cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International Treaties and Other Legal and Economic Issues Relating to the Ownership and Use of Genetic Resources
Creators: name: Lesser, William H.
name: Lesser, William H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Genetic resources were once treated as a common heritage, available without restriction for research and other usage. The system was perceived as contributing to a rapid extinction rate and as unfair to developing countries -the major source of genetic resources. Since the Biodiversity Convention declared that governments have the "sovereign right to exploit" the genetic resources under their domain, efforts to regulate access have begun. Conceptually, payments will lead to greater conservation efforts; practically, the incentive will depend on use and distribution of the limited funds generated. Benefits to countries of origin are associated with the "equitable sharing" stipulations of the Convention. Within countries, where rights of indigenous peoples to their traditional lands have not been clarified, equitable sharing may be difficult to achieve. To date, a limited but potentially troubling effect has been a slowing of access, especially for third parties. Current approaches to access include i) Intellectual Property Rights (a system not attuned conceptually or practically to genetic resources); ii) Farmers' Rights (a system grouping agricultural genetic resources transferred in the past, present, and future); iii) Bilateral Systems, such as material transfer agreements in place (Philippines) or in process (Andean Pact); and iv) Multilateral Systems, as endorsed by the FAD and outlined by IPGRI. A truly effective system(s) for access to genetic resources has not yet emerged; it is time for wider inputs into the process, especially by biological scientists.
Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation
Creators: name: Toussaint, Marc
name: Igel, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Self-adaptation is used in all main paradigms of evolutionary computation to increase efficiency. We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality. In the absence of external control neutrality allows a variation of the search distribution without the risk of fitness loss.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX
Agricultural and Farmland Protection Planning: A Case Study in Orange County, New York
Creators: name: Joyce, Lucy T.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Joyce, Lucy T.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The Agricultural Protection Act, passed by the State Legislature in 1992, strengthened New York State's Agricultural Districts Law. One component of the Act provides for county Agricultural and Farmland Protection Boards to develop county agricultural and farmland protection plans. The Department of Agriculture and Markets encourages the development of such plans through a matching grants program. This paper discusses the tools and strategies county Agricultural and Farmland Protection Boards may use in their plan development process. It incorporates an overview of the evolution of state policy, social and economic trends affecting agriculture throughout the state, and resources currently available which may be brought to bear on the local planning process. Using Orange County as a case study, the tools and strategies defined include both an agricultural structure/profitability component as well as land protection techniques.
Nonmagnetic-Doping Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Topological Insulators
Creators: name: Qi, Shifei
name: Gao, Ruiling
name: Chang, Maozhi
name: Hou, Tao
name: Han, Yulei
name: Qiao, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been experimentally observed in magnetically doped topological insulators. However, ultra-low temperature (usually below 300 mK), which is mainly attributed to inhomogeneous magnetic doping, becomes a daunting challenge for potential applications. Here, a \textit{nonmagnetic}-doping strategy is proposed to produce ferromagnetism and realize QAHE in topological insulators. We numerically demonstrated that magnetic moments can be induced by nitrogen or carbon substitution in Bi$_2$Se$_3$, Bi$_2$Te$_3$, and Sb$_2$Te$_3$, but only nitrogen-doped Sb$_2$Te$_3$ exhibits long-range ferromagnetism and preserve large bulk band gap. We further show that its corresponding thin-film can harbor QAHE at temperatures of 17-29 Kelvin, which is two orders of magnitude higher than the typical temperatures in similar systems. Our proposed \textit{nonmagnetic} doping scheme may shed new light in experimental realization of high-temperature QAHE in topological insulators.
Thermodynamic properties of the 3D Lennard-Jones/spline model
Creators: name: Hafskjold, Bjørn
name: Travis, Karl Patrick
name: Hass, Amanda Bailey
name: Hammer, Morten
name: Ailo Aasen
name: Wilhelmsen, Øivind
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Lennard-Jones (LJ) spline potential is a truncated LJ potential so that both the pair potential and the force continuously approach zero at rc≈1.74σ. We present a systematic map of the thermodynamic properties of the LJ spline model from molecular dynamics and Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulations. Results are presented for gas/liquid, liquid/solid and gas/solid coexistence curves, the Joule-Thomson inversion curve, and several other thermodynamic properties. The critical point for the model is estimated to be Tc∗=0.885±0.002 and Pc∗=0.075±0.001, respectively. The triple point is estimated to Ttp∗=0.547±0.005 and Ptp∗=0.0016±0.0002. The coexistence densities, saturation pressure, and supercritical isotherms of the LJ spline model were fairly well represented by the Peng-Robison equation of state. We find that Barker-Henderson perturbation theory works less good for the LJ spline than for the LJ model. The first-order perturbation theory overestimates the critical temperature and pressure by about 10% and 90%, respectively. A second-order perturbation theory is not much better. Our assessment is that the mean compressibility approximation gives a poor representation of the second-order perturbation term. Our main conclusion is that we at the moment do not have a theory or model that adequately represents the thermodynamic properties of the LJ spline system.
Iphiclus (Brachymerus) tibialis Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus tibialis

description: Iphiclus (Brachymerus) tibialis (Duponchel), new combination
 Erotylus tibialis Duponchel 1825: 55.
 Brachysphoenus (Morphoides) tibialis (Duponchel) ~ Lacordaire 1842: 373.
 Morphoides tibialis (Duponchel) ~ Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3712.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Morphoides) tibialis (Duponchel) ~ Kuhnt 1909: 28.
 Iphiclus (Neomorphoides) tibialis (Duponchel) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 78.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Thermographic Laplacian-pyramid filtering to enhance delamination detection in concrete structure
Creators: name: Cheng, Chongsheng
name: Na, Ri
name: Shen, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Despite decades of efforts using thermography to detect delamination in concrete decks, challenges still exist in removing environmental noise from thermal images. The performance of conventional temperature-contrast approaches can be significantly limited by environment-induced non-uniform temperature distribution across imaging spaces. Time-series based methodologies were found robust to spatial temperature non-uniformity but require the extended period to collect data. A new empirical image filtering method is introduced in this paper to enhance the delamination detection using blob detection method that originated from computer vision. The proposed method employs a Laplacian of Gaussian filter to achieve multi-scale detection of abnormal thermal patterns by delaminated areas. Results were compared with the state-of-the-art methods and benchmarked with time-series methods in the case of handling the non-uniform heat distribution issue. To further evaluate the performance of the method numerical simulations using transient heat transfer models were used to generate the 'theoretical' noise-free thermal images for comparison. Significant performance improvement was found compared to the conventional methods in both indoor and outdoor tests. This methodology proved to be capable to detect multi-size delamination using a single thermal image. It is robust to the non-uniform temperature distribution. The limitations were discussed to refine the applicability of the proposed procedure.
A Model of the Enhanced Vertical Mixing Induced by Wind-Waves
Creators: name: Polnikov, Vladislav G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.3
subject: 76F55

description: In the Navier-Stokes equations, a current is decomposed into four constituents: the mean flow, wave-orbital motion, wave-induced-turbulent and background-turbulent currents. Under certain statistical assumptions, this allows to separate the wave-induced Reynolds stress from the background one. To close the wave-induced Reynolds stress, the Prandtl approach for the wave-induced fluctuations is used, resulting in the implicit expression for the wave-induced vertical mixing function, B. Expression for B is specified, basing on the author results for the turbulent viscosity, found earlier in the frame of the three-layer concept for the air-sea interface. The explicit expression for function B is linear in both wave amplitude and friction velocity in the air. Due to exponential decay of wave amplitude, the found result means the possibility of the enhanced impact of waves on the vertical mixing and related geophysical processes, compared to the known cubic wave-amplitude dependence for B, found by Qiao et al previously.
description: 12 pages, 1 fugure
Multiple orbital effects in laser-induced electron diffraction of aligned molecules
Creators: name: Krečinić, Faruk
name: Wopperer, Philipp
name: Frusteri, Biagio
name: Brauße, Felix
name: Brisset, Jean-Gabriel
name: De Giovannini, Umberto
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Rouzée, Arnaud
name: Vrakking, Marc J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoelectron Angular Distributions (PADs) resulting from 800 nm and 1300 nm strong field ionization of impulsively aligned CF$_3$I molecules were analyzed using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The normalized difference between the PADs for aligned and anti-aligned molecules displays large modulations in the high-energy re-collision plateau that are assigned to the diffraction of back-scattered photoelectrons. The TDDFT calculations reveal that, in spite of their 2.6 eV energy difference, ionization from the HOMO-1 orbital contributes to the diffraction pattern on the same footing as ionization from the doubly degenerate HOMO orbital.
Magnetic phase diagram of the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic zigzag spin chain in the strongly frustrated region: cusp and plateau
Creators: name: Okunishi, Kouichi
name: Tonegawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the magnetic phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic(AF) zigzag spin chain in the strongly frustrated region, using the density matrix renormalization group method. We find the magnetization plateau at 1/3 of the full moment accompanying the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the translation, the cusp singularities above and/or below the plateau, and the even-odd effect in the magnetization curve. We also discuss the formation mechanisms of the plateau and cusps briefly.
description: 4 pages, 8 figures, revised version, to appear in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn
Dynamic regulation of nonpoint source pollution when the number of emitters is large
Creators: name: Tsur, Yacov
name: De Gorter, Harry
name: Tsur, Yacov
name: De Gorter, Harry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Nonpoint source pollution
subject: abatement
subject: stock externality
subject: dynamic regulation
subject: Markov decision process
subject: asymmetric information

description: When a nonpoint source pollution process involves many polluters, each taking his own contribution to aggregate pollution to be negligible, ambient-based policies become ineffective due to lack of strategic interactions between dischargers. We offer a regulation mechanism for this case. The mechanism consists of inter-period and intra-period components. The first exploits ambient (aggregate) information to derive the optimal pollution and aggregate emission processes and the ensuing social price of emission. The intra-period mechanism takes as given the social price of emission and implements the optimal output-abatement-emission allocation across the heterogenous, privately informed firms in each time period. The mechanism gives rise to the full information outcome when the social cost of transfers is nil. A positive social cost of transfers decreases both output and abatement in each time period, though the effect on emission is ambiguous.
Sulpiride gastro-retentive floating microsponges; analytical study, in vitro optimization and in vivo characterization
Creators: name: Younis, Mahmoud A.
name: El-Zahry, Marwa R.
name: Tallat, Mahmoud A.
name: Tawfeek, Hesham M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sulpiride (SUL), anti-dopaminergic drug, has a specific site for absorption located in the upper portion of the gastrointestinal tract hence, its oral delivery represents a challenge regarding SUL absorption and bioavailability. So, a gastro-retentive oral platform of SUL was developed to increase its gastric residence time, release SUL at a controlled rate in the stomach and consequently, enable it to reach its specific absorption site. Floating microsponges were prepared via quasi-emulsion solvent diffusion method and characterised for their physico-chemical properties. In addition, Taguchi design of experiment was utilised to optimise some independent variables affecting microsponges performance. The optimised SUL microsponges showed a yield of 79.82 ± 2.37%, an encapsulation efficiency of 89.11 ± 2.28% and in vitro time for floatation of 8.0 h. Additionally, pharmacokinetics were investigated in rabbits and compared with the commercial SUL formulation, Dogmatil® capsules. Optimised SUL microsponges showed a significantly (p max, AUC and 2-fold increase in oral bioavailability compared with the commercial product. Moreover, the optimised SUL microsponges remained present in the stomach up to 8.0 h post administration when viewed via X-ray radiographs in rabbits. It could be concluded that the floating microsponges could be useful as an oral platform to enhance the sulpiride absorption and bioavailability.
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) adustus Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus adustus

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) adustus (Duponchel), new combination
 Erotylus adustus Duponchel 1825: 56.
 Brachysphoenus (Barytopus) adustus (Duponchel) ~ Lacordaire 1842: 395.
 Morphoides adustus (Duponchel) ~ Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3707.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Barytopus) adustus (Duponchel) ~ Kuhnt 1909: 29.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) adustus (Duponchel) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 79.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Integrative Factorization of Bidimensionally Linked Matrices
Creators: name: Park, Jun Young
name: Lock, Eric F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Advances in molecular "omics'" technologies have motivated new methodology for the integration of multiple sources of high-content biomedical data. However, most statistical methods for integrating multiple data matrices only consider data shared vertically (one cohort on multiple platforms) or horizontally (different cohorts on a single platform). This is limiting for data that take the form of bidimensionally linked matrices (e.g., multiple cohorts measured on multiple platforms), which are increasingly common in large-scale biomedical studies. In this paper, we propose BIDIFAC (Bidimensional Integrative Factorization) for integrative dimension reduction and signal approximation of bidimensionally linked data matrices. Our method factorizes the data into (i) globally shared, (ii) row-shared, (iii) column-shared, and (iv) single-matrix structural components, facilitating the investigation of shared and unique patterns of variability. For estimation we use a penalized objective function that extends the nuclear norm penalization for a single matrix. As an alternative to the complicated rank selection problem, we use results from random matrix theory to choose tuning parameters. We apply our method to integrate two genomics platforms (mRNA and miRNA expression) across two sample cohorts (tumor samples and normal tissue samples) using the breast cancer data from TCGA. We provide R code for fitting BIDIFAC, imputing missing values, and generating simulated data.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures
Timyma E. M. Froehlich 1978
Creators: name: Almeida, Ana Laura
name: Álvarez-Presas, Marta
name: Carbayo, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Tricladida
Geoplanidae
Timyma

description: TIMYMA E.M. FROEHLICH, 1978
Type species: Timyma juliae E.M. Froehlich, 1978, designated by E. M. Froehlich (1978).
Diagnosis: Timymini with mouth approximately in midbody. Without parenchymatic longitudinal muscle. Pharyngeal pouch extends posteriorly beyond copulatory apparatus. Outer pharyngeal musculature tripartite, with an outer longitudinal muscle layer, a midcircular and an inner longitudinal muscle layer. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Penis papilla absent. Distal section of male atrium narrowed. Ovovitelline ducts emerge from the ventral aspect of ovaries and subsequently ascend laterally to the female atrium to join dorsally to it. Female genital canal dilated to form an ootype projected from the dorsoposterior aspect of the female atrium. Without adhesive musculoglandular organs. Copulatory apparatus without adenodactyls (as re-diagnosed by Almeida et al., 2021).
Distribution: Regions Coquimbo and Valparaiso, Chile.
description: Published as part of Almeida, Ana Laura, Álvarez-Presas, Marta & Carbayo, Fernando, 2023, The discovery of new Chilean taxa revolutionizes the systematics of Geoplaninae Neotropical land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), pp. 837-898 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4) on page 892, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac072, http://zenodo.org/record/7813977
What caused the strong increase of the winter population of the Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus, in Iran in the last two decades?
Creators: name: Ashoori, Abbas
name: Amini, Hamid
name: Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh
name: Manolopoulos, Aris
name: Giorgos Catsadorakis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
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: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus is listed globally as “Near Threatened”. We used the results of the International Waterbird Census from 1998 to 2017 to find trends in wintering numbers. Of the 102 sites examined, 29 were classified as regular, 18 as irregular and 55 as occasional wintering habitats for the species. Both the population size and the geographical distribution increased in the second half of the study period. The Anzali Wetland Complex, Gomishan Marsh, Gorgan Bay and Miankaleh Wildlife Refuge, inlets and mangroves east of Jask, the east coast of Chabahar and inlets and mangroves west of Konarak were identified as the most important wintering areas of the Dalmatian Pelican in Iran. Wintering numbers increased from 300 to 1,100 in the 1970s and from c. 800 in the 1980s to c. 1,800 by 2006 and up to c. 10,000 in 2017. Thus, more than 37% of the global population of the species overwinters in Iran. A combination of a series of warm winters and delayed timing of cold spells appears to be responsible for the increase of the wintering population.
Additional file 6: of Physiological and proteome studies of maize (Zea mays L.) in response to leaf removal under high plant density
Creators: name: Wei, Shanshan
name: Wang, Xiangyu
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Dong, Shuting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S3. Effects of leaf removal on relative expression of photosynthesis related proteins (A), the corresponding encoding genes (B) in S2 and relative expression of fatty acid metabolism related proteins (C) and the encoding genes (D) in S4, compared to S0 respectively. The gene candidates are selected by proteins which accumulate in photosynthesis and fatty acid biosynthetic process terms in Fig. 4. S0 refers to no leaf removal (control); S2 and S4 refer to the removal of two or four uppermost leaves, respectively. Data are means ± SE (n = 3). * indicates the significant difference at P ≤ 0.05 level. (PDF 57 kb)
Warm gas in central regions of nearby galaxies. Extended mapping of CO(3-2) emission
Creators: name: Dumke, M.
name: Nieten, Ch.
name: Thuma, G.
name: Wielebinski, R.
name: Walsh, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have mapped the CO(3-2) line emission from several nearby galaxies, using the Heinrich-Hertz-Telescope. Our investigation includes twelve galaxies of various types and in different stages of star forming activity. The main results of this CO(3-2) survey are: 1. In none of the observed objects the emission is confined to the nucleus, as claimed in some earlier publications. CO(3-2) emission can be detected for some objects to the same extent as the CO(2-1) and the CO(1-0) lines. 2. The emission is more concentrated to the vicinity of star forming structures than the lower CO transitions. This is shown by decreasing line ratios from the very centres towards larger radii. 3. The CO(3-2) luminosity is stronger in objects that contain a nuclear starburst or morphological peculiarities. 4. The line ratios seem to be independent of Hubble type, color or luminosity. Most galaxies with enhanced central star formation show line ratios of ~1.3 in the very centre and \~1.0 at a radius of about 1kpc. Objects with a ring-like molecular gas distribution or normal galaxies show lower ratios. 5. Starburst galaxies show CO(3-2) emission also in their disks. The line intensities there are higher than that of normal galaxies.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This paper is available with high quality figures at http://steffens.as.arizona.edu/~mdumke/public/absaaco32.html
Quantum Geometry and Gravity: Recent Advances
Creators: name: Ashtekar, Abhay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last three years, a number of fundamental physical issues were addressed in loop quantum gravity. These include: A statistical mechanical derivation of the horizon entropy, encompassing astrophysically interesting black holes as well as cosmological horizons; a natural resolution of the big-bang singularity; the development of spin-foam models which provide background independent path integral formulations of quantum gravity and `finiteness proofs' of some of these models; and, the introduction of semi-classical techniques to make contact between the background independent, non-perturbative theory and the perturbative, low energy physics in Minkowski space. These developments spring from a detailed quantum theory of geometry that was systematically developed in the mid-nineties and have added a great deal of optimism and intellectual excitement to the field. The goal of this article is to communicate these advances in general physical terms, accessible to researchers in all areas of gravitational physics represented in this conference.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures; report of the plenary talk at the 16th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, held at Durban, S. Africa in July 2001
Lake Erie Grape Farm Cost Survey: 1996-2000
Creators: name: Shaffer, Barry E.
name: White, Gerald B.
name: Shaffer, Barry E.
name: White, Gerald B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This report is a summary of five years of grape costs and returns data collected from Lake Erie Region grape growers for the 1996 – 2000 seasons. “Concord” and “Niagara” grapes utilized for juice and generic wine accounted for over 90 percent of the survey acreage. About two-thirds of the acreage surveyed was in New York and one-third from Pennsylvania. In recent years, about 40 growers participated, with total vineyard acreage of just over 4,000. Average costs per acre were $1,559 including an imputed value for the operator’s labor. Major cost categories were paid labor ($341 per acre), depreciation ($200), interest ($126), operator labor ($125) and chemicals ($105). Average yield per farm was 6.4 tons per acre (with a range of 3.6 to 9.8 tons per acre). Many Lake Erie Grape Belt growers were able to improve their operations during these five years of relatively high prices, especially in 1999 when favorable prices were coupled with high yields. Wise improvements made during this time should help these participants face looming challenges as prices soften.
Einstein--Weyl spaces and dispersionless Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation from Painlevé I and II
Creators: name: Dunajski, Maciej
name: Tod, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present two constructions of new solutions to the dispersionless KP (dKP) equation arising from the first two Painlevé transcendents. The first construction is a hodograph transformation based on Einstein--Weyl geometry, the generalised Nahm's equation and the isomonodromy problem. The second construction, motivated by the first, is a direct characterisation of solutions to dKP which are constant on a central quadric. We show how the solutions to the dKP equations can be used to construct some three-dimensional Einstein--Weyl structures, and four--dimensional anti-self-dual null-Kähler metrics.
description: Final version, to be published in Physics Letters A
Bridge Deck Delamination Segmentation Based on Aerial Thermography Through Regularized Grayscale Morphological Reconstruction and Gradient Statistics
Creators: name: Cheng, Chongsheng
name: Shang, Zhexiong
name: Shen, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Environmental and surface texture-induced temperature variation across the bridge deck is a major source of errors in delamination detection through thermography. This type of external noise poses a significant challenge for conventional quantitative methods such as global thresholding and k-means clustering. An iterative top-down approach is proposed for delamination segmentation based on grayscale morphological reconstruction. A weight-decay function was used to regularize the reconstruction for regional maxima extraction. The mean and coefficient of variation of temperature gradient estimated from delamination boundaries were used for discrimination. The proposed approach was tested on a lab experiment and an in-service bridge deck. The result showed the ability of the framework to handle the non-uniform background situation which often occurred in practice and thus eliminates the need for inferencing the background required by existing methods. The gradient statistics of the delamination boundary in the thermal image were indicated as the valid criterion refine the segmentation under the proposed framework. Thus, improved performance was achieved compared to conventional methods. The parameter selection and the limitation of this approach were also discussed.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1904.05723
Phylogeographic analysis of Iranian wildcats (Felis lybica / Felis silvestris) as revealed by mitochondrial cytochrome b gene
Creators: name: Mousavi, Marzieh
name: Rezaei, Hamid Reza
name: Saeid Naderi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The wildcat (Felis lybica/Felis silvestris) is widely distributed in Africa and Eurasia. Iran is situated at the intersection of the distributions of the European Wildcat F. silvestris with the African Wildcat F. lybica. The genetic relationships of the Iranian wildcat population with either group remain unclear. We examined sequence variation of 1,140 bp of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene from 23 wildcat samples collected across Iran. The analyses revealed two subclades, of which one is related to the Asian Wildcat (F. lybica ornata) and the other to the African Wildcat (F. lybica lybica) and the Domestic Cat (F. catus). Sixteen closely related haplotypes were identified for the entire country, with two geographically distinct subclades for western and eastern Zagros Mountain Range and overlapping in some localities. The analyses of fixation index (FST) and molecular variance (AMOVA) demonstrated significant genetic structuring among the two subclades(FST=0.63). Analysis of mismatch distribution and multimodal graph indicated that the Iranian wildcat population is in a condition of demographic equilibrium.
SCDP: Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres (Complete Version)
Creators: name: Alasmar, Mohammed
name: Parisis, George
name: Crowcroft, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose SCDP, a general-purpose data transport protocol for data centres that, in contrast to all other protocols proposed to date, supports efficient one-to-many and many-to-one communication, which is extremely common in modern data centres. SCDP does so without compromising on efficiency for short and long unicast flows. SCDP achieves this by integrating RaptorQ codes with receiver-driven data transport, packet trimming and Multi-Level Feedback Queuing (MLFQ); (1) RaptorQ codes enable efficient one-to-many and many-to-one data transport; (2) on top of RaptorQ codes, receiver-driven flow control, in combination with in-network packet trimming, enable efficient usage of network resources as well as multi-path transport and packet spraying for all transport modes. Incast and Outcast are eliminated; (3) the systematic nature of RaptorQ codes, in combination with MLFQ, enable fast, decoding-free completion of short flows. We extensively evaluate SCDP in a wide range of simulated scenarios with realistic data centre workloads. For one-to-many and many-to-one transport sessions, SCDP performs significantly better compared to NDP and PIAS. For short and long unicast flows, SCDP performs equally well or better compared to NDP and PIAS.
description: 14 pages, 17 figures, Submitted to ToN Journal
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) alboniger Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus alboniger

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) alboniger (Guérin), new combination
 Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) alboniger Guérin 1956: 52.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) alboniger (Guérin) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 79.
 Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) alboniger var. picturatus Guérin 1956: 52.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
USR-SNIDS Integration and Coordination
Creators: name: Hussein, Abdullahi Bihi
Publisher: name: SORER
Year: 2023
Subjects: NationalId,Digital Transformation,unique identification,privacy,Trusted.

description: Eng Abdullahi Bihi, Deputy DG of Nira Somalia delivered a keynote presentation on "Somali National ID: Opportunities for Public Sector Digital Transformation and Innovation."
Hydraena guadelupensis Orchymont 1923
Creators: name: DELER-HERNÁNDEZ, ALBERT
name: DELGADO, JUAN A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydraenidae
Hydraena
Hydraena guadelupensis

description: Hydraena guadelupensis Orchymont, 1923
(Figs. 6, 12, 23, 24, 30–32, 52, 53, 57, 62)
 Hydraena guadelupensis Orchymont, 1923: 37.— Perkins, 1980: 145.— Jäch et al. 2000: 80.— Brojer & Jäch, 2011: 77.
 Diagnosis: Habitus as in Fig. 30. Male terminalia: Ventrite VII as in Fig. 12, subrounded, anterior margin angulate; spiculum gastrale long and straight, firmly attached to ventrite; terminal tergite reniform (Fig. 6). Female terminalia: Gonocoxite (Fig. 23) with outer plate symmetrical, anterolateral condyles small and a pair of subapical tufts of setae; inner plate symmetrical with a elongate impression; last tergite (Fig. 24) elliptic, with a distal row of stout, small setae. Male genitalia as in Figs. 31–32. Spermatheca: Long and slender, markedly angulate in lateral view (Figs. 52–53); spermathecal duct sinuate, enlarged in proximal half. For a detailed external description see Perkins (1980: 145).
 Material examined: Santiago de Cuba: 3 males, 7 females (in alcohol) (BSC-E) 4 males, 1 female (drymounted) (CUMS): “ CUBA: Santiago de Cuba, Río San / José, Chan-Chan, Loma del Gato / 20º01’49,4’N 76º02’11,5’’W, 353 m / 25-VI-2009, coll.: A. Deler- / Hernández & F. Cala-Riquelme ”.
 Distribution: Costa Rica, Jamaica, Virgin Islands and Guadalupe (Perkins 1980). The presence of H. guadelupensis in eastern Cuba (Fig. 57) gives continuity to its distribution through the Caribbean.
 Habitat: In eastern Cuba it has been collected exclusively in the margins of a well preserved mountain stream shaded by a dense forest canopy, as in Fig. 62.
description: Published as part of DELER-HERNÁNDEZ, ALBERT & DELGADO, JUAN A., 2012, The Hydraenidae of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera) I: Contribution to the fauna of eastern Cuba, pp. 213-238 in Zootaxa 3478 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.23, http://zenodo.org/record/10096657
New rest wavelength determinations for 7 mid-infrared fine structure lines by ISO-SWS
Creators: name: Feuchtgruber, H.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Beintema, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the planetary nebulae NGC6302, NGC6543 and NGC7027 by the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) have been used to determine rest wavelengths of spectral lines. We report on improved accuracies for wavelengths of 7 mid-infrared ionic fine structure lines.
description: 8 pages, 1 postscript figure. ApJ Supplement, accepted
Optical polarized phase function of the HR\,4796A dust ring
Creators: name: Milli, J.
name: Engler, N.
name: Schmid, H. M.
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Menard, F.
name: Kral, Q.
name: Boccaletti, A.
name: Thebault, P.
name: Choquet, E.
name: Mouillet, D.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Augereau, J. C.
name: Pinte, C.
name: Chauvin, G.
name: Dominik, C.
name: Perrot, C.
name: Zurlo, A.
name: Henning, T.
name: Min, M.
name: Beuzit, J. L.
name: Avenhaus, H.
name: Bazzon, A.
name: Moulin, T.
name: Llored, M.
name: Moeller-Nilsson, O.
name: Roelfsema, R.
name: Pragt, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering properties of the dust originating from debris discs are still poorly known. The analysis of scattered light is however a powerful remote-sensing tool to understand the physical properties of dust particles orbiting other stars. Scattered light is indeed widely used to characterise the properties of cometary dust in the solar system. We aim to measure the morphology and scattering properties of the dust from the debris ring around HR4796A in polarised optical light. We obtained high-contrast polarimetric images of HR4796A in the wavelength range 600-900nm with the SPHERE / ZIMPOL instrument on the Very Large Telescope. We measured for the first time the polarised phase function of the dust in a debris system over a wide range of scattering angles in the optical. We confirm that it is incompatible with dust particles being compact spheres under the assumption of the Mie theory, and propose alternative scenarios compatible with the observations, such as particles with irregular surface roughness or aggregate particles.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
A Survey of Recruitment & Selection Practices inFlorist Crop Production Firms
Creators: name: Maloney, Thomas R.
name: Milligan, Robert A.
name: Petracek, Kristine T.
name: Maloney, Thomas R.
name: Milligan, Robert A.
name: Petracek, Kristine T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Many florist crop producers have reported difficulty with attracting qualified employees to positions within their businesses. The purpose of this study was to define the difficulties florist crop producers face in attracting qualified workers. Managers of 72 florist crop production firms in Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania participated in a telephone survey designed to gather information on recruitment and selection issues for florist crop producers. The survey results revealed that recruitment practices were not used as frequently as they could be. It also appeared that managers were doing a better job with the selection process than they were with the recruitment process. In addition, compensation appeared to be closely linked to the ability of employers to effectively recruit job applicants. - One third of the employers surveyed indicated that attracting qualified employees to the business was not difficult, while two-thirds indicated that attracting qualified job applicants was either somewhat or very difficult. 1 The study found that florist crop production firms with more than 12.5 FTEs (full-time equivalents) used recommended, more formal recruitment and selection methods more frequently than producers with fewer FTEs. When comparing businesses by how difficult managers said that attracting qualified workers is, there were significant differences. Those who said attracting qualified applicants was not difficult operated significantly larger businesses. In addition, managers who said attracting workers was not difficult were more satisfied with the quality of their workers and their rate ofemployee turnover and perceived that their employees were more satisfied with their jobs. Improved recruitment practices coupled with a competitive wage and benefit package appear to be keys to improving the ability of employers to attract the most qualified workers for positions within the business. -
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) amictus Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus amictus

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) amictus (Erichson), new combination
 Brachysphenus [sic] (Barytopus) amictus Erichson 1847: 178.
 Morphoides amictus (Erichson) ~ Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3707.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Barytopus) amictus (Erichson) ~ Kuhnt 1909: 29.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) amictus (Erichson) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 79.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) assequens Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus assequens

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) assequens (Mader), new combination
 Brachysphoenus (Barytopus) assequens Mader 1942c: 79.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) assequens (Mader) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 79.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Using Probabilistic-Risky Programming Models in Identifying Optimized Pattern of Cultivation under Risk Conditions (Case Study: Shoshtar Region)
Creators: name: Kalashami, Mohammad Kavoosi
name: Sabbagi, Mohammad Aghapour
name: Alipour, Hamid Reza
name: Kalashami, Mohammad Kavoosi
name: Sabbagi, Mohammad Aghapour
name: Alipour, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Probabilistic-risky programming model
subject: Cultivation pattern
subject: Agricultural products
subject: Shoshtar region

description: Using Telser and Kataoka models of probabilistic-risky mathematical programming, the present research is to determine the optimized pattern of cultivating the agricultural products of Shoshtar region under risky conditions. In order to consider the risk in the mentioned models, time period of agricultural years 1996-1997 till 2004-2005 was taken into account. Results from Telser and Kataoka models showed that due to accepting the risk amounts, most of the optimized amounts suggest the tomato cultivation during the cultivation period of fall, and watermelon cultivation during the cultivation period of spring. On the basis of results, due to allocation of agricultural lands of Shoshtar to tomato and watermelon cultivation and specializing the farming activity in this province, gross profit of agricultural production system can be increased to 6116047000 and 727782272 thousand Rials, respectively. The results of understudy models were investigated under different income scenarios and probabilistic levels of risk acceptance. Correct policy making in order to offer the suitable equipments for adjusting the effects of lack of certainty and risks due to the climatic unwanted conditions in production process of agricultural products of Shoshtar region improve the life situation of farmers of the mentioned region.
Bi-graded Koszul modules, K3 carpets, and Green's conjecture
Creators: name: Raicu, Claudiu
name: Sam, Steven V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D02

description: We extend the theory of Koszul modules to the bi-graded case, and prove a vanishing theorem that allows us to show that the Canonical Ribbon Conjecture of Bayer and Eisenbud holds over a field of characteristic zero or at least equal to the Clifford index. Our results confirm a conjecture of Eisenbud and Schreyer regarding the characteristics where the generic statement of Green's conjecture holds. They also recover and extend to positive characteristics results due to Aprodu and Voisin asserting that Green's Conjecture holds for generic curves of each gonality.
description: 23 pages