cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lissoclinum bistratum
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Lissoclinum
Lissoclinum bistratum

description: Lissoclinum bistratum (Sluiter, 1905) (Figures 7D) Didemnum bistratum Sluiter, 1905: 103. Lissoclinum bistratum: Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 283. Kott 2001: 298; 2004: 64; 2005: 2460 Fig. 17E. Material. Coll. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Malaysia, South China Sea, Ardasier Reef, 07°36.67’N – 113°59.90’E, 5–22m, 18/IX/2006, 0CDN 9450-I (MNHN A2 LIS 196). Often recorded in the Pacific and Indian oceans, these small green colonies have symbiotic algae in the common cloacal cavity (Fig.7D). The larva 1mm long is gemmiparous, with 3 adhesive papillae and 8 vesicles on each side. The spicules are composed of rod-like rays in spheres 20 to 30µm in diameter. All anatomical characters of L. bistratum are the same as those of Lissoclinum timorense (Sluiter, 1909), except that the later has a spiky colony surface and larger and stellate spicules. L. bistratum probably does not represent a single species. The closely allied Lissoclinum voeltzkowi (Michaelsen 1920) could not be differentiated by the zooids, larvae or spicules and had been considered a synonym of L. bistratum, but chemical studies have shown differences between both species in the same location (see discussion in Monniot & Monniot, 2001: 283).
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Sluiter, C. P. (1905) Tuniciers recueillis en 1904 par M. Ch. Gravier dans le golfe de Tadjourah (Somalie Francaise). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 11, 100 - 103.", "Kott, P. (2001) The Australian ascidiacea. Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47 (1), 1 - 407.", "Sluiter, C. P. (1909) Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. II. Die merosomen Ascidien."]}
On the Forsythe conjecture
Creators: name: Faber, Vance
name: Liesen, Jörg
name: Tichý, Petr
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik
subject: Forsythe conjecture
subject: CG method
subject: steepest descent method
subject: Arnoldi projection
subject: Krylov subspace methods

description: Forsythe formulated a conjecture about the asymptotic behavior of the restarted conjugate gradient method in 1968. We translate several of his results into modern terms, and pose an analogous version of the conjecture (originally formulated only for symmetric positive definite matrices) for symmetric and nonsymmetric matrices. Our version of the conjecture uses a two-sided or cross iteration with the given matrix and its transpose, which is based on the projection process used in the Arnoldi (or for symmetric matrices the Lanczos) algorithm. We prove several new results about the limiting behavior of this iteration, but the conjecture still remains largely open. We hope that our paper motivates further research that eventually leads to a proof of the conjecture.
Fast, Accurate, and Local Temperature Control Using Qubits
Creators: name: Baruah, Riya
name: Portugal, Pedro
name: Wabnig, Joachim
name: Flindt, Christian
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: Many quantum technologies, including quantum computers, quantum heat engines, and quantum sensors, rely on operating conditions in the subkelvin regime. It is therefore desirable to develop practical tools and methods for the precise control of the temperature in nanoscale quantum systems. Here, we present a proposal for fast, accurate, and local temperature control using qubits, which regulate the flow of heat between a quantum system and its thermal environment. The qubits are kept in a thermal state with a temperature that is controlled in an interplay between work done on the qubits by changing their energy splittings and the flow of heat between the qubits and the environment. Using only a few qubits, it is possible to control the thermal environment of another quantum system, which can be heated or cooled by the qubits. As an example, we show how a quantum system at subkelvin temperatures can be significantly and accurately cooled on a nanosecond timescale. Our proposal can potentially be realized with superconducting flux qubits, charge qubits, or spin qubits, which can now be fabricated and manipulated with exquisite control.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
The unusual vertical mass distribution of NGC 4013 seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)
Creators: name: Comerón, Sébastien
name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
name: Knapen, Johan H.
name: Sheth, Kartik
name: Hinz, Joannah L.
name: Regan, Michael W.
name: de Paz, Armando Gil
name: Muñoz-Mateos, Juan-Carlos
name: Menéndez-Delmestre, Karín
name: Seibert, Mark
name: Kim, Taehyun
name: Mizusawa, Trisha
name: Laurikainen, Eija
name: Salo, Heikki
name: Laine, Jarkko
name: Athanassoula, E.
name: Bosma, Albert
name: Buta, Ronald J.
name: Gadotti, Dimitri A.
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Holwerda, Benne
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 4013 is a nearby Sb edge-on galaxy known for its "prodigious" HI warp and its "giant" tidal stream. Previous work on this unusual object shows that it cannot be fitted satisfactorily by a canonical thin+thick disk structure. We have produced a new decomposition of NGC 4013, considering three stellar flattened components (thin+thick disk plus an extra and more extended component) and one gaseous disk. All four components are considered to be gravitationally coupled and isothermal. To do so, we have used the 3.6micron images from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We find evidence for NGC4013 indeed having a thin and a thick disk and an extra flattened component. This smooth and extended component (scaleheight z_EC kpc) could be interpreted as a thick disk or as a squashed ellipsoidal halo and contains ~20% of the total mass of all three stellar components. We argue it is unlikely to be related to the ongoing merger or due to the off-plane stars from a warp in the other two disk components. Instead, we favor a scenario in which the thick disk and the extended component were formed in a two-stage process, in which an initially thick disk has been dynamically heated by a merger soon enough in the galaxy history to have a new thick disk formed within it.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
New pterosaur tracks (Pteraichnidae) from the Late Cretaceous Uhangri Formation, southwestern Korea
Creators: name: Hwang, Koo-Geun
name: Huh, Min
name: Lockley, Martin
name: Unwin, David M.
name: Wright, Joanna L.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: tracks
subject: Pterosauria
subject: South Korea
subject: Upper Cretaceous
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften
subject: 570 Biologie

description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Numerous footprints of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and birds, together with arthropod tracks, have been discovered in the upper Cretaceous Uhangri Formation which crops out along the south-western coastline of South Korea. This ichnofauna contains the first pterosaur tracks reported from Asia. The digitigrade tridactyl manus impressions exhibit features of a typical pterosaur hand print. The pes impressions, however, show features that are different from pterosaur footprints reported previously: there is no visible trace of impressions of individual digits, and the toes are triangular or rounded in shape distally without distinct claw impressions. As these features clearly distinguish the Uhangri tracks from Pteraichnus and Purbeckopus, we assign them to a new genus, Haenamichnus which accommodates the new ichnospecies, Haenamichnus uhangriensis. The prints are five to six times larger than those of Pteraichnus, and are currently the largest pterosaur ichnites known. They show virtually no trace of the 5th phalange of the pes, indicating that they were made by pterodactyloids; moreover, features of the tracks suggest that they can be attributed to azhdarchids, the commonest pterosaur of the Late Cretaceous. The longest pterosaur trackway yet known from any track site (length 7.3 m) and consisting of 14 pairs of foot impressions, was also found in the Uhangri Formation and suggests that azhdarchids, at least, were competent terrestrial locomotors. The fossil track site at Uhangri represents the first occurrence of the tracks of pterosaurs, dinosaurs and web-footed birds all on the same level. This demonstrates that pterosaurs and birds visited the same habitat, but the large size disparity suggests that they occupied different ecological niches.
A Method to Adjust for Measurement Error in Multiple Exposures Measured with Correlated Error in the Absence of Internal Validation Study-Supplementary materials
Creators: name: Muoka, Alexander K.
name: Agogo, George O.
name: Ngesa, Oscar O.
name: Mwambi, Henry G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The file shows the validity coefficient derivation, Proof for the estimate of error variance, R code for implementing the methods and convergence diagnostics results (i.e. Trace plots and ACF plots for the standard deviation and naive regression coefficient estimates of the fruits, vegetables and average number of cigarettes smoked, with explanation) and the sensitivity analysis results (Tables) for varying the magnitude of error correlation between the exposures.
Lissoclinum roseum Kott 2001
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Lissoclinum
Lissoclinum roseum

description: Lissoclinum roseum Kott, 2001 (Figures 8C, 11, 12A) Lissoclinum roseum Kott, 2001: 322 Fig. 145, 176BC, pls 4C, 20EF; 2004: 2514 Fig. 21G. Material. Coll. Coral Reef Research Foundation Malaysia, South china Sea, Lyang Lyang atoll, 07°22.12’N – 113°50.22’E, 6m, 23/IX/2006, 0CDN 9559-Y (MNHN A2 LIS 195). The very soft colonies are flat cushions with a smooth mucous surface. In life, the zooids seen in transparency appear in systems similar to botryllid rosettes in a vitreous red tunic (Fig. 12A). In formalin the zooid distribution disappears in a colourless tunic filled with opaque clear cells. The zooids are more or less completely enclosed in shells made of a layer of spicules, one thoracic and one abdominal. The thoracic musculature is strong and reduces the atrial opening. The lateral thoracic organs are protruding. There is no languet and no muscular appendage (Fig. 11). The waist is narrow and short without the muscular ring described by Kott (2001). (Some zooids of the type colony have been examined: only one of them possessed a muscular ring around the waist). Ten stigmata were counted in the first branchial row on each side. The ovary is pedunculate (Fig. 11), anterior to a single testis vesicle. The calcareous capsules made of burr-like spicules 25µm in diameter (Fig. 8C) are often incomplete or totally absent. No larvae have been found in the material studied to confirm the identification. The type and paratype have been examined (QM G308053 - G308312): they are in shreds, very contracted. The general aspect and consistency are similar to the Malaysian specimens, with the same clear cells of the tunic. The spicules are the same in shape and size. This species was previously recorded from west Australia and Queensland.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Kott, P. (2001) The Australian ascidiacea. Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47 (1), 1 - 407."]}
The remarkable surface homogeneity of the Dawn mission target (1) Ceres
Creators: name: Carry, Benoit
name: Vernazza, Pierre
name: Dumas, Christophe
name: Merline, William J.
name: Mousis, Olivier
name: Rousselot, Philippe
name: Jehin, Emmanuel
name: Manfroid, Jean
name: Fulchignoni, Marcello
name: Zucconi, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf-planet (1) Ceres is one of the two targets, along with (4) Vesta, that will be studied by the NASA Dawn spacecraft via imaging, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy, and gamma-ray and neutron spectroscopy. While Ceres' visible and near-infrared disk-integrated spectra have been well characterized, little has been done about quantifying spectral variations over the surface. Any spectral variation would give us insights on the geographical variation of the composition and/or the surface age. The only work so far was that of Rivkin & Volquardsen (2010, Icarus 206, 327) who reported rotationally-resolved spectroscopic (disk-integrated) observations in the 2.2-4.0 μm range; their observations showed evidence for a relatively uniform surface. Here, we report disk-resolved observations of Ceres with SINFONI (ESO VLT) in the 1.17-1.32 μm and 1.45-2.35 μm wavelength ranges. The observations were made under excellent seeing conditions (0.6"), allowing us to reach a spatial resolution of ~75 km on Ceres' surface. We do not find any spectral variation above a 3% level, suggesting a homogeneous surface at our spatial resolution. Slight variations (about 2%) of the spectral slope are detected, geographically correlated with the albedo markings reported from the analysis of the HST and Keck disk-resolved images of Ceres (Li et al., 2006, Icarus 182, 143; Carry et al., 2008, A&A 478, 235). Given the lack of constraints on the surface composition of Ceres, however, we cannot assert the causes of these variations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Icarus
Estimating within-household contact networks from egocentric data
Creators: name: Potter, Gail E.
name: Handcock, Mark S.
name: Longini,, Ira M.
name: Halloran, M. Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Acute respiratory diseases are transmitted over networks of social contacts. Large-scale simulation models are used to predict epidemic dynamics and evaluate the impact of various interventions, but the contact behavior in these models is based on simplistic and strong assumptions which are not informed by survey data. These assumptions are also used for estimating transmission measures such as the basic reproductive number and secondary attack rates. Development of methodology to infer contact networks from survey data could improve these models and estimation methods. We contribute to this area by developing a model of within-household social contacts and using it to analyze the Belgian POLYMOD data set, which contains detailed diaries of social contacts in a 24-hour period. We model dependency in contact behavior through a latent variable indicating which household members are at home. We estimate age-specific probabilities of being at home and age-specific probabilities of contact conditional on two members being at home. Our results differ from the standard random mixing assumption. In addition, we find that the probability that all members contact each other on a given day is fairly low: 0.49 for households with two 0--5 year olds and two 19--35 year olds, and 0.36 for households with two 12--18 year olds and two 36+ year olds. We find higher contact rates in households with 2--3 members, helping explain the higher influenza secondary attack rates found in households of this size.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS474 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Evaluation of the Efficacy of Fusion or Combination Leishmania Donovani Peroxidoxin 1 and Superoxide Dismutase B1 Vaccine Candidates against Leishmaniasis in BALB/c Mice: Role of Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor.
Creators: name: Bayih, Abebe Genetu
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Vaccine
subject: Leishmania
subject: Peroxidoxin

description: Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne infectious disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Human leishmaniasis appears in three major clinical forms, cutaneous (CL), mucocutaneous (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Visceral leishmaniasis is the deadliest form with a mortality rate of about 100% in untreated clinically overt cases. The fact that people who are cured from CL develop durable protective immunity to re-infection has led to the assumption that developing effective vaccine to the disease should be feasible. However, there is no universally effective vaccine yet. Previous studies in our lab have demonstrated that amastigote-specific Leishmania donovani peroxidoxin 1 (LdPxn1) and iron superoxide dismutase B1 (LdFeSODB1) induce specific immune response and partially protect BALB/c mice when administered together with adjuvants. In this study, it was hypothesized that fusing these antigens or using them in a form of cocktail vaccine would further increase the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the antigens. In addition, two forms of immunization strategies were compared; heterologous DNA/protein prime-boost and homologous protein/protein immunizations. Murine granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (mGMCSF) adjuvant was used in tandem fusion with the DNA vaccines. Generally, the fusion/cocktail vaccine significantly increased immunogenicity of the vaccines in both immunization protocols. However, the high immunogenicity result was not directly reflected in the protection. In DNA/protein approach, the fusion vaccine was found to be more protective than LdFeSODB1 but not LdPxn1. In protein/protein immunization, the cocktail vaccine showed lower protection than each of the individual antigens. As demonstrated by multiparameter flow cytometry, the increased immunogenicity and protection in DNA/protein immunization was correlated to induction of significantly higher number of antigen-specific CD4+ helper T cells that individually express IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-2 cytokines. In addition, the presence of mGMCSF adjuvant in DNA antigens generally increased immunogenicity and protective efficacy of individual or fusion vaccines as compared with the corresponding antigens without mGMCSF. Taken together, these results suggest that heterologous DNA/protein immunization with the fusion vaccine in the presence of mGMCSF adjuvant is more efficacious than protein/protein immunization with the cocktail vaccine.
Building a metrical ontology as a model to link digital poetic repertoires
Creators: name: González-Blanco, Elena
name: Seláf, Levente
name: del Rio, Gimena
name: Martínez Cantón, Clara
name: Martos Pérez, María Dolores
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Digital Humanities
Poetic
metrical ontology

description: The technology of semantic web seems to be a suitable environment to offer solutions for linking poetic repertoires that belong to different European traditions and literatures (González-Blanco & Sélaf 2013)1. The problem of linking poetic repertoires is not simple, as there are not only technical issues involved, but also conceptual and terminological problems: each repertoire belongs to its own poetical tradition and each tradition has developed its own analytical terminology for years in a different and independent way. The result of this uncoordinated evolution is a bunch of varied terminologies to explain analogous metrical phenomena through the different poetic systems whose correspondences have been hardly studied.
Effects and Detectability of Quasi-Single Field Inflation in the Large-Scale Structure and Cosmic Microwave Background
Creators: name: Sefusatti, Emiliano
name: Fergusson, James R.
name: Chen, Xingang
name: Shellard, E. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-single field inflation predicts a peculiar momentum dependence in the squeezed limit of the primordial bispectrum which smoothly interpolates between the local and equilateral models. This dependence is directly related to the mass of the isocurvatons in the theory which is determined by the supersymmetry. Therefore, in the event of detection of a non-zero primordial bispectrum, additional constraints on the parameter controlling the momentum-dependence in the squeezed limit becomes an important question. We explore the effects of these non-Gaussian initial conditions on large-scale structure and the cosmic microwave background, with particular attention to the galaxy power spectrum at large scales and scale-dependence corrections to galaxy bias. We determine the simultaneous constraints on the two parameters describing the QSF bispectrum that we can expect from upcoming large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background observations. We find that for relatively large values of the non-Gaussian amplitude parameters, but still well within current uncertainties, galaxy power spectrum measurements will be able to distinguish the QSF scenario from the predictions of the local model. A CMB likelihood analysis, as well as Fisher matrix analysis, shows that there is also a range of parameter values for which Planck data may be able distinguish between QSF models and the related local and equilateral shapes. Given the different observational weightings of the CMB and LSS results, degeneracies can be significantly reduced in a joint analysis.
description: 27 pages, 14 figures
Lissoclinum timorense
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Lissoclinum
Lissoclinum timorense

description: Lissoclinum timorense (Sluiter, 1909) (Figures 8D, 12B) Didemnum timorensis Sluiter 1909: 51. Lissoclinum timorense: Kott 2001: 328 Fig. 148 AB, 178C–E, without synonymy; 2004: 66. Material. Coll. N.J. Pilcher et al., Viet Nam, Con Dao Isl., Con Son Isl., 08°41.12’N – 106°36.80’E, intertidal, 30/VII/2008 0PHG 1736-U (MNHN A2 LIS 197). The colonies (Fig. 12B) are greenish crusts about 2mm thick with a round edge. The common cloacal cavity contains abundant symbiotic algae. The colony surface is raised in small warts filled with spicules. The zooids are small with the oral aperture in a slit, and a wide atrial aperture without languet. Seven stigmata are in the two first rows, 6 to 7 in the third row, and 5 in the last row per side. There is no muscular appendage. The testis is a single vesicle. The larvae are brooded in the basal layer of the colony, the trunk is 0.9mm long with 3 adhesive papillae and 8 ampullae on each side. Both the oozooid and blastozooids show 4 rows of stigmata. The spicules 45µm in diameter (Fig. 8D) are star-shaped with rays with a polygonal base, and made of fused rods. They have been compared to Sluiter’s specimen (ZMA TU 1274): they well correspond in size and shape. This species is very similar in shape, zooids and larvae to L. bistratum. It differs by the spiky colony surface and the spicules. It is distributed in the entire western Pacific.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Sluiter, C. P. (1909) Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. II. Die merosomen Ascidien.", "Kott, P. (2001) The Australian ascidiacea. Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47 (1), 1 - 407."]}
title: Prediction of User Satisfaction in Naturalistic Human-Computer Interaction
Creators: name: Egorow, Olga
name: Siegert, Ingo
name: Wendemuth, Andreas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2017

description: User satisfaction is an important aspect of human-computer interaction (HCI) - if a user is not satisfed, he or she might not be willing to use such a system. Therefore, it is crucial to HCI applications to be able to recognise the user satisfaction level in order to react in an appropriate way. For such recognition tasks, data-driven methods have proven to deliver useful and robust results. But a data-driven user satisfaction model needs labelled and reliable data, which is not always easy in the case of user satisfaction, since it is not accessible directly. In the investigation presented here, the users are asked directly about their satisfaction level regarding their performance in a task during a close-to-real-life HCI. This results in a one-to-one mapping between a satisfaction level and the expressed vocal characteristics in the user's utterance. This data is then used to build a model to recognise satised and dissatised user states - as a first step towards a general model of the user's satisfaction state.
Legal Impact of Sustainability Pledges on the Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors
Creators: name: Bone, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability
subject: Corporate Social Responsibility
subject: Fiduciary Duties

description: There has been a long standing assumption that directors are required to consider only the interests of shareholders as part of the best interest of the corporation. My research suggests this assumption does not accord with Canadian law. Corporate directors are required to consider the best interest of the corporation which includes a diverse set of stakeholders. Recent case law suggests that corporate directors have a legal obligation to make decisions as a good corporate citizen. This thesis finds that a sustainability pledge does not create legally binding obligations upon corporate directors. However, directors are shielded from liability when engaging in a standard of conduct aligned with the protocols contained in a sustainability pledge. Therefore, while stakeholders may not be empowered to legally hold corporations to account on sustainability pledges, it remains in the purview of directors to decide whether they will follow these self-imposed guidelines.
What if politicians weren't elected but rather drawn by lot?
Creators: name: Tsakiliotis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sortition
Random Sample Voting
Democracy
Participation

description: Modern Western liberal democracies are under criticism: low voter turnout, overrepresentation of political extremists, corruption and polarisation – alongside the absence of a civilised political debate in the context of ‘fake news’ – are some of the symptoms. But what if elections are part of the problem? The core challenge is to guarantee both legitimacy and efficiency in a globalised context, while addressing both the dangers and also profiting from the advantages of the information age. Can the EU lead as an example? And may sortition offer a remedy? In this article, Konstantinos Tsakiliotis offers an insight into the political concept of sortition and discusses possible online public consultations via Random Sample Voting.
Interactive Design of Muqarnas
Creators: name: Hamekasi, Nader
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Computer Graphics
subject: Modelling
subject: Muqarnas

description: Muqarnas is an iconic element of Islamic architecture. It exhibits fascinating beauty and captures the attention of viewers via its complicated form and mesmerizing patterns. Generating a 3D model of a muqarnas and designing the patterns to decorate it have applications in architecture, virtual tourism and other areas. Modeling virtual muqarnas can be very challenging, requiring a lot of time and eff ort even from expert modellers. Our goal is to provide an analysis of muqarnas and its decorating patterns as well as a set of methods and tools which can facilitate the modeling of muqarnas. In this thesis, we present a new approach to model muqarnas. Our approach is to consider muqarnas as a transition between layers of di fferent form. We also take advantage of a special type of ceiling plan, called two dimensional pattern plans, as a guide to overcome the complexity of the muqarnas. Using these methods we provide an interactive framework to design muqarnas. Muqarnas structures are frequently decorated with diff erent patterns. Among these patterns, Persian oral patterns are very interesting but poorly studied. We provide a novel method to generate Persian oral patterns to decorate our models. The key idea in this method is to decompose the patterns into the ornaments and the composition and secondly, separating the geometry from the combinatorial properties of the composition. Our implementation of the presented methods is a software tool that can generate complicated muqarnas models. Several examples of virtual models, including models of real buildings as well as new designs made using this software, are shown.
Eudistoma vulgare Monniot 1988
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Polycitoridae
Eudistoma
Eudistoma vulgare

description: Eudistoma vulgare Monniot, 1988 (Figures 16C, 17) Eudistoma vulgare Monniot F. 1988: 213 Fig. 7 EH. Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 247. Material. Coll. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Palau, Koror, Ulong Reef, 07°17.43’N – 134°14.46’E, 75m, 25/VII/2007, 0CDN 9571-N (MNHN A3 EUD 349). Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, Aore Island, 15°33.24’S – 167°09.50’E, 12m, 0CDN 7766-Z (MNHN A3 EUD 235); coll. S. Parker-Nance,Espiritu Santo, Malo pass 15°37.59’S – 167°10.90’E, 7m, CRCHO 452 (MNHN A3 EUD 253). Sand particles are included into a vitreous and colourless tunic (Fig. 16C).The zooids have short siphons and are not grouped in systems. Numerous oral tentacles are in concentric rows. Transverse and regularly distributed muscular fibres cross longitudinal ribbons converging onto the abdomen. Numerous stigmata form the 3 rows. The abdomen is longer than the thorax and inflated by numerous testis vesicles at the stomach level. The gut loop is straight when not contracted, with a stomach rectangular in outline. The basal part of the descending limb of the intestine is dilated in a pouch (Fig. 17), while the ascending limb begins in a protruding caecum. Larvae at different stages are incubated in the peribranchial cavity. The largest have a trunk 0.6mm long with 3 adhesive papillae close to each other and irregular vesicles on each side. The most discriminating characters of the species are the vitreous colourless colonies, the numerous stigmata per row and the intestinal pouch at the bottom of the gut loop. Its geographic distribution comprises Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Palau.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
title: It's (Not) Your Fault! Blame and Trust Repair in Human-Agent Cooperation
Creators: name: Buchholz, Victoria
name: Kulms, Philipp
name: Kopp, Stefan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2017
Subjects: Human-agent interaction
trust
cooperation
blame

description: In cooperative settings the success of the team is interlinked with the performance of the individual members. Thus, the possibility to address problems and mistakes of team members needs to be given. A common means in human-human interaction is the attribution of blame. Yet, it is not clear how blame attributions aect cooperation between humans and intelligent virtual agents and the overall perception of the agent. In order to take a first step in answering these questions, a study on cooperative human-agent interaction was conducted. The study was designed to investigate the effects of two different blaming strategies used by the agent in response to an alleged goal achievement failure, that is, self-blame (agent blames itself) followed by an apology versus other-blame (agent blames the user). The results indicate that the combination of blame and trust repair enables a successful continuation of the cooperation without loss of trust and likeability.
‘Incite, then delight’ : investigating needed cooperative informative technology experiences (incite), then developing experiential learning in guided holistic teamwork (delight)
Creators: name: Carter, Deborah Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This research began from an educational technology lab coordinator’s personal curiosity and professional endeavour. In the lab, adult learners demonstrated three resistant actions deemed detrimental to learning: constrained social/co-presence, resistance to new technologies, and external loci of focus to learning. The intent was to investigate what cooperative information technology was used by adult learners in an Elementary Teacher Education Program (ETEP) throughout their course and what holistic approach would then guide group learning. Thus, the thesis is titled: INCITE (Investigating Needed Cooperative Information Technology Experiences), then DELIGHT (Developing Experiential Learning In Guided Holistic Teamwork). Based on social learning theories, the research hypothesis stated the chaos and complexity within ETEP activated constrained social interactions, caused performance reduction, and increased the possibility of members dropping out, either physically or spiritually. The research design collected data with a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Rovai’s (2002a) Classroom Community Scale (CCS), Hammer’s (2009) Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), descriptive statistics, and semi-structured interviews tested the hypothesis. ETEP participants’ responses texturally described the structural descriptions of Aoki (2000), Pinar (2009), and Wenger (1998) where curriculum emerged as both “curriculum-as-plan and curriculum-as-live(d)” (Aoki, 2000), sustainable teaching-learning solutions answered Pinar’s (2009) “key curricular question — what knowledge is of most worth?” when ETEP adult learners developed praxes and collaborative reflective practices, and curriculum design required individual and collaborative activities with assessments that are flexible, fast, and fluid to “learn a practice” (Wenger, 1998). The hypothesis was proven partially incorrect. The interviews revealed the resistant actions to be coping mechanisms for, rather than detrimental to, the teaching-learning environment. The data collection suggested a greater emphasis on face-to-face activities rather than technology-based activities. As a result, the INCITE of ETEP participants’ responses and then the DELIGHT of this study offers a community of practice to support online learning activities, guide ETEP adult learners’ self- directed priorities, enhance community relations, and assist the transformations from adult learners to pre-service teachers. Future enhancements to this research design include intercultural training and extending the population and time-lines to provide additional data collection and periods when adult learners are on-campus.
Assessment of Lean Maturity Level in Emergency Department of Hospital Bukit Mertajam Based on Staff Exposure on Lean Training
Creators: name: MOHD Razally Illiana Syahmun
name: SAAD Mohd Zaidi
name: MOHAMED Sherafath Ali Muhammad Azman
name: TAN Yee Hooi
name: Nabil, FIKRI Muhammad
name: Aisyah, SALAHUDIN Siti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Lean Training
Emergency Department
Staff Exposure
Lean Maturity Level

description: BACKGROUND
 This study aims to increase awareness and knowledge of lean among healthcare worker and to assess the relationship between exposure of lean training to maturity level among staffs in Emergency Department of Hospital Bukit Mertajam.
 METHODOLOGY
 This cross-sectional study used a survey based on Liker's four points, divided into 16 items organized into 4P model: philosophy, processes, people and partners, and problem solving. These data were analysed using Chi-Square Test in Excel 2104. Participants were divided into 2 groups, consisting of staffs with and without lean training. This questionnaire has a set of five ratings (1-3 being low, 4-5 being high). P-values <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. RESULT
 Based on the 66 respondents collected in this survey, we found that there is statistically significant between staffs who attended lean training to those who did not. Results showed that staffs who had lean training performed with higher maturity level in perspective of philosophy (p=0.045); processes (p=0.001) and problem solving (p=0.0004). However, there is no statistically significant finding for lean maturity associated with people and partner (p=0.104). DISCUSSION
 Results indicate that higher lean maturity increases quality of care. People and partners show no significance in lean maturity level, regardless of exposure to training. It found that knowledge, skills and experience from those who attended lean training can be shared verbally and physically through proper staff communication. CONCLUSION
 Lean training optimizes healthcare staff performance. It should be implemented in order to improve, standardize, and sustain the maturity level of staff. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Markovianity criteria for quantum evolution
Creators: name: Chruściński, Dariusz
name: Kossakowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize a class of Markovian dynamics using the concept of divisible dynamical map. Moreover we provide a family of criteria which can distinguish Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics. These Markovianity criteria are based on a simple observation that Markovian dynamics implies monotonic behavior of several well known quantities like distinguishability of states, fidelity, relative entropy and genuine entanglement measures.
description: 17 pages
A Method to Adjust for Measurement Error in Multiple Exposures Measured with Correlated Error in the Absence of Internal Validation Study-Supplementary material
Creators: name: Muoka, Alexander K.
name: Agogo, George O.
name: Ngesa, Oscar O.
name: Mwambi, Henry G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The file shows the validity coefficient derivation, Proof for the estimate of error variance, R code for implementing the methods and convergence diagnostics results (i.e. Trace plots and ACF plots for the standard deviation and naive regression coefficient estimates of the fruits, vegetables and average number of cigarettes smoked, with explanation) and the sensitivity analysis results (Tables) for varying the magnitude of error correlation between the exposures.
Persistence for stochastic difference equations: A mini-review
Creators: name: Schreiber, Sebastian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60J05, 92D25

description: Understanding under what conditions populations, whether they be plants, animals, or viral particles, persist is an issue of theoretical and practical importance in population biology. Both biotic interactions and environmental fluctuations are key factors that can facilitate or disrupt persistence. One approach to examining the interplay between these deterministic and stochastic forces is the construction and analysis of stochastic difference equations $X_{t+1}=F(X_t,ξ_{t+1})$ where $X_t \in \R^k$ represents the state of the populations and $ξ_1,ξ_2,...$ is a sequence of random variables representing environmental stochasticity. In the analysis of these stochastic models, many theoretical population biologists are interested in whether the models are bounded and persistent. Here, boundedness asserts that asymptotically $X_t$ tends to remain in compact sets. In contrast, persistence requires that $X_t$ tends to be "repelled" by some "extinction set" $S_0\subset \R^k$. Here, results on both of these proprieties are reviewed for single species, multiple species, and structured population models. The results are illustrated with applications to stochastic versions of the Hassell and Ricker single species models, Ricker, Beverton-Holt, lottery models of competition, and lottery models of rock-paper-scissor games. A variety of conjectures and suggestions for future research are presented.
description: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Difference Equations and Applications
Multiphoton microwave photoresistance in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Hatke, A. T.
name: Khodas, M.
name: Zudov, M. A.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on experimental and theoretical studies of microwave-induced resistance oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas over a wide range of microwave intensities. We observe a distinct crossover from linear to sublinear power dependence of the oscillation amplitude and a concomitant narrowing of the oscillation extrema. To explain our observations we propose a theory based on the quantum kinetic equation at arbitrary microwave power. Taken together, these findings demonstrate a crucial role of multiphoton processes at elevated microwave intensities.
India in the Doha Development Round
Creators: name: Huseynov, Rahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440401
subject: Development cooperation
classificationCode: 440404
subject: Political economy and social change
classificationCode: 440405
subject: Poverty, inclusivity and wellbeing
classificationCode: 440407
subject: Socio-economic development

description: The fourth WTO Ministerial Conference took place in Doha, Qatar, from November 9-14, 2001, and brought together trade ministers from member nations. They decided to start a new round of global trade discussions at the conference. The conversations took place for additional reasons. The United States had been attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001, just a few months prior to the Doha Ministerial. Several government representatives urged for stronger political unity and regarded the trade talks as a way to achieve that goal. Several authorities believed that a fresh round of multilateral trade negotiations may support a global economy that was being damaged by the recession and unpredictability around the terrorism. The WTO claims that 2001 had “the lowest rise in output in more than two decades” and saw a decline in global trade. At the meeting, negotiations were initially focused on reducing barriers to trade in agriculture, manufacturing and services, a number of other issues emerged over the course of the talk.
Modal Syntax and Semantics: Concord and Multiple Modals
Creators: name: Lewis, Blake
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Language--Modern
subject: Syntax
subject: Semantics
subject: Modality
subject: Concord
subject: Multiple Modals

description: This thesis examines two issues related to modal elements, modal concord and the presence of multiple modal auxiliaries. I claim that when two modal elements are interpreted in concord, they are joined via predicate modification at LF, and when modal elements are not interpreted in concord they are joined via functional application at LF. I provide evidence that modal auxiliaries are not merged in the T0 of the syntactic structure, but rather in a recursive modal phrase directly below T0. When there is more than one modal auxiliary in a clause, they are each merged into their own modal phrase.
Modeling and Calibration of Multi-Port Based Receiver Systems Mitigating System Imperfections and Hardware Impairments
Creators: name: Hasan, Abul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Calibration
subject: Diode Linearization
subject: Direct Conversion Receiver
subject: Memory Effect
subject: Modeling
subject: Six-Port
subject: Software Defined Radio

description: Six-port based homodyne receiver architecture is a low power and low cost alternative to the conventional homodyne receiver using diode based mixers. The problems of dc-offset, I/Q cross-talk, high conversion loss and nonlinearities due to diode mixers are some of the issues that make the conventional homodyne receiver architecture not very useful for practical low power communication systems employing envelope varying modulation scheme signals. The radio frequency (RF) front-end in a typical six-port based receiver (SPR) consists of a linear and passive six-port junction circuit that can be easily designed to cover a very large bandwidth. This makes the SPR concept an attractive candidate for software defined radio (SDR) receiver applications. The six-port based RF front-end provides low loss and doesn’t pose any nonlinearity issues. Sources of errors due to circuit and system components impairments can be easily calibrated and compensated in a SPR system as shown in this thesis.
TMDs, universality and factorization
Creators: name: D'Alesio, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a short overview on transverse momentum dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions, giving their partonic interpretation and ways to access them. We then discuss the issue of their universality and its connection to factorization in perturbative QCD.
description: 8 pages, 1 ps figure, uses cimento.cls. Talk delivered at the "Third International Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena in Hard Scattering" (Transversity 2011), 29 Aug.-2 Sep. 2011, Veli Losinj (Croatia). Submitted to Nuovo Cimento C