cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The New Economics of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Institutions: Considerations for Australian Agriculture
Creators: name: Potts, Jason
name: Potts, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Agriculture is often represented as a case study in perfect competition, with a large number of small price-taking producers choosing an optimal input mix from a simple production function to maximize profits. Entrepreneurship and innovation do not seem to enter into this story, and nor do institutions. But this characterization misrepresents the complexity and niche competition in agricultural markets and the opportunities for cooperation. Old models of innovation policy emphasized market failure and recommended more or less direct government support to fund R&D investment. Examples were public funding of agricultural science. But new approaches to economics of innovation emphasise the role of entrepreneurial or market (rather than technical) discovery, and the increasing use of private institutions to solve the innovation problem through pooling innovation resources in the ‘commons’. This shift from market failure to collective action models of the innovation problem, and from government solutions to governance solutions, represents a fundamental shift in modern economic thinking about how industries grow through entrepreneurship and innovation, and the role of government in this process.
Mixed-initiative Query Rewriting in Conversational Passage Retrieval
Creators: name: Yang, Dayu
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Fang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we report our methods and experiments for the TREC Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) 2022. In this work, we aim to reproduce multi-stage retrieval pipelines and explore one of the potential benefits of involving mixed-initiative interaction in conversational passage retrieval scenarios: reformulating raw queries. Before the first ranking stage of a multi-stage retrieval pipeline, we propose a mixed-initiative query rewriting module, which achieves query rewriting based on the mixed-initiative interaction between the users and the system, as the replacement for the neural rewriting method. Specifically, we design an algorithm to generate appropriate questions related to the ambiguities in raw queries, and another algorithm to reformulate raw queries by parsing users' feedback and incorporating it into the raw query. For the first ranking stage of our multi-stage pipelines, we adopt a sparse ranking function: BM25, and a dense retrieval method: TCT-ColBERT. For the second-ranking step, we adopt a pointwise reranker: MonoT5, and a pairwise reranker: DuoT5. Experiments on both TREC CAsT 2021 and TREC CAsT 2022 datasets show the effectiveness of our mixed-initiative-based query rewriting (or query reformulation) method on improving retrieval performance compared with two popular reformulators: a neural reformulator: CANARD-T5 and a rule-based reformulator: historical query reformulator(HQE).
description: https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec31/papers/udel_fang.C.pdf
Pterelachisus Rondani 1842
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tipulidae
Pterelachisus

description: 468. Pterelachisus Rondani, 1842a: 243 [1842b: 2].
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Pterelachisus bertei Rondani, 1842.
 TYPE SPECIES: Pterelachisus bertei Rondani, 1842, by monotypy.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Oosterbroek & Theowald (1991: 131)].
FAMILY: TIPULIDAE.
 REMARKS: Originally proposed as a subgenus of Tipula Linnaeus, 1758. The secondary proposal in Rondani (1842b: 2) has the species name misspelled as “ Berteii ”.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 153
Didymodon giganteus Jur.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Didymodon
Didymodon giganteus

description: * Didymodon giganteus (Funck) Jur.
Barbula nivalis (Spruce) A.Jaeger
RECORDS. — Julien (1894): Région de Constantine.
COMMENT
Doubtfully present in Algeria. This report was published as Barbula nivalis (without the author’s name) but indicating that it was one of the most common mosses in the region. As the identity of the type of the basionym of this name (Tortula vinealis var. nivalis Spruce) is Didymodon gianteus and it is a rare species in the Mediterranean Region, it is doubtful to which species Julien referred. It was not included in the previous checklists of Ros et al. (1999, 2013).
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 72, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Profitable cropland available in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Liu, Jing
name: Villoria, Nelson
name: Liu, Jing
name: Villoria, Nelson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Development
Land Economics/Use

description: An awareness is growing that Africa lacks profitable land despite its abundance in agriculture-suitable land. The key in assessing the availability of economically meaningful cropland is the responsiveness of cropland supply to land returns. Knowledge about this parameter at a fine-resolution is sparse due to unknown site-specific prices. Using gridded data from Sub-Saharan Africa and spatial econometric analysis, this paper quantifies the elasticities of cropland supply and land transformation. A computable general equilibrium model with these updated parameters is applied to study the much-debated land use change effect of agricultural innovation in Africa. We find that literature concerning land use in Africa has significantly overstated the ease of land transformation and masked its geographical disparity. Because of the low-land supply elasticities at current prices, barring major investments in market access, the effects of broad-based technological progress in agriculture are unlikely to incentivize major land expansion.
Reliability Bounds for Dependent Fading Wireless Channels
Creators: name: Besser, Karl-Ludwig
name: Jorswieck, Eduard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Unreliable fading wireless channels are the main challenge for strict performance guarantees in mobile communications. Diversity schemes including massive number of antennas, huge spectrum bands and multi-connectivity links are applied to improve the outage performance. The success of these approaches relies heavily on the joint distribution of the underlying fading channels. In this work, we consider the $\varepsilon$-outage capacity of slowly fading wireless diversity channels and provide lower and upper bounds for fixed marginal distributions of the individual channels. This answers the question about the best and worst case outage probability achievable over $n$ fading channels with a given distribution, e.g., Rayleigh fading, but not necessarily statistically independent. Interestingly, the best-case joint distribution enables achieving a zero-outage capacity greater than zero without channel state information at the transmitter for $n \geq 2$. Furthermore, the results are applied to characterize the worst- and best-case joint distribution for zero-outage capacity with perfect channel state information everywhere. All results are specialized to Rayleigh fading and compared to the standard assumption of independent and identically distributed fading component channels. The results show a significant impact of the joint distribution and the gap between worst- and best-case can be arbitrarily large.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Chemical constituents from the stem of Ficus pumila
Creators: name: Xiao, Wen-Lin
name: Chen, Wen-Hao
name: Li, Wei
name: Chen, Guang-Ying
name: Song, Xiao-Ping
name: Han, Chang-Ri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A new biphenyl compound: 5-aldehyde-4′-hydroxy-2,2′-dimethoxybiphenyl (1), along with 11 known phenolic compounds (2–12) were isolated from the stem of Ficus pumila Linn. Their structures were established by spectroscopic methods, including MS, UV, IR, 1 D and 2 D NMR. Compounds 4 and 10 showed weakly cytotoxicity against MCF-7, with IC50 values of 32.5 and 37.3 µM, respectively.
Dipole-Dipole Coupling in the Presence of Dispersing and Absorbing Bodies
Creators: name: Welsch, D. -G.
name: Dung, Ho Trung
name: Knöll, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective Hamiltonian and equations of motion for treating both the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between two-level atoms and the resonant atom-field interaction are derived, which can suitably be used for studying the influence of arbitrary dispersing and absorbing material surroundings on these interactions. It is shown that the dipole-dipole interaction and the atom-field interaction, respectively, are closely related to the real part and the imaginary part of the (classical) Green tensor. The theory is applied to the study of the transient behavior of two atoms that initially share a single excitation, with special emphasis on the role of the two competing processes of virtual and real photon exchange in the energy transfer between the atoms. To illustrate the powerfulness of the theory, specific results for the case of the atoms being near a dispersing and absorbing microsphere are presented. In particular, the regimes of weak and strong atom-field coupling are addressed.
description: 8 pages, 4 figs, proceedings of 9th Central-European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Szeged, 2002, to appear in Fortschritte der Physik
ZeQR: Zero-shot Query Reformulation for Conversational Search
Creators: name: Yang, Dayu
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Fang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the popularity of voice assistants continues to surge, conversational search has gained increased attention in Information Retrieval. However, data sparsity issues in conversational search significantly hinder the progress of supervised conversational search methods. Consequently, researchers are focusing more on zero-shot conversational search approaches. Nevertheless, existing zero-shot methods face three primary limitations: they are not universally applicable to all retrievers, their effectiveness lacks sufficient explainability, and they struggle to resolve common conversational ambiguities caused by omission. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel Zero-shot Query Reformulation (or Query Rewriting) (ZeQR) framework that reformulates queries based on previous dialogue contexts without requiring supervision from conversational search data. Specifically, our framework utilizes language models designed for machine reading comprehension tasks to explicitly resolve two common ambiguities: coreference and omission, in raw queries. In comparison to existing zero-shot methods, our approach is universally applicable to any retriever without additional adaptation or indexing. It also provides greater explainability and effectively enhances query intent understanding because ambiguities are explicitly and proactively resolved. Through extensive experiments on four TREC conversational datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
description: Accepted by the 9th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
Translating evidence for policy makers: Strategies, lessons and resources from the NIHR Healthy Ageing Policy Research Unit
Creators: name: McDermott, Jane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Open Invitation Seminar

description: This session explored the role of evidence in policymaking, focusing on how to translate research effectively for policy audiences, with lessons from the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing. Professor Jane McDermott shared strategies and tactics for engaging within and across the policy ecosystem, along with practical examples of communicating evidence in ways that resonate with policymakers. It introduces the tools and resources to bridge the translation gap, helping to increase the impact of your research.

This seminar is organised by the AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (link to the same archived website). The complete list of seminars can be found here. AIM RSF funded by the NIHR [Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme (NIHR202647).
Pteremis Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Pteremis

description: 469. Pteremis Rondani, 1856: 124.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Borborus nivalis Haliday, 1833 (as “ Limosina Nivalis Halid. ”).
 TYPE SPECIES: Borborus nivalis Haliday, 1833 (as “ Limosina Nivalis Halid. ”) [= Copromyza fenestralis Fallén, 1820], by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Rohaček (2001: 210)].
FAMILY: SPHAEROCERIDAE.
 REMARKS: In two separate works, Schiner (1864: 49; 1868: 228) misspelled the genus-group name as “ Pterennis ”. These actions are not emendations but have appeared in the taxonomic literature, so are recorded here for clarification.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on pages 153-154
Adsorption and biodegradation removal of methylene blue in a down-flow hanging filter reactor incorporating natural adsorbent
Creators: name: Nguyet, Phan Nhu
name: Watari, Takahiro
name: Yuga Hirakata
name: Hatamoto, Masashi
name: Yamaguchi, Takashi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: This study was carried out to explore the importance of adsorption and biodegradation mechanisms for methylene blue (MB) removal by a novel natural adsorbent (purified coconut fibre; PCF) incorporated to a down-flow hanging fibre (DHF) reactor. An adsorption DHF (Ads-DHF) reactor demonstrated the adsorption removal mechanism, while a combined adsorption-biological DHF (Bio-DHF) reactor simulated the processes of both adsorption and biodegradation were investigated for the MB removal capability. PCF prepared from coconut fibre waste was applied as a media in the DHF reactors. The process performance and the removal mechanisms of the DHF reactors were evaluated for 62 days. The results showed that a total MB removal efficiency of 93 ± 7% was achieved for the Bio-DHF reactor and 36 ± 25% for the Ads-DHF reactor. The combined adsorption and biological degradation in the Bio-DHF reactor enhanced the removal efficiency and the life-time of the reactor compared with the performance of the adsorption process alone in the Ads-DHF reactor. Moreover, microbial community analysis revealed that microorganisms, commonly involved in the biodegradation of dyes, were predominant in the Bio-DHF reactor. The PCF media of the Bio-DHF reactor was essential to keep the dye degrading bacteria in the reactor. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Bio-DHF reactor is an appropriate treatment system for treating dyes wastewater. This research is significant and useful for environmental protection and reuse of biomass wastes.
Evolution of cooperation driven by active information spreading
Creators: name: Wu, Bin
name: Park, Hye Jin
name: Wu, Lingshan
name: Zhou, Da
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cooperators forgo their interest to benefit others. Thus cooperation should not be favored by natural selection. It challenges the evolutionists, since cooperation is widespread. As one of the resolutions, information spreading has been revealed to play a key role in the emergence of cooperation. Individuals, however, are typically assumed to be passive in the information spreading. Here we assume that individuals are active to spread the information via self-recommendation. Individuals with higher intensities of self-recommendation are likely to have more neighbors. We find that i) eloquent cooperators are necessary to promote cooperation; ii) individuals need to be open to the self-recommendation to enhance cooperation level; iii) the cost-to-benefit ratio should be smaller than one minus the ratio between self-recommendation intensities of defector and cooperator, which qualitatively measures the viscosity of the population. Our results highlight the importance of active information spreading on cooperation.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Pulsations and orbital modulation of the intermediate polar 1WGA J1958.2+3232
Creators: name: Norton, A. J.
name: Quaintrell, H.
name: Katajainen, S.
name: Lehto, H. J.
name: Mukai, K.
name: Negueruela, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical photometry, spectroscopy and photopolarimetry, as well as ASCA X-ray observations, of the recently discovered intermediate polar 1WGA J1958.2+3232. Through the first detection of an optical beat frequency, we confirm the previously tentative suggestion that the spin period of the white dwarf is twice the X-ray and optical pulsation period, which we also confirm in each case. We detect an orbital modulation in each of the U, B, V, R and I bands for the first time, and suggest that the true orbital period is the -1d alias of that previously suggested. We also confirm the presence of circular polarization in this system, detecting a variable polarization which has opposite signs in each of the B and R bands. The double peaked pulse profile and oppositely signed polarization pulses suggest that 1WGA J1958.2+3232 accretes onto both magnetic poles via a disc which is truncated relatively close to the white dwarf.
description: All figures now included as postscript
Supplementary document for Highly efficient waveguide emission in asymmetrically deformed square cavity microlasers - 6326251.pdf
Creators: name: Bai, Huayu
name: hao, you-zeng
name: shi, yang
name: Li, Yali
name: Xiao, Jin-Long
name: Yang, Yue-De
name: Huang, Yong-Zhen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Economic model predictive control for snake robot locomotion
Creators: name: Nonhoff, Marko
name: Köhler, Philipp N.
name: Kohl, Anna M.
name: Pettersen, Kristin Y.
name: Allgöwer, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this work, the control of snake robot locomotion via economic model predictive control (MPC) is studied. Only very few examples of applications of MPC to snake robots exist and rigorous proofs for recursive feasibility and convergence are missing. We propose an economic MPC algorithm that maximizes the robot's forward velocity and integrates the choice of the gait pattern into the closed loop. We show recursive feasibility of the MPC optimization problem, where some of the developed techniques are also applicable for the analysis of a more general class of system. Besides, we provide performance results and illustrate the achieved performance by numerical simulations. We thereby show that the economic MPC algorithm outperforms a standard lateral undulation controller and achieves constraint satisfaction. Surprisingly, a gait pattern different to lateral undulation results from the optimization.
description: Extended version, accepted for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2019. 8 pages, 5 figures
Impact of complement C3 levels on the development of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care patients: a retrospective case-control study
Creators: name: Wang, Chenjuan
name: Chen, Binhao
name: Ying, Zhekai
name: Shen, Mengyuan
name: Luo, Yiling
name: Lin, Tianchen
name: Feng, Dandan
name: Yang, Dongdong
name: Zhang, Zhongheng
name: Wu, Jiannong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The immune system serves as a critical line of defence against pathogenic microorganisms. To investigate the impact of immune markers, measured within the first 48 h of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, on the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in ICU patients. This case-control study included 364 patients admitted from 1 January 2020 to 30 November 2023, receiving immune marker testing within 48 h of ICU admission. Cox proportional hazard models and propensity score matching evaluated immune markers’ association with HAIs risk. Log-rank tests compared time-to-event by C3 levels. All data processing and analysis were performed using R version 4.2.0 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) and Python version 3.11 (Python Software Foundation, Wilmington, DE). In total, 258 patients without HAIs (mean [SD] age, 67.24 [17.79] years) and 106 patients with HAIs (mean [SD] age, 73.80 [14.93] years) were included in the final analysis. The HAIs group had older age, longer hospital stay, lower Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores, and a higher rate of comorbid infections than the non-HAIs group. Also, the HAIs group had a higher proportion of basophils, lymphocytes, monocytes and T suppressor cells (CD3 + CD8+), while the proportion of neutrophils and B cells (CD19+) was lower. After Cox regression analysis and propensity score adjustment, we found that C3 complement levels (HR: 0.40; 95%CI, 0.16–0.98; p = .044) influenced the incidence of HAIs. Patients were then divided into high C3 and low C3 groups based on a cut-off value of 0.455 for C3. A time-to-event plot showed that the median time to HAIs occurrence was nine days in the high C3 group and six days in the low C3 group (p = .048). Elevated complement C3 levels may associat with a reduced incidence of HAIs in ICU patients.
Supplementary document for On-chip single-mode thin film lithium niobate laser based on Sagnac loop reflectors - 6276313.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Shupeng
name: Fang, Zhiwei
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: HUANG, QINFEN
name: Liu, jian
name: Wu, Rongbo
name: Zhang, Haisu
name: Wang, Min
name: Cheng, Ya
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Design and simulate of Er: TFLN FP resonator laser
Correlation Functions in Holographic Renormalization Group Flows
Creators: name: Mueck, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the holographic duality for a generic bulk theory of scalars coupled to gravity. By studying the fluctuations around Poincare invariant backgrounds with non-vanishing scalars, with the scalar and metric boundary conditions considered as being independent, we obtain all one- and two-point functions in the dual renormalization group flows of the boundary field theory. Operator and vev flows are explicitly distinguished by means of the physical condensates. The method is applied to the GPPZ and Coulomb branch flows, and field theoretical expectations are confirmed.
description: v.3: version to appear in NPB
Comparison of the toxicity of waters containing initially sulfaquinoxaline after photocatalytic treatment by TiO2 and polyaniline/TiO2
Creators: name: Sandikly, Nahid
name: Kassir, Mounir
name: Mouhieddine El Jamal
name: Takache, Hosni
name: Arnoux, Philippe
name: Mokh, Samia
name: Al-Iskandarani, Mohammad
name: Roques-Carmes, Thibault
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: This paper addresses the residual toxicity of waters after photocatalysis treatments. The initial waters contain 7 mg L−1 of sulfaquinoxaline (SQX) which is a sulfonamide antibiotic generally recorded inside the water. The contaminated waters are treated by photocatalytic degradation process with bare titania and titania covered with polyaniline (PANI) conducting polymer. The degradation of SQX is conducted at different pH in order to find the optimal condition to obtain SQX concentration relatively equal to zero in the shortest amount of time. This occurs for PANI/TiO2 at pH 12 and TiO2 at pH 4. Toxicity assays (concentration of biomass, pigmentation tests, and cells counting) are undertaken on the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in order to evaluate the residual toxicity of the 2 treated waters. The toxicity results highlight that the water treated by PANI/TiO2 at pH 12 is the less toxic towards the algae cells. The water processed by bare titania at acidic pH displays unneglectable toxicity towards the algae cells which are larger than the toxicity of the original SQX solution.
On the dilaton and the axion potentials
Creators: name: Chabab, M.
name: Biaze, N. El
name: Markazi, R.
name: Saidi, E. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the Vecchia-Veneziano-Witten (VVW) model of QCD in the chiral limit and for large colour number $N_c$, by introducing an effective dilaton-gluon coupling from which we derive both the axion and dilaton potentials. Furthermore, using a string inspired model, we determine a new interquark potential as a perturbative series in terms of the interquark distance $r$. Our potential goes beyond Dick one obtained in [8] and shares the same features as the Bian-Huang-Shen potential $V_{BHS}$ which depends only on odd powers of $r$ [22].
description: 15 pages, Latex
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SITE-SPECIFIC NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT (SSNM) FOR IRRIGATED RICE IN ASIA
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Divina Gracia P.
name: Rodriguez, Divina Gracia P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: rice
subject: fertilizer recommendations
subject: nitrogen
subject: soil carbon content
subject: organic matter

description: Site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) provides guidelines for effective nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium management to help farmers make better decisions on fertilizer input and output levels in rice production. I evaluated the assumptions underlying the SSNM strategy for rice in the top rice producing countries in the world: India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Using a generalized quadratic production function, I explored whether major nutrients are substitutes as inputs, and if there are complementarities between inorganic fertilizer and soil organic matter (SOM). I also used non-nested hypothesis framework to contrast the quadratic model against the linear von Liebig model. Results showed that the relationships among major nutrients vary across sites – some inputs are complements, some are substitutes, and some are independent. In addition, I found that the SOM significantly affects the economic returns to nitrogen fertilizer inputs. Accounting for these relationships in the fertilizer recommendation algorithm can make the SSNM strategy more adaptive to farmer’s fields. In areas where soils have limiting organic matter content, fertilizer subsidy or distribution might not be appropriate means to support rice production. Increased rice productivity can be achieved through integrated soil fertility management and adoption of soil conservation technologies.
Holographic Timelike Entanglement Entropy from Rindler Method
Creators: name: He, Peng-Zhang
name: Zhang, Hai-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a Lorentzian invariant theory, the entanglement entropy should be a function of the domain of dependence of the subregion under consideration. More precisely, it should be a function of the domain of dependence and the appropriate cut-off. In this paper, we refine the concept of cut-off to make it applicable to timelike regions and assume that the usual entanglement entropy formula also applies to timelike intervals. Using the Rindler method, the timelike entanglement entropy can be regarded as the thermal entropy of the CFT after the Rindler transformation plus a constant $icπ/6$ with $c$ the central charge. The gravitational dual of the `covariant' timelike entanglement entropy is finally presented following this method.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Supplementary document for In vivo endoscopic ultrasound imaging with a rotational-scanning, all-optical ultrasound probe - 6298685.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Qi
name: Wu, Chaoneng
name: Long, Kai
name: Huang, Cheng
name: Zhong, Xiaoxuan
name: Bai, Xue
name: Cheng, Linghao
name: Jin, Long
name: Liang, Yizhi
name: Guan, Bai-Ou
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomechanical Engineering

description: supplement 1
Driving Factors of Rural-Urban Migration in China
Creators: name: Melo, Grace
name: Ames, Glenn
name: Melo, Grace
name: Ames, Glenn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Internal migration
subject: agricultural labor

description: This study employs panel data to analyze the economic factors that drive rural-urban migration and agricultural labor supply within China. The results indicate that higher wages in urban areas, especially in the construction sector, was associated with rural-urban migration and a decline in the agricultural labor supply. The rural-urban wage differential in construction reflects the housing boom in cities set off by rapid urbanization and government policies. Most importantly, our findings raise concerns about the negative impact of rural-urban migration on agriculture in China. Policies that impact labor supply, especially in times of rapid urban development and low diffusion of agricultural technology, are critical to Chinese economic development and stability.
The Fuzzy Kaehler Coset Space by the Fedosov Formalism
Creators: name: Aoyama, Shogo
name: Masuda, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss deformation quantization of the Kaehler coset space by using the Fedosov formalism. We show that the Killing potentials of the Kaehler coset space satisfy the fuzzy algebrae, when the coset space is irreducible.
description: 12 pages, no figure, Latex; reference added and typos corrected
Didymodon insulanus M. O. Hill
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Didymodon
Didymodon insulanus

description: Didymodon insulanus (De Not.) M.O.Hill
RECORDS. — Montagne (1849, 1856): Tournit. Bescherelle (1882): Toumiet, sur les bords du ruiseau, au bas de la colline. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger, près Médéah; Bône; Col des Toumiettes; Constantine; Djurdjura. Corbière (1889), Jelenc (1955a): Blida. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Médéa. Corbière (1904, 1905), Jelenc (1955a): Constantine, bois du djebel Ouasch, talus d’un fossé, 1000 m. Jelenc (1955a): Aumale; Kabylie des Babor, cap Aokas; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Fort National; Tell oranais. Jelenc (1956): Kabylie du Djurdjura, massif de l’Arkafadou à la Fontaine des Ifs. Jelenc (1967): Atlas Mitidjien, pic Mouzaïa; Haute-Plaine de Tlemcen, Chabet-bel-Abbès, 750 m et oued Sennoun; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Akfadou, 1200 m; Monts de Tlemcen, forêt de Tessera Mramet, 1400 m. Bizot (1973): Ruines de Timgad. Ros et al. (1990): Texenna’s wood, 700 m. Ros et al. (1990), Jiménez (2006): Chiffa’s Gorge. Cano et al. (2000): sine loco. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Common.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 72, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Patchy Screening of the CMB from Dark Photons
Creators: name: Pîrvu, Dalila
name: Huang, Junwu
name: Johnson, Matthew C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study anisotropic (patchy) screening induced by the resonant conversion of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons into dark-sector massive vector bosons (dark photons) as they cross non-linear large scale structure (LSS). Resonant conversion takes place through the kinetic mixing of the photon with the dark photon, one of the simplest low energy extensions to the Standard Model. In the early Universe, resonant conversion can occur when the photon plasma mass, obtained as the photon propagates through the ionized interstellar and intergalactic media, matches the dark photon mass. After the epoch of reionization, resonant conversion occurs mainly in the ionized gas that occupies virialized dark matter halos, for a range of dark photon masses between $10^{-13} {\rm \; eV} \lesssim m_{\rm A^{\prime}} \lesssim 10^{-11} {\rm \; eV}$. This leads to new CMB anisotropies that are correlated with LSS, which we refer to as patchy dark screening, in analogy with anisotropies from Thomson screening. Its unique frequency dependence allows it to be distinguished from the blackbody CMB. In this paper, we use a halo model approach to predict the imprint of dark screening on the CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies, as well as their correlation with LSS. We then examine the two- and three-point correlation functions of the dark-screened CMB, as well as correlation functions between CMB and LSS observables, to project the sensitivity of future measurements to the kinetic mixing parameter and dark photon mass. We demonstrate that an analysis with existing CMB data can improve upon current constraints on the kinetic mixing parameter by two orders of magnitude with the two-point correlation functions, while data from upcoming CMB experiments and LSS surveys can further improve the reach by another order of magnitude with two- and three-point correlation functions.
description: 29 + 15 pages; 9 + 4 figures; comments welcome
Novel evaluation of surgical activity recognition models using task-based efficiency metrics
Creators: name: Zia, Aneeq
name: Guo, Liheng
name: Zhou, Linlin
name: Essa, Irfan
name: Jarc, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Purpose: Surgical task-based metrics (rather than entire procedure metrics) can be used to improve surgeon training and, ultimately, patient care through focused training interventions. Machine learning models to automatically recognize individual tasks or activities are needed to overcome the otherwise manual effort of video review. Traditionally, these models have been evaluated using frame-level accuracy. Here, we propose evaluating surgical activity recognition models by their effect on task-based efficiency metrics. In this way, we can determine when models have achieved adequate performance for providing surgeon feedback via metrics from individual tasks. Methods: We propose a new CNN-LSTM model, RP-Net-V2, to recognize the 12 steps of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomies (RARP). We evaluated our model both in terms of conventional methods (e.g. Jaccard Index, task boundary accuracy) as well as novel ways, such as the accuracy of efficiency metrics computed from instrument movements and system events. Results: Our proposed model achieves a Jaccard Index of 0.85 thereby outperforming previous models on robotic-assisted radical prostatectomies. Additionally, we show that metrics computed from tasks automatically identified using RP-Net-V2 correlate well with metrics from tasks labeled by clinical experts. Conclusions: We demonstrate that metrics-based evaluation of surgical activity recognition models is a viable approach to determine when models can be used to quantify surgical efficiencies. We believe this approach and our results illustrate the potential for fully automated, post-operative efficiency reports.
TEASMA: A Practical Methodology for Test Adequacy Assessment of Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Abbasishahkoo, Amin
name: Dadkhah, Mahboubeh
name: Briand, Lionel
name: Lin, Dayi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Successful deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requires their validation with an adequate test set to ensure a sufficient degree of confidence in test outcomes. Although well-established test adequacy assessment techniques have been proposed for DNNs, we still need to investigate their application within a comprehensive methodology for accurately predicting the fault detection ability of test sets and thus assessing their adequacy. In this paper, we propose and evaluate TEASMA, a comprehensive and practical methodology designed to accurately assess the adequacy of test sets for DNNs. In practice, TEASMA allows engineers to decide whether they can trust high-accuracy test results and thus validate the DNN before its deployment. Based on a DNN model's training set, TEASMA provides a procedure to build accurate DNN-specific prediction models of the Fault Detection Rate (FDR) of a test set using an existing adequacy metric, thus enabling its assessment. We evaluated TEASMA with four state-of-the-art test adequacy metrics: Distance-based Surprise Coverage (DSC), Likelihood-based Surprise Coverage (LSC), Input Distribution Coverage (IDC), and Mutation Score (MS). Our extensive empirical evaluation across multiple DNN models and input sets such as ImageNet, reveals a strong linear correlation between the predicted and actual FDR values derived from MS, DSC, and IDC, with minimum R^2 values of 0.94 for MS and 0.90 for DSC and IDC. Furthermore, a low average Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 9% between actual and predicted FDR values across all subjects, when relying on regression analysis and MS, demonstrates the latter's superior accuracy when compared to DSC and IDC, with RMSE values of 0.17 and 0.18, respectively. Overall, these results suggest that TEASMA provides a reliable basis for confidently deciding whether to trust test results for DNN models.
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Didymodon
Didymodon luridus

description: Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger. Corbière (1889), Jiménez (2006): Blidah. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Médéa; Sétif, 1085 m. Corbière (1905): Environs de Constantine, bords de l’oued Bou Merzoug; Environs de Constantine, Le Hamma; Environs de Constantine, Menidj; Environs de Constantine, Moulin Laire; Environs de Constantine, route de la Corniche; Environs de Constantine, Sidi M’Cid. Braun-Blanquet & Maire (1924), Jelenc (1955a): Tlemcen. Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida, oued el Kebir, 200 m; Bône; Constantine; Djebel Chenoua; Gorges de la Chiffa, 300-400 m; Orléansville; Philippeville. Ros et al. (1990): Oued Rhiou. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 72, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
The eccentric behaviour of windy binary stars
Creators: name: Saladino, M. I.
name: Pols, O. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, CH stars and barium stars, among other classes of chemically peculiar stars, are thought to be products of the interaction of low- and intermediate-mass binaries which occurred when the most evolved star was in the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase. Binary evolution models predict that if the initial orbital periods of such systems are shorter than a few thousand days, their orbits should have circularised due to tidal effects. However, observations of the progeny of AGB binaries show that many of these objects have substantial eccentricities, up to about 0.9. In this work we explore the impact of wind mass transfer on the orbits of AGB binaries by performing numerical simulations in which the AGB wind is modelled using a hydrodynamical code and the stellar dynamics is evolved using an N-body code. We find that in most models wind mass transfer contributes to the circularisation of the orbit, but on longer timescales than tidal circularisation if the eccentricity is less than about 0.4. For low initial wind velocities and pseudo-synchronisation of the donor star, we find a structure resembling wind Roche-lobe overflow near periastron. In this case, the interaction between the gas and the stars is stronger than for high initial wind velocities and the orbit shrinks while the eccentricity decreases. In one of our models wind interaction is found to pump the eccentricity on a similar timescale as tidal circularisation. Although our study is based on a small sample of models, it offers some insight into the orbital evolution of eccentric binaries interacting via winds. A larger grid of numerical models for different binary parameters is needed to test if a regime exists where hydrodynamical eccentricity pumping can effectively counteract tidal circularisation, and if this can explain the puzzling eccentricities of the descendants of AGB binaries.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Supplementary document for Rapid and flexible calibration of DFPP using a dual-sight fusion target - 6309775.pdf
Creators: name: Feng, Luyuan
name: Kang, Jiehu
name: Li, Hongtong
name: Sun, Zefeng
name: Zhang, Zhen
name: Yuan, Leiwen
name: Su, Zhongyuan
name: wu, bin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: DSF target calibration and the specific acquisition mode of the PSD
Tuning magnetic chirality by dipolar interactions
Creators: name: Lucassen, Juriaan
name: Meijer, Mariëlle J.
name: Kloodt-Twesten, Fabian
name: Frömter, Robert
name: Kurnosikov, Oleg
name: Duine, Rembert A.
name: Swagten, Henk J. M.
name: Koopmans, Bert
name: Lavrijsen, Reinoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral magnetism has gained enormous interest in recent years because of the anticipated wealth of applications in nanoelectronics. The demonstrated stabilization of chiral magnetic domain walls and skyrmions has been attributed to the actively investigated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently, however, predictions were made that suggest dipolar interactions can also stabilize chiral domain walls and skyrmions, but direct experimental evidence has been lacking. Here we show that dipolar interactions can indeed stabilize chiral domain walls by directly imaging the magnetic domain walls using scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis. We further show that the competition between the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and dipolar interactions can reverse the domain-wall chirality. Finally, we suggest that this competition can be tailored by a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction. Our work therefore reveals that dipolar interactions play a key role in the stabilization of chiral spin textures. This insight will open up new routes towards balancing interactions for the stabilization of chiral magnetism.