cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The proper motion of sub-populations in Omega Centauri
Creators: name: Sanna, N.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Zocchi, A.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
name: Stetson, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri is the most massive of its kind, with a complex mix of multiple stellar populations and several kinematic and dynamical peculiarities. Different mean proper motions have been detected among the three main sub-populations, implying that the most metal-rich one is of accreted origin. This particular piece of evidence has been a matter of debate because the available data have either not been sufficiently precise or limited to a small region of the cluster to ultimately confirm or refute the result. Using astrometry from the second Gaia data release and recent high-quality, multi-band photometry, we are now in a position to resolve the controversy. We reproduced the original analysis using the Gaia data and found that the three populations have the same mean proper motion. Thus, there is no need to invoke an accreted origin for the most metal-rich sub-population.
description: 6 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures. Accepted for publication on A&A
Additional file 3 of Integrated control of Aedes albopictus in Southwest Germany supported by the Sterile Insect Technique
Creators: name: Becker, Norbert
name: Langentepe-Kong, Sophie Min
name: Tokatlian Rodriguez, Artin
name: Oo, Thin Thin
name: Reichle, Dirk
name: Lühken, Renke
name: Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
name: Lüthy, Peter
name: Puggioli, Arianna
name: Bellini, Romeo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Number of Aedes albopictus eggs and percentage of sterility of the eggs in the SIT area (Metzgergrün).
Properties of discrete X-ray sources in the starburst spiral galaxy M83
Creators: name: Soria, Roberto
name: Wu, Kinwah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have identified 127 discrete sources in a Chandra observation of M83, with a detection limit of ~ 3 x 10^{36} erg/s in the 0.3-8.0 keV band. We discuss the individual properties of about 20 bright sources with L_x >~ 10^{38} erg/s, and the statistical properties of the whole sample. About 1/3 of the bright sources show X-ray spectra with a bb component at kT
description: 25 pages, A&A, in press (submitted december 2002, accepted july 2003)
Validation of Emotional Experience Moderates the Relation Between Personality and Aggression
Creators: name: Herr, Nathan R.
name: Meier, Evelyn P.
name: Weber, Danielle M.
name: Cohn, Danielle M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examined if experimentally manipulated invalidation or validation of an emotional experience moderates the relation between five-factor personality characteristics and aggressive behavior. Participants were 69 undergraduates who, after undergoing a sad mood induction, were randomized to receive either a validating or invalidating comment before completing a behavioral measure of aggression. As predicted, experimental condition moderated the relation between personality and aggression such that participants who were average or low in agreeableness and conscientiousness were more aggressive when invalidated than validated, whereas participants who were high in these traits were low in aggression regardless of experimental condition. A three-way interaction emerged such that the two-way interaction between conscientiousness and experimental condition was significant only among participants who were average or high in neuroticism. This study is the first to demonstrate experimentally that big-five personality characteristics commonly linked to trait aggression may only produce aggressive behaviors under certain conditions, namely, invalidation
Identification of Pre-flare Processes and Their Possible Role in Driving a Large-scale Flux Rope Eruption with Complex M-class Flare in the Active Region NOAA 12371
Creators: name: Mitra, Prabir K.
name: Joshi, Bhuwan
name: Prasad, Avijeet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371. The flare evolved in two distinct phases with peak flux levels of M2.1 and M2.6 at an interval of $\approx$54 min. The active region exhibited striking moving magnetic features (MMFs) along with sunspot rotation. Non-linear force free field (NLFFF) modelling of the active region corona reveals a magnetic flux rope along the polarity inversion line in the trailing sunspot group which is observationally manifested by the co-spatial structures of an active region filament and a hot channel identified in the 304 and 94 Å images, respectively, from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). The active region underwent a prolonged phase of flux enhancement followed by a relatively shorter period of flux cancellation prior to the onset of the flare which led to the build up and activation of the flux rope. Extreme ultra-violet (EUV) images reveal localised and structured pre-flare emission, from the region of MMFs, adjacent to the location of the main flare. Our analysis reveals strong, localised regions of photospheric currents of opposite polarities at the precursor location, thereby making the region susceptible to small-scale magnetic reconnection. Precursor reconnection activity from this location most likely induced a slipping reconnetion towards the northern leg of the hot channel which led to the destabilization of the flux rope. The application of magnetic virial theorem suggests that there was an overall growth of magnetic free energy in the active region during the prolonged pre-flare phase which decayed rapidly after the hot channel eruption and its successful transformation into a halo coronal mass ejection (CME).
description: 31 pages, 14 figures, 1 table. This is a pre-print of an article published in Solar Physics. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-1596-2
Additional file 1 of Optimising strategies to address mental ill-health in doctors and medical students: ‘Care Under Pressure’ realist review and implementation guidance
Creators: name: Carrieri, Daniele
name: Mattick, Karen
name: Pearson, Mark
name: Papoutsi, Chrysanthi
name: Briscoe, Simon
name: Wong, Geoff
name: Jackson, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search 1: Interventions to reduce mental ill health.
Additional file 4 of Integrated control of Aedes albopictus in Southwest Germany supported by the Sterile Insect Technique
Creators: name: Becker, Norbert
name: Langentepe-Kong, Sophie Min
name: Tokatlian Rodriguez, Artin
name: Oo, Thin Thin
name: Reichle, Dirk
name: Lühken, Renke
name: Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
name: Lüthy, Peter
name: Puggioli, Arianna
name: Bellini, Romeo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Number of Aedes albopictus eggs and percentage of sterility of the eggs in the control area (Gartenstadt).
On the Helmholtz Potential metric: The Isotherm Length-Work Theorem
Creators: name: Santoro, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we introduce the Isotherm Length-Work theorem using the Helmholtz potential metric and the virial expansion of pressure in inverse power of molar volume. The theorem tells us what length of a thermodynamical system described by equation of state through virial expansion along isotherms actually is with such a metric. We also give explicit solutions for thermodynamic length along isotherms in the case of first, second and third order expansion.
Validation of Emotional Experience Moderates the Relation Between Personality and Aggression
Creators: name: Herr, Nathan R.
name: Meier, Evelyn P.
name: Weber, Danielle M.
name: Cohn, Danielle M.
Publisher: name: Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study examined if experimentally manipulated invalidation or validation of an emotional experience moderates the relation between five-factor personality characteristics and aggressive behavior. Participants were 69 undergraduates who, after undergoing a sad mood induction, were randomized to receive either a validating or invalidating comment before completing a behavioral measure of aggression. As predicted, experimental condition moderated the relation between personality and aggression such that participants who were average or low in agreeableness and conscientiousness were more aggressive when invalidated than validated, whereas participants who were high in these traits were low in aggression regardless of experimental condition. A three-way interaction emerged such that the two-way interaction between conscientiousness and experimental condition was significant only among participants who were average or high in neuroticism. This study is the first to demonstrate experimentally that big-five personality characteristics commonly linked to trait aggression may only produce aggressive behaviors under certain conditions, namely, invalidation
Scattering and Trapping of Nonlinear Schroedinger Solitons in External Potentials
Creators: name: Sakaguchi, H.
name: Tamura, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soliton motion in some external potentials is studied using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Solitons are scattered by a potential wall. Solitons propagate almost freely or are trapped in a periodic potential. The critical kinetic energy for reflection and trapping is evaluated approximately with a variational method.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Coccobius azumai Tachikawa 1988
Creators: name: Wang, Zhu Hong
name: Huang, Jian
name: Pan, Dong Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Coccobius
Coccobius azumai

description: Coccobius azumai Tachikawa
 Coccobius azumai Tachikawa, 1988: 67–71. Holotype ♀, JAPAN: Okinawa, ex Hemiberlesia pitysophila Takagi on pine, (ELEU).
 Coccobius azumai Tachikawa: Huang 1994: 156–158.    Hosts
 Diaspididiae: Hemiberlesia pitysophila (Tachikawa,1988); Aphelinidae: Coccobius azumai (hyperparasitoid males, Ding et al. 1995); also as parasitoids of Marietta carnesi (Xie et al. 1997).    Distribution
China (Guangdong, introduced from Japan in 1986–1989; Fujian, introduced from Japan in 2002); Japan (Tachikawa 1988).   Comments
 Coccobius azumai was first discovered by a Chinese research group in Okinawa, Japan, in July 1986, as an important parasitoid of Hemiberlesia pitysophila (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) on pine. Hemiberlesia pitysophila did not cause economic damage to pine plantations in Okinawa because it was kept under natural control by the Coccobius parasitoids. Since 1982, H. pitysophila has invaded Guangdong Province, becoming a serious pest of pine trees (Pinus spp.). Coccobius azumai was therefore introduced into Guangdong province from Okinawa in late 1986, and reintroduced several times. Coccobius azumai became rapidly established, exerting good control of the pine scale, and was also introduced into Fujian province from Okinawa, Japan in May 2002. During 2002–2005, the parasitoid was naturally mass-reared in pine plantations and successfully released into other areas of Fujian province.
description: Published as part of Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Pan, Dong Ming, 2013, Taxonomic review of Coccobius species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with notes on their use in biological control of scale insect pests (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and description of a new species, pp. 359-373 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (5 - 6) on pages 365-366, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791954, http://zenodo.org/record/4632155
Ultrafast photocurrent and absorption microscopy of few-layer TMD devices isolate rate-limiting dynamics driving fast and efficient photoresponse
Creators: name: Vogt, Kyle T.
name: Shi, Su-Fei
name: Wang, Feng
name: Graham, Matt W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite inherently poor interlayer conductivity, photodetectors made from few-layer devices of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as WSe$_2$ and MoS$_2$ can still yield a desirably fast ($\leq$90 ps) and efficient ($ε$$>$40\%) photoresponse. By combining ultrafast photocurrent (U-PC) and transient absorption (TA) microscopy, the competing electronic escape and recombination rates are unambiguously identified in otherwise complex kinetics. Both the U-PC and TA response of WSe$_2$ yield matching interlayer electronic escape times that accelerate from 1.6 ns to 86 ns with applied $E$-field to predict the maximum device PC-efficiency realized of $\sim$44\%. The slope of the escape rates versus $E$-field suggests out-of-plane electron and hole mobilities of 0.129 and 0.031 cm$^2$/V$s$ respectively. Above $\sim$10$^{11}$ photons/cm$^{2}$ incident flux, defect-assisted Auger scattering greatly decreases efficiency by trapping carriers at vacancy defects. Both TA and PC spectra identify a metal-vacancy sub-gap peak with $\sim$5.6 ns lifetime as a primary trap capturing carriers as they hop between layers. Synchronous TA and U-PC microscopy show the\ net PC collected is modelled by a kinetic rate-law of electronic escape competing against the linear and nonlinear Auger recombination rates. This simple rate-model further predicts the PC-based dynamics, nonlinear amplitude and efficiency, $ε$ over a 10$^5$ range of incident photon flux in few-layer WSe$_2$ and MoS$_2$ devices.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Promoting education and awareness for local food systems
Creators: name: Chan, Carmen
name: Forte, Christy
name: Ito, Kiyomi
name: Mayrand, Sabrina
name: Richardson, Andrée
name: Van Peteghem, Darcie
name: Wong, Joyce
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: UBC food system can be used as a model to improve the sustainability of the food system at a global scale. The current situation in our global food system is not sustainable, and relocalization of food supply has many benefits ecologically, socially, and economically. Our task, as part of the UBC Food Service Project (UBCFSP) was to evaluate the proposals of AGSC 450 2006 groups (Scenario 3) and to design an effective educational campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of local food purchasing on UBC campus. Our educational campaign, targeted for all UBC food consumers, was developed based on our “Buy Fresh Buy BC” slogan. In addition to educational materials such as logos, posters, and a pamphlet, a “Local Food Fair” was organized as a Food Week event, which will be implemented by a hired coordinator from AGSC 450 and student volunteers from the faculty. This paper includes: a problem definition and the significance of re-localization; discussion on the vision statements and our value assumptions; methodology; detailed descriptions of the elements of our educational campaign, including the educational materials, the fair, a timeline, a proposed budget; and recommendations for UBCFSP collaborators and AGSC 450 2007 class. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Evidence for Spin-orbit Alignment in the TRAPPIST-1 System
Creators: name: Hirano, Teruyuki
name: Gaidos, Eric
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Dai, Fei
name: Fukui, Akihiko
name: Kuzuhara, Masayuki
name: Kotani, Takayuki
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Hjorth, Maria
name: Albrecht, Simon
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Bolmont, Emeline
name: Harakawa, Hiroki
name: Hodapp, Klaus
name: Ishizuka, Masato
name: Jacobson, Shane
name: Konishi, Mihoko
name: Kudo, Tomoyuki
name: Kurokawa, Takashi
name: Nishikawa, Jun
name: Omiya, Masashi
name: Serizawa, Takuma
name: Ueda, Akitoshi
name: Weiss, Lauren M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an effort to measure the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for the TRAPPIST-1 system, we performed high-resolution spectroscopy during transits of planets e, f, and b. The spectra were obtained with the InfraRed Doppler spectrograph on the Subaru 8.2-m telescope, and were supplemented with simultaneous photometry obtained with a 1-m telescope of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope. By analyzing the anomalous radial velocities, we found the projected stellar obliquity to be $λ=1\pm 28$ degrees under the assumption that the three planets have coplanar orbits, although we caution that the radial-velocity data show correlated noise of unknown origin. We also sought evidence for the expected deformations of the stellar absorption lines, and thereby detected the "Doppler shadow" of planet b with a false alarm probability of $1.7\,\%$. The joint analysis of the observed residual cross-correlation map including the three transits gave $λ=19_{-15}^{+13}$ degrees. These results indicate that the the TRAPPIST-1 star is not strongly misaligned with the common orbital plane of the planets, although further observations are encouraged to verify this conclusion.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Three discoveries of gamma Cas analogs from dedicated XMM-Newton observations of Be stars
Creators: name: Naze, Yael
name: Motch, Christian
name: Rauw, Gregor
name: Kumar, Shami
name: Robrade, Jan
name: de Oliveira, Raimundo Lopes
name: Smith, Myron A.
name: Torrejon, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last years, a peculiarity of some Be stars - their association with unusually hard and intense X-ray emission - was shown to extend beyond a mere few cases. In this paper, we continue our search for new cases by performing a limited survey of 18 Be stars using XMM-Newton. The targets were selected either on the basis of a previous X-ray detection (Exosat, ROSAT, XMM-slew survey) without spectral information available, or because of the presence of a peculiar spectral variability. Only two targets remain undetected in the new observations and three other stars only display faint and soft X-rays. Short-term and/or long-term variations were found in one third of the sample. The spectral characterization of the X-ray brightest 13 stars of the sample led to the discovery of three new gamma Cas (HD44458, HD45995, V558Lyr), bringing the total to 25 known cases, and another gamma Cas candidate (HD120678), bringing the total to 2.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Coccobius flavicornis
Creators: name: Wang, Zhu Hong
name: Huang, Jian
name: Pan, Dong Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Coccobius
Coccobius flavicornis

description: Coccobius flavicornis (Compere & Annecke)
 Physcus flavicornis Compere and Annecke, 1961: 26. Holotype ♀, Paratypes 4♀, CHINA: Kwangsi [Guangxi], September 1949 (Y.W. Djou), ex Pseudaonidia duplex (Cockerell) on pomelo, (USNM).
 Coccobius flavicornis (Compere & Annecke): Hayat, 1984; Huang 1994: 165–167.    Host
 Pseudaonidia duplex, P. trilobitiformis.    Distribution
China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi) (Huang 1994).   Comments
 Coccobius flavicornis was described by Compere and Annecke (1961) from Pseudaonidia duplex (Cockerell) on pomelo in Guangxi Province of China. It was recorded by Huang (1994) from Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis on pomelo in Zhangzhou (Fujian Province). The male of C. flavicornis was described by Viggiani and Ren (1993).
description: Published as part of Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Pan, Dong Ming, 2013, Taxonomic review of Coccobius species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with notes on their use in biological control of scale insect pests (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and description of a new species, pp. 359-373 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (5 - 6) on pages 367-368, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791954, http://zenodo.org/record/4632155
Improving farm viability : volunteer programming and decreasing labour inputs
Creators: name: Chan, Cordia
name: Frere, Chloe
name: Harada, Rino
name: Iverson, Melissa
name: McFadden, Tiffany
name: Rolston, Keryn
name: VanderKwaak, Leanne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The UBC Farm is a practical example of agriculture within an urban centre that embraces and promotes sustainable agricultural production, food security and safety, and the health of human communities. Unfortunately, the Farm is running at an annual deficit. In response to recommendations from past UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP) groups, our group examined the possibility of expanding production on the Farm as a way to increase revenue. A recurring recommendation in past UBCFSPs was to increase the Farm’s production area in order to increase revenues. However, as expansion has not yet occurred, our project goal was to determine the limiting factors and what modifications were needed in order to facilitate such growth. Through interviews and research into past groups’ UBCFSP projects we identified that the number of Farm volunteers has declined over the past year and that this declining group of volunteers is suffering from burnout due to the tediously repetitive and laborious tasks (such as weeding) that they must perform. Without an adequate labour force the Farm cannot expand. In order to address this limitation to expansion, our group explored both options to strengthen the current volunteer program at the Farm, and to explore ecologically sound, labour-saving farming techniques to alleviate volunteer burnout. We developed these findings into recommendations, which, if implemented, we believe will allow the Farm to expand production. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
title: Continued Fractions and Hyperbolic Geometry
Creators: name: Walker, Mairi
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: This thesis uses hyperbolic geometry to study various classes of both real and complex continued fractions. This intuitive approach gives insight into the theory of continued fractions that is not so easy to obtain from traditional algebraic methods. Using it, we provide a more extensive study of both Rosen continued fractions and even-integer continued fractions than in any previous works, yielding new results, and revisiting classical theorems. We also study two types of complex continued fractions, namely Gaussian integer continued fractions and Bianchi continued fractions. As well as providing a more elegant and simple theory of continued fractions, our approach leads to a natural generalisation of continued fractions that has not been explored before.
Liver Segmentation in Abdominal CT Images via Auto-Context Neural Network and Self-Supervised Contour Attention
Creators: name: Chung, Minyoung
name: Lee, Jingyu
name: Lee, Jeongjin
name: Shin, Yeong-Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U10

description: Accurate image segmentation of the liver is a challenging problem owing to its large shape variability and unclear boundaries. Although the applications of fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown groundbreaking results, limited studies have focused on the performance of generalization. In this study, we introduce a CNN for liver segmentation on abdominal computed tomography (CT) images that shows high generalization performance and accuracy. To improve the generalization performance, we initially propose an auto-context algorithm in a single CNN. The proposed auto-context neural network exploits an effective high-level residual estimation to obtain the shape prior. Identical dual paths are effectively trained to represent mutual complementary features for an accurate posterior analysis of a liver. Further, we extend our network by employing a self-supervised contour scheme. We trained sparse contour features by penalizing the ground-truth contour to focus more contour attentions on the failures. The experimental results show that the proposed network results in better accuracy when compared to the state-of-the-art networks by reducing 10.31% of the Hausdorff distance. We used 180 abdominal CT images for training and validation. Two-fold cross-validation is presented for a comparison with the state-of-the-art neural networks. Novel multiple N-fold cross-validations are conducted to verify the performance of generalization. The proposed network showed the best generalization performance among the networks. Additionally, we present a series of ablation experiments that comprehensively support the importance of the underlying concepts.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
A Roman period enclosure south of Lumley Road, Kendal
Creators: name: W Elsworth, Daniel
name: Mace, Thomas
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 21, 27-42
description: An archaeological strip and record of a cropmark enclosure south of Lumley Road, Kendal, prior to the construction of a residential development, revealed it to be a substantial ditch, with associated finds principally dated to the second to fourth century AD. An area of cobbling and a large stone-filled pit of similar date was located nearby. The cropmark is recorded in an aerial photograph taken in 1955 and was also revealed by geophysical survey. The ditch, of uncertain function, probably remained partially visible beyond the late Roman period as its latest fill was radiocarbon dated to the fourth to sixth century AD. Environmental evidence and the finds recovered demonstrate that the site was domestic or agricultural in nature, and noteworthy for its relative abundance of finds of both pottery and animal bone, suggesting a close connection with the Roman fort of Watercrook, less than 0.5km to the south-east, which was established in the first century AD. The exact relationship between Roman military sites and contemporary settlements nearby remains uncertain in the wider region, although there is increasing evidence for a landscape of such sites associated with forts, creating what has been described as a 'dispersed vicus'. This is not something that has been previously examined in the case of Watercrook.
Electronic film with embedded micro-mirrors for solar energy concentrator systems
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Mario
name: Davidson, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel electronic film solar energy concentrator with embedded micro-mirrors that track the sun is described. The potential viability of this new concept is presented. Due to miniaturization, the amount of material needed for the optical system is minimal. Because it is light-weight and flexible, it can easily be attached to the land or existing structures. This presents an economic advantage over conventional concentrators which require the construction of a separate structure to support them, and motors to orient them to intercept and properly reflect sunlight. Such separate structures must be able to survive gusts, windstorms, earthquakes, etc. This concentrator utilizes the ground or existing edifices which are already capable of withstanding such vicissitudes of nature.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables
Spectrum of Solar Type I Continuum Noise Storm in the 50 - 80 MHz band, and Plasma characteristics in the associated source region
Creators: name: Sundaram, G. A. Shanmugha
name: Subramanian, K. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuum observations of a solar noise storm in the frequency range of 50 - 80 MHz observed with the Gauribidanur radio spectrograph during 2000 September, 26 & 27, are presented here. The radio spectral index of the noise storm continuum in the band 50 - 80 MHz is found to be ~3.65 during the above period. The Noise Storm continuum radiation is explained as a consequence of the non-thermal, plasma emission mechanism. The beam-density of suprathermal electrons is estimated for the coronal plasma near the source region of storm radiation. Supplementary evidence for the density-estimate is provided by way of analysing the imaging data from the SXT on-board the Yohkoh spacecraft, and the LASCO, MDI, and EIT on board the SoHO spacecraft.
description: 43 pages; 5 tables; 15 figures (9 color). ApJ (Part I : accepted)
Coccobius chaoi Huang 1994
Creators: name: Wang, Zhu Hong
name: Huang, Jian
name: Pan, Dong Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Coccobius
Coccobius chaoi

description: Coccobius chaoi Huang
 Coccobius chaoi Huang, 1994: 163. Holotype ♀, CHINA: Fujian, Fu’an, Xibing, 28 September 1988 (C.F. Lin) sweeping, (FAFU).    Host
Unknown.   Distribution
China (Fujian).   Comments
 Coccobius chaoi resembles Coccobius abdominis Huang but distinctly differs from the latter mainly in having a dark pedicel, and fewer setae on the mesoscutum.
description: Published as part of Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Pan, Dong Ming, 2013, Taxonomic review of Coccobius species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with notes on their use in biological control of scale insect pests (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and description of a new species, pp. 359-373 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (5 - 6) on page 366, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791954, http://zenodo.org/record/4632155
Market Consultation Roadmap as a  Legal Tool to Stimulate Innovation
Creators: name: PROCEDIN Project
name: Haarlem Municipality
name: Gabrovo Municipality
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Public Procurement
Innovation
Market consultation

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Additional file 1 of Radiation dosimetry of 18F-AzaFol: A first in-human use of a folate receptor PET tracer
Creators: name: Gnesin, Silvano
name: Müller, Joachim
name: Burger, Irene A.
name: Meisel, Alexander
name: Siano, Marco
name: Früh, Martin
name: Choschzick, Matthias
name: Müller, Cristina
name: Schibli, Roger
name: Ametamey, Simon M.
name: Kaufmann, Philipp A.
name: Treyer, Valerie
name: Prior, John O.
name: Schaefer, Niklaus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Segmented VOI obtained with PMOD software co-registered on the CT of the patient represented in Figure 1.
Uranian Satellite Formation by Evolution of a Water Vapor Disk Generated by a Giant Impact
Creators: name: Ida, Shigeru
name: Ueta, Shoji
name: Sasaki, Takanori
name: Ishizawa, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ice-giant planet Uranus likely underwent a giant impact, given that its spin axis is tilted by 98 degrees. That its satellite system is equally inclined and prograde suggests that it was formed as a consequence of the impact. However, the disks predicted by the impact simulations generally have sizes one order smaller and masses two orders larger than those of the observed system at present. Here we show, by means of a theoretical model, that the Uranian satellite formation is regulated by the evolution of the impact-generated disk. Because the vaporization temperature of water ice is low and both Uranus and the impactor are assumed to be ice-dominated, we can conclude that the impact-generated disk has mostly vaporized. We predict that the disk lost a significant amount of water vapour mass and spread to the levels of the current system until the disk cooled down enough for ice condensation and accretion of icy particles to begin. From the predicted distribution of condensed ices, our N-body simulation is able to reproduce the observed mass-orbit configuration of Uranian satellites. This scenario contrasts with the giant-impact model for the Earth's Moon, in which about half of the compact, impact-generated, solid or liquid disk is immediately incorporated into the Moon on impact.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy, 18 pages, 2 figures
title: KFKI Forschungsrahmen
Creators: name: Kuratorium für Forschung im Küsteningenieurwesen
Publisher: name: Kuratorium für Forschung im Küsteningenieurwesen (Hrsg.), via Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Natural sciences

description: Das Kuratorium für Forschung
im Küsteningenieurwesen

Die auf dem Gebiet des Küsteningenieurwesens tätigen Ministerien des Bundes und der Länder sind seit dem Jahr 1973 im Kuratorium für Forschung im Küsteningenieurwesen (KFKI) zusammengeschlossen. Ziel des KFKI ist es, die Forschung im Küsteningenieurwesen gemeinsam zu koordinieren, die zur Erfüllung der Aufgaben von Bund und Ländern im Bereich des Küsten- und Hochwasserschutzes sowie des Ausbaus und der Unterhaltung von Wasserstraßen und Häfen erforderlich ist.

Die anwendungsorientierte KFKI-Forschung ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und in das Forschungsprogramm der Bundesregierung „MARE:N - Küsten-, Meeres- und Polarforschung für Nachhaltigkeit“ eingebettet. Sie dient damit auch der Umsetzung der Ziele der Vereinten Nationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung (Sustainable Developement Goals) und der Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie. Für die angeschlossenen Behörden des Bundes und der Küstenländer bildet die KFKI-Forschung eine unverzichtbare Grundlage zur Erledigung ihrer Aufgaben auf Basis fundierter ingenieur- und naturwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Dabei unterstützt die KFKI-Forschung neben größeren Verbundvorhaben zur Bearbeitung interdisziplinärer Fragestellungen insbesondere auch Forschungsvorhaben, die sich fachlich fokussierten Fragestellungen widmen.

Die enge Rückkopplung sowie der ständige Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis über projektbegleitende Expertengruppen in den laufenden KFKI-Forschungsvorhaben sichern die Anwendbarkeit der neuen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Damit unterscheidet sich die KFKI-Forschung von der reinen Grundlagenforschung, baut aber auf dieser auf und kann wertvolle Impulse für deren thematische Ausrichtung geben. Gleichzeitig werden durch die KFKI-Forschung wichtige Grundlagen für andere Forschungszweige, etwa im Bereich des Natur- und Umweltschutzes sowie des integrierten Managements des Küstenraumes zur Verfügung gestellt oder im Rahmen von gemeinsamen Projekten eingebracht.

Themenfelder
Infrastrukturen an den Küsten sicher und nachhaltig gestalten
Natur- und Bauwerksdaten gezielt erfassen und behandeln
Dynamische Küsten als System verstehen
Klimawandel – Auswirkungen erkennen und Anpassungen entwickeln
NGC2180: a disrupting open cluster
Creators: name: Bonatto, Charles
name: Bica, Eduardo
name: Pavani, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial dependence of luminosity and mass functions of evolved open clusters is discussed in this work using J and H 2MASS photometry. The target objects are the overlooked open cluster NGC2180 and the intermediate-age open cluster NGC3680. We conclude that, although in an advanced dynamical state (mass segregated), NGC3680 does not present strong signs of dissolution. On the other hand, NGC2180 presents flat, eroded LFs throughout its structure, indicating that in addition to mass segregation, Galactic tidal stripping has been effective in depleting this cluster of stars. Accordingly, NGC2180 may be the missing link between evolved open clusters and remnants. We study both clusters in the context of dynamical states estimated from diagnostic-diagrams involving photometric and structural parameters. Both clusters are dynamically evolved systems. In particular, NGC2180 is closer to open cluster remnants than NGC3680.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Association of genetic variants of oxidative stress responsive kinase 1 (OXSR1) with asthma exacerbations in non-smoking asthmatics
Creators: name: Kim, Min-Hye
name: Chang, Hun Soo
name: Lee, Jong-Uk
name: Shim, Ji-Su
name: Park, Jong-Sook
name: Cho, Young-Joo
name: Park, Choon-Sik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1.. Asthma medications except glucocorticosteroids of the study subjects. Table S2. Minor allele frequencies, heterozygosity, and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium of OXSR1 gene polymorphisms. Table S3. Association of SNPs and haplotypes of OXSR1 with the number of exacerbations during the 1st year of follow up in the total subjects. Table S4. Clinical characteristics of the study subjects according to their smoking status. Table S5. Association of SNPs and haplotypes of OXSR1 with the number of exacerbations during the 1st year of follow-up in smoker subjects. Table S6. Risk of frequent exacerbators with the SNPs and haplotypes of OXSR1. Table S7. Publicly available GWASs for asthma phenotypes and rs1384006.
eSPICE: Probabilistic Load Shedding from Input Event Streams in Complex Event Processing
Creators: name: Slo, Ahmad
name: Bhowmik, Sukanya
name: Rothermel, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Complex event processing systems process the input event streams on-the-fly. Since input event rate could overshoot the system's capabilities and results in violating a defined latency bound, load shedding is used to drop a portion of the input event streams. The crucial question here is how many and which events to drop so the defined latency bound is maintained and the degradation in the quality of results is minimized. In stream processing domain, different load shedding strategies have been proposed but they mainly depend on the importance of individual tuples (events). However, as complex event processing systems perform pattern detection, the importance of events is also influenced by other events in the same pattern. In this paper, we propose a load shedding framework called eSPICE for complex event processing systems. eSPICE depends on building a probabilistic model that learns about the importance of events in a window. The position of an event in a window and its type are used as features to build the model. Further, we provide algorithms to decide when to start dropping events and how many events to drop. Moreover, we extensively evaluate the performance of eSPICE on two real-world datasets.
description: 13 pages
Coccobius curtifuniculatus Huang 1994
Creators: name: Wang, Zhu Hong
name: Huang, Jian
name: Pan, Dong Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Coccobius
Coccobius curtifuniculatus

description: Coccobius curtifuniculatus Huang
 Coccobius curtifuniculatus Huang, 1994: 150. Holotype ♀, CHINA: Fujian, Chong’an, Sangang, June 1987 (J.S. Wang), yellow pan trap, (FAFU). Paratypes 1♀, same data as holotype; 1♀, CHINA: Fujian, Jinshan, 1987 (N.Q.Lin), yellow pan trap, (FAFU).    Host
Unknown.   Distribution
China (Fujian).   Comments
 Coccobius curtifuniculatus resembles C. popei (Girault), but differs from the latter in having the scutellum with two pairs of setae; fore wing with submarginal vein bearing six setae and marginal vein eight setae. In C. popei, the scutellum bears six setae; the submarginal and marginal veins have 10 and 13–14 setae, respectively.
 Coccobius curtifuniculatus is also similar to Coccobius indefinitus (Yasnosh & Myartseva), but differs in having F1 distinctly shorter and nearly quadrate.
description: Published as part of Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Pan, Dong Ming, 2013, Taxonomic review of Coccobius species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with notes on their use in biological control of scale insect pests (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and description of a new species, pp. 359-373 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (5 - 6) on pages 366-367, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791954, http://zenodo.org/record/4632155
title: Factors Affecting Plasma Viremia and Host Immune Responses in Dengue Infection
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Hanh Tien
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: Dengue is the most important arboviral disease affecting humans. Although mortality is generally low, dengue generates a significant burden for health services in endemic countries. Pathogenesis is poorly understood. Secondary dengue is one important risk factor for severe disease, but current algorithms to differentiate primary from secondary infections are of limited utility. Viral burden is also thought to be a major factor influencing disease severity, but existing knowledge of the magnitude and kinetics of plasma viremia in association with different dengue serotypes, primary versus secondary immune status, and/or clinical markers of disease severity, is limited and inconsistent. I first set out to establish novel algorithms that permit differentiation of primary from secondary dengue at any day of illness with high accuracy. Using serial samples from 249 well-characterized patients, categorized as having primary or secondary infections on the basis of PRNTs after six months, I developed a number of models; the algorithm based on the Panbio Indirect IgG performed best (accuracy, 85%), although the models based on the in-house IgG and in-house IgM/IgG ratio were also good (accuracy, 84%). I subsequently applied the IgM/IgG ratio algorithm to define the immune status of 884 patients previously enrolled into early dengue studies. Using serial daily plasma samples I describe detailed plasma viremia responses for 581 DENV1, 152 DENV2 and 151 DENV3 infections. In general DENV1 infections resulted in higher plasma viremia than did DENV2 or DENV3 infections. Overall viremia was higher in primary than secondary DENV1 and DENV3 infections, although similar in DENV2 primary and secondary infections. In addition, higher viremia on Day3 of illness was significantly associated with several disease severity markers: lower platelet nadir, higher haemoconcentration and an increased risk of developing shock and bleeding. Finally I evaluated the effect of early prednisolone therapy on plasma viremia and immune responses, using serial samples from a clinical trial assessing the safety of early oral corticosteroid therapy. Prednisolone did not augment plasma viremia or NS1 antigenaemia, confirming the safety of using the drug during active viral replication. However, the effects of the drug on a range of immune correlates was also limited, consistent with prednisolone having negligible measurable benefits in the clinical trial on which this work was based.
Dynamics and steady state of a vibrated granular binary mixture model
Creators: name: Prados, A.
name: Brey, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model for the dynamical evolution of a granular binary mixture is analyzed. This system is submitted to a tapping procedure, similarly to what is done in real experiments. In the weak vibration limit, an effective dynamics for the tapping process is derived, and the steady state probability distribution is analytically found. The steady probability does not depend on the details of the configuration, but only on the number of particles of each of the two species. Depending on the values of their fugacities, the system can be either almost full of small or big particles, i.e., segregation effects are present.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures; accepted version (Euophysics Letters); conclusions rewritten
Dynamics of super-horizon photons during inflation with vacuum polarization
Creators: name: Prokopec, Tomislav
name: Woodard, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study asymptotic dynamics of photons propagating in the polarized vacuum of a locally de Sitter Universe. The origin of the vacuum polarization is fluctuations of a massless, minimally coupled, scalar, which we model by the one-loop vacuum polarization tensor of scalar electrodynamics. We show that late time dynamics of the electric field on superhorizon scales approaches that of an Airy oscillator. The magentic field amplitude, on the other hand, asymptotically approaches a nonvanishing constant (plus an exponentially small oscillatory component), which is suppressed with respect to the initial (vacuum) amplitude. This implies that the asymptotic photon dynamics is more intricate than that of a massive photon obeying the local Proca equation.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures