cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Modular Approach for Synchronized Wireless Multimodal Multisensor Data Acquisition in Highly Dynamic Social Settings
Creators: name: Raman, Chirag
name: Tan, Stephanie
name: Hung, Hayley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing data acquisition literature for human behavior research provides wired solutions, mainly for controlled laboratory setups. In uncontrolled free-standing conversation settings, where participants are free to walk around, these solutions are unsuitable. While wireless solutions are employed in the broadcasting industry, they can be prohibitively expensive. In this work, we propose a modular and cost-effective wireless approach for synchronized multisensor data acquisition of social human behavior. Our core idea involves a cost-accuracy trade-off by using Network Time Protocol (NTP) as a source reference for all sensors. While commonly used as a reference in ubiquitous computing, NTP is widely considered to be insufficiently accurate as a reference for video applications, where Precision Time Protocol (PTP) or Global Positioning System (GPS) based references are preferred. We argue and show, however, that the latency introduced by using NTP as a source reference is adequate for human behavior research, and the subsequent cost and modularity benefits are a desirable trade-off for applications in this domain. We also describe one instantiation of the approach deployed in a real-world experiment to demonstrate the practicality of our setup in-the-wild.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '20), October 12--16, 2020, Seattle, WA, USA. First two authors contributed equally
Kondo Problem and Related One-Dimensional Quantum Systems: Bethe Ansatz Solution and Boundary Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Satoshi
name: Kawakami, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some exact results on Kondo impurity systems derived from Bethe-ansatz solutions and boundary conformal field theory with particular emphasis on universal aspects of the phenomenon. The finite-size spectra characterizing the low-energy fixed point are computed from the Bethe-ansatz solutions of various models related to the Kondo problem. Using the finite-size scaling argument, we investigate their exact critical properties. We also discuss that a universal relation between the Kondo effect and the impurity effect in one-dimensional quantum systems usefully expedites our understanding of these different phenomena.
description: 6 pages, no figures
Generation of twisted photons by undulators filled with dispersive medium
Creators: name: Bogdanov, O. V.
name: Kazinski, P. O.
name: Lazarenko, G. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radiation of twisted photons by undulators filled with a homogeneous dielectric dispersive medium is considered. The general formulas for the average number of radiated twisted photons are obtained. The radiation of undulators in the dipole regime and the radiation of the helical and planar wigglers are studied in detail. It is shown that the selection rules for radiation of twisted photons established for undulators in a vacuum also holds for undulators filled with a dielectric medium. In the case of a medium with plasma permittivity the lower undulator harmonics do not form. This fact can be used for generation of twisted photons with nonzero orbital angular momentum on the lowest admissible harmonic. The use of the effect of inverse radiation polarization for generation of twisted photons with larger orbital angular momentum is described. The influence of the anomalous Doppler effect on the projection of the total angular momentum of radiated twisted photons is investigated. The parameters of the undulator and the charged particles are found such that the produced radiation, in particular, the Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation, is a pure source of twisted photons with definite nonzero orbital angular momentum. The developed theory is used to describe the radiation of twisted photons by beams of electrons and protons in the undulators filled with helium. We also consider the radiation of X-ray twisted photons by electrons in the undulator filled with xenon. The parameters are chosen so as to be achievable at the present experimental facilities.
description: 21 pp., 8 figs; some misprints corrected
Dissecting the restricted mean time in favor of treatment
Creators: name: Mao, Lu
name: Wang, Tuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: The restricted mean time in favor (RMT-IF) summarizes the treatment effect on a hierarchical composite endpoint with mortality at the top. Its crude decomposition into “stage-wise effects,” i.e., the net average time gained by the treatment prior to each component event, does not reveal the patient state in which the extra time is spent. To obtain this information, we break each stage-wise effect into subcomponents according to the specific state to which the reference condition is improved. After re-expressing the subcomponents as functionals of the marginal survival functions of outcome events, we estimate them conveniently by plugging in the Kaplan -- Meier estimators. Their robust variance matrices allow us to construct joint tests on the decomposed units, which are particularly powerful against component-wise differential treatment effects. By reanalyzing a cancer trial and a cardiovascular trial, we acquire new insights into the quality and composition of the extra survival times, as well as the extra time with fewer hospitalizations, gained by the treatment in question. The proposed methods are implemented in the rmt package freely available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
Facility layout planning. An extended literature review
Creators: name: Pérez-Gosende, Pablo
name: Mula, Josefa
name: Díaz-Madroñero, Manuel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that they are considered one of the most important design decisions as part of business operation strategies, and their proven repercussion on production systems’ operation costs, efficiency and productivity, mean that this theme has been widely addressed in science. In this context, the present article offers a scientific literature review about FLP from the operations management perspective. The 232 reviewed articles were classified as a large taxonomy based on type of problem, approach and planning stage and characteristics of production facilities by configuring the material handling system and methods to generate and assess layout alternatives. We stress that the generation of layout alternatives was done mainly using mathematical optimisation models, specifically discrete quadratic programming models for similar sized departments, or continuous linear and non-linear mixed integer programming models for different sized departments. Other approaches followed to generate layout alternatives were expert’s knowledge and specialised software packages. Generally speaking, the most frequent solution algorithms were metaheuristics.
Bioinformatics Basics
Creators: name: Soaibur Rahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bioinformatics is the use of computational tools to analyze and explain biological data. Bioinformatics is being used in significant biological fields. Different databases and bioinformatics tools are available on internet. Beginners must learn to generate searches in those databases. In addition, they should learn some software tools like PyMOL, MEGA, R that are related to bioinformatics.
GMMLoc: Structure Consistent Visual Localization with Gaussian Mixture Models
Creators: name: Huang, Huaiyang
name: Ye, Haoyang
name: Sun, Yuxiang
name: Liu, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Incorporating prior structure information into the visual state estimation could generally improve the localization performance. In this letter, we aim to address the paradox between accuracy and efficiency in coupling visual factors with structure constraints. To this end, we present a cross-modality method that tracks a camera in a prior map modelled by the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). With the pose estimated by the front-end initially, the local visual observations and map components are associated efficiently, and the visual structure from the triangulation is refined simultaneously. By introducing the hybrid structure factors into the joint optimization, the camera poses are bundle-adjusted with the local visual structure. By evaluating our complete system, namely GMMLoc, on the public dataset, we show how our system can provide a centimeter-level localization accuracy with only trivial computational overhead. In addition, the comparative studies with the state-of-the-art vision-dominant state estimators demonstrate the competitive performance of our method.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); 8 pages, 6 figures; for demos and source code, see: http://sites.google.com/view/gmmloc/
Cost Analysis and Water Conservation Potential of Irrigation Technologies in the Texas Panhandle Water Planning Area
Creators: name: Almas, Lal K.
name: Vimlesh, K.
name: Girase, J.R.
name: Amosson, Stephen H.
name: New, Leon L.
name: Bretz, Fran E.
name: Marek, Thomas H.
name: Almas, Lal K.
name: Vimlesh, K.
name: Girase, J.R.
name: Amosson, Stephen H.
name: New, Leon L.
name: Bretz, Fran E.
name: Marek, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation Technology
subject: Ground Water Planning
subject: Texas Panhandle
subject: Water Conservation
subject: Ogallala

description: Six irrigation systems are analyzed considering cost and potential water savings. The investment cost of furrow and drip is $115,800 and $260,120, respectively. The cost of quarter mile pivot ranges from $59,000 to $64,000. Per ac-in variable pumping cost ranges $9.96 to $14.86 assuming natural gas price $7.00 per MCF.
A Gradient Flow for Worldsheet Nonlinear Sigma Models
Creators: name: Oliynyk, T
name: Suneeta, V
name: Woolgar, E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss certain recent mathematical advances, mainly due to Perelman, in the theory of Ricci flows and their relevance for renormalization group (RG) flows. We consider nonlinear sigma models with closed target manifolds supporting a Riemannian metric, dilaton, and 2-form B-field. By generalizing recent mathematical results to incorporate the B-field and by decoupling the dilaton, we are able to describe the 1-loop beta-functions of the metric and B-field as the components of the gradient of a potential functional on the space of coupling constants. We emphasize a special choice of diffeomorphism gauge generated by the lowest eigenfunction of a certain Schrodinger operator whose potential and kinetic terms evolve along the flow. With this choice, the potential functional is the corresponding lowest eigenvalue, and gives the order alpha' correction to the Weyl anomaly at fixed points of (g(t),B(t)). Since the lowest eigenvalue is monotonic along the flow and reproduces the Weyl anomaly at fixed points, it accords with the c-theorem for flows that remain always in the first-order regime. We compute the Hessian of the lowest eigenvalue functional and use it to discuss the linear stability of points where the 1-loop beta-functions vanish, such as flat tori and K3 manifolds.
description: Accepted version for publication. Citations added to Friedan and to Fateev, Onofri, and Zamolodchikov. Introduction modified slightly to discuss these citations. 25 pages, LaTeX
Morphological and Luminosity Content of Poor Galaxy Groups
Creators: name: Tovmassian, H.
name: Plionis, M.
name: Andernach, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that the fraction of early-type galaxies in poor groups (containing from 4 to 10 members) is a weakly increasing function of the number of the group members and is about two times higher than in a sample of isolated galaxies. We also find that the group velocity dispersion increases weakly with the fraction of early-type galaxies. Early-type galaxies in poor groups are brighter in the near-infrared with respect to isolated ones by 0.75 mags (in K) and to a lesser degree (by 0.5 mags) also in the blue. We also find early-type galaxies in groups to be redder than those in the field. These findings suggest that the formation history for early-type galaxies in overdense regions is different from that of in underdense regions, and that their formation in groups is triggered by merging processes.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Lett. in press
Raw microscopy data
Creators: name: Carvalho-Santos, Zita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: Imaging source files used in the main Figures 1, 2 and 3 and Extended Data Figures 4, 5 and 6.
Geometric scaling in ultrahigh energy neutrinos and nonlinear perturbative QCD
Creators: name: Machado, Magno V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in ultrahigh energy inelastic neutrino-nucleon(nucleus) scattering the cross sections for the boson-hadron(nucleus) reactions should exhibit geometric scaling on the single variable tau_A =Q2/Q2_{sat,A}. The dependence on energy and atomic number of the charged/neutral current cross sections are encoded in the saturation momentum Q_{sat,A}. This fact allows an analytical computation of the neutrino scattering on nucleon/nucleus at high energies, providing a theoretical parameterization based on the scaling property.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Cost Analysis of Alternative Harvest and Storage Methods for Switchgrass in the Southeastern U.S.
Creators: name: Larson, James A.
name: Mooney, Daniel F.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Tyler, Donald D.
name: Larson, James A.
name: Mooney, Daniel F.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Tyler, Donald D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: bioenergy
subject: dry matter loss
subject: storage

description: This study evaluated the potential impacts of dry matter losses from alternative harvest and storage methods on the costs of growing switchgrass for energy production. Data from a switchgrass bale harvest and storage experiment at Milan, TN, indicate that storage losses for covered rectangular bales were greater than for covered round bales. In addition, the cost of delivered feedstock increased with longer storage times because of larger dry matter losses. Even though storage losses were higher with uncovered large round bales, production costs were the lowest because costs of storage were minimal compared to other storage methods.
Chain of custody certification : current status and level of knowledge in the North American solid wood sector
Creators: name: Vidal, Natalia Giugni
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Chain of custody certification has influenced the marketplace for forest products over the past two decades. A category of forest certification, chain of custody certification is responsible for providing a guarantee that the wood product purchased was manufactured with raw materials from environmentally certified sources. Information on how North American primary wood product companies are addressing chain of custody certification is scarce. However, it is critical for the further development of this concept. A survey of primary wood products manufacturers was conducted in order to verify the current status of chain of custody certification in Canada and the United States. Accredited certification bodies in North America were also interviewed by telephone. Results indicate that approximately 50% of primary wood producers will be certified by 2007 and that the acquisition of benefits from chain of custody certification may be a key factor in increasing adoption levels. A cluster analysis and a determinant function analysis suggest that company size is an important variable to be considered when analyzing the adoption of chain of custody certification by primary wood producers. According to these analyses, larger companies are more likely to be chain of custody certified than smaller companies. In addition, larger companies seem to be more cognizant of the benefits to be accrued from chain of custody certification. The costs of implementing chain of custody certification are also related to company size with a general trend being lower costs for larger companies.
Dorycera gramineum
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ulidiidae
Dorycera
Dorycera gramineum

description: Dorycera gramineum (FABRICIUS, 1794)
Bgld, Weiden, Zitzmannsdorfer Wiesen, 30.5.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 775, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Gauge transformation of scalar induced gravitational waves
Creators: name: Lu, Yizhou
name: Ali, Arshad
name: Gong, Yungui
name: Lin, Jiong
name: Zhang, Fengge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gauge dependence of the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) generated at the second order imposes a challenge to the discussion of the secondary gravitational waves generated by scalar perturbations. We provide a general formula that is valid in any gauge for the calculation of SIGWs and the relationship for SIGWs calculated in various gauges under the coordinate transformation. The formula relating SIGWs in the Newtonian gauge to other gauges is used to calculate SIGWs in six different gauges. We find that the Newtonian gauge, the uniform curvature gauge, the synchronous gauge and the uniform expansion gauge yield the same result for the energy density of SIGWs. We also identify and eliminate the pure gauge modes that exist in the synchronous gauge. In the total matter gauge and the comoving orthogonal gauge, the energy density of SIGWs increases as $η^2$. While in the uniform density gauge, the energy density of SIGWs increases as $η^6$.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
Corotating binary systems of identical Kerr-Newman black holes
Creators: name: Cabrera-Munguia, I.
name: Filho, Etevaldo dos Santos Costa
name: Hernández, Héctor H.
name: Vázquez-Valdez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper binary configurations of identical corotating Kerr-Newman black holes separated by a massless strut are derived and studied. After solving the axis conditions and establishing the absence of magnetic charges in the solution, one gets two 4-parametric corotating binary black hole models endowed with electric charge, where each source contains equal/opposite electric charge in the first/second configuration. Since the black hole horizons are given by concise expressions in terms of physical parameters, all their thermodynamical properties satisfying the Smarr relation for the mass are also obtained. We discuss the physical limits of both models.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, published version
Detecting APT Malware Command and Control over HTTP(S) Using Contextual Summaries
Creators: name: Alageel, Almuthanna
name: Maffeis, Sergio
name: London, Imperial College
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2; I.2.7
subject: 68M25

description: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are among the most sophisticated threats facing critical organizations worldwide. APTs employ specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) which make them difficult to detect in comparison to frequent and aggressive attacks. In fact, current network intrusion detection systems struggle to detect APTs communications, allowing such threats to persist unnoticed on victims' machines for months or even years. In this paper, we present EarlyCrow, an approach to detect APT malware command and control over HTTP(S) using contextual summaries.
 The design of EarlyCrow is informed by a novel threat model focused on TTPs present in traffic generated by tools recently used as part of APT campaigns. The threat model highlights the importance of the context around the malicious connections, and suggests traffic attributes which help APT detection. EarlyCrow defines a novel multipurpose network flow format called PairFlow, which is leveraged to build the contextual summary of a PCAP capture, representing key behavioral, statistical and protocol information relevant to APT TTPs. We evaluate the effectiveness of EarlyCrow on unseen APTs obtaining a headline macro average F1-score of 93.02% with FPR of $0.74%.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures. In: Susilo, W., Chen, X., Guo, F., Zhang, Y., Intan, R. (eds) Information Security. ISC 2022
New Interpretable Statistics for Large Scale Structure Analysis and Generation
Creators: name: Allys, E.
name: Marchand, T.
name: Cardoso, J. -F.
name: Villaescusa-Navarro, F.
name: Ho, S.
name: Mallat, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce Wavelet Phase Harmonics (WPH) statistics: interpretable low-dimensional statistics that describe 2D non-Gaussian fields. These statistics are built from WPH moments, which were recently introduced in the data science and machine learning community. We apply WPH statistics to projected 2D matter density fields from the Quijote N-body simulations of the large-scale structure of the Universe. By computing Fisher information matrices, we find that the WPH statistics place more stringent constraints on four of five cosmological parameters when compared to statistics based on the combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum. We also use the WPH statistics with a maximum entropy model to statistically generate new 2D density fields that accurately reproduce the probability density function, the mean and standard deviation of the power spectrum, the bispectrum, and Minkowski functionals of the input density fields. Although other methods are efficient for either parameter estimates or statistical syntheses of the large-scale structure, WPH statistics are the first statistics that achieve state-of-the-art results for both tasks as well as being interpretable.
description: 21 pages, accepted in PRD. New version with clarified explanations
Herina oscillans
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ulidiidae
Herina
Herina oscillans

description: Herina oscillans (MEIGEN, 1826)
Bgld, Weiden, Zitzmannsdorfer Wiesen, 27.6.17; Illmitz, Hölle, 11.6.17 und 14.6.17, 2 Ex.
Neu für Burgenland. In FRANZ (1989) nur 1 historische Angabe aus NÖ.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 775, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Leading order corrections to the cosmological evolution of tensor perturbations in braneworld
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tsutomu
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensor type perturbations in the expanding brane world of the Randall Sundrum type are investigated. We consider a model composed of slow-roll inflation phase and the succeeding radiation phase. The effect of the presence of an extra dimension through the transition to the radiation phase is studied, giving an analytic formula for leading order corrections.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Clinical spectrum, genetic associations and management outcomes of Coats-like exudative retinal vasculopathy in autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa
Creators: name: Magliyah, Moustafa
name: Abdulaziz A. Alshamrani
name: Schatz, Patrik
name: Taskintuna, Ibrahim
name: Alzahrani, Yahya
name: Nowilaty, Sawsan R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Coats-like retinal vasculopathy in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is rare. This study describes its clinical spectrum, management outcomes and genetic associations in patients with autosomal recessive RP (arRP). Materials and methods: Retrospective review of ophthalmic, multimodal imaging, genetic findings and treatment outcomes of arRP patients who developed Coats-like features. Identification of patients included searching a retinal dystrophy registry of 798 patients. Results: Ten eyes of six patients with arRP (4 males, 2 females, mean age 33 years) demonstrated Coats-like features, namely inferotemporal peripheral retinal telangiectasis combined with unilateral inferotemporal vasoproliferative tumor (VPT) in 4 eyes. Exudative retinal detachment (ERD) developed in five eyes of which four had VPT. Ablation of the vasculopathy using retinal laser photocoagulation and/or cryotherapy in eight eyes, allowed ERD and/or lipid exudation to decrease in seven eyes despite incomplete vasculopathy regression. Additional intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection in one eye failed to regress the ERD and associated VPT. Observation in one eye caused increased exudation. Six mutations, including three novel mutations, were found in CRB1, CNGB1, RPGR, and TULP1. Conclusions: Coats-like features in arRP range from retinal telangiectasis to VPTs with extensive ERD and occur predominantly in the inferotemporal retinal periphery. In addition to their classic association with CRB1 mutations, other genes are implicated. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing CNGB1 mutations in Coats-like RP. Awareness of the vasculopathy spectrum is important, and timely ablation of the vasculopathy with long-term monitoring is recommended to prevent additional visual loss in RP patients.
Real and ideal water rights: the prospects for water-rights reform in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
Creators: name: Berck, Peter
name: Lipow, Jonathan
name: Berck, Peter
name: Lipow, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: water policies
subject: water supply
subject: agriculture
subject: water rights

description: The ideal water contract for a heterogeneous population of users is a prioritized right that is fully vested and fully tradable. A set of tradable, prioritized rights contracts will span the same space as the Debreu contingent commodities. Therefore, they lead to a competitive equilibrium that is Pareto optimal. Equal sharing of water shortfalls does not have this property. Existing water policies in Israel and the Disputed Territories are not characterized by an efficient set of water contracts. The system misallocates water over both time and space. Current policies are driven by strategic and ideological objectives. With peace, reform of water policies will become politically feasible. The paper concludes with a proposal for a new water-allocation system.
Signal from sterile neutrino dark matter in extra $U(1)$ model at direct detection experiment
Creators: name: Seto, Osamu
name: Shimomura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the possibility that direct dark matter detection experiments find decay products from sterile neutrino dark mater in $U(1)_{B-L}$ and $U(1)_R$ models. This is possible if the sterile neutrino interacts with a light gauge boson and decays into a neutrino and the light gauge boson with a certain lifetime. This decay produces energetic neutrinos scattering off nuclei with a large enough recoil energy in direct dark matter detection experiments. We stress that direct dark matter detection experiments can explore not only WIMP but also sterile neutrino dark matter.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures: figures replaced, published in Physics Letters B
Transcriptome analysis of genes related to cadmium absorprion and transportation in pepper
Creators: name: Riyong Wang
name: Xiongze Dai
name: Junheng Lv
name: Zhuqing Zhang
name: Lijun Ou
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Heavy metal pollution has become a serious global problem in soil contamination. Cadmium (Cd) is a ubiquitous environmental toxic pollutant to plants, which can greatly affect their growth and development, or even lead to their death. In the present study, we performed a comparative transcriptome analysis to identify the regulators and pathways that were involved in Cd absorption and transportation in the roots, leaves and fruits of wild-type and mutant pepper plants. A total of 883,591,943 million reads were mapped to the reference genome, and 33,927 genes were identified. Sample reads and the reference genome alignment efficiency were between 78.99% to 84.57%. Finally, 798 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in the roots, leaves and fruits of the mutant and wild-type plants, including 80 up-regulated DEGs and 718 down-regulated DEGs. The DGEs were mostly related to the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway and glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism. In addition, some vital DEGs were identified in absorption/transportation-related pathways, such as ABC transporter and P-type ATPase. The results revealed that several genes were related to the regulation of Cd absorption and transportation. Collectively, our findings provided valuable insights into the molecular mechanism of Cd absorption and transportation in pepper.
Error and symmetry analysis of Misner's algorithm for spherical harmonic decomposition on a cubic grid
Creators: name: Fiske, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computing spherical harmonic decompositions is a ubiquitous technique that arises in a wide variety of disciplines and a large number of scientific codes. Because spherical harmonics are defined by integrals over spheres, however, one must perform some sort of interpolation in order to compute them when data is stored on a cubic lattice. Misner (2004, Class. Quant. Grav., 21, S243) presented a novel algorithm for computing the spherical harmonic components of data represented on a cubic grid, which has been found in real applications to be both efficient and robust to the presence of mesh refinement boundaries. At the same time, however, practical applications of the algorithm require knowledge of how the truncation errors of the algorithm depend on the various parameters in the algorithm. Based on analytic arguments and experience using the algorithm in real numerical simulations, I explore these dependencies and provide a rule of thumb for choosing the parameters based on the truncation errors of the underlying data. I also demonstrate that symmetries in the spherical harmonics themselves allow for an even more efficient implementation of the algorithm than was suggested by Misner in his original paper.
description: 10 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure. Version 2 has a broader introduction, and includes additional information on choosing parameters
Measurement of ionization quenching in plastic scintillators
Creators: name: Pöschl, Thomas
name: Greenwald, Daniel
name: Losekamm, Martin Jan
name: Paul, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plastic scintillators are widely used in high-energy and medical physics, often for measuring the energy of ionizing radiation. Their main disadvantage is their non-linear response to highly ionizing radiation, called ionization quenching. This nonlinearity must be modeled and corrected for in applications where an accurate energy measurement is required. We present a new experimental technique to granularly measure the dependence of quenching on energy-deposition density. Based on this method, we determine the parameters for four commonly used quenching models for two commonly used plastic scintillators using protons with energies of 30 MeV to 100 MeV; and compare the models using a Bayesian approach. We also report the first model-independent measurement of the dependence of ionization quenching on energy-deposition density, providing a purely empirical view into quenching.
description: Accepted manuscript
Otites formosa var. ruficeps
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ulidiidae
Otites
Otites formosa
Otites formosa var. ruficeps

description: Otites formosa var. ruficeps (FABRICIUS, 1794)
Bgld, Winden, Zeilerberg, 26.5.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 775, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
An Analysis of Latin American Peanut Trade
Creators: name: Lee, Dae-Seob
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Lee, Dae-Seob
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural trade
subject: Latin America
subject: peanuts
subject: scenario analysis
subject: SUR

description: The U.S. export share in the world peanut market has decreased due to heavy competition. In this paper, the Latin American peanut industry is modeled using seemingly unrelated regression (SUR). Based on these estimations, a scenario analysis was conducted. The results show that the Latin American demand is not affected dramatically by either domestic of world price shocks. The effects of price changes on net trade are noticeable. However, the world price does not significantly affect the Latin American peanut supply. The results imply that Latin American peanut farmers are more sensitive to changes in domestic prices than world price changes.
Novel homozygous mutation of plasminogen in ligneous conjunctivitis: a case report and literature review
Creators: name: Liyan Xu
name: Yajie Sun
name: Yang, Kaili
name: Dongqing Zhao
name: Yiqiang Wang
name: Shengwei Ren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Background:Ligneous conjunctivitis (LC) is a rare disease characterized by the development of a wood-like pseudomembrane on the tarsal conjunctiva secondary to type I plasminogen deficiency. Here we reported on a Chinese patient with LC in a consanguineous family and performed a literature review of all reported mutations for this disease. Methods: A 13-month-old girl diagnosed with LC and her parents were included in this study. Hematoxylin and eosin staining was used to perform histopathology examination. The plasminogen activity was determined by chromogenic assay. Sanger sequencing was performed to screen the mutation site for the disease. In silico analysis was applied to predict the pathogenesis of the identified mutation. In addition, we reviewed the literatures on PLG mutations of LC. Results: Histopathology examination revealed the infiltration of inflammatory cells on membranous lesions. Plasma plasminogen activity was severely decreased in the patient and moderately decreased in her parents (patient: plasminogen activity, 2.50%; father: plasminogen activity, 41.02%; mother: plasminogen activity, 54.07%). Co-segregation analysis indicated that the patient was homozygous for the c.763 G > A (p.Glu255Lys) mutation in plasminogen gene (PLG). Bioinformatics analysis strongly suggested that the mutation was damaging for the disease. The model analysis indicated the mutation might cause abnormal spatial structure and low stability, thus affecting functional activity. A literature review of the LC mutations indicated a strong genetic heterogeneity of the disease. Conclusions: LC exhibited strong genetic heterogeneity, and our study identified a novel homozygous missense mutation of plasminogen (c.763 G > A, p.Glu255Lys) in one Chinese patient with LC.
Nondemolition Principle of Quantum Measurement Theory
Creators: name: Belavkin, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an explicit axiomatic formulation of the quantum measurement theory which is free of the projection postulate. It is based on the generalized nondemolition principle applicable also to the unsharp, continuous-spectrum and continuous-in-time observations. The "collapsed state-vector" after the "objectification" is simply treated as a random vector of the a posteriori state given by the quantum filtering, i.e., the conditioning of the a priori induced state on the corresponding reduced algebra. The nonlinear phenomenological equation of "continuous spontaneous localization" has been derived from the Schroedinger equation as a case of the quantum filtering equation for the diffusive nondemolition measurement. The quantum theory of measurement and filtering suggests also another type of the stochastic equation for the dynamical theory of continuous reduction, corresponding to the counting nondemolition measurement, which is more relevant for the quantum experiments.
description: 23 pages. See also related papers at http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/research/mes_fou.html and http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/research/cau_idy.html
How faculae and network relate to sunspots, and the implications for solar and stellar brightness variations
Creators: name: Yeo, K. L.
name: Solanki, S. K.
name: Krivova, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How global faculae and network coverage relates to that of sunspots is relevant to the brightness variations of the Sun and Sun-like stars. We extend earlier studies that found the facular-to-sunspot-area ratio diminishes with total sunspot coverage. Chromospheric indices and the total magnetic flux enclosed in network and faculae, referred to here as 'facular indices', are modulated by the amount of facular and network present. We probed the relationship between various facular and sunspot indices through an empirical model that takes into account how active regions evolve. This model was incorporated into a total solar irradiance (TSI) model. The model presented here replicates most of the observed variability in the facular indices, and is better at doing so than earlier models. Contrary to recent studies, we found the relationship between the facular and sunspot indices to be stable over the past four decades. The model indicates that, like the facular-to-sunspot-area ratio, the ratio of the variation in chromospheric emission and total network and facular magnetic flux to sunspot area decreases with the latter. The TSI model indicates the ratio of the TSI excess from faculae and network to the deficit from sunspots also declines with sunspot area, with the consequence being that TSI rises with sunspot area more slowly than if the two quantities were linearly proportional to one another. The extrapolation of the TSI model to higher activity levels indicates that in the activity range where Sun-like stars are observed to switch from growing brighter with increasing activity to becoming dimmer instead, the activity-dependence of TSI exhibits a similar transition as sunspot darkening starts to rise more rapidly with activity than facular brightening. This bolsters the interpretation of this behavior of Sun-like stars as the transition from a faculae-dominated to a spot-dominated regime.
ICT and educational policy in the UK: are we on the way towards e-maturity or on the road to digital disaster?
Creators: name: Morris, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of East London, Cass School of Education and Communities
Year: 2012
Subjects: computing
digital literacy
teachers

description: Despite successive government training initiatives, policies and extensive funding over the last 15 years, little has been done to effectively tackle the disparity of ICT skills and the training of the UK teaching workforce. The current Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, is committed to an agenda of promoting computer science in schools which overshadows previous governmental initiatives aimed at tackling teachers’ digital literacy and computing skills. There therefore needs to be consideration not just of how to bolt and weld computer science into the curriculum, but also how to ensure that teachers remain equipped to teach pupils fundamental ICT skills.
Harmonizing Multi-Omics for Enhanced  Machine Learning
Creators: name: Praveen Kumar N K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The proliferation of high-throughput technologies has yielded an abundance of omics data, spanning diverse biological layers such as genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Machine learning algorithms have harnessed this data deluge, yielding diagnostic and classification biomarkers. However, prevailing biomarkers predominantly rely on single omic measurements, overlooking the potential insights from multi-omics experiments that encapsulate the entirety of biological complexity. To fully exploit the wealth of information embedded in different omics layers, effective multi-omics data integration strategies become imperative. This minireview categorizes recent integration methods/frameworks into five strategies: early, mixed, intermediate, late, and hierarchical. Our focus is on delineating challenges and exploring existing multi-omics integration strategies, with a keen emphasis on their application in machine learning.
Impact of layer defects in ferroelectric thin films
Creators: name: Wesselinowa, J. M.
name: Trimper, S.
name: Zabrocki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a modified Ising model in a transverse field we demonstrate that defect layers in ferroelectric thin films, such as layers with impurities, vacancies or dislocations, are able to induce a strong increase or decrease of the polarization depending on the variation of the exchange interaction within the defect layers. A Green's function technique enables us to calculate the polarization, the excitation energy and the critical temperature of the material with structural defects. Numerically we find the polarization as function of temperature, film thickness and the interaction strengths between the layers. The theoretical results are in reasonable accordance to experimental datas of different ferroelectric thin films.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrient Management and Buffers: Comparisons of Two Spatial Scenarios
Creators: name: Bonham, John G.
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Pease, James W.
name: Bonham, John G.
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Pease, James W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: compliance costs
subject: geographic information systems (GIS)
subject: mathematical programming
subject: nutrient management
subject: phosphorus (P)
subject: pollution abatement
subject: riparian buffers
subject: spatial analysis

description: Farmers and taxpayers would benefit from more cost-effective agricultural nutrient pollution control measures. The objectives of our study are (1) to assess compliance costs and reductions in phosphorus loadings from implementation of nutrient management and riparian buffers; and (2) to estimate how the spatial scenario, which is the method of representing farms within the watershed, affects estimated compliance costs and reductions in phosphorus deliveries. Estimated compliance costs are quite sensitive to the spatial scenario. Buffers are more cost-effective than nutrient management under one of the two spatial scenarios, whereas nutrient management is more cost-effective under the other scenario. Shifts to more erosive crops reduce the effectiveness of both pollution control measures.