cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mitigating Aberration-Induced Noise: A Deep Learning-Based Aberration-to-Aberration Approach
Creators: name: Sharifzadeh, Mostafa
name: Goudarzi, Sobhan
name: Tang, An
name: Benali, Habib
name: Rivaz, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: One of the primary sources of suboptimal image quality in ultrasound imaging is phase aberration. It is caused by spatial changes in sound speed over a heterogeneous medium, which disturbs the transmitted waves and prevents coherent summation of echo signals. Obtaining non-aberrated ground truths in real-world scenarios can be extremely challenging, if not impossible. This challenge hinders the performance of deep learning-based techniques due to the domain shift between simulated and experimental data. Here, for the first time, we propose a deep learning-based method that does not require ground truth to correct the phase aberration problem and, as such, can be directly trained on real data. We train a network wherein both the input and target output are randomly aberrated radio frequency (RF) data. Moreover, we demonstrate that a conventional loss function such as mean square error is inadequate for training such a network to achieve optimal performance. Instead, we propose an adaptive mixed loss function that employs both B-mode and RF data, resulting in more efficient convergence and enhanced performance. Finally, we publicly release our dataset, comprising over 180,000 aberrated single plane-wave images (RF data), wherein phase aberrations are modeled as near-field phase screens. Although not utilized in the proposed method, each aberrated image is paired with its corresponding aberration profile and the non-aberrated version, aiming to mitigate the data scarcity problem in developing deep learning-based techniques for phase aberration correction.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2303.05747
A Framework to Support Developers in the Integration and Application of Linked and Open Data
Creators: name: Heuss, Timm
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Linked Data
subject: Open Data
subject: Integration Framework
subject: Technical Architecture
subject: Data Warehouse
subject: Storage evaluation
subject: CKAN field study
subject: PhD

description: In the last years, the number of freely available Linked and Open Data datasets has multiplied into tens of thousands. The numbers of applications taking advantage of it, however, have not. Thus, large portions of potentially valuable data remain unexploited and are inaccessible for lay users. Therefore the upfront investment in releasing data in the first place is hard to justify. The lack of applications needs to be addressed in order not to undermine efforts put into Linked and Open Data. In existing research, strong indicators can be found that the dearth of applications is due to a lack of pragmatic, working architectures supporting these applications and guiding developers. In this thesis, a new architecture for the integration and application of Linked and Open Data is presented. Fundamental design decisions are backed up by two studies: firstly, based on real-world Linked and Open Data samples, characteristic properties are identified. A key finding is the fact that large amounts of structured data display tabular structures, do not use clear licensing and involve multiple different file formats. Secondly, following on from that study, a comparison of storage choices in relevant query scenarios is made. It includes the de-facto standard storage choice in this domain, Triples Stores, as well as relational and NoSQL approaches. Results show significant performance deficiencies of some technologies in certain scenarios. Consequently, when integrating Linked and Open Data in scenarios with application-specific entities, the first choice of storage is relational databases. Combining these findings and related best practices of existing research, a prototype framework is implemented using Java 8 and Hibernate. As a proof-of-concept it is employed in an existing Linked and Open Data integration project. Thereby, it is shown that a best practice architectural component is introduced successfully, while development effort to implement specific program code can be simplified. Thus, the present work provides an important foundation for the development of semantic applications based on Linked and Open Data and potentially leads to a broader adoption of such applications.
Spiophanes Grube 1860
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Spionida
Spionidae
Spiophanes

description: Genus Spiophanes Grube 1860
® Spiophanes afer Meißner (2005)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Amoureux 1983a; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Lardicci 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM17, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM25, BM28, BM30, BM31, BM33, BM36, BM37, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM42, BM43, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM55, BM65, BM91, BM92, BM96, BM97, BM99, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Spiophanes kroyeri Grube 1860; Spiophanes kroyeri kroyeri Grube 1860 REMARKS: These are the first records from the Adriatic Sea. Traditionally, Spiophanes kroyeri Grube 1860 was reported from the Adriatic Sea. However, based on the comprehensive revision of the genus Spiophanes, Meißner (2005) concluded that so far only the specimens from the North Atlantic can be assigned to S. kroyeri, while most of the previous records of that species are probably misidentifications of similar species. Indeed, new specimens analysed and reported in this list were all confirmed to be S. afer. This suggests that all previous Adriatic records of S. kroyeri probably also belong to S. afer, a species that has been normally misidentified as S. kroyeri and distributed in the western Mediterranean Sea, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean (Meißner 2005), Aegean Sea (Daðlý et al. 2011) and Marmara Sea (Daðlý 2013).
DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM54, 26.06.2003., 1 spec. (PMR-17614). BM53, 28.03.2003., 1 spec. (PMR-17644).
Spiophanes bombyx (Claparède, 1870)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1940; Scaccini 1967; Katzmann 1972; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Bedulli et al. 1983; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Orel et al. 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Lardicci 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM13, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM91.
Spiophanes reyssi Laubier, 1964 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Bellan 1969; Katzmann 1972, 1973b; Amoureux 1976, 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Gillet 1986; Lardicci 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Spiophanes kroyeri reyssi Laubier, 1964. REMARKS: The former subspecies Spiophanes kroyeri reyssi Laubier, 1964 was raised to a specific level by Meißner (2005).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Geometrically Modulable Gait Design for Quadrupeds
Creators: name: Prasad, Hari Krishna Hari
name: Hatton, Ross L.
name: Jayaram, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Miniature-legged robots are constrained by their onboard computation and control, thus motivating the need for simple, first-principles-based geometric models that connect \emph{periodic actuation or gaits} (a universal robot control paradigm) to the induced average locomotion. In this paper, we develop a \emph{modulable two-beat gait design framework} for sprawled planar quadrupedal systems under the no-slip using tools from geometric mechanics. We reduce standard two-beat gaits into unique subgaits in mutually exclusive shape subspaces. Subgaits are characterized by a locomotive stance phase when limbs are in ground contact and a non-locomotive, instantaneous swing phase where the limbs are reset without contact. During the stance phase, the contacting limbs form a four-bar mechanism. To analyze the ensuing locomotion, we develop the following tools: (a) a vector field to generate nonslip actuation, (b) the kinematics of a four-bar mechanism as a local connection, and (c) stratified panels that combine the kinematics and constrained actuation to encode the net change in the system's position generated by a stance-swing subgait cycle. Decoupled subgaits are then designed independently using flows on the shape-change basis and are combined with appropriate phasing to produce a two-beat gait. Further, we introduce ``scaling" and ``sliding" control inputs to continuously modulate the global trajectories of the quadrupedal system in gait time through which we demonstrate cycle-average speed, direction, and steering control using the control inputs. Thus, this framework has the potential to create uncomplicated open-loop gait plans or gain schedules for robots with limited resources, bringing them closer to achieving autonomous control.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Streblospio Webster 1879
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Spionida
Spionidae
Streblospio

description: Genus Streblospio Webster, 1879
Streblospio shrubsolii (Buchanan, 1890)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Laubier 1962; Bedulli i Paretti, 1979; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Lardicci 1989; Castelli & Prevedelli 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Fornasari et al. 1995; Tagliapietra et al. 1998; Crema et al. 2000; Rossi et al. 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Rossi et al. 2001; Mistri et al. 2001, 2002a, 2002c; Munari et al. 2003, 2005, 2006; Keppel & Maggiore 2006; Gerino et al. 2007; Prevedelli et al. 2007; Maggiore & Keppel 2007; Ponti et al. 2007, 2008, 2009; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Streblospio dechuyzeni Horst, 1909.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
High-rate intercity quantum key distribution with a semiconductor single-photon source
Creators: name: Yang, Jingzhong
name: Jiang, Zenghui
name: Benthin, Frederik
name: Hanel, Joscha
name: Fandrich, Tom
name: Joos, Raphael
name: Bauer, Stephanie
name: Kolatschek, Sascha
name: Hreibi, Ali
name: Rugeramigabo, Eddy Patrick
name: Jetter, Michael
name: Portalupi, Simone Luca
name: Zopf, Michael
name: Michler, Peter
name: Kück, Stefan
name: Ding, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables the transmission of information that is secure against general attacks by eavesdroppers. The use of on-demand quantum light sources in QKD protocols is expected to help improve security and maximum tolerable loss. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising building block for quantum communication applications because of the deterministic emission of single photons with high brightness and low multiphoton contribution. Here we report on the first intercity QKD experiment using a bright deterministic single photon source. A BB84 protocol based on polarisation encoding is realised using the high-rate single photons in the telecommunication C-band emitted from a semiconductor QD embedded in a circular Bragg grating structure. Utilising the 79 km long link with 25.49 dB loss (equivalent to 130 km for the direct-connected optical fibre) between the German cities of Hannover and Braunschweig, a record-high secret key bits per pulse of 4.8 * 10^{-5} with an average quantum bit error ratio of ~ 0.65 % are demonstrated. An asymptotic maximum tolerable loss of 28.11 dB is found, corresponding to a length of 144 km of standard telecommunication fibre. Deterministic semiconductor sources therefore challenge state-of-the-art QKD protocols and have the potential to excel in measurement device independent protocols and quantum repeater applications.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Thermochronologic Evidence of Major Tectonic Denudation Associated with Detachment Faulting, Northern Ruby Mountains: East Humboldt Range, Nevada
Creators: name: Dokka, R. K.
name: Mahaffie, M. J.
name: Snoke, Art
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Fission track (FT) thermochronology studies on igneous and metamorphic rocks from the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex provide important constraints on the timing and nature of major mid-Tertiary extension in northeast Nevada. Rocks from within the Ruby-East Humboldt detachment (brittle-ductile normal-sense shear) zone were analyzed; the dominant lithology studied was variably mylonitic mafic orthogneiss. Nonmylonitic amphibolite from the top of the structurally lower migmatitic core and porphyritic biotite granodiorite from the Oligocene (circa 36 Ma) Harrison Pass pluton were also studied. FT ages on apatite, zircon, and sphene (except one 18.4-Ma apatite from the basal portion of the detachment zone) are concordant and range in age from 26.5 Ma to 23.6 Ma; all ages overlap at 1 σ between 25.4 Ma and 23.4 Ma. These data suggest that rocks of the upper and middle portions of the detachment zone cooled rapidly from temperatures above ~285°C (sphene closure temperature) to below ~70°C (lower temperature limit of track stability in apatite) near the beginning of the Miocene (minimum cooling rate of 40°C/Ma). The length distribution of confined fission tracks in apatites from these exhumed middle crustal rocks is strikingly similar to those of rocks known to have cooled rapidly (Fish Canyon ash flow tuff). The lower part of the detachment zone as well as the underlying migmatitic core also cooled through sphene and zircon closure temperatures during this time interval, but apparently only cooled to a temperature within the zone of partial annealing of apatite (~70°–130°C). Residence of these rocks in this zone led to a partial retention of fission tracks, thus resulting in a reduced age. Confined track length distributions from apatite provide independent evidence of very rapid cooling but also indicate that the rocks of the lower detachment zone experienced a more protracted cooling history (remained hotter longer) than structurally higher levels of the zone. FT data firmly establish the lower limit on the timing of mylonitization during detachment faulting in this area as 23.4 Ma. Rapid cooling of the region is considered to reflect large-scale tectonic denudation (intracrustal thinning), the vertical complement to crustal extension. Rocks originating in the middle crust (10–15 km) were quickly brought near the surface along the Ruby-East Humboldt detachment fault (brittle-ductile simple shear zone) and juxtaposed against brittlely extended rocks deformed under upper crustal conditions.
Engagement and Assessment in a Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Course
Creators: name: Mayer, Jennifer
name: Bowles-Terry, Melissa
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: 3.0 credit course
Assessment
Credit-bearing instruction
Curricula
Information literacy
Interdisciplinary
Librarians
Student engagement
Teaching librarians
Universities
University libraries
Upper-level
Library and Information Science

description: Purpose – The authors teach a three-credit, upper-division, information literacy (IL) course to students in various majors. The purpose of this paper is to share the various philosophies and activities the authors use to engage their students and create a cohesive interdisciplinary course and to describe the various assessment tools utilized. Design/methodology/approach – In this case study, the authors give specific examples of engaging assignments and methods for evaluating student work in a credit-bearing IL course. Findings – It is found that if students are engaged, and effective assessment tools are employed, library credit instruction in a face-to-face setting with upper-classmen from diverse majors is an impactful way to teach IL. Practical implications – This article provides ideas on how to use a topical theme in teaching an interdisciplinary IL credit course; concrete approaches on engaging students in an IL course; and new strategies for assessing an IL credit-bearing course. Many of the engagement and assessment methods the authors share may also be applied to one-shot instruction sessions. Originality/value – The paper provides a practical case study of the authors' experiences engaging students and assessing their work in an upper level, three-credit, face-to-face class, a type of course not well represented in the information literacy literature at this point in time.
Stakeholder approach to the segmentation of the short haul business air travel market
Creators: name: Mason, Keith John
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1995

description: The marketing literature deals inadequately with markets which show characteristics of both consumer and industrial markets. In this work such markets are called hybrid markets. The research attempts to find an appropriate research approach for the short haul business related air travel market, which has hybrid market characteristics. Recent studies of the business travel market (Stephenson and Fox, 1987, Toh and Hu. 1988 and 1990) have investigated corporate and traveller attitude towards frequent flier programmes (see Glossary). However, as yet the airline marketing literature has not investigated the role the purchasing organisation (the employer of the traveller) has to play in a decision to purchase business related air travel. Market segmentation is selected as a suitable tool to investigate the business travel market. However, a review of the literature on segmentation for both consumer and industrial products reveals that an approach suited to the characteristics of this market is not available. Consequently a two stage research approach for hybrid markets is developed. A case study of nine companies in the first stage of the research is used to develop an understanding of corporate involvement in the purchase of business air travel, and identifies three key stakeholder groups in the purchase. They are the traveller, the travel organiser, and the "organisation". The second stage of the research collects data on the stakeholders. Traveller data on the importance of product elements in the purchase are used in a benefit segmentation of the market. The attitude data from 827 business travellers is analysed by factor analysis to identify six principal purchase benefits. These six benefits account for 60.6% of the variance in the data. Six factor scores for each respondent are calculated and then investigated by ak means iterative partitioning cluster analysis. A robust three cluster solution is discovered; i. e. three benefit segments are present in the short haul business travel market, based on traveller attitude. Cross-validation tests are carried out to test the stability of this solution. The three segments are investigated to evaluate the influence in the purchase decision of other organisational stakeholders. Differences between segments are found in the travel policy of the employing organisation, class of travel allowed to travellers, and purchase behaviour. The research indicates that for hybrid markets such as business travel, the role of the employing organisation may be important in purchase decisions. Consequently, it is recommended that future reserach should assess corporate involvement in purchases of products that have both consumer and industrial elements. The evaluation of the influences of various stakeholder groups in purchase decisions in hybrid markets may reveal previously overlooked marketing opportunities.
Sternaspis Otto 1821
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Sternaspidae
Sternaspis

description: Genus Sternaspis Otto, 1821
Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1840; Stossich 1876; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Zimmermann 1907; Vatova 1928, 1931a, 1931b, 1934; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1938, 1940; Vatova 1940a, 1940b, 1942, 1943, 1949a, 1949b; Gamulin-Brida 1962; Laubier 1962; Vatova 1963; Gamulin-Brida 1964; Kiseleva 1964; Gamulin-Brida 1965, 1967; Scaccini 1967; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Banse 1970; Karaman & Gamulin-Brida 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Gamulin-Brida 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1973f; Zavodnik 1973; Avèin et al. 1974; Gamulin-Brida 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1976; Cognetti- Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Gamulin-Brida 1979; Amoureux 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Radiae 1982; Zavodnik & Zavodnik 1982; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Avèin & Vrišer 1983; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Bedulli et al. 1983, 1984; Stjepčević et al. 1984; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1986; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Orel et al. 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Orel 1988; Marano et al. 1989; Špan et al. 1989; Parisi et al. 1990; Crema et al. 1991; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Šimunović 1997; Mancinelli et al. 1998; Castelli et al. 1999; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Alcaro et al. 2002; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Maggiore 2002; Spagnolo et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2004, 2005b; Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005; Boscolo et al. 2006; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Maggiore & Keppel 2007; Zavodnik & Vidaković 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; La Porta et al. 2011; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.
NEW RECORDS: BM13, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM65, BM66, BM79, BM91, BM92, BM96, BM97, BM98, BM100, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sternaspis thalassemoides Otto, 1821.
FAMILY SYLLIDAE Grube, 1850
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Robust Stance Detection: Understanding Public Perceptions in Social Media
Creators: name: Kim, Nayoung
name: Mosallanezhad, David
name: Cheng, Lu
name: Mancenido, Michelle V.
name: Liu, Huan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The abundance of social media data has presented opportunities for accurately determining public and group-specific stances around policy proposals or controversial topics. In contrast with sentiment analysis which focuses on identifying prevailing emotions, stance detection identifies precise positions (i.e., supportive, opposing, neutral) relative to a well-defined topic, such as perceptions toward specific global health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditional stance detection models, while effective within their specific domain (e.g., attitudes towards masking protocols during COVID-19), often lag in performance when applied to new domains and topics due to changes in data distribution. This limitation is compounded by the scarcity of domain-specific, labeled datasets, which are expensive and labor-intensive to create. A solution we present in this paper combines counterfactual data augmentation with contrastive learning to enhance the robustness of stance detection across domains and topics of interest. We evaluate the performance of current state-of-the-art stance detection models, including a prompt-optimized large language model, relative to our proposed framework succinctly called STANCE-C3 (domain-adaptive Cross-target STANCE detection via Contrastive learning and Counterfactual generation). Empirical evaluations demonstrate STANCE-C3's consistent improvements over the baseline models with respect to accuracy across domains and varying focal topics. Despite the increasing prevalence of general-purpose models such as generative AI, specialized models such as STANCE-C3 provide utility in safety-critical domains wherein precision is highly valued, especially when a nuanced understanding of the concerns of different population segments could result in crafting more impactful public policies.
DEVELOPMENTS AND BENEFITS OF LIQUID FEEDING THROUGH FERMENTATION FOR THE POST-WEANED PIG
Creators: name: MORAN, COLM ANTHONY
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: A programme of study was undertaken to assess the safety and palatability of fermented liquid feed. A series of laboratory experiments was conducted to select an inoculant capable of fermenting liquid feed at 20°C. Whilst combinations of cultures dropped the pH the most rapidly, the Lb. plantarum (PC) strain decreased the pH the lowest. A series of trials were conducted using a rifampicin mutant of Lb. plantarum (PC) to examine the fate of the starter culture. In an experiment using liquid milled wheat the addition of the starter culture resulted in an improvement in the inhibition of coliforms over the control (no inoculant). A series of fermentations prepared using Lb. plantarum (PC) were challenged with potential porcine pathogens at three temperatures (20°, 30° and 37°C) and after the feed had been fermented for different periods of time (24, 48, 72 and 96h). This study demonstrated that fermentation is an effective mechanism for eliminating potential porcine pathogens from liquid feed, However, the rate at which these pathogens are inactivated is dependent on temperature, duration of fermentation and challenge strain. The effect of temperature on the ability of E. coli and Salmonella spp. to survive in fermented liquid feed has implications for the management of liquid feeding systems. A study was conducted to examine the effect of feed form on the microbiology of the young piglets' gut. The benefits of feeding a FLF diet compared with a non-fermented liquid feed (NFLF), a conventional pelleted dry feed (DF) and leaving the piglet to continue to suckle the dam (S) for two weeks post-weaning were assessed. No coliforms bacteria (< 3.0 log10 cfu gˉ¹) were detected at the terminal ileum section of pigs fed FLF compared with 8.5, 8.1 and 6.0 log10 cfu gˉ¹ digesta in DF, NFLF and S pigs respectively. These results have implications in terms of .piglet health and dietary prevention of enteric diseases.
Evidence of a Cloud-Cloud Collision from Overshooting Gas in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Gramze, Savannah R.
name: Ginsburg, Adam
name: Meier, David S.
name: Ott, Juergen
name: Shirley, Yancy
name: Sormani, Mattia C.
name: Svoboda, Brian E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with "bar lanes" that bring gas towards the Galactic Center. Gas flowing along these bar lanes often overshoots, and instead of accreting onto the Central Molecular Zone, it collides with the bar lane on the opposite side of the Galaxy. We observed G5, a cloud which we believe is the site of one such collision, near the Galactic Center at (l,b) = (+5.4, -0.4) with the ALMA/ACA. We took measurements of the spectral lines $^{12}$CO J=2-1, $^{13}$CO J=2-1, C$^{18}$O J=2-1, H$_2$CO J=3$_{03}$-2$_{02}$, H$_{2}$CO J=3$_{22}$-2$_{21}$, CH$_{3}$OH J=4$_{22}$-3$_{12}$, OCS J=18-17 and SiO J=5-4. We observed a velocity bridge between two clouds at $\sim$50 km/s and $\sim$150 km/sin our position-velocity diagram, which is direct evidence of a cloud-cloud collision. We measured an average gas temperature of $\sim$60 K in G5 using H$_2$CO integrated intensity line ratios. We observed that the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratio in G5 is consistent with optically thin, or at most marginally optically thick $^{12}$CO. We measured 1.5 x 10$^{19}$ cm$^{-2}$(K km/s)$^{-1}$ for the local X$_{CO}$, 10-20x less than the average Galactic value. G5 is strong direct observational evidence of gas overshooting the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) and colliding with a bar lane on the opposite side of the Galactic center.
description: Accepted to ApJ. 27 pages, 19 figures
Amblyosyllis Grube 1857
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Amblyosyllis

description: Genus Amblyosyllis Grube, 1857
Amblyosyllis formosa (Claparède, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1864; Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Cognetti 1958; Banse 1959; Zavodnik 1967b; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986, 1994; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Amblyosyllis lineata Grube 1863; Pterosyllis lineata Grube 1863; Pterosyllis plectorhynchus Marenzeller, 1874; Amblyosyllis plectorhyncha Marenzeller, 1874; Pterosyllis formosa Claparède, 1863; Amblyosyllis dorsigera Claparède, 1864.
Amblyosyllis madeirensis Langerhans, 1879 DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 124-125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Anoplosyllis Claparede 1868
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Anoplosyllis

description: Genus Anoplosyllis Claparède, 1868
Anoplosyllis edentula Claparède, 1868
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Banse 1959; Katzmann 1972; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Syllides edentula (Claparède, 1868).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Multiplicities in the length spectrum and growth rate of Salem numbers
Creators: name: Grebennikov, Alexandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F06, 11K16, 20H10

description: We prove that mean multiplicities in the length spectrum of a non-compact arithmetic hyperbolic orbifold of dimension $n \geqslant 4$ have exponential growth rate $$ \langle g(L) \rangle \geqslant c \frac{e^{([n/2] - 1)L}}{L^{1 + δ_{5, 7}(n) }}, $$ extending the analogous result for even dimensions of Belolipetsky, Lalín, Murillo and Thompson. Our proof is based on the study of (square-rootable) Salem numbers.
 As a counterpart, we also prove an asymptotic formula for the distribution of square-rootable Salem numbers by adapting the argument of Götze and Gusakova. It shows that one can not obtain a better estimate on mean multiplicities using our approach.
description: v3: 20 pages, final version; more detailed, used as Master's thesis. v2: 18 pages, journal version; introduction expanded, statements of the main results slightly modified, other minor corrections
Doeblin Coefficients and Related Measures
Creators: name: Makur, Anuran
name: Singh, Japneet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Doeblin coefficients are a classical tool for analyzing the ergodicity and exponential convergence rates of Markov chains. Propelled by recent works on contraction coefficients of strong data processing inequalities, we investigate whether Doeblin coefficients also exhibit some of the notable properties of canonical contraction coefficients. In this paper, we present several new structural and geometric properties of Doeblin coefficients. Specifically, we show that Doeblin coefficients form a multi-way divergence, exhibit tensorization, and possess an extremal trace characterization. We then show that they also have extremal coupling and simultaneously maximal coupling characterizations. By leveraging these characterizations, we demonstrate that Doeblin coefficients act as a nice generalization of the well-known total variation (TV) distance to a multi-way divergence, enabling us to measure the "distance" between multiple distributions rather than just two. We then prove that Doeblin coefficients exhibit contraction properties over Bayesian networks similar to other canonical contraction coefficients. We additionally derive some other results and discuss an application of Doeblin coefficients to distribution fusion. Finally, in a complementary vein, we introduce and discuss three new quantities: max-Doeblin coefficient, max-DeGroot distance, and min-DeGroot distance. The max-Doeblin coefficient shares a connection with the concept of maximal leakage in information security; we explore its properties and provide a coupling characterization. On the other hand, the max-DeGroot and min-DeGroot measures extend the concept of DeGroot distance to multiple distributions.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure
Branchiosyllis Ehlers 1887
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Branchiosyllis

description: Genus Branchiosyllis Ehlers, 1887
Branchiosyllis exilis (Gravier, 1900)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1938; Katzmann 1972; Amoureux 1983c; 1983d; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986, 1994; Zahtila 1995; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Branchiosyllis uncinigera (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960); Syllis cirropunctata Michel, 1909; Typosyllis cirropunctata (Michel, 1909).
REMARKS: Branchiosyllis exilis is considered to be a species complex that requires a detailed revision (San Martín et al. 2008).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Rydberg-atom graphs for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems
Creators: name: Byun, Andrew
name: Jung, Junwoo
name: Kim, Kangheun
name: Kim, Minhyuk
name: Jeong, Seokho
name: Jeong, Heejeong
name: Ahn, Jaewook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a growing interest in harnessing the potential of the Rydberg-atom system to address complex combinatorial optimization challenges. Here we present an experimental demonstration of how the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem can be effectively addressed using Rydberg-atom graphs. The Rydberg-atom graphs are configurations of neutral atoms organized into mathematical graphs, facilitated by programmable optical tweezers, and designed to exhibit many-body ground states that correspond to the maximum independent set (MIS) of their respective graphs. We have developed four elementary Rydberg-atom subgraph components, not only to eliminate the need of local control but also to be robust against interatomic distance errors, while serving as the building blocks sufficient for formulating generic QUBO graphs. To validate the feasibility of our approach, we have conducted a series of Rydberg-atom experiments selected to demonstrate proof-of-concept operations of these building blocks. These experiments illustrate how these components can be used to programmatically encode the QUBO problems to Rydberg-atom graphs and, by measuring their many-body ground states, how their QUBO solutions are determined subsequently.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Brania Quatrefages 1866
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Brania

description: Genus Brania Quatrefages, 1866
 Brania arminii (Langerhans, 1881)
 DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
 LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Schirosi et al. 2010; Musco 2012.
 NEW RECORDS: BM19.
 Brania pusilla (Dujardin, 1851)
 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
 LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Cognetti 1958; Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Amoureux 1983c, 1994; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Giangrande et al. 2005; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012. NEW RECORDS: BM75.
 OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Grubea pusilla (Dujardin, 1851).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Brania Quatrefages 1866
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Brania

description: Genus Brania Quatrefages, 1866
Brania arminii (Langerhans, 1881)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Schirosi et al. 2010; Musco 2012.
NEW RECORDS: BM19.
Brania pusilla (Dujardin, 1851)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Cognetti 1958; Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Amoureux 1983c, 1994; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Giangrande et al. 2005; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012. NEW RECORDS: BM75.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Grubea pusilla (Dujardin, 1851).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
AN EVALUATION OF THE USE OF HELICOPTERS AS AIR AMBULANCES
Creators: name: Brigham, Philip
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1993

description: This study reviews the evaluative literature of air ambulances in other countries and concludes it has little relevance to Britain. Other reviews are undertaken of the British ambulance service, evaluative economics, and market istructures. The relationship between effectiveness, efficiency and equity is explored. It is concluded that there is a role for ak ambulances in servicing rural areas within the revised structure of the' NHS. This is tested by three studies of the Cornwall A k Ambulance. Initially, the resources and standards of the ambulance service in Cornwall are investigated by analysis of routine data spanning two years. It is concluded that standards of response and times to hospital are poor in North Cornwall. This was deduced from the modelling of response times and time to hospital for incidents from every electoral ward in the county. Two options of 'land ambulance only' and 'land ambulance with the air ambulance' are tested for effectiveness, equity and efficiency. The first study considers the effectiveness of service provision, while the second study considers geographic equity with the use of simple regression analysis to indicate the cost of service provision at differing levels of rurality. The^third uses a cost benefit analysis framework to indicate the costs and benefits associated with air ambulance use in a rural area. The contribution to knowledge is highly significant in the modelling of routine data to assess the effectiveness, efficiency and equity relationship, in appraising accessibility. This is the first study to apply economic principles to the ambulance service within the recently revised NHS.
Epigamia Nygren 2004
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Epigamia

description: Genus Epigamia Nygren 2004
* Epigamia macrophtalma (Marenzeller, 1875) DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Marenzeller 1875; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Giangrande et al. 2003; Nygren 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Proceraea macrophthalma Marenzeller, 1875.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 125-126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
On the Length of Strongly Monotone Descending Chains over $\mathbb{N}^d$
Creators: name: Schmitz, Sylvain
name: Schütze, Lia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.1; F.2

description: A recent breakthrough by Künnemann, Mazowiecki, Schütze, Sinclair-Banks, and Wegrzycki (ICALP, 2023) bounds the running time for the coverability problem in $d$-dimensional vector addition systems under unary encoding to $n^{2^{O(d)}}$, improving on Rackoff's $n^{2^{O(d\lg d)}}$ upper bound (Theor. Comput. Sci., 1978), and provides conditional matching lower bounds.
 In this paper, we revisit Lazić and Schmitz' "ideal view" of the backward coverability algorithm (Inform. Comput., 2021) in the light of this breakthrough. We show that the controlled strongly monotone descending chains of downwards-closed sets over $\mathbb{N}^d$ that arise from the dual backward coverability algorithm of Lazić and Schmitz on $d$-dimensional unary vector addition systems also enjoy this tight $n^{2^{O(d)}}$ upper bound on their length, and that this also translates into the same bound on the running time of the backward coverability algorithm.
 Furthermore, our analysis takes place in a more general setting than that of Lazić and Schmitz, which allows to show the same results and improve on the 2EXPSPACE upper bound derived by Benedikt, Duff, Sharad, and Worrell (LICS, 2017) for the coverability problem in invertible affine nets.
Seasonal thaw settlement at drained thermokarst lake basins, Arctic Alaska
Creators: name: Liu, Lin
name: Schaefer, Kevin M.
name: Gusmeroli, Alessio
name: Grosse, Guido
name: Jones, Benjamin M.
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Parsekian, Andrew
name: Zebker, Howard A.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Drained thermokarst lake basins (DTLBs) are ubiquitous landforms on Arctic tundra lowland. Their dynamic states are seldom investigated, despite their importance for landscape stability, hydrology, nutrient fluxes, and carbon cycling. Here we report results based on high-resolution Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) measurements using space-borne data for a study area located on the North Slope of Alaska near Prudhoe Bay, where we focus on the seasonal thaw settlement within DTLBs, averaged between 2006 and 2010. The majority (14) of the 18 DTLBs in the study area exhibited seasonal thaw settlement of 3-4 cm. However, four of the DTLBs examined exceeded 4 cm of thaw settlement, with one basin experiencing up to 12 cm. Combining the InSAR observations with the in situ active layer thickness measured using ground penetrating radar and mechanical probing, we calculated thaw strain, an index of thaw settlement strength along a transect across the basin that underwent large thaw settlement. We found thaw strains of 10-35% at the basin center, suggesting the seasonal melting of ground ice as a possible mechanism for the large settlement. These findings emphasize the dynamic nature of permafrost landforms, demonstrate the capability of the InSAR technique to remotely monitor surface deformation of individual DTLBs, and illustrate the combination of ground-based and remote sensing observations to estimate thaw strain. Our study highlights the need for better description of the spatial heterogeneity of landscape-scale processes for regional assessment of surface dynamics on Arctic coastal lowlands.
RADAR SIMULATOR TRAINING FOR EFFECTIVE MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE
Creators: name: REDFERN, ANTHONY
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1987

description: The main effort in locating and rescuing survivors of a maritime incident is borne by merchant shipping. This research shows that search and rescue is a task that will face most seafarers, but as they generally lack the necessary levels of skill and knowledge required the task will often be poorly performed. A remedy to this unsatisfactory situation lies in proper training and guidance for ships' officers. This thesis evaluates, using illuminative techniques, the first simulator course devised to provide such training. The evaluation will be of particular use to others called upon to provide similar training. It also shows a requirement for the adoption of improved procedures in merchant ship searches, makes relevant recommendations, and identifies areas for further research. More significantly the study has allowed, through simulation, an opportunity unparalleled in the real situation to assess the guidance contained in the Merchant Ship Search and Rescue Manual (MERSAR). This International Maritime Organization manual is the primary aid available to seafarers facing search and rescue responsibilities. The assessment concludes there is scope for extensive amendment to MERSAR amounting to overall rather than piecemeal revision. Positive recommendations are made, particularly in the areas of communications, control and co-ordination. It is anticipated that this original research will have an important role to play in MERSAR's revision, and through this improve the effectiveness of maritime search and rescue.