werbung in Bezug auf ein wachsendes Produktinteresse sowie Kaufpräferenzen. Die Antworten auf die Umfrage lassen darauf deuten, dass das Vertrauen in Grüne Werbung geschwächt ist. Diese Vertrauensschwächung könnte auf eine Folge von Greenwashing zurückgeführt werden. Dennoch bringen die Ergebnisse der Umfrage hervor, dass das Produktinteresse durch Grüne Werbung steigt. Zusätzlich konnte festgestellt werden, dass Grüne Werbung für über 90 Prozent der Befragten eine Rolle in der Bedürfniserkennung spielt.
Additional file 8: Figure S8. of Diversification of non-visual photopigment parapinopsin in spectral sensitivity for diverse pineal functions
Creators: name: Koyanagi, Mitsumasa
name: Wada, Seiji
name: Kawano-Yamashita, Emi
name: Hara, Yuichiro
name: Kuraku, Shigehiro
name: Kosaka, Shigeaki
name: Kawakami, Koichi
name: Tamotsu, Satoshi
name: Tsukamoto, Hisao
name: Shichida, Yoshinori
name: Terakita, Akihisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Comparison of cell morphology between PP1-expressing and PP2-expressing cells. (PDF 276 kb)
Quantum correlations in classical statistics
Creators: name: Wetterich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum correlations can be naturally formulated in a classical statistical system of infinitely many degrees of freedom. This realizes the underlying non-commutative structure in a classical statistical setting. We argue that the quantum correlations offer a more robust description with respect to the precise definition of observables.
description: 17 pages,LaTex
Optical Counterparts for 70,000 Radio Sources: APM Identifications for the FIRST Radio Survey
Creators: name: McMahon, Richard G.
name: White, Richard L.
name: Helfand, David J.
name: Becker, Robert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a program to identify optical counterparts to radio sources from the VLA FIRST survey using the Cambridge APM scans of the POSS-I plates. We use radio observations covering 4150 square degrees of the north Galactic cap to a 20 cm flux density threshold of 1.0 mJy; the 382,892 sources detected all have positional uncertainties of <1" (radius of 90% confidence). Our description of the APM catalog, derived from the 148 POSS-I O and E plates covering this region, includes an assessment of its astrometric and photometric accuracy, a photometric recalibration using the Minnesota APS catalog, a discussion of the classification algorithm, and quantitative tests of the catalog's reliability and completeness. We go on to show how the use of FIRST sources as astrometric standards allows us to improve the absolute astrometry of the POSS plates by nearly an order of magnitude to ~0.15" rms. Matching the radio and optical catalogs yields counterparts for over 70,000 radio sources; we include detailed discussions of the reliability and completeness of these identifications as a function of optical and radio morphology, optical magnitude and color, and radio flux density. An analysis of the problem of radio sources with complex morphologies (e.g., double-lobed radio galaxies) is included. We conclude with a brief discussion of the source classes represented among the radio sources with identified counterparts.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 28 pages, 23 figures
Momoniidae K. Viets 1926
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
name: Gerecke, Reinhard
name: Sabatino, Antonio Di
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Momoniidae

description: Family MOMONIIDAE K. Viets, 1926  Subfamily Momoniinae K. Viets, 1926
 Genus Momonisia Petrova, 1974
 Momonisia phreatica Petrova, 1974
Records from the study area: Bulgaria: Petrova (1974a).
Habitat: Hyporheobiont.
Distribution: Bulgaria, Corsica, Spain.
Subfamily Stygomomoniinae Motaş & Tanasachi, 1946
 Genus S tygomomonia Szalay, 1943
 Stygomomonia (Stygomomonia) latipes latipes Szalay, 1943
 New records: Bulgaria: Sofia region: Beli Iskar River, interstitial, 1020 m a.s.l., 42 о 17'168"N 23 о 32'086"E, 13.xi.2005 Kenderov (0/0/1); Cherni Iskar River, interstitial, 1012 m a.s.l., 42 о 17'123"N 23 о 31'997"E, 16.viii.2004 (3/0); ibid., 16.viii.2005 Kenderov (6/1); River Iskar above Samokov town, interstitial, 1005 m a.s.l., 42 о 17'468"N 23 о 22'221"E, 02.v.2004 Kenderov (0/1/3); Samokov, Iskar River below Vedena river, interstitial, 638 m a.s.l., 42 о 33'616"N 23 о 25'395"E, 02.v.2004 Kenderov (1/0/0).
 Records from the study area: Bosnia and Hercegovina: Motaş et al. (1948); Montenegro: Pešić (1999, 2004b); Macedonia: Schwoerbel (1963); Bulgaria: Cvetkov & Petrova (1965), Petrova (1965, 1968b, 1971).
Habitat: Hyporheobiont.
Distribution: Central, southern and south-eastern Europe.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Smit, Harry, Gerecke, Reinhard & Sabatino, Antonio Di, 2010, The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Balkan peninsula, a revised survey with new records and descriptions of five new taxa 2586, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 2586 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2586.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094440
Boserup versus Malthis: does population pressure drive agricultural intensification? Evidence from Burundi
Creators: name: Desiere, Sam
name: D'Haese, Marijke
name: Desiere, Sam
name: D'Haese, Marijke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries

description: Will a growing population lead to depletion of natural resources and eventually economic collapse, as predicted by Malthus, or rather to innovations in the agricultural sector improving agricultural potential of land, as hypothesized by Boserup? This centuries-old puzzle is as relevant as ever in some densely populated regions of Sub-Saharan Africa where population growth is still alarmingly high and shows no sign of slowing down, leading to enormous pressure on land. In this paper, we quantify the relationship between population pressure and land intensification in Burundi, one of the most densely populated regions in Africa. Using data from a nationally representative agricultural survey (n=2050), we find evidence of both Malthusian and Boserupian processes. In line with Boserup’s theory, the use of fertilizer and labour, yields and food production initially increases with population pressure, but decreases again when population densities exceed a critical threshold, supporting Malthus’ prediction. These limits to intensification confirm findings from previous studies on densely populated regions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
title: Differential Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Motor Cortex and Prefrontal Cortex in Learning a Whole-Body Movement Task
Creators: name: Caesley, Harriet
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Research has investigated the use of non-invasive brain interventions, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), to enhance motor learning and rehabilitation. Much research has shown that tDCS improves motor learning and that bilateral tDCS is more beneficial than unilateral tDCS in improving motor learning. However, past research has primarily utilised simple motor tasks in measuring motor skill learning. These are not ecologically reliable as whole-body movement is required for everyday activities. This study involved two experiments. Each experiment involved participants learning 12 Ballroom and Latin dance moves whilst undergoing tDCS. All participants underwent three sessions of tDCS, (unilateral, bilateral and sham), over three consecutive days. Participants in the first experiment (n=30) had stimulation to the primary motor cortex (PMC) and those in the second experiment (n=31) had stimulation to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). In each experiment, a baseline was taken before the training sessions and two outcome measures were taken; a day after the last training session and two weeks later. In each testing session participants' dance ability was measured. Our results showed that bilateral tDCS impaired performance in both experiments. Unilateral stimulation impaired performance in the first experiment, and did not significantly improve performance any better than the sham stimulation in the second experiment. These results suggest that task complexity plays a crucial role when tDCS procedures are used to modulate motor performance and highlights possible limitations of tDCS in practice.
Complete determination of crystallographic orientation of ReX2 (X=S, Se) by polarized Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Choi, Yun
name: Kim, Keunui
name: Lim, Soo Yeon
name: Kim, Jungcheol
name: Park, Je Myoung
name: Kim, Jung Hwa
name: Lee, Zonghoon
name: Cheong, Hyeonsik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarized Raman spectroscopy on few-layer ReS2 and ReSe2 was carried out to determine the crystallographic orientations. Since monolayer ReX2 (X=S or Se) has a distorted trigonal structure with only an inversion center, there is in-plane anisotropy and the two faces of a monolayer crystal are not equivalent. Since many physical properties vary sensitively depending on the crystallographic orientation, it is important to develop a reliable method to determine the crystal axes of ReX2. By comparing the relative polarization dependences of some representative Raman modes measured with three different excitation laser energies with high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, we established a reliable procedure to determine the all three principal directions of few-layer ReX2 including a way to distinguish the two types of faces: a 2.41-eV laser for ReS2 or a 1.96-eV laser for ReSe2 should be chosen as the excitation source of polarized Raman measurements; then the relative directions of the maximum intensity polarization of the Raman modes at 151 and 212 cm-1 (124 and 161 cm-1) of ReS2 (ReSe2) can be used to determine the face types and the Re-chain direction unambiguously.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, supplementary information 9 pages
Problems with Tachyon Inflation
Creators: name: Kofman, Lev
name: Linde, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider cosmological consequences of string theory tachyon condensation. We show that it is very difficult to obtain inflation in the simplest versions of this theory. Typically, inflation in these theories could occur only at super-Planckian densities, where the effective 4D field theory is inapplicable. Reheating and creation of matter in models where the tachyon potential V(T) has a minimum at infinitely large T is problematic because the tachyon field in such theories does not oscillate. If the universe after inflation is dominated by the energy density of the tachyon condensate, it will always remain dominated by the tachyons. It might happen that string condensation is responsible for a short stage of inflation at a nearly Planckian density, but one would need to have a second stage of inflation after that. This would imply that the tachyon played no role in the post-inflationary universe until the very late stages of its evolution. These problems do not appear in the recently proposed models of hybrid inflation where the complex tachyon field has a minimum at T << M_p.
description: 13 pages
Additional file 7: Figure S7. of Diversification of non-visual photopigment parapinopsin in spectral sensitivity for diverse pineal functions
Creators: name: Koyanagi, Mitsumasa
name: Wada, Seiji
name: Kawano-Yamashita, Emi
name: Hara, Yuichiro
name: Kuraku, Shigehiro
name: Kosaka, Shigeaki
name: Kawakami, Koichi
name: Tamotsu, Satoshi
name: Tsukamoto, Hisao
name: Shichida, Yoshinori
name: Terakita, Akihisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Labeling of PP1-expressing and PP2-expressing cells in the zebrafish pineal organ. (PDF 2686 kb)
Cow or Goat? Population pressure and livestock keeping in Burundi
Creators: name: Desiere, Sam
name: Niragira, Sanctus
name: D'Haese, Marijke
name: Vellema, Wytse
name: Desiere, Sam
name: Niragira, Sanctus
name: D'Haese, Marijke
name: Vellema, Wytse
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: livestock
subject: cattle
subject: smallholders
subject: agricultural policy
subject: Burundi

description: Livestock contributes significantly to peoples’ livelihoods in developing countries. Yet, most studies focus on dairy cattle, overlooking the fact that many smallholder farmers in mixed-cropping systems prefer to keep goats, sheep, pigs or poultry rather than cattle. For this paper we applied a multivariate probit model to a unique dataset from a national, representative, agricultural survey in Burundi, to estimate the determinants of livestock keeping. We found that wealthier households keep more livestock, but that population density and access to markets are also key determinants. Moreover, in densely populated regions, even the wealthiest households prefer smaller animals to cattle, as the pressure on land is high and access to pastures is limited. This has important policy implications as it raises questions as to whether the focus on dairy cattle, which has been adopted in most NGO and governmental development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, is justified.
Hadrons in Hot and Dense Matter
Creators: name: Rapp, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The description of excitations in hot and dense (hadronic) matter is discussed with emphasis on the use of correlation functions as a common framework for comparing different model (and QCD lattice) calculations with each other. Typical regimes of applicability of hadronic approaches are assessed, together with possibilities to confront them with experiment. We also elaborate on recent developments to relate baryonic in-medium effects to chiral symmetry restoration.
description: Convener Talk at the Int. Conf. on Quark Nuclear Physics, June 9-14, 2002 (Juelich, Germany); 3 pages LaTeX including 5 eps-figures and EPJ style files
Religiöse Akteure innerhalb der Sozialen Arbeit Evangelikale Christ*innen im Kontext der Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung
Creators: name: Müller, Sara
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung
subject: evangelikale Christinnen
subject: Evangelikalismus
subject: Beratung
subject: Standards
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::302 Soziale Interaktion

description: den letzten Jahrzehnten haben evangelikale Christ*innen den Diskurs zu Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen und den rechtlichen Regelungen in § 218 und § 219 StGB mitbestimmt. Durch ihre Behauptung, die einzig wahre Auslegung der Bibel, und damit die Wünsche Gottes, zu kennen, schufen sie Netzwerke mit dem Ziel, Schwangerschaftsabbrüche in Frage zu stellen und diese zum "Schutze des menschlichen Lebens" abzuschaffen. Dabei nehmen sie auch Beratungspositionen ein, um ihr Weltbild möglichst direkt an (ungewollt) schwangere Personen weiterzugeben. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob evangelikale Christ*innen überhaupt für diese Aufgabe qualifiziert sind. Es wird argumentiert, dass es einen Konfliktbereich zwischen den theoretischen und rechtlichen Standards der Beratung und den ideologischen Grundlagen des christlichen Fundamentalismus und Evangelikalismus gibt. Durch die Analyse dieser Grundlagen und den Vergleich mit den Standards der Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung kommt diese These zu dem Schluss, dass evangelikale Christ*innen die Standards im Bereich der Beratung nicht erfüllen können. Diese Widersprüche zeigen, wie gefährlich ein Nicht-Beachten solch radikaler Strömungen sein kann und machen deutlich, dass der Verknüpfung der Themenbereiche Evangelikalismus und Soziale Arbeit wissenschaftlich mehr Bedeutung zugewiesen werden muss.