cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Is my Meeting Summary Good? Estimating Quality with a Multi-LLM Evaluator
Creators: name: Kirstein, Frederic
name: Ruas, Terry
name: Gipp, Bela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The quality of meeting summaries generated by natural language generation (NLG) systems is hard to measure automatically. Established metrics such as ROUGE and BERTScore have a relatively low correlation with human judgments and fail to capture nuanced errors. Recent studies suggest using large language models (LLMs), which have the benefit of better context understanding and adaption of error definitions without training on a large number of human preference judgments. However, current LLM-based evaluators risk masking errors and can only serve as a weak proxy, leaving human evaluation the gold standard despite being costly and hard to compare across studies. In this work, we present MESA, an LLM-based framework employing a three-step assessment of individual error types, multi-agent discussion for decision refinement, and feedback-based self-training to refine error definition understanding and alignment with human judgment. We show that MESA's components enable thorough error detection, consistent rating, and adaptability to custom error guidelines. Using GPT-4o as its backbone, MESA achieves mid to high Point-Biserial correlation with human judgment in error detection and mid Spearman and Kendall correlation in reflecting error impact on summary quality, on average 0.25 higher than previous methods. The framework's flexibility in adapting to custom error guidelines makes it suitable for various tasks with limited human-labeled data.
Transferring Multiscale Map Styles Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Kang, Yuhao
name: Gao, Song
name: Roth, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.1; I.4.9

description: The advancement of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies makes it possible to learn stylistic design criteria from existing maps or other visual art and transfer these styles to make new digital maps. In this paper, we propose a novel framework using AI for map style transfer applicable across multiple map scales. Specifically, we identify and transfer the stylistic elements from a target group of visual examples, including Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, and artistic paintings, to unstylized GIS vector data through two generative adversarial network (GAN) models. We then train a binary classifier based on a deep convolutional neural network to evaluate whether the transfer styled map images preserve the original map design characteristics. Our experiment results show that GANs have a great potential for multiscale map style transferring, but many challenges remain requiring future research.
description: 12 pages, 17 figure
Coobool Creek : a prehistoric Australian hominid population
Creators: name: Brown, Peter James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Craniology Australia Coobool Creek (Vic.)

description: Morphological, univariate and multivariate comparisons of the crania, mandibles and dentitions from Coobool Creek place them within the Kow Swamp range of variation and distinguish them from other prehistoric and recent Australian populations. The Coobool Creek crania are distinguished from ’recent’ Murray Valley crania by a matrix of morphological and metrical features which reflect the combination of an archaic morphological pattern with the effects of a specific cultural practice, artificial cranial deformation. Analyses of the Coobool Creek orofacial skeletons support earlier work with the Kow Swamp series in indicating a temporal trend towards structural reduction in the central Murray River Valley over the last 10,000 years. A similar temporal trend towards size reduction is also present in the mandibles and dentitions from this region. On the available evidence there appears to have been a fairly rapid reduction in the size of the masticatory complex during the period 10,000 to 6,000 years BP followed by apparent stability. There is little evidence for a causal relationship between the temporal changes in the masticatory system and culture for the Murray River Valley during this period. Morphological and metrical features of the Coobool Creek crania, mandibles and dentitions support the argument for a regional morphological continuum with the Indonesian Homo eveotus material.
Entanglement Creation Using Quantum Interrogation
Creators: name: Gilchrist, A.
name: White, A. G.
name: Munro, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some applications of high efficiency quantum interrogation ("interaction free measurement") for the creation of entangled states of separate atoms and of separate photons. The quantum interrogation of a quantum object in a superposition of object-in and object-out leaves the object and probe in an entangled state. The probe can then be further entangled with other objects in subsequent quantum interrogations. By then projecting out those cases were the probe is left in a particular final state, the quantum objects can themselves be left in various entangled states. In this way we show how to generate two-, three-, and higher qubit entanglement between atoms and between photons. The effect of finite efficiency for the quantum interrogation is delineated for the various schemes.
description: 7 pages, 13 figures, Submitted to PRA
The Impact of Shale Exploration on Housing Values in Pennsylvania
Creators: name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sathya
name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sathya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Shale gas
subject: Housing values
subject: Risk perceptions
subject: Hedonic

description: Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing processes to extract shale gas have raised concerns among local residents over the safety of these new drilling techniques. To assess whether potential negative externalities associated with shale gas exploration are capitalized into surrounding homeowners property values, we estimate a hedonic model combining data on 3,464 housing sales occurring between 2008 and 2010 in a suburban/rural county south of Pittsburgh, PA which experienced large numbers of new horizontal Marcellus wells beginning in late 2008. Using hedonic methods, we find a negative and significant impact to households in close proximity both spatially and temporally to this activity. Further we find that this negative impact disproportionately accrues to homeowners near additional agricultural areas and on well water. In all cases, the negative impact appears relatively short-lived
Electric Polarizability of Mesons in Semirelativistic Quark Models
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Schoberl, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric polarizability of mesons, in particular, that of the charged pion, is studied in the framework of a semirelativistic description of hadrons as bound states of valence quarks in terms of a Hamiltonian composed of the relativistic kinetic energy as well as a phenomenological potential describing the strong interactions between the quarks. The quark-core contribution to the electric polarizability obtainable in quark models of this kind turns out to be in the semirelativistic approaches even smaller than in the nonrelativistic limit.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX, extended version, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Microctonus loani Mason
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus loani

description: M. loani Mason
Figures 68–71
 Microctonus loani Mason, 1968, p 726.
Distribution: North America.
Specimens examined: Eighty-six from 63 collection events; questionable female identifications: 30 from 15 collection events.
Flight period: Approximately 80% June through August.
 Remarks: Specimens reared from Altica corni Woods have 21–22 flagellomeres while those from Altica ambiens alni Harris have 24–25 (n=9).
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Indirect detection of the QCD axion
Creators: name: Visinelli, Luca
name: Johnson, Bradley
name: Kavanagh, Bradley J.
name: Marsh, David J. E.
name: Shroyer, Jordan E.
name: Walters, Liam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The QCD axion, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in QCD, is a prominent candidate for dark matter (DM). In the presence of strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars, axions can theoretically convert into photons, producing detectable electromagnetic signals. This axion-photon coupling provides a unique experimental pathway to probe axions within a specific mass range. We investigate a novel observational approach using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to search for radio transients that could arise from interactions between neutron stars and dense DM clumps known as axion miniclusters. By observing the core of Andromeda with the VErsatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer (VEGAS) and the X-band receiver (8 to 10 GHz), we achieve sensitivity to axions with masses in the range of (33 - 42)$\,μ$eV, with a mass resolution of $3.8 \times 10^{-4}\,μ$eV. We detail our observational and analytical strategies developed to capture transient signals from axion-photon conversion, achieving an instrumental sensitivity of $2\,$mJy per spectral channel. Despite our sensitivity threshold, no candidate signals exceeding the 5$σ$ level were identified. Future implementations will extend this search across additional spectral bands and refine the modeling used for the processes involved, strengthening the constraints on axion DM models.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to: 2nd General Meeting of the COST Action: Cosmic WISPers (CA21106), 3-6 September 2024, Istanbul (Turkey). Based on arXiv:2407.13060, arXiv:2011.05378, arXiv:2011.05377
Golden ratio algorithms with new stepsize rules for variational inequalities
Creators: name: Van Hieu, Dang
name: Cho, Yeol Je
name: Xiao, Yi-bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65J15, 47H05, 47J25, 47J20, 91B50

description: In this paper, we introduce two golden ratio algorithms with new stepsize rules for solving pseudomonotone and Lipschitz variational inequalities in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. The presented stepsize rules allow the resulting algorithms to work without the prior knowledge of the Lipschitz constant of operator. The first algorithm uses a sequence of stepsizes which is previously chosen, diminishing and non-summable. While the stepsizes in the second one are updated at each iteration and by a simple computation. A special point is that the sequence of stepsizes generated by the second algorithm is separated from zero. The convergence as well as the convergence rate of the proposed algorithms are established under some standard conditions. Also, we give several numerical results to show the behavior of the algorithms in comparisons with other algorithms.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures (Accepted for publication on April 16, 2019)
Report on the webinar "Archiving Social Media Data – Challenges and Proposed Solutions"
Creators: name: Breuer, Johannes
name: Borschewski, Kerrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: social media
data archiving

description: This report summarizes the relevant information on the CESSDA New Data Types webinar as an additional written record to the video recording and the published slides. The webinar “Archiving Social Media Data – Challenges and Proposed Solutions” was conducted on the 4th of June 2020. This webinar is part of the CESSDA New Data Types Workplan for 2020. The first section of the report contains overview information on the webinar. The second part provides details on the content that was presented during the webinar. The third part captures questions from attendees as well as the responses to those questions. Section four presents a conclusion in which the main outcomes of the webinar and its implications are discussed, and section five comprises suggestions for further reading.
An economic perspective of Australian international civil aviation policy
Creators: name: Findlay, Christopher
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Aeronautics, Commercial Australia

description: This thesis provides an economic perspective of Australian international civil aviation policy. It examines the effects of the current regime, considers motives for intervention in air transport markets and compares policy options. The broad conclusion is that public interest objectives could be pursued more cheaply by a new policy, a combination of 'open skies' with explicit subsidies where necessary. The characteristics of Australian regulation have been control of entry, capacity and prices. Recently price control has been relaxed. Another feature of Australian policy has been government ownership of the flag carrier, Qantas. The mechanisms of the policy include a series of international bilateral agreements supported by domestic legislation. The emphasis in this thesis is that the entry barriers imposed by this regulation have raised the costs of international air transport and imposed a deadweight cost on the community. Removal of these barriers would lead to a substantial gain, the size of which is estimated here. This result is the foundation of the broad conclusion of the thesis. A number of objections to competition in this industry have been made. These are examined in the thesis. Some are found to be not relevant to civil aviation; examples include service quality and market structure arguments. Others could apply to this industry. Examples include the defence externality claimed for air transport. Conditions in which the externality argument is relevant are identified but it is emphasised that the benefits claimed could be achieved more cheaply than at present. An interesting objection to 'open skies' is the view that unilateral action is impossible. By this view, a noncooperative approach, characterised as competition, is not possible and cooperation, like the current regime, is required. On the contrary, it is argued here that the current regime is actually the outcome of non-cooperative behaviour and that a different type of cooperation is required for further welfare gains.
Electron Transfer Methods in Open Systems
Creators: name: Bergmann, Nicolas
name: Galperin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilization of electron transfer methods for description of quantum transport is popular due to simplicity of the formulation and its ability to account for basic physics of electron exchange between system and baths. At the same time, necessity to go beyond simple golden rule-type expressions for rates was indicated in the literature and ad hoc formulations were proposed. Similarly, kinetic schemes for quantum transport beyond usual second order Lindblad/Redfield considerations were discussed. Here we utilize recently introduced by us nonequilibrium Hubbard Green's functions diagrammatic technique to analyze construction of rates in open systems. We show that previous considerations for rates of second and fourth order can be obtained as a particular case of zero and second order Green's function diagrammatic series with bare diagrams. We discuss limitations of previous considerations, stress advantages of the Hubbard Green's function approach in constructing the rates and indicate that standard dressing of the diagrams is a natural way to account for additional baths/degrees of freedom when formulating generalized expressions for the rates.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures, 23 pages supporting information
Revenue Protection for Organic Producers: Too Much or Too Little
Creators: name: Singerman, Ariel
name: Hart, Chad E.
name: Lence, Sergio H.
name: Singerman, Ariel
name: Hart, Chad E.
name: Lence, Sergio H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: crop insurance
subject: organic agriculture

description: A framework is developed to examine organic crop insurance established by the Risk Management Agency (RMA). Given that RMA links organic and conventional crop prices, the model is calibrated to reflect both markets to illustrate the impacts that pricing has on insurance coverage. Findings indicate that at the 75% coverage level, RMA's fixed price factor implies an effective coverage ranging from 45% to 106% depending on the ratio of planting-time organic to conventional market prices. Results suggest RMA's program is likely to induce adverse selection, because the nominal coverage level is likely to substantially deviate from the effective coverage.
Tipula (Pterelachisus) biaciculifera Alexander 1937
Creators: name: Men, Qiulei
name: Lu, Zhiyong
name: Sheng, Pingping
name: Gui, Xiang
name: Wang, Zhizhong
name: Mu, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tipulidae
Tipula
Tipula biaciculifera

description: Tipula (Pterelachisus) biaciculifera Alexander, 1937
 Tipula (Oreomyza) biaciculifera Alexander, 1937: 17.
 Tipula (Pterelachisus) biaciculifera Alexander: Men, 2015b: 804.
Material examined. 7♀ 8♂, Anhui, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, 16 August 2013, coll. Qiulei Men. 8♀ 12♂, Anhui, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, 17 August 2013, coll. Qiulei Men. 5♀ 10♂, Anhui, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, 25 August 2016, coll. Qiulei Men, Pingping Sheng.
Distribution. China (Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi).
description: Published as part of Men, Qiulei, Lu, Zhiyong, Sheng, Pingping, Gui, Xiang, Wang, Zhizhong & Mu, Dan, 2017, Taxonomy on crane flies in family Tipulidae and Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea) from Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, Anhui, China, pp. 476-489 in Zoological Systematics 42 (4) on page 485, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201720, http://zenodo.org/record/5366761
An efficient spectral method for numerical time-dependent perturbation theory
Creators: name: Lavigne, Cyrille
name: Brumer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the Fourier-Laplace Inversion of the Perturbation Theory (FLIPT), a novel numerically exact "black box" method to compute perturbative expansions of the density matrix with rigorous convergence conditions. Specifically, the FLIPT method is extremely well-suited to simulate multiphoton pulsed laser experiments with complex pulse shapes. The $n$-dimensional frequency integrals of the $n$-th order perturbative expansion are evaluated numerically using tensor products. The $N$ points discretized integrals are computed in $O(N^2)$ operations, a significant improvement over the $O(N^n)$ scaling of standard quadrature methods.
Regularity properties of a generalized Oseen evolution operator in exterior domains, with applications to the Navier-Stokes initial value problem
Creators: name: Asami, Yosuke
name: Hishida, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30, 76D05

description: Consider a generalized Oseen evolution operator in 3D exterior domains, that is generated by a non-autonomous linearized system arising from time-dependent rigid motions. This was found by Hansel and Rhandi, and then the theory was developed by the second author, however, desired regularity properties such as estimate of the temporal derivative as well as the Hoelder estimate have remained open. The present paper provides us with those properties together with weighted estimates of the evolution operator. The results are then applied to the Navier-Stokes initial value problem, so that a new theorem on existence of a unique strong Lq-solution locally in time is proved.
description: 49 pages, Corrected typos
Simplified amino acid alphabets based on deviation of conditional probability from random background
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Liu, Di
name: Qi, Ji
name: Zheng, Wei-Mou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The primitive data for deducing the Miyazawa-Jernigan contact energy or BLOSUM score matrix consists of pair frequency counts. Each amino acid corresponds to a conditional probability distribution. Based on the deviation of such conditional probability from random background, a scheme for reduction of amino acid alphabet is proposed. It is observed that evident discrepancy exists between reduced alphabets obtained from raw data of the Miyazawa-Jernigan's and BLOSUM's residue pair counts. Taking homologous sequence database SCOP40 as a test set, we detect homology with the obtained coarse-grained substitution matrices. It is verified that the reduced alphabets obtained well preserve information contained in the original 20-letter alphabet.
description: 9 pages,3figures
Systematic study of proton radioactivity of spherical proton emitters within various versions of proximity potential formalisms
Creators: name: Deng, Jun-Gang
name: Li, Xiao-Hua
name: Chen, Jiu-Long
name: Cheng, Jun-Hao
name: Wu, Xi-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a systematic study of the proton radioactivity half-lives of spherical proton emitters within the Coulomb and proximity potential model. We investigate 28 different versions of the proximity potential formalisms developed for the description of proton radioactivity, $\mathcalα$ decay and heavy particle radioactivity. It is found that 21 of them are not suitable to deal with the proton radioactivity, because the classical turning points $r_{\text{in}}$ cannot be obtained due to the fact that the depth of the total interaction potential between the emitted proton and the daughter nucleus is above the proton radioactivity energy. Among the other 7 versions of the proximity potential formalisms, it is Guo2013 which gives the lowest rms deviation in the description of the experimental half-lives of the known spherical proton emitters. We use this proximity potential formalism to predict the proton radioactivity half-lives of 13 spherical proton emitters, whose proton radioactivity is energetically allowed or observed but not yet quantified, within a factor of 3.71.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. This paper has been accepted by The European Physical Journal A (in press 2019)
An economic analysis of the taxation and regulation of life insurance in Australia
Creators: name: Harper, Ian Ross
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Life insurance Australia
subject: Life insurance Taxation Australia

description: In matters of taxation and regulation , it is widely considered that life insurance warrants special treatment . This view derives not so much from the desire to subsidize life insurance as from the belief that there is something inherently special about life insurance . This thesis sets out to challenge the notion that there is anything inherently special about the economics of life insurance . In particular, it disputes the belief that life insurance warrants special treatment in matters of taxation and regulation . Insurance is depicted as a process of trade in contingent claims and a theoretical model of life insurance is constructed on this basis . The model is an application of the Arrow-Debreu Complete Contingent Markets model . It extep-ds the work of Marshall (1974a, b) by incorporating transaction costs in the manner of Foley (1970) and develops the special case of life insurance using a result due to Malinvaud (1972, 1973). The conclusion emerges from the model that the economics of life insurance is fundamentally no different from the economics of any other productive activity. This conclusion provides the basis for a critical assessment of the current taxation and regulatory treatment of life insurance in Australia . Options for the reform of life insurance taxation are discussed as well as the recommendations of the recent (Campbell) Committee of Inquiry into the Australian Financial System in respect of the taxation and regulation of life insurance.
Rejuvenation in $z\sim0.8$ quiescent galaxies in LEGA-C
Creators: name: Chauke, Priscilla
name: van der Wel, Arjen
name: Pacifici, Camilla
name: Bezanson, Rachel
name: Wu, Po-Feng
name: Gallazzi, Anna
name: Straatman, Caroline
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Barišić, Ivana
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: van Houdt, Josha
name: Maseda, Michael V.
name: Muzzin, Adam
name: Sobral, David
name: Spilker, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use reconstructed star-formation histories (SFHs) of quiescent galaxies at $z=0.6-1$ in the LEGA-C survey to identify secondary star-formation episodes that, after an initial period of quiescence, moved the galaxies back to the star-forming main sequence (blue cloud). $16\pm3$\% of the $z\sim0.8$ quiescent population has experienced such rejuvenation events in the redshift range $0.7
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ
Measurement of $p$-$Ξ^{-}$ ($\bar{p}$-$\barΞ^{+}$) Correlation Function in Isobar and Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV with the STAR Detector
Creators: name: Fu, Boyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the strong interactions between baryons, especially hyperon-nucleon ($Y$-$N$) interactions, is crucial for comprehending the equation-of-state (EoS) of the nuclear matter and inner structure of neutron star. In these proceedings, we present the measurements of $p$-$Ξ^{-}$ ($\bar{p}$-$\barΞ^{+}$) correlation functions with high statistics in Isobar (Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr) and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment. With the Lednický-Lyuboshitz approach, the source size and strong interaction parameters of $p$-$Ξ^{-}$ ($\bar{p}$-$\barΞ^{+}$) pairs are extracted.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of SQM 2024
Stealing people's names : social structure, cosmology and politics in a Sepik River village
Creators: name: Harrison, Simon Joseph
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Names, Ethnological Papua New Guinea Avatip
subject: Ethnology Papua New Guinea
subject: Manambu (Papua New Guinean people)

description: The political life of Avatip, a community on the Sepik River in northwestern Papua New Guinea, revolves almost exclusively around disputes between descent groups over the ownership of personal names. The purpose of this thesis is to explain the value which personal names have in this society, and which makes them a focus of competition; to describe the manner in which these conflicts are conducted and resolved; and to examine their consequences for the political system of the community. Avatip is a large, but uncentralised and fractious community, and the most important mechanism which socially integrates it is that of exchange. The focus of the identity and unity of each social segment is its apical ancestor and a type of spirit-being called a ndja'am. The ndja'am of a group symbolises its status as a unit in a system of 'total' reciprocities, involving women, wealth, magical and ritual services, and esoteric knowledge. Of the group's exchange capacities, the most important from the villagers' point of view are its hereditary cosmological powers. The possession of these is a source of continual dispute between groups. These conflicts are both motivated by the idea of cosmological reciprocity and serve to reaffirm this idea. In these disputes, in short, groups contend for prestige and status within a consensus as to the ultimate basis of their solidarity. Each group possesses a distinctive corpus of personal names. These names, which derive from mythology, are held to be magically efficacious and are the basis of the group's magical and ritual prerogatives. It is these prerogatives which are at stake in disputes over personal names. A dispute of this kind is settled in a ceremonial debate, in which the two sides hold a formal context in knowledge of esoteric names and myths. These debates are the central political arena of the society; almost all competition between groups for status is waged in debating the ownership of names, and it is here too that ambitious men rise to prominence. To an outsider, the most important prerogatives held by Avatip groups are almost entirely immaterial. Much of this thesis is concerned with providing the background of social values and cosmological ideas from which these intangible entitlements derive their value. The general theoretical concern of the thesis is a problem which some authors have argued is central to social anthropology: the relation between the symbolic order and the order of political action and power. The particular ethnographic form in which I examine this problem is as follows: Avatip possesses an elaborate totemic cosmology ideally suited to the types of analysis characteristic of structuralism while, on the other hand, this scheme is continually manipulated as groups manoeuvre for status and political advantage within it’s framework.
Partners in Technology Generation and Transfer: Linkages between Research and Farmers' Organizations in Three Selected African Countries
Creators: name: Eponou, Thomas
name: Eponou, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural research
subject: extension
subject: farmers’ associations
subject: innovation adoption
subject: technology transfer

description: Three countries in sub-Saharan Africa were studied: Burkina Faso, Ghana and Kenya. There are differences among the three countries of the study, but the five major types of farmers’ organizations/groups were found in each of them. Only a few of these organizations have explicit policies to link with research and among these, only one organization is fully implementing its policies. The others, for various reasons, use informal mechanisms to gain access to agricultural technologies that they disseminate through publications and seminars. Most of the organizations/groups do not have explicit policies because they are not aware that they can link with research, or they think that the transaction costs are too high for the potential benefits. The research institutions also lack explicit linkage policies, because of their research strategies, a lack of awareness, and/or perceived transaction costs. In practice, however, they do have linkages with farmers’ organizations/groups, but these linkages are not effective because of the attributes of the mechanisms used, the context in which they are used, and the way these linkages are managed. Enhancing the power of farmers’ organizations through institutional changes, clearly defining explicit linkage policies, and putting in place sounder linkage strategies are all necessary to improve these linkages. This will, however, require the managers of the agricultural knowledge and information systems to become more sensitive to the importance of linkages between research and farmers’ organizations.
China’s small-scale hog production and implications for trade: Evidence from a farmer survey
Creators: name: Wang, Qingbin
name: Zhang, Guangxuan
name: Wang, Qingbin
name: Zhang, Guangxuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China’s pork market
subject: U.S. pork exports
subject: Heckman model

description: Using primary data of 3,327 Chinese farmers and their villages collected through a survey in 2010, this study identifies the factors that affect farmers’ decision to raise hogs and the factors that determine the hog farmers’ production scale and discusses the likely future of small-scale hog production and its potential impacts on China’s pork market and trade. Estimation results of a Heckman model suggest that labor availability, the opportunity of earning income from nonfarm jobs, and the existence of large-scale hog farms and processing facilities in the local area are among the major factors of the participation and scale decisions. As China’s demand for pork has been increasing at a relatively stable rate, China’s pork imports from the U.S. and other nations are increasingly determined by its domestic pork supply, especially the production of small-scale hog farmers due to its sensitivity to price, disease, subsidy, and other factors.
Additional file 1 of High-yield grass Pennisetum sinese Roxb plantation and organic manure alter bacterial and fungal communities structure in an ecological agriculture farm
Creators: name: He, Yan
name: Lu, Lu
name: Peng, Chao
name: Li, Huilin
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Li, Run
name: Zhou, Caiquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. (A) Overview of the ecological agriculture farm. (B) Pennisetum sinese Roxb. (C) Geese feed on Pennisetum sinese Roxb. (D) Fermentation of the livestock manures. The photos were taken by Yan He. Fig. S2. The abundance of bacteria (A) and fungi (B) was significantly different in different samples (P < 0.05). Fig. S3. The second level profile of KEGG predicted by PICRUST. Fig. S4. Percentage of PICRUSt-predicted reads annotated to genes for key Nitrogen, Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Methane Glutamic and Carbon from each sequencing library. RA, percent relative abundance. Fig. S5. Relative abundance (RA) at the genus (only for Euryarchaeota) level in soil samples. Table S1. Primers and conditions used in this study.
Non-abelian tensor square and related constructions of $p$-groups
Creators: name: Bastos, Raimundo
name: de Melo, Emerson
name: Gonçalves, Nathália
name: Nunes, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D15, 20E06

description: Let $G$ be a group. We denote by $ν(G)$ a certain extension of the non-abelian tensor square $[G,G^φ]$ by $G \times G$. We prove that if $G$ is a finite potent $p$-group, then $[G,G^φ]$ and the $k$-th term of the lower central series $γ_k(ν(G))$ are potently embedded in $ν(G)$ (Theorem A). Moreover, we show that if $G$ is a potent $p$-group, then the exponent $\exp(ν(G))$ divides $p \cdot \exp(G)$ (Theorem B). We also study the weak commutativity construction of powerful $p$-groups (Theorem C).
Stericta hoenei Caradja 1935
Creators: name: Rong, Hua
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Stericta
Stericta hoenei

description: Stericta hoenei Caradja, 1935 (Figs 6, 14, 22)
 Stericta hoenei Caradja, 1935, In: Caradja & Meyrick: 28. TL: China (Zhejiang).
 Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 6). Wingspan 23.0–24.0 mm. Stericta hoenei is similar to S. asopialis. The differences between the two species are stated under the latter species S. asopialis.
Material examined. China. Zhejiang: 1♀, Zhonglieci, Mt. Tianmu (elev. 400 m), 27 July 2011, coll. Xicui Du, Xiaobing Fu; 6♂, 1♀, Huangtanyu, Mt. Jiulong (elev. 467 m), 3–9 July 2013, coll. Aihui Yin, Xiuchun Wang, slide No. RH 16144 ♀; 4♂, Neijiujian, Mt. Jiulong (elev. 430 m), 7 July 2013, coll. Aihui Yin, Xiuchun Wang, slide No. RH 16143 ♂; 1♂, 1♀, Shimendong, Qingtian County (elev. 102 m), 20–21 August 2016, coll. Qingyun Wang, Meiqing Yang, Ping Liu.
Distribution. China (Zhejiang).
description: Published as part of Rong, Hua & Li, Houhun, 2017, Taxonomic study of the genus Stericta Lederer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Epipaschiinae) from China, pp. 463-475 in Zoological Systematics 42 (4) on page 470, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201721, http://zenodo.org/record/5366609
Proton Electro-Magnetic Form-Factors in the Instanton Liquid Model
Creators: name: Faccioli, P.
name: Shuryak, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first non-perturbative calculation of proton electro-magnetic form-factors in the Random Instanton Liquid Model (RILM) and in the Interacting Instanton Liquid Model (IILM). By calculating the ratio of appropriate three-point to two-point functions, we divide out the coupling constants and compare our results directly to some integral of the form-factors. Using various parameterizations of the electric form-factor $G_E(Q^2)$ at large $Q^2>3.5 GeV^2$, where it is not yet measured, we compare those with expected theoretical dependence. We find from this comparison that some distributions of charge are clearly excluded (e.g. the same as of the magnetic moment, $μG_E/G_M=1$, as well as the opposite scenario in which $μG_E/G_M$ rapidly approach zero), restricting possible behavior of the form-factor to rather narrow band. Furthermore, we found that our calculation of the nucleon form-factors is dominated by a configuration in which two out of three quarks interact with a $single$-instanton, in spite of the fact that the evaluated three-point function has rather large distances ($\sim 1.2 fm$) between points. We also estimate the size of the scalar di-quark and found it to be very small, comparable to the typical instanton size.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Microctonus nigritus
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus nigritus

description: M. nigritus (Provancher) nomen dubium
 Perilitus nigritus Provancher, 1888, p 379.
 Microctonus nigritus Muesebeck, 1936, p 18.
Distribution: Quebec.
Specimens examined: Damaged lectotype.
Flight period:?
 Remarks: The lectotype at the Provincial Museum, Quebec is the only known specimen. It lost but for a single leg. The specimen Muesebeck (1936) mentioned as the only other known specimen conforms with M. blapstini. Loan (1969) treated both species in his key but the present author does not recognize adequate resolution of M. nigritus in any of the literature.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Violation of Bell's inequalities implies distillability for N qubits
Creators: name: Acin, A.
name: Scarani, V.
name: Wolf, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum systems composed of $N$ qubits, and the family of all Bell's correlation inequalities for two two-valued measurements per site. We show that if a $N$-qubit state $ρ$ violates any of these inequalities, then it is at least bipartite distillable. Indeed there exists a link between the amount of Bell's inequality violation and the degree of distillability. Thus, we strengthen the interpretation of Bell's inequalities as detectors of useful entanglement.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, REVTEX. List of authors extended. Partially rewritten, a rather qualitative explanation of the results. Conclusions unchanged
Effect of Price-Discount Distribution in Multi-Unit Price Promotions on Sales Value and retailers’ revenue: Evidence from Multi-Unit Auctions
Creators: name: Akaichi, Faiçal
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Akaichi, Faiçal
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Multi-unit price promotions
subject: multi-unit auctions
subject: price discount distributions

description: Using multi-unit auctions, we examined the effect of different distributions of price discount across multiple units of a relatively new product on consumers’ Willingness to Pay (WTP), sales value and retailers’ revenue. We found that allowing the price discount to be increasing in the number of units largely increases willingness to pay, sales value and retailers’ revenue and that a price discount that is uniformly distributed across units also has the potential to motivate consumers to buy more units of the new product. However, multi-unit price promotions that concentrate all the amount of price discount on the last unit only provides a weak positive effect on sales value.
Psychosocial aspects of occupational overuse disorders
Creators: name: Blignault, Ilse
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Job stress
subject: Stress (Psychology)
subject: Work Physiological aspects
subject: Work Psychological aspects
subject: Industrial hygiene

description: An investigation of the psychosocial aspects of occupational overuse disorders was conducted with 146 keyboard operators in the Australian Public Service. Forty four were machine compositors, 65 were data processing operators, and 37 were either designated keyboard staff or clerical staff who used keyboard equipment. At initial assessment information was obtained on job characteristics and working conditions, social and psychological employee characteristics, and health and well-being of employees. At a six-month follow-up subjects were reassessed for health and well-being. All major statistical analyses were carried out on the cross-sectional data. Examination of the associations between symptoms of overuse disorder and other variables taken individually yielded few significant results. The majority were for measures of job characteristics and working conditions. Multiple regression analyses identified work pressure as the single significant risk factor for symptoms in the upper arms and body; duties, work pressure, and peer cohesion as significant risk factors for symptoms in the lower arms; and autonomy, pushing oneself, and work pressure as significant risk factors for symptoms in the upper limbs and body i.e. overall. A second set of multiple regression analyses indicated that the presence of overuse disorder by itself and the nonperformance of usual duties due to overuse disorder each made a significant contribution to psychological symptomatology. The implications of these findings for the management and treatment of these disorders are discussed.
Nonlinear silicon waveguides generating broadband, spectrally engineered frequency combs spanning 2.0-8.5 um
Creators: name: Nader, Nima
name: Kowligy, Abijith
name: Chiles, Jeff
name: Stanton, Eric J.
name: Timmers, Henry
name: Lind, Alexander J.
name: Cruz, Flavio C.
name: Lesko, Daniel M.
name: Briggman, Kimberly .
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Diddams, Scott A.
name: Mirin, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanophotonic waveguides with sub-wavelength mode confinement and engineered dispersion profiles are an excellent platform for application-tailored nonlinear optical interactions at low pulse energies. Here, we present fully air clad suspended-silicon waveguides for infrared frequency comb generation with optical bandwidth limited only by the silicon transparency. The achieved spectra are lithographically tailored to span 2.1 octaves in the mid-infrared (2.0-8.5 um or 1170--5000 cm-1) when pumped at 3.10 um with 100 pJ pulses. Novel fork-shaped couplers provide efficient input coupling with only 1.5 dB loss. The coherence, brightness, and the stability of the generated light are highlighted in a dual frequency comb setup in which individual comb-lines are resolved with 30 dB extinction ratio and 100 MHz spacing in the wavelength range of 4.8-8.5 um (2100-1170 cm-1). These sources are used for broadband gas- and liquid-phase dual-comb spectroscopy with 100 MHz comb-line resolution. We achieve a peak spectral signal-to-noise ratio of 10 Hz^0.5 across a simultaneous bandwidth containing 112,200 comb-lines. These results provide a pathway to further integration with the developing high repetition rate frequency comb lasers for compact sensors with applications in chip-based chemical analysis and spectroscopy.
Additional file 6: of Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
Creators: name: Ivdity Chikovani
name: Diaconu, Karin
name: Duric, Predrag
name: Sulaberidze, Lela
name: Uchaneishvili, Maia
name: Mohammed, Nuredin
name: Zoidze, Akaki
name: Witter, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Trial registration in World Health Organization Trial Dataset. (DOCX 25 kb)
Rescattering corrections in elastic scattering
Creators: name: Desgrolard, P.
name: Giffon, M.
name: Martynov, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed study of the rescattering series is performed within a model, using a generalized procedure of eikonalization and fitted to the $pp$ and $\bar pp$ elastic scattering data. We estimate and compare the various rescattering corrections to be added to the Born contribution in the amplitude. We find that their number is finite, whereas it increases with the energy and the transfer, like does their importance. In the domain where data exist, we find also that a correct computation must include, at least, all two- and three-Reggeon exchanges and some four- and five-Reggeon exchanges. Any approximation aiming to reduce this (large) number of exchange would be hazardous, especially when extrapolating. We extend our estimates in the domain of future experiments.
description: LaTeX2e, 15 pages, 14 eps figures