cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phase transition and magnetotransport properties of ball-milled half-metallic CrO2
Creators: name: Wang, K-Y.
name: Spinu, L.
name: He, J.
name: Zhou, W.
name: Wang, W.
name: Tang, Jinke
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

description: Small CrO2 particles with mean diameters ranging from 11 to 25 nm have been prepared by ball milling. X-ray diffraction studies show a continuous lattice expansion with increasing milling time. A phase transition to Cr2O3 also occurs with a sudden increase in the amount of Cr2O3 found between 5 and 8 h of milling. The decreases of low-field magnetoresistance with increasing milling time is correlated to the expansion of the lattice parameters of CrO2, which probably leads to the reduction in its spin polarization. High-field magnetoresistance increases with the milling possibly due to the enhanced mixed valence of the chromium, which supports the double exchange model.
Tomopteris Eschscholtz 1825
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Tomopteridae
Tomopteris

description: Genus Tomopteris Eschscholtz, 1825
Tomopteris apsteini Rosa, 1908
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Graeffe 1905; Zimmermann 1907; Vatova 1928; Zei 1956; Katzmann 1972; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Tomopteris scolopendra Keferstein, 1861.
Tomopteris cavallii Rosa, 1907
DISTRIBUTION: CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
Tomopteris elegans Chun, 1887 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Rosa 1912; Knežević 1942; Terio 1947; Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Batistić et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
Tomopteris catharina (Gosse, 1853)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Apstein 1900; Rosa 1912; Vatova 1928; Knežević 1942; Zei 1956; Banse 1970; Katzmann 1972; Požar-Domac 1994; Batistić et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: Near Brindisi (SA) on coralligenous bottoms sampled by dredging, by M. Sarà, in 1968 (A. Giangrande, pers. comm.).
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Tomopteris helgolandica Greeff, 1879.
Tomopteris ligulata Rosa, 1908
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Terio 1947; Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
Tomopteris planktonis Apstein 1900
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Rosa 1912; Terio 1947; Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
Tomopteris poliglandulata Caroli, 1932 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Terio 1947; Castelli et al. 2008.
Tomopteris septentrionalis Quatrefages, 1866 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Terio 1947; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 145-146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Regrinder/Runner reclaim project
Creators: name: Roberts, Craig
name: Eckert, Danielle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015

description: Siegel-Robert, Guardian Global Incorporated (SRG Global) is one of the largest automotive plastics manufacturers in the world. The company makes both coated/painted and non- coated plastic parts while striving for zero waste in all of their facilities. We are working with the Evansville plant of SRG Global to reduce waste. This waste material is currently sold back to
suppliers at a fraction of the original cost. Reusing it in current products may save money without compromising quality of the product. SRG GlobaTs parts are made using an injection molding process which consists of three steps. First virgin material, plastic resin, is melted using an external heat source and heat created from friction (through a rotating screw). Next the heated plastic resin mixture is injected through a nozzle into a metal mold. Finally the mold is cooled, opened, and the molded part is removed. That plastic part is generally ready to be sent on to the next step in the
manufacturing process. Excess material, called runners, are produced as a by-product of the injection molding process. Runners are part of a channel system that is fed to the cavity to form the plastic part. They are cut off of the part and collected in scrap bins. We plan to adjust the manufacturing process by adding an additional step. A Grinder, a machine used to cut up the excess
material into small pieces, will be added to reuse excess material. The objectives of this project are to design a regrinding process that will 1) minimize interference with current daily production, 2) maintain the quality of the product, 3) standardize the regrinding process for future implementations, 4) and have a payback period of two years or less for SRG Global.
Electronic and dynamical properties of cobalt monogermanide CoGe phases under pressure
Creators: name: Basak, Surajit
name: Kobiałka, Aksel
name: Sternik, Małgorzata
name: Łażewski, Jan
name: Jochym, Paweł T.
name: Oleś, Andrzej M.
name: Piekarz, Przemysław
name: Ptok, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the pressure dependence of the electronic and dynamical properties of six different CoGe phases: orthorhombic Cmmm, hexagonal P6/mmm and P$\bar{6}$2m, monoclinic C2/m, cubic P2$_{1}$3, and orthorhombic Pnma. Using first-principles DFT calculations and the direct force-constants method, we study the dynamical stability of individual phases under external pressure. We show that the orthorombic Cmmm and hexagonal P6/mmm structures are unstable over a broad pressure range and most pronounced imaginary phonon soft mode in both cases leads to a stable hexagonal P$\bar{6}$2m structure of the lowest ground-state energy of all studied phases at ambient and low (below $\sim 3$ GPa) external pressure. Under these conditions, the cubic P2$_{1}$3 phase has the highest energy, however, together with monoclinic C2/m and orthorombic Pnma it is dynamically stable and all these three structures can potentially coexist as meta-stable phases. Above $\sim 3$ GPa, the cubic P2$_{1}$3 phase becomes the most energetically favorable. Fitting the Birch--Murnaghan equation of state we derive bulk modulus for all mentioned phases, which indicate relatively high resistance of CoGe to compression. Such conclusions are confirmed by band structure calculations. Additionally, we show that electronic bands of the hexagonal P$\bar{6}$2m phase reveal characteristic features of the kagome-like structure, while in the cubic P2$_{1}$3 phase spectrum, one can locate spin-1 and double Weyl fermions. In both cases, the external pressure induces the Lifshitz transition, related to the modification of the Fermi surface topology.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Renormalization Group Analysis of Nonlinear Diffusion Equations with Periodic Coefficients
Creators: name: Braga, G. A.
name: Furtado, Fred
name: Moreira, J. M.
name: Rolla, L. T.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: renormalization group
subject: partial differential equations
subject: multiple scale problems
subject: asymptotic behavior
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we present an efficient numerical approach based on the renormalization group method for the computation of self-similar dynamics. The latter arise, for instance, as the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. We illustrate the approach with the verification of a conjecture about the long-time behavior of solutions to a certain class of nonlinear diffusion equations with periodic coefficients. This conjecture is based on a mixed argument involving ideas from homogenization theory and the renormalization group method. Our numerical approach provides a detailed picture of the asymptotics, including the determination of the effective or renormalized diffusion coefficient.
Four Motets for Mixed Chorus
Creators: name: Watt, Martin
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation
classificationCode: 360304
subject: Music performance

description: This musical composition, titled Four Motets for Mixed Chorus is a collection of four unaccompanied choral works on Latin and English texts from the Bible. A motet is most often a relatively short choral work on sacred texts such as from the Roman Catholic Liturgy in Latin, and in this collection, one of the works is on an English sacred text taken directly from the Bible. The motets are as follows: "Do not Fear", "Panis Angélicus", "O Magnum Mysterium", and "Laudate Dominum". This work was performed for the first time in public on 7 March 2023 by the Amici de Lumine Choir under the direction of Michaelangelo Cloete in the Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa. Attached here, find the full score, the concert poster and programme, as well as a recording.
Octobranchus Marion & Bobretzky 1875
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Trichobranchidae
Octobranchus

description: Genus Octobranchus Marion & Bobretzky, 1875
* Octobranchus lingulatus (Grube, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1863, 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Banse 1959; Katzmann 1972; Požar- Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Terebella lingulata Grube, 1863.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Towards Unsupervised Question Answering System with Multi-level Summarization for Legal Text
Creators: name: Prabhu, M Manvith
name: Srinivasa, Haricharana
name: M, Anand Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper summarizes Team SCaLAR's work on SemEval-2024 Task 5: Legal Argument Reasoning in Civil Procedure. To address this Binary Classification task, which was daunting due to the complexity of the Legal Texts involved, we propose a simple yet novel similarity and distance-based unsupervised approach to generate labels. Further, we explore the Multi-level fusion of Legal-Bert embeddings using ensemble features, including CNN, GRU, and LSTM. To address the lengthy nature of Legal explanation in the dataset, we introduce T5-based segment-wise summarization, which successfully retained crucial information, enhancing the model's performance. Our unsupervised system witnessed a 20-point increase in macro F1-score on the development set and a 10-point increase on the test set, which is promising given its uncomplicated architecture.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Terebellides M. Sars 1835
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Trichobranchidae
Terebellides

description: Genus Terebellides M. Sars, 1835
Terebellides gracilis (Malm, 1874) DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM52, BM53.
* Terebellides mediterranea Parapar, Mikac & Fiege, 2013 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM52.
Terebellides stroemii M. Sars, 1835 DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Brusina 1896; Graeffe 1905; Leidenfrost 1908; Vatova 1928, 1931a; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1934, 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1942, 1943, 1949a; Meštrov 1957; Banse 1959; Kiseleva 1964; Scaccini 1967; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Orel & Mennea 1969; Banse 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1973b, 1973f; Avčin et al. 1974; Gamulin-Brida 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1976; Bellan 1976; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Amoureux 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Del Piero et al. 1984; Stjepčević et al. 1984; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Županović & Jardas 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Ceschia et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Boscolo et al. 2006; Zavodnik et al. 2006; Simonini et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011; Parapar et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM17, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM42, BM43, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM61, BM63, BM64, BM65, BM66, BM91.
REMARKS: Until recently the only species of Terebellides reported for the Mediterranean Sea was T. stroemii. However, recent research in the NA (Parapar et al. 2013) revealed two more species to be present, T. gracilis (Malm, 1874) and a newly described species T. mediterranea Parapar, Mikac & Fiege, 2013. All former records of T. stroemii in the Adriatic need to be reviewed as some of them may belong to other species of Terebellides. Parapar & Hutchings (2014) described a neotype of T. stroemii from Norway; they performed a comparative study of the morphological characteristics of T. stroemii from several recent descriptions in the north-east Atlantic (including the one from the Adriatic Sea by Parapar et al. 2013) and observed slight differences among them, suggesting that several cryptic species are present. These species are difficult to be identified using only a traditional morphological study of external characters, thus molecular methodologies will have to be performed.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 146-147, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Trichobranchus Malmgren 1866
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Trichobranchidae
Trichobranchus

description: Genus Trichobranchus Malmgren, 1866
Trichobranchus glacialis Malmgren, 1866
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Požar-Domac 1994; Aleffi et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM99.
DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM99, 16.07.2012., 1 spec. (PMR-17615).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Sagitella Wagner 1872
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Typhloscolecidae
Sagitella

description: Genus Sagitella Wagner, 1872
Sagitella kowalevskyi Wagner, 1872
DISTRIBUTION: CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Batistić et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Investigation of the Joint Probability of Waves and High Sea Levels along the Cumbrian Coastline
Creators: name: Hames, Dominic Paul
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2006

description: The use of joint probability techniques for wave heights and sea levels to estimate potential damage and overtopping of flood defences is of vital importance in coastal defence work. Without the use of joint probability techniques, confidence in the appropriate design conditions are poor, and defences could be built to an incorrect design standard. This has the potential effect of a coastal or estuary scheme being under-designed, and therefore not suitable for the purpose it was built for or over-designed, and therefore built to a much greater cost than required. With no research having considered the joint probability relationship between waves and high sea levels at nearshore locations, this study has therefore been defined to investigate this relationship spatially for an approximate 100km length of coastline for different nearshore beach levels in Cumbria. This should improve the understanding of the joint probability relationship nearshore, and enable this relationship to be reliably estimated for other coastlines where appropriate data is not available. To investigate this relationship, 13.2 years of coincident waves and sea levels have been determined nearshore at regular 400m centres, and at 5 regularly spaced beach levels from 2m above and below Ordnance Datum. The wave transformation model REFDIF has been used to determine nearshore wave heights, using data from two deep water Met Office prediction points. Sea levels have been determined using recorded data from all known tide gauges and tide log books. From an analysis of the results, clear relationships appear to exist over lengths of coastlines that have similar exposure conditions. Given the joint probability relationship at one location, the joint probability relationship at the second can be reliably estimated based on estimates of the ex1reme wave height and sea level at the second. Joint probability curves were noted to show a consistent shape within bays, as well as at headlands, steep beaches and for coastlines that had a change in direction away from the predominant wave direction. As beach levels increased, the joint probability curves became increasingly generic, and it was noted that at the most ex1reme sea levels return period wave heights generally increased for higher beach levels.
The synthesis of estuarine bathymetry from sparse sounding data
Creators: name: Burroughes, Janet Eirlys
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: The two aims of the project involved: 1. Devising a system for prediction o f areas of bathymetric change within the Fal estuary 2. Formulating and evaluating a method for interpolating single beam acoustic bathymetry to avoid artefacts o f interpolation. In order to address these aims, sources of bathymetric data for the Fal estuary were identified as Truro Harbour Office, Cornwall County Council and the Environment Agency. The data collected from these sources included red wavelength Lidar, aerial photography and single beam acoustic bathymetry from a number of different years. These data were input into a Geographic Information System (GIS) and assessed for suitability for the purposes o f data comparison and hence assessment of temporal trends in bathymetry within the estuary Problems encountered during mterpolation of the acoustic bathymetry resulted in the later aim of the project, to formulate an interpolation system suitable for interpolation of the single beam, bathymetric data in a realistic way, avoiding serious artefacts of interpolation. This aim was met, successfully, through the following processes: 1. An interpolation system was developed, using polygonal zones, bounded by channels and coastlines, to prevent interpolation across these boundaries. This system, based on Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) interpolation, was referred to as Zoned Inverse Distance Weighting (ZIDW). 2. ZIDW was found, by visual inspection, to eliminate the interpolation artefacts described above. 3. The processes of identification of sounding lines and charmels, and the allocation of soundings and output grid cells to polygons, were successfully automated to allow ZIDW to be applied to large and multiple data sets. Manual intervention was maintained for processes performed most successfully by the human brain to optimise the results o f ZIDW. 4. To formalise the theory of ZIDW it was applied to a range of idealised, mathematically defined chaimels. For simple straight and regular curved, mathematical channels interpolation by the standard TIN method was found to perform as well as ZIDW. 5. Investigation of sinusoidal channels within a rectangular estuary, however, revealed that the TIN method begins to produce serious interpolation artefacts where sounding lines are not parallel to the centre lines o f channels and ridges. Hence, overall ZIDW was determined mathematically to represent the optimum method o f interpolation for single beam, bathymelric data. 6. Finally, ZIDW was refined, using data from the Humber and Gironde estuaries, to achieve universal applicability for interpolation of single beam, echo soimding data from any estuary. 7. The refinements involved allowance for non-continuous, flood and ebb type charmels; consideration of the effects of the scale of the estuary; smoothing of the channels using cubic splines; interpolation using a 'smart' ellipse and the option to reconstruct sounding lines from data that had previously been re-ordered.
Travisiopsis Levinsen 1885
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Typhloscolecidae
Travisiopsis

description: Genus Travisiopsis Levinsen, 1885
Travisiopsis lanceolata Southern, 1910
DISTRIBUTION: CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zei 1956; Požar-Domac 1994; Batistić et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Typhloscolex Busch 1851
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Typhloscolecidae
Typhloscolex

description: Genus Typhloscolex Busch, 1851
* Typhloscolex muelleri Busch, 1851
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Busch 1851; Baldasseroni 1914; Požar-Domac 1994; Batistić et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Carcharhinus altimus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus altimus

description: Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950) —Bignose shark
Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of an individual landed in Jounieh by a fisherman (11 January 2017).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (DD: 1 December 2008); Med. (DD: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action. Listed as exotic to the Mediterranean Sea (Golani et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Locomotor patterns and persistent activity in self-organizing neural models
Creators: name: Cooke, Thomas Henry
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: The thesis investigates principles of self-organization that may account for the observed structure and behaviour of neural networks that generate locomotor behaviour and complex spatiotemporal patterns such as spiral waves, metastable states and persistent activity. This relates to the general neuroscience problem of finding the correspondence between the structure of neural networks and their function. This question is both extremely important and difficult to answer because the structure of a neural network defines a specific type of neural dynamics which underpins some function of the neural system and also influences the structure and parameters of the network including connection strengths. This loop of influences results in a stable and reliable neural dynamics that realises a neural function. In order to study the relationship between neural network structure and spatiotemporal dynamics, several computational models of plastic neural networks with different architectures are developed. Plasticity includes both modification of synaptic connection strengths and adaptation of neuronal thresholds. This approach is based on a consideration of general modelling concepts and focuses on a relatively simple neural network which is still complex enough to generate a broad spectrum of spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity such as spiral waves, persistent activity, metastability and phase transitions. Having considered the dynamics of networks with fixed architectures, we go on to consider the question of how a neural circuit which realizes some particular function establishes its architecture of connections. The approach adopted here is to model the developmental process which results in a particular neural network structure which is relevant to some particular functionality; specifically we develop a biologically realistic model of the tadpole spinal cord. This model describes the self-organized process through which the anatomical structure of the full spinal cord of the tadpole develops. Electrophysiological modelling shows that this architecture can generate electrical activity corresponding to the experimentally observed swimming behaviour.
Carcharhinus falciformis
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus falciformis

description: Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle 1839) —Silky shark
Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of two specimens landed in Sarafand (9 May 2017) and in Saida (15 September 2017).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2bd, 26 September 2017); Med. (NE); CITES: Appendix II. Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action. Listed as exotic to the Mediterranean Sea (Golani et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
O'SMIRLARDA KOMPYUTER OYINLARGA QARAMLILIK MUOMMASI
Creators: name: Seitimova, Zagipa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada axborotlar almashinuvi, o’smirlarda kompyuter o‘yinlariga tobelik muammosining o’rganilishi va ota-onalarga tavsiyalar keltirilgan
Carcharhinus limbatus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus limbatus

description: Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes 1839) —Blacktip shark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle 1841) by George et al. (1964: 9); subsequently recorded as Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes) by Mouneimné (1977: 60); as Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes 1841) by Mouneimné (2002: 51). Recent unpublished records from Naqoura (21 October 2011) and Tripoli (18 July 2013).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (NT: 1 October 2005); Med. (DD: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Low-energy theorems for neutron-proton scattering in $χ$EFT using a perturbative power counting
Creators: name: Thim, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy theorems (LETs) for effective-range parameters in nucleon-nucleon scattering encode properties of the long-range part of the nuclear force. We compute LETs for S-wave neutron-proton scattering using chiral effective field theory with a modified version of Weinberg power counting. Corrections to the leading order amplitude are included in distorted-wave perturbation theory and we incorporate contributions up to the third order in the power counting. We find that LETs in the $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$ partial waves agree well with empirical effective-range parameters. At the same time, phase shifts up to laboratory scattering energies of about 100 MeV can be reproduced. We show that it is important to consider the pion mass splitting in the one-pion exchange potential in the $^1S_0$ partial wave while the effect is negligible in the $^3S_1$ partial wave. We conclude that pion exchanges, as treated in this power counting, accurately describe the long-range part of the $S$-wave nuclear interaction.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
THE EFFECT OF SEA WEED (Ascophyllum nodosum) EXTRACT ON ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE OF TALL FESCUE (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
Creators: name: AYAD, JAMAL YOUSEF
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1998

description: Plants have developed enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant mechanisms to prevent oxidation of cellular compartments. Enhancing these mechanisms might help plants cope with encountered stresses. Greenhouse and field studies were conducted to examine the influence of seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) extract on antioxidant enzymes activities, forage Growth, and persistence of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.). Furthermore. effects of soil moisture, plant genotype, and infection with the endophyte Neotyphodium coenophialum ([Morgan-Jones and Gams] Glenn, Bacon and Hanlin) were investigated. In a greenhouse experiment, seaweed extract was applied to ‘Martin’ tall fescue at 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 kg ha in a randomized block design with four replicates. Seaweed extract linearly increased ( P 0.05) glutathione reductase activity. Superoxide dismutase and ascorbate peroxidase were also increased but responses differed by time and treatment rates. In a second greenhouse experiment, seaweed extract was applied at 4 kg ha to endophyte-infected and non-infected ‘Georgia Jessup’ and ‘KY-31’ tall fescue grown with 50-100% and 30-100% field capacity soil moisture in a completely randomized design with four replications. Glutathione reductase activity increased (P 0.05) in both genotypes in response to seaweed extract and moisture stress and tended to increase ( P 0.07) in response to the endophyte. Seaweed extract increased (P 0.05) superoxide.
Fluctuations of thermal variables investigated by cross-correlation function
Creators: name: Garden, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuations in conjugate thermodynamic variables are studied using the cross-correlation function. A new procedure is given enabling the derivation of fluctuation formulas for a system in equilibrium. Specifically, the cross-correlation function between heat and temperature is employed for thermal variables. Additionally, fluctuation-dissipation relations involving the frequency-dependent specific heat are established. Moreover, a general relation concerning the average entropy production is also given, which is the microscopic analogue of the dissipation formula of the linear response theory. In the case of thermal variables, this formula finds application in various scenarios describing fluctuating thermal systems in equilibrium.
RLC resonator with diode nonlinearity: Bifurcation comparison of numerical predictions and circuit measurements
Creators: name: Hellen, Edward H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A nonlinear RLC resonator is investigated experimentally and numerically using bifurcation analysis. The nonlinearity is due to the parallel combination of a semiconductor rectifier diode and a fixed capacitor. The diode's junction capacitance, diffusion capacitance, and DC current-voltage relation each contribute to the nonlinearity. The closely related RL-diode resonator has been of interest for many years since its demonstration of period-doubling cascades to chaos. In this study a direct comparison is made of dynamical regime maps produced from simulations and circuit measurements. The maps show the variety of limit cycles, their bifurcations, and regions of chaos over the 2-d parameter space of the source voltage's frequency and amplitude. The similar structures of the simulated and experimental maps suggests that the diode models commonly used in circuit simulators (e.g., SPICE) work well in bifurcation analyses, successfully predicting complex and chaotic dynamics detected in the circuit. These results may be useful for applications of varactor-loaded split ring resonators.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, submitted for publication
Carcharhinus obscurus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus obscurus

description: Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur 1818) —Dusky shark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Carcharhinus obscurus by Lteif (2015: 61). Distribution. Nearly circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea). Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2bd, 14 February 2007); Med. (DD: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats:
FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls
Creators: name: Cooper, Lisa Noelle
name: Seiffert, Erik R.
name: Clementz, Mark T.
name: Madar, Sandra I.
name: Bajpai, Sunil
name: Hussain, Sofia Taseer
name: Thewissen, Johannes G. M.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Anthracobunid
Article
biogeography
dentition
Dugong
elephant
enamel
fossil animal
geometry
incisor
India
isotope analysis
mammal
mandible
nonhuman
occipital bone
Pakistan
paleontology
Perissodactyl
phylogeny
premolar tooth
skull
sphenoid
zygoma

description: Anthracobunidae is an Eocene family of large mammals from south Asia that is commonly considered to be part of the radiation that gave rise to elephants (proboscideans) and sea cows (sirenians). We describe a new collection of anthracobunid fossils from Middle Eocene rocks of Indo-Pakistan that more than doubles the number of known anthracobunid fossils and challenges their putative relationships, instead implying that they are stem perissodactyls. Cranial, dental, and postcranial elements allow a revision of species and the recognition of a new anthracobunid genus. Analyses of stable isotopes and long bone geometry together suggest that most anthracobunids fed on land, but spent a considerable amount of time near water. This new evidence expands our understanding of stem perissodactyl diversity and sheds new light on perissodactyl origins.
Carcharhinus plumbeus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus plumbeus

description: Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827) —Sandbar shark
Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of one individual landed in Tripoli (20 August 2013); another from an unknown location in North Lebanon (19 November 2013), and a third one photographed underwater in Ghazieh (14 May 2018). Recent unpublished records from Sarafand (19 November 2013), Tripoli (20 August 2013) and Saida (13 May 2018). Material in collection: AUBM (CH 0009).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf), possibly absent from eastern Pacific.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2bd+4bd, 20 February 2007); Med. (EN: A4 d, 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Performance Analysis of Integrated Sensing and Communication Networks with Blockage Effects
Creators: name: Sun, Zezhong
name: Yan, Shi
name: Jiang, Ning
name: Zhou, Jiaen
name: Peng, Mugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Communication-sensing integration represents an up-and-coming area of research, enabling wireless networks to simultaneously perform communication and sensing tasks. However, in urban cellular networks, the blockage of buildings results in a complex signal propagation environment, affecting the performance analysis of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. To overcome this obstacle, this paper constructs a comprehensive framework considering building blockage and employs a distance-correlated blockage model to analyze interference from line of sight (LoS), non-line of sight (NLoS), and target reflection cascading (TRC) links. Using stochastic geometric theory, expressions for signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and coverage probability for communication and sensing in the presence of blockage are derived, allowing for a comprehensive comparison under the same parameters. The research findings indicate that blockage can positively impact coverage, especially in enhancing communication performance. The analysis also suggests that there exists an optimal base station (BS) density when blockage is of the same order of magnitude as the BS density, maximizing communication or sensing coverage probability.
description: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Teaching Llama a New Language Through Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer
Creators: name: Kuulmets, Hele-Andra
name: Purason, Taido
name: Luhtaru, Agnes
name: Fishel, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper explores cost-efficient methods to adapt pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) to new lower-resource languages, with a specific focus on Estonian. Leveraging the Llama 2 model, we investigate the impact of combining cross-lingual instruction-tuning with additional monolingual pretraining. Our results demonstrate that even a relatively small amount of additional monolingual pretraining followed by cross-lingual instruction-tuning significantly enhances results on Estonian. Furthermore, we showcase cross-lingual knowledge transfer from high-quality English instructions to Estonian, resulting in improvements in commonsense reasoning and multi-turn conversation capabilities. Our best model, named \textsc{Llammas}, represents the first open-source instruction-following LLM for Estonian. Additionally, we publish Alpaca-est, the first general task instruction dataset for Estonia. These contributions mark the initial progress in the direction of developing open-source LLMs for Estonian.
Prionace glauca
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Prionace
Prionace glauca

description: Prionace glauca (Linnaeus 1758) —Blue shark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Prionace glauca (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 9); subsequently recorded as Prionace glauca (Linnaeus) by Mouneimné (1977: 60); as Prionace glauca (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 52).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (NT: 1 October 2005); Med. (CR: A2bd, 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Non-Abelian braiding of Fibonacci anyons with a superconducting processor
Creators: name: Xu, Shibo
name: Sun, Zheng-Zhi
name: Wang, Ke
name: Li, Hekang
name: Zhu, Zitian
name: Dong, Hang
name: Deng, Jinfeng
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Chen, Jiachen
name: Wu, Yaozu
name: Zhang, Chuanyu
name: Jin, Feitong
name: Zhu, Xuhao
name: Gao, Yu
name: Zhang, Aosai
name: Wang, Ning
name: Zou, Yiren
name: Tan, Ziqi
name: Shen, Fanhao
name: Zhong, Jiarun
name: Bao, Zehang
name: Li, Weikang
name: Jiang, Wenjie
name: Yu, Li-Wei
name: Song, Zixuan
name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Xiang, Liang
name: Guo, Qiujiang
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Song, Chao
name: Wang, H.
name: Deng, Dong-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Abelian topological orders offer an intriguing path towards fault-tolerant quantum computation, where information can be encoded and manipulated in a topologically protected manner immune to arbitrary local noises and perturbations. However, realizing non-Abelian topologically ordered states is notoriously challenging in both condensed matter and programmable quantum systems, and it was not until recently that signatures of non-Abelian statistics were observed through digital quantum simulation approaches. Despite these exciting progresses, none of them has demonstrated the appropriate type of topological orders and associated non-Abelian anyons whose braidings alone support universal quantum computation. Here, we report the realization of non-Abelian topologically ordered states of the Fibonacci string-net model and demonstrate braidings of Fibonacci anyons featuring universal computational power, with a superconducting quantum processor. We exploit efficient quantum circuits to prepare the desired states and verify their nontrivial topological nature by measuring the topological entanglement entropy. In addition, we create two pairs of Fibonacci anyons and demonstrate their fusion rule and non-Abelian braiding statistics by applying unitary gates on the underlying physical qubits. Our results establish a versatile digital approach to exploring exotic non-Abelian topological states and their associated braiding statistics with current noisy intermediate-scale quantum processors.
Extracellular vesicles from Fusobacterium nucleatum: roles in the malignant phenotypes of gastric cancer
Creators: name: Meng, Xiangkun
name: Ma, Gang
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Yin, Hua
name: Miao, Yu
name: He, Fang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The increase of the Fusobacterium nucleatum level has been previously identified in various cancers including gastric cancer (GC), but how the F. nucleatum exerts its carcinogenic role in GC remains unclear. Several studies revealed that F. nucleatum contributes to cancer progression via its secretion of extracellular vehicles (EVs). Hence, it’s designed to reveal the influence of F. nucleatum-derived EVs (Fn-EVs) in GC progression. The tumor and adjacent tissues were collected from 30 GC patients, and the abundance of F. nucleatum was found to be highly expressed in tumor samples. The ultracentrifugation was employed to isolate EVs from F. nucleatum and Escherischia coli (E. coli), which were labeled Fn-EVs and E. coli-EVs, respectively. After treating GC cells with Fn-EVs and E. coli-EVs, cell counting kit 8, colony formation, wound healing as well as transwell assay were performed, which revealed that Fn-EVs effectively enhanced oxaliplatin resistance, and facilitated cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and stemness in GC cells while E. coli-EVs exert no significant effect on GC cells. Besides, the stemness and DNA repair of GC cells were also enhanced by Fn-EVs, as revealed by the sphere-forming assay and the detection of stemness- and DNA repair-associated proteins by western blotting. In vivo analyses demonstrated that Fn-EVs administration not only promoted GC tumor growth and liver metastasis but also conferred GC tumor resistance to oxaliplatin resistance. This study first revealed the contributive role of F. nucleatum in GC development via Fn-EVs, which provided a better perspective for manipulating F. nucleatum in treating GC patients with malignant phenotypes.
Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Scyliorhinidae
Galeus
Galeus melastomus

description: Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810 —Blackmouth catshark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810 by George & Athanassiou (1966a: 6–7); subsequently recorded as Galeus melastomus Rafinesque by Mouneimné (1977: 60); as Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810 by Mouneimné (2002: 49); recently recorded as Galeus melastomus by Lteif (2015: 61). Recent unpublished records from Beirut (24 April 2010) and Sarafand (8 February 2018). Material in collection: AUBM.
Distribution. Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, eastern North Atlantic: Faroe Islands and Norway to Senegal.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 1 October 2003); Med. (LC: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Medium priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887