cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nucleic acid degradation after long‐term dried blood spot storage
Creators: name: Li, Juan
name: Ulloa, Gabriela M.
name: Mayor, Pedro
name: Santolalla Robles, Meddly L.
name: Greenwood, Alex D.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: DBS
subject: hybridization capture
subject: mitochondrial genome
subject: nucleic acid
subject: virus
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Collecting and preserving biological samples in the field, particularly in remote areas in tropical forests, prior to laboratory analysis is challenging. Blood samples in many cases are used for nucleic acid‐based species determination, genomics or pathogen research. In most cases, maintaining a cold chain is impossible and samples remain at ambient temperature for extended periods of time before controlled storage conditions become available. Dried blood spot (DBS) storage, blood stored on cellulose‐based paper, has been widely applied to facilitate sample collection and preservation in the field for decades. However, it is unclear how long‐term storage on this substrate affects nucleic acid concentration and integrity. We analysed nucleic acid quality from DBS stored on Whatman filter paper no. 3 and FTA cards for up to 15 years in comparison to cold‐chain stored samples using four nucleic acid extraction methods. We examined the ability to identify viral sequences from samples of 12 free‐ranging primates in the Amazon forest, using targeted hybridization capture, and determined if mitochondrial genomes could be retrieved. The results suggest that even after extended periods of storage, DBS will be suitable for some genomic applications but may be of limited use for viral pathogen research, particularly RNA viruses.
An Analysis of Financial Performance of Federal Land Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, Farm Credit Banks, and Related Associations, 1986-89
Creators: name: Collender, Robert N.
name: Collender, Robert N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Farm Credit System
subject: Federal Land Banks
subject: Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
subject: Farm Credit Banks
subject: DuPont analysis
subject: financial performance

description: The 1980's was a decade of unprecedented distress and change for the Farm Credit System (FCS). This research documents the changes in financial performance of district aggregates of FCS institutions from midyear 1986 through the end of 1989. The FCS experienced substantial, although unevenly distributed, improvements in most areas. Profitability rose and riskiness fell for the system as a whole, although results were uneven across districts. This improved financial performance arose primarily because interest income per asset dollar rose faster than noninterest operating expenses per asset dollar. However, the system has failed to control its operating expenses relative to its assets. Thus, cost control should be a primary focus of FCS management to attain near-term increases in operating results.
Napping Position Preferences and Perceived Nap Outcomes of the UBC Population
Creators: name: Tutinka, Adam
name: Dumandan, Edgar
name: Cosman, Dylan
name: Cheng, Linda
name: Shan, Samantha Lo Cheuk
name: Liu, Wendi (Wen Qing)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The present study investigated nap position preferences within the UBC student population and how nap sleep posture can affect perceived mood and alertness-sleepiness outcomes. It was hypothesized that horizontal sleep positions would be the most commonly endorsed preferred napping positions, with improved perceived mood and alertness-sleepiness outcomes. A second hypothesis predicted that lying on one’s back would be the most commonly endorsed napping position, with the best perceived mood and alertness-sleepiness outcomes. Survey data was gathered in-person and online through active recruitment of UBC students. Primary measures included preferred napping position and self-report Likert style questions assessing perceived mood and alertness-sleepiness following less than 30-minute naps. Mood variables consisted of happy-sad, energetic-sluggish, relaxed-tense, and calm-irritable. The outcome measure of alertness-sleepiness was incorporated to reflect the individual’s perceived physiological state post-nap. Descriptive statistics show ‘laying on your back’, ‘laying on your side’, and ‘sitting with your back reclined’ are the most commonly endorsed preferred nap positions for less than 30-minute naps. Results demonstrate no statistically significant difference between preferred napping positions and mood and alertness-sleepiness outcomes. However, a statistically significant difference in mood outcomes between 30-minute or less naps in one’s preferred versus non-preferred position was observed. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Visualizing Strange Metallic Correlations in the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model with AI
Creators: name: Khatami, Ehsan
name: Guardado-Sanchez, Elmer
name: Spar, Benjamin M.
name: Carrasquilla, Juan Felipe
name: Bakr, Waseem S.
name: Scalettar, Richard T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly correlated phases of matter are often described in terms of straightforward electronic patterns. This has so far been the basis for studying the Fermi-Hubbard model realized with ultracold atoms. Here, we show that artificial intelligence (AI) can provide an unbiased alternative to this paradigm for phases with subtle, or even unknown, patterns. Long- and short-range spin correlations spontaneously emerge in filters of a convolutional neural network trained on snapshots of single atomic species. In the less well-understood strange metallic phase of the model, we find that a more complex network trained on snapshots of local moments produces an effective order parameter for the non-Fermi-liquid behavior. Our technique can be employed to characterize correlations unique to other phases with no obvious order parameters or signatures in projective measurements, and has implications for science discovery through AI beyond strongly correlated systems.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures; updated in accord with the published version
Aracoda Schmarda 1861
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Oenonidae
Aracoda

description: Aracoda Schmarda, 1861 (mixture, species from three different genera)
 moebiana Grube, 1878: Philippines. ZMB 1767, NTM 19421, 19422 (= Arabella iricolor Montagu, 1804 from England fide Hartman 1959)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Some Evidence of the Demand for Food Variety: A Case Study of Food Items
Creators: name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Shonkwiler, J.S.
name: Brown, Mark G.
name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Shonkwiler, J.S.
name: Brown, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Demand
subject: Food Variety
subject: Tobit

description: The paper examines the corner solution in consumer demand analysis focusing on the relationship between the number of food commodities purchased and total food expenditures. Empirical results provide evidence that the number of commodities purchased both in aggregate and in specific commodity groups increases with total food expenditures, and indirectly supports the assertion that more variety is associated with greater utility.
Homogeneity of early--type galaxies across clusters
Creators: name: Andreon, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the scatter across clusters of the color of the red sequence in a representative and large sample of clusters (more than 200) detected on the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (EDR--SDSS) in the redshift range 0.062) or else their star formation is universally delayed with preservation of a small spread in age formation. The latter possibility is ruled out by the mere existence of galaxies at high redshift. While the old age of ellipticals was already been claimed for a small heterogeneous collection of clusters, most of which are rich ones, we found that it holds for a ten to one hundred larger sample, representative of all clusters and groups detected on the EDR--SDSS. Hence, we claim the possible universality of the color of the galaxies on the red sequence. Furthermore, the sample includes a large number of very poor clusters (also called groups), not studied in previous works, for which the hierarchical and monolithic scenarios of elliptical formation predict different colors for the brightest ellipticals. The observed red sequence color does not depend on cluster/group richness at a level of 0.02 mag, while a 0.23 mag effect is expected according to the hierarchical prediction. Therefore, the stellar population of red sequence galaxies is similar in clusters and groups, in spite of different halo histories. Finally, we propose the use of color of the red sequence as distance indicator. (Abridged)
description: Contributed talk at the JENAM 2002 Workshop on "Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters", Porto, Sep 5-7 2002, eds. Lobo, Serote-Roos, and Biviano; Kluwer, in press
Energy-scale cascade and correspondence between Mott and Kondo lattice physics
Creators: name: Hu, Danqing
name: Tong, Ning-Hua
name: Yang, Yi-feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an energy-scale correspondence between the Mott physics and the Kondo lattice physics and construct a tentative phase diagram of their correlated electrons with two characteristic energy scales $ω^*$ and $Ω$ marking the upper boundary of a low-energy regime with well-developed long-range coherence and the lower boundary of localized spectral weight in the energy space, respectively. In between, there exists a crossover region with emergent but damped quasiparticle excitations. We argue that the presence of two separate energy scales is a generic property of correlated electrons on a lattice and reflects an intrinsic two-stage process of the quasiparticle dynamics to build up the lattice coherence. For the Hubbard model, they correspond to the kink and waterfall structures on the dispersion, while for the periodic Anderson model, they are associated with the indirect and direct hybridization gaps. Our work reveals a deep connection between the Mott and Kondo lattice physics and provides a basic ingredient for the study of many-body systems.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Categorical aspects of BPS states
Creators: name: Khan, Ahsan Zulfeqar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: This dissertation is devoted to the study of categorical aspects of BPS states in two-dimensional quantum field theories with N=(2,2) supersymmetry. The basic aim of a categorical discussion is to study spaces of BPS states, which carry much more refined information than their traditionally studied characters. In a two-dimensional theory, whereas BPS states are supersymmetric states defined on a one-dimensional spatial slice, carrying out the discussion at a categorical level requires one to incorporate two-dimensional supersymmetric instantons. We motivate these instantons and the differential equations they obey in a broader physical context. We show how these instanton effects can be incorporated to result in a categorification of the Cecotti-Vafa wall-crossing formula. We generalize the discussion to incorporate two-dimensional theories with non-trivial twisted mass terms. The presence of twisted masses require us to incorporate Fock spaces of periodic solitons into the discussion, and we show how these Fock spaces affect the categorical wall-crossing formalism. We sketch two important future directions. The first involves the application of the ideas of this thesis to the study of three-manifolds and homological knot invariants. The second has us graduate from two-dimensional theories and enter the world of four-dimensional N=2 theories and their BPS states.
Labidognathus Caullery 1914
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Oenonidae
Labidognathus

description: Labidognathus Caullery, 1914b
 parasiticus Caullery, 1914b: Timor Sea. NML
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Less Developed Countries' Performance in High-Value Agricultural Trade
Creators: name: Burfisher, Mary E.
name: Missiaen, Margaret B.
name: Blackman, Allen
name: Burfisher, Mary E.
name: Missiaen, Margaret B.
name: Blackman, Allen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: High-value products
subject: less developed countries
subject: agricultural trade
subject: development

description: This report analyzes 35 less developed countries' (LDC's) exports of high-value and processed agricultural products (HVP's) during 1970-87 and the roles of supply and demand factors in accounting for their export performance. HVP's accounted for 83 percent of LDC agricultural exports. Processed exports have undergone the most rapid growth and accounted for almost half of LDC high-value exports in 1986-87. Developed countries remained the major HVP export market for LDC's. The LDC share of this market fell during 1970-87, although their share of developed-country imports of highly processed HVP's increased. Domestic policies favorable to exports distinguished successful and unsuccessful LDC exporters. Several of the most competitive LDC exporters also adopted policies that promoted exports of specific HVP's. Favorable domestic conditions were not sufficient. Strong developed-country demand was also necessary for successful HVP export performance by LDC's.
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Secure Wireless Communications
Creators: name: Yang, Helin
name: Xiong, Zehui
name: Zhao, Jun
name: Niyato, Dusit
name: Xiao, Liang
name: Wu, Qingqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of multiple legitimate users in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. Aiming to improve the system secrecy rate, a design problem for jointly optimizing the base station (BS)'s beamforming and the IRS's reflecting beamforming is formulated given the different quality of service (QoS) requirements and time-varying channel condition. As the system is highly dynamic and complex, and it is challenging to address the non-convex optimization problem, a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based secure beamforming approach is firstly proposed to achieve the optimal beamforming policy against eavesdroppers in dynamic environments. Furthermore, post-decision state (PDS) and prioritized experience replay (PER) schemes are utilized to enhance the learning efficiency and secrecy performance. Specifically, PDS is capable of tracing the environment dynamic characteristics and adjust the beamforming policy accordingly. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed deep PDS-PER learning-based secure beamforming approach can significantly improve the system secrecy rate and QoS satisfaction probability in IRS-aided secure communication systems.
description: This paper appears in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Notocirrus Schmarda 1861
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Oenonidae
Notocirrus

description: Notocirrus Schmarda, 1861
 biaciculus Gallardo, 1968: Nha Trang, Vietnam. LACM 294, MZUC 8263
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Creating Interactive and Mathematically Rich Activity with Desmos
Creators: name: Kristanto, Yosep Dwi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing

description: This module aims to help readers getting insight on how to design effective mathematical tasks and to provide step-by-step tutorial on utilizing Desmos to create mathematical tasks for students. The module discusses problem-solving, investigative, and real-life activities and then translate those activities into Desmos environment. The mathematical topics covered in this module are the topics in middle school level.
The Distribution of Farm Program Benefits: An Alternative Strategy
Creators: name: Offutt, Susan E.
name: Smith, Dennis W.
name: Offutt, Susan E.
name: Smith, Dennis W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: Among criticisms of existing agricultural support programs, the issue of equity in the distribution of benefits occupies a central position. The distributional impacts across farm size under an income insurance program are analyzed and compared to current outcomes. Insurance may equalize benefit distribution and facilitate subsidy of certain farm sizes.
Diopatra Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1833
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Onuphidae
Diopatra

description: Diopatra Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 amboinensis Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833: Ambon, Indonesia. MNHN 397, 398 (redescr. Paxton 2002) bulohensis Tan & Chou, 1996: Buloh, Singapore. ZNUS 1996.314, 1996.332, 1991.5618-5629, 1990.11630-11633, 1991.5718-5720, 1991.5553, 1991.5102-5105, 1991.17164-17169, 1991.5566- 5583 (= D. claparedii fide Paxton 2002) claparedii Grube, 1878: Singapore (or Manila, Philippines). MPW 270, ZMB 1773 (redescr. Paxton 2002) luzonensis Grube, 1878: Manila, Philippines. MPW 271, ZMB 1779 (= D. semperi Grube, 1878 repl. name; redescr. Paxton 2002) uncinifera de Quatrefages, 1866: Moluccas, Indonesia. MNHN 377
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Homotopy types of box complexes
Creators: name: Csorba, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10;05C15;55P10

description: In [MZ04] Matousek and Ziegler compared various topological lower bounds for the chromatic number. They proved that Lovasz's original bound [L78] can be restated as $\chr G \geq \ind (\B(G)) +2$. Sarkaria's bound [S90] can be formulated as $\chr G \geq \ind (\B_0(G)) +1$. It is known that these lower bounds are close to each other, namely the difference between them is at most 1. In this paper we study these lower bounds, and the homotopy types of box complexes. Some of the results was announced in [MZ04].
description: 11 pages
Deep Sigma Point Processes
Creators: name: Jankowiak, Martin
name: Pleiss, Geoff
name: Gardner, Jacob R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce Deep Sigma Point Processes, a class of parametric models inspired by the compositional structure of Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs). Deep Sigma Point Processes (DSPPs) retain many of the attractive features of (variational) DGPs, including mini-batch training and predictive uncertainty that is controlled by kernel basis functions. Importantly, since DSPPs admit a simple maximum likelihood inference procedure, the resulting predictive distributions are not degraded by any posterior approximations. In an extensive empirical comparison on univariate and multivariate regression tasks we find that the resulting predictive distributions are significantly better calibrated than those obtained with other probabilistic methods for scalable regression, including variational DGPs--often by as much as a nat per datapoint.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures; as appeared in UAI 2020
Memória de uma experiência pedagógica (apontamentos de lições propedêuticas sobre o conceito de Direito)
Creators: name: Chorão, Mário Emílio F. Bigotte
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2008

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2008): Verdade, pessoa humana e ordem político-jurídica: Colóquio Internacional em Homenagem a Mário Emílio Bigotte Chorão
A verdade na amizade – uma palavra de reconhecimento
Creators: name: Chorão, Mário Emílio F. Bigotte
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2008

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2008): Verdade, pessoa humana e ordem político-jurídica: Colóquio Internacional em Homenagem a Mário Emílio Bigotte Chorão
The (In)Stability of Heterostructures During the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Creators: name: Mondal, Indranil
name: Hausmann, J. Niklas
name: Mebs, Stefan
name: Kalra, Shweta
name: Vijaykumar, Gonela
name: Laun, Konstantin
name: Zebger, Ingo
name: Selve, Sören
name: Dau, Holger
name: Driess, Matthias
name: Menezes, Prashanth W
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: FeNiOOH
subject: nickel iron oxyhydroxides
subject: industrial OER conditions
subject: interphase
subject: precatalyst reconstruction
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::541 Physikalische Chemie

description: The urgent need for efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts has led to the development and publication of many heterostructured catalysts. The application of such catalysts with multiple phases tremendously increases the material design dimensions, and numerous interface‐related effects can tune the OER performance. In this regard, multiple of these heterostructured electrodes show remarkable OER activities. However, it is not clear if these carefully designed interfaces remain under prolonged OER conditions. Herein, a molecular approach is used to synthesize four different nickel‐iron phosphide (heterostructured) materials and deposit them on fluorine‐doped tin oxide and nickel foam electrodes. The OER performance of the eight electrodes and the reconstruction of the four materials is investigated by in‐situ spectroscopy after one day of operation, enabled by a freeze‐quench approach. The most active electrode is also applied under industrial OER conditions and for the value‐added oxidation of alcohols to ketones. Before catalysis, this electrode comprises crystalline 4 nm nickel phosphide particles on an amorphous iron phosphide matrix. However, after 24 h, a homogenous nickel‐iron oxyhydroxide phase has formed. This work questions to which extent the design of heterostructures is a suitable strategy for non‐noble metal OER catalysis.
Discurso do Director da Escola de Lisboa da Faculdade de Direito, Professor Doutor Luís Sousa da Fábrica
Creators: name: Fábrica, Luís Sousa Da
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2008

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2008): Verdade, pessoa humana e ordem político-jurídica: Colóquio Internacional em Homenagem a Mário Emílio Bigotte Chorão
Roche tomography of the secondary stars in CVs
Creators: name: Watson, C. A.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The secondary stars in cataclysmic variables (CVs) are key to our understanding of the origin, evolution and behaviour of this class of interacting binary. In seeking a fuller understanding of these objects, the challenge for observers is to obtain images of the secondary star. This goal can be achieved through Roche tomography, an indirect imaging technique that can be used to map the Roche-lobe-filling secondary. The review begins with a description of the basic principles that underpin Roche tomography, including methods for determining the system parameters. Finally, we conclude with a look at the main scientific highlights to date, including the first unambiguous detection of starspots on AE Aqr B, and consider the future prospects of this technique.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in AN
Relativismo e nichilismo nell’ordine politico-giuridico
Creators: name: Possenti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2008

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2008): Verdade, pessoa humana e ordem político-jurídica: Colóquio Internacional em Homenagem a Mário Emílio Bigotte Chorão
Collective vs local measurements in qubit mixed state estimation
Creators: name: Bagan, E.
name: Baig, M.
name: Munoz-Tapia, R.
name: Rodriguez, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of estimating a general (mixed) qubit state. We give the optimal guess that can be inferred from any given set of measurements. For collective measurements and for a large number $N$ of copies, we show that the error in the estimation goes as 1/N. For local measurements we focus on the simpler case of states lying on the equatorial plane of the Bloch sphere. We show that standard tomographic techniques lead to an error proportional to $1/N^{1/4}$, while with our optimal data processing it is proportional to $1/N^{3/4}$.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, minor style changes, refs. added
THE COMPUTER -- EXTENSION'S DELIVERY SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE
Creators: name: Diesslin, H.G.
name: Diesslin, H.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: You can hardly pick up a farm magazine today without seeing stories on "Computers -- Newest Farm Implements" or some such title. Major TV advertisements during the Super Bowl hearlded the arrival of computers for the family farm. Salesmen are stumbling over each other with hardware to sell; when discussions about the accompanying software necessary to make the hardware useful are opened, the salesmen quickly change the subject.
Extension of QSQH theory of scale interaction in near-wall turbulence to all velocity components
Creators: name: Chernyshenko, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The QSQH theory is extended to all three velocity components taking into account the fluctuations of the direction of the large-scale component of the wall friction. This effect is found to be significant. It explains the large sensitivity of the fluctuations of longitudinal and spanwise velocities to variations in the Reynolds number in comparison with the sensitivity of the mean velocity, the Reynolds stress, and the wall-normal velocity fluctuations. The analysis shows that the variation of the longitudinal velocity fluctuations with the Reynolds number is dominated by the variation of the amplitude and wall-normal-scale modulation of the universal mean velocity profile by the outer, large-scale, Reynolds-number-dependent motions. The variation of spanwise velocity fluctuations is dominated by the fluctuations of the direction of the large-scale component of the wall friction. The Reynolds number dependence of the other second moments is not dominated by these mechanisms because the mean wall-normal velocity and the mean spanwise velocity are zero. Explicit relationships between the differences in the second moments of velocity in any two high-Reynolds-number near-wall flows were derived. The comparisons gave a satisfactory agreement for the root-mean square of the wall-parallel velocity components in the range of the distances from the wall where modulation by large-scale motions dominates. Relationships between the differences of the constants of the logarithmic law, the shape of the mean velocity profile, and the differences of the second moments of velocity caused by the differences in large-scale motions were derived and estimated quantitatively.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Contains a supplement `Analytic fits for the mean velocity and second moments of velocity near the wall for a turbulent flow in a plane channel', 6 pages and 5 figures
Hyalinoecia Malmgren 1867
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Onuphidae
Hyalinoecia

description: Hyalinoecia Malmgren, 1867 camiguina Grube, 1878: Camiguin, Philippines. MPW 294, ZMB 3311 papillata Imajima, 1999: Tsuchima Strait, Japan. NSMT 377, NSMT 378, NSMT 379
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Using A Microcomputer in the Classroom
Creators: name: Schneeberger, K.C.
name: Osburn, D.D.
name: Reber, E.S.
name: Schneeberger, K.C.
name: Osburn, D.D.
name: Reber, E.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: We have had a microcomputer in Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri for three and one-half years. The micro is used for both teaching and research. Our experiences have been in the area of farm management and finance teaching. The courses we teach are populated with juniors and seniors. We have had assignments on the micro in ag finance two semesters, in farm business analysis two semesters and in farm planning one semester. We started with five programs written to be as user-oriented
Introducing a “Plastic Bag Only” Bin to Reduce Contamination in Compost
Creators: name: Wearmouth, Georgia
name: Zhang, Zeyi
name: Hong, Stella YingYi
name: Jiang, Lizzy
name: Tao, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Plastic contamination in compost is a serious issue that affects not only the composting process, but also natural life and the environment. Though many materials are considered pollution in compost, plastic bags seem to be the most prevalent and concerning, especially at the University of British Columbia and their endeavor to reduce waste and increase diversion (Zero Waste Action Plan, 2014). The present study examined whether the introduction of a bin solely for plastic bags would reduce the number of plastic contaminants in the compost bin. To determine this, two conditions were observed: the control condition with no bin for plastic bags, and the experimental condition in which the bin was implemented, along with a poster, and a sticker that clearly says “No Plastic”. Statistical analyses of the data, collected over 22 days, revealed that there was no significant relationship between the implementation of a plastic bag only bin and the number of contaminants in the food scraps bin. These results demonstrate an increased need for more substantial research toward zero plastic pollution in student residence compost bin. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Research Priorities in Agricultural Marketing: A Perspective from Academia
Creators: name: Bullock, J. Bruce
name: Bullock, J. Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The past decade of evolution in the U. S. Agricultural Marketing system has presented agricultural economists with some interesting and challenging research questions. Unfortunately, we have been unable to answer adequately many of these questions. The following is a list of some of the questions that we have failed to answer (perhaps in some cases even failed to ask). When are markets too thin? Is the market establishing "correct" prices? What type and how much information is required for markets to determine the correct prices? Do market information reports such as the Yellow Sheet and the Urner-Barry Report provide an adequate basis for effective price determination processes? Is the Yellow Sheet manipulated? When are prices unduely enhanced? Would it be socially desirable to restructure the U. S. food processing and retailing industry?
USE AND BENEFITS OF KALMAN FILTERING FOR INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Zavaleta, Luis R.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Zavaleta, Luis R.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Management of natural resources and the optimization of their uses is a complex problem due to the need for an intertemporal solution and because the resource stocks are usually not known with certainty. Cases • such as the stock of water available in a basin, the level of reserves in an oil field, the available stock of fish, the volume of timber inventories in a forest, and the levels of insect density are just a few situations where statistical inference is typically required to estimate stock levels from sample data. Although estimating the levels of the varying kinds of resources may require different sampling techniques, failure to utilize the complete knowledge base available for estimating the stock level results in suboptimal estimates. Furthermore, since estimation is an integral part of the decisionmaking problem, failure to obtain optimal estimates implies an overall solution that is suboptimal. If the view is taken that empirical natural resource problems are stochastic control problems, then the optimal estimate of the resource stocks and the optimal control actions generally must be determined simultaneously as discussed by Aoki.
Kinbergonuphis Fauchald 1982
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Onuphidae
Kinbergonuphis

description: Kinbergonuphis Fauchald, 1982 bathyalis Kirkegaard, 1995: W Philippine Trench. ZMUC 43
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CANCELLING PESTICIDE X USE ON SOYBEANS
Creators: name: Selley, Roger
name: Cory, Dennis
name: Daugherty, Lewis
name: Selley, Roger
name: Cory, Dennis
name: Daugherty, Lewis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: The yield reduction and increase in cost of production due to the cancellation of pesticide X is estimated to result in a 8.39 per cent increase in the price of soybeans. A single product (soybeans) supply-demand model was used to estimate the impact of cancellation. The net impact upon producers is estimated to be a reduction of profits of $106.8 million. The Lake States and the Corn Belt realize an increase in profits while other regions suffer losses. The reduction in consumer welfare is estimated at approximately $1.2 billion for domestic and foreign consumers ($3.55 per capita for U.S. consumers). The implications of the major simplifying assumptions used in the model are discussed briefly.
Gravitation: Global Formulation and Quantum Effects
Creators: name: Aldrovandi, R.
name: Pereira, J. G.
name: Vu, K. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonintegrable phase-factor global approach to gravitation is developed by using the similarity of teleparallel gravity with electromagnetism. The phase shifts of both the COW and the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effects are obtained. It is then shown, by considering a simple slit experiment, that in the classical limit the global approach yields the same result as the gravitational Lorentz force equation of teleparallel gravity. It represents, therefore, the quantum mechanical version of the classical description provided by the gravitational Lorentz force equation. As teleparallel gravity can be formulated independently of the equivalence principle, it will consequently require no generalization of this principle at the quantum level.
description: Latex (IOP style), 14 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
"engagement lokal" : Argumentarium für die Unterstützung lokaler Freiwilligenarbeit
"engagement locale" : argumentaire pour un soutien au bénévolat local
"engagement local" : argomentario per la promozione del volontariato a livello locale
Creators: name: Kaschlik, Anke
name: Kubat, Sonja
Publisher: name: Schweizerische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft SGG
Year: 2023
Subjects: Freiwilligenarbeit
Argumentation
Engagement
Schweiz
361: Sozialarbeit und Sozialhilfe

description: Freiwilliges Engagement erfolgt primär vor Ort: in Gemeinden und Städten, Agglomerationen und Stadtquartieren. Aktuelle Entwicklungen stellen die Gesellschaft
vor neue Herausforderungen. Auf Initiative der SGG, haben deshalb 15 Trägerorganisationen gemeinsam das Pilotprojekt «engagement-lokal» lanciert, aus der Überzeugung, dass es neue Rahmenbedingungen für lokales Engagement braucht. Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden von 2020 bis 2023 zehn Orte der Schweiz, welche die lokale Freiwilligenarbeit entwickeln wollten,
unterstützt. Aus der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Projekts wurden ein Argumentarium entwickelt, welches lokale Akteur:innen insbesondere bei der Suche nach (politischer) Unterstützung hilfreich sein soll.
Monitoring «Zusammenleben und Partizipation» im Rahmen der Integrationsagenda Schweiz
Creators: name: Adili, Kushtrim
name: Brüesch, Nina
name: Gül, Garabet
name: Mey, Eva
name: Streckeisen, Peter
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2025
Subjects: 302: Soziale Interaktion
305: Personengruppen (Alter, Herkunft, Geschlecht, Einkommen)

description: Im Auftrag des Staatssekretariats für Migration SEM.
Diagnostic Decays of the X(3872)
Creators: name: Swanson, Eric S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unusual properties of the X(3872) have led to speculation that it is a weakly bound state of mesons, chiefly $D^0\bar D^{0*}$. Tests of this hypothesis are investigated and it is proposed that measuring the $3πJ/ψ$, $γJ/ψ$, $γψ'$, $\bar K K^*$, and $πρ$ decay modes of the $X$ will serve as a definitive diagnostic of the molecule hypothesis.
description: 6 pages revtex4, 3 eps figures
Estatuto jurídico do nascituro: o direito brasileiro
Creators: name: Chinelato, Silmara Juny De Abreu
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2008

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2008): Verdade, pessoa humana e ordem político-jurídica: Colóquio Internacional em Homenagem a Mário Emílio Bigotte Chorão
ESTIMATED ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CANCELLATION OF A HYPOTHETICAL SOYBEAN PESTICIDE
Creators: name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Collins, Glenn S.
name: Weiler, Edward
name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Collins, Glenn S.
name: Weiler, Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: A regionalized econometric-simulation model (AGSIM) was used to evaluate the economic impacts of canceling the use of pesticide X.1 The model, which was designed specifically to estimate the aggregate economic impacts of policies or programs that change per-acre crop yields and production costs, includes acreage response functions for five major field crops (cotton, soybeans, corn, grain sorghum, and small grains) in each of 13 producing regions (figure 1) in the U.S. Each acreage response function depends on expected per-acre net returns of that crop and any competing crops, thereby allowing logical . derivation of acreage shifts resulting from changes in per-acre yields and production costs. Yield and acreage equations for all crops in a region were estimated as a block of equations using Zellner's procedure for seemingly unrelated regressions. For competing crops in a given region, the symmetry condition was imposed on cross-effects. Signs of all coefficients for own net return coefficients were positive, and all signs of cross net return coefficients were negative.
NFV Platform Design: A Survey
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianzhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) keeps gaining attention from both industry and academia. By replacing the purpose-built, expensive, proprietary network equipment with software network functions consolidated on commodity hardware, NFV envisions a shift towards a more agile and open service provisioning paradigm with much lower capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx). Nonetheless, just like any complex system, NFV platforms commonly consist of abounding software and hardware components and usually incorporate disparate design choices based on distinct motivations or use cases. This broad collection of convoluted alternatives makes it extremely arduous for network operators to make proper choices. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to investigating different aspects of NFV, none of them specifically focused on NFV platforms or attempted to explore the design space. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on NFV platform design. Our study solely targets existing NFV platform implementations. We begin with an architectural view of the standard reference NFV platform and present our taxonomy of existing NFV platforms based on the principal purpose of design. Then we thoroughly explore the design space and elaborate on the implementation choices each platform opts for. We believe that our study gives a detailed guideline for network operators or service providers to choose or implement the most appropriate NFV platforms based on their respective requirements. Note that this report serves as a complementary document for a published IEEE TNSM paper [1]. We will periodically update this document to include the newly proposed NFV platforms and design choices.
description: This report will be updated every six months to include the most up-to-date NFV platforms and design choices, in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Nothria Malmgen 1867
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Onuphidae
Nothria

description: Nothria Malmgen, 1867 willemoesii McIntosh, 1885: Amboina, Indonesia. NHM AN01 1885.12.1.212 (= Sarsonuphis willemoesii fide Fauchald 1982; Paradiopatra willmoesii fide Paxton 1986; = Protodiopatra willemoesii fide Budaeva & Fauchald 2011)
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482