cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal Approximate Sampling from Discrete Probability Distributions
Creators: name: Saad, Feras A.
name: Freer, Cameron E.
name: Rinard, Martin C.
name: Mansinghka, Vikash K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper addresses a fundamental problem in random variate generation: given access to a random source that emits a stream of independent fair bits, what is the most accurate and entropy-efficient algorithm for sampling from a discrete probability distribution $(p_1, \dots, p_n)$, where the probabilities of the output distribution $(\hat{p}_1, \dots, \hat{p}_n)$ of the sampling algorithm must be specified using at most $k$ bits of precision? We present a theoretical framework for formulating this problem and provide new techniques for finding sampling algorithms that are optimal both statistically (in the sense of sampling accuracy) and information-theoretically (in the sense of entropy consumption). We leverage these results to build a system that, for a broad family of measures of statistical accuracy, delivers a sampling algorithm whose expected entropy usage is minimal among those that induce the same distribution (i.e., is "entropy-optimal") and whose output distribution $(\hat{p}_1, \dots, \hat{p}_n)$ is a closest approximation to the target distribution $(p_1, \dots, p_n)$ among all entropy-optimal sampling algorithms that operate within the specified $k$-bit precision. This optimal approximate sampler is also a closer approximation than any (possibly entropy-suboptimal) sampler that consumes a bounded amount of entropy with the specified precision, a class which includes floating-point implementations of inversion sampling and related methods found in many software libraries. We evaluate the accuracy, entropy consumption, precision requirements, and wall-clock runtime of our optimal approximate sampling algorithms on a broad set of distributions, demonstrating the ways that they are superior to existing approximate samplers and establishing that they often consume significantly fewer resources than are needed by exact samplers.
Analysis of food consumption behavior by Japanese households
Creators: name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Ishibashi, Kimiko
name: Taniguchi, Kiyoshi
name: Tokoyama, Yuki
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Ishibashi, Kimiko
name: Taniguchi, Kiyoshi
name: Tokoyama, Yuki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Consumer/Household Economics

description: The objective of this research is to analyze the food consumption patterns and to conduct econometric analysis of food demand structure in Japan. In this study, we pay special attention to the questions on whether or not rice is an inferior good as previous researchers have so claimed and to what extent Japanese food consumption pattern has been westernized.We use the cross-sectional household data, Annual Report on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) in 1997 compiled by the Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency in Japan. For major 11 food items, the total number of observations used for estimation is 95,223. Food items are non-glutinous rice, bread, noodle, fresh fish, and shellfish, fresh meat, milk, eggs, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, fats and oil, and food away from home. For meat items, the total number of observations used for estimation is 94,200, and items in interest are beef, pork, poultry, ground meat, ham, sausage, and bacon. In order to deal with the zero-consumption problem associated with household-level microdata, we apply various single equation models: Working-Leser model estimated by OLS, Heckman's sample selection model, and Tobit mode. For a complete demand system analysis, we apply the linearly approximated almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS).Additionally, we apply the nonlinear almost ideal demand (AIDS) system.Empirical results from the major 11 food items show that the expenditure elasticity of rice is positive and close to one. This proves that rice consumed in Japan is a normal good, contrary to the results from preceding studies. Marshallian uncompensated and Hicksian compensated own-price elasticities for rice are highly elastic in all models; on the other hand, the own price elasticity for meat is relatively price inelastic. Fresh meats and rice are mild complements in all models; however, fresh fish and rice show the mixed results with repect to their substitution pattern. Results from meat items show that the expenditure elasticity of beef is greater than unity, while other meat products are inelastic. Additionally, the expenditure and price elasticities look very similar to that of Western nations. This study shows that the Japanese meat consumption pattern has become westernized.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ae025t.pdf
Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene
Creators: name: Papeş, Monica
name: Aguirre‐López, Luis José
name: Feng, Xiao
name: Chen, Xin
name: Peterson, A. Townsend
name: Burger, Joseph R.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic conditions (A), and dispersal ability or mobility (M). A species is expected to be present in areas that are accessible to it and that contain suitable sets of abiotic and biotic conditions for it to persist. A species' probability of presence can be quantified as a combination of responses to B, A, and M via ecological niche modeling (ENM; also frequently referred to as species distribution modeling or SDM). This analytical approach has been used broadly in ecology and biogeography, as well as in conservation planning and decision-making, but commonly in the context of 'natural' settings. However, it is increasingly recognized that human impacts, including changes in climate, land cover, and ecosystem function, greatly influence species' geographic ranges. In this light, historical distinctions between natural and anthropogenic factors have become blurred, and a coupled human-natural landscape is recognized as the new norm. Therefore, B, A, and M (BAM) factors need to be reconsidered to understand and quantify species' distributions in a world with a pervasive signature of human impacts. Here, we present a framework, termed human-influenced BAM (Hi-BAM, for distributional ecology that (i) conceptualizes human impacts in the form of six drivers, and (ii) synthesizes previous studies to show how each driver modifies the natural BAM and species' distributions. Given the importance and prevalence of human impacts on species distributions globally, we also discuss implications of this framework for ENM/SDM methods, and explore strategies by which to incorporate increasing human impacts in the methodology. Human impacts are redefining biogeographic patterns; as such, future studies should incorporate signals of human impacts integrally in modeling and forecasting species' distributions.
Reevaluating Biota Alteration: Reframing Environmental Influences on Chronic Immune Disorders and Exploring Novel Therapeutic Opportunities
Creators: name: Williamson, Lauren
name: Jirků, Kateřina
name: Parker, William
name: Anderson, Lauren
name: Laman, Jon D.
name: Patel, Esha
Publisher: name: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Year: 2024

description: Environmental mismatches are defined as changes in the environment that induce public health crises. Well known mismatches leading to chronic disease include the availability of technologies that facilitate unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles, both factors that adversely affect cardiovascular health. This commentary puts these mismatches in context with biota alteration, an environmental mismatch involving hygiene-related technologies necessary for avoidance of infectious disease. Implementation of hygiene-related technologies causes a loss of symbiotic helminths and protists, profoundly affecting immune function and facilitating a variety of chronic conditions, including allergic disorders, autoimmune diseases, and several inflammation-associated neuropsychiatric conditions. Unfortunately, despite an established understanding of the biology underpinning this and other environmental mismatches, public health agencies have failed to stem the resulting tide of increased chronic disease burden. Both biomedical research and clinical practice continue to focus on an ineffective and reactive pharmaceutical-based paradigm. It is argued that the healthcare of the future could take into account the biology of today, effectively and proactively dealing with environmental mismatch and the resulting chronic disease burden.
Aleurovitreus Martin 2005, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurovitreus

description: ALEUROVITREUS gen. nov.
 Type species Aleyrodes insignis Bondar, 1923: 127–128.
DIAGNOSIS—PUPARIUM (Figs 22, 23, 105–108, 142). Without evident waxy secretions, individuals scattered singly under leaves, generally cryptic whilst feeding and silvery, glassy, in appearance when adults or parasitoids have emerged (Fig. 142). Cuticle often entirely pale, but some species with brownish patches variably developed on some or all individuals (Figs 105–107). Morphological margin always deflexed ventrally, such that the contact footprint of the puparium on the leaf surface is smaller than the overall body size, with regular rounded crenulations that are not usually clearly modified at the tracheal openings. Dorsal chaetotaxy typically comprising paired submedian cephalic, meso­ and metathoracic, eighth abdominal and caudal setae: sometimes with both thoracic pairs reduced to little more than their tubercular bases and set close to the meso–metathoracic intersegmental fold, but cephalic pairs only rarely wanting. Vasiform orifice cordate, internally smooth, variably elevated posteriorly, fully occupied by the operculum. Abdominal segment VII not significantly reduced in length medially. With geminate pore/ porettes regularly distributed over dorsum. Transverse moulting sutures closely approach apparent puparial margin (the actual edge of the puparium).
 ETYMOLOGY. The generic name derives from the latin adjective vitreus (meaning glassy), reflecting the distinctly glassy appearance of empty pupal cases of members of this genus.
 COMMENTS. The puparia of Aleurovitreus are similar to those of Aleuropleurocelus Drews & Sampson, the major difference being the opaquely black cuticle in Aleuropleurocelus. However, the puparial cuticle of Aleurovitreus species is also much smoother and finer than in species of Aleuropleurocelus, the venter being especially much less robust.
 Most material in the BMNH collection was collected in Central America, but a few specimens from Brazil and Venezuela indicate a wide distribution in South America too. Species from Belize, that are considered to belong to Aleurovitreus, display marked variation in the degree of marginal deflexion, from a narrow and regular band (Fig. 108) to a very broad and irregular zone (Fig. 22). Nine species of Aleurovitreus have been collected in Belize, including the type species, A. insignis (Bondar); one new species is here described and seven remain undescribed.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1098 (1) on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051548
Supporting data driven translational patient‐centered care using network analysis to visualize symptom distress in children with serious illness
Creators: name: Ford, Shannon
name: Vaughn, Jacqueline
name: Hensley, Elizabeth
name: Shah, Nirmish
name: Gundala, Abhinav
name: Subramaniam, Arvind
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: PURPOSE: There are an increasing number of techniques and tools to improve the capacity for children to relay their perceptions of their symptom experience while undergoing blood and marrow transplant (BMT). Network analysis (NA) is a tool that can illustrate associations between symptoms and the distress they cause. We aimed to develop a biopsychosocial assessment clinical analytic tool to examine symptom relationships for children undergoing BMT to find actionable relationships for intervention to improve clinical outcomes including mood.
DESIGN AND METHODS: This pilot study used an analytical mobile application tool to support a wide scope of 15 biopsychosocial symptom distress levels and five mood assessments. Children recorded their symptom distress and mood using the app. NA was used to explore relationships between symptom distress and mood.
RESULTS: Four children, 11-14 years old, undergoing BMT used the app daily during hospitalization. We found a strong presence of emotional distress and its associations symptom distress and mood. Multiple symptom associations were identified including associations between the set of symptoms difficulty breathing and fever (0.557), sad and worried (0.429). Of note, pain distress had a strong capacity to bridge other symptoms and was connected directly to many symptoms.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: We found the significance of patient struggles with emotional and symptom distress and the importance of this relationship to other clinical outcomes. This provides valuable insights and an improved understanding of the child's symptoms. Our findings support early assessment, intervention, and improved symptom communication to enhance sense of well-being and the child's care experience.
Transverse drag of slow light in moving atomic vapor
Creators: name: Solomons, Yakov
name: Banerjee, Chitram
name: Smartsev, Slava
name: Friedman, Jonathan
name: Eger, David
name: Firstenberg, Ofer
name: Davidson, Nir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fresnel-Fizeau effect of transverse drag, in which the trajectory of a light beam changes due to transverse motion of the optical medium, is usually extremely small and hard to detect. We observe transverse drag in a moving hot-vapor cell, utilizing slow light due to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The drag effect is enhanced by a factor 360,000, corresponding to the ratio between the light speed in vacuum and the group velocity under EIT conditions. We study the contribution of the thermal atomic motion, which is much faster than the mean medium velocity, and identify the regime where its effect on the transverse drag is negligible.
On The Relation of Weyl Geometry and Bohmian Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Shojai, Fatimah
name: Shojai, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the recently geometric formulation of quantum mechanics implies the use of Weyl geometry. It is discussed that the natural framework for both gravity and quantum is Weyl geometry. At the end a Weyl invariant theory is built, and it is shown that both gravity and quantum are present at the level of equations of motion.
MAP Indonesia: Beyond Tradition learning model
Creators: name: Tradition, Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2025
Subjects: L433 - Education policy
W320 - Music education/teaching

description: The Beyond Tradition’s Lenong revitalisation programme has been implemented and tested in the period between August 2022 and March 2024. The trials carried out then resulted in the “Beyond Tradition: Revitalising Lenong as a Teaching Model for Betawi Arts” model, which illustrates the five stages leading up to the performance of Lenong on stage.This model was developed jointly between artists from various institutions, namely the Center for Family Resilience and Development (PKPK), Faculty of Psychology, Unika Atma Jaya, Padepokan Ciliwung Condet (PCC), Mr. Jose Rizal Manua (theatre), Sanggar Purnama (rhyme), Studio Ruang Condet (Lenong), Gitarda Studio (Gambang Kromong), Jelantika Nusantara (Betawi dance), Sanggar Si Khodrat (playing beats), Deprok Pencak Silat College (playing hits) and Super 8MM Foundation (photos, videos and films). As well as asking for input from government agencies (East Jakarta Administrative City Education and Culture Service and East Jakarta Administrative City Culture Service), and several educational units.https://doi.org/10.24385/lincoln.28409390
Isovector and isoscalar tensor form factors of $N(1535) \rightarrow N$ transition in light-cone QCD
Creators: name: Özdem, Ulaş
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have applied isovector and isoscalar tensor current to evaluate the tensor form factors of the $ N(1535) \rightarrow N $ transition with the help of the light-cone QCD sum rule method. In numerical computations, have used the most general forms of the interpolating current for the nucleon and the tensor current together with two different sets of the input parameters in the DAs of the $N(1535)$ state. We have obtained that the values of $N(1535) \rightarrow N$ transition tensor form factors very sensitive to the input parameters of the distribution amplitudes of the $N(1535)$ state. We have acquired that the $Q^2$ dependence of $N(1535) \rightarrow$ transition tensor form factors is well defined by a p-pole fit function.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables
Additional file 1 of GSAlign: an efficient sequence alignment tool for intra-species genomes
Creators: name: Hsin-Nan Lin
name: Hsu, Wen-Lian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. A summary of several existing genome sequence alignment tools. Table S2. The effect of minimal LMEM size k and their maximal frequency f for GSAlign on the Sim_Chr1 dataset. Table S3. The effect of MaxPosDiff for GSAlign on the Sim_Chr1 dataset. Table S4. The effect of gap size threshold on the Sim_Chr1 dataset. Table S5 lists the argument setting for each method tested in this study. Aligner and their arguments used on the benchmark datasets, where fa1 and fa2 are input genomes with FASTA format.
Aboriginal Access to Post-Secondary Education at the University Of British Columbia : An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: St. Laurent, Drew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This paper is intended to be placed within the Indigenous paradigm of educational research. Shawn Wilson (2007) has grounded the term Indigenist to relate to the specific research paradigm that is founded within Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding through the interaction with the wholistic environment which Aboriginal people have come to understand. The paradigm also places a focus on Indigenous human rights within a larger social context. Wilson argues that the “Indigenist paradigm can be used by anyone who chooses to follow its tenets” (p. 193). In this case, the Indigenist paradigm will be drawn upon to review how The University of British Columbia has enacted the Aboriginal Strategic Plan set by the institution in 2008. The available literature and research is limited as Aboriginal access to post-secondary education continues to be an evolving area of study. This paper intends to prompt a dialogue regarding Aboriginal student enrolment at the University of British Columbia. The paper focuses on the UBC Aboriginal Strategic Plan as well as the Aboriginal Strategic Plan: Fifth Year Implementation Report published in 2014. Canadian Census data from 2011 will be used to further understand aspects of educational realities that currently exist. More specifically, this paper compares and contrasts UBC’s Aboriginal student data with Aboriginal student data produced by Statistics Canada to further understand the current higher educational climate within which Aboriginal students navigate. This paper concludes with recommendations and thoughts for future research.
Theory and Simulation of Metasurface Lenses for Extending the Angular Scan Range of Phased Arrays
Creators: name: Egorov, Gleb A.
name: Eleftheriades, George V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent metasurface developments have led to their consideration for extending the angular scan range of phased arrays. This paper considers the use of Huygens' metasurfaces as lenses to accomplish the task. Ray optics is used to uncover how a single lens can extend the scan range. It is shown that a single scan extending lens leads to a broadside directivity degradation of the original beam. This directivity degradation is quantitatively characterized as a function of the desired angular scan-range expansion. A method of simulating phase boundaries is presented and used to verify the theoretical claims. A Huygens' metasurface lens design is presented and simulated to further validate the theoretical predictions and show that such lenses are physically realizable.
Abschlussbericht der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung des Modellprojektes „Erweiterte Unterstützung“ durch die Betreuungsbehörde Hamburg in Kooperation mit dem Amtsgerichtsbezirk Barmbek
Creators: name: Röh, Dieter
name: Pott, Veronica
Publisher: name: HAW Hamburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: rechtliche Betreuung
subject: Inklusion
subject: Betreuungsrecht
subject: 360: Soziale Probleme, Sozialarbeit

description: Der Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse einer Evaluationsstudie zur Erweiterten Unterstützung im Rahmen des Betreuungsrechts nach dem BGB zusammen, die im Auftrag der Hamburger Behörde für Justiz und Verbraucherschutz durchgeführt wurde.
Προέλευση, διακίνηση και χρήσεις του γρανίτη κατά την αρχαιότητα στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο
Creators: name: Τανίδης, Νικόλαος Παναρετου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Γρανίτης
Λατομείο
Συντήρηση Γρανίτη
Granite
Granite quarry
Conservation of granite

description: Το πρώτο μέρος της διπλωματικής εργασίας αναφέρεται στο πέτρωμα γρανίτης, στην ορυκτολογική του σύσταση, στους ιστούς και στις υφές, στον τρόπο σχηματισμού του, στις ιδιότητές του και πού εντοπίζεται στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο. Στη συνέχεια γίνεται περιγραφή των τύπων γρανίτη που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν κατά την αρχαιότητα, τις χρωματικές ποικιλίες, το μέγεθος των κόκκων και πώς αυτό επηρέαζε τις ιδιότητές του, τις χρονικές περιόδους κατά τις οποίες η ζήτηση του γρανίτη ήταν αυξημένη και αναλύεται η οικονομική διάσταση των λίθων από την αρχαιότητα. Γίνεται επίσης αναφορά για την εξόρυξή του γρανίτη, τα αρχαία λατομεία, τον τρόπο απόσπασης από το μητρικό πέτρωμα, τις μεθόδους εξόρυξης. Στο δεύτερο μέρος της διπλωματικής, δίνονται πληροφορίες για τον τρόπο μεταφοράς των ογκολίθων από το λατομείο έως τον τόπο χρήσης τους, τις τεχνικές που χρησιμοποιούσαν κατά την αρχαιότητα για την μεταφορά και ποια εργαλεία ήταν κατάλληλα για αυτήν την διαδικασία. Κατόπιν, γίνεται αναφορά για τις χρήσεις του γρανίτη στις διάφορες χρονικές περιόδους κατά την αρχαιότητα, όπως σε κτήρια δημόσια ή ιδιωτικά, σε κοσμήματα κ.ά. Παρουσιάζονται σημαντικά παραδείγματα για χρήσεις του γρανίτη σε μνημεία της παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς. Κλείνοντας, αναφέρονται πληροφορίες σχετικά με την φθορά του γρανίτη στα μνημεία, όπως οι συνθήκες και τα αιτία φθοράς καθώς και τρόποι προληπτικής συντήρησης
description: The first part of this thesis refers to the granite rock, its mineralogical composition, fabrics and textures, its formation, properties and where it is located in the Eastern Mediterranean. Τhe types of granite used in antiquity, the color varieties, the size of the granules and how this affected its properties, the periods during which granite demand increased and the economic dimension of the stones will also be discussed. Then we will talk about granite mining, ancient quarries, how it was extracted from the parent rock as well as the methods of extraction. In the second part of the thesis, information will be given on how the boulders were transported from the quarry to their place of use, the techniques used in antiquity for transport and what tools were appropriate for this process. Thereafter, there will be a reference to the uses of granite in different periods of antiquity, such as public or private buildings, jewelry, etc. Significant examples will be given of granite uses in World Heritage Sites. Finally, granite deterioration information will be reported, such as conditions and causes of deterioration as well as preventive maintenance
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Ανώτατη Εκκλησιαστική Ακαδημία Θεσσαλονίκης
Implications from simulated strong gravitational lensing systems: constraining cosmological parameters using Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Liu, Tonghua
name: Cao, Shuo
name: Zhang, Jia
name: Geng, Shuaibo
name: Liu, Yuting
name: Ji, Xuan
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly gravitational lensing systems (SGL) encodes cosmology information in source/lens distance ratios $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}=\mathcal{D}_{\rm ls}/\mathcal{D}_{\rm s}$, which can be used to precisely constrain cosmological parameters. In this paper, based on future measurements of 390 strong lensing systems from the forthcoming LSST survey, we have successfully reconstructed the distance ratio $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}$ (with the source redshift $z_s\sim 4.0$), directly from the data without assuming any parametric form. A recently developed method based on model-independent reconstruction approach, Gaussian Processes (GP) is used in our study of these strong lensing systems. Our results show that independent measurement of the matter density parameter ($Ω_m$) could be expected from such strong lensing statistics. More specifically, one can expect $Ω_m$ to be estimated at the precision of $ΔΩ_m\sim0.015$ in the concordance $Λ$CDM model, which provides comparable constraint on $Ω_m$ with Planck 2015 results. In the framework of the modified gravity theory (DGP), 390 detectable galactic lenses from future LSST survey would lead to stringent fits of $ΔΩ_m\sim0.030$. \textbf{Finally, we have discussed three possible sources of systematic errors (sample incompleteness, the determination of length of lens redshift bin, and the choice of lens redshift shells), and quantified their effects on the final cosmological constraints. Our results strongly indicate that future strong lensing surveys, with the accumulation of a larger and more accurate sample of detectable galactic lenses, will considerably benefit from the methodology described in this analysis. }
Topologically Driven Swelling of a Polymer Loop
Creators: name: Moore, N. T.
name: Lua, R.
name: Grosberg, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerical studies of the average size of trivially knotted polymer loops with no excluded volume are undertaken. Topology is identified by Alexander and Vassiliev degree 2 invariants. Probability of a trivial knot, average gyration radius, and probability density distributions as functions of gyration radius are generated for loops of up to N=3000 segments. Gyration radii of trivially knotted loops are found to follow a power law similar to that of self avoiding walks consistent with earlier theoretical predictions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PNAS (USA) in Feb 2004
Measuring the Recreational Value of Agricultural Landscape
Creators: name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Tsur, Yacov
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural landscape
subject: Recreation
subject: Travel Cost
subject: Farm land

description: In addition to food and fibre, agricultural land provides public amenities in the form of wildlife habitat, protection of natural resources, open spaces, aesthetic scenery, and cultural preservation. Most previous studies have used contingent valuation methods to measure the value of these services. We use an alternative procedure, which provides a value of the agricultural landscape per se, as measured against a specific alternative, and based on whether agricultural landscape had an influence on visitation decisions. Our procedure involves a travel-cost model estimated by count-data regression techniques using (truncated) samples of visitors. An application to two regions in Israel reveals a substantial value for agricultural landscape, as compared with the traditional returns to farming.
Crenidorsum Russell
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Crenidorsum

description: CRENIDORSUM Russell
 Crenidorsum Russell, 1945: 55–57. Type species Crenidorsum tuberculatum, by original designation.
 DIAGNOSIS AND COMMENTS. As interpreted here, Crenidorsum comprises species whose puparia (Figs 44, 110) display the following combination of characters: puparia flat; margin distinctly and regularly toothed, usually not modified at tracheal openings at margin, the teeth with or without basal glands; submargin not separated from dorsal disc by a fold concentric with curve of margin; a pair of longitudinal subdorsal folds present in cephalothorax and anterior abdomen, these folds approximately overlying legs and may be lined by scallop­like patterning; first abdominal setae absent; cephalic, meso­ and metathoracic submedian setal pairs variably present; abdominal segment VII not, or very slightly, reduced medially; caudal furrow absent; vasiform orifice almost fully occupied by operculum, lingula usually included within orifice by virtue of folding but extends beyond orifice if unfolded; ventrally, thoracic tracheal folds absent or little evident; cuticle brown or pale.
 Crenidorsum comprises species similar in several respects to Aleurotrachelus and Aleurotulus, but the combination of characters listed above define Crenidorsum relatively well, even though any future studies are likely to result in redefinition of the Aleurotrachelus group. Described by Russell (1945) to accommodate 12 new neotropical species, Crenidorsum now includes 21 described species, eight of them from the Old World. Future appraisal of this genus may show the Old and New World species not to be congeners.
 In Belize, seven species of Crenidorsum have been collected, only one of them described, but all of these species are only represented by very small numbers of specimens. A further, eighth, species from Belize is tentatively included in Crenidorsum, despite the dorsal disc being almost completely separated from the submargin by a fold, because the outer edge of this fold is lined by scallop­like markings which are very common in species of Crenidorsum.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1098 (1) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051548
Close-range sensing for generating 3D objects in Prehistoric Archaeology
Creators: name: Pastoors, Andreas
name: Weniger, Gerd-Christian
Publisher: name: Geographisches Institut der Universität zu Köln - Kölner Geographische Arbeiten
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other
subject: None
subject: Surface
subject: Remote Sensing

description: Prehistoric archaeology is an object-oriented discipline. Archaeological objects like stone tools, bone tools or pieces of mobile art embed human behaviour. A central task of prehistoric research is to decode this information in order to reconstruct ancient human behaviour. This premise affords a defined set of tools for analysis and documentation to describe and evaluate particularly the shape of the object and its surface modifications manufactured by humans. Basis for all types of analysis is therefore a precise visual description of the object. This documentation forms part of the scientific process and should follow a generally accepted convention. Only when these rules are respected, a standardised and reproducible recognition of the object becomes possible.
description: Proceedings on the Workshop of Remote Sensing Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling, 18-19 November 2010, University of Cologne, Germany, Kölner Geographische Arbeiten, 92, pp. 117-120
МАЪНАВИЯТ – ТАФАККУР ВА ТУЙҒУНИНГ УЙҒУНЛИГИ.
Creators: name: Эргашев, Ботир
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Мақолада миллатни маърифат, маданият ҳамда китобсеварлик ила тарбиялаш кераклигида фикр юритилиб. Юртбошимиз томонидан бу жабхада қилинаётган ва юритаётган фаолиятидаги фикрларни келтириб, ёш авлодни нажот-нур илмда эканлиги айтилиб ўтилади.
Recalculation of the spectrum of radiation emitted during gravitational collapse
Creators: name: Calogeracos, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recalculate the spectrum of radiation emitted from a collapsing star. We consider the simple model of a spherical star consisting of pressure-free dust and we derive the thermal spectrum via a systematic asymptotic expansion of the complete Bogolubov amplitude. Inconsistencies in previous derivations are pointed out.
description: to be published in Physics Letters A
Quality Improvement Recommendations for Nurse Sensitive Transplant Indicators
Creators: name: Myring, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Recent research has highlighted the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes. To date, efforts to establish nurse sensitive measures have focused largely on adults in medical surgical settings. This scoping review examines if there any nurse sensitive solid organ transplant outcome indicators for internal and external benchmarking purposes.
Crenidorsum aroidephagus Martin & Aguiar 2001
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Crenidorsum
Crenidorsum aroidephagus

description: Crenidorsum aroidephagus Martin & Aguiar
(Figs 44, 110)
 Crenidorsum aroidephagus Martin & Aguiar, in Martin et al., 2001: 3–7. Holotype, Madeira.
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Panamá; Palaearctic Region: Madeira, [France, Germany —under glass]; Pacific Region: Fiji, Hawaii.
 COMMENTS. In Belize, the highly cryptic, non­waxy, puparia of this species occur sparsely under the leaves of its aroid hosts, and are difficult to find. However, in areas of new introduction larger populations are normal until brought under control. This species seems likely to extend its range still further, resulting from the popular trade in ornamental aroids (such as Monstera and Philodendron), the Araceae being its only known host family at present.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2005, Whiteflies of Belize (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Part 2 - a review of the subfamily Aleyrodinae Westwood, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1098 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1098.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051548
Modelling Stochastic Signatures in Classical Pulsators
Creators: name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the impact of stochastic perturbations on otherwise coherent oscillations of classical pulsators. The resulting dynamics are modelled by a driven damped harmonic oscillator subject to either an external or an internal forcing and white noise velocity fluctuations. We characterize the phase and relative amplitude variations using analytical and numerical tools. When the forcing is internal the phase variation displays a random walk behaviour and a red noise power spectrum with a ragged erratic appearance. We determine the dependence of the root mean square phase and relative amplitude variations ($σ_{Δφ}$ and $σ_{ΔA/A}$, respectively) on the amplitude of the stochastic perturbations, the damping constant $η$, and the total observation time $t_{\rm obs}$ for this case, under the assumption that the relative amplitude variations remain small, showing that $σ_{Δφ}$ increases with $t_{\rm obs}^{1/2}$ becoming much larger than $σ_{ΔA/A}$ for $t_{\rm obs} \gg η^{-1}$. In the case of an external forcing the phase and relative amplitude variations remain of the same order, independent of the observing time. In the case of an internal forcing, we find that $σ_{Δφ}$ does not depend on $η$. Hence, the damping time cannot be inferred from fitting the power of the signal, as done for solar-like pulsators, but the amplitude of the stochastic perturbations may be constrained from the observations. Our results imply that, given sufficient time, the variation of the phase associated to the stochastic perturbations in internally driven classical pulsators will become sufficiently large to be probed observationally.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gig-Economy, unsichtbare Arbeit und Plattformkapitalismus. Über ›Amazon Mechanical Turk‹
Creators: name: Waitz, Thomas
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medientheorie
Medienanalyse
Kulturwissenschaft

description: Kein Abstract verfügbar
On the Quantization of Seiberg-Witten Geometry
Creators: name: Haouzi, Nathan
name: Oh, Jihwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a double quantization of four-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ Seiberg-Witten geometry, for all classical gauge groups and a wide variety of matter content. This can be understood as a set of certain non-perturbative Schwinger-Dyson identities, following the program initiated by Nekrasov [arXiv:1512.05388]. The construction relies on the computation of the instanton partition function of the gauge theory on the so-called $Ω$-background on $\mathbb{R}^4$, in the presence of half-BPS codimension 4 defects. The two quantization parameters are identified as the two parameters of this background. The Seiberg-Witten curve of each theory is recovered in the flat space limit. Whenever possible, we motivate our construction from type IIA string theory.
description: 60 pages, 2 figures; v2: some typos corrected, references added
Medienwissenschaft - Eine politische Praxis?
Creators: name: Waitz, Thomas
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mediengeschichte, Medientheorie

description: Werbung hat im Rahmen von Medienwissenschaft nicht nur die Funktion der Illustration oder Plausibilisierung. Und sie dient auch nicht lediglich als Schlagwortgeberin. Vielmehr scheint es so, dass sich die Medienwissenschaft der Werbung zuwendet, weil in ihr ein kulturelles Wissen über Medien sichtbar wird.
Photometry of an unusual small distant object 2016 ND21
Creators: name: Hromakina, Tetiana
name: Velichko, Sergey
name: Belskaya, Irina
name: Krugly, Yurij
name: Sergeev, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first-ever measurements of the surface colors and rotational properties of a recently discovered distant object in an unusual orbit 2016 ND21. In 2017, this object was close to its perihelion, which allowed us to observe it with a 2.0-m telescope at the Peak Terskol observatory. Broadband photometric observations of 2016 ND21 were carried out in October and December of 2017 in standard BVR filters of the Johnson-Cousins photometric system. During our observations, we did not detect any cometary activity. We found the rotational period of 17.53{\pm}0.02 hr, while another a little longer value of 17.65{\pm}0.02 hr is also possible. Assuming an equatorial aspect of observations, a peak-to-peak amplitude of A = 0.31{\pm}0.05 mag (or even higher since only one maximum and one minimum were well-measured) corresponds to an elongated body with an axis ratio a/b ~1.3. The lightcurve behavior indicates a complex, possibly non-convex, shape of this object. The visible absolute magnitude is HV =12.4{\pm}0.1 mag, which was estimated by using the linear phase slope 0.04 mag/deg as the most probable value from our observations. Assuming a surface albedo in the range of 0.04-0.10, the size of 2016 ND21 should be about 15-23 km. From our multi-color observations, we determined surface colors V-R = 0.69{\pm}0.04 mag, B-R = 1.79{\pm}0.08 mag, and B-V = 1.10{\pm}0.08 mag. The measured colors indicate an extremely red surface of this object. A very red surface is unusual for comets, which is in agreement with the fact, that no cometary activity was detected for 2016 ND21. The B-R color is higher than the typical B-R colors of the red D-type asteroids, but it is consistent with colors of the red Centaurs and TNOs classified as RR type in TNOs classification. This result gives a first evidence of a possible outer belt origin of this small body.
title: FMJ Archive
title: a Digital Database for German-Language Film Music Journalism
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Finocchiaro, Francesco
Year: 2019
Subjects: film music criticism

description: The FMJ Archive is a product of the research project Film Music as a Problem in German Print Journalism (1907–1930), realized in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and Phaidra, the digital repository of the University of Vienna’s Library.
Additional file 1 of proMAD: semiquantitative densitometric measurement of protein microarrays
Creators: name: Jaeschke, Anna
name: Eckert, Hagen
name: Bray, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary information. The supplementary file contains the detailed experimental procedures for obtaining the processed images.
Structural, physical and photocatalytic properties of mixed-valence double-perovskite Ba$_{2}$Pr(Bi,Sb)O$_{6}$ semiconductor synthesized by citrate pyrolysis technique
Creators: name: Sato, A.
name: Matsukawa, M.
name: Taniguchi, H.
name: Tsuji, S.
name: Nishidate, K.
name: Aisawa, S.
name: Matsushita, A.
name: Zhang, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrated crystal structures, magnetic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of the B-site substituted double perovskite Ba$_{2}$Pr(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)O$_{6}$ ($x$=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 1.0) synthesized by the citrate pyrolysis method. The single-phase polycrystalline samples with the light Sb substitution crystallized in a monoclinic structure ($I2/m$). Magnetization measurements on all the samples showed that the effective magnetic moments are located around 3 $μ_{B}$ , indicating the valence mixing states between Pr$^{3+}$ and Pr$^{4+}$.The magnitudes of band gap energy for the two end member samples were estimated from the optical measurements to be $E_{g}$ =1.06 eV at $x$=0 and 2.71 eV at $x$=1.0. The Ba$_{2}$Pr(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)O$_{6}$ ($x$=0, and 0.1) powders obtained by the present technique exhibited enhanced photocatalytic activities when compared to the same compounds prepared by the conventional solid state method. Our findings suggest that the higher photocatalytic activities strongly depend on powder preparation method as well as the band gaps and charge separation.
description: 8 pages,6 figures,1 Table
Food Fraud and Import Refusals: Assessing China’s Agri-Food Imports at the Firm Level
Creators: name: Xie, Chaoping
name: Wang, Xiaojuan
name: Grant, Jason
name: Long, Yanyu
name: Liu, Yifang
name: Xie, Chaoping
name: Wang, Xiaojuan
name: Grant, Jason
name: Long, Yanyu
name: Liu, Yifang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Presentation ID 15742
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: 34 Alarm Clocks to Fulfill Fundamental Needs
Creators: name: Desmet, Pieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The alarm clock designs are based on a typology of 13 fundamental needs developed by Desmet and Fokkinga (2020), as outlined in their work Beyond Maslow’s pyramid: Introducing a typology of thirteen fundamental needs for human-centered design (Multimodal technologies and interaction, 4(3), 38)
Dynamic Radar Network of UAVs: A Joint Navigation and Tracking Approach
Creators: name: Guerra, Anna
name: Dardari, Davide
name: Djuric, Petar M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays there is a growing research interest on the possibility of enriching small flying robots with autonomous sensing and online navigation capabilities. This will enable a large number of applications spanning from remote surveillance to logistics, smarter cities and emergency aid in hazardous environments. In this context, an emerging problem is to track unauthorized small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hiding behind buildings or concealing in large UAV networks. In contrast with current solutions mainly based on static and on-ground radars, this paper proposes the idea of a dynamic radar network of UAVs for real-time and high-accuracy tracking of malicious targets. To this end, we describe a solution for real-time navigation of UAVs to track a dynamic target using heterogeneously sensed information. Such information is shared by the UAVs with their neighbors via multi-hops, allowing tracking the target by a local Bayesian estimator running at each agent. Since not all the paths are equal in terms of information gathering point-of-view, the UAVs plan their own trajectory by minimizing the posterior covariance matrix of the target state under UAV kinematic and anti-collision constraints. Our results show how a dynamic network of radars attains better localization results compared to a fixed configuration and how the on-board sensor technology impacts the accuracy in tracking a target with different radar cross sections, especially in non line-of-sight (NLOS) situations.
Winning Ugly: The potential for converting ugly food to a horizontally differentiated product
Creators: name: Qi, Danyi
name: Penn, Jerrod
name: Li, Ran
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Qi, Danyi
name: Penn, Jerrod
name: Li, Ran
name: Roe, Brian E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Presentation ID 15896