cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Four-Photon Interference with Asymmetric Beam Splitters
Creators: name: Liu, B. H.
name: Sun, F. W.
name: Gong, Y. X.
name: Huang, Y. F.
name: Guo, G. C.
name: Ou, Z. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two experiments of four-photon interference are performed with two pairs of photons from parametric down-conversion with the help of asymmetric beam splitters. The first experiment is a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect to two pairs of photons while the second one utilizes this effect to demonstrate a four-photon de Broglie wavelength of $λ/4$ by projection measurement.
Adsorption removal of heavy metal ions from multi-component aqueous system by clay-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron
Creators: name: Kovalchuk, Iryna
name: Kornilovych, Borys
name: Tobilko, Viktoriia
name: Bondarieva, Antonina
name: Kholodko, Yurii
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The peculiarities of adsorption removal of the mixture of heavy metal ions Cu, Cd, Co, Zn, and Cr from an aqueous solution using clay-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) composite materials were investigated. As an inorganic matrix for stabilizing nZVI the aluminosilicates kaolinite (K) (1:1), montmorillonite (MMT) (2:1) and palygorskite (Pg) (2:1) were used. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 adsorption-desorption, electrochemical methods, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy were used to characterize the samples. Adsorption experiments were investigated in a wide range рН. The obtained results show that at pH 6, the adsorption of heavy metal ions for modified samples is two to four times higher than for natural clay minerals. The experimental results were analyzed using Freundlich and Langmuir models of adsorption isotherms. The selectivity coefficients for all pairs of heavy metals (HM) were calculated. It shows that the adsorption centers on the surfaces of layer silicates form strong complexes with heavy metal ions, which correspond to the Irving-Williams series of stability of the corresponding complexes in solutions: Cu > Zn > Co > Cd > Cr. The role of the dispersed matrix as a stabilizing component of highly reactive nano-dispersed iron in the composite adsorbent is determined. According to the efficiency of removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions, composite materials form a sequence: nZVI-montmorillonite ≥ nZVI-palygorskite > nZVI-kaolinite. The results indicated that clay-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron might be an effective material for water purification from the mixture of heavy metal ions.
SNAC Cooperative: The Role of Cultural Heritage Members
Creators: name: , Pitti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: name identity
archival finding aids

description: Presentation as part of the workshop demonstrating SNAC (https://snaccooperative.org/) as a public research tool that facilitates access to descriptions of CPF entities and dispersed, related historical documents; and a demonstration of SNAC as an editing and maintenance platform. This should be of interest to curators and research users of cultural heritage (CH) resources.
Additional file 1 of Botulinum toxin injections as an effective treatment for patients with intertriginous Hailey-Hailey or Darier disease: an open-label 6-month pilot interventional study
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Isabelle
name: Maza, Aude
name: Rodriguez, Lauriane
name: Merlos, Margot
name: Texier, Hélène
name: Rousseau, Vanessa
name: Sommet, Agnès
name: Mazereeuw-Hautier, Juliette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Exclusion criteria.
Misumenoides naginae Biswas & Roy 2008, sp. novo
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Thomisidae
Misumenoides
Misumenoides naginae

description: 3. Misumenoides naginae sp. novo (Figs. 7-9) General: Cephalothorax brownish yellow, legs yellowish brown, abdomen creamy in colour. Total length 8.50 mm. Carapace 3.00 mm. long, 2.50 mm. wide; abdomen 6.00 mm. long, 5.00 mm. wide. Cephalothorax: Cephalothorax slightly longer than wide, scanty hair present. C~phalic region slightly high. Eyes are round, black, both rows recurved. Posterior row of eyes are strongly recurved than the anterior row. Eyes are ringed with white tubercle. Anterior and posterior lateral eyes are situated on prominent white tubercles. Ocular quad wide than long. Clypeus high, margin provided with seven spines directed forwardly. Posterior median region of cephalothorax is slightly yellowish in colour and slightly high than the laterals. Presance of number of "red-dots" with hair on cephalic region. Sternum heart-shaped, pointed behind with fine hair. Legs are long and stout. Legs formulae are 2134. Tibiae of I and 11 with six pairs of spine-like projections and metatarsus with seven pairs of ventral spines. Abdomen: Round, sac-like in appearance. Dorsum of the abdomen ornamented with number of red-dots having spiny projections from it. Posterior end of abdomen slightly pointed than the anterior. Middle part of ventral side of abdomen with chalk-white dots. Epigyne with characteristic features. Type species: Holotype female preserved in rectified spirit (70%). Registration number is 5586/18. Type-locality: Haridwar, Garwall Hills, Uttaranchal, India, 26.x.2003, coIl. Bijan Biswas. Distribution: India: Haridwar, Uttaranchal. Remarks: Misumenoides naginae Sp. novo is closely related to Misumenoides shulIi Tikader but it can be distinguished from it as follows (1) Ocular area with deep brown patch present on Misumenoides shulli Tikader but there is no such Misumenoides naginae Sp. novo (2) Posteromedian of cephalothorax yellowish in colour in Misumenoides naginae Sp. novo but in Misumenoides shulli Tikader there is no such colour. (3) Epigyne and internal genitalia are also structurally different.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on pages 48-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
Zero-phonon linewidth and phonon satellites in the optical absorption of nanowire-based quantum dots
Creators: name: Lindwall, Greta
name: Wacker, Andreas
name: Weber, Carsten
name: Knorr, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of quantum dots embedded in a catalytically grown semiconductor nanowire are studied theoretically. In comparison to dots in a bulk environment, the excitonic absorption is strongly modified by the one-dimensional character of the nanowire phonon spectrum. In addition to pronounced satellite peaks due to phonon-assisted absorption, we find a finite width of the zero-phonon line already in the lowest-order calculation.
description: final version, to appear in Physical Review Letters (4 pages with 4 figures included, minor changes with respect to first version)
The effect of cold storage duration and soil temperature on the photosynthetic ability of Picea glauca seedlings
Creators: name: Harper, George James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In response to concern over the failure and poor growth of many interior and white spruce plantations in British Columbia the effect of storage duration and soil temperature on the photosynthetic ability of white spruce seedlings was explored. Seedlings of Picea glauca were dark freezer stored (-5°C) from 9.6 to 30.6 weeks, thawed and grown for 28 days in a growth chamber at three different soil temperatures (3,7,11°C). During this period gas exchange variables and chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics were followed. Seedlings stored for periods of 22 weeks or longer had significantly lower rates of photosynthesis dependent on the outplanting soil temperature. Stomatal conductance was initially low upon outplanting and showed a recovery period of 4-7 days duration. The level of stomatal conductance increased in seedlings after they were stored for 26.1 weeks or longer. Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements of seedlings stored from 22 to 30.6 weeks showed a recovery period in photosynthetic efficiency (Fy/Fp) related to changes in photosynthesis. A decrease in seedling Fy/Fp with increasing periods of storage was noted at day 5 after outplanting. A disproportionate increase in new root growth with the increasing soil temperatures, measured after the 28 day growth period, suggested a soil temperature threshold for root growth exists between the 7°C and ll°C. In contrast, the stomatal conductance and photosynthesis results suggest the seedling shoots were not directly affected by the cold soil temperatures. In general, the results suggest Picea glauca seedlings stored longer than 22 weeks in freezer conditions have reduced photosynthetic ability, root growth and overall vigor. Fluorescence and bud break data suggest the reduction was possibly due to freezing damage sustained in storage affecting photosynthetic electron transport through photoinhibition upon returning seedlings to the light.
eta' meson From Two Flavor Dynamical Domain Wall Fermions
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Koichi
name: Izubuchi, Taku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore flavor singlet pseudoscalar meson, eta', spectrum in two-flavor (Nf=2) lattice QCD. The continuum-like relation between the topology of the QCD vacuum and the U(1)_A anomaly, that prevents eta' meson from being a would-be Nambu-Goldstone boson, are expected to hold in the domain wall fermions (DWF) used as a lattice quark field in this work. Although our simulation is limited to relatively heavy quark masses and statistical error is not magnificently small despite of improvements in measurements and fit procedures for meson propagators, we obtained m_eta'=819(127) MeV for Nf=2 QCD, where the error is statistical only. Potentially serious systematic error in the number are discussed. Results for other meson are also reported.
description: 51 pages, 30 figures, uses ptptex.cls, published version
The role of inflexible minorities in the breaking of democratic opinion dynamics
Creators: name: Galam, Serge
name: Jacobs, Frans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of inflexible agents on two state opinion dynamics. The model operates via repeated local updates of random grouping of agents. While floater agents do eventually flip their opinion to follow the local majority, inflexible agents keep their opinion always unchanged. It is a quenched individual opinion. In the bare model (no inflexibles), a separator at 50% drives the dynamics towards either one of two pure attractors, each associated with a full polarization along one of the opinions. The initial majority wins. The existence of inflexibles for only one of the two opinions is found to shift the separator at a lower value than 50% in favor of that side. Moreover it creates an incompressible minority around the inflexibles, one of the pure attractors becoming a mixed phase attractor. In addition above a threshold of 17% inflexibles make their side sure of winning whatever the initial conditions are. The inflexible minority wins. An equal presence of inflexibles on both sides restores the balanced dynamics with again a separator at 50% and now two mixed phase attractors on each side. Nevertheless, beyond 25% the dynamics is reversed with a unique attractor at a fifty-fifty stable equilibrium. But a very small advantage in inflexibles results in a decisive lowering of the separator at the advantage of the corresponding opinion. A few percent advantage does guarantee to become majority with one single attractor. The model is solved exhaustedly for groups of size 3.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
Agroeca Westring 1861
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Agroeca

description: Genus Agroeca Westring 1961. Agroeca Westring, Araneae Svocicae Descriptae, Goathoburgi: Sumter at Litteris, D.F. Bennier. 1940. Agroeca: Comstock, J.H. The Spider Book,: 588. 1972. Agroeca: Kaston, B.J. How to know the spiders,: 219. Diagnosis: Cephalothorax rather flat, about three fourths as wide as long, usuaIly orange brown with dusky blotches and with a black marginal stripe. Both row of eyes are procurved. The abdomen is orange brown with grey blotches. Type-species: Agroeca protensis Westring Distribution: New England.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
description: {"references": ["Comstock, J. H. 1940. The Spider Book, \" 1 - 729.", "Kaston, BJ. 1980. How to know the Spiders,: 218 - 219."]}
Long-time stable HTSC DC-SQUID gradiometers with silicon dioxide passivation for measurements with superconducting flux transformers
Creators: name: Seidel, P
name: Becker, C
name: Steppke, A
name: Buettner, M
name: Schneidewind, H
name: Grosse, V
name: Zieger, G
name: Schmidl, F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In applications for high-Tc superconducting DC-SQUIDs such as biomagnetism, nondestructive evaluation and the relaxation of magnetic nanoparticles, it is important to maintain reliable sensor performance over an extended time period. We designed and produced DC-SQUID gradiometers based on YBCO thin films which are inductively coupled to a flux transformer to achieve a higher sensitivity. The gradiometers are protected against ambient atmosphere and humidity by SiO2 and amorphous YBCO layers. The noise properties of the sensor in flip-chip configuration, especially in unshielded environments, are shown. We present a comparison of TBCCO thin films on buffered sapphire or LaAlO3 substrates for the flux transformer in shielded and unshielded environments. We reach a low white field gradient noise of 72 fT/(cm sqrt(Hz)) with the TBCCO on LaAlO3 flux transformer. The electric properties of the gradiometers (critical current IC, normal state resistance RN and the transfer function VPhi) were measured over a period of one year and do not show significant signs of degradation.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, ISEC 2007
Agroeca gangotrae Biswas & Roy 2008, sp. novo
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Agroeca
Agroeca gangotrae

description: 4. Agroeca gangotrae sp. novo (Figs. 10-12) General: Cephalothorax deep brown; abdomen and legs are light brown in colour. Total length 12.00 mm. Carapace 6.50 mm. long, 4.50 mm. wide; abdomen 7.50 mm. long, 5.00 mm. wide. Cephalothorax: Longer than wide, cephalic region high. Eyes are in two rows. Both rows are slightly recurved. Both laterals are very close to each others. Posterior median eyes comparatively larger in size and pearly white in colour. Markings along the radial furrows are very faint. Sternum heart-shaped, pointed behind. Maxillae longer than wide, stout and with pubescence. Labium moderate size with hair. Chelicerae covered with dense hair and with eleventh teeth on outer margin and nine teeth on inner margin. Legs are long, stout and covered with hair and spines. Abdomen: Oval in shape, covered with spine-like hair, light brown in colour. Dorsum of the abdomen covered with broad and small white patches. Two pairs of sigiIIa present. Lateral side of the dorsum with deep brown longitudinal patches. Epigyne with characteristic features. Type species: Holotype female, paratype five females preserved in rectified spirit (70%). Registration numbers are 5588-89/18. Type-locality: Forest area ca 3 K.M. from Sandar on Chaubata Road, Dist. Pitoragarh, Uttaranchal, India, 19.xii.1989 (1900 Mtrs.), coll. S. C. Verma. Distribution: India: Uttaranchal, Pittorogarh, Elsewhere: New England. Remarks: Agroeca gangotrae Sp. novo is closely related to Agroeca ornata Bank due to their morphological characters but differs of the two such as (1) Size, length, colour and abdominal ornamentation of two varied. (2) Presence of eleventh teeth on outer and nine teeth on inner margin of chelicerae in Agroeca gangotrae Sp. novo but no such in Agroeca ornata Bank. (30 Epigyne and internal genitalia are also structurally different.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on pages 50-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
Gnaphosa Latreille 1804
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Gnaphosa

description: Genus Gnaphosa Latreille 1804. Gnaphosa Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 24: 134. 1948. Gnaphosa: Kaston, Bull. Conn. St. goel. nat. Hist. Surv., 70: 1-87. 1966. Gnaphosa: Tikader, Ree. Indian Mus., 59 (4): 439. 1982. Gnaphosa: Tikader, Fauna of India, Araneae: Spiders, 2(2): 329. Diagnosis: Cephalothorax nearly oval and broader in front, not attenuated. Pattern of widening streaks diverging from short fovea. Anterior row of eyes procurved occupying one third to one-half width of head. Posterior row considerably longer than anterior row and rather strongly recurved, madians irregular in outline, larger than laterals and further than each other. Sternum oval, pointed behind. Chelicerae not strong, inner margin with a prominent chitinous ridge, whose edge is concave and serrated. Outer margin with two teeth. Legs uniform in colour as carapace. Abdomen black or deep brown with generally six faint marks or impressions dorsally. Male palp with a strong single tibial apophysis. Type-species: Gnaphosa lucifuga (Wa1ckenaer) Distribution: Europe, Asia, Africa, America.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
description: {"references": ["Tikader, B. K. 1966. Rec. Indian Mus., 59 (4); 439.", "Tikader, B. K. 1982. Fauna of India, Araneae: Spiders, 2 (1 - 2): 1 - 533."]}
Additional file 2 of Botulinum toxin injections as an effective treatment for patients with intertriginous Hailey-Hailey or Darier disease: an open-label 6-month pilot interventional study
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Isabelle
name: Maza, Aude
name: Rodriguez, Lauriane
name: Merlos, Margot
name: Texier, Hélène
name: Rousseau, Vanessa
name: Sommet, Agnès
name: Mazereeuw-Hautier, Juliette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. The 5-points photographic scale to evaluate HHD and DD clinical severity.
Difference between interaction cross sections and reaction cross sections
Creators: name: Kohama, Akihisa
name: Iida, Kei
name: Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the commonly accepted notion that the difference between interaction and reaction cross sections is negligible at relativistic energies, and show that, especially in small mass number region, it is large enough to help probe nuclear structure. For analyses of the difference, we construct "pseudo data" for the reaction cross sections using a phenomenological black-sphere model of nuclei since empirical data are very limited at high energies. The comparison with the empirical interaction cross sections suggests a significant difference between the reaction and interaction cross sections for stable projectiles on a carbon target, which is of the order of 0-100 mb.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Gnaphosa kankhalae Biswas & Roy 2008, sp. novo
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Gnaphosa
Gnaphosa kankhalae

description: 5. Gnaphosa kankhalae sp. novo (Figs. 13-15) General: Cephalothorax and legs are reddish brown, abdomen look like a leopard. Total length 10.50 mm. Carapace 4.50 mm. long, 3.00 mm. wide; abdomen 6.00 mm. long, 3.50 mm. wide. Cephalothorax: Much longer than wide, gradually narrowing in front, convex, a prominent fovea at the middle of posterior part of the cephalothorax. Middle region of the cephalothorax comparatively light in colour, margin provided with the deep brown markings. A tuft of brownish hair present at the front of the cephalothorax. Two row of eyes, anterior row moderately recurved. Where as posterior row more or less straight or slightly procurved. Posterior median eyes comparatively large, elliptical in shape and pearly white in nature. Antero and postero lateral eyes are close to each other. Sternum nearly oval narrowing posteriorly. Broad labium not convergent in nature. Plate like maxillae with scopulae. Chelicerae strong, inner margin with very smaIJ three and outer margin with moderately big three teeth present. Legs are relatively strong, long and stout clothed with hair. Legs formulae are 4132. Abdomen: Nearly eIJiptical, clothed with fine hair, beautifully ornamented with black and yellow stripes, like tiger. Ventral side pale yellow with brown dots. Three pairs of spinnerets. Type species: Holotype female preserved in rectified spirit (70%). Registration number is 5585/18. Type-locality: Rishikesh, GarwaIJ Hills, Uttaranchal, India, 25.x.2003, colI. Bijan Biswas. Distribution: India: Uttaranchal, Rishikesh. Remarks: Gnaphosa kankhalae Sp. novo is compared with Gnaphosa harpax Cambridge due to their morphological closeness but differs few points as such: (1) Lateral eyes of Gnaphosa harpax Camb. are equal in size where as antero and postero lateral eyes of Gnaphosa kankhalae Sp. novo differs in size. (2) Presance of prominent sigilla is one of the remarkable abdominal characater of Gnaphosa harpax Camb. but completely absent in Gnaphosa kankhalae Sp. novo (3) Epigyne and internal ganitalia differs accordingly in two species.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
Formal Specification and Verification for Automated Production Systems
Creators: name: Weigl, Alexander Sebastian
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021

description: Complex industrial control software often drives safety- and mission-critical systems, like automated production plants or control units embedded into devices in automotive systems. Such controllers have in common that they are reactive systems, i.e., that they periodically read sensor stimuli and cyclically execute the same program to produce actuator signals. The correctness of software for automated production is rarely verified using formal techniques. Although, due to the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0), the impact and importance of software have become an important role in industrial automation. What is used instead in industrial practice today is testing and simulation, where individual test cases are used to validate an automated production system. Three reasons why formal methods are not popular are: (a) It is difficult to adequately formulate the desired temporal properties. (b) There is a lack of specification languages for reactive systems that are both sufficiently expressive and comprehensible for practitioners. (c) Due to the lack of an environment model the obtained results are imprecise. Nonetheless, formal methods for automated production systems are well studied academically---mainly on the verification of safety properties via model checking. In this doctoral thesis we present the concept of (1) generalized test tables (GTTs), a new specification language for functional properties, and their extension (2) relational test tables (RTTs) for relational properties. The concept includes the syntactical notion, designed for the intuition of engineers, and the semantics, which are based on game theory. We use RTTs for a novel confidential property on reactive systems, the provably forgetting of information. Moreover, for regression verification, an important relational property, we are able to achieve performance improvements by (3) creating a decomposing rule which splits large proofs into small sub-task. We implemented the verification procedures and evaluated them against realistic case studies, e.g., the Pick-and-Place-Unit from the Technical University of Munich. The presented contribution follows the idea of lowering the obstacle of verifying the dependability of reactive systems in general, and automated production systems in particular for the engineer either by introducing a new specification language (GTTs), by exploiting existing programs for the specification (RTTs, regression verification), or by improving the verification performance.
Nonlocal Effect of Local Nonmagnetic Impurity in High-Tc Superconductors: Induced Local Moment and Huge Residual Resistivity
Creators: name: Kontani, Hiroshi
name: Ohno, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Hubbard model with a strong onsite impurity potential based on an improved fluctuation-exchange (FLEX) approximation, which we call the GVI-FLEX method. We find that (i) both local and staggered susceptibilities are strongly enhanced around the impurity. By this reason, (ii) the quasiparticle lifetime as well as the local density of states (DOS) are strongly suppressed in a wide area around the impurity (like a Swiss cheese hole), which causes the ``huge residual resistivity'' beyond the s-wave unitary scattering value. These results by the GVI method naturally explains the various impurity effects in HTSC's in a unified way, which had been a long-standing theoretical problem.
description: 3 pages, submitted to ICM2006, Kyoto
Flanona Simon 1898
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Flanona

description: Genus Flanona Simon 1898. Flanona Simon, Hist. Nat. das Araignees., 2 (2): 349. 1924. Flanona: Gravely, Rec. Indian Mus., 26: 588. Diagnosis: This genus contains very small spiders (Total length not more than 2.00 mm.). Eyes of the anterior row equal in size; anterior laterals pearly white and anterior row of eyes as long as the second row. Space enclosed between posterior eyes much wider behind than in front and long. Anterior and posterior spinnerets equal in lengthand apical pieces of both short and round. Type-species: Flanona puellula Simon Distribution: Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on pages 53-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
description: {"references": ["Simon. 1898. Hist. Nat. des Araignees., 2 (2): 349.", "Gravely, F. H. 1924. Rec. Indian Mus., 26: 588."]}
Flanona harduarae Biswas & Roy 2008, sp. novo
Creators: name: Biswas, Bijan
name: Roy, Rakhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Flanona
Flanona harduarae

description: 6. Flanona harduarae sp. novo (Figs. 16-18) General: Cephalothorax is moderately brown where as abdomen brownish black and legs are yeIlowish brown with deep alternate bands. Total length 8.00 mm. Carapace 3.50 mm. long, 2.50 mm. wide; abdomen 4.50 mm. long, 3.00 mm. wide. Cephalothorax: Longer than wide, convex, cephalic region abruptly narrow in front. Two rows of eyes both are slightly recurved. Postero-median eyes larger than antero-median eyes. Posterior row of eyes are pearly white in nature. Eyes are with black rim. Quad is wider than long. Centre of <;ephalic region provided with a distinct fovea and radiate few deep brown bands towards the marginal side. Sternum heart-shaped, pointed behind, deep brown colour and provided with hair. Labium brown, wide, tapers towards base. Maxillae broader at the distal end. Legs are long and slender with hair and spines. Legs formulae are 4231. Abdomen: Longer than wide, anterior part of abdomen is abruptly taper. Dorsum of the abdomen clothed with fine hair. Ventral side of the abdomen is comparatively pale with brown patches at the middle region. Both pair of spinnerets are same size, short and round. Type species: Holotype female preserved in rectified spirit (70%). Registration number is 5587118. Type-locality: Copta, Chamoli, Garwall Hills, Uttaranchal, India, 19.vi.1978, colI. R.N. Bhargav. Distribution: India: Uttaranchal, Copta; Chameli, Elsewhere: Sri Lanka. Remarks: This species is closely similar to Flanona puellula Simon but differs from few points (1) The size of the body of Flanona harduarae Sp. novo bigger than Flanona puellula Simon (2) Spinnerets are dissimilar in size (3) Epigyne and internal genitaalia are also structurally different.
description: Published as part of Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, pp. 43-57 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556084
Exotic bulk viscosity and its influence on neutron star r-modes
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Debarati
name: Bandyopadhyay, Debades
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of exotic matter in particular, hyperon matter on neutron star properties such as equation of state (EoS), mass-radius relationship and bulk viscosity. Here we construct equations of state within the framework of a relativistic field theoretical model. As hyperons are produced abundantly in dense matter, hyperon-hyperon interaction becomes important and is included in this model. Hyperon-hyperon interaction gives rise to a softer EoS which results in a smaller maximum mass neutron star compared with the case without the interaction. Next we compute the coefficient of bulk viscosity and the corresponding damping time scale due to the non-leptonic weak process including $Λ$ hyperons. Further, we investigate the role of the bulk viscosity on gravitational radiation driven r-mode instability in a neutron star of given mass and temperature and find that the instability is effectively suppressed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figure, presented in the Conference on Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Interior to The Surface, London, UK, 24-28 April, 2006; revised and final version to appear in Astrophys. Space Sci
Aeletes politus
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Aeletes
Aeletes politus

description: Aeletes politus (LeConte, 1853) Prince Edward Island: Queens Co.: Trout River, 28.VI.2003, C.G. Majka, brackish marsh, (1, CGMC). Aeletes politus is newly recorded on Prince Edward Island. There are scattered records from throughout the Maritime Provinces, although it has not been recorded on Cape Breton Island (Fig. 1). It is known in Canada from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia (with an isolated record from westcentral Alberta), and occurs south to Florida in the United States. It is found in forest floor litter, log litter, bracket fungi, tree holes, and compost (Bousquet and Laplante 2006). The above record from a brackish marsh represents an unusual habitat for this species, possibly attracted to the site by accumulations of decomposing litter.
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher, 2008, Contributions to the knowledge of Atlantic Canadian Histeridae (Coleoptera), pp. 189-202 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 191, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/576405
description: {"references": ["Bousquet Y, Laplante S (2006) Coleoptera Histeridae: The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, part 24. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 485 pp."]}
“Win-win” agricultural investment projects put to the test: the case of the IDSP project as promoted by the World Bank in Zambia
Creators: name: Rémy, Clémentine
name: Cochet, Hubert
name: Rémy, Clémentine
name: Cochet, Hubert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Family farming
subject: Capitalist agriculture
subject: Development model
subject: Comparative agriculture
subject: Irrigation
subject: Zambia

description: For fear of being accused of land grabbing, investors, the governments of host countries and international donors have sought to develop jointly capitalist farming and family farming by seeking synergies from “win-win” projects. The Irrigation Development Support Project (IDSP), established under the supervision of the Zambian government and financed by the World Bank, constitutes one of the prototypes of this new generation of projects. The aim of this article is to examine the conception and implementation of this project and to question its likely impact. By relying on the professional experience of one of the authors of this article on three of the sites of the project, on the critical reading of the project’s documents put at our disposal and, finally, on qualitative surveys carried out in 2017, 2018 and 2019, we highlight the contradictions inherent to the project, implementation difficulties and the foreseeable impact of the project on family farming, as well as in terms of national benefit.
Organizational structures and decentralized decision making in acute care hospitals in British Columbia
Creators: name: Von Tettenborn, Linda Irene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to provide a descriptive data base of the current status of nursing organizational structures and decentralization of decision-making mechanisms in acute care hospitals in British Columbia(BC). Data were gathered by means of a written questionnaire, developed by the investigator, mailed to the Chief Nurse Administrator(CNA) of all 94 eligible hospitals. Computer and manual analysis of the 62 responses provided information about the demographic characteristics of the institution, the nursing organization, and the CNA; and about elements of the nursing organizational structure related to system of care delivery, information systems, organizational decision making, participatory management strategies, and factors impeding decentralization activities. Additional information about management education and union status of head nurses, provision of education bursaries for staff, and need for comparative resurveys was also sought. The major findings of the survey are: that there is a need for administrative education and experience among CNAs, especially in hospitals under 100 beds; that CNAs need additional nursing management information reports, particularly related to patient classification and workload measurement; that decentralization of decision making to the staff nurse level has to be improved; and that, on average, fewer than half of the recommended participative management strategies are being used. The main factors reported as impeding the ability of CNAs to decentralize decision making in their nursing department(in order of descending importance) are lack of: staff nurse knowledge about decision making; funds to replace staff nurses to attend meetings; head nurse knowledge of management functions; and head nurse support for decentralized decision making. Recommendations are presented for further study and for changes that will facilitate increased decentralization of, and participation in, decision making.
Coexistence of supply chains in a city’s food supply: a factor for resilience?
Creators: name: Chiffoleau, Yuna
name: Brit, Anne-Cécile
name: Monnier, Milo
name: Akermann, Grégori
name: Lenormand, Maxime
name: Saucède, Florent
name: Chiffoleau, Yuna
name: Brit, Anne-Cécile
name: Monnier, Milo
name: Akermann, Grégori
name: Lenormand, Maxime
name: Saucède, Florent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food supply
subject: Cities
subject: Supply chains
subject: Resilience
subject: Multi-disciplinary

description: The objective of this article is to propose and test an approach to characterise a city’s supply system and analyse its resilience. Anchored in economic and network sociology, the approach has been enriched by contributions from management sciences and geomatics, which have made it possible to conceptualise a city’s supply system as a network that is both social and spatialised, structured by operators and circulating differentiated products. Tested in the city of Montpellier, a signatory of the Milan Pact, this research was based on the production of primary data from a variety of sellers and suppliers. While confirming the complementarity between short and long supply chains, the results show more broadly how the articulation of three spatialised markets favours the resilience of the city’s supply, even if it is also a source of vulnerability. Therefore, these results make an original contribution to the intersection of research on the resilience of urban supply and on coexistence in food systems, while also calling for further research.
Decay of Color Gauge Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions and Nielsen-Olesen Instability
Creators: name: Iwazaki, Aiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the behavior of unstable modes in the glasma produced in high energy heavy ion collisions, using a simple model with effective homogeneous longitudinal color electric and magnetic fields. The unstable modes are approximately described as Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes under the homogeneous longitudinal gauge fields. We find that the Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes show properties very similar to those of the exponentially increasing unstable modes in the glasma recently shown by Romatschke and Venugopalan. Although initial gauge fields in the glasma are much stronger than the ones in our model, they decay with the production of the Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes. We discuss why we can reproduce the features of the glasma by using the effective homogeneous weak magnetic fields. Our analysis supports an idea that the decay of the gauge fields in the glasma is caused by Nielsen-Olesen instability.
description: 14pages, 5figures
Farmers’ preference for cropping systems and the development of sustainable intensification: a choice experiment approach
Creators: name: Jourdain, Damien
name: Lairez, Juliette
name: Striffler, Bruno
name: Affholder, François
name: Jourdain, Damien
name: Lairez, Juliette
name: Striffler, Bruno
name: Affholder, François
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agro-ecological agriculture
subject: Adoption of Innovations
subject: Mixed Logit
subject: Farmer preferences
subject: Maize

description: Sustainable intensification (SI) of farming systems aims to increase food production from existing farmland in ways that have a lower environmental impact and maintain the food production capacity over time. SI embraces a set of diverse agricultural technologies that share a common feature: their adoption is dependent on the interactions between farmers’ decision-making processes, locally specific agro-ecological conditions, and the traits of the technology itself. There are concerns about the sustainability of the maize mono-cropping systems that are in use in Laosc today. Therefore, we used discrete choice experiments (DCE) to explore the potential adoption or alternative agricultural systems. We analyse the heterogeneity of farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for different cropping system attributes using a mixed logit model, and we discuss the possible drivers and barriers to the adoption of these more sustainable options. The results suggest the existence of four types of farmers: “fertility-minded”, “factor-constrained”, “maximisers”, and “risk-averse”. Each type of farmers was likely to react differently to the proposed sustainable intensification techniques. Overall, the DCE appeared to be an efficient tool to elicit the diversity of farmer preferences in an agricultural region and for fine-tuning strategies for successful research and development of sustainable intensification.
Additional file 1 of Regulatory T lymphocyte infiltration in metastatic breast cancer—an independent prognostic factor that changes with tumor progression
Creators: name: Stenström, Jenny
name: Hedenfalk, Ingrid
name: Hagerling, Catharina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Kaplan Meier plots (log-rank test) showing a,b. recurrence-free survival and c,d. breast cancer-specific survival among patients with different infiltration levels of Macrophages (CD68+) in primary tumor.
Η οικοδομική δραστηριότητα στο Άγιον Όρος κατά τη μεταβυζαντινή περίοδο
Creators: name: Λίτος, Περικλής Ιωάννης
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Άγιον Όρος
Building activity Μεταβυζαντινή περίοδος
Post byzantine period
Οικοδομική δραστηριότητα Mount Athos

description: Θέμα της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας αποτελεί η εξέταση της οικοδομικής δραστηριότητας στο Άγιον Όρος κατά τη μεταβυζαντινή περίοδο (15ος – αρχές 20ου αι.). Η εργασία έχει σκοπό την συγκέντρωση, μελέτη και παρουσίαση της οικοδομικής δραστηριότητας στις είκοσι κυρίαρχες μονές του Αγίου Όρους, κατά την περίοδο μετά την οθωμανική κατάκτηση του 1423/4. Στο κύριο μέρος επιχειρείται η παρουσίαση της αναμόρφωσης του δομημένου χώρου, μέσω ανοικοδομήσεων, ανακαινίσεων, ανεγέρσεων νέων κτηριακών συνόλων, αλλά και επεκτάσεων των περιβόλων που έλαβαν χώρα στις είκοσι μονές, από τα μέσα του 15ου μέχρι και τις αρχές του 20ου αι. Τα στοιχεία που παρουσιάζονται στο κύριο μέρος επιτρέπουν τη σκιαγράφηση της εξέλιξης, της επιβίωσης και της αναμόρφωσης των μονών, μέσω των οικοδομικών προγραμμάτων του 16ου και κυρίως της περιόδου από τα μέσα του 18ου έως τις αρχές του 20ου αι.
description: The topic of the given dissertation is the study of the building activity on Mount Athos, during the post byzantine period (15th – early 20th c.). In this case the twenty main monasteries of Mount Athos are chosen as examples. In the first part of the dissertation, the introduction, historical context along with the construction techniques of each period related to the evolution of each monastery, are examined. The main part of the dissertation consists of the detailed examination of the evolution and construction works in each monastery during the post byzantine centuries, chronologically. From the evidences that are being presented in the main part, we can conclude that the twenty main Athonite monasteries are trying to adjust to the new conditions, reformed, survived and acquired their present structures, as a result of the reconstruction programs of the 16th and mainly the 18th – 20th centuries.
Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in YBa_2Cu_4O_8
Creators: name: Bangura, A. F.
name: Fletcher, J. D.
name: Carrington, A.
name: Levallois, J.
name: Nardone, M.
name: Vignolle, B.
name: Heard, P. J.
name: Doiron-Leyraud, N.
name: LeBoeuf, D.
name: Taillefer, L.
name: Adachi, S.
name: Proust, C.
name: Hussey, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ (Y124). For field aligned along the c-axis, the frequency of the oscillations is $660\pm 30$ T, which corresponds to $\sim 2.4$ % of the total area of the first Brillouin zone. The effective mass of the quasiparticles on this orbit is measured to be $2.7\pm0.3$ times the free electron mass. Both the frequency and mass are comparable to those recently observed for ortho-II YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$ (Y123-II). We show that although small Fermi surface pockets may be expected from band structure calculations in Y123-II, no such pockets are predicted for Y124. Our results therefore imply that these small pockets are a generic feature of the copper oxide plane in underdoped cuprates.
description: v2: Version of paper accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Only minor changes to the text and references