cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coffea -- Columnar Object Framework For Effective Analysis
Creators: name: Smith, Nicholas
name: Gray, Lindsey
name: Cremonesi, Matteo
name: Jayatilaka, Bo
name: Gutsche, Oliver
name: Hall, Allison
name: Pedro, Kevin
name: Acosta, Maria
name: Melo, Andrew
name: Belforte, Stefano
name: Pivarski, Jim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coffea framework provides a new approach to High-Energy Physics analysis, via columnar operations, that improves time-to-insight, scalability, portability, and reproducibility of analysis. It is implemented with the Python programming language, the scientific python package ecosystem, and commodity big data technologies. To achieve this suite of improvements across many use cases, coffea takes a factorized approach, separating the analysis implementation and data delivery scheme. All analysis operations are implemented using the NumPy or awkward-array packages which are wrapped to yield user code whose purpose is quickly intuited. Various data delivery schemes are wrapped into a common front-end which accepts user inputs and code, and returns user defined outputs. We will discuss our experience in implementing analysis of CMS data using the coffea framework along with a discussion of the user experience and future directions.
description: As presented at CHEP 2019
Women Under U.S. and Islamic Laws : Islam Synonomous with Women Oppression?
Creators: name: Coulibaly, Mounira
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Even though Women’s situation worldwide has greatly improved nowadays, women still constitutes a population that is still oppressed in many places in this world. From employment, to social and political representation, women are still behind men. Many women earn less than men with the same qualifications and position and fewer women than men occupy seats on legislative bodies. However, many believe that countries where women are the most kept from having any social role are countries evolving under Islamic laws. Indeed, the idea of a Muslim women wearing a veil symbolizes for many and especially westerners the oppression of women. Nevertheless, this paper aims at demonstrating through a comparison of gender equality under U.S. laws and under Islamic laws that Islamic laws do not necessarily results in women oppression. Nevertheless, I also want to make it clear that U.S laws generally provide more protections to women than Islamic laws, but there are some areas where U.S Laws have failures. In an effort to prove this point, this paper will first explore how patriarchal notions have influenced interpretations of gender equality under U.S. and Islamic laws. This will lead us to conclude that depending on the method of interpretations, gender equality exists under Islamic laws. Then, the paper will analyze the issues of marriage and violence against women under U.S laws and Islamic laws. Finally, we will expose Islamic and American feminists’ views on gender equality and understand what the future holds for women under these legal systems.
Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin - A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi.
Creators: name: Ivarsson, Magnus
name: Peckmann, Jörn
name: Tehler, Anders
name: Broman, Curt
name: Bach, Wolfgang
name: Behrens, Katharina
name: Reitner, Joachim
name: Böttcher, Michael E.
name: Norbäck Ivarsson, Lena
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: Fungi have been recognized as a frequent colonizer of subseafloor basalt but a substantial understanding of their abundance, diversity and ecological role in this environment is still lacking. Here we report fossilized cryptoendolithic fungal communities represented by mainly Zygomycetes and minor Ascomycetes in vesicles of dredged volcanic rocks (basanites) from the Vesteris Seamount in the Greenland Basin. Zygomycetes had not been reported from subseafloor basalt previously. Different stages in zygospore formation are documented in the studied samples, representing a reproduction cycle. Spore structures of both Zygomycetes and Ascomycetes are mineralized by romanechite-like Mn oxide phases, indicating an involvement in Mn(II) oxidation to form Mn(III,VI) oxides. Zygospores still exhibit a core of carbonaceous matter due to their resistance to degradation. The fungi are closely associated with fossiliferous marine sediments that have been introduced into the vesicles. At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms. It is most likely that such marine debris is the main carbon source for fungi in shallow volcanic rocks, which favored the establishment of vital colonies.
Empirische Analyse der Verwendung und Akzeptanz von Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln in Landpachtverträgen
Creators: name: Jatzlau, Maximilian
name: Trenkel, Hermann
name: Jatzlau, Maximilian
name: Trenkel, Hermann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Pachtpreisanpassungsklausel
subject: Landpacht
subject: Pachtvertrag
subject: Pachtmarkt

description: Der eingereichte Beitrag stellt auf Grundlage empirisch erhobener Daten (n = 510) dar, in welchem Umfang Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln in Landpachtverträgen in Nordrhein-Westfalen und den Neuen Bundesländern verwendet werden sowie die Akzeptanz von Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln bei Pächtern und Verpächtern. 77,3 % der Pächter und 85,6 % der Verpächter haben in allen oder mindestens einem ihrer Pachtverträge Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln implementiert, wobei diese vielfach nicht angewendet werden. Mehrheitlich sind Pächter (67,1 %) und Verpächter (83,5 %) an Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln interessiert und zeigen insgesamt eine positive Grundeinstellung. Dennoch betrachten Pächter Pachtpreisanpassungsklauseln als ein Instrument, welches in der landwirtschaftlichen Praxis bei der Pachtpreisanpassung eine Einbahnstraße zugunsten der Verpächter ist.
Farmer’s Preferences For An Agri-Environmental Measure Designed For Climate Friendly Peatland Management
Creators: name: Häfner, Kati
name: Zasada, Ingo
name: Sagebiel, Julian
name: Häfner, Kati
name: Zasada, Ingo
name: Sagebiel, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Agri-Environmental Measure
subject: Peatland
subject: Climate Change
subject: Farmer’s preference
subject: Discrete Choice Experiment

description: To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculturally used peatlands a new agri-environmental measure for peatland protection through water logging was established. To investigate which factors influence the willingness of farmers to participate in the measure we apply a discrete choice experiment. Measure characteristics such as contract length, assured acceptance of the cut grass, support in the cooperation with neighbours, effort to register and financial compensation are considered. The very new scheme targeted at climate protection could therefore be adjusted and better tailored to different farm types.
Laboruntersuchungen zur Freisetzung von Unat aus einem Gestein unter oxischen naturnahen Bedingungen
Investigations for the release of Unat from ore bearing rock under natural near oxic conditions
Creators: name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Sonnefeld, Jürgen
name: Sauter, Martin
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2005

description: Im Labor wurden verschiedene Größen (pH-Wert, HCO3 --Gehalt, Präsenz von Fe(OH)3) untersucht, von denen angenommen werden konnte, dass sie die umweltrelevante Freisetzung von Uran aus Gesteinen (z.B. Haufwerken, Halden, Tailings) im neutralen und schwach basischen pH-Bereich (6 bis 9) beeinflussen. Hierzu wurde der Austrag von Unat aus einem schwach vererzten Urangestein (2.31 %) in Batchversuchen untersucht. Diese Versuche wurden mit 8, 10 oder 40 g/L Gestein und Leitungs- bzw. Mineralwasser durchgeführt. Zum Vergleich wurden parallele Standversuche in deionisiertem Wasser, 0,1 M Na2CO3 und 0,1 M H2SO4 durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine Begünstigung der Uranfreisetzung in Anwesenheit von Carbonat (gelöst oder in-situ durch Dolomitauflösung entstanden), während die Rolle des Pyrits auf die Freisetzung deutlich komplexer ist. Das Erreichen eines Gleichgewichtszustands kann unter Umständen durch sorptive Einflüsse verzögert werden.
description: The effects of carbonate concentration and the presence of iron hydroxide phases on uranium release into the environment were investigated under oxic conditions and in the pH range from 6 to 9. For this purpose not-shaken batch experiments were conducted with a constant amount (8, 10 or 40 g/L) of a uranium bearing rock and different types of water (deionised, tap and mineral water). For comparison parallel experiments were conducted with 0.1 M Na2CO3 and 0.1 M H2SO4. The use of dolomite confirmed the favourable role of carbonate bearing minerals for U transport while the presence of pyrite on Uranium mobilisation was shown to be considerably more complex. This study shows that the approach of equilibrium conditions can be strongly delayed by sorption processes.
Observing Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Groessing, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An introduction to some basic ideas of the author's "quantum cybernetics" is given, which depicts waves and "particles" as mutually dependent system components, thus defining "organizationally closed systems" characterized by a fundamental circular causality. According to this, a new derivation of quantum theory's most fundamental equation, the Schroedinger equation, is presented. Finally, it is shown that quantum systems can be described by what Heinz von Foerster has called "nontrivial machines", whereas the corresponding classical counterparts turn out to behave as "trivial machines".
description: 22 pages, 4 figures; to appear in "Kybernetes", vol. 33 (2004)
title: An examination of the Halifax textile industry in a period of intense technological change, 1700 to 1850
Creators: name: Humphreys, Valerie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1989

description: Land in Halifax parish was steep and infertile, partible inheritance was traditional, and the inhabitants resorted to industry. By 1700 the occupational structure indicates exceptional industrialisation. The study examines developments as additional products were introduced, each with distinct origins and technology, and industry transferred from cottages to factories. In 1700 Halifax industry was rural, its product woollen kersey, its driving force the larger-scale clothiers who made goods themselves, put work out, and bought from smaller producers. They sought markets and built up networks of mercantile contacts. Accumulated capital enabled them to extend the product range with worsteds, to meet new and growing demand for lighter fabrics, which required more labour than kersey. Factors which prompted the emergence of industry facilitated early adoption of new technology. Water power was exploited to enhance output of existing industry, and reduce its costs. The earlier possibilities for mechanisation, and for growth, presented by cotton manufacture were taken, and a new industry introduced. Land formations which provided water power delayed urbanisation and adoption of steam power in Halifax, where industry remained dispersed. Natural advantages, at that time, lent impetus to industrial growth in Bradford, and the centre of the worsted industry moved there. Greater diversification into separate branches of textiles, each made in wide product ranges, compensated in Halifax. The determination of Halifax manufacturers had expanded hand industry, and assisted its successful transfer to factories. They foresaw changes in taste, and produced suitable goods. Costs were reduced, and output increased, by their adoption of new methods. During the transition, they had a pool of skill on which to draw; on its completion they relied on power, and lower grades of labour, which might, later, be found better elsewhere.
Minimal effect of prescribed burning on fire spread rate and intensity in savanna ecosystems
Creators: name: Moustakas, Aristides
name: Davlias, Orestis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fire has been an integral part of the Earth for millennia. Several recent wildfires have exhibited an unprecedented spatial and temporal extent and their control is beyond national firefighting capabilities. Prescribed or controlled burning treatments are debated as a potential measure for ameliorating the spread and intensity of wildfires. Machine learning analysis using random forests was performed in a spatio-temporal data set comprising a large number of savanna fires across 22 years. Results indicate that fire return interval was not an important predictor of fire spread rate or fire intensity, having a feature importance of 3.5%, among eight other predictor variables. Manipulating burn seasonality showed a feature importance of 6% or less regarding fire spread rate or fire intensity. While manipulated fire return interval and seasonality moderated both fire spread rate and intensity, their overall effects were low in comparison with meteorological (hydrological and climatic) variables. The variables with the highest feature importance regarding fire spread rate resulted in fuel moisture with 21%, relative humidity with 15%, wind speed with 14%, and last years rainfall with 14%. The variables with the highest feature importance regarding fire intensity included fuel load with 21.5%, fuel moisture with 16.5%, relative humidity with 12.5%, air temperature with 12.5%, and rainfall with 12.5%. Predicting fire spread rate and intensity has been a poor endeavour thus far and we show that more data of the variables already monitored would not result in higher predictive accuracy.
description: Journal paper published in: Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment
Sustainability impact assessment of peatland-use scenarios: Confronting land use supply with demand
Creators: name: Hermanns, Till
name: Helming, Katharina
name: König, Hannes J.
name: Schmidt, Katharina
name: Li, Qirui
name: Faust, Heiko
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: Sustainable development of land use is determined by changes of the regional supply of Land Use Functions (LUFs) and the demand of future societal land use claims. LUFs are based on the ecosystem services concept, but more adapted to human land use. In this paper, we assessed two peatland-use scenarios towards sustainable development in Northeast Germany in order to understand their impacts on LUFs and land use claims. For this, we extended an analytical framework designed to confront LUFs with land use claims identified in multi-level stakeholder strategies in a participatory manner. The sustainability assessment was performed with peatlanduse scenarios “Services for services” and “Market determines usage” that favoured environmental and economic land use claims, respectively. Findings revealed possible trade-offs between land use claims for biomass production and regional value creation as well as for peatlands` carbon and nutrient sink, and habitat functions. The core achievement is an extended sustainability assessment framework integrating land use demands of multi-level stakeholder strategies into participatory impact assessment, in a way that land use claims serve as benchmarks for LUFs. This facilitates the understanding of sustainable land use in both supply and demand perspective, and the normative evaluation of ecosystem services.
Additional file 2 of Species and sex-specific chemosensory gene expression in Anopheles coluzzii and An. quadriannulatus antennae
Creators: name: Giridhar Athrey
name: Popkin-Hall, Zachary
name: Cosme, Luciano Veiga
name: Takken, Willem
name: Slotman, Michel Andre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Mapping statistics.
CONCEPTUALISING FIELDS OF ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION – A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE AND APPLICATION TO REGIONAL CASE STUDIES
Creators: name: Weltin, Meike
name: Zasada, Ingo
name: Piorr, Annette
name: Debolini, Marta
name: Geniaux, Ghislain
name: Moreno Perez, Olga
name: Scherer, Laura
name: Tudela Marco, Lorena
name: Schulp, Nynke
name: Weltin, Meike
name: Zasada, Ingo
name: Piorr, Annette
name: Debolini, Marta
name: Geniaux, Ghislain
name: Moreno Perez, Olga
name: Scherer, Laura
name: Tudela Marco, Lorena
name: Schulp, Nynke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: food security
subject: conceptual framework
subject: regional planning

description: Given the challenges of food security and environmental degradation, sustainable intensification (SI) that combines food production and environmental goals has received growing attention. This study traces the heterogeneous debate in a systematic literature review covering 20 years. To enhance structured, action-oriented understanding, we propose a conceptual framework that anchors the portfolio of SI practices in four fields of action covering farm to landscape level and land-use to organisational optimisation. Applying the framework in four European case studies demonstrates that future research and context-specific implementation must focus on the decision-making rationales of agents, coordinated action and coupling of locally-adapted practices.
Polemon acanthias
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Polemon
Polemon acanthias

description: Polemon acanthias (Reinhardt, 1860)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 3 specimens (MRAC 29550, Kouma Tokpli; GHS-W 1041, Agou; GHS-W 1092, Sodo Zion).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 485 to 560 mm; 15 MSR, smooth; 184-186 Ven, smooth; 22-23 Sc, paired; anal single; 7 supralabials; 7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars (only 1 in GHS-W 1041); temporal scale formula 1 + 1.
 DISTRIBUTION. — This species is mainly a forest-dweller. It had been recorded from Togo by Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909), Loveridge (1944; from Missahohe), and Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970). Leaché et al. (2006) also mentioned the occurrence of the species in the forest area between Ghana and Togo.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on pages 344-345, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Additional file 3 of Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) among United Arab Emirates population
Creators: name: Shamsa Al Awar
name: Moamar Al-Jefout
name: Osman, Nawal
name: Zuhur Balayah
name: Nourah Al Kindi
name: Ucenic, Teodora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3:. Female Circumcision Study Questionnaire, MALE English version.
Near-Infrared Photometric Monitoring of a Pre-Main-Sequence Object KH 15D
Creators: name: Kusakabe, Nobuhiko
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Nakajima, Yasushi
name: Kandori, Ryo
name: Ishihara, Akika
name: Nagata, Tetsuya
name: Nagayama, Takahiro
name: Nishiyama, Shogo
name: Baba, Daisuke
name: Sato, Shuji
name: Sugitani, Koji
name: Turner, Edwin L.
name: Abe, Lyu
name: Kimura, Hiroshi
name: Yamamoto, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extensive photometric monitoring of KH 15D, an enigmatic variable in the young star cluster NGC 2264, has been conducted. Simultaneous and accurate near-infrared (JHKs-bands) photometry is presented between 2003 December and 2005 March covering most of the variable phase. The infrared variability is characterized by large-amplitude and long-lasting eclipse, as observed at optical. The period of variability is 48.3 +/- 0.2 days, the maximum photometric amplitude of variability is ~4.2 mag, and the eclipse duration is \~0.5 in phase units. These are consistent with the most recent period, amplitude, and duration at optical. The blueing of the J-H color (~0.16 mag) during the eclipse, which has been suggested before, is unambiguously confirmed; a similar blueing at H-Ks is less clear but is probably present at a similar level. The overall shape of the JHKs light curves is very similar to the optical one, including a fair time-symmetry and a less stable flux during the eclipse with a slight hump near the zero phase. Most of these variability features of KH 15D observed at near-infrared wavelengths can be explained with the recent model employing an eclipse by the inclined, precessing disk and an outer scattering region around a pre-main-sequence binary.
description: 13pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters
Theory of Josephson Arrays in a Resonant Cavity
Creators: name: Almaas, E.
name: Stroud, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review our previous work on the dynamics of one- and two-dimensional arrays of underdamped Josephson junctions placed in a single-mode resonant cavity. Starting from a well-defined model Hamiltonian, which includes the effects of driving current and dissipative coupling to a heat bath, we write down the Heisenberg equations of motion for the variables of the Josephson junction and the cavity mode. In the limit of many photons, these equations reduce to coupled ordinary differential equations, which can be solved numerically. We present a review of some characteristic numerical results, which show many features similar to experiment. These include self-induced resonant steps (SIRS's) at voltages $V = n\hbarΩ/(2e)$, where $Ω$ is the cavity frequency, and $n$ is generally an integer; a threshold number $N_c$ of active rows of junctions above which the array is coherent; and a time-averaged cavity energy which is quadratic in the number of active junctions, when the array is above threshold. When the array is biased on a SIRS, then, for given junction parameters, the power radiated into the array varies as the square of the number of active junctions, consistent with expectations for coherent radiation. For a given step, a two-dimensional array radiates much more energy into the cavity than does a one-dimensional array. Finally, in two dimensions, we find a strong polarization effect: if the cavity mode is polarized perpendicular to the direction of current injection in a square array, then it does not couple to the array and no power is radiated into the cavity.
description: Review article, 14 pages
Additional file 1 of Species and sex-specific chemosensory gene expression in Anopheles coluzzii and An. quadriannulatus antennae
Creators: name: Giridhar Athrey
name: Popkin-Hall, Zachary
name: Cosme, Luciano Veiga
name: Takken, Willem
name: Slotman, Michel Andre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer and Probe sequences for qPCR.
δ 13 C chemostratigraphy in the upper Tremadocian through lower Katian (Ordovician) carbonate succession of the Siljan district, central Sweden
Creators: name: Lehnert, O.
name: Meinhold, G.
name: Wu, R.
name: Calner, M.
name: Joachimski, M. M.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2014

description: Based on δ13C data from two drillcores recovered from the Siljan district, we present a first continuous carbon isotope record of the upper Tremadocian lower Katian limestone succession of central Sweden. New names for some isotopic carbon excursions from the Cambrian Ordovician boundary through the basal Darriwilian are introduced. The Mora 001 core from the western part of the Siljan impact structure ranges through the Lower Middle Ordovician, whereas the Solberga 1 core from its eastern part ranges through the Middle lower Upper Ordovician. Upper Tremadocian and Floian units are extremely condensed and include extensive stratigraphic gaps. Multiple hardgrounds, sometimes with minor karstic overprint, imply recurrent periods of erosion and/or non-deposition. Like in other parts of Sweden, the Dapingian and Darriwilian succession is characterized by a relatively complete sedimentary record and low sedimentation rates.
Psammophis praeornatus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Psammophis
Psammophis praeornatus

description: Psammophis praeornatus (Schlegel, 1837)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 6 specimens (MNHN 2006.2207, Yo [Agome Yo]; MRAC 29658, MRAC 29665, Borgou; MRAC 29464, Aledjo; GHS-W 1010, Sodo Zion; T 227, Bafilo).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL of our specimens from 480 to 640 mm; 15 MSR smooth; 172-197 Ven, smooth; 108-128 Sc, paired; anal divided but entire in specimen MNHN 2006.2207; 8-9 supralabials; 9-10 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.
 DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widespread throughout the country but is more common in the savannah area. It had previously been cited from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 21) from Mango, Loveridge (1940) and Hulselmans et al. (1970, 1971).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
WiFiTrace: Network-based Contact Tracing for Infectious Diseases Using Passive WiFi Sensing
Creators: name: Trivedi, Amee
name: Zakaria, Camellia
name: Balan, Rajesh
name: Shenoy, Prashant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contact tracing is a well-established and effective approach for the containment of the spread of infectious diseases. While Bluetooth-based contact tracing method using phones has become popular recently, these approaches suffer from the need for a critical mass adoption to be effective. In this paper, we present WiFiTrace, a network-centric approach for contact tracing that relies on passive WiFi sensing with no client-side involvement. Our approach exploits WiFi network logs gathered by enterprise networks for performance and security monitoring, and utilizes them for reconstructing device trajectories for contact tracing. Our approach is specifically designed to enhance the efficacy of traditional methods, rather than to supplant them with new technology. We designed an efficient graph algorithm to scale our approach to large networks with tens of thousands of users. The graph-based approach outperforms an indexed PostgresSQL in memory by at least 4.5X without any index update overheads or blocking. We have implemented a full prototype of our system and deployed it on two large university campuses. We validated our approach and demonstrate its efficacy using case studies and detailed experiments using real-world WiFi datasets.
description: 26 Pages
Lp-NORM CONSISTENCIES OF NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATES OF REGRESSION, HETEROSKEDASTICITY AND VARIANCE OF REGRESSION ESTIMATE WHEN DISTRIBUTION OF REGRESSOR IS KNOWN
Creators: name: Singh, Radhey S.
name: Singh, Radhey S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: When dealing with heteroskedastic models Y = μ(X) + c in econometrics and other disciplines, situations often arise (especially with structural models) where the probability distribution of the ((Rd-valued) regressor vector X is known, but postulations about the functional form of the regression μ(x), the heteroskedasticity a'2(x) = var(c I X=x) and the distribution of the disturbance term c are made. These three postulations generally lead to misspecification of • the models. This paper, based on a data set on (Y,X), considers nonparametric kernel estimators μ(x), c3.2(x) and c/(μ(x)), respectively, of the regression μ(x), the heteroskedasticity 2(x) and the asymptotic variances V(i.i(x)) of the regressi cr on estimate ii(x) for situations where only the probability distribution of X, say A is known. For an arbitrary subset A in the interior of the support of A and for 1 p < co, we establish convergences to zero, as the data set gets large, of the L -norms 11μ-μIIP = E I μ(x)-μ(x) I PdX(x) (with A a Rd for p = A •.. 1), 116.-2-cr2IIP (with A a Rd for p = 1) and II'()-V(μ)11P under certain moment conditions on Y but with no assumptions on the joint distribution of (Y,X) or the continuity of μ(x), o'2(x) or the density of X.
Additional file 2 of Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) among United Arab Emirates population
Creators: name: Shamsa Al Awar
name: Moamar Al-Jefout
name: Osman, Nawal
name: Zuhur Balayah
name: Nourah Al Kindi
name: Ucenic, Teodora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Female Circumcision Study Questionnaire FEMALE English version.
Land Surface Temperature Variation Due to Changes in Elevation in Northwest Vietnam
Creators: name: Phan, Thanh
name: Kappas, Martin
name: Tran, Trong
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2018

description: Land surface temperature (LST) is one of the most important variables for applications relating to the physics of land surface processes. LST rapidly changes in both space and time, and knowledge of LST and its spatiotemporal variation is essential to understand the interactions between human activity and the environment. This study investigates the spatiotemporal variation of LST according to changes in elevation. The newest version (version 6) of MODIS LST data for 2015 was used. An area of 40,000 km2 (200 × 200 km2) in northwest Vietnam with elevations ranging from 8 m to 3165 m was chosen as a case study. Our results showed that the drop in LST with increased elevation varied throughout the year during both the daytime and nighttime. The monthly averages in 2015 and an altitude increase of 1000 m resulted in a decrease in LST ranging from 3.8 °C to 6.1 °C and 1.5 °C to 5.8 °C for the daytime and nighttime, respectively. This suggests that in any study relating to the spatial distribution of LST, the effect of elevation on LST should be considered. In addition, the effects of land use/cover and elevation distribution on the relationship between LST and elevation are discussed.
description: Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2018
Analog cosmological reheating in an ultracold Bose gas
Creators: name: Chatrchyan, Aleksandr
name: Geier, Kevin T.
name: Oberthaler, Markus K.
name: Berges, Jürgen
name: Hauke, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological reheating describes the transition of the post-inflationary universe to a hot and thermal state. In order to shed light on the underlying dynamics of this process, we propose to quantum-simulate the reheating-like dynamics of a generic cosmological single-field model in an ultracold Bose gas. In our setup, the excitations on top of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate play the role of the particles produced by the decaying inflaton field after inflation. Expanding spacetime as well as the background oscillating inflaton field are mimicked in the non-relativistic limit by a time dependence of the atomic interactions, which can be tuned experimentally via Feshbach resonances. As we illustrate by means of classical-statistical simulations for the case of two spatial dimensions, the dynamics of the atomic system exhibits the characteristic stages of far-from-equilibrium reheating, including the amplification of fluctuations via parametric instabilities and the subsequent turbulent transport of energy towards higher momenta. The transport is governed by a non-thermal fixed point showing universal self-similar time evolution as well as a transient regime of prescaling with time-dependent scaling exponents. While the classical-statistical simulations can capture only the earlier stages of the dynamics for weak couplings, the proposed experiment has the potential of exploring the evolution up to late times even beyond the weak coupling regime.
description: 18+12 pages, 6+4 figures. Version published in PRA. Changes in this version: improved presentation of the analogy to cosmological reheating, moved some technical paragraphs of Secs. II and III to the appendix. A video of the preheating dynamics can be downloaded from the section "ancillary files" on the article's arXiv page
Prosymna meleagris
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Prosymna
Prosymna meleagris

description: Prosymna meleagris (Reinhardt, 1843)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 16 specimens (MRAC 29591, Tetetou; GHS-W 1055, GHS-W 1057, GHS-W 1061, Agou; GHS-W 1064, GHS-W 1403, GHS-W 1411, GHS-W 1428 and GHS-Togo 78, Sodo Zion, T 117-122, Fazao; T 188, T 202, Alédjo).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 140 to 273 mm; 15 MSR, smooth; 145-163 Ven smooth; 19-35 Sc; anal single; 5 supralabials; 7-8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widespread throughout the country. Previously it had been mentioned fromTogo by Werner (1929), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 16; specimens from Bismarkburg, now Yegue in Adele, Mango and Missahohe), Loveridge (1958), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970) and Roman (1984).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 345, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Optimal Telecommunications Tariffs and the CCITT
Creators: name: Carter, Michael
name: Wright, Julian
name: Carter, Michael
name: Wright, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
International Relations/Trade

description: International telephone service providers must decide how to apportion their call revenue between the orgina-ting and receiving networks. The CCITT makes detailed recommendations as to how this should be done. However it is not merely a matter of accounting. Tariffs also create incentives for the administrations own pricing behaviour. Creating the right incentives through appropriate tariffs is crucial to inducing an efficient outcome. This article characterizes optimal tariffs and compares them with the recommendations of the CCITT. Briefly the optimal tariff consists of a flat-rate price per circuit plus a trafficunit price plus a fixed component transfer. Optimal tariffs are time-dependent, depending upon whether demand is peak or off-peak. This characterization enables an assessment of the extent to which current procedures may be inefficient. With appropriate interpretation, our results are applicable to a wide range of telecommunication services.
Price Indices: Systems Estimation and Tests
Creators: name: Giles, David
name: McCann, Ewen
name: Giles, David
name: McCann, Ewen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance

description: A deterministic view of price indices offers no measure of index reliability, a shortcoming that can be overcome by using regression analysis. Recognising that Seemingly Unrelated Regressions estimation (rather than simple regression analysis) may be appropriate, more precise interval estimates of price indices can be computed. We show that the regression approach to price index construction has benefits beyond those previously discussed in the literature. Within this framework one can determine the appropriate estimation technique and test for significant changes in the price level. The statistical sensitivity of an index to the composition of the underlying "basket" of goods can also be tested.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) among United Arab Emirates population
Creators: name: Shamsa Al Awar
name: Moamar Al-Jefout
name: Osman, Nawal
name: Zuhur Balayah
name: Nourah Al Kindi
name: Ucenic, Teodora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Female Circumcision Study Questionnaire. FEMALE Arabic version.
Characterizing the reactivity of metallic iron upon methylene blue discoloration in Fe0/MnO2/H2O systems.
Creators: name: Noubactep, C.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2009

description: A simple method is proposed for testing the reactivity of elemental iron materials (Fe(0) materials) using methylene blue (MB) as reagent. The method is based on the oxidative reactivity of Fe(II) for reductive dissolution of MnO(2). Fe(II) is produced in-situ by the oxidation of a Fe(0) material. The in-situ formed Fe(II) reacted with MnO(2) delaying the bulk precipitation of iron corrosion products and thus MB co-precipitation (MB discoloration). For a given MnO(2), the extent of MB discoloration delay is a characteristic of individual Fe(0) materials under given experimental conditions. The MB discoloration method for testing the reactivity of Fe(0) materials is facile, cost-effective and does not involve any stringent reaction conditions.
The Role of Mutually Attractive Interaction Between Netural Atoms : A Split-Operator Method Analysis
Creators: name: Menasche, David B.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An optical lattice is a crystal of light formed from counter-propagating laser beams in which one can hold and control a nearly perfect array of atoms floating in a vacuum chamber. By changing the shape of the optical lattice, it is possible to split the wavefunctions of individual atoms so that they are put into a quantum superposition of two different locations within the optical lattice at the same time. When there are two atoms at the same location in the optical lattice, their mutual interaction will influence the wave function splitting process. This physics has been studied for pairs of repelling atoms, but I have shown it is possible to create new types of quantum states of matter from atoms that attract each other, a possibility not previously explored. I have designed a computer simulation based on the split-operator method to model the splitting of such pairs of atoms and have demonstrated that this interaction can result in two atom NOON-state superpositions.
On the nature of the finite-temperature transition in QCD
Creators: name: Butti, Agostino
name: Pelissetto, Andrea
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the nature of the finite-temperature transition in QCD with N_f massless flavors. Universality arguments show that a continuous (second-order) transition must be related to a 3-D universality class characterized by a complex N_f X N_f matrix order parameter and by the symmetry-breaking pattern [SU(N_f)_L X SU(N_f)_R]/Z(N_f)_V -> SU(N_f)_V/Z(N_f)_V, or [U(N_f)_L X U(N_f)_R]/U(1)_V -> U(N_f)_V/U(1)_V if the U(1)_A symmetry is effectively restored at T_c. The existence of any of these universality classes requires the presence of a stable fixed point in the corresponding 3-D Phi^4 theory with the expected symmetry-breaking pattern. Otherwise, the transition is of first order. In order to search for stable fixed points in these Phi^4 theories, we exploit a 3-D perturbative approach in which physical quantities are expanded in powers of appropriate renormalized quartic couplings. We compute the corresponding Callan-Symanzik beta-functions to six loops. We also determine the large-order behavior to further constrain the analysis. No stable fixed point is found, except for N_f=2, corresponding to the symmetry-breaking pattern [SU(2)_L X SU(2)_R]/Z(2)_V -> SU(2)_V/Z(2)_V equivalent to O(4) -> O(3). Our results confirm and put on a firmer ground earlier analyses performed close to four dimensions, based on first-order calculations in the framework of the epsilon=4-d expansion. These results indicate that the finite-temperature phase transition in QCD is of first order for N_f>2. A continuous transition is allowed only for N_f=2. But, since the theory with symmetry-breaking pattern [U(2)_L X U(2)_R]/U(1)_V -> U(2)_V/U(1)_V does not have stable fixed points, the transition can be continuous only if the effective breaking of the U(1)_A symmetry is sufficiently large.
description: 30 pages, 3 figs, minor corrections
On the rational motivic homotopy category
Creators: name: Déglise, Frédéric
name: Fasel, Jean
name: Khan, Adeel A.
name: Jin, Fangzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the structure of the rational motivic stable homotopy category over general base schemes. Our first class of results concerns the six operations: we prove absolute purity, stability of constructible objects, and Grothendieck-Verdier duality for SH_Q. Next, we prove that SH_Q is canonically SL-oriented; we compare SH_Q with the category of rational Milnor-Witt motives; and we relate the rational bivariant A^1-theory to Chow-Witt groups. These results are derived from analogous statements for the minus part of SH[1/2].
description: 53 pages, final version; to appear in Journal de l'\'Ecole polytechnique
Polemon neuwiedi
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Polemon
Polemon neuwiedi

description: Polemon neuwiedi (Jan, 1858)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — No available specimen.
 DISTRIBUTION. — In Togo, this species has been mentioned from “Klien Popo”, now Aneho, by Sternfeld (1908a-b, 1909) and Loveridge (1944: 173). Werner (1898; as Miodon gabonensis) mentioned from Togo a specimen of Polemon gabonensis (Duméril, 1858). The current distribution of this species extends from eastern Nigeria to Congo (Chippaux 2006). It is hence likely that Werner’s specimen should be referred to Polemon neuwiedi, although another taxon of the same genus cannot be ruled out. This confusion may also apply to the Togolese record of Polemon collaris (Peters, 1881) in Werner (1898). This author was merely followed by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909) but Loveridge (1944) doubted about the occurrence of this latter species in Togo.
 Prosymna gregerti Mocquard, 1906 (Fig. 7)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 specimen (MNHN 2006.2190), Mango.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL 273 mm; 15 MSR, smooth; 151 Ven smooth; 35 Sc; anal single; 5 supralabials; 7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postocular; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.
 DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits Sudan savannahs (ER I). Previously it had been described from Togo (Mango) by Sternfeld (1908b) as Prosymna meleagris var. collaris Sternfeld, 1908. This form was subsequently synonymized with Prosymna meleagris (Reinhardt, 1843) by Loveridge (1958). Trape & Mané (2006b) revalidated Prosymna gregerti Mocquard, 1906 as a valid taxon. This species was mentioned fom northern Togo by Villiers (1951) and Villiers & Condamin (2005).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 345, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Stochastic analysis of different rough surfaces
Creators: name: Waechter, M.
name: Riess, F.
name: Schimmel, Th.
name: Wendt, U.
name: Peinke, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper shows in detail the application of a new stochastic approach for the characterization of surface height profiles, which is based on the theory of Markov processes. With this analysis we achieve a characterization of the scale dependent complexity of surface roughness by means of a Fokker-Planck or Langevin equation, providing the complete stochastic information of multiscale joint probabilities. The method is applied to several surfaces with different properties, for the purpose of showing the utility of this method in more details. In particular we show the evidence of Markov properties, and we estimate the parameters of the Fokker-Planck equation by pure, parameter-free data analysis. The resulting Fokker-Planck equations are verified by numerical reconstruction of conditional probability density functions. The results are compared with those from the analysis of multi-affine and extended multi-affine scaling properties which is often used for surface topographies. The different surface structures analysed here show in details advantages and disadvantages of these methods.
description: Minor text changes to be identical with the published version