cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Unified Bayesian View on Spatially Informed Source Separation and Extraction based on Independent Vector Analysis
Creators: name: Brendel, Andreas
name: Haubner, Thomas
name: Kellermann, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Signal separation and extraction are important tasks for devices recording audio signals in real environments which, aside from the desired sources, often contain several interfering sources such as background noise or concurrent speakers. Blind Source Separation (BSS) provides a powerful approach to address such problems. However, BSS algorithms typically treat all sources equally and do not resolve uncertainty regarding the ordering of the separated signals at the output of the algorithm, i.e., the outer permutation problem. This paper addresses this problem by incorporating prior knowledge into the adaptation of the demixing filters, e.g., the position of the sources, in a Bayesian framework. We focus here on methods based on Independent Vector Analysis (IVA) as it elegantly and successfully deals with the internal permutation problem. By including a background model, i.e., a model for sources we are not interested to separate, we enable the algorithm to extract the sources of interest in overdetermined and underdetermined scenarios at a low computational complexity. The proposed framework allows to incorporate prior knowledge about the demixing filters in a generic way and unifies several known and newly proposed algorithms using a Bayesian view. For all algorithmic variants, we provide efficient update rules based on the iterative projection principle. The performance of a large variety of representative algorithmic variants, including very recent algorithms, is compared using measured room impulse responses.
PhilHealth’s Primary Care Benefits for Indigent Members in Calasiao, Pangasinan
Creators: name: Petrola, Keith Giomeer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 150204 Insurance Studies
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study is concerned with the second strategy of the Duterte Health Agenda which is to cover all Filipinos, especially the poor and the marginalized, against health-related financial risk. Hence reaffirming that indigent families should be given insurance coverage under the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) administered by PhilHealth and must accordingly be made well informed about their corresponding entitlements.

More specifically, this study was conceptualized to determine the extent of awareness of Indigent Members in Calasiao, Pangasinan about PhilHealth’s Primary Care Benefits (PCB) and if they are availing and satisfied with them. The said municipality has the highest number of enrolled indigent members in entire Region 1 (PhilHealth Data, March 2017).
title: Spatiotemporal variability of North Sea cod discards
Creators: name: Feekings, Jordan
name: Poos, Jan Jaap
name: Aarts, Geert
name: Madsen, Niels
name: van Helmond, Aloysius
name: Catchpole, Tom
name: Rochet, Marie-Joelle
name: Pout, Alastair
name: Ulleweit, Jens
name: Vandemaele, Sofie
name: Ulrich, Clara
name: Kempf, Alexander
Publisher: name: ASC 2012 - Theme session C
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This study aims to elucidate the discarding patterns of cod throughout the entire North Sea while accounting for the variability that occurs as a result of additional drivers. Demonstrating detailed spatiotemporal discarding patterns provides opportunities to further develop spatial management. This facilitates the move to discard free fisheries as part of the proposed reforms of the CFP and can illustrate what the impacts will be on European fishing fleets.
A KKR Green function formalism for ballistic transport
Creators: name: Mavropoulos, Ph.
name: Papanikolaou, N.
name: Dederichs, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method for the calculation of ballistic transport from first principles. The multiple scattering screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) method is combined with a Green's function formulation of the Landauer approach for the ballistic transport. We obtain an efficient O(N) algorithm for the calculation of ballistic conductance through a scattering region connected to semi-infinite crystalline leads. In particular we generalize the results of Baranger and Stone in the case of Bloch wave boundary conditions and we discuss relevant properties of the S-matrix. We consider the implications on the application of the formalism in conjunction with a cellular multiple scattering description of the electronic structure, and demonstrate the convergence properties concerning the angular momentum expansions.
description: 15 pages
title: Rapid-response and High-precision Wide-field Photometry of Transients and Gravitational Wave Counterparts
Creators: name: Roberts, Dean
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: This work focuses on the use of the small-aperture PIRATE robotic telescope, built with off the shelf components at a relatively low cost, in the observation of numerous astrophysical objects. This includes both the follow-up of gravitational wave alerts released by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, but also the long term monitoring of Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) stars in the nearby Triangulum galaxy (M33). A new pipeline was developed to fully automate the follow-up of gravitational wave alerts, which enables PIRATE to respond promptly without human intervention. This resulted in the detailed follow-up of four gravitational wave alerts, all of which were as a result of a binary black hole merger. Although no optical counterparts were detected, upper limits were placed on the magnitude of any potential counterpart. However, this work did produce dozens of serendipitously discovered candidate variable stars; and had it not been due to bad luck, PIRATE would have been able to follow-up the famous binary neutron star merger event GW170817. Additionally, PIRATE was used to monitor several candidate LBV stars in the Triangulum galaxy for a continuous period of 4 months, to search for signs of an S Dor cycle that’s indicative of an LBV. This was used in conjunction with new spectroscopic data taken with the WHT to analyse the behaviour of these stars and reclassify them accordingly. In total, three stars were re-classified as bona fide LBVs as a result of this work, and a further four were given new classifications as Cool Hypergiants. Although no LBV was photometrically observed undergoing an outburst, PIRATE was able to detect several of them in M33 and would have consequently observed such a rare event had one occurred during its observing window.
Variable Rate Video Compression using a Hybrid Recurrent Convolutional Learning Framework
Creators: name: Jadhav, Aishwarya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, neural network-based image compression techniques have been able to outperform traditional codecs and have opened the gates for the development of learning-based video codecs. However, to take advantage of the high temporal correlation in videos, more sophisticated architectures need to be employed. This paper presents PredEncoder, a hybrid video compression framework based on the concept of predictive auto-encoding that models the temporal correlations between consecutive video frames using a prediction network which is then combined with a progressive encoder network to exploit the spatial redundancies. A variable-rate block encoding scheme has been proposed in the paper that leads to remarkably high quality to bit-rate ratios. By joint training and fine-tuning of this hybrid architecture, PredEncoder has been able to gain significant improvement over the MPEG-4 codec and has achieved bit-rate savings over the H.264 codec in the low to medium bit-rate range for HD videos and comparable results over most bit-rates for non-HD videos. This paper serves to demonstrate how neural architectures can be leveraged to perform at par with the highly optimized traditional methodologies in the video compression domain.
title: Neoliberale Prekarisierung. Eine geschlechtertheoretische Annäherung an das Kreativitätsdispositiv
Creators: name: Gebhardt, Mareike
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 320 Political science (Politics and government)

description: Kreativität wird in der Spätmoderne zur Ware. Sie unterliegt den neoliberalen Anforderungen von Innovation, Optimierung und Selbstverantwortlichkeit. Der Vortrag untersucht aus einer geschlechtertheoretischen Perspektive das neoliberale „Kreativitätsdispositiv“, wie es von Andreas Reckwitz (2012, 2013, 2016) diagnostiziert wird. Er erweitert Reckwitz‘ soziologische Ausführungen um eine geschlechter- und politiktheoretische Perspektivierung, die die Verschränkung von Neoliberalismus, Individualismus und „gouvernementaler Prekarisierung“ (Isabell Lorey) in den Blick nimmt. Dabei wirft der Vortrag auch die Frage auf, ob Kreativität im Spätkapitalismus jenseits eines neoliberalen Optimierungs- und Innovationsimperativs auch emanzipativ-subversive Praktiken hervorbringen kann. Denn dort „wo es Macht gibt, gibt es Widerstand“, schreibt Michel Foucault in „Der Wille zum Wissen“ (1983). In diesem Sinne geht der Vortrag auch auf die Spurensuche nach den widerständigen Potentialen des Kreativen.
The Way it Makes you Feel. Predicting Users’ Engagement during Interviews with Biofeedback and Supervised Learning: Additional Material
Creators: name: Girardi, Daniela
name: Ferrari, Alessio
name: Novielli, Nicole
name: Spoletini, Paola
name: Fucci, Davide
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This package contains all the material used to conduct the study presented in the paper #88 "The Way it Makes you Feel. Predicting Users' Engagement during Interviews with Biofeedback and Supervised Learning" accepted at the Requirement Engineering Conference. During the study, users have been interviewed with questions concerning the Facebook platform. Meanwhile, they wore a wristband for collecting their biofeedback. After each question of the interview, users self-reported their level of engagement elicited by the question using a questionnaire.
Coming a long way: Switzerland’s transformation from a majoritarian to a consensus democracy (1848–2018)
Creators: name: Vatter, Adrian
name: Freiburghaus, Rahel
name: Arens, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: How did relevant key events shape the long-term transformation of Swiss democracy in terms of horizontal and vertical power-sharing? And why did existing systems, that is “role models”, inspire this transformation? Renowned for being one of the oldest democracies in Europe, Switzerland offers a unique, case-based research opportunity to scrutinize the evolutionary process of democratization. We argue that Lijphart’s seminal “consensus-versus-majoritarian”-democracy model constitutes a suitable tool to study the long-term evolution of democracies. In order to make it applicable across time, however, conceptual pitfalls need to be tackled. The conceptual part is thus concerned with the problem of identifying relevant time periods. Empirically, Switzerland’s 170 years of democratic change are analysed based on Lijphart’s framework. Moreover, mechanisms of transnational diffusion that explain why “role models” (the United States, the Weimar Republic, and the Netherlands) inspired the transformation of Swiss democracy are explored. The analysis draws on new, historic data going as far back as the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The longitudinal design reveals a long-term transformation of Switzerland from an almost purely majoritarian democracy to post-war “paradigmatic consensualism”. The article thereby offers new insights into how changes in the formal-institutional setting are related to the paradox of democratization.
New records of Plotosus japonicus in the Red Sea and genetic indications for its presence throughout the Indo-Pacific (Osteichthyes: Plotosidae)
Creators: name: Goren, Menachem
name: Stern, Nir
name: Diamant, Ariel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary 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: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Swarms of striped eel catfish were observed for the first time in Eilat at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea in summer 2017. Taxonomic and genetic studies revealed them to belong to Plotosus japonicus Yoshino & Kishimoto, 2008. This is the first report of this species outside the Japanese archipelago. Molecular comparisons (mtDNA COI) of this population with previously published samples show that this species is actually present throughout the Indo-Pacific and provide indication that this genus includes two of ambiguous identity species that await further examinations.
title: MOOCs for Development? A Study of Indian Learners and their Experiences in Massive Open Online Courses
Creators: name: Sanzgiri, Janesh
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: The study outlined in this thesis provides an account of the demographics, motivations and experiences of Indian learners in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) comparing the UK-based platform FutureLearn and the Indian platform NPTEL (The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning). A sequential mixed-methods approach was adopted. A web-based survey (n=2373) was used to collect demographical data and evidence of respondents’ perceptions about their motivations for taking a MOOC, their learning experiences, and any challenges they may have faced while taking a MOOC. The survey phase was followed by 30 semi-structured interviews with learners from both platforms, adding a rich level of qualitative data to the study, revealing the varied experiences and backgrounds of MOOC learners from India. Analysis of the collected data suggests that learners from India tend to be male, younger, more likely to be in formal education, and more educated than participants featured in many existing studies on MOOC learner demographics. Further, the current study outlined several demographic and motivational differences between learners on FutureLearn and NPTEL, likely to be attributable to the distinct objectives of the two platforms. A more in-depth exploration of learners’ experiences suggested that a diverse group of people, particularly on the FutureLearn platform, are using MOOCs to learn more about areas of personal interest, and, in some cases, using FutureLearn resources to assist in their teaching practice. Conversely, learners on the NPTEL platform, who tended to experience more technical challenges such as connectivity issues, were using MOOCs as a supplement to their formal studies, to make up for some of the systemic lack of quality education in many Indian universities. This thesis suggests that educational technology, in the form of MOOCs, might not necessarily be widening participation in education in a Global South context like India. However, it offers a unique insight into the experiences of learners from India, and provides practical recommendations on how best to serve the needs of the varied Indian learners that make use of MOOCs.
Stenoscelis Wollaston 1861
Creators: name: Inoue, Shûgo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Stenoscelis

description: Genus Stenoscelis Wollaston, 1861
[Japanese name: Kuchibuto-kikui-zômushi-zoku]
Stenoscelis Wollaston, 1861: 141
(type species: S. hylastoides Wollaston, 1861); Wollaston, 1873b (redescription); Csiki, 1936 (cataloged); Marshall, 1937 (in key; key to Palaearctic and Oriental species); Buchanan, 1948 (key to species of United states); Marshall, 1953 (key to African species); Voss, 1955 (redescription); Hustache, 1958 (established subgenus Astenoscelis); Roudier, 1958 (in key); Konishi, 1962 (revision of Japanese species); Voss, 1964 (established subgenus Hexastenoscelis); Morimoto, 1973 (in key); Decelle & Voss, 1972 (in key; redescription); Folwaczny, 1973 (in key); Zhang, 1995 (revision of Chinese species).
Dendroctonomorphus Wollaston, 1873b: 502; Csiki, 1936 (cataloged); Marshall, 1937 (synonymized).
Diagnosis. Among the other cossonine genera in the Palaearctic, Oriental and Oceanian regions, Stenoscelis is similar to Stenoscelodes Konishi, 1962, Brachytemnus Wollaston, 1873, and Beaveriola Osella, 1987 in the following character states: body short, cylindrical; rostrum wider than long; postocular constriction absent; mesosternum strongly depressed below level of metasternum. However, Stenoscelis can be separated from these genera by the upper margin of scrobe being directed to the middle or the lower margin of eye (curving downwards well in front of eye in Brachytemnus), the scutellum being present (absent in Beaveriola) and deeply immersed (not immersed in Brachytemnus), the fore coxae being almost contiguous (distinctly separated in Beaveriola), and the elytral intervals being granulate at declivity (not granulate in Stenoscelodes and Brachytemnus).
Life history. Stebbing (1914) reported the life histories of Stenoscelis himalayensis (Stebbing, 1909) and S. longifolia (Stebbing, 1908). According to his study, in both species, one male and one (in S. himalayensis) or multiple females (in S. longifolia) jointly build a tunnel in dead wood, with females laying eggs in egg-galleries within the sapwood or heartwood. He also suggested that the tunnel is initially bored by a male, and after mating, females bore deeply into the wood and lay eggs. Sugimoto & Tado (2003) provided adults of S. gracilitarsis with wood, observing tunnels bored by adults and larval galleries radiate from the niches along adult’s tunnel. During field surveys, my colleagues and I also found adults of some species within tunnels that may have been created by them (Figs 85, 87 & 88). However, the detailed life history of Stenoscelis, including tunnel systems or mating systems, remains unclear.
description: Published as part of Inoue, Shûgo, 2025, Revision of the genus Stenoscelis Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) of Japan, pp. 462-490 in Zootaxa 5583 (3) on pages 463-464, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/14804799
T invariance of Higgs interactions in the standard model
Creators: name: Mitra, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard model, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, which incorporates the time-reversal violation shown by the charged current weak interactions, originates from the Higgs-quark interactions. The Yukawa interactions of quarks with the physical Higgs particle can contain further complex phase factors, but nevertheless conserve T, as shown by constructing the fermion T transformation and the invariant euclidean fermion measure.
description: LaTeX, 4 pages; presented at PASCOS'03
Inverse problem of analog gravity systems
Creators: name: Albuquerque, Saulo
name: Völkel, Sebastian H.
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
name: Bezerra, Valdir B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analog gravity models of black holes and exotic compact objects provide a unique opportunity to study key properties of such systems in controlled laboratory environments. In contrast to astrophysical systems, analog gravity systems can be prepared carefully and their dynamical aspects thus investigated in unprecedented ways. While gravitational wave scattering properties of astrophysical compact objects are more connected to quasinormal modes, laboratory experiments can also access the transmission and reflection coefficients, which are otherwise mostly relevant for Hawking radiation related phenomena. In this work, we report two distinct results. First, we outline a semiclassical, nonparametric method that allows for the reconstruction of the effective perturbation potential from the knowledge of transmission and reflection coefficients for certain types of potentials in the Schrödinger wave equation admitting resonant tunneling. Second, we show how to use our method by applying it to an imperfect draining vortex, which has been suggested as an analog of extreme compact objects. Although the inverse problem is, in general, not unique, choosing physically motivated assumptions and requiring the validity of semiclassical theory, we demonstrate that the method provides efficient and accurate results.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy study of electron-doped colossal magnetoresistance manganite: La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 film
Creators: name: Han, S. W.
name: Kang, J. -S.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Lee, J. D.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Wi, S. C.
name: Mitra, C.
name: Raychaudhuri, P.
name: Wirth, S.
name: Kim, K. J.
name: Kim, B. S.
name: Jeong, J. I.
name: Kwon, S. K.
name: Min, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 (LCeMO) thin film has been investigated using photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The Ce 3d core-level PES and XAS spectra of LCeMO are very similar to those of CeO2, indicating that Ce ions are far from being trivalent. A very weak 4f resonance is observed around the Ce 4d $\to$ 4f absorption edge, suggesting that the localized Ce 4f states are almost empty in the ground state. The Mn 2p XAS spectrum reveals the existence of the Mn(2+) multiplet feature, confirming the Mn(2+)-Mn(3+) mixed-valent states of Mn ions in LCeMO. The measured Mn 3d PES/XAS spectra for LCeMO agrees reasonably well with the calculated Mn 3d PDOS using the LSDA+U method. The LSDA+U calculation predicts a half-metallic ground state for LCeMO.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Chained to Sustainable Development Goals? Changing Role of Entities for Enhanced Resilience along Agriculture Food Value Chains in Thailand
Creators: name: Kuwornu, John K.M.
name: Kuwornu, John K.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Sustainable Development Goals
subject: food value chains
subject: risks
subject: role of entities
subject: resilience
subject: Thailand

description: The operation period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended in 2015 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be in operation over the period of 2016- 2030. The sustainable development agenda contained 17 goals and covered a broad range of quantitative and qualitative objectives across social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development including the following: ending poverty and hunger, sustainable consumption and production, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests. Sustainable food production, marketing and other postharvest management practices are important to achieving majority of the SDGs. This paper examines the required changing roles of private and public organizations as well as international organizations during the period 2016-2030 to enhance resilience of agricultural food value chains in Thailand. The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) of Thailand can be described as a growth and development model characterized by its universality and inclusiveness; people-centered approach; moderation, moral values and reasonableness; and knowledge and integrity. The SEP encourages a holistic farm management system to promote sustainability, food security, water conservation and biodiversity, development of human resources, risk management, investment and expansion of businesses, thereby creating self-sufficiency at the household, community, organizational and national levels. These objectives of the SEP are somewhat consistent with goals 1, 2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the SDGs. The required roles of organizations to enable Thailand to achieve the SDGs towards enhancing the resilience of agricultural food value chains are presented and the policy implications are highlighted.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals alter embryonic brain development and adult neurobehavioral phenotypes
Creators: name: Hernandez, Morgan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals
EDC
PCB
Vinclozolin
Mate preference
Sexual incentive motivation
Odor preference
Neurogenesis
Ventromedial nucleus

description: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are detectable in nearly every environment on the planet. Humans and wildlife are exposed to myriad of these pollutants throughout their life. Because these chemicals interfere with hormone systems in the body, exposure to them during early life development can have a severe impact on later neurobiological and reproductive health. In this dissertation, I investigated how prenatal exposure to two specific EDCs affected the organization of the embryonic brain and changed neuromolecular and behavioral phenotypes in adulthood. The weakly estrogenic mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Aroclor 1221 (A1221), and the antiandrogenic fungicide vinclozolin (VIN) offer insight through their different mechanisms of interrupting normal endocrine function. I hypothesized that these chemicals would affect the brain and behavior of adult rats in a sex- and compound-specific manner. The first study in this dissertation demonstrates that prenatal exposure to these EDCs can disrupt an important sociosexual behavior in adult rats together with changes in the patterns of expression of associated genes. More specifically, in a test of sociosexual preference, adult rats failed to demonstrate the sex-typical preference for a mate after prenatal exposure to PCBs or VIN in males, and PCBs in females. The second study extends the previous findings by probing for deficits in the ability to distinguish between and/or prefer odorants that convey information about a mate’s fitness, i.e., hormonal status. I deduced that while changes to odor preference strongly resemble the mate preference phenotype, odor discrimination ability is not impaired. However, the activation of the ventrolateral portion of the ventromedial nucleus, a brain region known to regulate mate preference behavior, was altered by PCB exposure in females, suggesting that improper central processing of odor signals may explain some of the results. In the third study, I found that PCB exposure shifted the timing of the hormone-sensitive process of embryonic neurogenesis in the ventromedial nucleus but not the preoptic area. Taken together, these studies demonstrate a possible mechanism by which an EDC can change brain organization and functionally transfer the effects of a prenatal exposure into adulthood.
title: Changes in the properties and distribution of the intermediate and deep waters in the Fram Strait
Creators: name: Langehaug, Helene R.
name: Falck, Eva
Publisher: name: ASC 2012 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Arctic Ocean (ICES Ecoregion)
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Fram Strait is the only deep connection between the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas (Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas), with a sill depth of approximately 2600 m. Consequently, observations from this area reflect changes in the deep waters of the Arctic Mediterranean. Possible changes in the properties and distribution of the intermediate and deep water masses passing through the Fram Strait have been studied for the period from 1982 to 2008 at a zonal section at 79°N, with special emphasis on the period from 1997 to 2008. The temperature of the Arctic Intermediate Water shows large interannual variability, where the period from 2002 to 2004 was especially cold, indicating a strong winter convection in the Nordic Seas prior to those years. The deep water originating from the Norwegian Sea has become warmer (by about 0.10°C) during the study period. The changes in the properties of the Norwegian Sea Deep Water are caused by changes in its composition, i.e. an increasing fraction of the Eurasian Basin Deep Water and a decreasing fraction of the Greenland Sea Deep Water each year. If this trend continues, the Norwegian Sea Deep Water will have similar characteristics as the Eurasian Basin Deep Water in about 15 years. A prominent feature seen in the ΘS-diagrams from the deep Fram Strait is the disappearance of water with the characteristics of Greenland Sea Deep Water. This very cold water (temperature below -1.1°C) was not observed after 1997, and the minimum temperature in the strait increased by 0.24°C between 1982 and 2008. In the Fram Strait the fraction of intermediate waters has increased, while the fraction of deep waters from the Nordic Seas has decreased. The fraction of deep waters originating from the Arctic Ocean shows no trend.
Finite Size Corrections for the Pairing Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Yuzbashyan, Emil A.
name: Baytin, Alexander A.
name: Altshuler, Boris L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of superconducting pairing in small metallic grains. We show that in the limit of large Thouless conductance one can explicitly determine the low energy spectrum of the problem as an expansion in the inverse number of electrons on the grain. The expansion is based on the formal exact solution of the Richardson model. We use this expansion to calculate finite size corrections to the ground state energy, Matveev-Larkin parameter, and excitation energies.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
FaceLift: A transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes
Creators: name: Joglekar, Sagar
name: Quercia, Daniele
name: Redi, Miriam
name: Aiello, Luca Maria
name: Kauer, Tobias
name: Sastry, Nishanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the area of computer vision, deep learning techniques have recently been used to predict whether urban scenes are likely to be considered beautiful: it turns out that these techniques are able to make accurate predictions. Yet they fall short when it comes to generating actionable insights for urban design. To support urban interventions, one needs to go beyond predicting beauty, and tackle the challenge of recreating beauty. Unfortunately, deep learning techniques have not been designed with that challenge in mind. Given their "black-box nature", these models cannot be directly used to explain why a particular urban scene is deemed to be beautiful. To partly fix that, we propose a deep learning framework called Facelift, that is able to both beautify existing urban scenes (Google Street views) and explain which urban elements make those transformed scenes beautiful. To quantitatively evaluate our framework, we cannot resort to any existing metric (as the research problem at hand has never been tackled before) and need to formulate new ones. These new metrics should ideally capture the presence/absence of elements that make urban spaces great. Upon a review of the urban planning literature, we identify five main metrics: walkability, green spaces, openness, landmarks and visual complexity. We find that, across all the five metrics, the beautified scenes meet the expectations set by the literature on what great spaces tend to be made of. This result is further confirmed by a 20-participant expert survey in which FaceLift have been found to be effective in promoting citizen participation. All this suggests that, in the future, as our framework's components are further researched and become better and more sophisticated, it is not hard to imagine technologies that will be able to accurately and efficiently support architects and planners in the design of spaces we intuitively love.
Lagrangian Description of the Variational Equations
Creators: name: Arizmendi, C. M.
name: Delgado, J.
name: Núñez-Yépez, H. N.
name: Salas-Brito, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A variant of the usual Lagrangian scheme is developed which describes both the equations of motion and the variational equations of a system. The required (prolonged) Lagrangian is defined in an extended configuration space comprising both the original configurations of the system and all the virtual displacements joining any two integral curves. Our main result establishes that both the Euler-Lagrange equations and the corresponding variational equations of the original system can be viewed as the Lagrangian vector field associated with the first prolongation of the original LagrangianAfter discussing certain features of the formulation, we introduce the so-called inherited constants of the motion and relate them to the Noether constants of the extended system.
D 2.14 Workshop Report 2
Creators: name: Austen, Kat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This report gives an overview of the execution and outcomes of workshops carried out during the ACTION project up to and including the second round of the ACTION Accelerator. It is intended to be of use to ACTION consortium, researchers and practitioners working with the Accelerator model, and those with an interest in running citizen science projects. The report details activities since the Round 1 kick-off meeting until the project end. The report includes the outcomes of bespoke co-design workshops with ACTION Case Study citizen science projects, the ACTION Round 2 Kick-Off meeting, Diversity and Inclusion workshops in Round 1 and Round 2, and webinars. It is expected that the structure of the Kick-Off meeting and some of the associated materials will be of use to citizen science practitioners and those conceiving of citizen science projects.
title: The long-term dynamics of Global and Arctic Temperatures. Are they predictable?
Creators: name: L.B.Klyashtorin
name: V.M.Borisov
Publisher: name: ASC 2012 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Arctic Ocean (ICES Ecoregion)
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Arctic region determines climate over the whole Northern Hemisphere and North Atlantic Seas in particular. Understanding the Arctic climate dynamics in the near future is vitally important for several ambitious projects, such as year-round navigation from Europe to Asia through the North-east Passage or oil and gas production over the Arctic shelf. “Climatic boundaries” of the Arctic are limited by the July 10˚C isotherm. The outlined area exceeds the traditional geographical boundaries of the Arctic and extends from the western Arctic Seas to the Bering Sea of the East
Trade Creation, Political Sensitivity and Product Exclusions: the Political Economy of Agriculture Protection in China’s FTAs
Creators: name: Lyu, Jianxing
name: Prehn, Soren
name: Zhang, Yanjie
name: Glauben, Thomas
name: Zeng, Yinchu
name: Lyu, Jianxing
name: Prehn, Soren
name: Zhang, Yanjie
name: Glauben, Thomas
name: Zeng, Yinchu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Free Trade Agreement
subject: Exclusion
subject: Political Sensitivity
subject: Negotiation Power

description: One of the most significant features in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is that certain products are excluded from tariff concession. Why do some products get more protection in FTAs?In this paper, using the highly disaggregated product-level data in agricultural sector of China’s FTAs, we examined and extended the hypothesis developed by Grossman and Helpman (1995), illustrating the products which are more likely to be excluded in FTAs. Our results suggest that, with the involvement of political costs to incumbent government, products which experience trade creation and have more political sensitivity are more likely to be excluded in FTAs. Moreover, we revealed that the Chinese government tend to achieve different goals through negotiation power, seeking more economic benefits from big-trading partners while giving more concession to small-trading partners.
$Y(4626)$ as a $P$-wave $[cs][\bar{c}\bar{s}]$ tetraquark state
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the Belle Collaboration's new observation of $Y(4626)$, we investigate the possibility of its configuration as a $P$-wave $[cs][\bar{c}\bar{s}]$ tetraquark state from QCD sum rules. Eventually, the extracted mass $4.60^{+0.13}_{-0.19}~\mbox{GeV}$ for the $P$-wave $cs$-scalar-diquark $\bar{c}\bar{s}$-scalar-antidiquark state agrees well with the experimental data of $Y(4626)$, which could support its interpretation as a $P$-wave scalar-scalar $[cs][\bar{c}\bar{s}]$ tetraquark state.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Rural Transformation through Public Works Program: A Case of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra, India
Creators: name: Kajale, Jayanti
name: Shroff, Sangeeta
name: Kajale, Jayanti
name: Shroff, Sangeeta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: MNMREGS
subject: Assets
subject: Employment
subject: Maharashtra

description: Transformation of an underdeveloped economy into a modern economy takes place as surplus labor from the dominant agricultural sector in rural areas is transferred to the non-farm sector. Development experience of a country like India shows that the economy has not been able to absorb the surplus agricultural labor by creating adequate non-farm employment opportunities. One of the initiatives of the Government of India has been the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in 2006 which is considered to be one of the largest public works program in the world. In view of its potential of MGNREGS to change the rural landscape by generating wage employment for the rural poor and creating assets and infrastructure for the agricultural sector, an attempt has been made in this paper to study the implementation of the scheme in the state of Maharashtra which is one of the leading states of India. The paper studies the implementation of the scheme in the state and analyzes the outcomes of the scheme in terms of extent of employment generation, asset creation and expenditure incurred in Maharashtra. Various constraints of the scheme are also observed. Finally, the paper discusses limitations and potentials of the scheme as well as policy implications. The study is based on secondary data, and is supported by discussions and qualitative data collected from the field by the authors. The analysis shows that MGNREGS has shown potential to introduce positive changes in the village economies, traditionally dependent on subsistence and dry agriculture, provided that adequate work is made available whenever needed. It is observed that the scheme will be sustainable and successful if it leads to creation of durable assets and efficient water resource management thus ultimately increasing productivity of the state agricultural sector.
For the Forest, See the Trees : How Can Architecture Engage With the Issues Between the Logging Industry and the Landscape?
Creators: name: Sakowicz, Ada
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Canada sits on a perilous edge amidst outcries of potential exponential environmental degradation. Both guilty of indulgent extraction and fortunate to still be rich in natural assets, it sits in between a pair of two divergent roads. Whether in a rural or logging town or within the urbanized Greater Vancouver area, most British Columbians live in the vicinity of forests, their houses are made primarily out of wood, and many are employed in some aspect of the forestry industry. Creative minds have long drawn inspiration from the Canadian wilderness and people of all ages recreate on lake shores or mountain slopes. There has also been a resurgence of wood innovation within the architecture industry and a newly generated excitement for the sustainable material. This research into logging in British Columbia through a design lens offers a discursive opportunity to investigate how Canadian culture is bound to the forest and how the logging industry is elusively woven within that. The study of logging in British Columbia allows for a fascinating venture into a rich mixture of politics, ethics, ecology, artistry and identity. What it uncovers is that a persisting settler mindset has drastically transformed and influenced Canadian political, logistical, urban, and physical landscapes. Although not exclusively problematic, it has proven to be an overwhelming force that is largely misaligned from Canadian values. Recent news suggests that since 1993, more than thirty percent of remaining old growth forest on Vancouver Island were destroyed” (Lavoie, 2019). Tweaks to the system have been made over time to alleviate issues, but with old growth logging, raw log export, climate issues, and slow regulatory adaptation, an imperfect industry remains. These broad, overarching, tendencies can be derived through the analysis of not only the history of logging, but in how forests have been treated and represented in the past several hundred years. These treatments and representations come in the form of both the architecture and art that was produced over the past several centuries. This project will be both architectural and representational, as it is steeped in the belief that these practices serve as valuable mediums with which to understand Canadian culture and allow for glimpses into a new future. From this exploration, not only will the development of logging and its current issues become more readily apparent, but the way in which Canadian identity is entirely entwined with that of the forest will emerge. Consequently, in an effort for art and architecture to move beyond serving as reactive reflections of current paradigms, it’ll attempt to set the stage for how these mediums can produce new theoretical frameworks and design interventions that attempt to connect the industry of logging with our deeply rooted values in the landscape.
Large-$N$ expansion and $θ$-dependence of $2d$ $CP^{N-1}$ models beyond the leading order
Creators: name: Berni, Mario
name: Bonanno, Claudio
name: D'Elia, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the $θ$-dependence of 2-dimensional $CP^{N-1}$ models in the large-$N$ limit by lattice simulations. Thanks to a recent algorithm proposed by M. Hasenbusch to improve the critical slowing down of topological modes, combined with simulations at imaginary values of $θ$, we manage to determine the vacuum energy density up the sixth order in $θ$ and up to $N = 51$. Our results support analytic predictions, which are known up to the next-to-leading term in $1/N$ for the quadratic term in $θ$ (topological susceptibility), and up to the leading term for the quartic coefficient $b_2$. Moreover, we give a numerical estimate of further terms in the $1/N$ expansion for both quantities, pointing out that the $1/N$ convergence for the $θ$-dependence of this class of models is particularly slow.
Impact of Electronic Resources in ICMR Institutions of Tamilnadu
Creators: name: Thangiah, Raja
name: A, Lawrence Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: ICMR is one of the oldest medical research autonomous bodies around the world since 1949. Nowadays, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) provides various types of electronic resources and is being benefited by the users. This study is to analyze the impacts of electronic resources such as availability of electronic resources, frequent usage of electronic resources, and purpose of using electronic resources. The users are effectively using the electronic resources status and also the research status in the field of Medical and allied research.
A Geometric Probe of Cosmology: I. Gravitational Lensing Time Delays and Quasar Reverberation Mapping
Creators: name: Ng, Angela L. H.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel, purely geometric probe of cosmology based on measurements of differential time delays between images of strongly lensed quasars due to finite source effects. Our approach is solely dependent on cosmology via a ratio of angular diameter distances, the image separation, and the source size. It thereby entirely avoids the challenges of lens modelling that conventionally limit time delay cosmography, and instead entails the lensed reverberation mapping of the quasar Broad Line Region. We demonstrate that differential time delays are measurable with short cadence spectroscopic monitoring of lensed quasars, through the timing of kinematically identified features within the broad emission lines. This provides a geometric determination of an angular diameter distance ratio complementary to standard probes, and as a result is a potentially powerful new method of constraining cosmology.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted MNRAS