cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stilbocistela luzonica Borchmann 1932
Creators: name: Novák, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Stilbocistela
Stilbocistela luzonica

description: Stilbocistela luzonica Borchmann, 1932
(Figs. 6–8)
 Stilbocistela luzonica Borchmann, 1932: 320
 Type locality. Philippines, Luzon, Baguio.
 Type material. Stilbocistela luzonica Borchmann, 1932: SYNTYPE: white label ‘ Baguio [printed in black] / Luzon [printed in black] // red label Type [black handwritten] // white label luzonica [black handwritten] / n. [black handwritten] // white label Sammlung [printed in black] / F. Borchmann [printed in black] / Eing. Nr. 5, 1943 [printed in black]’ (ZMUH).
 Differential diagnosis. Body brown, small, oval, strongly vaulted (Fig. 6). Body length of syntype 5.47 mm. Elytra and pronotum shiny, elytral intervals with distinct punctuation. Head and pronotum as in Fig. 7, ocular index equal to 31.30. Pronotum broad and strongly transverse, pronotal index equal to 51.04.Antenna as in Fig. 8. Ratios of relative lengths of antennomeres 1–11 equal to 0.92: 0.43: 1.00: 1.46: 1.30: 1.38: 1.38: 1.51: 1.38: 1.38: 1.38.
 Distribution. Philippines.
description: Published as part of Novák, Vladimír, 2009, A review of the genus Stilbocistela (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) with description of new species from Malaysia and Indonesia, pp. 783-794 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2) on page 789, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324860
Nonleading charmed quark mass corrections to K^0-anti K^0 mixing in the standard model
Creators: name: Pivovarov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonleading corrections in the inverse mass of the heavy charmed quark to the effective local ΔS=2 Lagrangian of K^0-anti K^0 mixing are calculated within the standard model.
description: Electronic version of the published paper, latex, 8 pages
Stilbocistela manoiensis Borchmann 1935
Creators: name: Novák, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Stilbocistela
Stilbocistela manoiensis

description: Stilbocistela manoiensis Borchmann, 1935
(Figs 14–18)
 Stilbocistela manoiensis Borchmann, 1935: 125
 Type locality. New Guinea, Manoi.
 Material examined. 1 J, white label ‘ INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / Manokwari; 17.i.2002 / J. Doe lgt.’ (VNPC).
 Differential diagnosis. Small, length 5.12 mm, dark brown species, oval, strongly vaulted, habitus as in Fig. 14. Elytra and pronotum shiny, elytral intervals with distinct punctuation. Head and pronotum as in Fig. 15, ocular index 20.29. Pronotum broad and strongly transverse, pronotal index equal to 50.34. Antenna (Fig. 16) unicolorous pale brown, matt, antennomeres 1–3 slightly shiny. Ratios of relative lengths of antennomeres 1–11 equal to 1.04: 0.71: 1.00: 1.57: 1.75: 1.89: 1:93: 2.14: 2.04: 2.07: 2.16. Aedeagus as in Figs 17–18.
 Distribution. New Guinea, new for Indonesia: West Papua.
description: Published as part of Novák, Vladimír, 2009, A review of the genus Stilbocistela (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) with description of new species from Malaysia and Indonesia, pp. 783-794 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2) on page 792, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324860
On the Sanbao taijian xia xiyang-ji and some of its sources
Creators: name: Goode, Walter
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: PL2698.L82S3 1976
subject: Luo, Maodeng, 16th cent. Sanbao taijian xia xiyang-ji

description: The novel Sanbao taijian xia xiyang-ji, a work in one-hundred chapters, written in 1597 by Luo Maodeng, has hitherto received very little attention in scholarly writings. Ostensibly it deals with Zheng He's (1371-1434) seven voyages to southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf between 1405 and l433. However, in the novel these seven voyages are merged into one, interspersed with a considerable amount of material borrowed from popular fiction and both the Buddhist and Taoist Tripitakas. The major historical sources used by Luo Maodeng appear to be Ma Huan's Yingyai shenglan and Fei Xin's Xingcha shenglan, both of them quoted extensively. It is not possible to identify on the basis of material now extant any other historical sources that might have received sustained use. Indeed, the contents of the novel make it unlikely that other such sources were used. This is supported by the fact that, apart from Zheng He and Wang Jinghong, most of the characters used in the novel either had nothing whatever to do with the voyages or were not historical at all. The former applies to Jin Bifeng, now elevated to guoshi (National Teacher), who lived at the beginning of the Ming dynasty, the latter to the Heavenly Teacher Zhang (Zhang Tianshi). A close study of the novel has led me to the conclusion that its historical value is minimal, and it can only be relied on when supporting material can be found in an independent source. Thus I have been able to show that a "list of tributes", assumed by the late Professor Duyvendak to be a genuine one dating to the year 1410, is in fact made up from several sources, the major one being Ma Huan's work.
Automated Circuit Approximation Method Driven by Data Distribution
Creators: name: Vasicek, Zdenek
name: Mrazek, Vojtech
name: Sekanina, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an application-tailored data-driven fully automated method for functional approximation of combinational circuits. We demonstrate how an application-level error metric such as the classification accuracy can be translated to a component-level error metric needed for an efficient and fast search in the space of approximate low-level components that are used in the application. This is possible by employing a weighted mean error distance (WMED) metric for steering the circuit approximation process which is conducted by means of genetic programming. WMED introduces a set of weights (calculated from the data distribution measured on a selected signal in a given application) determining the importance of each input vector for the approximation process. The method is evaluated using synthetic benchmarks and application-specific approximate MAC (multiply-and-accumulate) units that are designed to provide the best trade-offs between the classification accuracy and power consumption of two image classifiers based on neural networks.
description: Accepted for publication at Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2019). Florence, Italy
Gravitational Waves from Mirror World
Creators: name: Beradze, Revaz
name: Gogberashvili, Merab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the properties of the 10 confirmed by the LIGO Collaboration gravitational wave signals from the black hole mergers. We want to explain non-observation of electromagnetic counterpart and higher then expected merging rates of these events, assuming the existence of their sources in the hidden mirror universe. Mirror matter, which interacts with our world only through gravity, is a candidate of dark matter and its density can exceed ordinary matter density five times. Since mirror world is considered to be colder, star formation there started earlier and mirror black holes had more time to pick up the mass and to create more binary systems within the LIGO reachable zone. In total, we estimate factor of 15 amplification of black holes merging rate in mirror world with respect to our world, which is consistent with the LIGO observations.
description: "Physics" version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.05425
The good Japanese : the national morals text of 1941
Creators: name: Frederiksen, Lorraine Margaret
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Moral education Japan

description: It has been the traditional role of education in all societies to pass on to the young both the knowledge and skills needed for adult ·life and the mores of behaviour of that society. Moral training has therefore always been a fundamental part of education. The evolution of the modern nation-state has raised a dilemma concerning this traditional role. Along with increasing secularization and a mass society, the modern nation has given birth to the modern, compulsory, and very largely state-run education system. Education systems ·are all faced with a controversial problem - what active role, if any, should the state play in the development of a child's morality?
Probing the Early Universe with Axion Physics and Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Ramberg, Nicklas
name: Visinelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show results for the expected reach of the network of experiments that is being set up globally with the aim of detecting the "invisible" axion, in light of a non-standard thermal history of the universe. Assuming that the axion is the dark matter, we discuss the reach of a successful detection by a given experimental setup in a particular axion mass window for different modifications of the cosmological background before primordial nucleosynthesis occurred. Results are presented both in the case where the present energy budget in cold axions is produced through the vacuum realignment mechanism alone, or in the case in which axionic strings also provide with additional contributions to the axion energy density. We also show that in some cosmological models, the spectrum of gravitational waves from the axionic string network would be within reach of the future network of detectors like LISA and DECIGO-BBO. We conclude that some scenarios describing the early universe can be probed jointly by the experimental efforts on axion detection and by gravity wave multi-messenger astronomy.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures. Accepted in PRD. Matches published version
Adherence to clinical guidelines for Barrett’s esophagus
Creators: name: Holmberg, Dag
name: Ness-Jensen, Eivind
name: Mattsson, Fredrik
name: Lagergren, Jesper
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background and aim: Clinical guidelines recommend endoscopy surveillance at given intervals or endoscopic therapy for Barrett’s esophagus with low-grade dysplasia (LGD) and high-grade dysplasia (HGD). Whether these guidelines are followed in clinical practice is unknown and was assessed in this study. Methods: This nationwide Swedish cohort study included patients with Barrett’s esophagus with histologically verified LGD or HGD from 50 centers in 2006–2013. These patients were followed up using nationwide registers. Adherence to clinical guidelines was explored. Eight potential risk factors for deviation from guidelines were assessed using multivariable logistic regression, providing adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Results: Among 211 patients with Barrett’s esophagus (mean age 67.0 years, standard deviation 9.7 years, 81% male), 71% had LGD and 29% had HGD. During median 3.9 years of follow-up, 84% underwent a follow-up endoscopy, 17% received endoscopic therapy and 8% underwent esophagectomy. The clinical management deviated from guidelines in 60% of all patients (69% in LGD and 39% in HGD), which was mainly due to under-surveillance (86%). Risk factors for deviation from guidelines were LGD compared to HGD (OR 3.4, 95%CI 1.7–6.8), longer Barrett’s segment length (OR 2.0, 95%CI 1.0–3.9, comparing ≥3 cm with <3 cm), and treatment at gastroenterology compared to surgery departments (OR 2.3, 95%CI 1.2–4.4). Age, sex, calendar period and university hospital status were not associated with deviation from surveillance guidelines. Conclusions: Adherence to guidelines for dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus is poor, particularly for LGD. Efforts to implement clinical guideline recommendations are needed.
Strangeness and charm signatures in A+A collisions
Creators: name: Gorenstein, Mark I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two signatures of the quark-gluon plasma - strangeness `enhancement' and J/psi `suppression' - in nucleus-nucleus collisions are critically discussed. A recently developed statistical coalescence model for J/ψproduction is presented. The measurements at the RHIC energies are crucial for disentangling the different scenarios of J/ψformation.
description: Presented at 6th International Conference on Strange Quarks in Matter, Frankfurt am Main, Sept. 24--29, 2001. 8 pages, LaTeX, 3 EPS-figures
Lamprodila (Erialata) auripilis
Creators: name: Bílý, Svatopluk
name: Kubáň, Vítězslav
name: Volkovitsh, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Lamprodila
Lamprodila auripilis

description: Lamprodila (Erialata) auripilis (Obenberger, 1922)
(Figs. 34–43)
 Lampra auripilis Obenberger, 1922: 81. Type locality: Borneo (without exact data).
 Lampra auripilis: OBENBERGER (1930): 347 (catalogue).
 Lampra pubescens Fisher, 1930: 32, syn. nov. Type locality: Malaysia, Perak, Batang Padang, Jor Camp, 1800 ft.
 Erialata auripilis: ZYKOV (1998): 1 (comment; new combination), 2 (characters), Figs. 2–6.
 Ovalisia (Erialata) auripilis: HOŁYŃSKI (2000): 2, 4 (notes; new combination); BELLAMY (2003): 40 (catalogue), Fig. 178.
 Ovalisia (Erialata) pubescens: HOŁYŃSKI (2000): 4 (characters; new combination), Figs. 7, 10.
 Lamprodila (Erialata) auripilis: BELLAMY (2008): 603 (catalogue; new combination).
 Lamprodila (Erialata) pubescens: BELLAMY (2008): 618 (catalogue; new combination).
 Type material examined. Lamprodila (Erialata) auripilis: SYNTYPE: 1♀ (NMPC), BORNEO: ‘Borneo [h] / Lampra auripilis m. Type [h] Det. Dr Obenberger [p] / Typus [p] [red label] / Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv. [p] 20137 [h] [orange label]’. Number of syntypes unknown. Lamprodila (E.) pubescens: HOLOTYPE (by monotypy): sex not examined (USNM), PENINSULAR MALAYSIA: PERAK: ‘ Perak, F.M.S. [= Federated Malay States] Batang Padang Jor Camp [p]1800 [h] ft. [p] June 4 th [h] 1923 H.M. Pendlebury. [p] [underside:] Ex coll. F. M. S. Museum. [p] / Type No [p] 57404 [h] USNM [p] [red label] / Holotype [red p] Lampra pubescens Fisher [h] [red framed label]’.
 Additional material examined. PENINSULAR MALAYSIA: PAHANG: Benom Mts., Kampong Dong (15 km E), 03°53′N 102°01′E, 300–900 m, 24.iii.–15.iv.1998, D. Hauck leg. (1 ♀, VKCP). PERAK: Ipoh (25 km NE), Banjaran Titi Wangsa Mts., Korbu mt., 1200 m, 6.–12.v.2001, P. Čechovský leg. (1 ♀, VKCP).
 Remarks. Having studied the types and other specimens of Lamprodila (Erialata) pubescens and L. (E.) auripilis, we failed to find any substantial differences and consider them conspecific, L. (E.) pubescens (Figs. 40–43) being a junior subjective synonym of L. (E.) auripilis (Figs. 34–39).
 Distribution. Peninsular Malaysia (Pahang, Perak); Borneo (no further details available).
description: Published as part of Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav & Volkovitsh, Mark G., 2009, A study on the tribe Poecilonotini, with a revision of the subtribe Nesotrinchina subtrib. nov. and the description of a new genus and species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae), pp. 729-767 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2) on page 737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324888
Diffuse ionized gas and its effects on nebular metallicity estimates of star-forming galaxies
Creators: name: Asari, N. Vale
name: Couto, G. S.
name: Fernandes, R. Cid
name: Stasińska, G.
name: de Amorim, A. L.
name: Ruschel-Dutra, D.
name: Werle, A.
name: Florido, T. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) on abundance determinations in star-forming (SF) galaxies. The DIG is characterised using the H$α$ equivalent width ($W_{\text{H}α}$). From a set of 1,409 SF galaxies from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey, we calculate the fractional contribution of the DIG to several emission lines using high-$S/N$ data from SF spaxels (instead of using noisy emission-lines in DIG-dominated spaxels). Our method is applicable to spectra with observed $W_{\text{H}α} \gtrsim 10$ angstroms (which are not dominated by DIG emission). Since the DIG contribution depends on galactocentric distance, we provide DIG-correction formulae for both entire galaxies and single aperture spectra. Applying those to a sample of $\,> 90,000$ SF galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we find the following. (1) The effect of the DIG on strong-line abundances depends on the index used. It is negligible for the ([O III]/H$β$)/([N II]/H$α$) index, but reaches $\sim 0.1$ dex at the high-metallicity end for [N II]/H$α$. (2) This result is based on the $\sim$kpc MaNGA resolution, so the real effect of the DIG is likely greater. (3) We revisit the mass-metallicity-star formation rate (SFR) relation by correcting for the DIG contribution in both abundances and SFR. The effect of DIG removal is more prominent at higher stellar masses. Using the [N II]/H$α$ index, O/H increases with SFR at high stellar mass, contrary to previous claims.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1: of ATG5 and ATG7 induced autophagy interplays with UPR via PERK signaling
Creators: name: Zheng, Wei
name: Xie, Weiwei
name: Yin, Danyang
name: Luo, Rui
name: Liu, Min
name: Guo, Fengjin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Science
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Virology

description: The results of DNA sequencing and the adenoviral vector endonuclease identification. (PDF 344 kb)
Socio-economic factors affecting rice farm productivities: the Krian Irrigation Scheme, Malaysia
Creators: name: Taib, Abu Bakar
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Rice Malaysia Krian District

description: This study attempts to provide a better understanding of factors affecting rice farm productivities in the Krian rice growing area. It also supplies additional material for the regional study of one of the oldest irrigation schemes in Malaysia. The application of multiple regression analysis to sample cross-section input-output data resulted in the explanation of a statistically significant percentage of variation in gross padi production. Conventional analysis merely makes statements of management effects. The differences between average and frontier production function underscores differences in managerial ability of farmers operating on the frontier compared to those operating on the outer bound. This analysis takes cognizance of management effects by way of management entered as explicit variables. The theoretical consideration therefore means that average and frontier functions are the same; any differences that exist are due to differences in management ability and random disturbances. The inclusion of management ability marginally improved the fit of the Cobb-Douglas function. Significant and substantial resource productivity differences were found between management groups. As such, extension induced technical change to increase farm output is likely to widen this gap and accelerate the degree of relative performance, given the existing technique of the extension programme. Extension strategies and programmes therefore must take cognizance of this fact. The reluctant adopters of modern technology must not be neglected in favour of the much more advanced adopters. The recognition should also be given to land, soil and irrigation quality which contribute the major share of the explanation in variation. The strategy therefore is to identify areas where productivity can be increased. Fertiliser and management ability factors seems the obvious choice. Research needs to be conducted to further improve fertiliser productivity. Extension strategies developed should likewise aim at improving the management ability of all farmers, with special attention given to the less modem farmers. Religious, social and other economic factors must also be analysed to provide a general framework of understanding of factors apart from those already discussed.
On the Spherical Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Creators: name: Tempere, J.
name: Silvera, I. F.
name: Devreese, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the many-body properties of a two-dimensional electron gas constrained to the surface of a sphere, a system which is physically realized in multielectron bubbles in liquid helium. A second-quantization formalism, suited for the treatment of a spherical two-dimensional electron gas (S2DEG), is introduced. Within this formalism, the dielectric response properties of the S2DEG are derived, and we identify both collective excitations and a spectrum of single-particle excitations. We find that the single-particle excitations are constrained to a well-defined region in the angular momentum - energy plane. The collective excitations differ in two important aspects from those of a flat 2DEG: on a sphere, the 'spherical plasmons' have a discrete frequency spectrum and the lowest frequency is nonzero.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, Mathematica notebook included, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
On calculating response functions via their Lorentz integral transforms
Creators: name: Efros, Victor D.
name: Leidemann, Winfried
name: Shalamova, Veronika Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accuracy of reconstruction of a response function from its Lorentz integral transform is studied in an exactly solvable model. An inversion procedure is elaborated in detail and features of the procedure are studied. Unlike results in the literature pertaining to the same model, the response function is reconstructed from its Lorentz integral transform with rather high accuracy.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted to FBS
Watson's theorem and electromagnetism in K -> pi pi decay
Creators: name: Gardner, S.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
name: Valencia, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider what constraints unitarity and CPT invariance yield on the strong and electromagnetic phases entering K -> pi pi decay. In particular, we show that the relative size of the electromagnetically-induced changes in the I=0 and I=2 phase shifts in the two--pion final state do not depend on the explicit coupling to the pi^+ pi^- gamma channel. This demonstrates that Watson's theorem can be extended to include the presence of electromagnetism. We point out the consequences for the general structure of the K -> pi pi decay amplitudes in the presence of isospin violation.
description: 7 pages, LaTeX, axodraw.sty
A Receding Horizon Framework for Autonomy in Unmanned Vehicles
Creators: name: Murillo, Marina
name: Sánchez, Guido
name: Genzelis, Lucas
name: Deniz, Nahuel
name: Giovanini, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this article we present a unified framework based on receding horizon techniques that can be used to design the three tasks (guidance, navigation and path-planning) which are involved in the autonomy of unmanned vehicles. This tasks are solved using model predictive control and moving horizon estimation techniques, which allows us to include physical and dynamical constraints at the design stage, thus leading to optimal and feasible results. In order to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed framework, we have used Gazebo simulator in order to drive a Jackal unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) along a desired path computed by the path-planning task. The results we have obtained are successful as the estimation and guidance errors are small and the Jackal UGV is able to follow the desired path satisfactorily and it is also capable to avoid the obstacles which are in its way.
description: This article was rejected for publication in Optimal Control, Applications and Methods
Potential Nonrelativistic QCD and Heavy Quarkonium Spectrum in Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order
Creators: name: Penin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk I review the calculation of the third order corrections to the heavy quarkonium spectrum in the nonrelativistic effective theory framework and its application to the phenomenology of top quark threshold production.
description: 5 pages LaTeX, Talk presented at RADCOR/LL 2002 conference, Kloster Banz, Germany, September 8-13, 2002
PROTECTING INNOCENCE: CHILD LABOR LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IN INDIA
Creators: name: Aisha, Fatima Mir
name: Mohammad, Ali Khan
Publisher: name: klover journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Child labor
Developing economies
Africa
Asia
International Labour Organization (ILO)

description: Child labor remains a widespread issue globally, with developing economies, particularly in Africa and Asia, bearing the brunt of its serious consequences. While industrialized nations have made significant strides in reducing child labor, the problem persists in many regions, posing significant challenges to child welfare and development. Africa and Asia collectively account for over ninety percent of the global child labor force, with a higher proportion of African children engaged in labor compared to other regions. According to estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO), approximately 246 million children aged five to fourteen were economically active in 2005, with the majority located in Asia (61%), followed by Africa (32%), and Latin America (7%).

This paper explores the pervasive nature of child labor in developing economies, focusing on the socio-economic factors contributing to its prevalence and the detrimental impact on children's well-being and future prospects. Drawing upon data from the ILO and other sources, it examines the regional disparities in child labor prevalence and the underlying drivers fueling its persistence in Africa and Asia.By highlighting the scale and scope of the problem, the paper underscores the urgent need for concerted efforts to address the root causes of child labor and implement effective interventions to protect children's rights and ensure their access to education and opportunities for a better future
Fertility, sexual abstinence and contraception among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria : a study of selected rural communities in Ekiti and Ibadan divisions
Creators: name: Orubuloye, Israel Olatunji
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Birth control Nigeria, Western
subject: Fertility, Human Nigeria, Western

description: The survey described in this thesis was carried out in Ekiti and Ibadan Divisions of Western Nigeria from December 1974 to June 1975. The study was confined to all Yoruba women, 15-69 years of age living in the nine villages selected in the two Divisions. At the end of the fieldwork, 619 and 588 interviews had been completed in Ekiti Rural and Ibadan Rural villages respectively. The interviews which covered the basic socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the women, sought detailed information about the practice and duration of post-partum abstinence and ascertained levels of knowledge and use at any time of all methods of contraception, both traditional and modern. Those who had practised some form of fertility control by employing methods other than sexual abstinence were subjected to an in-depth interview. The interview centered around the unusual circumstances which led to the acceptance of contraception while the majority of women were not contracepting. The findings of the study revealed that fertility was high in both Ekiti Rural and Ibadan Rural; and that the fertility of these rural areas exceeded that of Ibadan City in 1973; and slightly higher than that which has been previously recorded for any rural area in Western Nigeria (Yoruba area). The study also showed that the traditional system of sexual abstinence was the main method of fertility control widely known and practised in the rural areas. And that contraception was employed by a small proportion of the women primarily to replace sexual abstinence rather than to limit family size. It was also evidently clear that the road to widespread contraceptive usage lies solely in extended education and accessibility to contraceptive supplies. The hospitals and friends were to a very large extent the most influential sources of family planning information and advice.
Demographic dynamics in rural Northern Nigeria : a case study of Gimba, Kaduna State
Creators: name: Mahmud, S. A
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Rural population Case studiesNigeria

description: The purpose of this case study, conducted in February and March, 1979 was to obtain data on the general population characteristics, as well as the fertility and mortality of a typical rural Hausa community. The selected village of Gimba is situated in the Soba district of Zaria emirate, Kaduna State, in the North of Nigeria. Gimba is typical of the area being predominantly agricultural as well as being a traditional moslem community. A total of 471 households were enumerated in the village. Previous information on the demographic condition of the rural Hausa has come from data collected in the course of anthropological and economic studies. Such information is necessarily scanty. This study thus represents an attempt to fill some of the gaps in the existing knowledge of the demography of the Hausa people, who are the largest single ethnic group in Nigeria. The survey data shows that the population is characterised by universal and early age at marriage. Most girls marry before the age of 15. Marriage is fairly stable: over three fourths of the wives under 50 years of age were in their first unions at the time of the survey. By applying relatively new analytical techniques this study has succeeded in deriving estimates of mortality that are internally consistent and plausible. The average expectations of life at birth of 44.4 and 43.9 years have been estimated for females and males respectively. Various fertility measures, such as the crude birth rate, age-specific fertility rates as well as net reproduction rate have also been estimated. The total fertility rate for the population was 6.0 and the mean age of childbearing is estimated at 27 years. The data shows that the level of fertility in the survey population is, by Nigerian experience, moderate, occupying the middle position between the high and low levels observed in other rural communities. It is demonstrated that level of fertility and the length of breast feeding are inversely related. The data indicates that monogamously married women in Gimba have a slightly higher fertility than their polygamous counterparts, but that the actual family size of the women was substantially below the ideal family size. Besides providing hitherto unavailable data, it is hoped that this study will provide a suitable framework for future demographic research in other similar communities.
Relativistic Massive Vector Condensation
Creators: name: Sannino, Francesco
name: Schäfer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At sufficiently high chemical potential massive relativistic spin one fields condense. This phenomenon leads to the spontaneous breaking of rotational invariance while linking it to the breaking of internal symmetries. We study the relevant features of the phase transition and the properties of the generated Goldstone excitations. The interplay between the internal symmetry of the vector fields and their Lorentz properties is studied. We predict that new phases set in when vectors condense in Quantum Chromodynamics like theories.
description: RevTeX, 8 pages
Australian New Guinea : a geographical survey
Creators: name: Anas, Mohammad
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Papua New Guinea

description: Australian New Guinea forms part of the screen of islands which are collectively known as Melanesia (from the Greek term meaning "Black Isl ands·' ). Extending from Fiji in the east to an uncertain boundary to the west of New Guinea, the lielanesian islands represent a land area of about 360,000 square miles. Their population of three to four million persons, although derived from varied racial stock, is fairly homogeneous and consists mostly of a primitive, dark-skinned, fuzzy-haired folk with negroid features, who can be ethnically distinguished from their surrounding neighbours - Polynesians, Indonesians and Australians. In addition to this positive, though somewhat loose ethnic unity, the Melanesian islands derive a negative unity from the fact that, as part of the hot, wet tropics with a not too hospitable enVironment, as well as by reason of historical aCCidents, they constituted until a late date in history one of the largest areas sealed off from the main currents of civilization, unpenetrated by the outside world. In the 19th century, however, Melanesia as an undeveloped area could hardly escape the European scramble f or colonies; and although at times its rulers have changed, the whole re gion remains under the colonial control of one or the othe r powers to this day.
Emission Line Luminosity Distributions of Seyfert 2 Galaxies
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-Chen
name: Hwang, Chorng-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probed the relation between line activities of Seyfert 2 galaxies and their host galaxies. We selected Seyfert 2 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 with redshifts less 0.2. We used the luminosity of the emission lines as indicators of AGN power. We found that the Seyfert 2 galaxies seem to have two populations in the emission line luminosity distributions. We considered the L[OIII]/Lbulge ratio as an accretion rate indicator and found that the two Seyfert 2 distributions seem to have different accretion rates. We found that these two Seyfert 2 populations, although classified by their emission line distributions, turned out to have different morphology distributions. These results indicate that these different populations of the Seyfert 2 galaxies might be significantly different in their physical conditions.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Toxic emissions resulting from sucralose added to electronic cigarette liquids
Creators: name: El-Hage, Rachel
name: El-Hellani, Ahmad
name: Haddad, Christina
name: Salman, Rola
name: Talih, Soha
name: Shihadeh, Alan
name: Eissenberg, Thomas
name: Saliba, Najat Aoun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) are appealing in part because of the many flavors of the liquids used in them. Concerns have been raised that some ECIG liquid flavors, especially those that are sweet, are attracting otherwise nicotine-naïve youth to ECIGs. Sucralose is an artificial, non-caloric sweetener that is added to some ECIG liquids. In this study, we evaluated the toxicants, namely isomers of chloropropanols that can be produced when sucralose-containing ECIG liquid is aerosolized. An analytical separation method relying on solid-phase extraction (SPE) to isolate chloropropanols from the propylene glycol/glycerol matrix was developed. Chloropropanols were then derivatized by silylation before they were analyzed on GC-MS. The influence of different ECIG operating conditions on the generation of chloropropanols was studied by varying ECIG device design and power output and also the sucralose concentration of the liquid. Heated sucralose-containing ECIG liquids produce two toxic compounds that can be found in the resulting aerosols. The two chloropropanols, 3-monochloro-1,2-propanediol (3-MCPD), and 1,3-dichloropropanol (1,3-DCP) that were detected under all conditions were found to be correlated significantly with liquid sucralose content. Effective regulation of ECIGs will minimize user and bystander exposure to these and other ECIG toxicants. Copyright © 2019 American Association for Aerosol Research
Effectiveness and safety of betrixaban extended prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism compared with standard-duration prophylaxis intervention in acute medically ill patients: a systematic literature review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Laskier, Vicki
name: Guy, Holly
name: Fisher, Mark
name: W. Richey Neuman
name: Bucior, Iwona
name: Cohen, Alexander T.
name: Shijie Ren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Science Policy

description: Aims: To determine the clinical effectiveness and safety of venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis using US- and Europe-approved anticoagulants relative to extended-duration VTE prophylaxis with betrixaban. Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs), unfractionated heparin (UFH), fondaparinux sodium and placebo were each compared to betrixaban, as standard-duration VTE prophylaxis for hospitalized, non-surgical patients with acute medical illness at risk of VTE. Materials and methods: A systematic literature review was conducted up to June 2019 to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized, non-surgical patients with acute medical illness at risk of VTE. Studies that reported the occurrence of VTE events (including death) and, where possible, major bleeding, from treatment initiation to 20–50 days thereafter were retrieved and extracted. A Bayesian fixed effect network meta-analysis was used to estimate efficacy and safety of betrixaban compared with standard-duration VTE prophylaxis. Results: Seven RCTs were analyzed which compared betrixaban, LMWHs, UFH, fondaparinux sodium, or placebo. There were significantly higher odds (median odds [95% credible interval]) of VTE with LMWHs (1.38 [1.12–1.70]), UFH (1.60 [1.05–2.46]), and placebo (2.37 [1.55–3.66]) compared with betrixaban. There were significantly higher odds of VTE-related death with placebo (7.76 [2.14–34.40]) compared with betrixaban. No significant differences were observed for the odds of major bleeding with all comparators, VTE-related death with any active standard-duration VTE prophylaxis, or of VTE with fondaparinux sodium, compared with betrixaban. Limitations and conclusions: In this indirect comparison, betrixaban was shown to be an effective regimen with relative benefits compared with LMWHs and UFH. This indicates that betrixaban could reduce the burden of VTE in at-risk hospitalized patients with acute medical illness who need extended prophylaxis, though without direct comparative evidence, stronger conclusions cannot be drawn.
On string models with Scherk-Schwarz supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Scrucca, Claudio A.
name: Serone, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a general class of chiral four-dimensional string models with Scherk--Schwarz supersymmetry breaking, involving freely acting orbifolds. The basic ingredient is to combine an ordinary supersymmetry-preserving Z_N projection with a supersymmetry-breaking projection Z_M' acting freely on a subspace of the internal manifold. A crucial condition is that any generator of the full orbifold group Z_N x Z_M' must either preserve some supersymmetry or act freely in order to become irrelevant in some large volume limit. Tachyons are found to be absent or limited to a given region of the tree-level moduli space. We find several new models with orthogonal supersymmetries preserved at distinct fixed-points. Particular attention is devoted to an interesting Z_3 x Z_3' heterotic example.
description: v2: Minor corrections and a reference added; v3: Title and abstract slightly changed, figure 2 corrected and a reference added
Impurity Effect on Ferromagnetic Transition in Double-Exchange Systems
Creators: name: Motome, Yukitoshi
name: Furukawa, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effect of randomness in the double-exchange model is studied. Large fluctuations and spatial random distribution of impurities are taken into account in an essentially exact manner by using the Monte Carlo calculation. The randomness suppresses the ferromagnetism by reducing the coherence of itinerant electrons. The suppression is significant in the critical region where the fluctuations are dominant. Temperature dependences of the magnetization are estimated for finite-size clusters. A characteristic temperature for phase transition $T^{*}$ is estimated from the inflection point, which is expected to give a good approximation for the critical temperature in the thermodynamic limit. Our results suggest that the ferromagnetism becomes unstable more rapidly than predicted in the previous theoretical results by the coherent-potential approximation.
description: 7 pages including 4 figures, submitted to Proc. ISSP8
Using Gaussian Process Regression to Simulate the Vibrational Raman Spectra of Molecular Crystals
Creators: name: Raimbault, Nathaniel
name: Grisafi, Andrea
name: Ceriotti, Michele
name: Rossi, Mariana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vibrational properties of molecular crystals are constantly used as structural fingerprints, in order to identify both the chemical nature and the structural arrangement of molecules. The simulation of these properties is typically very costly, especially when dealing with response properties of materials to e.g. electric fields, which require a good description of the perturbed electronic density. In this work, we use Gaussian process regression (GPR) to predict the static polarizability and dielectric susceptibility of molecules and molecular crystals. We combine this framework with ab initio molecular dynamics to predict their anharmonic vibrational Raman spectra. We stress the importance of data representation, symmetry, and locality, by comparing the performance of different flavors of GPR. In particular, we show the advantages of using a recently developed symmetry-adapted version of GPR. As an examplary application, we choose Paracetamol as an isolated molecule and in different crystal forms. We obtain accurate vibrational Raman spectra in all cases with less than 1000 training points, and obtain improvements when using a GPR trained on the molecular monomer as a baseline for the crystal GPR models. Finally, we show that our methodology is transferable across polymorphic forms: we can train the model on data for one structure, and still be able to accurately predict the spectrum for a second polymorph. This procedure provides an independent route to access electronic structure properties when performing force-evaluations on empirical force-fields or machine-learned potential energy surfaces.
'The Bolshevik element must be stamped out' : returned soldiers and Queensland politics, 1918-1925
Creators: name: Popple, Jeff
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Returned Services League of Australia History
subject: Communism HistoryAustralia Queensland
subject: Pressure groups HistoryAustralia
subject: Queensland Politics and government 1901-1945

description: The First World War was not a unifying experience for Australian society. The demands and traumas produced by the war played on and exacerbated long existing tensions and divisions in Australian society. The descent from a facade of near unanimity of purpose at the beginning of the war to the open and bitter racial, religious and class confrontations at its end is now well documented. Marilyn Lake and Raymond Evans have provided accounts of the impact of the war upon the homefront in Tasmania and Queensland between 1914 and 1918, while L.L. Robson in his excellent study has charted the decline of unity by focussing on responses to one issue, enlistment.(2) Other historians have also provided sweeping accounts or narrow specialist studies which chronicle the degree of disunity and social conflict during the war years.(3) Heated industrial disputes, falling wages and rising prices and two emotive conscription referenda all helped to aggravate and extend the societal divisions caused by religious suspicions, racial persecution and class conflict over the inequality of wartime sacrifices. These divisions were deepened by two overseas events; Britain’s brutal suppression of the Irish Easter rebellion, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. As a result of the trauma of war Australian society in 1918 was a cauldron of turmoil into which one more divisive ingredient was yet to be added, the returned soldier.
Fractal Theory Space: Spacetime of Noninteger Dimensionality
Creators: name: Hill, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct matter field theories in ``theory space'' that are fractal, and invariant under geometrical renormalization group (RG) transformations. We treat in detail complex scalars, and discuss issues related to fermions, chirality, and Yang-Mills gauge fields. In the continuum limit these models describe physics in a noninteger spatial dimension which appears above a RG invariant ``compactification scale,'' M. The energy distribution of KK modes above M is controlled by an exponent in a scaling relation of the vacuum energy (Coleman-Weinberg potential), and corresponds to the dimensionality. For truncated-s-simplex lattices with coordination number s the spacetime dimensionality is 1+(3+2ln(s)/ln(s+2)). The computations in theory space involve subtleties, owing to the 1+3 kinetic terms, yet the resulting dimensionalites are equivalent to thermal spin systems. Physical implications are discussed.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures; Paper has been amplified with a more detailed discussion of a number of technical issues