cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Some properties of the integrable noncommutative sine-Gordon system
Creators: name: Grisaru, Marcus T.
name: Mazzanti, Liuba
name: Penati, Silvia
name: Tamassia, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we continue the program, initiated in Ref. hep-th/0112246, to investigate an integrable noncommutative version of the sine-Gordon model. We discuss the origin of the extra constraint which the field function has to satisfy in order to guarantee classical integrability. We show that the system of constraint plus dynamical equation of motion can be obtained by a suitable reduction of a noncommutative version of 4d self-dual Yang-Mills theory. The field equations can be derived from an action which is the sum of two WZNW actions with cosine potentials corresponding to a complexified noncommutative U(1) gauge group. A brief discussion of the relation with the bosonized noncommutative Thirring model is given. In spite of integrability we show that the S-matrix is acasual and particle production takes place.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX file. Some references added. One figure changed and comments added in conclusion
Interstate Competition in Agriculture: Cheer or Fear? Evidence from the United States and China
Creators: name: Gong, B.
name: Gong, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This article aims to evaluate the effects of multi-dimensional interstate competitions on agricultural production, which is achieved using spatial econometrics and model averaging methods. Using panel data, this article finds that interstate agricultural competition ought to be encouraged in the United States due to their positive impacts on spillovers and productivity but should be discouraged in China as it leads to negative spillovers and a decrease in productivity. U.S. agriculture enjoys the benefits of competition thanks to agricultural industrialization and a competitive market, whereas the planned system with government interference found in China has benefits as well as detriments. Acknowledgement :
Chorasus costicollis
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Chorasus
Chorasus costicollis

description: Chorasus costicollis (Broun, 1893)
(Figs. 91–92)
 Vitiacus costicollis Broun, 1893b: 1442. Hutton 1904: 169. Broun 1921a: 529. Hudson 1923: 369. Hetschko 1930: 48. Chorasus costicollis: Implied combination based on synonymy of Vitiacus with Chorasus in Ślipiński and Lawrence 1997: 368. Chorasus costicollis: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Capleston.
 Broun number: 2501.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 2501. [in Broun’s hand] // Capleston Westland // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Vitiacus costicollis [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Harmonization of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards in Cocoa Trade: How Competitive are the Major Exporting Countries?
Creators: name: Akin-Olagunju, O.
name: Yusuf, S.
name: Okoruwa, V.
name: Akin-Olagunju, O.
name: Yusuf, S.
name: Okoruwa, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The importance of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) standard stems from its usefulness in ensuring plant, animal and human safety. However, stringency and multiplicity of the export standards stand in the way of achieving gains of trade globalization and true competitiveness by developing countries that are mostly exporters of primary agricultural produce. To this end, this study analyzed the effect of stringency of SPS standards on the competitiveness of cocoa exporters from the perspectives of individual importing countries and harmonized standards. The study found out that the increasingly stringent global standards improved trade rather than hampering it, exporting countries lost huge revenue in the absence of harmonization and exporters competitiveness was dependent on market type and scale of trade. The study recommended that cocoa exporting countries should take care of hindrances to supply-side factors, engage in country and market-specific negotiations on standards harmonization at the WTO and get involved in inter-governmental engagements. Keywords: SPS measures, harmonization, competitiveness, cocoa, international trade JEL: C23, F14, F18, Q17, Q18 Acknowledgement :
Going for green : achieving global leadership in sustainability through innovation and community engagement
Creators: name: Chen, Siying
name: Darbandi, Denna
name: Deng, Ali
name: Dimatulac, Angelli
name: Massooleh, Sam
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: UBC’s 2020 Climate Action Plan aims to reduce their GHG emissions by 67% from 2007 levels and has already created a significant reduction to date. This year, 2017, has the potential to become a turning point to achieve UBC’s plan. UBC building operation reached agreement to reduce GHG emissions by 67% from 2007 levels by 2020. UBC has already reduced GHG emissions by 30% at the end of 2015, which is significantly lower than 2007 levels, and for the year of 2017, UBC wants to reach a 33% reduction by the end of 2016. UBC also aims to establish a framework to provide technological and financial support to reduce the potential costs for a wide variety of vehicles. Our strategy is to develop strong relationships with students and building operations by creating the bike-cargo-share program to help them transfer lightweight materials throughout campus. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Robust Semiparametric Efficient Estimators in Elliptical Distributions
Creators: name: Fortunati, Stefano
name: Renaux, Alexandre
name: Pascal, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Covariance matrices play a major role in statistics, signal processing and machine learning applications. This paper focuses on the \textit{semiparametric} covariance/scatter matrix estimation problem in elliptical distributions. The class of elliptical distributions can be seen as a semiparametric model where the finite-dimensional vector of interest is given by the location vector and by the (vectorized) covariance/scatter matrix, while the density generator represents an infinite-dimensional nuisance function. The main aim of this work is then to provide possible estimators of the finite-dimensional parameter vector able to reconcile the two dichotomic concepts of \textit{robustness} and (semiparametric) \textit{efficiency}. An $R$-estimator satisfying these requirements has been recently proposed by Hallin, Oja and Paindaveine for real-valued elliptical data by exploiting the Le Cam's theory of \textit{one-step efficient estimators} and the \textit{rank-based statistics}. In this paper, we firstly recall the building blocks underlying the derivation of such real-valued $R$-estimator, then its extension to complex-valued data is proposed. Moreover, through numerical simulations, its estimation performance and robustness to outliers are investigated in a finite-sample regime.
description: This paper has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (12 pages, 6 figures and supporting material)
INDIA'S ROLE IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE INDOCHINA CONFLICT, 1947 TO 1958
Creators: name: Bhansali, Krishnaprasad Girdharlal
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-03, page: 1063.
Factors Explaining Land Access and Utilization for Agricultural Activities among Households in South Africa
Creators: name: Akinyemi, B.
name: Akinyemi, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Land and water are strategic to agricultural production. Issue of land distribution in South Africa is contentious due to past racial apartheid policy that favored white farmers against the black. To address this, land expropriation without compensation is recently being proposed by policy makers. In order not to go the way of Zimbabwe, South Africa needs empirical evidence on land utilization for agriculture and the drivers of such use. This study therefore investigated household access to and utilization of land for agricultural activities in South Africa using nationally representative South African Living Condition Survey data. The study adopted a bivariate probit regression model to analyze determinants of land access and land utilization. Results reveal that household head age, participation in home garden, income and engagement in own production explains land access and utilization among other variables. The older the household head the greater the probability of access to land whereas older household head are less likely to utilize land. Interestingly, wealthier household have lesser probability of land access. Based on these findings, it was recommended that revision of land reform policy, poverty alleviation, and land utilization awareness creation would enhance productive use of agricultural land in South Africa. Acknowledgement : The author sincerely acknowledges the financial support of the Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre (GMRDC) towards his postdoctoral fellowship at the Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, where this study was carried out between June 2017-January 2018. The views in this paper are the author s own and do not necessarily represent those of the GMRDC and University of Fort Hare. The permission granted by Statistics South Africa to use the data set for this study is also gratefully acknowledged.
WUDESIM: a toolkit for simulating water quality in the dead-end branches of drinking water distribution networks
Creators: name: Abokifa, Ahmed A.
name: Pratim Biswas
name: Hodges, Ben R.
name: Sela, Lina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This work introduces WUDESIM, an open-source C/C++ toolkit for modeling water quality in the dead-end branches of drinking water distribution networks. WUDESIM is linked to the programmers’ toolkit of EPANET, a widely-used public-domain water network analysis model. In place of the advection-based water quality module in EPANET, WUDESIM allows the users to simulate water quality in the pipes of dead-end branches with dispersion as a constituent transport mechanism. In addition, WUDESIM corrects for the simulation errors that arise from the spatial aggregation of water demands due to network skeletonization, and enables the users to use stochastically-generated water demands at fine time-scales. The software comprises two components: a Windows® executable file and a C/C++ dynamic link library (DLL) toolkit. Examples of how the users can employ the different toolkit functions to run water quality analysis and obtain simulation results are provided. WUDESIM is available as a public-domain software.
Exceptional points as lasing pre-thresholds in open-cavity lasers
Creators: name: Zyablovsky, A. A.
name: Doronin, I. V.
name: Andrianov, E. S.
name: Pukhov, A. A.
name: Lozovik, Yu. E.
name: Vinogradov, A. P.
name: Lisyansky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The genesis of lasing, as an evolution of the laser hybrid eigenstates comprised of electromagnetic modes and atomic polarization, is considered. It is shown that the start of coherent generation at the laser threshold is preceded by the formation of a special hybrid state at the lasing pre-threshold. This special state is characterized by an enhanced coupling among excited atoms and electromagnetic modes. This leads to an increase in the rate of stimulated emission in the special state and, ultimately, to lasing. At the lasing pre-threshold, the transformation of hybrid eigenstates has the features of an exceptional point (EP) observed in non-Hermitian systems. The special state is formed when eigenfrequencies of two hybrid states coalesce or come close to each other. Below the pre-threshold, lifetimes of all hybrid states grow with increasing pump rate. When the pump rate crosses the pre-threshold, resonance trapping occurs with the lifetime of the special state continuing to increase while the lifetimes of all other eigenstates begin to decrease. Consequently, the latter eigenstates do not participate in the lasing. Thus, above the pre-threshold, a laser transitions into the single-mode regime.
Trade Exposure and Firms Markup Dynamics in the Food Industry
Creators: name: Curzi, D.
name: Garrone, M.
name: Olper, A.
name: Curzi, D.
name: Garrone, M.
name: Olper, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: PAPER REMOVED AT AUTHORS REQUEST, March 20, 2019
Signals of New Physics using angular analysis in B -> V1 V2 decays
Creators: name: London, David
name: Sinha, Nita
name: Sinha, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that an angular analysis of B -> V1 V2 decays yields numerous tests for new physics in the decay amplitudes. Many of these new-physics observables are nonzero even if the strong phase differences vanish. For certain observables, neither time-dependent measurements nor tagging is necessary. Should a signal for new physics be found, one can place a lower limit on the size of the new-physics parameters, as well as bound its effect on the measurement of the B^0--Bbar^0 mixing phase.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052). 4 pages LaTeX 4 pages
Chorasus posticalis
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Chorasus
Chorasus posticalis

description: Chorasus posticalis (Broun, 1921)
(Figs. 97–98)
 Vitiacus posticalis Broun, 1921a: 529. Hudson 1923: 369. Hetschko 1930: 49.
 Chorasus posticalis: Implied combination based on synonymy of Vitiacus with Chorasus in Ślipiński and Lawrence 1997: 368. Chorasus posticalis: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Hollyford.
 Broun number: 4052.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen collected on 20 February, 1914.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “4052. [in Broun’s hand] // Hollyford 20.2.1914 [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Vitiacus posticalis [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Spectral properties of anomalous X-ray pulsars
Creators: name: Lu, Y.
name: Wang, W.
name: Zhao, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the spectra of the persistent emission from anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and their variation with spin-down rate $\dotΩ$ is considered. Firstly, based on an accretion-powered model, the influences of both magnetic field and mass accretion rate on the spectra properties of AXPs are addressed. Subsequently, the relation between the spectral property of AXPs and mass accretion rate $\dot{M}$ is investigated. The result shows that there exists a linear correlation between the photon index and mass accretion rate, and the spectral hardness increases with increasing $\dot{M}$. A possible emission mechanism for the explanation of spectral properties of AXPs is also discussed.
description: 11pages, 3 figures, Chin. J. Astron. Astrophys. in press
INTELLIGENCE REPORTING BY AMERICAN OBSERVERS FROM THE EUROPEAN NEUTRALS, 1917-1919: SELECT CASES
Creators: name: Mehl, Jr., Joseph Martin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 22-12, page: 4337.
Jon Tennant's Memorial Day - My Open Science, for my friend Jon
Creators: name: Masuzzo, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open science
jon tennant
JonTennantsMemorialDay
inclusive science
slow science

description: The 9th April 2021 we remember Jon Tennant, one year after his sudden death. This is my contribution to the #JonTennantsMemorialDay, my personal view on how I'd love for Open Science to become. It's filled with dinosaurs, memories of Jon, quite some pain, but above all Love.
Sub-millimeter emission from type Ia supernova host galaxies at z=0.5
Creators: name: Farrah, D.
name: Fox, M.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Clements, D.
name: Afonso, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep sub-millimetre observations of seventeen galaxies at z=0.5, selected through being hosts of a type 1a supernova. Two galaxies are detected directly, and the sample is detected statistically with a mean 850 micron flux of 1.01mJy +/- 0.33mJy, which is 25% - 135% higher than locally. We infer that the mean value of A_v in normal galaxies at z=0.5 is comparable to or greater than the mean A_v in local normal galaxies, in agreement with galaxy chemical evolution models and indirect observational evidence. Scaling from the local value given by Rowan-Robinson (2003) gives a mean extinction at z=0.5 of A_v = 0.56 +/- 0.17. The dust in the brightest sub-mm object in our sample is best interpreted as normal `cirrus' dust similar to that seen locally. The detection rate of our sample suggests that some sources found in blank-field sub-mm surveys may not be high redshift starbursts, but rather cirrus galaxies at moderate redshifts and with lower star formation rates. Finally, an increase in host dust extinction with redshift may impact the cosmological results from distant supernova searches. This emphasizes the need to carefully monitor dust extinction when using type Ia supernovae to measure the cosmological parameters.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. ApJ accepted
Index-based Insurances for Grasslands A Review
Creators: name: Vroege, W.
name: Dalhaus, T.
name: Finger, R.
name: Vroege, W.
name: Dalhaus, T.
name: Finger, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Index insurance schemes have been proposed as an alternative to overcome problems of asymmetric information and transaction costs when insuring agriculture with traditional indemnity-based insurances, and to allow to insure usually uninsurable land use forms such as pastures. It has been advocated that insurances based on variables highly correlating with, but independent of, the production at the farm have a particularly high potential to insure grasslands. We aim to shed light on the supply, diversity and uptake of index-based insurances for grassland production in developed countries. More specifically, this review provides a classification of grassland index insurance products, thereby incorporating the increasing possibilities of satellite imagery. It discusses ten grassland index insurance products that are on the market, summarizes their characteristics and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. A complete and verified overview was achieved by including systematizing expert interviews. Lastly, it targets to critically asses the different types of index insurances and provides an outlook on future developments. Acknowledgement :
Magnetic moments of antidecuplet pentaquarks
Creators: name: Bijker, R.
name: Giannini, M. M.
name: Santopinto, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the magnetic moment of the exotic pentaquarks of the flavor antidecuplet in the constituent quark model for the case in which the ground state is in an orbital L(p)=0(+) or a L(p)=1(-) state. We derive sum rules for the magnetic moments. The magnetic moment of the Theta(1540) is found to be 0.38, 0.09 and 1.05 mu_N for J(p)=1/2(-), 1/2(+) and 3/2(+), respectively, which is compared with the results obtained in other approaches.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Revised version, extended introduction and discussion, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Assessing consumer and producer preferences for animal welfare using a common elicitation format.
Creators: name: Schreiner, J.A.
name: Schreiner, J.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This study assesses pig farmers willingness-to-accept (WTA) higher farm animal welfare (FAW) standards and consumers willingness-to-pay (WTP) for thus enhanced standards. The analysis is based on Discrete Choice Experiments with nearly identical choice sets for both farmers (N=140) and consumers (N=775). Based on preference estimates from a random parameter logit (RPL) model, supply and demand curves for high-welfare pork in Germany are estimated and market equilibria are derived for alternative levels of FAW. We find that estimates of WTP are significantly positive for all FAW attributes. By contrast, our model revealed significant WTA estimates only for surface area per pig and the amount of bedding material on offer, but not for the other FAW attributes. Market simulations for high-welfare pork indicate increasing divergence between demand and supply with rising FAW standards. We estimate a market share of 49% for pork produced in compliance with an entry-level FAW programme with standards only slightly above the legal minimum. Programmes with more demanding standards are estimated to gain much smaller market shares. Keywords Farm animal welfare, Discrete Choice Experiment, Random Parameter Logit, market simulation, common elicitation format. Acknowledgement :
Shear Viscosity in a CFL Quark Star
Creators: name: Manuel, Cristina
name: Dobado, Antonio
name: Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the mean free path and shear viscosity in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of dense quark matter at low temperature T, when the contributions of mesons, quarks and gluons to the transport coefficients are Boltzmann suppressed. CFL quark matter displays superfluid properties, and transport phenomena in such cold regime are dominated by phonon-phonon scattering. We study superfluid phonons within thermal field theory and compute the mean free path associated to their most relevant collision processes. Small-angle processes turn out to be more efficient in slowing transport phenomena in the CFL matter, while the mean free path relevant for the shear viscosity is less sensitive to collinear scattering due to the presence of zero modes in the Boltzmann equation. In analogy with superfluid He4, we find the same T power law for the superfluid phonon damping rate and mean free path. Our results are relevant for the study of rotational properties of compact stars, and correct wrong estimates existing in the literature.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures; it matches the published version
U.S. POTATO DEMAND: STATIC AND DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Creators: name: Estes, Edmund
name: Blakeslee, Leroy
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald
name: Estes, Edmund
name: Blakeslee, Leroy
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Aggregate demand relationships for the U.S. potato industry are estimated by two-stage least squares. Demands were found to be price inelastic suggesting that abrupt changes in production cause major inverse price effects. Secular demand shifts are relatively rapid. Together these suggest opportunities for expanded production but a need for careful planning to avoid price depressing effects from even moderately excessive production growth.
PRIMACY-RECENCY AS A FUNCTION OF TIME AND OF LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF MANIPULATORY INTENT
Creators: name: Schultz, Duane Philip
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 22-12, page: 4428.
Online Process Monitoring Using Incremental State-Space Expansion: An Exact Algorithm
Creators: name: Schuster, Daniel
name: van Zelst, Sebastiaan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The execution of (business) processes generates valuable traces of event data in the information systems employed within companies. Recently, approaches for monitoring the correctness of the execution of running processes have been developed in the area of process mining, i.e., online conformance checking. The advantages of monitoring a process' conformity during its execution are clear, i.e., deviations are detected as soon as they occur and countermeasures can immediately be initiated to reduce the possible negative effects caused by process deviations. Existing work in online conformance checking only allows for obtaining approximations of non-conformity, e.g., overestimating the actual severity of the deviation. In this paper, we present an exact, parameter-free, online conformance checking algorithm that computes conformance checking results on the fly. Our algorithm exploits the fact that the conformance checking problem can be reduced to a shortest path problem, by incrementally expanding the search space and reusing previously computed intermediate results. Our experiments show that our algorithm outperforms comparable state-of-the-art approximation algorithms.
A FAMILY OF TRUNCATED SEQUENTIAL PLANS FOR NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED VARIABLE (AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE EVALUATION OF DRUGS IN MAN)
Creators: name: Schneiderman, Marvin Arthur
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-01, page: 2500.
Chorasus lateralis
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Chorasus
Chorasus lateralis

description: Chorasus lateralis (Broun, 1921)
(Figs. 95–96)
 Vitiacus lateralis Broun, 1921a: 531. Hudson 1923: 369. Hetschko 1930: 49.
 Chorasus lateralis: Implied combination based on synonymy of Vitiacus with Chorasus in Ślipiński and Lawrence 1997: 368. Chorasus lateralis: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Erua.
 Broun number: 4056.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen collected in January, 1909. A duplicate specimen was located in the MNHN Broun Collection, but we do not recognize this as a syntype since it lacked Broun’s handwritten “4056.” and Broun (1921a: 531) indicated only having examined a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “4056. [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Erua. Jany. 1909. [in Broun’s hand] // Vitiacus. lateralis. [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Ciconissus Broun 1893
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Ciconissus

description: CICONISSUS Broun, 1893
 Ciconissus Broun, 1893a: 185. Type species: Ciconissus granifer Broun, 1893, by monotypy.
 Caanthus Champion, 1894: 378. Type species: Caanthus gibbicollis Champion, 1894, by monotypy. Synonymized with Ciconissus Broun by Ślipiński and Lawrence 1997: 372.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Determining weak phases using B->D^*V Decays
Creators: name: London, David
name: Sinha, Nita
name: Sinha, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe how the angular analysis of vector-vector final states in B decays provides theoretically clean techniques for determination of CP violating phases. The quantity $\sin^2 (2β+ γ)$ can be cleanly obtained from the time dependent study of decays such as B_d(t)->D^{*\pm} ρ^\mp, D^{*\pm} a_1^{\mp} etc. Similarly, one can use B_s(t)-> D_s^{*\pm} K^{*\mp} to extract $\sin^2 γ$. A time independent study of the charged decay mode B^\pm-> D^{*0}(\bar D^{*0}) K^{*\pm} can also be used to extract gamma.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity triangle, IPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052), 4 pages LaTex
Choice Beef Prices and Price Spreads Series: Methodology and Revisions
Creators: name: White, T. Fred
name: Duewer, Lawrence A.
name: Ginzel, John
name: Bohall, Robert
name: Crawford, Terry
name: White, T. Fred
name: Duewer, Lawrence A.
name: Ginzel, John
name: Bohall, Robert
name: Crawford, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Beef
subject: Choice beef prices
subject: price spreads
subject: meat
subject: market performance

description: Changes in the location of beef cutting, merchandising methods, and data availability prompted revision of the Choice Beef Prices and Spreads Series calculation procedures. Major changes include replacing carcass value at ,the wholesale level with a boxed-beef value and moving from a partially bone-in to a mostly boneless product at the retail level. A change in the method for valuing beef trimmings as an ingredient in making ground beef also affects conversion factors, prices, and spreads.
Solving high-dimensional eigenvalue problems using deep neural networks: A diffusion Monte Carlo like approach
Creators: name: Han, Jiequn
name: Lu, Jianfeng
name: Zhou, Mo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method to solve eigenvalue problems for linear and semilinear second order differential operators in high dimensions based on deep neural networks. The eigenvalue problem is reformulated as a fixed point problem of the semigroup flow induced by the operator, whose solution can be represented by Feynman-Kac formula in terms of forward-backward stochastic differential equations. The method shares a similar spirit with diffusion Monte Carlo but augments a direct approximation to the eigenfunction through neural-network ansatz. The criterion of fixed point provides a natural loss function to search for parameters via optimization. Our approach is able to provide accurate eigenvalue and eigenfunction approximations in several numerical examples, including Fokker-Planck operator and the linear and nonlinear Schrödinger operators in high dimensions.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables
Alur Kerja Mitra Bestari pada Proses Review di Sistem OJS Versi 3.1
Creators: name: Askrening, Askrening
name: Rosyanti, Lilin
name: Rafiq, Ainul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Alur kerja yang disusun untuk membantu mitra bestari melalukan proses review pada sistem Open Journal System (OJS) versi 3.1
Exact likelihood evaluations and foreground marginalization in low resolution WMAP data
Creators: name: Slosar, A.
name: Seljak, U.
name: Makarov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing analysis of WMAP data is based on approximations for the likelihood function, which is likely to be inaccurate on large scales. Here we present exact evaluations of the likelihood of the low multipoles by direct inversion of the theoretical covariance matrix for low resolution WMAP maps. We project out the unwanted galactic contaminants rather than subtract them, which can remove some of the cosmological signal and may lead to a suppression of power. We find an increase in power at low multipoles. For the quadrupole the maximum likelihood values are rather uncertain and vary between 140-220\muK^2. On the other hand, the probability distribution away from the peak is robust and, assuming a uniform prior between 0 an 2000\muK^2, the probability of having the true value above 1200\muK^2 (as predicted by the simplest Lambda CDM model) is 10%, a factor of 2.5 higher than predicted by WMAP likelihood code. We develop a fast likelihood evaluation routine that can be used instead of WMAP routines for low l values. We apply it to the MCMC analysis to compare the cosmological parameters between the two cases. The new analysis of WMAP either alone or jointly with SDSS and VSA reduces the reported 2-sigma evidence for running to less than 1-sigma, giving α_s=-0.022\pm 0.033 for the combined case. The new analysis prefers about 1-sigma lower value of Omega_m, a consequence of an increased ISW contribution required by the increase in the spectrum at low l. These results suggest that the details of foreground removal and full likelihood analysis are important for the parameter estimation from WMAP data and these methods should be particularly useful in the analysis of polarisation, where foreground contamination may be much more severe.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, changed to match the version accepted by PRD (added references, minor changes in introduction/discussion, note on C_2 prior)
Epistranus Sharp 1877
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Epistranus

description: EPISTRANUS Sharp, 1877
 Epistrophus Sharp, 1876: 22 [nec Kirsch, 1868]. Type species: Epistrophus lawsoni Sharp, 1876, fixed by monotypy. Epistranus Sharp, 1877c: 395. Replacement name for Epistrophus Sharp, 1876.
 Remarks: The genus was originally described by Sharp as Epistrophus (1876: 22). In 1877, Sharp re-printed his 1876 paper and replaced the name Epistrophus with Epistranus (1877c: 395) followed by a later paper (Sharp 1878: 36) re-stating this replacement name on account of being preoccupied by Epistrophus Kirsch, 1868. Ivie and Ślipiński (1990: 11) incorrectly attributed this replacement to Sharp 1878: 36 (not Sharp, 1877c: 395).
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Superfluid flow of polaron polaritons above Landau's critical velocity
Creators: name: Nielsen, K. Knakkergaard
name: Camacho-Guardian, A.
name: Bruun, G. M.
name: Pohl, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory for the interaction of light with superfluid optical media, describing the motion of quantum impurities that are created and dragged through the liquid by propagating photons. It is well known that a mobile impurity suffers dissipation due to phonon emission as soon as it moves faster than the speed of sound in the superfluid - Landau's critical velocity. Surprisingly we find that in the present hybrid light-matter setting, polaritonic impurities can be protected against environmental decoherence and be allowed to propagate well above the Landau velocity without jeopardizing the superfluid response of the medium.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Issues of the Heart Africa Can No Longer Ignore
Creators: name: Edwards, Dr. Ivan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 420310
subject: Health surveillance
classificationCode: 420311
subject: Health systems
classificationCode: 420307
subject: Health counselling
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration

description: Heart disease is a growing crisis in Africa, highlighted by the recent death of Uganda’s State Minister for Defence. Once considered a Western issue, heart disease now significantly affects Africa, contributing to the global cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden. In sub-Saharan Africa, CVD is the second leading cause of death, with over 1 million deaths in 2019 alone. This number is expected to double by 2030.Several factors drive this rise: demographic changes like increased life expectancy and urbanization, lifestyle risk factors such as poor diet, lack of physical activity, and smoking, and inadequate management of high cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, and obesity. Additionally, many African countries struggle with under-resourced public health systems and a “brain drain” of medical professionals.The economic impact is severe, affecting productivity and increasing healthcare costs. Inequitable care further exacerbates the issue, with significant disparities between urban and rural areas. Wealthier individuals can access top-level care, often abroad, while the poor struggle to afford basic treatment.Addressing these challenges requires targeted interventions to reduce the burden of heart disease and improve public health outcomes across Africa.
THE SOCIALIST PARTIES IN SYRIA AND LEBANON
Creators: name: El-Khalil, Ali Yusif
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-04, page: 1409.
THE POSTAGE STAMP PROGRAM OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS
Creators: name: Finley, James J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-04, page: 1411.
Epistranus fulvus Reitter 1880
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Epistranus
Epistranus fulvus

description: Epistranus fulvus Reitter, 1880
(Figs. 110–111)
 Epistranus fulvus Reitter, 1880c: 174. Broun 1910b: 37. Hudson 1923: 369. Hetschko 1930: 52. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Greymouth.
 Broun number: 3083.
 Remarks: Reitter did not mention the number of specimens examined. In order to stabilize this name, a lectotype and five paralectotypes are here designated from the material of Epistranus fulvus.
 Type material examined: Lectotype (MNHN): card-mounted [card with two black lines near base], “Now. Zeeland Helms Reitter. [label bordered with thin black line] // Epistra- nus fulvus m. [in Reitter’s hand] // Epistranus fulvus Reitter, LECTOTYPE, design. By R. Leschen 2009 [red label] // Epistranus fulvus Reit. [red label, in S.A. Ślipiński’s hand]”. Paralectotypes (MNHN): 2, individually mounted on separate cards and pins [card with three black lines near base, middle line thicker], with identical labels, “Now. Zeeland Helms Reitter. [label bordered with thin black line] // Epistranus fulvus Reitter PARALECTOTYPE design. By R. LESCHEN 2009 [blue label]”. Paralectotypes (MNHN): 2, individually mounted on separate cards and pins [card with two black lines near base], with identical labels, “Now. Zeeland Helms Reitter. [label bordered with thin black line] // Epistranus fulvus Reitter PARALECTOTYPE design. By R. LESCHEN 2009 [blue label]”. Paralectotype (MNHN): card-mounted [card without black lines], “Now. Zeeland Helms Reitter. [label bordered with thin black line] // Epistranus fulvus Reitter PARALECTOTYPE design. By R. LESCHEN 2009 [blue label]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Left ventricular gene expression profile of healthy and cardiovascular compromised rat models used in air pollution studies
Creators: name: Ward, William O.
name: Kodavanti, Urmila P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: The link between pollutant exposure and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has prompted mechanistic research with animal models of CVD. We hypothesized that the cardiac gene expression patterns of healthy and genetically compromised, CVD-prone rat models, with or without metabolic impairment, will reveal underlying disease processes that facilitate understanding of the mechanisms of air pollution susceptibility differences. Left ventricular gene expression was examined using Affymetrix rat 230A-gene arrays in male, age-matched (12–14 weeks old) healthy Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and CV-compromised spontaneously hypertensive (SH), stroke-prone SH (SHSP), obese SH heart failure (SHHF) and obese insulin-resistant (JCR) rats. Principle component analysis separated strains in three clusters: (1) WKY, (2) JCR and (3) SH, SHSP and SHHF. Gene expression pattern in JCR differed from all other CVD strains. Both SHHF and JCR strains presented the most differentially expressed genes from WKY, but generally with opposing directional pattern suggesting that the CVD in these strains arise through different mechanisms. Hierarchical clustering of nuclear factor-kappaB target genes indicated varying degrees of, but similar directional changes, in SH, SHSP and SHHF relative to WKY rats, which may relate to the severity of their CVD. The JCR strain had less pronounced expressions of these genes suggesting milder cardiac disease. No unique expression pattern could be identified for genes implicated in stroke and heart failure in SHSP and SHHF rats, respectively. The data show that the CVD pathophysiological mechanisms differ in models with different genetic backgrounds, and therefore, the mechanisms by which air pollutants affect the cardiopulmonary system are likely to vary.
Conjugate 18cm OH Satellite Lines at a Cosmological Distance
Creators: name: Kanekar, Nissim
name: Chengalur, Jayaram N.
name: Ghosh, Tapasi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have detected the two 18cm OH satellite lines from the $z \sim 0.247$ source PKS1413+135, the 1720 MHz line in emission and the 1612 MHz line in absorption. The 1720 MHz luminosity is $L_{\rm OH} \sim 354 L_\odot$, more than an order of magnitude larger than that of any other known 1720 MHz maser. The profiles of the two satellite lines are conjugate, implying that they arise in the same gas. This allows us to test for any changes in the values of fundamental constants, without being affected by systematic uncertainties arising from relative motions between the gas clouds in which the different lines arise. Our data constrain changes in $G \equiv g_p [α^2/y]^{1.849}$, where $ y \equiv m_e/m_p$; we find $ΔG/G = 2.2 \pm 3.8 \times 10^{-5}$, consistent with no changes in $α$, $g_p$ and $y$.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes to match published version
SOME FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF RECENT CORPORATION MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS
Creators: name: Wright, Leonard Townsend
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 23-04, page: 1223.