cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mechanistic modeling of African swine fever: A systematic review
Creators: name: Hayes, Brandon H
name: Andraud, Mathieu
name: Salazar, Luis G
name: Rose, Nicolas
name: Vergne, Timothee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The spread of African swine fever (ASF) poses a grave threat to the global swine industry. Understanding transmission dynamics, such as through mechanistic modeling, is critical for designing effective control strategies. Articles were examined across multiple epidemiological and model characteristics. Model filiation was determined through creation of a neighbor-joined tree using phylogenetic software. Of 34 four articles qualifying for inclusion, four main modelling objectives were identified: estimating transmission parameters (11 studies), assessing determinants of transmission (7), examining consequences of hypothetical outbreaks (5), and assessing alternative control strategies (11). Estimated transmission parameters varied widely as did parameter assumptions between models. Uncertainties on epidemiological and ecological parameters were usually accounted for to assess the impact on the modeled infection trajectory. Almost all models are host specific, being developed for either domestic pigs or wild boar despite the fact that spillover events between domestic pigs and wild boar are evidenced to play an important role in ASF outbreaks. The development of models incorporating such transmission routes is crucial. All compared control strategies were defined a priori, and future models should be built to identify optimal contributions across many control methods. Further, control strategies were examined in competition, opposed to how they would be synergistically implemented. While comparing strategies is beneficial for identifying a rank-order efficacy of control methods, this structure does not necessarily determine the most effective combination of all available strategies. In order for ASFV models to effectively support decision-making in controlling ASFV globally, these modelling limitations need to be addressed.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Accepted to Preventive Veterinary Medicine. Revised from previous preprint to include models published through Dec 2020
Parental attributions for inattentive, impulsive and oppositional child behaviours
Creators: name: Freeman, Wendy Susan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examined parental attributions for child behaviours characteristic of two childhood externalizing disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). While a few previous studies have compared parents' perceptions of and responses to ADHD and ODD behaviours, no studies to date have compared attributions for the inattentive versus impulsive/hyperactive child behaviours consistent with DSMIV's two-dimensional model of ADHD. Thus, a primary goal of this study was to compare parents attributions for and responses to three types of child behaviour: inattention, impulsivity and opposition-defiance. This study also examined the impact of behavioural context (i.e., the behaviours that precede a target behaviour) on attributions for and reactions to these distinct types of child behaviour. Fifty-two mothers and fathers of elementary school aged children with ADHD read scenarios depicting the three types of target child behaviours, each preceded by a context of other inattentive, impulsive or oppositional behaviours, and responded to rating scales assessing their attributions for and reactions to the target child behaviour. Results indicated that parents showed significant differences in their attribution and response ratings across the three types of child behaviour, perceiving oppositional behaviours as most controllable bythe child, most intentionally performed, most worthy of blame and as eliciting the most negative reactions compared with impulsive and inattentive behaviours. Impulsive behaviours, in turn, were perceived as more controllable by the child, more intentionally performed, more worthy of blame, and as eliciting more negative reactions compared with inattentive behaviours. The impact of behavioural context on parental attributions and reactions was examined by comparing parents' responses to inattentive and impulsive child behaviours that were preceded by either a context of other inattentive or impulsive behaviours, or a context of oppositional child behaviours. Results revealed little impact of behavioural context on parents' attributions and reactions. Finally the effects of maternal depressed mood and child age on parents' attributions for child behaviour were examined. In this sample, no associations were found between these two variables and parents' attributions.
Higher-Order Spectral Clustering for Geometric Graphs
Creators: name: Avrachenkov, Konstantin
name: Bobu, Andrei
name: Dreveton, Maximilien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It resembles in concept the classical spectral clustering method but uses for partitioning the eigenvector associated with a higher-order eigenvalue. We establish the weak consistency of this algorithm for a wide class of geometric graphs which we call Soft Geometric Block Model. A small adjustment of the algorithm provides strong consistency. We also show that our method is effective in numerical experiments even for graphs of modest size.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
First records of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans in southeastern Italy (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Creators: name: Labadessa, Rocco
name: Dura, Teodoro
name: Mascia, Giuseppe
name: Pisconti, Arianna
name: Rolli, Erminio
name: Wagner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: New populations of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier, 1825) are first reported for southeastern Italy. The species was found in the period 2013-2017 in different lowland habitats of Apulia and Basilicata. These data may document a most recent colonization of southeastern Italy, which is potentially due to a wide range shift or expansion of species distribution from adjacent regions or countries.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
Does NGC 6397 contain an intermediate-mass black hole or a more diffuse inner subcluster?
Creators: name: Vitral, Eduardo
name: Mamon, Gary A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze proper motions from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the second Gaia data release along with line-of-sight velocities from the MUSE spectrograph to detect imprints of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in the center of the nearby, core-collapsed, globular cluster NGC 6397. For this, we use the new MAMPOSSt-PM Bayesian mass-modeling code, along with updated estimates of the surface density profile of NGC 6397. We consider different priors on velocity anisotropy and on the size of the central mass, and we also separate the stars into components of different mean mass to allow for mass segregation. The velocity ellipsoid is very isotropic throughout the cluster, as expected in post-core collapsed clusters subject to as strong a Galactic tidal field as NGC 6397. There is strong evidence for a central dark component of 0.8 to 2% of the total mass of the cluster. However, we find robust evidence disfavoring a central IMBH in NGC 6397, preferring instead a diffuse dark inner subcluster of unresolved objects with a total mass of 1000 to 2000 solar masses, half of which is concentrated within 6 arcsec (2% of the stellar effective radius). These results require the combination of HST and Gaia data: HST for the inner diagnostics and Gaia for the outer surface density and velocity anisotropy profiles. The small effective radius of the diffuse dark component suggests that it is composed of compact stars (white dwarfs and neutron stars) and stellar-mass black holes, whose inner locations are caused by dynamical friction given their high progenitor masses. We show that stellar-mass black holes should dominate the mass of this diffuse dark component, unless more than 25 per cent escape from the cluster. Their mergers in the cores of core-collapsed globular clusters could be an important source of the gravitational wave events detected by LIGO.
description: 27 pages, 20 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Flower visitation of Passiflora apetala, P. auriculata and P. holosericea (Passifloraceae) by Pepsis aquila (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Creators: name: Ramírez-Benavides, William
name: Jansen-Gonzàles, Sergio
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Pepsis aquila (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) is reported as an assiduous flower visitor and possible pollinator of Passiflora apetala, P. auriculata and P. holosericea in Costa Rica. The vertex and scutellum of P. aquila becomes abundantly covered with pollen while collecting the nectar from the cup nectaries of Passiflora. The Passiflora visited by P. aquila share some floral characteristics with previously reported plants pollinated by pompilids in Africa.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy data. We examine various issues important in the use of BAO to probe dark energy. We find that assuming a flat universe, and priors on Omega_m, Omega_m h^2, and Omega_b h^2 as expected from the Planck mission, the constraints on dark energy parameters (w_0,w') scale much less steeply with survey area than (area)^{-1/2} for a given redshift range. The constraints on the dark energy density rho_X(z), however, do scale roughly with (area)^{-1/2} due to the strong correlation between H(z) and Omega_m (which reduces the effect of priors on Omega_m). Dark energy constraints from BAO are very sensitive to the assumed linear scale of matter clustering and the redshift accuracy of the survey. For a BAO survey with 0.5<= z <= 2, sigma(R)=0.4 (corresponding to k_{max}(z=0)=0.086 h Mpc^{-1}), and sigma_z/(1+z)=0.001, (sigma_{w_0},sigma_{w'})=(0.115, 0.183) and (0.069, 0.104) for survey areas of 1000 (deg)^2 and 10000 (deg)^2 respectively. We find that it is critical to minimize the bias in the scale estimates in order to derive reliable dark energy constraints. For a 1000 (10000) square degree BAO survey, a 1-sigma bias in ln H(z) leads to a 2-sigma (3-sigma) bias in w'. The bias in w' due to the same scale bias from ln D_A(z) is slightly smaller and opposite in sign. The results from this paper will be useful in assessing different proposed BAO surveys and guiding the design of optimal dark energy detection strategies.
description: 11 pages including 5 color figures and 1 table. ApJ accepted
View-based Explanations for Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Chen, Tingyang
name: Qiu, Dazhuo
name: Wu, Yinghui
name: Khan, Arijit
name: Ke, Xiangyu
name: Gao, Yunjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generating explanations for graph neural networks (GNNs) has been studied to understand their behavior in analytical tasks such as graph classification. Existing approaches aim to understand the overall results of GNNs rather than providing explanations for specific class labels of interest, and may return explanation structures that are hard to access, nor directly queryable.We propose GVEX, a novel paradigm that generates Graph Views for EXplanation. (1) We design a two-tier explanation structure called explanation views. An explanation view consists of a set of graph patterns and a set of induced explanation subgraphs. Given a database G of multiple graphs and a specific class label l assigned by a GNN-based classifier M, it concisely describes the fraction of G that best explains why l is assigned by M. (2) We propose quality measures and formulate an optimization problem to compute optimal explanation views for GNN explanation. We show that the problem is $Σ^2_P$-hard. (3) We present two algorithms. The first one follows an explain-and-summarize strategy that first generates high-quality explanation subgraphs which best explain GNNs in terms of feature influence maximization, and then performs a summarization step to generate patterns. We show that this strategy provides an approximation ratio of 1/2. Our second algorithm performs a single-pass to an input node stream in batches to incrementally maintain explanation views, having an anytime quality guarantee of 1/4 approximation. Using real-world benchmark data, we experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of GVEX. Through case studies, we showcase the practical applications of GVEX.
description: This paper has been accepted by SIGMOD 2024
Skull-stripping free preprocessing pipeline for functional magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Sembritzki, Klaus
name: Mualla, Firas
name: Petrovic, Aleksandar
name: Maier, Andreas
name: Schmidt, Sebastian
name: Heismann, Bjorn
name: Hornegger, Joachim
name: Kornhuber, Johannes
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Processing pipelines for functional magnetic resonance images often require skull-stripping as a preprocessing step for important tasks like registration and segmentation. Unfortunately, manual inspection and possibly parameter tuning are required in skull-stripping which hinders an automatic processing of large databases.

We propose a pipeline which drops skull-stripping. It was evaluated on three standard data sets containing together more than 880 subjects. The results show that our pipeline is a more robust alternative to the classical skull-stripping based pipeline.
Execution time budget assignment for mixed criticality systems
Creators: name: Khelassi, Mohamed Amine
name: Abdeddaïm, Yasmina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose to quantify execution time variability of programs using statistical dispersion parameters. We show how the execution time variability can be exploited in mixed criticality real-time systems. We propose a heuristic to compute the execution time budget to be allocated to each low criticality real-time task according to its execution time variability. We show using experiments and simulations that the proposed heuristic reduces the probability of exceeding the allocated budget compared to algorithms which do not take into account the execution time variability parameter.
Intermittent null energy condition violations during inflation and primordial gravitational waves
Creators: name: Cai, Yong
name: Piao, Yun-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial null energy condition (NEC) violation would imprint a blue-tilted spectrum on gravitational wave background (GWB). However, its implications on the GWB might be far richer than expected. We present a scenario, in which after a slow-roll (NEC-preserving) inflation with Hubble parameter $H\simeq H_{inf1}$, the Universe goes through an NEC-violating period and then enters subsequent slow-roll inflation with a higher $H$ ($=H_{inf2}\gg H_{inf1}$). The resulting primordial gravitational wave spectrum is nearly flat at the cosmic microwave background band, as well as at the frequency $f\sim 1/{\rm yr}$ but with higher amplitude (compatible with the recent NANOGrav result). It is also highlighted that for the multi-stage inflation if the NEC violations happened intermittently, we might have a Great Wall-like spectrum of the stochastic GWB at the corresponding frequency band.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures; v2, references added, updated to match published version
Notes on the Italian distribution of Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757), species assessed for the IUCN Red List (Araneae: Pisauridae)
Creators: name: Milano, Filippo
name: Pantini, Paolo
name: Cavalcante, Riccardo
name: Isaia, Marco
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The great raft spider, Dolomedes plantarius, is a semi-aquatic spider species with an Eurosiberian distribution. As a result of habitat loss and degradation, in 1996 the species was classified as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, but since then the status has never been updated. We present the frame of the existing knowledge on the distribution of this rare spider species in Italy, based on literature data and on original records gathered in recent years. Finally, we discuss the conservation value of the Italian populations, in light of their peripheral position within the species range and in light of the future reduction of the bioclimatic range of the species due to climate and land cover changes associated with anthropic disturbance
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
YOUTH AND AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN AFRICA.pdf
Creators: name: Kyomugisha, Pamella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Food is vital for existence and at the center of life is food; common knowledge this is. Agriculture is the backbone of most African economies and the food sector is vital to man’s existence. In most countries on the continent, agriculture is an occupation that is mostly practiced by the older generation and a topic of less interest to the youth especially the elite-urban youth. The youth’s participation is very crucial for the sustainability of the agricultural sector and even further that of any economy. Most youths are barely interested in agriculture and this is due to different factors like the perceptions they have been led to believe on their, growth journey so far, the fact that is not a lucrative and high paying sector for most smallholder farmers and also that it has not received it’s deserved support from the government over the years. The dynamics of the agricultural sector are changing and associating the agricultural sector with other sectors that are trendy like technology and entrepreneurship is a potential way of getting more youth to engage in the sector.
First records of acclimatized populations of Buprestis dalmatina in Italy (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Creators: name: Lorubio, Donato
name: Cancelliere, Giuseppe
name: Izzillo, Francesco
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Buprestis (Ancylocheira) dalmatina Mannerheim, 1837, an E-Mediterranean Buprestid species, is here recorded for the first time from southern Italy (forest areas of Matera province, Basilicata Region). The here reported records of B. dalmatina are based on material collected on Pinus halepensis Mill. in re-forested coastal areas; the species is therefore supposed to have been very likely introduced. Some aspects of the ecological relationships of Buprestis dalmatina with the closely related and syntopic Pinus borers B. humeralis, B. novemmaculata and B. haemorrhoidalis haemorrhoidalis in Southern Italy are also briefly discussed.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
On the behaviour of single scale hard small $x$ processes in QCD near the black disc limit
Creators: name: Blok, B.
name: Frankfurt, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that at sufficiently small Bjorken $x$ where pQCD amplitude rapidly increases with energy and violates probability conservation the shadowing effects in the single-scale small $x$ hard QCD processes can be described by an effective quantum field theory of interacting quasiparticles. The quasiparticles are the perturbative QCD ladders. We find, within the WKB approximation, that the smallness of the QCD coupling constant ensures the hierarchy among many-quasiparticle interactions evaluated within physical vacuum and in particular, the dominance in the Lagrangian of the triple quasiparticle interaction. It is explained that the effective field theory considered near the perturbative QCD vacuum contains a tachyon relevant for the divergency of the perturbative QCD series at sufficiently small $x$. We solve the equations of motion of the effective field theory within the WKB approximation and find the physical vacuum and the transitions between the false (perturbative) and physical vacua. Classical solutions which dominate transitions between the false and physical vacua are kinks that cannot be decomposed into perturbative series over the powers of $α_s$. These kinks lead to color inflation and the Bose-Einstein condensation of quasiparticles. The account of the quantum fluctuations around the WKB solution reveals the appearance of the "massless" particles-- "phonons". It is explained that "phonons" are relevant for the black disc behaviour of small $x$ processes, leading to a Froissart rise of the cross-section. The condensation of the ladders produces a color network occupying a "macroscopic" longitudinal volume. We discuss briefly the possible detection of new QCD effects.
description: 24 pages, 1 Figure. References added, and several misprints eliminated
New bioethological observations on Brahmaea (Acanthobrahmaea) europaea and its host plants in Special Area of Conservation “Grotticelle di Monticchio” (Basilicata, Southern Italy) (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae)
Creators: name: Spicciarelli, Renato
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Brahmaea (Acanthobrahmaea) europaea Hartig, 1963, is an Italian endemic exhibiting an exceedingly restricted geographic distribution. In 1971, a protected site was established for the species: the Nature Reserve of “Grotticelle” (Basilicata Region). Then, the Reserve area was incorporated into the perimeter of the Special Area of Conservation “Grotticelle di Monticchio”. In 1997, for the first time, a group of B. (A.) europaea caterpillars was found in nature. During research conducted in 2013-2014, an egg cluster of B. europaea was observed for the first time, and other groups of larvae were found inside the Reserve. Additional information was acquired about mobility of the caterpillars during their development. Palatability tests allowed to attest Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa, Ligustrum vulgare and Phyllirea latifolia as food plants of the moth among those present in the Reserve. From spring 2015 to spring 2017 other bioethological observations on B. europaea were conducted, as well as surveys aimed to study the distribution of its host plants in the habitats of SAC “Grotticelle di Monticchio”. During 2016, ten egg clusters and numerous groups of caterpillars have been identified on 12 different trees. In 2017, an egg cluster was observed, and other groups of larvae were found. These finding allowed to observe other details on spawning and behaviour of the caterpillars, until to pupate. In addition, a map of local habitat 91B0 “Thermophilous Fraxinus angustifolia woods” is also presented.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
On the Interpretation of High Velocity White Dwarfs as Members of the Galactic Halo
Creators: name: Bergeron, P.
name: Ruiz, Maria Teresa
name: Hamuy, M.
name: Leggett, S. K.
name: Currie, M. J.
name: Lajoie, C. -P.
name: Dufour, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed analysis of 32 of the 38 halo white dwarf candidates identified by Oppenheimer et al. is presented, based on model atmosphere fits to observed energy distributions built from optical BVRI and infrared JHK CCD photometry. Effective temperatures and atmospheric compositions are determined for all objects, as well as masses and cooling ages when trigonometric parallax measurements are available. This sample is combined with that of other halo white dwarf candidates and disk white dwarfs to study the nature of these objects in terms of reduced proper motion diagrams, tangential velocities, and stellar ages. We reaffirm the conclusions of an earlier analysis based on photographic magnitudes of the same sample that total stellar ages must be derived in order to associate a white dwarf with the old halo population, and that this can only be accomplished through precise mass and distance determinations.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
AdvSQLi: Generating Adversarial SQL Injections against Real-world WAF-as-a-service
Creators: name: Qu, Zhenqing
name: Ling, Xiang
name: Wang, Ting
name: Chen, Xiang
name: Ji, Shouling
name: Wu, Chunming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the first defensive layer that attacks would hit, the web application firewall (WAF) plays an indispensable role in defending against malicious web attacks like SQL injection (SQLi). With the development of cloud computing, WAF-as-a-service, as one kind of Security-as-a-service, has been proposed to facilitate the deployment, configuration, and update of WAFs in the cloud. Despite its tremendous popularity, the security vulnerabilities of WAF-as-a-service are still largely unknown, which is highly concerning given its massive usage. In this paper, we propose a general and extendable attack framework, namely AdvSQLi, in which a minimal series of transformations are performed on the hierarchical tree representation of the original SQLi payload, such that the generated SQLi payloads can not only bypass WAF-as-a-service under black-box settings but also keep the same functionality and maliciousness as the original payload. With AdvSQLi, we make it feasible to inspect and understand the security vulnerabilities of WAFs automatically, helping vendors make products more secure. To evaluate the attack effectiveness and efficiency of AdvSQLi, we first employ two public datasets to generate adversarial SQLi payloads, leading to a maximum attack success rate of 100% against state-of-the-art ML-based SQLi detectors. Furthermore, to demonstrate the immediate security threats caused by AdvSQLi, we evaluate the attack effectiveness against 7 WAF-as-a-service solutions from mainstream vendors and find all of them are vulnerable to AdvSQLi. For instance, AdvSQLi achieves an attack success rate of over 79% against the F5 WAF. Through in-depth analysis of the evaluation results, we further condense out several general yet severe flaws of these vendors that cannot be easily patched.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS)
A relict population of Cymbalophora rivularis on the Pollino Massif, southern Italy (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
Creators: name: Greco, Silvia
name: Leonetti, Francesco Luigi
name: Scalercio, Stefano
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The first record for South Italy of Cymbalophora rivularis (Ménétriès, 1832) is reported, until now recorded in Italy only for Central Apennine. Three specimens were collected during August-September 2017, in an Acer spp. forest located on Monte Sparviere, a Site of Community Importance within the Pollino National Park. Furthermore, this species was successfully barcoded for the first time. This finding reinforces the biogeographic importance of Pollino Massif as refuge area for relict populations of several animal and plant species.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
[Elicitation of verb paradigms, basic phrases, and vocabulary, poem]
Creators: name: Jerónimo Laureano, Miguel
name: Santiago Francisco, José
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 8 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 90-104 of related field notes. Poem is file 002, with transcription and translation on pp. 92-93.
Kahle, Wilhelm: Evangelische Christen in Rußland und der Sovetunion
Creators: name: Stupperich, Robert
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1979): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 28, Heft 1
Zelus renardii (Kolenati, 1856), a newly established alien species in Italy (Hemiptera: Reduviidae, Harpactorinae)
Creators: name: Pinzari, Manuela
name: Cianferoni, Fabio
name: Martellos, Stefano
name: Dioli, Paride
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: This note adds new occurrence records of the hemipteran alien species Zelus renardii (Kolenati, 1856) in Italy by citizens, entomologists and photographers. This species was recorded for first time in Rome in 2013.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
A counter-rotating core in the dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 510
Creators: name: Thomas, D.
name: Brimioulle, F.
name: Bender, R.
name: Hopp, U.
name: Greggio, L.
name: Maraston, C.
name: Saglia, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical long-slit spectra of the Virgo dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 510 at high spectral and spatial resolution. Heliocentric velocities and velocity dispersions as functions of galaxy radius are derived by deconvolving line-of-sight velocity distributions. A maximum rotation v_rot=8 km/s inside half the effective radius (re~20 arcsec) and a mean, radially flat velocity dispersion sigma=44 km/s are measured. The core extending over the inner 2 arcsec (~140 pc) is found to rotate in the opposite sense with v_rot(core) ~ -1/2 v_rot. VCC 510 (M_B ~ -15.7) is therefore by far the faintest and smallest galaxy with a counter-rotating core known. From the main body rotation and the velocity dispersion profile we deduce that VCC 510 is anisotropic and clearly not entirely supported by rotation. By comparison of Lick absorption-line indices with stellar population models we derive an old luminosity-weighted age (10 Gyr) and sub-solar metallicity ([Z/H]=-0.4) inside the effective radius. There is tentative evidence that the counter-rotating core might be younger and less alpha/Fe enhanced. From the stellar population parameters we obtain a total stellar mass-to-light ratio of ~3.6 (M/L_B)_sun which is significantly lower than a rough dynamical estimate obtained from the kinematics through the virial theorem (~15). This discrepancy hints toward the possible presence of dark matter in the centre of VCC 510. We discuss the origin of the counter-rotating core and exclude fly-by encounters as a viable possibility. Gas accretion or galaxy merging provide more likely explanations. VCC 510 is therefore the direct observational evidence that such processes do occur in cluster satellite galaxies on dwarf galaxy scales.
description: 4 pages, two figures, accepted by A&A Letters
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
Creators: name: Sahni, Ashok
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1972
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Caudata
Scapherpetontidae
Scapherpeton
Scapherpeton tectum

description: Scapherpeton tectum Cope, 1876b
Scapherpeton tectum COPE, 1876b, p. 355.
Scapherpeton laticolle COPE, 1876b, p. 356.
Scapherpeton excisum COPE, 1876b, p. 357.
Scapherpetonfavosum COPE, 1876b, p. 357.
Hemitrypus jordanianus COPE, 1876b, p. 358.
Hedronchus sternbergi COPE, 1876b, p. 359.
Cope originally described this species and others now regarded as synonyms from materials collected near the mouth of the Judith River in the Judith River Formation. The present collection contains many specimens of Scapherpeton tectum. The morphology and description of this form have been adequately discussed by Auffenberg and Goin (1959) and by Estes (1964); further discussion would be repetitive. The collection includes isolated dentaries, maxillae, and vertebrae of which the atlas is the most common element recovered and the most readily identifiable.
Two genera, Scapherpeton and Hemitrypus, were described by Cope (1876b) from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Originally four species of Scapherpeton were distinguished: S. laticolle, founded on an atlas and dorsal vertebrae; S. excisum, on a cervical vertebra; and S. favosum and S. tectum, on single vertebrae. Auffenberg and Goin (1959) placed the other three species of Scapherpeton in synonymy with S. tectum and erected a new family Scapherpetonidae for its inclusion. Estes (1964) also put Hemitrypus jordanianus Cope (1876b) and Hedronchus sternbergi Cope (1876b) in synonymy with the single species of Scapherpeton.
description: Published as part of Sahni, Ashok, 1972, The vertebrate Fauna of the Judith River formation, Montana, pp. 319-416 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147 (6) on pages 348-349, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3382461
New species and records of the pseudoscorpion genus Acanthocreagris from Italy (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae)
Creators: name: Gardini, Giulio
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Three new species of the genus Acanthocreagris Mahnert, 1974 are described from Lombardy (Acanthocreagris grottoloi sp. n.) and Sardinia (Acanthocreagris foghesa sp. n. and Acanthocreagris alguerensis sp. n.). Acanthocreagris sardoa (Beier, 1959) and Acanthocreagris agazzii (Beier, 1966) are redescribed respectively on specimens from Sardinia and Venetian pre-Alps and a key to adults of the Italian species of the genus is provided.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
Minnesota Agricultural Economist 694
Creators: name: Lazarus, Bill
name: Olson, Kent D.
name: Stevens, Stanley C.
name: Buhr, Brian L.
name: Lazarus, Bill
name: Olson, Kent D.
name: Stevens, Stanley C.
name: Buhr, Brian L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Copeland Rents; Farm Income; Corn Prices; Livestock Prices
Non-local $d_{xy}$ nematicity and the missing electron pocket in FeSe
Creators: name: Rhodes, Luke C.
name: Böker, Jakob
name: Müller, Marvin A.
name: Eschrig, Matthias
name: Eremin, Ilya M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of spontaneous electronic nematic ordering provides important information for understanding iron-based superconductors. Here, we analyze a scenario where the $d_{xy}$ orbital strongly contributes to nematic ordering in FeSe. We show that the addition of $d_{xy}$ nematicity to a pure $d_{xz}/d_{yz}$ order provides a natural explanation for the unusual Fermi surface and correctly reproduces the strongly anisotropic momentum dependence of the superconducting gap. We predict a Lifshitz transition of an electron pocket mediated by temperature and sulphur doping, whose signatures we discuss by analysing available experimental data. We present the variation of momentum dependence of the superconducting gap upon suppression of nematicity. Our quantitatively accurate model yields the transition from tetragonal to nematic FeSe and the FeSe$_{1-x}$S$_{x}$ series, and puts strong constraints on possible nematic mechanisms.
Subgeometric hypocoercivity for piecewise-deterministic Markov process Monte Carlo methods
Creators: name: Andrieu, Christophe
name: Dobson, Paul
name: Wang, Andi Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We extend the hypocoercivity framework for piecewise-deterministic Markov process (PDMP) Monte Carlo established in [Andrieu et. al. (2018)] to heavy-tailed target distributions, which exhibit subgeometric rates of convergence to equilibrium. We make use of weak Poincaré inequalities, as developed in the work of [Grothaus and Wang (2019)], the ideas of which we adapt to the PDMPs of interest. On the way we report largely potential-independent approaches to bounding explicitly solutions of the Poisson equation of the Langevin diffusion and its first and second derivatives, required here to control various terms arising in the application of the hypocoercivity result.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure. Minor revisions made
КЎЗ УЧУН МЎЛЖАЛЛАНГАН ВИРУСГА ҚАРШИ ДОРИ ВОСИТАЛАРНИНГ ЎЗИГА ХОС АСПЕКТЛАРИ ВА УЛАРНИНГ КОНТЕНТ-ТАҲЛИЛИ
Creators: name: А.Х.Мансуров., Ф.А.Умарова Тошкент, Ўзбекистон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Жаҳон соғлиқни сақлаш ташкилоти маълумотларига кўра, ҳар йили юқумли касалликларнинг улуши ўлимга олиб келадиган касалликлар умумий сонининг тахминан 25 % ни ташкил қилади. Бугунги кунда инфекциялар инсонлар ўлимига сабаб бўлувчи асосий омиллардан бири бўлиб қолмоқда.

Тадқиқотда республикамиз аҳолисини юқори самарали, арзон ва хавфсиз фармацевтика маҳсулотлари билан таъминлаш бўйича олиб борилаётган илмий изланишларни амалга ошира бориб, келтирилган маълумотлар асосида маҳаллий, МДҲ ва хорижий адабиётлар манбаларида тақдим этилган фармакотерапевтик гуруҳи бўйича вирусларга қарши касалликларида ишлатиладиган дори препаратлари, уларнинг қўлланилиши, замонавий фармацевтика бозоридаги ўрни ва уларга бўлган эҳтиёжни аниқлаш, шунингдек замонавий вирусга қарши ишлатиладиган препаратларни яратиш ва мавжуд усулларни такомиллаштириш бўйича маълумотлар асосида контент таҳлили натижалари келтирилган.

Таянч иборалар: фармацевтика бозори, фармакотерапевтик гуруҳ, вируслар, вирусларга қарши дори препаратлари, контент-таҳлил
Power spectrum in stochastic inflation
Creators: name: Ando, Kenta
name: Vennin, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the power spectrum of curvature perturbations in stochastic inflation. This combines the distribution of first crossing times through the end-of-inflation surface, which has been previously studied, with the distribution of the fields value at the time when a given scale crosses out the Hubble radius during inflation, which we show how to compute. This allows the stochastic-$δN$ formalism to make concrete contact with observations. As an application, we study how quantum diffusion at small scales (arising e.g. in models leading to primordial black holes) affects the large-scale perturbations observed in the cosmic microwave background. We find that even if those sets of scales are well separated, large effects can arise from the distortion of the classical relationship between field values and wavenumbers brought about by quantum diffusion near the end of inflation. This shows that cosmic microwave background measurements can set explicit constraints on the entire inflationary potential down to the end of inflation.
description: References added, matches published version in JCAP
Two new species of Chaetocnema Stephens from South Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)
Creators: name: Biondi, Maurizio
name: D'Alessandro, Paola
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: In this paper Chaetocnema adamastori sp. nov. and C. saldanhai sp. nov., both from Western Cape Province (Republic of South Africa), are described. The two new species are closely related with C. audisiana Biondi and C. capensis Bryant, respectively. Micrographs of diagnostic characters, including male and female genitalia, are supplied. Ecological data for each species, including habitat preference, host plant and phenology, are also reported.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
ZeroPM pieces #18 - Using ion exchange resins to clean PFAS contaminated water
Creators: name: Lesmeister, Lukas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ZeroPM pieces presentation #18 called Using ion exchange resins to clean PFAS contaminated water by Lukas Lesmeister, TZW-German Water Center. The full presentation can be viewed as a recording on the ZeroPM youtube channel
Daniel Buren and Robert Smithson : a comparative study
Creators: name: Bérard, Serge
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis compares the works of French artist Daniel Buren and American artist Robert Smithson during the years 1965- 1968. Smithson and Buren have been chosen because their career paths exemplify the fate of the artist in an increasingly administered art world, but also because the subject matter of their respective works is a reflection of the importance of various kinds of infrastructures in shaping everyday life in the modern world. The questions that the thesis tries to answer are principally the following: how has this infrastructural and standardized reality been investigated by artists, and how did it affect their choice of artistic strategy? Furthermore, has their evaluation of this reality found the same formulation whether the artist lived in the United States or in France? Smithson's work recalls the physical infrastructures characteristic of public works, especially that of the highway system. His choice of infrastructure is significant for an American artist. The extension of the highway system, which will increase dramatically in the mid-1950s and throughout the 1960s, is a major event in the history of the United States, and represents the final confirmation of the supremacy of "car culture." As well as evoking the grid of the highway system, Smithson alludes to the corporation and its vast organizational structure that is the source of the need for an enlarged highway infrastructure. Buren's materials and their display in an urban space are intended to compete with the network of urban signs as it is found in the streets of Paris, which becomes in the period around May 1968 the site of a struggle for political affirmation, with wildly inventive slogans scrawled on the walls of the city. The thesis takes into account the different socio-historical, intellectual and esthetic contexts in which each artist elaborated his strategy, and, as well, relates their work to contemporary concerns over the evolution of the industrial world and its organizations as it develops, with a different national emphasis, in both France and the United States.
A kernel type nonparametric density estimator for decompounding
Creators: name: van Es, Bert
name: Gugushvili, Shota
name: Spreij, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a sample from a discretely observed compound Poisson process, we consider estimation of the density of the jump sizes. We propose a kernel type nonparametric density estimator and study its asymptotic properties. An order bound for the bias and an asymptotic expansion of the variance of the estimator are given. Pointwise weak consistency and asymptotic normality are established. The results show that, asymptotically, the estimator behaves very much like an ordinary kernel estimator.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/07-BEJ6091 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Description of two new species of Calodromus Guérin-Méneville, 1832 from Peninsular Malaysia (Coleoptera: Brentidae, Cyphagoginae)
Creators: name: Cheong, Loong Fah
name: Bartolozzi, Luca
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Calodromus mantillerii n. sp. and Calodromus goosseni n. sp. from Perak (Malaysia) are described on two single male specimens. The new taxa are closely related to Calodromus insignis (Senna, 1895) but can be easily distinguished by the very different shape of the first tarsal article of the male hind legs. A key for the identification of the males of the three known species of the Calodromus insignis group is provided. A new locality record of Calodromus insignis from Malaysia is also given.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
Exactly Solvable Model for the Decay of Superdeformed Nuclei
Creators: name: Barrett, B. R.
name: Cardamone, D. M.
name: Stafford, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The history and importance of superdeformation in nuclei is briefly discussed. A simple two-level model is then employed to obtain an elegant expression for the branching ratio for the decay via the E1 process in the normal-deformed band of superdeformed nuclei. From this expression, the spreading width Gamma^downarrow for superdeformed decay is found to be determined completely by experimentally known quantities. The accuracy of the two-level approximation is verified by considering the effects of other normal-deformed states. Furthermore, by using a statistical model of the energy levels in the normal-deformed well, we can obtain a probabilistic expression for the tunneling matrix element V.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, from a talk given at the conference Blueprints for the Nucleus: From First Principles to Collective Motion, May 17-22, 2004, Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, A Festschrift in honor of Professor Bruce Barrett, http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/Istanbul/
Description of three new Paratrichius Janson, 1881, from Indochinese peninsula (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae)
Creators: name: Ricchiardi, Enrico
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: A recent increase in quality collecting activities in Laos and Vietnam, particularly by local collectors, has added significantly to our knowledge of the insect faunas in these countries. The genus Paratrichius Janson, 1881 is no exception, new species are being discovered regularly. In the current study, three new species closely related to Paratrichius vicinus (Bourgoin, 1915) are described.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)