cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Two Opportunities to Deliver on the Doha Development Pledge
Creators: name: Bouet, Antoine
name: Mevel, Simon
name: Orden, David
name: Bouet, Antoine
name: Mevel, Simon
name: Orden, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In this brief, we evaluate the effects of a possible Doha agreement based on proposals currently on the table from the United States, the European Union, and the Group of Twenty (G20). We first begin with a basic scenario that represents a compromise between the more and less ambitious aspects of these proposals.1 As assessed in the MIRAGE general equilibrium model of the world economy, this basic scenario yields a global income gain of $54.7 billion, or about one-fourth of the global income gains that are estimated from full trade liberalization.2 Gains are distributed among countries in a slightly progressive manner but are largely proportional to initial income shares, so the LDCs gain only a paltry $1.0 billion. We next consider two specific development-oriented modifications to the basic scenario. These modified scenarios demonstrate that more can be done to benefit poor countries. In the first alternative scenario, free access of LDCs to wealthy-country OECD markets is increased from 97 percent to 100 percent, as proposed by the European Union. This raises world income by an additional $14.3 billion. Nearly half of these additional gains go to the LDCs, and the increase of their income rises dramatically, to $7.0 billion. In the second scenario, the number of sensitive and special products exempted from the agricultural tariff formula in the basic scenario is reduced from 5 percent of tariff lines to 1 percent, as proposed by the United States. This raises world income an additional $7.3 billion compared to the basic scenario. The additional gains are distributed widely among countries, and are beneficial among heterogeneous developing countries especially to those where agriculture is an important source of employment and export earnings. Though this scenario has the advantage of providing a multilateral, nonpreferential improvement to the basic scenario, gains are limited because the tariff cuts applied to nonsensitive agricultural products in the basic scenario are not very ambitious.
Stochastic switching in Rydberg atomic ensemble
Creators: name: He, Jun
name: Wang, Xin
name: Wen, Xin
name: Wang, Junmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrated stochastic switching in a bistable system implemented with Rydberg atomic ensemble. The transition between the two states of the bistable system is driven by intensity noise of the laser beams. Rydberg atomic ensemble accumulates energy in an equilibrium situation and brings the nonlinear system across the threshold, where stochastic switching occurs between the two states. Measurement of Rydberg state's population by means of the ladder-type electromagnetically-induced transparency approaching relevant Rydberg state allows us to investigate the nonlinear behavior in Rydberg atomic ensemble based bistable system experimentally.
How Much Will Trade Liberalization Help the Poor? Comparing Global Trade Models
Creators: name: Bouet, Antoine
name: Bouet, Antoine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The world community and international institutions have made development and poverty alleviation a high priority. The Millennium Development Goals, fixed by the United Nations for 2015, call for halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day. With this goal in mind, the international community is calling current global trade negotiations, conducted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Doha Development Agenda. Trade liberalization is expected to act positively on development and poverty reduction. The recent empirical literature identifies several key linkages through which trade liberalization affects development: the price and availability of goods, factor prices, government transfers, incentives for investment and innovation, terms of trade, and short-run risk (Winters, McCulloch, and McKay 2004). The traditional argument in favor of a positive relationship between liberalization and poverty reduction focuses on the first two linkages. A large proportion of poor people work in the agricultural sector, where trade distortions are particularly high. Liberalization could lead to higher world agricultural prices and raise activity and remuneration in this sector in developing countries. The same beneficial outcome could occur in the textile and apparel sectors, where protection remains high and developing countries have a comparative advantage. But openness can also have negative effects. First, government transfers can shrink as liberalization cuts the government’s receipts of trade-related taxes. Second, terms of trade can deteriorate as liberalization affects world prices. Third, liberalization can impose adjustment costs and raise short-run risk owing to competition from imports and reallocation of productive factors. As a consequence, it is uncertain how much trade liberalization would reduce poverty, and many studies have attempted to assess the size of these benefits. The main empirical tool for this work is the multicountry computable general equilibrium (CGE) model—a sophisticated and complex tool of analysis that often appears as a “black box” from which results are difficult to understand.
Hierarchical Context Embedding for Region-based Object Detection
Creators: name: Chen, Zhao-Min
name: Jin, Xin
name: Zhao, Borui
name: Wei, Xiu-Shen
name: Guo, Yanwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art two-stage object detectors apply a classifier to a sparse set of object proposals, relying on region-wise features extracted by RoIPool or RoIAlign as inputs. The region-wise features, in spite of aligning well with the proposal locations, may still lack the crucial context information which is necessary for filtering out noisy background detections, as well as recognizing objects possessing no distinctive appearances. To address this issue, we present a simple but effective Hierarchical Context Embedding (HCE) framework, which can be applied as a plug-and-play component, to facilitate the classification ability of a series of region-based detectors by mining contextual cues. Specifically, to advance the recognition of context-dependent object categories, we propose an image-level categorical embedding module which leverages the holistic image-level context to learn object-level concepts. Then, novel RoI features are generated by exploiting hierarchically embedded context information beneath both whole images and interested regions, which are also complementary to conventional RoI features. Moreover, to make full use of our hierarchical contextual RoI features, we propose the early-and-late fusion strategies (i.e., feature fusion and confidence fusion), which can be combined to boost the classification accuracy of region-based detectors. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our HCE framework is flexible and generalizable, leading to significant and consistent improvements upon various region-based detectors, including FPN, Cascade R-CNN and Mask R-CNN.
description: Accepted by ECCV 2020
Podocinum Berlese 1882
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum

description: Genus Podocinum Berlese, 1882
 Podocinum Berlese, 1882b: 338.
 Podocinum.— Berlese, 1892b: 10; Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 917; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 25; Ishikawa, 1970: 112; Bregetova, 1977: 255; Karg, 1993: 247; Ho et al., 2009: 90; Yan et al., 2011: 55; 2012: 45; Santos et al., 2017: 456. Type species: Laelaps sagax Berlese, 1882, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL: A MAXIMUM ENTROPY APPROACH
Creators: name: Arndt, Channing
name: Robinson, Sherman
name: Tarp, Finn
name: Arndt, Channing
name: Robinson, Sherman
name: Tarp, Finn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: maximum entropy
subject: computable general equilibrium
subject: CGE
subject: prior information
subject: Mozambique.

description: We introduce a maximum entropy approach to parameter estimation for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The approach applies information theory to estimating a system of nonlinear simultaneous equations. It has a number of advantages. First, it imposes all general equilibrium constraints. Second, it permits incorporation of prior information on parameter values. Third, it can be applied in the absence of copious data. Finally, it supplies measures of the capacity of the model to reproduce the historical record and the statistical significance of parameter estimates. The method is applied to estimating a CGE model of Mozambique.
Market Power in the Corn Sector: How Does It Affect the Impacts of the Ethanol Subsidy?
Creators: name: Saitone, Tina L.
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Sexton, Steven E.
name: Saitone, Tina L.
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Sexton, Steven E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Corn ethanol
subject: market power
subject: oligopoly
subject: oilopsony
subject: subsidy

description: Market power is discussed in debates about subsidies for ethanol production. The structural conditions in the corn industry create a case for concerns about market power. We develop an analytical model for determining the production and price impacts and the distribution of benefits from the U.S ethanol subsidy when upstream sellers in the seed sector and downstream buyers in the processing sector may exercise market power. Results demonstrate that the impacts on prices and output are probably limited. Distribution impacts are much greater. Seed producers and corn processors with market power capture relatively large shares of subsidy benefits.
Entropy methods in random motion
Creators: name: Garbaczewski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a contrasting dynamical behavior of Gibbs-Shannon and conditional Kullback-Leibler entropies, induced by time-evolution of continuous probability distributions. The question of predominantly purpose-dependent entropy definition for non-equilibrium model systems is addressed. The conditional Kullback-Leibler entropy is often believed to properly capture physical features of an asymptotic approach towards equilibrium. We give arguments in favor of the usefulness of the standard Gibbs-type entropy and indicate that its dynamics gives an insight into physically relevant, but generally ignored in the literature, non-equilibrium phenomena. The role of physical units in the Gibbs-Shannon entropy definition is iscussed.
6th and 7th International consensus guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer (ABC guidelines 6 and 7)
Creators: name: Cardoso, Fátima
name: Paluch-Shimon, Shani
name: Schumacher-Wulf, Eva
name: Matos, Leonor
name: Gelmon, Karen
name: Aapro, Matti S.
name: Bajpai, Jyoti
name: Barrios, Carlos H.
name: Bergh, Jonas
name: Thomssen, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: This manuscript describes the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) international consensus guidelines updated at the last two ABC international consensus conferences (ABC 6 in 2021, virtual, and ABC 7 in 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal), organized by the ABC Global Alliance. It provides the main recommendations on how to best manage patients with advanced breast cancer (inoperable locally advanced or metastatic), of all breast cancer subtypes, as well as palliative and supportive care. These guidelines are based on available evidence or on expert opinion when a higher level of evidence is lacking. Each guideline is accompanied by the level of evidence (LoE), grade of recommendation (GoR) and percentage of consensus reached at the consensus conferences. Updated diagnostic and treatment algorithms are also provided. The guidelines represent the best management options for patients living with ABC globally, assuming accessibility to all available therapies. Their adaptation (i.e. resource-stratified guidelines) is often needed in settings where access to care is limited.
Crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to multiple plateaus of high-order harmonic generation from band-gap materials
Creators: name: Yu, Chuan
name: Iravani, Hossein
name: Madsen, Lars Bojer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the crystal-momentum-resolved contributions to the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in band-gap materials, and identify the relevant initial crystal momenta for the first and higher plateaus of the HHG spectra. We do so by using a time-dependent density-functional theory model of one-dimensional linear chains. We introduce a self-consistent periodic treatment for the infinitely extended limit of the linear chain model, which provides a convenient way to simulate and discuss the HHG from a perfect crystal beyond the single-active-electron approximation. The multi-plateau spectral feature is elucidated by a semiclassical k-space trajectory analysis with multiple conduction bands taken into account. In the considered laser-interaction regime, the multiple plateaus beyond the first cutoff are found to stem mainly from electrons with initial crystal momenta away from the Gamma point (k = 0), while electrons with initial crystal momenta located around the Gamma point are responsible for the harmonics in the first plateau. We also show that similar findings can be obtained from calculations using a sufficiently large finite model, which proves to mimic the corresponding infinite periodic limit in terms of the band structures and the HHG spectra.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, REVTeX 4.1
Podocinum aciculatum Evans & Hyatt 1958
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum aciculatum

description: 08. Podocinum aciculatum Evans & Hyatt, 1958
 Podocinum aciculatum Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 918.
 Podocinum aciculatum.— Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 45.
 Type depository. British Museum (Natural History), London, England.
 Type locality and habitat. Nepal, Kalapani (28°39’ N, 83°36’ E; alt. 2590 m), 26–29 September 1954, under wet wood in a pine forest.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Efficiency large deviation function of quantum heat engines
Creators: name: Denzler, Tobias
name: Lutz, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The efficiency of small thermal machines is typically a fluctuating quantity. We here study the efficiency large deviation function of two exemplary quantum heat engines, the harmonic oscillator and the two-level Otto cycles. While the efficiency statistics follows the 'universal' theory of Verley et al. [Nature Commun. 5, 4721 (2014)] for nonadiabatic driving, we find that the latter framework does not apply in the adiabatic regime. We relate this unusual property to the perfect anticorrelation between work output and heat input that generically occurs in the broad class of scale-invariant adiabatic quantum Otto heat engines and suppresses thermal as well as quantum fluctuations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Poincare recurrence and measure of hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic chaotic attractors
Creators: name: Baptista, Murilo S.
name: Kraut, Suso
name: Grebogi, Celso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Poincare recurrence of chaotic attractors for regions of finite size. Contrary to the standard case, where the size of the recurrent regions tends to zero, the measure is not supported anymore solely by unstable periodic orbits inside it, but also by other special recurrent trajectories, located outside that region. The presence of the latter leads to a deviation of the distribution of the Poincare first return times from a Poissonian. Consequently, by taken into account the contribution of these recurrent trajectories, a corrected estimate of the measure can be provided. This has wide experimental implications, as in the laboratory all returns can exclusively be observed for regions of finite size only.
description: 4 pages, submitted for publication
Bayesian Predictive Density Estimation for a Chi-squared Model Using Information from a Normal Observation with Unknown Mean and Variance
Creators: name: Hamura, Yasuyuki
name: Kubokawa, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the density function of a Chi-squared variable on the basis of observations of another Chi-squared variable and a normal variable under the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We assume that these variables have a common unknown scale parameter and that the mean of the normal variable is also unknown. We compare the risk functions of two Bayesian predictive densities: one with respect to a hierarchical shrinkage prior and the other based on a noninformative prior. The hierarchical Bayesian predictive density depends on the normal variable while the Bayesian predictive density based on the noninformative prior does not. Sufficient conditions for the former to dominate the latter are obtained. These predictive densities are compared by simulation.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure, extensively rewritten
Get a Grip: Should Area Revenue Coverage Be Offered Through the Farm Bill or as a Crop Insurance Program?
Creators: name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Area insurance
subject: Commodity programs
subject: Crop insurance
subject: Farm bill
subject: Group Risk Income Protection

description: The successful expansion of the U.S crop insurance program has not eliminated ad hoc disaster assistance. An alternative currently being explored by Congress in preparation of the 2008 farm bill is a standing disaster relief program. One form such a program could take can be found in the area insurance programs currently offered by the U.S crop insurance program. Total per acre taxpayer costs of offering Group Risk Income Protection (GRIP) in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for corn and soybeans are estimated to have the ability to fund a country target revenue program at the 93% coverage level.
title: MeCP2 and Chromatin Compartmentalization
Creators: name: Schmidt, Annika
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Cardoso, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2020

description: Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a multifunctional epigenetic reader playing a role in transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure, which was linked to Rett syndrome in humans. Here, we focus on its isoforms and functional domains, interactions, modifications and mutations found in Rett patients. Finally, we address how these properties regulate and mediate the ability of MeCP2 to orchestrate chromatin compartmentalization and higher order genome architecture.
TDAE aromatic oil preference for polymer blends : an analysis of S-SBR, BR, and miscible S-SBR/BR systems
Creators: name: Rathi, Akansha
name: Bernal-Ortega, Pilar
name: Attalah, Ahmed G.
name: Krause-Rehberg, Reinhard
name: Elsayed, Mohamed
name: Trimbach, Jürgen
name: Bergmann, Cristina
name: Blume, Anke
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530

description: This study assesses the impact of Treated Distillate Aromatic Extract (TDAE) oil, at concentrations of 0–20 parts per hundred rubber (phr), on the glass transition temperature (Tg) of High Vinyl/Low Styrene Styrene-Butadiene Rubber (HVLSS-SBR), polybutadiene rubber (BR), and their blends with weight ratios of 70/30 and 50/50. Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, and Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy, we found that TDAE modifies Tg and fractional free volume (Fv) differently across materials. In HVLSS-SBR, TDAE reduced Tg by approximately 10 °C and increased Fv by 0.8 %. In BR, TDAE raised Tg by 5–7 °C without altering Fv. The 70/30 blend showed no Tg change but a 0.6 % Fv increase. For the 50/50 blend, one Havriliak-Negami equation indicated a Tg rise of 2–3 °C and a 0.4 % Fv increase. A two-equation analysis revealed a 6 °C Tg increase and 0.9 % Fv boost in the BR-rich phase, versus a 2 °C rise and 0.3 % Fv uptick in the HVLSS-SBR-rich phase. The sequence of compatibility, influenced by TDAE, is crystalline BR > amorphous BR > HVLSS-SBR >70/30 blend >50/50 blend. This study provides valuable insights into the behavior of TDAE oil in rubber blends and can serve as a basis for further research in this field.
Spatial Dependence in Hedonic Property Models: Do Different Corrections For Spatial Dependence Result in Economically Significant Differences in Estimated Implicit Prices?
Creators: name: Mueller, Julie M.
name: Loomis, John B.
name: Mueller, Julie M.
name: Loomis, John B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Forest fires
subject: Hedonic property models
subject: Spatial econometrics

description: While data used in hedonic property models are inherently spatial in nature, to date the majority of past regression analyses have used OLS models that overlook possible spatial dependence in the data when estimating implicit prices for environmental hazards. This paper explicitly addresses spatial dependence in a hedonic property model. We use robust testing procedures to determine the existence and type of spatial dependence in our OLS model. After identifying the nature of the spatial dependence, OLS estimates of the implicit price of wildfire risk are compared to implicit prices obtained using a spatial error model with three different spatial weighting matrices. Spatially corrected estimates of implicit prices are often found to be nearly the same as those obtained using OLS. Our results indicate that the inefficiency of OLS in the presence of spatially correlated errors may not always be economically significant, suggesting nonspatial hedonic property models may provide results useful for policy analysis, and spatial and nonspatial hedonic property models may provide results useful for policy analysis, and spatial and nonspatial hedonic property models might be pooled in meta-analysis.
J/psi Photo-production at Large z in Soft Collinear Effective Theory
Creators: name: Fleming, Sean
name: Leibovich, Adam K.
name: Mehen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the outstanding problems in J/ψphysics is a systematic understanding of the differential photo-production cross section dsigma/dz(gamma + p -> J/psi + X), where z= E_psi/E_gamma in the proton rest frame. The theoretical prediction based on the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism has a color-octet contribution which grows rapidly in the endpoint region, z -> 1, spoiling perturbation theory. In addition there are subleading operators which are enhanced by powers of 1/(1-z) and they must be resummed to all orders. Here an update of a systematic analysis is presented. The approach used to organize the endpoint behavior of the photo-production cross section is based on a combination of NRQCD and soft collinear effective theory. While a final result is not yet available, an intermediate result indicates that better agreement between theory and data will be achieved in this framework.
description: 12 Pages, 3 figures. Presented at the Ringberg Workshop: New Trends in HERA Physics 2005
Public Policy and Endogenous Beliefs: The Case of Genetically Modified Food
Creators: name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Rozan, Anne
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Rozan, Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Food labeling policy
subject: Genetically modified food
subject: Trivariate probit

description: When individuals have limited information and are uncertain about the quality of a good, government policy, or the lack thereof, can serve as a signal to consumers about the likelihood of realizing alternatives states of nature. In this paper, we focus on a controversial beliefs about government intervention: the market for genetically modified food. Data from a mail survey were used to estimate an econometric model where beliefs about labeling policy, beliefs about the safety of genetically modified food, and willingness to consume genetically modified food are endogenously determined. Results indicate that consumers who believe the government has a mandatory labeling policy for genetically modified food are more likely to believe genetically modified food is unsafe than consumers who believe no such policy is in place.
Podocinum agilis Arutunyan 1974
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum agilis

description: 09. Podocinum agilis Arutunyan, 1974
 Podocinum agilis Arutunyan, 1974: 254.
 Podocinum agilis.— Ho et al., 2009: 92; Yan et al., 2011: 54; 2012: 46.
 Type depository. National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Institute of Zoology, Yerevan, Armenia.
 Type locality and habitat. Armenia, Zeytun state farm (alt. 450 m), Noyemberyan, Tavush, 30 August 1972, in litter of cypress [Cupressaceae].
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on pages 148-149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Toward a Human-Centered Uml for Risk Analysis
Creators: name: Guiochet, Jeremie
name: Motet, Gilles
name: Baron, Claude
name: Boy, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: IFIP Conf

description: Safety is now a major concern in many complex systems such as medical robots. A way to control the complexity of such systems is to manage risk. The first and important step of this activity is risk analysis. During risk analysis, two main studies concerning human factors must be integrated: task analysis and human error analysis. This multidisciplinary analysis often leads to a work sharing between several stakeholders who use their own languages and techniques. This often produces consistency errors and understanding difficulties between them. Hence, this paper proposes to treat the risk analysis on the common expression language UML (Unified Modeling Language) and to handle human factors concepts for task analysis and human error analysis based on the features of this language. The approach is applied to the development of a medical robot for teleechography.
LabVIEW-based Automated Setup for Interferometric Refractive Index Probing
Creators: name: Andrushchak, Nazariy
name: Karbovnyk, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper, we explain an automated LabVIEW controlled setup that enables interferometric measurements of refractive indices in crystalline materials using a laser light source. The setup combines a mechanical system, a microcomputer-controlled gearless drive, a Michelson interferometer, an optical detector, a data acquisition system and a LabVIEW virtual instrument for an accurate non-destructive determination of the refractive index of given plane-parallel samples. We explain a concept, implementation, and hardware/software peculiarities of the developed system. Test experiments on different crystals yielded results that are in good agreement with available reference data. The range of potential applications of the proposed setup extends from fundamental optical research to biophotonics instrumentation, where efficient delivery of light is of crucial importance and reliable automated probing tools are needed for optical components characterization.
Humanidades digitais e Ciência da Informação: convergências
Creators: name: Casimiro, Adelaide
name: Gallotti, Monica Marques Carvalho
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Library and Information Studies

description: Palestra intitulada "Humanidades Digitais e a Ciência da Informação: convergências", proferida pela professora Drª Monica Gallotti e mediada pela professora Msª Adelaide Helena Casimiro. Esta palestra faz parte do evento II Troca de Saberes na Ciência da Informação, que você pode se assistir pelo link https://youtu.be/cGGsLi-2fxY
Balancing Grower Protection Against Agency Concerns: An Economic Analysis of Contract Termination Damages
Creators: name: Lee, Myoungki
name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Fan, Maoyong
name: Lee, Myoungki
name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Fan, Maoyong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Contract law
subject: Contract regulation
subject: Damages
subject: Incentives
subject: Principal-agent

description: This study examines legislation that would grant growers termination damages if their contracts are terminated. Our model suggests that, with no contracting frictions, damages would not reduce ex ante efficiency as processors can contract around damages through contract restructuring. Growers would earn less under continuation but would be protected if terminated, although overall expected profits would be unaffected. However, when contracting friction exist, then efficiency losses can occur as processors would be constrained in restructuring contractual incentives to deal with moral hazard. Growers' expected profits would increase while processors' profit would decrease.
Structural basis of binding the unique N-terminal domain of microtubule-associated protein 2c to proteins regulating kinases of signaling pathways
Creators: name: Bartosík, Viktor
name: Plucarová, Jitka
name: Laníková, Alice
name: Janácková, Zuzana
name: Padrta, Petr
name: Jansen, Séverine
name: Varecka, Vojtech
name: Gruber, Tobias
name: Feller, Stephan M.
name: Zidek, Lukás
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Isoforms of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) differ from their homolog Tau in the sequence and interactions of the N-terminal region. Binding of the N-terminal region of MAP2c (N-MAP2c) to the dimerization/docking domains of the regulatory subunit RIIα of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (RIIDD2) and to the Src-homology domain 2 (SH2) of growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 (Grb2) have been described long time ago. However, the structural features of the complexes remained unknown due to the disordered nature of MAP2. Here, we provide structural description of the complexes. We have solved solution structure of N-MAP2c in complex with RIIDD2, confirming formation of an amphiphilic α-helix of MAP2c upon binding, defining orientation of the α-helix in the complex and showing that its binding register differs from previous predictions. Using chemical shift mapping, we characterized the binding interface of SH2-Grb2 and rat MAP2c phosphorylated by the tyrosine kinase Fyn in their complex and proposed a model explaining differences between SH2-Grb2 complexes with rat MAP2c and phosphopeptides with a Grb2-specific sequence. The results provide the structural basis of a potential role of MAP2 in regulating cAMP-dependent phosphorylation cascade via interactions with RIIDD2 and Ras signaling pathway via interactions with SH2-Grb2.
All-Group IV membrane room-temperature mid-infrared photodetector
Creators: name: Atalla, Mahmoud R. M.
name: Assali, Simone
name: Attiaoui, Anis
name: Lemieux-Leduc, Cedric
name: Kumar, Aashish
name: Abdi, Salim
name: Moutanabbir, Oussama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain engineering has been a ubiquitous paradigm to tailor the electronic band structure and harness the associated new or enhanced fundamental properties in semiconductors. In this regard, semiconductor membranes emerged as a versatile class of nanoscale materials to control lattice strain and engineer complex heterostructures leading to the development of a variety of innovative applications. Herein we exploit this quasi-two-dimensional platform to tune simultaneously the lattice parameter and bandgap energy in group IV GeSn semiconductor alloys. As Sn content is increased to reach a direct band gap, these semiconductors become metastable and typically compressively strained. We show that the release and transfer of GeSn membranes lead to a significant relaxation thus extending the absorption wavelength range deeper in the mid-infrared. Fully released Ge$_{0.83}$Sn$_{0.17}$ membranes were integrated on silicon and used in the fabrication of broadband photodetectors operating at room temperature with a record wavelength cutoff of 4.6 $μ$m, without compromising the performance at shorter wavelengths down to 2.3 $μ$m. These membrane devices are characterized by two orders of magnitude reduction in dark current as compared to devices processed from as-grown strained epitaxial layers. The latter exhibit a content-dependent, shorter wavelength cutoff in the 2.6-3.5 $μ$m range, thus highlighting the role of lattice strain relaxation in shaping the spectral response of membrane photodetectors. This ability to engineer all-group IV transferable mid-infrared photodetectors lays the groundwork to implement scalable and flexible sensing and imaging technologies exploiting these integrative, silicon-compatible strained-relaxed GeSn membranes.
The highly variable time evolution of star-forming cores identified with dendrograms
Creators: name: Smullen, Rachel A.
name: Kratter, Kaitlin M.
name: Offner, Stella S. R.
name: Lee, Aaron T.
name: Chen, Hope How-Huan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the time evolution of dense cores identified in molecular cloud simulations using dendrograms, which are a common tool to identify hierarchical structure in simulations and observations of star formation. We develop an algorithm to link dendrogram structures through time using the three-dimensional density field from magnetohydrodynamical simulations, thus creating histories for all dense cores in the domain. We find that the population-wide distributions of core properties are relatively invariant in time, and quantities like the core mass function match with observations. Despite this consistency, an individual core may undergo large (>40%), stochastic variations due to the redefinition of the dendrogram structure between timesteps. This variation occurs independent of environment and stellar content. We identify a population of short-lived (<200 kyr) overdensities masquerading as dense cores that may comprise ~20% of any time snapshot. Finally, we note the importance of considering the full history of cores when interpreting the origin of the initial mass function; we find that, especially for systems containing multiple stars, the core mass defined by a dendrogram leaf in a snapshot is typically less than the final system stellar mass. This work reinforces that there is no time-stable density contour that defines a star-forming core. The dendrogram itself can induce significant structure variation between timesteps due to small changes in the density field. Thus, one must use caution when comparing dendrograms of regions with different ages or environment properties because differences in dendrogram structure may not come solely from the physical evolution of dense cores.
description: 20 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Charged particles with spin in a gravitational wave and a uniform magnetic field
Creators: name: Mohseni, Morteza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the motion of a pseudo-classical charged particle with spin in the space-time of a gravitational pp wave in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.
description: to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
MPEC 2024-A147 : 2024 AW3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AW3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Adoption and diffusion of no tillage practices in Southern Spain olive groves
Creators: name: Franco, Juan Agustin
name: Calatrava-Requena, Javier
name: Franco, Juan Agustin
name: Calatrava-Requena, Javier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Spanish olive groves
subject: soil erosion
subject: no tillage

description: This paper analyses the process of adoption of no tillage in South-eastern Spain’s olive groves. Olive tree groves in South-eastern Spain’s mountainous areas are subject to a high risk of soil erosion, which is the main environmental problem for this crop, and have to incur in high costs of soil conservation. This results in a greater difficulty to comply with the practices required to benefit from both the single payment and agri-environmental schemes. In many high-steeped areas, farmers have opted for non-tillage practices as an alternative to other conservation practices. Using our own data from a survey carried out in 2006 among 215 olive tree farmers from the Granada Province in Southern Spain regarding the adoption of soil conservation and management practices, we model the diffusion process of no tillage practices using several specifications (logistic, Gompertz and exponential). We also estimate an ordered probit model to analyse which socio-economic and institutional factors determine the adoption of no tillage. Our results show that 90% of farmers in the area of study perform no tillage with either localized (21%) or no localized (69%) application of weedicides. The diffusion process of no tillage has been very intense since the middle nineties, and has been based on the interactions among farmers in the area of study rather than in external factors such as EU policies or extension services. Among other relevant factors that positively affect the adoption of no tillage practices in general, such as farm size and irrigation, the probability of a farmer adopting no tillage with non-localized application of weedicides increases when there is a relative that will continue with the farming activity, what causes the farmer to incorporate long term effects in his farming decisions, when the farmer is only a manager or when he bought the farm rather than inherited it (i.e. on more professionalized farms), and with his educational level. These results confirm some findings from previous studies in other nearby areas.
Combining fast scanning chip calorimetry and nanoindentation : Young’s modulus and hardness of poly (L-lactic acid) containing α′- and α-crystals
Creators: name: Jariyavidyanont, Katalee
name: Wüstefeld, Christina
name: Chudoba, Thomas
name: Androsch, René
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Fast scanning chip calorimetry (FSC) allows subjecting polymer melts to well-defined vitrification, crystal nucleation, and crystal growth pathways and, therefore, precise control of morphologies, from fully amorphous glassy states to semicrystalline structures containing perfect crystals. Due to the required use of nanogram-sized samples, needed to achieve high cooling rates, their mechanical properties, in order to establish structure-property relations, are difficult to assess. In this work, indentation modulus and indentation hardness of FSC samples are successfully determined on example of semicrystalline poly (ʟ-lactic acid) (PLLA) containing spherulitically grown disorder α′- or rather perfect α-crystals, with the correctness of the applied preparation and analyses routes confirmed by nanoindentation measurements on milligram-sized samples prepared through hotstage microscopy, and by applying both static single-step and quasi-continuous stiffness measurements. Modulus and hardness data are consistent with prior analyses of bulk samples, confirming that semicrystalline PLLA containing α-crystals exhibits around 10–20 % higher values of these properties compared to PLLA containing α′-crystals, related to the different molecular-chain packing in the crystal lattice. This work demonstrates that combination of FSC and nanoindentation techniques is an effective tool for determining mechanical properties of samples solidified at specific thermal pathways which otherwise cannot be realized.
FedMVA: Enhancing Software Vulnerability Assessment via Federated Multimodal Learning
Creators: name: Liu, Qiyang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation
classificationCode: 461206
subject: Software architecture
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering

description: This study introduces FedMVA, a privacy-preserving framework for software vulnerability assessment that leverages federated learning and multimodal data fusion. To tackle the challenges of data heterogeneity and privacy in distributed environments, FedMVA enables decentralized training across multiple clients without sharing raw source code or annotations.The model integrates three complementary modalities:Lexical features (tokenized code)Structural representations (from code property graphs)Developer comments (semantic context)To enhance model performance and robustness, FedMVA incorporates:A weighted variance minimization loss to reduce divergence between local and global modelsA momentum-based client weighting strategyA dynamic learning rate mechanism to handle non-IID dataExperimental results on a tri-modal dataset constructed from CVE and GitHub repositories show that FedMVA outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in accuracy, F1-score, and MCC, while ensuring data privacy. This work highlights the power of integrating multimodal feature representations under federated settings for effective and scalable software vulnerability assessment.
Size and temperature dependent magnetization of iron nanoclusters
Creators: name: Santos, G. Dos
name: Aparicio, R.
name: Linares, D.
name: Miranda, E. N.
name: Tranchida, J.
name: Pastor, G. M.
name: Bringa, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic behavior of bcc iron nanoclusters, with diameters between 2 and 8 nm, is investigated by means of spin dynamics (SD) simulations coupled to molecular dynamics (MD-SD), using a distance-dependent exchange interaction. Finite-size effects in the total magnetization as well as the influence of the free surface and the surface/core proportion of the nanoclusters are analyzed in detail for a wide temperature range, going beyond the cluster and bulk Curie temperatures. Comparison is made with experimental data and with theoretical models based on the mean-field Ising model adapted to small clusters, and taking into account the influence of low coordinated spins at free surfaces. Our results for the temperature dependence of the average magnetization per atom M(T), including the thermalization of the transnational lattice degrees of freedom, are in very good agreement with available experimental measurements on small Fe nanoclusters. In contrast, significant discrepancies with experiment are observed if the translational degrees of freedom are artificially frozen. The finite-size effects on M(T) are found to be particularly important near the cluster Curie temperature. Simulated magnetization above the Curie temperature scales with cluster size as predicted by models assuming short-range magnetic ordering (SRMO). Analytical approximations to the magnetization as a function of temperature and size are proposed.
Podocinum anhuense Wen 1965
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum anhuense

description: 10. Podocinum anhuense Wen, 1965
 Podocinum anhuense Wen, 1965: 353.
 Podocinum anhuense.— Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2011: 55; 2012: 46.
 Type depository. Department of Parasitology, Shanghai First Medical College, Shanghai, China.
 Type locality and habitat. China, Anhui Province, 7 December 1959, in nest of Cricetulus barabensis (Pallas) [Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae].
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968