cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: OderÜbersetzen. Deutsch-polnisches Übersetzungsjahrbuch - Karl Dedecius Archiv, Nr. 2/2011
title: OderÜbersetzen. Polsko-niemiecki rocznik translatorski - Archiwum Karla Dedeciusa, nr 2/2011
Creators: name: Chołuj, Bożena
Publisher: name: Collegium Polonicum
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 800 Literatur und Rhetorik

description: Das deutsch-polnische Übersetzungsjahrbuch „OderÜbersetzen“ ist 2009 an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), im Collegium Polonicum in Słubice entstanden. Es ist mit dem Karl Dedecius Archiv, dem Archiv der Literaturübersetzer/-innen, verbunden.

Die Publikation richtet sich an Übersetzer/-innen, Translationswissenschaftler/-innen und alle, die sich für das Thema "Übersetzen" interessieren, sowie an Personen, die sich für den deutsch-polnischen literarischen und kulturellen Austausch engagieren. Neben kritischen und analytischen übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Texten enthält das Jahrbuch Interviews mit Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzern sowie die von ihnen verfassten Artikel, in welchen sie über ihre Arbeit reflektieren.

Das Thema der 2. Nummer des Jahrbuchs lautet: "Übersetzung
im Widerstreit"
description: Polsko-niemiecki rocznik translatorski „OderÜbersetzen" powstał w 2009 r. na Uniwersytecie Europejskim Viadrina we Frankfurcie nad Odrą, w Collegium Polonicum w Słubicach, siedzibie Archiwum im. Karla Dedeciusa, gromadzącego spuścizny tłumaczy i tłumaczek literatury.

Publikacja adresowana jest do tłumaczy i tłumaczek, osób zainteresowanych translatologią oraz polsko-niemiecką wymianą kulturową i literacką. Oprócz krytycznych i analitycznych tekstów na temat przekładów można tu znaleźć wywiady z tłumaczami oraz artykuły przez nich napisane, w których dzielą się oni refleksjami na temat swojej pracy.

Temat drugiego numeru rocznika brzmi: „Przekłady konkurujące”.
description: OderÜbersetzen; 2
Heterocedasticity-Adjusted Ranking and Thresholding for Large-Scale Multiple Testing
Creators: name: Fu, Luella
name: Gang, Bowen
name: James, Gareth M.
name: Wenguang Sun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Standardization has been a widely adopted practice in multiple testing, for it takes into account the variability in sampling and makes the test statistics comparable across different study units. However, despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, we show that there can be a significant loss in information from basing hypothesis tests on standardized statistics rather than the full data. We develop a new class of heteroscedasticity–adjusted ranking and thresholding (HART) rules that aim to improve existing methods by simultaneously exploiting commonalities and adjusting heterogeneities among the study units. The main idea of HART is to bypass standardization by directly incorporating both the summary statistic and its variance into the testing procedure. A key message is that the variance structure of the alternative distribution, which is subsumed under standardized statistics, is highly informative and can be exploited to achieve higher power. The proposed HART procedure is shown to be asymptotically valid and optimal for false discovery rate (FDR) control. Our simulation results demonstrate that HART achieves substantial power gain over existing methods at the same FDR level. We illustrate the implementation through a microarray analysis of myeloma.
Lopholithodes mandtii Brandt 1848
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Lithodidae
Lopholithodes
Lopholithodes mandtii

description: Lopholithodes mandtii Brandt, 1848
(Fig. 39G)
 Lopholithodes mandtii Brandt, 1848: 174. — Holmes 1900: 128. — Schmitt 1921: 156, pl. 21, fig. 1; fig. 101. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 340. — Makarov 1962: 266, figs. 106, 107. — Pereyra & Alton 1972: 450. — Hart 1982: 82, fig. 25. — Dawson 1989: 318. — Jensen 1995: 73, fig. 144. — Kuris et al. 2007: 648.
 Diagnosis. Carapace strongly convex; gastric, cardiac, branchial regions each with prominent subconical tubercle, anterolateral margin with large, small spines; large prominence at each posterolateral angle; all raised areas more prominent in juveniles than in adults. Rostrum short, consisting of subconical tubercle, knob with two lateral tubercles with posterior notch. Chelipeds unequal. Chelipeds, pereopods 2–4 with tubercles. Abdomen asymmetrical, with tubercles. Carapace length to 177.8 mm.
 Color in life. Scarlet, red or orange, with bright purple markings on ventral part of body, legs (Hart 1982).
 Habitat and depth. Usually subtidal rocky areas, rarely lowest intertidal zone, to 200 m.
 Range. Sitka, Alaska to Monterey, California but few reports south of Washington. Type locality Sitka, Alaska.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 168
PENGEMBANGAN KOMPETENSI DAN DAMPAK PERKEMBANGAN KARIR PROFESI GURU
Creators: name: Rival, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Profesi merupakan sebuah pekerjaan yang hanya dapat diperoleh oleh orang yang memenuhi syarat-syarat tertentu yaitu memiliki keahlian, memiliki sertifikasi pendidikan, memiliki kode etik, terdapat organisasi, diakui masyarakat, dilengkapi kecakapan diagnostic dan sebagai panggilan hidup, serta klien yang jelas. Umtuk menjadi seorang guru yang professional tentu diperlukan pengembangan kompetensi dan karir sebagai bekal umtuk menjalankan proses pendidikan. pengembangan kompetensi ini dapat berupa kompetensi Profesional, kompetensi pendagogik, kompetensi sosial, dan kompetensi kepribadian. Sedangkan untuk pengembangan karir tersebut dapat berupa pengembangan kompetensi dan pemberian hak-hak guru serta kepangkatan atau posisi sehingga dapat mensejahterakan profesi guru.
Endoscopic full thickness resection vs. transanal endoscopic microsurgery for local treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumors - a retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Brand, Markus
name: Reimer, Stanislaus
name: Reibetanz, Joachim
name: Flemming, Sven
name: Kornmann, Marko
name: Meining, Alexander
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Rectum
subject: Neuroendocrine tumor (NET)
subject: Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM)
subject: Endoscopic full thickness resection (eFTR)
subject: Full-thickness resection device (FTRD)
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Purpose Local treatment of small well-differentiated rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) is recommended by current guidelines. However, although several endoscopic methods have been established, the highest R0 rate is achieved by transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM). Since a recently published study about endoscopic full thickness resection (eFTR) showed a R0 resection rate of 100%, the aim of this study was to evaluate both methods (eFTR vs. TEM). Methods We retrospectively analyzed all patients with rectal NET treated either by TEM (1999–2018) or eFTR (2016–2019) in two tertiary centers (University Hospital Wuerzburg and Ulm). We analyzed clinical, procedural, and histopathological outcomes in both groups. Results Twenty-eight patients with rectal NET received local treatment (TEM: 13; eFTR: 15). Most tumors were at stage T1a and grade G1 or G2 (in the TEM group two G3 NETs were staged T2 after neoadjuvant chemotherapy). In both groups, similar outcomes for en bloc resection rate, R0 resection rate, tumor size, or specimen size were found. No procedural adverse events were noted. Mean procedure time in the TEM group was 48.9 min and 19.2 min in the eFTR group. Conclusion eFTR is a convincing method for local treatment of small rectal NETs combining high safety and efficacy with short interventional time.
title: Paratexte (2)_Supplément aux répertoires des collectionneurs et aux listes d'amateurs étrangers publiés depuis 1893 par E. Renart
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Paratexte
description: ID_PARA_01050
Radio Luminosities and Classificatory Criteria of BL Lacertae Objects
Creators: name: Mei, D. C.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Jiang, Z. J.
name: Dai, B. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the sample of radio selected BL Lacertae objects (RBLs) and X-ray selected BL Lacertae objects (XBLs) presented by Sambruna et al. (1996), we calculated the luminosities of radio, optical and X-ray of each source and made the statistical analysis among the luminosities at different wave-bands, broad-band spectral indices from radio to X-ray ($α_{\rm rx}$) and peak frequencies ($ν_p$). Our results are as follows: (i) there is a positive correlation between radio luminosity $L_{\rm r}$ and $α_{\rm rx}$ and a negative correlation between $L_{\rm r}$ and $ν_p$. High-energy peak BL Lacs (HBLs) and low-energy peak BL Lacs (LBLs) can be distinguished very well, the dividing lines are probably those of $\log {L_{\rm r}}=43.25$ (erg/sec) and $α_{\rm rx}>$(or $\leq $)0.75 for $L_{\rm r}$ - $α_{\rm rx}$ plot and those of $\log {L_{\rm r}}\leq 43.25$ (erg/sec) and $\log {ν_p}>14.7$ for the $L_{\rm r}$ - $ν_p$ plot; (ii) there is a weak positive correlation between optical luminosity $L_o$ and $α_{\rm rx}$ and a negatively weak correlation between $L_{\rm o}$ and $ν_p$; (iii) there is no correlation between X-ray luminosity $L_X$ and $α_{\rm rx}$ or between $L_X$ and $ν_p$. From our analysis, we find that synchrotron radiation is the main X-ray radiation mechanism for HBLs while inverse Compton scattering for LBLs.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to A&A
Additional file 1 of Association of serum creatinine with aortic arch calcification in middle-aged and elderly adults: an observational cross-sectional study from China
Creators: name: Zhang, Feifei
name: Hao, Nannan
name: Wang, Lei
name: Sun, Guoming
name: Feng, Xiaoke
name: Li, Chunjian
name: Tan, Wenfeng
name: Wang, Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Association of AAC with creatinine tertiles.
Dynamic Heterogeneous Agent Models of Default on Farm Real Estate Loans
Creators: name: Wu, Yifei
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Brewer, Brady E.
name: Wu, Yifei
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Brewer, Brady E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Foreclosures
subject: Bankruptcy
subject: Agricultrual commodity price
subject: Farmland Price

description: According to the USDA ARMS data, farm real estate values have increased almost threefold since 1987, but this trend is leveling off. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported that both irrigated and non-irrigated farmland was trending negatively in the second and third quarters of 2015. This phenomenon not only happens in district 10, but reports from districts 11, 8, and 7 of the Federal Reserve are also indicate a downward trend in farmland value. It is likely that the value of farm real estate, especially in middle America, is just beginning a downward slide. This decrease in land value is correlated with low commodity prices and low expected returns from the agricultural sector. According to the USDA, net U.S. farm income tumbled 38% to $55.9 billion in 2015, the lowest in more than a decade (Newman, 2015). Agriculture is by nature a cyclical industry. In the 1980s, the bust of the agricultural economy resulted in an increase in farmer defaults and agricultural bank failures. In 1985 and 1986, agricultural banks charged off $2.5 billion in loan loss, and 50 agricultural banks failed each year from 1985 to 1987. Therefore, banks and shareholders are very interested in whether the decline in farmland prices and weak agricultural profitability will cause another agricultural credit crisis. The agricultural credit crisis in the 1980s and the current agricultural economy expectations highlight the importance of understanding the economic mechanisms triggering agricultural loan default and the rise in charge-off rates. Insights into these issues may then inform political debates on how to prevent future foreclosure crises or mitigate their impacts if they must happen. To date, a clear lack of structural theory on farm real estate loan default behavior exists. This paper contributes to this research agenda by developing a heterogeneous agent model to study the effects of a farmland price shock and commodity price shock on the default decisions of farmers. Findings from simulations of this structural model can help policy-makers understand the mechanisms of farmland loan default.
Muhammad Rival_2010128310001_A-1_tugas Pra UAS.pdf
Creators: name: Rival, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Profesi merupakan sebuah pekerjaan yang hanya dapat diperoleh oleh orang yang memenuhi syarat-syarat tertentu yaitu memiliki keahlian, memiliki sertifikasi pendidikan, memiliki kode etik, terdapat organisasi, diakui masyarakat, dilengkapi kecakapan diagnostic dan sebagai panggilan hidup, serta klien yang jelas. Umtuk menjadi seorang guru yang professional tentu diperlukan pengembangan kompetensi dan karir sebagai bekal umtuk menjalankan proses pendidikan. pengembangan kompetensi ini dapat berupa kompetensi Profesional, kompetensi pendagogik, kompetensi sosial, dan kompetensi kepribadian. Sedangkan untuk pengembangan karir tersebut dapat berupa pengembangan kompetensi dan pemberian hak-hak guru serta kepangkatan atau posisi sehingga dapat mensejahterakan profesi guru.
In silico design novel vibsanin B derivatives as inhibitor for heat shock protein 90 based on 3D-QSAR, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Qingxiu He
name: Chu, Han
name: Yuxuan Wang
name: Haiqiong Guo
name: Yuanqiang Wang
name: Siyi Wang
name: Zhiwei Feng
name: Xie, Xiang-Qun
name: Hu, Yong
name: Haibin Liu
name: Zhihua Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Paralomis verrilli
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Lithodidae
Paralomis
Paralomis verrilli

description: Paralomis verrilli (Benedict, 1895)
(Fig. 39J)
 Pristopus verrilli Benedict 1895: 486. — Rathbun 1904: 165.
 Paralomis verrilli. — Schmitt 1921: 159, pl. 24, pl. 30, figs. 5, 6. — Makarov 1962: 258, fig. 103. — Pereyra & Alton 1972: 450. — Hart 1982: 86, fig. 2. — Wicksten 1989b: 315. — Dawson 1989: 318. — Komai & Amaoka 1989: 288. — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999: 374.
 Diagnosis. Carapace slightly longer than wide, with spines, granules; large spines on margins, elevated areas. Rostrum bifid with subrostral spine. Chelipeds shorter than walking legs, spinous; right larger than left. Pereopods 2–4 somewhat flattened, with large teeth on margins, smaller teeth on dorsal surface. Abdomen with small spines, nodules. Carapace length 112 mm.
 Color in life. Carapace pale reddish brown, thoracic appendages deep red. Distal half of cutting edges of chelae black or deep brown (Komai & Amaoka 1989).
 Habitat and depth. Continental slope, 450–2379 m.
 Range. Sea of Okhotsk to off San Benito I., Baja California; and Gulf of California. Type locality off Pribilof Is.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on pages 170-171
title: 03_0195
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/
Curculio imperalis
Creators: name: Pelsue, Frank W.
name: Zhang, Runzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Curculio
Curculio imperalis

description: Curculio imperalis (Heller)
(Figs. 11, 12, 26)
 Balaninus imperalis Heller, 1927:218.
 Type. Bangladesh (Benguey). Holotype male (MCSN).
 Diagnosis. Length: 3.0– 4.3 mm. Width: 1.5–2.0 mm. Derm piceous; rostrum broad at base; antennae with club as long as the funiculus; pronotal disc scale pattern with aeneous scales laterally and along base, fuscopiceous medially; elytra with broad median vitta of aeneous scales on intervals 1 and 2, broad median fascia of aeneous scales, apex with broad fascia of aeneous scales with fuscopiceous scales between; metafemur with small tooth; sternum with clavate white scales. Genitalia: spermatheca: ramus short, oblique, truncate apex; collum broadly rounded apex, evenly tumid to cornu; cornu rather broad to broadly rounded apex (Fig. 26).
 Distribution. Bangladesh; China: Yunnan Province, Xishuanbanna; Vietnam, Thai-Nguen.
 Remarks. This taxon fits its specific name by being regal in its scale pattern and stands alone among the members of this group due to the female antennal club being longer than the funiculus. The findings in China and Vietnam represent new range extensions.
description: Published as part of Pelsue, Frank W. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2005, A Review of the Genus Curculio from China with Descriptions of Four New Taxa. Part V. The Curculio dentipes (Roelofs) Group (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculionini), pp. 293-303 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (Bethesda, Md.: 1985) (Bethesda, Md.: 1985) 59 (3) on pages 293-303, DOI: 10.1649/726.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5346019
Hidden Trade Costs? Maximum Residue Limits and US Exports to Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Trading Partners
Creators: name: Hejazi, Mina
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Peterson, Everett
name: Hejazi, Mina
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Peterson, Everett
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: fruit and vegetable trade
subject: bilateral trade
subject: maximum residue limits
subject: non-tariff measures
subject: Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
subject: Trans-Pacific Partnership
subject: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade

description: Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are not new, but their significance in international agri-food trade continues to grow. Despite recent data collection efforts, the current literature has not lead to a consensus about the impact of SPS measures on trade nor has it led to a prescribed framework for how to address SPS policy reforms in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations. In this article we focus on a specific type of SPS measures that features prominently in the current mega-regional trade negotiations, namely food safety standards in the form of maximum residue limits. First, we construct a comprehensive database of country-and-product specific MRLs for global fresh fruit and vegetable trade and develop a novel bilateral stringency index to quantify the degree of MRL regulatory heterogeneity between trading nations for the years 2013 and 2014. Second, a formal econometric model is developed to investigate the trade restricting nature of these measures. The results suggest that for any given fresh fruit or vegetable product, importer MRL standards that are marginally stricter than exporter MRLs can impart significant reductions in bilateral trade. However, when MRL policies are roughly equivalent, as is the case between the US and some of its TPP trading partners, the actual restrictiveness of this SPS policy diminishes dramatically. The results have important implications for the current mega-regional negotiations.
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation for Control Systems with Friction
Creators: name: Tedone, Fabio
name: Palladino, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a new framework to model control systems in which a dynamic friction occurs. The model consists in a controlled differential inclusion with a discontinuous right hand side, which still preserves existence and uniqueness of the solution for each given input function $u(t)$. Under general hypotheses, we are able to derive the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for the related free time optimal control problem and to characterise the value function as the unique, locally Lipschitz continuous viscosity solution.
ASD‑Net: a novel U‑Net based asymmetric spatial‑channel convolution network for precise kidney and kidney tumor image segmentation
Creators: name: Ji, Zhanlin
name: Mu, Juncheng
name: Liu, Jianuo
name: Zhang, HaiYang
name: Dai, Chenxu
name: Zhang, Xueji
name: GANCHEV, IVAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4009
subject: Electronics, sensors and digital hardware

description: Early intervention in tumors can greatly improve human survival rates. With the development of deep learning technology, automatic image segmentation has taken a prominent role in the feld of medical image analysis. Manually segmenting kidneys on CT images is a tedious task, and due to the diversity of these images and varying technical skills of professionals, segmentation results can be inconsistent. To address this problem, a novel ASD-Net network is proposed in this paper for kidney and kidney tumor segmentation tasks. First, the proposed network employs newly designed Adaptive Spatial-channel Convolution Optimization (ASCO) blocks to capture anisotropic information in the images. Then, other newly designed blocks, i.e., Dense Dilated Enhancement Convolution (DDEC) blocks, are utilized to enhance feature propagation and reuse it across the network, thereby improving its segmentation accuracy. To allow the network to segment complex and small kidney tumors more effectively, the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module is incorporated in its middle layer. With its generalized pyramid feature, this module enables the network to better capture and understand context information at various scales within the images. In addition to this, the concurrent spatial and channel squeeze & excitation (scSE) attention mechanism is adopted to better comprehend and manage context information in the images. Additional encoding layers are also added to the base (U-Net) and connected to the original encoding layer through skip connections. The resultant enhanced U-Net structure allows for better extraction and merging of high-level and low-level features, further boosting the network’s ability to restore segmentation details. In addition, the combined Binary Cross Entropy (BCE)-Dice loss is utilized as the network's loss function. Experiments, conducted on the KiTS19 dataset, demonstrate that the proposed ASD-Net network outperforms the existing segmentation networks according to all evaluation metrics used, except for recall in the case of kidney tumor segmentation, where it takes the second place after Attention-UNet.
Impact of Contract Farming on Profits and Yield of Smallholder Farms in Nepal: An Evidence from Lentil Cultivation
Creators: name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Roy, Devesh
name: Joshi, Pramod K.
name: Tripathi, Gaurav
name: Adhikari, Rajendra P.
name: Kumar, Anjani
name: Roy, Devesh
name: Joshi, Pramod K.
name: Tripathi, Gaurav
name: Adhikari, Rajendra P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Contract farming
subject: lentil
subject: income
subject: small farmers
subject: Nepal

description: This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in a country like Nepal with accessibility issues, underdeveloped markets, and lack of amenities remains ambiguous. On the one hand, contractors find it difficult to build links in these cases, particularly when final consumers have quality and safety requirements. On the other hand, lack of other market opportunities makes the contracts more sustainable. The latter happens if there are product-specific quality advantages because of agroecology and, more important, lack of side-selling opportunities. At the same time concerns remain about monoposonistic powers of the buyers when small farmers do not have outside options. Results of this study show that CF is significantly more profitable (81 percent greater net income) than independent production, the main pathway being higher yield and price realization. The positive impact of CF on farmers’ profits can help Nepal in harnessing the growing demand for pulses, especially in neighboring international markets, like India.
Ermitaños, Cangrejos con casa
Creators: name: Cervantes, Gabriel
name: Simões, Nuno
name: Ugalde, Diana
name: Guerra, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Hermit crab
subject: Biodiversity "
subject: Caribbean
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecosystem Ecology
subject: Gulf of Mexico
subject: Marine Biodiversity
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Marine Ecology
subject: Marine Environment
subject: Species diversity

description: This Infographic is a product of BDMY (https://www.bdmy.org.mx) project, that was produced with funds of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, and CONABIO (Mexico).

 The information in the infographic was reviewed and validated by a group of specialists in the taxon. CC-BY-NC-ND
title: Train It To Maintain It: Exploring the Efficacy of Training Executive Functions in Improving Cognition and Well-being in Older Adulthood
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lan
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ageing
subject: cognition
subject: executive functions
subject: well-being

description: With advances in technology and medicine, people are living longer, but this does not guarantee that they are living well. Given the increasing proportion of older adults in the global population, the United Nations has declared the years 2021-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing - an initiative focused on improving quality of life in older age, with cognition as a major pillar. Consequently, much of the research on cognitive aging has focused on interventions that may ameliorate the effects of age-related cognitive decline. Cognitive training has become one of the most prominent candidates under investigation, though studies have yielded mixed findings for this type of intervention to promote improvements in (transfer to) everyday tasks. As core executive functions (EFs; cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, working memory [WM]) are crucial for everyday functioning and are fundamental building blocks for other cognitive processes, this research program investigated the potential of cognitive training targeting core EFs in facilitating improvements in cognitive, subjective, and neural outcomes for older adults. Specifically, the five studies within this research program address gaps and equivocal findings in the cognitive training literature pertaining to: i) the uncertainty of training-related transfer and conditions that may promote transfer effects (Studies 1 and 2), ii) the lack of empirical evidence directly comparing the efficacy of multidomain versus single-domain training - particularly including subjective outcomes which have important implications for healthy aging (e.g., self-esteem, attitudes toward one's own aging journey) (Study 3), iii) older adults' experiences and preferences regarding cognitive training and what can be done to encourage long-term engagement (Study 4), and iv) the uncertainty surrounding the potential for cognitive training to induce neural changes (Study 5). [...]
Waveguide containing a backward-wave slab
Creators: name: Nefedov, I. S.
name: Tretyakov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have considered theoretically the waveguide properties of a plane two-layered waveguide, whose one layer is a usual magnetodielectric (forward-wave medium), but another one is a slab of so-called backward-wave material (BW-material), whose both permittivity and permeability are negative. We have analyzed the properties of eigenwaves in this waveguide. In particular, it was found that there exist waves of both TE and TM polarizations, whose fields decay exponentially from the interface of the two slabs inside both layers, and their slow-wave factor tends to infinity at small frequencies. Thus, this waveguiding system supports super-slow waves with extremely short wavelengthes, as compared to the free-space wavelength and the cross section size. Other peculiarities of the spectrum are also discussed.
Rocky Planetesimal Formation Aided by Organics
Creators: name: Homma, Kazuaki
name: Okuzumi, Satoshi
name: Nakamoto, Taishi
name: Ueda, Yuta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The poor stickiness of silicate dust grains is a major obstacle to the formation of rocky planetesimals. In this study, we examine the possibility that silicate grains with an organic mantle, which we call Organic-Mantled Grains (OMGs), form planetesimals through direct coagulation. Organic mantles are commonly found in interplanetary dust particles, and laboratory experiments show that they are softer than silicates, in particular in warm environments. This, combined with the theory of particle adhesion, implies that OMGs are stickier than bare silicate grains. Because organic mantles can survive up to 400 K, silicate grains inside the water snow line in protoplanetary disks can in principle hold such mantles. We construct a simple grain adhesion model to estimate the threshold collision velocity below which aggregates of OMGs can grow. The model shows that aggregates of 0.1 \micron-sized OMGs can overcome the fragmentation barrier in protoplanetary disks if the mantles are as thick as those in interplanetary dust particles and if the temperature is above $\sim$ 200 K. We use this adhesion model to simulate the global evolution of OMG aggregates in the inner part of a protoplanetary disk, demonstrating that OMG aggregates can indeed grow into planetesimals under favorable conditions. Because organic matter is unstable at excessively high temperatures, rocky planetesimal formation by the direct sticking of OMGs is expected to occur in a disk annulus corresponding to the temperature range $ \sim$ 200--400 K. The organic-rich planetesimals may grow into carbon-poor rocky planetesimals by accreting a large amount of carbon-poor chondrules.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Dimensional reduction, SL(2,C)-equivariant bundles and stable holomorphic chains
Creators: name: Álvarez-Cónsul, Luis
name: García-Prada, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58C25 (Primary), 58A30, 53C12, 53C55, 83C05 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we study gauge theory on SL(2,C)-equivariant bundles over XxP^1, where X is a compact Kahler manifold, P^1 is the complex projective line, and the action of SL(2,C) is trivial on X and standard on P^1. We first classify these bundles, showing that they are in correspondence with objects on X - that we call holomorphic chains - consisting of a finite number of holomorphic bundles E_i and morphisms E_i->E_{i-1}. We then prove a Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence relating the existence of solutions to certain natural gauge-theoretic equations and an appropriate notion of stability for an equivariant bundle and the corresponding chain. A central tool in this paper is a dimensional reduction procedure which allow us to go from XxP^1 to X.
description: 43 pages; PDF file can be obtained from http://www.worldscinet.com/journals/ijm/12/1202/S0129167X01000745.html
Curculio kiangsuicus
Creators: name: Pelsue, Frank W.
name: Zhang, Runzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Curculio
Curculio kiangsuicus

description: Curculio kiangsuicus (Heller)
(Figs. 17, 18)
 Balaninus kiangsuicus Heller, 1927:191
 Type. China. Holotype male (SMTD).
 Diagnosis. Length: 4.0– 5.9 mm. Width: 3.1– 3.1 mm. Derm nut brown to fuscopiceous; rostrum in male 0.75 of body length, female longer than body; antennal segment 2 as long as 1, 3 almost twice as long as 4, 5 and 7 longer than 6; antennal club slightly longer than funicular segments 6–7; scutellum large, longer than broad, scutate, clothed with white scales; mesepimeron densely clothed with clavate, white scales; elytral striae narrow, moderately deep punctures large; intervals broad, flat, clothed with short, narrow, testaceous scales, longer, narrow, clavate white scales scattered along margins; crosshatch setae short, suberect, testaceous; pro- mesofemoral teeth very small, metafemoral tooth small; abdominal sternite 1 and 2 same length behind coxal cavity; 5 of female with shallow median declivity. Genitalia: not dissected.
 Distribution. China: Beijing Province, Baihaushan, Beijing; Jiangsu Province, Shanghai (type locality).
 Remarks. This species can be separated from the members of this group by the lack of any pronotal and elytral macula or fascia. When observed from the dorsal aspect the white scutellum stands out and in lateral view the white mesepimeron. Appears similar to Curculio productus (Pascoe) (1883) in that both have no macula or fascia and large white scutellum, but C. productus has densely clothed white, mesepimeron, mesepisternum and sternites 1–2.
description: Published as part of Pelsue, Frank W. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2005, A Review of the Genus Curculio from China with Descriptions of Four New Taxa. Part V. The Curculio dentipes (Roelofs) Group (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculionini), pp. 293-303 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (Bethesda, Md.: 1985) (Bethesda, Md.: 1985) 59 (3) on pages 293-303, DOI: 10.1649/726.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5346019
title: Tourism and Positive Ageing: Exploring the Role of Travel in the Wellbeing of Seniors
Creators: name: Chang, Lu
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: positive ageing
subject: tourism
subject: wellbeing
subject: resilience

description: The ageing of the population globally has brought the health and wellbeing of seniors to the forefront of public consciousness. Tourism holds significant therapeutic potential for enhancing the mental health and psychological wellbeing of individuals. Existing research tends to focus on younger adults aged under 55, neglecting the unique psychological mechanisms of tourism that foster wellbeing among seniors. This oversight has left the role of tourism in positive ageing underexplored and conceptually underdeveloped. Consequently, this PhD thesis explores how tourism contributes to seniors' wellbeing and resilience, with an emphasis on the connection between travel and positive ageing, a key concern in global public policy as highlighted by the United Nations and the World Health Organization. In this pursuit, three Research Objectives were achieved.
Chirostylidae Ortmann 1892
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Chirostylidae

description: Key to species of family Chirostylidae   1. Lateral carapace margins strongly convex in posterior 0.66; tergum of abdominal segment 5 unarmed... Gastroptychus iaspis
 – Lateral carapace margins nearly straight posteriorly; tergum of abdominal segment 5 spiny....... Gastroptychus perarmatus
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 143
Two-sided radio emission in ON231 (W Comae)
Creators: name: Massaro, E.
name: Mantovani, F.
name: Fanti, R.
name: Nesci, R.
name: Tosti, G.
name: Venturi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent radio images of the BL Lac object ON231 (W Com, 1219+285) show remarkable new features in the source structure compared to those previously published. The images were obtained from observations made with the European VLBI Network plus MERLIN at 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz after the exceptional optical outburst occurred in Spring 1998. The up-to-date B band historic light curve of ON231 is also presented together with the R band luminosity evolution in the period 1994--1999. We identify the source core in the radio images with the brightest component having the flattest spectrum. A consequence of this assumption is the existence of a two--sided emission in ON231 not detected in previous VLBI images. A further new feature is a large bend in the jet at about 10 mas from the core. The emission extends for about 20 mas after the bend, which might be due to strong interaction with the environment surrounding the nucleus. We suggest some possible interpretations to relate the changes in the source structure with the optical and radio flux density variation in the frame of the unification model.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Molecular Modelling and Dynamics of CA2 Missense Mutations Causative to Carbonic Anhydrase 2 Deficiency Syndrome
Creators: name: Shaik, Noor A.
name: Hifaa A. Bokhari
name: Masoodi, Ahmed T
name: Preetha J Shetty
name: Ajabnoor, Ghada M. A.
name: Ramu Elango
name: Babajan Banaganapalli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Carbonic anhydrase 2 (CA2) enzyme deficiency caused by CA2 gene mutations is a inherited disorder characterized by symptoms like osteopetrosis, renal tubular acidosis, and cerebral calcification. To better understand the impact of CA2 deficiency causal mutations on the CA2 protein structure, mutations were collected and screened to know their pathogenicity potential using diverse computational programs. Subsequently, mutant 3D models were built, and structural divergence, protein stability, and molecular dynamics analyses were performed. This study found M-CAP as the best sensitive prediction method to measure the deleterious potential of CA2 missense mutations. Free energy dynamics of tertiary structure models of CA2 mutants with DUET, mCSM, and SDM based consensus methods predicted only 50% of the variants as destabilizing. Superimposition of native and mutant CA2 models revealed the minor structural fluctuations at the amino acid residue level but not at the whole protein structure level. Near native molecular dynamic simulation analysis indicated that CA2 causative missense variants result in residue level fluctuation pattern in the protein structure. This study expands the known understanding of genotype-protein phenotype correlations underlying CA2 variant pathogenicity and presents a potential avenue for modifying the CA2 deficiency by targeting biophysical structural features of CA2 protein.
First-principles Study of Spin-wave Excitations of 3$d$ Transition Metals with Linear Combination of Pseudo-atomic Orbitals
Creators: name: Prayitno, Teguh Budi
name: Ishii, Fumiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have employed the generalized Bloch theorem to evaluate the spin stiffness constants of 3$d$ transition metals (bcc-Fe, fcc-Co, and fcc-Ni) within the linear combination of pseudo-atomic orbitals (LCPAO). The spin stiffness constants were obtained by fitting the spin-wave energy curve, which relates to the total energy difference and the spiral vectors. In order to convince the reliable spin stiffness constants, we also provided the convergences of spin stiffness constants in terms of the cutoff radius and the number of orbitals. After observing the specific cutoff radius and the basis orbital, at which the spin stiffness constant converges, we used those two parameters to compute the Curie temperature by using the mean field approximation and the random phase approximation. For the latter approximation, we applied the so-called Debye approximation, which is intended to reduce very significantly many required wavevectors to evaluate the Curie temperature. We claimed that our results are in good agreement with both other calculations and experiments.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Personalized Avatar Creation using Face Recognition
Creators: name: Lyons, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80106 Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 80103 Computer Graphics

description: Brief description of a system that uses face processing algorithms to extract the region of the face from an input image and combine it with an avatar body. If desired, high level knowledge of the face can be used to aid the user in the selection of an avatar body. In addition, the face can be caricaturized or distorted for for emphasis or comical effect.
A comprehensive study of reported high metallicity giant HII regions. I. Detailed abundance analysis
Creators: name: Castellanos, Marcelo
name: Diaz, Angeles
name: Terlevich, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present long-slit observations in the optical and near infrared of fourteen HII regions in the spiral galaxies: NGC 628, NGC 925, NGC 1232 and NGC 1637, all of them reported to have solar or oversolar abundances according to empirical calibrations. For seven of the observed regions, ion-weighted temperatures from optical forbidden auroral to nebular line ratios have been obtained and for six of them, the oxygen abundances derived by standard methods turn out to be significantly lower than solar. The other one, named CDT1 in NGC 1232, shows an oxygen abundance of 12+log(O/H) = 8.95+-0.20 and constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the first high metallicity HII region for which accurate line temperatures, and hence elemental abundances, have been derived. For the rest of the regions no line temperature measurements could be made and the metallicity has been determined by means of both detailed photoionisation modelling and the sulphur abundance parameter S_23. Only one of these regions shows values of O_23 and S_23 implying a solar or oversolar metallicity. According to our analysis, only two of the observed regions can therefore be considered as of high metallicity. The two of them fit the trends previously found in other high metallicity HII regions, i.e. N/O and S/O abundance ratios seem to be higher and lower than solar respectively.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Smart Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) Solution Underpinned by Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Creators: name: Alreshidi, Eissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been employed in agriculture over a long period of time, alongside other advanced computing technologies. However, increased attention is currently being paid to the use of such smart technologies. Agriculture has provided an important source of food for human beings over many thousands of years, including the development of appropriate farming methods for different types of crops. The emergence of new advanced IoT technologies has the potential to monitor the agricultural environment to ensure high-quality products. However, there remains a lack of research and development in relation to Smart Sustainable Agriculture (SSA), accompanied by complex obstacles arising from the fragmentation of agricultural processes, i.e. the control and operation of IoT/AI machines; data sharing and management; interoperability; and large amounts of data analysis and storage. This study firstly, explores existing IoT/AI technologies adopted for SSA and secondly, identifies IoT/AI technical architecture capable of underpinning the development of SSA platforms. As well as contributing to the current body of knowledge, this research reviews research and development within SSA and provides an IoT/AI architecture to establish a Smart, Sustainable Agriculture platform as a solution.