cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aloina ambigua Limpr.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Aloina
Aloina ambigua

description: Aloina ambigua (Bruch & Schimp.) Limpr.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Bône; Kabylie. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Kouba; Maison-Carrée; Oran; Tlemcen. Gandoger (1883): sine loco. Trabut (1887a): D’Oran à Mécheria. Corbière (1889): Blida. Corbière (1905): Environs de Constantine, La Corniche; Environs de Constantine, Salah Bey. Lapie (1909): Kabylie du Djurjura. Jelenc (1949): Plaine d’Oran, talus de fossé à La Sénia. Jelenc (1951): Sahel d’Arzeu, djebel Borouse. Jelenc (1951, 1967): Haute-Plaine et Monts de Tlemcen. Jelenc (1954b): Chaîne des Zahrez, au nord du Zahrez Chergui, près de l’Aïn Hallouf au djebel Touilila, 1000 m. Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida, oued el Kebir; Birmandreïs; Frais Vallon; Gorges de la Chiffa; Monts de Constantine; Ouarsenis, djebel Doui. Jelenc (1966, 1967): Massif du Tessala, pic Tessala, 1000 m. Jelenc (1966): Sahel d’Arzeu à Assi bou Nif. Jelenc (1967): La Sénia, Assi-bou-Nif. Bizot (1973): Ruines de Timgad. Delgadillo (1975): Tizi-Ouzou. Gallego et al. (1999): Kabylie de Collo de Constantine, estuarie de L’oued Guebli Collo. Common.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 65, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Nest-site fidelity in Red-tailed Tropicbirds informs costing a localised ant baiting strategy at Ashmore Reef
Creators: name: Mott, Rowan
name: Hodgson, Jarrod C.
name: Herrod, Ashley
name: Clarke, Rohan H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In many animal species, individuals re-use the breeding site they used in the previous breeding season. Consequently, they accrue benefits including reduced time searching for a territory, and enhanced predator avoidance. Many seabirds display high levels of nest-site fidelity. We sought to determine whether nest-site fidelity occurs in Red-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon rubricauda) breeding at Ashmore Reef (eastern Indian Ocean) by recording the nest location of individually-marked birds across three years (2012–2014). We found that Red-tailed Tropicbirds at this surface-nesting colony were highly faithful to their previous nest-site, with a median distance between successive nests of just 13.4 m. By using digitised vegetation maps for Ashmore Reef, we provide quantitative evidence that Red-tailed Tropicbird nest-site fidelity is not driven by a lack of suitable vegetated sites. These findings have important management implications because breeding success at this small, regionally-significant Red-tailed Tropicbird colony is negatively affected by an invasive species, the tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata). Using localised ant baiting around known Red-tailed Tropicbird nest-sites may confer benefits on current and future tropicbird breeding attempts. We estimated the financial cost per treatment to bait the 0.85 ha within 13.4 m of known Red-tailed Tropicbird nest-sites, an area expected to encompass half of all subsequent breeding attempts, to be low. This represents a cost-effective interim management strategy prior to any island-wide eradication programme. Therefore, we recommend localised ant baiting around tropicbird nests within an adaptive management framework such that optimum baiting parameters can be resolved (e.g., baiting frequency, most effective baiting radius).
What Price Animal Health - And Whose Problem is it Anyway?
Creators: name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: One has a very hard time persuading a vet that animal disease is not an important phenomenon of veterinary science that also has financial implications, but is fundamentally an economic problem that has some veterinary science aspects (McInerney, 1996, p.301). The existence of diseases of agricultural animals impose costs on communities, either as costs of the disease or as costs of avoiding the costs of the disease. In this paper, the focus is on economic ways of thinking about the health of agricultural animals. In part one, the essence of economic approaches to analysis of problems is outlined. Then in part two a common method of analysing the costs and benefits of reducing or preventing agricultural animal disease is shown, and the flaws highlighted. In part three useful economic ways of thinking about the costs and benefits associated with animal disease and its prevention and reduction are explained.
Multiwavelength modeling the SED of nova V339~Del: Stopping the wind and long-lasting super-Eddington luminosity with dust emission
Creators: name: Skopal, Augustin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the classical nova outburst, the radiation generated by the nuclear burning of hydrogen in the surface layer of a white dwarf (WD) is reprocessed by the outer material into different forms at softer energies, which distribution in the spectrum depends on the nova age. Using the method of multiwavelength modeling the SED we determined physical parameters of the stellar, nebular and dust component of radiation isolated from the spectrum of the classical nova V339 Del from day 35 to day 636 after its explosion. The transition from the iron-curtain phase to the super-soft source phase (days 35 - 72), when the optical brightness dropped by 3-4 mag, the absorbing column density fell by its circumstellar component from $\sim 1\times 10^{23}$ to $\sim 1\times 10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$, and the emission measure decreased from $\sim 2\times 10^{62}$ to $\sim 8.5\times 10^{60}$ cm$^{-3}$, was caused by stopping-down the mass-loss from the WD. The day 35 model SED indicated an oblate shape of the WD pseudophotosphere and the presence of the dust located in a slow equatorially concentrated outflow. The dust emission peaked around day 59. Its co-existence with the strong super-soft X-ray source in the day 100 model SED constrained the presence of the disk-like outflow, where the dust can spend a long time. Both the models SED revealed a super-Eddington luminosity of the burning WD at a level of $1-2\times 10^{39}\,(d/4.5{\rm kpc})^2$ erg s$^{-1}$, lasting from $\sim$day 2 to at least day 100.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, accepted for ApJ
On the validity of the discrete ordinates method in spherical geometry
Creators: name: Aboughantous, Charles H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discrete ordinates method with angular parameters is discussed in light of the recent extension of its underlying hypothesis. The analysis shows that the method, although it compares very well with the trajectory of photons model, it addresses a boundary value problem different from the problem of flow of energy in the interior of spheres
description: 3 pages, arXiv number in references list changed
Prevalence and determinants of chronic kidney disease among community-dwelling adults, 50 years and older in Ireland
Creators: name: Tandan, Meera
name: Browne, Leonard
name: Jalali, Amirhossein
name: Rowan, Colm
name: Moriarty, Frank
name: Stack, Austin
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background. Using the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), we evaluated the prevalence and distribution of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and its determinants in order to identify risk groups for population health planning in Ireland. Methods. Data were analysed from Wave 1 (2009–2011) of the TILDA, a national cohort of participants aged 50+ years who had both plasma creatinine and cystatin C measured at baseline. Kidney function was estimated using the 2012 and 2021 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equations. CKD was defined as estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min/1.73 m2. Multivariable logistic regression explored associations using adjusted odds ratios (OR). Results. Prevalence of CKD was significantly higher using the CKD-EPI 2012(Scr-CysC) compared with the CKD-EPI 2021(Scr-CysC) (14.7% vs 11.3%, respectively). The prevalence was highest in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) (33.9%), diabetes (28.0%), cancer (25.5%), urinary incontinence (23.7%), bone diseases (21.5%), hypertension (19.8%) and obesity (19.5%). In multivariable analysis, individuals with hypertension (OR 1.78), diabetes (OR 1.45), CVD (OR 1.43), cancer (OR 1.53), overweight (OR 1.37) and obesity (OR 2.33) experienced greater likelihood of CKD. In addition, individuals with a history of previous hospitalization (OR 1.50), free or subsidized healthcare (OR 1.31), and unemployed individuals (OR 1.86) were also significantly more likely to have CKD. Conclusion. Compared with the national average, the burden of CKD is far greater in older individuals with major chronic conditions and socioeconomic deprivation. The identification and targeting of these groups through national surveillance programmes is likely to yield substantial benefits from more effective disease management and proactive population health planning.
Corn Ethanol and US Biofuel Policy Ten Years Later: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Hochman, Gal
name: Zilberman, David
name: Hochman, Gal
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuels
subject: Energy policy
subject: Impacts
subject: Meta-analysis

description: We use data and estimates on biofuel impacts reported in the literature to assess some of the controversy surrounding the introduction of biofuels by conducting meta-analyses on the impacts of corn ethanol on food and fuel prices, greenhouse gases, employment, rural income, balance of trade, the United States government budget, and learning-by-doing. The meta-analyses suggest that corn ethanol has had a relatively significant impact on the income of agricultural and related agribusiness industries, employment in farm states, fuel security in terms of reducing the import of oil from abroad, and the overall balance of trade. These effects are likely the main drivers behind biofuel policies.
Faddeev-Niemi Conjecture and Effective Action of QCD
Creators: name: Cho, Y. M.
name: Lee, H. W.
name: Pak, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate a one loop effective action of SU(2) QCD in the presence of the monopole background, and find a possible connection between the resulting QCD effective action and a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action of the non-linear sigma model. The result is obtained using the gauge-independent decomposotion of the gauge potential into the topological degrees which describes the non-Abelian monopoles and the local dynamical degrees of the potential, and integrating out all the dynamical degrees of QCD.
description: 6 pages
Metopisena Rondani 1862
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Rhinophoridae
Metopisena

description: 326. Metopisena Rondani, 1862d: 161.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Morinia celer Rondani, 1862.
 TYPE SPECIES: Morinia celer Rondani, 1862, by monotypy.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Phyto Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [teste Herting (1993: 107)].
FAMILY: RHINOPHORIDAE.
 EMENDATIONS: Metopostena Bezzi, 1906: 53 (unjustified).
 327. Micetina Rondani, 1861e: 12, 169.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Mycetina Rondani, 1856; junior synonym of Mycetophila Meigen, 1803. New synonymy.
FAMILY: MYCETOPHILIDAE.
 REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “y” to “i” in the same work. Mycetina Rondani, 1856 is currently treated as a junior synonym of Mycetophila Meigen, 1803 [teste Laštovka in Hackman et al. (1988: 266)].
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 117
An application of the canonical bundle formula
Creators: name: Prokhorov, Yuri G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a part of Shokurov's conjecture on characterization of toric varieties modulo the minimal model program and adjunction conjecture.
description: LaTeX2e, 8 papges
Hybrid digital-analog simulation of many-body dynamics with superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Babukhin, D. V.
name: Zhukov, A. A.
name: Pogosov, W. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, there has been a significant progress in the development of digital quantum processors. The state-of-the-art quantum devices are imperfect, and fully-algorithmic fault-tolerant quantum computing is a matter of future. Until technology develops to the state with practical error correction, computational approaches other than the standard digital one can be used to avoid execution of the most noisy quantum operations. We demonstrate how a hybrid digital-analog approach allows simulating dynamics of a transverse-field Ising model without standard two-qubit gates, which are currently one of the most problematic building blocks of quantum circuits. We use qubit-qubit crosstalks (couplings) of IBM superconducting quantum processors to simulate Trotterized dynamics of spin clusters and then we compare the obtained results with the results of conventional digital computation based on two-qubit gates from the universal set. The comparison shows that digital-analog approach significantly outperforms standard digital approach for this simulation problem, despite of the fact that crosstalks in IBM quantum processors are small. We argue that the efficiency of digital-analog quantum computing can be improved with the help of more specialized processors, so that they can be used to efficiently implement other quantum algorithms. This indicates the prospect of a digital-to-analog strategy for near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers.
description: 19 pages, to be published in Physical Review A
Micetobia Rondani 1861
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Anisopodidae
Micetobia

description: 328. Micetobia Rondani, 1861e: 12, 169.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Mycetobia Meigen, 1818; junior synonym of Mycetobia Meigen, 1818. New synonymy.
FAMILY: ANISOPODIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “y” to “i” in the same work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 117
Investigating the Spatial Effects of Agricultural Land Abandonment and Expansion
Creators: name: Wang, Haoluan
name: Qiu, Feng
name: Wang, Haoluan
name: Qiu, Feng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: agricultural land abandonment
subject: agricultural land expansion
subject: spatial effect
subject: spatial regression model

description: This study investigates the agricultural land abandonment and agricultural land expansion in the case of the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor, Canada. Using remote sensing data from 2000 to 2012, we include environmental and socio-economic factors to explore the drivers of land use conversions between agriculture and natural land. This research also adopts spatial techniques to allow for spatial effects from neighboring areas’ land-use activities. Key results from this study include: (1) higher land suitability for agriculture is negatively associated with agricultural land abandonment; (2) road density contributes to land use conversions between agriculture and natural land; and (3) land-use activities and decisions have strong spatial effects on neighboring regions, and the incorporation of spatial interactions can result in less biased results. In addition, an investigation of bidirectional land transitions helps in better understanding the associated gains and losses of agriculture and natural land.
Pull-in features of nanoswitches in the Casimir regime with account of contact repulsion
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Korotkov, A. S.
name: Loboda, V. V.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cantilever tip of a nanoswitch in close proximity to the ground plate is considered with account of electrostatic, elastic, van der Waals (Casimir), and also contact repulsive forces. The van der Waals (Casimir) and contact repulsive forces are computed for a Si cantilever and either Au or Ni ground plates using the Lifshitz theory and the method of pairwise summation with account of surface roughness. It is shown that at short separations an impact of the van der Waals (Casimir) force leads to the pull-in and collapse of a cantilever onto the ground plate if the contact repulsion is disregarded. Taking into consideration contact repulsion, the nanoswitch is demonstrated to have the stable cyclic behavior with no pull-in when switching voltage on and off.
description: 7 pages, 4 fogures
Inter-Sectoral Key Success Factors of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Ghana
Creators: name: Porscha Opoku-Afriyie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: SMEs are a major source of livelihood for most people in the developing world, but most of them fail within a very short period. Several studies have been conducted on SME success, but the focus is usually on one section of SMEs, with no study yet on a cross-section of SMEs to allow inter-sectoral comparisons. This study, therefore, set out to conduct an inter-sectoral study amongst 600 SMEs with 150 SMEs each from the agriculture, hospitality, manufacturing and trading sectors in Ghana. There may be inherent differences between the success factors for the various SME sectors and as such, the need for a study that cuts across four sectors to better inform policy and investment decisions. The study employed a survey strategy to obtain quantitative data through the random distribution of questionnaires. The data were then coded into NCSS 19 software. Multiple regression was used to analyze data, and generalizations were made based on these analyses. From the findings, there is no key success factor common to all four factors. However, number of employees affect three sectors, namely: agriculture, manufacturing, and trading sectors. Infrastructure and education affect the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Cost control and access to finance affect both the hospitality and manufacturing sectors. Some factors are peculiar to specific sectors, for example, tax and business plan for the hospitality sector, leverage, and inflation for the manufacturing sector while work experience, training, and marital status affect the trading sector. The study makes recommendations based on the findings of the study.
Estimates of the amplitude of holonomies by the curvature of a connection on a bundle
Creators: name: Chanillo, Sagun
name: Van Schaftingen, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show how the amplitude of holonomies on a vector bundle can be controlled by the integral of the curvature of the connection on a surface enclosed by the curve.
description: 6 pages
Aloina brevirostris Kindb.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Aloina
Aloina brevirostris

description: Aloina brevirostris (Hook & Grev.) Kindb.
RECORDS. — Gallego et al. (1999): Oran. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 66, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Neighborhoods' Food Environments Revisited: Food Deserts or Food Swamps?
Creators: name: Wang, Haoluan
name: Qiu, Feng
name: Wang, Haoluan
name: Qiu, Feng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: neighborhood food environment
subject: food desert
subject: food swamp
subject: food tundra
subject: service area
subject: Poisson regression model

description: This study uses service area-based coverage method and Poisson regression models to assess neighborhood healthy and unhealthy food environments in the City of Edmonton, Canada. We correlate food availability with different neighborhood socio-economic status (SES). Based on different food environments, we further identify three types of vulnerable neighborhoods that can be considered food deserts, food swamps and food tundras. Results from this study can provide policy makers with tailored strategies to effectively improve food environments with limited resources. Key findings include: (1) Neighborhoods with higher rates of deprived population such as unemployed, minority and low income groups have better access to healthy foods in general; (2) Children populations are negatively associated with both healthy and unhealthy food availability; and (3) Good access to public transportation is associated with good coverage of all types of food stores.
Spatial bias in implementation of recovery actions has not improved survival of Orange-bellied Parrots Neophema chrysogaster
Creators: name: Stojanovic, Dejan
name: Potts, Joanne
name: Troy, Shannon
name: Menkhorst, Peter
name: Loyn, Richard
name: Heinsohn, Robert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Not all conservation interventions are successful at correcting threatening processes and the odds of failure increase with uncertainty concerning the true threats to a population. Failure of conservation actions to improve demographic rates might be evidence of their ineffectiveness, or that other unaddressed threats nullify the potential benefits of interventions. Knowledge of key threatening processes that afflict Orange-bellied Parrots Neophema chrysogaster is lacking, but population modelling predicts that actions in the breeding range are unlikely to correct decline unless mortality during migration/wintering is addressed. Despite this, there has been a spatial bias in recovery effort towards the breeding range in recent decades. We model annual survival data spanning 1995–2017 for the last known wild population to evaluate whether the predictions about the efficacy of recovery efforts are accurate. Based on our best-supported model, probability of adult survival was constant at 0.58, but juvenile survival declined from 0.51 to 0.20. Survival did not improve when we considered the effects of recovery actions in the breeding grounds (which only aimed to correct local scale threats anyway). This result supports predictions that conservation interventions in the breeding ground alone are not sufficient to recover this species. We conclude that although interventions in the breeding ground may have corrected local threats, birds succumbed to other threats during migration/winter. It is crucial that new targeted interventions be identified and implemented to reduce mortality of Orange-bellied Parrots in their migration/winter habitats to prevent extinction.
Amblystegium serpens Schimp.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Amblystegiaceae
Amblystegium
Amblystegium serpens

description: Amblystegium serpens (Hedw.) Schimp.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): sine loco. Feldmann (1947), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie de Collo, Bessombourg, 500- 600 m. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 66, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
An Optimal Linear Fusion Estimation Algorithm of Reduced Dimension for T-Proper Systems with Multiple Packet Dropouts
Creators: name: Fernández-Alcalá, Rosa M.
name: Jiménez-López, José D.
name: Bihan, Nicolas Le
name: Took, Clive Cheong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper analyses the centralized fusion linear estimation problem in multi-sensor systems with multiple packet dropouts and correlated noises. Packet dropouts are modeled by independent Bernoulli distributed random variables. This problem is addressed in the tessarine domain under conditions of T1 and T2-properness, which entails a reduction in the dimension of the problem and, consequently, computational savings. The methodology proposed enables us to provide an optimal (in the least-mean-squares sense) linear fusion filtering algorithm for estimating the tessarine state with a lower computational cost than the conventional one devised in the real field. Simulation results illustrate the performance and advantages of the solution proposed in different settings.
The lepton pair production in heavy ion collisions in perturbation theory
Creators: name: Bartos, E.
name: Gevorkyan, S. R.
name: Kuraev, E. A.
name: Nikolaev, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the first terms in the amplitude of lepton pair production in the Coulomb fields of two relativistic heavy ions. Using the Sudakov technique, which very simplify the calculations in momentum space for the processes at high energies, we get the compact analytical expressions for differential cross section of the process under consideration in the lowest order in fine structure constant (Born approximation) valid for any momentum transfer and in a wide kinematics region for produced particles. Exploiting the same technique we consider the next terms of perturbation series (up to fourth order in fine structure constant) and investigate their energy dependence and limiting cases. It has been shown that taking in account all relevant terms in corresponding order one obtains the expressions which are gauge invariant and finite. We estimate the contribution of the Coulomb corrections to the total cross section and discuss the cancellations of the different terms which holds in the total cross section.
description: LaTeX2e, 18 pages, 4 eps figures
Cosmological Implications of Massive Neutrinos
Creators: name: Popa, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The massive neutrinos gravitational infall and their inprints left on the CMB temperature and matter density fluctuations power spectra are analysed taking into account the massive neutrino properties: the mass degeneracy, the phase space mixing, the lepton asymmetry.
Estimating Effects of Health Insurance Coverage on Medical Service Utilization and Health in Rural China
Creators: name: Yiqiu, Wang
name: Maria, Porter
name: Songqing, Jin
name: Yiqiu, Wang
name: Maria, Porter
name: Songqing, Jin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: China
subject: Health insurance
subject: Medical service utilization
subject: Health

description: This research estimates the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a public health insurance program in rural China, on health service use, healthcare costs, and health outcomes. Using difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods, we address county and household selection bias with panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. By comparing various methods used in prior studies of NCMS to define treatment and comparison groups, we find evidence of county selection bias. Taking a new sampling approach after controlling for county selection issues, we find that while NCMS does not improve health, use of both preventive services and township hospitals increases, as do costs for treating the common cold. In particular, we find that relatively vulnerable households – those with lower incomes and older members participating in NCMS–travel greater distances to access healthcare services, incurring higher travel and treatment costs, yet with no measurable health benefits.
State Vectors and Physical States
Creators: name: Watson, William N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Causality and the relativity of simultaneity seem at odds with the apparently sudden, acausal state-vector changes ("collapses") characteristic of quantum phenomena. The problem of how physical phenomena can be causally determined, have the probabilities predicted by quantum theory, and be consistent with special relativity appears to be solved by the assumption, essentially the same as one first used by Aharonov, Bergmann, and Lebowitz to address a different problem, that the "initial" and "final" state vectors of a phenomenon or observation, along with certain other state vectors, all represent the system's state at all times. Each member of such an aggregate of state vectors is postulated to represent a different aspect of a physical state rather than a state, so that most of the state vectors in effect constitute a set of nonlocal hidden variables. Various implications of this assumption are illustrated through several physical situations. Among the results is a somewhat surprising resolution of a paradox in a three-spin Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger experiment (a "three-particle EPR" experiment), which involves a logical consequence that differs from familiar ideas of quantum physics that has no practical experimental consequence, and the prediction of new experimental phenomena related to the Zou-Wang-Mandel superposed-idler system. The potential value of the concepts described as heuristics for new predictions and for developing physical intuition by clarifying the interrelation and coherence of physical principles that would otherwise seem contradictory is briefly discussed.
description: 103 pages, 2 figures
Are Rural Areas Underserved by HUD's Subsidy Programs?
Creators: name: McNamara, Paul
name: Lee, Han Bum
name: McNamara, Paul
name: Lee, Han Bum
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Rural poverty
subject: HUD rental subsidy programs
subject: Geographical inequality

description: Despite the extensive research exploring the effects of public provision of subsidized housing opportunities in urban areas, especially large cities, in the United States, very little or no research exists concerning the geographical inequality of federally funded rental subsidy programs in rural areas. This paper uses a multilevel modelling approach to analyze the extent rural-urban spatial disproportionality exist in rental subsidy programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) across all counties in the 48 contiguous states. Results indicate that rural residents in poverty are less likely to receive the rental subsidies by approximately 3.4 – 7.1 percentage points, based on different rural-urban geographical classifications and model specifications, than those in urban areas. Also, the predicted estimates of heterogeneous state effects reveal intergovernmental relationship of particularly how a state is involved in local government’s administration of the rental subsidy programs.
Correlators in AdS_3 string theory
Creators: name: Giribet, Gaston
name: Nunez, Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of two and three point functions in the Coulomb gas free field approach to string theory in the SL(2,R)/U(1) black hole background is reviewed. An interesting relation arises when comparing the results obtained using two different screening operators. The formalism is then modified to study string theory propagating in AdS$_3$ which is considered as the direct product of the SL(2)/U(1) coset times a timelike free boson. This representation allows to naturally include the spectral flow symmetry and winding number in vertex operators and correlation functions. Two and three point tachyon amplitudes are computed in this new scenario and the results coincide with previous reports in the literature. Novel expressions are found for processes violating winding number conservation.
description: 25 pages; v2: typos corrected and references added; v3: minor changes
Factors Affecting Either the Voluntary Exit or Forced Eviction of Borrowers from Microfinance Loan Networks
Creators: name: Rusiana, Hofner D.
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
name: Rusiana, Hofner D.
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: microfinance
subject: MFI
subject: loans

description: This paper seeks to analyse the issue of loan repayment in microfinance institutions and examine the factors that affect the exit of borrowers from microfinance borrowing networks. This paper presents the analysis of the borrower-level data of agricultural microfinance household borrowers in the Philippines from 2000 to 2010. Results show varied set of reasons to explain both the continued, sustained relationship of MFI borrowers with their lenders as well as the strained relationship with some borrowers who were inevitably evicted from the MFI system or had voluntarily exited the system. The study also indicates that MFI borrowers’ poor repayment records and eventual exit from the MFI system are attributed to borrowers’ weaknesses and uncontrollable circumstances.
Widespread genetic connectivity in Australia’s most common owl, despite extensive habitat fragmentation
Creators: name: Lohr, Michael T.
name: Krauss, Siegfried L.
name: Spencer, Peter B. S.
name: Anthony, Janet M.
name: Burbidge, Allan H.
name: Davis, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Reductions in genetic diversity and genetic connectivity have been documented in some predatory bird species in response to anthropogenic habitat fragmentation. The Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook) is the most common and widely-distributed owl in Australia but declines in abundance have been observed across its range. We used polymorphic microsatellite loci to investigate landscape-scale patterns of genetic variation and spatial genetic structure in boobooks from a variety of fragmented landscape types and relatively undisturbed landscape types across Western Australia. The maximum distance between collection locations of genetic samples was 1391 km. Indirect estimates of connectivity inferred from these genetic data were complemented by direct estimates of post-breeding dispersal of juvenile boobooks gathered from banding data resulting from this and other studies across Australia. We found high genetic diversity in microsatellite markers, weak spatial genetic structuring and no evidence of genetic erosion associated with inbreeding in heavily fragmented landscapes. Bayesian modelling, spatial autocorrelation analysis and principal coordinates analysis suggested a single large panmictic population across all areas sampled. Within the heavily fragmented landscape of an extensive urban area, band re-sightings and recoveries substantiate the considerable capacity of juvenile boobooks to disperse across areas far greater than the distance between patches. We hypothesise that the genetic homogeneity observed in this species is a consequence of long-distance dispersal capacity in addition to their ability as habitat and dietary generalists to make use of highly altered habitats.
Thermal Boundary Characteristics of Homo-/Heterogeneous Interfaces
Creators: name: Heijmans, Koen
name: Pathak, Amar Deep
name: Solano-López, Pablo
name: Giordano, Domenico
name: Nedea, Silvia
name: Smeulders, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interface of two solids in contact introduces a thermal boundary resistance (TBR), which is challenging to measure from experiments. Besides, if the interface is reactive, it can form an intermediate recrystallized or amorphous region, and extra influencing phenomena are introduced. Reactive force field Molecular Dynamics (ReaxFF MD) is used to study these interfacial phenomena at the (non-)reactive interface. The non-reactive interfaces are compared using a phenomenological theory (PT), predicting the temperature discontinuity at the interface. By connecting ReaxFF MD and PT we confirm a continuous temperature profile for the homogeneous non-reactive interface and a temperature jump in case of the heterogeneous non-reactive interface. ReaxFF MD is further used to understand the effect of chemical activity of two solids in contact. The selected Si/SiO$_2$ materials showed that the TBR of the reacted interface is two times larger than the non-reactive, going from $1.65\times 10^{-9}$ to $3.38\times 10^{-9}$ m$^2$K/W. This is linked to the formation of an intermediate amorphous layer induced by heating, which remains stable when the system is cooled again. This provides the possibility to design multi-layered structures with a desired TBR.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables, 63 references
Additional file 2: of Shared decision making when patients consider surgery for lumbar herniated disc: development and test of a patient decision aid
Creators: name: Andersen, Stina
name: Andersen, Mikkel
name: Carreon, Leah
name: Coulter, Angela
name: Steffensen, Karina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Description of Litterature search string and strategy (DOCX 21 kb)
Vietnam Economic Structure and Greenhouse Gas Emission Based on Input-Output Analysis
Creators: name: Quang, Thai Nguyen
name: Bui, Trinh
name: Vu, Tuan Anh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: Over the years, Vietnam has a relatively high growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) compared to other countries in the region, an average increase of 6.1% in the period of 2005 - 2016. However, the macro instability such as the budget deficit, public debt, the economy's debt is always high, the environment is more risky. In Vietnam, in the reports, even research articles are automatically admitted that the structure of Region II (industry and construction) and Region III (service) in GDP needs to grow and see it as an economic development in the right direction. From that, the idea of economic restructuring is to promote both Region II and Region III; The investment rate of this area is increasingly higher, if it is always very high in 2005 to 2015, it was around 43% in 2005 and nearly 50% in 2016, but the irony is that the value-added ratio compared to the value of production of this sector (region II) fell surprisingly fast; this ratio follows the structure of 2000, the structure of the input-output tables in 2007 of General Statistics Office of Vietnam) is 34.1%, in recent years (the structure of the new input-output tables) is only 21%. This means that this region is increasingly inefficient, resulting in an increasing amount of investment to compensate for that inefficiency. This research is based on Vietnam economic structure from the input-output table, 2012, that was published by Vietnam General Statistics Office, this research focused to analysis deeper on sectoral structure, inter-sectoral and effects induced impacts by final demand to output, value-added and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on the approach of input-output analysis. This study hopes to help policymakers make rational decisions for sustainable development in Vietnam
The geometric sense of R. Sasaki connection
Creators: name: Shchepetilov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: primary 53C07; secondary 53C42, 35Q53

description: For the Riemannian manifold $M^{n}$ two special connections on the sum of the tangent bundle $TM^{n}$ and the trivial one-dimensional bundle are constructed. These connections are flat if and only if the space $M^{n}$ has a constant sectional curvature $\pm 1$. The geometric explanation of this property is given. This construction gives a coordinate free many-dimensional generalization of the connection from the paper: R. Sasaki 1979 Soliton equations and pseudospherical surfaces, Nuclear Phys., {\bf 154 B}, pp. 343-357. It is shown that these connections are in close relation with the imbedding of $M^{n}$ into Euclidean or pseudoeuclidean $(n+1)$-dimension spaces.
description: 7 pages, the key reference to the paper of Min-Oo is included in the second version
Micetoica Rondani 1861
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Anisopodidae
Micetoica

description: 329. Micetoica Rondani, 1861e: 12.
 TYPE SPECIES: Mycetobia pallipes Meigen, 1818, automatic [by designation of the same species (by subsequent designation of Westwood, 1840: 127) for Mycetobia Meigen, 1818].
 CURRENT STATUS: Unnecessary new replacement name for Mycetobia Meigen, 1818 (as “ Micetobia Mgn. 1818 ”); junior synonym of Mycetobia Meigen, 1818 [teste Coquillett (1910: 569)].
FAMILY: ANISOPODIDAE.
 REMARKS: There are two original spellings of this genus-group name in Rondani (1861e): Micetoica (page 12) and Mycetoica (page 169). Acting as First Reviser, we select Micetoica as the correct original spelling, which relegates Mycetoica (q. v.) to unavailable name status. The Junk 1914 facsimile edition of Rondani (1861e) has the spelling mistakenly printed as “ Micltoica ” on page 12. See the entry for Micltoica under “Genus-Group Names and Misspellings Incorrectly Attributed to Rondani” for more details on Micetoica and Micltoica.
 [Micetomyza] Rondani, 1861e: 169.
 CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect original spelling of Mycetomiza Rondani, 1861 [teste this work].
FAMILY: MYCETOPHILIDAE.
 [Micosia] Rondani, 1861e: 169.
 CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect original spelling of Mycosia Rondani, 1861 [teste this work].
FAMILY: MYCETOPHILIDAE.
 [Micozetea] Rondani, 1861e: 169.
 CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect original spelling of Mycozetaea Rondani, 1861 [teste this work].
FAMILY: MYCETOPHILIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on pages 117-118
Quantum and Classical Noise in Practical Quantum Cryptography Systems based on polarization-entangled photons
Creators: name: Castelletto, S.
name: Degiovanni, I. P.
name: Rastello, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum-cryptography key distribution (QCKD) experiments have been recently reported using polarization-entangled photons. However, in any practical realization, quantum systems suffer from either unwanted or induced interactions with the environment and the quantum measurement system, showing up as quantum and, ultimately, statistical noise. In this paper, we investigate how ideal polarization entanglement in spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) suffers quantum noise in its practical implementation as a secure quantum system, yielding errors in the transmitted bit sequence. Because all SPDC-based QCKD schemes rely on the measurement of coincidence to assert the bit transmission between the two parties, we bundle up the overall quantum and statistical noise in an exhaustive model to calculate the accidental coincidences. This model predicts the quantum-bit error rate and the sifted key and allows comparisons between different security criteria of the hitherto proposed QCKD protocols, resulting in an objective assessment of performances and advantages of different systems.
description: Rev Tex Style, 2 columns, 7 figures, (a modified version will appear on PRA)
Loop induced Higgs and Z boson couplings to Neutralinos and implications for collider and Dark Matter searches
Creators: name: Djouadi, A.
name: Drees, M.
name: Perez, P. Fileviez
name: Mühlleitner, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the one-loop induced couplings of two gaugino-like neutralinos to the $Z$ and Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. These couplings, which vanish at the tree level, can be generated through loops involving fermions and sfermions. We show that, while the neutralino contribution to the invisible $Z$ boson decay width remains small, the loop induced couplings to the lightest Higgs boson might be sufficiently large to yield a rate of invisible decays of this Higgs boson that should be detectable at future $e^+e^-$ colliders. We also study the implications of these couplings for direct searches of Dark Matter and show that they can modify appreciably the neutralino-nucleon elastic cross section for some parameter range.
description: LaTeX with 6 (e)ps and 2 axodraw figures, 25 pages in total; axodraw.sty is included v.2: Added one figure and some discussions; version to appear in PRD