cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamics of a long chain in turbulent flows: Impact of vortices
Creators: name: Picardo, Jason R.
name: Singh, Rahul
name: Ray, Samriddhi Sankar
name: Vincenzi, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show and explain how a long bead-spring chain, immersed in a homogeneous, isotropic turbulent flow, preferentially samples vortical flow structures. We begin with an elastic, extensible chain which is stretched out by the flow, up to inertial-range scales. This filamentary object, which is known to preferentially sample the circular coherent vortices of two-dimensional (2D) turbulence, is shown here to also preferentially sample the intense, tubular, vortex filaments of 3D turbulence. In the 2D case, the chain collapses into a tracer inside vortices. In 3D, on the contrary, the chain is extended even in vortical regions, which suggests that it follows axially-stretched tubular vortices by aligning with their axes. This physical picture is confirmed by examining the relative sampling behaviour of the individual beads, and by additional studies on an inextensible chain with adjustable bending-stiffness. A highly-flexible, inextensible chain also shows preferential sampling in 3D, provided it is longer than the dissipation scale, but not much longer than the vortex tubes. This is true also for 2D turbulence, where a long inextensible chain can occupy vortices by coiling into them. When the chain is made inflexible, however, coiling is prevented and the extent of preferential sampling in 2D is considerably reduced. In 3D, on the contrary, bending stiffness has no effect, because the chain does not need to coil in order to thread a vortex tube and align with its axis.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Teshio nisshi : tōzai Ezo sansen chiri torishirabe kikō
天鹽日誌 : 東西蝦夷山川地理取調紀行
Creators: name: Matsuura, Takeshirō, 1818-1888
Publisher: name: [place of publication unknown] : Matsuura Takeshirō
Year: 2020

Abstract
title: Google It Up! A Google Trend-based Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
name: Feizi, Mehdi
name: Sadati, Saeed Malek
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: epidemic disease
Google Trends
Economics
Wirtschaft
Iran
COVID-19

description: Soon after the first identified COVID-19 cases in Iran, the spread of the new Coronavirus has affected almost all its provinces. In the absence of credible data on people's unfiltered concerns and needs, especially in developing countries, Google search data is a reliable source that truthfully captures the public sentiment. This study examines the within province changes of confirmed cases of Corona across Iranian provinces from 19 Feb. 2020 to 9 March 2020. Using real-time Google Trends data, panel fixed effects, and GMM regression estimations, we show a robust negative association between the intensity of search for disinfection methods and materials in the past and current confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus. In addition, we find a positive and robust association between the intensity of the searches for symptoms of Corona and the number of confirmed cases within the Iranian provinces. These findings are robust to control for province and period fixed effects, province-specific time trends, and lag of confirmed cases. Our results show how not only prevention could hinder affection in an epidemic disease but also prophecies, shaped by individual concerns and reflected in Google search queries, might not be self-fulfilling.
Effect of Two Formulations of Sufentrazone on Weed Control in Tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum L)
Creators: name: Mashayamombe, Bertha K.
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chiteka, Albert
name: Mashayamombe, Bertha K.
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chiteka, Albert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Broadleaf weeds
subject: grass weeds
subject: sedges
subject: efficacy
subject: phytotoxicity
subject: residues

description: Field studies were done to compare the weed control efficacy of a wettable granular formulation (Authority 75 WG) and a suspension concentrate formulation (Authority 48 SC) of the herbicide sulfentrazone. A 6 x 2 factorial experiment was laid out in a split plot design to evaluate the effect of the two herbicides on the weed control efficacy in tobacco. The first factor was herbicide which had 6 levels and the second factor was weeding which had 2 levels. One rate of the wettable granular formulation at 0.225 kg/ha, four different rates of the suspension concentrate formulation at 0.165, 185, 0.205 and 0.225 kg a.i. /ha and the untreated control were tested. These were split into two weeding levels (weedy and weed free). The weed free plots were weeded every other week for 12 weeks beginning two weeks after transplanting tobacco. The treatments were combined to give 6 treatments for each main plot. These were replicated four times. This work reported efficacy data from the weedy plots. Weed counts were measured at 4 and 8 weeks after transplanting (WAP) and weed dry-mass at 8WAP. Results show that both formulations at all tested rates poorly controlled broadleaf and grass weeds while nutsedge control was excellent. This study showed that the rates used were too low to effectively control grasses and broadleaved weeds while they were adequate for control of nutsedge. We therefore suggest that this material fills an important niche as a nutsedge material with post emergent nutsedge control. Further work should look at herbicide mixtures in order to improve grass and broadleaf control.
title: Globalization and Outbreak of COVID-19: An Empirical Analysis
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
name: Feizi, Mehdi
name: Gholipour, Hassan F.
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
COVID-19
globalization
public health

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed more to COVID-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, globalization cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by cross-country variation in health infrastructures (e.g., share of out of pocket spending on health per capita and the number of hospital beds) and demographic structure (e.g., share of population beyond 65 years old in total population) of countries. Our least squares results are robust to controlling outliers and regional dummies. This finding provides the first empirical insight on the robust determinants of COVID-19 outbreak and its human costs across countries.
Widening the basin of convergence for the bundle adjustment type of problems in computer vision
Creators: name: Hong, Je Hyeong
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: computer vision
bundle adjustment
nonlinear optimization
variable projection
joint optimization
structure-from-motion
matrix factorization
pseudo object space error
varpro
wiberg
nonlinear least squares
3d reconstruction

description: Bundle adjustment is the process of simultaneously optimizing camera poses and 3D structure given image point tracks. In structure-from-motion, it is typically used as the final refinement step due to the nonlinearity of the problem, meaning that it requires sufficiently good initialization. Contrary to this belief, recent literature showed that useful solutions can be obtained even from arbitrary initialization for fixed-rank matrix factorization problems, including bundle adjustment with affine cameras. This property of wide convergence basin of high quality optima is desirable for any nonlinear optimization algorithm since obtaining good initial values can often be non-trivial. The aim of this thesis is to find the key factor behind the success of these recent matrix factorization algorithms and explore the potential applicability of the findings to bundle adjustment, which is closely related to matrix factorization. The thesis begins by unifying a handful of matrix factorization algorithms and comparing similarities and differences between them. The theoretical analysis shows that the set of successful algorithms actually stems from the same root of the optimization method called variable projection (VarPro). The investigation then extends to address why VarPro outperforms the joint optimization technique, which is widely used in computer vision. This algorithmic comparison of these methods yields a larger unification, leading to a conclusion that VarPro benefits from an unequal trust region assumption between two matrix factors. The thesis then explores ways to incorporate VarPro to bundle adjustment problems using projective and perspective cameras. Unfortunately, the added nonlinearity causes a substantial decrease in the convergence basin of VarPro, and therefore a bootstrapping strategy is proposed to bypass this issue. Experimental results show that it is possible to yield feasible metric reconstructions and pose estimations from arbitrary initialization given relatively clean point tracks, taking one step towards initialization-free structure-from-motion.
description: Microsoft Toshiba Research Europe
Additional file 5: of Molecular characterization of fluoroquinolone and/or cephalosporin resistance in Shigella sonnei isolates from yaks
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhen
name: Shi, Yuxiang
name: Zhou, Xuzheng
name: Li, Bing
name: Zhang, Jiyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S5. The standard of antibiotic susceptibility for K-B disc-diffusion method. (DOCX 59 kb)
Optimal quantum control in nanostructures: Theory and application to generic three-level system
Creators: name: Borzi, Alfio
name: Stadler, Georg
name: Hohenester, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent carrier control in quantum nanostructures is studied within the framework of Optimal Control. We develop a general solution scheme for the optimization of an external control (e.g., lasers pulses), which allows to channel the system's wavefunction between two given states in its most efficient way; physically motivated constraints, such as limited laser resources or population suppression of certain states, can be accounted for through a general cost functional. Using a generic three-level scheme for the quantum system, we demonstrate the applicability of our approach and identify the pertinent calculation and convergence parameters.
description: 7 pages; to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Correlation Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Creators: name: Henriques, Rafael Neto
name: Jespersen, Sune Nørhøj
name: Shemesh, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) is a sensitive biomarker for microstructure in health and disease. However, DKI is not specific to any microstructural property since it may emerge from several different sources. Q-space trajectory encoding has been proposed for decoupling isotropic from anisotropic kurtosis. Still, this method assume that the system is comprised of multiple Gaussian diffusion components. Here, we develop a more general framework for resolving the underlying kurtosis sources. We introduce Correlation Tensor MRI (CTI) - an approach harnessing the versatility of double diffusion encoding (DDE) and capable of explicitly decoupling isotropic and anisotropic kurtosis components from intra-compartmental kurtosis effects arising from restricted diffusion. Additionally, CTI provides an index that is potentially sensitive to intra-compartmental kurtosis. The theoretical foundations of CTI, as well as the first proof-of-concept CTI ex vivo experiments in mouse brains at a field of 16.4T, are presented. We find that anisotropic and isotropic kurtosis can decouple microscopic anisotropy from substantial partial volume effects between tissue and free water. Our intra-compartmental kurtosis index exhibited positive values in both white and grey matter tissues. Simulations in different microenvironments show, however, that our current CTI protocol for estimating intra-compartmental kurtosis is limited by higher-order terms that were not considered in this study. CTI measurements were then extended to in vivo settings and used to map healthy rat brains at 9.4T. These in vivo CTI results were consistent with our ex vivo findings. Although future studies are still required to mitigate the higher-order effects on the intra-compartmental kurtosis index, results show that CTI's more general estimates of anisotropic and isotropic kurtosis contributions are already ripe for future studies.
description: 37 pages (main text), 8 main figures + 4 supplementary figures
Assessment of Irrigation Land Suitability and Development of Map for the Fogera Catchment Using GIS, South Gondar
Creators: name: Sultan, Dagnenet
name: Sultan, Dagnenet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Parameters
subject: GIS
subject: land suitability
subject: soil mapping unit

description: Irrigation land suitability assessment and mapping play an imperative role for sustainable utilization of scarce physical land resources. The objectives of this study were to prepare spatial data base of physical land resources for irrigated agriculture and to assess land suitability for irrigation and developing suitable area map for the study area. The study was conducted at Fogera catchment, South Gondar. Soil and water sampling spots were selected based on free and grid survey techniques and their locations were taken using Global Positioning System (GPS). Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques were used to develop irrigation land suitability map of the study area. Attributes of parameters were collected and used for suitability assessment. Attributes used as criteria for irrigation suitability analysis were ECe, ESP, soil depth, texture, pH, top and sub soil stoniness, water table depth, flood hazard, ground water quality (SAR and EC) and slope. Point data with their attribute were arranged and proximity analysis of Arc-GIS was made this resulted into twelve mapping units. The final irrigation suitability map of the project area was derived after overlay analysis. On the basis of stoniness, soil salinity, soil alkalinity, soil depth and groundwater quality it was concluded that 72 percent of the study area is potentially suitable for irrigation and 28 percent was classified as unsuitable (N) due to drainage limitation, flood hazard, texture and slope factors. Of the potentially suitable land, 1 percent was highly suitable (S1), 28 percent was moderately suitable (S2), and 43 percent is marginally suitable (S3).
Flow Characteristics of Elastically Mounted Slit Cylinder at Sub-critical Reynolds Number
Creators: name: Verma, Mayank
name: Mishra, Alok
name: De, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work numerically investigates vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) of a two-dimensional circular cylinder with an axisymmetric slit at Reynolds number 500. The study examines the effects of slit shape (i.e., converging, diverging, and parallel slits), the effect of slit-area ratios, slit-width, and its angle with the freestream velocity on aerodynamic forces, vibration response, and associated flow characteristics. The results demonstrate that the addition of the slit assists the VIV suppression by adding an extra amount of flow to the main flow. It results in the stabilized wake with the pressure recovery downstream of the cylinder and causes a reduction in the lift force over the cylinder. Also, there exist different shedding patterns associated with different slit shapes. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the flow field suggests that among all the three slits, the parallel slit heavily modifies the flow behind the cylinder by distributing the amount of energy to a large number of modes as compared to other slits (converging slit and diverging slit), where the most of the energy is contained in a couple of modes. Further, increasing the slit angle (for parallel slit) with respect to the freestream increases the slit effectiveness up to a specific value of slit-angle and beyond that starts to affect the VIV suppression adversely. Observations for the effect of slit-width are also reported from the perspective of suppression of VIV.
Transmission of quantum information through quantum fields
Creators: name: Simidzija, Petar
name: Ahmadzadegan, Aida
name: Kempf, Achim
name: Martin-Martinez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quantum channel consisting of two localized quantum systems that communicate through a scalar quantum field. We choose a scalar field rather than a tensor or vector field, such as the electromagnetic field, in order to isolate the situation where the qubits are carried by the field amplitudes themselves rather than, for example, by encoding qubits in the polarization of photons. We find that suitable protocols for this type of quantum channel require the careful navigation of several constraints, such as the no-cloning principle, the strong Huygens principle and the tendency of short field-matter couplings to be entanglement breaking. We non-perturbatively construct a protocol for such a quantum channel that possesses maximal quantum capacity.
description: Minor typos and a couple of references are fixed
title: New Ecological Paradigm Meets Behavioral Economics: On the Relationship between Environmental Values and Economic Preferences
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Ziegler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental values
New Ecological Paradigm (NEP)
artefactual field experiments
Economics
Wirtschaft
economic prefer-ences
individual behavior

description: This paper empirically examines whether environmental values are correlated with eco-nomic preferences from behavioral economics and considers possible consequences when independence is assumed. The data for this analysis stem from a large-scale com-puter-based survey among more than 3700 German citizens. Our indicators for environ-mental values are based on the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), which is a standard instrument in social and behavioral sciences and increasingly common in economic stud-ies. The econometric analysis with Generalized Poisson regression models reveals strong correlations between two NEP scales and several economic preferences, which are based on established experimental measures: While social preferences (measured in an incen-tivized dictator game) and positive reciprocity are significantly positively correlated, trust and (less robust) negative reciprocity are significantly negatively correlated with the NEP scales, respectively. Only risk and time preferences (also measured in an incentiv-ized experiment) are not robustly significantly correlated with the NEP scales. These estimation results strongly recommend the additional inclusion of economic preferences in econometric analyses that use a NEP scale as explanatory factor of main interest for environmentally relevant behavior. In particular, not considering social preferences, trust, and positive and negative reciprocity can lead to strong distortions due to omitted variable biases. This conclusion is illustrated in an empirical example that reveals biased estimation results for the effect of a NEP scale on donation activities if not all relevant economic preferences are included as control variables.
Collateral effects of securities enforcement in emerging financial markets: Evidence from MSCI-LATAM countries
Creators: name: Restrepo Cardona, Fernan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Securities enforcement
Collateral effects
Emerging markets

description: Financial authorities have traditionally relied on fines, suspensions, and bars to discipline misconduct in financial markets and, in that way, protect public investors and promote financial development. In theory, these sanctions should be sufficiently high to internalize the social cost of wrongdoing and deter future misbehavior. In practice, however, public firms are often criticized for being under-punished. This concern has motivated a line of research, especially in the United States, to examine whether enforcement actions initiated by public authorities generate negative indirect effects for the firms accused of misbehavior and, therefore, whether those effects supplement the regulatory sanction. In general, the answer to this question is positive under certain circumstances. Whether or not firms also suffer collateral effects in emerging financial markets, however, is a question that has received little attention in the literature. The purpose of this work is therefore to make a first step to fill this gap. Addressing this gap is important because emerging markets are smaller, less liquid, and more concentrated than the United States’ financial market, which might neutralize the side financial effects of enforcement that prior studies have documented. As a result, the policy recommendations proposed in the prior literature are not necessarily applicable to emerging economies. This work focuses on three specific types of collateral effects: the effect of enforcement on (1) the defendant’s stock price, (2) the defendant’s operating performance, and (3) the cost of external financing. In terms of types of violations and sample countries, this work focuses on enforcement actions triggered by securities regulation violations in the five countries that form the MSCI-EC-LATAM index (Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Markets Index – Latin America). The results indicate that the stock price and operating performance of firms whose insiders were sanctioned for insider trading decline significantly after the imposition of the sanction. These results have various implications for the regulation of official penalties as a tool to promote financial development.
Improvement Tests on the Germination in Lippia Multiflora: Influence of Some Factors Related to Soil on Germination and Seedling Development
Creators: name: Alphonse†, Alui Konan
name: Célestin, Ballo Koffi
name: Ahoua, Yapi
name: Hypolite, Kouadio Konan-Kan
name: Patrice, Kouadio Koffi
name: Nantarie, Touré
name: Antoine, N’Guessan Kouamé
name: Eric, Kwadjo Koffi
name: Albert, Yao-Kouamé
name: Alphonse†, Alui Konan
name: Célestin, Ballo Koffi
name: Ahoua, Yapi
name: Hypolite, Kouadio Konan-Kan
name: Patrice, Kouadio Koffi
name: Nantarie, Touré
name: Antoine, N’Guessan Kouamé
name: Eric, Kwadjo Koffi
name: Albert, Yao-Kouamé
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Lippia multiflora
subject: Germination and Substrates

description: Studies on the germination and growth of seedlings of Lippia multiflora were conducted on several types of substrates. They consisted of germination tests and monitoring of seedling growth. The results showed that the best germination rates were recorded with the batch of seeds germinated on substrates made of a mixture of soil and manure (S2 = 82.67% and S3 = 65.33%). After 60 days of culture, the most significant heights of the plants of Lippia multiflora were recorded in culture media S2 (7.48 cm) and S3 (5.46 cm), with an average number of leaves 7; 12 and 6, respectively for the circles S1, S2 and S3. The root elongation is more important in substrates S2 (6.3 cm) and S3 (4.74 cm). The Pearson correlation tests carried out indicate that the contribution of organic matter in the substrates improves seedling development in Lippia multiflora.
MOESM1 of Comparison of postoperative complications between segmentectomy and lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery: a multicenter study
Creators: name: Bédat, Benoît
name: Abdelnour-Berchtold, Etienne
name: Perneger, Thomas
name: Marc-Joseph Licker
name: Stefani, Alexandra
name: Krull, Matthieu
name: Perentes, Jean
name: Krueger, Thorsten
name: Triponez, Frédéric
name: Karenovics, Wolfram
name: Gonzalez, Michel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. Multivariate logistic regression models to predict segmentectomy by VATS (versus lobectomy by VATS) VATS: Video-assisted thoracic surgery, OR: Odds ratio, CI: Confidence interval, COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Anomalous temperature dependence of the dephasing time in mesoscopic Kondo wires
Creators: name: Schopfer, Félicien
name: Bäuerle, Christopher
name: Rabaud, Wilfried
name: Saminadayar, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the magnetoconductance of long and narrow quasi one-dimensional gold wires containing magnetic iron impurities in a temperature range extending from $15 $mK to $4.2 $K. The dephasing rate extracted from the weak antilocalisation shows a pronounced plateau in a temperature region of $300 $mK - $800 $mK, associated with the phase breaking due to the Kondo effect. Below the Kondo temperature the dephasing rate decreases linearly with temperature, in contradiction with standard Fermi-liquid theory. Our data suggest that the formation of a spin glass due to the interactions between the magnetic moments are responsible for the observed anomalous temperature dependence.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. Phys. Rev. Lett., in press
title: On Shadow Banking and Financial Frictions in DSGE Modeling
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Kirchner, Philipp
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Shadow Banking
DSGE
Economics
Wirtschaft
Financial Frictions
Financial Intermediation, Great Financial Crisis.

description: At the forefront of macroeconomic research on the causes of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) was and still is the usage of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. To capture the nonlinearities of the GFC, these models were enriched with a variety of .financial frictions. This paper focuses on a special subset of these frictions, the shadow banking system. We provide a structured review of the strand of literature that considers shadow banking in DSGE setups and draw particular attention to the modeling approach as well as impact of shadow banking. Our analysis allows the following conclusions: firstly, models featuring shadow banking are better able to simulate realistic movements in the business cycle that are of comparable magnitude to the GFC. Secondly, the models consider amplification channels between the financial sector and the real economy that proved to be of importance during the crisis. Thirdly, the models display a good explanatory power of .financial stability measures in the light of shadow banking.
Validation of Short-Form Scales of Self-Control, Procedural Justice, and Moral Foundations
Creators: name: Roche, Sean Patrick
name: Lee, Heejin
name: Pickett, Justin T.
name: Graham, Amanda
name: Cullen, Francis T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Self-control, perceived procedural justice, and moral foundations are prominent theoretical constructs in the criminological literature. However, existing measures of each are long. Long scales crowd questionnaires, increase cognitive burden, and lengthen completion times. Using a set of heuristic guidelines for scale construction, we develop short measures of self-control, procedural justice, and moral foundations and then test experimentally whether they can replace the existing longer versions. We conducted a series of split-ballot experiments with a national sample of American adults (N = 1191). Respondents were randomly assigned to receive the existing long scale or our shorter version. We then compared the scales on factor structure, reliability, and validity. The short scales performed as well, and sometimes better than, the longer versions. Our results suggest that researchers can use our short scales of self-control, procedural justice, and moral foundations in lieu of the existing long scales while maintaining data quality.
Fitting inverse power-law quintessence models using the SNAP satellite
Creators: name: Eriksson, Martin
name: Amanullah, Rahman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility of using the proposed SNAP satellite in combination with low-z supernova searches to distinguish between different inverse power-law quintessence models. If the true model is that of a cosmological constant, we determine the prospects of ruling out the inverse power-law potential. We show that SNAP combined with e.g. the SNfactory and an independent measurement of the mass energy density to 17% accuracy can distinguish between an inverse power-law potential and a cosmological constant and put severe constraints on the power-law exponent.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Chelorchestia Bousfield 1984
Creators: name: Serejo, Cristiana S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Talitridae
Chelorchestia

description: Chelorchestia Bousfield, 1984
 Diagnosis. See Bousfield (1984).
 Remarks. With the transfer of T. limicola to Chelorchestia, this is the first record of this genus for the Western Pacific region. The five previously known species of Chelorchestia were confined to the Americas: C. darwinii (Müller, 1864) and C. forceps Smith & Heard, 2001 found on the Atlantic side and C. colombiensis Valencia & Giraldo, 2009, C. costaricana (Stebbing, 1906b) and C. vaggala (Bowman, 1977) on the Eastern Pacific side. Bousfield (1984) also suggested the occurrence of Chelorchestia from the Eastern Atlantic – Nigeria, although this material has never been described.
 Essentially Chelorchestia seems to have a Gondwanan distribution and with a consequently old origin, about 100 Ma. Despite the very scarce fossil record of the amphipods, Bousfield (1984) postulated a hypothesis for the evolution of the talitrids, which apparently evolved from a 5-dentate hyalid ancestor by the middle Cretaceous (110-90 Ma). The palustral group, including Chelorchestia and four other genera, would be one of the first to evolve as they are very water dependent. By the late Cretaceous (90-70 Ma) the diversification of the flowering plants and rhizophoroid mangrove swamps developed through the coastal tropics and provided suitable habitats for the explosion and colonization of the talitrids – initially in the mangroves and coastlines of the world and latter on invading the litter of the forest by the early Cenozoic time (60 Ma).
description: Published as part of Serejo, Cristiana S., 2009, Talitridae *, pp. 892-903 in Zootaxa 2260 (1) on page 893, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.51, http://zenodo.org/record/5305077
Umweltförderungen in Österreich (Technology Talk)
Creators: name: Formann, Michael
name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Publisher: name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Year: 2025
Subjects: NEFI
Innovationsnetzwerk
Energie
Industrie
New Energy for Industry
Klima- und Energiefonds
Vorzeigeregion
Industriewärmepumpen

description: Der NEFI Technology Talk zum Thema "Industrielle Abwärmenutzung mit Hochtemperaturwärmepumpen" am 3. April 2024 war ein voller Erfolg. Rund 90 Teilnehmer*innen kamen zusammen, um sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen in diesem Bereich auszutauschen. In dieser dynamischen Online-Veranstaltung, moderiert von unserer NEFI-Expertin Veronika Wilk (Thematic Coordinator Efficiency in Industrial Processes and Systems, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), traf ein vielfältiges und engagiertes Publikum aufeinander.

Lösungen zur Nutzung industrieller Abwärme mit Hochtemperaturwärmepumpen standen im Mittelpunkt dieses NEFI Technology Talks und somit den Wissensstand der Teilnehmenden bezüglich Hochtemperaturwärmepumpen zu erhöhen.

Michael Formann von Kommunalkredit Public Consulting informierte über Fördermöglichkeiten für Industrie-Wärmepumpen und den Ablauf der Antragstellung.
Effect of Sulfentrazone Application Method and Time, on Weed Control and Phytotoxicity in Flue-Cured Tobacco
Creators: name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Sulfentrazone
subject: Nutsedge
subject: Broadleaf

description: Over a period of three years sulfentrazone, alone and in combination with other herbicides, was evaluated for weed control efficacy under various methods application. The trials were done in granite sandy soils after three years of Chloris gayana cv Katambora at Kutsaga Research Station, Zimbabwe. The chemicals were sprayed using a knapsack or a tractor mounted boom. Incorporation after ridging was done with a gang tiller set for shallow incorporation while that before ridging was done using a disk also set for shallow incorporation. Comparisons were made between directed and broadcast sprays, incorporation and no incorporation, timing from before planting to 4 weeks after planting (WAP). Application before holing out (BHO) and after holing out (AHO) was also evaluated. In most cases sulfentrazone gave good to excellent control of all weeds and was comparable to Metolachlor in efficacy. In some cases grass control was somewhat variable but acceptable. With regard to time of application, Sulfentrazone gave better control of broadleaf and grass weeds when applied from 1 to 4 WAP. Yellow nutsedge control was excellent and unaffected by time of application. Weed dry matter was reduced significantly relative to the untreated control for the 1 to 4 WAP applications. There was no significant difference between incorporation and surface or between directed and broadcast applications. The over top (OT) and AHO consistently gave better control than BHO application.
Noncommutative spin-1/2 representations
Creators: name: Grimstrup, J. M.
name: Grosse, H.
name: Kraus, E.
name: Popp, L.
name: Schweda, M.
name: Wulkenhaar, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we apply the methods of our previous paper hep-th/0108045 to noncommutative fermions. We show that the fermions form a spin-1/2 representation of the Lorentz algebra. The covariant splitting of the conformal transformations into a field-dependent part and a θ-part implies the Seiberg-Witten differential equations for the fermions.
description: 7 pages, LaTeX
Advancing Measurement of Correctional Officer Health and Wellness: A Pilot Study of Wearable Biometric Sensor Devices
Creators: name: Labrecque, Ryan M.
name: Lindquist, Christine
name: Tueller, Stephen
name: Tucker, Wesley
name: Allen, Amy Maniola
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Correctional work is associated with high levels of stress and poor sleep quality. Although previous research has primarily relied on correctional officers’ perceptions of these outcomes, biometric indicators can provide more objective and continuous information. Using daily data points collected from smartwatches worn by 15 prison staff over a six-week period with a single-subject ABA research design involving two control phases and a mindfulness activity phase, this pilot study establishes a proof of concept for using wearable biometric sensor devices to study correctional staff health and well-being. By applying longitudinal mixed effects regression models with a GAMLSS framework, this study finds that biometric measures are sensitive to change, such that stress was reduced and sleep quality improved among participants during the mindfulness activity phase. Participating staff complied with and felt positively about the research protocols. Several important lessons for advancing measurement in future correctional health and wellness research are discussed.
Comparative Studies of Two Nigerian Ecotypes Chicken Kept in Battery Cages for Laying Performance and Egg Quality Traits
Creators: name: Sola-Ojo, F.E.
name: Ayorinde, K.L.
name: Jatto, O.M.
name: Toye, A.A.
name: Sola-Ojo, F.E.
name: Ayorinde, K.L.
name: Jatto, O.M.
name: Toye, A.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Chicken
subject: Ecotypes
subject: Hen
subject: Egg production
subject: Egg quality traits

description: This study was conducted to evaluate and determine the effects of ecotype on laying performance and some egg quality traits of two indigenous chickens ecotype in Kwara state Nigeria {Fulani Ecotype chicken (FE) and Yoruba Ecotype chicken (YE)} kept in battery cage for a period of fifty two (52) weeks. It was observed that the YE matured earlier than FE with Age at First Egg (AFE) of 20.56 (20 – 23weeks) compared to 26.73weeks (22-31wks) obtained for FE. Significant difference (p<0.05) existed between their body weight at first egg, (BFE) with FE significantly bigger 1437.5g than the YE 1314.60g. The mean Egg weight (EW), Total Egg Number (TEN), Hen House Production (HHP) in FE were 44.11g, 128 and 53.16%, and significantly (p<0.05) higher than 42.44g, 98, 45.50% obtained for YE, the differences between these parameters were significant (p<0.05). YE had a lower clutch size (CS) of 2- 6 eggs per clutch and a longer pause length (PL) of 1- 6 days while the FE had a larger Clutch size of 3-9 eggs per clutch and a shorter pause length of 1-3 days. External and internal quality traits of eggs from both ecotypes were similar except shell thickness that was significantly (p<0.05) better in the YE and yolk height that was significantly (p<0.05) higher in FE. The results of this finding indicated a marked difference in laying performances of the two indigenous chickens, yolk height and shell thickness and no significant (p>0.05) differences in other egg quality traits measured.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM IN NEWBORNS
Creators: name: Karimova, Komila
name: Alimova, I.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Congenital hypothyroidism is one of the most significant problems in pediatric endocrinology, which can lead to severe neurological disorders if not treated in a timely manner. The disease is accompanied by a deficiency of thyroid hormones, which are necessary for the full maturation of the central nervous system and normal metabolism. Due to the widespread implementation of early testing programs for newborns, it has become possible to identify this pathology even before the manifestation of clinical symptoms. This allows for timely treatment and significantly improves the prognosis. This paper examines modern aspects of diagnosis, management and prognosis of congenital hypothyroidism, with an emphasis on the importance of neonatal screening.
Jews and Muslims under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula in the mirror of fueros and cartas de población, c. 1017-1189
Creators: name: García-Velasco Bernal, Rodrigo Isidro
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations
Reconquista
fueros

description: This dissertation reappraises the treatment of Jews and Muslims under Christian rule in eleventh- and twelfth-century Iberia as it is reflected in fueros and cartas de población. The proliferation of these charters coincided with the expansion of the Christian realms of northern Iberia, both in competition with each other and with the Andalusī states. The dissertation traces the mentions of non-Christians in the fueros from their first appearance in Laws of León (1017), until the proliferation of the fueros extensos, mainly the laws of Estella (c. 1164), Teruel (c. 1178), and Cuenca (c. 1189). This thesis proposes to study the law-making process, examining individual clauses and fueros in their specific political, social, and cultural conditions, in order to fully grasp the edicts regarding non-Christians found in these texts. The dissertation identifies four themes through which fueros addressed these communities. First, assurances of personal protections to non-Christians through the enforcement of wrongdoing procedures and penalties are common throughout the legislation. Second, the fueros granted institutional autonomy to certain Jewish and Muslim groups in different areas of Iberia based on local circumstances. Third, the legislation identified the courthouse as the key arena of conflict in the negotiation of local interaction between Jews, Muslims and Christians. Finally, the fueros distinguished between the treatment of free and unfree Muslims, constituting a major point of contrast between the status of these groups and that of Jews in such legislation. Using these themes, the different chapters of the dissertation explore the diachronic evolution of these clauses in parallel with the changing nature of the law, power and institutions in Christian Iberia. The dissertation argues that in these sources, Jews and Muslims appear as active participants, rather than passive onlookers, in the formation of the societies that they inhabited.
description: The research for this thesis was conducted under a Woolf Institute Cambridge Scholarship, funded by the Woolf Institute and the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust
Closing the gap to convergence of gravitoturbulence in local simulations
Creators: name: Klee, Jannes
name: Illenseer, Tobias F.
name: Jung, Manuel
name: Duschl, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. Our goal is to find a converged cooling limit for fragmentation in self-gravitating disks. This is especially interesting for the formation of planets, brown dwarfs or stars and the growth of black holes. While investigating the limit, we want to give a clear criterion for the state of convergence. Methods. We run two-dimensional shearingsheet simulations with the hydrodynamic package Fosite at high resolutions. Thereby resolution and limiters are altered. Subsequently, we investigate the spectra of important physical quantities at the length scales where fragmentation occurs. In order to avoid prompt fragmentation at high resolutions we start these simulations with a fully developed gravitoturbulent state obtained at a lower resolution. Results. We show nearly converged results for fragmentation with a critical cooling timescale $t_{\mathrm{crit}} \sim 10\,Ω^{-1}$ . We can backtrace this claim by investigating the spectra of relevant physical variables at length scales around and below the pressure scale height. We argue that well behaved results cannot be expected if counteracting quantities are varying too much on these critical length scales, either by change of resolution or numerical method. A comparison of fragmentation behaviour with the related spectra reveals that simulations behave similar, if the spectra are converged to the length scales where self-gravity leads to instabilities. Observable deviations in the results obtained with different numerical setup are confined to scales below these critical length scales.
description: 7 pages, 8 Figures
The stable category of preorders in a pretopos I: general theory
Creators: name: Borceux, Francis
name: Campanini, Federico
name: Gran, Marino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A75, 18B25, 18B50, 18B35, 18E08, 18E40

description: In a recent article Facchini and Finocchiaro considered a natural pretorsion theory in the category of preordered sets inducing a corresponding stable category. In the present work we propose an alternative construction of the stable category of the category $\mathsf{PreOrd} (\mathbb C)$ of internal preorders in any coherent category $\mathbb C$, that enlightens the categorical nature of this notion. When $\mathbb C$ is a pretopos we prove that the quotient functor from the category of internal preorders to the associated stable category preserves finite coproducts. Furthermore, we identify a wide class of pretoposes, including all $σ$-pretoposes and all elementary toposes, with the property that this functor sends any short $\mathcal Z$-exact sequences in $\mathsf{PreOrd} (\mathbb C)$ (where $\mathcal Z$ is a suitable ideal of trivial morphisms) to a short exact sequence in the stable category. These properties will play a fundamental role in proving the universal property of the stable category, that will be the subject of a second article on this topic.
description: 36 pages
COGNITIVE STATE MONITORING THROUGH THE USAGE OF AMBIENT SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Botros, Angela
name: Schütz, Narayan
name: Urwyler, Prabitha
name: Müri, René M.
name: Mosimann, Urs P.
name: Nef, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster: COGNITIVE STATE MONITORING THROUGH THE USAGE OF AMBIENT SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
MOESM1 of How does psychosocial stress affect the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and overweight and obesity? Examining Hemmingsson’s model with data from a Danish longitudinal study
Creators: name: Poulsen, Per
name: Biering, Karin
name: Winding, Trine
name: Nohr, Ellen
name: Petersen, Liselotte
name: Ulijaszek, Stanley
name: Andersen, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Unadjusted estimates for the association between the individual proxies from the 5 domains (Hemmingsson:2014) and overweight and obesity at age 15, 18, 21 and 28 years (girls).