cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Milk Cost of Production Estimates for October, November, and December 2011
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Connecticut
subject: milk production
subject: Public Act 09-229
subject: agricultural sustainability

description: In July 2009, Connecticut Public Act 09-229 established an agricultural sustainability account to provide financial assistance to Connecticut milk producers during times when the federal milk pay price falls below a minimum sustainable monthly cost of production (COP). This legislation mandates that the Commissioner of Agriculture make payments to Connecticut dairy farmers on a quarterly basis. To determine whether payments are necessary to comply with the legislation, Public Act 09-229 defines the minimum sustainable monthly COP as eighty-two percent of the monthly average COP for a New England state, as calculated by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture. To comply with state legislation, the Commissioner of Agriculture has requested that The Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut provide estimates of the monthly COP for a New England State based on data and variables published by the USDA. Since the PA 09-229, Vermont’s milk COP has served as the benchmark for Connecticut’s milk COP. This report is a follow up on previous reports for 2011 quarters two and three that use the current USDA methodology and continues the Vermont and Maine milk COP estimates previously calculated by the USDA’s ERS.1 This report presents milk COP estimates and prices for quarter four of 2011.
Comparative study of antibiofilm, cytotoxic activity and chemical composition of Algerian propolis
Creators: name: Daikh, Amina
name: Narimane Segueni
name: Dogan, Nazime Mercan
name: Sevki Arslan
name: Dogukan Mutlu
name: Kivrak, Ibrahim
name: Akkal, Salah
name: Rhouati, Salah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Antimicrobial agents are one of the strategies for inhibition of biofilm formation. But, most antimicrobials are not often effective in controlling of biofilm formation. Therefore, finding of new materials that have biofilm inhibitory effects is so important. In this regard, we aimed to determine the antibiofilm and cytotoxic effect of five Algerian propolis extracts obtained by extraction in solvents of varying polarity. Propolis extracts were tested for their ability to inhibit biofilm formation and to reduce preformed biofilm of eight bacterial strains including reference strains of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ATCC29213 and S. aureus ATCC33862), three methicillin-resistant S. aureus (M10-1, M18-3, and M20-1), Enterococcus faecalis ATCC19433, Micrococcus luteus NRRL-B1013, and Yersinia enterocolitica RSKK1501. Cytotoxic activities of propolis extracts were determined using MTT test. Chemical investigation was performed using ultra-performance liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS). All tested extracts exhibited the highest eradicating capability for S. aureus reference strains and methicillin-resistant strains, especially MRSA18-3 and MRSA20-1.The reduction of biofilm formation was found to be significantly affected by the used solvent for maceration, the tested bacterial strains, and the origin of tested propolis. In addition, biofilm reduction of Algerian propolis seemed to be dose-dependent. Moreover, all extracts showed high cytotoxic activity in colon adenocarcinoma cells. In addition, twenty-six phenolic compounds were detected. Difference between the amounts of detected compounds was found to be significant. Caffeic and ferulic acids were the main compounds in the tested extracts. These results suggest that those compounds might be responsible for the observed antibiofilm and cytotoxic activities of propolis extracts.
Zeadolopus bahamensis Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus bahamensis

description: Zeadolopus bahamensis Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 37
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.3 mm; greatest width 0.8–0.9 mm. Reddish brown, shining, elytra with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse and dense; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; finely punctate medially. Male with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin of metafemur; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, mesotibia broad and spinose, metatibia narrower and spinose. Male with dense setae on ventral surface of pro- and mesotarsus. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 37) short, broad; paired apices inwardly curved at apex. Parameres slender, weakly curved, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac of aedeagus with elongate, median flagellum-like structure; in apical half, an Ashaped sclerotized structure. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.
 Type material. Holotype male, with the following label data: “ BAHAMAS: Andros Island / Forfar Field Sta., Stafford / Creek, 4-VI-2001, / M.C. Thomas, blacklight/ trap in coastal coppice” (FSCA). Paratypes (2) have the following label data: same data as holotype (1, FSCA); with same data except: 7-VI-2001, coll. B.K. Dozier (1, FSCA).
 Distribution. Known only from Andros Island in the Bahamas Islands.
 Remarks. Because of the geographic proximity of south Florida and Andros of the Bahamas, it might be expected that the species of the two areas might be closely related. Comparison of Z. bahamensis n. sp. of Andros with the species Zeadolopus egenus (LeConte), known from Florida and other nearby states (Peck and Cook 2013b), showed similarity in structure of the aedeagus. This is the only example of any affinity of the leiodid fauna of the Bahamas and Florida.
 Etymology. The epithet bahamensis (Bahama + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the only known locality for this species in the Bahamas.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
The Spectral Energy Distributions of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Creators: name: Leighly, Karen M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies are identified by their uniform optical spectral properties. Studies of samples of NLS1s reveal, however, a range of X-ray spectral and variability behavior, and UV spectral behavior. We describe the range of behavior observed, illustrating with a comparison of the XMM-Newton and HST data from the NLS1s 1H0707-495 and TonS180, and discuss how the spectral energy distribution may causally link the UV and X-ray properties.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 color figure, invited contribution for the conference "Stellar-mass, Intermediate-mass, and Supermassive Black Holes", held in Kyoto, Japan, October 28-31, 2003, to be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
Degenerate atom-molecule mixture in a cold Fermi gas
Creators: name: Kokkelmans, S. J. J. M. F.
name: Shlyapnikov, G. V.
name: Salomon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the atom-molecule mixture formed in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas with interspecies repulsion near a Feshbach resonance, constitutes a peculiar system where the atomic component is almost non-degenerate but quantum degeneracy of molecules is important. We develop a thermodynamic approach for studying this mixture, explain experimental observations and predict optimal conditions for achieving molecular BEC.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
A Deep Evolutionary Approach to Bioinspired Classifier Optimisation for Brain-Machine Interaction
Creators: name: Bird, Jordan J.
name: Faria, Diego R.
name: Manso, Luis J.
name: Ekárt, Anikó
name: Buckingham, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study suggests a new approach to EEG data classification by exploring the idea of using evolutionary computation to both select useful discriminative EEG features and optimise the topology of Artificial Neural Networks. An evolutionary algorithm is applied to select the most informative features from an initial set of 2550 EEG statistical features. Optimisation of a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is performed with an evolutionary approach before classification to estimate the best hyperparameters of the network. Deep learning and tuning with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) are also explored, and Adaptive Boosting of the two types of models is tested for each problem. Three experiments are provided for comparison using different classifiers: one for attention state classification, one for emotional sentiment classification, and a third experiment in which the goal is to guess the number a subject is thinking of. The obtained results show that an Adaptive Boosted LSTM can achieve an accuracy of 84.44%, 97.06%, and 9.94% on the attentional, emotional, and number datasets, respectively. An evolutionary-optimised MLP achieves results close to the Adaptive Boosted LSTM for the two first experiments and significantly higher for the number-guessing experiment with an Adaptive Boosted DEvo MLP reaching 31.35%, while being significantly quicker to train and classify. In particular, the accuracy of the nonboosted DEvo MLP was of 79.81%, 96.11%, and 27.07% in the same benchmarks. Two datasets for the experiments were gathered using a Muse EEG headband with four electrodes corresponding to TP9, AF7, AF8, and TP10 locations of the international EEG placement standard. The EEG MindBigData digits dataset was gathered from the TP9, FP1, FP2, and TP10 locations.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Zeadolopus caborojo Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus caborojo

description: Zeadolopus caborojo Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 49
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.9–2.6 mm; greatest width 1.4–2.0 mm. Dark reddish brown with moderate to strong reticulate microsculpture on head, pronotum and elytra. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club darker than funicle, moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed, strial punctures moderately large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered large punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave, not medially carinate. Metasternum with coarse punctures laterally, finer punctures medially. Male protarsi with dense setae ventrally. Male mesofemur weakly produced at anterior third and apex of posterior margin. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin. Mesotibia and metatibia broad and strongly spinose. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 49) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved and down-turned. Parameres slender, weakly curved, reaching about to apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate, median rodlike structure and apical inverted V-shaped sclerite. Female unknown.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales / 28 kmN CaboRojo, 760m / evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91, intercept / trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” (SBPC). Paratypes (3) have the following label data: same data as holotype (1, SBPC); same data as holotype except: 565m, intercept, 91-347 (1, SBPC); Dominican Republic: Pedernales, 26 km N Cabo Rojo, 18-06N, 71- 38W. 730 m. 20 July 1990, C.W. Young, J.E. Rawlins, S. Thompson (1, CMNH).
 Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.
 Etymology. The epithet caborojo, Latin noun in apposition, refers to the type locality of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Zeadolopus carinatus Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus carinatus

description: Zeadolopus carinatus Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 45
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.7 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.3 mm. Reddish brown, pronotum darker, head nearly black; shining, without microsculpture. Head finely, moderately densely punctate. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely punctate, punctures more dense laterally; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures smaller medially, increasing in size laterally; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum triangular ventrally, narrowing dorsally to form median carina that is continuous with median carina of horizontal face of mesosternum. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; punctures fine and sparse medially. Posterior margin of meso- and metafemur of both sexes weakly expanded before apex. In both sexes, mesotibia broad and spinose; metatibia narrower, not strongly spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 45) elongate, broad, narrowed apically; paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, elongate, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with median urn-shaped structure, constricted and forked basally, containing 2 pairs of small sclerites. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ JAMAICA: Ocho Rios/ Fern Gully FIT/ 19.II–1.III.84/ D. Lindeman ” (SBPC). Paratypes (16) with same data as holotype (SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Jamaica.
 Etymology. The epithet carinatus (Latin, having a carina) refers to the median carina dorsally on the vertical face of the mesosternum of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Number Counts At 3 < lambda < 10 um From the Spitzer Space Telescope
Creators: name: Fazio, G. G.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Barmby, P.
name: Hora, J. L.
name: Huang, J. -S.
name: Pahre, M. A.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Willner, S. P.
name: Arendt, R. G.
name: Moseley, S. H.
name: Brodwin, M.
name: Eisenhardt, P.
name: Stern, D.
name: Tollestrup, E. V.
name: Wright, E. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared source counts at wavelengths 3 < lambda < 10 um cover more than 10 magnitudes in source brightness, four orders of magnitude in surface density, and reach an integrated surface density of 10^5 sources/deg^2. At m<14 mag, most of the sources are Galactic stars, in agreement with models. After removal of Galactic stars, galaxy counts are consistent with what few measurements exist at nearby wavelengths. At 3.6 and 4.5 um, the galaxy counts follow the expectations of a Euclidean world model down to ~16 mag and drop below the Euclidean curve for fainter magnitudes. Counts at these wavelengths begin to show decreasing completeness around magnitude 19.5. At 5.8 and 8 um, the counts relative to a Euclidean world model show a large excess at bright magnitudes. This is probably because local galaxies emit strongly in the aromatic dust (``PAH'') features. The counts at 3.6 um resolve <50% of the Cosmic Infrared Background at that wavelength.
description: ApJS (in press), in the Spitzer Space Telescope special issue; 14 pages, 2 color figures, 1 table (electronic only)
Zeadolopus cubensis Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus cubensis

description: Zeadolopus cubensis Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 40
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 2.0– 2.6 mm; greatest width 1.7–2.0 mm. Dark reddish brown, pronotum darker, head dark reddish brown to black; shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head with moderately coarse, dense punctation. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse, dense; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum irregularly, coarsely punctate medially; densely, coarsely punctate laterally. Posterior margin of mesofemur of both sexes expanded, forming a broad median tooth in males. Males with curved toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin of metafemur; posterior margin broadly expanded in females. In both sexes, mesotibia evenly expanded from base to apex and strongly spinose; metatibia narrower, strongly spinose. Both sexes with pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi; setae more dense in males. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 40) elongate, parallel-sided, curved dorsoventrally; paired apices narrow, weakly inwardly curved. Parameres slender, elongate, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with median sclerotized tube. Spermatheca oblong with median constriction.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Santiago Prov. / Gran Piedra, Isabelica / 7–17.XII.95, 1100m / elfin forest FITs/ S. Peck, 95-84” (SBPC). Paratypes (5) have the following label data: with same data as holotype (3, SBPC); CUBA: Cienfuegos / Mayari, 1 km E / 21.97114 – 80.12172, 866m / 18.V.2013, R. Anderson / 2013-018, karst forest litter (1, SBPC); CUBA: Cienfuegos / Rio Cabagan / 21.93123 – 80.08461, 651m / 20.V.2013, gallery forest litter (1, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Cuba.
 Remarks. Because of the geographic proximity of south Florida and Cuba, it might be expected that the species of the two areas might be closely related. However, comparison of Z. cubensis n. sp. of Cuba with the species of Zeadolopus of south Florida (Peck and Cook 2013b) showed no close affinity.
 Etymology. The epithet cubensis (Cuba + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the occurrence of this species on Cuba.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Generalized W(infinity) Higher-Spin Algebras and Symbolic Calculus on Flag Manifolds
Creators: name: Calixto, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a new class of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras W_\infty(p,q) generalizing the standard W_\infty algebra, viewed as a tensor operator algebra of SU(1,1) in a group-theoretic framework. Here we interpret W_\infty(p,q) either as an infinite continuation of the pseudo-unitary symmetry U(p,q), or as a "higher-U(p,q)-spin extension" of the diffeomorphism algebra diff(p,q) of the N=p+q torus U(1)^N. We highlight this higher-spin structure of W_\infty(p,q) by developing the representation theory of U(p,q) (discrete series), calculating higher-spin representations, coherent states and deriving Kähler structures on flag manifolds. They are essential ingredients to define operator symbols and to infer a geometric pathway between these generalized W_\infty symmetries and algebras of symbols of U(p,q)-tensor operators. Classical limits (Poisson brackets on flag manifolds) and quantum (Moyal) deformations are also discussed. As potential applications, we comment on the formulation of diffeomorphism-invariant gauge field theories, like gauge theories of higher-extended objects, and non-linear sigma models on flag manifolds.
description: LaTeX, 29 pages, no figures. Substantial improvement, new material added. Title changed accordingly
Zeadolopus exiguus Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus exiguus

description: Zeadolopus exiguus Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 50
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.0– 1.3 mm; greatest width 0.7–0.9 mm. Yellowish brown to reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum with coarse, irregularly spaced punctures laterally; punctures smaller medially. Male mesofemur weakly produced near base of posterior margin; mesofemur unmodified in female. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, meso- and metatibia broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 50) elongate, broad, with inwardly curved, paired apices. Parameres moderately slender, weakly curved, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure. Spermatheca tubular, weakly curved, weakly constricted at middle.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales / 28 kmN Cabo Rojo, 760m / evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91, intercept / trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” (SBPC). Paratypes (15) have the following label data: same data as holotype except: 26 kmN Cabo Rojo, 565 m, 91-347 (8, SBPC); DOM. REP., Pedernales, 4kmW Oviedo, 10 m, arid thorn forest, 28.XI–4.XII.91, intercept traps, Masner & Peck, 91-344 (1, SBPC); DOM. REP., Prov. Pedernales, 24 km N. Cabo Rojo, 610 m., 20.VIII–9.IX.1988, flight intercept trap, M.A. Ivie, T.K. Philips & K.A. Johnson (3, WIBF); DOM. REP., Prov. Pedernales, ca. 35 km N. Cabo Rojo, 1250m, Las Abejas, 26.VIII–9.IX.1988, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (2, WIBF); DOM. REP., Barahona, 7 kmNW Paraiso, rainforest remnant, 27.XI–4.XII.91, intercept tp, Masner & Peck, 91-341 (1, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.
 Etymology. The epithet exiguus (Latin, small) refers to the small size of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
An ATCA Survey of HI Absorption in the Magellanic Clouds I: HI Gas Temperature Measurements in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Jameson, Katherine
name: McClure-Griffiths, Naomi
name: Liu, Boyang
name: Dickey, John
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Stanimirovic, Snezana
name: Dempsey, James
name: Dawson, Joanne
name: Denes, Helga
name: Bolatto, Alberto
name: Li, Di
name: Wong, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from the Small Magellanic Cloud portion of a new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) HI absorption survey of both of the Magellanic Clouds, comprising over 800 hours of observations. Our new HI absorption line data allow us to measure the temperature and fraction of cold neutral gas in a low metallicity environment. We observed 22 separate fields, targeting a total of 55 continuum sources against 37 of which we detected HI absorption; from this we measure a column density weighted mean average spin temperature of $=150$ K. Splitting the spectra into individual absorption line features, we estimate the temperatures of different gas components and find an average cold gas temperature of $\sim{30}$ K for this sample, lower than the average of $\sim{40}$ K in the Milky Way. The HI appears to be evenly distributed throughout the SMC and we detect absorption in $67\%$ of the lines of sight in our sample, including some outside the main body of the galaxy ($N_{\text{HI}}>2\times{10^{21}}$ cm$^{-2}$). The optical depth and temperature of the cold neutral atomic gas shows no strong trend with location spatially or in velocity. Despite the low metallicity environment, we find an average cold gas fraction of $\sim{20\%}$, not dissimilar from that of the Milky Way.
description: 22 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS
Dryocosmus testisimilis Tang & Melika 2011
Creators: name: IRENE LOBATO-VILA
name: ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA
name: GEORGE MELIKA
name: GRAHAM N. STONE
name: CHANGTI TANG
name: MAN-MIAO YANG
name: ZHIQIANG FANG
name: YING ZHU
name: YIPING WANG
name: SUNGHOON JUNG
name: JAMES A. NICHOLLS
name: JULI PUJADE-VILLAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Dryocosmus
Dryocosmus testisimilis

description: Dryocosmus testisimilis Tang & Melika, 2011
Dryocosmus testisimilis Tang & Melika in Melika et al. (2011: 14), ♂ ♀.
Distribution. Taiwan (Melika et al. 2011: 16).
Biology. Only the sexual generation has been described, which induces integral galls on buds, petioles and leaves of Castanopsis uraiana (Table 1; Melika et al. 2011)
description: Published as part of IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5161 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6793652
Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Radial Velocity Systems in Mean Motion Resonance---a Case Study of HD 200964
Creators: name: Rosenthal, M. M.
name: Jacobson-Galan, W.
name: Nelson, B.
name: Murray-Clay, R. A.
name: Burt, J. A.
name: Holden, B.
name: Chang, E.
name: Kaaz, N.
name: Yant, J.
name: Butler, R. P.
name: Vogt, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of mean motion resonances (MMRs) complicates analysis and fitting of planetary systems observed through the radial velocity (RV) technique. MMR can allow planets to remain stable in regions of phase space where strong planet-planet interactions would otherwise destabilize the system. These stable orbits can occupy small phase space volumes, allowing MMRs to strongly constrain system parameters, but making searches for stable orbital parameters challenging. Furthermore, libration of the resonant angle and dynamical interaction between the planets introduces another, long period variation into the observed RV signal, complicating analysis of the periods of the planets in the system. We discuss this phenomenon using the example of HD 200964. By searching through parameter space and numerically integrating each proposed set of planetary parameters to test for long term stability, we find stable solutions in the 7:5 and 3:2 MMRs in addition to the originally identified 4:3 MMR. The 7:5 configuration provides the best match to the data, while the 3:2 configuration provides the most easily understood formation scenario. In reanalysis of the originally published shorter-baseline data, we find fits in both the 4:3 and 3:2 resonances, but not the 7:5. Because the time baseline of the data is less than the resonant libration period, the current best fit to the data may not reflect the actual resonant configuration. In the absence of a full sample of the longer libration period, we find that it is of paramount importance to incorporate long term stability when fitting for the system's orbital configuration.
description: 26 pages, 23 figures
Zeadolopus caymanensis Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus caymanensis

description: Zeadolopus caymanensis Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 38
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.5 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.2 mm. Yellowish to yellowish brown, shining, faint reticulate microsculpture on elytra. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsley punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller and evenly spaced medially. Mesofemur with posterior margin evenly expanded in both sexes. Male metafemur with acute, curved, toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Male with dense pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 38) broad, with inwardly curved paired apices. Parameres slender, reaching slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with anterior long setae, pair of short sclerites angled basad, and 2 long median sclerotized structures aligned consecutively. Spermatheca of 2 connected structures of unequal size, one spherical, the other larger and more elongate.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “CAYMAN: Grand/ Cayman, Mastic Trail S/ FIT, 20–29 May 2009 / R. Turnbow ” (FSCA). Paratypes (12) with same data as holotype (6, FSCA; 6, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Grand Cayman Island of the Cayman Islands group.
 Etymology. The epithet caymanensis (Cayman + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the type locality of this species on Grand Cayman Island.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Output state in multiple entanglement swapping
Creators: name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
name: Zukowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technique of quantum repeaters is a promising candidate for sending quantum states over long distances through a lossy channel. The usual discussions of this technique deals with only a finite dimensional Hilbert space. However the qubits with which one implements this procedure will "ride" on continuous degrees of freedom of the carrier particles. Here we analyze the action of quantum repeaters using a model based on pulsed parametric down conversion entanglement swapping. Our model contains some basic traits of a real experiment. We show that the state created, after the use of any number of parametric down converters in a series of entanglement swappings, is always an entangled (actually distillable) state, although of a different form than the one that is usually assumed. Furthermore, the output state always violates a Bell inequality.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX4
Observational Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
Creators: name: Colbert, E. J. M
name: MIller, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence is mounting that some Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) may contain accreting intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). We review the current observational evidence for IMBH-ULXs. While low-luminosity ULXs with L_X ~ 10^40 ergs, we suggest that this class of ULXs is generally powered by accreting IMBHs.
description: Invited review talk at the Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Rio de Janeiro, July 20-26, 2003. Proceedings edited by M. Novello, S. Perez-Bergliaffa and R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2005. Full resolution version of this paper available at http://blackhole.phys.cua.edu/Colbert_MGX.pdf
Zeadolopus dominica Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus dominica

description: Zeadolopus dominica Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 65
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.6 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.1 mm. Reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head punctation moderately fine, irregularly spaced. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstrial punctures minute, sparse. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller medially. In both sexes, mesofemur with posterior margin broadly expanded. Male metafemur with toothlike expansion at apex of posterior margin. In both sexes, mesotibia broad and spinose; metatibia narrower, spinose. Male pro- and mesotarsi bearing dense pale setae ventrally. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 65) short and broad; paired apices evenly inwardly curved. Parameres broad, sinuate, extending beyond apex of median lobe, with expanded apices bearing 2 setae. Inverted internal sac at middle with short rod-like sclerite forked basally; cluster of broad setae in apical third. Spermatheca curved, tubular, with constriction at apical third.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES: DOMINICA / Springfield Estate, 31.V–16.VI.04/ N15°20.841’ W62°22.000’, 550 m / ridgetop forest above Mt Joy, FIT/ S. & J. Peck, 04-90” (SBPC). Paratypes (31) have the following label data: same data as holotype (3, SBPC); same data as holotype except: 400 m, Mt Joy House, wet montane forest, 04-89 (10, SBPC); West Indies, Dominica, Middleham Falls trail, Cochrane, N15°20.922’ W61°20.747’, 650 m, forest FITs, 31.V–11.VI.04, S. & J. Peck, 04-93 (17, SBPC); West Indies, Dominica, Sindicate Estate trail, E. of Dublanc, N15°31.202’ W61°25.015’, 560 m, montane rainforest FIT, 2–13.VI.04, S. & J. Peck, 04-98 (1, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Dominica.
 Etymology. The epithet dominica, Latin noun in apposition, refers to the occurrence of this species on the Lesser Antilles island of Dominica.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Resilience in the Diaspora; An Archaeological Approach
Creators: name: Maziar, Sepideh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Resilience, Migration, Kura-Araxes cultural tradition, Southwest Asia

description: Resilience is not limited either to one strategy or approach nor happened in a short time as an event. It is a long-term process with different cycles of events and should be studied in Longue durée. Archaeology, with its potential, is one of the disciplines that could address this issue by providing the “episodical patterns” of resilience at “temporal or spatial scales”. In this lecture, taking one archaeological case study into account, the conceptualization of “resilience” is discussed. The Kura-Araxes groups migrated in the last part of the 4th millennium BCE from their homeland in the southern Caucasus to Iran, eastern Anatolia (Turkey), as far as the Levant. Migrating to the new lands requires different management and new strategies of adaptation and higher flexibility in resource-management strategies and even internal societal organization. We consider all of these processes, the way they formed their habitus, as resilience efforts of the Kura-Araxes to adapt themselves to the new land. This study will showcase how the concept of resilience makes it possible to examine past societies from different perspectives through interdisciplinary methods, which provides a deeper understating of the mechanism that determines resilience among past societies.
Dryocosmus triangularis Melika & Tang 2011
Creators: name: IRENE LOBATO-VILA
name: ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA
name: GEORGE MELIKA
name: GRAHAM N. STONE
name: CHANGTI TANG
name: MAN-MIAO YANG
name: ZHIQIANG FANG
name: YING ZHU
name: YIPING WANG
name: SUNGHOON JUNG
name: JAMES A. NICHOLLS
name: JULI PUJADE-VILLAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Dryocosmus
Dryocosmus triangularis

description: Dryocosmus triangularis Melika & Tang, 2011
Dryocosmus triangularis Melika & Tang in Melika et al. (2011: 7), ♂ ♀.
Distribution. Taiwan (Melika et al. 2011: 10).
Biology. Only the sexual generation has been described, which induces stalked spindle-shaped galls on the buds, catkins and young leaves of Castanopsis carlesii (Table 1; Melika et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5161 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6793652
Very large magnetoresistance in lateral ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As wires with nanoconstrictions
Creators: name: Ruester, C.
name: Borzenko, T.
name: Gould, C.
name: Schmidt, G.
name: Molenkamp, L. W.
name: Liu, X.
name: Wojtowicz, T. J.
name: Furdyna, J. K.
name: Yu, Z. G.
name: Flatte, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have fabricated (Ga,Mn)As nanostructures in which domain walls can be pinned by sub-10 nm constrictions. Controlled by shape anisotropy, we can switch the regions on either side of the constriction to either parallel or antiparallel magnetization. All samples exhibit a positive magnetoresistance, consistent with domain-wall trapping. For metallic samples we find a magnetoresistance up to 8%, which can be understood from spin accumulation. In samples where, due to depletion at the constriction, a tunnel barrier is formed, we observe a magnetoresistance of up to 2000 %.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, submited to Phys. Rev. Lett
Son preference Among Mothers in Mosul, Iraq
Creators: name: Hajir H. Al-Ridhwany
name: Duraid Ibrahim Jirjees
name: Salih, Abdullah Rajab Mohammed
name: Aljawadi, Asma A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Introduction: Son preference is a form of gender discrimination based on the belief that girls are inadequate and of lesser value than boys. It affects couples' fertility and may act as an obstacle to fertility decline. Aim: The study is aiming for estimating prevalence of son preferences among mothers in Mosul, Iraq and detecting its relation with actual and desired parity. Subjects and Method: Cross-sectional study was achieved in Mosul, Iraq. Inclusion criteria were "currently married mothers who consulted one of the primary health care centers. Results: The study interviewed 1761 mothers who their mean age was 36.3 years and ranged 15-79 years. More than half of them (54.1%). Most of them were Muslims (93.9%) and Arabs (83.7%). The study reported 338 mothers preferred to have only sons (making prevalence of son preference as 19.2%).It was significantly associated with having or desire to have high parity (22.8%, 0.01 and 29.2%. p=0.000). Social and economic gains were the most motivations (82.2%, 17.8%) for preferring sons. Conclusions: Two out of 10 mothers in Mosul prefer to have only sons for mainly social welfare.
Acceleressence: Dark Energy from a Phase Transition at the Seesaw Scale
Creators: name: Chacko, Z.
name: Hall, Lawrence J.
name: Nomura, Yasunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple models are constructed for "acceleressence" dark energy: the latent heat of a phase transition occurring in a hidden sector governed by the seesaw mass scale v^2/M_Pl, where v is the electroweak scale and M_Pl the gravitational mass scale. In our models, the seesaw scale is stabilized by supersymmetry, implying that the LHC must discover superpartners with a spectrum that reflects a low scale of fundamental supersymmetry breaking. Newtonian gravity may be modified by effects arising from the exchange of fields in the acceleressence sector whose Compton wavelengths are typically of order the millimeter scale. There are two classes of models. In the first class the universe is presently in a metastable vacuum and will continue to inflate until tunneling processes eventually induce a first order transition. In the simplest such model, the range of the new force is bounded to be larger than 25 microns in the absence of fine-tuning of parameters, and for couplings of order unity it is expected to be \approx 100 microns. In the second class of models thermal effects maintain the present vacuum energy of the universe, but on further cooling, the universe will "soon" smoothly relax to a matter dominated era. In this case, the range of the new force is also expected to be of order the millimeter scale or larger, although its strength is uncertain. A firm prediction of this class of models is the existence of additional energy density in radiation at the eV era, which can potentially be probed in precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background. An interesting possibility is that the transition towards a matter dominated era has occurred in the very recent past, with the consequence that the universe is currently decelerating.
description: 10 pages, references added
Case AD, AR, and AS binary evolution and their possible connections with W UMa binaries
Creators: name: Jiang, Dengkai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Close detached binaries were theoretically predicted to evolve into contact by three subtypes of case A binary evolution: case AD, AR, and AS, which correspond to the formation of contact during dynamic-, thermal-, and nuclear-timescale mass transfer phase, respectively. It is unclear, however, what is the difference between contact binaries in these subtypes, and whether all of these subtypes can account for the formation of observed W UMa binaries. Using Eggleton's stellar evolution code with the nonconservative assumption, I obtained the low-mass contact binaries produced by case AD, AR, and AS at the moment of contact, and their parameter spaces. The results support that the progenitors of low-mass contact binaries are detached binaries with orbital periods shorter than $\sim2-5\,$d, and their borderlines depend strongly on the primary mass. In addition, the period-colour relations for case AR and AS can be in better agreement with that for observed W UMa candidates, but case AD shows a significantly worse agreement. Moreover, case AR and AS can produce a short-period limit (corresponding to a low-mass limit) at almost any age, e.g. from young age ($\sim0.2\,$Gyr) to old age ($\sim13\,$Gyr), agreeing with observed W UMa binaries in star clusters, but no such limit occurs for case AD at any age. These results support that case AR and AS, as opposed to case AD, can lead to W UMa binaries (including young W UMa binaries).
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society