cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Southern Pine Beetle Outbreaks with a Block Bootstrapping Approach
Creators: name: Chen, Xuan
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Chen, Xuan
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Southern Pinebeetle
subject: Block Bootstrapping

description: Our study focuses on modeling southern pine beetle (SPB) outbreaks in the southern area. The approach is to evaluate SPB outbreak frequency in a spatio-temporal framework. A block bootstrapping method with zero-inflated estimation has been proposed to construct a statistical model accounting for explanatory variables while adjusting for spatial and temporal autocorrelation. Although the bootstrap (Efron 1979) method can handle independent observations well, the strong autocorrelation of SPB outbreaks brings about a major challenge. Motivated by bootstrapping overlapping blocks method in autoregressive time series scenario (Kunsch 1989) and block bootstrapping method of dependent data from a spatial map (Hall 1985), we have developed a method to bootstrap overlapping spatio-temporal blocks. By selecting an appropriate block size, the spatial-temporal correlation can be eliminated. The second challenge arises from the fact that the SPB spots distribution has a heavy weight on 0. To accommodate this issue, the zero-inflated models are adopted in the estimation stage. With our saptio-temporal block bootstrapping approach, impacts of environmental factors on SPB outbreaks and implications of pine forest management are assessed. Almost all the explanatory variables, including drought, temperature, forest ecosystem and hurricane, have been detected to have significant impacts. Forestland size and government share of forestland would positively contribute to SPB outbreaks significantly. Meanwhile, our method offers a way to forecast the frequency of future SPB outbreaks, given the current environmental information of a county.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATIONAL TRIPS TO ZOOS IN DEVELOPING FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS AND IMAGINATION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
Creators: name: Ganieva, Shahlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article is devoted to the effectiveness of teaching English and Russian to 5-6 years old children in a trip to the zoo. It is also stated that the use of "main maps" affects positively children's perception of information, the development of their imagination and the formation of "creative thinking" skills.
A data driven analysis and forecast of an SEIARD epidemic model for COVID-19 in Mexico
Creators: name: de León, Ugo Avila-Ponce
name: Pérez, Ángel G. C.
name: Avila-Vales, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose an SEIARD mathematical model to investigate the current outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mexico. We conduct a detailed analysis of this model and demonstrate its application using publicly reported data. We calculate the basic reproduction number ($R_0$) via the next-generation matrix method, and we estimate the per day infection, death and recovery rates. We calibrate the parameters of the SEIARD model to the reported data by minimizing the sum of squared errors and attempt to forecast the evolution of the outbreak until June 2020. Our results estimate that the peak of the epidemic in Mexico will be around May 2, 2020. Our model incorporates the importance of considering the aysmptomatic infected individuals, because they represent the majority of the infected population (with symptoms or not) and they could play a huge role in spreading the virus without any knowledge.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Coccinella luteopicta
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella luteopicta

description: Coccinella luteopicta (Mulsant)
(Figs 50, 51)
Adalia luteopicta Mulsant, 1866: 45 (Type locality: “Les régions boréales des Indes-Orientales”).
Adalia luteopicta: Korschefsky 1932: 433.
Lioadalia luteopicta: Crotch 1874: 104; Mader 1930: 134; Kapur 1958: 326; 1963: 32; Miyatake 1967: 74.
Coccinella luteopicta: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 395; Poorani 2002a: 325; Ren et al. 2009: 186; Yu 2010: 115–116.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.75–5.35 mm; width: 3.48–4.00 mm. Form (Fig. 50a, 51h) elongate, almost oblong oval, moderately convex. Head black, with two pale yellow frontal spots adjoining inner margin of eyes. Pronotum black except anterolateral corners yellow. Elytra bright red, with a characteristic reticulate black pattern. Ventral side black, except elytral epipleura reddish or yellowish brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 50d, e) and spermatheca (Fig. 50c) as illustrated.
Immature stages. Life stages as illustrated in Fig. 51.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand, West Bengal, northern region); Bhutan; Nepal; Tibet; China.
Prey/associated habitat. Predatory on Aphidoidea s.l. including adelgids. Known hosts include Adelges spp., Lipaphis pseudobrassicae (Davis) (laboratory host). Feeds on indeterminate aphids attacking Artemisia sp. which is common in the mountains of Sikkim (2500–3000 m) (Nagarkatti & Ghani 1972). Commonly associated with adelgids on spruce, silver fir, hemlock, Abies / Quercus / Rhododendron forests. As a rule, it is found very high in the mountains (Bielawski 1979). Collected on apple and radish (Sharma et al. 2017).
Seasonal occurrence. Active during May–June. Collected during April–May, August–November (northern and northeastern regions of India, Nepal Himalayas).
Natural enemy. Bathymermis sp.
Notes. Nagarkatti & Ghani (1972) studied its biology in detail and described the life stages with illustrations. Kapur (1958) recorded the elytral pattern variations from Nepal. Miyatake (1967) and Bielawski (1971) described and illustrated the male genitalia. Yu (2010) recorded it from China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 1 of Hospitalization and mortality following non-attendance for hemodialysis according to dialysis day of the week: a European cohort study
Creators: name: Fotheringham, James
name: Smith, Michael T.
name: Froissart, Marc
name: Kronenberg, Florian
name: Stenvinkel, Peter
name: Floege, Jürgen
name: Kai-Uwe Eckardt
name: Wheeler, David C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Country specific non-attendance rates according to session of the dialysis week; Comparison of hazard associated with non-compliance according to dialysis day of the week based on primary analysis, with established changes in dialysis schedules excluded, and censoring at first rearranged dialysis session; statistical justification for summing across days. Figures showing sensitivity analyses outline in main text, methods.
Incentive Design to Enhance the Reach of Weight Loss Program
Creators: name: You, Wen
name: Hashemi, Ali
name: Boyle, Kevin J.
name: Parmeter, Christopher F.
name: Kanninen, Barbara
name: Estabrooks, Paul A.
name: You, Wen
name: Hashemi, Ali
name: Boyle, Kevin J.
name: Parmeter, Christopher F.
name: Kanninen, Barbara
name: Estabrooks, Paul A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Incentives
subject: Program Reach
subject: Random Parameter Logit

description: This study employed stated-preference methods to elicit individuals’ program participation preference towards different financial incentive attributes. The results of this study show promise for the use of carefully designed incentive programs to raise participation in weight loss programs. Results show that a fungible payment form is important for the incentive to be effective in reach (i.e., cash and grocery gift-cards are preferred over gym passes and waivers of insurance co-payments). Furthermore, immediate payment is preferred over delayed payment.
Newly discovered $Ξ_c^{0}$ resonances and their parameters
Creators: name: Agaev, S. S.
name: Azizi, K.
name: Sundu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of the present article is investigation of the newly observed resonances $Ξ_c(2923)^{0}$, $Ξ_c(2939)^{0}$, and $Ξ_c(2965)^{0}$ which are real candidates to charm-strange baryons. To this end, we calculate the mass and pole residue of the ground-state and excited $1P$ and $2S$ spin-$% 1/2 $ flavor-sextet baryons $Ξ_{c}^{\prime 0}$, $Ξ_{c}^{\prime 0}(1/2^{-})$ and $Ξ_{c}^{\prime 0}(1/2^{+})$ with quark content $csd$, respectively. The masses and pole residues of the ground-state and excited spin-$3/2$ baryons $Ξ_{c}^{\star 0}$ are found as well. Spectroscopic parameters of these particles are computed in the context of the QCD two-point sum rule method. Widths of the excited baryons are evaluated through their decays to final states $Λ_{c}^{+}K^{-}$ and $% Ξ_{c}^{\prime 0}π$. These processes are explored by means of the full QCD light-cone sum rule method necessary to determine strong couplings at relevant vertices. Obtained predictions for the masses and widths of the four excited baryons, as well as previous results for $1P$ and $2S$ flavor-antitriplet spin-1/2 particles $Ξ_c^{0}$ are confronted with available experimental data on $Ξ_{c}^{0}$ resonances to fix their quantum numbers. Our comparison demonstrates that the resonances $Ξ_c(2923)^{0}$ and $Ξ_c(2939)^{0}$ can be considered as $1P$ excitations of the spin-$1/2$ flavor-sextet and spin-$3/2$ baryons, respectively. The resonance $Ξ_{c}(2965)^{0}$ may be interpreted as the excited $2S$ state of either spin-$% 1/2$ flavor-sextet or antitriplet baryon.
description: 15 Pages, 4 Figures and 2 Tables
Help students to think outside the box with entrepreneurship education in the Colleges of Agriculture
Creators: name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: College of Agriculture
subject: Entrepreneurship Education
subject: Curriculum Development

description: This paper presents a sample road map of creating and implementing a successful entrepreneurship curriculum in the College of Agriculture.
Holography for the Lorentz Group Racah Coefficients
Creators: name: Krasnov, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A known realization of the Lorentz group Racah coefficients is given by an integral of a product of 6 ``propagators'' over 4 copies of the hyperbolic space. These are ``bulk-to-bulk'' propagators in that they are functions of two points in the hyperbolic space. It is known that the bulk-to-bulk propagator can be constructed out of two bulk-to-boundary ones. We point out that there is another way to obtain the same object. Namely, one can use two bulk-to-boundary and one boundary-to-boundary propagator. Starting from this construction and carrying out the bulk integrals we obtain a realization of the Racah coefficients that is ``holographic'' in the sense that it only involves boundary objects. This holographic realization admits a geometric interpretation in terms of an ``extended'' tetrahedron.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes; v3: "extended" tetrahedron interpretation added
Distinguishing Bipartitite Orthogonal States using LOCC: Best and Worst Cases
Creators: name: Nathanson, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two types of results are presented for distinguishing pure bipartite quantum states using Local Operations and Classical Communications. We examine sets of states that can be perfectly distinguished, in particular showing that any three orthogonal maximally entangled states in C^3 tensor C^3 form such a set. In cases where orthogonal states cannot be distinguished, we obtain upper bounds for the probability of error using LOCC taken over all sets of k orthogonal states in C^n tensor C^m. In the process of proving these bounds, we identify some sets of orthogonal states for which perfect distinguishability is not possible.
description: 22 pages, published version. Some proofs rewritten for clarity
Consumer Support for Food Tracing with RFID Technology
Creators: name: Larson, Ronald B.
name: Rana, Kulmani
name: Larson, Ronald B.
name: Rana, Kulmani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Food Traceability
subject: RFID technology
subject: Consumer Survey
subject: Meat Tracing
subject: Produce Tracing

description: Foodborne illness continues to be a significant problem and food traceability may help reduce the number and severity of outbreaks. One technology that could improve food tracing is radio frequency identification tags or RFID. However, some consumers may oppose the use of this technology because of its potential for reducing personal privacy. A survey of consumers asked about their support for an RFID tracing system for produce and for meat. Results suggest that some consumer privacy attitudes and privacy behaviors were negatively related to support for RFID tracing. Proponents of traceability with RFID may need to spend more time explaining the technology to consumers to reduce their concerns and anxieties. In addition, the results for produce tracing and meat tracing were different, suggesting that consumer support for food traceability may vary by product category.
Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices
Creators: name: Li, Ying
name: Li, Wei
name: Han, Tiancheng
name: Zheng, Xu
name: Li, Jiaxin
name: Li, Baowen
name: Fan, Shanhui
name: Qiu, Cheng-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has triggered fast development of emerging fields including conductive thermal metamaterials, nanophononics, far-field and near-field radiative thermal management, etc. In this review, we cast a unified perspective on the control of heat transfer, based on which the related studies can be considered as complementary paradigms toward manipulating physical parameters and realizing unprecedented phenomena in heat transfer using artificial structures, such as thermal conductivity in heat conduction, thermal emissivity in radiation, and properties related to multi-physical effects. The review is divided into three parts that focus on the three main categories of heat flow control, respectively. Thermal conduction and radiation are emphasized in the first and second parts at both macro- and micro-scale. The third part discusses the efforts to actively introduce heat sources or tune the material parameters with multi-physical effects in both conduction and radiation, including works using thermal convection. We conclude the review with challenges in this research topic and new possibilities about topological thermal effects, heat waves, and quantum thermal effects.
description: 36 pages, 5 figures
title: A Low-Complexity Model-Free Approach for Real-Time Cardiac Anomaly Detection Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis and Nonparametric Control Charts
Creators: name: Lang, Michael
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: While the importance of continuous monitoring of electrocardiographic (ECG) or photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals to detect cardiac anomalies is generally accepted in preventative medicine, there remain numerous challenges to its widespread adoption. Most notably, difficulties arise regarding crucial characteristics such as real-time capability, computational complexity, the amount of required training data, and the avoidance of too-restrictive modeling assumptions. We propose a lightweight and model-free approach for the online detection of cardiac anomalies such as ectopic beats in ECG or PPG signals on the basis of the change detection capabilities of singular spectrum analysis (SSA) and nonparametric rank-based cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charts. The procedure is able to quickly detect anomalies without requiring the identification of fiducial points such as R-peaks, and it is computationally significantly less demanding than previously proposed SSA-based approaches. Therefore, the proposed procedure is equally well suited for standalone use and as an add-on to complement existing (e.g., heart rate (HR) estimation) procedures.
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme design in rural Tanzania: Famers’ preferences for enforcement and payment options
Creators: name: Kaczan, David
name: Swallow, Brent M.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Kaczan, David
name: Swallow, Brent M.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: choice experiments
subject: payment for ecosystem services
subject: conditionality
subject: willingness to accept
subject: Tanzania
subject: biodiversity

description: The forests of the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, are internationally recognized as one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems. However, despite past conservation efforts they face an ongoing threat from clearing for smallholder agriculture. One potential solution is a „payments for ecosystem services' (PES) program, where farmers are paid to protect forest that lies on their farms. To determine the design of PES program most likely to attract participation, careful documentation of farmer's policy preferences is required. We quantify these preferences and determine willingness to accept values using a choice experiment approach. Notable results are that payment for manure fertilizer (representing an investment in farm productivity) was highly effective at motivating farmer support, a group payment was highly ineffective, and that minimal program conditionality was not always preferred.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 09/27/11.
VINTERGATAN III: how to reset the metallicity of the Milky Way
Creators: name: Renaud, Florent
name: Agertz, Oscar
name: Andersson, Eric P.
name: Read, Justin I.
name: Ryde, Nils
name: Bensby, Thomas
name: Rey, Martin P.
name: Feuillet, Diane K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the cosmological zoom simulation VINTERGATAN, we present a new scenario for the onset of star formation at the metal-poor end of the low-[$α$/Fe] sequence in a Milky Way-like galaxy. In this scenario, the galaxy is fueled by two distinct gas flows. One is enriched by outflows from massive galaxies, but not the other. While the former feeds the inner galactic region, the latter fuels an outer gas disk, inclined with respect to the main galactic plane, and with a significantly poorer chemical content. The first passage of the last major merger galaxy triggers tidal compression in the outer disk, which increases the gas density and eventually leads to star formation, at a metallicity 0.75 dex lower than the inner galaxy. This forms the first stars of the low-[$α$/Fe] sequence. These in situ stars have halo-like kinematics, similarly to what is observed in the Milky Way, due to the inclination of the outer disk which eventually aligns with the inner one via gravitational torques. We show that this tilting disk scenario is likely to be common in Milky-Way like galaxies. This process implies that the low-[$α$/Fe] sequence is populated in situ, simultaneously from two formation channels, in the inner and the outer galaxy, with distinct metallicities. This contrasts with purely sequential scenarios for the assembly of the Milky Way disk and could be tested observationally.
description: MNRAS in press. Movies available at http://www.astro.lu.se/~florent/vintergatan.php
Analysis of Left Truncated and Right Censored Competing Risks Data
Creators: name: Kundu, Debasis
name: Mitra, Debanjan
name: Ganguly, Ayon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, the analysis of left truncated and right censored competing risks data is carried out, under the assumption of the latent failure times model. It is assumed that there are two competing causes of failures, although most of the results can be extended for more than two causes of failures. The lifetimes corresponding to the competing causes of failures are assumed to follow Weibull distributions with the same shape parameter but different scale parameters. The maximum likelihood estimation procedure of the model parameters is discussed, and confidence intervals are provided using the bootstrap approach. When the common shape parameter is known, the maximum likelihood estimators of the scale parameters can be obtained in explicit forms, and when it is unknown we provide a simple iterative procedure to compute the maximum likelihood estimator of the shape parameter. The Bayes estimates and the associated credible intervals of unknown parameters are also addressed under a very flexible set of priors on the shape and scale parameters. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare the performances of the different methods. A numerical example is provided for illustrative purposes. Finally the results have been extended when the two competing causes of failures are assumed to be independent Weibull distributions with different shape parameters.
A hunger for freedom, a wall of separation : migrant votive images
Creators: name: Olivares, Cecilia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Recent studies have examined the importance of the aesthetic qualities of border ex votos; nonetheless they represent much more than tradition, they are lived narratives of the dayto- day happenings during migrants' perilously journey north. This study explores the potential of popular religious art as a category to investigate diversity and dynamic representational strategies. Through border ex votos I expand the sociological study of migration depicted on border ex votos to encompass religious variables. Moreover, this research deepens the inquiry into migrants and religion through contemporary border research of which this thesis focuses on two related issues: one is that much of the religious practices in regions of Mexico from where migrants originate, in particular San Juan de los Lagos, can be traced through migrants who have brought or sent back religious and symbolic ex votos. The other issue is that the religious cartography of the borderlands (broadly and creatively defined) is largely a product of migration and migrating people. Furthermore, the extensive devotional piety of Mexican migrants includes diverse ritual and devotional practices. Therefore, I explore some possible relations that can be forged among visual piety portrayed in ex votos, movies and photographs. In addition I show how the narrative conventions of popular religion have become a fascinating subject in cinema and literature.
Additional file 1 of Collapsing the list of myocardial infarction-related differentially expressed genes into a diagnostic signature
Creators: name: Osmak, German
name: Baulina, Natalia
name: Koshkin, Philipp
name: Favorova, Olga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The differentially expressed genes identified in PBMC of MI patients when compared to healthy individuals. Figure S1. Correlation matrix plot of the expression levels of gene MIR21 and target genes of this miRNA. Figure S2. Correlation matrix plot of the expression levels of gene MIR223 and target gene MAFB of this miRNA. Figure S3. Correlation matrix plot of the expression levels of differentially expressed genes from “Neutrophil degranulation” Reactome set. Figure S4. Correlation matrix plot of the expression levels of differentially expressed genes from “Cytokine Signaling in Immune system” Reactome set and of MIR21 and target genes of this miRNA. Figure S5. Correlation matrix plot of the expression levels of differentially expressed genes from “Immunoregulatory interactions between a Lymphoid and a non-Lymphoid cell” Reactome set.
How Farmers Bid Into the Conservation Reserve Program: An Empirical Analysis of CRP Offers Data
Creators: name: Jacobs, Keri L.
name: Thurman, Walter N.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Jacobs, Keri L.
name: Thurman, Walter N.
name: Marra, Michele C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/19/11.
Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Inter-Client Consistency & Disjoint Learning
Creators: name: Jeong, Wonyong
name: Yoon, Jaehong
name: Yang, Eunho
name: Hwang, Sung Ju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While existing federated learning approaches mostly require that clients have fully-labeled data to train on, in realistic settings, data obtained at the client-side often comes without any accompanying labels. Such deficiency of labels may result from either high labeling cost, or difficulty of annotation due to the requirement of expert knowledge. Thus the private data at each client may be either partly labeled, or completely unlabeled with labeled data being available only at the server, which leads us to a new practical federated learning problem, namely Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL). In this work, we study two essential scenarios of FSSL based on the location of the labeled data. The first scenario considers a conventional case where clients have both labeled and unlabeled data (labels-at-client), and the second scenario considers a more challenging case, where the labeled data is only available at the server (labels-at-server). We then propose a novel method to tackle the problems, which we refer to as Federated Matching (FedMatch). FedMatch improves upon naive combinations of federated learning and semi-supervised learning approaches with a new inter-client consistency loss and decomposition of the parameters for disjoint learning on labeled and unlabeled data. Through extensive experimental validation of our method in the two different scenarios, we show that our method outperforms both local semi-supervised learning and baselines which naively combine federated learning with semi-supervised learning. The code is available at https://github.com/wyjeong/FedMatch.
[FAIR Impact Roadshow Romania] Open Science and FAIR support at national level
Creators: name: Irimia, Alina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Science
FAIR
EOSC
GraspOS

description: Slides from the presentation "Open Science and FAIR support at national level" at the FAIR Impact Roadshow in Romania - Collaborative FAIR Data Practices & Tools on 8 October 2024.
Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella magnopunctata

description: Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow
(Fig. 52)
Coccinella undecimpunctata var. magnopunctata Rybakow, 1889: 290 (Type locality: Central Asia: “ Dy-Tschu ”); Weise 1889: 573.
Coccinella semenowi Weise, 1889: 651; Jacobson 1915: 982.
Coccinella magnopunctata: Dobzhansky 1926: 22; Korschefsky 1932: 469; Kapur 1963: 33; Poorani 2002a: 326; Kovář 2005: 143; Ren et al. 2009: 188.
Coccinella magnoguttata Mader, 1930 in Mader 1926 – 1937: 152 (misspelling).
Coccinella (s. str.) magnopunctata: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 67; 1982: 363.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.50–7.00 mm. Body oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous (Fig. 52). Head black, eye canthus and two large trapezoidal frontal spots yellow-white, isolated, rarely touching orbits or narrowly interconnected by canthus. Pronotum black, anterolateral corners with small narrowly triangular, more or less broken ochraceous-white spots, both narrowly interconnected at anterior margin. Scutellar shield black. Elytra orange-red with 11 black spots, one scutellar, the rest arranged in a 1-1-1-2 pattern as illustrated, scutellar spot large, somewhat inverted heart-shaped. Underside black, propleura with small crescent-shaped, pale ochraceous spot at anterior corners, elytral epipleura red-orange, mesepimeron white-yellow, metepimeron partly brown. Legs black, anterior face of fore coxae with large pale ochraceous spot in male (Modified from Kovář 2005).
Distribution. Northwestern India (Kashmir); Nepal; China; Tibet; Mongolia; Russia; Iran (Kovář 2005).
Notes: For detailed redescription and genitalia illustrations, see Kovář (2005). Also illustrated by Ren et al. (2009).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Relationship between Spatial Price Transmission and Geographical Distance in Brazil
Creators: name: Hernandez-Villafuerte, Karla Vanessa
name: Hernandez-Villafuerte, Karla Vanessa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: cointegration
subject: price transmission
subject: geographical distance
subject: structural breaks
subject: principal component regression
subject: rice
subject: Brazil.

description: The price transmission between markets is often interpreted as providing insights into the market’s infrastructure efficiency and transaction costs. Thus, finding a possible explanation for the degree of integration has become an issue of special interest. Recent researchers have pointed out the distance between markets as one of the possible factors. However, the distance is closely related with other elements, such as road quality and the proximity to an export point, which affect transport costs, opportunity costs and thus the integration. Therefore, what the most important factor is when determining the relationship among markets remains unclear. The cointegration framework, OLS and principal component regressions are applied in order to investigate the influence of geographical distance on the cointegration relationship between Brazil`s rice markets. In response to changes of the agricultural policies during the period of investigation, the presence of multiple structural breaks in the long run equation is allowed. The results point out a weak, negative and significant relation between distance and the elasticity of cointegration. Moreover, the region in which the market is located and a better access to export points are the main variables which defined the strength of the price transmission.
description: Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2011 AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 24-26, 2011. (Poster Presentation)
Additional file 1 of Shifting care from hospital to community, a strategy to integrate care in Singapore: process evaluation of implementation fidelity
Creators: name: Nurjono, Milawaty
name: Pami Shrestha
name: Ang, Ian Yi Han
name: Shiraz, Farah
name: Eh, Ke Xin
name: Sue-Anne Ee Shiow Toh
name: Vrijhoef, Hubertus Johannes Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Topic Guide for Interviews.
Statistical stability indices for LIME: obtaining reliable explanations for Machine Learning models
Creators: name: Visani, Giorgio
name: Bagli, Enrico
name: Chesani, Federico
name: Poluzzi, Alessandro
name: Capuzzo, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays we are witnessing a transformation of the business processes towards a more computation driven approach. The ever increasing usage of Machine Learning techniques is the clearest example of such trend. This sort of revolution is often providing advantages, such as an increase in prediction accuracy and a reduced time to obtain the results. However, these methods present a major drawback: it is very difficult to understand on what grounds the algorithm took the decision. To address this issue we consider the LIME method. We give a general background on LIME then, we focus on the stability issue: employing the method repeated times, under the same conditions, may yield to different explanations. Two complementary indices are proposed, to measure LIME stability. It is important for the practitioner to be aware of the issue, as well as to have a tool for spotting it. Stability guarantees LIME explanations to be reliable, therefore a stability assessment, made through the proposed indices, is crucial. As a case study, we apply both Machine Learning and classical statistical techniques to Credit Risk data. We test LIME on the Machine Learning algorithm and check its stability. Eventually, we examine the goodness of the explanations returned.
OʻZBEKISTONDA AXBOROT XAVFSIZLIGI VA KIBERXURUJLARNING OLDINI OLISHGA DOIR DAVLAT SIYOSATI
Creators: name: Jabborov, Ziyo
name: Jabborova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Axborot xavfsizligi va kiberxurujlarning oldini olish masalalari global miqyosda dolzarb muammo boʻlib, Oʻzbekiston ham ushbu tahdidlarga qarshi kurashda faol siyosat yuritmoqda. Ushbu tezisda Oʻzbekiston Respublikasining axborot xavfsizligi sohasidagi davlat siyosati va normativ-huquqiy asoslari tahlil qilinadi. Tezisda Oʻzbekiston hukumati tomonidan kiberxurujlarga qarshi kurashish bo‘yicha qabul qilingan chora-tadbirlar, strategiyalar va texnologik yangiliklar ko‘rib chiqiladi. Shuningdek, xalqaro tajribalar asosida milliy axborot tizimlarini himoya qilishda samarali usullar taklif etiladi. Ushbu siyosatning maqsadi davlat va jamoat manfaatlarini himoya qilish, davlat boshqaruvi va fuqarolar axborot tizimlarining barqaror va xavfsiz ishlashini taʼminlashdir.
Directional Anisotropy of the Vibrational Modes in 2D Layered Perovskites
Creators: name: Dhanabalan, Balaji
name: Leng, Yu-Chen
name: Biffi, Giulia
name: Lin, Miao-Ling
name: Tan, Ping-Heng
name: Infante, Ivan
name: Manna, Liberato
name: Arciniegas, Milena P.
name: Krahne, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vibrational modes in organic/inorganic layered perovskites are of fundamental importance for their optoelectronic properties. The hierarchical architecture of the Ruddlesden-Popper phase of these materials allows for distinct directionality of the vibrational modes withrespect to the main axes of the pseudocubic lattice in the octahedral plane. Here, we study the directionality of the fundamental phonon modes in single exfoliated Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite flakes with polarized Raman spectroscopy at ultralow-frequencies. A wealth of Raman bands is distinguished in the range from 15-150 cm-1 (2-15 meV), whose features depend on the organic cation species, on temperature, and on the direction of the linear polarization of the incident light. By controlling the angle of the linear polarization of the excitation laser with respect to the in-plane axes of the octahedral layer, we gain detailed information on the symmetry of the vibrational modes. The choice of two different organic moieties, phenethylammonium (PEA) and butylammonium (BA) allows to discern the influence of the linker molecules, evidencing strong anisotropy of the vibrations for the (PEA)2PbBr4 samples. Temperature dependent Raman measurements reveal that the broad phonon bands observed at room temperature consist of a series of sharp modes, and that such mode splitting strongly differs for the different organic moieties and vibrational bands.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Modernization using the structured system design of the Bhadra Reservoir Project, India: An intervention analysis
Creators: name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Thiruvengadachari, S.
name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Thiruvengadachari, S.
name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Performance evaluation
subject: Irrigation programs
subject: Modernization
subject: Participatory management
subject: Farmer participation
subject: Farmer-agency interactions
subject: Farmers' attitudes
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Rice
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Water distribution
subject: Water supply
subject: Productivity
subject: India
subject: Bhadra Project

description: Evaluates the performance of the Bhadra Reservoir Project-before, during, and after the introduction of modernization with structured system design. Analysis focuses on water management, agricultural productivity, and farmer participation and perception. Identifies the absence of a continuing support mechanism and lack of farmer participation as the major causes for the project's decline.
Collaborative supply chain initiatives as devices to cope with income variability in the Scottish red meat sector
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Security and Poverty
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether collaborative supply chain initiatives may help to provide income stability for farmers, focussing the analysis on the red meat supply chain in Scotland. Collaborative supply chains may contribute with two elements to attain higher income instability: first, greater demand stability and market access, and second, less variability in the price received for carcasses, as the produced output fits better the required specifications (i.e., no lost premia). The analysis of a survey applied to Scottish red meat producers showed that farmers that are part of a producers’ club do not differ from other farmers in their perception of marketing problems (e.g., price stability, etc.). However, in terms of their marketing aims, at least for beef producers, they seem to be more satisfied than farmers selling through auctions. An in-depth case study of a producers’ club in Scotland showed that farmers within the club are heterogeneous, not all of them taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the club in terms of improving the quality of their output and targeting better the required specifications, which creates potential to attain more stable income
A novel genotyping algorithm for the CYP2D6*10 allele in Asians using real-time, rapid-cycle PCR and multiplex PCR
Creators: name: Kwong, Evan Holden
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Purpose: The CYP2D6*10 allele (C188T) is common among Asians and is associated with decreased metabolism of various CYP2D6 substrates. Based on reported allele frequencies among Asians, to accurately genotype patients for CYP2D6*10, it is necessary to rule out CYP2D6H (C188T, G1934A) and CYP2D6*5 (gene deletion) before inferring the presence of CYP2D6*wt (CYP2D6*1 or CYP2D6*2; C at position 188). The objectives of this project were to develop and validate genotyping methods for detecting the C188T and G1934A single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and CYP2D6*5, to use these methods to genotype Asian subjects from a pilot clinical study, and to devise a genotyping algorithm for CYP2D6*10 in Asians. Methods: Long PCR was used to amplify the CYP2D6 gene. Nested real-time, rapidcycle polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods for detecting the C188T and G1934A SNPs were developed and validated by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and sequence analyses of reference samples with genotypes CYP2D6*1/*1, CYP2D6*l/*4, and CYP2D6*4/*4. A multiplex PCR method for detecting CYP2D6*5 using published primer sequences was optimized and validated by analyzing reference samples with genotypes CYP2D6*1/*1, CYP2D6*l/*5, CYP2D6*5/*5. These methods were used to genotype Asian subjects from a pilot clinical study. Results: C188T and G1934A genotyping results using nested real-time, rapid-cycle PCR were consistent with results from RFLP and sequence analyses, as well as the genotypes of the reference samples. CYP2D6*5 genotyping results were also in agreement with the genotypes of the reference samples. CYP2D6 genotype frequencies were determined in 36 Asian subjects: CYP2D6*10/*10 (50.0%; n=18), CYP2D6*wt/*10 (33.3%; n=12), CYP2D6*wt/*wt (11.1%; n=4), and CYP2D6*wt/*5 (5.6%; n=2). Conclusions: The novel genotyping algorithm for identifying Asian patients with the CYP2D6*wt/*wt, CYP2D6*wt/*10, and CYP2D6*10/*10 genotypes involves the use of: 1) long PCR to amplify the CYP2D6 gene; 2) nested real-time, rapid-cycle PCR to detect the C188T SNP (CYP2D6*10 or CYP2D6*4); 3) nested real-time, rapid-cycle PCR to detect the G1934A SNP (CYP2D6*4) in those carrying a C188T SNP; and 4) multiplex PCR to detect CYP2D6*5 in those who appear homozygous for C at 188 (CYP2D6*wt/wt or CYP2D6*wt/*5) or T at 188 (CYP2D6*10/*10 or CYP2D6*10/*5). This algorithm can be used in future clinical studies that require genotyping Asians with respect to CYP2D6*10.
Coccinella marussii Kapur
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella marussii

description: Coccinella marussii Kapur
Coccinella marussii Kapur, 1973: 374 (Holotype female, Trieste; Type locality: Karakoram range / Stak Valley); Poorani 2002a: 326; Kovář 2005: 132.
Kapur (1973) described it based on a single female specimen from the Karakoram range. He found it to be “moderately convex and smaller in size but otherwise similar to Coccinella septempunctata ”. Kovář (2005) included it in the transversoguttata species group.
Distribution: A rare species with a limited distribution restricted to parts of northwestern India (Kashmir), northernmost Pakistan and the Karakoram range (Kapur 1973; Kovář 2005).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 1 of A blood RNA transcript signature for TB exposure in household contacts
Creators: name: Kwan, Philip Kam Weng
name: Balamurugan Periaswamy
name: Sessions, Paola Florez De
name: Wenwei Lin
name: Molton, James S.
name: Naftalin, Claire M.
name: Naim, Ahmad Nazri Mohamed
name: Hibberd, Martin L.
name: Paton, Nicholas I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Figure 1. Panel A: Comparison of the 186 differentially expressed genes in contacts with 792 genes differentially expressed genes in patients with active TB (both compared to healthy controls) yielded 141 overlap genes. Panel B: Log2fold change expression values of the 141 overlap genes for Contacts and active TB (Wilcoxon signed rank test p 1 or
Coccinella tibetina Kapur
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coccinella
Coccinella tibetina

description: Coccinella tibetina Kapur
(Fig. 53b)
Coccinella tibetina Kapur, 1963: 34 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Tibet).
Diagnosis. Length: 5.40–5.80 mm; width: 4.20–4.40 mm; form subovate, moderately convex, more or less like C. magnopunctata Rybakow in outline. Head black with a pair of pale testaceous frontal spots, one on either side of inner margin of eye; pronotum black with a pale testaceous, subquadrate, posteriorly emarginate spot at each anterior angle; scutellar shield black; elytra testaceous, one large, subquadrate to diamond-shaped black macula behind scutellar shield, each elytron with three black maculae, one lateral macula in line with the sutural spot, one transverse oval about midline and one transverse, roughly crescent shaped macula in the apical one-third (from Kapur 1963). Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. Tibet, Mount Everest.
Note. See Kapur (1963) for detailed description with illustrations. It is included here in view of the likelihood of its occurrence in the Himalayan range in the Indian Subcontinent also.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 87-88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502