cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Percursos da dança portuguesa em espetáculos de ópera e músicoteatrais: considerações sobre a atuação dos “encenadores-coreógrafos” (1940-2014)
Creators: name: Fidalgo, Nuno
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Estudar o panorama operático e músico-teatral português das últimas décadas, em particular as suas práticas de encenação, significa ir ao encontro de uma geografia artística própria, que agrupou mais de 50 criadores provenientes de domínios muito distintos. Este facto é revelador não só da diversidade que caracteriza o panorama em questão, mas também de um experimentalismo crescente em torno dos géneros músico-teatrais que se tem observado, um pouco por todo o país, em diferentes instituições e circuitos artísticos. Ao focar um grupo específico de encenadores oriundos da dança portuguesa, procuro não só aprofundar o olhar sobre a encenação operática e músico-teatral em Portugal, mas também descrever a participação dos coreógrafos portugueses no contexto visado, restituindo o percurso de alguns criadores que colaboraram nas temporadas líricas do Teatro Nacional São Carlos, entre 1940 e a actualidade, e inquirindo a intervenção da “Nova Dança Portuguesa” em produções músico-teatrais dos últimos 20 anos.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
title: The evaluation of the effects of ESG scores on financial markets
Creators: name: Costa, Michele
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche
Year: 2023

description: We aim to explore the interplay between ESG scores and assets characteristics, specifically focusing on volatility. We classify stocks on the basis of both high/low ESG and high/low ESG momentum and we evaluate ESG effects by measuring the distance between the 2 group distributions. The analysis of stocks within the STOXX Europe 600 Index from 2017 to 2022 suggests that companies with higher ESG tend to exhibit lower volatility. However, we haven’t observed a similar trend when examining ESG momentum. Furthermore, our findings enable us to highlight and compare the effects associated with the COVID pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.
Lorenz transformations for one biquaternion model of electro-gravymagnetic field. Conservation laws
Creators: name: Alexeyeva, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q60, 83C50

description: The biquaternion approach is developed for building of the equations of the inter-action of different charges and currents and generated Electro-GravyMagnetic fields. The field analogues of three Newton's laws are offered free and interacting charge-currents, as well as total field of interaction. An invariance of the equations for one EGM-field model at Lorenz transformation is investigated, and, in particu-lar, law of the conservation of the charge-current. It is shown that at interaction by fields, this law differs from the well-known one. So for closing the equation of charge-currents transformations the new modification of Maxwell's equations is offered with entering the scalar field of resistance in the biquaternion of EGM-field tension. Relativistic formula for transformation of density of the masses and charge, current, forces and their powers are built.
description: 12 pages (in Russian)
An application of decision theory to water quality management
Creators: name: Hershman, Stanley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The thesis presents an algorithm for applying decision theory to the management of water quality of a lake that is becoming culturally eutrophic. The algorithm was formulated using Utility theory and Bayesian decision strategy as a theoretical basis. It pays particular attention to the following three elements of the management problem: (1) the interdisciplinary nature of the problem; the need to co-ordinate the efforts of biologists, limnologists, engineers, etc., as well as providing a role for the public; (2) the extent of uncertainty with respect to the behavior of a nutrient enriched lake and the effect of various abatement measures upon the future water quality of the lake; (3) the need for long-term planning strategies so that the problem can be controlled and not just delayed. The technique provides the planners with a systematic procedure for evaluating the scientific data. It measures deterioration of the lake in non-economic units of utility. Alternatives are compared according to their "expected utility" over a planning period. Skaha Lake, located in the Okanagan Basin in British Columbia is used as a case study for the development and application of the technique. The lake receives treated sewage effluent from a growing municipality and has recently exhibited a sharp increase in biological production. Several possible management programs for the lake are compared using data obtained by limnologists and engineers. A computer program was written in WATFIV that can store and analyse data corresponding to a specific lake. The output of the program is a graphical plot of an expected utility function over some planning period for a particular pollution control measure. The expected utility scale relates directly to the water quality and degree of eutrophication of the lake and can thus be used to compare the effectiveness of proposed alternative measures.
Educação Musical nos Pontos de Cultura do Estado de São Paulo
Creators: name: Ferreira, Mirtes Júlia De Sousa
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: A presente pesquisa de mestrado, em andamento, tem como foco a interface entre Educação Musical e Políticas Culturais. O estudo, construído a partir de uma análise documental, objetiva a análise das concepções que os proponentes dos Pontos de Cultura tem acerca da formação musical. Procurando fomentar a discussão sobre Políticas Culturais no âmbito da Educação Musical, esse trabalho aponta iniciativas que emergem da sociedade como espaços de aprendizagem musical, reconhecidos e beneficiados pelas políticas públicas de cultura. A pesquisa procura aprofundar o debate sobre o programa do Ministério da Cultura intitulado Programa Cultura Viva e sua ação prática – Pontos de Cultura – apoiando-se no discurso oficial do governo, nos estudos sobre políticas culturais no Brasil e sobre as práticas musicais nesses espaços. Resultados iniciais apontam para a importância desses Pontos de Cultura enquanto espaço de aprendizado musical, sendo, em muitos casos, as únicas instituições destinadas ao ensino de música em seus municípios. Os dados evidenciam também a formalidade presente na “educação musical não-formal” praticada nessas instituições e a intensa participação das mesmas na discussão e formulação das políticas culturais no Brasil.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Insights on non-perturbative aspects of TMDs from models
Creators: name: Avakian, H.
name: Efremov, A. V.
name: Schweitzer, P.
name: Teryaev, O. V.
name: Yuan, F.
name: Zavada, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions are a key ingredient in the description of spin and azimuthal asymmetries in deep-inelastic scattering processes. Recent results from non-perturbative calculations in effective approaches are reviewed, with focus on relations among different parton distribution functions in QCD and models.
description: Based on talks at "Transverse Partonic Structure of Hadrons", Yerevan, Armenia, 21-26 June 2009; "Recent Advances in Perturbative QCD and Hadronic Physics", ETC, Trento, Italy, 21-25 July 2009; "3D parton structure of the nucleon"," INT Seattle, WA, U.S.A. 14-18 September 2009. Dedicated to 75th birthday of A.V.Efremov by co-authors
Neighbourhood effects on plant functional traits in an experimental forest
Creators: name: Bandow, KI
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Understanding the way plants respond to their environment is a central aim in plant ecology, as these responses are what fundamentally influence ecosystem function. Plant functional traits describe morphological, physiological, and phenological characteristics that affect overall plant fitness through their influence on survival, growth, and reproduction. Functional traits are heralded as a dynamic, representative, and simple way to capture plant response and predict ecosystem processes. In recent years, there has been a focus on understanding trait patterns that emerge along abiotic environmental gradients, however there is little research on the role of the biotic environment, a key aspect underpinning plant co-existence. This study aimed to address whether there is, in fact, a functional trait response to biotic influences, in an experimental forest, or if responses are due to microclimate alone. This research took place at the Australian Forest Evenness Experiment (AFEX), Using this experimental forest provides a unique opportunity to investigate neighbourhood interactions, where the density and spatial patterning of individuals is the result of experimental manipulation, rather than a consequence of variation in abiotic conditions. Four species, Eucalyptus regnans, Eucalyptus delegatensis, Pomaderris apetala and Acacia dealbata, were measured for six plant functional traits: specific leaf area (SLA), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), predawn water potential (˜í¬Æleaf), bark thickness, foliar nitrogen content (Nleaf), and the leaf area to sapwood area ratio (LA:SA). I found that neighbourhood interactions influence plant functional traits in ways that are highly dependent on the species involved. The effect of traits was often not mediated by microclimate although competition for light was common. I demonstrated that the functional traits of E. delegatensis, particularly those related to water relations, were significantly altered in the presence of P. apetala neighbours, indicating a strong competitive interaction between the two species for water. E. regnans, on the other hand, did not adjust its traits in response to P. apetala. In contrast, E. delegatensis and E. regnans did not display strong trait responses to the neighbourhood effect of the other, and therefore may not be directly competing. In fact, E. regnans may be providing a facilitative influence in this case. The information gathered in this study demonstrates that plant functional traits dictate plant responses to ththe biological environment, and that these responses are not solely dependent on the abiotic environment.
Apercal -- The Apertif Calibration Pipeline
Creators: name: Adebahr, B.
name: Schulz, R.
name: Dijkema, T. J.
name: Moss, V. A.
name: Offringa, A. R.
name: Kutkin, A.
name: van der Hulst, J. M.
name: Frank, B. S.
name: Vilchez, N. P. E.
name: Verstappen, J.
name: Adams, E. K.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: Denes, H.
name: Hess, K. M.
name: Lucero, D.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Oosterloo, T.
name: Pisano, D. -J.
name: Ivashina, M. V.
name: van Cappellen, W. A.
name: Connor, L. D.
name: Coolen, A. H. W. M.
name: Damstra, S.
name: Loose, G. M.
name: Maan, Y.
name: Maccagni, F. M.
name: Mika, A.
name: Mulder, H.
name: Oostrum, L. C.
name: Orru, E.
name: Smits, R.
name: van der Schuur, D.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Vohl, D.
name: Wijnholds, S. J.
name: Ziemke, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) using phased-array feed technology. The new receivers create 40 individual beams on the sky, achieving an instantaneous sky coverage of 6.5 square degrees. The primary goal of the Apertif Imaging Survey is to perform a wide survey of 3500 square degrees (AWES) and a medium deep survey of 350 square degrees (AMES) of neutral atomic hydrogen (up to a redshift of 0.26), radio continuum emission and polarisation. Each survey pointing yields 4.6 TB of correlated data. The goal of Apercal is to process this data and fully automatically generate science ready data products for the astronomical community while keeping up with the survey observations. We make use of common astronomical software packages in combination with Python based routines and parallelisation. We use an object oriented module-based approach to ensure easy adaptation of the pipeline. A Jupyter notebook based framework allows user interaction and execution of individual modules as well as a full automatic processing of a complete survey observation. If nothing interrupts processing, we are able to reduce a single pointing survey observation on our five node cluster with 24 physical cores and 256 GB of memory each within 24h keeping up with the speed of the surveys. The quality of the generated images is sufficient for scientific usage for 44 % of the recorded data products with single images reaching dynamic ranges of several thousands. Future improvements will increase this percentage to over 80 %. Our design allowed development of the pipeline in parallel to the commissioning of the Apertif system.
Ser um músico nas Seychelles: Ser «músico das Seychelles» ou «músico do mundo»?
Creators: name: Parent, Marie-Christine
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Este trabalho apresenta a vida de músicos das ilhas Seychelles, arquipélago do oceano Índico, envolvendo seu cotidiano e suas estratégias para desenvolver uma carreira profissional e artística no país, desde os anos 80. As estratégias usadas pelos músicos para atenuar as limitações ligadas à insularidade, aos problemas de gestão interna e à falta de infraestruturas, variam de acordo com suas experiências musicais, pré-disposição para administrar e gerenciar a carreira e os projetos e, finalmente, com o posicionamento dentro da esfera política e social do país. Também foi observada uma mudança dos referentes indentitários exprimidos através das escolhas musicais e intenções dos músicos. A internet e a ação da diáspora mudam bastante os comportamentos e experiências musicais, que têm uma tendência a se globalizar.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Variational data assimilation in wall turbulence: From outer observations to wall stress and pressure
Creators: name: Wang, Mengze
name: Zaki, Tamer A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimation of near-wall turbulence in channel flow from outer observations is investigated using adjoint-variational data assimilation. We first consider fully resolved velocity data, starting at a distance from the wall. By enforcing the estimated flow to exactly satisfy the Navier-Stokes equations, we seek a statistically stationary turbulent state that reproduces the instantaneous outer measurements. Such an estimated state provides full access to the unknown near-wall turbulence, including the wall shear stresses and pressure. When the first observation is within fifty viscous units from the wall, the correlation coefficient between the true and estimated state exceeds 95%. As the observations are further separated from the wall, at ninety viscous units, the accuracy of the assimilated wall stresses decreases to 40% at the wall. This trend is nearly independent of the Reynolds number. The Fourier spectrum of the estimation error is qualitatively consistent with the coherence spectrum between the outer and the inner state variables: observed long wavelength structures in the outer flow have deeper coherence into the unobserved near-wall region, and therefore the error is lowest at large scales. Nevertheless, the adjoint-variational approach provides a more rigorous quantification of the capacity to accurately predict the instantaneous near-wall turbulence from outer measurements. Lastly, we demonstrate the robustness of the estimation accuracy using filtered and sub-sampled outer observations.
Coal treatment of wastewaters
Creators: name: Hendren, Murray K.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The capacity of two British Columbia coals to remove heavy metals, organics and phosphates was evaluated using batch and column tests. One coal was a lignite from the Hat Creek area, the other a medium volatile bituminous from the Crowsnest area. Hat Creek coal was superior to Crowsnest coal for removal of all metals tested. Removals of heavy metals to trace values (less than 0.05 mg/l) were possible with both coals. Hat Creek coal removed almost completely a mixture of copper, zinc, lead, nickel and cadmium from solution. The capacity of Hat Creek coal for copper ions was in the range of 0.5 to 1.0% by weight of the coal and for lead ions was 2 to 3% by weight of the coal. A sample calculation showed that 20 lbs. of crushed coal would be required to treat 1,000 gallons of waste containing 10 mg/l copper. Average effluent concentration using that dosage would be 0.2 mg/l. It was shown that the tested variables had the following effects on the column capacity for removal of heavy metals: (1) Increasing grain size of coal decreased capacity; (2) Increasing flow rate of wastewater decreased capacity; (3) Decreasing pH of wastewater decreased capacity; (4) Decreasing wastewater temperature had no effect on column capacity. Tests performed on organics and soluble phosphates showed the coals to be unable to produce a high quality effluent from either a beef extract or a sodium phosphate solution, thereby indicating that the effectiveness of the coals in treating municipal waste by an adsorption process would probably be very limited. It is recommended that further research be performed on removal of heavy metals by coal. A suggested course of action is as follows: (i) Lab-scale testing of several British Columbia coals to find which ones are most effective in heavy metal removal, (ii) Comprehensive lab-scale testing of the best coals in (i). (iii) Determination of the technical and economic feasibility of procurement and disposal of coal, (iv) Pilot scale testing of the most effective coals on actual wastewaters, if data from (ii) and (iii) indicates coal treatment to be an economic process.
Bach, Sonatas BWV 1001, 1003, 1005 – Abordagens Interpretativas na Guitarra
Creators: name: Marques, Maria Paula
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Este artigo reflecte sobre as abordagens interpretativas das sonatas para violino de Bach que têm sido desenvolvidas na guitarra e apresenta uma proposta alternativa. Sistematiza as principais características de transcrições e gravações, e realça as suas inferências interpretativas. A análise empreendida mostrou estratégias recorrentes: adição de notas, modificação dos valores rítmicos, alterações às notas originais e opções de dedilhação que potenciam determinada articulação. A abordagem recorrente destas obras na guitarra enfatiza o lado harmónico do instrumento. Notou-se uma forte tendência para a modificação de vários aspectos do original e uma abordagem fundamentalmente idiomática na realização das sonatas. Estes aspectos inspiraram a procura de uma opção interpretativa diferente, que seguisse o autógrafo de Bach. Problematizaram-se desafios colocados a uma interpretação num instrumento harmónico que mantém o texto original para um instrumento predominantemente melódico. A articulação tornouse um elemento central à investigação e à prática interpretativa, e na sua consideração abordaram-se questões respeitantes à prática barroca, à luz do conhecimento actual. O trabalho reúne investigação musicológica e artística, já que a análise das interpretações e das práticas referidas fundamentou e inspirou a procura de novos caminhos interpretativos e o desenvolvimento de aspectos que se têm descurado nas interpretações destas sonatas na guitarra.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Additional file 1 of Metformin use and preeclampsia risk in women with diabetes: a two-country cohort analysis
Creators: name: Gordon, Hannah
name: Salim, Noor
name: Tong, Stephen
name: Walker, Susan
name: De Silva, Manarangi
name: Cluver, Catherine
name: Mehdipour, Parinaz
name: Hiscock, Richard
name: Sutherland, Lauren
name: Doust, Ann
name: Bergman, Lina
name: Wikström, Anna-Karin
name: Lindquist, Anthea
name: Hesselman, Susanne
name: Hastie, Roxanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Statistical analysis plan.
Corrigendum to "Approximation by C^{p}-smooth, Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces" [J. Math. Anal. Appl., 315 (2006), 599-605]
Creators: name: Fry, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20

description: In this erratum, we recover the results from an earlier paper of the author's which contained a gap. Specifically, we prove that if X is a Banach space with an unconditional basis and admits a C^{p}-smooth, Lipschitz bump function, and Y is a convex subset of X, then any uniformly continuous function f: Y->R can be uniformly approximated by Lipschitz, C^{p}-smooth functions K:X->R. Also, if Z is any Banach space and f:X->Z is L-Lipschitz, then the approximates K:X->Z can be chosen CL-Lipschitz and C^{p}-smooth, for some constant C depending only on X.
title: Simulated Browsing Impacts on Aspen Sucker's Survival and Growth
Creators: name: Tshireletso, Koketso
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Western forests dominated by aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are highly regarded by most resource managers for their ability to provide a variety of benefits (Bartos and Mueggler 1982, Mueggler 1988). They noted aspen to be beneficial for production of livestock forage, wildlife habitat, and scenic beauty, and they are a potentially valuable source of wood products. However, in the West, communities are concerned about the dwindling acreage of aspen. The decline of aspen has been partly attributed to excessive ungulate browsing (Smith et al. 1972, Collins and Urness 1983, Bartos and Campbell 1998). Long-term grazing exclosures have also revealed that browsing by native and domestic ungulates hindered aspen regeneration throughout south-central Utah, including changes in understory species composition ( e.g. Kay and Bartos 2000). However, though ungulate browsing is an established cause of poor success in aspen regeneration, beyond that fact, very little is known about the particulars of the response, especially how it is affected by time and intensity of browsing.
Conservation genetics of handfishes : Family Brachionichthyidae
Creators: name: Lawler, MM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the conservation genetics of the handfishes, Family Brachionichthyidae. Two separate genetic investigations were undertaken. The first examined the population genetics of the spotted handfish, Brachionichthys hirsutus and the second examined the molecular phylogeny of the members of the Family Brachionichthyidae. Population genetics: A PCR based RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) method was used to investigate the population genetics of the spotted handfish. An approximately 800 base-pair fragment of the mitochondrial D-loop was amplified, via a PCR based reaction, for 82 spotted handfish from four sites across the entire species' range. This fragment was digested with six restriction endonucleases, Hae/II, Hin/I, Aflll, Bsll, Bstul and Rsal. The restriction profiles were compared across the four sites. Genetic distance, sequence divergence and population subdivision were all calculated. Low genetic variation was found with sequence divergence of around 0. 06%. A suggested population structure based on the six restriction endonucleases grouped the two lower Derwent River sites together as one population, while the remainder of the sites appeared to represent the ancestral population. Molecular Phylogeny: The molecular phylogenetic relationships in the Family Brachionichthyidae were investigated by direct sequencing of the 16S rRNA and cytochrome oxidase I mitochondrial DNA genes. PCR was used to amplify a 614 base-pair fragment of the 16S rRNA and a 543 base-pair fragment of the cytochrome oxidase I genes. Five species were examined, with three of these having alternative species morphs. Parsimony analysis, maximum likelihood and distance analysis were used to infer phylogenetic relationships. The resultant molecular phylogeny suppo1ted the status of two genera, Brachionichthys and Sympterichthys. Based on morphological studies in progress, the molecular phylogeny supports the morphological taxonomy of this family . The species morphs of the Australian handfish, the warty handfish and the red handfish, all appeared to be sub-specific relationships. Further investigation of these species morphs is required.
A Boundary Approximation Algorithm for Distributed Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Ham, Michael I.
name: Rodriguez, Marko A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.1

description: We present an algorithm for boundary approximation in locally-linked sensor networks that communicate with a remote monitoring station. Delaunay triangulations and Voronoi diagrams are used to generate a sensor communication network and define boundary segments between sensors, respectively. The proposed algorithm reduces remote station communication by approximating boundaries via a decentralized computation executed within the sensor network. Moreover, the algorithm identifies boundaries based on differences between neighboring sensor readings, and not absolute sensor values. An analysis of the bandwidth consumption of the algorithm is presented and compared to two naive approaches. The proposed algorithm reduces the amount of remote communication (compared to the naive approaches) and becomes increasingly useful in networks with more nodes.
title: Intensification in a Risky Environment: The Case of Improving Private Grazing Land for Beef Production in Utah
Creators: name: Sainsbury, Louise D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: Utah ranchers commonly face risks to their livelihoods. The objective of this work was to determine if ranchers could make profitable improvements to private land forage given the combined threat of low beef prices, drought, and possible loss of public grazing.
We used linear programming (LINDO) to identify the most profitable solutions for private land investment with an 11-year simulation. Operations were divided into small, medium, and large size classes. Various forage improvements and public permits were options. Two phases of a beef price cycle (peak and trough) and 2 precipitation patterns (wet and drought) were combined as joint favorable or unfavorable scenarios. Simulations were run for each size class of operation under each scenario with a 0, 50, or 100% cut in public grazing. The analysis was based upon a partial ranch budget, namely, cattle and forage revenue less forage investment costs.
Under the favorable scenario of adequate precipitation and higher beef prices, all operations followed similar patterns of increasing herd size, retaining calves for sale as yearlings, selling alfalfa hay and barley, and treating various forages for enhanced production. All operations exhibited a positive net present value (NPV) over the 11 years. Reduction in access to public permits, however, reduced NPV more for medium-size operations most dependent on public grazing.
Under the unfavorable scenario, operation size affected response to combined effects of drought and low beef prices. Small and medium operations decreased brood herds while large operations tended to increase brood herds. Reductions in public grazing lowered NPV more for the small and medium operations compared to the large operations.
Work revealed 3 thresholds that could limit profitability of forage investment. These included: (1) dependency on public grazing for> 15% of total annual forage; (2) operation sizeacres; and (3) beef prices of
Across all scenarios and operations it was generally profitable to improve 4 forage types that filled gaps at different seasons to the year: wet meadow, alfalfa hay, irrigated pasture, and crested wheatgrass. Irrigated pasture was most important when precipitation was high, illustrating risks of irrigation in this dry environment.
title: The Effect of Salinity Level upon the Yield, Root Growth, and Water Extraction of Contrasting Rooting Subpopulations of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Under Conditions of Zero Leaching
Creators: name: Vincent, Laura A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: A major problem in irrigated agriculture in the Western U.S. is the gradual accumulation of salinity in the plant root zone. These nonuniformly saline soils contain increasing amounts of salinity with depth, and salt accumulation is accelerated in situations where leaching is minimized. Root growth and thus plant yield is limited in these soils due to decreased water uptake. We studied the root growth of two subpopulations of alfalfa differing in their ability to produce fibrous roots to determine if altering root morphology would increase plant yield and water extraction, in an irrigated saline soil.
Soil profiles for a control and three treatments with increasing salinity were packed in to PVC cylinders fitted with a flat window down one side for root measurements. A single alfalfa plant was grown from seed in each cylinder, and irrigated with water enriched primarily in sulfate salts. Alfalfa plants were grown for five successive harvests in a greenhouse, and water extraction was measured in the control and high Salinity treatment by time-domain reflectometry. Final electrical conductivities of the soil ranged from 3.0 to 23 dS m-1. The yield of the high fibrous root subpopulation was not reduced by the soil salinity by the fifth harvest, while that of the low fibrous subpopulation was reduced 22%. Root growth of the high fibrous subpopulation was significantly increased by as much as 54% in the upper 30 cm of the root zone, compared to that of the low fibrous subpopulation. Water extraction was higher in the upper, least saline portion of the root zone for the high fibrous root subpopulation. The results of this study support the use of alfalfa with increased fibrous root production under saline irrigation with minimal leaching.
A Search for Core-Collapse Supernovae using the MiniBooNE Neutrino Detector
Creators: name: MiniBooNE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for core-collapse supernovae in the Milky Way galaxy, using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector. No evidence is found for core-collapse supernovae occurring in our Galaxy in the period from December 14, 2004 to July 31, 2008, corresponding to 98% live-time for collection. We set a limit on the core-collapse supernova rate out to a distance of 13.5 kpc to be less than 0.69 supernovae per year at 90% CL.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. submitted to PRD
Solar Forcing of the Streamflow of a Continental Scale South American River
Creators: name: Mauas, P. J. D
name: Flamenco, E.
name: Buccino, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar forcing on climate has been reported in several studies although the evidence so far remains inconclusive. Here, we analyze the stream flow of one of the largest rivers in the world, the Parana in southeastern South America. For the last century, we find a strong correlation with the sunspot number, in multidecadal time scales, and with larger solar activity corresponding to larger stream flow. The correlation coefficient is r=0.78, significant to a 99% level. In shorter time scales we find a strong correlation with El Nino. These results are a step toward flood prediction, which might have great social and economic impacts.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, published in Physics and Review Letters
Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in NA49
Creators: name: Grebieszkow, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical calculations locate the QCD critical point at energies accessible at the CERN SPS. Several observables were suggested to look for it. Here, we present the system size dependence and the energy dependence of event-by-event mean transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations, as well as the energy dependence of anti-baryon to baryon ratios.
description: Quark Matter 2009 proceedings, 4 pages; Caption of Fig. 1 and one line in Fig. 6 modified (for better black and white print)
Más allá de las caderas: el baile de la Bomba en el Valle del Chota-Cuenca del río Mira como una experiencia compartida
Creators: name: López Yánez, María Gabriela
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: En el siglo XVI un grupo de jesuitas introdujo africanos esclavizados a un valle del Ecuador conocido como Valle del Chota-Cuenca del río Mira. Durante el periodo de esclavitud (siglos XVI -XIX), sus habitantes crearon un baile, género musical y tambor denominado bomba el cual se viene ejecutando hasta la actualidad. La representación del baile de la bomba tiene un patrón geográfico definido. Así, fuera del Valle, las representaciones de bomba enfatizan el movimiento de caderas de cada bailarín, mientras que la bomba ejecutada entre los habitantes del Valle incluye además interacciones concretas entre los bailadores. Este estudio etnocoreológico propone a una de estas interacciones, específicamente la acción-reacción de intentar empujar con las caderas-intentar evitar ser empujado/a, como parte esencial de este baile. Usando técnicas cualitativas basadas en recopilación bibliográfica, observación participante y entrevistas, se sugiere que la bomba es una experiencia compartida que emerge de la interacción entre bailadores cuando es ejecutada en el espacio liminoide del Valle. La acción concreta de intentar empujar con las caderas que surge en el baile de la bomba juega un papel importante en esta experiencia compartida de bailar.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
O Music-making do guitarrista-compositor contemporâneo
Creators: name: Corrêa, Marcos Kröning
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Este artigo descreve linhas gerais da minha investigação doutoral realizada na Universidade de Aveiro sobre o music-making de guitarristas-compositores surgidos nos anos 1970/80 que gravam sua própria obra em discos, tocam a mesma em concertos e também a ministram em aulas. Como performer que também compõe para o instrumento, busco uma teorização do music-making. Os caminhos metodológicos desta investigação qualitativa foram desenvolvidos através: 1) da investigação de discos gravados; 2) do estudo observacional participante de design flexível nas master classes, ensaios e recitais; 3) do estudo de documentos escritos pelos sujeitos da pesquisa. A partir da pesquisa discográfica com dezasseis guitarristascompositores, Roland Dyens e Dusan Bogdanovic tornaram-se o eixo principal desta investigação. Examino como os mesmos articulam as formas do music-making em situações presenciais, comparando-as com os discos gravados. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada de outubro de 2012 a outubro de 2013 em França, Espanha, Liechtenstein e Sérvia. A coleta de dados ocorreu nos Festivais de Colmar, Belgrado, Sevilha e Vaduz. A observação de recitais ocorreu em Paris, Strasbourg e Colmar. Para a análise dos dados me apoio nos modos de ‘composiçãoperformance’ de Finnegan (1989) e na tipologia de music-making de Elliot (1995).
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 2 (2013): Post-ip'13 - Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Multicore Applications in Real Time Systems
Creators: name: Vaidehi, M.
name: Nair, T. R. Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microprocessor roadmaps clearly show a trend towards multiple core CPUs. Modern operating systems already make use of these CPU architectures by distributing tasks between processing cores thereby increasing system performance. This review article highlights a brief introduction of what a multicore system is, the various methods adopted to program these systems and also the industrial application of these high speed systems.
description: 6 pages, 4 Figures
Ab initio DFT+U study of He atom incorporation into UO2 crystals
Creators: name: Gryaznov, Denis
name: Heifets, Eugene
name: Kotomin, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and discuss results of a density functional theory (DFT) study of a perfect UO2 crystals and He atoms in octahedral interstitial positions. We have calculated basic bulk crystal properties and He incorporation energies into the low temperature anti-ferromagnetic UO2 phase using several exchange-correlation functionals within the spin-polarized local density (LDA) and generalized gradient (GGA) approximations. In all these DFT calculations we included the on-site correlation corrections using the Hubbard model (DFT+U approach). We analysed a potential crystalline symmetry reduction and confirmed the presence of the Jahn-Teller effect in a perfect UO2. We discuss also the problem of a conducting electronic state arising when He is placed into a tetragonal antiferromagnetic phase of UO2. Consequently, we found a specific lattice distortion which allows us to restore the semiconducting state and properly estimate He incorporation energies. Unlike the bulk properties, the He incorporation energy strongly depends on several factors, including the supercell size, the use of spin polarization, the exchange-correlation functionals and on-site correlation corrections. We compare our results for the He incorporation with the previous shell model and ab initio DFT calculations.
description: 24 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures
Additional file 6 of Elucidating the genotoxicity of Fusobacterium nucleatum-secreted mutagens in colorectal cancer carcinogenesis
Creators: name: Xu, Wenye
name: Zhang, Yuchen
name: Chen, Dongjiao
name: Huang, Dan
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Hu, Wei
name: Lin, Ling
name: Liu, Yingzhi
name: Wang, Shilan
name: Zeng, Judeng
name: Xie, Chuan
name: Chan, Hung
name: Li, Qing
name: Chen, Huarong
name: Liu, Xiaodong
name: Wong, Sunny H.
name: Yu, Jun
name: Chan, Francis K. L.
name: Chan, Matthew T. V.
name: Ng, Siew C.
name: Wu, William K. K.
name: Zhang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 6.
Adjoint quarks and fermionic boundary conditions
Creators: name: Bilgici, Erek
name: Gattringer, Christof
name: Ilgenfritz, Ernst-Michael
name: Maas, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quenched SU(2) lattice gauge theory with adjoint fermions in a wide range of temperatures. We focus on spectral quantities of the Dirac operator and use the temporal fermionic boundary conditions as a tool to probe the system. We determine the deconfinement temperature through the Polyakov loop, and the chiral symmetry restoration temperature for adjoint fermions through the gap in the Dirac spectrum. This chiral transition temperature is about four times larger than the deconfinement temperature. In between the two transitions we find that the system is characterized by a non-vanishing chiral condensate which differs for periodic and anti-periodic fermion boundary conditions. Only for the latter (physical) boundary conditions, the condensate vanishes at the chiral transition. The behavior between the two transitions suggests that deconfinement manifests itself as the onset of a dependence of spectral quantities of the Dirac operator on boundary conditions. This picture is supported further by our results for the dual chiral condensate.
description: Minor changes; final version to appear in JHEP
The Earth-Moon system during the Late Heavy Bombardment period
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Uffe Graae
name: Appel, Peter W. U.
name: Hatsukawa, Yuichi
name: Frei, Robert
name: Oshima, Masumi
name: Toh, Yosuke
name: Kimura, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) period is the narrow time interval between 3.8 and 3.9 Gyr ago, where the bulk of the craters we see on the Moon formed. Even more craters formed on the Earth. During a field expedition to the 3.8 Gyr old Isua greenstone belt in Greenland, we sampled three types of metasedimentary rocks, that contain direct traces of the LHB impactors by a seven times enrichment (150 ppt) in iridium compared to present day ocean crust (20 ppt). We show that this enrichment is in agreement with the lunar cratering rate, providing the impactors were comets, but not if they were asteroids. Our study is a first direct indication of the nature of the LHB impactors, and the first to find an agreement between the LHB lunar cratering rate and the Earth's early geochemical record (and the corresponding lunar record). The LHB comets that delivered the iridium we see at Isua will at the same time have delivered the equivalent of a km deep ocean, and we explain why one should expect a cometary ocean to become roughly the size of the Earth's present-day ocean, not only in terms of depth but also in terms of the surface area it covers.
description: Accepted for publication in Icarus
Danna-Sep: Unite to separate them all
Creators: name: Yu, Chin-Yun
name: Cheuk, Kin-Wai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning-based music source separation has gained a lot of interest in the last decades. Most of the existing methods operate with either spectrograms or waveforms. Spectrogram based models learn suitable masks for separating magnitude spectrogram into different sources, and waveform-based models directly generate waveforms of individual sources. The two types of models have complementary strengths; the former is superior given harmonic sources such as vocals, while the latter demonstrates better results for percussion and bass instruments. In this work, we improved upon the state-of-the-art (SoTA) models and successfully combined the best of both worlds. The backbones of the proposed framework, dubbed Danna-Sep, are two spectrogram-based models including a modified X-UMX and U-Net, and an enhanced Demucs as the waveform-based model. Given an input of mixture, we linearly combined respective outputs from the three models to obtain the final result. We showed in the experiments that, despite its simplicity, Danna-Sep surpassed the SoTA models by a large margin in terms of Source-to-Distortion Ratio.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, accepted at MDX workshop, ISMIR 2021
title: Habitat Selection and Movement of a Stream-Resident Salmonid in a Regulated River and Tests of Four Bioenergetic Optimization Models
Creators: name: Bowen, Mark D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: A bioenergetics model was constructed for stream-resident drift-feeding salmonids. Model predictions of surplus power (energy available per unit time for lll growth and reproduction) were not statistically distinguishable from observations of surplus power in three laboratory studies. Of 40 experimental trials in these three studies, the model correctly predicted surplus power in 39 cases (p < 0.05).
I collected observations of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) focal velocity and physical habitat availability in the Green River of northeastern Utah, USA (1988-1990). In the winter of 1988, Flaming Gorge Dam generated hydropower and delivered an lJDStable discharge regime with a higher mean discharge to the Green River. During 1989 and 1990, Flaming Gorge Dam's operation was curtailed by drought. Therefore, the Green River exhibited a more stable discharge regime with lower mean daily discharge.
During winters exhibiting the stable discharge regime, all size classes of rainbow trout selected slower focal velocities than under an unstable winter discharge regime. Season had less influence on microhabitat selection of large fish than smaller individuals. Rainbow trout larger than 33 cm (total length) find and use positions with low focal velocities and high velocity shear regardless of season. In contrast, during the summer, fish less than 33 cm TL find and use positions with much higher focal velocities and greater velocity shear compared to the winter.
Four bioenergetic models were tested with the focal velocity use data. Two optimal goal models produced excellent fits (r2 = 0.91 and 0.93) to observed focal velocity use of rainbow trout larger than 33 cm TL. These results were consistent with the hypothesis that large rainbow trout were finding optimal focal velocity positions in stable discharge summers and under both discharge regimes in winter.
Rainbow trout movement was quantified along two scales with radio-telemetered fish: 1) weekly observations generated estimates of distances moved at intervals greater than one day and 2) multiple observations of a fish in one day produced estimates of distances moved over hours. I found an unstable discharge regime significantly reduces movement measured weekly (F = 11.10, P = 0.0019); hourly movement rates (m/h) were also reduced (F = 5.90, P = 0.0273).