cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Between clutter and containment : situating Eugène Atget’s "Intérieurs parisiens"
Creators: name: Khonsary, Jaffar Jeffrey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In 1910, Eugène Atget began a photographic series documenting apartment spaces of different classes throughout the city of Paris. Latter bound into albums, and entitled "Intérieurs parisiens, début du XXe Siècle, artistiques, pittoresques et bourgeois", this series incorporated sixty black and white photographs of a dozen separate uninhabited, residential interiors — each framed by a brief, handwritten caption describing the identity of the now absent resident. Atget eventually made three, slightly different editions of the "Intérieurs parisiens" series, which he sold to photographic archives within the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Despite the expanding art historical discourse that developed around Atget's body of work over the final decades of the twentieth-century, the "Intérieurs parisiens" series has received remarkably little extended academic investigation, perhaps because of its peculiarity and relative obscurity within Atget's larger, better known body of work. Using the three editions of Atget's "Intérieurs parisiens" as a material foundation, the present paper attempts to situate the "Intérieurs" photographs within a series of overlapping historical contexts: 1) Atget's commercial practice, and the institutional circulation of his photographs; 2) the changing physical and cultural space of the late nineteenth-century Parisian interior; 3) discourses of taste, hygiene and interior decoration; and 4) the art historical discourse that developed around Atget's practice over the final decades of the twentieth century. Within the "Intérieurs parisiens", Atget's camera creates a meticulous, almost obsessive catalogue of the fabric, furniture, and knick-knacks that populate otherwise empty rooms. Lining walls and overflowing tabletops, these objects form a surplus of captivating banality, and seem saturated with valuable evidence. Here, the remnants of everyday day life (the motif used on a piece of furniture, the titles of books sitting amongst a collection of others lining a shelf) reveal intersections between class, gender and national identity. Yet Atget's photographs, I want to claim, speak little of the private narratives they claim to possess — of the traumatic and indiscreet relationships between spaces, objects and bodies. This silence refuses any attempt to objectify identity — that is, to reduce identity to object and object to identity.
Analysis on the Influencing Factors of the Quality Traceable System Established by Edible Agricultural Products Enterprises—Taking Sichuan as an example
Creators: name: Xie, Xiao
name: Wu, Xiu-Min
name: Zhao, Zhi-Jing
name: Xie, Xiao
name: Wu, Xiu-Min
name: Zhao, Zhi-Jing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Edible agricultural products
subject: Quality traceable system
subject: Influencing factors
subject: China

description: According to the investigation data from 81 edible agricultural products enterprises in Sichuan Province, the influence factors of establishing quality tracing system are empirically analyzed from four aspects, including the enterprise features, the attitudes of operators, management and market competition by using the Logistic model. The results show that the enterprise can establish the quality tracing system after the comprehensive function of a series of internal and external factors. The four factors include peer pressure; age of enterprise; export and the expectation on improving economic interests have the biggest impact on enterprise to establish the quality tracing system. The factors, including the quality safety certificate obtained by the enterprises, export of products, sampling frequency, peer pressure, the pressure from consumers and media, the expectation on improving the competition of products, the expectation on improving economic interests, play a promotion role in helping enterprises to establish quality tracing system. The countermeasures and suggestion are put forward from strengthening the social responsibility of enterprises; intensifying the law enforcement of government and expanding the experimental enterprises with the quality tracing system.
Оценка основных трендов промышленной безопасности сахарного производства: результаты индикации (этапы 4–6)
Creators: name: Р.В. Нуждин
name: А.И. Хорев
name: М.А. Карпович
name: Г.В. Беляева
name: В.Н. Мельничук
Publisher: name: Сахар
Year: 2021
Subjects: продовольственная безопасность
продовольственная независимость
промышленная безопасность
дипендная составляющая
свеклосахарный бизнес-цикл
селекция
семеноводство
производство сахара
оценочные процедуры
бизнес-отношения.
food security
food independence
industrial safety
diploma component
sugar beet business cycle
breeding
seed production
sugar production
appraisal procedures
business relations.

description: Проведена апробация оценочных процедур (этапы 4–6) методики бизнесанализа промышленной безопасности сахарного производства; оценён уровень промышленной безопасности на стадиях «Селекция», «Семеноводство»; выявлены основные инфраструктурные изменения и тренды развития свеклосахарного производства, оказавшие существенное влияние на уровень промышленной безопасности и продовольственной независимости России в 2001–2020 гг.
description: Тhe approbation of the assessment procedures (stages 4–6) of the methodology for the business analysis of the industrial safety of sugar production is carried out; the level of industrial safety at the stages «Selection», «Seed-breeding» is assessed; the main infrastructural changes and development trends of sugar beet production are identified, which had a significant impact on the level of industrial safety and food independence of Russia in 2001–2020.
title: Realistic Modelling of Soil-structure Interaction for High-rise Buildings
Creators: name: Katzenbach, Rolf
name: Leppla, Steffen
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: For a save design and construction and the technical and economic optimisation of deep foundation systems a realistic modelling of the soil-structure interaction is necessary. Especially for the hybrid deep foundation system Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) this has to be considered. Based on an adequate soil investigation, in-situ pile load tests and a high-level design using the Finite-Element-Method (FEM) it is possible to design complex foundation systems for high-rise buildings even in soft soil conditions. For guarantee of the ultimate limit state (ULS) and the serviceability limit state (SLS) an independent peer review and the application of the observational method is necessary. The paper explains some special aspects of the optimisation process of the design and presents several projects from engineering practice, where the CPRF has been successfully applied.
Response of a plate in turbulent channel flow: Analysis of fluid-solid coupling
Creators: name: Anantharamu, Sreevatsa
name: Mahesh, Krishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper performs simulation of a rectangular plate excited by turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds numbers of 180 and 400. The fluid-structure interaction is assumed to be one-way coupled, i.e, the fluid affects the solid and not vice versa. We solve the incompressible Navier Stokes equations using finite volume direct numerical simulation in the fluid domain. In the solid domain, we solve the dynamic linear elasticity equations using a time-domain finite element method. The obtained plate averaged displacement spectra collapse in the low frequency region in outer scaling. However, the high frequency spectral levels do not collapse in inner units. This spectral behavior is reasoned using theoretical arguments. We further study the sources of plate excitation using a novel formulation. This formulation expresses the average displacement spectra of the plate as an integrated contribution from the fluid sources within the channel. Analysis of the net displacement source reveals that at the plate natural frequencies, the contribution of the fluid sources to the plate excitation peaks in the buffer layer. The corresponding wall-normal width is found to be $\approx 0.75δ$. We analyze the decorrelated features of the sources using spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the net displacement source. We enforce the orthogonality of the modes in an inner product with a symmetric positive definite kernel. The dominant spectral POD mode contributes to the entire plate excitation. The contribution of the remaining modes from the different wall-normal regions undergo destructive interference resulting in zero net contribution. The envelope of the dominant mode further shows that the location and width of the contribution depend on inner and outer units, respectively.
A Function Field Approach Toward Good Polynomials for Further Results on Optimal LRC Codes
Creators: name: Chen, Ruikai
name: Mesnager, Sihem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 12E05, 11C08, 94B05

description: Because of the recent applications to distributed storage systems, researchers have introduced a new class of block codes, i.e., locally recoverable (LRC) codes. LRC codes can recover information from erasure(s) by accessing a small number of erasure-free code symbols and increasing the efficiency of repair processes in large-scale distributed storage systems. In this context, Tamo and Barg first gave a breakthrough by cleverly introducing a good polynomial notion. Constructing good polynomials for locally recoverable codes achieving Singleton-type bound (called optimal codes) is challenging and has attracted significant attention in recent years. This article aims to increase our knowledge of good polynomials for optimal LRC codes. Using tools from algebraic function fields and Galois theory, we continue investigating those polynomials and studying them by developing the Galois theoretical approach initiated by Micheli in 2019. Specifically, we push further the study of a crucial parameter $\mathcal G(f)$ (of a given polynomial $f$), which measures how much a polynomial is "good" in the sense of LRC codes. We provide some characterizations of polynomials with minimal Galois groups and prove some properties of finite fields where polynomials exist with a specific size of Galois groups. We also present some explicit shapes of polynomials with small Galois groups. For some particular polynomials $f$, we give the exact formula of $\mathcal G(f)$.
Burning bridge : connection through interactivity, a design proposal for the Granville Bridge
Creators: name: Teed, Jacqueline Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Granville Bridge, Vancouver, Canada is an unsafe, uncomfortable and uninteresting crossing for pedestrians. Neither does it possess an identifiable or memorable image. Although the City of Vancouver has identified poor crossing conditions for pedestrians as an issue that requires addressing, the current design for the City's preferred solution - a suspended crossing attached to the side of the Granville Bridge - the current design for this structure does not address how to make the bridge an imageable element in the city landscape. Using the Black Rock Arts Festival - commonly know as Burning Man - as a case study, the potential for an interactive landscape design to create an identity for the Granville Bridge is examined. Although Burning Man fails to create a community that integrates with its contextual landscape, its use of interactive art is successful in creating community among participants. Through the contextual use of interactive art in conjunction with the proposed suspended pedestrian crossing, a design is proposed that celebrates the Granville Bridge as a conduit of motion by revealing the presence of pedestrians. The proposed design includes design components under the north and south ends of the bridge to conceptually ground the image on the north and south side of False Creek, and unifies the total design with the metaphorical and literal use of dance. The design shows that interactive art can be used to make the Granville Bridge an imageable element in the landscape, thereby making it an integral part of the Vancouver landscape.
Empirical Analysis on the Grain Supply Capacity of Hubei Province, China
Creators: name: Zhu, Jun-Lin
name: Zhu, Jun-Lin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Grain production
subject: Ration
subject: Grain supply capacity
subject: Hubei Province
subject: China

description: According to the investigation results of grain production and demand status of administrative units at county level in Hubei Province in the years 2004-2007, status and trend of grain production and grain demand in Hubei Province are analyzed, so as to discuss the grain supply capacity of Hubei Province. Result shows that affected by the adjustment of agricultural structure and the transfer of rural labor, Hubei Province shows a significant decrease in grain production before the year 2002, and a gradual increase in both grain production scale and grain supply capacity after the year 2004. It is forecasted that in the year 2020, Hubei Province will provide 13100 thousand tons marketable grain to the state and will become a core province ensuring the grain security of China.
Spectral Classification of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Eigenspectra; Redshift and Luminosity Effects
Creators: name: Yip, C. W.
name: Connolly, A. J.
name: Berk, D. E. Vanden
name: Ma, Z.
name: Frieman, J. A.
name: SubbaRao, M.
name: Szalay, A. S.
name: Richards, G. T.
name: Hall, P. B.
name: Schneider, D. P.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Trump, J.
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study 16,707 quasar spectra from the SDSS using the Karhunen-Loève (KL) transform (or Principal Component Analysis, PCA). The quasar eigenspectra of the full catalog reveal the following: 1st order - the mean spectrum; 2nd order - a host-galaxy component; 3rd order - the UV-optical continuum slope; 4th order - the correlations of Balmer emission lines. We find that the spectral classification of quasars is redshift and luminosity dependent, as such there does not exist a compact set (< 10 modes) of eigenspectra (covering 900 to 8000 angstrom) which can describe most variations (> 95%) of the entire catalog. We therefore construct several sets of eigenspectra in different redshift and luminosity bins. From these eigenspectra we find that quasar spectra can be classified (by the first two eigenspectra) into a sequence that is defined by a simple progression in the steepness of the slope of the continuum. We also find a dependence on redshift and luminosity in the eigencoefficients. The dominant redshift effect is a result of the evolution of the blended FeII emission (optical) and the Balmer continuum (the ``small bump''). A luminosity dependence is also present in the eigencoefficients and is related to the Baldwin effect. The eigenspectra constructed from the wavelength-selected SDSS spectra are found to agree with the principal components by Francis et al. (1992) and the well-known ``Eigenvector-1'' (Boroson and Green 1992). (Abridged)
description: AJ accepted. 65 pages, 27 figures, 9 tables. Resolutions of some figures are lowered
Теплотехнические и технологические аспекты совершенствования продуктового отделения свеклосахарного завода
Creators: name: К.О. Штангеев
name: К.Д. Скорик
name: Н.И. Штангеева
Publisher: name: Сахар
Year: 2021
Subjects: сахарное производство
продуктовое отделение
расход пара на технологические нужды
выход сахара.
sugar production
sugar house
steam consumption for technological needs
sugar yield.

description: Рассмотрены основные аспекты работы продуктового отделения сахарного завода: влияние концентрации сиропа и клеровки, выхода сахара из сваренного утфеля на теплотехнические и технологические показатели. Кратко изложены основные направления совершенствования техники и технологии в отделении кристаллизации.
description: The main aspects of operation in sugar house of a sugar factory are considered: influence of thick juice and sugar melt concentration, the yield of sugar from the boiled massecuite on the heat engineering and technological indices. The main directions are briefly presented of improving technique and technology in the crystallization department.
On The Empirics of Ecosystem Services Schemes: Technology, Risk and Compliance
Creators: name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Walsh, John
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Walsh, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Policy
subject: Ecosystem Services
subject: Risk
subject: Mixed-Effects Panel Regression

description: The overall aim of this study is to empirically investigate the cost structure of a management agreement type agri-environmental instrument and to identify factors for cost variation over space and time. We control for the actual level of compliance by using compliance weighted average scheme cost ratios. Beside technological and economic performance measures, we also incorporate risk proxies. In addition, we consider unobserved heterogeneity or path dependency with respect to unknown administrative, spatial and farm specific factors. Hence, we try to disentangle random and fixed scheme cost effects by applying a bootstrapped mixed-effects regression approach using the empirical case of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme in the UK. Regional and sectoral variation in the scheme uptake and the cost of compliance for the participating farms lead to significant cost effects reflecting heterogeneity with respect to management skills and attitudes, production focus, location, technologies, economic performance and risk.
Subsidies, Production Structure and Technical Change: A Cross-Country Comparison
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Sauer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: technical change
subject: subsidies
subject: input bias
subject: crop farms

description: The effect of subsidies on production and technical change of crop farms in France and the United Kingdom (UK) during 1980-2006 is investigated. Subsidies were not neutral on production decisions, in terms of production intensity and type. Crop farms in both countries have experienced technical progress during the period studied, higher in France. Technical progress has favoured labour and chemicals in both countries, land in France, capital in the UK, while it has disfavoured land in the UK and capital in France. Technical change has been slowed down by crop area subsidies but increased by agri-environmental subsidies in both countries.
GAG: Global Attributed Graph Neural Network for Streaming Session-based Recommendation
Creators: name: Qiu, Ruihong
name: Yin, Hongzhi
name: Huang, Zi
name: Chen, Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Streaming session-based recommendation (SSR) is a challenging task that requires the recommender system to do the session-based recommendation (SR) in the streaming scenario. In the real-world applications of e-commerce and social media, a sequence of user-item interactions generated within a certain period are grouped as a session, and these sessions consecutively arrive in the form of streams. Most of the recent SR research has focused on the static setting where the training data is first acquired and then used to train a session-based recommender model. They need several epochs of training over the whole dataset, which is infeasible in the streaming setting. Besides, they can hardly well capture long-term user interests because of the neglect or the simple usage of the user information. Although some streaming recommendation strategies have been proposed recently, they are designed for streams of individual interactions rather than streams of sessions. In this paper, we propose a Global Attributed Graph (GAG) neural network model with a Wasserstein reservoir for the SSR problem. On one hand, when a new session arrives, a session graph with a global attribute is constructed based on the current session and its associate user. Thus, the GAG can take both the global attribute and the current session into consideration to learn more comprehensive representations of the session and the user, yielding a better performance in the recommendation. On the other hand, for the adaptation to the streaming session scenario, a Wasserstein reservoir is proposed to help preserve a representative sketch of the historical data. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets have been conducted to verify the superiority of the GAG model compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
Exact Solutions of the Equations of Motion of Liquid Helium with a Charged Free Surface
Creators: name: Zubarev, Nikolay M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of the development of instability of the free surface of liquid helium, which is charged by electrons localized above it, is studied. It is shown that, if the charge completely screens the electric field above the surface and its magnitude is much larger then the instability threshold, the asymptotic behavior of the system can be described by the well-known 3D Laplacian growth equations. The integrability of these equations in 2D geometry makes it possible to described the evolution of the surface up to the formation of singularities, viz., cuspidal point at which the electric field strength, the velocity of the liquid, and the curvature of its surface assume infinitely large values. The exact solutions obtained for the problem of the electrocapillary wave profile at the boundary of liquid helium indicate the tendency to a charge in the surface topology as a result of formation of charged bubbles.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages, 5 figures
Chasing Lions: Co-Designing Human-Drone Interaction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Wojciechowska, Anna
name: Hamidi, Foad
name: Lucero, Andrés
name: Cauchard, Jessica R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5

description: Drones are an exciting technology that is quickly being adopted in the global consumer market. Africa has become a center of deployment with the first drone airport established in Rwanda and drones currently being used for applications such as medical deliveries, agriculture, and wildlife monitoring. Despite this increasing presence of drones, there is a lack of research on stakeholders' perspectives from this region. We ran a human-drone interaction user study (N=15) with experts from several sub-Saharan countries using a co-design methodology. Participants described novel applications and identified important design aspects for the integration of drones in this context. Our results highlight the potential of drones to address real world problems, the need for them to be culturally situated, and the importance of considering the social aspects of their interaction with humans. This research highlights the need for diverse perspectives in the human-drone interaction design process.
description: To be published in the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '20)
Unexpected upper critical dimension for spin glass models in a field predicted by the loop expansion around the Bethe solution at zero temperature
Creators: name: Angelini, Maria Chiara
name: Lucibello, Carlo
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Perrupato, Gianmarco
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico
name: Rizzo, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-glass transition in a field in finite dimension is analyzed directly at zero temperature using a perturbative loop expansion around the Bethe lattice solution. The loop expansion is generated by the $M$-layer construction whose first diagrams are evaluated numerically and analytically. The generalized Ginzburg criterion reveals that the upper critical dimension below which mean-field theory fails is $D_U \le 8$, at variance with the classical result $D_U = 6$ yielded by finite-temperature replica field theory. Our expansion around the Bethe lattice has two crucial differences with respect to the classical one. The finite connectivity $z$ of the lattice is directly included from the beginning in the Bethe lattice, while in the classical computation the finite connectivity is obtained through an expansion in $1/z$. Moreover, if one is interested in the zero temperature ($T = 0$) transition, one can directly expand around the $T = 0$ Bethe transition. The expansion directly at $T = 0$ is not possible in the classical framework because the fully connected spin glass does not have a transition at $T = 0$, being in the broken phase for any value of the external field.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Variational approach to regularity of optimal transport maps: general cost functions
Creators: name: Otto, Felix
name: Prod'homme, Maxime
name: Ried, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q22, 35B65, 53C21

description: We extend the variational approach to regularity for optimal transport maps initiated by Goldman and the first author to the case of general cost functions. Our main result is an $ε$-regularity result for optimal transport maps between Hölder continuous densities slightly more quantitative than the result by De Philippis-Figalli. One of the new contributions is the use of almost-minimality: if the cost is quantitatively close to the Euclidean cost function, a minimizer for the optimal transport problem with general cost is an almost-minimizer for the one with quadratic cost. This further highlights the connection between our variational approach and De Giorgi's strategy for $ε$-regularity of minimal surfaces.
description: In this version we added an extension of our main $\epsilon$-regularity result to general almost-minimisers (among optimal transport maps), see Theorem 1.18. 51 pages, 2 figures
Micraspis allardi Mulsant 1866
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Micraspis
Micraspis allardi

description: Micraspis allardi (Mulsant)
(Fig. 126)
Lemnia allardi Mulsant, 1866: 249 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: Northern India).
Verania allardi: Crotch 1874: 177; Korschefsky 1932: 307.
Micraspis allardi: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 510; Hoang 1983: 59; Poorani 2002: 335; Yu 2010: 127; Poorani et al. 2023: 467.
Verania malaccensis Crotch, 1874: 177 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: Gilolo).
Verania allardi var. malaccensis: Weise 1912: 115; Korschefsky 1932: 307.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.70–5.20 mm; width: 3.36–4.00 mm. Form (Fig. 126a–d) subcircular, moderately convex. Head creamy yellow to orange-yellow. Pronotum creamy yellow or pinkish with a pair of black spots on either side of scutellar shield on posterior margin. Ground colour of elytra bright pink in live specimens (Fig. 126a–d), yellow in preserved specimens, with four black spots, anterior pair transverse, sometimes quite narrowly so, posterior pair round to suboval, elytral suture with a black stripe; lateral margins of elytra transparent; sometimes elytral spots enlarged or smaller, rarely reduced or almost absent. Ventral side yellowish, mesepimeron white, metaventrite and abdominal ventrites dark pitchy black, legs yellowish brown except middle and hind femora brown to black in apical half. Prosternal process with carinae extending to the middle of prosternum. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 126e) incomplete laterally. Male genitalia (Fig. 126f–i) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Commonly collected in northern India, less common in peninsular India (Kerala, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim); Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Bhutan; Nepal; Afghanistan; Myanmar; China; Indonesia; The Philippines; New Guinea.
Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Aphididae: Aphis craccivora, Aphis fabae Scopoli, Aphis gossypii Glover, Lipaphis pseudobrassicae, Myzus persicae (Sulzer). Lophopidae: Eggs of Pyrilla perpusilla (Walker). Collected commonly on wheat, rice, maize, sugarcane, sorghum, and grasses; also associated with aphids on brinjal, cowpea, cabbage, potato, and mustard (Omkar & Pervez 1999). Collected on custard apple, walnut, berseem and cucumber in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2017).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during September–December (in large numbers), and February–March in north India; November (northeastern India). Found during April–October in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2017).
Notes. This species has been treated in detail by Kapur (1973), Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982), Ren et al. (2009), Yu (2010) and most recently, by Ślipiński et al. (2020).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
A HST study of the stellar populations in the cometary dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 2366
Creators: name: Thuan, T. X.
name: Izotov, Y. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present V and I photometry of the resolved stars in the cometary dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 2366, using Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The resulting color-magnitude diagram reaches down to I~26.0 mag. It reveals not only a young population of blue main-sequence stars (age <30 Myr) but also an intermediate-age population of blue and red supergiants (20 Myr100 Myr) and red giant branch (RGB) stars (age >1 Gyr). The measured magnitude I=23.65+/-0.10 mag of the RGB tip results in a distance modulus m-M=27.67+/-0.10, which corresponds to a distance of 3.42+/-0.15 Mpc, in agreement with previous distance determinations. The youngest stars are associated with the bright complex of HII regions NGC 2363=Mrk 71 in the southwest extremity of the galaxy. As a consequence of the diffusion and relaxation processes of stellar ensembles, the older the stellar population is, the smoother and more extended is its spatial distribution. An underlying population of older stars is found throughout the body of NGC 2366. The most notable feature of this older population is the presence of numerous relatively bright AGB stars. The number ratio of AGB to RGB stars and the average absolute brightness of AGB stars in NGC 2366 are appreciably higher than in the BCD VII Zw 403, indicating a younger age of the AGB stars in NGC 2366. In addition to the present burst of age <100 Myr, there has been strong star formation activity in the past of NGC 2366, from ~100 Myr to <3 Gyr ago.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: I МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ НАУЧНЫЙ СИМПОЗИУМ «ВИЗУАЛЬНАЯ ТЕОЛОГИЯ. ТЕМЫ И ГОРИЗОНТЫ»
Creators: name: Аванесов, Сергей
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: 29–30 сентября 2021 г. в Великом Новгороде состоялся первый Между-народный научный симпозиум «Визуальная теология. Темы и горизонты». Симпозиум был организован кафедрой теологии Новгородского университета и редакцией научного журнала «Визуальная теология» при участии Института мировой культуры Московского государственного университета и при содействии Научно-образовательной теологической ассоциации.
Decontamination of herbs and spices by gamma irradiation and low-energy electron beam treatments and influence on product characteristics upon storage
Creators: name: Schottroff, Felix
name: Lasarus, Thomas
name: Stupak, Michal
name: Hajslova, Jana
name: Fauster, Thomas
name: Jäger, Henry
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Culinary herbs and spices are an important sector of the food industry worldwide, but are often characterized by high levels of microbial contaminations. Therefore, irradiation is often applied to control the microbial burden. In this study, two spice decontamination technologies were compared: the established gamma irradiation as well as a newly developed low energy electron beam (LEEB) treatment. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of microbial surface inactivation for both treatments and their influence on quality attributes. Allspice berries, caraway seeds, oregano, and rosemary leaves were used as model matrices. Both treatments were shown to effectively reduce Enterococcus faecium counts below the detection limit (>3.3–5.5 log10). No differences in color, water activity, chlorophyll, and carotenoid contents, as well as 31 terpenoic compounds were determined between LEEB and gamma treatments in comparison to the untreated reference, for storage times of up to 105 days. Untargeted fingerprinting (SPME-GC-HRMS) showed a clustering of LEEB-treated rosemary samples, but no significant differences for the other samples.
Mean-field, Stochastic, and Individual-based Models of Insect Movement in the Context of Trapping and Ecological Monitoring
Creators: name: Alqubori, Omar M.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, we attempt to understand the conditions that affect insects’ and animals’ movements in the real world. Mathematical modelling is an efficient research tool that can help to bridge this gap in our knowledge. Herein, we revisit the straightforward, yet powerful simulation framework of individual-based modelling using Brownian Motion (BM), Correlated Random Walk (CRW), and Biased Random Walk (BRW). In chapter 1, we outline previous research in this area. In chapter 2, we consider trapping problems, where we suppose there to be two particular traps, i.e., baited and non-baited, and we verify whether a large non-baited trap is equivalent to a small baited trap. Thereafter, we determine how the trap position affects the results, i.e., where there is a competition area between two traps. Furthermore, we verify which trap shape is more effective, circular or square. In chapter 3, we then study different insects’ behaviours as a response to an attraction. To this end, we consider several different response types as quantified by different combinations of turning angle and step size distributions. We show that, depending on the response type, trap counts can be counter-intuitive and misleading. Then, in the chapter 4, we simulate realistic slug movement by using data on slug spatial distributions collected during a three-year project conducted in crop fields across England. In particular, we study how slugs’ movements depend on their population density, reception radius, and density threshold. Our simulation results are consistent with the above field data.
Finally, chapter 5, summarises the results for each chapter and discusses potential future work.
Regelungen zu KI in Lizenzverträgen
Creators: name: Agi, Christian
name: Beurskens, Michael
name: von Francken-Welz, Marion
name: Ludwig, Judith
name: Mittermaier, Bernhard
name: Pampel, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Präsentationsmaterial zum Webinar "Regelungen zu KI in Lizenzverträgen" vom 11. Oktober 2024.
The ATLAS Pixel Detector
Creators: name: Huegging, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contruction of the ATLAS Pixel Detector which is the innermost layer of the ATLAS tracking system is prgressing well. Because the pixel detector will contribute significantly to the ATLAS track and vertex reconstruction. The detector consists of identical sensor-chip-hybrid modules, arranged in three barrels in the centre and three disks on either side for the forward region. The position of the detector near the interaction point requires excellent radiation hardness, mechanical and thermal robustness, good long-term stability for all parts, combined with a low material budget. The final detector layout, new results from production modules and the status of assembly are presented.
description: Talk at the IEEE NSS 2004 conference, Rome, Italy, October 2004, 5 pages, LaTeX, 11 eps figures. Minor revision of the paper, i.e. typos added, figures redrawn according to the reviewer's comments
Fed Cattle Forward Contract Volume and Basis Relationship
Creators: name: Abahana, Zelalem
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Li, Jing
name: Klein, Nicole L.
name: Abahana, Zelalem
name: Diersen, Matthew A.
name: Li, Jing
name: Klein, Nicole L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cattle
subject: forward contract
subject: basis
subject: negotiation
subject: placements

description: The poster covers analysis and models of forward contracting during the contracting period. A conceptual model is presented to explain how contracting patterns relate to industry factors and negotiation power of buyers and sellers. Time series techniques are used to model basis, weekly volume, and total volume. Forecasting models are also presented.
ANALYSIS OF DEPENDENCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES AND FORMATION OF THIRD MOLARS DEPENDING ON AGE CATEGORY.pdf
Creators: name: Norba-Bobykov, Mykhailo
name: Kostenko Svitlana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110506 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified

description: In this work the age reduction of the third molars is investigated
Deep Learning Assessment of galaxy morphology in S-PLUS DataRelease 1
Creators: name: Bom, C. R.
name: Cortesi, A.
name: Lucatelli, G.
name: Dias, L. O.
name: Schubert, P.
name: Schwarz, G. B. Oliveira
name: Cardoso, N. M.
name: Lima, E. V. R.
name: de Oliveira, C. Mendes
name: Sodre, L.
name: Castelli, A. V. Smith
name: Ferrari, F.
name: Damke, G.
name: Overzier, R.
name: Kanaan, A.
name: Ribeiro, T.
name: Schoenell, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation, but the classification of galaxies in large sky surveys is becoming a significant challenge. We use data from the Stripe-82 area observed by the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) in twelve optical bands, and present a catalogue of the morphologies of galaxies brighter than $r=17$ mag determined both using a novel multi-band morphometric fitting technique and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision. Using the CNNs we find that, compared to our baseline results with 3 bands, the performance increases when using 5 broad and 3 narrow bands, but is poorer when using the full $12$ band S-PLUS image set. However, the best result is still achieved with just 3 optical bands when using pre-trained network weights from an ImageNet data set. These results demonstrate the importance of using prior knowledge about neural network weights based on training in unrelated, extensive data sets, when available. Our catalogue contains 3274 galaxies in Stripe-82 that are not present in Galaxy Zoo 1 (GZ1), and we also provide our classifications for 4686 galaxies that were considered ambiguous in GZ1. Finally, we present a prospect of a novel way to take advantage of $12$ band information for morphological classification using morphometric features, and we release a model that has been pre-trained on several bands that could be adapted for classifications using data from other surveys. The morphological catalogues are publicly available.
description: accepted version for publication in MNRAS
Nonmonotonic charge occupation in double dots
Creators: name: König, Jürgen
name: Gefen, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the occupation of two electrostatically-coupled single-level quantum dots with spinless electrons as a function of gate voltage. While the total occupation of the double-dot system varies monotonically with gate voltage, we predict that the competition between tunneling and Coulomb interaction can give rise to a nonmonotonic filling of the individual quantum dots. This non-monotonicity is a signature of the correlated nature of the many-body wavefunction in the reduced Hilbert space of the dots. We identify two mechanisms for this nonmonotonic behavior, which are associated with changes in the spectral weights and the positions, respectively, of the excitation spectra of the individual quantum dots. An experimental setup to test these predictions is proposed.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
MBTree: Detecting Encryption RAT Communication Using Malicious Behavior Tree
Creators: name: Dong, Cong
name: Lu, Zhigang
name: Cui, Zelin
name: Liu, Baoxu
name: Chen, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network trace signature matching is one reliable approach to detect active Remote Control Trojan, (RAT). Compared to statistical-based detection of malicious network traces in the face of known RATs, the signature-based method can achieve more stable performance and thus more reliability. However, with the development of encrypted technologies and disguise tricks, current methods suffer inaccurate signature descriptions and inflexible matching mechanisms. In this paper, we propose to tackle above problems by presenting MBTree, an approach to detect encryption RATs Command and Control (C&C) communication based on host-level network trace behavior. MBTree first models the RAT network behaviors as the malicious set by automatically building the multiple level tree, MLTree from distinctive network traces of each sample. Then, MBTree employs a detection algorithm to detect malicious network traces that are similar to any MLTrees in the malicious set. To illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we adopt theoretical analysis of MBTree from the probability perspective. In addition, we have implemented MBTree to evaluate it on five datasets which are reorganized in a sophisticated manner for comprehensive assessment. The experimental results demonstrate the accurate and robust of MBTree, especially in the face of new emerging benign applications.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
Micraspis pusillus Poorani
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Micraspis
Micraspis pusillus

description: Micraspis pusillus Poorani
(Fig. 131)
Micraspis pusillus Poorani, 2014: 2 (Holotype male, NBAIR; Type locality: Sikkim).
Diagnosis. Length: 3.00– 3.30 mm; width: 2.68–2.90 mm. Form (Fig. 131a, b), short oval to almost circular, only slightly longer than wide, dorsum convex and glabrous except head with yellowish white pubescence, more pronounced near clypeal margin. In live specimens, whole of head including ocular canthus distinctly creamy white (Fig. 131c); antenna pale yellow; anterolateral corners of pronotum slightly whitish, pronotum and elytra yellow with transparent lateral borders. Ventral side yellow except hypomeron, mespimeron, mespisternum and metanepisternum with traces of white. Eyes moderately large with a conspicuous, large ocular canthus (Fig. 131c); inner ocular margins divergent towards posterior (Fig. 131d). Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 131e) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 131g –j) and spermatheca (Fig. 131f) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim).
Prey/associated habitat. The host plants on which the specimens were collected include Musa paradisiaca, bamboo, and ridge gourd [Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.] (Poorani, 2014).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during March, June, September–October (label data).
Notes. This is probably the smallest Indian species of Micraspis and somewhat anomalous in having the head with a broad, short, whitish eye canthus. See Poorani (2014) for detailed description.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
A unified approach to polynomial sequences with only real zeros
Creators: name: Liu, Lily L.
name: Wang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 26C10

description: We give new sufficient conditions for a sequence of polynomials to have only real zeros based on the method of interlacing zeros. As applications we derive several well-known facts, including the reality of zeros of orthogonal polynomials, matching polynomials, Narayana polynomials and Eulerian polynomials. We also settle certain conjectures of Stahl on genus polynomials by proving them for certain classes of graphs, while showing that they are false in general.
description: 19 pages, Advances in Applied Mathematics, in press
Micraspis unicus Poorani
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Micraspis
Micraspis unicus

description: Micraspis unicus Poorani
(Fig. 134)
Micraspis unicus Poorani, 2019: 190 (Holotype male, NBAIR; Type locality: Arunachal Pradesh).
Diagnosis. Length: 3.33 mm; width: 3.05 mm. Form (Fig. 134a–c) broad oval to almost round, nearly as long as wide, broadest around middle of elytra and apically narrowed; dorsum convex and glabrous except head with white hairs around clypeal margin. Head creamy white or yellow, rest of dorsum and ventral side yellowish, pronotum with an indistinct pale yellowish-brown median marking, pronotum and elytra with lateral margins transparent. Epipleuron at its widest almost half as wide as metaventrite (Fig. 134d). Abdominal postcoxal lines (Fig. 134e) incomplete, short. Male genitalia (Fig. 134h–k) and spermatheca (Fig. 134g) as illustrated. It can be separated from its Indian congeners by its medium-large size, uniform yellow-orange body with distinctly explanate elytra, small scutellar shield, epipleuron at its widest almost half as wide as metaventrite, and the distinctive male genitalia and spermatheca.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh).
Note. See Poorani (2019) for detailed description.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502