cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Conservação-Restauração De Mobiliário Em Pedra, Madeira E Metal: Documentação E Análise
Creators: name: Michelle Sousa Gomes
name: Roseane da Conceição Costa Norat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Na história do mobiliário, as mesas são importantes tipologias de bens móveis utilitários, que podem apresentar diversas técnicas e materiais construtivos, bem como refletir aspectos estilísticos, sendo objetos que podem atingir o status de interesse cultural e de preservação. Porém boa parte desses objetos são alterados ou substituídos por outros móveis novos, seja por apresentarem sinais de deterioração ou por serem classificados como obsoletos ou fora de moda. Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar os procedimentos de documentação e caracterização de uma mesa de apoio lateral em estilo neoclássico, que seria descartada por seus antigos proprietários, mas foi resgatada para fins de conservação-restauração. Por meio de técnicas analíticas como a microscopia ótica, fluorescência de raios-x portátil, medição de brilho e colorimetria aliada ao levantamento cadastral e mapeamento dos processos de alteração, apresenta-se a documentação de aporte para os procedimentos a serem empregados para a restauração da mesa que é composta por três materiais: madeira na base e pernas; metal na borda do tampo e no acabamento dos pés; e pedra no tampo curvilíneo. Os resultados da documentação e caracterização dos materiais e dos processos de alteração identificados representam uma etapa primordial para uma atuação segura e definição de plano de ação dos procedimentos de conservação-restauração do bem móvel.
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2017-1116 (201701116), Mark Karczewski - Seawall Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2017-01116 (NW-EMC), Karczewski Shoreline Stabilization, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2017-01842
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2017-2192 (201702192), Edward O'Reilly - Seawall Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2017-02192 (NW-SJR), O'Reilly Seawall, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2017-01841
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2017-1477 (201701477), Williamson- Seawall Project (Lee Co, FL)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2017-1477 (NWP-DSD), Melanie Williamson Seawall Installation, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2017-01840
Smart Millennials and their Changing Shopping Trends: A Case of Millennial Students in Nellore
Creators: name: Machavolu, Sandeep Kumar
name: Dr. M. Srinivasa Narayana
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Shopping habits among people change with the change in generation. Each generation is characterized by
unique habits and preferences. Understanding the changing trends becomes paramount for retailers to suit
their business strategies to the new-age customers. On the other hand, reforms in the industry and pressures
from competition throws open new vistas for today's retailers. In this connection, a study has been initiated to
understand the changing shopping trends among millennials. The chief objective of the study is to find the
changing habits of millennials in terms of their online buying, the penetration of smart-phone into their
purchase process and their satisfaction towards online purchase. A sample of 135 respondents in Nellore
was approached for a survey and after a few rejections; data from a total of 128 respondents was gathered
using a structured questionnaire. The data gathered was thoroughly analyzed using statistical tools and the
findings were presented. The results of the study state that the new-gen shoppers who are termed as
millennials are coming up with unprecedented shopping habits and preferences. Most of the millennials own
a smartphone or two which has disrupted the shopping trends in the market. Smart Millennials, the ones who
belong to millennial generation and who own a smartphone are ubiquitous. Smartphones have penetrated
deep into their personal lives. Smart millenials are welcoming experiments in product delivery and payment
methods, spurring online shopping trend. However, there exist a few cases, if not many in which these smart
millennials are slurred by a few online retailers by way failed delivery of product ordered. The study
concludes that smart millennials are going to make a huge pie of the market in the years ahead and with the
changing times comes the need for the retailers to fine-tune business as well.
All Static Black Holes in AdS$_3$
Creators: name: Haddad, Nidal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we find the general static vacuum solution of three dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant. Even though all solutions are locally diffeomorphic to pure $AdS_{3}$, solutions that differ globally from the latter space exist. New solutions with black holes on the $AdS_3$ boundary are found in both global and Poincare coordinates. In the Poincare coordinates such solutions are known as black funnels and black droplets. The black funnel provided by our general static metric is dual to the Hartle-Hawking state in the $1+1$ boundary theory.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Ambient functions - abandoned children to zoos
Creators: name: Hurley, Chris
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Since records are timebound and contextual metadata must be understood by an observer whose frame ofreference is different from that of the recordkeeper, there is a need for external validation. The processes ofterminological control (based on definition) are inadequate for this purpose. What is needed is a process ofcontextual control (based on observation). Ambience is the context of provenance and it is there that we willfind external validation of provenance data. Functions offer one possible tool for crafting ambient relationships.Ambient functions define and give meaning to agents of recordkeeping within the context in which they operate.Ambient functions should be distinguished from business activities and processes which do not afford thebasis for meaningful discrimination necessary when formulating appraisal categories and useful searchpatterns.
handle 1959.1/1173423pid monash%3A155354
Archives of the new millenium%3A exploring the archival issues of the early twenty-first century
Creators: name: Reed, Barbara
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Keynote address
Bands, resonances, edge singularities and excitons in core level spectroscopy investigated within the dynamical mean field theory
Creators: name: Haverkort, M. W.
name: Sangiovanni, G.
name: Hansmann, P.
name: Toschi, A.
name: Lu, Y.
name: Macke, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a recently developed impurity solver we exemplify how dynamical mean field theory captures band excitations, resonances, edge singularities and excitons in core level x-ray absorption (XAS) and core level photo electron spectroscopy (cPES) on metals, correlated metals and Mott insulators. Comparing XAS at different values of the core-valence interaction shows how the quasiparticle peak in the absence of core-valence interactions evolves into a resonance of similar shape, but different origin. Whereas XAS is rather insensitive to the metal insulator transition, cPES can be used, due to nonlocal screening, to measure the amount of local charge fluctuation.
Supplementary Methods and Materials from Background complexity and the detectability of camouflaged targets by birds and humans
Creators: name: Xiao, Feng
name: Cuthill, Innes C.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Remaining undetected is often key to survival, and camouflage is a widespread solution. However, extrinsic to the animal itself, the complexity of the background may be important. This has been shown in laboratory experiments using artificially patterned prey and backgrounds, but the mechanism remains obscure (not least because ‘complexity’ is a multifaceted concept). In this study, we determined the best predictors of detection by wild birds and human participants searching for the same cryptic targets on trees in the field. We compared detection success to metrics of background complexity and ‘visual clutter’ adapted from the human visual salience literature. For both birds and humans, the factor that explained most of the variation in detectability was the textural complexity of the tree bark as measured by a metric of feature congestion (specifically, many nearby edges in the background). For birds, this swamped any effects of colour match to the local surround, although, for humans, local luminance disparities between the target and tree became important. For both taxa, a more abstract measure of complexity, entropy, was a poorer predictor. Our results point to the common features of background complexity that affect visual search in birds and humans, and how to quantify them.
Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Networks — A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Ihle, Cornelius
name: Trautwein, Dennis
name: Schubotz, Moritz
name: Meuschke, Norman
name: Gipp, Bela
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Peer-to-peer
subject: incentive mechanism
subject: reputation
subject: credit
subject: monetary incentives
subject: service incentives
subject: tit-for-tat
subject: p2p
subject: 004

description: Centralized networks inevitably exhibit single points of failure that malicious actors regularly target. Decentralized networks are more resilient if numerous participants contribute to the network’s functionality. Most decentralized networks employ incentive mechanisms to coordinate the participation and cooperation of peers and thereby ensure the functionality and security of the network. This article systematically reviews incentive mechanisms for decentralized networks and networked systems by covering 165 prior literature reviews and 178 primary research papers published between 1993 and October 2022. Of the considered sources, we analyze 11 literature reviews and 105 primary research papers in detail by categorizing and comparing the distinctive properties of the presented incentive mechanisms. The reviewed incentive mechanisms establish fairness and reward participation and cooperative behavior. We review work that substitutes central authority through independent and subjective mechanisms run in isolation at each participating peer and work that applies multiparty computation. We use monetary, reputation, and service rewards as categories to differentiate the implementations and evaluate each incentive mechanism’s data management, attack resistance, and contribution model. Further, we highlight research gaps and deficiencies in reproducibility and comparability. Finally, we summarize our assessments and provide recommendations to apply incentive mechanisms to decentralized networks that share computational resources.
A New Probe of Dark Sector Dynamics at the LHC
Creators: name: Gupta, Arpit
name: Primulando, Reinard
name: Saraswat, Prashant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a LHC search for dilepton resonances in association with large missing energy as a generic probe of TeV dark sector models. Such resonances can occur if the dark sector includes a U(1) gauge boson, or Z', which kinetically mixes with the Standard Model U(1). For small mixing, direct 2 to 1 production of the Z' is not visible in standard resonance searches due to the large Drell-Yan background. However, there may be significant production of the Z' boson in processes involving other dark sector particles, resulting in final states with a Z' resonance and missing transverse momentum. Examples of such processes include cascade decays within the dark sector and radiation of the Z' off of final state dark sector particles. Even when the rate to produce a Z' boson in a dark sector process is suppressed, this channel can provide better sensitivity than traditional collider probes of dark sectors such as monojet searches. We find that data from the 8 TeV LHC run can be interpreted to give bounds on such processes; more optimized searches could extend the sensitivity and continue to probe these models in the Run II data.
description: Version published in JHEP, minor changes and corrections
Supplementary document for Coherent Raman spectroscopy on hydrogen with in-situ generation, in-situ use, and in-situ referencing of the ultrabroadband excitation - 6019499.pdf
Creators: name: Mazza, Francesco
name: Stutvoet, Aert
name: Castellanos, Leonardo
name: Kliukin, Dmitrii
name: Bohlin, Alexis
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Morphology and structure of extremely red objects at $z\sim1$ in the CANDELS-COSMOS field
Creators: name: Fang, Guan-Wen
name: Ma, Zhong-Yang
name: Chen, Yang
name: Kong, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high-resolution HST/Wide Field Camera 3 F125W imaging from the CANDELS-COSMOS field, we report the the structural and morphological properties of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) at $z\sim1$. Based on the UVJ color criteria, we separate EROs into two types: old passive galaxies (OGs) and dusty star-forming galaxies (DGs). For a given stellar mass, we find that the mean size of OGs (DGs) is smaller by a factor of $\sim2$ (1.5) than that of present-day early-type (late-type) galaxies at rest-frame optical wavelength. We derive the average effective radii of OGs and DGs, corresponding to $2.09\pm1.13$ kpc and $3.27\pm1.14$ kpc, respectively. Generally, The DGs are heterogeneous, with mixed features including bulges, disks, and irregular structures, with relatively high $M_{\rm 20}$, small size and low $G$, while OGs are elliptical-like compact morphologies with lower $M_{\rm 20}$, larger size and higher $G$, indicating the more concentrated and symmetric spatial extent of stellar population distribution in OGs than DGs. The findings imply that OGs and DGs have different evolutionary processes, and the minor merger scenario is the most likely mechanism for the structural properties of OGs. However, the size evolution of DGs is possibly due to the secular evolution of galaxies.
VITALISE D8.1 First Interim report on Transnational  Access 1
Creators: name: Benito, Begoña
name: GARATEA, JOKIN
name: Plomariti, Christina
name: Helsen, Kim
name: Almeida, Rosa
name: Santonen, Teemu
name: Julin, Mikko
name: Azevedo, Nancy
name: Kehayia, Eva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document aims to present an overview of the Transnational Access (TA) activities conducted in Work Package 8 (WP8) ΤΑ1 - TA to Living Lab infrastructures for rehabilitation as part of the VITALISE project. This first interim report encompasses six (6) research infrastructures that participated in the context of this work package, presenting information for both completed TA activities and also for the upcoming TA activities scheduled for the project's final phase.  

In particular, the report includes comprehensive information for each of the participating research infrastructures. For completed TA activities, it provides a summary of every research project, the activities performed, the outcomes achieved, and any notable findings or advancements made. In addition, the report for the completed TA activities includes also some information regarding the effort and hours spent from the several professionals of the LL personnel for supporting the execution of each TA activity, both in person and remotely, as well as a summary of the researchers’ TA evaluation and potential opportunities for future collaboration and common publications. This information showcases the value and impact of the TA program on the overall project objectives.

Additionally, the document outlines the upcoming TA activities that are going to be carried out during the project's final phase. It includes details such as the planned research objectives, anticipated benefits, and expected outcomes. These planned TA activities represent the project's ongoing commitment to exploring new avenues of research and maximizing the potential of Living Lab infrastructures.  

As it is the first interim report, this document offers a snapshot of the collaborative efforts and achievements within WP8's TA1. It signifies the project's progress towards fostering innovation, knowledge exchange, and interdisciplinary research in the realm of rehabilitation. This report serves as a valuable resource for stakeholders, researchers, and policymakers, providing insights into the project's TA outcomes and setting the stage for the comprehensive final report due in Month 36.
Uddin et al 2021_EI.pdf
Creators: name: Uddin, Md Galal
name: Nash, Stephen
name: Rahman, Azizur
name: Olbert, Agnieszka I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecohydrology
Contaminant hydrology
Groundwater hydrology
Hydrology not elsewhere classified
Surface water hydrology
Urban hydrology
Oceanography not elsewhere classified
Chemical oceanography
Biological oceanography
Earth system sciences
Environmentally sustainable engineering
Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
Air pollution modelling and control
Health and ecological risk assessment
Global and planetary environmental engineering
Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling
Life cycle assessment and industrial ecology
Bioavailability and ecotoxicology
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Ecological applications not elsewhere classified
Ecosystem function
Ecosystem services (incl. pollination)
Groundwater quality processes and contaminated land assessment
Noise and wave pollution processes and measurement
Environmental biogeochemistry
Pollution and contamination not elsewhere classified
Surface water quality processes and contaminated sediment assessment
Biological control
Environmental biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Environmental nanotechnology and nanometrology
Environmental marine biotechnology
Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The water quality index (WQI) model is a popular tool for evaluating surface water quality. It uses aggregation techniques that allow conversion of extensive water quality data into a single value or index. Globally, the WQI model has been applied to evaluate water quality (surface water and groundwater) based on local water quality criteria. Since its development in the 1960s, it has become a popular tool due to its generalised structure and ease-of-use. Commonly, WQI models involve four consecutive stages; these are (1) selection of the water quality parameters, (2) generation of sub-indices for each parameter (3) calculation of the parameter weighting values, and (4) aggregation of sub-indices to compute the overall water quality index. Several researchers have utilized a range of applications of WQI models to evaluate the water quality of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and estuaries. Some problems of the WQI model are that they are usually developed based on site-specific guidelines for a particular region, and are therefore not generic. Moreover, they produce uncertainty in the conversion of large amounts of water quality data into a single index. This paper presents a comparative discussion of the most commonly used WQI models, including the different model structures, components, and applications. Particular focus is placed on parameterization of the models, the techniques used to determine the sub-indices, parameter weighting values, index aggregation functions and the sources of uncertainty. Issues affecting model accuracy are also discussed.
Refined control of thermoresponsive swelling/deswelling and drug release properties of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels using hydrophilic polymer crosslinkers
Creators: name: Suntae Kim
name: Kangseok Lee
name: Chaenyung Cha
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm)-based hydrogels are widely investigated for their ability to alter their physical properties (e.g. dimensions, swelling/deswelling) in response to change in temperature. Despite extensive research efforts, it is still challenging to control various aspects of thermoresponsive physical properties of PNIPAm hydrogels in an efficient and comprehensive manner using conventional small molecular crosslinkers due to their limited solubility and functional groups. Herein, thermoresponsive swelling/deswelling behavior of PNIPAm hydrogels is tuned in a wide range by hydrophilic polymeric crosslinkers with varying chain lengths. The concentration and molecular weight of the poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) crosslinker are varied to control the swelling/deswelling behavior, drug release, and lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNIPAm-PEG hydrogels. Compared with PNIPAm hydrogels crosslinked with a conventional small molecular crosslinker, N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, greater degree and range of thermoresponsive swelling/deswelling as well as tunable LCST are demonstrated for PNIPAm-PEG hydrogels. In addition, more swelling-controlled PNIPAm-PEG hydrogels displayed more sustained and variable thermoresponsive drug release based on their crosslinking density, by modulating the hydrophobic transition of PNIPAm chains with hydrophilic PEG chains. In sum, various thermoresponsive properties of PNIPAm hydrogels could be controlled by hydrophilic polymeric crosslinkers, and this strategy could be applied to various hydrogel systems to control their physical properties for biomedical applications.
How Does Managerial Ability Affect Cost of Equity Capital?
Creators: name: Arslan, Volkan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: cost of equity capital
managerial ability

description: This research will contribute the literature of managerial ability and cost of capital. This study is the first to investigate the association between managerial ability and cost of capital to the best of our knowledge using Demerjian et al. (2012). Managerial ability is the measurement methodology which is the most commonly used method to evaluate the managerial ability in the literature. In a previous study, Mishra (2014) investigates the relation between CEO managerial ability and cost of capital by using Custodio’s (2013) CEO managerial ability methodology. This method only measures the ability of CEOs based on their experience. Those who have several experiences in different departments and other sectors are regarded as generalist CEOs, while some others who have one specific experience in a department and/or sector are regarded as specialist CEOs. Mishra shows a positive relation between generalist CEOs and cost of capital; it is regarded as the dark side of managerial ability. Mishra explains this relation by the risky behaviors of generalist CEOs. Mishra argues that generalist CEOs have lots of job opportunities. They also tend not to focus on the long-term financial soundness of the corporations—aiming to increase revenues sharply in short terms to improve their reputation. We extend Mishra’s analysis by employing firm fixed effect to its model. We find that the impact of general CEO managerial ability which is defined by Mishra (2014) as the dark side is not significant once the employ firm fixed effect is considered. This analysis assesses the effect of managerial ability on cost of capital by using Demerjian’s methodology. It was found that the impact of managerial ability on cost of capital shows a negative significant relation in line with expectations. More able managers lead to less cost of capital. This finding is in line with literature of the impact of managerial ability on company performance. We also employ firm fixed effects to our models and confirm the study’s findings. It is shown that the relation between institutional ownership and cost of capital is also significant. Further, there were many channels examined to identify possible causes of this negative relationship. It is expected that able managers disclose more information; they also help to reduce forecast error and eventually improve performance. The relationships between managerial ability and information disclosure, managerial ability and forecast error, as well as managerial ability and performance are significant. The channel effects are also explored by employing firm fixed effect, as mentioned previously. All the models present significant relationship.
Spatio-temporal analysis of traffic emissions in over five thousand municipal districts in Brazil
Creators: name: Weeberb João Requia Júnior
name: Koutrakis, Petros
name: Roig, Henrique Llacer
name: Adams, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: 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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Exposure to traffic emission is harmful to human health. Emission inventories are essential to public health policies aiming at protecting human health, especially, in areas with incomplete or non-existent air pollution monitoring networks. In Brazil, for example, only 1.7%25 of municipal districts have a monitoring network, and only a few studies have reported data on vehicle emissions inventories. No studies have presented emissions inventories by municipality. In this study, we predicted vehicular emissions for 5,570 municipal districts in Brazil during the period 2001-2012. We used a top-down method to estimate emissions. CO2 is the pollutant with the highest emissions, with approximately 190 million tons per year during the period 2001-2012). For the other traffic-related pollutants, we predicted annual emissions of 1.5 million tons for CO; 1.2 million tons of NOx; 209,000 tons of NMHC; 58,000 tons of PM, and; 42,000 tons for CH4. From 2001 to 2012, CO, NMHC and PM emissions decreased by 41, 33 and 47%25, respectively; while those CH4, NOx and CO2 increased by 2, 4 and 84%25, respectively. We estimated uncertainties in our study and found that NOx was the pollutant with the lowest percent different, 8%25 and NMHC with the highest one, 30%25. For CO, CH4, CO2, and PM, the values were 22, 14, 21, and 20%25, respectively. Finally, we found that during 2001 and 2012 emissions increased in the Northwest and Northeast. In contrast, pollutant emissions, except for CO2, decreased in the Southeast, South, and part of Midwest. Our predictions can be critical to efforts developing cost effective public policies tailored to individual municipal districts in Brazil. IMPLICATIONS Emission inventories may be an alternative approach to provide data for air quality forecasting in areas where air quality data are not available. This approach can be an effective tool in developing spatially resolved emission inventories.
A review of water quality index models and their use for assessing surface water quality
Creators: name: Uddin, Md Galal
name: Nash, Stephen
name: Rahman, Azizur
name: Olbert, Agnieszka I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecohydrology
Contaminant hydrology
Groundwater hydrology
Hydrology not elsewhere classified
Surface water hydrology
Urban hydrology
Oceanography not elsewhere classified
Chemical oceanography
Biological oceanography
Earth system sciences
Environmentally sustainable engineering
Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
Air pollution modelling and control
Health and ecological risk assessment
Global and planetary environmental engineering
Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling
Life cycle assessment and industrial ecology
Bioavailability and ecotoxicology
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Ecological applications not elsewhere classified
Ecosystem function
Ecosystem services (incl. pollination)
Groundwater quality processes and contaminated land assessment
Noise and wave pollution processes and measurement
Environmental biogeochemistry
Pollution and contamination not elsewhere classified
Surface water quality processes and contaminated sediment assessment
Biological control
Environmental biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Environmental nanotechnology and nanometrology
Environmental marine biotechnology
Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The water quality index (WQI) model is a popular tool for evaluating surface water quality. It uses aggregation techniques that allow conversion of extensive water quality data into a single value or index. Globally, the WQI model has been applied to evaluate water quality (surface water and groundwater) based on local water quality criteria. Since its development in the 1960s, it has become a popular tool due to its generalised structure and ease-of-use. Commonly, WQI models involve four consecutive stages; these are (1) selection of the water quality parameters, (2) generation of sub-indices for each parameter (3) calculation of the parameter weighting values, and (4) aggregation of sub-indices to compute the overall water quality index. Several researchers have utilized a range of applications of WQI models to evaluate the water quality of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and estuaries. Some problems of the WQI model are that they are usually developed based on site-specific guidelines for a particular region, and are therefore not generic. Moreover, they produce uncertainty in the conversion of large amounts of water quality data into a single index. This paper presents a comparative discussion of the most commonly used WQI models, including the different model structures, components, and applications. Particular focus is placed on parameterization of the models, the techniques used to determine the sub-indices, parameter weighting values, index aggregation functions and the sources of uncertainty. Issues affecting model accuracy are also discussed.
Boosting Detection in Crowd Analysis via Underutilized Output Features
Creators: name: Wu, Shaokai
name: Yang, Fengyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detection-based methods have been viewed unfavorably in crowd analysis due to their poor performance in dense crowds. However, we argue that the potential of these methods has been underestimated, as they offer crucial information for crowd analysis that is often ignored. Specifically, the area size and confidence score of output proposals and bounding boxes provide insight into the scale and density of the crowd. To leverage these underutilized features, we propose Crowd Hat, a plug-and-play module that can be easily integrated with existing detection models. This module uses a mixed 2D-1D compression technique to refine the output features and obtain the spatial and numerical distribution of crowd-specific information. Based on these features, we further propose region-adaptive NMS thresholds and a decouple-then-align paradigm that address the major limitations of detection-based methods. Our extensive evaluations on various crowd analysis tasks, including crowd counting, localization, and detection, demonstrate the effectiveness of utilizing output features and the potential of detection-based methods in crowd analysis.
description: project page: https://fredfyyang.github.io/Crowd-Hat/
Rapidity and transverse-momentum dependence of the inclusive J/$\mathbfψ$ nuclear modification factor in p-Pb collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{\textit{s}_{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the transverse-momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) dependence of the inclusive J/$ψ$ production in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV, in three center-of-mass rapidity ($y_{\rm cms}$) regions, down to zero $p_{\rm T}$. Results in the forward and backward rapidity ranges ($2.03 < y_{\rm cms} < 3.53$ and $-4.46
description: 27 pages, 7 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 22, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1551
Compressed Sensing and Parallel Acquisition
Creators: name: Chun, Il Yong
name: Adcock, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Parallel acquisition systems arise in various applications in order to moderate problems caused by insufficient measurements in single-sensor systems. These systems allow simultaneous data acquisition in multiple sensors, thus alleviating such problems by providing more overall measurements. In this work we consider the combination of compressed sensing with parallel acquisition. We establish the theoretical improvements of such systems by providing recovery guarantees for which, subject to appropriate conditions, the number of measurements required per sensor decreases linearly with the total number of sensors. Throughout, we consider two different sampling scenarios -- distinct (corresponding to independent sampling in each sensor) and identical (corresponding to dependent sampling between sensors) -- and a general mathematical framework that allows for a wide range of sensing matrices (e.g., subgaussian random matrices, subsampled isometries, random convolutions and random Toeplitz matrices). We also consider not just the standard sparse signal model, but also the so-called sparse in levels signal model. This model includes both sparse and distributed signals and clustered sparse signals. As our results show, optimal recovery guarantees for both distinct and identical sampling are possible under much broader conditions on the so-called sensor profile matrices (which characterize environmental conditions between a source and the sensors) for the sparse in levels model than for the sparse model. To verify our recovery guarantees we provide numerical results showing phase transitions for a number of different multi-sensor environments.
description: 43 pages, 4 figures
Proposal for an Unrealized Art Project Based on Processing Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) from the Big Bang by Rick Dobleaft item
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 20103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cosmology
subject: Extragalactic Astronomy
subject: Astrophysics
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Media Studies
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Art
subject: Design
subject: Performing Arts
subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190499 Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified

description: The following is a proposal for an unrealized project that combines art and science into a presentation where the ever present signal from the Big Bang known as Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR or CMB) is felt in real time and also visualized artistically. I still plan to do this project and work with people in science and/or people in art. In 2003 I sent the following proposal to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. The Exploratorium is "the museum of science, art and human perception." I submitted an "Opportunities for Artists at the Exploratorium - Artist Application.” The proposal was rejected.In 2011 I submitted this proposal to the archive for UNREALIZED PROJECTS (AUP Projects) at e-flux.com. It is available in DOC format along with the two pictures that I submitted originally to the Exploratorium at the following address: http://e-flux.com/aup/project/rick-doble-the-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation-cmb-from-the-big-bang/
Perturbed Datasets Methods for Hypothesis Testing and Structure of Corresponding Confidence Sets
Creators: name: Kolumbán, Sándor
name: Vajk, István
name: Schoukens, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Hypothesis testing methods that do not rely on exact distribution assumptions have been emerging lately. The method of sign-perturbed sums (SPS) is capable of characterizing confidence regions with exact confidence levels for linear regression and linear dynamical systems parameter estimation problems if the noise distribution is symmetric. This paper describes a general family of hypothesis testing methods that have an exact user chosen confidence level based on finite sample count and without relying on an assumed noise distribution. It is shown that the SPS method belongs to this family and we provide another hypothesis test for the case where the symmetry assumption is replaced with exchangeability. In the case of linear regression problems it is shown that the confidence regions are connected, bounded and possibly non-convex sets in both cases. To highlight the importance of understanding the structure of confidence regions corresponding to such hypothesis tests it is shown that confidence sets for linear dynamical systems parameter estimates generated using the SPS method can have non-connected parts, which have far reaching consequences.
Uniform Recovery from Subgaussian Multi-Sensor Measurements
Creators: name: Chun, Il Yong
name: Adcock, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Parallel acquisition systems are employed successfully in a variety of different sensing applications when a single sensor cannot provide enough measurements for a high-quality reconstruction. In this paper, we consider compressed sensing (CS) for parallel acquisition systems when the individual sensors use subgaussian random sampling. Our main results are a series of uniform recovery guarantees which relate the number of measurements required to the basis in which the solution is sparse and certain characteristics of the multi-sensor system, known as sensor profile matrices. In particular, we derive sufficient conditions for optimal recovery, in the sense that the number of measurements required per sensor decreases linearly with the total number of sensors, and demonstrate explicit examples of multi-sensor systems for which this holds. We establish these results by proving the so-called Asymmetric Restricted Isometry Property (ARIP) for the sensing system and use this to derive both nonuniversal and universal recovery guarantees. Compared to existing work, our results not only lead to better stability and robustness estimates but also provide simpler and sharper constants in the measurement conditions. Finally, we show how the problem of CS with block-diagonal sensing matrices can be viewed as a particular case of our multi-sensor framework. Specializing our results to this setting leads to a recovery guarantee that is at least as good as existing results.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures
Phase Transition and Monopoles Densities in a Nearest Neighbors Two-Dimensional Spin Ice Model
Creators: name: Morais, C. W.
name: de Freitas, D. N.
name: Mota, A. L.
name: Bastone, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we show that, due to the alternating orientation of the spins in the ground state of the artificial square spin ice, the influence of a set of spins at a certain distance of a reference spin decreases faster than the expected result for the long range dipolar interaction, justifying the use of the nearest neighbor two dimensional square spin ice model as an effective model. Using an extension of the model presented in ref. [Scientific Reports 5, 15875 (2015)], considering the influence of the eight nearest neighbors of each spin on the lattice, we analyze the thermodynamics of the model and study the monopoles and string densities dependence as a function of the temperature.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Accuracy versus Simplicity in Online Battery Model Identification
Creators: name: Fotouhi, Abbas
name: Auger, Daniel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This metadata item is for the paper "Accuracy Versus Simplicity in Online Battery Model Identification" accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics%3A Systems on July 27, 2016.

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A note on quantum algorithms for the short Principal Ideal Problem
Creators: name: Jean-Francois Biasse
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 10101 Algebra and Number Theory
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we describe a quantum polynomial time attack on the cryptosystems
based on the hardness of finding a short generator of an ideal in a number field (short-PIP).
Recently, the security of the cryptosystems relying on the hardness the short-PIP in Q(ζ 2 n ) (such
as the multilinear maps of Garg, Gentry and Halevi [6]) was challenged by a clever obervation due
to Campbel, Groves and Shepherd [3] who noticed that finding a short generator of a principal
ideal reduces to finding any generator of the ideal. This statement was rigorously proved by
Cramer, Ducas, Peikert and Regev [4].
This recent work means that the security of the cryptographic schemes rely on the so-called
Principal Ideal Problem (finding a generator of an ideal). The draft of Campbel, Groves and
Shepherd described an a quamtum attack on the PIP, and conjectured that it ran in polynomial
tim. This conjecture was later retracted by R. Pinch [11] in a talk on behalf of Campbel, Groves
and Shepherd at the ICERM workshop on the mathematics of lattices and cybersecurity. In this
note, we show the main obstructions to a polynomial run time of the algorithm of Campbel,
Groves and Shepherd, and we put this work into perspective with respect to the current state of
the art of quantum computing.
Measurement of charged jet production cross sections and nuclear modification in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\rm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charged jet production cross sections in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the LHC are presented. Using the anti-$k_{\rm T}$ algorithm, jets have been reconstructed in the central rapidity region from charged particles with resolution parameters $R = 0.2$ and $R = 0.4$. The reconstructed jets have been corrected for detector effects and the underlying event background. To calculate the nuclear modification factor, $R_{\rm pPb}$, of charged jets in p-Pb collisions, a pp reference was constructed by scaling previously measured charged jet spectra at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV. In the transverse momentum range $20 \le p_{\rm T,ch\ jet} \le 120$ GeV/$c$, $R_{\rm pPb}$ is found to be consistent with unity, indicating the absence of strong nuclear matter effects on jet production. Major modifications to the radial jet structure are probed via the ratio of jet production cross sections reconstructed with the two different resolution parameters. This ratio is found to be similar to the measurement in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV and to the expectations from PYTHIA pp simulations and NLO pQCD calculations at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV.
description: 25 pages, 6 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1526
title: Федеральные налоги: порядок исчисления и уплаты субъектами хозяйствования
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2022

description: Учебное пособие посвящено развитию федеральных налогов, их роли в налоговой системе Российской Федерации. В нем описаны все виды налогов (налога на добавленную стоимость, акцизов, налога на доходы физических лиц, налога на прибыль), порядок их исчисления и уплаты. Особое внимание уделено организации налогового учета субъектами хозяйствования и подготовки и представления ими налоговой отчетности. Издание предназначено для студентов всех форм обучения, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки 38.00.00 «Экономика и управление», а также для студентов иных направлений подготовки, интересующихся данной тематикой.
Assessing the true role of coauthors in the h-index measure of an author scientific impact
Creators: name: Ausloos, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method based on the classical principal component analysis leads to demonstrate that the role of co-authors should give a h-index measure to a group leader higher than usually accepted. The method rather easily gives what is usually searched for, i.e. an estimate of the role (or "weight") of co-authors, as the additional value to an author papers' popularity. The construction of the co-authorship popularity H-matrix is exemplified and the role of eigenvalues and the main eigenvector component are discussed. An example illustrates the points and serves as the basis for suggesting a generally practical application of the concept.
description: 13 pages ; 40 refs