cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DAIRY FARM DECISIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED IN THE FACE OF TB
Creators: name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: By early 2000, the number of commercial livestock herds in Michigan with bovine tuberculosis (TB) had increased to the point that policy makers were considering alternative ways to enable farmers to continue production with access to markets while eliminating TB and protecting the public's health. If at least one animal on a farm is found to have TB, a farmer currently has two choices about the future assuming the goal is to stay in the livestock business. Alternative one is depopulation; all animals are removed to a state facility, slaughtered, and tested. A new herd may be purchased after a state supervised clean up and waiting period is completed; this may take one year. Alternative two is test and remove; a recurring series of testing is initiated, but only individual reactor or suspect animals are removed for slaughter and further testing. In both alternatives, regulations allow indemnity payments to be made to the owner by the state and federal governments. This paper analyzes the financial impact of each alternative on two dairy benchmark farms. One has 75 milk cows, the other 150. Monthly cash flow projections for two years were made using FINFLO. A base projection was compared to the above alternatives assuming constant herd size (except for the impact of TB) and constant price levels. The main goal was to illustrate how a farmer might analyze the alternatives if faced with TB infected animals. The 75 cow farm started with $8,309 of cash on January 1, 2000. The base projections resulted in cash of $34,230 by December 31, 2001. Ending cash after two years for depopulation or test and remove were $16,095 and $15,801, respectively. The 75 cow farm started with a net worth of $624,940 on January 1, 2000. The base projection increased net worth by $66,542 over the two years. For depopulation or test and remove, the change in net worth by the end of 2001 was $-15,345 and $48,256, respectively. The 150 cow farm started with $30,659 of cash on January 1, 2000. The base projections resulted in cash of $40,437 by December 31, 2001. Ending cash after two years for depopulation or test and remove were $2,972 and $13,290, respectively. The 150 cow farm started with a net worth of $1,122,940 on January 1, 2000. The base projection increased net worth by $31,765 over the two years. For depopulation or test and remove, the change in net worth by the end of 2001 was $-95,904 and $-1,925, respectively. Benchmark model farms will not exactly fit any particular farm. Each owner faced with TB should make their own projections using their unique situation and timing of cash flows. Once an alternative is adopted, monthly financial comparison sheets can be helpful in managing the transition to TB free status.
Assessing the tension between a black hole dominated early universe and leptogenesis
Creators: name: Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F.
name: Turner, Jessica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first numerical calculation of the interplay between thermal and black hole induced leptogenesis, demonstrating that the right-handed neutrino surplus produced during the evaporation only partially mitigates the entropy dilution suffered by the thermal component. As such, the intermediate-mass regime of the right-handed neutrinos, $10^6{\rm~GeV} \lesssim M_{N} \lesssim 10^{9}{\rm~GeV}$, could not explain the observed baryon asymmetry even for fine-tuned scenarios if there existed a primordial black hole dominated era, consistent with initial black hole masses of $M_i \gtrsim \mathcal{O}\left(1\right)$ kg. Detection of the gravitational waves emitted from the same primordial black holes would place intermediate-scale thermal leptogenesis under tension.
description: 7+3 pages, 6 figures; one figure, comments, and references added, Boltzmann equations improved, main conclusion unchanged
[Kawaiisu lexicon]
Creators: name: Collins, Fred
name: Collins, Rose
name: Klein, Carol
name: Klein, Sheldon
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: xaw
subject: Kawaiisu language

description: Two boxes of file slips with Kawaiisu vocabulary organized alphabetically by English gloss. Box 1: A-K. Box 2: L-Z.
CAN REVENUE INSURANCE SUBSTITUTE FOR PRICE AND YIELD RISK MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTS?
Creators: name: Hanson, Steven D.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Hanson, Steven D.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Wang, H. Holly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The 1996 Federal Agricultural Improvement Act (FAIR) increased farmer's exposure to downside risk and raised farmer, lender, and congressional interest in the use of alternative instruments to manage income risk. One response has been a proliferation of federally facilitated insurance products. The development of new insurance products is likely to continue because the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 provides financial incentives for new private sector insurance product development and increases insurance premium subsidies to encourage higher participation and coverage levels. NOTE: This is a revised copy of Staff Paper 2000-48.
description: This is a revised copy of Staff Paper 2000-48.
LINGUA ITALIANA E LINGUA NAZIONALE IN ALCUNE PARTITURE DI MUSICA GIAPPONESE
Creators: name: Giardini, Marco
name: Kamiya, Miho
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 1970

description: L’articolo intende esaminare le caratteristiche principali dell’«italiano musicale» in alcune partiture del repertorio vocale classico giapponese del XIX e del XX secolo. Nella parte introduttiva vengono esaminati i tratti principali della storia e della cultura musicale giapponese, con particolare riferimento all’introduzione del sistema occidentale e alla sua fusione con il repertorio preesistente durante l’epoca Meiji; vengono successivamente presentati in traduzione alcuni brani particolarmente rappresentativi, con alcune indicazioni biografiche sui rispettivi autori.

Nella seconda parte, viene esaminato più nel dettaglio il lessico musicale in alcune partiture, seguendo la seguente classificazione: 1) indicazioni sul genere e sul titolo delle composizioni; 2) indicazioni di carattere agogico e di espressione; 3) indicazione di carattere dinamico. Particolare attenzione è dedicata alle motivazioni che spingono i compositori giapponesi ad alternare la lingua italiana alla lingua nazionale, nonché alla capacità dell’«italiano musicale» di adattarsi alle peculiari esigenze espressive di un orizzonte artistico piuttosto lontano da quello europeo.

Italian and Japanese language in some japanese music scores

The article will examine the main features of Italian musical language in some scores of the Japanese classical vocal repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The introductory part reviews the main features of the history and culture of Japanese music, particularly in the context of the Western system and its merging with the existing repertoire during the Meiji era; some particularly significant translated excerpts are presented, with some biographical information about the authors.
In the second part, the musical lexicon in some scores is examined in greater depth, classified in the following manner: 1) details of the type and title of the compositions; 2) agogic and expressive aspects; 3) indication of the dynamics. Particular attention is paid to what motivates Japanese composers to alternate Italian with Japanese, and the ability of Italian musical language to adapt to the specific expressive needs in an artistic sphere that is far from the European one.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 7, No 2 (2015)
Quark production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Fujii, H.
name: Gelis, F.
name: Venugopalan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we discuss the problem of quark-antiquark pair production in the framework of the color glass condensate. The cross-section can be calculated in closed form for the case of proton-nucleus collisions, where the proton can be considered to be a dilute object. We find that kt-factorization is broken by rescattering effects.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, based on talks given at Hard Probes 2004 by H. Fujii and F. Gelis
Methods to Accelerate High-Throughput Screening of Atomic Qubit Candidates in van der Waals Materials
Creators: name: Defo, R. Kuate
name: Nguyen, H.
name: Ku, M. J. H.
name: Rhone, T. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of atom-like spin emitters associated with defects in two-dimensional (2D) wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors presents new opportunities for highly tunable and versatile qubits. So far, the study of such spin emitters has focused on defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). However, hBN necessarily contains a high density of nuclear spins, which are expected to create a strong incoherent spin-bath that leads to poor coherence properties of spins hosted in the material. Therefore, identification of new qubit candidates in other 2DWBG materials is necessary. Given time demands of $ab~initio$ methods, new approaches for rapid screening and calculation of identifying properties of suitable atom-like qubits are required. In this work, we present two new methods for rapid estimation of the zero-phonon line (ZPL), a key property of atomic qubits in WBG materials. First, this ZPL is calculated by exploiting Janak's theorem. For finite changes in occupation, we provide the leading-order estimate of the correction to the ZPL obtained using Janak's theorem, which is more rapid than the standard method ($Δ$SCF). Next, we also demonstrate an approach to converging excited states that is faster for systems with small strain than the standard approach used in the $Δ$SCF method. We illustrate these methods using the case of the singly negatively charged calcium vacancy in SiS$_2$, which we are the first to propose as a qubit candidate. This work has the potential to assist in accelerating the high-throughput search for quantum defects in materials, with applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing.
1995-2015:  20 ANNI DI INSEGNAMENTO DELL’ITALIANO L2 IN CAMERUN. BILANCIO E PROSPETTIVE
Creators: name: Kuitche Talé, Gilles
name: Pallante, (A Cura Di), Gianna
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 1970

description: La diffusione dell’italiano in Camerun è in piena rivoluzione, soprattutto in seguito alla recente introduzione della lingua italiana come materia di studio nelle scuole secondarie camerunensi. Tale evento, che colloca l’italiano L2 allo stesso livello di altre lingue straniere che godono di una più lunga tradizione d’insegnamento entro il sistema educativo camerunense, ha determinato un mutamento radicale delle sorti della lingua italiana nel nostro paese. Il presente volume vuole ripercorrere la storia della diffusione dell’italiano in Camerun, mettendo in luce le peculiarità e le dinamiche dell’insegnamento/apprendimento di tale lingua in questo paese attraverso i contributi e le esperienze dei principali protagonisti della diffusione dell’italiano in Camerun.

1995- 2015:  20 years of Italian L2 Teaching in Cameroon. Results and prospects
The spread of Italian in Cameroon is in full swing, especially following the recent introduction of the Italian language as a subject in secondary schools in Cameroon. This event, which places the Italian L2 at the same level of other foreign languages that have been taught longer within the Cameroon education system, has led to a radical change in the destiny of the Italian language in Cameroon. This paper traces the history of the spread of Italian in Cameroon, highlighting the characteristics and dynamics of Italian L2 teaching/learning through the contributions and experiences of the main protagonists in spreading Italian in Cameroon.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 7, No 2 (2015)
Coupled-Cluster Theory for Systems of Bosons in External Traps
Creators: name: Cederbaum, Lorenz S.
name: Alon, Ofir E.
name: Streltsov, Alexej I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A coupled-cluster approach for systems of $N$ bosons in external traps is developed. In the coupled-cluster approach the exact many-body wavefunction is obtained by applying an exponential operator $\exp{T}$ to the ground configuration $|ϕ_0>$. The natural ground configuration for bosons is, of course, when all reside in a single orbital. Because of this simple structure of $|ϕ_0>$, the appearance of excitation operators $T=\sum_{n=1}^N T_n$ for bosons is much simpler than for fermions. We can treat very large numbers of bosons with coupled-cluster expansions. In a substantial part of this work, we address the issue of size consistency for bosons and enquire whether truncated coupled-cluster expansions are size consistent. We show that, in contrast to the familiar situation for fermions for which coupled-cluster expansions are size consistent, for bosons the answer to this question {\it depends} on the choice of ground configuration. Utilizing the natural ground configuration, working equations for the truncated coupled-cluster with $T=T_1+T_2$, i.e., coupled-cluster singles doubles (CCSD) are explicitly derived. Finally, an illustrative numerical example for a condensate with up to N=10000 bosons in an harmonic trap is provided and analyzed. The results are highly promising.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures
6D Supersymmetry, Projective Superspace and 4D, N=1 Superfields
Creators: name: Gates, S. J.
name: Penati, S.
name: Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we establish the formulation of 6D, N=1 hypermultiplets in terms of 4D chiral-nonminimal (CNM) scalar multiplets. The coupling of these to 6D, N=1 Yang-Mills multiplets is described. A 6D, N=1 projective superspace formulation is given in which the above multiplets naturally emerge. The covariant superspace quantization of these multiplets is studied in details.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX, minor changes, references added
The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd
Creators: name: Hiramatsu, Daichi
name: Howell, D. Andrew
name: Van Dyk, Schuyler D.
name: Goldberg, Jared A.
name: Maeda, Keiichi
name: Moriya, Takashi J.
name: Tominaga, Nozomu
name: Nomoto, Ken'ichi
name: Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: McCully, Curtis
name: Burke, Jamison
name: Bostroem, K. Azalee
name: Valenti, Stefano
name: Dong, Yize
name: Brown, Peter J.
name: Andrews, Jennifer E.
name: Bilinski, Christopher
name: Williams, G. Grant
name: Smith, Paul S.
name: Smith, Nathan
name: Sand, David J.
name: Anand, Gagandeep S.
name: Xu, Chengyuan
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Bersten, Melina C.
name: Folatelli, Gastón
name: Kelly, Patrick L.
name: Noguchi, Toshihide
name: Itagaki, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the transitional mass range ($\sim$ 8-10 solar masses) between white dwarf formation and iron core-collapse supernovae, stars are expected to produce an electron-capture supernova. Theoretically, these progenitors are thought to be super-asymptotic giant branch stars with a degenerate O+Ne+Mg core, and electron capture onto Ne and Mg nuclei should initiate core collapse. However, no supernovae have unequivocally been identified from an electron-capture origin, partly because of uncertainty in theoretical predictions. Here we present six indicators of electron-capture supernovae and show that supernova 2018zd is the only known supernova having strong evidence for or consistent with all six: progenitor identification, circumstellar material, chemical composition, explosion energy, light curve, and nucleosynthesis. For supernova 2018zd, we infer a super-asymptotic giant branch progenitor based on the faint candidate in the pre-explosion images and the chemically-enriched circumstellar material revealed by the early ultraviolet colours and flash spectroscopy. The light-curve morphology and nebular emission lines can be explained with the low explosion energy and neutron-rich nucleosynthesis produced in an electron-capture supernova. This identification provides insights into the complex stellar evolution, supernova physics, cosmic nucleosynthesis, and remnant populations in the transitional mass range.
description: Author version of the published letter in Nature Astronomy, 28 June 2021
MONOPSONY POWER IN MULTIPLE INPUT MARKETS: A Nonparametric Approach
Creators: name: Raper, Kellie Curry
name: Love, H. Alan
name: Raper, Kellie Curry
name: Love, H. Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: market power
subject: tobacco
subject: nonparametric
subject: monopsony
subject: imports.

description: Cigarette manufacturers' monopsony power exertion in procuring domestic and imported tobacco is investigated using nonparametric methods. While it is often assumed that tobacco program rents are captured by growers, results indicate the opposite actually occurs. Cigarette manufacturers appear to exert significant monopsony power in the domestic leaf tobacco market and capture a large portion of program rents. Cigarette manufacturers appear to exert monopsony power of much smaller magnitude in the international leaf tobacco market, but with increasing magnitude in more recent years.
Vacancy diffusion in the triangular lattice dimer model
Creators: name: Jeng, Monwhea
name: Bowick, Mark J.
name: Krauth, Werner
name: Schwarz, Jennifer
name: Xing, Xiangjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study vacancy diffusion on the classical triangular lattice dimer model, sub ject to the kinetic constraint that dimers can only translate, but not rotate. A single vacancy, i.e. a monomer, in an otherwise fully packed lattice, is always localized in a tree-like structure. The distribution of tree sizes is asymptotically exponential and has an average of 8.16 \pm 0.01 sites. A connected pair of monomers has a finite probability of being delocalized. When delocalized, the diffusion of monomers is anomalous:
description: 15 pages, 27 eps figures. submitted to Physical Review E
Continuity and change in public library management: Leicestershire County Libraries, a case study, 1963–1997
Creators: name: Whittome, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuity and change in public library management: Leicestershire County Libraries, a case study, 1963–1997
Equivariant Tilting Modules, Pfaffian Varieties and Noncommutative Matrix Factorizations
Creators: name: Hirano, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F08, 18G80, 16E35

description: We show that equivariant tilting modules over equivariant algebras induce equivalences of derived factorization categories. As an application, we show that the derived category of a noncommutative resolution of a linear section of a Pfaffian variety is equivalent to the derived factorization category of a noncommutative gauged Landau-Ginzburg model $(Λ,χ, w)^{\mathbb{G}_m}$, where $Λ$ is a noncommutative resolution of the quotient singularity $W/\operatorname{GSp}(Q)$ arising from a certain representation $W$ of the symplectic similitude group $\operatorname{GSp}(Q)$ of a symplectic vector space $Q$.
Study of selected proteins and noncovalent protein-protein complexes by nano- and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Nesati, Victor Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis summarizes the results of the investigation of conformational changes of individual proteins under denaturing/unfolding conditions by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and an assessment of the stability of gas phase noncovalent protein-protein complexes by tandem mass spectrometry. The experiments studying changes in protein conformations utilized two relatively small, very stable proteins with a well characterized native structure, bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) and ubiquitin. Unfolding experiments were performed using changes in pH, and the addition of organic solvents. The results of the experiments confirmed the known resistance of these two proteins to strongly denaturing conditions. Proteins that are stabilized by multiple disulphide bonds can be unfolded by simply reducing the disulfides. BPTI contains three disulphide bonds, which can be removed by reduction with DTT. In addition, mutants with one or two native or non-native disulphide bonds can be prepared by different techniques. The contribution of the disulphide bonds to the folding of gas-phase BPTI was assessed using cross sections measured by an ion ertergy loss method. The charge states produced in ESI show that reduced BPTI is partially unfolded under the solution conditions used here. Collision cross sections show that removing the disulphide bonds causes BPTI to unfold in the gas phase but the increase in size is rather small (-17% in area). The results show that the disulphide bonds of BPTI contribute to the folding of the gas phase ion but that even in the absence of disulphide bonds, the protein maintains a compact structure. The experiments on evaluation of the stability of noncovalent interactions in the gas-phase utilized complexes between BPTI and tryptic proteins (trypsin, chymotrypsin, and trypsinogen). Trypsin, chymotrypsin and trypsinogen have similar molecular weights but different binding energies for BPTI in solution thus forming a system of natural mutants which become an attractive model for studying protein-protein interactions. Experiments were performed using electro- and nanospray ionization sources. The results of tandem mass spectrometry experiments were analyzed using a recently proposed collision model. It was found that the relative binding energies of the protein-protein complexes in the gas-phase do not correlate with their stability in solution.
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A HOG SLAUGHTER PLANT CLOSING: THE THORN APPLE VALLEY CASE
Creators: name: Raper, Kellie Curry
name: Cheney, Laura Martin
name: Punjabi, Meeta
name: Raper, Kellie Curry
name: Cheney, Laura Martin
name: Punjabi, Meeta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: In 1998, Thorn Apple Valley ceased slaughter operations at its Detroit, Michigan plant, the state's only major hog packing facility. We examine the plant closing's local impact via an investigation of whether prices received by Michigan hog producers decreased relative to hog prices in the Eastern Corn Belt.
Alternative proposal to modified Newtonian dynamics
Creators: name: Romero, Juan M.
name: Zamora, Adolfo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From a study of conserved quantities of the so-called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) we propose an alternative to this theory. We show that this proposal is consistent with the Tully-Fisher law, has conserved quantities whose Newtonian limit are the energy and angular momentum, and can be useful to explain cosmic acceleration. The dynamics obtained suggests that, when acceleration is very small, time depends on acceleration. This result is analogous to that of special relativity where time depends on velocity.
description: 4 pages. Minor changes
PlayKit Play Aut the Box
Creators: name: Colacios, Raquel
name: Calvo, Blanca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Play AUT the Box is a New European Bauhaus funded project that has designed environmentally- and autism-friendly play infrastructure. It stems from the project Activating Spaces for neurodiverse Publics (ASD Publics), which produced a co-creation manual and design guidelines to improve public playgrounds with and for children with autism and their families. Play AUT the Box builds on the learnings from ASD Publics to co-design a prototype for a green and inclusive outdoors playroom (the Box AUT) and six prototypes of inclusive games (the Games AUT). Much like 'outdesigning' elevates design, in Play AUT the Box, 'AUTdesigning' champions designs that excel in embracing the autistic community. The AUTDesign Playkit is a design manual that describes the design of the Box AUT and the Games AUT, enabling easy replication and modification of these designs.
A Shell Model Description of the Decay Out of the Super-Deformed Band of 36Ar
Creators: name: Caurier, E.
name: Nowacki, F.
name: Poves, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large scale shell model calculations in two major oscillator shells (sd and pf) describe simultaneously the super-deformed excited band of 36Ar and its low-lying states of dominant sd character. In addition, several two particle two hole states and a side band of negative parity are also well reproduced. We explain the appearance of the super-deformed band at such low excitation energy as a consequence of the very large correlation energy of the configurations with many particles and many holes (np-nh) relative to the normal filling of the spherical mean field orbits (0p-0h). We study the mechanism of mixing between these different configurations, to understand why the super-deformed band survives and how it finally decays into the low-lying sd-dominated states via the indirect mixing of the 0p-0h and 4p-4h configurations.
description: 4 pages 5 figures, revtex4, revised version, minor changes
Amynthas jampeanus subsp. fumigatus
Creators: name: Shen, Huei-Ping
name: Chang, Chih-Han
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Amynthas
Amynthas jampeanus
Amynthas jampeanus fumigatus (michaelsen, 1899)

description: On the placement of “ Amynthas jampeanus fumigatus (Michaelsen, 1899) ”
Benham (1896) described Amynthas jampeanus from Jampea Island, south of Sulawesi (= Celebes) based on three specimens and Amynthas bonthainensis from Bonthain Peak, south Sulawesi based on one specimen only. Michaelsen (1899) considered A. bonthainensis to be a subspecies of A. jampeanus and added another two subspecies of A. jampeanus, A. jampeanus fumigatus and A. jampeanus tigrinus, collected from central and south Sulawesi, respectively. In the original description of Benham (1896), A. jampeanus has widely paired male pores with 13–14 setae in between and each pore on a papilla at each end of a pink, dumb-bell-shaped area, no other genital papillae, spherical ampulla, and stout, short prostatic duct in an obliquely longitudinal direction. However, A. bonthainensis has closely paired male pores with only 3 setae in between and each pore on a large round swollen area with an anterior papilla, three papillae in presetal XVII and XIX–XX (left one wanting in XX), oval ampulla, and short, straight, thick prostatic duct. Benham (1896) also provided illustrations for both A. jampeanus (Fig. 1 in Plate XX) and A. bonthainensis (Fig. 3 in Plate XX). Obviously, A. jampeanus and A. bonthainensis are different species. In a recent paper by Bantaowong et al. (2023), their Figure 4 shows the morphology of the syntype of one of the subspecies of A. jampeanus, A. jampeanus fumigatus. Its male pore region appears nearly identical to that of A. bonthainensis (Benham 1896, Fig. 3a in Plate XX). Actually, it is more close to A. bonthainensis concerning the papilla arrangement, more closely paired male pores, oval ampulla, and short, straight, thick prostatic duct (Table 5). The only difference is its much lower setal numbers (Table 5) which was also mentioned by Michaelsen (1899, p. 66). This taxon should be regarded as a subspecies of A. bonthainensis instead of A. jampeanus. Therefore, the name, Amynthas bonthainensis fumigatus (Michaelsen, 1899) comb. nov., is proposed. It is a geographic subspecies of A. bonthainensis since it is distributed in central Sulawesi while the latter in south Sulawesi. HPS examined the holotype of A. bonthainensis deposited in the Natural History Museum in London, UK. (BMNH 1896.9.30.1, Fig. 6) in 2014.
description: Published as part of Shen, Huei-Ping & Chang, Chih-Han, 2025, A new earthworm species of the genus Amynthas (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from northern Taiwan, false synonymy between Amynthas corticis (Kinberg, 1867) and Amynthas sheni (Chen, 1935) and other taxonomic issues relating to A. corticis, pp. 112-126 in Zootaxa 5589 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/14896799
Open access datasets from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
Creators: name: Thomas, Jen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
ACE
Antarctica
Southern Ocean
Metadata
Data
Data collection
Data set publication
DataCite
Data entry
Data management

description: The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE; https://spi-ace-expedition.ch) brought together 22 distinct science projects, collecting around 30 TB of data and almost 30,000 samples. A custom-built tool was built to record all data and sample collection on board. Open access datasets from the expedition continue to be published: https://zenodo.org/communities/spi-ace. This poster, presented at IMDIS 2021 (https://imdis2021.seadatanet.org/), briefly describes the tool that was created and outlines the published datasets.
description: The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
Time-Resolved X-ray Microscopy of Spin-Torque-Induced Magnetic Vortex Gyration
Creators: name: Bolte, Markus
name: Meier, Guido
name: Krueger, Benjamin
name: Drews, Andre
name: Eiselt, Rene
name: Bocklage, Lars
name: Bohlens, Stellan
name: Tyliszczak, Tolek
name: Vansteenkiste, Arne
name: Van Waeyenberge, Bartel
name: Chou, Kang Wei
name: Puzic, Aleksandar
name: Stoll, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-resolved X-ray microscopy is used to image the influence of alternating high-density currents on the magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic vortices. Spin-torque induced vortex gyration is observed in micrometer-sized permalloy squares. The phases of the gyration in structures with different chirality are compared to an analytical model and micromagnetic simulations, considering both alternating spinpolarized currents and the current's Oersted field. In our case the driving force due to spin-transfer torque is about 70% of the total excitation while the remainder originates from the current's Oersted field. This finding has implications to magnetic storage devices using spin-torque driven magnetization switching and domain-wall motion.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Exploring the many-body dynamics near a conical intersection with trapped Rydberg ions
Creators: name: Gambetta, Filippo Maria
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Hennrich, Markus
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Li, Weibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conical intersections between electronic potential energy surfaces are paradigmatic for the study of non-adiabatic processes in the excited states of large molecules. However, since the corresponding dynamics occurs on a femtosecond timescale, their investigation remains challenging and requires ultrafast spectroscopy techniques. We demonstrate that trapped Rydberg ions are a platform to engineer conical intersections and to simulate their ensuing dynamics on larger length and time scales of the order of nanometers and microseconds, respectively; all this in a highly controllable system. Here, the shape of the potential energy surfaces and the position of the conical intersection can be tuned thanks to the interplay between the high polarizability and the strong dipolar exchange interactions of Rydberg ions. We study how the presence of a conical intersection affects both the nuclear and electronic dynamics demonstrating, in particular, how it results in the inhibition of the nuclear motion. These effects can be monitored in real-time via a direct spectroscopic measurement of the electronic populations in a state-of-the-art experimental setup.
description: Main: 6 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental Material: 8 pages, 3 figures
RURAL RETIREES IN MICHIGAN: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES - FINDINGS FROM FOCUS GROUP MEETINGS
Creators: name: Moser, Colletta H.
name: Wessen, Paul D.
name: Moser, Colletta H.
name: Wessen, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper is a part of a series of reports of the activities conducted under a grant from the Fund for Rural America, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funds for the three year grant entitled "Enhancing Rural Economies Through Comprehensive Extension, Research & Partnering Approaches Using Multi-County Clusters in Michigan With Application to National Rural Settings" were received by Michigan State University's Department of Agricultural Economics in March, 1998. The major goal of the grant is to increase economic development activity in four clusters of rural counties in Michigan through the utilization of the resources of the Michigan State University Extension Service, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, and other resources of Michigan State University. Various local, state, and federal public partners as well as the private sector are to co-sponsor projects. This paper represents the first stages of a continuing project to explore the utilization of retirement community human resources in rural Michigan and to develop Extension programs to meet their needs. Future activities include focus groups, labor supply analysis, a conference, and perhaps a rural academy to be developed by Michigan State University and its partners.
The Duopolistic Firm with Endogenous Risk Control: Case of Persuasive Advertising and Product Differentiation
Creators: name: Wang, Shinn-Shyr
name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
name: Wang, Shinn-Shyr
name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: In this paper, a two-period game is constructed, where duopoly firms choose advertising strategies in the first period and compete in price or quantity in the second period by maximizing the value of firm equity. Using certainty equivalence, we demonstrate the impacts of uncertainty and modes of competition on duopoly firms' optimal pricing, production, and advertising strategies. Equilibrium price and quantity outcomes emerge as significantly di®erent from the standard industrial organization model of profit maximization. It turns out that the common measurement of market power, the Lerner index, is generally mis-stated. In contrast to the literature, we also find that firms will optimally switch from quantity to price competition either when advertising costs are low, demand is high, or if idiosyncratic risk is reduced. A series of simulations confirm these findings.
Hall coefficient and magnetoresistance of 2D spin-polarized electron systems
Creators: name: Hwang, E. H.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements of the 2D Hall resistance show that the Hall coefficient is independent of the applied in-plane magnetic field, i.e., the spin-polarization of the system. We calculate the weak-field Hall coefficient and the magnetoresistance of a spin polarized 2D system using the semi-classical transport approach based on the screening theory. We solve the coupled kinetic equations of the two carrier system including electron-electron interaction. We find that the in-plane magnetic field dependence of the Hall coefficient is suppressed by the weakening of screening and the electron-electron interaction. However, the in-plane magnetoresistance is mostly determined by the change of the screening of the system, and can therefore be strongly field dependent.
description: 5 pages with 6 figures
Quantum polyspectra for modeling and evaluating quantum transport measurements: A unifying approach to the strong and weak measurement regime
Creators: name: Sifft, M.
name: Kurzmann, A.
name: Kerski, J.
name: Schott, R.
name: Ludwig, A.
name: Wieck, A. D.
name: Lorke, A.
name: Geller, M.
name: Hägele, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum polyspectra of up to fourth order are introduced for modeling and evaluating quantum transport measurements offering a powerful alternative to methods of the traditional full counting statistics. Experimental time-traces of the occupation dynamics of a single quantum dot are evaluated via simultaneously fitting their 2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-order spectra. The scheme recovers the same electron tunneling and spin relaxation rates as previously obtained from an analysis of the same data in terms of factorial cumulants of the full counting statistics and waiting-time distributions. Moreover, the evaluation of time-traces via quantum polyspectra is demonstrated to be feasible also in the weak measurement regime even when quantum jumps can no longer be identified from time-traces and methods related to the full counting statistics cease to be applicable. A numerical study of a double dot system shows strongly changing features in the quantum polyspectra for the transition from the weak measurement regime to the Zeno-regime where coherent tunneling dynamics is suppressed. Quantum polyspectra thus constitute a general unifying approach to the strong and weak regime of quantum measurements with possible applications in diverse fields as nano-electronics, circuit quantum electrodynamics, spin noise spectroscopy, or quantum optics.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Proton path reconstruction for pCT using Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ackernley, T.
name: Casse, G.
name: Cristoforetti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Most Likely Path formalism (MLP) is widely established as the most statistically precise method for proton path reconstruction in proton computed tomography (pCT). However, while this method accounts for small-angle Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) and energy loss, inelastic nuclear interactions play an influential role in a significant number of proton paths. By applying cuts based on energy and direction, tracks influenced by nuclear interactions are largely discarded from the MLP analysis. In this work we propose a new method to estimate the proton paths based on a Deep Neural Network (DNN). Through this approach, estimates of proton paths equivalent to MLP predictions have been achieved in the case where only MCS occurs, together with an increased accuracy when nuclear interactions are present. Moreover, our tests indicate that the DNN algorithm can be considerably faster than the MLP algorithm.
description: revised version
“Upsilamba!”: the Joy and Sanctuary of Fiction in Reading Lolita in Tehran
Creators: name: Bardaglio, Anne
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the faculty nominator, Irline Francois: Ann Bardaglio emerged from a Mid-Term assignment for my Women' Studies 227 class entitled, Becoming Visible: Fictions of International Female Identity. The course looks at the social and political construction of femininity within different cultural, political and historical contexts. We consider, for example, how the authors write about experiences particular to women within their socio-cultural geographical and historical contest as shown in their struggles to survive adversity, the wounds of history, what gives them pain and joy. I composed a list of questions in which students had to choose one: Ann's paper incorporated two of my essay questions for her Mid-Term paper while providing a personal response to her essay. It was made abundantly clear from the first sentence the novel touched Ann very deeply. Her paper title "Upsilamba!! The Joy and Sanctuary of Ficton in Reading Lolita in Tehran is both a love letter to literature, an affirmation of its life-sustaining ability. I responded strongly to Ann's paper because it was beautifully written echoing the beauty and power of Nafisi's words.It was also well-researched. Her paper showed not only her profound love for the power of language with her citing of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but also how literature enables one to connect with Iranian women through the written world, the universal yearnings of the soul. At its most powerful, literature offers the possibility to transgress, to resist, to provide solace for the soul...Hence, Ann eloquently affirmed these human aspirations in her essay.
description: I wrote this piece for a class with Irline Francois called “International Feminist Identity.” About halfway through the semester, we began reading a memoir called Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. Nafisi organized a clandestine English literature course for a group of her female students while living under a dictatorship in Iran. Nafisi writes with such understated elegance that I often found myself reading entire paragraphs or even pages out loud. I became fascinated with the book. Because of Nafisi’s intensely personal approach to her subject, I found myself not only examining the role literature played in Nafisi’s memoir, but in my life as well.
description: Irline Francois
THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF EFFICIENT TIMBER PRICES
Creators: name: McGough, Bruce
name: Plantinga, Andrew J.
name: Provencher, Bill
name: McGough, Bruce
name: Plantinga, Andrew J.
name: Provencher, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The problem of when to optimally harvest trees when timber prices evolve according to an exogenous stochastic process has been studied extensively in recent decades. However, little attention has been given to the appropriate form of the stochastic process for timber prices, despite the fact that the choice of a process has important effects on optimal harvesting decisions. We develop a simple theoretical model of a timber market and show that there exists a rational expectations equilibrium in which prices evolve according to a stationary ARMA(1,1) process. Simulations are used to analyze a model with a more general representation of timber stock dynamics and to demonstrate that the unconditional distribution for rational timber prices is asymmetric. Implications for the optimal harvesting literature are: 1) market efficiency provides little justification for random walk prices, 2) unit root tests, used to analyze the informational efficiency of timber markets, do not distinguish between efficient and inefficient markets, and 3) failure to recognize asymmetric disturbances in time-series analyses of historical timber prices can lead to sub-optimal harvesting rules.
A near-infrared survey for new low-mass members in Alpha Per
Creators: name: Lodieu, N.
name: McCaughrean, M. J.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Stauffer, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a near-infrared (K'-band) survey of 0.7 square degree area in the Alpha Persei open cluster (age = 90 Myr, distance = 182 pc) carried out with the Omega-Prime camera on the Calar Alto 3.5-m telescope. Combining optical data (Rc and Ic) obtained with the KPNO/MOSA detector and presented in Stauffer et al. (1999) with the K' observations, a sample of new candidate members has been extracted from the optical-infrared colour-magnitude diagram. The location of these candidates in the colour-colour diagram suggests that two-thirds of them are actually reddened background giants. About 20 new candidate members with masses between 0.3 and 0.04 Msun are added to the 400 known Alpha Per cluster members. If they are indeed Alpha Per members, four of the new candidates would be brown dwarfs. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the near-infrared survey as compared to the optical selection method. We also describe the outcome of optical spectroscopy obtained with the Twin spectrograph on the Calar Alto 3.5-m telescope for about 30 candidates, including selected members from the optical sample presented in Barrado y Navascues et al. (2002) and from our joint optical/infrared catalogue. These results argue in favour of the optical selection method for this particular cluster.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables and 1 electronic table, accepted for publication in A&A
Charactoceras undefined-A Strand 1934
Creators: name: Kröger, Björn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Apsidoceratidae
Charactoceras
Charactoceras undefined-A

description: Charactoceras sp. A
Fig. 22C, E
Material examined
ESTONIA • 1 spec.; Vormsi Island, Hosholm shore; Adila Formation, Pirgu Regional Stage; GIT 878- 215.
Description
The specimen is a fragment of a nearly complete body chamber and one chamber of the phragmocone with a wide, reniform whorl cross section; it is 36 mm high at the aperture and 57 mm wide. At the base of the body chamber, it measures 24 mm in height and 41 mm in width. The body chamber measures ca 90–100° in length. Throughout its entire length, the greatest width of the whorl is reached between mid-flank and dorsum. On the broadly rounded ventral side, a distinct, broad, U-shaped hyponomic sinus is preserved, which has a width of 35 mm and a depth of 20 mm. Around the aperture patches of the outer shell remain, these are smooth, with distinct narrowly and irregularly spaced growth lines.
The two septa at the base of the body chamber are 6 mm distant, and a septal foramen located a few millimeters from the venter is apparent, but is not well enough preserved to measure.
Remarks
This single fragment does not permit species level determination. The position of the siphuncle and the shape of the body chamber, and its aperture show, however, that this specimen is a fragment of a Charactoceras. Its relatively large WWI of 1.71 (see Fig. 22E) distinguishes the specimen from C. estonicum and suggests a comparison with C. hercules (Billings, 1857) from late Katian strata of Anticosti Island, Quebec (e.g., Foerste 1928c). However, with the available material a detailed comparison is impossible as the more apical parts of the phragmocone are not known.
description: Published as part of Kröger, Björn, 2025, The Lyckholm acme of cephalopods - Review of the late Katian (Vormsi-Pirgu regional stages) Ordovician cephalopods of Estonia, pp. 1-169 in European Journal of Taxonomy 978 on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.978.2801, http://zenodo.org/record/14988376