cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economics of energy demand: evaluation of smart meter policies, technologies and consumption behaviour in the domestic sector in the UK
Creators: name: Coutellier, Quentin
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this thesis is to develop a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic benefits of implementing smart metering infrastructure to monitor energy consumption in the domestic sector. Throughout a series of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in chapters 2 and 3, and a natural experiment in chapter 4, I bring empirical evidence of the opportunities granular energy smart meter data can offer when framing information back to consumers to foster pro-environmental behaviours.\par In the second chapter, I compare various forms of energy consumption feedback facilitated by smart meters and smart phone apps through a large-scale RCT among 40,000 customers of a large energy retailer in the UK. Following the 2016 smart meter derogation in the UK, I investigate whether and how more advanced feedback involving peer group comparisons as well as disaggregation of total energy consumption can generate greater reduction in energy usage than basic feedback apps used in conjunction with in-home displays. \par In the third chapter, I analyse residential energy demand flexibility through a series of field experiments on adoption and usage of WiFi-enabled smart plugs to overcome the limited attention or rebound effects associated with demand shifting. With 146 active participants, I study the adoption and user interaction of devices for automated dynamic energy demand-side management. This difference-in-difference design allows me to explore whether and how devices and incentive systems may be designed and deployed to improve load balancing in the centralised energy grid. \par In the fourth chapter, I explore the impact of changes in teleworking and commuting habits during the 2020 spring lockdown on the domestic energy demand in the UK and the associated effect on households' carbon footprint. Alongside a customer survey, electricity and gas consumption data from around 1,164 participating households, including 452 survey respondents, is collected for 2019 and 2020. The last chapter concludes.
Solution approaches for the vehicle routing problem with occasionaldrivers and time windows
Creators: name: Di Puglia Pugliese, Luigi
name: Ferone, Daniele
name: Festa, Paola
name: Guerriero, Francesca
name: Macrina, Giusy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10206 Operations Research
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Computational results
An investigation of pyrolysis for the treatment of faecal sludge from onsite sanitation systems
Creators: name: Krueger, Benedict
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Blanket deployment of conventional sewer systems is no longer regarded as a realistic or even desirable development goal, particularly to meet the needs of growing urban populations in low- and middle-income countries. Where onsite sanitation is the norm, the treatment of faecal sludge (FS) within a FS management system (FSM) is a pressing concern. This research investigated pyrolysis as a novel approach for FS treatment, demonstrating its applicability at laboratory- and full-scale. The comprehensive quantification of organic and inorganic constituents revealed significant influences of the sanitation technology (urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDT), ventilated improved pit latrines (VIP), septic tanks (ST)), introducing an unprecedented understanding of FS composition. Nevertheless, the application of pyrolysis was constrained by the high inorganic content reducing the calorific value, with FS from VIPs, UDDTs and STs measuring median ash fractions of 51.2, 37.8 and 33.2 %dwb respectively, leading to ash fractions >60% in FS-derived chars. This research shed light on the relationships between organic FS composition and its pyrolytic decomposition, formerly regarded as a black box, which can now be classified as follows: decomposition of hemicellulose, cellulose, other carbohydrates, proteins and, partially, lignin (200-380°C); continued decomposition of lignin and thermal cracking of oil and grease (380-500°C); continued carbonisation (>500°C). Thus, a minimum pyrolysis temperature of 500°C was recommended to ensure completion of the main pyrolysis reactions. For the first time, operational data from full-scale FS pyrolysis is presented. The findings show that continuous pyrolysis combined with mechanical dewatering offers considerable space savings in comparison to established treatment technologies. If pyrolysis is utilised in end-of-pipe scenarios, co-pyrolysis with auxiliary materials such as biomass was deemed indispensable. As novel FSM approaches such as container-based sanitation become more widely applied, a higher degree of source control will favourably influence FS properties, improving the suitability of pyrolysis for use in FSM.
Collisions between laser-cooled atoms and molecules
Creators: name: Jurgilas, Sarunas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: This thesis describes an experiment to produce the first laser cooled mixtures of atoms and polar molecules in magneto-optical and magnetic quadrupole traps. Inelastic collision processes between CaF molecules and Rb atoms are studied in both trapping arrangements. When molecules occupy the first rotationally excited state it is found that loss from either trap occurs at near the universal rate due to collisions with co-trapped atoms. When the molecular sample is transferred to the ground rotational state the loss rate is suppressed by at least an order of magnitude. The experimental results are compared to a quantum scattering model based on quantum defect theory and the results seem to be encouraging for observing a high ratio of elastic to inelastic collision rates in this system. In addition, improvements to the experimental apparatus are presented which led to the first measurements of the elastic cross-section for collisions between CaF and Rb. Although at the currently attainable number densities no thermalization is observed, an upper bound on the value of the cross section is placed.
ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING RURAL REAL ESTATE VALUES IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA
Creators: name: Nelson, James R.
name: Burton, William E.
name: Nelson, James R.
name: Burton, William E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The objective of the study reported was to examine factors that cause variations in rural real estate values in an eastern Oklahoma study area. Econometric models were developed to explain values of study area rural real estate in general and agricultural and non-agricultural real estate in particular.
Nuclear dimension of crossed products associated to partial dynamical systems
Creators: name: Geffen, Shirly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55, 46L35

description: We bound the nuclear dimension of crossed products associated to some partial actions of finite groups or $\mathbb{Z}$ on finite dimensional locally compact Hausdorff second countable spaces. Our results apply to globalizable partial actions, finite group partial actions, minimal partial automorphisms, and partial automorphisms acting on zero-dimensional spaces, or a class of one dimensional spaces, containing $1$-dimensional CW complexes. This extends work on global systems by Hirshberg and Wu.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure. To appear in J. Funct. Anal. Minor changes, accepted version
On Residualizing Homomorphisms Preserving Quasiconvexity
Creators: name: Minasyan, Ashot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 20F67,20E26, Secondary 20F06

description: $H$ is called a $G$-subgroup of a hyperbolic group $G$ if for any finite subset $M\subset G$ there exists a homomorphism from $G$ onto a non-elementary hyperbolic group $G_1$ that is surjective on $H$ and injective on $M$. In his paper in 1993 A. Ol'shanskii gave a description of all $G$-subgroups in any given non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$. Here we show that for the same class of $G$-subgroups the finiteness assumption on $M$ (under certain natural conditions) can be replaced by an assumption of quasiconvexity.
description: 41 pages, 2 figures. Final version (some typos corrected)
Scaling and crossovers in activated escape near a bifurcation point
Creators: name: Ryvkine, D.
name: Dykman, M. I.
name: Golding, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near a bifurcation point a system experiences critical slowing down. This leads to scaling behavior of fluctuations. We find that a periodically driven system may display three scaling regimes and scaling crossovers near a saddle-node bifurcation where a metastable state disappears. The rate of activated escape $W$ scales with the driving field amplitude $A$ as $\ln W \propto (A_c-A)^ξ$, where $A_c$ is the bifurcational value of $A$. With increasing field frequency the critical exponent $ξ$ changes from $ξ= 3/2$ for stationary systems to a dynamical value $ξ=2$ and then again to $ξ=3/2$. The analytical results are in agreement with the results of asymptotic calculations in the scaling region. Numerical calculations and simulations for a model system support the theory.
description: 18 pages
Additional file 1 of The influence of a swab type on the results of point-of-care tests
Creators: name: Zasada, Aleksandra Anna
name: Zacharczuk, Katarzyna
name: Woźnica, Katarzyna
name: Małgorzata Główka
name: Ziółkowski, Robert
name: Malinowska, Elżbieta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Average amount of extracted DNA (ng/µl).
A Chandra Survey of the Nearest ULIRGs: Obscured AGN or Super-Starbursts?
Creators: name: Ptak, A.
name: Heckman, T.
name: Levenson, N. A.
name: Weaver, K.
name: Strickland, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present initial results from a Chandra survey of a complete sample of the 8 nearest (z <= 0.04) ultraluminous IR galaxies (ULIRGs), and also include the IR-luminous galaxy NGC 6240 for comparison. In this paper we use the hard X-rays (2-8 kev) to search for the possible presence of an obscured AGN. In every case, a hard X-ray source is detected in the nuclear region. If we divide the sample according to the optical/IR spectroscopic classification (starburst vs. AGN), we find that the 5 ``starburst'' ULIRGs have hard X-ray luminosities about an order-of-magnitude smaller than the 3 ``AGN'' ULIRGs. NGC 6240 has an anomalously high hard X-ray luminosity compared to the ``starburst'' ULIRGs. The Fe Kalpha line is convincingly detected in only two ULIRGs. The weakness of the Fe-K emission in these ULIRGs generally suggests that the hard X-ray spectrum is not dominated by reflection from high N_H neutral material. The hard X-ray continuum flux ranges from a few X 10^3 to a few X 10^-5 of the far-IR flux, similar to values in pure starbursts, and several orders-of-magnitude smaller than in Compton-thin AGN. The upper limits on the ratio of the Fe Kalpha to far-IR flux are below the values measured in Compton-thick type 2 Seyfert galaxies. While very large column densities of molecular gas are observed in the nuclei of these galaxies, we find no evidence that the observed X-ray sources are obscured by Compton-thick material. Thus, our new hard X-ray data do not provide direct evidence that powerful ``buried quasars'' dominate the overall energetics of most ultraluminous infrared galaxies.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, formatted with emulateapj.sty, accepted for publication in August 2003 ApJ
Mnemonics Training: Multi-Class Incremental Learning without Forgetting
Creators: name: Liu, Yaoyao
name: Su, Yuting
name: Liu, An-An
name: Schiele, Bernt
name: Sun, Qianru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-Class Incremental Learning (MCIL) aims to learn new concepts by incrementally updating a model trained on previous concepts. However, there is an inherent trade-off to effectively learning new concepts without catastrophic forgetting of previous ones. To alleviate this issue, it has been proposed to keep around a few examples of the previous concepts but the effectiveness of this approach heavily depends on the representativeness of these examples. This paper proposes a novel and automatic framework we call mnemonics, where we parameterize exemplars and make them optimizable in an end-to-end manner. We train the framework through bilevel optimizations, i.e., model-level and exemplar-level. We conduct extensive experiments on three MCIL benchmarks, CIFAR-100, ImageNet-Subset and ImageNet, and show that using mnemonics exemplars can surpass the state-of-the-art by a large margin. Interestingly and quite intriguingly, the mnemonics exemplars tend to be on the boundaries between different classes.
description: Experiment results updated (different from the conference version). Code is available at https://github.com/yaoyao-liu/mnemonics-training
Investigating the role of infill structures on the shape memory effect of shape memory polymers in additive manufacturing
Creators: name: Choi, Jiwoo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables designers and engineers to embed functions into printed objects by its unique advantages. This means a product, or component, which performed a specific purpose can be embedded into another part. One way of embedding functions in AM is through the use of Shape Memory Polymer (SMP). SMP is the material that reacts to a stimulus and changes shape. Using smart material's unique properties, 3D printed objects can be transformed following intended programmed sequences. Another way to embed the function into 3D printed objects is through the use of Metamaterial (also called smart structure). Metamaterial uses the smartly designed internal movement to embed function and derives unique properties from smartly designed structures. This thesis investigates the effect of infill structure on the Shape Memory Effect (SME) of SMPs. By comparing various infill structures (e.g., infill patterns and internal void), the impact on SME was explored. Previously, several studies successfully programmed SME by altering printing parameters such as infill density or filling angles. However, only limited studies were performed with Material extrusion 3D printing technology, and correlations between SME and infill structure has not fully explained yet. Therefore, this study will primarily aim to study how infill-patterns or partial parts of infill structures change SME. Various infill structures are fabricated while maintaining the same external object geometry, to explore their impact on SME. It is shown that SME can be controlled without any requirement to change materials or external geometrical parameters. This enables us to embed various SME into objects all made from the same material.
COVID-19-Ausbrüche in deutschen Alten- und Pflegeheimen
Creators: name: Schweickert, Birgitta
name: Klingeberg, Anja
name: Haller, Sebastian
name: Richter, Doreen
name: Schmidt, Nicole
name: Abu Sin, Muna
name: Eckmanns, Tim
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Alten- und Pflegeheime
subject: Ausbrüche
subject: Infektionsprävention
subject: Surveillance
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aus einer Analyse der an das RKI übermittelten COVID-19-Meldedaten ging hervor, dass 70% der hospitalisierten und 95% der verstorbenen Patientinnen und Patienten in Deutschland ≥ 60 Jahre alt waren und Alten- und Pflegeeinrichtungen in besonderem Maße von Ausbrüchen betroffen sind. Einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf das Auftreten von Ausbrüchen hat dabei die Entwicklung der COVID-19-Inzidenzen in der Gesamtbevölkerung. Um Kenntnisse über Ausdehnung, Verlauf und Charakteristika der Ausbruchsgeschehen zu gewinnen, wurden drei verschiedene Zeitphasen des Pandemieverlaufs betrachtet und die jeweiligen Ausbruchsdaten aus diesen Phasen in den Kontext der Entwicklung des Infektionsgeschehens in der Gesamtbevölkerung gestellt. Hieraus lassen sich die Hauptstrategien zur Eindämmung von COVID-19 in Pflegeheimen ableiten.
Additional file 2 of Identification of the regulatory networks and hub genes controlling alfalfa floral pigmentation variation using RNA-sequencing analysis
Creators: name: Duan, Hui-Rong
name: Wang, Li-Rong
name: Cui, Guang-Xin
name: Zhou, Xue-Hui
name: Duan, Xiao-Rong
name: Yang, Hong-Shan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Primers for the RT-qPCR.
OSSDoorway: A Gamified Environment to Scaffold Student Contributions to Open Source Software
Creators: name: Santos, Italo
name: Felizardo, Katia Romero
name: Sarma, Anita
name: Steinmacher, Igor
name: Gerosa, Marco A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software engineering courses enable practical learning through assignments requiring contributions to open source software (OSS), allowing students to experience real-world projects, collaborate with global communities, and develop skills and competencies required to succeed in the tech industry. Learning software engineering through open source contribution integrates theory with hands-on practice, as students tackle real challenges in collaborative environments. However, students often struggle to contribute to OSS projects and do not understand the contribution process. Research has demonstrated that strategically incorporating game elements can promote student learning and engagement. This paper proposes and evaluates OSSDoorway, a tool designed to guide students contributing to OSS projects. We recruited 29 students and administered a self-efficacy questionnaire before and after their use of OSSDoorway, along with qualitative feedback to assess challenges, interface features, and suggestions for improvement. The results show that OSSDoorway boosts students' self-efficacy and provides a structured, gamified learning experience. Clear instructions, real-time feedback, and the quest-based system helped students navigate tasks like using GitHub features to submit pull requests and collaborating with the community. Our findings suggest that providing students with a supportive gamified environment that uses feedback and structured quests can help them navigate the OSS contribution process.
Constraints on the neutrino extension of the Standard Model and baryon asymmetry of the Universe
Creators: name: Gorkavenko, Volodymyr
name: Khasai, Oleksandr
name: Ruchayskiy, Oleg
name: Tsarenkova, Mariia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) can cause new effective interactions of Standard Model particles, particularly charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV) processes. The non-observation of cLFV processes, therefore, puts constraints on the parameters of the HNLs. We find the relations between the cLFV effective operators in the realistic case when active neutrino masses are non-zero and masses of the HNLs are non-degenerate. This allows us to strengthen the existing cLFV constraints. We also link the baryon asymmetry of the Universe to the same cLFV effective operators, which imposes new restrictions on their values.
description: 7 pages. Based on a talk given at the conference "New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics", Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania, September 1-5 (2024)
Additional file 1 of MHiC, an integrated user-friendly tool for the identification and visualization of significant interactions in Hi-C data
Creators: name: Khakmardan, Saman
name: Rezvani, Mohsen
name: Pouyan, Ali Akbar
name: Fateh, Mansoor
name: Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. MHiC classes and functions. Description of all functions and classes available in MHiC.
Mechanical heating by active galaxies
Creators: name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
name: Ruszkowski, Mateusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jets and winds are significant channels for energy loss from accreting black holes. These outflows mechanically heat their surroundings, through shocks as well as gentler forms of heating. We discuss recent efforts to understand the nature and distribution of mechanical heating by central AGNs in clusters of galaxies, using numerical simulations and analytic models. Specifically, we will discuss whether the relatively gentle `effervescent heating' mechanism can compensate for radiative losses in the central regions of clusters, and account for the excess entropy observed at larger radii.
description: 10 pages, no figures. Submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), proceedings of the Poyal Society Discussion Meeting on the Impact of Active Galaxies on the Universe at Large, London, February 16-17, 2004
Additional file 2 of MHiC, an integrated user-friendly tool for the identification and visualization of significant interactions in Hi-C data
Creators: name: Khakmardan, Saman
name: Rezvani, Mohsen
name: Pouyan, Ali Akbar
name: Fateh, Mansoor
name: Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. MHiC user interface. Description of MHiC UI and MHiC visualization section.
Profiles of telefacilitators (Douglass et al., 2024)
Creators: name: Douglass, Hannah
name: Lowman, Joneen
name: Mirakhur, Zitsi
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350502
subject: Employment equity and diversity
classificationCode: 330207
subject: Quantity surveying
classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: Purpose: School-based telefacilitators are critical yet underresearched members of telepractice programs. They are the face of the telepractice program and are often telepractice champions in their communities. However, we have little research explaining the typical profile of telefacilitators, making it more difficult to identify personnel characteristics that contribute to the implementation of sustainable telepractice programs. The purpose of this study was to describe the typical profile and preparation of school-based telefacilitators for physical, occupational, and speech therapy in the United States.Method: A cross-sectional survey gathered 21 telefacilitator responses about their primary job title, preparation, confidence, and basic demographics. Survey recruitment followed an adaptive sampling method with three phases: stratified random sampling, purposive sampling, and targeted convenience sampling. Results were analyzed using frequency counts and descriptive statistics where appropriate.Results: Most respondents held the primary job title of paraprofessional, but a diverse range of titles were reported, including superintendents and directors of special education. Half of the respondents received various methods of formal training for the role, whereas the other half were self-taught. Overall levels of confidence in job performance were high, yet self-taught telefacilitators felt that lack of training negatively impacted their performance. Most respondents had a bachelor’s degree or higher.Conclusions: There is a high degree of variability in the profile and preparation of telefacilitators. Inconsistency in terminology and lack of agreed-upon job responsibilities are significant barriers to studying the role of telefacilitators and the ability to plan telepractice staffing needs adequately. Clinical implications and opportunities for future investigation are highlighted.Supplemental Material S1. Tele-Facilitator Survey.Douglass, H., Lowman, J., & Mirakhur, Z. (2024). Unlocking insights: Exploring the profiles of school-based telefacilitators. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 55(4), 1167–1178. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_LSHSS-23-00193
Memory-Constrained No-Regret Learning in Adversarial Bandits
Creators: name: Xu, Xiao
name: Zhao, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An adversarial bandit problem with memory constraints is studied where only the statistics of a subset of arms can be stored. A hierarchical learning policy that requires only a sublinear order of memory space in terms of the number of arms is developed. Its sublinear regret orders with respect to the time horizon are established for both weak regret and shifting regret. This work appears to be the first on memory-constrained bandit problems under the adversarial setting.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Sphecotheres maxillaris subsp. boweri Mathews
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Oriolidae
Sphecotheres
Sphecotheres maxillaris
Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri mathews

description: Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri Mathews
Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri Mathews, 1916a: 63 (Cairns, North Queensland).
Now from a zone of intergradation between S. v. vieilloti and S. v. flaviventris. See Mathews, 1930: 861; Greenway, 1962: 136; Ford, 1975; 1982; 1987; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 595–597; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 715–716.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671353, adult male, collected at Cairns, 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 20 June 1884, by T.H. Bowyer-Bower. From the Mathews Collection (no. 16826) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from Cairns, without any information on how the type might be identified. The above specimen had not previously been included with type specimens. It does not bear either a Mathews or a Rothschild type label, but Mathews has written ‘‘Type’’ and his catalog number, ‘‘16826,’’ on his collection label. At that number he listed the single specimen of Sphecotheres maxillaris that he cataloged in 1912—a specimen collected much earlier by Bowyer-Bower and given to Mathews by the collector’s mother. Later, Mathews (1915b: 60–61) reported on the Bowyer-Bower specimens that he received and only listed a single specimen of Sphecotheres, which he identified then as Sphecotheres maxilliaris vieilloti. He named boweri in 1916, and in 1921 and 1930, he (Mathews, 1921: 164; 1930: 861) still recognized it, along with stalkeri in the latter publication. AMNH 671353 is the only specimen identified as boweri in the AMNH catalog.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 50, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
In-body power transfer and data communication for active neural implants
Creators: name: Haci, Dorian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: The advent of active implantable medical devices has led to a paradigm shift from previous solutions to medical conditions. The remarkable success of early therapeutic devices, such as the cardiac pacemaker, has encouraged the development of more advanced systems, expanding the reach and ambition of implantable devices - now targeting significantly more complex diseases and treatments. Neural implants, which are able to effectively interact with the nervous system, are an important example of this progress. Such medical devices have demonstrated a significant impact on the quality of life of millions of patients worldwide, e.g. with treatments of Parkinson’s disease and Epilepsy. Neural implants have evolved in the years, transitioning from open-loop neuromodulators to closed-loop neuromodulators. These includes also a monitoring function in addition to stimulation. This method allows to activate the intervention only when required and to receive feedback on the effectiveness of the treatment. More recently, to target the limitations of the single-module implants new generations of AIMDs are emerging that are based on a multi-module approach: the system is now partitioned and distributed across multiple implants, each with specific functions and located at different sites. Distributed systems promise to give clear advantages, paving the way for numerous medical applications requiring high-channel stimulation and sensing to/from many locations in the body. However, they introduce a new set of challenges, both at the development and deployment stages. These are related to additional design considerations specific to the presence of multiple modules within an implanted system. This thesis investigates power transfer and data communication between multiple implanted devices and the development of interfacing circuits, which will contribute towards the implementation of a modular closed-loop AIMD for treating refractory focal Epilepsy. The specific objectives of this investigation have been framed to address the key challenges in the creation of a medical device for clinical trials, thus prioritising adequate performance of the medical functions, while ensuring implant system reliability in a human body. A custom protocol has been developed – the 4WiCS – and circuits for inter-module connectivity have been designed, implemented, and fabricated in CMOS and PCB technology. These have been tested within an end-to-end platform, informing further design of a novel fully-integrated System-on-Chip – the CANDO4 SoC – fabricated as part of the CANDO project neural implant.
Reassessment and Use Value Assessment of Agricultural Land: Property Tax Effects
Creators: name: Ervin, David E.
name: Schoening, Robert M.
name: Madsen, Richard W.
name: Ervin, David E.
name: Schoening, Robert M.
name: Madsen, Richard W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Recent appreciation of real estate values has unevenly eroded assessment levels from legal standards in many states. Inflation also has affected the determination of use values for agricultural lands. For Missouri counties, general reassessment is estimated to cause sizeable property tax shifts which ultimately would alter public service demands.
Pre-Weaning Growth of Criollo Tropical Milking Calves fed with Milk from Silvopastoral Systems
Creators: name: Becerril-Pérez, C. M
name: Sánchez-Gómez, A
name: Morales-Trejo, F
name: Vargas-Romero, J. M
name: Platas-Rosado, D. E
name: Rosendo-Ponce, A
name: Becerril-Pérez, C. M
name: Sánchez-Gómez, A
name: Morales-Trejo, F
name: Vargas-Romero, J. M
name: Platas-Rosado, D. E
name: Rosendo-Ponce, A
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: warm weathers
subject: livestock raising
subject: river tamarind
subject: gene resources
subject: agroecology systems.

description: Objective: Tropical Milking Calf (LT) growth and milk consumption and chemical composition were analyzed in two shepherding systems. Methodology: 26 LT cows were used in rotational shepherding in monoculture (PRM) and intensive silvopastoral system (SSPi). Cows were milked by hand once per day in the morning with the presence of the calf, which consumed milk from one nipple. Live weight (PV), daily weight gain (GDP), milk consumption (CL) by the calf and the chemical composition of the milk were studied. Results: PV was greater at 198 days in SSPi (p ? 0.05) with 142.6 ± 3.31 kg, and one GDP that outweighed the PRM (p ? 0.05) in 80 g per day-1. There were no differences in CL (p > 0.05). Non-fatty solids, protein, lactose and total solids were greater (p ? 0.05) for SSPi with 8.1 ± 0.07, 3.0 ± 0.02, 4.5 ± 0.04 and 12.1 ± 0.21 %, respectively; although fat was similar (3.7 and 3.3 %, p > 0.05) in both systems. Implication: The chemical composition of milk should be assessed from the nutritional perspective for the calf and the more appropriate techniques for its measurement should be implemented. Conclusions: PV and GDP were greater in SSPi than in PRM due to the chemical composition and not the amount of ingested milk. The chemical composition of milk affected the pre-weaning growth of calves. The tropical milking race and SSPi are an alternative for tropical livestock raising in warm weathers.
Super-Radiance: From Nuclear Physics to Pentaquarks
Creators: name: Zelevinsky, Vladimir
name: Volya, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenon of super-radiance in quantum optics predicted by Dicke 50 years ago and observed experimentally has its counterparts in many-body systems on the borderline between discrete spectrum and continuum. The interaction of overlapping resonances through the continuum leads to the redistribution of widths and creation of broad super-radiant states and long-lived compound states. We explain the physics of super-radiance and discuss applications to weakly bound nuclei, giant resonances and widths of exotic baryons.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Many-Body Chaos in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
Creators: name: Kobrin, Bryce
name: Yang, Zhenbin
name: Kahanamoku-Meyer, Gregory D.
name: Olund, Christopher T.
name: Moore, Joel E.
name: Stanford, Douglas
name: Yao, Norman Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body chaos has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding thermalization in strongly interacting quantum systems. While recent analytic advances have sharpened our intuition for many-body chaos in certain large $N$ theories, it has proven challenging to develop precise numerical tools capable of exploring this phenomenon in generic Hamiltonians. To this end, we utilize massively parallel, matrix-free Krylov subspace methods to calculate dynamical correlators in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model for up to $N = 60$ Majorana fermions. We begin by showing that numerical results for two-point correlation functions agree at high temperatures with dynamical mean field solutions, while at low temperatures finite-size corrections are quantitatively reproduced by the exactly solvable dynamics of near extremal black holes. Motivated by these results, we develop a novel finite-size rescaling procedure for analyzing the growth of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs). We verify that this procedure accurately determines the Lyapunov exponent, $λ$, across a wide range in temperatures, including in the regime where $λ$ approaches the universal bound, $λ= 2π/β$.
description: 6+15 pages, 3+11 figures. v3 published version, with corrected prefactor in Eq. 1
PROSPECTS FOR US-USSR AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN THE 1980's
Creators: name: Schoonover, David M.
name: Schoonover, David M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The determinants of U.S.-Soviet agricultural trade during the 1980's likely will be: (1) The economic requirements for imports in the USSR; (2) the U.S. commodity availabilities for export and the associated economic relationships; (3) the influence of U.S.-Soviet political relationships on Soviet decisions to import; and (4) the interventions in U.S. markets associated with U.S. foreign policies toward the USSR. This is a four-cell matrix of U.S. and Soviet political and economic relationships.
AN EXAMINATION OF AGRICULTURTAL PRICE POLICY OPTIONS IN BANGLADESH: OUTPUT PRICE VS. INPUT SUBSIDIES
Creators: name: Nehring, Richard F.
name: Nehring, Richard F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: A normalized restricted profit function is used to estimate profit and factor demand functions from farm-level cross sectional data for the winter rice crop in Bangladesh. The results indicate that output price is a more important and less expensive policy tool than fertilizer and irrigation price to influence output supply and resources allocation.
RISK AND SOCIAL POSITION IN EXPLAINING THE ADOPTION OF SOIL CONSERVATION PRACTICES: AN APPLICATION OF CANCIAN'S THESIS
Creators: name: Nowak, Peter
name: Wagener, Don
name: Nowak, Peter
name: Wagener, Don
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Attitudes, value, and beliefs have always played a central role in explaining why individuals adopt or reject new ideas (Rogers and Shoemaker, 1971). Of these many attitudinal predispositions, risk orientation has been prominent in both sociological and economic research (Menezes and Hanson, 1972; Roumasset et al., 1978; Dillon and Scandizzo, 1978; Binswanger, 1980). Because there is a significant amount of uncertainty related to the returns on investments in soil conservation, it seems logical to relate risk orientation to the adoption of conservation practices. In turn, this information could be valuable in designing or implementing policy intended to facilitate conservation behavior. However, before promoting a widescale acceptance of attitudinal research as the panacea to our current dilemmas in conservation policy, a precautionary note is in order.
AN EXPLANATION OF PRICE BEHAVIOR IN THE WATER
Creators: name: Gardner, Richard L.
name: Miller, Thomas A.
name: Gardner, Richard L.
name: Miller, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: An asset pricing model incorporating the growth rate in real returns to irrigation water and the value of potential urban water uses is used to analyze historical prices of Colorado-Big Thompson water shares. Historically, urban use potential was heavily discounted, but now appears to be fully reflected in water prices.
THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS ON THE LONG-RUN SOCIAL RETURNS TO SOIL CONSERVATION'
Creators: name: Taylor, Daniel
name: Young, Douglas
name: Holland, David
name: Taylor, Daniel
name: Young, Douglas
name: Holland, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Appropriate multiplicative interaction between technological progress and yield-topsoil functions was incorporated in a systems simulation model projecting Palouse topsoil levels, crop yields, and net incomes. Results revealed high payoff to soil conservation on shallow soils and for longer planning horizons. Yield projections were more optimistic than farmers' subjective projections.
Electron Interactions and Scaling Relations for Optical Excitations in Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Kane, C. L.
name: Mele, E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent fluorescence spectroscopy experiments on single wall carbon nanotubes reveal substantial deviations of observed absorption and emission energies from predictions of noninteracting models of the electronic structure. Nonetheless, the data for nearly armchair nanotubes obey a nonlinear scaling relation as a function the tube radius $R$. We show that these effects can be understood in a theory of large radius tubes, derived from the theory of two dimensional graphene where the coulomb interaction leads to a logarithmic correction to the electronic self energy and marginal Fermi liquid behavior. Interactions on length scales larger than the tube circumference lead to strong self energy and excitonic effects that compete and nearly cancel so that the observed optical transitions are dominated by the graphene self energy effects.
description: 4 pages
Current Trends in Domestic Food Programs
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Masao
name: Matsumoto, Masao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Participation and program costs discussed in this article compare the April-June quart­er of 1986 with the same 3 months of 1985, unless otherwise noted. Preliminary data are reported as of August 1986 and are subject to revision. Costs of entitlement and bonus commodities are included where ap­plicable.
Cavity-enhanced sum-frequency generation of blue light with near-unity conversion efficiency
Creators: name: Kerdoncuff, Hugo
name: Christensen, Jesper B.
name: Brasil, Túlio B.
name: Novikov, Valeriy A.
name: Polzik, Eugene S.
name: Hald, Jan
name: Lassen, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on double-resonant highly efficient sum-frequency generation in the blue range. The system consists of a 10-mm-long periodically poled KTP crystal placed in a double-resonant bow-tie cavity and pumped by a fiber laser at 1064.5 nm and a Ti:sapphire laser at 849.2 nm. An optical power of 375 mW at 472.4 nm in a TEM$_{00}$ mode was generated with pump powers of 250 mW at 849.2 nm and 200 mW at 1064.5 nm coupled into the double-resonant ring resonator with 88$\%$ mode-matching. The resulting internal conversion efficiency of 95($\pm 3$)$\%$ of the photons mode-matched to the cavity constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the highest overall achieved quantum conversion efficiency using continuous-wave pumping. Very high conversion efficiency is rendered possible due to very low intracavity loss on the level of 0.3$\%$ and high nonlinear conversion coefficient up to 0.045(0.015) W$^{-1}$. Power stability measurements performed over one hour show a stability of 0.8$\%$. The generated blue light can be tuned within 5 nm around the center wavelength of 472.4 nm, limited by the phase-matching of our nonlinear crystal. This can however be expanded to cover the entire blue spectrum (420 nm to 510 nm) by proper choice of nonlinear crystals and pump lasers. Our experimental results agree very well with analytical and numerical simulations taking into account cavity impedance matching and depletion of the pump fields.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Vacua of Massive Hyper-Kahler Sigma Models with Non-Abelian Quotient
Creators: name: Arai, Masato
name: Nitta, Muneto
name: Sakai, Norisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Higgs branch of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with non-Abelian gauge groups are described by hyper-Kahler (HK) nonlinear sigma models with potential terms. With the non-Abelian HK quotient by U(M) and SU(M) gauge groups, we give the massive HK sigma models that are not toric in the N=1 superfield formalism and the harmonic superspace formalism. The U(M) quotient gives N!/[M! (N-M)!] discrete vacua that may allow various types of domain walls, whereas the SU(M) quotient gives no discrete vacua.
description: 37 pages, one figure, final version to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys
Cosmic F- and D-strings
Creators: name: Copeland, Edmund J.
name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Polchinski, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Macroscopic fundamental and Dirichlet strings have several potential instabilities: breakage, tachyon decays, and confinement by axion domain walls. We investigate the conditions under which metastable strings can exist, and we find that such strings are present in many models. There are various possibilities, the most notable being a network of (p,q) strings. Cosmic strings give a potentially large window into string physics.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures; v. 5: JHEP style, added comments in section 2.3
Identified Charged Particle Spectra and Yields in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
Creators: name: PHENIX Collaboration
name: Adler, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The centrality dependence of transverse momentum distributions and yields for pi^+/-, K^+/-, p and p^bar in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at mid-rapidity are measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. We observe a clear particle mass dependence of the shapes of transverse momentum spectra in central collisions below ~ 2 GeV/c in p_T. Both mean transverse momenta and particle yields per participant pair increase from peripheral to mid-central and saturate at the most central collisions for all particle species. We also measure particle ratios of pi^-/pi^+, K^-/K^+, p^bar/p, K/pi, p/pi and p^bar/pi as a function of p_T and collision centrality. The ratios of equal mass particle yields are independent of p_T and centrality within the experimental uncertainties. In central collisions at intermediate transverse momenta ~ 1.5-4.5 GeV/c, proton and anti-proton yields constitute a significant fraction of the charged hadron production and show a scaling behavior different from that of pions.
description: 325 authors, 32 pages text, 24 figures, 19 tables, RevTeX 4. To be submitted to Physical Review C as a regular article. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
The Agricultural Economy and Trade of Spain
Creators: name: Lopes, James
name: Lopes, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Spain
subject: Agriculture
subject: Production
subject: Grains
subject: Livestock
subject: Inputs
subject: Irrigation
subject: Trade
subject: Policy
subject: Outlook

description: Problems and accomplishments of the Spanish agricultural economy in the 1960’s are discussed as well as aspects of agricultural policy that influence changes in the agricultural sector. The structure of agricultural production is described. Plans and prospects for attaining goals and solutions to problems are also discussed.