cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interactive-KBQA: Multi-Turn Interactions for Knowledge Base Question Answering with Large Language Models
Creators: name: Xiong, Guanming
name: Bao, Junwei
name: Zhao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: This study explores the realm of knowledge base question answering (KBQA). KBQA is considered a challenging task, particularly in parsing intricate questions into executable logical forms. Traditional semantic parsing (SP)-based methods require extensive data annotations, which result in significant costs. Recently, the advent of few-shot in-context learning, powered by large language models (LLMs), has showcased promising capabilities. However, fully leveraging LLMs to parse questions into logical forms in low-resource scenarios poses a substantial challenge. To tackle these hurdles, we introduce Interactive-KBQA, a framework designed to generate logical forms through direct interaction with knowledge bases (KBs). Within this framework, we have developed three generic APIs for KB interaction. For each category of complex question, we devised exemplars to guide LLMs through the reasoning processes. Our method achieves competitive results on the WebQuestionsSP, ComplexWebQuestions, KQA Pro, and MetaQA datasets with a minimal number of examples (shots). Importantly, our approach supports manual intervention, allowing for the iterative refinement of LLM outputs. By annotating a dataset with step-wise reasoning processes, we showcase our model's adaptability and highlight its potential for contributing significant enhancements to the field.
description: This work has been accepted by the ACL 2024 main conference. Code and data are available at: https://github.com/JimXiongGM/Interactive-KBQA
Input Files Associated with the Article "Edges of Thermochemical Structures in the Lower Mantle"
Creators: name: Hu, Mo
Publisher: name: CaltechDATA
Year: 2025

description: The input files for CitcomS. The original CitcomS code is slightly modified following Tan et al., 2007, making the input reference file have an additional column to include the depth-dependent buoyancy ratio for LLSVP materials.
T. Bayles Minuse to Ward Melville, June 19, 1956
Creators: name: Minuse, T. Bayles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1956
Subjects: Stony Brook
Correspondence
Concerts

description: This letter is written by T. Bayles Minuse to Ward Melville on June 19, 1956, in regards to a letter from Daniel Rybb about statements made by Woodruff and Peterson, which are causing constant turmoil.
Reactivity of CpCr(III) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Diiodide
Creators: name: Yallits, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Chromium complexes are well known for their applications in alkene and alkyne trimerization. In this thesis, a previously synthesized CpCr(NHC)I2 complex (where NHC stands for N-heterocyclic carbene), were investigated for alkyne trimerization. The objective was to optimize the reduction and initial alkyne-coupling steps of the mechanism to isolate a well-defined chromacyclopentadiene complex which could later be used for synthetically applicable alkyne trimerization. Initial attempts to utilize the complex to couple two alkyne substrates appeared promising; however, obstacles in spectral analysis prevented any conclusive characterization of the desired complex. The possibility of bimolecular decomposition with similar complexes reported by Jolly6a led to the synthesis of a novel CpCr(iPr-NHC)Cl with bulkier isopropyl substituents on the NHC ancillary ligand. Applications of CpCr(iPr-NHC)Cl in alkyne trimerization appear to be very promising as the isopropyl substituent likely prevents decomposition and improves the crystalline structure of the compound which is helpful for characterization. A number of other CpCr(L)X2 compounds were also tested for reactivity in alkyne trimerization which illustrated the significance of ancillary ligand electron-donating abilities in this type of reactivity.
Supplementary Data_AJP Renal Physiology Manuscript_Dr. Karl Nath
Creators: name: Takhter, Ramandeep
name: Nath, Karl A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320599
subject: Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified

description: This is the Supplementary Information associated with our Manuscript entitled, "“ACE2 Deficiency Protects Against Heme Protein-Induced Acute Kidney Injury,” F-00061-2025, for publication as a Short Report in AJP-Renal Physiology.
Systems and Self: Understanding the Posthuman in Beautiful Losers
Creators: name: Benade, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Leonard Cohen's novel, Beautiful Losers, provides insight into the changing relationship between humanity and the technology within which it is situated. With both anxiety and desire, Cohen demonstrates how it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish what is human from what is machine. The resulting ambiguity echoes the later sentiments of the posthuman era. Beautiful Losers, then, offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the theories of individuals such as Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, and Jean Baudrillard who chart the blurring lines between human and machine.
Order $p$ quantum Wasserstein distances from couplings
Creators: name: Beatty, Emily
name: França, Daniel Stilck
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimal transport provides a powerful mathematical framework with applications spanning numerous fields. A cornerstone within this domain is the $p$-Wasserstein distance, which serves to quantify the cost of transporting one probability measure to another. While recent attempts have sought to extend this measure to the realm of quantum states, existing definitions often present certain limitations, such as not being faithful. In this work, we present a new definition of quantum Wasserstein distances. This definition, leveraging the coupling method and a metric applicable to pure states, draws inspiration from a property characterising the classical Wasserstein distance - its determination based on its value on point masses. Subject to certain continuity properties, our definition exhibits numerous attributes expected of an optimal quantum rendition of the Wasserstein distance. Notably, our approach seamlessly integrates metrics familiar to quantum information theory, such as the trace distance. Moreover, it provides an organic extension for metrics, like Nielsen's complexity metric, allowing their application to mixed states with a natural operational interpretation. Furthermore, we analyze this metric's attributes in the context of random quantum states and unveil phase transitions concerning the complexity of subsystems of random states.
description: 31 pages. Ann. Henri Poincar\'e (2025)
QUCE: The Minimisation and Quantification of Path-Based Uncertainty for Generative Counterfactual Explanations
Creators: name: Duell, Jamie
name: Seisenberger, Monika
name: Fu, Hsuan
name: Fan, Xiuyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) stand out as one of the most prominent approaches within the Machine Learning (ML) domain. The efficacy of DNNs has surged alongside recent increases in computational capacity, allowing these approaches to scale to significant complexities for addressing predictive challenges in big data. However, as the complexity of DNN models rises, interpretability diminishes. In response to this challenge, explainable models such as Adversarial Gradient Integration (AGI) leverage path-based gradients provided by DNNs to elucidate their decisions. Yet the performance of path-based explainers can be compromised when gradients exhibit irregularities during out-of-distribution path traversal. In this context, we introduce Quantified Uncertainty Counterfactual Explanations (QUCE), a method designed to mitigate out-of-distribution traversal by minimizing path uncertainty. QUCE not only quantifies uncertainty when presenting explanations but also generates more certain counterfactual examples. We showcase the performance of the QUCE method by comparing it with competing methods for both path-based explanations and generative counterfactual examples.
description: Final version published in ICDM 2024, International Conference on Data Mining
title: Modelling Alignment and Key Information for Automatic Grading
Creators: name: Pandey, Suraj Jung
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: Automatic Short Answer Grading (ASAG) is the task of grading short answer questions using computer models, especially machine learning and artificial intelligence. Short answer questions differ from essay questions, as the required short answer response is usually about a sentence in length, whereas for essay questions, students are expected to elaborate in detail on the subject. Also, unlike multiple-choice questions, for short answer questions, students are not provided with choices from which to select a correct response. For short answer questions, students write the response in free-text or natural language. Since students can formulate the response in variety of ways, a single short answer question can have multiple forms of correct responses. This makes the ASAG task a very challenging one. This dissertation introduces the notion of key information for semantic text similarity in the context of ASAG. We define key information as new information that is not present in the question, and which is essential for the answer to be correct. We propose an algorithm for identifying key information and develop a neural structured alignment model which uses the key information to accurately grade student responses. We test the model on the Beetle and SciEntsBank corpora against a range of state-of-the-art models, with our model outperforming the state-of-the-art models. The primary contribution of this dissertation is a set of methods that use semantic similarity techniques to obtain state-of-the-art results in the ASAG task. We first investigate how well existing neural network models work on the ASAG task. We look at word alignment and structured alignment attention networks. We then show how the performance of these architectures can be improved by augmenting them with key information. I present two different approaches to learning key information. The first approach uses an intuitive algorithm to learn the key information from a question’s reference answers. The key information is then passed to the neural network as input. The second approach uses a complex-number model to learn key information within the neural network itself.
VariantSpark: applying Spark-based machine learning methods to genomic information
Creators: name: Bauer, Denis
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Genomic information is increasingly being used for medical research, giving rise to the need for efficient analysis methodology able to cope with thousands of individuals and millions of variants. Catering for this need, we developed VariantSpark, a Hadoop/Spark framework for machine learning analysis that provides the means of parallelisation for population-scale bioinformatics tasks. VariantSpark offers an interface to the standard variant format (VCF), seamless genome-wide sampling of variants and provides a pipeline for visualising results.

To demonstrate the capabilities of VariantSpark, we cluster of more than 3,000 individuals with 80 Million variants each to determine the population structure in the dataset. VariantSpark is 80% faster than the Spark-based genome clustering approach developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, ADAM, the comparable implementation using Hadoop/Mahout, as well as Admixture, a commonly used tool for determining individual ancestries. It is over 90% faster than traditional implementations using R and Python. These benefits of speed, resource consumption and scalability enables VariantSpark to open up the usage of advanced, efficient machine learning algorithms to genomic data.
Leptothorax asper var. rufa Emery, 1896, n. var.
Creators: name: Emery, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Leptothorax
Leptothorax asper
L. asper mayr, var. rufa

description: L. asper Mayr, var. rufa n. var.
[[worker]] e [[queen]]. Differisce dal tipo pel tegumento meno opaco e pel colore. Tutta rosso ferrugineo chiaro, flagello, eccettuata la base, come pure i 2 / 3 distali dei femori fortemente imbruniti. Nella [[queen]], i denti del metanoto sono piu piccoli che nel tipo.
Para: 2 [[worker]] e 1 [[queen]] raccolte dal Sig. A. Schulz.
description: Published as part of Emery, C., 1896, Studi sulle formiche della fauna Neotropica., pp. 33-107 in Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 28 on page 29
Stony Brook Summer Music Festival Flier, 1956
Creators: name: Stony Brook Concert Community Concerts Inc.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1956
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concert halls
Concerts
Amphitheaters
Music festivals

description: This flier is for the 1956 Stony Brook Summer Music Festival at Dogwood Hollow Amphitheatre. July 7 - "The Songs and Music of Vienna", Franz Allers (Guest Conductor), Laurel Hurley (Coloratura Soprano), Davis Cunningham (Baritone), July 14 - "The Masterpieces of Music Comedy", Skitch Henderson (Guest Conductor), Susanna Foster (Soprano), Warde Donovan (Baritone), July 21 - "Romberg-Rogers and Kern", D'Artega (Guest Conductor), Virginia Copeland (Soprano), Jack Russel (Baritone), July 28 - "All Gershwin Night", Alfredo Antonini (Guest Conductor), Mariquita Moll (Soprano), Stan Freeman (Pianist)
D3.7 Technical report on information extraction from heterogeneous data using TDM
Creators: name: Eskevich, Maria
name: Ceccon, Daniela
name: Gavriilidou, Maria
name: Dahnke, Michael
name: Rißler-Pipka, Nanette
name: Dušan Variš
name: Pontiki, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
European Open Science Cloud
EOSC

description: This deliverable summarises the activities within Task 3.3. that were led by CLARIN ERIC with the main partners CLARIN/Athena, CLARIN/CUNI, and DARIAH/UGOE, and additional collaboration with SciencesPo. Over the course of M1-M38 the partners developed three demonstration scenarios that highlight the value of NLP (Natural Language Processing) technologies for the SSH field and investigated which aspects of the outcomes of T3.3. and in which form can be shared via SSH Open Marketplace. Three types of scenarios include: (1) Application of TDM (Text Data Mining) to large bodies of multilingual texts on the use case of processing Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs); (2) Integration of linguistic analysis for information extraction into SSH tasks on the use case of verbal aggression detection in the context of social media. (3) TDM handling of heterogeneous data on the use case of processing the intertextuality phenomena in European drama history. All use cases work with data in multiple languages, and created pipelines take this multilinguality into account. The outcome of the demonstrations are stored to be accessed after the end of the project as online code notebooks and a workflow on SSH Open Marketplace (use case 1), service in the EOSC portal (use case 2), and a set of python scripts on the publicly accessible GitHub pages and a workflow on SSH Open Marketplace (use case 3).
description: Approved by EC - 27 April 2022
Leptothorax aculeatinodis Emery, 1896, n. sp.
Creators: name: Emery, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Leptothorax
Leptothorax aculeatinodis

description: L. aculeatinodis n. sp.
[[worker]] Capo nero con mandibole, scapi e base dei flagelli gialli, la clava bruna. Pronoto giallo, mesonoto e metanoto piu o meno brunastri, lati del mesonoto e del metanoto bruni; zampe gialle con le anche e la maggior parte dei femori picei. Addome piceo, il 1. ° segmento del peduncolo giallo-bruno. Capo lucido, levigato, con punteggiatura sottile e sparsa, le guanee con punti piu fitti e rughe longitudinali. Clipeo depresso, lucido, con carena mediana indistinta e carene laterali piu forti; mandibole finamente striate. Torace subopaco, finamente reticolato e con grossolane rughe longitudinali; cosi pure i due segmenti del peduncolo; il segmento seguente dell'addome levigato e lucido, la sua base con strie finissime e indistinte. Peli ritti scarsi e ^ piuttosto sottili. Antenne di 11 articoli; torace e peduncolo conformati come nel L. spininodis (si riscontri la descrizione di Mayr) dal quale la nuova specie differisce pel colore e la scultura. Sembra avvicinarsi ancora piu al L. echinatinodis che non ho sotto gli occhi, e dal quale si distingue principalmente per la scultura del capo e del 2. ° segmento del peduncolo.
Jimenez sul versante atlantico di Costa Rica. Un altro esemplare del Matto Grosso (Brasile) ha il torace e il pedunculo interamente bruno scuro, ma d'altronde non differisce dal tipo dell'America centrale.
description: Published as part of Emery, C., 1896, Studi sulle formiche della fauna Neotropica., pp. 33-107 in Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 28 on pages 28-29
Additional file 2 of MICROPHERRET: MICRObial PHEnotypic tRait ClassifieR using Machine lEarning Techniques
Creators: name: Bizzotto, Edoardo
name: Fraulini, Sofia
name: Zampieri, Guido
name: Orellana, Esteban
name: Treu, Laura
name: Campanaro, Stefano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Supplementary Material 2
Nowcasting precipitation onset in Vancouver using CORALNet-UBC lidar imagery
Creators: name: Seagram, Annie F.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In recent years, the application of ground-based LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) to atmospheric observation and monitoring has become increasingly common. The UBC (University of British Columbia) CORALNet (Canadian Observational Research Aerosol Lidar Network) lidar dataset exhibits an interesting cloud signature on numerous daily plots from the1064/532 nm lidar imagery. The signature features a general downward sloping of cloud cover over time, ending in a precipitation event (marked by lidar shutoff by rain sensor). These Cloud LOwering Signatures (CLOSs) are unique in their shape, slope, and rate of decline (from first appearance to onset of precipitation). The focus of this study was to explore the real-time use of lidar imagery for nowcasting, by deriving a conceptual model based on CLOS characteristics. A synoptic map-typing procedure using sea-level pressure maps was applied to each of the 75 CLOSs catalogued from April, 2008, to September, 2009. Eight map classes were derived, most of which were associated with low pressure conditions. Additional temporal parameters from the lidar imagery were collected to produce statistically significant empirical models for each map class in order to predict the lead time to precipitation onset based on a linear rate of lowering of the cloud cover. In real time, the models accurately predicted the onset of precipitation, between 0.23 – 4.57 hrs of the actual lead time. However, these results were only preliminary due to the small dataset examined (n = 7). It is hoped that the results of this study may be used to nowcast precipitation onset with greater accuracy, and to serve as a precursor to automated methods that may exploit quantitative data as forecasting products.
Leptothorax pungentinodis Emery
Creators: name: Emery, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Leptothorax
Leptothorax pungentinodis

description: L. pungentinodis Emery.
Descritta recentemente sopra una [[queen]] di Panama (in Bull. Mus. Torino, N. 229, 1896)
description: Published as part of Emery, C., 1896, Studi sulle formiche della fauna Neotropica., pp. 33-107 in Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 28 on page 29
Theory and Computation of Substructure Characteristic Modes
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Mats
name: Jelinek, Lukas
name: Capek, Miloslav
name: Lundgren, Johan
name: Schab, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of substructure characteristic modes is developed using a scattering matrix-based formulation, generalizing subregion characteristic mode decomposition to arbitrary computational tools. It is shown that the modes of the scattering formulation are identical to the modes of the classical formulation based on the background Green's function for lossless systems under conditions where both formulations can be applied. The scattering formulation, however, opens a variety of new subregion scenarios unavailable within previous formulations, including cases with lumped or wave ports or subregions in circuits. Thanks to its scattering nature, the formulation is solver-agnostic with the possibility to utilize an arbitrary full-wave method.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Planar two-region multi-partite maximally entangled states
Creators: name: Liang, Yanwen
name: Yan, Fengli
name: Gao, Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In entanglement theory, there are different methods to consider one state being more entangled than another. The "maximally" entangled states in a multipartite system can be defined from an axiomatic perspective. According to different criteria for selection, there are many specific types of quantum maximally entangled states, such as absolutely maximally entangled state, planar maximally entangled state and so on. In this paper we propose a new type of maximally entangled states, the planar two-region multipartite maximally entangled state. The requirement condition of this maximally entangled state is weak than that of the absolutely maximally entangled state and different from that of the planar maximally entangled state. We show that there are the two-region four-partite maximally entangled states in 4-qubit and 7-qubit planar systems, although there is no absolutely maximally entangled state in these systems. It is proved that there are the planar two-region four-partite maximally entangled states in both even particle quantum systems and odd particle quantum systems. Additionally, based on some planar two-region four-partite maximally entangled states, the new planar two-region four-partite maximally entangled states are generated. We also provide some important examples of the planar two-region multi-partite maximally entangled states.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Exercise, Decision-Making, and Cannabis-Related Outcomes among Adolescents
Creators: name: Pacheco-Colón, Ileana
name: Salamanca, Maria J.
name: Coxe, Stefany
name: Hawes, Samuel W.
name: Gonzalez, Raul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Poor decision-making may represent a risk factor for adverse cannabis-related outcomes, whereas exercise has been linked to better executive functioning and substance use outcomes. This study examines the associations between self-reported exercise and cannabis use (CU) outcomes over 6 months among adolescents, and whether these are mediated by exercise-related effects on decision-making. Method: Participants were 387 adolescents aged 15–18 who completed two assessments 6 months apart. Self-reported past 6-month hours/week of exercise were assessed at baseline. At the 6-month follow-up, participants completed measures assessing past 6-month CU frequency, presence of CU disorder (CUD), and CU-related problems, as well as risky decision-making tasks (Iowa Gambling Task, Game of Dice Task, Cups Task), which were used to derive a latent construct of decision-making. We used prospective mediation to examine the role of decision-making in the relationship between exercise and CU outcomes. Results: More self-reported exercise at baseline predicted greater CU frequency at the 6-month follow-up, but did not predict the presence of a CUD, or cannabis-related problems. After controlling for confounds, baseline exercise did not predict better decision-making at follow-up. Decision-making did not predict CU outcomes, and indirect effects of decision-making were not significant. Conclusions: Contrary to hypotheses, adolescents reporting more exercise at baseline also reported higher CU frequency in our sample. This association may be explained by factors like sample characteristics or sports types, but more research is needed to explore this. Results did not support a mediating role for decision-making in the associations between exercise and CU outcomes. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1906279.
The Use of Matrix Product State Representations in Simulating Many Body Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Low, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The classical simulation of many body quantum systems has long been of interest to both condensed matter and quantum information theorists. The use of matrix product state representations of the wavefunction allows suitable approximations to be made that permit quantum simulations to be performed in polynomial time rather than exponential in the size of the system. The numerical methods are based on a minimization algorithm that can be used to nd the ground state and rst excited state energies and their respective matrix product states. Using the matrix product states, other quantities such as magnetization and correlation can also be computed. In this thesis, the theory and numerical techniques necessary for these simulations are studied and applied to the one dimesional Ising model in a transverse eld. The results of the model are compared to the analytical solution and analyzed in depth.
Nesomyrmex pittieri
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Nesomyrmex
Nesomyrmex pittieri

description: Nesomyrmex pittieri (Forel, 1899)
Figs 24, 29
Leptothorax pittieri Forel, 1899: 56. Holotype (worker): Costa Rica. [MHNG] (AntWeb image examined, CASENT 0908997).
Combination in Leptothorax (Goniothorax): Emery 1924: 250.
Combination in Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex): Kempf 1958: 93.
Combination in Nesomyrmex: Bolton 2003: 272.
Worker measurements.
(n = 1) HL 0.81, HW 0.68, SL 0.53, ML 0.33, EL 0.21, PW 0.51, PTW 0.24, PPW 0.36, WL 0.98, PH 0.3, PTL 0.35, PTH 0.26, PPL 0.24, PPH 0.24, GL 0.78. CI 83, SI 78.
Geographic range.
Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago.
Examined material.
Colombia • 1 worker; Valle del Cauca, Jamundí, Vda. San Isidro, Colindres; 3.33931°N, 76.5413°W; 979 m a. s. l.; 30 Jul. 2021; M. A. Bautista-Giraldo, I. Armbrecht legs.; CBUMAG:ENT:41664.
Natural history.
Species collected by manual sampling on vegetation in Parque Nacional Natural Tuparro.
Comments.
This species is recognized by the following characters: wide and deep foveae on the dorsal surface of the head, antennal scapes curved at their base, and propodeal spines as long as the distance between their tips.
The only specimen examined shows variation in coloration with respect to specimens from other forest types in Colombia (unpublished data). Populations found in premontane forest show bicoloration, with variations between reddish brown to dark. The sculpture of the frontal area is consistent in all populations (Fig. 24).
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S. & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, The ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the threatened Colombian tropical dry forest: three new species, a new synonymy, and new distributional data, pp. 131-172 in ZooKeys 1232 on pages 131-172, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.141693
Barriers and Facilitators to Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Qualitative Review Synthesis
Creators: name: Sarkar, Siddharth
name: Tom, Ashlyn
name: Mandal, Piyali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: One of the ways to address the treatment gap for substance use disorders is to understand the barriers and facilitators to treatment. This study aimed to synthesize the literature on barriers and facilitators of treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). We search Medline electronic database to identify English language peer reviewed empirical studies, both qualitative and quantitative which reported barriers and/or facilitators of treatment of substance use disorders. Of 1389 titles, we selected 28 studies (14 were qualitative and 14 quantitative studies). The sample sizes of the qualitative studies ranged from 11 to 235. The majority of studies were from community or clinic settings. A wide range of barriers and facilitators were identified from the qualitative studies and were synthesized according to perceived susceptibility/seriousness, self-efficacy, perceived costs, perceived benefits, and cues to action. Most of the quantitative studies were community-based cross sectional-observational by design. Commonly identified barriers in these quantitative studies were perceived lack of problem or lack of need for treatment and low motivation whereas factors such as good family support and availability of effective treatment was found to facilitate substance use disorder treatment. There are a wide range of barriers that hinder the substance use disorder treatment as well as certain factors that facilitate the treatment. Addressing them can help to minimize the treatment gap, which in turn can help in reducing the familial and social burden due to substance use disorders.
Nesomyrmex pleuriticus
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Nesomyrmex
Nesomyrmex pleuriticus

description: Nesomyrmex pleuriticus (Kempf, 1959)
Figs 25, 29
Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex) pleuriticus Kempf, 1959: 414. Syntype series (male, queen, worker): Guyana, Kartabo. [MCZC, MZSP]. (image examined, MZSP 87353, MZSP 87354).
Combination in Nesomyrmex: Bolton 2003: 272.
Worker measurements.
(n = 1) HL 0.61, HW 0.58, SL 0.50, ML 0.25, EL 0.15, PW 0.36, PTW 0.16, PPW 0.22, WL 0.77, PH 0.21, PTL 0.242, PTH 0.16, PPL 0.18, PPH 0.19, GL 0.64.
Geographic range.
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Surinam, Venezuela
Examined material.
Colombia • 1 worker; Vichada, Cumaribo, Cgto. Santa Rita, Parque Nacional Natural el Tuparro; 5.331667°N, 67.890833°W; 135 m a. s. l.; 08 Feb. 2004 – 10 Feb. 2004; I. Quintero; E. González legs.; Winkler; IAvH -E-79866.
Natural history.
Foragers were collected on vegetation.
Comments.
This species can be distinguished from other ones by having a straight anterior margin of the pronotum, an opaque mesosoma with striate sculpture and imbricate microsculpture, a dorsum of the postpetiole with longitudinal striations, scapes and legs covered with long, erect hairs, and a smooth, shiny clypeus.
The previous records of N. pleuriticus for the tropical dry forest in Colombia are based on information recorded for the departments of Cauca (Chacón de Ulloa et al. 2014) and Valle del Cauca (Armbrecht et al. 2001, Chacón de Ulloa et al. 2012) but we were unable to analyze these specimens to confirm the taxonomic identity of these ants (see comments on N. vargasi).
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S. & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, The ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the threatened Colombian tropical dry forest: three new species, a new synonymy, and new distributional data, pp. 131-172 in ZooKeys 1232 on pages 131-172, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.141693
Exercise, Decision-Making, and Cannabis-Related Outcomes among Adolescents
Creators: name: Pacheco-Colón, Ileana
name: Salamanca, Maria J.
name: Coxe, Stefany
name: Hawes, Samuel W.
name: Gonzalez, Raul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Poor decision-making may represent a risk factor for adverse cannabis-related outcomes, whereas exercise has been linked to better executive functioning and substance use outcomes. This study examines the associations between self-reported exercise and cannabis use (CU) outcomes over 6 months among adolescents, and whether these are mediated by exercise-related effects on decision-making. Method: Participants were 387 adolescents aged 15–18 who completed two assessments 6 months apart. Self-reported past 6-month hours/week of exercise were assessed at baseline. At the 6-month follow-up, participants completed measures assessing past 6-month CU frequency, presence of CU disorder (CUD), and CU-related problems, as well as risky decision-making tasks (Iowa Gambling Task, Game of Dice Task, Cups Task), which were used to derive a latent construct of decision-making. We used prospective mediation to examine the role of decision-making in the relationship between exercise and CU outcomes. Results: More self-reported exercise at baseline predicted greater CU frequency at the 6-month follow-up, but did not predict the presence of a CUD, or cannabis-related problems. After controlling for confounds, baseline exercise did not predict better decision-making at follow-up. Decision-making did not predict CU outcomes, and indirect effects of decision-making were not significant. Conclusions: Contrary to hypotheses, adolescents reporting more exercise at baseline also reported higher CU frequency in our sample. This association may be explained by factors like sample characteristics or sports types, but more research is needed to explore this. Results did not support a mediating role for decision-making in the associations between exercise and CU outcomes. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1906279.
Nesomyrmex spininodis
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Nesomyrmex
Nesomyrmex spininodis

description: Nesomyrmex spininodis (Mayr, 1887)
Figs 26, 29
Leptothorax spininodis Mayr, 1887: 617. Lectotype worker: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro or Chile, Valparaiso. [NHMW]. (AntWeb image examined, CASENT 0919734).
Combination in Leptothorax (Goniothorax): Emery 1896: 59.
Leptothorax (Goniothorax) umbratilis Wheeler, 1921: 160. Syntype (queen, worker): Guyana, Bartica, Penal Settlement. [MCZC, MZSP]. (Image examined, MZSP 78366). Synonymy by Kempf 1959: 427.
Leptothorax (Goniothorax) genualia Santschi, 1922: 252. Holotype (worker): Paraguay, Asuncion. [NHMB]. (AntWeb image examined, CASENT 0913001). Synonymy by Kempf 1959: 427.
Combination in Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex): Kempf 1959: 427
Combination in Nesomyrmex: Bolton 2003: 272.
Worker measurements.
(n = 1) HL 0.68, HW 0.62, SL 0.48, ML 0.29, EL 0.15, PW 0.44, PTW 0.21, PPW 0.28, WL 0.82, PH 0.25, PTL 0.32, PTH 0.22, PPL 0.22, PPH 0.22, GL 0.79, CI 91, SI 77.
Geographic range.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela.
Examined material.
Colombia • 1 worker; Vichada, Cumaribo, Parque Nacional Natural Tuparro; 5.350278°N, 67.876667°W; 100 m a. s. l.; 12 Apr. 1995; J. Muñoz leg.; Manual coll.; IAvH -E-251254.
Natural history.
Species collected by manual sampling on vegetation in Parque Nacional Natural Tuparro.
Comments.
This species can be recognized by 11 antennomeres, uniformly testaceous or yellowish-brown coloration, dorsal surface of head finely reticulate-punctate and longitudinally rugose, without presence of shiny areas, and basal third of first gastral tergite generally aciculate-striate in its sculpture.
Kempf (1959) synonymized all previously described species and subspecies within the echinatinodis complex under the nominal species, except for N. spininodis. A potential revision of the N. echinatinodis complex could either result in the synonymization of certain species or the division of the complex into multiple forms. It is common to find N. echinatinodis exhibiting sculpture similar to that of N. spininodis, particularly in populations from Colombia different from those living in the TDF (Unpublished data). Additionally, coloration is highly variable within the echinatinodis complex. For this reason, using coloration as the primary criterion for distinguishing between different forms is not recommended. Thus, the separation of both species should not rely solely on coloration; instead, the sculpture of the frontal area of the head and the first gastral tergum should also be compared.
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S. & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, The ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the threatened Colombian tropical dry forest: three new species, a new synonymy, and new distributional data, pp. 131-172 in ZooKeys 1232 on pages 131-172, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.141693
Investigation of Liquid Limit of Kamloops Silt by Soft-base Casagrande Apparatus and British Drop-Cone Penetrometer
Creators: name: Lu, Alan Zhong
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was to investigate the liquid limit of Kamloops silt using two world-wide popular testing apparatus: Casagrande device and British style Drop-Cone penetrometer. The testing with Casagrande device was conducted by a group of soil mechanics students in accordance with ASTM D423-61T (1961); the testing with British style Drop-Cone penetrometer was performed by two senior undergraduate engineering students in accordance with BS 1377 (1975). The liquid limit of Kamloops silt was found to be approximately 23%. The results obtained by both apparatus agreed to each other quite well, so these two testing methods can be alternative of each other. However, using Drop-Cone penetrometer required less experience of the operator and yielded results more easily and quickly than using Casagrande device. This paper also introduced the concept and the significance of Atterberg Limits, and summarized the development of Casagrande method by Arthur Casagrande and the evolution of Drop-Cone penetrating method.
THE BENEFITS OF INCORPORATING GAMES AND PLAY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Creators: name: Ruziyeva, Nafisa
name: Maxmudova, Shaxnoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In current years, the integration of games and play in language studying has received traction as an wonderful and attractive approach to beautify skill ability in a 2nd language. This article explores the advantages of incorporating games and plays in language getting to know and provides insights into how these techniques can be utilized to enhance language acquisition.
The Crop Support Programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or Who Gets the Grain and Who Gets the Chaff
Creators: name: Toews, Curtis D.
Publisher: name: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
Year: 1974
Subjects: Other Health and Human Services

description: The picture of agriculture presented by journalism and the mass media to the American public has changed markedly within the first years of the 1970's. The gist has changed from low agricultural commodity prices and expansive surpluses to high and ever-rising food prices and scarcities at accustomed prices.
Synthesis of new contrast agents for biomedical applications
Creators: name: TRAVAGIN, Fabio
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2021

description: Several different metal complexes are currently used in diagnostics and therapy (MRI, PET, SPECT, OI, TAT etc.). For their preparation a chelating agent (CA) is mandatory to hold the metal ion, to reduce its toxicity and to target its activity. Polyaminocarboxylates and polyaminophosphonates represent the best choice of CAs for the preparation of metal complexes exploited as imaging probes. These scaffolds ensure high thermodynamic and kinetic stability of the corresponding metal complex. However, their preparation is not always straightforward.
During this PhD the research work was focused on the following three main objectives:
1) A strategy for the 1,7-heterodiprotection of cyclen with orthogonal protecting groups have been realised. This protection method is based on the control of pH to implant two different and orthogonal protecting groups in the cyclen scaffold.
2) This protection method has been exploited to prepare two novel bifunctional chelating agents (BFCAs) bearing a phosphonic functionality (DO2AP(tBu)4 and DO3AP(tBu)4). These two novel BFCAs have been designed to prepare innovative and stable metal complexes conjugated with vectors such as antibodies, peptides, nucleotides etc.
3) Three innovative CAs have been prepared and characterised:
- TRASUTA is a hexadentate mesocyclic chelating agent and a rigidified AAZTA-like ligand for the coordination of Ga(III).
- Cb-tebpm is a cyclam-based chelating agent, designed to prepare stable complexes with gadolinium or in general with lanthanides.
- HB-DO3A is an HP-DO3A homologue, optimised to be a strong Gd(III) chelator. HBDO3A has been investigated in its safety profile. In vitro data have shown that, if compared to clinically approved MRI CAs, HB-DO3A presents low affinity to collagen. This characteristic could confer HB-DO3A the advantage of a faster and complete clearance after administration to the patient, with less release of toxic Gd(III) and less side effects.
Motives, Periods, and Functoriality
Creators: name: Deligne, Pierre
name: Raghuram, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F67, 11G09, 22E55

description: Given a pure motive $M$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ with a multilinear algebraic structure $\mathsf{s}$ on $M$, and given a representation $V$ of the group respecting $\mathsf{s}$, we describe a functorial transfer $M^V$. We formulate a criterion that guarantees when the two periods of $M^V$ are equal. This has an implication for the critical values of the $L$-function attached to $M^V.$ The criterion is explicated in a variety of examples such as: tensor product motives and Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions; orthogonal motives and the standard $L$-function for even orthogonal groups; twisted tensor motives and Asai $L$-functions.
Seedless extractors for device-independent quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Foreman, Cameron
name: Masanes, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Device-independent (DI) quantum cryptography aims at providing secure cryptography with minimal trust in, or characterisation of, the underlying quantum devices. A key step in DI protocols is randomness extraction (or privacy amplification), which typically requires a \textit{seed} of additional bits with sufficient entropy and statistical independence from any bits generated during the protocol. In this work, we propose a method for extraction in DI protocols that does not require a seed and is secure against computationally unbounded quantum adversaries. The core idea is to use the Bell violation of the raw data, rather than its min-entropy, as the extractor promise. We present a complete security proof in a model where the experiment uses memoryless measurement devices acting on an arbitrary joint (across all rounds) state. Our results mark a first step in this alternative, seedless, approach to extraction in DI protocols.
description: As published in the journal Quantum. 13 + 7 pages, 2 figures
Bibliotecas en la era de la  Inteligencia Artificial: ¿Un Nuevo Paradigma?
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ponencia inaugural de las XXII Jornadas Bibliotecarias de Andalucía

Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), 8 y 9 de noviembre 2024

“Bibliotecas del futuro: tecnologías y estrategias para el Siglo XXI”

Resumen: Esta ponencia explora el impacto de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el ámbito bibliotecario. La ponencia argumenta que la IA no debe ser vista únicamente como una crisis profesional, sino como una oportunidad para la evolución de las bibliotecas. A través del análisis de cuatro áreas clave de aplicación de la IA en estos entornos, el autor resalta el potencial de estas tecnologías para mejorar funciones tradicionales, como la automatización de procesos y la personalización de servicios. Asimismo, la ponencia aborda los desafíos éticos que presenta la IA, como los sesgos algorítmicos y las "alucinaciones" de datos, e insta a las bibliotecas a asumir un rol activo en la adopción responsable de estas tecnologías, manteniendo el enfoque en las personas y en su papel de mediación tecnológica.

Keywords: Bibliotecas, Inteligencia Artificial, IA Generativa, ChatGPT
Fostering Minority Enterprise in Construction. Final Report
Creators: name: Glover, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
Year: 1975
Subjects: Workforce Development

description: An empirical study of minority business enterprise in construction, the paper is based on interviews with 340 general and specialty contractors (out of 1,275 identified minority contractors)in Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, and San Francisco-Oakland, as well as300 other individuals including civil rights officials, and other knowledgeable individuals. The study includes consideration of the characteristics of existing contractors and their firms, the aspirations of the contractors, an analysis of the problems they face in upgrading their businesses, and an examination of alternative approaches to improving and expanding minority business enterprise in construction. Among the strategies reviewed are demand stimulation through identifying minority firms in published lists and redirecting public and private procurement toward minority firms and supply development through bonding and financial assistance, technical and managerial assistance, and labor training. Also discussed are the potential and pitfalls of the minority contractor association and joint ventures between minority and non minority contractors. The general conclusion is reached that some minority contractors have significant potential for advancement which could be realized with the proper assistance. Specific conclusions and recommendations concerning the efforts to offer this assistance are stated. The concluding section lists interview subjects and bibliographic sources.