cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ESTRUTURAÇÃO DE UM ÍNDICE DE PREÇOS DE AÇÕES DO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO LISTADAS NA BOVESPA
Creators: name: Souza, Waldemar Antonio Da Rocha
name: Silva, Rodolfo Margato
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Souza, Waldemar Antonio Da Rocha
name: Silva, Rodolfo Margato
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agronegócio
subject: índice
subject: ações
subject: BOVESPA
subject: metodologia
subject: Agribusiness
subject: index
subject: stocks
subject: methodology

description: O agronegócio brasileiro vem assumindo forte predominância no cenário econômico, destacando-se como principal responsável pelos crescentes volumes de exportação do País. As empresas que compõem esse segmento apresentam características econômico-financeiras particularizadas, correlacionadas com as condicionantes intrínsecas do setor. O presente estudo objetiva elaborar e analisar uma metodologia para captar a evolução de dado conjunto de ativos financeiros relacionados ao agronegócio brasileiro, particularmente as ações de companhias abertas do setor negociadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (BOVESPA), com o intuito de delinear as suas características próprias comparativamente a outros instrumentos disponíveis no mercado de capitais. Com base na modelagem quantitativa de índices de preços de ações, estruturou-se uma amostra seletiva dos dez títulos mais representativos por ordem de liquidez na BOVESPA, que constitui a carteira teórica do indicador. O índice permitirá análises comparativas com outros ativos financeiros, possibilitando aferir o grau de retorno-risco associado, estratégias com mercado futuro, bem como as demais comparações pertinentes.-------------------------Brazilian agribusiness has emerged with a strong prominence in the economic sector, as the largest marginal contributor for the growing export supplies of the Country. Agribusiness companies have economic-financial characteristics, correlated with the intrinsic conditional sector variables. This study elaborates and analyzes a methodology to capture the evolution of a particular division of financial assets related with Brazilian agribusiness, specifically the stocks of this sector open companies traded in the São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA), pursuing to outline the characteristics of this stock group comparatively with other available capital markets instruments. Based upon the price index methodology, a selected sample of ten agribusiness stocks chosen by decreasing liquidity profiles in BOVESPA composes the theoretical portfolio of the index. It will allow comparative analysis with other financial assets, measuring the return-risk associated rates, setting up futures strategies, as well as all other pertaining additional comparisons.
Motoneuron response to axonal injury
Creators: name: McPhail, Lowell Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Axonal injury in the spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS) in higher vertebrates results in the atrophy or death of the injured motoneuron population, contributing to a failure in functional regeneration. In contrast, following an axonal injury in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) motoneurons typically survive and if given the appropriate conditions, regenerate their axons back to their target muscles. Therefore, analysis of the survival and regeneration of PNS motoneurons in response to injury may increase our understanding of injury in the CNS and thus facilitate a treatment for CNS injuries. Rodent facial motoneurons are an excellent model to examine the effect of PNS axon injury as it is a well-defined system that is readily accessible to experimental manipulation. In this thesis I utilized this well established model of peripheral nerve injury to reveal several new findings related to the motoneuron response to nerve injury. Facial motoneurons display a differential susceptibility to injury depending on the developmental age of the animal. Following facial nerve injury in the neonatal rat the majority of the motoneurons die by an apoptotic mechanism; whereas, in the adult rat the majority of the motoneurons survive a similar injury. One possible explanation for this age dependant survival in response to injury is the level of survival-promoting factors such as the inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, NAIP and XIAP. However I found that the survival of adult compared to neonatal facial motoneurons is not due to the level of expression of these two inhibitory apoptotic proteins (NAIP and XIAP). There has also been a long standing belief that chronic nerve injury of mouse facial motoneurons results in the death of the majority of these neurons. However, I observe that many more chronically injured mouse facial motoneurons survived in an atrophied state that had been previously reported. This discrepancy is due in part to the difficulty in identifying atrophied neurons using Nissl stains or other neuronal phenotypic markers such as NeuN that are affected by axotomy leading to an underestimation of the surviving population. I determined that in addition to the increased survival of these neurons, if chronically injured mouse facial motoneurons are subjected to a second nerve injury, the motoneurons re-express genes related to regeneration. Furthermore, I determined that the neuroma that forms at the end of a proximal stump following chronic nerve resection may be a source of factors that are capable of controlling this gene re-expression within the motoneurons. Finally, despite their atrophy, I demonstrated that chronically injured mouse facial motoneurons not only survive and re-express regeneration related genes, but are able to regrow their axons if provided with a suitable environment such as a pre-degenerated nerve graft.
Reducing electronic transport dimension to topological hinge states by increasing geometry size of Dirac semimetal Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Li, Cai-Zhen
name: Wang, An-Qi
name: Li, Chuan
name: Zheng, Wen-Zhuang
name: Brinkman, Alexander
name: Yu, Da-Peng
name: Liao, Zhi-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of topological phases has been extended to higher-order and has been generalized to different dimensions. As a paradigm, Cd3As2 is predicted to be a higher-order topological semimetal, possessing three-dimensional (3D) bulk Dirac fermions, two-dimensional (2D) Fermi arcs, and one-dimensional (1D) hinge states. These topological states have different characteristic length scales in electronic transport, allowing to distinguish their properties when changing sample size. Here, we report an anomalous dimensional reduction of supercurrent transport by increasing the size of Dirac semimetal Cd3As2-based Josephson junctions. An evolution of the supercurrent quantum interferences from a standard Fraunhofer pattern to a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)-like one is observed when the junction channel length is increased. The SQUID-like interference pattern indicates the supercurrent flowing through the 1D hinges. The identification of 1D hinge states should be valuable for deeper understanding the higher-order topological phase in a 3D Dirac semimetal.
Long-term evolution of orbits about a precessing oblate planet: 1. The case of uniform precession
Creators: name: Efroimsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It was believed until very recently that a near-equatorial satellite would always keep up with the planet's equator (with oscillations in inclination, but without a secular drift). As explained in Efroimsky and Goldreich (2004), this opinion originated from a wrong interpretation of a (mathematically correct) result obtained in terms of non-osculating orbital elements. A similar analysis carried out in the language of osculating elements will endow the planetary equations with some extra terms caused by the planet's obliquity change. Some of these terms will be nontrivial, in that they will not be amendments to the disturbing function. Due to the extra terms, the variations of a planet's obliquity may cause a secular drift of its satellite orbit inclination. In this article we set out the analytical formalism for our study of this drift. We demonstrate that, in the case of uniform precession, the drift will be extremely slow, because the first-order terms responsible for the drift will be short-period and, thus, will have vanishing orbital averages (as anticipated 40 years ago by Peter Goldreich), while the secular terms will be of the second order only. However, it turns out that variations of the planetary precession make the first-order terms secular. For example, the planetary nutations will resonate with the satellite's orbital frequency and, thereby, may instigate a secular drift. A detailed study of this process will be offered in the subsequent publication, while here we work out the required mathematical formalism and point out the key aspects of the dynamics.
Floquet-surface bound states in the continuum in a resonantly driven 1D tilted defect-free lattice
Creators: name: Zhu, Bo
name: Ke, Yongguan
name: Liu, Wenjie
name: Zhou, Zheng
name: Zhong, Honghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Floquet-surface bound states embedded in the continuum (BICs) and bound states out the continuum (BOCs)in a resonantly driven 1D tilted defect-free lattice. In contrast to fragile single-particle BICs assisted by specially tailored potentials, we find that Floquet-surface BICs, stable against structural perturbations, can exist in a wide range of parameter space. By using a multiple-time-scale asymptotic analysis in the high-frequency limit, the appearance of Floquet-surface bound states can be analytically explained by effective Tamm-type defects at boundaries induced by the resonance between the periodic driving and tilt. The phase boundary of existing Floquet-surface states is also analytically given. Based on the repulsion effect of surface states, we propose to detect transition points and measure the number of Floquet-surface bound states by quantum walk. Our work opens a new door to experimental realization of BICs in quantum system.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. submitted to Phys.Rev.A
The Anisotropic Distribution of M 31 Satellite Galaxies: A Polar Great Plane of Early-Type Companions
Creators: name: Koch, A.
name: Grebel, E. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The highly anisotropic distribution and apparent alignment of the Galactic satellites in polar great planes begs the question how common such distributions are. The satellite system of M31 is the only nearby system for which we currently have sufficiently accurate distances to study the three-dimensional satellite distribution. We present the spatial distribution of the 15 presently known M31 companions in a coordinate system centered on M31 and aligned with its disk. Through a detailed statistical analysis we show that the full satellite sample describes a plane that is inclined by -56 deg with respect to the poles of M31 and that has an r.m.s. height of 100 kpc. With 88% the statistical significance of this plane is low and it is unlikely to have a physical meaning. The great stellar stream found near Andromeda is inclined to this plane by 7 deg. There is little evidence for a Holmberg effect. If we confine our analysis to early-type dwarfs, we find a best-fit polar plane within 5 deg to 7 deg from the pole of M31. This polar great plane has a statistical significance of 99.3% and includes all dSphs (except for And II), M32, NGC 147, and PegDIG. The r.m.s. distance of these galaxies from the polar plane is 16 kpc. The nearby spiral M33 has a distance of only about 3 kpc from this plane, which points toward the M81 group. We discuss the anisotropic distribution of M31's early-type companions in the framework of three scenarios, namely as remnants of the break-up of a larger progenitor, as tracer of a prolate dark matter halo, and as tracer of collapse along large-scale filaments. (Abridged)
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
Hippodamia variegata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Hippodamia
Hippodamia variegata

description: 71 a. variegata doubledayi (Mulsant, 1850)
Distribution: India (North and northwestern region).
Note: Probably only a variant and synonym of A. variegata.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Dynamic Feature Integration for Simultaneous Detection of Salient Object, Edge and Skeleton
Creators: name: Liu, Jiang-Jiang
name: Hou, Qibin
name: Cheng, Ming-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we solve three low-level pixel-wise vision problems, including salient object segmentation, edge detection, and skeleton extraction, within a unified framework. We first show some similarities shared by these tasks and then demonstrate how they can be leveraged for developing a unified framework that can be trained end-to-end. In particular, we introduce a selective integration module that allows each task to dynamically choose features at different levels from the shared backbone based on its own characteristics. Furthermore, we design a task-adaptive attention module, aiming at intelligently allocating information for different tasks according to the image content priors. To evaluate the performance of our proposed network on these tasks, we conduct exhaustive experiments on multiple representative datasets. We will show that though these tasks are naturally quite different, our network can work well on all of them and even perform better than current single-purpose state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we also conduct adequate ablation analyses that provide a full understanding of the design principles of the proposed framework. To facilitate future research, source code will be released.
Generation of quantum logic operations from physical Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Whaley, K. Birgitta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a systematic analysis of the physical generation of single- and two-qubit quantum operations from Hamiltonians available in various quantum systems for scalable quantum information processing. We show that generation of one-qubit operations can be transformed into a steering problem on the Bloch sphere, whereas the two-qubit problem can be generally transformed into a steering problem in a tetrahedron representing all the local equivalence classes of two-qubit operations (the Weyl chamber). We use this approach to investigate several physical examples for the generation of two-qubit operations. The steering approach provides useful guidance for the realization of various quantum computation schemes.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Novos dados sobre a evolução da população ativa rural e da pluriatividade no Rio Grande do Sul
Creators: name: Anjos, Flávio Sacco Dos
name: Caldas, Nadia Velleda
name: Anjos, Flávio Sacco Dos
name: Caldas, Nadia Velleda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: agricultura familiar
subject: pluriatividade
subject: desenvolvimento rural
subject: amily farming
subject: pluriactivity
subject: rural development

description: O artigo analisa as transformações que atingem o meio rural gaúcho nos cinco primeiros anos do século XXI, demonstrando o impacto da desagrarização e da pluriatividade a partir das informações fornecidas pela Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio. Com base nos dados disponíveis é destacada a queda na capacidade da agricultura em ocupar a força de trabalho residente nos estabelecimentos familiares.---------------------------------This paper examines the transformations that took place in the rural areas of Rio Grande do Sul state on the five first years of the 21st century, demonstrating the impact of desagrarization and pluriativity processes. This conclusion is supported from the point of view of the information supplied by Research National for of Households. One even notes a significant reduction in the number of purely farm households in the rural areas.
Illeis bielawskii Ghorpade 1976
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis bielawskii

description: 72. bielawskii Ghorpade, 1976
Distribution: India (Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Relations of self-efficacy to symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescents with learning disabilities
Creators: name: Mercer, Kay Louise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examined relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression and anxiety in a sample of adolescents (n = 83), aged 13 to 17 years of age, who were receiving special education support on the basis of their school-based identification as students with learning disabilities. This study also examined these relationships within two subsets of the sample, those participants who met "traditional" aptitude-achievement learning disability identification criteria and those who could be classified as having reading disabilities. The participants, who were all volunteers, completed measures assessing their academic skills (Wide Range Achievement Test - 3rd Edition and the Gray Silent Reading Tests), their perceptions of self-efficacy (Academic, Reading, Social, and Emotional Self-Efficacy Questionnaires) and social support (Social Support Questionnaire), and their experience of life events (Life Events Questionnaire) and symptoms of depression (Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale - 2nd Edition) and anxiety (Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children). As expected, emotional and social self-efficacy were strong predictors of symptoms of both depression and anxiety. Contrary to expectations, however, neither academic nor reading self-efficacy was a strong predictor of these symptoms. Also contrary to expectations, females did not report higher symptom levels than males, and participants who experienced particular difficulties in the highly salient area of reading did not report higher symptom levels and lower self-efficacy than other participants in the sample. The most depressed and anxious participants were slightly older, perceived themselves to be less efficacious emotionally, were less satisfied with the social support available to them, and reported experiencing more negative life events than participants who reported the lowest levels of depression and anxiety. For these adolescents, who were receiving in-school academic support, social-emotional factors were more strongly associated with their experience of symptomatology than were academic factors. The prevalence of clinically significant symptoms of depression within this sample (6%) was considerably lower than previous estimates for adolescents from the general population and for adolescents with learning disabilities. In contrast, the prevalence of clinically significant symptoms of anxiety (10.8%) and comorbid depression and anxiety (3.6%) was consistent with previous estimates for adolescents from the general population. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Clinical perspectives on hospitals’ role in the opioid epidemic
Creators: name: Mazurenko, Olena
name: Andraka-Christou, Barbara T.
name: Bair, Matthew J.
name: Areeba Y. Kara
name: Harle, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. The COREQ checklist by Tong, Sainsbury and Craig (2007) completed for the study: Clinical perspectives on hospitals’ role in the opioid epidemic.
Polarizations in decays B_{u,d}\to VV and possible implications for R-parity violating SUSY
Creators: name: Yang, Ya-Dong
name: Wang, Ru-Min
name: Lu, Gong-Ru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently BABAR and Belle have measured anomalous large transverse polarizations in some pure penguin $B \to VV$ decays, which might be inconsistent with the Standard Model expectations. We try to explore its implications for R-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetry. The QCD factorization approach is employed for the hadronic dynamics of B decays. We find that it is possible to have parameter spaces solving the anomaly. Furthermore, we have derived stringent bounds on relevant RPV couplings from the experimental data, which is useful for further studies of RPV phenomena.
description: 26 pages, 12 eps figures. Typos corrected and references added. Final version to appear in PRD
Kinematic analysis of EAGLE simulations: Evolution of $λ_{Re}$ and its connection with mergers and gas accretion
Creators: name: Walo-Martín, Daniel
name: Falcón-Barroso, Jesús
name: Vecchia, Claudio Dalla
name: Pérez, Isabel
name: Negri, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a new tool to analyse galaxies in the EAGLE simulations as close as possible to observations.We investigated the evolution of their kinematic properties by means of the angular momentum proxy parameter,$ λ_{Re} $for galaxies with $M_{*} \ge 5 \times 10^{9} M_{\odot}$ in the RefL0100N1504 simulation up to redshift two (z = 2). Galaxies in the simulation show a wide variety of kinematic features, similiar to those found in integral-field spectroscopic studies. At z=0 the distribution of galaxies in the $λ_{Re}-ε$ plane is also in good agreement with results from observations. Scaling relations at z = 0 indicate that there is critical mass, $M_{crit} = 10^{10.3} M_{\odot}$, that divides two different regimes when we include the $λ_{Re}$ parameter. The simulation shows that the distribution of galaxies in the $λ_{Re}-ε$ plane evolves with time until z = 2 when galaxies are equally distributed both in $λ_{Re}$ and $ε$. We studied the evolution of $λ_{Re}$ with time and found that there is no connection between the angular momentum at z = 2 and z = 0. All systems reach their maximum $λ_{Re}$ at z = 1 and then steadily lose angular momentum regardless of their merger history, except for the high star-forming systems that sustain that maximum value over time. The evolution of the Re in galaxies that have not experienced any merger in the last 10 Gyr can be explained by their level of gas accretion.
description: 16 aojes, 9 Figures, accepted MNRAS
Additional file 4 of Acceptability of the “MOVEdiabetes” physical activity intervention in diabetes primary care settings in Oman: findings from participants and practitioners
Creators: name: Alghafri, Thamra S.
name: Saud M. Al Harthi
name: Al-Ajmi, Fatma
name: Al-Farsi, Yahya
name: Craigie, Angela M.
name: Bannerman, Elaine
name: Anderson, Annie S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Quotes from the POs (open questions exit survey)
VANTAGENS COMPARATIVAS REVELADAS E ORIENTAÇÃO REGIONAL DAS EXPORTAÇÕES DO COMPLEXO SOJA BRASILEIRO
Creators: name: Coronel, Daniel Arruda
name: Machado, Joao Armando Dessimon
name: Carvalho, Fatima Marilia Andrade De
name: Ilha, Adayr Da Silva
name: Waquil, Paulo Dabdab
name: Coronel, Daniel Arruda
name: Machado, Joao Armando Dessimon
name: Carvalho, Fatima Marilia Andrade De
name: Ilha, Adayr Da Silva
name: Waquil, Paulo Dabdab
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: omplexo Soja
subject: Vantagens Comparativas Reveladas
subject: Orientação Regional
subject: Soybean Complex
subject: Revealed Comparative Advantage
subject: Regional Orientation

description: O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar se o país apresenta Vantagens Comparativas Reveladas para as exportações de grão, farelo e óleo de soja e identificar a orientação regional das exportações de cada uma dessas commodities para os principais mercados consumidores. Para tanto, utilizou-se os Índices de Vantagens Comparativas Reveladas (IVCR) e de Orientação Regional (IOR). Os dados para o cálculo desses índices foram coletados junto ao Sistema de Análise das Informações de Comércio Exterior (ALICE), da Secretaria de Comércio Exterior (SECEX), que possui os dados de exportações brasileiras Free on Board (FOB) em dólares, à Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) e à Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC). Os resultados indicaram que o país apresenta Vantagens Comparativas Reveladas para ambas as commodities e, no que tange à orientação regional, constatou-se que as exportações de grão estão fortemente orientadas para a União Européia e China, as do farelo para a União Européia e Tailândia e as do óleo de soja para China, Irã e Índia.------------------------------------------------------------The aim of this work is to analyze if the country demonstrates Revealed Comparative Advantages to the exportation of soybean grain, bran and oil and, to identify the Regional Orientation of each of these commodities exportation to the main consuming markets. To do so, we used the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCAI) and the Regional Orientation Index (ROI). The data to the calculation of these indexes were collected from the Foreign Commerce Information Analysis System (ALICE), Secretary of Foreign Commerce (SECEX) which has the data of the Brazilian exportations Free on Board (FOB) in amount of dollars, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and, the World Trade Organization (WTO). The results indicate that Brazil demonstrates Revealed Comparative Advantages to both commodities and, in what refers to the regional orientation we could perceive that the grain exportations are highly oriented to the European Union and to China, the soybean bran to the European Union and Thailand and the soybean oil exportation to China, Iran and India.
Illeis bistigmosa
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis bistigmosa

description: 73. bistigmosa (Mulsant, 1850)
Distribution: India (Andamans, Assam, Meghalaya); Sri Lanka; Nepal; China; Thailand; Indonesia; Malaysia; The Philippines; Celebes.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
The First Law of Thermodynamics for Kerr-Anti-de Sitter Black Holes
Creators: name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Perry, M. J.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain expressions for the mass and angular momenta of rotating black holes in anti-de Sitter backgrounds in four, five and higher dimensions. We verify explicitly that our expressions satisfy the first law of thermodynamics, thus allowing an unambiguous identification of the entropy of these black holes with $\ft14$ of the area. We find that the associated thermodynamic potential equals the background-subtracted Euclidean action multiplied by the temperature. Our expressions differ from many given in the literature. We find that in more than four dimensions, only our expressions satisfy the first law of thermodynamics. Moreover, in all dimensions we show that our expression for the mass coincides with that given by the conformal conserved charge introduced by Ashtekar, Magnon and Das. We indicate the relevance of these results to the AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: Typos corrected
Lipschitz bounds and nonautonomous integrals
Creators: name: De Filippis, Cristiana
name: Mingione, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a general approach to Lipschitz regularity of solutions for a large class of vector-valued, nonautonomous variational problems exhibiting nonuniform ellipticity. The functionals considered here range amongst those with unbalanced polynomial growth conditions to those with fast, exponential type growth. The results obtained are sharp with respect to all the data considered and yield new, optimal regularity criteria even in the classical uniformly elliptic case. We give a classification of different types of nonuniform ellipticity, accordingly identifying suitable conditions to get regularity theorems.
description: 83 pages
Three Modern Roles for Logic in AI
Creators: name: Darwiche, Adnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider three modern roles for logic in artificial intelligence, which are based on the theory of tractable Boolean circuits: (1) logic as a basis for computation, (2) logic for learning from a combination of data and knowledge, and (3) logic for reasoning about the behavior of machine learning systems.
description: To be published in PODS 2020
A desinformação como obstáculo ao consumo da carne suína in natura
Creators: name: Falleiros, Francine Taniguchi
name: Miguel, Willian Correa
name: Gameiro, Augusto Hauber
name: Falleiros, Francine Taniguchi
name: Miguel, Willian Correa
name: Gameiro, Augusto Hauber
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: carne
subject: suínos
subject: consumo
subject: saúde
subject: marketing
subject: meat
subject: swine
subject: consumption
subject: health

description: Desde a década de 70 a suinocultura vem evoluindo significativamente, tornando-se uma moderna cadeia produtiva. Atualmente os produtores criam o suíno moderno com 55% a 60% de carne magra na carcaça e apenas de 1,0 a 1,5 centímetro de espessura de toucinho. Essa evolução faz com que mundialmente seja a carne mais consumida. No Brasil, contudo, o consumo de carne suína seguiu tendência contrária, quando comparado ao resto do mundo. Esta inversão de valores pode ser explicada por hábitos e tradições regionais e questões de saúde, essas últimas repletas de mitos e informações distorcidas, que prejudicam a imagem da carne suína in natura. Sendo assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o grau de informação dos consumidores, a respeito da carne suína in natura por meio de questionários ressaltando pontos relevantes como freqüência de consumo, conhecimentos sobre a produção e enfermidades relacionadas a ela. ----------------------------------------------Since the 1970 decade, the swine production has significantly evolved, becoming a modern productive chain. Currently, growers raise the modern swine with 55% to 60% of low fat in meat carcass and only 1.0 to 1.5 centimeters of back fat thickness. This evolution led the swine to be the most consumed meat worldwide. In Brazil, however, the swine meat has followed the opposite path, when compared to the rest of the world. This value inversion can be explained by habits and regional traditions, as well as health myths and misunderstood information, which impair the image of in natura swine meat. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of consumers information regarding the in natura swine meat, through questionnaires that highlighted relevant questions like consumption frequency, knowledge about production and diseases.
Illeis confusa Timberlake 1943
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis confusa

description: 75. confusa Timberlake, 1943
Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; Thailand; China; Hong Kong.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Molecular Insights of Resveratrol on Preventing Colorectal Cancer driven by mutant BRAF
Creators: name: Undru, Shanthi Sri
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK every two minutes someone is diagnosed with cancer. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer behind breast, prostate and lung cancer. About 10% of CRC patients have tumours with a mutation in BRAF and it is found to be mutated in 15% of all known human cancers. BRAF is a central kinase of the RAS/RAF/MEK pathway involved in cell growth and proliferation and BRAF V600E mutation is the most common type of mutations. BRAF mutant tumours have shown poor survival rates and drug resistance in CRC. Resveratrol (Res) is a phytoalexin produced by plants which possesses high antioxidative potential. It is a promising anticancer agent and has been investigated for the prevention and treatment of a variety of cancers, including CRC. Previous work in our group using a mouse model of BRAF- driven CRC carcinogenesis had showed that Res can dramatically extend survival, when mice were maintained on a high fat diet (HFD). This study aims to elucidate the mechanism of action that contributes to this protective effect of Res. The initial focus was exploring effects on ketogenesis and fat metabolism and the integrity of the intestinal barrier. Gut barrier integrity analysis revealed that there was a compromised gut barrier integrity in the 6 weeks mutant BRAF mice compared to wild type (WT) mice which was analysed by FITC dextran experiment. The cumulative distribution of number of cells/crypt analysis had shown that BRAF mutation, caused significant reduction of cell number in 3 days mutant BRAF mice on HFD. Whereas, in 6 weeks mutant BRAF mice on HFD, only high dose of Res had shown a significant decrease in cell number. Immunohistochemical staining of 8-oxo-dG protein showed that there was oxidative DNA damage in the intestinal villi of the 6 weeks mutant BRAF mice and the lower dose of Res had shown a significant reduction in the DNA damage on mutant BRAF mice, on HFD. The high dose of Res (143 ppm) had also shown a beneficial effect on HFD induced dysplasia which was evident in the pathological report of diet switching study and also decreased the lipid droplets formation in 6 weeks study. These results had provided the valuable insight of Res, to protect against the development of BRAF V600E driven CRC and further studies are required to explore the antiproliferative effects of Res and to understand the harmful effects of HFD on BRAF V600E mutagenesis in humans thus preventing CRC tumorigenesis.
Sustainable Utilization of Agricultural Land in Chengdu Metropolitan Area Based on Emergy Analysis
Creators: name: LAN Kai
name: RAN  Qinghong
name: LAN Kai
name: RAN  Qinghong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural land, Emergy analysis, Sustainable use, Chengdu metropolitan area

description: [Objectives] This study aimed to analyze the sustainable use of agricultural land in the Chengdu metropolitan area from 2006 to 2016. [Methods] Using Odum's emergy theory, an index system was constructed to evaluate the sustainable use of agricultural land, including total emergy input-output ratio, industrial emergy input-output ratio, environmental load index and sustainable use index of agricultural land based on emergy, to reflect the sustainable use of agricultural land in the Chengdu metropolitan area. The data base was a unified standard that was converted from various types of energy stored and flowing in the agricultural land system of the Chengdu metropolitan area, that is, emergy. [Results] From 2006 to 2016, the total emergy input-output ratio of agricultural land in the metropolitan area fluctuated and decreased, lower than the national average. The industrial emergy input-output ratio was generally in a fluctuating downward trend. The environmental load index of agricultural land in the metropolitan area was lower than the national average. However, it has been on the rise since 2012. During the corresponding period, the sustainable use index of the region also showed a downward trend. [Conclusions] The utilization rate of emergy in this area was low. The dependence of industrial emergy input-output ratio on industrial subsidiary energy and the degree of agricultural mechanization are constantly improving. The environmental resources in this area still have room for accommodation and have not been fully utilized. The sustainable use of agricultural land has been declining.
Hall viscosity in the A-phase of superfluid $^3$He
Creators: name: Furusawa, Takuya
name: Fujii, Keisuke
name: Nishida, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the effective field theory for the A-phase of superfluid $^3$He up to the next-to-leading order in the derivative expansion. To this end, we gauge the internal global symmetries of the theory on the curved space by introducing the background gauge fields and spatial metric so as to expose a hidden local symmetry known as the nonrelativistic diffeomorphism. The nonrelativistic diffeomorphism is particularly useful to yield an additional constraint on the effective field theory and reveal a universal expression for the Hall viscosity in the A-phase. We find it five orders of magnitude larger than that in the B-phase under a magnetic field so that its experimental observation is more feasible by measuring the induced elliptic polarization of sound waves.
description: 7 pages, no figures
Separation index, variable selection and sequential algorithm for cluster analysis
Creators: name: Qiu, Weiliang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis considers four important issues in cluster analysis: cluster validation, estimation of the number of clusters, variable weighting/selection, and generation of random clusters. Any clustering method can partition data into several subclusters. Hence it is important to have a method to validate obtained partitions. We propose a cluster separation index to address the cluster validation problem. This separation index is based on projecting the data in the two clusters into a one-dimensional space, in which the two clusters have the maximum separation. The separation index directly measures the magnitude of gap between pair of clusters, is easy to compute and interpret, and has the scale equivariance property. The ultimate goal of cluster analysis is to determine if there exist patterns (clusters) in multivariate data sets or not. If clusters exist, then we would like to determine how many there are in the data set. We propose a sequential clustering (SEQCLUST) method that produces a sequence of estimated number of clusters based on varying input parameters. The most frequently occurring estimates in the sequence lead to a point estimate of the number of clusters with an interval estimate. For a given data set, some variables may be more important than others to be used to recover the cluster structure. Some variables, called noisy variables, may even mask cluster structures. It is necessary to downweight or eliminate the effects of noisy variables. We investigate when noisy variables will mask cluster structures, and propose a weight-vector averaging idea and a new noisy-variable- detection method, which does not require the specification of the true number of clusters. Simulation study is an important tool to assess and compare performances of clustering methods. The qualities of simulated data sets depend on cluster generating algorithms. We propose a design to generate simulated clusters so that the distances of simulated clusters to their neighboring clusters can be controlled and that the shapes, diameters and orientations of the simulated clusters can be arbitrary. We also propose low-dimensional visualization methods and a method to determine the partial memberships of data points that are near boundaries among clusters.
Detecting long-lived particles trapped in detector material at the LHC
Creators: name: Kieseler, Jan
name: Alimena, Juliette
name: Simms, Jasmine
name: Aarrestad, Thea
name: Pierini, Maurizio
name: Kish, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to implement a two-stage detection strategy for exotic long-lived particles that could be produced at the CERN LHC, become trapped in detector material, and decay later. The proposed strategy relies on an array of metal rods, combined to form a high-density target. In a first stage, the rods are exposed to radiation from LHC collisions in one of the experimental caverns. In a second stage, they are individually immersed in liquid argon in a different experimental hall, where out-of-time decays could produce a detectable signal. Using a benchmark case of long-lived gluino pair production, we show that this experiment would be sensitive to a wide range of masses. Such an experiment would have unique sensitivity to gluino-neutralino mass splittings down to 3 GeV, in previously uncovered particle lifetimes ranging from days to years.
Additional file 2 of Clinical perspectives on hospitals’ role in the opioid epidemic
Creators: name: Mazurenko, Olena
name: Andraka-Christou, Barbara T.
name: Bair, Matthew J.
name: Areeba Y. Kara
name: Harle, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Clinicians Interview Guide.
Thermodynamic properties of the XX model in a chain with a period two and three coupling
Creators: name: Abad, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact solutions for the energy spectrum of the XX model with a periodic coupling and an external transverse magnetic field $h$ are obtained. The diagonalization procedure is discussed, and analytical and numerical solutions are given. Using the solutions for period-two coupling, the free energy, entropy, and specific heat are calculated as functions of temperature and applied transverse external magnetic field. Their expressions show that below a particular value $v$ and above a value $u$ of the magnetic field $|h|$, the entropy and the specific heat vanish exponentially in the low temperature limit.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, new references added
Excitation Functions of Tsallis-like Parameters in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Creators: name: Li, Li-Li
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
name: Olimov, Khusniddin K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum spectra of charged pions, kaons, and protons produced at mid-rapidity in central nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions at high energies are analyzed by considering particles to be created from two participant partons which are assumed to be contributors from the collision system. Each participant (contributor) parton is assumed to contribute to the transverse momentum by a Tsallis-like function. The contributions of the two participant partons are regarded as the two components of transverse momentum of the identified particle. The experimental data measured in high-energy AA collisions by international collaborations are studied. The excitation functions of kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity are extracted. The two parameters increase quickly from $\approx3$ to $\approx10$ GeV (exactly from 2.7 to 7.7 GeV) and then slowly at above 10 GeV with the increase of collision energy. In particular, there is a plateau from near 10 GeV to 200 GeV in the excitation function of kinetic freeze-out temperature.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures. Special Issue "Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics in High Energy Physics" in Entropy, accepted
Additional file 3 of Acceptability of the “MOVEdiabetes” physical activity intervention in diabetes primary care settings in Oman: findings from participants and practitioners
Creators: name: Alghafri, Thamra S.
name: Saud M. Al Harthi
name: Al-Ajmi, Fatma
name: Al-Farsi, Yahya
name: Craigie, Angela M.
name: Bannerman, Elaine
name: Anderson, Annie S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Quotations from the participant (open questions exit survey)