cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Technical Efficiency of Smallholders Dairy Farmers in Njombe District, Tanzania
Creators: name: Mbehoma, Petermus M.
name: Mutasa, Felician
name: Mbehoma, Petermus M.
name: Mutasa, Felician
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: Technical inefficiency
subject: stochastic frontier production function
subject: maximum likelihood estimates
subject: Returns to scale

description: This paper is based on a study conducted in nine dairy cattle keeping villages of Njombe district in Tanzania with the overall objective of estimating Technical Efficiency (TE) and analyzing factors influencing Technical Inefficiency (TI) of smallholder dairy farmers. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function in which the parameters for the production frontier and for the inefficiency model were estimated jointly using the maximum likelihood technique on cross section data of 81 smallholder dairy farmers. Findings reveal that majority of respondents (61.7%) had TE below 50%. The implication of these findings is that majority of the respondents were technically inefficient and that the value of dairy production could be increased by 54.54% through better allocation and use of available resources. The inefficiency model showed that age, gender, education level, experience of the farmer and selling to processor are major factors having a significant and positive influence on the farmers’ technical inefficiency while marital status and use of hired labor are the major factors having a significant and negative influence on the farmers’ technical inefficiency.
Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Circuit using Linear Optics Gates
Creators: name: Pittman, T. B.
name: Jacobs, B. C
name: Franson, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main advantages of an optical approach to quantum computing is the fact that optical fibers can be used to connect the logic and memory devices to form useful circuits, in analogy with the wires of a conventional computer. Here we describe an experimental demonstration of a simple quantum circuit of that kind in which two probabilistic exclusive-OR (XOR) logic gates were combined to calculate the parity of three input qubits.
description: v2 is final PRA version
Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier 1967
Creators: name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Brzoska, David
name: Vybíral, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Physodeutera

description: Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967
 Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967: 268.
 Physodeutera (Microlepidia): Moravec 2002a: 80.
 Type species. Prothyma (Megalomma) centropunctata W. Horn, 1934 (by original designation).
 Seemingly heterogenous subgenus, comprising species with various body size and surface sculpture, but with majority of diagnosis characters congruent. Body large, medium-sized or small. Elytral surface shiny or partly velvet. Penultimate palpomere of labial palpi non- or only moderately dilated. Internal sack of aedeagus possesses ventral spur with aberrant, only rarely normally developed projection.Antennomere 4 not widely lobed, dilated only in Ph. (M.) virgulata (Fairmaire, 1903). Labrum sexually dimorphic in shape, except for Ph. (M.) propripenis sp. nov., and Ph. (M.) bucephala (W. Horn, 1900). Mentum with indistinct, short and subacute, rarely longer and acute central tooth.
description: Published as part of Moravec, Jiří, Brzoska, David & Vybíral, Jan, 2021, New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles- 21. Physodeutera (Microlepidia) propripenis sp. nov., Ph. (M.) marginemaculata (W. Horn) and Ph. (M.) peyrierasi Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), pp. 33-50 in Zootaxa 4941 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4594651
Barrierefreie Lehrmittel Welches sind die rechtlichen und theoretischen Grundlagen zur Erstellung barrierefreier Lehrmittel?
Creators: name: Maulaz, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Barrierefreiheit
Masterarbeit

description: Im Zusammenhang mit der Umsetzung des Lehrplans 21 sind obligatorische Lehrmittel neu entwickelt oder erweitert worden. Für diese Arbeit wurde ein obligatorisches Mathematiklehrmittel für den Zyklus 2 in Bezug auf die barrierefreie Zugänglichkeit anhand einer Lehrmittelbetrachtung und eines Praxisbeispiels überprüft. Aus dieser Ausgangslage entstanden Fragen zum Thema, wie das Lernen allen Kindern zugänglich gemacht werden kann. Eine weitere Frage befasst sich mit den technischen Möglichkeiten, die für die Entwicklung und die Gestaltung barrierefrei zugänglicher Lehrmittel zur Verfügung stehen. In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsstand kristallisierten sich mögliche technische Lösungen heraus. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den technischen Lösungen führte zur der Fragestellung, die sich mit den Grundlagen, die für die Erstellung barrierefreier Lehrmittel bedeutend sind, auseinandersetzt. Zusammen mit den Erkenntnissen aus dem Forschungsstand sind solche Grundlagen in Form eines Leitfadens für die Herstellung barrierefreier Lehrmittel ausgearbeitet worden.
Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamic: Evidence from Tanzania
Creators: name: Kayandabila, Yamungu
name: Manyama, Mulesi Kanyere
name: Kayandabila, Yamungu
name: Manyama, Mulesi Kanyere
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Ponzi game
subject: Inter-temporal budget constraint
subject: Transversality condition
subject: Fiscal reaction function

description: This paper investigates fiscal policy and debt dynamics in Tanzania by using time series data for the period 1970 to 2011. The methodologies adopted include unit root tests, cointegration tests and fiscal reaction function. The three approach employed validate similar results that fiscal policy for Tanzania has not been sustainable for the annual sample period 1970-2011. The unit root tests report that the data generating process of debt follow non-stationary process. Alternatively, in testing the null hypothesis of no-cointegration, our results show that there is weak cointegration between government expenditure and revenue which make fiscal policy to be unsustainable. In supporting the ensuing findings, the fiscal reaction function provides evidence that there is negative linear relationship between primary balance and debt relative to GDP. This is additional evidence that fiscal policy has not been sustainable, and the government is advised to take corrective measures to counteract the accumulation of debt.
Spontaneous scalarization of charged Reissner-Nordström black holes: Analytic treatment along the existence line
Creators: name: Hod, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been demonstrated that charged black holes can support spatially regular matter configurations made of massless scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field of the charged spacetime. Intriguingly, using numerical techniques, it has been revealed that the resonant spectra of the composed charged-black-hole-nonminimally-coupled-scalar-field configurations are characterized by charge-dependent discrete scalarization bands $α\in\{[α^{-}_{n}({\bar Q}),α^{+}_{n}({\bar Q}]\}_{n=0}^{n=\infty}$, where $α$ is the dimensionless coupling constant of the theory and ${\bar Q}\equiv Q/M$ is the dimensionless charge-to-mass ratio of the central supporting black hole. In the present paper we use {\it analytical} techniques in order to study the physical and mathematical properties of the spatially regular non-minimally coupled scalar field configurations (linearized scalar clouds) which are supported by the central charged Reissner-Nordström black holes. In particular, we derive a remarkably compact formula for the discrete resonant spectrum $\{α^-_n({\bar Q})\}_{n=0}^{n=\infty}$ which characterizes the composed black-hole-linearized-field configurations along the {\it existence-line} of the system, the critical line which separates bare Reissner-Nordström black holes from hairy scalarized black-hole configurations. The analytical results are confirmed by direct numerical computations.
description: 7 pages
Determinants of Group Participation: Option and Impact of Farmers’ Participation in Groups in Mbozi District
Creators: name: Lwezaura, Deogratias
name: Ngaruko, Deus
name: Lwezaura, Deogratias
name: Ngaruko, Deus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: farmers’ groups’ participation
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: transaction costs
subject: farmer and group choice

description: This paper explores factors that determine farmers’ participation in groups in Mbozi district, Tanzania. Cross-section data used were obtained from face-to-face interviews from a sample of 310 households and 21 farmer groups. Analysis was done by using non-linear logit model and Instrumental Variable. The findings show that type of group, trustworthiness, transaction cost, marital status and the kind of institution initiating group formation are significant determinants of farmers’ participation in groups. The results further show that the average expected income accrued from group participation is Tanzanian Shillings 87,768 more than that obtained by nonparticipants.
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Provision of Quality Education and Education Spending in Tanzania
Creators: name: Kazungu, Khatibu
name: Mabula, Cosmas
name: Kazungu, Khatibu
name: Mabula, Cosmas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Fiscal decentralization
subject: education
subject: government spending
subject: Tanzania

description: This article uses panel data from 94 LGAs in Tanzania mainland over the period 2005/06 to 2009/10, to examine the impact of Fiscal Decentralization on education spending and provision of quality education. Using local share of total fiscal expenditure as a proxy for fiscal decentralization, this article concludes that Fiscal Decentralization exerts significant impact on education spending and quality of education in Tanzania.
Twisted K theory invariants
Creators: name: Mickelsson, Jouko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 55N15, 81T40

description: An invariant for twisted K theory classes on a 3-manifold is introduced. The invariant is then applied to the twisted equivariant classes arising from the supersymmetric Wess-Zumino-Witten model based on the group SU(2). It is shown that the classes defined by different highest weight representations of the loop group LSU(2) are inequivalent. The results are compatible with Freed-Hopkins-Teleman identification of twisted equivariant K theory as the Verlinde algebra.
description: 16 pages, no figures
title: Controversy and division in post-restoration Quakerism : the Hat, Wilkinson-Story and Keithian controversies and comparisons with the internal divisions of other seventeenth-century non-conformist groups
Creators: name: Martin, Claire J. L.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: The period following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 was a challenging time for nonconformists. Severe persecution and the gradual diminution of millennial hopes forced them to look to their long-term survival as coherent religious groups. This accelerated the development of group consciousness and institutionalisation within the nonconformist churches. However, the decision-making process inherent in this development resulted in internal divisions concerning interpretation of the group's authoritative guide, whether it was Scripture or the Spirit. Within the Society of Friends, leading Friends' concern for the future survival of Quakerism was embodied in efforts to curb the excesses of early Quaker enthusiasm and individualism. They sought to exert the authority of the church over the conscience of the individual. This provoked resistance from those who viewed this as an abandonment of the Quaker belief in the inner light. This thesis examines the most serious post-Restoration manifestations of Friends' struggle concerning human and spiritual authority: the Hat, Wilkinson-Story and Keithian Controversies. The Hat and Wilkinson-Story Controversies saw dissident Friends defending the freedom of the inner light against the imposed authority of George Fox and other leading Friends. However, the Keithian Controversy saw leading Friends defending the inner light against further restrictions that George Keith sought to impose upon it. This thesis also compares Quaker internal controversies with those of other seventeenth-century nonconformist groups: General Baptists, Particular Baptists, Muggletonians, Independents and English Presbyterians. All churches that had developed a sense of group awareness experienced internal divisions during this period. However, the different structures of organisation and authority of the various groups determined both their susceptibility to division and their ability to overcome it. These structures also influenced the abilities of the different churches to survive the challenges of persecution and toleration.
Stolarsky's invariance principle for finite metric spaces
Creators: name: Barg, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stolarsky's invariance principle quantifies the deviation of a subset of a metric space from the uniform distribution. Classically derived for spherical sets, it has been recently studied in a number of other situations, revealing a general structure behind various forms of the main identity. In this work we consider the case of finite metric spaces, relating the quadratic discrepancy of a subset to a certain function of the distribution of distances in it. Our main results are related to a concrete form of the invariance principle for the Hamming space. We derive several equivalent versions of the expression for the discrepancy of a code, including expansions of the discrepancy and associated kernels in the Krawtchouk basis. Codes that have the smallest possible quadratic discrepancy among all subsets of the same cardinality can be naturally viewed as energy minimizing subsets in the space. Using linear programming, we find several bounds on the minimal discrepancy and give examples of minimizing configurations. In particular, we show that all binary perfect codes have the smallest possible discrepancy.
description: 26pp. This version corrects the statement of Theorem 6.3 and contains a new Appendix with a simple proof of the formula for the sum of squares of Krawtchouk polynomials
Synthesizing three-body interaction of spin chirality with superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Liu, Wuxin
name: Feng, Wei
name: Ren, Wenhui
name: Wang, Da-Wei
name: Wang, Haohua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconducting qubits provide a competitive platform for quantum simulation of complex dynamics that lies at the heart of quantum many-body systems, because of the flexibility and scalability afforded by the nature of microfabrication. However, in a multiqubit device, the physical form of couplings between qubits is either an electric (capacitor) or magnetic field (inductor), and the associated quadratic field energy determines that only two-body interaction in the Hamiltonian can be directly realized. Here we propose and experimentally synthesize the three-body spin-chirality interaction in a superconducting circuit based on Floquet engineering. By periodically modulating the resonant frequencies of the qubits connected with each other via capacitors, we can dynamically turn on and off qubit-qubit couplings, and further create chiral flows of the excitations in the three-qubit circular loop. Our result is a step toward engineering dynamical and many-body interactions in multiqubit superconducting devices, which potentially expands the degree of freedom in quantum simulation tasks.
description: Main text: 5 pages, 4 figures; Supplementary: 3 pages, 1 figure. The following article has been accepted by Applied Physics Letters. After it is published, it will be found at Link
Additional file 2 of A systematic review of empirical studies examining mechanisms of implementation in health
Creators: name: Lewis, Cara C.
name: Boyd, Meredith R.
name: Walsh-Bailey, Callie
name: Lyon, Aaron R.
name: Rinad Beidas
name: Mittman, Brian
name: Aarons, Gregory A.
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
name: Chambers, David A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Large-Scale Secure XGB for Vertical Federated Learning
Creators: name: Fang, Wenjing
name: Zhao, Derun
name: Tan, Jin
name: Chen, Chaochao
name: Yu, Chaofan
name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Lei
name: Zhou, Jun
name: Zhang, Benyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Privacy-preserving machine learning has drawn increasingly attention recently, especially with kinds of privacy regulations come into force. Under such situation, Federated Learning (FL) appears to facilitate privacy-preserving joint modeling among multiple parties. Although many federated algorithms have been extensively studied, there is still a lack of secure and practical gradient tree boosting models (e.g., XGB) in literature. In this paper, we aim to build large-scale secure XGB under vertically federated learning setting. We guarantee data privacy from three aspects. Specifically, (i) we employ secure multi-party computation techniques to avoid leaking intermediate information during training, (ii) we store the output model in a distributed manner in order to minimize information release, and (iii) we provide a novel algorithm for secure XGB predict with the distributed model. Furthermore, by proposing secure permutation protocols, we can improve the training efficiency and make the framework scale to large dataset. We conduct extensive experiments on both public datasets and real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate that our proposed XGB models provide not only competitive accuracy but also practical performance.
description: accepted by cikm21
Impact of Residual Carbon Impurities and Gallium Vacancies on Trapping Effects in AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMTs
Creators: name: Huber, Martin
name: Silvestri, Marco
name: Knuuttila, Lauri
name: Pozzovivo, Gianmauro
name: Andreev, Andrei
name: Kadashchuk, Andrey
name: Bonanni, Alberta
name: Lundskog, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of residual C impurities and Ga vacancies on the dynamic instabilities of AlN/AlGaN/GaN metal insulator semiconductor high electron mobility transistors are investigated. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy, positron annihilation spectroscopy, steady state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) measurements have been performed in conjunction with electrical characterization and current transient analyses. The correlation between yellow luminescence (YL), C- and Ga vacancy concentration is investigated. Time-resolved PL indicating the C$_{\mathrm{N}}$O$_{\mathrm{N}}$ complex as the main source of the YL, while Ga vacancies or related complexes with C seem not to play a major role. The device dynamic performance is found to be significantly dependent on the C concentration close to the channel of the transistor. Additionally, the magnitude of the YL is found to be in agreement with the threshold voltage shift and with the on-resistance degradation. Trap analysis of the GaN buffer shows an apparent activation energy of $\sim$0.8eV for all samples, pointing to a common dominating trapping process and that the growth parameters affect solely the density of trap centres. It is inferred that the trapping process is likely to be directly related to C based defects.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Changiola pahangi Gorochov 2011
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Muhammad, Amira Aqilah
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Changiola
Changiola pahangi

description: Changiola pahangi Gorochov, 2011
(Figs. 1, 2)
 Changiola pahangi Gorochov, 2011: 178 (original description); Tan & Kamaruddin, 2014: 12, 44 (record in checklist, natural history notes)
 Pteroplistes perakensis — Chopard, 1969: 232 (male described probably belongs to C. pahangi)
 Type material. Male holotype, Malaysia, Pahang, Fraser’s Hill, 17–18 km SW of Raub Town, 1000–1300 m, coll. A.V. Gorochov, M. Berezin, E. Tkatsheva, 15–23 April 2010 (ZIN).
 Other material examined. Male allotype of Pteroplistes perakensis [= Changiola pahangi], Malaysia, Pahang, Fraser’s Hill, 4000 ft. a.s.l., coll. H.M. Pendlebury, 19 July 1936 (MP).
 Distribution. MALAY PENINSULA: Malaysia: Pahang: Bukit Fraser.
 Type locality. Malaysia: Pahang: Bukit Fraser.
 Diagnosis. This species differs from known congeners by male genitalia with distinctly longer posterolateral lobes of epiphallus and proximal part of ectoparameres; and male subgenital plate faintly notched at the posterior margin.
 Remarks. In his original description of Changiola perakensis, Chopard (1969) described the female holotype from Perak, and assigned a male allotype collected from Bukit Fraser. The drawing of the male genitalia (Chopard, 1969) appears more similar to that of C. pahangi described in Gorochov (2011) than our male specimen collected from the base of Bukit Larut. This supports Gorochov (2011) ’s hypothesis that the male allotype described by Chopard (1969) is probably C. pahangi described from Bukit Fraser and that C. perakensis is probably restricted to Perak.
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Muhammad, Amira Aqilah & Robillard, Tony, 2021, A review of the genus Changiola (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Pteroplistinae) and description of the first species from Borneo, pp. 101-114 in Zootaxa 4941 (1) on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4594789
title: Social constructions of environmental quality and opportunities for enterprise in rural Scotland
Creators: name: McKain, Ruth A. E.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: Environmental values are inherently subjective, yet in the past objective approaches to valuing the environment have dominated. Many scientific approaches to evaluating the quality of the environment have been developed, but they fail to capture the diversity and richness of wider public perceptions of the 'natural' environment, and as such they cannot claim to fully represent the values of 'ordinary people'. The development of 'social indicators'. of environmental quality offers an alternative to the scientific approach. It appears that environmental value hinges on 'use value': the ability of the environment to satisfy the particular use that the individual makes of it This approach allows a far richer understanding of concepts of 'value' in environments. Yet while we increasingly 'value' rural places and environments, rural communities are finding themselves under increasing pressure to remain viable: in modern parlance they are often described as being 'unsustainable'. Efforts to improve this situation have focused on the stimulation of rural enterprise. This study aims to investigate the actions and motivations of 'environmental entrepreneurs' in rural areas. A model of environmental enterprise is developed and explored. It appears that certain rural businesses are highly reliant on the quality of the environment in which they are located, as perceived by their market. Such businesses incorporate perceptions of 'the rural' and 'the natural' into various aspects of the entrepreneurial process: marketing and advertising, production processes and experiential setting, for example. The model suggests that such businesses are ideally suited to post-modern forms of business, engaged as they are in the production of environmental symbols and concludes that such forms of enterprise are likely to continue to flourish, while remaining susceptible to external influences on public perceptions of rural environmental quality.
Equilibrium of an Arbitrary Bunch Train in Presence of a Passive Harmonic Cavity: Solution through Coupled Ha\" issinski Equations
Creators: name: Warnock, Robert
name: Venturini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of a passive harmonic cavity, introduced to cause bunch lengthening, in an electron storage ring. We derive a formula for the induced voltage from such a cavity with high $Q$, excited by a a sequence of bunches, allowing for arbitrary gaps in the sequence and arbitrary currents. Except for a minor term that can be determined iteratively, the voltage is given in terms of a single mode of the Fourier transforms of the bunch forms, namely the mode at the resonant frequency of the cavity. Supposing that the only wake field is from the harmonic cavity, we derive a system of coupled Haïssinski equations which determine the bunch positions and profiles in the equilibrium state. The number of unknowns in the system is only twice the number of bunches, and it can be solved quickly by a Newton iteration, starting with a guess determined by path-following from a solution at weak current. We explore the effect of the fill pattern on the bunch lengthening, and also the dependence on the shunt impedance and detuning of the cavity away from the third harmonic of the main accelerating cavity. We consider two measures to reduce the effects of gaps: 1) distribution of the gaps around the ring to the greatest extent allowed, and 2) "guard bunches" with higher charges adjacent to the gaps, compensating for the charge missing in gaps. Results for parameters of the forthcoming ALS-U light source are presented.
Swift Pointing and the Association Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational-Wave Bursts
Creators: name: Finn, Lee Samuel
name: Krishnan, Badri
name: Sutton, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole formation, and their detection would permit this model to be tested, the black hole progenitor (e.g., coalescing binary or collapsing stellar core) identified, and the origin of the gamma rays (within the expanding relativistic fireball or at the point of impact on the interstellar medium) located. Even upper limits on the gravitational-wave strength associated with gamma-ray bursts could constrain the gamma-ray burst model. To do any of these requires joint observations of gamma-ray burst events with gravitational and gamma-ray detectors. Here we examine how the quality of an upper limit on the gravitational-wave strength associated with gamma-ray burst observations depends on the relative orientation of the gamma-ray-burst and gravitational-wave detectors, and apply our results to the particular case of the Swift Burst-Alert Telescope (BAT) and the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. A result of this investigation is a science-based ``figure of merit'' that can be used, together with other mission constraints, to optimize the pointing of the Swift telescope for the detection of gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts.
description: aastex, 14 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of empirical studies examining mechanisms of implementation in health
Creators: name: Lewis, Cara C.
name: Boyd, Meredith R.
name: Walsh-Bailey, Callie
name: Lyon, Aaron R.
name: Rinad Beidas
name: Mittman, Brian
name: Aarons, Gregory A.
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
name: Chambers, David A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria and Definitions.
Changiola Gorochov 2004
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Muhammad, Amira Aqilah
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Changiola

description: Key to species of Changiola
1. Male subgenital plate notched at the posterior margin. Distribution: Malay Peninsula................................ 2
– Male subgenital plate without notch at the posterior margin. Distribution: Outside Malay Peninsula.................... 3
 2. Male subgenital plate deeply notched. Epiphallus with shorter posterolateral lobes. Female subgenital plate about as wide as long (rather than longer than wide) and not narrowing anteriorly. Distribution: Malaysia (Perak)............. C. perakensis
 – Male subgenital plate faintly notched. Epiphallus with longer posterolateral lobes. Female subgenital plate longer than wide, narrowing anteriorly. Distribution: Malaysia (Pahang)................................................ C. pahangi
 3. Male tegmen with mirror area more transverse. Male subgenital plate with minute nodule in middle of posterior margin. Female unknown. Distribution: Borneo (Sarawak)...................................................... C. sarawakensis
 – Male tegmen with mirror area about as long as wide. Male subgenital plate without minute nodule in middle of posterior margin. Female unknown. Distribution: Thailand......................................................... C. subita
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Muhammad, Amira Aqilah & Robillard, Tony, 2021, A review of the genus Changiola (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Pteroplistinae) and description of the first species from Borneo, pp. 101-114 in Zootaxa 4941 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4594789
On Heavy Element Enrichment in Classical Novae
Creators: name: Alexakis, A.
name: Calder, A. C.
name: Heger, A.
name: Brown, E. F.
name: Dursi, L. J.
name: Truran, J. W.
name: Rosner, R.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
name: Timmes, F. X.
name: Fryxell, B.
name: Zingale, M.
name: Ricker, P. M.
name: Olson, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many classical nova ejecta are enriched in CNO and Ne. Rosner et al. recently suggested that the enrichment might originate in the resonant interaction between large-scale shear flows in the accreted H/He envelope and gravity waves at the interface between the envelope and the underlying C/O white dwarf. The shear flow amplifies the waves, which eventually form cusps and break. This wave breaking injects a spray of C/O into the superincumbent H/He. Using two-dimensional simulations, we formulate a quantitative expression for the amount of C/O per unit area that can be entrained into the H/He at saturation. The fraction of the envelope that is enriched depends on the horizontal distribution of shear velocity and the density contrast between the C/O white dwarf and the H/He layer but is roughly independent of the vertical shape of the shear profile. Using this parameterization for the mixed mass, we then perform several one-dimensional Lagrangian calculations of an accreting white dwarf envelope and consider two scenarios: that the wave breaking and mixing is driven by the convective flows; and that the mixing occurs prior to the onset of convection. In the absence of enrichment prior to ignition, the base of the convective zone, as calculated from mixing-length theory with the Ledoux instability criterion, does not reach the C/O interface. As a result, there is no additional mixing, and the runaway is slow. In contrast, the formation of a mixed layer during the accretion of H/He, prior to ignition, causes a more violent runaway. The envelope can be enriched by <25% of C/O by mass (consistent with that observed in some ejecta) for shear velocities, over the surface, with Mach numbers <0.4.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, uses emulateapj.cls (included); minor changes to text from v1, to appear in ApJ
Manifold Alignment for Semantically Aligned Style Transfer
Creators: name: Huo, Jing
name: Jin, Shiyin
name: Li, Wenbin
name: Wu, Jing
name: Lai, Yu-Kun
name: Shi, Yinghuan
name: Gao, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most existing style transfer methods follow the assumption that styles can be represented with global statistics (e.g., Gram matrices or covariance matrices), and thus address the problem by forcing the output and style images to have similar global statistics. An alternative is the assumption of local style patterns, where algorithms are designed to swap similar local features of content and style images. However, the limitation of these existing methods is that they neglect the semantic structure of the content image which may lead to corrupted content structure in the output. In this paper, we make a new assumption that image features from the same semantic region form a manifold and an image with multiple semantic regions follows a multi-manifold distribution. Based on this assumption, the style transfer problem is formulated as aligning two multi-manifold distributions and a Manifold Alignment based Style Transfer (MAST) framework is proposed. The proposed framework allows semantically similar regions between the output and the style image share similar style patterns. Moreover, the proposed manifold alignment method is flexible to allow user editing or using semantic segmentation maps as guidance for style transfer. To allow the method to be applicable to photorealistic style transfer, we propose a new adaptive weight skip connection network structure to preserve the content details. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework for both artistic and photorealistic style transfer. Code is available at https://github.com/NJUHuoJing/MAST.
description: 9 pages
Multi-Scaling Comparative Analysis of Time Series and a Discussion on "Earthquake Conversations" in California
Creators: name: Scafetta, Nicola
name: West, Bruce J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time series are characterized by complex memory and/or distribution patterns. In this letter we show that models obeying to different statistics may equally reproduce some pattern of a time series. In particular we discuss the difference between Lévy-walk and fractal Gaussian intermittent signals and show that the adoption of complementary scaling analysis techniques may be useful to distinguish the two cases. Finally, we apply this methodology to the earthquake occurrences in California and suggest the possibility that earthquake occurrences are described by a \textit{colored} (= `long-range correlated') Generalized Poisson model.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Impact of nationwide enhanced implementation of best practices in pancreatic cancer care (PACAP-1): a multicenter stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Mackay, T. M.
name: F. J. Smits
name: A. E. J. Latenstein
name: A. Bogte
name: B. A. Bonsing
name: H. Bos
name: K. Bosscha
name: L. A. A. Brosens
name: L. Hol
name: O. R. C. Busch
name: G. J. Creemers
name: W. L. Curvers
name: M. Den Dulk
name: S. Van Dieren
name: L. M. J. W. Van Driel
name: S. Festen
name: E. J. M. Van Geenen
name: L. G. Van Der Geest
name: D. J. A. De Groot
name: J. W. B. De Groot
name: N. Haj Mohammad
name: B. C. M. Haberkorn
name: J. T. Haver
name: E. Van Der Harst
name: G. J. M. Hemmink
name: I. H. De Hingh
name: C. Hoge
name: M. Y. V. Homs
name: N. C. Van Huijgevoort
name: M. A. J. M. Jacobs
name: E. D. Kerver
name: M. S. L. Liem
name: M. Los
name: H. Lubbinge
name: S. A. C. Luelmo
name: V. E. De Meijer
name: L. Mekenkamp
name: I. Q. Molenaar
name: M. G. H. Van Oijen
name: G. A. Patijn
name: R. Quispel
name: L. B. Van Rijssen
name: T. E. H. Römkens
name: H. C. Van Santvoort
name: J. M. J. Schreinemakers
name: H. Schut
name: T. Seerden
name: M. W. J. Stommel
name: A. J. Ten Tije
name: N. G. Venneman
name: R. C. Verdonk
name: J. Verheij
name: F. G. I. Van Vilsteren
name: J. De Vos-Geelen
name: A. Vulink
name: C. Wientjes
name: F. Wit
name: F. J. Wessels
name: B. Zonderhuis
name: C. H. Van Werkhoven
name: J. E. Van Hooft
name: C. H. J. Van Eijck
name: J. W. Wilmink
name: H. W. M. Van Laarhoven
name: M. G. Besselink
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary materials including details on best practice treatments and -registrations, and additional best practices, and on secondary study endpoints.
An update on the sum-product problem
Creators: name: Rudnev, Misha
name: Stevens, Sophie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We improve the best known sum-product estimates over the reals. We prove that \[ \max(|A+A|,|AA|)\geq |A|^{\frac{4}{3} + \frac{2}{1167} - o(1)}\,, \] for a finite $A\subset \mathbb R$, following a streamlining of the arguments of Solymosi, Konyagin and Shkredov. We include several new observations to our techniques. Furthermore, \[ |AA+AA|\geq |A|^{\frac{127}{80} - o(1)}\,. \] Besides, for a convex set $A$ we show that \[ |A+A|\geq |A|^{\frac{30}{19}-o(1)}\,. \] This paper is largely self-contained.
description: 19 pages, refereed version
Preliminary demonstration of a persistent Josephson phase-slip memory cell with topological protection
Creators: name: Ligato, N.
name: Strambini, E.
name: Paolucci, F.
name: Giazotto, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconducting computing promises enhanced computational power in both classical and quantum approaches. Yet, scalable and fast superconducting memories are not implemented. Here, we propose a fully superconducting memory cell based on the hysteretic phase-slip transition existing in long aluminum nanowire Josephson junctions. Embraced by a superconducting ring, the memory cell codifies the logic state in the direction of the circulating persistent current, as commonly defined in flux-based superconducting memories. But, unlike the latter, the hysteresis here is a consequence of the phase-slip occurring in the long weak link and associated to the topological transition of its superconducting gap. This disentangle our memory scheme from the large-inductance constraint, thus enabling its miniaturization. Moreover, the strong activation energy for phase-slip nucleation provides a robust topological protection against stochastic phase-slips and magnetic-flux noise. These properties make the Josephson phase-slip memory a promising solution for advanced superconducting classical logic architectures or flux qubits.
description: 14 pages, 10 color figures
Some aspects of radiative corrections and non-decoupling effects of heavy Higgs bosons in two Higgs Doublet Model
Creators: name: Malinsky, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of having relatively large non-decoupling effects of the heavy Higgs particles within the two-Higgs doublet extension of the electroweak standard model is briefly discussed and demonstrated on an example of the one-loop amplitude of the process e^+e^- -> W^+W^-
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the AM2003 conference
Laoechinophorus Gouverneur 2016
Creators: name: Yamasako, Junsuke
name: Vives, Eduard
name: Liu, Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Laoechinophorus

description: Laoechinophorus Gouverneur, 2016
 Laoechinophorus Gouverneur, 2016: 26. Type species: Laoechinophorus unifasciatus Gouverneur, 2016.
 Diagnosis. Body rounded, relatively small (5.3–8.4 mm), with dense and long setae on dorsal surface; scape clavate, without cicatrix; pedicel relatively long, 0.2–0.3 times as long as scape; antennomere IV the longest; pronotum swollen laterally near middle, with antlers-like protuberances on disk and spinous projections on latero-dorsal sides; each elytron with spinous protuberances behind base and longitudinal ridge followed to the protuberances; hind wing degenerated; mesoventrite short; mesocoxal cavity opened laterally; femora strongly clavate; mesotibiae with distal notch; claws divaricated.
 Remarks. The genus Laoechinophorus was originally established based on a strict sense due to monotypy and defined with detailed features by Gouverneur (2016). Some features of those definitive characteristics of the genus (e.g. the detailed characteristics of punctures and hairs, ratio of parts, etc.) unfit for the present new taxa, and thus the definition needs to be revised partly. For tentatively modifying the definition, the features above would be useful for simply diagnosing of the genus in a sensu novo.
description: Published as part of Yamasako, Junsuke, Vives, Eduard & Liu, Bin, 2021, New species and subspecies of Laoechinophorus from China and Thailand (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Morimopsini), pp. 91-100 in Zootaxa 4941 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4594767
A statistical study of the plasma and composition distribution inside magnetic clouds: 1998-2011
Creators: name: Huang, Jin
name: Liu, Yu
name: Feng, Hengqiang
name: Zhao, Ake
name: Abidin, Z. Z.
name: Shen, Yuandeng
name: Jacob, Oloketuyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comprehensive analysis of plasma and composition characteristics inside magnetic clouds (MCs) observed by the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft from 1998 February to 2011 August is presented. The results show that MCs have specific interior structures, and MCs of different speeds show differences in composition and structure. Compared with the slow MCs, fast MCs have enhanced mean charge states of iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, $\mathrm{O^{7+}/O^{6+}}$, $\mathrm{C^{6+}/C^{5+}}$, $\mathrm{C^{6+}/C^{4+}}$ and $\mathrm{Fe^{\geq16+}/Fe_{total}}$ values. For ionic species in fast MCs, a higher atomic number represents a greater enhancement of mean charge state than slow MCs. We also find that both the fast and slow MCs display bimodal structure distribution in the mean iron charge state ($\mathrm{\langle Q\rangle Fe}$), which suggests that the existence of flux rope prior to the eruption is common. Furthermore, the $\mathrm{\langle Q\rangle Fe} $, $\mathrm{Fe^{\geq16+}/Fe_{total}}$, and $\mathrm{O^{7+}/O^{6+}}$ ratio distribution inside fast MCs have the feature that the posterior peak is higher than the anterior one. This result agrees with the "standard model" for CME/flares, by which magnetic reconnection occurs beneath the flux rope, thereby ionizing the ions of the posterior part of flux rope sufficiently by high-energy electron collisions or by direct heating in the reconnection region.
description: 11 pages,3 figures
Effect of nano-C doping on the in-situ processed MgB2 tapes
Creators: name: Zhang, Xianping
name: Ma*, Yanwei
name: Xu, Aixia
name: Jiao, Yulei
name: Xiao, Ling
name: Awaji, S.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Yang, Huan
name: Wen, Haihu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of nano-C doping on the microstructure and superconducting properties of Fe-sheathed MgB2 tapes prepared through the in-situ powder-in-tube method was studied. Heat treatment was performed at a low temperature of 650C for 1 h. Scanning electron microscopy investigation revealed that the smaller grain size of MgB2 in the samples with the C-doping. Further, the a-axis lattice parameter and transition temperature decreased monotonically with increasing doping level, which is due to the C substitution for B. High critical current density Jc values in magnetic fields were achieved in the doped samples because of the very fine-grained microstructure of the superconducting phase obtained with C doping.
description: revised manuscript, 4 pages, 4 figures. to be published soon
Electron transport in the Anderson model
Creators: name: Alvermann, A.
name: Bronold, F. X.
name: Fehske, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a selfconsistent theory of localization we study the electron transport properties of a disordered system in the framework of the Anderson model on a Bethe lattice. In the calculation of the dc conductivity we separately discuss the two contributions to the current-current correlation function dominating its behaviour for small and large disorder. The resulting conductivity abruptly vanishes at a critical disorder strength marking the localization transition.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Hopping and Related Phenomena (Triest 2003)