cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Mexican Ricardian analysis: land rental prices or net revenues?
Creators: name: Basurto, Saul
name: Basurto, Saul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Climate change
subject: agriculture
subject: Hedonic
subject: Ricardian

description: This paper examines two specifications of the Ricardian Hedonic Model (RHM) in order to identify divergences between implicit values of land attributes. The main goal of this research is to compare these values obtained from ex-ante and ex-post indicators of land productivity. To the best of our knowledge, there is no similar work on the existing literature. Our argument is that these values differ due to the former depends upon farmers' expectations formed at the beginning of the crop year while actual prices and annual weather determine the later. We combine information on 2,524 farms in Mexico with climate normals, soil types, and a set of controls, using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. The main findings indicate that these values globally differ. Moreover, most of the significant coefficients are individually different across both equations. According to the rental price model, the annual implicit value of an extra degree Celsius is $130 Mexican pesos (2.03% of the average rental price) and $154 (2.38%) of an additional mm. of rainfall. However, exploring the results from the net revenues specification, an extra degree C modifies the net revenue by $-518 (-8.89%) and $351 (6.03%) an additional mm. of rainfall.
Campylopus flexuosus Brid.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus flexuosus

description: Campylopus flexuosus (Hedw.) Brid.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Djebel Aurès. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
A farm level approach to explore economic trade offs of soil organic carbon management in Scottish crop farms
Creators: name: Shrestha, Shailesh
name: Glenk, Klaus
name: Shrestha, Shailesh
name: Glenk, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Soil Organic Carbon
subject: Farm level modeling
subject: Scottish crop farms
subject: SOC management measures

description: This paper focuses on the economic trade-off space between effects on yield and input costs of management measures aimed at enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks to maintain soil fertility while providing important ecosystem services. An optimising dynamic farm level model, ScotFarm, was used to investigate the financial impacts of 4 SOC management measures (cover crops, zero tillage, minimum tillage and residue management) for three groups of Scottish crop farms. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to test the robustness of the model results on crop yields and costs of production for each measure. The results suggest that financially, tillage management is the only positive measure for Scottish farms at baseline levels of yield effects and input costs. Residue management is expected to have a negative impact on farm margins for the farms. The projected maximum positive financial impact was less than 10%. Results of the sensitivity analysis indicate that financial impacts of SOC management measures on farm margins are more sensitive to a change in crop yields than to changes in input costs. The findings point to further research needs with respect to the investigated trade-off space, and have implications for agricultural policy design aimed at enhancing SOC stocks under a changing climate.
Concentrated suspensions of Brownian beads in water: dynamic heterogeneities trough a simple experimental technique
Creators: name: Pastore, Raffaele
name: Caggioni, Marco
name: Larobina, Domenico
name: Amato, Luigi Santamaria
name: Greco, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Concentrated suspensions of Brownian hard-spheres in water are an epitome for understanding the glassy dynamics of both soft materials and supercooled molecular liquids. From an experimental point of view, such systems are especially suited to perform particle tracking easily, and, therefore, are a benchmark for novel optical techniques, applicable when primary particles cannot be resolved. Differential Variance Analysis (DVA) is one such novel technique that simplifies significantly the characterization of structural relaxation processes of soft glassy materials, since it is directly applicable to digital image sequences of the sample. DVA succeeds in monitoring not only the average dynamics, but also its spatio-temporal fluctuations, known as dynamic heterogeneities. In this work, we study the dynamics of dense suspensions of Brownian beads in water, imaged through digital video-microscopy, by using both DVA and single-particle tracking. We focus on two commonly used signatures of dynamic heterogeneities: the dynamic susceptibility, $χ_4$, and the non-Gaussian parameter, $α_2$. By direct comparison of these two quantities, we are able to highlight similarities and differences. We do confirm that $χ_4$ and $α_2$ provide qualitatively similar information, but we find quantitative discrepancies in the scalings of characteristic time and length scale on approaching the glass transition.
description: The original publication is available at http://www.scichina.com and http://www.springerlink.com http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SCPMA/doi/10.1007/s11433-019-9401-x?slug=abstract
Nodal surfaces with obstructed deformations
Creators: name: Kloosterman, Remke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this text we show that the deformation space of a nodal surface $X$ of degree $d$ is smooth and of the expected dimension if $d\leq 7$ or $d\geq 8$ and $X$ has at most $4d-5$ nodes. (The case $d\leq 7$ was previously covered by Alexandru Dimca by using different techniques.)
 For $d\geq 8$ we give explicit examples of nodal surfaces with $4d-4$ nodes, for which the tangent space to the deformation space has larger dimension than expected.
 We give a short discussion on the shape of the deformation space of surfaces of the form $f_1f_2+f_3^2f_4$, where $f_1$ is a linear form.
description: v2: Added a reference to a similar result by Alexandru Dimca and a discussion on the difference between Dimca's result and ours v3: Expanded several arguments
Rural Jobs and the CAP: Spitting into the Wind?
Creators: name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Hennessy, Thia
name: Thomson, Ken
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Hennessy, Thia
name: Thomson, Ken
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) is drafting an own-initiative report “How Can the CAP Improve Job Creation in Rural Areas?” (EP, 2015). The creation or maintenance of jobs is not one of the CAP’s original (and still operational) objectives. Assessing the “success” or “failure” of the CAP in terms of job creation is not a simple matter, particularly considering gross versus net job creation (including off-farm diversification by farm family members), and side effects in a sense of job losses or gains in different sectors. How should agricultural economists address this topic, which is clearly of political importance but seems to require the reversal of long-term trends in EU agriculture? The paper suggests a number of questions, with a particular emphasis on the trade-off between employment and productivity, and the respective role of the two CAP Pillars. Some evidence from Ireland is presented to support the argument.
Compensating environmental losses versus creating environmental gains Implications for biodiversity offsets and agri-environmental contracts
Creators: name: Le Coënt, Philippe
name: Preget, Raphaele
name: Thoyer, Sophie
name: Le Coënt, Philippe
name: Preget, Raphaele
name: Thoyer, Sophie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: biodiversity offsets
subject: agri-environmental contrcts
subject: choice experiments
subject: behaviour

description: In the economic literature on the motivations underlying voluntary contributions to environmental public goods, little attention is granted to the way the overall objective of the environmental program is framed. A program which contributes to an increase of environmental quality can be perceived differently from a program designed to bring back the environmental quality to its original level, after it was damaged by human intervention, even if net environmental gain is equivalent in both programs. How does it impact participation rates and contribution levels? This paper addresses this issue in the context of agri-environmental contracts for biodiversity conservation. It compares farmers’ willingness to participate in two equivalent agri-environmental schemes, one being framed as part of a biodiversity offset program, the other one as a biodiversity conservation program. We demonstrate with a discrete choice experiment that biodiversity –offsets programs must offer a greater payment to enroll farmers compared to the latter. This is explained by the sensitivity of farmers to environmental issues.
Estrategia de Procesamiento de Flujos de Datos Sustentada en Big Data y Memoria Organizacional
Creators: name: Diván, Mario José
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Este trabajo evoluciona la estrategia integrada de procesamiento de flujos de datos centrada en metadatos de mediciones (EIPFDcMM), incorporando Big Data para la gestión persistente del flujo de mediciones con metadatos y memoria organizacional para la gestión de experiencias previas.Se formalizan mediante SPEM los cambios en el procesamiento de datos, y se añaden servicios de suscripción que permitan el consumo de experiencias o mediciones en tiempo real, o bien, a partir del repositorio Big Data. Esto representa un avance importante, por cuanto permite extender la estrategia de procesamiento EIPFDcMM para gestionar no solo flujos de mediciones, sino también repositorios Big Data, y adicionalmente, incorporar la capacidad de brindar servicios de recuperación de datos sobre demanda. Un caso de aplicación sobre el radar meteorológico de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria (EEA) INTA Anguil es expuesto.
Wheat straw decomposition stage has little effect on the removal of inorganic N and P from wastewater leached through sand-straw mixes
Creators: name: Le, Thi Huong Xuan
name: Mosley, Luke
name: Marschner, Petra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Wheat straw amendment to sandy soil can remove nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from wastewater but it is unclear whether prior decomposition affects removal. Sand mixed with finely ground wheat straw at 12.5 g straw kg−1 was placed in leaching columns. Wastewater was added either immediately after mixing with straw (fresh straw) or after the sand-straw mix had been incubated moist for 7 or 14 days (7D or 14D straw). Sand alone was considered as control. Leaching was carried out 4, 8 or 16 days after addition of wastewater and inorganic N and P were analysed after leaching in both leachate and sand. In the amended treatments, nitrate and available P in the sand-straw mix were not detectable throughout the experiment. On day 16, inorganic N in the sand-straw mix was highest in fresh straw where it was three-fold higher than in 14D straw and 30% higher than in sand alone and 7D straw on day 16. Straw decomposition stage had no consistent effect on microbial biomass N and P. Released CO2 was lower in 14D straw than in fresh straw and 7D straw. With straw amendment, > 95% of inorganic N added with wastewater was removed compared to 40–50% with sand alone. Inorganic P leaching was reduced by about 30% compared to sand alone on day 16. In conclusion, wheat straw addition reduced leaching of N compared to sand alone, but the decomposition stage of the straw had little effect on the removal of N and P from wastewater.
Pentetria Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bibionidae
Pentetria

description: 414. Pentetria Rondani, 1856: 173.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Penthetria Meigen, 1803; junior synonym of Penthetria Meigen, 1803. New synonymy.
FAMILY: BIBIONIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “th” to “t” in the same work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 139
Approximate subgroups with bounded VC-dimension
Creators: name: Conant, Gabriel
name: Pillay, Anand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We combine the fundamental results of Breuillard, Green, and Tao on the structure of approximate groups, together with "tame" arithmetic regularity methods based on work of the authors and Terry, to give a structure theorem for finite subsets $A$ of arbitrary groups $G$ where $A$ has "small tripling" and bounded VC-dimension: Roughly speaking, up to a small error, $A$ will be a union of a bounded number of translates of a coset nilprogression of bounded rank and step (see Theorem 2.1). We also prove a stronger result in the setting of bounded exponent (see Theorem 2.2). Our results extend recent work of Martin-Pizarro, Palacín, and Wolf on finite stable sets of small tripling.
description: 38 pages, some changes in Section 6
Ceratodon purpureus Brid.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Ditrichaceae
Ceratodon
Ceratodon purpureus

description: Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tizi Ouzou. Lapie (1909): Kabylie du Djurjura. Feldmann (1947): Kabylie de Collo, vieilles souches de Chêne-Liège, 800 m, aux environs de Bessombourg. Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aït Ouaban; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Dra Inguel. Jelenc (1956, 1967): Sahel d’Alger, près de Zèralda. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Entangled photon apparatus for the undergraduate laboratory
Creators: name: Dehlinger, Dietrich
name: Mitchell, M. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present detailed instructions for constructing and operating an apparatus to produce and detect polarization-entangled photons. The source operates by type-I spontaneous parametric downconversion in a two-crystal geometry. Photons are detected in coincidence by single-photon counting modules and show strong angular and polarization correlations. We observe more than 100 entangled photon pairs per second. A test of a Bell inequality can be performed in an afternoon.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
On Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian conformal-invariant nonlinear electrodynamics
Creators: name: Duplij, Steven
name: Goldin, Gerald A.
name: Shtelen, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 22E70, 35Q61, 78A02, 78A25,

description: A general approach is presented to describing nonlinear classical Maxwell electrodynamics with conformal symmetry. We introduce generalized nonlinear constitutive equations, expressed in terms of constitutive tensors dependent on conformal-invariant functionals of the field strengths. This allows a characterization of Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian theories. We obtain a general formula for possible Lagrangian densities in nonlinear conformal-invariant electrodynamics. This generalizes the standard Lagrangian of classical linear electrodynamics so as to preserve the conformal symmetry.
description: 10 pages
MICADO SCAO: to be or not to be... in MAIT
Creators: name: Clenet, Yann
name: Buey, Tristan
name: Gendron, Eric
name: Karkar, Sonia
name: Vidal, Fabrice
name: Cohen, Mathieu
name: Chapron, Frederic
name: Sevin, Arnaud
name: Thijs, Simone
name: Taburet, Sylvestre
name: Borgo, Bruno
name: Huet, Jean-Michel
name: Blin, Alexandre
name: Dupuis, Olivier
name: Gaudemard, Julien
name: Ferreira, Florian
name: Raffard, Jordan
name: Chemla, Fann
name: Lapeyrere, Vincent
name: Guieu, Sylvain
name: Meyer, Eric
name: Gautherot, Nicolas
name: Tisserand, Emmanuel
name: Locatelli, Herve
name: Meyer, Francois
name: Genet, Camille
name: Cloiseau, Kevin
name: Zidi, Amal
name: Kulcsar, Caroline
name: Raynaud, Henri-Francois
name: Sassolas, Benoit
name: Pinard, Laurent Toto@Toto.Fr
name: Michel, Christophe
name: Gratadour, Damien
name: Dembet, Roderick
name: Collin, Claude
name: Ghouchou, Lahoucine
name: Baudoz, Pierre
name: Huby, Els
name: Rabien, Sebastian
name: Sturm, Eckhard
name: Davies, Ric
Publisher: name: Proceedings of AO4ELT7 conference 2023 - Editors: Thierry Fusco and Benoit Neichel
Year: 2023
Subjects: ELT
MICADO
SCAO
FINAL DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
MAIT

description: MICADO is the ELT first light instrument, an imager working at the diffraction limit of the telescope thanks to two adaptive optics (AO) modes: a single conjugate one (SCAO), available at the instrument first light and developed by the MICADO consortium, and a multi conjugate one (MCAO), developed by the MORFEO consortium. The MICADO project started the final design review process two years ago, in Feb. 2021, and has been through four successive review sessions since then, covering the different MICADO subsystems, including the SCAO module. This final design review process should come to an end this year in 2023, allowing to enter officially into the manufacturing, assembly, integration and tests phase. Though, despite the decision of a delta FDR for few MICADO parts, the FDR board and ESO acknowledged after the FDR4 that the review of the final design can be considered complete for the majority of the MICADO sub-systems (including the SCAO module) and agreed that MICADO can start manufacturing. Manufacturing, integration and related tests have actually already started for several SCAO subsystems, in particular to validate the design of several parts by prototyping at full scale. This strategy allows to optimize the project resources and to save time on the planning. It concerns its K-mirror (allowing to compensate for the pupil derotation), its WFS core (i.e. the pyramid optical component, the WFS camera and the pupil imaging lenses that compensate for the axial pupil movements), its field selector, its modulation system, its real-time computer, its instrument control software, but also more basically its various motors. This contribution presents the MAIT activities of those various components, starting from the critical ones, followed by the core ones and then all the other. This contribution finishes by presenting the next steps of the SCAO MAIT plan.
Spectrophotometry and structural analysis of 5 comets
Creators: name: Szabo, Gy. M.
name: Kiss, L. L.
name: Sarneczky, K.
name: Sziladi, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the morphology and spectrophotometry of 5 comets visible in August, 2001. We decompose comae into coma profiles and azimuthally renormalized images, in which general and local features are quantitatively comparable. Comet 19P/Borrelly showed a strong gas fan toward the solar direction, but no detectable gas in the tail. Dust in its inner coma was collimated toward the antisolar direction and the tail, with no dust in the outer coma. The contribution of spatial variations structure was moderate, about 35%. Comet 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 was observed in outburst: we detected ``spinning'' jet structures. A high level of dust production resulted in an unusually high Afρ=16600 cm. The spatial variations reached -77%, at the minimum, due in part to a jet and a ring-like structure in 1 arcminute distance from the nucleus. In comet C/2001 A2, we detected a strong post-perihelion increase of dust and gas activity, in which the C_2 profile became one magnitude brighter over a 3-day period. For comets C/2000 SV74 and C/2000 WM1, we present detailed pre-perihelion spectrophotometry and morphological information. Comet C/2000 SV74 showed high dust production (Afρ=1479 cm). Its coma suggests a steady-state outflow of material, while the low contribution of spatial variations support high level activity. The coma of C/2000 WM1 is dominated by solar effects, and CO+ forms the bulk of its gas activity. Despite its large heliocentric distance, we observed a nice tail.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Synthesis and characterization of Ag0(NPs)/TiO2 nanocomposite: insight studies of triclosan removal from aqueous solutions
Creators: name: Tiwari, Alka
name: Shukla, Alok
name: Lalliansanga
name: Diwakar Tiwari
name: Lee, Seung Mok
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Nanocomposite mesoporous Ag0(NPs)/TiO2 thin film materials were synthesized and assessed for its efficient application in the elimination of potentially important drug triclosan from aqueous solutions. A template synthesis using the polyethylene glycol was enabled to obtain Ag0(NPs)/TiO2 nanocomposite materials where zerovalent Ag was in situ doped to the titania network. The nanocomposite materials were characterized by the scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), transmission electron microscope (TEM), EDX elemental mapping, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) methods. Further, the diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) was introduced to estimate the band gap of these solids. The thin film materials were subjected to the remediation of water contaminated with triclosan using the UV-A light. The oxidative elimination of triclosan was demonstrated as a function of pH, concentration of triclosan and presence of several co-existing ions. Increase in pH (4.0–10.0) and triclosan concentrations (0.5–15.0 mg/L) had decreased significantly the percentage degradation of triclosan. The pseudo-first-order kinetics was shown in the degradation of triclosan and rate constant was significantly decreased with the increase in pollutant concentration (0.5–15.0 mg/L) and pH (4.0–10.0). The 1000 times presence of scavengers showed that •OH were, predominantly, caused the oxidation of triclosan. Moreover, multiple application of nanocomposite Ag0(NPs)/TiO2(B) revealed that the thin film was fairly intact since the photocatalytic efficiency of triclosan removal was almost unaffected.
The Oticon Medical Neuro Zti cochlear implant and the Neuro 2 sound processor: multicentric evaluation of outcomes in adults and children
Creators: name: Franco-Vidal, Valérie
name: Parietti-Winkler, Cécile
name: Guevara, Nicolas
name: Truy, Eric
name: Loundon, Natalie
name: Sonanda Bailleux
name: Ardoint, Marine
name: Saaï, Sonia
name: Hoen, Michel
name: Laplante-Lévesque, Ariane
name: Mosnier, Isabelle
name: Bordure, Philippe
name: Vincent, Christophe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: This study evaluated the outcomes of the Oticon Medical Neuro Zti cochlear implant and the Neuro 2 sound processor. Design: Neuro One users were upgraded to Neuro 2. Monosyllabic word identification was evaluated in adults with Neuro One after ≥5 months, with Neuro 2 at upgrade, and with Neuro 2 after 3 months. Self-reported listening ability, satisfaction, and usability were measured in adults and children. Study sample: Participants were 44 adults and 26 children. Results: Speech identification scores in quiet and noise were 58% and 45% with Neuro One and 67% and 55% with Neuro 2 after 3 months, respectively. Hearing impairment duration and number of active electrodes significantly predicted speech identification in noise with Neuro 2. Significantly higher questionnaire ratings were obtained for Neuro 2 than Neuro One regarding listening ability in complex listening situations, comfort and music, as well as nine aspects of satisfaction and usability. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the clinical superiority of the Neuro 2 sound processor over Neuro One in terms of speech identification in quiet and in noise and reported patient benefit and satisfaction. Given the study design, sources of improvement may include factors unrelated to the sound processor itself.
Wave-ice interaction in the North-West Barents Sea
Creators: name: Marchenko, Aleksey
name: Wadhams, Peter
name: Collins, Clarence O
name: Rabault, Jean
name: Chumakov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of field work on drift ice during wave propagation are analyzed and presented. The field work was performed in the Barents Sea, and the main focus of the paper is on wave processes in the MIZ. A model of wave damping in broken ice is formulated and applied to interpret the field work results. It is confirmed that waves of higher frequencies are subjected to stronger damping when they propagate below the ice. This reduces the frequency of most energetic wave with increasing distance from the ice edge. Difference of wave spectra measured in two relatively close locations within the MIZ is discussed. The complicated geometry and dynamics of the MIZ in the North-West Barents Sea allow waves from the Atlantic Ocean and south regions of the Barents Sea to penetrate into different locations of the MIZ.
Rural demography in the developing world: what do we know and why it matters
Creators: name: Wiggins, Steve
name: Keats, Sharada
name: Wiggins, Steve
name: Keats, Sharada
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Population
subject: Fertility
subject: Mortality
subject: Migration
subject: Labour

description: Most theories of population change and agricultural development, see for example, those of Malthus and Boserup, posit rising rural populations. Across the world, however, rural areas are going through a demographic transition from high to low levels of fertility and mortality, while seeing out-migration to urban areas. In some rural areas, populations are no longer growing, but are declining. Even where rural population still grows, much of this reflects inertial growth from former high fertility: in most countries the cohort of rural children aged zero to four is shrinking, presaging future population decline. One important change is that demographic change promotes women’s empowerment in rural areas: fewer pregnancies, coupled with more schooling for girls, give women more scope to work, migrate, earn and gain status and autonomy. A second change is that dependency ratios are falling in rural areas, delivering a demographic dividend that can boost growth. Owing to out-migration, however, labour shortages are being reported for agriculture. That may mean more use of machinery; it will certainly mean higher wages. And it should lead to consolidation of operated areas, even if not concentration of farm ownership. Out-migration from rural areas is likely to persist and intensify in the future.
Establishing critical differences in ear-canal stimulus amplitude for detecting middle ear muscle reflex activation during olivocochlear efferent measurements
Creators: name: Mertes, Ian B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Assessments of the medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) may have clinical utility. The MOCR is measured using contralateral inhibition of otoacoustic emissions but concurrent activation of the middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) confounds test interpretation. MEMR activation can be detected using the change in ear-canal stimulus amplitude without versus with an MOCR elicitor. This study provides a description of how critical differences in ear-canal stimulus amplitude can be established. Design: Clicks were presented in right ears without and with a contralateral MOCR elicitor. Ear-canal stimulus amplitudes were measured. Two measurements without an elicitor were used to develop critical differences. MEMR activation was considered present if the difference in ear-canal stimulus amplitude without versus with an elicitor exceeded the critical difference. Study sample: Forty-six normal-hearing adults (mean age = 23.4 years, 35 females) participated, with data from 44 participants included in the final analysis. Results: Two participants exceeded the 95% critical difference. The 80, 90 and 99% critical differences are also reported for reference. Conclusions: Results suggest that the contralateral elicitor can evoke the MEMR in a small number of participants. The methods described in this paper can be used for developing equipment- and clinic-specific critical differences for detecting MEMR activation.
Lattice Matter
Creators: name: Hands, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent developments in the study of strongly interacting field theories with non-zero chemical potential mu. In particular I focus on (a) the determination of the QCD critical endpoint in the (mu,T) plane; (b) superfluid condensates in Two Color QCD; and (c) Fermi surface effects in the NJL model. Some remarks are made concerning the relation of superconductivity with the sign problem.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, plenary talk at `Lattice 2001', Berlin, 19-24 August 2001
On non-abelian structures in open string field theory
Creators: name: Gerasimov, Anton A.
name: Shatashvili, Samson L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-brane backgrounds are studied in the framework of the background independent open string field theory. A simple description of the non-abelian degrees of freedom is given. Algebra of the differential operators acting on the space of functions on the space-time provides a natural tool for the discussion of this phenomena.
description: 16 pages, harvmac b mode, references added
Knowledge Distillation in Wide Neural Networks: Risk Bound, Data Efficiency and Imperfect Teacher
Creators: name: Ji, Guangda
name: Zhu, Zhanxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation lacks a convincing theoretical understanding. On the other hand, recent finding on neural tangent kernel enables us to approximate a wide neural network with a linear model of the network's random features. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the knowledge distillation of a wide neural network. First we provide a transfer risk bound for the linearized model of the network. Then we propose a metric of the task's training difficulty, called data inefficiency. Based on this metric, we show that for a perfect teacher, a high ratio of teacher's soft labels can be beneficial. Finally, for the case of imperfect teacher, we find that hard labels can correct teacher's wrong prediction, which explains the practice of mixing hard and soft labels.
Ceratodon purpureus subsp. stenocarpus Dixon
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Ditrichaceae
Ceratodon
Ceratodon purpureus
Ceratodon purpureus subsp. stenocarpus (bruch & schimp. ex müll. hal.) dixon

description: Ceratodon purpureus subsp. stenocarpus (Bruch & Schimp. ex Müll. Hal.) Dixon
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie de Collo, Bessombourg; Ouarsenis, Téniet el Had. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Bernstein-Type Bounds for Beta Distribution
Creators: name: Skorski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3
subject: 60E05

description: This work obtains sharp closed-form exponential concentration inequalities of Bernstein type for the ubiquitous beta distribution, improving upon sub-gaussian and sub-gamma bounds previously studied in this context.
 The proof leverages a novel handy recursion of order 2 for central moments of the beta distribution, obtained from the hypergeometric representations of moments; this recursion is useful for obtaining explicit expressions for central moments and various tail approximations.
description: major revision - fixed a mistake in the proof
Appendix S1 from A Laurasian origin for a pantropical bird radiation is supported by genomic and fossil data (Aves: Coraciiformes)
Creators: name: McCullough, Jenna M.
name: Moyle, Robert G.
name: Smith, Brian T.
name: Andersen, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary methods, results, and discussion
A Review of the Non-Invasive Techniques for Monitoring Different Aspects of Sleep
Creators: name: Hussain, Zawar
name: Sheng, Quan Z.
name: Zhang, Wei Emma
name: Ortiz, Jorge
name: Pouriyeh, Seyedamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quality sleep is very important for a healthy life. Nowadays, many people around the world are not getting enough sleep which is having negative impacts on their lifestyles. Studies are being conducted for sleep monitoring and have now become an important tool for understanding sleep behavior. The gold standard method for sleep analysis is polysomnography (PSG) conducted in a clinical environment but this method is both expensive and complex for long-term use. With the advancements in the field of sensors and the introduction of off-the-shelf technologies, unobtrusive solutions are becoming common as alternatives for in-home sleep monitoring. Various solutions have been proposed using both wearable and non-wearable methods which are cheap and easy to use for in-home sleep monitoring. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the latest research works (2015 and after) conducted in various categories of sleep monitoring including sleep stage classification, sleep posture recognition, sleep disorders detection, and vital signs monitoring. We review the latest works done using the non-invasive approach and cover both wearable and non-wearable methods. We discuss the design approaches and key attributes of the work presented and provide an extensive analysis based on 10 key factors, to give a comprehensive overview of the recent developments and trends in all four categories of sleep monitoring. We also present some publicly available datasets for different categories of sleep monitoring. In the end, we discuss several open issues and provide future research directions in the area of sleep monitoring.
Perrisia Rondani 1846
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Perrisia

description: 417. Perrisia Rondani, 1846: 371.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Cecidomyia urticae Perris, 1840.
 TYPE SPECIES: Cecidomyia urticae Perris, 1840, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Dasineura Rondani, 1840 [teste Gagné (2004: 125)].
FAMILY: CECIDOMYIIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 140
Do Young Neutron Stars Which Show Themselves As AXPs, SGRs and Radio Pulsars Accrete?
Creators: name: Tagieva, S. O.
name: Yazgan, E.
name: Ankay, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examined the fall-back disk models, and in general accretion, proposed to explain the properties of anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), and radio pulsars (PSRs). We checked the possibility of some gas remaining around the neutron star after the supernova explosion. We also compared AXPs and SGRs with the X-ray pulsars in X-ray binaries. We conclude the existing models of accretion from a fall-back disk are insufficient to explain the nature of AXPs/SGRs, particularly the SGR bursts. We also discussed the proposed model of combination of magnetic dipole radiation and propeller torques in order to explain the evolution of radio pulsars on the P-P diagram. The predictions of this model contradict the observational data.
description: 16 Pages, 1 Figure
Trimaximal mixing with one texture zero from type II seesaw and $Δ(54)$ family symmetry
Creators: name: Loualidi, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a neutrino model based on a $Δ(54)$ flavor symmetry suitable for explaining the current neutrino oscillation data. Neutrino masses arise from the type II seesaw mechanism where the $Δ(54)$ field assignments has led to a simple neutrino mass matrix with one texture zero and which satisfies the magic symmetry consistent with the well-known trimaximal mixing matrix. We found interesting predictions concerning neutrino masses and mixing. In particular, only the normal neutrino mass hierarchy and the lower octant of the atmospheric angles are allowed in this model. The model predicts as well that the $CP$ conserving values for the Dirac $CP$ phase $δ_{CP}$ are not allowed and thus, $CP$ is always violated in the neutrino sector. We have also investigated the sum of absolute neutrino masses from cosmological observations, the effective Majorana mass $m_{ββ}$\ from neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, and the electron neutrino mass $m_{β}$\ from beta decays where we found that the obtained range of $m_{ββ}$\ can be tested by several experiments in the near future.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, talk presented at BSM-2021
Approximate Query Service on Autonomous IoT Cameras
Creators: name: Xu, Mengwei
name: Zhang, Xiwen
name: Liu, Yunxin
name: Huang, Gang
name: Liu, Xuanzhe
name: Lin, Felix Xiaozhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Elf is a runtime for an energy-constrained camera to continuously summarize video scenes as approximate object counts. Elf's novelty centers on planning the camera's count actions under energy constraint. (1) Elf explores the rich action space spanned by the number of sample image frames and the choice of per-frame object counters; it unifies errors from both sources into one single bounded error. (2) To decide count actions at run time, Elf employs a learning-based planner, jointly optimizing for past and future videos without delaying result materialization. Tested with more than 1,000 hours of videos and under realistic energy constraints, Elf continuously generates object counts within only 11% of the true counts on average. Alongside the counts, Elf presents narrow errors shown to be bounded and up to 3.4x smaller than competitive baselines. At a higher level, Elf makes a case for advancing the geographic frontier of video analytics.
Non-farmers’ willingness to farm: a large-scale choice experiment to identify policy options that can induce new entry to the agricultural industry
Creators: name: Takahashi, Taro
name: Maruya, Kaori
name: Nakajima, Toru
name: Takahashi, Taro
name: Maruya, Kaori
name: Nakajima, Toru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Choice experiment
subject: new entry
subject: random parameter model
subject: structural change

description: With the farming population aging across the developed world, securing a new generation of agricultural producers is an important step towards overcoming global food problems. The vast majority of the existing literature on new entry to agriculture base their analysis on data obtained from existing farms and farmers, an approach not necessarily adequate because the people who actually make decisions about entry are non-farmers. In this paper, we report the results of a large-scale choice experiment conducted in Japan to investigate the willingness of the country’s non-farming population to enter the agricultural industry. The results of a random parameter logit estimation showed that, in the absence of farmland, technical support and guaranteed sales, the agricultural income required to induce entry of an average Japanese person is approximately ¥22.0M (£121,000), a level well above their present income of ¥5.4M (£29,700); however, when all three services are provided, this value drastically lowers to ¥4.6M (£25,300). In addition, a ¥1M (£5,500) increase in agricultural income raises a person’s likelihood to enter the industry by 1.6 percentage points. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to quantitatively investigate non-farmers’ willingness to enter the agricultural industry.
Additional file 1: of The effect of breastfeeding on the risk of asthma in high-risk children: a case-control study in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Huo, Xiaona
name: Chu, Shuyuan
name: Hua, Li
name: Bao, Yixiao
name: Du, Li
name: Xu, Jian
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Characteristics of the mothers and children compared between participations and non-participations. Table S2. Characteristics of the mothers and children compared between participations and non-participations. If the variable had missing data, the comparation was examined between the mothers or children who had information. (DOCX 20 kb)
Petagnia Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Petagnia

description: 418. Petagnia Rondani, 1856: 61.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Petagnia occlusa Rondani, 1856.
 TYPE SPECIES: Petagnia occlusa Rondani, 1856, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 293)].
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
 REMARKS: Although Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 293) gave the method of type fixation for Petagnia in Rondani (1856) as by original designation, they treated the type species as a nomen nudum. This is incorrect. The characters in Rondani (1856: 61) that make the genus-group name available serve to also make available Petagnia occlusa as the singly included species.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 140
Cheilothela chloropus Broth.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Ditrichaceae
Cheilothela
Cheilothela chloropus

description: Cheilothela chloropus (Brid.) Broth.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): La Galite; Oran, djebel Santo. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Philippeville. Trabut (1887a): D’Oran à Mécheria. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Orléansville, berges du Chélif, 130 m. Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida; Oran. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891