cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cows, Sheep and Science: A Scientific Perspective on Biological Emissions from Agriculture
Creators: name: Hollis, Michele
name: De Klein, Cecile
name: Frame, Dave
name: Harvey, Mike
name: Manning, Martin
name: Reisinger, Andy
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Robinson, Anna
name: Hollis, Michele
name: De Klein, Cecile
name: Frame, Dave
name: Harvey, Mike
name: Manning, Martin
name: Reisinger, Andy
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Robinson, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agriculture
subject: emissions
subject: science

description: Biological emissions from agriculture (methane and nitrous oxide) make up almost half New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions, so their importance relative to carbon dioxide is of particular policy interest. Motu Economic and Public Policy Research brought together a group of New Zealand climate change and agriculture specialists to respond to questions posed by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on the science. The paper finds that the overriding need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is scientifically uncontentious. For the climate to stabilise, net carbon dioxide emissions must ultimately be cut to zero. There is debate about whether, when and how much action to take on other gases. Some scientists advocate a comprehensive multi-gas approach, arguing that will be more cost-effective. It may already be too late to limit warming to two degrees without mitigating agricultural greenhouse gases. Others advocate a focus on carbon dioxide or on all long-lived gases (including nitrous oxide), with concerted mitigation of methane (a short-lived gas) only once carbon dioxide emissions are falling sustainably towards zero. There is support for ‘easy wins’ on all gases, but it is unclear how easy it is for New Zealand to reduce total nitrous oxide and methane emissions while maintaining production. The report summarises current and emerging options, and discusses methods to calculate methane and nitrous oxide emissions at the paddock, farm, regional and national scale. Finally, the report considers metrics used for comparison between gases, focusing on Global Warming Potential (GWP) and Global Temperture change Potential (GTP). The authors reached a consensus that the ‘right’ value depends on the policy goal and could change substantially over time; and if the main policy goal is to cost-effectively limit global average warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels, then the value of methane should be less than the GWP100 value of 28 until global carbon dioxide emissions have begun to decline steadily towards zero. There is no agreement beyond this on the best value to use; the arguments reflect judgments about politics, economics, and the intersection of policy and science.
Circuit Implementation of a Four-Dimensional Topological Insulator
Creators: name: Wang, You
name: Price, Hannah M.
name: Zhang, Baile
name: Chong, Y. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classification of topological insulators predicts the existence of high-dimensional topological phases that cannot occur in real materials, as these are limited to three or fewer spatial dimensions. We use electric circuits to experimentally implement a four-dimensional (4D) topological lattice. The lattice dimensionality is established by circuit connections, and not by mapping to a lower-dimensional system. On the lattice's three-dimensional surface, we observe topological surface states that are associated with a nonzero second Chern number but vanishing first Chern numbers. The 4D lattice belongs to symmetry class AI, which refers to time-reversal-invariant and spinless systems with no special spatial symmetry. Class AI is topologically trivial in one to three spatial dimensions, so 4D is the lowest possible dimension for achieving a topological insulator in this class. This work paves the way to the use of electric circuits for exploring high-dimensional topological models.
Unitary Gate Synthesis for Continuous Variable Systems
Creators: name: Fiurasek, Jaromir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the synthesis of continuous-variable two-mode unitary gates in the setting where two modes A and B are coupled by a fixed quadratic Hamiltonian H. The gate synthesis consists of a sequence of evolutions governed by Hamiltonian H interspaced by local phase shifts applied to A and B. We concentrate on protocols that require the minimum necessary number of steps and we show how to implement the beam splitter and the two-mode squeezer in just three steps. Particular attention is paid to the Hamiltonian x_A p_B that describes the effective off-resonant interaction of light with the collective atomic spin.
description: 7 pages, minor text modifications, references added
shahiddul akmal bachri 2 salinan.docx
Creators: name: Shahiddul Akmal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: natural disasters affect the risk of tourists in tourism
Spectral Types of Field and Cluster O-Stars
Creators: name: Bergh, Sidney van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent catalog of spectral types of Galactic O-type stars by Mai'z-Apella'niz et al. has been used to study the differences between the frequencies of various subtypes of O-type stars in the field, in OB associations and among runaway stars. At a high level of statistical significance the data show that O-stars in clusters and associations have earlier types (and hence presumably larger masses and/or younger ages) than those that are situated in the general field. Furthermore it is found that the distribution of spectral subtypes among runaway O-stars is indistinguishable from that among field stars, and differs significantly from that of the O-type stars that are situated in clusters and associations. The difference is in the sense that runaway O-stars, on average, have later subtypes than do those that are still located in clusters and associations.
description: To be published in the October 2004 issue of the Astronomical Journal Included Figure 1, page 9
New analysis in the field of open cluster Collinder 223
Creators: name: Tadross, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study of the open cluster Collinder 223 (Cr 223) has been mainly depended on the photoelectric data of Claria & Lapasset (1991; hereafter CL91). This data of CL91 has been used with the cluster's image of AAO-DSS in order to re-investigate and improve the main parameters of Cr 223. Stellar count has been achieved to determine the stellar density, the cluster's center and the cluster's diameter. In addition, the luminosity function, mass function, and the total mass of the cluster have been estimated.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Collaborative Data Management: Best Practices throughout the Data Life Cycle
Creators: name: Leahey, Amber
name: Appleby, Jacqueline Whyte
name: Marks, Steve
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: While there is increased recognition of the value of rigorous data management, budgets and resources for this kind of activity are stagnant or decreasing. Perhaps because of this, there has been a growing interest in pursuing collaborative efforts to implement best practices throughout the research data life cycle. Effective collaborations can be local, involving individual researchers or research teams, or large-scale initiatives involving multiple institutions in either informal relationships or formal partnerships such as consortia. When data is collected, processed, archived, or disseminated as part of a collaborative process, the potential for problems is heightened - but so are the rewards. This session will look at examples of effective collaborative data management at all stages of the data life cycle, and consider some of the challenges and potential successes at play when we work together to improve data collection, preservation, and access. Examples will range from landmark projects to emerging initiatives, and include case studies from the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), an academic library consortium
Agricultural Emissions Mitigation in New Zealand: Answers to Questions from the Parliamentary Commisioner for the Environment
Creators: name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Kerr, Suzi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Climate change
subject: mitigation
subject: agriculture
subject: New Zealand
subject: methane
subject: nitrous oxide
subject: livestock
subject: metrics
subject: policy

description: This paper explores how New Zealand should address agricultural greenhouse gas emissions: methane and nitrous oxide. The starting point is the internationally agreed-upon goal of limiting global warming to below two degrees, and New Zealand’s commitment to contribute its ‘fair share’ to the international climate-change mitigation effort. The report focuses on the role of mitigating biological agricultural emissions within that, and how New Zealand could most cost-effectively mitigate its own emissions and contribute to the mitigation of agricultural emissions abroad. This paper complements a partner paper (Hollis et al 2015) that discusses the science relating to agricultural greenhouse gases.
Targeting effector pathways in RAC1P29S-driven malignant melanoma
Creators: name: Uribe-Alvarez, Cristina
name: Guerrero-Rodríguez, Sandra Lucía
name: Rhodes, Jennifer
name: Cannon, Alexa
name: Chernoff, Jonathan
name: Araiza-Olivera, Daniela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Malignant melanoma is characterized by mutations in a number of driver genes, most notably BRAF and NRAS. Recent genomic analyses revealed that 4-9% of sun-exposed melanomas bear activating mutations in RAC1, which encodes a small GTPase that is known to play key roles in cell proliferation, survival, and migration. The RAC1 protein activates several effector pathways, including Group A p21-activated kinases (PAKs), phosphoinositol-3-kinases (PI3Ks), in particular the beta isoform, and the serum-response factor/myocardin-related transcription factor (SRF/MRTF). Having previously shown that inhibition of Group A PAKs impedes oncogenic signalling from RAC1P29S, we here extend this analysis to examine the roles of PI3Ks and SRF/MRTF in melanocytes and/or in a zebrafish model. We demonstrate that a selective Group A PAK inhibitor (Frax-1036), a pan-PI3K (BKM120), and two PI3Kβ inhibitors (TGX221, GSK2636771) impede the growth of melanoma cells driven by mutant RAC1 but not by mutant BRAF, while other PI3K selective inhibitors, including PI3Kα, δ and γ, are less effective. Using these compounds as well as an SRF/MRTF inhibitor (CCG-203,971), we observed similar results in vivo, using embryonic zebrafish development as a readout. These results suggest that targeting Group A PAKs, PI3Kβ, and/or SRF/MRTF represent a promising approach to suppress RAC1 signalling in malignant melanoma.
The Initial Helium Abundance of the Galactic Globular Cluster System
Creators: name: Salaris, M.
name: Riello, M.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Piotto, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the initial He content in about 30% of the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) from new star counts we have performed on the recently published HST snapshot database of Colour Magnitude Diagrams (Piotto et al. 2002). More in detail, we use the so-called $R$-parameter and estimate the He content from a calibration based on a recently updated set of stellar models. We performed an accurate statistical analysis in order to assess whether GGCs show a statistically significant spread in their initial He abundances, and whether there is a correlation with the metallicity. We do not find any significant dependence of the He abundance on the GC metallicity; this provides an important constraint for models of Galaxy formation and evolution. Apart from GGCs with the bluest HB morphology, the observed spread in the individual He abundances is statistically compatible with the individual errors. This means that either there is no intrinsic He spread among the GGCs, or that this is masked by the errors. In the latter case we have estimated a firm 1$σ$ upper limit of 0.019 to the possible intrinsic spread. In case of the GGCs with the bluest HB morphology we detect a significant spread towards higher abundances inconsistent with the individual errors. In the hypothesis that the intrinsic dispersion on the individual He abundances is zero, taking into account the errors on the individual R-parameter estimates, as well as the uncertainties on the GGC [M/H] scale and theoretical calibration, we have determined an initial He abundance Y(GGC)=0.250\pm0.006 a value in perfect agreement with current estimates based on CMB radiation analyses and cosmological nucleosynthesis computations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, in press on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Yield to Change: Modelling the Land-use Response to Climate-Driven Changes in Pasture Production
Creators: name: Timar, Levente
name: Timar, Levente
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land use
subject: climate change
subject: pasture production
subject: LURNZ
subject: Yield Change Module

description: In contrast to most economic drivers of land-use change, climate-related drivers display substantial geographic variation. Accounting for this spatial heterogeneity is important in simulations of the land-use response to climate change. I use a discrete choice model to estimate the relationship between pasture yields and rural land use. Land-use predictions from the model respond to climate change through its effects on pasture yields. This econometric model provides the foundation for the development of a new module of the Land Use in Rural New Zealand (LURNZ) model, the Yield Change Module. In addition to enabling simulations of overall land-use change under different climate scenarios, the module also draws on the estimation results to allocate land-use change spatially. I employ the Yield Change Module to perform illustrative mid-century and end-of-century simulations of land use in a climate scenario characterised by a high level of greenhouse gas emissions (RCP 8.5). Yield changes in this scenario lead to an expansion (by nearly 600,000 hectares) of dairy area and a fall (by over 800,000 hectares) of sheep-beef area by the end of the century. The implied rate of land-use change is modest relative to that observed in New Zealand’s recent past.
title: A Novel Way of Optimizing Headlight Distributions Based on Real-Life Traffic and Eye Tracking Data Part 3: Driver Gaze Behaviour on Real Roads and Optimized Light Distribution
Creators: name: Kobbert, Jonas
name: Erkan, Anil
name: Bullough, John D.
name: Khanh, Tran Quoc
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: In order to find optimized headlight distributions based on real traffic data, a three-step approach has been chosen. The complete investigations are too extensive to fit into a single paper; this paper is the last of a three part series. Over the three papers, a novel way to optimize automotive headlight distributions based on real-life traffic and eye tracking data is presented. Across all three papers, a total of 119 test subjects participated in the studies with over 15,000 km of driving, including recordings of gaze behaviour, light data, detection distances, and other objects in traffic. In this third paper, driver gaze behaviour is recorded while driving a 128 km round course, covering urban roads, country roads, and motorways. This gaze behaviour is then analysed and compared to prior work covering driver gaze behaviour. Comparing the gaze distributions with roadway object distributions from part two of this series, Analysis of Real-World Traffic Data in Germany and combining them with the idealized baseline headlight distribution from part one, different optimized headlight distributions can be generated. These headlight distributions can be optimized for different driving requirements based on the data that is used and weighting the different road types differently. The resulting headlight distribution is then compared to a standard light distribution in terms of the required luminous flux, angular distribution, and overall shape. Nonetheless, it is the overall approach that has been taken that we see as the primary novel outcome of this investigation, even more than the actual distribution resulting from this effort.
Off-shell renormalization in the presence of dimension 6 derivative operators. III. Operator mixing and $β$ functions
Creators: name: Binosi, D.
name: Quadri, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the one-loop $β$ functions of all dimension 6 parity-preserving operators in the Abelian Higgs-Kibble model. No on-shell restrictions are imposed; and the (generalized) non-polynomial field redefinitions arising at one-loop order are fully taken into account. The operator mixing matrix is also computed, and its cancellation patterns explained as a consequence of the functional identities of the theory and power-counting conditions.
description: 34 pages, no figures
More Transverse Polarization Signatures of Extra Dimensions at Linear Colliders
Creators: name: Rizzo, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarization of both electron and positron beams at a future linear collider (LC) allows for the measurement of transverse polarization asymmetries. These asymmetries have been shown to be particularly sensitive to graviton or other spin-2, $s-$channel exchanges in the process $e^+e^- \to f\bar f (f\neq e)$ which allows for a doubling of the usual search reach. A question then arises as to whether other $e^+e^-$ processes also show comparable sensitivity. Here we extend our previous analysis to the set of final states $e^+e^-, W^+W^-,~2γ$ and $~2Z$ as well as to the Møller scattering process $e^-e^-\to e^-e^-$. We demonstrate that these reactions yield transverse polarization asymmetries which are somewhat less sensitive to graviton exchange than are those obtained in our earlier analysis for $e^+e^-\to f\bar f$.
description: 20 pages, 5 figs, LaTex
Establishing Collaborative Networks in Sporting Data
Creators: name: Perry, Carol
name: Edwards, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: Over the past decade, it has been standard practice in academic institutions for data centres to be the primary location for services related to supporting data. With the advent of changing funder requirements related to research data, data support has quickly become foremost on the minds of administrators across campuses. At the University of Guelph, seemingly disparate groups are now collaborating to provide a suite of services in support of research and the data it produces. This presentation will probe the emerging trend of bringing together expertise from different stakeholders in order to streamline services while enriching the level and depth of support available to researchers.
Intangible investment and firm performance
Creators: name: Chappell, Nathan
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Chappell, Nathan
name: Jaffe, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Intangible investment
subject: productivity
subject: firm performance
subject: industrial policy

description: We combine survey and administrative data for about 13,000 firms from 2005 to 2013 to study the inter-relationships among firm characteristics, intangible investment and firm performance. We find that firm size is associated with higher intangible investment, while firm age, very low competition (‘captive market’) and very high competition (‘many competitors, none dominant’) are associated with lower intangible investment. Relating intangible investment to subsequent firm performance, we find that higher investment is associated with higher labour and capital input and higher revenue, relative to what would otherwise have been predicted. We also find that higher investment is associated with higher firm-reported employee and customer satisfaction, but is not associated with higher productivity or profitability. While we cannot estimate a causal model, the evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with firm strategies related to growth and possibly to ‘soft’ performance objectives, but not to productivity or profitability.
Cololejeunea takamakae Tixier 1985
Creators: name: Ah-Peng, Claudine
name: Bardat, Jacques
name: Pócs, Tamás
name: Söderström, Lars
name: Staménoff, Pierre
name: Strasberg, Dominique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Porellales
Lejeuneaceae
Cololejeunea
Cololejeunea takamakae

description: 15. Cololejeunea takamakae Tixier (1985: 319)
 Family:— Lejeuneaceae.
 Distribution:— Endemic.
 Habitat:— Epiphyll at ca. 1000 m.
 Threat:— Habitat degradation, less than 5 localities found, very restricted endemic.
 IUCN threat category:— CR[B1b(iii)]
 Specimen:— Route de Takamaka, 1000 m, épiphylle, 26.02.1976, Bosser s.n. (Holotype, PC).
description: Published as part of Ah-Peng, Claudine, Bardat, Jacques, Pócs, Tamás, Söderström, Lars, Staménoff, Pierre & Strasberg, Dominique, 2012, Red List of liverworts and hornworts for Réunion (Mascarene archipelago), pp. 1-23 in Phytotaxa 68 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.68.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5066080
The undertaking for Becharaji : a project from them and their's
Creators: name: Patel, Prapti Arvind
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This thesis investigates the predicament of the Hijra community of Bahucharaji town in India. Hijra is a term used to imply the transgender community belonging to the Hindu religion and also is specific to the transgender community of Bahucharaji The thesis identifies the discrimination the community faces and strives for their betterment through architectural solutions. Designing a space where the community can strive to be independent by nurturing their skills and also flourish in an environment where they can express themselves freely. The thesis persists to create an ideal setting for their all-around growth and a culture of self-belief which enhances their lifestyle in the region. It seeks to create a larger impact in the community across the state and country too which could perhaps bring an end to their poor economic state. Reactivating the epicenter, the proposed project will act as a seed project by the dint of which empowerment will spread through sensible architectural intervention. Thereby this project is an attempt for change that pulls the strings of equality formulating a cohesive humanistic fabric.
Banach Lie groupoid of partial isometries over restricted Grassmannian
Creators: name: Goliński, Tomasz
name: Jakimowicz, Grzegorz
name: Sliżewska, Aneta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58B25, 58H05, 22A22, 22E65, 47B10

description: The set of partial isometries in a W*-algebra possesses a structure of Banach Lie groupoid. In this paper the differential structure on the set of partial isometries over the restricted Grassmannian is constructed, which makes it into a Banach Lie groupoid.
description: 13 pages
Left-handed materials in metallic magnetic granular composites
Creators: name: Chui, S. T.
name: Lin, Z. F.
name: Hu, L. -B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is recently interests in the ``left-handed '' materials. In these materials the direction of the wave vector of electromagnetic radiation is opposite to the direction of the energy flow. We present simple arguments that suggests that magnetic composites can also be left-handed materials. However, the physics involved seems to be different from the original argument. In our argument, the imaginary part of the dielectric constant is much larger than the real part, opposite to the original argument.
Conditionally Learn to Pay Attention for Sequential Visual Task
Creators: name: He, Jun
name: Cao, Quan-Jie
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential visual task usually requires to pay attention to its current interested object conditional on its previous observations. Different from popular soft attention mechanism, we propose a new attention framework by introducing a novel conditional global feature which represents the weak feature descriptor of the current focused object. Specifically, for a standard CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) pipeline, the convolutional layers with different receptive fields are used to produce the attention maps by measuring how the convolutional features align to the conditional global feature. The conditional global feature can be generated by different recurrent structure according to different visual tasks, such as a simple recurrent neural network for multiple objects recognition, or a moderate complex language model for image caption. Experiments show that our proposed conditional attention model achieves the best performance on the SVHN (Street View House Numbers) dataset with / without extra bounding box; and for image caption, our attention model generates better scores than the popular soft attention model.
Boucardicus Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha 1965
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
name: Harl, Josef
name: Magonyi, Nóra M.
name: Asami, Takahiro
name: Krizsik, Virág
name: Schwaha, Tomas
name: Fehér, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa
Cyclophoridae
Boucardicus

description: Genus Boucardicus Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha, 1965
(Fig. 10B–D)
Boucardicus Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha, 1965: 63. Madecataulus Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha, 1965: 70.
Tope species: Acroptochia notabilis E.A. Smith, 1892 (Fig. 10B) by original designation.
Remarks: Madecataulus Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha, 1965 (type species: Madecataulus goudoti Fischer-Piete & Bedoucha, 1965, by monotypy; Fig. 10C) is a synonym of Boucardicus according to Emberton and Pearce (1999). See also under Anosocolus and Malarinia.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Ruthensteiner, Bernhard, Harl, Josef, Magonyi, Nóra M., Asami, Takahiro, Krizsik, Virág, Schwaha, Tomas & Fehér, Zoltán, 2024, Recurrent evolution of breathing microtunnel system in terrestrial operculate snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea), pp. 1-25 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 202 (4) on page 14, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae158, http://zenodo.org/record/14826212
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme de-link from Kyoto: impacts on banking and prices
Creators: name: Ormsby, Judd
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Ormsby, Judd
name: Kerr, Suzi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS)
subject: climate change
subject: mitigation
subject: emissions trading
subject: linked tradable permit market
subject: Kyoto units
subject: Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)
subject: Emission Reduction Units (ERUs)
subject: greenhouse gas
subject: carbon markets

description: The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) presents an opportunity to compare the theory of linked emissions trading with practice. From 2009 until late 2012 New Zealand was linked to the Kyoto market and there was no indication that this link would be broken. In November 2012 the New Zealand government announced that it would not proceed with the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and future linking became uncertain. This de-link was confirmed by the government in December 2013 and it was announced that it would take effect from 31 May 2015. After this date overseas Kyoto units were no longer acceptable for surrender within the NZ ETS. We find that prices within the NZ ETS behaved as theory would predict. In a climate of certain linking, from 2011 when New Zealand began buying overseas units to surrender, New Zealand Unit (NZU) prices were roughly equal to Kyoto prices. Once the possibility of a future de-link emerged, NZU and Kyoto prices decoupled. NZU prices traded at a price reflecting their anticipated future scarcity – for New Zealand as a buyer of units this implies that NZUs traded at a higher price. In anticipation of the coming de-link NZ ETS participants banked (almost) all of their NZUs for future use and used cheap Kyoto units to meet (almost) all of their current obligations. The long delay between the announcement and implementation of de-linking led to a large bank of NZUs.
Open String Gravity?
Creators: name: Cheung, Yeuk-Kwan E.
name: Laidlaw, Mark
name: Savvidy, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new application of Boundary String Field Theory: calculating the induced-gravity action on a D-brane. Using a simple quadratic tachyon potential to model a D-brane fluctuating in the flat target space we derive the effective action in terms of the extrinsic curvature to all orders in alpha'. We identify both the Born-Infeld structure as well as the Einstein-Hilbert term at order alpha'. This corroborates the conjectured existence of the latter term in the brane-world scenarios. The higher order terms in Ricci scalar and extrinsic curvature suggest a pattern which calls for an explanation.
description: 12 pages, JHEP class; references added; bbl file attached
Showcasing Automated Vehicle Prototypes: A Collaborative Release Process to Manage and Communicate Risk
Creators: name: Loba, Marvin
name: Graubohm, Robert
name: Maurer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The development and deployment of automated vehicles pose major challenges for manufacturers to this day. Whilst central questions, like the issue of ensuring a sufficient level of safety, remain unanswered, prototypes are increasingly finding their way into public traffic in urban areas. Although safety concepts for prototypes are addressed in literature, published work hardly contains any dedicated considerations on a systematic release for their operation. In this paper, we propose an incremental release process for public demonstrations of prototypes' automated driving functionality. We explicate release process requirements, derive process design decisions, and define stakeholder tasks. Furthermore, we reflect on practical insights gained through implementing the release process as part of the UNICAR$agil$ research project, in which four prototypes based on novel vehicle concepts were built and demonstrated to the public. One observation is the improved quality of internal risk communication, achieved by dismantling information asymmetries between stakeholders. Design conflicts are disclosed - providing a contribution to nurture transparency and, thereby, supporting a valid basis for release decisions. We argue that our release process meets two important requirements, as the results suggest its applicability to the domain of automated driving and its scalability to different vehicle concepts and organizational structures.
description: Published in 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September 24-27, 2024
Colura heimii Jovet-Ast 1954
Creators: name: Ah-Peng, Claudine
name: Bardat, Jacques
name: Pócs, Tamás
name: Söderström, Lars
name: Staménoff, Pierre
name: Strasberg, Dominique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Porellales
Lejeuneaceae
Colura
Colura heimii

description: 16. Colura heimii Jovet-Ast (1954: 275)
 Family:— Lejeuneaceae.
 Distribution:— Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion.
 Habitat:— On twigs, lowland and upland forests.
 Threat:— Natural habitat destruction by lava flows and anthropogenic influence following urbanization and agriculture.
 IUCN threat category:— CR[B2b(iii)]
 Specimens:— Known from 5 localities: Plaine des Cafres, Source Samary, epiphyllous, 28.07.1974, Gimalac 74.R.8624 (BR); La Plaine des Palmistes, epiphyllous, 03.08.1979, Onraedt 79.R.8210 (BR); Cirque de Mafate, Grand Rein, corticolous, 17.07.1976, Gimalac 76.R.3730; Saint-Philippe, lava flow, corticolous, 21°16,194' S, 55°47,409' E, 14.06.2005, Ah-Peng, Bardat and Strasberg KIPA8C1R3 (REU); Saint-Philippe, lava flow, sur bloc, 21°16,194' S, 55°47,409' E, 14.06.2005, Ah-Peng, Bardat and Strasberg KIPA11C11R2 (REU); Forêt de Bébour, Sentier de la rivière, 1300 m, 21°06,8’S, 55°33,8’E, 22.06.2000, Pócs 00115/D (EGR).
description: Published as part of Ah-Peng, Claudine, Bardat, Jacques, Pócs, Tamás, Söderström, Lars, Staménoff, Pierre & Strasberg, Dominique, 2012, Red List of liverworts and hornworts for Réunion (Mascarene archipelago), pp. 1-23 in Phytotaxa 68 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.68.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5066080
Glide symmetry breaking and Ising criticality in the quasi-1D magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$
Creators: name: Fava, Michele
name: Coldea, Radu
name: Parameswaran, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a microscopic spin-exchange Hamiltonian for the quasi-1D Ising magnet CoNb$_2$O$_6$ that captures detailed and hitherto-unexplained aspects of its dynamic spin structure factor. We perform a symmetry analysis that recalls that an individual Ising chain in this material is buckled, with two sites in each unit cell related by a glide symmetry. Combining this with numerical simulations benchmarked against neutron scattering experiments, we argue that the single-chain Hamiltonian contains a staggered spin-exchange term. We further argue that the transverse-field-tuned quantum critical point in CoNb$_2$O$_6$ corresponds to breaking this glide symmetry, rather than an on-site Ising symmetry as previously believed. This gives a unified microscopic explanation of the dispersion of confined states in the ordered phase and `quasiparticle breakdown' in the polarized phase at high transverse field.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures in the main text; 8 pages, 8 figures in supplementary information; published version
$B$ Physics (Theory)
Creators: name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some theoretical aspects of $B$ physics are reviewed. These include a brief recapitulation of information on weak quark transitions as described by the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, a description of CP asymmetries in $B$ decays to CP eigenstates and self-tagging modes, a discussion of final-state phases in $B$ and charm decays, some topics on $B_s$ properties and decays, the prospects for unusual excited $B$ states opened by discovery of some narrow $c \bar s$ resonances, and the prospects for seeing the heavier $Q=1/3$ quarks predicted in some extended grand unified theories.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX, 12 figures, invited talk presented at Fourth Tropical Workshop, Cairns, Australia, 9--13 June 2003. Proceedings to be published by AIP. Some updated figures
Integrating Numeric, Statistical, and Geospatial Data Services for Graduate Students
Creators: name: Jankowska, Maria A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: This paper argues for collaboration among faculty, academic subject specialists, data librarians, GIS specialists, and data curators in order to respond to growing graduate student demand for digital statistical information and data. It presets weaknesses and strengths of a model operating at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angles. The article outlines a process in which graduate students benefit from having access to multiple points of service. The diversity of service points fosters relationships among all participants and improves communication between instructors and library staff, ultimately strengthening services offered to graduate students. Major challenges to the ongoing successful partnership include the availability of needed resources and sustainability of the model, which fulfills graduate students' needs for numeric, statistical, and geospatial data.
Charged Meson Rapidity Distributions in central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 200 GeV
Creators: name: BRAHMS Collaboration
name: Bearden, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured rapidity densities dN/dy of pions and kaons over a broad rapidity range (-0.1 < y < 3.5) for central Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV. These data have significant implications for the chemistry and dynamics of the dense system that is initially created in the collisions. The full phase-space yields are 1660 +/- 15 +/- 133 (pi+), 1683 +/- 16 +/- 135 (pi-), 286 +/- 5 +/- 23 (K+) and 242 +/- 4 +/- 19 (K-). The systematics of the strange to non--strange meson ratios are found to track the variation of the baryo-chemical potential with rapidity and energy. Landau--Carruthers hydrodynamic is found to describe the bulk transport of the pions in the longitudinal direction.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to Physical Review Letters. Updates : data are now corrected for feed down from Lambda and K0short decays, figures and tables show the corrected data. The text has been cleared and details on corrections to the data added
Phase behavior of blocky charge lattice polymers: Crystals, liquids, sheets, filaments and clusters
Creators: name: Robichaud, Nicholas A. S.
name: Saika-Voivod, Ivan
name: Wallin, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the idea that intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) condense into liquid-like droplets within cells, we carry out Monte Carlo simulations of a polymer lattice model to study the relationship between charge patterning and phase separation. Polymer chains containing neutral, positively charged and negatively charged monomers are placed on a cubic lattice. Only nearest neighbor interactions between charges are considered. We determine the phase diagram for a systematically varied set of sequences. We observe homogeneous fluids, liquid condensation, cluster phases, filaments, and crystal states. Of the six sequences we study, three form crystals at low temperatures. The other three sequences, which have lower charge densities, instead collapse into gel-like networks or unconnected finite clusters. Longer neutral patches along the sequence sterically limit the size and shape of low-energy structures, which is analogous to the effect of charge or limited valence in attractive colloids. Only one sequence clearly exhibits liquid behavior; this sequence has a reduced tendency to individually fold and crystallize compared to others of similar charge density and draws parallels to real IDP behavior.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures
Hainesiinae , Tiele 1929
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
name: Harl, Josef
name: Magonyi, Nóra M.
name: Asami, Takahiro
name: Krizsik, Virág
name: Schwaha, Tomas
name: Fehér, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa
Hainesiidae

description: Subfamily Hainesiinae Tiele, 1929
(Fig. 10G)
Content: Acroptochia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877 [replacement name for Euptochia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877, non Hübner, 1816 (Lepidoptera); type species: Euptochia metableta Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873 (Fig. 10G), by typification of replaced name], Hainesia L. Pfeiffer, 1856 (type species: Coclostoma croceum G.B. Sowerby I, 1843, by subsequent designation; Wenz, 1938: 469).
Remarks: Differs from Boucardicinae by the absence of microtunnels.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Ruthensteiner, Bernhard, Harl, Josef, Magonyi, Nóra M., Asami, Takahiro, Krizsik, Virág, Schwaha, Tomas & Fehér, Zoltán, 2024, Recurrent evolution of breathing microtunnel system in terrestrial operculate snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea), pp. 1-25 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 202 (4) on page 14, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae158, http://zenodo.org/record/14826212
Semiclassical Shor's Algorithm
Creators: name: Giorda, Paolo
name: Iorio, Alfredo
name: Sen, Samik
name: Sen, Siddhartha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a semiclassical version of Shor's quantum algorithm to factorize integer numbers, based on spin-1/2 SU(2) generalized coherent states. Surprisingly, we find evidences that the algorithm's success probability is not too severely modified by our semiclassical approximation. This suggests that it is worth pursuing practical implementations of the algorithm on semiclassical devices.
description: 19 pages (RevTex) + 10 Figures (in a separate ps file). Widened version: analytical discussion of the impact on the period-finding power added; scaling behaviour of the semiclassical probability addressed; two new appendices; other minor changes. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A
title: Requirements Analysis, System Architecture and Evaluation of a Privacy-First Web Application Framework
Creators: name: Gussner, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: privacy
subject: web application
subject: peer-to-peer
subject: CRDT
subject: censorship resistance

description: Aus ökonomischen Gründen ist Software in den letzten Jahren zentralisierter geworden. Webanwendungen bieten eine bequeme Möglichkeit für Benutzer, eine Anwendung zu starten, ohne Software installieren zu müssen. Diese Bequemlichkeit geht jedoch bei traditionellen webarchitekturen auf Kosten der Privatsphäre. In dieser Arbeit schlagen wir ein privacy-first Webanwendungsframework vor, das seine Abhängigkeit von zentralisierter Infrastruktur minimiert. Wir präsentieren eine Anforderungsanalyse, die Systemarchitektur und eine Bewertung des Frameworks anhand von drei Beispielanwendungen. Wir zeigen, dass das Framework die Entwicklung von Peer-to-Peer-Anwendungen ermöglicht, die resistent gegen Zensur sind. Es gibt jedoch Einschränkungen in Browser-APIs und der Verfügbarkeit von Bibliotheken für die Webplattform, die die Anwendungen, die derzeit mit dem Framework entwickelt werden können, einschränken.
description: Due to economic reasons, software has grown more centralized in recent years. Web applications offer a convenient way for users to start using an application without the need to install software. However, this convenience comes at the cost of privacy. In this work we propose a privacy-first web application framework that minimizes its dependency on centralized infrastructure. We present a requirements analysis, the system architecture and an evaluation of the framework based on three sample applications. We demonstrate that the framework allows for the development of peer-to-peer applications that are resistant to censorship. However, there are restrictions in web browser APIs and availability of libraries for the web platform that restrict the applications that can currently be developed with the framework.
Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services: Reviewing Our First Year
Creators: name: Fearon, David S
name: Gunia, Betsy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: Of the growing number of academic libraries helping researchers with data management, Johns Hopkins University has one of the first "full service" infrastructures providing data planning consultation and a repository, JHU Data Archive, built specifically for research data. Although drawing upon the expertise of our partner, the Data Conservancy, we are continually evolving our service model, and testing by trial its sustainability and accommodation of diverse practices among disciplines. We will report on the first year of our Data Management Services program, focusing on planning support for NSF's data management plan requirements, and the particular needs of social science. We have developed tools, such as a questionnaire and in-person meetings, for helping researchers with NSF's 2-page plan, and project management workflows for depositing data into the JHU Data Archive. We will discuss outreach strategies for publicizing our services, and incentives for researchers to invest in data preservation and sharing. Case examples from working with a range of social sciences illustrate data management issues distinct from "big data" sciences, such as sharing data with personal identifiers, managing qualitative research, and multi-disciplinary collaborations. With data management requirements expanding among funders, innovations by academic libraries are of broad interest to data curation professionals.