cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ecosystem Service Valuation Approaches and Carbon MitigationConsiderations for Garden State Agriculture
Creators: name: Kaplan, Marjorie
name: Paolini, Jessica
name: Kelemen, Sara
name: Murphy, Stephanie
name: Robson, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: The ability of natural and working lands (including forests, farmland, ranchland, grassland, wetlands and urban lands) to sequester, or store carbon can be viewed as an opportunity for mitigating climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon in vegetation and soil.An analysis by NJDEP finds that if current trends in land development and management remain the same, total sequestration levels are projected to be 8.6 MMT of CO2e by 2030 (a 0.5 MMT increase) and 9.5 MMT of CO2e by 2050(a 0.9 MMT increase).As per a preliminary analysis, NJDEP projects New Jersey could gain an additional 2 to 3 MMT of CO2e annually in additional carbon sequestration from natural and working lands through reforestation, avoided land conversion, and conservation management of agricultural lands (with estimates pending for proactive forest management as well as salt marsh and seagrass restoration and enhancement).To better understand opportunities for natural and working lands in New Jersey as a “natural climate solution,” we reviewed the mitigation potential of soil carbon in agriculture including knowledge gaps and management practices and methods to increase soil organic carbon.Through literature review and semi-structured interviews with 50 experts in the field of ecosystem valuation programs for natural and working lands from over 30 governmental, nongovernmental, academic, and private sector organizations, we evaluated various payment-for-ecosystem-services models that could be applicable for valuing and thus enhancing and incentivizing carbon sequestration specifically within the New Jersey agricultural sector.We included tillable and grazing land models, but also forest lands and wetlands because: 1)woodlands contiguous to, part of, or beneficial to a tract of land devoted to agricultural or horticultural use can qualify for farmland assessment in New Jersey and therefore could also provide enhanced opportunities for carbon sequestration; and 2) examining models for various natural and working land types could potentially provide transferrable characteristics of these models for agricultural systems.Of note is that approximately 20% of land in use by farms inNew Jersey is woodland.Lastly, we provide a synthesis of considerations for New Jersey agriculture that identifies barriers, gaps, uncertainties, research needs, as well as opportunities for agricultural producers in the Garden State.
Magneto-Acoustic Spectroscopy in Superfluid 3He-B
Creators: name: Davis, J. P.
name: Choi, H.
name: Pollanen, J.
name: Halperin, W. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the recently discovered acoustic Faraday effect in superfluid 3He to perform high resolution spectroscopy of an excited state of the superfluid condensate. With acoustic cavity interferometry we measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of a transverse sound wave propagating in the direction of magnetic field from which we determine the Zeeman energy of the excited state. We interpret the Lande g-factor, combined with the zero-field energies of the state, using the theory of Sauls and Serene to calculate the strength of f -wave interactions in 3He.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL, Aug 30th, 2007
Solids and supersolids of three-body interacting polar molecules in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Schmidt, Kai P.
name: Dorier, Julien
name: Laeuchli, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physics of cold polar molecules loaded into an optical lattice in the regime of strong three-body interactions, as put forward recently by Büchler [Nature Phys. 3, 726 (2007)]. To this end quantum Monte Carlo simulations, exact diagonalization and a semiclassical approach are used to explore hardcore bosons on the two-dimensional square lattice which interact solely by long ranged three-body terms. The resulting phase diagram shows a sequence of solid and supersolid phases. Our findings are directly relevant for future experimental implementations and open a new route towards the discovery of a lattice supersolid phase in experiment.
description: 4+ pages, 4 figures, published version
On the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, What is UDHR and How did it Come About?
Creators: name: Abdou, Mahmoud M A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180114 Human Rights Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This chapter was written as part of the author's graduation project for his MA in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica in 2013.
Flexible compliance: utility and legitimacy in Jerusalem
Creators: name: Brenner, Noam
name: Avni, Nufar
name: Rosen, Gillad
name: Miodownik, Dan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Disadvantaged residents in contested cities often mistrust and resist official authorities due to historical deprivation. However, their urgent needs compel them to approach municipal bodies, both formally and informally, exhibiting ‘flexible compliance’. Through interviews with Palestinians and a public opinion survey in Jerusalem, we analysed the preferences of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian residents for public goods provision. Results indicate that Palestinian residents prefer unofficial institutions, but this varies by location. Inner-city and outer-city East Jerusalem residents prefer the municipal government, while those beyond the separation wall favour the community councils. We elucidate flexible compliance and propose municipal tools to address it.
Phase Transition of XY Model in Heptagonal Lattice
Creators: name: Baek, Seung Ki
name: Minnhagen, Petter
name: Kim, Beom Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically investigate the nature of the phase transition of the XY model in the heptagonal lattice with the negative curvature, in comparison to other interaction structures such as a flat two-dimensional (2D) square lattice and a small-world network. Although the heptagonal lattice has a very short characteristic path length like the small-world network structure, it is revealed via calculation of the Binder's cumulant that the former exhibits a zero-temperature phase transition while the latter has the finite-temperature transition of the mean-field nature. Through the computation of the vortex density as well as the correlation function in the low-temperature approximation, we show that the absence of the phase transition originates from the strong spinwave-type fluctuation, which is discussed in relation to the usual 2D XY model.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Europhys. Lett
Photospheric processes and magnetic flux tubes
Creators: name: Steiner, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first part of these lecture notes, new high-resolution observations of small-scale magnetic flux concentrations are presented and compared to results from new three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Special attention is paid to the physics of faculae and to new three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the integral layers from the top of the convection zone to the mid-chromosphere. The second part is devoted to a few basic properties of magnetic flux tubes, which can be considered to be an abstraction of the more complicated flux concentrations known from observations and numerical simulations. We treat electrical current sheets, the mechanical equilibrium condition at magnetic interfaces, the equations for constructing a magnetohydrostatic flux tube embedded in a gravitationally stratified atmosphere, the condition of radiative equilibrium, and the condition for interchange stability.
description: 48 pages, 33 figures, Lecture notes, download pdf-file of superior quality figures from http://www3.kis.uni-freiburg.de/~steiner/kodai.pdf
Bianor albobimaculatus Lucas 1846
Creators: name: Wesolowska, W.
name: van Harten, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bianor
Bianor albobimaculatus

description: Bianor albobimaculatus (Lucas, 1846) Specimens examined: N of Ajman, 1♂, 1 - l 9.ix. 2007, WT. Near al-Hayer, 1 ♀, l 4.iii. 2005, HC. Wadi Shawkah, 1♂, 1- 9. iv. 2007, WT; 3♂, 4 ♀, 5 — l 2.v. 2007, WT; 4♂, 19— 22.v. 2007, WT; 43, SQ, 9- 24.vi. 2007, WT; 4♂, 1♀, 30.vi- 2.viii. 2007, WT; 1♂, 1 9-28. xi. 2007, WT; 1♂, 3 — l 8.ii. 2008, WT; 1♀, 17.viií *I l. ix. 2008, WT; 1♂, 24.ii. 2009, HC, leg. M. Jaschhof. Wadi Wurayah, 1♂, 26.xi. 2006, HC, leg. J.-L. Gattolliat; 1♂, l 4.xi- 4.xii. 2007, MT. Description: See Logunov (2000). Distribution: Widely distributed in the Afrotropical Region, in Mediterranean and Turkmenian subregions of the Palaearctic and the north-westem Orient. New to the UAE.
description: Published as part of Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A., 2010, Order Araneae, pp. 27-69 in Arthropod fauna of the UAE, Abu Dhabi :Dar Al Ummah on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.269135
DDI4 in R – New Possibilities
Creators: name: Hoyle, Larry
name: Wackerow, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: DDI
metadata
The R Project for Statistical Computing
NADDI2019

description: We have been working on a representation of the DDI 4 model in R, realized as a package. We now have an R-object-oriented class for each DDI 4 class with associated functions to validate and print objects, manage a registry of DDI 4 objects, manage DDI 4 URNs, and import and export DDI 4 XML.

Our original goal was to enhance the ability of researchers to capture and report on metadata at the source, with the ability to embed references to metadata.

In this presentation, we will discuss the intriguing prospect of computing directly on the metadata. What could be done with these metadata objects to facilitate comparison and harmonization? In what ways could the metadata be visualized?

DDI 4 has powerful new capabilities in the collections pattern. For classes realizing a collection, operators could be defined to return their intersection, union and difference. Inner and outer joins could also be defined. Relationships within the collection could be visualized via network diagrams. These operators might provide efficient tools for harmonization.

Operators could also be defined on pairs of objects of the same class. Similarity measures could be computed using corresponding attributes. These could be used to create visualizations (e.g., of similarities among variables).
Cyrba ocellata Kroneberg 1875
Creators: name: Wesolowska, W.
name: van Harten, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Cyrba
Cyrba ocellata

description: Cyrba ocellata (Kroneberg, 1875) Fig. 11 Specimens examined: Wadi Shawkah, 1♀, 5-12. v. 2007, WT. Description: Measurements. Cephalothorax length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm, height 1.1 mm. Abdomen length 4.0 mm, Width 2.4 mm. Eye ﬁeld length 1.3 mm, anterior width 2.0 mm, posterior width 1.8 mm. Description 0f male see Wanless (1984) and Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz (2008). Female. Mediuın-sized spider. Carapace low, elongated; eye ﬁeld short, anteriorly slightly wider; fovea long, sulciform. Colouration of carapace light brown, short yellowish hairs on eye ﬁeld, eyes surrounded by black rings, ﬁinged by whitish hairs, long brown bristles near eyes. Chelicerae brown, three teeth 0n promargin, ﬁve on retromargin. Mouthparts light brown with pale tips, sternum orange, oval. Abdomen elongated, narrower than carapace, yellowish grey, clothed in delicate grey hairs. Venter yellow. Spinnerets yellowish grey. Legs orange, hairy, especially tibiae and metatarsi of first pair. Spines brown. Epigyne strongly sclerotised, with median notch in posterior edge (Fig. ll). Distribution: Widespread pantropical species, known from Eastern Africa, Central Asia, Southern Orient and Eastern Australia. New to the UAE.
description: Published as part of Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A., 2010, Order Araneae, pp. 27-69 in Arthropod fauna of the UAE, Abu Dhabi :Dar Al Ummah on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.269135
title: Uwagi o przedawnieniu roszczeń przysługujących przeciwko konsumentom
Creators: name: Dubis, Wojciech
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2019

description: Nowelizacja przepisów o przedawnieniu dokonana na podstawie ustawy z dnia 13 kwietnia 2018 r. o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks cywilny oraz niektórych innych ustaw w poważnym stopniu zmieniła kształt tej instytucji w prawie polskim. Jednolita konstrukcja przedawnienia została rozbita i obecnie mówić należy o przedawnieniu roszczeń wobec konsumentów i przedawnieniu innych roszczeń. Wprowadzona nowelizacja Kodeksu cywilnego i Kodeksu postępowania cywilnego, poza koniecznością oznaczenia daty wymagalności roszczenia we wszystkich pozwach w sprawach o zasądzenie roszczenia, przynosi fundamentalną zmianę podejścia do skutków upływu terminu przedawnienia roszczeń wobec konsumentów i zasadniczo nakazuje się uwzględnianie tego przez sąd z urzędu. Doszło też do skrócenia ogólnego terminu przedawnienia z dziesięciu do sześciu lat i równocześnie określenia, iż dla roszczeń przedawniających się w terminie dwóch lat lub dłuższym koniec terminu przedawnienia przypada na ostatni dzień roku kalendarzowego.
Calibrating Redshift Distributions Beyond Spectroscopic Limits with Cross-Correlations
Creators: name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new method for measuring the true redshift distribution of any set of objects studied only photometrically. The angular cross-correlation between objects in a photometric sample with objects in some spectroscopic sample as a function of the spectroscopic z, in combination with standard correlation measurements, provides sufficient information to reconstruct the true redshift distribution of the photometric sample. This technique enables the robust calibration of photometric redshifts even beyond spectroscopic limits. The spectroscopic sample need not resemble the photometric one in galaxy properties, but must overlap in sky coverage and redshift range. We test this new technique with Monte Carlo simulations using realistic error estimates. RMS errors in recovering both the mean and sigma of the true, Gaussian redshift distribution of a single photometric redshift bin are 1.4x10^(-3) (sigma_z/0.1) (Sigma_p/10)^(-0.3) (dN_s/dz / 25,000)^(-0.5), where sigma_z is the true sigma of the redshift distribution, Sigma_p is the surface density of the photometric sample in galaxies/arcmin^2, and dN_s/dz is the number of galaxies with a spectroscopic redshift per unit z. We test the impact of redshift outliers and of a variety of sources of systematic error; none dominate measurement uncertainties in reasonable scenarios. With this method, the true redshift distributions of even arbitrarily faint photometric redshift samples may be determined to the precision required by proposed dark energy experiments (errors in mean and sigma below 3x10^(-3) at z~1) using expected extensions of current spectroscopic samples.
description: 16 pages, including 8 figures and 2 tables; accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal
On semi-Quasi-Einstein Manifold
Creators: name: Han, Yanling
name: De, Avik
name: Zhao, Peibiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C20, 53D11

description: In the present paper we introduce a semi-quasi-Einstein manifold from a semi symmetric metric connection. Among others, the popular Schwarzschild and Kottler spacetimes are shown to possess this structure. Certain curvature conditions are studied in such a manifold with a Killing generator.
Lawson Method for Obtaining Wave Functions and $g$ Factors of Ar Isotopes
Creators: name: Zamick, L.
name: Yeager, S.
name: Sharon, Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lawson has shown that one can obtain sensible wave functions even in the weak deformation limit of the Nilsson model as long as one projects out states of good total angular momentum. We apply this method to obtain wave functions and magnetic $g$ factors of excited states of select even-even Ar isotopes.
AKARI observations of circumstellar dust in the globular clusters NGC104 and NGC362
Creators: name: Ita, Yoshifusa
name: Tanabe, Toshihiko
name: Matsunaga, Noriyuki
name: Nakada, Yoshikazu
name: Matsuura, Mikako
name: Onaka, Takashi
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
name: Wada, Takehiko
name: Fujishiro, Naofumi
name: Ishihara, Daisuke
name: Kataza, Hirokazu
name: Kim, Woojung
name: Matsumoto, Toshio
name: Murakami, Hiroshi
name: Ohyama, Youichi
name: Usui, Fumihiko
name: Oyabu, Shinki
name: Sakon, Itsuki
name: Takagi, Toshinobu
name: Uemizu, Kazunori
name: Ueno, Munetaka
name: Watarai, Hidenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report preliminary results of AKARI observations of two globular clusters, NGC104 and NGC362. Imaging data covering areas of about 10x10 arcmin^2 centered on the two clusters have been obtained with InfraRed Camera (IRC) at 2.4, 3.2, 4.1, 7.0, 9.0, 11.0, 15.0, 18.0 and 24.0 mu. We used F11/F2 and F24/F7 flux ratios as diagnostics of circumstellar dust emission. Dust emissions are mainly detected from variable stars obviously on the asymptotic giant branch, but some variable stars that reside below the tip of the first-ascending giant branch also show dust emissions. We found eight red sources with F24/F7 ratio greater than unity in NGC362. Six out of the eight have no 2MASS counterparts. However, we found no such source in NGC104.
description: Accepted for publication in PASJ
Evarcha dotata Peckham & Peckham 1903
Creators: name: Wesolowska, W.
name: van Harten, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Evarcha
Evarcha dotata

description: Evarcha dotata (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) Specimens examined: Wadi Wurayah, 1♀, 1 0- 26.xii. 2006, MT. Description: See Wesolowska & van Harten (1994, 2007). Distribution: The species is widely distributed in the Afrotropical Region, from the Arabian Peninsula hitherto only known from Yemen. New to the UAE.
description: Published as part of Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A., 2010, Order Araneae, pp. 27-69 in Arthropod fauna of the UAE, Abu Dhabi :Dar Al Ummah on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.269135
Mapping the Philippine literary field in Spanish Filiteratura and Philperiodicals
Creators: name: CASANOVA, Rocio ORTUÑO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digital Humanities
Relational Database
Philippine Literature
Hispanic Literature

description: Poster presented at "Spring School LiSeH 2019: Linked Data and the Semantic Web for Humanities research". Graz, Austria, April 23-26, 2019. It explains the features of the database Filiteratura, and the future plans in regard to other digital platforms and interaction with other databases.
Observational signatures of Jordan-Brans-Dicke theories of gravity
Creators: name: Acquaviva, Viviana
name: Verde, Licia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the Jordan-Brans-Dicke model (JBD) of gravity, where deviations from General Relativity (GR) are described by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity. The theory is characterized by a constant coupling parameter, $ω_{\rm JBD}$; GR is recovered in the limit $ω_{\rm JBD} \to \infty$. In such theories, gravity modifications manifest at early times, so that one cannot rely on the usual approach of looking for inconsistencies in the expansion history and perturbations growth in order to discriminate between JBD and GR. However, we show that a similar technique can be successfully applied to early and late times observables instead. Cosmological parameters inferred extrapolating early-time observations to the present will match those recovered from direct late-time observations only if the correct gravity theory is used. We use the primary CMB, as will be seen by the Planck satellite, as the early-time observable; and forthcoming and planned Supernovæ, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and Weak Lensing experiments as late-time observables. We find that detection of values of $ω_{\rm JBD}$ as large as 500 and 1000 is within reach of the upcoming (2010) and next-generation (2020) experiments, respectively.
description: minor revision, references added, matching version published in JCAP
DEP Bulletin - 2024 - Volume 48 Issue 18
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
A Complete Grammar for Decomposing a Family of Graphs into 3-connected Components
Creators: name: Chapuy, Guillaume
name: Fusy, Eric
name: Kang, Mihyun
name: Shoilekova, Bilyana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15

description: Tutte has described in the book "Connectivity in graphs" a canonical decomposition of any graph into 3-connected components. In this article we translate (using the language of symbolic combinatorics) Tutte's decomposition into a general grammar expressing any family of graphs (with some stability conditions) in terms of the 3-connected subfamily. A key ingredient we use is an extension of the so-called dissymmetry theorem, which yields negative signs in the grammar. As a main application we recover in a purely combinatorial way the analytic expression found by Giménez and Noy for the series counting labelled planar graphs (such an expression is crucial to do asymptotic enumeration and to obtain limit laws of various parameters on random planar graphs). Besides the grammar, an important ingredient of our method is a recent bijective construction of planar maps by Bouttier, Di Francesco and Guitter.
description: 39 pages
Silent Corporate Complicity of Transnational Corporations in Gross Human Rights Violations Committed by Host States
Creators: name: Barakat, Luna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper reveals, through an examination of the case of corporate silent complicity (SCC) a prolonged weakness in the international standards asserting the accountability of transnational corporations (TNCs). SCC here refers to cases where TNCs become complicit in gross human rights abuses committed by host-State's actors, by virtue of being silent. While SCC might attract criminal responsibility for the officials of the TNC in question on the national/international level, and/or civil liability of the TNC and/or its employees on the national level, thus far the international community has not condemned it in an effective and consistent manner. That is due the fact that the international community has yet adopted binding standards for TNCs. The solution is to adopt a new binding international mechanism identifying TNCs' human rights obligations in light of their commitments to their new global social role as reflected in international standards and through consideration of recent progressive approaches calling to incorporate human rights concerns in company's governance. The new International Convention on TNCs Human Rights Responsibilities (ICTHRR), should hold TNCs accountable when implicated in SCC, additionally it should establish an international mechanism that guarantees and monitors its implementation.
Silent Corporate Complicity of Transnational Corporations in Gross Human Rights Violations Committed by Host States
Creators: name: Barakat, Luna
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: This paper reveals, through an examination of the case of corporate silent complicity (SCC) a prolonged weakness in the international standards asserting the accountability of transnational corporations (TNCs). SCC here refers to cases where TNCs become complicit in gross human rights abuses committed by host-State's actors, by virtue of being silent. While SCC might attract criminal responsibility for the officials of the TNC in question on the national/international level, and/or civil liability of the TNC and/or its employees on the national level, thus far the international community has not condemned it in an effective and consistent manner. That is due the fact that the international community has yet adopted binding standards for TNCs. The solution is to adopt a new binding international mechanism identifying TNCs' human rights obligations in light of their commitments to their new global social role as reflected in international standards and through consideration of recent progressive approaches calling to incorporate human rights concerns in company's governance. The new International Convention on TNCs Human Rights Responsibilities (ICTHRR), should hold TNCs accountable when implicated in SCC, additionally it should establish an international mechanism that guarantees and monitors its implementation.
Investigation of genotype–phenotype relationship in Turkish patients with inherited retinal disease by next generation sequencing
Creators: name: Duzkale, Neslihan
name: Arslan, Umut
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are a group of retinal diseases genetically and clinically highly heterogeneous and associated with more than 300 genes. This study aims to investigate the genetic basis of Turkish patients with IRDs. In the study, genes related to retinal diseases in 86 IRDs patients were analyzed using the Next Generations Sequencing method (NGS). The mean age of 86 patients was 35 and the mean age at diagnosis was 18. There was consanguinity between the parents of 62% of these patients. Fifty-six retinal disease-associated genes of 46 patients and 230 retinal disease-associated genes of 40 patients were examined. Genetic analysis provides a molecular diagnosis in a total of 53 (61.6%) patients. The genes responsible for the IRDs phenotype were frequently identified as ABCA4 (25%), EYS (11%), and RDH12 (9%). There was no significant difference between those with and without a molecular diagnosis in terms of demographic characteristics and family history. Determination of genetic cause by NGS method in IRDs subgroups that are difficult to define by ophthalmic examination ensures that patients receive accurate diagnosis, treatment and counseling. This study contributed to the understanding of the genotype–phenotype relationship of Turkish patients with IRDs.
Chiral Algebras of (0,2) Sigma Models: Beyond Perturbation Theory - II
Creators: name: Tan, Meng-Chwan
name: Yagi, Junya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend our analysis in [arXiv:0801.4782] and show that the chiral algebras of (0,2) sigma models are totally trivialized by worldsheet instantons for all complete flag manifolds of compact semisimple Lie groups. Consequently, supersymmetry is spontaneously broken. Our results verify Stolz's idea that there are no harmonic spinors on the loop spaces of these flag manifolds. Moreover, they also imply that the kernels of certain twisted Dirac operators on these spaces will be empty under a "quantum" deformation of their geometries.
description: 13 pages
Genetic disease is a common cause of bilateral childhood cataract in Denmark
Creators: name: Kessel, Line
name: Bach-Holm, Daniella
name: Al-Bakri, Moug
name: Roos, Laura
name: Lund, Allan
name: Grønskov, Karen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Bilateral childhood cataracts can be caused by a metabolic disease, constitute a part of a syndrome, run in families, be sporadic or iatrogenic. The amount of work-up needed to establish a cause is discussed and the aim of the present study was to evaluate causes of bilateral childhood cataract. Methods: Chart review of 211 Danish children with bilateral cataracts. Information on work-up was retrieved with special focus on general health, metabolic screening, evaluation for congenital infections and genetic testing. Results: Cataract was seen in combination with systemic disease in 40.8%, 29.4% had hereditary cataracts, 27.0% had isolated cataract, in 1.4% it was associated with ocular malformations and 1.4% had been born prematurely without any other sequelae than the cataract. A genetic cause could be demonstrated in 74 children. Conclusion: Systemic comorbidities are very common in children with cataract and are not always known prior to the diagnosis of cataract. Genetic evaluation, especially targeted analyses, provided a molecular genetic diagnosis in a large proportion of those tested but it also failed to provide a molecular genetic diagnosis in some patients with a family history suggesting autosomal dominant inheritance. Most importantly, in some patients, genetic work-up provided a diagnosis in patients where it had therapeutic consequences and where the systemic disease would have caused irreversible damage, had it not been treated timely. Given the high prevalence of systemic disease, it seems advisable to co-manage children with bilateral cataracts with a pediatrician and to include genetic evaluation as part of the work-up.
Embedding of the Lie superalgebra $D(2, 1 ; α)$ into the Lie superalgebra of pseudodifferential symbols on $S^{1|2}$
Creators: name: Poletaeva, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an embedding of a one-parameter family of exceptional simple Lie superalgebras $D(2, 1 ; α)$ into the Lie superalgebra of pseudodifferential symbols on the supercircle $S^{1|2}$. Correspondingly, there is an embedding of $D(2, 1 ; α)$ into a nontrivial central extension of the derived contact superconformal algebra $K'(4)$ realized in terms of $4\times 4$ matrices over a Weyl algebra.
description: 19 pages, LaTex, to be published in J.Math. Phys
title: Three Days: Memories of a Death Life and Redemption
Creators: name: Oliver, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003

description: This memoir explores my relationships with my father, my brother and my children. My dad was my baseball coach, football coach, history tutor. But he drank too much. At times, he became violent. My mom left him, and he went into years of drunken insanity.

As teenagers, my brother, Craig, and I responded to the disintegration of our family by embracing life on the street. Over the next four years, we made a series of bad decisions that led us deeper into drugs and violence, but we stuck together. Craig's violent behavior increased and began to scare even me, but Craig represented strength, success and greatness to me. I felt weak and ashamed that I couldn't keep up with him.

I enlisted in the Navy at twenty, which kept me off drugs long enough to begin to see other options for my life. While I was home on leave, someone stabbed Craig. I felt bound to kill Craig's assailant. In what I can only think of as direct intervention from God, the police found the knifer before I did. That night I decided not to return to San Francisco after my discharge.

I married, started a business, had children, and forgot about my past. Having children inspired me to return to college, and eventually, to earn an MFA. While an undergraduate, my brother died in prison. Craig's death, my father's actions, both good and bad, and my desire to help my children avoid the snares that entangled me as a young man, led me to the examination of the past that forms the substance of this narrative.
Data re-use enables ML-based analysis of rare diseases
Creators: name: Greene, Casey
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: We sometimes speak of "big data" in biology. In most cases, these data have many more features than examples. This is particularly pronounced in the case of rare diseases, where we may have tens of samples but tens of thousands of measurements. I'll discuss how we can reuse compendia of data with many training examples as a training dataset and then transfer the resulting model to rare disease datasets where the number of samples is particularly limited.
Conserved spin Hall conductance in two dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field
Creators: name: Wang, Zhigang
name: Zhang, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the microscopic theory of the conserved spin current [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 076604 (2006)], we investigate the spin Hall effect in the two dimensional electron gas system with a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin Hall conductance $σ_{μν}^{s}$ as a response to the electric field consists of two parts, i.e., the conventional part $σ_{μν}^{s0}$ and the spin torque dipole correction $σ_{μν}^{sτ}$. It is shown that the spin-orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting by introducing additional degeneracies between different Landau levels at certain values of magnetic field. These degeneracies, if occurring at the Fermi level, turn to give rise to resonances in both $σ_{μν}^{s0}$ and $σ_{μν}^{sτ}$ in spin Hall conductance. Remarkably, both of these two components have the same sign in the wide range of variation in the magnetic field, which result in an overall enhancement of the total spin Hall current. In particular, the magnitude of $σ_{μν}^{sτ}$ is much larger than that of $σ_{μν}^{s0}$ around the resonance.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Heritage — Semantic Tools and Interoperability Survey Bibliography
Creators: name: Scarpa, Erica
name: Valente, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Semantic Web
Heritage
Bibliography

description: The Heritage — Semantic Tools and Interoperability Survey (H-SeTIS) database is a comprehensive survey of semantic and interoperable resources within the Heritage domain. It includes records for five key resource types: four categories of semantic artefacts—ontologies, metadata standards, thesauri, and application profiles—as well as software tools that implement these Semantic Artefacts. The database includes a curated bibliography that gathers relevant literature connected to the records in H-SeTIS, as well as general resources valuable for semantic web development in the Heritage field. This bibliography is available on H-SeTIS and maintained via Zotero and is accessible as a public group. Each record has been reviewed to ensure compliance with FAIR standards, and unique identifiers (such as ISBN, DOI, or URL) have been included when available. This PDF document has been compiled from the H-SeTIS Zotero library using LaTeX and BibTeX. The code is available in a dedicated GitLab repository.

This activity was carried out by Erica Scarpa and Riccardo Valente of the CNR-ISPC, Milan branch, within Activity 4.10 of the H2IOSC Project (H2IOSC Project - Humanities and cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU – NRRP M4C2 - Project code IR0000029 - CUP B63C22000730005; h2iosc.cnr.it).
Application of Heuristics for Scheduling Problem Hard Disk Drive Manufacturing
Creators: name: Pinrada Pinthongkum
name: Wuthichai Wongthatsanekorn
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen Univeristy
Year: 2012
Subjects: Makespan, Firefly Algorithm,Unrelated parallel machine Scheduling problem

description: 2, 39, KKU Engineering Journal
COVID-19 e o futebol feminino no Brasil: Reflexões a partir do repasse das verbas oriundas da Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
Creators: name: LAURINDO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: futebol
futebol feminino
covid-19
Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
CBF
Repasse
Pandemia

description: A situação atual da pandemia de COVID-19, descrita pela Organização Mundial de Saúde como Emergência de Saúde Pública de Âmbito Internacional (“PHEIC”), trouxe inegáveis impactos ao futebol, havendo a paralisação dos campeonatos e a diminuição das fontes de renda das entidades de prática desportiva. Tal cenário trouxe reflexos à remuneração dos atletas, sendo frequentes na mídia especializada informações acerca de acordos coletivos, de reduções salariais e de suspensões de contrato no futebol masculino. Já no âmbito do futebol feminino, em que pese a menor divulgação do tema, foram comunicadas no primeiro semestre deste ano notícias a respeito da destinação das verbas repassadas pela Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (“CBF”) a título de auxílio emergencial aos clubes das séries A1 e A2 do Campeonato Feminino, suscitando discussões a respeito do que pode ser feito pela modalidade durante e após a crise ora vivida. Dessa forma, sem a pretensão de esgotar o tema, este artigo fará considerações a respeito do referido repasse, iniciando-se pela exposição da forma pela qual foi realizado e dos problemas que o sucederam. Em sequência, serão apontadas algumas medidas que podem ser adotadas pelas atletas em razão da alocação equivocada dos valores pelos clubes, destacando-se o papel da Comissão de Ética da CBF e da Câmara Nacional de Resolução de Disputas (“CNRD”), órgãos judicantes associativos relacionados à “Família CBF”. Por fim, serão apontadas possíveis reflexões decorrentes desse cenário.
Quantum Destructive Interference
Creators: name: Shiekh, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An apparent paradox for unitarity non-conservation is investigated for the case of destructive quantum interference.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures (typos fixed)
O desporto universitário e a Covid-19: Reflexões sobre as consequências da pandemia na prática esportiva universitária.
Creators: name: De Loureiro, Roberta Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID
ESPORTE
UNIVERSITÁRIO
PANDEMIA
DIREITO
DESPORTIVO

description: O presente artigo não busca ser uma análise pessimista, que elencaria as sucessivas perdas de campeonatos dos – mas não só – atletas universitários, em razão de um ano paralisado. Como restará demonstrado a seguir, o objetivo principal é delinear a expressão do esporte nacional praticado no ensino superior e as possibilidades de mudança decorrentes de uma subversão econômica mundial no pós-coronavírus. Nessa onda de reestruturações e de remodelagem de investimentos, o esporte de alto rendimento vai sendo abalado a olhos nus. O esporte de formação, incentivado principalmente com o dinheiro público, também perde importância em meio a tantas outras prioridades. É nesse contexto, de lastimável, mas inevitável, declínio do esporte como entendemos atualmente, que o esporte universitário ganha maior relevância.
A Bayesian approach to strong lensing modelling of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Jullo, Eric
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Limousin, Marceau
name: Elíasdóttir, Árdis
name: Marshall, Phil
name: Verdugo, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we describe a procedure for modelling strong lensing galaxy clusters with parametric methods, and to rank models quantitatively using the Bayesian evidence. We use a publicly available Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) sampler ('Bayesys'), allowing us to avoid local minima in the likelihood functions. To illustrate the power of the MCMC technique, we simulate three clusters of galaxies, each composed of a cluster-scale halo and a set of perturbing galaxy-scale subhalos. We ray-trace three light beams through each model to produce a catalogue of multiple images, and then use the MCMC sampler to recover the model parameters in the three different lensing configurations. We find that, for typical Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-quality imaging data, the total mass in the Einstein radius is recovered with ~1-5% error according to the considered lensing configuration. However, we find that the mass of the galaxies is strongly degenerated with the cluster mass when no multiple images appear in the cluster centre. The mass of the galaxies is generally recovered with a 20% error, largely due to the poorly constrained cut-off radius. Finally, we describe how to rank models quantitatively using the Bayesian evidence. We confirm the ability of strong lensing to constrain the mass profile in the central region of galaxy clusters in this way. Ultimately, such a method applied to strong lensing clusters with a very large number of multiple images may provide unique geometrical constraints on cosmology. The implementation of the MCMC sampler used in this paper has been done within the framework of the Lenstool software package, which is publicly available.
description: Accepted to "Gravitational Lensing" Focus Issue of the New Journal of Physics (invited), 35 pages, 11 figures at reduced resolution
The Environments of High Redshift QSOs
Creators: name: Kim, Soyoung
name: Stiavelli, Massimo
name: Trenti, M.
name: Pavlovsky, C. M.
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: Scarlata, C.
name: Stern, D.
name: Mahabal, A.
name: Thompson, D.
name: Dickinson, M.
name: Panagia, N.
name: Meylan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of $i_{775}$-dropout candidates identified in five Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys fields centered on Sloan Digital Sky Survey QSOs at redshift $z\sim 6$. Our fields are as deep as the Great Observatory Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) ACS images which are used as a reference field sample. We find them to be overdense in two fields, underdense in two fields, and as dense as the average density of GOODS in one field. The two excess fields show significantly different color distributions from that of GOODS at the 99% confidence level, strengthening the idea that the excess objects are indeed associated with the QSO. The distribution of $i_{775}$-dropout counts in the five fields is broader than that derived from GOODS at the 80% to 96% confidence level, depending on which selection criteria were adopted to identify $i_{775}$-dropouts; its width cannot be explained by cosmic variance alone. Thus, QSOs seem to affect their environments in complex ways. We suggest the picture where the highest redshift QSOs are located in very massive overdensities and are therefore surrounded by an overdensity of lower mass halos. Radiative feedback by the QSO can in some cases prevent halos from becoming galaxies, thereby generating in extreme cases an underdensity of galaxies. The presence of both enhancement and suppression is compatible with the expected differences between lines of sight at the end of reionization as the presence of residual diffuse neutral hydrogen would provide young galaxies with shielding from the radiative effects of the QSO.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Multi-frequency radio observations of the radio-loud magnetar XTE J1810-197
Creators: name: Eie, Sujin
name: Terasawa, Toshio
name: Akahori, Takuya
name: Oyama, Tomoaki
name: Hirota, Tomoya
name: Yonekura, Yoshinori
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Sekido, Mamoru
name: Takefuji, Kazuhiro
name: Misawa, Hiroaki
name: Tsuchiya, Fuminori
name: Kisaka, Shota
name: Aoki, Takahiro
name: Honma, Mareki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the multi-frequency multi-epoch radio observations of the magnetar, XTE J1810-197, which exhibited a radio outburst from December 2018 after its 10-year quiescent period. We performed quasi-simultaneous observations with VERA (22 GHz), Hitachi (6.9 GHz and 8.4 GHz), Kashima (2.3 GHz), and Iitate (0.3 GHz) radio telescopes located in Japan to trace the variability of the magnetar radio pulsations during the observing period from 13 December 2018 to 12 June 2019. The pulse width goes narrower as the observing frequency goes higher, analogous to the general profile narrowing behavior of ordinary pulsars. When assuming a simple power law in the range of 2.3 GHz and 8.7 GHz, the radio spectrum of the magnetar goes steeper with the average spectral index $ \langle α\rangle \approx -0.85$ for the first four months. The wide-band radio spectra inferred from our observations and the literature suggest that XTE J1810-197 would have a double-peaked spectrum with a valley point in 22 - 150 GHz, where the first spectral peak infers a gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) feature with a peak at a few GHz. The GPS and the high-frequency peak have been identified in the spectra of other radio-loud magnetars, thus they may be intrinsic features that can give a new insight to understand various emission mechanisms and surrounding environments of radio magnetars. Our study emphasizes the importance of simultaneous long-term broad-band observations toward radio-loud magnetars to capture the puzzling spectral features and establish a link to other types of neutron stars.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)