cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating vector navigation in green turtles migrating in a dynamic oceanic environment
Creators: name: Cerritelli, Giulia
name: Benhamou, Simon
name: Luschi, Paolo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: It has been proposed that animals migrating towards a specific destination may rely on vector navigation by maintaining a direction for a certain amount of time. In sea turtles, reliance on this strategy has been proposed especially for migrations directed towards wide targets and carried out in weak sea current flows. In the present study we tested if vector navigation could also be a feasible strategy for turtles facing dynamic oceanographic conditions by considering the case of green turtles nesting in the Comoros archipelago and migrating to their foraging grounds along the African coast. To test this hypothesis, we firstly analysed the turtles’ actual headings estimated considering the currents encountered by migrating turtles along the open sea segment of their routes. We then run individual-based models to simulate the journeys of turtles migrating in the area while relying on a vector or a true navigation strategy, and reconstructed the turtle’s water-related, i.e. motor paths, by removing the drifting effect of sea currents. Tracked turtles did not show any major change in their headings and mostly oriented towards the foraging area. While simulations did not provide homogeneous results, the turtle orientation efficiency estimated from motor paths showed that they possibly relied on a vector rather than a true navigation strategy. The present results suggest that vector navigation is a viable strategy to account for the migratory performances recorded in turtles migrating in dynamic oceanographic conditions, even if the involvement of the more sophisticated true navigation mechanism cannot be completely excluded.
Integer and half-integer channel spins for elastic scattering cross sections
Creators: name: Tkachenko, A. S.
name: Kezerashvili, R. Ya.
name: Burkova, N. A.
name: Dubovichenko, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analytical expressions for the differential cross sections and independent partial amplitudes for elastic scattering of nuclear particles for channels with a spin value of 1/2, 1, 3/2, 2 and 5/2. The independent partial amplitudes are presented for arbitrary orbital angular momentum $l$ and taking into account spin-orbit splitting. The analytical expressions allow one to carry out full phase shift analyses using experimental data for differential cross sections for processes with channel spins 1/2, 1, 3/2, 2 and 5/2.
description: 33 pages
Satyavatī's Historical Mix-up 06 Oct 19
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: This complex relationship between the brāmhaṇ and the kṣatrīya is what is reflected in the interesting legend of Satyavatī, the sister of Viśvāmitr, the king who became a brāmhaṇ sage. According to Viśṇu Purāṇ, Satyavatī was a kṣatrīya who married an old bhṛgubrāmhaṇ named Ricīka. Bhṛgubrāmhaṇ or bhārgav are supposed to be the descendants of mahāṛṣi Bhṛgu, who was one of the seven great sages, the brāmhaṛṣi, in Brāmhaṛṣidēś. Brāmhaṛṣidēś was the sanctum sanctorum of the Kuru - Pañcāl brāmhaṇ, ‘the land of spotless spiritual pre-eminence’ and ‘where the black antelope roams free’ (Vasiṣṭha Dharma Sūtra, 1. 14-15); and brāmhaṛṣi were the ultimate experts of religion and spiritual knowledge, often considered by purāṇ to be at par with the dēv in power and piety. Bhrigu, Angiras, Atri, Viśvamitr, Kaśyap, Vasiṣṭh and Shandilya were the seven brāmhaṛṣi. Shorn of its metaphor, this means that after occupying the Kuru-Pañcāl, the brāmhaṇ made Brāmhaṛṣidēś their base; they felt secure and free there, therefore ‘where the black antelope roams free’. As Kramrisch puts it, here they felt safe and free to perform the agni and soma sacrifices; earlier, as they moved eastwards, they felt physically insecure and intellectually threatened by the ‘unholy’ influence of the eastern culture of ātmavidyā and ahiṁsā. [Kramrisch, 1981 : The Presence of Siva, 338] The brāmhaṛṣi were the descendats of the pure ‘brāmhaṇ’ who had come down from the steppes, unpolluted by the kṣatrīya blood and culture. Here seems to have begun the project of creating ‘mighty Kshatriya bowmen and great charioteers wedded to virtue from the seed of Brahmanas’. That is why they are called the prajāpati – the lords of creation. Fitzgerald calls it “the generative primacy of brahmins over kṣatriyas”. [Fitzgerald, : The Rāma Jāmadagnya 'Thread' of the Mahābhārata - A new survey of Rāma Jāmadagnya in the Pune Text, in , 95] Almost two thousand years before the Iberian conquistadores in Asia and America thought of it, here was the ingenious strategy of creating ‘a race that would be forever loyal, being bound by blood’. [Rodrigues, 2018 : Souls , Spices and Sex – The Struggle for European Ascendancy in Portuguese India - 1510–1961]
QCD, Wick's Theorem for KdV $τ$-functions and the String Equation
Creators: name: Braden, H. W.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two consistency conditions for partition functions established by Akemann and Dam-gaard in their studies of the fermionic mass dependence of the QCD partition function at low energy ({\it a la} Leutwiller-Smilga-Verbaarschot) are interpreted in terms of integrable hierarchies. Their algebraic relation is shown to be a consequence of Wick's theorem for 2d fermionic correlators (Hirota identities) in the special case of the 2-reductions of the KP hierarchy (that is KdV/mKdV). The consistency condition involving derivatives is an incarnation of the string equation associated with the particular matrix model (the particular kind of the Kac-Schwarz operator).
description: 7 pages LaTex. Corrections to grant numbers only for administering bureaucrats
Illuminating the nightlife of two Neotropical nightjars: vocal behavior over a year and monitoring recommendations
Creators: name: Pérez-Granados, Cristian
name: Karl-L. Schuchmann
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The ecology of tropical wildlife remains unknown for most nocturnal species owing to difficulties in performing night surveys. To improve our understanding of the ecology of nocturnal tropical birds, we monitored the calling activity of two Neotropical nightjars, the Little nightjar (Setopagis parvula) and the Common pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis), over an annual cycle at four sites in the Brazilian Pantanal. The calling activity of both species was restricted to the nocturnal period and showed peaks of activity just before dawn and just after dusk. The Little nightjar was detected from early June to late January owing to the migratory habits of the species, while the Pauraque was detected throughout the year. Our results suggest that the breeding season of both species starts in August, and the nesting phase probably takes place in September at the end of the dry season. This might be related to the typical increase in arthropod abundance after the first rains in tropical habitats with seasonal rainfall. Future surveys of these species should be performed in the last fortnight of August at 5 am, a period during which the calling activity of both nightjars was maximum. Autonomous sound recorders should be left in the field for a minimum of 9 days to record a reliable vocal activity rate. Acoustic monitoring, coupled with automated signal recognition, has proven to be a useful tool for monitoring tropical nightjars and may be useful to increase our knowledge about the ecology of other nocturnal tropical species.
Hylephila Rondani 1877
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Hylephila

description: 263. Hylephila Rondani, 1877c: 13, 233.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca buccata Fallén, 1824; Hylephila melitensis Rondani, 1877; Hylephila inflata Rondani, 1877.
 TYPE SPECIES: Musca buccata Fallén, 1824 [= Leucophora sericea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830], by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Billberg, 1820; junior synonym of Leucophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [teste Dely-Draskovits (1993: 69)].
FAMILY: ANTHOMYIIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 99
Fluctuation-Dissipation relation from anomalous stress tensor and Hawking effect
Creators: name: Banerjee, Rabin
name: Majhi, Bibhas Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a direct connection between Kubo's fluctuation-dissipation relation and Hawking effect that is valid in any dimensions for any stationary or static black hole. The relevant correlators corresponding to the fluctuating part of the force, computed from the known expressions for the anomalous stress tensor related to gravitational anomalies, are shown to satisfy the Kubo relation, from which the temperature of a black hole as seen by an observer at an arbitrary distance is abstracted. This reproduces the Tolman temperature and hence the Hawking temperature as that measured by an observer at infinity.
description: Comments added, to appear in Euro. Phys. J. C
Analysis of the dissipative range of the energy spectrum in grid turbulence and in direct numerical simulations
Creators: name: Gorbunova, Anastasiia
name: Balarac, Guillaume
name: Bourgoin, Mickaël
name: Canet, Léonie
name: Mordant, Nicolas
name: Rossetto, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical analysis of the behavior of the kinetic energy spectrum in the dissipative range of scales of fully developed three-dimensional turbulence. We analyze spectra recorded in experiments of grid turbulence generated in the Modane wind tunnel, and spectra obtained from high-resolution direct numerical simulations of the forced Navier-Stokes equation. We focus on wave-number scales in the near-dissipative range. We find that in this domain, the spectra behave as a stretched exponential with an exponent $α= 0.68 \pm 0.19$. This result corroborates previous DNS studies which found that the spectrum in the near-dissipative range is best modeled by a stretched exponential with $α<1$. Moreover, we here give an estimate for the actual value of $α$, which turns out to be in precise agreement with the theoretical prediction $α=2/3$ from the non-perturbative renormalisation group.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Hyrmoneura Rondani 1863
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Nemestrinidae
Hyrmoneura

description: 265. Hyrmoneura Rondani, 1863: 50 [1864a: 50].
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Hirmoneura Meigen, 1820; junior synonym of Hirmoneura Meigen, 1820. New synonymy.
FAMILY: NEMESTRINIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “i” to “y” in the same work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 100
Seasonally variable effects of spiders on herbivory and seed production of Chamaecrista neesiana (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae)
Creators: name: Silva, Ligia Aparecida
name: Vasconcellos-Neto, João
name: Del-Claro, Kleber
name: Stefani, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Spiders are diverse and abundant predators on vegetation in all terrestrial ecosystems, but only a few studies have examined their role in modulating spider–herbivore interactions throughout the year. We tested the hypothesis that spiders may reduce herbivore abundance on vegetation, resulting in lower leaf area loss and increased fitness (seed set production) of plants studied. In the tropics, this relationship will continue throughout the year. Our study was conducted in a cerrado environment in Brazil, using a shrub with glandular trichomes, Chamaecrista neesiana (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae). We recorded phenological information, as well as the herbivorous insects and spiders present, on two groups of plants: a control group in which spiders were present and an experimental group in which spiders were removed. The results indicated that spiders had a positive indirect effect on plants by reducing leaf area loss and increasing seed set production, confirming our hypothesis. The benefits were higher in the rainy season, coinciding with the peak abundance of the spider species Peucetia flava. Our results indicate that protection against herbivory by spiders in the tropical savanna is conditional on the abundance of predators over time.
Measuring the properties of extragalactic dust and implications for the Hubble diagram
Creators: name: Goobar, Ariel
name: Bergstrom, Lars
name: Mortsell, Edvard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering and absorption of light by a homogeneous distribution of intergalactic large dust grains has been proposed as an alternative, non-cosmological explanation for the faintness of Type Ia supernovae at $z\s im 0.5$. We investigate the differential extinction for high-redshift sources caused by extragalactic dust along the line of sight. Future observations of Type Ia supernovae up to $z\sim 2$, e.g. by the proposed SNAP satellite, will allow the measurement of the properties of dust over cosmological distances. We show that 1% {\em relative} spectrophotometric accuracy (or broadband photometry) in the wavelength interval 0.7--1.5 $μ$m is required to measure the extinction caused by ``grey'' dust down to $δm=0.02$ magnitudes. We also argue that the presence of grey dust is not necessarily inconsistent with the recent measurement of the brightness of a supernova at $z=1.7$ (SN 1997ff), in the absence of accurate spectrophotometric information of the supernova.
description: Accepted by A&A
Emerging notions of norm attainment for Lipschitz maps between Banach spaces
Creators: name: Choi, Geunsu
name: Choi, Yun Sung
name: Martin, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B04 (Primary), 26A16, 46B20, 46B25 (Secondary)

description: We classify several notions of norm attaining Lipschitz maps which were introduced previously, and present the relations among them in order to verify proper inclusions. We also analyze some results for the sets of Lipschitz maps satisfying each of these properties to be dense or not in $\Lip(X,Y)$. For instance, we characterize a Banach space $Y$ with the Radon-Nikodým property in terms of the denseness of norm attaining Lipschitz maps with values in $Y$. Further, we introduce a property called the local directional Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for Lipschitz compact maps, which extends the one studied previously for scalar-valued functions, and provide some new positive results.
description: 21 pages
Is there an association between the ecological characteristics of anurans from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and their extinction risk?
Creators: name: Anjos, Amanda G.
name: Costa, Renan N.
name: Brito, Daniel
name: Solé, Mirco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Extinctions of anuran amphibians are more alarming compared to all other vertebrates. Several reports of declines come from Atlantic Forest, which currently holds only 1.62% of natural vegetation under full protection. However, despite this degradation, the Atlantic Forest still shelters a great diversity of anurans with a high diversity of specific ecological characteristics. Thus, our objective was to identify which ecological characteristics of anurans from the Atlantic Forest can be associated to this extinction risk, in order to understand how these characteristics can promote the species persistence against environmental disturbance. For each species, we gathered biological/ecological characteristics from literature, as well the extinction risk based on the National List of Endangered Species of Wildlife. In 2015, 547 anuran species had been assigned to the Atlantic Forest, of which 406 had their extinction risk defined. However, we considered only 295 species in our analyses due to the availability of biological/ecological information. We observed that the clutch size and the altitudinal distribution are related to the extinction risk of anurans. Threatened species had a small clutch size and were distributed in low or high areas, whereas non-threatened species had a larger clutch size and were distributed in intermediate altitude areas. Studies that investigate ecological characteristics that determine the extinction risk of species can be useful to assist conservation actions, concentrating efforts to species more sensitive to environmental alterations, besides highlighting the importance of natural history and the ecology of organisms in conservation decisions.
Riccia beyrichiana Lehm.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Marchantiopsida
Marchantiales
Ricciaceae
Riccia
Riccia beyrichiana

description: Riccia beyrichiana Hampe ex Lehm.
RECORDS. — Corbière (1904), Trabut (1941), Jelenc (1955a): La Bouzaréah, près Alger; Orléansville. Chevassut & Quézel (1956): La Réghaïa. Jovet-Ast (1986): sine loco. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 60, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Adaptations to prey base in the hypercarnivorous leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis
Creators: name: Hisano, Masumi
name: Newman, Chris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Investigating biogeographical variations in diet composition can help understand the adaptability and generalism of species. Although the dietary adaptability of omnivorous mesocarnivores is well established, far less work has explored how more specialist hypercarnivores optimise their diets. By reviewing 11 studies of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), we quantitatively examined how dietary composition varies over the wide range of biomes they occupy in Asia. Specifically, we contrasted the diet of the Iriomote Island sub-species (south-western Japan), where native rodents are absent, with that of the mainland. Leopard cat diet typically comprised mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates. In Iriomote Island, however, the low relative frequency of occurrence of small mammals (only introduced rats) was compensated by higher frequencies of reptiles and amphibians compared to the mainland. Consequently, trophic diversity and dietary niche breadth were higher for leopard cats in Iriomote Island than for the mainland. This shows that even hypercarnivorous species can use trophic plasticity to adapt to local prey availability. Given that rodent numbers often fluctuate substantially over time, the availability of alternative prey, such as herptiles, may be vital for the conservation of the leopard cat, and especially the critically endangered Iriomote cat. More generally, the trophic versatility of hypercarnivores must be considered when assessing their vulnerability to environmental change.
Hyperalonia Rondani 1863
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Hyperalonia

description: 264. Hyperalonia Rondani, 1863: 57, 58 [1864a: 58].
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Exoprosopa audouinii Macquart, 1840 (as “ Andouinii ”); Exoprosopa servillei Macquart, 1840; Anthrax cerberus Fabricius, 1794; Exoprosopa albicincta Macquart, 1840; Anthrax erythrocephala Fabricius, 1805 (as “ Erithrocephala ” on page 57); Exoprosopa guerinii Macquart, 1846; Exoprosopa pilatei Macquart, 1846; Exoprosopa fuscipennis Macquart, 1848 (as “ Fascipennis ”), Exoprosopa hymalajensis Macquart, 1840 (as “ Hymalajensis ”); Exoprosopa coeruleiventris Macquart, 1846; Exoprosopa albiventris Macquart, 1848; Exoprosopa surinamensis Rondani, 1863; Exoprosopa chilensis Rondani, 1863.
 TYPE SPECIES: Anthrax erythrocephala Fabricius, 1805, by subsequent designation (Dallas, 1866: 649).
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Evenhuis & Greathead (1999: 399)].
FAMILY: BOMBYLIIDAE.
 REMARKS: Originally proposed as a subgenus of Exoprosopa Macquart, 1840. The species-group name “ hymalajensis ” was originally included (on page 57) but was never described, so is unavailable. Costa (1866: 37) listed a “ Hyperalonia hymalajensis Macquart ” among the Rondani collection in Naples, so a specimen existed at one time with this determination label.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 99
MWA Tied-Array Processing I: Calibration and Beamformation
Creators: name: Ord, S. M.
name: Tremblay, S. E.
name: McSweeney, S. J.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Sobey, C.
name: Mitchell, D. A.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Kirsten, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Murchison Widefield Array is a low-frequency Square Kilometre Array precursor located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Primarily designed as an imaging telescope, but with a flexible signal path, the capabilities of this telescope have recently been extended to include off-line incoherent and tied-array beam formation using recorded antenna voltages. This has provided the capability for high-time and frequency resolution observations, including a pulsar science program. This paper describes the algorithms and pipeline that we have developed to form the tied array beam products from the summation of calibrated signals of the antenna elements, and presents example polarimetric profiles for PSRs J0437-4715 and J1900-2600 at 185 MHz.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PASA
Defeats GAN: A Simpler Model Outperforms in Knowledge Representation Learning
Creators: name: Wang, Heng
name: Mao, Mingzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of knowledge representation learning is to embed entities and relations into a low-dimensional, continuous vector space. How to push a model to its limit and obtain better results is of great significance in knowledge graph's applications. We propose a simple and elegant method, Trans-DLR, whose main idea is dynamic learning rate control during training. Our method achieves remarkable improvement, compared with recent GAN-based method. Moreover, we introduce a new negative sampling trick which corrupts not only entities, but also relations, in different probabilities. We also develop an efficient way, which fully utilizes multiprocessing and parallel computing, to speed up evaluation of the model in link prediction tasks. Experiments show that our method is effective.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, has been accepted as a conference paper of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA 2018)
Riccia ligula Steph.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Marchantiopsida
Marchantiales
Ricciaceae
Riccia
Riccia ligula

description: Riccia ligula Steph.
RECORDS. — Bischler (2004): sine loco. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 62, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Phenomenological Applications of QCD Factorization to Semi-inclusive B Decays
Creators: name: Cheng, Hai-Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have systematically investigated the semi-inclusive B decays $B\to MX$, which are manifestations of the quark decay $b \to Mq$, within a framework inspired by QCD-improved factorization. These decays are theoretically clean and have distinctive experimental signatures. We focus on a class of these that do not require any form factor information and therefore may be especially suitable for extracting information on the angles $α$ and $γ$ of the unitarity triangle. The strong phase coming from final-state rescattering due to hard gluon exchange between the final states can induce large rate asymmetries for tree-dominated color-suppressed modes $(π^0,ρ^0,ω)X_{\bar s}$. The nonfactorizable hard spectator interactions in the 3-body decay $B\to Mq_1\bar q_2$, though phase-space suppressed, are extremely important for the tree-dominated modes $(π^0,ρ^0,ω)X_{\bar s},~ϕX$, $J X_s,J X$ and the penguin-dominated mode $ωX_{s\bar s}$. Our result for ${\cal B}(B\to J X_s)$ is in agreement with experiment. $B^0_s\to (π^0,ρ^0,ω)X_{\bar s}$, $ρ^0X_{s\bar s}$, $B^0\to(K^-X,K^{*-}X)$ and $B^-\to (K^0X_s,K^{*0}X_s)$ are the most promising ones in searching for direct CP violation: they have branching ratios of order $10^{-6}-10^{-4}$ and CP rate asymmetries of order $(10-40)%$.
description: 12 pages, talk given at International Conference on Flavor Physics, Zhang-Jia-Jie City, Hunan, China, 31 May - 6 June, 2001
Analyzing Collective Trade Policy Actions in Response to Cyclical Risk in Agricultural Production: The Case of International Wheat
Creators: name: Lee, Youngjae
name: Kennedy, Lynn
name: Lee, Youngjae
name: Kennedy, Lynn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: collective trade policy actions
subject: cyclical risk
subject: export restriction.

description: This study shows how cyclical risk and collective trade policy actions can cumulatively worsen international food price spikes. By using spatial Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) and Eaton and Kortum’s trade model, this study offers the following conclusions. At first, the cyclical shock in agricultural production might cause agricultural and food price spikes in the international agricultural and food markets. Second, export restrictions and import responses can worsen food price spikes and disrupt trade flows in international agricultural and food markets. Finally, the effect of these collective trade policy actions and resulting food price spikes in international agricultural and food markets do not dissipate even after agricultural production has recovered.
AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY OF THE BASIC DETERMINANTS OF IFRS ADOPTION IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Kmaluddeen Funsho Adisa Ibrahim
name: Adefiranye James Renew Adeleye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: 150104 International Accounting
subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards

description: Nigeria has officially indicated her intention to adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with effect from January 2012. Although, this is a welcome development, questions on the country’s availability and readiness of relevant and appropriate institutional infrastructures yet remain. The study examines the determinants JFRS adoption in Nigeria. To achieve this primary philosophy, data were collected via instrumentality and administration of questionnaire on 69 sampled respondents. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and survey search method were employed to empirically investigate a wide variety of relevant factors influencing the intention of early implementation of IFRS in Nigeria which include attitude, subjective norms and perceived control. ‘or the purpose of inferential statistical analysis, Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression was adopted due to the lative1y small sample size. The result shows that subjective norm and perceived control significantly influence practitioners’ intentions of early IFRS adoption while attitude towards JFRS adoption is insignificant. The study recommends, amongst others that the activities of the major institutions connected with the implementation of the w standard be urgently reviewed and that the education, sensitization and communication to stakeholders of sues associated with IFFS adoption vis-a-vis the role of the relevant institutions should commence in earnest. A rigorous IFRS capacity building programme should also be embarked upon by all regulatory bodies, firms and raining institutions in order to provide the needed manpower for IFRS implementation in Nigeria.
When Bigger Isn't Better: Steak Size and Consumer Preferences
Creators: name: Maples, Joshua G.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Peel, Derrell S.
name: Maples, Joshua G.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Peel, Derrell S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: beef
subject: carcass size
subject: consumer preferences
subject: steak size

description: The average cattle slaughter weight has increased more than 330 pounds over the past 40 years. With larger cattle have come larger steaks. In response, many retailers have begun offering thinner cuts to combat high total package prices. This article estimates consumer willingness to pay for beef steak dimensions using data from a national survey. Results imply that most consumers prefer thicker to thinner cuts steaks and that smaller surface areas are preferred to larger ones. Our estimates suggest that the forty-year increase in carcass weight has led to an $8.6 billion annual loss in consumer welfare resulting from changing steak size.
Vocal activity of the Ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) is strongly correlated with moon phase and nocturnal temperature
Creators: name: Pérez-Granados, Cristian
name: Karl-L. Schuchmann
name: Marinez I. Marques
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Bird vocal activity is affected by endogenous and exogenous factors. Owl surveys are mainly based on the detection of nocturnal calls, and therefore, the impact of exogenous factors on owls’ vocal activity may have consequences in conservation planning and behavioural studies. However, our current knowledge about the impact of climatic factors and the moon phase on owl calling behaviour is very limited, especially in the Neotropics. We used autonomous recording units to evaluate the effect of air temperature, rainfall, relative air humidity, and percent of the moon illuminated on the vocal occurrence (active/inactive) of the Ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) over three consecutive moon cycles in the Brazilian Pantanal. Vocal activity was positively associated with the percent of the moon illuminated, with 75% of the nights on which the species was vocally active having a moon illumination percentage higher than 77%. The vocal activity of the species was negatively associated with the nocturnal air temperature, with more vocal activity observed on cooler nights. Relative air humidity and daily rainfall were not associated with the vocal activity of the Ferruginous pygmy-owl. Our study improves the knowledge about the impact of exogenous factors on the calling behaviour of Neotropical owls. We conclude that future surveys aiming to detect the Ferruginous pygmy-owl should be carried out on nights with a high percent of moon illumination (>75%) and nights with low average temperature (< 18 °C).
Relationship between the Monocyte Chemo-attractant Protein-1 gene rs1024611 A>G Polymorphism and Cancer Susceptibility: A Meta-analysis Involving 14,617 Subjects
Creators: name: Chen, Zhan
name: Yin, Shiping
name: Zheng, Liang
name: Tang, Weifeng
name: Kang, Mingqiang
name: Wei, Wei
name: Sui, Kang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Inflammatory and inducible chemokines are the hallmarks of malignancy. Monocyte chemo-attractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a crucial chemokine implicated in infection and inflammation. Methods: We performed an updated meta-analysis of thirty independent case-control studies with 6,777 cancer cases and 7,840 controls to determine if the MCP-1 gene rs1024611 A > G variant is associated with the risk of cancer. Results: The G allele carriers of rs1024611 in the MCP-1 gene might have a null association with cancer risk in overall comparison. In a subgroup analysis by ethnicity, we identified a marked association between the MCP-1 G allele rs1024611 polymorphism and cancer risk in the Caucasian populations (GG vs. AA: OR = 1.72, 95% CI, 1.12–2.64, P = .013, and GG vs. AG/AA: OR = 1.82, 95% CI, 1.19–2.78, P = .006). The potential bias in literature selection was witnessed in this meta-analysis (G vs. A: P Begg’s =  0.187, PEgger’s =  0.049; and GG/GA vs. AA: P Begg’s =  0.069, PEgger’s =  0.024). The adjusted ORs and CIs of the nonparametric “trim-and-fill” method demonstrated the reliability of these findings. The outcome of heterogeneity analysis indicated that heterogeneity might be due to small sample sizes (<1000 subjects), cancer types (bladder cancer, other cancers), ethnicity (Asians), and population-based studies. However, the sensitivity analysis validated the reliability of the findings. Conclusion: In conclusion, this updated meta-analysis showed that the G carrier of the MCP-1 gene rs1024611 is associated with susceptibility to cancer in Caucasian.
Animal behaviour on the cover: layout cover patterns of ethological journals
Creators: name: Costa, Andrea
name: Salvidio, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Animal behaviour on the cover: layout cover patterns of ethological journals
Playing a game of billiard with Fibonacci
Creators: name: Jaud, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By making use of the greatest common divisor's ($gcd$) properties we can highlight some connections between playing billiard inside a unit square and the Fibonacci sequence as well as the Euclidean algorithm. In particular by defining two maps $τ$ and $σ$ corresponding to translations and mirroring we are able to rederive Lamé's theorem and to equip it with a geometric interpretation realizing a new way to construct the golden ratio. Further we discuss distributions of the numbers $p,q\in \mathbb{N}$ with $gcd(q,p)=1$ and show that these also relate to the Fibonacci sequence.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
The String Dual of an ${\cal N}=(4,0)$ Two-Dimensional Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Nishimura, Madoka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find solutions of the six-dimensional maximal supergravity by adding a perturbation of vector fields to the solution AdS${}_3$ $\times$ S${}^3$. For certain perturbations the solution represents a dual description of an ${\cal N}=(4,0)$ field theory in two dimensions by the AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: 8 pages, no figure
Effects of plasma turbulence on the nonlinear evolution of magnetic island in tokamak
Creators: name: Choi, Minjun J.
name: Bardoczi, Laszlo
name: Kwon, Jae-Min
name: Hahm, T. S.
name: Park, Hyeon K.
name: Kim, Jayhyun
name: Woo, Minho
name: Park, Byoung-Ho
name: Yun, Gunsu S.
name: Yoon, Eisung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic islands (MIs), resulting from a magnetic field reconnection, are ubiquitous structures in magnetized plasmas. In tokamak plasmas, recent researches suggested that the interaction between the MI and ambient turbulence can be important for the nonlinear MI evolution, but a lack of detailed experimental observations and analyses has prevented further understanding. Here, we provide comprehensive two-dimensional observations that indicate various effects of the ambient turbulence on the nonlinear MI evolution. It is shown that the modified plasma turbulence around the MI can lead to either destabilization or stabilization of the MI instability in tokamak plasmas. In particular, significantly enhanced turbulence at the X-point of the MI results in a violent disruption through the fast magnetic reconnection and magnetic field stochastization.
Protocol sequence processing for Deep Sequencing Reveals Transient Segregation of T Cell Repertoires in Splenic T Cell Zones during an Immune Response
Creators: name: Textor, Johannes
name: Fähnrich, Anke
name: Meinhardt, Martin
name: Tune, Cornelia
name: Klein, Sebastian
name: Pagel, Rene
name: König, Peter
name: Kalies, Kathrin
name: Westermann, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Data processing protocol for the paper 'Deep Sequencing Reveals Transient Segregation of T Cell Repertoires in Splenic T Cell Zones during an Immune Response' (https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1800091).
Supplementary Information from Stabilizing gold nanoparticles for use in X-ray computed tomography imaging of soil systems
Creators: name: Scotson, Callum P.
name: Munoz-Hernando, Maria
name: Duncan, Simon J.
name: Siul A. Ruiz
name: Keyes, Samuel D.
name: Veelen, Arjen Van
name: Dunlop, Iain E.
name: Roose, Tiina
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Engineering
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80106 Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This investigation establishes a system of gold nanoparticles that show good colloidal stability as an X-ray computed tomography (XCT) contrast agent under soil conditions. Gold nanoparticles offer numerous beneficial traits for experiments in biology including: comparatively minimal phytotoxicity, X-ray attenuation of the material and the capacity for functionalization. However, soil salinity, acidity and surface charges can induce aggregation and destabilize gold nanoparticles, hence in biomedical applications polymer coatings are commonly applied to gold nanoparticles to enhance stability in the in vivo environment. Here we first demonstrate non-coated nanoparticles aggregate in soil-water solutions. We then show coating with a polyethylene glycol (PEG) layer prevents this aggregation. To demonstrate this, PEG-coated nanoparticles were drawn through flow columns containing soil and were shown to be stable; this is in contrast with control experiments using silica and alumina-packed columns. We further determined that a suspension of coated gold nanoparticles which fully saturated soil maintained stability over at least 5 days. Finally, we used time resolved XCT imaging and image based models to approximate nanoparticle diffusion as similar to that of other typical plant nutrients diffusing in water. Together, these results establish the PEGylated gold nanoparticles as potential contrast agents for XCT imaging in soil.
Ibisia Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Athericidae
Ibisia

description: 267. Ibisia Rondani, 1856: 154.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Bibio marginata Fabricius, 1781.
 TYPE SPECIES: Bibio marginata Fabricius, 1781, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Atherix Meigen, 1803 [teste Majer (1988: 12)].
FAMILY: ATHERICIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 100
Faster transport through slower runs: ant relocation dynamics in nature
Creators: name: Anoop, Karunakaran
name: Ghosh Purbayan
name: Annagiri Sumana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Recruitment is a fundamental feature of animal societies and its efficiency largely depends on within-group communication. Insect societies are often populous and decentralised decisions need to be made by individuals with limited local information when time is of the essence. Recruitment of colony members to food, defence or to a new nest fall under this category. Colony relocation in tandem running ants is a particularly important case where only a small number of leaders possess information about the new nest and time is crucial, as longer exposure is detrimental to the colony’s survival and reproduction. We investigated the programmes and positional effects of individual members during relocation of the Indian tropical ant Diacamma indicum in their natural habitat. Analysis of more than 1000 transports across eight relocating colonies reveals that they have a path efficiency of 85%. We found that transporters reoriented towards the target nest within seconds of initiation and tandem running in this species is so well organised that over 97% of transports reached their target nest without facing any interruption indicating that the communication between leaders and followers was exceptional. With an average speed of 3.8 cm per second these are the fastest tandem running ants recorded. We used mixed-effects model to understand the effect of patch heterogeneity and transport type on the speed and path efficiency of these ants and found that tandem leaders reduced their speed when traversing grassy patches and relied upon the slower coupled adult-brood transport. This investigation of ants performing tandem runs through heterogeneous terrains showcases the exceptionally efficient recruitment dynamics during colony relocation. In the next step, similar studies in the context of foraging and guarding in the natural habitat will be required to fully appreciate the recruitment capabilities of these superorganisms.
Absence of Evidence for the 'Ultimate' State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Creators: name: Doering, Charles R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The claim by He et al. [Physical Review Letters 108, 024502 (2012)] that their experiment reached the 'ultimate' regime of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection is not justified by their data.
Elementary operations for quantum logic with a single trapped two-level cold ion beyond Lamb-Dicke limit
Creators: name: Wei, L. F.
name: Liu, S. Y.
name: Lei, X. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple alternative scheme for implementing quantum gates with a single trapped cold two-level ion beyond the Lamb-Dicke (LD) limit is proposed. Basing on the quantum dynamics for the laser-ion interaction described by a generalized Jaynes-Cummings model, one can introduce two kinds of elementary quantum operations i.e., the simple rotation on the bare atomic state, generated by applying a resonant pulse, and the joint operation on the internal and external degrees of the ion, performed by using an off-resonant pulse. Several typical quantum gates, including Hadamard gate, controlled-Z and controlled-NOT gates $etc.$, can thus be implemented exactly by using these elementary operations. The experimental parameters including the LD parameter and the durations of the applied laser pulses, for these implementation are derived analytically and numerically. Neither the LD approximation for the laser-ion interaction nor the auxiliary atomic level is needed in the present scheme.
description: 5 pages, no figure, to appear in Opt. Comm