cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WUR documentation / metadata package + guidance
Creators: name: Danny de Koning - van Nieuwamerongen
name: Irene Verhagen
name: Laura Zeeman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: WUR template
readme
documentation
metadata
codebook

description: WUR Library (data librarians and data management support) developed the WUR documentation / metadata package + guidance to assist researchers in documenting data. The files in the package can be used independently of whether the data is archived at WUR or published in a repository. Note that the metadata json file is a filled in example. You can fill in your metadata json using the Yoda metadata editor at https://utrechtuniversity.github.io/yoda-portal/.
description: Version 1 of package contains: readme template, readme template guidance. Version 2 of package contains: readme template (note: guidance in readme template), a filled in example of the readme template, a codebook template, a filled in example of the codebook template, an example of metadata created with the Yoda metadata editor (https://utrechtuniversity.github.io/yoda-portal/). The filled examples are based on the project described in the fictional data management plan (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7096699, see 'related identifiers')
Transverse Energy-Energy Correlations of jets in the electron-proton Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA
Creators: name: Ali, Ahmed
name: Li, Gang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Xing, Zhi-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the event shape variables, transverse energy energy correlation TEEC $(\cos ϕ)$ and its asymmetry ATEEC $(\cos ϕ)$ in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at the electron-proton collider HERA, where $ϕ$ is the angle between two jets defined using a transverse-momentum $(k_T)$ jet algorithm. At HERA, jets are defined in the Breit frame, and the leading nontrivial transverse energy energy correlations arise from the 3-jet configurations. With the help of the NLOJET++, these functions are calculated in the leading order (LO) and the next-to-leading order (NLO) approximations in QCD at the electron-proton center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=314$ GeV. We restrict the angular region to $-0.8 \leq \cos ϕ\leq 0.8$, as the forward- and backward-angular regions require resummed logarithmic corrections, which we have neglected in this work. Following experimental jet-analysis at HERA, we restrict the DIS-variables $x$, $y=Q^2/(x s)$, where $Q^2=-q^2$ is the negative of the momentum transfer squared $q^2$, to $0 \leq x \leq 1$, $0.2 \leq y \leq 0.6$, and the pseudo-rapidity variable in the laboratory frame $(η^{\rm {lab}})$ to the range $-1 \leq η^{\rm {lab}} \leq 2.5$. The TEEC and ATEEC functions are worked out for two ranges in $Q^2$, defined by $5.5~{\rm GeV}^2 \leq Q^2 \leq 80~{\rm GeV}^2$, called the low-$Q^2$-range, and $150~{\rm GeV}^2 \leq Q^2 \leq 1000~{\rm GeV}^2$, called the high-$Q^2$-range. We show the sensitivity of these functions on the parton distribution functions (PDFs), the factorization $(μ_F)$ and renormalization $(μ_R)$ scales, and on $α_s(M_Z)$. Of these the correlations are stable against varying the scale $μ_F$ and the PDFs, but they do depend on $μ_R$. These studies are useful in the analysis of the HERA data, including the determination of $α_s(M_Z)$ from the shape variables.
description: 18 pages,11 figures; v2: 16 pages, accepted for publication in EPJC
Supplementary Table 3: Impact of excess activin A on the lipids, metabolites, and steroids of adult mousereproductive organs
Creators: name: Hutchison, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310903
subject: Animal developmental and reproductive biology

description: Table S3: Differentially abundant metabolites of the InhaKO testis. Metabolites identified to be significantly higher or lower in relative abundance in the InhaKO testes vs WT. Fold change > 1.5, P < 0.05.
CARIBBEAN LAMB: CAN WE COMPETE IN A GLOBALISED ENVIRONMENT?
Creators: name: Gibson, Norman
name: John, Michelle
name: Gibson, Norman
name: John, Michelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics

description: A review of data over a five-year period was conducted to determine the policy, production, marketing and pricing parameters that characterise the Caribbean small ruminant industry, using lamb as the main indicator of economic activity. The data was analysed to determine whether the industry was achieving competitiveness in the global environment. It was found that the contribution of imports in meeting total demand rose by nearly 20 percentage points from 1990 - 2000, and that the retail price of local lamb remained significantly higher than that of imported lamb in most territories. Despite being uncompetitive in terms of price, it was found that socioeconomic, ecological and food security concerns were sufficient to warrant continued investment in the regional small ruminant industry.
Searches for New Physics
Creators: name: Brooijmans, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current experimental limits for new physics beyond the Standard Model and hints for deviations from Standard Model expectations will be reviewed, highlighting recent results. Possible signals that will be discussed include Higgs bosons, supersymmetric particles, large extra dimensions, new gauge bosons, dynamical symmetry breaking, muon g - 2, rare decays and lepton flavor violation. The discovery potential of the LHC and ILC will be presented, and the impact of discovery on answering fundamental questions of physics will be assessed.
description: Plenary Talk at the 2004 Meeting of the DPF, UC Riverside, August 26-31, 2004. 17 pages, 17 figures, uses ws-ijmpa.cls (included)
INTEGRAL discovery of a burst with associated radio emission from the magnetar SGR 1935+2154
Creators: name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Savchenko, V.
name: Ferrigno, C.
name: Götz, D.
name: Rigoselli, M.
name: Tiengo, A.
name: Bazzano, A.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Coleiro, A.
name: Courvoisier, T. J. -L.
name: Doyle, M.
name: Goldwurm, A.
name: Hanlon, L.
name: Jourdain, E.
name: von Kienlin, A.
name: Lutovinov, A.
name: Martin-Carrillo, A.
name: Molkov, S.
name: Natalucci, L.
name: Onori, F.
name: Panessa, F.
name: Rodi, J.
name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Sánchez-Fernández, C.
name: Sunyaev, R.
name: Ubertini, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on INTEGRAL observations of the soft $γ$-ray repeater SGR 1935+2154 performed between 2020 April 28 and May 3. Several short bursts with fluence of $\sim10^{-7}-10^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ were detected by the IBIS instrument in the 20-200 keV range. The burst with the hardest spectrum, discovered and localized in real time by the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System, was spatially and temporally coincident with a short and very bright radio burst detected by the CHIME and STARE2 radio telescopes at 400-800 MHz and 1.4 GHz, respectively. Its lightcurve shows three narrow peaks separated by $\sim$29 ms time intervals, superimposed on a broad pulse lasting $\sim$0.6 s. The brightest peak had a delay of 6.5$\pm$1.0 ms with respect to the 1.4 GHz radio pulse (that coincides with the second and brightest component seen at lower frequencies). The burst spectrum, an exponentially cut-off power law with photon index $Γ=0.7_{-0.2}^{+0.4}$ and peak energy $E_p=65\pm5$ keV, is harder than those of the bursts usually observed from this and other magnetars. By the analysis of an expanding dust scattering ring seen in X-rays with the {\it Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory} XRT instrument, we derived a distance of 4.4$_{-1.3}^{+2.8}$ kpc for SGR 1935+2154, independent of its possible association with the supernova remnant G57.2+0.8. At this distance, the burst 20-200 keV fluence of $(6.1\pm 0.3)\times10^{-7}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ corresponds to an isotropic emitted energy of $\sim1.4\times10^{39}$ erg. This is the first burst with a radio counterpart observed from a soft $γ$-ray repeater and it strongly supports models based on magnetars that have been proposed for extragalactic fast radio bursts.
description: Accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journal Letters - revised accepted version
Role of 2nd Lady in Die Zauberfloete
Creators: name: Temple, Alison Ruth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The thesis for the Master of Music degree in Opera consists of the performance of a major role in one full opera production in the first or second year. My major role in one full opera production was the 2nd Lady performed in Die Zauberfloete on Dec 15th 2005 & Dec 17th 2005
РОЛЬ ИННОВАЦИЙ В ГИБКОМ УПРАВЛЕНИИ ПРОЕКТАМИ: СОКРАЩЕНИЕ ПОТЕРЬ И ПОВЫШЕНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ
Creators: name: Касимова, Н.Дж.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В эпоху технологических изменений и инноваций наблюдается усиление значимости проектного менеджмента - он предполагает переход к более гибким и технологически ориентированным подходам в управлении проектами. Раскрытие новой эры показывает, что ландшафт управления проектами претерпевает трансформацию под влиянием Четвертой промышленной революции (Индустрия 4.0), предполагающий новый подход к производству, основанный на массовом внедрении информационных технологий в промышленность, масштабной автоматизации бизнес-процессов и распространении искусственного интеллекта. Внедрение новых знаний характеризуется повышением производительности, эффективностью производственных операций и рациональным использованием ресурсов. Важную роль в этом играют технологические инструменты, автоматизация и гибкость, что приводит к снижению затрат и повышению ценности производимой продукции.
title: Perspectives of teamwork
title: Looking at teamwork leadership through the lens of student Emergency Medical Technicians in the State of Qatar
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Webber, Scott
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: paramedic education
education technology
simulation-based education
crisis management
Activity Theory

description: Paramedics play a crucial role in the medical community and society as a whole. To become a paramedic, learners must acquire knowledge of emergency medicine, but also procedures and skills in time management, communication skills and teamwork. Learning these goals can be daunting. Part of the challenge is becoming proficient in successfully managing medical emergencies in a high-fidelity simulated learning environment which leads to one’s shortcomings being exposed. These simulation-based learning environments are designed for students to hone the technical and also communication skills taught in the classroom. Other challenges relate to their interactions with the high-fidelity simulated patient. This study explores the interactions between team members in treating a heavily pregnant female Muslim high-fidelity simulated patient with multi-trauma injuries and the interactions between the patient and the team members. This investigation took place at an emergency medical technician diploma program at a Canadian technical college in the State of Qatar. Participants are second year students in the simulation lab course who were tasked with treating, stabilising and transporting a multi-trauma patient. Interpretative phenomenological analysis and activity theory are used to bring depth to the analysis of the data from semi-structure interviews and observations. The results of this work revealed a number of findings. All student participants had received the same information on how a paramedic team should function in a medical emergency. However, their personal views of how a well-functioning team should work were different from that of their colleagues and of the program. Thus, conflict in critical care management transpired. Another finding revealed that the student participants actions and language showed their view of the mannequin fluctuated between seeing it as an artefact to an actual patient. Also revealed was how religion influences the decision-making process, ultimately, leading to hesitation in treatment. These findings raise important questions on how to further maximise learning opportunities in simulation-based medical training environments.
title: Executive Attention, Action Selection and Attention-Based Learning in Neurally Controlled Autonomous Agents
Creators: name: Garforth, Jason P.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: I describe the design and implementation of an integrated neural architecture, modelled on human executive attention, which is used to control both automatic (reactive) and willed action selection in a simulated robot. The model, based upon Norman and Shallice's supervisory attention system, incorporates important features of human attentional control: selection of an intended task over a more salient automatic task; priming of future tasks that are anticipated; and appropriate levels of persistence of focus of attention. Recognising that attention-based learning, mediated by the limbic system, and the hippocampus in particular, plays an important role in adaptive learning, I extend the Norman and Shallice model, introducing an intrinsic, attention-based learning mechanism that enhances the automaticity of willed actions and reduces future need for attentional effort required for dealing with distractions. These enhanced features support a new level of attentional autonomy in the operation of the simulated robot. Some properties of the model are explored using lesion studies, leading to the identification of a correspondence between the behavioural pathologies of the simulated robot and those seen in human patients suffering dysfunction of executive attention.
Ciat's Contribution to the Detection and Control of Invasive Pests in the Greater Caribbean Region
Creators: name: Von Schoonhoven, Aart
name: Bellotti, A.C.
name: Cardona, C.
name: Morales, F.J.
name: Von Schoonhoven, Aart
name: Bellotti, A.C.
name: Cardona, C.
name: Morales, F.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: invasive species
subject: CIAT programs
subject: viruses
subject: insect vectors
subject: natural enemies

description: The movement of invasive species is exacerbated by inadequately inspected massive shipments of agricultural products and propagating materials to and from developing countries. Drastic reductions in government spending in developing countries have weakened their research, extension and regulatory capabilities needed to cope with new pests and pathogens. CIAT has modified its commodity-oriented programs to include research on solutions to harmful new invasive species. Invasive viruses studied by CIAT include, rice hoja blanca, rice stripe necrosis, a naturally occurring seed-borne recombinant virus of common bean, bean severe mosaic, bean calico mosaic, peanut stripe, Frogskin disease of cassava, African cassava mosaic, African oil palm ringspot virus, African oil palm chlorotic ring virus, various unidentified exotic viruses of tropical fruits and vegetables. Insect vectors studies include Bemisia spp., the rice mite, Steneotarsonemus spinki, and the rice thrips, Stenchaetotrips biformis, Thrips palmi, Trialeurodes spp., Aleurotrachelus socialis, Tetraleurodes sp. and Aleurodicus spp. and natural enemies of these vectors.
EPA Alternative Toxicity Testing Report to Congress
Creators: name: Gwinn, Maureen
name: Cowden, John
name: Lambert, Jason
name: Lowit, Anna
name: Wetmore, Barbara
name: Scarano, Louis
name: Schappelle, Seema
name: Thomas, Russell
name: Burman, Eric
Publisher: name: The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
Year: 2020
Subjects: Toxicology

description: This is the U.S. EPA’s Report to Congress on the EPA’s Alternative Toxicity Testing activities as requested in the House of Representatives Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.
Country or leader? Political change and UN general assembly voting: political change and UN General Assembly voting
Creators: name: Dreher, Axel
name: Jensen, Nathan M.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nations Unies
subject: POLITISCHE REFORMEN + POLITISCHER WANDEL + REFORMPOLITIK (INNENPOLITIK)
subject: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE AND PEOPLE (INTERNAL POLITICS)
subject: WAHLVERHALTEN + STIMMVERHALTEN (INNENPOLITIK)
subject: ELECTION BEHAVIOUR + VOTING BEHAVIOUR (INTERNAL POLITICS)
subject: key votes
subject: United Nations
subject: United Nations General Assembly voting
subject: VERHÄLTNIS ZWISCHEN BEVÖLKERUNG UND STAAT (INNENPOLITIK)
subject: POLITICAL REFORMS + POLITICAL TRANSITION + REFORM POLITICS (INTERNAL POLITICS)
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: KOF Working Papers, 217
title: Dark signalling and code division multiple access in an optical fibre LAN with a bus topology
Creators: name: Chapman, David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: This thesis describes an optical fibre network that uses a bus topology and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). Various potential configurations are analysed and compared and it is shown that a serious limitation of optical CDMA schemes using incoherent correlators is the effect of optical beating due to the presence of multiple incoherent optical signals at the receiver photodiode. The network proposed and analysed in this thesis avoids beating between multiple optical fields because it only uses a single, shared, optical source. It does this through the SLIM (Single Light-source with In-line Modulation) configuration in which there is a continuously-operating light source at the head-end of a folded bus, and modulators at the nodes to impose signals on the optical field in the form of pulses of darkness which propagate along the otherwise continuously bright bus. Optical CDMA can use optical-fibre delay-line correlators as matched filters, and these may be operated either coherently or incoherently.Coherent operation is significantly more complex than incoherent operation, but incoherent correlators introduce further beating even in a SLIM network. A new design of optical delay-line correlator, the hybrid correlator, is therefore proposed, analysed and demonstrated. It is shown to eliminate beating. A model of a complete network predicts that a SLIMbus using optical CDMA with hybrid correlators can be operated at TeraBaud rates with the number of simultaneous users limited by multiple access interference (MAI), determined only by the combinatorics of the code set.
The Persistence of Inflation in Switzerland: Evidence from Disaggregate Data
Creators: name: Elmer, Simone
name: Maag, Thomas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2009
Subjects: SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT
SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION
INFLATION
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 235
Hochschild cohomology of quantized symplectic orbifolds and the Chen-Ruan cohomology
Creators: name: Dolgushev, Vasiliy
name: Etingof, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 16E40, 53D55

description: We prove the additive version of the conjecture proposed by Ginzburg and Kaledin. This conjecture states that if X/G is an orbifold modeled on a quotient of a smooth affine symplectic variety X (over C) by a finite group G\subset Aut(X) and A is a G-stable quantum algebra of functions on X then the graded vector space HH(A^G) of the Hochschild cohomology of the algebra A^G of invariants is isomorphic to the graded vector space H_{CR}(X/G)((h)) of the Chen-Ruan (stringy) cohomology of the orbifold X/G.
description: 25 pages, no figures
title: 01_2835
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
50 years of Finite Geometry, the "geometries over finite rings" part
Creators: name: Keppens, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Whereas for a substantial part, Finite Geometry during the past 50 years has focussed on geometries over finite fields, geometries over finite rings that are not division rings have got less attention. Nevertheless, several important classes of finite rings give rise to interesting geometries. In this paper we bring together some results, scattered over the literature, concerning finite rings and plane projective geometry over such rings. It doesn't contain new material, but by collecting stuff in one place, we hope to stimulate further research in this area for at least another 50 years of Finite Geometry.
title: Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation execises
Creators: name: Mahony, Nick
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: Foremost in contemporary debates about democratic renewal and the re-engagement of citizens in the polity are concerns about publicness and the modes of politics that may be suited to this task. In this thesis case studies of three large-scale public participation exercises are presented: a local governmental exercise; a national popular media initiative and a transnational/translocal social movement event. Engaging with these cases the research explores three, ostensibly different, approaches to and settings of engagement. The study utilises a mix of discourse analysis and participant observation to engage with different features of each case. The outcome of this analysis is an exposition of the forms of publicness and the modes of politics that are summoned up, articulated, negotiated and enacted through the performance of these exercises. Comparing the three cases the thesis then develops two interrelated lines of argument. First, because of a set of tensions inscribed into the ideas of the public summoned up in each setting, the publics of these exercises are characterised as paradoxical publics. And, secondly, the mode of politics privileged across the three settings is characterised as spectacular and experimental. The findings of this research problematise the idea that large scale public participation exercises might somehow enact forms of politics that are more direct. The study also challenges the assumption that such practices might enable publics to act more authentically. Through a consideration of the relationships between a diverse, if limited, sample of contemporary large-scale public participation exercises this study instead contributes to the emerging politics of public mediation.
On the second Gegenbauer moment of $ρ$-meson distribution amplitude
Creators: name: Polyakov, Maxim V.
name: Son, Hyeon-Dong
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: Using the soft pion theorem, crossing, and the dispersion relations for the two pion distribution amplitude ($2π$DA) we argue that the second Gegenbauer moment the $ρ$-meson DA ($a_2^{(ρ)}$) most probably is negative. This result is at variance with the majority of the model calculations for $a_2^{(ρ)}$. Using the instanton theory of the QCD vacuum, we computed $a_2^{(ρ)}$ at a low normalisation point and obtain for the ratio $ a_2^{(ρ)}/M_3^{(π)}$ {\it definitely negative value} in the range of $a_2^{(ρ)}/M_3^{(π)}\in [-2, -1]$. The range of values corresponds to a generous variation of the parameters of the instanton vacuum. The value of the second Gegenbauer moment of pion DA is positive in the whole range and is compatible with its the most advanced lattice measurement. It seems that the topologically non-trivial field configurations in the QCD vacuum (instantons) lead to qualitatively different shapes of the pion and the $ρ$-meson DAs.
description: The consistent NLO analysis is performed. The improved analysis strengthens our idea about the negative sign of the second Gegenbauer coefficient of rho-meson DA
Development of Lures for Detection and Delimitation of Invasive Species ANASTREPHA Fruit Flies
Creators: name: Epsky, Nancy D.
name: Kendra, Paul E.
name: Heath, Robert R.
name: Epsky, Nancy D.
name: Kendra, Paul E.
name: Heath, Robert R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: trapping
subject: synthetic attractment
subject: Anastrepha ludens
subject: Anastrepha obliqua

description: Development of female-biased synthetic attractants for fruit flies offers considerable opportunities for fruit fly management programs. Traps baited with a food-based synthetic attractant composed of ammonium acetate, putrescine and trimethylamine are being used to detect and delimit populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Current research is being conducted in 14 countries via an FAO/IAEA-sponsored Coordinated Research Project to determine the utility of this synthetic attractant for detection of other fruit flies, particularly those in the genus Anastrepha. These include tests of four species of concern to the Caribbean basin: the Mexican fruit fly, A. ludens; the West Indian fruit fly, A. obliqua\ the guava fruit fly, A. striata; and the sapote fruit fly, A. serpentina. Results of tests conducted in Columbia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico found that the highest capture tended to be in traps baited with liquid protein (11 out of 15 tests); in the other four tests highest capture was in traps baited with ammonium acetate-based synthetic attractants. The role of ammonia release rate from preferred baits and the development of improved attractants for these species are discussed.
Singlet-triplet spin blockade and charge sensing in a few-electron double quantum dot
Creators: name: Johnson, A. C.
name: Petta, J. R.
name: Marcus, C. M.
name: Hanson, M. P.
name: Gossard, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Singlet-triplet spin blockade in a few-electron lateral double quantum dot is investigated using simultaneous transport and charge-sensing measurements. Transport from the (1,1) to the (0,2) electron occupancy states is strongly suppressed relative to the opposite bias [(0,2) to (1,1)]. At large bias, spin blockade ceases as the (0,2) triplet state enters the transport window, giving a direct measure of exchange splitting as a function of magnetic field. A simple model for current and steady-state charge distribution in spin-blockade conditions is developed and found to be in excellent agreement with experiment.
description: related papers available at http://marcuslab.harvard.edu
Through Pain, More Gain? A Survey into the Psychosocial Benefits of Sadomasochism
Creators: name: Silva, Andrea
name: Kalyss Mercury
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Behavioral Neuroscience
subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology

description: We live in a paradoxical world where pain management funds an industry of at least $36.1 billion (Elder, 2017) side by side with the culture of BDSM which thrives and celebrates, among other taboo activities, the use of pain within sexual contexts. Why would people want to use painful activities as a part of their intimate relationships? Or how can they mix the two with positive outcomes? This paradox was the primary inspiration for Ms. Silva’s Masters degree research and dissertation on the therapeutic benefits of sado-masochism (S&M).
Researching the psychological and biological roots of BDSM, sheds light into the paradox of perversions and promotes a more accepting and respectful attitude towards diverse sexual & fetish interests. This dissertation provides a thorough background research on pain mechanisms in the nervous system and the psycho-social theories for why people enjoy S&M. It also tests how BDSM participants perceive their experiences with consensual S&M pain in light of their therapeutic benefits.
The Lobate Lac Scale Insect, A New Pest of Trees and Shrubs in Florida: Implications for the Caribbean Region
Creators: name: Howard, F.W.
name: Pemberton, Robert W.
name: Howard, F.W.
name: Pemberton, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: scale insect
subject: host plants
subject: invasive species
subject: natural areas
subject: chemical control
subject: parasites

description: The lobate lac scale insect, Paratachardina lobata (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Kerriidae), a species native to India and Sri Lanka, was found for the first time in Florida in 1999 and it appears to be widespread in the Bahamas. In Florida, it has already spread over an area of about 6400 km2. It has been reported on more than 150 species of woody plants. Most host plants that are native to southern Florida are also native to the Caribbean Region, implying that the pest threatens natural areas in the whole Region. These scale insects infest the woody portions of small branches, causing branch dieback. Severe infestations of some plants are lethal. The duration of development from egg to adult is under investigation. Two species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Metaphycus sp. and Ammonoencyrtus sp., both probably undescribed, were reared from lobate lac scales. Only a few specimens were reared from thousands of lobate lac scales held in emergence containers. Application of imidacloprid as a root drench to infested trees is effective in controlling the scale insect, but biological control is viewed as the only practical option in the long term to control this pest, especially in natural areas. Therefore, a program to obtain natural enemies of this scale insect from India has been initiated.
Minimal spiking neuron for solving multi-label classification tasks
Creators: name: Fil, Jakub
name: Chu, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Multi-Spike Tempotron (MST) is a powerful single spiking neuron model that can solve complex supervised classification tasks. While powerful, it is also internally complex, computationally expensive to evaluate, and not suitable for neuromorphic hardware. Here we aim to understand whether it is possible to simplify the MST model, while retaining its ability to learn and to process information. To this end, we introduce a family of Generalised Neuron Models (GNM) which are a special case of the Spike Response Model and much simpler and cheaper to simulate than the MST. We find that over a wide range of parameters the GNM can learn at least as well as the MST. We identify the temporal autocorrelation of the membrane potential as the single most important ingredient of the GNM which enables it to classify multiple spatio-temporal patterns. We also interpret the GNM as a chemical system, thus conceptually bridging computation by neural networks with molecular information processing. We conclude the paper by proposing alternative training approaches for the GNM including error trace learning and error backpropagation.
Lattice tube model of proteins
Creators: name: Banavar, Jayanth R.
name: Cieplak, Marek
name: Maritan, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new lattice model for proteins that incorporates a tube-like anisotropy by introducing a preference for mutually parallel alignments in the conformations. The model is demonstrated to capture many aspects of real proteins.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; 4 figures
title: The future development and safety of nuclear energy in Danube river basin : assessing nuclear power plant safety with regards to managing flood hazards
Creators: name: Racheva-Slavkova, Viktoria
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Safety
subject: Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
subject: Energy
subject: Danube River
subject: Flood Hazards

description: In the next 50 years, unless an alternative is found, energy demand and production will be increasing, and this will contribute to global warming through excessive release of more harmful greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. If the energy is not created from Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) or renewables limitations are not surpassed, new millions of tons of carbon emissions per year will be produced through combustion of coal and natural gas and the global temperature will increase by 2 degrees Celsius. On another hand, scientists project that climate change will increase the frequency of heavy rainstorms, putting many communities at risk of devastation from floods. Extreme rain, fast mountains ice melting, a dam rupture or embankment, or even a dam failure can flush with river water the floodplain. Some of the floods develop slowly and give a chance for reaction and even evacuation; others come so fast that there is no time for warning and preparation. These flash floods can also damage critical infrastructure like NPPs as the plants are usually built close to water bodies, for the sake of cooling. The site selection and the design of the plant take into account the worst case flooding scenarios as well as other possible natural disasters and, more recently, the possible effects of climate change. As a result, all the buildings with safety-related equipment are situated on high enough platforms so that they stand above underwater areas in case of inundating events. Although engineered countermeasures have been built, in the past, some buildings and back-up equipment have been sited too low, so that they are vulnerable to flood. In March 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP an earthquake shut down the three units and 14 meters high Tsunami coming ashore cut power supply and damaged seriously the back-up diesel generators. The reactor couldn't continue to cold shutdown status and the other units suffered flooding. The Japanese NPP catastrophe was a reminder for the European Union to carry out a complete upto- date assessment of the current European nuclear reactors safety especially in respect of a combination of extreme external hazards. In this paper I will focus on the future of the existing and forthcoming NPPs located at the second biggest European River- The Danube, observing the international and regional legal instruments and institutions for nuclear safety and flood protection cooperation. I will use Bulgarian Kozloduy NPP as an example for the study of the IAEA Safety Standards especially in the process of safety assessment and site evaluation, done during the European stress test in regards of floods. Finally, I will address recommendations and conclusions.
The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Accomplishments at Risk: Abating the Threat of Invasive Species
Creators: name: Sklad, Elizabeth A.
name: Bartuska, Ann M.
name: Randall, John M.
name: Rice, Barry A.
name: Tu, Mandy
name: Gordon, Doria R.
name: Sklad, Elizabeth A.
name: Bartuska, Ann M.
name: Randall, John M.
name: Rice, Barry A.
name: Tu, Mandy
name: Gordon, Doria R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: The Nature Conservancy
subject: invasive species
subject: threat
subject: prevention
subject: early detection
subject: strategy

description: Whether in the coral reefs of the South Pacific, in native grasslands of the western U.S., in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, in the hardwood hammocks of the Florida Keys, in coastal and tropical forests in the Caribbean, or across Mexican deserts, invasive species have been identified as one of the most serious and pervasive threats across all of The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Areas, threatening all our conservation accomplishments to date. Invasive species have been identified as one of the top two threats to global biodiversity, and this threat has economic consequences -estimated at $137 billion annually in the U.S. alone. In the long term, conservation success will depend greatly on the ability to prevent new invasions, and to manage "invaded" native systems for maximum benefit to native biodiversity and intact, functioning ecosystems. The prevention and early detection of new invasive species is not only important to natural systems, but can also save millions of dollars in control measures for agricultural systems. The Conservancy is actively promoting the implementation and scientific improvement of new prevention programs and methods, through capacity building and through the influence on policy. The steps for a comprehensive strategy include assessment and risk analysis, prevention, early detection, rapid response and eradication, control and management, restoration, and public education and awareness. The foundation for all these steps is science but much more is needed and our ability to incorporate new information into management decisions in a timely fashion continues to be limited.
A Variational Principle Based Study of KPP Minimal Front Speeds in Random Shears
Creators: name: Nolen, James
name: Xin, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K57, 41A60, 65D99

description: Variational principle for Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) minimal front speeds provides an efficient tool for statistical speed analysis, as well as a fast and accurate method for speed computation. A variational principle based analysis is carried out on the ensemble of KPP speeds through spatially stationary random shear flows inside infinite channel domains. In the regime of small root mean square (rms) shear amplitude, the enhancement of the ensemble averaged KPP front speeds is proved to obey the quadratic law under certain shear moment conditions. Similarly, in the large rms amplitude regime, the enhancement follows the linear law. In particular, both laws hold for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process in case of two dimensional channels. An asymptotic ensemble averaged speed formula is derived in the small rms regime and is explicit in case of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of the shear. Variational principle based computation agrees with these analytical findings, and allows further study on the speed enhancement distributions as well as the dependence of enhancement on the shear covariance. Direct simulations in the small rms regime suggest quadratic speed enhancement law for non-KPP nonlinearities.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures update: fixed typos, refined estimates in section 2
Deep Learning and Knowledge-Based Methods for Computer Aided Molecular Design -- Toward a Unified Approach: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
Creators: name: Alshehri, Abdulelah S.
name: Gani, Rafiqul
name: You, Fengqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optimal design of compounds through manipulating properties at the molecular level is often the key to considerable scientific advances and improved process systems performance. This paper highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities underpinning the Computer-Aided Molecular Design (CAMD) problems. A brief review of knowledge-driven property estimation methods and solution techniques, as well as corresponding CAMD tools and applications, are first presented. In view of the computational challenges plaguing knowledge-based methods and techniques, we survey the current state-of-the-art applications of deep learning to molecular design as a fertile approach towards overcoming computational limitations and navigating uncharted territories of the chemical space. The main focus of the survey is given to deep generative modeling of molecules under various deep learning architectures and different molecular representations. Further, the importance of benchmarking and empirical rigor in building deep learning models is spotlighted. The review article also presents a detailed discussion of the current perspectives and challenges of knowledge-based and data-driven CAMD and identifies key areas for future research directions. Special emphasis is on the fertile avenue of hybrid modeling paradigm, in which deep learning approaches are exploited while leveraging the accumulated wealth of knowledge-driven CAMD methods and tools.
Large-scale, Language-agnostic Discourse Classification of Tweets During COVID-19
Creators: name: Gencoglu, Oguzhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantifying the characteristics of public attention is an essential prerequisite for appropriate crisis management during severe events such as pandemics. For this purpose, we propose language-agnostic tweet representations to perform large-scale Twitter discourse classification with machine learning. Our analysis on more than 26 million COVID-19 tweets shows that large-scale surveillance of public discourse is feasible with computationally lightweight classifiers by out-of-the-box utilization of these representations.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Assessing Predictive Content of the KOF Barometer in Real Time
Creators: name: Siliverstovs, Boriss
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2010
Subjects: GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
ECONOMETRICS AND ECONOMETRIC MODELS (OPERATIONS RESEARCH)
BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFTLICHE PROGNOSE
BRUTTONATIONALEINKOMMEN
SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT
SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION
ÖKONOMETRIE UND ÖKONOMETRISCHE MODELLE (OPERATIONS RESEARCH)
BUSINESS FORECASTS
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 249
Appendices from The evolution of host resistance and parasite infectivity is highest in seasonal resource environments that oscillate at intermediate amplitudes
Creators: name: Ferris, Charlotte
name: Wright, Rosanna
name: Brockhurst, Michael A.
name: Best, Alex
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These appendices include details not in the main text, primarily details about the modelling method used in this paper.
Electroweak Baryogenesis and New TeV Fermions
Creators: name: Carena, Marcela
name: Megevand, Ariel
name: Quiros, Mariano
name: Wagner, Carlos E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New fermions, strongly coupled to the Standard Model Higgs boson provide a well motivated extension of the Standard Model (SM). In this work we show that, once new physics at heavier scales is added to stabilize the Higgs potential, such an extension of the SM can strengthen the first order electroweak phase transition and make the electroweak baryogenesis mechanism feasible. We propose a SM extension with TeV Higgsinos, Winos and Binos that satisfy the following properties: a) The electroweak phase transition is strong enough to avoid sphaleron erasure in the broken phase for values of the Higgs mass mH < 300 GeV; b) It provides large CP-violating currents that lead to the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe for natural values of the CP-violating phase; c) It also provides a natural Dark Matter candidate that can reproduce the observed dark matter density; d) It is consistent with electroweak precision measurements; e) It may arise from a softly broken supersymmetric theory with an extra (asymptotically free) gauge sector; e) It may be tested by electron electric dipole moment experiments in the near future.
description: LateX, 40 pages, 12 embedded postscript figures. A discussion of the stability of the Higgs potential and its connection to a possible ultraviolet completion of the model has been added