cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eulichas haucki Hajek 2007
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas haucki

description: Eulichas haucki Hájek, 2007
 Material examined. LAOS: 1 J, ‘LAOS, Hua Phan Prov., Ban Saluei, Phu Phane Mt., 20°15’N, 104°02’E, 1500- 2000 m, v.2007, local coll. leg.’ (NMPC).
 Notes. The species was described from a single specimen from Thailand (Loei province). The additional specimen from north-eastern Laos agrees in all characters with the holotype and extends remarkably the known area of distribution of this species. First record from Laos.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří, 2008, A new species of Eulichas (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) from Laos, pp. 67-72 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342564
Spatiotemporal Coupling of Water and Fertilizer for Double-cropping Grape in Guangxi
Creators: name: LIU, Yongxian
name: ZENG, Yan
name: HUANG, Yanfei
name: XIONG, Liumei
name: ZHANG, Ying
name: CAO, Muming
name: HUANG, Yuyi
name: CHEN, Guifen
name: BAI, Xianjin
name: LIU, Yongxian
name: ZENG, Yan
name: HUANG, Yanfei
name: XIONG, Liumei
name: ZHANG, Ying
name: CAO, Muming
name: HUANG, Yuyi
name: CHEN, Guifen
name: BAI, Xianjin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Grape
subject: Double cropping
subject: Water and fertilizer coupling
subject: Research status

description: This paper summarizes the research progress and major achievements of the coupling effect of water and fertilizer on grape cultivation in China and abroad in recent years, emphatically analyzes the application status and some problems of the coupling effect of water and fertilizer on double-cropping grape cultivation mode in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, discusses the key problems to be further resolved, and finally makes the relevant recommendations.
Interval Observer of Minimal Error Dynamics
Creators: name: Ito, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a simple interval observer which can generate tighter interval estimates of variables in transient states than the standard interval observer. The simple nonlinear dynamics shrinks the estimated intervals to true state variables at the maximum velocity in the absence of disturbances. In the presence of bounded disturbances, ultimate bounded of the interval estimates are given under the standard assumption for interval observer design.
Legislation Characteristics and Implementation Recommendations for Ecological and Environmental Protection Regulations on Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province
Creators: name: RAN, Long
name: RAN, Long
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Protection of Qinling Mountains
subject: Ecological environment
subject: Policies and laws

description: This paper analyzed status and significance of Ecological and Environmental Protection Regulations on Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province in structure of Shaanxi local environmental laws. Theses Regulations have two outstanding characteristics: firstly, integrated protection and development, accurately regulating and guiding relation coordination; secondly, attaching great importance to using economic means to protect ecological environment and provide basis for administration according to law. It came up with specific methods for speeding up formulation of Regulations, making effort to explore implementation cases for development of Guanzhong economic zone and Qinling Mountains ecological protection, establishing methods and systems for ecological and environmental protection follow-up monitoring and evaluation of Qinling Mountains, and raising these Regulations to national laws of Ecological and Environmental Protection for Qinling Mountains.
Additional file 4 of Comprehensive analysis of coagulation indices for predicting survival in patients with biliary tract cancer
Creators: name: Ke, Xindi
name: Jin, Bao
name: You, Wen
name: Chen, Yang
name: Xu, Haifeng
name: Zhao, Haitao
name: Lu, Xin
name: Sang, Xinting
name: Zhong, Shouxian
name: Yang, Huayu
name: Mao, Yilei
name: Du, Shunda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: S2 Fig. Calibration curves in ICC (A), ECC (B), and GBC (C). Red: 1-year calibration curves; blue: 3-year calibration curves; green: 5-year calibration curves.
Pra UAS Profesi keguruan.docx
Creators: name: Rabiatul Adawiyah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Guru merupakan jabatan atau profesi yang memerlukan keahlian khusus sebagai guru. Pekerjaan ini tidaklah mudah, tidak bisa dilakukan oleh sembarang orang tanpa memiliki keahlian profesional. Untuk menjadi guru yang profesional diperlukan syarat-syarat khusus, yang harus menguasai betul seluk beluk pendidikan dan pengajaran dengan berbagai ilmu pengetahuan dan lainnya yang perlu dibina dan dikembangkan melalui masa pendidikan tertentu atau pendidikan pra jabatan.  Mengajar merupakan perbuatan guru yang memerlukan tanggung jawab moral yang cukup berat. Berhasilnya pendidikan sangat tergantung pada pertanggung jawaban guru dalam melaksanakan tugasnya mengajar. Mengajar merupakan suatu perbuatan atau pekerjaan yang bersifat unik tetapi sederhana. Dikatakan unik karena dia berkenaan dengan manusia di dalam masyarakat yang belajar. Dan sederhana karena mengajar dilaksanakan dalam keadaan praktis dalam kehidupan sehari-hari , mudah dihayati oleh siapa saja. Dengan demikian guru adalah orang yang terdepan dalam mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa seperti yang diamanatkan dalam Undang- Undang Dasar 1945. Guru menduduki peran yang sangat penting karena dia dapat menghasilkan manusia Indonesia yang memiliki pengetahuan, keahlian, dan ketrampilan seperti yang didambakan suatu bangsa. Peran guru yang demikian ini adalah peran profesional karena diperoleh melalui pendidikan yang panjang, sehingga mendapatkan pengalaman dan keahlian yang diakui keberadaannya oleh masyarakat.
Cotton's Water Demand and Water-Saving Benefits under Drip Irrigation with Plastic Film Mulch
Creators: name: YAN, Yingyu
name: LI, Juyan
name: YAN, Yingyu
name: LI, Juyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cotton's water demand
subject: Cotton's water consumption
subject: Water-saving benefits
subject: Drip irrigation with plastic film mulch

description: The primary purpose of this research was to give suitable irrigation program according to the growth period and water requirement. A cotton field experiment with mulched drip irrigation was conducted at the National Field Observation and Research Station for Oasis Farmland Ecosystem in Aksu of Xinjiang in 2008. Water balance method was adopted to study the water requirement and water consumption law of cotton under mulched drip irrigation in Tarim Irrigated Area. Statistical analysis of experimental data of irrigation indicates that the relationship between yield of cotton and irrigation presents a quadratic parabola. We fit the model of cotton water production on the basis of field experimental data of cotton. And the analysis on water saving Benefit of cotton under mulched drip irrigation was done. Results indicate that water requirements for the irrigated cotton are 543 mm in Tarim Irrigated Area. The water requirements of seedling stage is 252 mm, budding stage is 186 mm, bolling stage is 316 mm and wadding stage is 139 mm. the irrigation amount determines the spatial distribution of soil moisture and water consumption during cotton life cycle. However, water consumption at different growth stages was inconsistent with irrigation. Quantitatively, the water consumed by cotton decreases upon the increase of irrigation amount. From the perspective of water saving, the maximal water use efficiency can reach 3 091 m3/ha. But the highest cotton yield needs 3464 m3/ha irrigation water. In summary, compared to the conventional drip irrigation, a number of benefits in water saving and yield increase were observed when using plastic mulch. At the same amount of irrigation, the cotton yield with plastic mulch was 30.2% higher than conventional approaches, and the efficiency of water utilization increased by 30.2%. While at the same yield level, 29.3% water was saved by using plastic mulch, and the efficiency increased by 41.5%.
O/Fe in metal-poor main sequence and subgiant stars
Creators: name: Nissen, P. E.
name: Primas, F.
name: Asplund, M.
name: Lambert, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of the O/Fe ratio in metal-poor main sequence and subgiant stars is presented using the [OI] 6300A line, the OI 7774A triplet, and a selection of weak FeII lines observed on high-resolution spectra acquired with the VLT UVES spectrograph. The [OI] line is detected in the spectra of 18 stars with -0.5 < [Fe/H] < -2.4, and the triplet is observed for 15 stars with [Fe/H] ranging from -1.0 to -2.7. The abundance analysis was made first using standard model atmospheres taking into account non-LTE effects on the triplet: the [OI] line and the triplet give consistent results with [O/Fe] increasing quasi-linearly with decreasing [Fe/H] reaching [O/Fe] ~ +0.7 at [Fe/H] = -2.5. When hydrodynamical model atmospheres representing stellar granulation in dwarf and subgiant stars replace standard models, the [O/Fe] from the [OI] and FeII lines is decreased by an amount which increases with decreasing [Fe/H]. The [O/Fe] vs [Fe/H] relation remains quasi-linear extending to [O/Fe] ~ +0.5 at [Fe/H] = -2.5, but with a tendency of a plateau with [O/Fe] ~ +0.3 for -2.0 < [Fe/H] < -1.0, and a hint of cosmic scatter in [O/Fe] at [Fe/H] ~ -1.0. Use of the hydrodynamical models disturbs the broad agreement between the oxygen abundances from the [OI], OI, and OH lines, but 3D non-LTE effects may serve to erase these differences.
description: ps file, 18 pages (including 10 figures) - Accepted for publication in A&A
Eulichas kubani Hajek 2007
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas kubani

description: Eulichas kubani Hájek, 2007
 Material studied. THAILAND: 2JJ, ‘Thailand, S, Isthmus of Kra, TV-Station Ranong, 9°57’N, 98°38’E, 500 m, a. IX.2003, leg. native collectors, ex coll. S. Löffler’ (1 J NKME, 1 J NMPC).
 Notes. The species was so far known only from a restricted area in the Annam Highlands on both sides of the border between Laos and Vietnam. The two specimens from southern Thailand have rather yellowish body setation (greyish in specimens from Laos), but agree well in all morphological characters with the type material. First record from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří, 2008, A new species of Eulichas (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) from Laos, pp. 67-72 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342564
Follow-up observations from observatories based in Spain
Creators: name: Gorosabel, Javier
name: Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
name: Greiner, Jochen
name: Cerón, José María Castro
name: Klose, Sylvio
name: Lund, Niels
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review of the follow-up observations carried out from observatories located in Spain; Calar-Alto, Izanha and Roque de Los Muchachos. It summarizes the observations carried out by our group for 27 GRBs occurred in the period 1999-2000, spanning from GRB 990123 to GRB 001007.
description: 3 pages, no figures. To appear in the proceedings of the October 2000 Rome Workshop on ``Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era''
Technological Innovation Characteristics and Capacity Enhancement Ways for the Agricultural Science and Technology Enterprises in Beijing City
Creators: name: LI, Ping
name: WANG, Ruimei
name: ZHENG, Xun
name: LI, Ping
name: WANG, Ruimei
name: ZHENG, Xun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural science and technology enterprises
subject: Technological innovation
subject: Current situation
subject: Characteristics
subject: Ways

description: From the perspective of innovation mechanism, capital, personnel, achievements and conversion, this study analyzes the current situation of technological innovation in Beijing agricultural science and technology enterprises, and summarizes the characteristics including single financing channel of R&D funds, low conversion rate of innovative products, unbalanced distribution of technology and innovative talents, the underestimated position of enterprises as the main body of technological innovation, the large gap of innovation achievements between developed provinces and Beijing. At last, this study puts forward the ways to improve technological innovation ability in Beijing agricultural science and technology enterprises as follows: developing technological innovation strategies; improving the R&D expenditure and expanding the financing channels; perfecting the mechanism of professional personnel training in agricultural technology innovation; enhancing the level of innovation performance management; establishing and improving the corporate culture of innovation and cultivating technology innovation spirit.
A Study on the Reform and Further Development of "Chongzhou Mode" Based on the Perspective of Modern Enterprise Management
Creators: name: YIN, Kai
name: MEN, Yue
name: YIN, Kai
name: MEN, Yue
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Modern enterprise management
subject: Chongzhou mode
subject: Further development path

description: At present, the domestic agriculture is facing challenges. Farmers' income is relatively low, and more and more rural young workers are divorced from the countryside to work in the relatively developed areas, which makes agricultural development caught in a vicious circle, so it is difficult to rationally allocate resources and increase industrial vitality. However, the new agricultural system of "Chongzhou Mode" has emerged to indicate a macro direction of agricultural development. In this paper, with "Chongzhou Mode" as the object of study, from the perspective of modern enterprise management, we elaborate some features of this mode such as corporate governance, land transfer cost internalization and human-based management, and explore the role of this mode in promoting employment, Internet +, and reducing market information asymmetry. Finally, we set forth the corresponding recommendations
Measuring large-scale structure with the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Team, the 2dFGRS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is the first to measure more than 100,000 redshifts. This allows precise measurements of many of the key statistical measures of galaxy clustering, in particular redshift-space distortions and the large-scale power spectrum. This paper presents the current 2dFGRS results in these areas. Redshift-space distortions are detected with a high degree of significance, confirming the detailed Kaiser distortion from large-scale infall velocities, and measuring the distortion parameter beta = 0.43 +/- 0.07. The power spectrum is measured to < 10% accuracy for k > 0.02 h Mpc^-1, and is well fitted by a CDM model with Omega_m h = 0.20 +/- 0.03 and a baryon fraction of 0.15 +/- 0.07.
description: 15 Pages; invited paper at the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Austin, December 2000)
X-ray Emission from the Type Ic Supernova 1994I Observed with Chandra
Creators: name: Immler, Stefan
name: Wilson, Andrew S.
name: Terashima, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two high-resolution Chandra X-ray observations of supernova (SN) 1994I which show, for the first time, that the interaction of the blast wave from a Type Ic SN with its surrounding circumstellar material (CSM) can give rise to soft X-ray emission. Given a 0.3-2 keV band X-ray luminosity of L_x ~ 1 x 10^{37} ergs/s between six and seven years after the outburst of SN 1994I, and assuming the X-ray emission arises from the shock-heated CSM, we derive a pre-SN mass-loss rate of \dot{M} ~ 1 x 10^{-5} M_sun/yr (v_w/10 km/s). Combining the results with earlier ROSAT observations, we construct the X-ray lightcurve of SN 1994I. A best-fit X-ray rate of decline of L_x \propto t^{-s} with index s~1 and a CSM density profile of rho_csm \propto r^{-1.9\pm0.1} are inferred, consistent with what is expected for a constant mass-loss rate and constant wind velocity profile for the SN progenitor (rho_csm \propto r^{-2}).
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Supplementary document for Impact of Resonator Shape and Embedding on the Scattering Characteristics of TiO₂ Nanoarrays - 7372520.pdf
Creators: name: Kjellberg, Mikko
name: Ravishankar, Ajith
name: Anand, Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary data
Levy Flights in Inhomogeneous Media
Creators: name: Brockmann, D.
name: Geisel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of external periodic potentials on superdiffusive random walks known as Levy flights and show that even strongly superdiffusive transport is substantially affected by the external field. Unlike ordinary random walks, Levy flights are surprisingly sensitive to the shape of the potential while their asymptotic behavior ceases to depend on the Levy index $μ$. Our analysis is based on a novel generalization of the Fokker-Planck equation suitable for systems in thermal equilibrium. Thus, the results presented are applicable to the large class of situations in which superdiffusion is caused by topological complexity, such as diffusion on folded polymers and scale-free networks.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Will a government find it financially easier to neutralize a looming protest if more groups are involved?
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Zawojska, Ewa
name: Stark, Oded
name: Zawojska, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Merger of populations
subject: Revision of social space
subject: Aggregate relative deprivation
subject: Social stress
subject: A cost-effective policy response

description: We study a policy response to an increase in post-merger social stress. If a merger of groups of people is viewed as a revision of their social space, then the merger alters people’s comparators and increases social stress: the social stress of a merged population is greater than the sum of the levels of social stress of the constituent populations when apart. We use social stress as a proxy measure for looming social protest. As a response to the post-merger increase in social stress, we consider a policy aimed at reversing the negative effect of the merger by bringing the social stress of the merged population back to the sum of the pre-merger levels of social stress of the constituent populations when apart. We present, in the form of an algorithm, a cost-effective policy response which is publicly financed and does not reduce the incomes of the members of the merged population. We then compare the financial cost of implementing such a policy when the merger involves more or fewer groups. We show that the cost may fall as the number of merging groups rises.
Active inference: demystified and compared
Creators: name: Sajid, Noor
name: Ball, Philip J.
name: Parr, Thomas
name: Friston, Karl J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Active inference is a first principle account of how autonomous agents operate in dynamic, non-stationary environments. This problem is also considered in reinforcement learning (RL), but limited work exists on comparing the two approaches on the same discrete-state environments. In this paper, we provide: 1) an accessible overview of the discrete-state formulation of active inference, highlighting natural behaviors in active inference that are generally engineered in RL; 2) an explicit discrete-state comparison between active inference and RL on an OpenAI gym baseline. We begin by providing a condensed overview of the active inference literature, in particular viewing the various natural behaviors of active inference agents through the lens of RL. We show that by operating in a pure belief-based setting, active inference agents can carry out epistemic exploration, and account for uncertainty about their environment in a Bayes-optimal fashion. Furthermore, we show that the reliance on an explicit reward signal in RL is removed in active inference, where reward can simply be treated as another observation; even in the total absence of rewards, agent behaviors are learned through preference learning. We make these properties explicit by showing two scenarios in which active inference agents can infer behaviors in reward-free environments compared to both Q-learning and Bayesian model-based RL agents; by placing zero prior preferences over rewards and by learning the prior preferences over the observations corresponding to reward. We conclude by noting that this formalism can be applied to more complex settings if appropriate generative models can be formulated. In short, we aim to demystify the behavior of active inference agents by presenting an accessible discrete state-space and time formulation, and demonstrate these behaviors in a OpenAI gym environment, alongside RL agents.
Macromonycha Spaeth 1911
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Macromonycha

description: Macromonycha Spaeth, 1911
 Macromonycha Spaeth, 1911: 271. Type species: Cassida apicalis Gebler, 1845, by monotypy.
 Macromonycha: SPAETH & REITTER (1926): 19; BOROWIEC (1999): 310.
 Kari Maulik, 1923: 602. Type species: Kari brunnea Maulik, 1923, by monotypy (syn. SPAETH & REITTER (1926): 19).
 Diagnosis. The genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: the last tarsal segment strongly projecting and extending behind the sole of the third segment; pronotum with two tubercles on the disc, basal angles broadly rounded and with deep antennal grooves on venter; the disc of elytra with tubercles, costae and folds; and upper side with sparse but well visible stiff setae.
 Distribution. From Turkey and the Near East to central Asia.
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2008, Review of the genus Macromonycha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), pp. 95-102 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342636
Modelling cognitive determinants of the intentions to consume foods from edible insects: An application of the theory of planned behaviour
Creators: name: Pambo, Kennedy Otieno
name: Mbeche, Robert M.
name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Kinyuru, John N.
name: Pambo, Kennedy Otieno
name: Mbeche, Robert M.
name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Kinyuru, John N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: food choice
subject: consumer behaviour

description: Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Seventh European Conference on Sensory and Consumer Research, 11 - 14 September 2016 | Dijon, France
If it works for teachers...? Can an appraisal scheme for teachers be adapted for use with school librarians?
Creators: name: Wilkes, Rosalind
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: If it works for teachers...? Can an appraisal scheme for teachers be adapted for use with school librarians?
A Narrative Analysis of 'Morally Challenging Behaviour' Experienced by Donors and Recipients in Online Sperm Donation Communities
Creators: name: Forshall, Georgina
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2022

description: Donor conception has become an increasingly socially acceptable way to deal with issues of male sterility or as a means to start a family for single women and same-sex couples. Sperm banks and fertility clinics offer a range of treatments, privately and on the NHS, but issues of accessibility and choice have led many donors and recipients to contact one another directly through connection websites and social media. While such websites are not illegal, they are unregulated. Previous research (McQuoid, 2015) suggests that recipients of online sperm may be at risk of abuse or harassment from donors when using such sites. This thesis applies a narrative approach to explore the occurrence of ‘morally challenging behaviour’ that sperm donors and recipients may have observed or experienced within the online sperm donation community. The aims of the research are to: 1) learn about donor perceptions of the kinds of norms and values that are sanctioned by the ‘online sperm donation community’ and the degree to which they condone or reject these behaviours; and 2) to discuss any ‘less than positive’ experiences recipients may have had whilst engaging with online sperm donors, the way in which they respond to difficult or traumatic experiences, and the endurance of their sense of self in such scenarios. Three prolific donors from the UK, USA and Australia respectively, and five UK-based recipients were interviewed in two separate studies using an adaptation of Brown et al.’s (1989) Real Life Moral Choice and Conflict Interview and Wengraf’s (2004) Biographical Narrative Interpretive Method. The interviews were analysed using Carol Gilligan’s Listening Guide Method of Psychological Inquiry (2015), which included four ‘listenings’ covering ‘narrative events,’ ‘the self,’ and the ‘listenings’ for the existence of two conflicting or contrapuntal voices (i.e., voices in counterpoint). Issues raised as part of the third and fourth listenings for the donors related to a rejection of fertility clinics, sexual motivations of donors, recipient screening and anonymity and, for the recipients, related to the acceptance/mitigation of risks, exploitation, harassment, and safety. The findings of these studies support McQuoid’s (2015) research which suggests that recipients may be at risk of abusive, threatening, or coercive behaviours from sperm donors in an unregulated context. This highlights the need for safeguarding and regulatory frameworks to protect recipients seeking to obtain sperm online.
Temporal evolution and correlations of optical activity indicators measured in Sun-as-a-star observations
Creators: name: Maldonado, J.
name: Phillips, D. F.
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Haywood, R. D.
name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Micela, G.
name: Mortier, A.
name: Saar, S. H.
name: Sozzetti, A.
name: Rice, K.
name: Milbourne, T.
name: Cecconi, M.
name: Cegla, H. M.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: Costes, J.
name: Ghedina, A.
name: Gonzalez, M.
name: Guerra, J.
name: Hernández, N.
name: Li, C. -H.
name: Lodi, M.
name: Malavolta, L.
name: Molinari, E.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Poretti, E.
name: Sasselov, D.
name: Juan, J. San
name: Thompson, S.
name: Udry, S.
name: Watson, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We perform a detailed study of the main optical activity indicators (Ca II H & K, Balmer lines, Na I D$_{\rm 1}$ D$_{\rm 2}$, and He I D$_{\rm 3}$) measured for the Sun using the data provided by the HARPS-N solar-telescope feed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. The value of the solar rotation period is found in all the activity indicators, with the only exception being H$δ$. The derived values vary from 26.29 days (H$γ$ line) to 31.23 days (He I). From an analysis of sliding periodograms we find that in most of the activity indicators the spectral power is split into several "bands" of periods around 26 and 30 days, that might be explained by the migration of active regions between the equator and a latitude of $\sim$ 30$^{\circ}$, spot evolution or a combination of both effects. In agreement with previous works a typical lifetime of active regions of $\sim$ ten rotation periods is inferred from the pooled variance diagrams. We find that H$α$, H$β$, H$γ$, H$ε$, and He I show a significant correlation with the S index. Significant correlations between the contrast, bisector span, and the heliocentric radial velocity with the activity indexes are also found. We show that the full width at half maximum, the bisector, and the disc-integrated magnetic field correlate with the radial velocity variations. The correlation of the S index and H$α$ changes with time, increasing with larger sun spot numbers and solar irradiance. A similar tendency with the S index - radial velocity correlation is also present in the data. Our results are consistent with a scenario in which higher activity favours the correlation between the S index and the H$α$ activity indicators and between the S index and radial velocity variations.
description: Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Financial Implications of Seasonal Variability in Demand for Tourism Services (Final Draft)
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: demand variability
subject: Jensen’s inequality
subject: price instability in tourism
subject: profitability in tourism and demand variability
subject: producers’ surplus and demand variability.

description: Using Jensen’s inequality (and its mathematical generalization), this contribution shows how increased seasonal (periodic) variability of demand for tourism services can increase the annual profit of a tourism enterprise and the producers’ surplus of a corresponding competitive segment of the tourism industry experiencing this increased variability. It identifies conditions which result in these effects being magnified and takes account of the fact that a tourism business’ supply of services is often subject to capacity utilization constraints. A novel feature is that allowance is made for the possibility that variations in the market demand for tourism services may alter the prices of factors of production. Examples of seasonal variability in the prices for tourism services are provided. Furthermore, the importance of this contribution is related to the available scholarly literature about the financial consequences of seasonal variability in the demand for tourism services.
Benthesicymus altus Bate 1881
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Benthesicymidae
Benthesicymus
Benthesicymus altus

description: Benthesicymus altus Bate, 1881
(Fig. 3A–F)
 Benthesicymus altus Bate, 1881: 191. — Faxon 1895: 203. — Schmitt 1921: 22, pl. 11, fig. 2. — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 298. — Wicksten 1989b: 311. — Kikuchi & Nemoto 1991: 85, figs. 14,15. — Hendrickx 1996: 9, fig. 10 (extensive synonymy). — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 60. — Guzmán & Wicksten 2000: 927, fig. 2. — Hendrickx & Wicksten 2003: 57; 2004: 139.
 Diagnosis. Similar to B. tanneri but carapace without hepatic spine. Last segment of third maxilliped with 1 strong spine, 4–5 spinules. Abdominal somite 4 with slight dorsal carina, somite 5 with posterior dorsal carina, somite 6 with strong dorsal carina ending in upturned margin. Telson with 4 pairs lateral spines. Total length 120 mm.
 Color in life. Not reported.
 Habitat and depth. Continental slopes, usually benthic, 923–4120 m.
 Range. Western Pacific from Japan to Fiji, eastern Pacific from San Nicolas I. to Chile, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean off Maldive and Comoro Is. Type locality "between Australia and New Guinea" (Challenger sta. 184).
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 18
Additional file 1 of Causes of death and effect of non-cancer-specific death on rates of overall survival in adult classic Hodgkin lymphoma: a populated-based competing risk analysis
Creators: name: Gao, Jie
name: Chen, Yingying
name: Wu, Pengqiang
name: Wang, Fujue
name: Tao, Huan
name: Shen, Qianqing
name: Wang, Shuoting
name: Gong, Shuaige
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Zhou, Zhencang
name: Song, Xianmin
name: Jia, Yongqian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Univariable and multivariable analyses of non-CSD: A competing risk regression model. Supplementary Table 2. Univariable and multivariable analyses of CSD: A competing risk regression model. Supplementary Table 3. Univariable and multivariable analyses of ACD in patients with cHL in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database: Cox proportional hazards model.
The large-scale ionised outflow of CH Cygni
Creators: name: Corradi, Romano L. M.
name: Munari, Ulisse
name: Livio, Mario
name: Mampaso, Antonio
name: Goncalves, Denise R.
name: Schwarz, Hugo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HST and ground-based [OII} and [NII] images obtained from 1996 to 1999 reveal the existence of a ionised optical nebula around the symbiotic binary CH Cyg extending out to 5000 A.U. from the central stars. The observed velocity range of the nebula, derived from long-slit echelle spectra, is of 130 km/s. In spite of its complex appearence, the velocity data show that the basic morphology of the inner regions of the optical nebula is that of a bipolar (or conical) outflow extending nearly along the plane of the sky out to some 2000 A.U. from the centre. Even if the extension of this bipolar outflow and its position angle are consistent with those of the radio jet produced in 1984 (extrapolated to the time of our optical imagery), no obvious counterpart is visible of the original, dense radio bullets ejected by the system. We speculate that the optical bipolar outflow might be the remannt of the interaction of the bullets with a relatively dense circumstellar medium.
description: 8 text pages + 3 figures (jpeg). ApJ in press. For a full PostScript version with figures inline see ftp://ftp.ll.iac.es/pub/research/preprints/PP252001.ps.gz
GATS and Retail Services: India Perspectve
Creators: name: Jaiswal, Anindita
name: Jaiswal, Anindita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: distribution services
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: GATS
subject: India
subject: retail trade services

description: In the past five years, India has witnessed significant debate, brainstorming sessions and political drama over the issue of liberalizing retail services for foreign investors, particularly in the multi-brand sector. For the most part, the arguments have concerned the fate of local retailers, “kirana shops,” pursuant to permitting foreign direct investment (FDI) in this sector. While one school of experts has expressed apprehension about local retailers being eliminated from the market if such FDI is permitted, the other school has advocated that such FDI will, aside from boosting the economy and foreign exchange reserves, generate employment on a large scale. Balancing both of the foregoing concerns, the Indian government recently liberalized FDI in this sector up to 100 percent in single-brand retail and up to 51 percent in multibrand retail services. Although this move has been appreciated by the industry and the investor class, such investments are subject to a significant number of restrictions in terms of minimum capitalization, local sourcing of materials, prior approval and other such requirements. Needless to say, India, being a sovereign nation, has the authority to impose such investment restrictions at the municipal level. Having said that, given the unification of the world economy through globalization, it would be inadequate and myopic to confine the assessment of such restrictions to the municipal level. The justifiability of such restrictions needs to be assessed at the global level against the country’s international commitments, more specifically commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO), considering that WTO membership comes as a package of obligations across different areas, namely trade in goods, trade in services and traderelated investments. While much has been deliberated with regard to the merits and demerits of India’s restrictions on FDI in retail services from the perspectives both of economics and of India’s municipal laws, the question of whether such restrictions are sustainable against the radar of the WTO has been overlooked on most debate platforms. Therefore, this article attempts to assess India’s FDI norms in the retail trade sector vis-à-vis its commitments, if any, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the auspices of the WTO. Further, this article reviews the commitments made by a few other countries in retail services and the nature of the limitations imposed by such countries. Also, this article suggests a way forward for India, factoring in the various trade barriers applicable to retail trade services, whereby the country might harmonize its municipal investment restrictions with future commitments under GATS.
On correspondence between tensors and bispinors
Creators: name: Gorbatenko, M. V.
name: Pushkin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that in the four-dimensional Riemannian space the complex bispinor generates a number of tensors: scalar, pseudo-scalar, vector, pseudo-vector, antisymmetric tensor. This paper solves the inverse problem: the above tensors are arbitrarily given, it is necessary to find a bispinor (bispinors) reproducing the tensors. The algorithm for this mapping constitutes construction of Hermitean matrix $M$ from the tensors and finding its eigenvalue spectrum. A solution to the inverse problem exists only when $M$ is nonnegatively definite. Under this condition a matrix $Z$ satisfying equation $M=ZZ^{+}$ can be found. One and the same system of tensor values can be used to construct the matrix $Z$ accurate to an arbitrary factor on the left-hand side, viz. unitary matrix $U$ in polar expansion $Z=HU$. The matrix $Z$ is shown to be expandable to a set of bispinors, for which the unitary matrix $U$ is responsible for the internal (gauge) degrees of freedom. Thus, a group of gauge transformations depends only on the Riemannian space dimension, signature, and the number field used. The constructed algorithm for mapping tensors to bispinors admits extension to Riemannian spaces of a higher dimension.
description: 14 pages;LaTeX2e;to appear in the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG9) Proceedings,Rome, July, 2000
Untitled ItemSatisfaction of Women in Fulfilling the Role as Mothers – A Comparative Study between Working and Nonworking Mothers
Creators: name: Manohar, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology

description: Women‟s role in the community and at home have been changing rapidly. Traditionally, men and women had well-defined roles without much overlapping or trespassing- mostly women were confined to home – their primary was „mother‟ and „care-taker‟. But, women‟s rights, education, and gender equality has changed the scenario. Pursuance of quality life, better living standard, cost of living has compelled women to become economic contributors of the home. However, not much significant changes have been observed in gender roles. The question is whether women are satisfied about their role as mother or care-taker. The objective of the study is to explore the difference in the perceived satisfaction in fulfilling the role as a mother and satisfaction in life between working mothers and non-working mothers.
Spatially-resolved Thermal Continuum Absorption against the Supernova Remnant W49B
Creators: name: Lacey, C. K.
name: Lazio, T. Joseph W.
name: Kassim, Namir E.
name: Duric, N.
name: Briggs, D. S.
name: Dyer, K. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present sub-arcminute resolution imaging of the Galactic supernova remnant W49B at 74 MHz (25") and 327 MHz (6"), the former being the lowest frequency at which the source has been resolved. While the 327 MHz image shows a shell-like morphology similar to that seen at higher frequencies, the 74 MHz image is considerably different, with the southwest region of the remnant almost completely attenuated. The implied 74 MHz optical depth (~ 1.6) is much higher than the intrinsic absorption levels seen inside two other relatively young remnants, Cas A and the Crab Nebula, nor are natural variations in the relativistic electron energy spectra expected at such levels. The geometry of the absorption is also inconsistent with intrinsic absorption. We attribute the absorption to extrinsic free-free absorption by a intervening cloud of thermal electrons. Its presence has already been inferred from the low-frequency turnover in the integrated continuum spectrum and from the detection of radio recombination lines toward the remnant. Our observations confirm the basic conclusions of those measurements, and our observations have resolved the absorber into a complex of classical HII regions surrounded either partially or fully by low-density HII gas. We identify this low-density gas as an extended HII region envelope (EHE), whose statistical properties were inferred from low resolution meter- and centimeter-wavelength recombination line observations. Comparison of our radio images with HI and H_2CO observations show that the intervening thermal gas is likely associated with neutral and molecular material as well.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX with AASTeX-5, 5 figures in 7 PostScript files; accepted for publication in the ApJ
Charge density wave and large non-saturating magnetoresistance in YNiC$_2$ and LuNiC$_2$
Creators: name: Kolincio, Kamil K.
name: Roman, Marta
name: Klimczuk, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of physical properties of two quasi-low dimensional metals YNiC$_2$ and LuNiC$_2$ including the investigation of transport, magnetotransport, galvanomagnetic and specific heat properties. In YNiC$_2$ we reveal two subsequent transitions associated with the formation of weakly coupled charge density wave at $T_{CDW}$ = 318 K, and its locking in with the lattice at $T_1$ = 275 K. These characteristic temperatures follow the previously proposed linear scaling with the unit cell volume, demonstrating its validity extended beyond the lanthanide-based $R$NiC$_2$. We also find that, in the absence of magnetic ordering able to interrupt the development of charge density wave, the Fermi surface nesting leads to opening of small pockets, containing high mobility carriers. This effect gives rise to substantial enhancement of magnetoresistance, reaching 470 % for YNiC$_2$ and 50 % for LuNiC$_2$ at $T$ = 1.9 K and $B$ = 9 T.
description: Accepted to PRB
Supplementary document for Impact of Resonator Shape and Embedding on the Scattering Characteristics of TiO₂ Nanoarrays - 7383421.pdf
Creators: name: Kjellberg, Mikko
name: Ravishankar, Ajith
name: Anand, Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
Nonlocal interferences induced by the phase of the wavefunction for a particle in a cavity with moving boundaries
Creators: name: Waegell, Mordecai
name: Matzkin, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of a particle in a confined periodic system---a time-dependent oscillator confined by infinitely high and moving walls---and focus on the evolution of the phase of the wavefunction. It is shown that, for some specific initial states in this potential, the phase of the wavefunction throughout the cavity depends on the walls motion. We further elaborate a thought experiment based on interferences devised to detect this form of single-particle nonlocality from a relative phase. We point out that, within the non-relativistic formalism based on the Schrödinger equation (SE), detecting this form of nonlocality can give rise to signaling. We believe this effect is an artifact, but the standard relativistic corrections to the SE do not appear to fix it. Specific illustrations are given, with analytical results in the adiabatic approximation, and numerical computations to show that contributions from high-energy states (corresponding to superluminal velocities) are negligible.
description: Minor changes, close to the published version
Benthesicymus laciniatus Rathbun 1906
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Benthesicymidae
Benthesicymus
Benthesicymus laciniatus

description: Benthesicymus laciniatus Rathbun, 1906
(Fig. 3J–L)
 Benthesicymus laciniatus Rathbun, 1906: 906, fig. 59, pl. XIX, fig. 3. — Hayashi 1983: 441, fig. 62.— Kikuchi & Nemoto 1991: 65. — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 61. — Wicksten 2004: 93 (extensive synonymy).
 Gennadas pectinatus Schmitt, 1921: 25, fig. 12; pl. 11, fig. 1. — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 66. — Wicksten 2002: 128.
 Diagnosis. Rostrum slightly ascending, with 1 or 2 dorsal teeth, sharp apex, continuing posteriorly as dorsal carina to cervical groove. Carapace with antennal, branchiostegal teeth; cervical groove, Y-shaped lateral groove running posteriorly. Eye without pigment, eyestalk with tubercle. Scaphocerite with rounded blade, exceeding lateral tooth. Second maxilliped broad, flattened. Pereopods 1–3 short, strong, chelate; pereopods 4, 5 long slender. Pleopods with exceptionally long endopods, exopods. Abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, fourth with comb-like structure of teeth spinules along posterior margin. Somites 5, 6 with dorsal carina small posterolateral tooth, carina of somite 5 ending in sharp tooth. Telson shorter than uropods, with 4 pairs lateral spines. Carapace length to 42 mm.
 Color in life. Orange. The color note is from a specimen taken off the Hawaiian Is.
 Habitat and depth. Lower continental slope and abyssal plains, 1471–4028 m.
 Range. Cosmopolitan: Madagascar, Reunion, Saya de Malha Bank, Japan, Hawaiian Is., off Santa Catalina I., California; off Baja California, Mexico; Azores, Canary Is. Type locality off Kaui, Hawaiian Is.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 18