cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of A prognostic model for elderly patients with squamous non-small cell lung cancer: a population-based study
Creators: name: Chen, Siying
name: Gao, Chunxia
name: Du, Qian
name: Tang, Lina
name: You, Haisheng
name: Dong, Yalin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis based on all variables for overall survival (Training Cohort). Figure S1. Nomogram predicted 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival for elderly SCC patients with ten available factors, including age, sex, race, marital status, tumor site, the American Joint Committee for Cancer (AJCC) stage, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and Insurance. Figure S2. ROC curves and calibration plots for predicting 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival for elderly SCC patients in the training cohorts. (A) ROC curves of the Nomogram and AJCC stage in prediction of prognosis at 1-, 3- and 5-year point in the training set. (B) The calibration plots for predicting patient survival at 1-, 3- and 5-year point in the training set. ROC: receiver operating characteristic curve; AUC: areas under the ROC curve. Figure S3. ROC curves and calibration plots for predicting 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival for elderly SCC patients in the validation cohorts. (A) ROC curves of the Nomogram and AJCC stage in prediction of prognosis at 1-, 3- and 5-year point in the validation set. (B) The calibration plots for predicting patient survival at 1-, 3- and 5-year point in the validation set. ROC: receiver operating characteristic curve; AUC: areas under the ROC curve. Figure S4. Decision curve analysis for the Nomogram and AJCC stage in prediction of overall survival of elderly SCC patients at 1-year (A), 3-year (B) and 5-year (C) point in the validation cohorts.
Paludestrina brevispira Paladilhe 1870
Creators: name: Boeters, Hans D.
name: Falkner, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Paludestrina
Paludestrina brevispira

description: Paludestrina brevispira Paladilhe, 1870
 Paludestrina brevispira Paladilhe, 1870: 243 [separatum: 77]; 1874: pl. 3, figs 27, 28 [figs only].
ORIGINAL INDICATION OF THE TYPE LOCALITY. — “[…] dans les fonds de drague [Brague] venant d’Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), où elle habite, sans doute, des eaux saumâtres, d’où elle aura pu être entrainée par des cours d’eau.”
 TYPES. — About 25 syntypes in PPSUM2 -PAL; label: “ Pal.rina brevispira Fonds de dragues [sic] venant d’Antibes”.
 For the operculum and the shell Paladilhe gives the following description: “Opercule vitré, assez solide, légèrement marqué de stries spirales, peu enfoncé. Animal inconnu. Haut. 6 millim. 2, diam. 1 1/5.” The indication of the Measurements must be erroneous as the figure in natural size (Paladilhe 1874: pl. 3, fig. 28) shows a shell height of only 2 mm. The shells of 2 syntypes photographed by Boeters have a height of 1.82 and 1.87 mm, respectively. Because of the comparatively small size of the shell and the coulourless operculum it is assumed that the species belongs to Pseudamnicola and not to Mercuria.
description: Published as part of Boeters, Hans D. & Falkner, Gerhard, 2017, The genus Mercuria Boeters, 1971 in France (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae). West-European Hydrobiidae, Part 13, pp. 227-261 in Zoosystema 39 (2) on page 254, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n2a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5154165
Runge approximation on convex sets implies the Oka property
Creators: name: Forstneric, Franc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32E10, 32E30, 32H02, 32Q28

description: We prove that the classical Oka property of a complex manifold Y, concerning the existence and homotopy classification of holomorphic mappings from Stein manifolds to Y, is equivalent to a Runge approximation property for holomorphic maps from compact convex sets in Euclidean spaces to Y.
description: To appear in the Annals of Math
Additional file 1 of Natural variation of physiological traits, molecular markers, and chlorophyll catabolic genes associated with heat tolerance in perennial ryegrass accessions
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Li, Hui
name: Jiang, Yiwei
name: Li, Huibin
name: Zhang, Zhipeng
name: Xu, Zhipeng
name: Xu, Bin
name: Huang, Bingru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Eigenvectors and percentage of accumulated contribution ratios of each principal component. Table S2. Principle component analysis of eight physiological traits across 98 perennial ryegrass accessions using heat stress index (HSI) after 24 days of treatment. Table S3. Primers used for gene expression analysis.
Status of global fits to neutrino oscillations
Creators: name: Maltoni, M.
name: Schwetz, T.
name: Tortola, M. A.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the present status of global analyses of neutrino oscillations, taking into account the most recent neutrino data including the latest KamLAND and K2K updates presented at Neutrino2004, as well as state-of-the-art solar and atmospheric neutrino flux calculations. We give the two-neutrino solar + KamLAND results, as well as two-neutrino atmospheric + K2K oscillation regions, discussing in each case the robustness of the oscillation interpretation against departures from the Standard Solar Model and the possible existence of non-standard neutrino physics. Furthermore, we give the best fit values and allowed ranges of the three-flavour oscillation parameters from the current worlds' global neutrino data sample and discuss in detail the status of the small parameters $α\equiv \Dms/\Dma$ as well as $\sin^2θ_{13}$, which characterize the strength of CP violating effects in neutrino oscillations. We also update the degree of rejection of four-neutrino interpretations of the LSND anomaly in view of the most recent developments.
description: v6: In the last Appendix we provide updated neutrino oscillation results which take into account the relevant oscillation data released by the MINOS and KamLAND collaborations
Light charged Higgs boson with dominant decay to a charm quark and a bottom quark and its search at LEP2 and future $e^+e^-$ colliders
Creators: name: Akeroyd, A. G.
name: Moretti, Stefano
name: Song, Muyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of a light charged Higgs boson $H^\pm$ that decays predominantly to $cb$ and with a mass in the range 80 GeV $\le M_{H^\pm} \le 90$ GeV is studied in the context of a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM). Searches for this decay at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) do not have sensitivity to this mass region at present. It is shown that the searches for $H^\pm$ at LEP2 could be supplemented by either one or two $b$-tags, which would enable such large branching ratios for $H^\pm\to cb$ to be probed in the above mass region. We comment on the possibility of this 3HDM scenario to explain a slight excess in the searches for $H^\pm$ at LEP2, which is best fit by $M_{H^\pm}$ of around 90 GeV, and discuss the prospects for detecting $H^\pm \to cb$ decays at future $e^+e^-$ colliders.
description: 30 pages, 31 figures
On the excitation of the infrared knots along protostellar jets
Creators: name: Giannini, T.
name: McCoey, C.
name: Garatti, A. Caratti o
name: Nisini, B.
name: Lorenzetti, D.
name: Flower, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete near infrared (0.9-2.5 micron) spectra in three different star forming regions (HH24-26, HH72 and BHR71) are presented and analyzed in the framework of shock excitation models. The spectra are dominated by H_2 rovibrational emission (vibrational state nu up to 5, excitation energy T_ex up to 35000 K), while emission from ionized material, recognizable from [Fe II] and [S II] lines, is significantly fainter. The analysis of the H_2 excitation diagrams points to the existence of two different excitation regimes: whilst condensations observed only in the infrared appear to have temperatures rarely exceeding 3000 K and can be modelled in the framework of steady-state C-shock models, the infrared counterparts of Herbig Haro (HH) objects exhibit a temperature stratification with components up to more than 5000 K. The H_2 emission from representative HH objects (HH26A, HH72A and HH320A) has been successfully modelled by planar J-shocks with magnetic precursors, for which the main parameters (pre-shock density, speed) are derived. However, these same models are unable to reproduce the observed atomic and ionic emission, which probably arises from a distinct and perhaps more embedded region with respect to that traced by the H_2. Some of the physical parameters of such regions (fractional ionization, density) have been estimated in HH72, on the basis of the observed ionic lines.
description: 15 pages, 15 postscript figures, 3 jpeg figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Neutrino mass patterns, WMAP, and Neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Cheung, Kingman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the observed neutrino mass-square differences and mixings, we derive a few general patterns for the neutrino mass matrix in the flavor basis, which can correctly describe the atmospheric and solar neutrino data. Upon the most recent result on the absolute neutrino mass bound from WMAP, we can rule out a large portion of the parameter space that claimed by the positive signal in the Heidelberg-Moscow $0νββ$ experiment. In the case when one of the majorana phases is $π$, the effective neutrino mass obtained is inconsistent with the claim.
description: 8 pages, references corrected
MOESM1 of Home-grown school feeding: assessment of a pilot program in Nepal
Creators: name: Rachana Shrestha
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Nyangmi, Mamta
name: Sah, Manoj
name: Phuong, Judy
name: Manandhar, Shraddha
name: Ray-Yu Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. FGD and KIIÂ guides.
X-ray flashes from off-axis nonuniform jets
Creators: name: Jin, Z. P.
name: Wei, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that outflows of gamma-ray bursts are jetted. Some people also suggest that the jets may have structures like $ε(θ)\proptoθ^{-k}$. We test the possibility of X-ray flashes coming from such jets in this paper. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses have shown that this model can reproduce most observational features for both X-ray flashes and gamma-ray bursts. Using common parameters of gamma-ray bursts, we have done both uniform and nonuniform jets' numerical calculations for their fluxes, spectra and peak energies. It seems that nonuniform jets are more appropriated to these observational properties than uniform ones. We also give a spectrum and flux fit to the most significant X-ray flash, XRF971019 by our model. We also have shown that in our model the observational ratio of gamma-ray bursts to X-ray flashes is about several.
description: Latex, 5 pages, 3 figures
Depth profile study of $^{210}$Pb in the surface of an NaI(Tl) crystal
Creators: name: Yu, G. H.
name: Ha, C.
name: Jeon, E. J.
name: Kim, K. W.
name: Kim, N. Y.
name: Kim, Y. D.
name: Lee, H. S.
name: Park, H. K.
name: Rott, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface $^{210}$Pb is one of the main background sources for dark-matter-search experiments using NaI(Tl) crystals, and its spectral features associated with the beta-decay events for energies less than 60 keV depends on the depth distribution of $^{210}$Pb in the surface of an NaI(Tl) crystal. Therefore, we must understand the profile of surface $^{210}$Pb to precisely model the background measurement in the low-energy region for the low-background experiment using NaI(Tl) crystals. We estimate the depth profile of the surface $^{210}$Pb contamination by modeling the measured spectrum of the alpha emission from the decay of $^{210}$Po at the decay sequence of the surface $^{210}$Pb contamination that is obtained using an $^{222}$Rn-contaminated crystal. In order to describe the energy spectra of the surface contamination we perform a log-likelihood fit of the measured data to a sum of Geant4 Mote Carlo simulations, weighted by an exponential curve as a function of the surface depth. The low- and high-energy events from the beta decay of surface $^{210}$Pb are also modeled to improve the depth profile for shallow depths. We simulate the energy spectra from beta decays of $^{210}$Pb that are exponentially distributed in the surface by following two exponential functions where the mean-depth coefficients are free parameters in the data fitting; we observed that the energy spectra are in good agreement with the measured data.
Sustainable and green synthesis of hydrogen tungsten bronze nanoparticles with nanocarbon via mechanically induced hydrogen spillover
Creators: name: Kato, Kunihiko
name: Sudo, Takafumi
name: Xin, Yunzi
name: Shirai, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we demonstrate sustainable and green nanotechnology for room-temperature synthesis of H$_x$WO$_3$ ($0
MOESM2 of Home-grown school feeding: assessment of a pilot program in Nepal
Creators: name: Rachana Shrestha
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Nyangmi, Mamta
name: Sah, Manoj
name: Phuong, Judy
name: Manandhar, Shraddha
name: Ray-Yu Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. CodebookÂ of qualitative data.
Additional file 1 of Transcriptional response of Bacillus megaterium FDU301 to PEG200-mediated arid stress
Creators: name: Zhao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yanjun
name: Li, Jianbei
name: Xia, Yucheng
name: Wang, Weiyun
name: Luo, Xiuqi
name: Yin, Juan
name: Zhong, Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. RT-qPCR verification. Ten DEGs were randomly selected and their transcriptional level were determined with RT-qPCR. FC: fold of change in the transcriptional level in simulated arid condition (LB medium with 15% PEG200, w/w) comparing to normal LB medium.
The Technical Debt Dataset
Creators: name: Lenarduzzi, Valentina
name: Saarimäki, Nyyti
name: Taibi, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Technical Debt analysis is increasing in popularity as nowadays researchers and industry are adopting various tools for static code analysis to evaluate the quality of their code. Despite this, empirical studies on software projects are expensive because of the time needed to analyze the projects. In addition, the results are difficult to compare as studies commonly consider different projects. In this work, we propose the Technical Debt Dataset, a curated set of project measurement data from 33 Java projects from the Apache Software Foundation. In the Technical Debt Dataset, we analyzed all commits from separately defined time frames with SonarQube to collect Technical Debt information and with Ptidej to detect code smells. Moreover, we extracted all available commit information from the git logs, the refactoring applied with Refactoring Miner, and fault information reported in the issue trackers (Jira). Using this information, we executed the SZZ algorithm to identify the fault-inducing and -fixing commits. We analyzed 78K commits from the selected 33 projects, detecting 1.8M SonarQube issues, 38K code smells, 28K faults and 57K refactorings. The project analysis took more than 200 days. In this paper, we describe the data retrieval pipeline together with the tools used for the analysis. The dataset is made available through CSV files and an SQLite database to facilitate queries on the data. The Technical Debt Dataset aims to open up diverse opportunities for Technical Debt research, enabling researchers to compare results on common projects.
Monte Carlo Study of Doping Change and Disorder Effect on Double Exchange Ferromagnetism
Creators: name: Motome, Yukitoshi
name: Furukawa, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase diagram and critical properties are studied for three-dimensional double exchange model with and without quenched disorder. Employing the Monte Carlo method and the systematic analysis on the finite-size effect, we estimate the Curie temperature and the critical exponent as functions of the doping concentration and the strength of the random potential. The Curie temperature well scales to the kinetic energy of electrons in the ground state as expected for this kinetics-driven ferromagnetism. The universality class of this transition is described by the short-range Heisenberg fixed point. The results are compared with the experimental results in the colossal magnetoresistance manganites.
description: 7 pages including 8 figures
How local is local? Consumer Preference for Steaks with Different Food Mile Implications
Creators: name: Lim, Kar Ho
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Lim, Kar Ho
name: Hu, Wuyang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Local Food Policy
subject: Choice Experiment
subject: Willingness to Pay
subject: Beef

description: Results from a choice experiment of the Canadian population reveal consumers were indifferent between product labeled as “Local” and “Local: from within 160 km”;. Despite the present stricter regulation in place for local food, our results suggest that transition from 50 km limit to 160 km limit equally satisfy consumers while open up access for more farm areas to increase supply of local food. Additionally, consumers willing to pay significantly more for home-province product over local product.
The trion: two electrons plus one hole versus one electron plus one exciton
Creators: name: Combescot, M.
name: Betbeder-Matibet, O.
name: Dubin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first show that, for problems dealing with trions, it is totally hopeless to use the standard many-body description in terms of electrons and holes and its associated Feynman diagrams. We then show how, by using the description of a trion as an electron interacting with an exciton, we can obtain the trion absorption through far simpler diagrams, written with electrons and \emph{excitons}. These diagrams are quite novel because, for excitons being not exact bosons, we cannot use standard procedures designed to deal with interacting true fermions or true bosons. A new many-body formalism is necessary to establish the validity of these electron-exciton diagrams and to derive their specific rules. It relies on the ``commutation technique'' we recently developed to treat interacting close-to-bosons. This technique generates a scattering associated to direct Coulomb processes between electrons and excitons and a dimensionless ``scattering'' associated to electron exchange inside the electron-exciton pairs -- this ``scattering'' being the original part of our many-body theory. It turns out that, although exchange is crucial to differentiate singlet from triplet trions, this ``scattering'' enters the absorption explicitly when the photocreated electron and the initial electron have the same spin -- \emph{i}. \emph{e}., when triplet trions are the only ones created -- \emph{but not} when the two spins are different, although triplet trions are also created in this case. The physical reason for this rather surprising result will be given.
Analyses of Factors That Affect Mill Consumption of Cotton in the United States
Creators: name: Lowenstein, Frank
name: Simon, Martin S.
name: Lowenstein, Frank
name: Simon, Martin S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1954
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Research discussed in this article represents one phase of a comprehensive project designed to study the demand for the principal textile fibers in this country—cotton, wool, and synthetic fibers. Results from the larger study are to be reported in a technical bulletin which will include a more detailed version of this paper, possibly slightly revised if warranted by research still in progress. From the standpoint of quantities consumed, cotton is by far the most important, fiber of the group. Annual variations in total fiber consumption—including flax and silk—have conformed rather closely to those for cotton, despite the steady advance in use of synthetics. Determination of factors primarily responsible for variations in cotton consumption and their relative significance is a noteworthy step toward understanding fluctuations in the use of all fibers in the aggregate.1
Genome-wide analysis revisits incipient sympatric and allopatric speciation in a beetle
Creators: name: Hong, Wei
name: Li, Kexin
name: Sharaf, Kamal
name: Song, Xiaoying
name: Pavlìcek, Tomàš
name: Zhao, Huabin
name: Nevo, Eviatar
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: classificationCode: 310499
subject: Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified

description: The grain
beetle, Oryzaephilus
surinamensis, is a widespread
species distributed in the wild and in granaries. Our earlier
extensive biological studies indicated that the beetle shows incipient sympatric
speciation (SS) in the wild at Evolution Canyon I (EC-I), Israel, and allopatric speciation,
in a granary. Here we provide genome-wide evidence supporting our adaptive
evolution scenario involving two models of speciation, SS in the
wild, and allopatric in the granary. The EC-I microsite is a hot spot
of SS across life from bacteria to mammals caused by the sharp opposite
microclimates. The tropical hot, dry and savannoid biome dubbed
the “African” slope (AS), sharply contrasts with the opposite
temperate, cool, humid, and forested biome on the European” slope
(ES), separated by only ~250 meters. The third allopatric granary
population is 26 km north of EC-I. The granary population showed larger
genomic, morphological, and behavioral distances, smaller genome size,
more unique transposable elements, and reproductive isolation,
displaying faster genomic divergence than between the wild populations at
EC-I. The incipient SS of the wild populations, and
the speciation of the granary population are reinforced by
the substantial genomic divergence among the three beetle
populations, supporting again the evolutionary scenario of incipient SS
with gene flow at EC-I, and allopatric speciation in the granary
population. We propose additional studies in Israel, the Mediterranean basin,
and worldwide, to negate alternative explanations, based on a broader sampling
and analysis.
Energy dissipation in composites with hybrid nacre-like helicoidal microstructures
Creators: name: Chan, Xin Ying
name: Chua, Clarence
name: Tan, Sharlene
name: Ferrand, Hortense Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Natural ceramic composites present complex microstructures that lead to tortuous crack paths and confer them high toughness. Current microreinforced composites do not yet reach the same level of complexity in their microstructures, resulting in poorer properties. To achieve complex microstructuration, magnetically-assisted slip casting (MASC) was conducted using a setup with 4 degrees of freedom. Among all possible microstructures, a hybrid design between nacre-like and helicoidal arrangements was selected due to its ability to tilt and twist the crack path. The hybrid microstructured specimen fabricated, consisting of aluminum oxide micro platelets in a silicone matrix, were tested under compression and their mechanical performance compared. Although nacre-like composites exhibited the highest strength and toughness, helicoidal hybrids could show some ductility and higher stiffness. The fabrication strategy proposed here could thus be a simple route to study more complex microstructures in view of increasing the toughness of microplatelet reinforced composites.
e+e- --> nu nu-bar A in the two-Higgs-doublet model
Creators: name: Farris, T.
name: Gunion, J. F.
name: Logan, H. E.
name: Su, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the cross section for e+e- --> nu nu-bar A, where A is the CP-odd scalar, in the general CP-conserving type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. We sum the contributions from the ``t-channel'' e+e- --> nu nu-bar W W --> nu nu-bar A graphs and ``s-channel'' e+e- --> Z A --> nu nu-bar A graphs, including their interference. Higgs-triangle graphs and all box diagrams are included. For many parameter choices, especially those in the decoupling region of parameter space (light h and m_A, m_H, m_H^+ > 2 m_Z), the Higgs-triangle and box diagrams are found to be of minor importance, the main contributing loops being the top and bottom quark triangle diagrams. The predicted cross section is rather small for tan beta > 2 and/or m_A > 2 m_t. However, we also show that if parameters are chosen corresponding to large Higgs self-couplings then the Higgs-triangle graphs can greatly enhance the cross section. We also demonstrate that the SUSY-loop corrections to the b b-bar A coupling could be such as to greatly enhance this coupling, resulting in an enhanced nu nu-bar A cross section. Complete cross section expressions are given in the Appendices.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures, tex file requires axodraw; v2: minor changes, to appear in PRD
Exploratory Testing A Dynamic Approach to Software Quality Assurance.pdf
Creators: name: Rahman, Tawhidur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation

description: Introducing a Dynamic Testing Approach: This paper highlights the significance of exploratory testing as a flexible, adaptive methodology that differs from traditional scripted testing. It addresses gaps in fast-paced Agile and DevOps environments where real-time software changes occur.Emphasizing Complementary Use with Automation: The paper shows how exploratory testing complements automated testing, covering areas that scripted tests or automation may miss, such as complex workflows, integration points, and user experience.Providing Case Study Evidence: It includes case study examples, demonstrating the practical benefits and challenges of exploratory testing in real-world Agile projects, and adding empirical evidence to theoretical discussions.Exploring Session-Based Test Management (SBTM): The paper advances the literature by discussing structured exploratory testing via Session-Based Test Management, making the informal nature of exploratory testing more accountable and measurable.Highlighting Challenges and Solutions: By discussing limitations like repeatability, documentation issues, and coverage gaps, the paper provides insight into improving exploratory testing practices with tools and structured methods
Seed Market Segmentation: How Do Argentine Farmers Buy Their Expendable Inputs?
Creators: name: Feeney, Roberto
name: Berardi, Valeria
name: Feeney, Roberto
name: Berardi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: expendable inputs
subject: seed industry
subject: Cluster analysis
subject: Multinomial logit

description: In this paper we analyze the buying behavior of farmers for expendable inputs. In particular, we will study the case of the seed industry in Argentina. We segment them using cluster analysis, identifying four distinctive segments of farmers for seed purchasing: Performance, Price, Balance, and Convenience. This work intends to help agribusiness managers understand customers in the seed market in Argentina. Additionally, a multinomial logit model is used to predict segment membership for seed purchases based on farmers’ observable and attitudinal variables.
description: The IFAMR is the flagship journal in Agribusiness published quarterly by IFAMA. More information can be found at: www.ifama.org
Survey of Farm Slaughter of Hogs in North Carolina
Creators: name: Fleischer, Jack
name: Finkner, Alva L.
name: Fleischer, Jack
name: Finkner, Alva L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1954
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The study reported in the following paper was based on a survey conducted by the Institute of Statistics, North Carolina State College. The survey was designed to assist the Livestock and Poultry Statistics Branch, of the Agricultural Estimates Division to isolate factors that may account for total disposition in their national balance sheet for hogs.
Droplet formation in expanding nuclear matter: a system-size dependent study
Creators: name: FOPI Collaboration
name: Reisdorf, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cluster production is investigated in central collisions of Ca+Ca, Ni+Ni, 96Zr+96Zr, 96Ru+96Ru, Xe+CsI and Au+Au reactions at 0.4A GeV incident energy. We find that the multiplicity of clusters with charge Z > 2 grows quadratically with the system's total charge and is associated with a mid-rapidity source with increasing transverse velocity fluctuations.
description: 13 pages,4 figures; to be published in Physics Letters B
Comparative sustainability evaluation of two engineered wood-based construction materials: Life cycle analysis of CLT versus GLT
Creators: name: Balasbaneh, AT
name: Sher, William
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3301
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 3302
subject: Building
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 33
subject: Built environment and design

description: The environmental emissions and energy from construction activity and building materials contributes significantly to a building's sustainability. Previous research dealing with wood or engineering wood's energy requirements compared to reinforced concrete and steel structures has shown that embodied energy and embodied carbon is significantly lower in wood-based construction. This study has assessed the environmental impact and costs of glued laminated timber (GLT) or cross-laminated timber (CLT). Hardwood and softwood variants of both GLT and CLT were considered. We compared the life cycle costs (LCC) of these alternatives to discover the lowest cost. The comparative results indicated that GLT has higher emissions in Global warming potential (GWP), Terrestrial Ecotoxicity (TE), Land Use (LUP), and Ozone layer depletion (OLD), while CLT has higher impact in Human-Toxicity Potential (HTP), Fossil Depletion Potential (FDP). The results indicated that using CLT significantly reduces embodied energy by 40%. However, a comparison of costs showed that CLT is 7% more expensive than GLT. Establishing which material performs best based on environmental and economic criteria thus required further analysis. Thus, the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method was applied. This showed that CLT manufactured with softwood is the most sustainable choice among the alternatives considered. This study's findings are important for aggregate level decision making of different wood materials for residential buildings.
Curvature effects on phase transitions in chiral magnets
Creators: name: Yershov, Kostiantyn V.
name: Kravchuk, Volodymyr P.
name: Sheka, Denis D.
name: Rößler, Ulrich K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodical equilibrium states of magnetization exist in chiral ferromagnetic films, if the constant of antisymmetric exchange (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction) exceeds some critical value. Here, we demonstrate that this critical value can be significantly modified in curved film. The competition between symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions in a curved film can lead to a new type of domain wall which is inclined with respect to the cylinder axis. The wall structure is intermediate between Bloch and Néel ones. The exact analytical solutions for phase boundary curves and the new domain wall are obtained.
MOESM2 of Long live the king: chromosome-level assembly of the lion (Panthera leo) using linked-read, Hi-C, and long-read data
Creators: name: Armstrong, Ellie
name: Taylor, Ryan
name: Miller, Danny
name: Kaelin, Christopher
name: Barsh, Gregory
name: Hadly, Elizabeth
name: Petrov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Various code used to map and analyze results described in manuscript.
THE ROLE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN IMPLEMENTING THE PRIORITY OF YOUTH EDUCATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE NEW UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Shukurov, N.N.
name: Supiyev, Sh.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this article, the relevance and priority of educational processes that should be instilled in young people in the implementation of educational system reforms in the conditions of New Uzbekistan and the role of foreign languages in these processes are expressed.
MOESM2 of Global evaluation of taxonomic relationships and admixture within the Culex pipiens complex of mosquitoes
Creators: name: Aardema, Matthew
name: VonHoldt, Bridgett
name: Fritz, Megan
name: Davis, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. The observed distributions of variant quality measures in our ‘all segregating sites’ dataset. Figure S2. a The number of segregating variants in our ‘four-fold degenerate sites’ dataset across the three Culex chromosomes. b The number of segregating variants in our ‘all segregating sites’ dataset across the three Culex chromosomes. Figure S3. Principal components analysis (PCA) using all segregating sites with reported samples for all six described members of the Culex pipiens complex (a) and with a four-taxon set that excluded australicus and globocoxitus (b). Figure S4. Violin plots showing the cross-validation (CV) error values from our ADMIXTURE analyses. Figure S5. World maps showing the relative proportions of inferred populations as determined in our ADMIXTURE analysis using four-fold degenerate sites. Figure S6. World maps showing the relative proportions of inferred populations as determined in our ADMIXTURE analysis using all segregating sites. Figure S7. STRUCTURE bar plots for the samples in our subsampled dataset using all segregating sites. Figure S8. Maximum likelihood phylogeny using all segregating sites.
Drying behavior of dense refractory ceramic castables. Part 1 General aspects and experimental techniques used to assess water removal
Creators: name: Luz, A. P.
name: Moreira, M. H.
name: Braulio, M. A. L.
name: Parr, C.
name: Pandolfelli, V. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the continuous evolution on the performance of refractory ceramic products, monolithic materials still require special attention during their processing steps as various phase transformations may take place during the curing, drying and firing stages. Drying is usually the longest and the most critical process observed during the first heating cycle of refractory linings, as the enhanced particle packing and reduced permeability of the resulting microstructure may lead to recurrent explosive spalling and mechanical damage associated with dewatering and the development of high steam pressure at the inner regions of such dense materials. In this context, this review article mainly addresses (i) the theoretical aspects related to the drying process of dense refractories, (ii) the influence of the phase transformations derived from the binder additives, and (iii) the usual and advanced experimental techniques to assess the water removal from consolidated castable pieces. Many studies have pointed out that due to the complex nature of this phenomenon (i.e., considering combined thermal stresses and pore pressure, heterogeneous microstructure, evolving pore structure with temperature, etc.), the mechanisms behind the water withdrawal and castables explosive spalling are lacking further understanding and, consequently, it has been difficult to save time and energy during the first heating of industrial equipment lined with ceramic materials. On the other hand, different methods are used for refractory spalling assessment and many efforts have been carried out in applying in situ imaging techniques (such as NMR and neutron tomography) to follow the moisture evolution during such thermal treatments.
Voronoi Construction for Improving Numerical Calculations of Particles
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Wilfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculations on atomistic scale are necessary for understanding of physical phenomena occurring during advanced processing of liquids, slurries, and nano-ceramics composite materials. This paper describes some new ideas for using the Voronoi construction for calculations of amorphous materials or liquids in comparison to the regular arrangement of atoms in crystals. This approach for treating numerical calculations can be used for any particle simulation method, like Molecular Dynamics or Ab-initio calculations in real or reciprocal space. In the discussion the interpretation of electron dispersion relations for use in solid state physics is also summarized.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
An optimized pipeline for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain
Creators: name: Diao, Yujian
name: Yin, Ting
name: Gruetter, Rolf
name: Jelescu, Ileana O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resting state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) is a widespread and powerful tool for investigating functional connectivity and brain disorders. However, functional connectivity analysis can be seriously affected by random and structured noise from non-neural sources such as physiology. Thus, it is essential to first reduce thermal noise and then correctly identify and remove non-neural artefacts from rs-fMRI signals through optimized data processing methods. However, existing tools that correct for these effects have been developed for human brain and are not readily transposable to rat data. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to establish a data processing pipeline that can robustly remove random and structured noise from rat rs-fMRI data. It includes a novel denoising approach based on the Marchenko-Pastur Principle Component Analysis (MP-PCA) method, FMRIB's ICA-based Xnoiseifier (FIX) for automatic artefact classification and cleaning, and global signal regression. Our results show that: I) MP-PCA denoising substantially improves the temporal signal-to-noise ratio; II) the pre-trained FIX classifier achieves a high accuracy in artefact classification; III) both artefact cleaning and global signal regression are essential steps in minimizing the within-group variability in control animals and identifying functional connectivity changes in a rat model of sporadic Alzheimer's disease, as compared to controls.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
MOESM1 of Long live the king: chromosome-level assembly of the lion (Panthera leo) using linked-read, Hi-C, and long-read data
Creators: name: Armstrong, Ellie
name: Taylor, Ryan
name: Miller, Danny
name: Kaelin, Christopher
name: Barsh, Gregory
name: Hadly, Elizabeth
name: Petrov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of data sources used for analysis. Table S2. Details of genome assembly fill in with Oxford Nanopore data. Table S3. Comparative assembly statistics from Assemblathon 2 scripts [69] from published Panthera and Felid genomes. Table S4. BUSCOv3 scores for assembly completeness of the three assembly phases of the African lion genome. Table S5. Comparative BUSCO scores between published Panthera and Felid assemblies. Table S6. Repeat element statistics for the three lion de novo genome assemblies generated in this study. Table S7. Repeat element statistics for various Panthera assemblies and the domestic cat. Table S8. Annotation statistics for the three lion de novo assemblies generated in this study from the JCVI program. Table S9. Annotation statistics for Panthera genome assemblies and the domestic cat (felCat9) using jcvi. Table S10. Observed heterozygosity statistics from various assembly versions of the lion (mapped to the “10x only” and “PanLeo1.0) and tiger (from Cho et al. 2013, and the upgraded DNA Zoo tiger assembly). Table S11. Heterozygosity (observed) from various Panthera individuals when mapped to respective species genome (i.e. lions were mapped to PanLeo1.0, tigers mapped to DNAZoo tiger assembly) genome compared to when mapped to the domestic cat. Table S12. Lengths of runs of homozygosity across various lion genomes using PanLeo1.0 as reference. Figure S1. Figure S2. Circos plot of alignments between tiger (right) and domestic cat (left) chromosomes. Colors represent different chromosomes with bottom chromosome (shown in dark brown) representing A1. Figure S3. Histograms of per window heterozygosity. Graphs skewed more left represent individuals with more windows having lower heterozygosity on average. A: Lion from this study, PanLeo1.0, B: Tawny lion, Cho et al. (2013), C: White lion, Cho et al. (2013), D: Asiatic lion, Mitra et al. (2019). Figure S4. Genome-wide heterozygosity. Panels show heterozygosity genome-wide in non-overlapping 1 Mb bins. A: Lion from this study, PanLeo1.0, B: Tawny lion, Cho et al. (2013), C: White lion, Cho et al. (2013), D: Asiatic lion, Mitra et al. (2019). Red line represents the mean heterozygosity value genome-wide. Figure S5. Bootstrap PSMC plot comparing generation times of 5 and 6 years using PanLeo1.0 as the reference sequence.
Hidden magnetic transitions in thermoelectric layered cobaltite, [Ca$_2$CoO$_3$]$_{0.62}$[CoO$_2$]
Creators: name: Sugiyama, J.
name: Brewer, J. H.
name: Ansaldo, E. J.
name: Itahara, H.
name: Dohmae, K.
name: Seno, Y.
name: Xia, C.
name: Tani, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A positive muon spin rotation and relaxation ($μ^+$SR) experiment on [Ca$_2$CoO$_3$]$_{0.62}$[CoO$_2$], ({\sl i.e.}, Ca$_3$Co$_4$O$_9$, a layered thermoelectric cobaltite) indicates the existence of two magnetic transitions at $\sim$ 100 K and 400 - 600 K; the former is a transition from a paramagnetic state to an incommensurate ({\sf IC}) spin density wave ({\sf SDW}) state. The anisotropic behavior of zero-field $μ^+$SR spectra at 5 K suggests that the {\sf IC-SDW} propagates in the $a$-$b$ plane, with oscillating moments directed along the c-axis; also the {\sf IC-SDW} is found to exist not in the [Ca$_2$CoO$_3$] subsystem but in the [CoO$_2$] subsystem. In addition, it is found that the long-range {\sf IC-SDW} order completes below $\sim$ 30 K, whereas the short-range order appears below 100 K. The latter transition is interpreted as a gradual change in the spin state of Co ions %% at temperatures above 400 K. These two magnetic transitions detected by $μ^+$SR are found to correlate closely with the transport properties of [Ca$_2$CoO$_3$]$_{0.62}$[CoO$_2$].
description: 7 pages, 8 figures. to be appeared in Phys. Rev. B