cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the challenges of ’inclusion’ : building trust in cross-cultural planning practice
Creators: name: Atkey, Jill Faye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: For almost two decades, some contributors to planning literature have argued for the inclusion of voices and faces of difference. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to the challenges faced by planners in building trust and addressing questions of legitimacy in cultural communities with which the planner does not identify. We know that cross-cultural planning is being practiced, but the literature tells us little about how planners traverse boundaries in a direct and lived sense. This thesis tries to get at that 'how' question by turning the lens away from communities of difference and back on the planner. In-depth interviews were undertaken with five British Columbian planning practitioners with a broad range of interests to gain a sense of their challenges in building trust across culture. The overarching themes of the thesis are trust and legitimacy, and through this frame three major themes are identified in the data: 1) Relationships and personal connections form the basis for a great deal of cross-cultural planning and come in many forms, ranging from the personal to the professional. 2 ) The concepts of identity and positioning are deeply personal for each of the planners and given their diversity these concepts play out in various ways, but at the core for each is self-reflection. 3) Creating new and shared understandings, both between and amongst communities and between planners and communities, is integral to the work of cross-cultural planning, and indeed its hope is what makes planning possible, and is handled in a number of different ways by the planners. The findings also present a number of 'navigational tools' necessary for planning across difference. What emerges is not a 'recipe' or 'blueprint', but rather an understanding that planners who effectively interact with and are inclusive of difference learn not to predict outcomes. Instead, they learn to respond sensitively, intuitively, and creatively with what comes their way.
CHILD HEALTH CARE DEMAND IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: UNCONDITIONAL ESTIMATES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Creators: name: Hallman, Kelly K.
name: Hallman, Kelly K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This study examines how quality, price, and access to curative health care influence use of modern public, modern private, and traditional providers among 3,000 children age 0-2 years in Cebu, Philippines. The analysis relies on a series of household, community, and health facility surveys conducted in 33 rural and urban communities during 1983B1986. The inclusion of data on potential health care users and available providers makes it possible to investigate the impact of the health care environment on demand. Furthermore, since the study is not limited to only those children whose mothers report them as currently ill, it avoids the possible biases caused by using a sample comprised of those who self-report morbidity. Distance to care is important for reducing demand, unlike user fees that show no significant effects on the use of modern public or private services. The availability of oral rehydration therapy and child vaccines, as well as the proportion of doctors to staff, are important for increasing the use of public care, while supplies of intravenous diarrhea treatments raise the demand for private services. Nonmodern practitioners were used more if they had recently attended an nongovernment- or government-sponsored health training session. Parental human capital and household income increase the utilization of private services. Children who are male and younger than 6 months of age are more likely to be taken to private and traditional providers, the two more expensive types of care.
Constant-Space, Constant-Randomness Verifiers with Arbitrarily Small Error
Creators: name: Gezer, M. Utkan
name: Say, A. C. Cem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the capabilities of probabilistic finite-state machines that act as verifiers for certificates of language membership for input strings, in the regime where the verifiers are restricted to toss some fixed nonzero number of coins regardless of the input size. Say and Yakaryılmaz showed that the class of languages that could be verified by these machines within an error bound strictly less than $1/2$ is precisely NL, but their construction yields verifiers with error bounds that are very close to $1/2$ for most languages in that class when the definition of "error" is strengthened to include looping forever without giving a response. We characterize a subset of NL for which verification with arbitrarily low error is possible by these extremely weak machines. It turns out that, for any $\varepsilon>0$, one can construct a constant-coin, constant-space verifier operating within error $\varepsilon$ for every language that is recognizable by a linear-time multi-head nondeterministic finite automaton (2nfa($k$)). We discuss why it is difficult to generalize this method to all of NL, and give a reasonably tight way to relate the power of linear-time 2nfa($k$)'s to simultaneous time-space complexity classes defined in terms of Turing machines.
Exploratory Test Agents for Stateful Software Systems
Creators: name: Karlsson, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The adequate testing of stateful software systems is a hard and costly activity. Failures that result from complex stateful interactions can be of high impact, and it can be hard to replicate failures resulting from erroneous stateful interactions. Addressing this problem in an automatic way would save cost and time and increase the quality of software systems in the industry. In this paper, we propose an approach that uses agents to explore software systems with the intention to find faults and gain knowledge.
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND INCOME GENERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1993-98
Creators: name: Maluccio, John A.
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: May, Julian
name: Maluccio, John A.
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: May, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The goal of this paper is to determine the nature of the causal relationship between "social capital," as measured by household membership in formal and informal groups and household welfare in South Africa. Using a recently collected panel data set in South Africa's largest province, we estimate per capita expenditure functions and find a positive and significant impact of household-level social capital. For example, after controlling for fixed effects, social capital has no impact on per capita expenditure in 1993 but positive and significant effects in 1998. We interpret this as reflecting structural changes in the South African economy as it removes the many restrictions that underlay apartheid.
Supplementary materials for Beneficial Microbes: High colonisation by probiotic Escherichia coli A0 34/86 strain is associated with a less diverse microbiome related to children's age
Creators: name: Micenková, L.
name: Brodíková, K.
name: Smetanová, S.
name: Bosák, J.
name: Šmajs, D.
name: Andrla, P.
name: Budinská, E.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321003
subject: Nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition
classificationCode: 321004
subject: Nutritional science
classificationCode: 321002
subject: Food properties (incl. characteristics and health benefits)
classificationCode: 321001
subject: Clinical nutrition

description: Probiotic supplementation in childhood serves as an additional source of bacterial colonisers and represents an opportunity to beneficially manipulate the intestinal microbiome. Differences in the ability of probiotic strains to colonise the gut may be related to the variously diversified gut microbiome. We report the results of the association between composition of the gut microbiome and the colonisation capacity of the probiotic strain Escherichia coli A0 34/86 (CNB – Colinfant New Born supplement) in the cases of three healthy children in different development stages (infant, toddler, pre-school), as a preliminary insight to possible future prospective studies of this subject. Microbiome composition was estimated by 16S rRNA gene sequencing of 55 stool samples collected during approximately 3.5-13 months long periods. Detailed characterisation of the E. coli population was performed using colony PCR to detect 33 E. coli genetic determinants. In all children, genetic determinants typical for the probiotic E. coli A0 34/86 strain were detected immediately after administration of the probiotics. Analysis of the initial sample composition (the last sample taken before the probiotic administration) showed that the gut microbiome of infant and toddler with lower bacterial diversity was more successfully colonised by the probiotic strain. In our case report of three children, we showed for the first that supplementation with CNB probiotics in early infancy and toddlerhood was associated with high E. coli A0 34/86 colonisation and a significant change in the composition of the gut microbiome. Our results indicate that administration of CNB for its recommended duration might be efficient only in very early childhood
Machine learning for complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds: a methodological study
Creators: name: Erbin, Harold
name: Finotello, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We revisit the question of predicting both Hodge numbers $h^{1,1}$ and $h^{2,1}$ of complete intersection Calabi-Yau (CICY) 3-folds using machine learning (ML), considering both the old and new datasets built respectively by Candelas-Dale-Lutken-Schimmrigk / Green-Hübsch-Lutken and by Anderson-Gao-Gray-Lee. In real world applications, implementing a ML system rarely reduces to feed the brute data to the algorithm. Instead, the typical workflow starts with an exploratory data analysis (EDA) which aims at understanding better the input data and finding an optimal representation. It is followed by the design of a validation procedure and a baseline model. Finally, several ML models are compared and combined, often involving neural networks with a topology more complicated than the sequential models typically used in physics. By following this procedure, we improve the accuracy of ML computations for Hodge numbers with respect to the existing literature. First, we obtain 97% (resp. 99%) accuracy for $h^{1,1}$ using a neural network inspired by the Inception model for the old dataset, using only 30% (resp. 70%) of the data for training. For the new one, a simple linear regression leads to almost 100% accuracy with 30% of the data for training. The computation of $h^{2,1}$ is less successful as we manage to reach only 50% accuracy for both datasets, but this is still better than the 16% obtained with a simple neural network (SVM with Gaussian kernel and feature engineering and sequential convolutional network reach at best 36%). This serves as a proof of concept that neural networks can be valuable to study the properties of geometries appearing in string theory.
description: 59 pages; additional details, references updated
VALIDITY OF RAPID ESTIMATES OF HOUSEHOLD WEALTH AND INCOME FOR HEALTH SURVEYS IN RURAL AFRICA
Creators: name: Morris, Saul Sutkover
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Christiaensen, Luc J.M.
name: Morris, Saul Sutkover
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Hoddinott, John
name: Christiaensen, Luc J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Drawing data from four different integrated household surveys in rural areas of Mali, Malawi, and two national surveys in Côte d’Ivoire, this paper tests the validity of proxy measures of household wealth and income that can be readily implemented in health surveys in rural Africa. The assumptions underlying the choice of wealth proxy are described, and correlations with the true value are assessed in two different settings. The expenditure proxy is developed and then tested for replicability in two independent data sets representing the same population. The study found that in both Mali and Malawi, the wealth proxy correlated highly (r $ 0.74) with the more complex monetary value method. For rural areas of Côte d’Ivoire, it was possible to generate a list of just 10 expenditure items, the values of which, when summed, correlated highly with expenditures on all items combined (r = 0.74, development data set; r = 0.72, validation data set). Total household expenditure is an accepted alternative measure of household wealth and income in developing country settings. This paper thus shows that it can be feasible to approximate both household wealth and expenditures in rural African settings without dramatically lengthening questionnaires whose primary focus is on health.
Studies on Chargino production and decay at a photon collider
Creators: name: Klaemke, G.
name: Moenig, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Monte-Carlo analysis on production and decay of supersymmetric charginos at a future photon-collider is presented. A photon collider offers the possibility of a direct branching-ratio measurement. In this study, the process gamma,gamma -> chi_1^+,chi_1^- -> W+W-chi_1^0chi_1^0 -> 4-jets,chi_1^0chi_1^0 has been considered for a specific mSUGRA scenario. Various backgrounds and parameterised detector simulation have been included. Depending on the centre-of-mass energy, a statistical error for the directly measurable branching ratio BR(chi}_1^+ ->chi}_1^0 W^+) of up to 3.5% can be reached.
description: V2: Version accepted by EPJ
Cluster algebras of finite type and positive symmetrizable matrices
Creators: name: Barot, Michael
name: Geiss, Christof
name: Zelevinsky, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper is motivated by an analogy between cluster algebras and Kac-Moody algebras: both theories share the same classification of finite type objects by familiar Cartan-Killing types. However the underlying combinatorics beyond the two classifications is different: roughly speaking, Kac-Moody algebras are associated with (symmetrizable) Cartan matrices, while cluster algebras correspond to skew-symmetrizable matrices. We study an interplay between the two classes of matrices, in particular, establishing a new criterion for deciding whether a given skew-symmetrizable matrix gives rise to a cluster algebra of finite type.
description: 20 pages. In version 3, some new material is added in the end of section 2, discussing the classification and characterizations of positive quasi-Cartan matrices. In final version 4, Proposition 2.9 is corrected and its proof expanded. To appear in J. London Math. Soc. In version 5 only typos in the arXiv data fixed
Phase separation of a Bose-Bose mixture: impact of the trap and particle number imbalance
Creators: name: Pyzh, Maxim
name: Schmelcher, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a few-body mixture of two bosonic species confined in quasi-one-dimensional parabolic traps of different length scales. The ground state phase diagrams in the three-dimensional parameter space spanned by the harmonic length scale ratio, inter-species coupling strength and particle number ratio are investigated. As a first case study we use the mean-field ansatz (MF) to perform a detailed analysis of the separation mechanism. It allows us to derive a simple and intuitive rule predicting which of the immiscible phases is energetically more favorable at the miscible-immiscible phase boundary. We estimate the critical coupling strength for the miscible-immiscible transition and perform a comparison to correlated many-body results obtained by means of the Multi-Layer Multi-Configuration Time Dependent Hartree method for bosonic mixtures (ML-X). At a critical ratio of the trap frequencies, determined solely by the particle number ratio, the deviations between MF and ML-X are very pronounced and can be attributed to a high degree of entanglement between the components. As a result, we evidence the breakdown of the effective one-body picture. Additionally, when many-body correlations play a substantial role, the one-body density is in general not sufficient for deciding upon the phase at hand which we demonstrate exemplarily.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
THE STRUCTURE OF WAGES DURING THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN ROMANIA
Creators: name: Skoufias, Emmanuel
name: Skoufias, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: This paper uses cross-sectional individual data from the 1994 Integrated Household Survey of Romania to analyze the determinants of male and female wages in public and private enterprises. Using quantile regression, the rate of return to education and experience at different quantiles of the wage distribution is estimated. Higher levels of education are significantly associated with higher wages for both males and females in public firms. In private firms, only college education is correlated with significantly higher wages. Differences in individual characteristics are found to explain the highest portion of the male-female wage differential in Romania in both sectors.
Black hole pair production on cosmic strings in the presence of a background magnetic field
Creators: name: Ashoorioon, Amjad
name: Poshteh, Mohammad Bagher Jahani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the pair creation of magnetically charged black holes on a cosmic string in the presence of a background magnetic field. The string may either break or fray to produce a pair of accelerating black holes described by Ernst metric. By using the instanton action we obtain the rate of such production. For large values of background magnetic field the production of large black holes is probable. Comparing our results with the case of black hole pair creation in magnetic field with no string, we show that fraying/breaking of the cosmic string can substantially enhance the production rate. We also obtain the result of monopole-antimonopole pair production on cosmic string in an external magnetic field, using the WKB approximation and compare it with the black hole results. We also provide a heuristic study of black hole pair creation on cosmic string in the presence of a magnetic field in the de Sitter background, although the analog of Ernst metric with a cosmological constant is lacking. Like a cosmic string and/or a background magnetic field, a positive cosmological constant increases the production rate.
description: 7 pages, two-column, two figures, v2: matched the published version
Boosted Decision Trees as an Alternative to Artificial Neural Networks for Particle Identification
Creators: name: Roe, Byron P.
name: Yang, Hai-Jun
name: Zhu, Ji
name: Liu, Yong
name: Stancu, Ion
name: McGregor, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The efficacy of particle identification is compared using artificial neutral networks and boosted decision trees. The comparison is performed in the context of the MiniBooNE, an experiment at Fermilab searching for neutrino oscillations. Based on studies of Monte Carlo samples of simulated data, particle identification with boosting algorithms has better performance than that with artificial neural networks for the MiniBooNE experiment. Although the tests in this paper were for one experiment, it is expected that boosting algorithms will find wide application in physics.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures; Accepted for publication in Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A
Assessing the Benefits of Public Research Within an Economic Framework: The Case of USDA's Agricultural Research Service
Creators: name: Heisey, Paul W.
name: King, John L.
name: Day-Rubenstein, Kelly A.
name: Bucks, Dale A.
name: Welsh, Rick
name: Heisey, Paul W.
name: King, John L.
name: Day-Rubenstein, Kelly A.
name: Bucks, Dale A.
name: Welsh, Rick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Agricultural Research Service
subject: Federal intramural research
subject: publicly funded research

description: Evaluation of publicly funded research can help provide accountability and prioritize programs. In addition, Federal intramural research planning generally involves an institutional assessment of the appropriate Federal role, if any, and whether the research should be left to others, such as universities or the private sector. Many methods of evaluation are available, peer review—used primarily for establishing scientific merit—being the most common. Economic analysis focuses on quantifying ultimate research outcomes, whether measured in goods with market prices or in nonmarket goods such as environmental quality or human health. However, standard economic techniques may not be amenable for evaluating some important public research priorities or for institutional assessments. This report reviews quantitative methods and applies qualitative economic reasoning and stakeholder interviewing methods to the evaluation of economic benefits of Federal intramural research using three case studies of research conducted by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Differences among the case studies highlight the need to select suitable assessment techniques from available methodologies, the limited scope for comparing assessment results across programs, and the inherent difficulty in quantifying benefits in some research areas. When measurement and attribution issues make it difficult to quantify these benefits, the report discusses how qualitative insights based on economic concepts can help research prioritization.
Transitional care and the older adult with chronic congestive heart failure : the major challenges and barriers for nurses and interdisciplinary health care professionals accross the continuum of care
Creators: name: Brown, Susan Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Both the lack of knowledge and lack of integration of interdisciplinary approaches to discharge planning during the transitional care period for the older adult with CHF were resulting in poor client outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify the support required by nurses and interdisciplinary health care professionals in acute and community care settings to improve transitional care and discharge planning for the chronically ill older adult with CHF. Five focus group sessions were conducted using the Participatory Action Research Method. Focus group interviewing was used to prompt the views and perspectives of seven health care professionals regarding the major challenges and barriers during discharge planning and transitional care. Content analysis using processes found in grounded theory and process analysis found in focus group research were used to analyze the data. This study revealed the need for alternative strategies to improve care delivery during the transitional care period. The Chronic Care Model was recommended as the model of care for the chronically ill older adult with CHF in conjunction with a transitional care model that is client focused, integrated, interdisciplinary, and flexible to client's individual circumstance.
Chain of Superconducting Loops as a Possible Quantum Register
Creators: name: Aristov, V. V.
name: Nikulov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea of the quantum computation is based on paradoxical principles of quantum physics, superposition and entanglement of quantum states. This idea looks well-founded on the microscopic level in spite of the absence of an universally recognized interpretation of these paradoxical principles since they were corroborated over and over again by reliable experiments on the microscopic level. But the technology can not be able in the near future to work on the microscopic level. Therefore macroscopic quantum phenomenon - superconductivity is very attractive for the realization of the idea of quantum computer. It is shown in the present paper that a chain of superconducting loops can be only possible quantum register. The proposals by some authors to provide the EPR correlation with help of a classical interaction witness the misunderstanding of the entanglement essence. The problem of the possibility of superposition of macroscopically distinct states is considered.
description: 10 pages, 0 figure. Presented at International Symposium "Quantum Informatics 2004" Moscow, October 5-8, 2004
Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: Are Coupons More Effective Than Pure Price Discounts?
Creators: name: Dong, Diansheng
name: Leibtag, Ephraim S.
name: Dong, Diansheng
name: Leibtag, Ephraim S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: fruit and vegetable consumption
subject: coupons
subject: price discounts
subject: consumer demand
subject: dual effect of coupons
subject: informational advertising effects

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture administers food and nutrition assistance programs that promote fruit and vegetable consumption. But consumption remains relatively low among program recipients as well as among the general U.S. population. The perceived high cost of produce is often cited as a deterrent to more consumption. This study looks at coupons and price discounts, two methods of lowering the cost of fruits and vegetables, and uses household purchase data and a consumer demand model to examine each method. Coupons influence consumer behavior through a price-discount effect and an informational/advertising effect. Because of this dual effect, the use of a coupon to increase fruit and vegetable purchases may be more effective than a pure price-discount policy or other noncoupon promotion. Assuming a coupon usage rate of 10 to 50 percent, lowering prices through a “10 percent off” coupon would increase average weekly fruit and vegetable quantities purchased by 2 to 11 percent, as compared with a 5- to 6-percent effect for a pure price discount.
Reconciling emergences: An information-theoretic approach to identify causal emergence in multivariate data
Creators: name: Rosas, Fernando E.
name: Mediano, Pedro A. M.
name: Jensen, Henrik J.
name: Seth, Anil K.
name: Barrett, Adam B.
name: Carhart-Harris, Robin L.
name: Bor, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The broad concept of emergence is instrumental in various of the most challenging open scientific questions -- yet, few quantitative theories of what constitutes emergent phenomena have been proposed. This article introduces a formal theory of causal emergence in multivariate systems, which studies the relationship between the dynamics of parts of a system and macroscopic features of interest. Our theory provides a quantitative definition of downward causation, and introduces a complementary modality of emergent behaviour -- which we refer to as causal decoupling. Moreover, the theory allows practical criteria that can be efficiently calculated in large systems, making our framework applicable in a range of scenarios of practical interest. We illustrate our findings in a number of case studies, including Conway's Game of Life, Reynolds' flocking model, and neural activity as measured by electrocorticography.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
On the Vacuum Cherenkov Radiation in Noncommutative Electrodynamics and the Elusive Effects of Lorentz Violation
Creators: name: Castorina, Paolo
name: Iorio, Alfredo
name: Zappala', Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in the framework of noncommutative classical electrodynamics Cherenkov radiation is permitted in vacuum and we explicitly compute its spectrum at first order in the noncommutative parameter. We discuss the phenomenological impact of the merge of this new analysis with the old results of the substantial modification to the spectrum of the synchrotron radiation obtained in P.Castorina, A.Iorio and D.Zappala, Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004)065008. We propose to consider the pulsars' radiation spectrum - due to its very strong magnetic field - to investigate these Lorentz violating effects in astrophysical phenomena.
description: 6 pgs, latex file; published version
Aiolocaria Crotch
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Aiolocaria

description: Genus Aiolocaria Crotch
Aiolocaria Crotch, 1871: 6. Type species: Coccinella hexaspilota Hope, 1831, by subsequent designation of Crotch 1871: 6.
Ithone Solsky, 1872: 276 (preoccupied). Type species: Leis mirabilis Motschulsky, 1860, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Form large and round, dorsum strongly convex, glabrous. Anterior margin of clypeus medially distinctly and semicircularly emarginate (Fig. 18b). Antenna (Fig. 18a) distinctly longer than interocular width; first antennomere nearly as wide as long, with the anterior half forming a semicircular projection, antennomere 9 as broad as long, antennomere 10 strongly transverse and the terminal antennomere nearly as long as wide with an obliquely truncate apex. Pronotum with sides strongly rounded, anterior margin trapezoidally excavated. Elytra laterally broadly expanded and not marginated. Prothoracic hypomeron depressed along sides. Prosternal process carinate, anterior margin of mesoventrite medially shallowly emarginate. Middle and hind tibiae of legs with a pair of apical spurs. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, with an associated lateral oblique line (Fig. 18c). Epipleuron deeply curved, weakly foveolate on level with middle and hind legs. Coxites (Fig. 19e) as illustrated.
Affinities. In the phylogenetic analysis by Tomaszewska et al. (2021), Aiolocaria was included under the Coccinella- group of genera and formed a well-supported sister group with Synona Pope. Morphologically, Aiolocaria showed a sister relationship with another Oriental genus, Palaeoneda. In all these three genera, the anterior clypeal margin is distinctly concave and in Palaeoneda and Aiolocaria, the spermatheca has a long and tubular nodulus.
Distribution. Mainly Oriental and parts of the Palaearctic region.
Included species. This genus is monotypic and the type species, Aiolocaria hexaspilota (Hope), is distributed in the northwestern and eastern parts of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Rabi Spectroscopy and Sensitivity of a Floquet Engineered Optical Lattice Clock
Creators: name: Yin, Mo-Juan
name: Wang, Tao
name: Lu, Xiao-Tong
name: Li, Ting
name: Wang, Ye-Bing
name: Zhang, Xue-Feng
name: Li, Wei-Dong
name: Smerzi, Augusto
name: Chang, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We periodically modulate the lattice trapping potential of a $^{87}$Sr optical clock to Floquet engineer the clock transition. In the context of atomic gases in lattices, Floquet engineering has been used to shape the dispersion and topology of Bloch quasi-energy bands. Differently from these previous works manipulating the external (spatial) quasi-energies, we target the internal atomic degrees of freedom. We shape Floquet spin quasi-energies and measure their resonance profiles with Rabi spectroscopy. We provide the spectroscopic sensitivity of each band by measuring the Fisher information and show that this is not depleted by the Floquet dynamical modulation. The demonstration that the internal degrees of freedom can be selectively engineered by manipulating the external degrees of freedom inaugurates a novel device with potential applications in metrology, sensing and quantum simulations.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, including supplementary material, comments are welcome and more information at http://cqutp.org/users/xfzhang/
Dynamically Induced Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 3-3-1 Models
Creators: name: Dias, Alex G.
name: Pires, C. A. de S.
name: Pleitez, V.
name: da Silva, P. S. Rodrigues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in SU(3)_C X SU(3)_L X U(1)_N (3-3-1) models embedded with a singlet scalar playing the role of the axion, after imposing scale invariance, dynamical symmetry breaking of Peccei-Quinn symmetry occurs through the one-loop effective potential for the singlet field. We, then, analyze the structure of spontaneous symmetry breaking by studying the new scalar potential for the model, and verify that electroweak symmetry breaking is tightly connected to the 3-3-1 breaking by the strong constraints among their vacuum expectation values. This offers a valuable guide to write down the correct pattern of symmetry breaking for multi-scalar theories. We also obtained that the accompanying massive pseudo-scalar, instead of acquiring mass of order of Peccei-Quinn scale as we would expect, develops a mass at a much lower scale, a consequence solely of the dynamical breaking.
description: 12 pages, typos corrected, improved text, conclusions unchanged
WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS IN THE TRANSITION TO INDIVIDUALIZED OWNERSHIP: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF TREE RESOURCES IN WESTERN GHANA
Creators: name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Aidoo, J.B.
name: Otsuka, Keijiro
name: Quisumbing, Agnes R.
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Aidoo, J.B.
name: Otsuka, Keijiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use

description: This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana. We find that customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems to provide incentives to invest in tree planting. However, contrary to the common belief that individualization of land tenure weakens women's land rights, these have been strengthened through inter vivos gifts and the practice of the Intestate Succession Law. Investment in tree planting, in turn, is affected not simply by the level of land tenure security, but also by its expected changes, as tree planting strengthens land tenure security. Cocoa yields are lower on allocated family land and rented land under share tenancy due to distorted work incentives. While men and women are equally likely to plant trees, women obtain lower yields on their cocoa plots, suggesting the presence of gender-specific constraints.
NeuroAttack: Undermining Spiking Neural Networks Security through Externally Triggered Bit-Flips
Creators: name: Venceslai, Valerio
name: Marchisio, Alberto
name: Alouani, Ihsen
name: Martina, Maurizio
name: Shafique, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to their proven efficiency, machine-learning systems are deployed in a wide range of complex real-life problems. More specifically, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emerged as a promising solution to the accuracy, resource-utilization, and energy-efficiency challenges in machine-learning systems. While these systems are going mainstream, they have inherent security and reliability issues. In this paper, we propose NeuroAttack, a cross-layer attack that threatens the SNNs integrity by exploiting low-level reliability issues through a high-level attack. Particularly, we trigger a fault-injection based sneaky hardware backdoor through a carefully crafted adversarial input noise. Our results on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and SNNs show a serious integrity threat to state-of-the art machine-learning techniques.
description: Accepted for publication at the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
HOW DOES THE HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE HELP TO SHAPE THE FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY RESEARCH AGENDA?
Creators: name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Oshaug, Arne
name: Haddad, Lawrence James
name: Oshaug, Arne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Labor and Human Capital

description: Food as a human right was first laid down 50 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The last 10 years, in particular, have witnessed an increased recognition of the importance of the human rights approach for designing policies and interventions that promote food and nutrition security, as evidenced by the highly visible role given to human rights at the 1996 World Food Summit. But, given that the design of effective policies and interventions is based on good analysis and information, what are the implications of the human rights approach for the food and nutrition policy research agenda? This is the question we address in this paper. We note several implications of the human rights perspective in terms of (1) new research areas, (2) new perspectives on old issues, and (3) implications for research methods.
Modeling the Black Hole Excision Problem
Creators: name: Szilagyi, B.
name: Kreiss, H-O.
name: Winicour, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the excision strategy for simulating black holes. The problem is modeled by the propagation of quasi-linear waves in a 1-dimensional spatial region with timelike outer boundary, spacelike inner boundary and a horizon in between. Proofs of well-posed evolution and boundary algorithms for a second differential order treatment of the system are given for the separate pieces underlying the finite difference problem. These are implemented in a numerical code which gives accurate long term simulations of the quasi-linear excision problem. Excitation of long wavelength exponential modes, which are latent in the problem, are suppressed using conservation laws for the discretized system. The techniques are designed to apply directly to recent codes for the Einstein equations based upon the harmonic formulation.
description: 21 pages, 14 postscript figures, minor contents update
title: THz-TDS for Detecting Glycol Contamination in Engine Oil
Creators: name: Abdulmunem, Oday M.
name: Abdul-Munaim, Ali Mazin
name: Aller, Mario Mendez
name: Preu, Sascha
name: Watson, Dennis G.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: There continues to be a need for an in-situ sensor system to monitor the engine oil of internal combustion engines. Engine oil needs to be monitored for contaminants and depletion of additives. While various sensor systems have been designed and evaluated, there is still a need to develop and evaluate new sensing technologies. This study evaluated Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) for the identification and estimation of the glycol contamination of automotive engine oil. Glycol contamination is a result of a gasket or seal leak allowing coolant to enter an engine and mix with the engine oil. An engine oil intended for use in both diesel and gasoline engines was obtained. Fresh engine oil samples were contaminated with four levels of glycol (0 ppm, 150 ppm, 300 ppm, and 500 ppm). The samples were analyzed with THz-TDS and converted to frequency domain parameters of refractive index and absorption coefficient. While both parameters showed potential, the absorption coefficient had the best potential and was able to statistically discriminate among the four contamination levels.
Current algebra based effective chiral theory of mesons and a new EW theory
Creators: name: Li, Bing An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A current algebra based effective chiral theory of pseudoscalar, vector, axial-vector mesons is reviewed. A new mechanism generating the masses and guage fixing terms of gauge boson is revealed from this effective theory. A EW theory without Higgs is proposed. The masses and gauge fixing terms of W and Z are dynamically generated. Three heavy scalar fields are dynamically generated too. They are ghosts.
description: 4 pages, talk presented at conference of QCD and hadronic physics, 6/16-6/21, Beijing, China
Boltzmann-type equations for multi-agent systems with label switching
Creators: name: Loy, Nadia
name: Tosin, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q20, 35Q70, 35Q84

description: In this paper, we propose a Boltzmann-type kinetic description of mass-varying interacting multi-agent systems. Our agents are characterised by a microscopic state, which changes due to their mutual interactions, and by a label, which identifies a group to which they belong. Besides interacting within and across the groups, the agents may change label according to a state-dependent Markov-type jump process. We derive general kinetic equations for the joint interaction/label switch processes in each group. For prototypical birth/death dynamics, we characterise the transient and equilibrium kinetic distributions of the groups via a Fokker-Planck asymptotic analysis. Then we introduce and analyse a simple model for the contagion of infectious diseases, which takes advantage of the joint interaction/label switch processes to describe quarantine measures.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures
Lattice Boltzmann Model for Axisymmetric Multiphase Flows
Creators: name: Premnath, Kannan N.
name: Abraham, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is presented for axisymmetric multiphase flows. Source terms are added to a two-dimensional standard lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) for multiphase flows such that the emergent dynamics can be transformed into the axisymmetric cylindrical coordinate system. The source terms are temporally and spatially dependent and represent the axisymmetric contribution of the order parameter of fluid phases and inertial, viscous and surface tension forces. A model which is effectively explicit and second order is obtained. This is achieved by taking into account the discrete lattice effects in the Chapman-Enskog multiscale analysis, so that the macroscopic axisymmetric mass and momentum equations for multiphase flows are recovered self-consistently. The model is extended to incorporate reduced compressibility effects. Axisymmetric equilibrium drop formation and oscillations, breakup and formation of satellite droplets from viscous liquid cylindrical jets through Rayleigh capillary instability and drop collisions are presented. Comparisons of the computed results with available data show satisfactory agreement.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, to be published in Physical Review E
TA'LIM  JARAYONIDA O'QITUVCHILARINI KREATIVLIGINI   RIVOJLANTIRISH HOLATLARI
Creators: name: Xidirqulov, Elyor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O’qituvchilarining o’z-o’zini tarbiyalashini rivojlantirish ta’limni zamonaviy shaklda tashkil etish, ularning pedagogik mahoratini yuqori darajaga ko’tarish, o’z ustida doimiy ishlash, o'quv, me’yoriy va ilmiy ishlarda tizimli ishtirok etish jarayonini o’z ichiga oladi.
Alloneda Iablokoff-Khnzorian
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Alloneda

description: Genus Alloneda Iablokoff-Khnzorian
Alloneda Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1979: 49, 63.
Type species: Coccinella dodecaspilota Hope, 1831 (as Coccinella dodecastigma (sic) Hope), by original designation.
Diagnosis. Size medium to large, form broadly circular, dorsum hemispherical, strongly convex and glabrous. Anterior clypeal margin (Fig. 20c) straight between lateral projections. Antenna (Fig. 20b) 11-segmented, antennomere 1 enlarged in anterior half, antennomere 2 quadrate, 3–8 longer than broad, 9 little longer than wide, 10 transverse and terminal antennomere apically obliquely truncate. Pronotum with sides strongly rounded and slightly sinuate adjacent to anterolateral angles. Prothoracic hypomeron deeply foveate at anterior inner corners. Prosternal carinae (Fig. 20e) reaching up to middle of prosternal process, apically divergent. Anterior margin of mesoventrite (Fig. 20e) with a deep, V-shaped median emargination. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 20d) incomplete. Elytral epipleura deeply foveate on level with hind coxae, inner carinae reaching elytral apex. Male genitalia with penis consisting of more than one sclerite that are distinctly separated by membranes.
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) grouped Alloneda in the Synonycha -group of genera in their phylogenetic analysis. In their study, Alloneda formed a well-defined and supported clade with Coelophora Mulsant (part) and Propylea and shared many morphological similarities with Coelophora (part). Particularly, the male genitalia in Alloneda are similar to those of Coelophora in general and the lateral sides of the pronotum are slightly sinuate near the anterolateral angles in Alloneda and some species of Coelophora (e.g., Coelophora duvaucelii and C. decemguttata).
Distribution. Asia (Indian Subcontinent; Southeast Asia. China).
Included species. Only Alloneda dodecaspilota (Hope) is known from this region at present. Yu (1998) provided a generic diagnosis and a key to the known species of Alloneda.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502