cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
IUFRO Congress Spotlight #22: Green cities: The benefits of the urban forest
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Congress session on urban forest diversity and ecosystem services aims to guide future research and policies related to sustaining urban forests and the critical ecosystem services provided by them.
This fall, at the IUFRO World Forest Congress in Salt Lake City, a session entitled: Urban forest diversity and ecosystem services will focus on species diversity in cities across the globe, the ecosystem services provided by them, how forest composition and species diversity affect those services and values and how the composition and species diversity are changing and will continue to change going forward. Session coordinators are Dr. David Nowak of the U.S. Forest Service and Wesley Kocher of the International Society of Arboriculture. The information out of the session can then be used to help guide future research and policies related to sustaining urban forests and the critical ecosystem services provided by them and to implementing programs and projects that will help achieve those ends. For more information on IUFRO's activities in this field, please visit the website of IUFRO's Research Group 6.07.00 Urban Forestry: http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60700/
Quasirhipidius selanderi Zaragoza-Caballero 1992
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ripiphoridae
Quasirhipidius
Quasirhipidius selanderi

description: - Quasirhipidius selanderi Zaragoza-Caballero, 1992
Holotype: ♂. MEXICO: Jalisco, Estación de Biología Chamela, UNAM, 13/II/1989. Col. E. Ramírez M. Conservation status: Complete, wings and legs glued on cards.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
Algebraic properties of binomial edge ideals of Levi graphs associated with curve arrangements
Creators: name: Karmakar, Rupam
name: Sarkar, Rajib
name: Subramaniam, Aditya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E40, 13C14, 13C15, 14N10, 14N20

description: In this article, we study algebraic properties of binomial edge ideals of Levi graphs associated with certain plane curve arrangements. Using combinatorial properties of Levi graphs, we discuss the Cohen-Macaulayness of binomial edge ideals of Levi graphs associated to some curve arrangements in the complex projective plane, like the $d$-arrangement of curves and the conic-line arrangements. We also discuss the existence of certain induced cycles in the Levi graphs of these arrangements and obtain lower bounds for the regularity of powers of the corresponding binomial edge ideals.
description: Proofs of Theorems 5.1 and 5.5 have been modified, examples 5.6 and 5.7 were added following the suggestion of referee. 19 pages, comments and suggestions are welcome
Anisotropic short-range attractions precisely model branched erythrocyte aggregates
Creators: name: Yadav, Megha
name: Vanshika
name: Singh, Chamkor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Homogeneous suspensions of red blood cells (RBCs or erythrocytes) in blood plasma are unstable in the absence of driving forces and form elongated stacks, called rouleau. These erythrocyte aggregates are often branched porous networks -- a feature that existing red blood cell aggregation models and simulations fail to predict exactly. Here we establish that alignment-dependent attractive forces in a system of dimers can precisely generate branched structures similar to RBC aggregates observed under a microscope. Our simulations consistently predict that the growth rate of typical mean rouleau size remains sub-linear -- a hallmark from past studies -- which we also confirm by deriving a reaction kernel taking into account appropriate collision cross-section, approach velocities, and an area-dependent sticking probability. The system exhibits unique features such as the existence of percolated and/or single giant cluster states, multiple coexisting mass-size scalings, and transition to a branched phase upon fine-tuning of model parameters. Upon decreasing the depletion thickness we find that the percolation threshold increases and the morphology of the structures opens up towards an increased degree of branching. Remarkably the system self-organizes to produce a universal power-law size distribution scaling irrespective of the model parameters.
IUFRO Congress Spotlight #19: "Citizen Science": A way to fight invasive species?
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A session on the "societal impacts of invasive forest pathogens and pests" at the 24th IUFRO World Congress this fall will emphasize the importance of 'citizen science' in the fight against invasives.
'Citizen science': A way to fight invasive species? And at the 24th IUFRO World Congress in Salt Lake City this fall, a session on the "societal impacts of invasive forest pathogens and pests", will be presented by organizers Matteo Garbelotto of the University of California at Berkeley, USA; Giles Hardy of Murdoch University, Australia; and Paolo Gonthier of the University of Turin, Italy. The organizers note that anything that has an economic impact has a societal impact, but there are many issues related to loss of plant hosts that can have a serious cultural impact with no apparent economic impact. One of the motivations for the symposium is to alert the scientific community to the need to work more closely with stakeholders and the public to better explain what the non-economic loss of a tree can mean to different social groups.
IUFRO Congress Spotlight #20: The climate's changing: So should forest management
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: IUFRO 2014 Congress session on "Forest management for adaptation to climate change" to discuss different approaches to adaptation strategies considering a wider range of possibilities...
The climate's changing: So should forest management "Forest management for adaptation to climate change” is the theme of a session being presented at the 24th IUFRO World Congress in Salt Lake City this fall, by Drs. Rodney Keenan of the University of Melbourne, Australia; Carina Keskitalo of Umeå University, Sweden; Kalame Fobissie of the World Wildlife Fund Central Africa, Cameroon; and Guangyu Wang of the University of British Columbia, Canada. From their session they hope to engender a discussion on the different approaches being adopted in different forest types in different parts of the world; the different governance systems; the scientific approaches, ecological options, tools and adaptation approaches; and to find out what is, and what is not, working. And, they add, underlying any successful adaptation strategies anywhere in the world is the political will to make it happen. That means funding the research and planning, and acting to ensure the implementation of adaptation initiatives.
Investigating optometric and orthoptic conditions in autistic adults: Pre-registration of methods and analysis plan
Creators: name: Parmar, Ketan
name: Gowen, Emma
name: Dickinson, Christine
name: Porter, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Autism
Eye examination
Autistic adults

description: Currently, limited research has investigated the links between autism and optometric and orthoptic conditions, which include level of vision, a requirement for spectacles and the coordination of the two eyes. The current research suggests a greater need for spectacles and a higher number of eye-coordination problems in autistic children, mainly with co-existing learning disabilities. Little is known about the vision of adults with autism who do not have learning disabilities, and so this study will focus on this group. This research will explore the range, type and impact of visual symptoms and eye conditions in autistic adults using questionnaires and eye examinations. The impact of any required treatment (spectacles, eye exercises, coloured lenses) will also be investigated. Finally, feedback obtained from participants will be used to produce guidelines for optometrists by which they can make their services more autism-friendly. This is a PhD project, being conducted at the University of Manchester.
description: The pre-registration content was written before data collection started, but uploaded after the first few participants. The project methods and data analysis plan has not changed since starting data collection, and no data has been looked at.
IUFRO Spotlight #11: Power, discrimination and gender equality
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The publication "Gender, Development and Environmental Governance" takes a look at the issue of gender equality as it relates to development and environmental governance of the forests.
In her publication entitled "Gender, Development and Environmental Governance", the author, Seema Arora-Jonsson of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Coordinator of the IUFRO Working Party dealing with gender research in forestry, focuses on groups in India, which is widely recognized as a highly gender-biased country and in Sweden, a country seen as highly gender-equal. She concludes that success in terms of gender equality is unlikely unless questions of power and discrimination are dealt with. To really understand and govern forests one has to go beyond the trees and look at the social contexts and interrelated issues of development and democracy.
Anomala barbarae Frey 1968
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Anomala
Anomala barbarae

description: - Anomala barbarae Frey, 1968
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. MEXICO: Guerrero, Acapulco, XII/1966. Col. G. Frey. Ex Colección J. Hendrichs S. Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
Is the public goods game a chaotic system?
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Ferreira, M. J. B.
name: de Oliveira, B. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work deals with the time evolution of the Hamming distance density for the public goods game. We consider distinct possibilities for this game, which are exactly described by a function called $q$-exponential, that represents a deformation of the usual exponential function parametrized by $q$, suggesting that the system belongs to the class of weakly-chaotic systems when $q < 1$. These possibilities are related to the amount of players allowed in each game.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
Σύνδρομο Klippel Trenaunay: αιτιολογία, κλινική εικόνα, διάγνωση, θεραπεία, ανασκόπηση
Creators: name: Σαμαρά, Σαββίνα Ν.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Σύνδρομο Klippel Trenaunay
Τριχοειδικές δυσπλασίες
Φλεβικές δυσπλασίες
Klippel Trenaunay syndrome
Capillary malformations
Venous malformations

description: Το σύνδρομο Klippel Trenaunay αποτελεί μια σπάνια συγγενή νόσο, η οποία χαρακτηρίζεται από την παρουσία αγγειακών δυσπλασιών αργής ροής, και πιο συγκεκριμένα τριχοειδικών δυσπλασιών, φλεβικών δυσπλασιών και σπανίως λεμφικών δυσπλασιών, σε συνδυασμό με υπερτροφία μαλακών μορίων ή/και οστών. Πρόκειται για μια σποραδική νόσο της οποίας η αιτιολογία δεν έχει σαφώς προσδιοριστεί, ωστόσο συνήθως κατατάσσεται στην ευρύτερη κατηγορία των PROS, λόγω της συχνής ανίχνευσης ενεργοποητικών, μωσαϊκών μεταλλάξεων στο γονίδιο PIK3CA σε αρκετά περιστατικά. Στην κλινική εικόνα του συνδρόμου κυριαρχούν κατά την παιδική ηλικία οι δερματικές εκδηλώσεις και η υπερανάπτυξη που αφορά συνήθως το κάτω άκρο, ενώ οι επιπλοκές που αναπτύσσονται στην πορεία αποτελούν παράγοντα αυξημένης νοσηρότητας. Η διάγνωση του βασίζεται πρωτίστως στα κλινικά ευρήματα, ενώ οι απεικονιστικές εξετάσεις, κυρίως υπέρηχος και μαγνητική τομογραφία, απαιτούνται για την πλήρη αξιολόγηση του ασθενούς. Στην αντιμετώπιση του συνδρόμου επικρατεί η συντηρητική προσέγγιση, με τις χειρουργικές παρεμβάσεις να φυλάσσονται για ανθεκτικές και υποτροπιάζουσες περιπτώσεις. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία, η οποία προέκυψε από τη συστηματική ανασκόπηση βιβλιογραφικών πηγών, όπως επιστημονικά άρθρα, βιβλία και έρευνες, έχει ως στόχο την τεκμηριωμένη και καθολική παρουσίαση του συνδρόμου με έμφαση στην αιτιολογία, την κλινική εικόνα, τη διάγνωση και την αντιμετώπιση του.
description: Klippel Trenaunay syndrome is a rare, congenital disorder characterized by the presence of slow-flow vascular malformations and hypertrophy of soft tissues and/or bones. The types of vascular malformations most commonly encountered in KTS include capillary and venous malformations and in rare cases lymphatic malformations. The exact etiology of the syndrome is not yet determined but it is characterized by sporadic mode of transmission and it is usually considered part of the PROS group, based on the activating mosaic mutations detected on PIK3CA gene in most of the cases. Cutaneous manifestations and lower limb overgrowth are the most common clinical manifestations during the early childhood, while complications that usually develop later in the course of the syndrome are responsible for the high morbidity. Klippel Trenaunay syndrome is diagnosed based on the clinical findings, with imaging -mainly US and MR- having a supportive role. Management of the syndrome requires primarily conservative measures, while surgical interventions are sought for complicated cases. This current thesis is the result of systematic review of the available literature, including journals, books and surveys, and aims on a thorough presentation of KTS with focus on its etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management options.
Few-Shot Learning Patterns in Financial Time-Series for Trend-Following Strategies
Creators: name: Wood, Kieran
name: Kessler, Samuel
name: Roberts, Stephen J.
name: Zohren, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Forecasting models for systematic trading strategies do not adapt quickly when financial market conditions rapidly change, as was seen in the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, causing many forecasting models to take loss-making positions. To deal with such situations, we propose a novel time-series trend-following forecaster that can quickly adapt to new market conditions, referred to as regimes. We leverage recent developments from the deep learning community and use few-shot learning. We propose the Cross Attentive Time-Series Trend Network -- X-Trend -- which takes positions attending over a context set of financial time-series regimes. X-Trend transfers trends from similar patterns in the context set to make forecasts, then subsequently takes positions for a new distinct target regime. By quickly adapting to new financial regimes, X-Trend increases Sharpe ratio by 18.9% over a neural forecaster and 10-fold over a conventional Time-series Momentum strategy during the turbulent market period from 2018 to 2023. Our strategy recovers twice as quickly from the COVID-19 drawdown compared to the neural-forecaster. X-Trend can also take zero-shot positions on novel unseen financial assets obtaining a 5-fold Sharpe ratio increase versus a neural time-series trend forecaster over the same period. Furthermore, the cross-attention mechanism allows us to interpret the relationship between forecasts and patterns in the context set.
description: minor edits
Laporan praktikum BTT 3 Rusdianur PRAKTIKUM III DIVISI MAGNOLIOPHYTAKELAS MAGNOLIOPSIDA ANAK KELAS HAMAMELIDAE & CARYOPHYLLIDAE
Creators: name: Rusdianur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Assalamualaikum ibu ini laporan BTT Rusdianur (180101110572)
Stripe and checkerboard patterns in a stack of driven quasi-one-dimensional dipolar condensates
Creators: name: Nadiger, Shreyas
name: Jose, Sandra M.
name: Ghosh, Ratheejit
name: Kaur, Inderpreet
name: Nath, Rejish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of transient checkerboard and stripe patterns in a stack of driven quasi-one-dimensional homogeneous dipolar condensates is studied. The parametric driving of the $s$-wave scattering length leads to the excitation of the lowest collective Bogoliubov mode. The character of the lowest mode depends critically on the orientation of the dipoles, corresponding to out-of-phase and in-phase density modulations in neighboring condensates, resulting in checkerboard and stripe patterns. Further, we show that a dynamical transition between the checkerboard and stripe patterns can be realized by quenching the dipole orientation either linearly or abruptly once the initial pattern is formed via periodic driving.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Aphodius (Platyderides) barrerai Islas 1956
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Aphodius
Aphodius barrerai

description: - Aphodius (Platyderides) barrerai Islas, 1956
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. MEXICO: Estado de México, Tlamacas, 27/X/1953. Col. A. Barrera; AB 85, K73, s/ nido, Cratogeomys merriami.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Additional notes: Current synonym of Geomyphilus barrerai (Islas, 1955) (see Skelley et al., 2007).
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
Using Adaptive Bandit Experiments to Increase and Investigate Engagement in Mental Health
Creators: name: Kumar, Harsh
name: Li, Tong
name: Shi, Jiakai
name: Musabirov, Ilya
name: Kornfield, Rachel
name: Meyerhoff, Jonah
name: Bhattacharjee, Ananya
name: Karr, Chris
name: Nguyen, Theresa
name: Mohr, David
name: Rafferty, Anna
name: Villar, Sofia
name: Deliu, Nina
name: Williams, Joseph Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digital mental health (DMH) interventions, such as text-message-based lessons and activities, offer immense potential for accessible mental health support. While these interventions can be effective, real-world experimental testing can further enhance their design and impact. Adaptive experimentation, utilizing algorithms like Thompson Sampling for (contextual) multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems, can lead to continuous improvement and personalization. However, it remains unclear when these algorithms can simultaneously increase user experience rewards and facilitate appropriate data collection for social-behavioral scientists to analyze with sufficient statistical confidence. Although a growing body of research addresses the practical and statistical aspects of MAB and other adaptive algorithms, further exploration is needed to assess their impact across diverse real-world contexts. This paper presents a software system developed over two years that allows text-messaging intervention components to be adapted using bandit and other algorithms while collecting data for side-by-side comparison with traditional uniform random non-adaptive experiments. We evaluate the system by deploying a text-message-based DMH intervention to 1100 users, recruited through a large mental health non-profit organization, and share the path forward for deploying this system at scale. This system not only enables applications in mental health but could also serve as a model testbed for adaptive experimentation algorithms in other domains.
Ingeniería biomecánica como herramienta clínica en la corrección de las maloclusiones dentarias infantiles
Creators: name: Ortún-Terrazas, Javier
name: Cegoñino, José
name: Pérez del Palomar, Amaya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Poster presentation in the V Doctoral Meeting of the Campus Iberus
IUFRO Congress Spotlight #17: Forest outlook: What does the future hold?
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Forest outlook: What does the future hold? Scientists at the 2014 IUFRO World Congress will discuss the transformative effects of globalization on the use of forest resources and on the companies and communities that extract value from fibre. Providing a sort of scientific crystal ball to give glimpses into the years ahead and discuss how to meet and adapt to coming challenges will be a sub-plenary session at the congress entitled, appropriately enough, "The Future of Our Forests". Resources for the Future, the IUFRO task force behind this session, has set out to examine four major game-changers – globalization, plantations, new products and forest ecosystem services – and what they mean, and will mean, for forests, forest research and forest-dependent communities.
Temperature dependence and limiting mechanisms of the upper critical field of FeSe thin films
Creators: name: Stanley, M.
name: Li, Y.
name: Palmstrom, J. C.
name: Thompson, J. L.
name: Halanayake, K. D.
name: Reifsnyder-Hickey, D.
name: McDonald, R. D.
name: Crooker, S. A.
name: Trivedi, N.
name: Samarth, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use magnetoresistance measurements at high magnetic field (B \leq 65 T) and low temperature (T \geq 500 mK) to gain fresh insights into the behavior of the upper critical field, Hc2, in superconducting ultrathin FeSe films of varying degrees of disorder, grown by molecular beam epitaxy on SrTiO3. Measurements of Hc2 across samples with a widely varying superconducting critical temperature (1.2 K \leq Tc \leq 21 K) generically show similar qualitative temperature dependence. We analyze the temperature dependence of Hc2 in the context of Werthamer-Helfand-Hohenberg (WHH) theory. The analysis yields parameters that indicate a strong Pauli paramagnetic pair-breaking mechanism which is also reflected by pseudo-isotropic superconductivity in the limit of zero temperature. In the lower Tc samples, we observe a spin-orbit scattering driven enhancement of Hc2 above the strongly-coupled Pauli paramagnetic limit. We also observe clear deviations from WHH theory at low temperature, regardless of Tc. We attribute this to the multi-band superconductivity of FeSe and possibly to the emergence of a low temperature, high field superconducting phase.
Aphodius (Pseudagolius) caballeroi Islas 1946
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Aphodius
Aphodius caballeroi

description: - Aphodius (Pseudagolius) caballeroi Islas, 1946
Holotype: [unknown sex]. MEXICO: Colima. Col. Coleoptera. C. C. Hoffmann; IX.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Additional notes: Current synonym of Pseudagolius caballeroi (Islas, 1946) (see Skelley et al., 2007).
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
IUFRO Spotlight #15: Planted Forests' Roles: Different Strokes for Different Oaks
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Summary report of the 3rd International Congress on Planted Forests underlines increasing and vital role of planted forests and trees as supporters of key needs but also stresses their vulnerability.
The latest IUFRO Spotlight focuses on the findings in the recently published Summary Report of the 3rd International Congress on Planted Forests "Planted forests on the globe, renewable resources for the future" held in Estoril, Portugal, and other locations on 16-21 May 2013. The report was undertaken in recognition of the need to secure forest ecosystem services and to adapt forest productions systems – such as planted forests – in the face of worldwide changes, including climate change.
IUFRO Congress Spotlight #18: Consumers and Industry: Keen on Green
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Consumers and Industry: Keen on Green IUFRO 2014 Congress session on Forests and Forest Products for a Greener Future looks at how business and marketing research can contribute to the market success of innovative green products. The IUFRO 2014 Congress Session on Forests and Forest Products for a Greener Future will discuss some of today's forest-related green initiatives that are, for the most part, in their infancy but offer the potential for massive leaps forward. Among them, a range of biochemicals, biomaterials and bioethanol, all from renewable materials; medical products such as wood-based casts for fractures; a growing interest in designing and building wooden skyscrapers; the positives around biophilic design (connecting nature and people in the places where they work, live and learn); and nanocellulose, where possible products include everything from body armor to automobile components to highly absorbent wound dressings, tampons and diapers. For these innovations to be successful, marketing will play a key role.
Revisiting the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Benites, Carlos
name: Gonzalez-Espinoza, Manuel
name: Otalora, Giovanni
name: Alva-Morales, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revise the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy, a theoretical framework proposed to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. By investigating the interaction between vector-like dark energy and dark matter, we analyze its effects on the cosmic expansion history and the thermodynamics of the accelerating universe. Our results demonstrate that the presence of interaction significantly influences the evolution of vector-like dark energy, leading to distinct features in its equation of state and energy density. We compare our findings with observational data and highlight the importance of considering interactions in future cosmological studies.
description: 15 pages, 19 figures. Updated to match the published version in EPJC
Fabrication of Sawfish photonic crystal cavities in bulk diamond
Creators: name: Pregnolato, Tommaso
name: Stucki, Marco E.
name: Bopp, Julian M.
name: Hoeven, Maarten H. v. d.
name: Gokhale, Alok
name: Krüger, Olaf
name: Schröder, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Color centers in diamond are quantum systems with optically active spin-states that show long coherence times and are therefore a promising candidate for the development of efficient spin-photon interfaces. However, only a small portion of the emitted photons is generated by the coherent optical transition of the zero-phonon line (ZPL), which limits the overall performance of the system. Embedding these emitters in photonic crystal cavities improves the coupling to the ZPL photons and increases their emission rate. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication process of "Sawfish" cavities, a design recently proposed that has the experimentally-realistic potential to simultaneously enhance the emission rate by a factor of 46 and couple photons into a single-mode fiber with an efficiency of 88%. The presented process allows for the fabrication of fully suspended devices with a total length of 20.5 $μ$m and features size as small as 40 nm. The optical characterization shows fundamental mode resonances that follow the behavior expected from the corresponding design parameters and quality (Q) factors as high as 3825. Finally, we investigate the effects of nanofabrication on the devices and show that, despite a noticeable erosion of the fine features, the measured cavity resonances deviate by only 0.9 (1.2)% from the corresponding simulated values. This proves that the Sawfish design is robust against fabrication imperfections, which makes it an attractive choice for the development of quantum photonic networks.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Einstein metrics on conformal products
Creators: name: Moroianu, Andrei
name: Pilca, Mihaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that under some natural geometric assumption, Einstein metrics on conformal products of two compact conformal manifolds are warped product metrics.
description: 15 pages; final version
High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Plants using Neural Radiance Field
Creators: name: Hu, Kewei
name: Wei, Ying
name: Pan, Yaoqiang
name: Kang, Hanwen
name: Chen, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate reconstruction of plant phenotypes plays a key role in optimising sustainable farming practices in the field of Precision Agriculture (PA). Currently, optical sensor-based approaches dominate the field, but the need for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of crops and plants in unstructured agricultural environments remains challenging. Recently, a promising development has emerged in the form of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), a novel method that utilises neural density fields. This technique has shown impressive performance in various novel vision synthesis tasks, but has remained relatively unexplored in the agricultural context. In our study, we focus on two fundamental tasks within plant phenotyping: (1) the synthesis of 2D novel-view images and (2) the 3D reconstruction of crop and plant models. We explore the world of neural radiance fields, in particular two SOTA methods: Instant-NGP, which excels in generating high-quality images with impressive training and inference speed, and Instant-NSR, which improves the reconstructed geometry by incorporating the Signed Distance Function (SDF) during training. In particular, we present a novel plant phenotype dataset comprising real plant images from production environments. This dataset is a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at comprehensively exploring the advantages and limitations of NeRF in agricultural contexts. Our experimental results show that NeRF demonstrates commendable performance in the synthesis of novel-view images and is able to achieve reconstruction results that are competitive with Reality Capture, a leading commercial software for 3D Multi-View Stereo (MVS)-based reconstruction. However, our study also highlights certain drawbacks of NeRF, including relatively slow training speeds, performance limitations in cases of insufficient sampling, and challenges in obtaining geometry quality in complex setups.
Software Architecture Challenges in Integrating Hybrid Classical-Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Stirbu, Vlad
name: Mikkonen, Tommi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emergence of quantum computing proposes a revolutionary paradigm that can radically transform numerous scientific and industrial application domains. The ability of quantum computers to scale computations exponentially imply better performance and efficiency for certain algorithmic tasks than current computers provide. However, to gain benefit from such improvement, quantum computers must be integrated with existing software systems, a process that is not straightforward. In this paper, we investigate challenges that emerge from building larger hybrid classical-quantum computers, and discuss some approaches that could be employed to overcome these challenges.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2310.02598
title: Enseigner la migration à l'école primaire dans une perspective d'éducation en vue du développement durable
title: comment favoriser l'implication des élèves ?
titleType: Subtitle
title: Enseigner la migration à l'école primaire dans une perspective d'éducation en vue du développement durable
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heuzé, Mathilde
name: Henry, Sandy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: acteurs
subject: éducation en vue du développement durable
subject: prise de conscience
subject: projet PEERS
subject: enfants réfugiés syriens
subject: démarche d’investigation

description: Le développement durable est un concept existant depuis de nombreuses années et dont l’intérêt ne cesse de croître. Les élèves étant confrontés dès leur plus jeune âge aux problèmes de société, il est important de les sensibiliser et de les préparer à assumer leur part de responsabilité dans le comportement à adopter face à des situations complexes. L’éducation en vue du développement durable (EDD), bien qu’étant une notion nouvelle dans les écoles, est un moyen d’éduquer les enfants à la citoyenneté afin qu’ils puissent réinvestir ultérieurement leurs connaissances dans d’autres contextes. A ce titre, ce travail de mémoire tente de mettre en lumière la possibilité qu’une séquence d’enseignement portant sur la migration de personnes originaires de Syrie permette aux élèves d’adopter une posture d’acteur. Il est ainsi focalisé sur la dimension sociale du développement durable. S’appuyant sur la démarche d’investigation, la séquence d’enseignement, menée en 5H et en 7H, aborde la migration de réfugiés syriens et leur accueil en Suisse. Elle cherche à faire émerger le ressenti des élèves au travers de vidéos puis, à prendre du recul en travaillant par groupes sur une thématique précise. La mise en commun permet de constater la prise de position des élèves suite aux différentes pistes d’action proposées pour produire un changement dans la situation actuelle. Indéniablement, cette séquence a permis aux élèves d’être sensibilisés à une thématique peu souvent abordée en classe mais considérable au vu de l’actualité. Une approche différente a permis l’émergence d’un grand nombre d’interrogations et d’un investissement inattendu de la part des 7H. Les 5H ont montré une certaine curiosité mais ont eu de la difficulté à s’investir dans la tâche. Ainsi, il résulte qu’une telle approche nécessite une mise en oeuvre bien plus complète et qu’un projet comme celui-ci ne peut devenir riche que si on l’aborde par une approche globale touchant et traversant plusieurs disciplines. Il est donc indispensable de promouvoir une EDD à l’école et de la généraliser au travers de nos pratiques enseignantes.
Aphodius (Platyderides) coronadoi Islas 1956
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Aphodius
Aphodius coronadoi

description: - Aphodius (Platyderides) coronadoi Islas, 1956
Holotype: ♂. MEXICO: Morelos, L. Cempoala, km 10, 23/XII/1954. Col. R. MacGregor. Nido de Tuza, Cratogeomys merriami.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Allotype: ♀. MEXICO: Estado de México, Tlamacas 27/X/1953. Col. A. Barrera; AB 85, K75, s/nido Cratogeomys merriami.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Ídem. MEXICO: Morelos, L. Cempoala, km 10, 23/XII/1954. Col. A. Barrera. Nido de Tuza, Cratogeomys merriami.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Ídem. Col. F. Islas.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
Additional notes: Current synonym of Geomyphilus coronadoi (Islas, 1956) (see Skelley et al., 2007).
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
The History of Language
Creators: name: Aisyah Restu Damayanti, Ardi Rusdiyansyah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The History of Language refers to timeline of language that has been historically proven from the past and has evolved into a more modern form. Specifically from German, Christianity, and Old Norse become Old English, then Norman Invasion become Middle English, and then Great Vowel, Early Modern it become the beginning for occurrence of Modern English.
Projective symmetry determined topology in flux Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
Creators: name: Jiang, Gang
name: Chen, Z. Y.
name: Yue, S. J.
name: Rui, W. B.
name: Zhu, Xiao-Ming
name: Yang, Shengyuan A.
name: Zhao, Y. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the field of symmetry-protected topological phases, a common wisdom is that the symmetries fix the topological classifications, but they alone cannot determine whether a system is topologically trivial or not. Here, we show that this is no longer true in cases where symmetries are projectively represented. Particularly, the Zak phase, a topological invariant of a one-dimensional system, can be entirely determined by the projective symmetry algebra (PSA). To demonstrate this remarkable effect, we propose a minimal model, termed as flux Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, where the bond dimerization in the original SSH model is replaced by a flux dimerization. We present experimental realization of our flux SSH model in an electric-circuit array, and our predictions are directly confirmed by experimental measurement. Our work refreshes the understanding of the relation between symmetry and topology, opens up new avenues for exploring PSA determined topological phases, and suggests flux dimerization as a novel approach for designing topological crystals.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
IUFRO Spotlight #16: You've got an issue? We've got options
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The IUFRO Task Force on Forest Governance is publishing an IUFRO Occasional Paper offering strategic options for strengthening international forest governance initiatives based on insights taken from scholars and practitioners. Over the last 30 years practitioners and scholars have been dealing with a range of interventions designed to improve global forest management. These included criteria and indicators (C&I), forest certification and, more recently, legality verification and REDD+, to name but a few. Despite these well intended efforts, frustration exists about their impacts on the ground when addressing deforestation, forest degradation, carbon emissions, and improving the livelihoods of forest dependent people. The IUFRO Spotlight explains about the activities of the Task Force to solve these problems.
Rhipidius mexicanus Zaragoza-Caballero 1983
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rhipiphoridae
Rhipidius
Rhipidius mexicanus

description: - Rhipidius mexicanus Zaragoza-Caballero, 1983
Holotype: ♂. MEXICO: Morelos, Cuernavaca, 4/I/1982. Col. R. González. Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved. Paratypes: 4 ♂. Ídem.
Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010410
IUFRO Spotlight #13: Urban Parks' Research Rounded Up & Rated
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An evidence-based report, 'Benefits of Urban Parks: A systematic review', offers a comprehensive and critical assessment that evaluates the evidence supporting a series of park benefits.
The International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration (Ifpra) assigned the recent study that draws conclusions based on green space related research published in a number of top-level scientific publications. Across the globe, the report will be a useful tool for planners, policy-makers and politicians, especially at the municipal level, giving them a better foundation on which to base decisions for building or preserving urban parks. The authors all come from IUFRO member organizations or are IUFRO officeholders.
IUFRO Spotlight #12: Putting production from peatlands in perspective
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Persons involved in peatland management can benefit from a new book entitled Peatland Ecology and Forestry – a Sound Approach that gathers an impressive array of research from various countries.
Policy makers and forest managers in the boreal and temperate regions now have a new tool to assist them in making climate-smart and environmentally responsible peatland forestry decisions for the future. By making use of the knowledge collected in this book, forest managers should achieve higher growth and yield and greater output of other goods and services from peatlands already claimed for forestry; and improved site selection for various purposes, including mire conservation. The publication came about in response to requests for a comprehensive source of reading material on the subject from policy makers, students and others interested in managing peatlands and mires.
IUFRO Spotlight #10: For Peat's Sake
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This issue highlights recent studies that examine the significance of carbon emissions from boreal peatland fires and the relationship between peat moisture and the potential for burning. Peatland ecosystems cover only 2-3% of the earth's land surface, but in the boreal they make up 20-30% of the forest region and average 20-30% of the area burned annually. Those peatlands store an estimated 30% of the world's terrestrial carbon – some 300 billion metric tons. Typically they are fairly wet areas, but when they dry and burn – usually in severe drought years or from some drainage activities – they have the potential to flip from carbon sink to carbon source as they release huge amounts of greenhouse gases. A recent Canadian Forest Service bulletin: Peatland Fires and Carbon Emissions (Frontline Express 50) noted that some fire researchers from Canada, the U.S. and Russia – where fire in those countries' boreal forests is a significant activity – have begun looking more closely into boreal peatlands. This Spotlight issue presents two of the most recent studies in this context: "Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in boreal peatlands" (J.M Waddington et al) and "Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland" (M.R. Turetsky et al).
IUFRO Spotlight #3: End Trade in Detrimental Ornamentals to save Forests
Creators: name: International Union Of Forest Research Organizations
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Science Policy
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Climate Science
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Forest pathologists propose to phase out all trade in plants and plant products that are of high risk to forest health worldwide. Their proposal is articulated in the Montesclaros Declaration.
International trade in containerized ornamental plant seedlings and trees intended as plants for instant landscape planting is of low benefit in terms of overall economy. However, the risk to forest health is rather high as it provides an efficient pathway for pathogen and pest dispersal, say forest pathologists. Following an IUFRO meeting in Spain earlier this year, the concerned scientists have developed a proposal to phase out such international trade in high-risk plants. The document is entitled the "Montesclaros Declaration". Anyone who wishes to endorse this proposal can sign up by sending an email to: noliveplants(at)gmail.com.