cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 4 of Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications for sea-surface environmental changes
Creators: name: Kameo, Koji
name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Haneda, Yuki
name: Suganuma, Yusuke
name: Okada, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S1. Spectral power of Coccolithus pelagicus based on REDFIT method (Schulz and Mudelsee 2002) using the PAST4 software (Hammer et al. 2001). A blue dotted line shows 95% confidence level and a red dotted line indicates the first-order autoregressive (AR1) red noise model fit. A periodic change of 11 kyr is characteristically extracted from sequential occurrence of C. pelagicus in the CbCS.
The role of predation in the evolution of sympatric stickleback species
Creators: name: Vamosi, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The contribution of predation to the origin and divergence of sympatric species has not been examined in much detail. To determine whether there is an association between fish predators and the presence of stickleback species pairs (Gasterosteus aculeatus), I recorded the physical characteristics and fish communities of the six lakes containing stickleback species pairs and 47 lakes in the Strait of Georgia region of British Columbia that contained only a single stickleback species. A number of lakes were identified that had similar physical characteristics to lakes containing stickleback species pairs. These lakes, however, tended to have more fish species than lakes with two stickleback species, which had only one other fish species, the predatory cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki). The absence of certain fish species, thus, appeared to be important in allowing speciation of sticklebacks. Predation may have played a significant role in the morphological differentiation of sympatric stickleback species pairs. I measured the defensive armor of sticklebacks from lakes with one and two stickleback species. I provide evidence of character shifts in defense armor as a consequence of sympatry. Living in different habitats in sympatry may have been accompanied by adaptation to different predators in the two habitats. In lab predation experiments, I found that the species that lives in the pelagic zone was selectively preyed upon by predators commonly found in the littoral zone. The species from the littoral zone, in contrast, was selectively preyed upon by a piscivorous bird, the double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), which usually forages in the pelagic zone. Finally, I investigated whether the two species and their F1 hybrids are differentially vulnerable to predators. The species associated with the pelagic zone had significantly reduced survival in the presence of cutthroat trout, whereas the other species was largely unaffected by their presence. First generation hybrids had low survival regardless of treatment. Cutthroat trout predation may be a significant source of mortality for the species associated with the pelagic zone but does not contribute to reproductive isolation between the two species.
Particle Swarm Optimization with Velocity Restriction and Evolutionary Parameters Selection for Scheduling Problem
Creators: name: Matrenin, Pavel
name: Sekaev, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.1; I.2.8

description: The article presents a study of the Particle Swarm optimization method for scheduling problem. To improve the method's performance a restriction of particles' velocity and an evolutionary meta-optimization were realized. The approach proposed uses the Genetic algorithms for selection of the parameters of Particle Swarm optimization. Experiments were carried out on test tasks of the job-shop scheduling problem. This research proves the applicability of the approach and shows the importance of tuning the behavioral parameters of the swarm intelligence methods to achieve a high performance.
Additional file 1 of Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Norway: a cross-sectional survey with a modified Norwegian version of the international questionnaire to measure use of complementary and alternative medicine (I-CAM-QN)
Creators: name: Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter
name: Quandt, Sara A.
name: Stub, Trine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Second-Order Pooling for Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Zhengyang
name: Ji, Shuiwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph neural networks have achieved great success in learning node representations for graph tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Graph representation learning requires graph pooling to obtain graph representations from node representations. It is challenging to develop graph pooling methods due to the variable sizes and isomorphic structures of graphs. In this work, we propose to use second-order pooling as graph pooling, which naturally solves the above challenges. In addition, compared to existing graph pooling methods, second-order pooling is able to use information from all nodes and collect second-order statistics, making it more powerful. We show that direct use of second-order pooling with graph neural networks leads to practical problems. To overcome these problems, we propose two novel global graph pooling methods based on second-order pooling; namely, bilinear mapping and attentional second-order pooling. In addition, we extend attentional second-order pooling to hierarchical graph pooling for more flexible use in GNNs. We perform thorough experiments on graph classification tasks to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed methods. Experimental results show that our methods improve the performance significantly and consistently.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tp/5555/01/09104936/1kj0O2A1yBa
Signatures of sunspot oscillations and the case for chromospheric resonances
Creators: name: Felipe, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of the spot. Umbral chromospheric oscillations exhibit significant differences compared to their photospheric counterparts. They show an enhanced power and a shorter dominant period, from waves with an amplitude of a few hundred meters per second in the five-minute band at the photosphere, to amplitudes of several kilometers per second in the three-minute band at the chromosphere. Various models have been proposed to explain this behaviour, including the presence of a chromospheric resonance cavity between the photosphere and the transition region. Jess et al. (2020, Nature Astronomy, 4, 220) claimed the detection of observational evidence supporting this model, obtained from the comparison of spectropolarimetric observations and numerical simulations. Here, it is shown that the observational insight reported by Jess et al. is not a common property of sunspots. More importantly, numerical modelling also shows that it is not an unequivocal signature of an acoustic resonator.
description: Matters Arising published in Nature Astronomy. The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at https://rdcu.be/b5JCS
Seismology and activity of the F type star HD 49933
Creators: name: Mosser, Benoît
name: Bouchy, François
name: Catala, Claude
name: Michel, Eric
name: Samadi, Reza
name: Thévenin, Frédéric
name: Eggenberger, Patrick
name: Sosnowska, Danuta
name: Moutou, Claire
name: Baglin, Annie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 10-night asteroseismic observation programme has been conducted in January 2004 with the spectrometer Harps at the ES0 3.6-m telescope. The selected target, the 6th magnitude F5V star HD 49933, was chosen among the prime candidates of Corot, the European space mission dedicated to characterize stellar oscillations mode with high precision photometry measurements. This star shows important line profiles variations, indicating a surprisingly high activity with respect to its low rotation rate. However, with the help of tools developed for disentangling the signatures of activity and oscillations, we are able to observe its oscillation spectrum in the frequency range [1.2, 2.2 mHz]. We measure the large separation (88.7+-0.4 microHz) and the maximum amplitude (around 0.4+-0.1 m/s rms), respectively in agreement and marginal agreement with the predicted values.
description: accepted in A&A Letters
Hidden singularities in 3D optical fields
Creators: name: Pang, Xiaoyan
name: Feng, Chen
name: Nyamdorj, Bujinlkham
name: Zhao, Xinying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we show that in a three dimensional (3D) optical field there can exist two types of hidden singularities, one is spin density (SD) phase singularity and the other is SD vector singularity, which are both unique to 3D fields. The nature of these SD singularities is discussed and their connection with traditional optical singularities is also examined. Especially it is shown that in a 3D field with purely transverse spin density (`photonic wheels'), these two types of singularities exhibit very interesting behaviors: they are exactly mapped to each other regardless of their different physical meanings and different topological structures. Our work supplies a fundamental theory for the SD singularities and may provide a new way for further exploration of 3D optical fields.
Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of the Equivalence Principle with the Earth and Moon
Creators: name: Williams, James G.
name: Turyshev, Slava G.
name: Boggs, Dale H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A primary objective of the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiment is to provide precise observations of the lunar orbit that contribute to a wide range of science investigations. Time series of the highly accurate measurements of the distance between the Earth and Moon provide unique information used to determine whether, in accordance with the Equivalence Principle (EP), both of these celestial bodies are falling towards the Sun at the same rate, despite their different masses, compositions, and gravitational self-energies. Current LLR solutions give $(-1.0 \pm 1.4) \times 10^{-13}$ for any possible inequality in the ratios of the gravitational and inertial masses for the Earth and Moon, $Δ(M_G/M_I)$. This result, in combination with laboratory experiments on the weak equivalence principle, yields a strong equivalence principle (SEP) test of $Δ(M_G/M_I)_{\tt SEP} = (-2.0 \pm 2.0) \times 10^{-13}$. Such an accurate result allows other tests of gravitational theories. The result of the SEP test translates into a value for the corresponding SEP violation parameter $η$ of $(4.4 \pm 4.5)\times10^{-4}$, where $η= 4β-γ-3$ and both $γ$ and $β$ are parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters. The PPN parameter $β$ is determined to be $β- 1 = (1.2 \pm 1.1) \times 10^{-4}$. Focusing on the tests of the EP, we discuss the existing data, and characterize the modeling and data analysis techniques. The robustness of the LLR solutions is demonstrated with several different approaches that are presented in the text. We emphasize that near-term improvements in the LLR ranging accuracy will further advance the research of relativistic gravity in the solar system, and, most notably, will continue to provide highly accurate tests of the Equivalence Principle.
description: 50 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables
Additional file 2 of Scale-up of the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) intervention in secondary schools: 12-month implementation outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Sutherland, Rachel
name: Campbell, Elizabeth
name: McLaughlin, Matthew
name: Nathan, Nicole
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Lubans, David R.
name: Morgan, Philip J.
name: Gillham, Karen
name: Oldmeadow, Chris
name: Searles, Andrew
name: Reeves, Penny
name: Williams, Mandy
name: Kajons, Nicole
name: Bailey, Andrew
name: Boyer, James
name: Lecathelinais, Christophe
name: Davies, Lynda
name: McKenzie, Tom
name: Hollis, Jenna
name: Wiggers, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. StaRI Checklist.
Additional file 2 of Development and validation of genome-wide InDel markers with high levels of polymorphism in bitter gourd (Momordica charantia)
Creators: name: Junjie Cui
name: Jiazhu Peng
name: Jiaowen Cheng
name: Kailin Hu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Indel polymorphisms between ‘04–17’and ‘47–2–1-1-3′. Figure S2. One of the polymorphic marker MC_g61ind2372 amplified in 113 F2 individuals from crosses of ‘04–17′ and ‘47–2–1-1-3′..
Van Deun, Peter (Ed.): Maximi Confessoris Liber Asceticus
Creators: name: Van Esbroeck, Michel
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 87 (2003): Oriens christianus, Band 87
The failure of testing for cosmic opacity via the distance-duality relation
Creators: name: Vavrycuk, Vaclav
name: Kroupa, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distance-duality relation (DDR) between the luminosity distance $D_L$ and the angular diameter distance $D_A$ is viewed as a powerful tool for testing for the opacity of the Universe, being independent of any cosmological model. It was applied by many authors, who mostly confirm its validity and report a negligible opacity of the Universe. Nevertheless, a thorough analysis reveals that applying the DDR in cosmic opacity tests is tricky. Its applicability is strongly limited because of a non-unique interpretation of the $D_L$ data in terms of cosmic opacity and a rather low accuracy and deficient extent of currently available $D_A$ data. Moreover, authors usually assume that cosmic opacity is frequency independent and parametrize it in their tests by a prescribed phenomenological function. In this way, they only prove that cosmic opacity does not follow their assumptions. As a consequence, no convincing evidence of transparency of the universe using the DDR has so far been presented.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Strong CP violation and the neutron electric dipole form factor
Creators: name: Kuckei, J.
name: Dib, Claudio
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Kovalenko, Sergey
name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
name: Pumsa-ard, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the neutron electric dipole form factor induced by the CP violating theta-term of QCD, within a perturbative chiral quark model which includes pion and kaon clouds. On this basis we derive the neutron electric dipole moment and the electron-neutron Schiff moment. From the existing experimental upper limits on the neutron electric dipole moment we extract constraints on the theta-parameter and compare our results with other approaches.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Atom. Nucl
Orbital Parameters of the Microquasar LSI +61 303
Creators: name: Casares, J.
name: Ribas, I.
name: Paredes, J. M.
name: Marti, J.
name: Prieto, C. Allende
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New optical spectroscopy of the HMXB microquasar LSI +61 303 is presented. Eccentric orbital fits to our radial velocity measurements yield updated orbital parameters in good agreement with previous work. Our orbital solution indicates that the periastron passage occurs at radio phase 0.23 and the X-ray/radio outbursts are triggered 2.5--4 days after the compact star passage. The spectrum of the optical star is consistent with a B0 V spectral type and contributes ~65 percent of the total light, the remaining due to emission by a circumstellar disc. We also measure the projected rotational velocity to be v sin i = 113 km/s.
description: 6 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The cyclic job-shop scheduling problem: The new subclass of the job-shop problem and applying the Simulated annealing to solve it
Creators: name: Matrenin, Pavel
name: Manusov, Vadim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.1; I.2.8

description: In the paper, the new approach to the scheduling problem are described. The approach deals with the problem of planning the cyclic production and proposes to consider such scheduling problem as the cyclic job-shop problem of the order k, where k is the number of reiterations. It was found out that planning of only one iteration of the loop is less effective than planning of the entire cycle. To the experimental research, a number of test instances of the job-shop scheduling problem by Operation Research Library were used. The Simulated Annealing was applied to solve the instances. The experiments proved that the approach proposed allows increasing the efficiency of cyclic scheduling significantly.
Additional file 1 of Patient experiences of receiving arthroscopic surgery or personalised hip therapy for femoroacetabular impingement in the context of the UK fashion study: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Realpe, A. X.
name: N. E. Foster
name: E. J. Dickenson
name: M. Jepson
name: D. R. Griffin
name: J. L. Donovan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Testing Rotational Mixing Predictions with New Boron Abundances in Main Sequence B-type Stars
Creators: name: Mendel, J. T.
name: Venn, K. A.
name: Proffitt, C. R.
name: Brooks, A. M.
name: Lambert, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) New boron abundances for seven main-sequence B-type stars are determined from HST STIS spectroscopy around the BIII 2066A line. Boron abundances provide a unique and critical test of stellar evolution models that include rotational mixing since boron is destroyed in the surface layers of stars through shallow mixing long before other elements are mixed from the stellar interior through deep mixing. Boron abundances range from 12+log(B/H) = 1.0 to 2.2. The boron abundances are compared to the published values of their stellar nitrogen abundances (all have 12+log(N/H) < 7.8, i.e., they do not show significant CNO-mixing) and to their host cluster ages (4 to 16 Myr) to investigate the predictions from models of massive star evolution with rotational mixing effects (Heger & Langer 2000). Only three stars (out of 34) deviate from the model predictions, including HD36591, HD205021, and HD30836. These three stars suggest that rotational mixing could be more efficient than currently modelled at the highest rotation rates.
description: 10 figures, 7 tables; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 1 of Scale-up of the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) intervention in secondary schools: 12-month implementation outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Sutherland, Rachel
name: Campbell, Elizabeth
name: McLaughlin, Matthew
name: Nathan, Nicole
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Lubans, David R.
name: Morgan, Philip J.
name: Gillham, Karen
name: Oldmeadow, Chris
name: Searles, Andrew
name: Reeves, Penny
name: Williams, Mandy
name: Kajons, Nicole
name: Bailey, Andrew
name: Boyer, James
name: Lecathelinais, Christophe
name: Davies, Lynda
name: McKenzie, Tom
name: Hollis, Jenna
name: Wiggers, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Consort Checklist.
Burchard, Christoph (Hrsg.): Joseph und Aseneth
Creators: name: Van Esbroeck, Michel
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 87 (2003): Oriens christianus, Band 87
Geometric Shaping of 2-Dimensional Constellations in the Presence of Laser Phase Noise
Creators: name: Dzieciol, Hubert
name: Liga, Gabriele
name: Sillekens, Eric
name: Bayvel, Polina
name: Lavery, Domaniç
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a geometric shaping (GS) strategy to design 8, 16, 32 and 64-ary modulation formats for the optical fibre channel impaired by both additive white Gaussian (AWGN) and phase noise. The constellations were optimised to maximise generalised mutual information (GMI) using a mismatched channel model. The presented formats demonstrate an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) tolerance in high phase noise regimes when compared with their quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) or AWGN-optimised counterparts. By putting the optimisation results in the context of the 400ZR implementation agreement, we show that GS alone can either relax the laser linewidth (LW) or carrier phase estimation (CPE) requirements of 400 Gbit/s transmission links and beyond. Following the GMI validation, the performance of the presented formats was examined in terms of post forward error correction (FEC) bit-error-rate (BER) for a soft decision (SD) extended Hamming code (128, 120), implemented as per the 400ZR implementation agreement. We demonstrate gains of up to 1.2 dB when compared to the 64-ary AWGN shaped formats.
description: 10 pages, journal, R1
Revisiting Internet AS-level Topology Discovery
Creators: name: Dimitropoulos, Xenofontas
name: Krioukov, Dmitri
name: Riley, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The development of veracious models of the Internet topology has received a lot of attention in the last few years. Many proposed models are based on topologies derived from RouteViews BGP table dumps (BTDs). However, BTDs do not capture all AS-links of the Internet topology and most importantly the number of the hidden AS-links is unknown, resulting in AS-graphs of questionable quality. As a first step to address this problem, we introduce a new AS-topology discovery methodology that results in more complete and accurate graphs. Moreover, we use data available from existing measurement facilities, circumventing the burden of additional measurement infrastructure. We deploy our methodology and construct an AS-topology that has at least 61.5% more AS-links than BTD-derived AS-topologies we examined. Finally, we analyze the temporal and topological properties of the augmented graph and pinpoint the differences from BTD-derived AS-topologies.
Temporal perception in vision : an examination of bottleneck models
Creators: name: Visser, Troy Anthony William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present work is an examination of the mechanisms underlying temporal processing in vision. Recent studies have shown that when observers are asked to identify two objects presented in rapid succession, identification of the first object is quite accurate, while identification of the second object is poor when it folows the first at very brief inter-target intervals (i.e. 200-500 ms). This second-target deficit is known as the attentional blink. According to bottleneck models, the attentional blink occurs because processing of the first target prevents the second target from gaining access to high-level processing. A strong prediction of this account is that if processing time for the first target is increased, the magnitude of the attentional blink should also increase. This prediction is confirmed in experiments. It is argued that these results strongly support bottleneck models as an account of the attentional blink in particular and of temporal processing more generally.
Additional file 1 of Exploring short k-mer profiles in cells and mobile elements from Archaea highlights the major influence of both the ecological niche and evolutionary history
Creators: name: Bize, Ariane
name: Midoux, Cédric
name: Mariadassou, Mahendra
name: Schbath, Sophie
name: Forterre, Patrick
name: Cunha, Violette Da
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional files 1 and 3 to 29. Additional tables, figures and text.
Gravity on de-Sitter 3-Brane, Induced Einstein-Hilbert Term and Massless Gravitons
Creators: name: Lukierski, J.
name: Próchnicka, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the extensions of DGP model which are described by five-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled covariantly to 3-brane with induced gravity term and consider warped D=4 de Sitter background field solutions on the brane. The case with included D=5 AdS cosmological term is also considered. Following background field method we obtain the field equations described by the Lagrangean terms bilinear in gravitational field. In such a linear field approximation on curved dS background we calculate explicitly the five-dimensional massive terms as well as the mass-like ones on the brane. We investigate the eigenvalue problem of Schrödinger-like equation in fifth dimension for graviton masses and discuss the existence of massless as well as massive graviton modes in the bulk and on the brane without and with induced gravity.
description: LaTeX 26 pages, the version which appears in Class. Quant. Grav
Metastable and stable equilibrium states of stellar electron-nuclear plasmas
Creators: name: Ferro, F.
name: Lavagno, A.
name: Quarati, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By minimizing free energy density, we show that the stellar core of a hydrogen burning star is not in a global thermodynamical equilibrium unless density, temperature, mass and composition assume given values. The core (as the solar interior) may be viewed more appropriately as a metastable state with very long lifetime. Slightly non-extensive distribution function could be the natural distribution for a weakly non-ideal plasma like a stellar core and represents a more appropriate approximation to this system than a Maxwellian distribution, without affecting bulk properties of stars.
description: 14 pages, to appear in Phys. Lett. A
Additional file 3 of Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications for sea-surface environmental changes
Creators: name: Kameo, Koji
name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Haneda, Yuki
name: Suganuma, Yusuke
name: Okada, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Counts of subordinate taxa of calcareous nannofossils of the Chiba composite section.
Gamma-ray emission in radio galaxies under the VLBI scope -- II. The relationship between gamma-ray emission and parsec-scale jets in radio galaxies
Creators: name: Angioni, R.
name: Ros, E.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Ojha, R.
name: Müller, C.
name: Edwards, P. G.
name: Burd, P. R.
name: Carpenter, B.
name: Dutka, M. S.
name: Gulyaev, S.
name: Hase, H.
name: Horiuchi, S.
name: Krauß, F.
name: Lovell, J. E. J.
name: Natusch, T.
name: Phillips, C.
name: Plötz, C.
name: Quick, J. F. H.
name: Rösch, F.
name: Schulz, R.
name: Stevens, J.
name: Tzioumis, A. K.
name: Weston, S.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following our study of the radio and high-energy properties of $γ$-ray-emitting radio galaxies, here we investigate the kinematic and spectral properties of the parsec-scale jets of radio galaxies that have not yet been detected by Fermi-LAT. We take advantage of the regular VLBI observations provided by the TANAMI monitoring program, and explore the kinematic properties of six $γ$-ray-faint radio galaxies. We include publicly available VLBI kinematics of $γ$-ray-quiet radio galaxies monitored by the MOJAVE program and perform a Fermi-LAT analysis, deriving upper limits. We combine these results with those from our previous paper to construct the largest sample of radio galaxies with combined VLBI and $γ$-ray measurements to date. We find superluminal motion up to $β_\mathrm{app}=3.6$ in the jet of PKS 2153$-$69. We find a clear trend of higher apparent speed as a function of distance from the jet core on scales of $\sim10^5\,R_s$, corresponding to the end of the collimation and acceleration zone in nearby radio galaxies. We find evidence of subluminal apparent motion in the jets of PKS 1258$-$321 and IC 4296, and no measurable motion for PKS 1549$-$79, PKS 1733$-$565 and PKS 2027$-$308. We compare the VLBI properties of $γ$-ray-detected and undetected radio galaxies, and find significantly different distributions of median core flux density, and, possibly, of median core brightness temperature. We find a significant correlation between median core flux density and $γ$-ray flux, but no correlation with typical Doppler boosting indicators such as median core brightness temperature and core dominance. Our study suggests that high-energy emission from radio galaxies is related to parsec-scale radio emission from the inner jet, but is not driven by Doppler boosting effects, in contrast to the situation in their blazar counterparts.
description: Main text: 15 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables. Appendix: 14 pages, 20 figures, 13 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Neptune's ring arcs confined by coorbital satellites: dust orbital evolution through solar radiation
Creators: name: Winter, Silvia Maria Giuliatti
name: Madeira, Gustavo
name: Sfair, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Voyager 2 images confirmed the presence of ring arcs around Neptune. These structures need a confinement mechanism to constrain their spreading due to collisions, dissipative forces, and differential keplerian motion. Here we report the results of a set of numerical simulations of the system formed by Neptune, the satellite Galatea, dust ring particles, and hypothetical co-orbital satellites. This dynamical system depicts a recent confinement mechanism formed by four co-orbital satellites being responsible for the azimuthal confinement of the arcs, while Galatea responds for their radial confinement. After the numerical simulations, the particles were divided into four groups: particles that stay in the arcs, transient particles, particles that leave the arcs to the Adams ring, and particles that collide with the co-orbital satellites. Our results showed that in all arcs the lifetime of the smaller particles is at most 50 years. After 100 years about 20% of the total amount of larger particles is still present in the arcs. From our numerical simulations, the particles should be present in all arcs after 30 years, the period between the discovery of the arcs up to now. Our results can not explain the disappearance of the leading arcs, Liberte and Courage unless the arcs are formed by different particle sizes. Analysis of the dust production, due to collisions between interplanetary debris onto the surface of the co-orbital satellites, ruled out the hypothesis that small satellites close to or in the arc the structure could be its source.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures
On the Robin problem in fractal domains
Creators: name: Bass, Richard
name: Burdzy, Krzysztof
name: Chen, Zhen-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J25

description: We study the solution to the Robin boundary problem for the Laplacian in a Euclidean domain. We present some families of fractal domains where the infimum of the solution is greater than 0, and some other families of domains were it is equal to 0. We also give a new result on `trap domains', i.e., domains where reflecting Brownian motion takes a long time to reach the center of the domain.
LIVESTOCK FUTURES MARKETS AND RATIONAL PRICE FORMATION: EVIDENCE FOR LIVE CATTLE AND LIVE HOGS
Creators: name: Koontz, Stephen R.
name: Hudson, Michael A.
name: Hughes, Matthew W.
name: Koontz, Stephen R.
name: Hudson, Michael A.
name: Hughes, Matthew W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The efficiency of livestock futures markets continues to receive attention, particularly with regard to their forward pricing or forecasting ability. The purpose of this paper is to present a more general theory that encompasses the forward pricing concept. It is argued that futures contract prices for competitively produced nonstorable commodities, such as live cattle and live hogs, follow a rational formation process. Futures contract prices reflect expected market conditions when contracts are sufficiently close to the delivery month that the supply of the underlying commodity cannot be changed. However, prior to the period when future supplies are relatively fixed, futures contract prices should adjust to reflect the competitive equilibrium, where output price equals average costs of production. Presented evidence suggests that live cattle and live hog futures markets support the rational price formation hypothesis: prices for distant contracts reflect average costs of feeding. Implications for risk management strategies are considered.
Relaxation to equilibrium in the one-dimensional thin-film equation with partial wetting
Creators: name: Majdoub, Mohamed
name: Masmoudi, Nader
name: Tayachi, Slim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the large time behavior of compactly supported solutions for a one-dimensional thin-film equation with linear mobility in the regime of partial wetting. We show the stability of steady state solutions. The proof uses the Lagrangian coordinates. Our method is to establish and exploit differential relations between the energy and the dissipation as well as some interpolation inequalities. Our result is different from earlier results because here we consider solutions with finite mass.
Additional file 1 of Optimising medication management in children and young people with ADHD using a computerised test (QbTest): a feasibility randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Williams, Laura
name: Hall, Charlotte L.
name: Brown, Sue
name: Boliang Guo
name: James, Marilyn
name: Franceschini, Matilde
name: Clarke, Julie
name: Selby, Kim
name: Hena Vijayan
name: Kulkarni, Neeta
name: Brown, Nikki
name: Sayal, Kapil
name: Hollis, Chris
name: Groom, Madeleine J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a pilot or feasibility trial
Deep multi-metric learning for text-independent speaker verification
Creators: name: Xu, Jiwei
name: Wang, Xinggang
name: Feng, Bin
name: Liu, Wenyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text-independent speaker verification is an important artificial intelligence problem that has a wide spectrum of applications, such as criminal investigation, payment certification, and interest-based customer services. The purpose of text-independent speaker verification is to determine whether two given uncontrolled utterances originate from the same speaker or not. Extracting speech features for each speaker using deep neural networks is a promising direction to explore and a straightforward solution is to train the discriminative feature extraction network by using a metric learning loss function. However, a single loss function often has certain limitations. Thus, we use deep multi-metric learning to address the problem and introduce three different losses for this problem, i.e., triplet loss, n-pair loss and angular loss. The three loss functions work in a cooperative way to train a feature extraction network equipped with Residual connections and squeeze-and-excitation attention. We conduct experiments on the large-scale \texttt{VoxCeleb2} dataset, which contains over a million utterances from over $6,000$ speakers, and the proposed deep neural network obtains an equal error rate of $3.48\%$, which is a very competitive result. Codes for both training and testing and pretrained models are available at \url{https://github.com/GreatJiweix/DmmlTiSV}, which is the first publicly available code repository for large-scale text-independent speaker verification with performance on par with the state-of-the-art systems.
Additional file 1 of Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications for sea-surface environmental changes
Creators: name: Kameo, Koji
name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Haneda, Yuki
name: Suganuma, Yusuke
name: Okada, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Counts of calcareous nannofossils of the Kazusa Group by Sato (1989).
Additional file 2 of Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications for sea-surface environmental changes
Creators: name: Kameo, Koji
name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Haneda, Yuki
name: Suganuma, Yusuke
name: Okada, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Counts of overall calcareous nannofossils of the Chiba composite section (This study and Suganuma et al. 2018).
Additional file 1 of Living with consequences of stroke and risk factors for unhealthy diet- experiences among stroke survivors and caregivers in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: M. Elmberg Sjöholm
name: G. Eriksson
name: A. Bii
name: J. Asungu
name: L. Von Koch
name: Guidetti, S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary material 1. The first round of data collection Description of data included in the file: A self-reported questionnaire developed by the authors (LvK, GE, SG) including sociodemographic data and clinical characteristics as age, gender, marital status, handedness, number of children, work status and level of education and housing, information on type of stroke, side of the body affected by stroke, medication for hypertension and rehabilitation.
QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS FOR MEASURING IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL HIGHWAYS IN RURAL AREAS
Creators: name: Broder, Josef M.
name: Taylor, Teresa D.
name: McNamara, Kevin T.
name: Broder, Josef M.
name: Taylor, Teresa D.
name: McNamara, Kevin T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Quasi-experimental techniques were developed to provide decision-making tools for documenting the impacts of developmental highways in rural areas. Regression discontinuity analysis (RDA) with limited observations was used to compare economic changes in highway counties to those in adjacent and non-adjacent control counties. The RDA models found statistically significant changes in population, per capita income, and taxable sales related to highway development. The study found that some counties benefited from developmental highways, some were unchanged, while some experienced economic decline. RDA models with adjacent controls had better explanatory powers while those with non-adjacent controls were more sensitive to highway-related changes in economic activity. When significant non-highway activities were present, adjacent control models may have understated highway-related impacts, while non-adjacent control models may have overstated these impacts. Arguments for using adjacent and non-adjacent experimental designs are discussed.
AGRIBUSINESS AND EXTENSION: CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS TO SERVE A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIENTELE
Creators: name: Akridge, Jay T.
name: Akridge, Jay T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The market for agribusiness extension activities and programming is diverse, intensely competitive, and national or international in scope. It is a market that agricultural economists cannot serve alone. Despite these complexities, a strong agribusiness extension effort is critical to the success of agribusiness research and teaching programs. Agribusiness extension opportunities include extending traditional agricultural economics research, small business management programs, economic/technical education programs, and management education. Keys for conducting successful agribusiness extension programs include understanding client needs, locating and employing the best instructional talent available, and flawless execution of the activity. Stimulating faculty interest in agribusiness extension is a major challenge. Most schools will have the opportunity to focus their traditional extension education efforts on the non-traditional agribusiness audience. A few schools will be successful in developing a new extension program emphasis in agribusiness management education. Both types of contradictions are important for the long-run viability of the profession.
What are the minimal conditions required to define a SIC POVM?
Creators: name: Geng, Isabelle Jianing
name: Golubeva, Kimberly
name: Gour, Gilad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symmetric informationally complete (SIC) POVMs are a class of quantum measurements which, in addition to being informationally complete, satisfy three conditions: 1) every POVM element is rank one, 2) the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product between any two distinct elements is constant, and 3) the trace of each element is constant. The third condition is often overlooked, since it may give the impression that it follows trivially from the second. We show that this condition cannot be removed, as it leads to two distinct values for the trace of an element of the POVM. This observation has led us to define a broader class of measurements which we call semi-SIC POVMs. In dimension two we show that semi-SIC POVMs exist, and we construct the entire family. In higher dimensions, we characterize key properties and applications of semi-SIC POVMs, and note that the proof of their existence remains open.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, comments are welcome!
Additional file 2 of Living with consequences of stroke and risk factors for unhealthy diet- experiences among stroke survivors and caregivers in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: M. Elmberg Sjöholm
name: G. Eriksson
name: A. Bii
name: J. Asungu
name: L. Von Koch
name: Guidetti, S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary material 2. The second round of data collection Description of data included in the file: The interview protocol. Not included in the manuscript.