cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Boomerang price shocks in electricity: impact of asset write downs and regulatory suppression on price shocks in the network electricity sector
Creators: name: Meher-Homji, Zubin
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Electricity prices doubled between 2007 and 2013 in most Australian capital cities (Mountain, 2020, p188). The network sector was the dominant driver of higher electricity prices (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 2018, piv). The prices of state-owned networks rose significantly higher than private peers (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 2018, pp10-23). This empirical observation has led to duelling narratives. The gold-plating narrative contends that deficiencies in the regulatory framework incentivised state-owned networks to seek excessive expenditure and returns (Mountain, 2010, p5770; and Grattan Institute, 2012, p3). In contrast, the keep the lights on narrative argues that higher expenditure was required to address reliability and safety issues, following regulatory decisions in the previous decade that suppressed expenditure and ‘wrote down’ asset values (Ausgrid, 2008, p4). This paper contributes to the literature by using a ‘mechanistic’ model to quantify price movements using variables identified in both narratives. The model has been adapted from the ecology field and has been fitted with data from the NSW distributor Ausgrid, the network with the largest price increase in the National Electricity Market. Our key finding is that the gold-plating variables including stronger reliability targets, overstated demand forecasts, declining efficiency and higher rate of return contributed to about half of Ausgrid’s price increase between 2009 to 2014. The variables identified by the keep the lights on narrative such as asset write downs, suppressed replacement and declining energy volumes accounted for the other half. We contend that the lessons of the keep the lights on narrative have been ignored by policy makers. We identify key metrics of regulatory suppression to show that South Australian, Victorian, and Tasmanian distribution networks are at risk of price shocks in the future. The analysis presented in this paper shows that these networks have a significantly under-valued Regulatory Asset Base and replace assets below a sustainable rate. Together, our model suggests these metrics are a recipe for steeply rising prices in the future.
Digera muricata Mart.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Digera
Digera muricata

description: Achyranthes alternifolia Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 186; Mantissa Plantarum: 50. 1767. "Habitat in Aegypto, Arabia." RCN: 1657. Lectotype (Townsend in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Amaranthaceae: 37. 1985): Herb. Linn. No. 287.7 (LINN). Current name:  Digera muricata (L.) Mart. (Amaranthaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 256, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Asolenopsia schwarzmaieri Borgmeier 1939
Creators: name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diapriidae
Asolenopsia
Asolenopsia schwarzmaieri

description: Asolenopsia schwarzmaieri Borgmeier, 1939: 542, fig. 10.
Valid name
Asolenopsia schwarzmaieri Borgmeier, 1939.
Summary of types
Syntype ♀.
Primary type data
Campinas/ Goyaz/ E. pseudops 686/ 4.2.36; Cotypus; Campinas/ Goiás / Schwarzmaier; Asolenopsia / schwarzmaieri/ Borgm. Paratype / det. Borgmeier; Brit. Mus./ 1950-553.
Type locality
Brazil, Goiás, Campinas.
Remarks
This species was described from numerous females, of which one was found agreeing with Borgmeier’s description. Although this specimen is labelled as a “ paratype ” and “cotype”, since neither a unique holotype or lectotype has yet been fixed, all of the type series is still syntypic (Article 73.2). The syntype is mounted on a card and is entire.
description: Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/3862773
Homogeneous Besov spaces
Creators: name: Sawano, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B35

description: This note is based on a series of lectures delivered in Kyoto University. This note surveys the homogeneous Besov space $\dot{B}^s_{pq}$ on ${\mathbb R}^n$ with $1 \le p,q \le \infty$ and $s \in {\mathbb R}$ in a rather self-contained manner. Possible extensions of this type of function spaces are breifly discussed in the end of this article. In particular, the fundamental properties are stated for the spaces $\dot{B}^s_{pq}$ with $0
description: 32pages
The Equation of State of Hot, Dense Matter and Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Lattimer, James M.
name: Prakash, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent developments in the theory of pure neutron matter and experiments concerning the symmetry energy of nuclear matter, coupled with recent measurements of high-mass neutron stars, now allow for relatively tight constraints on the equation of state of dense matter. We review how these constraints are formulated and describe the implications they have for neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae. We also examine thermal properties of dense matter, which are important for supernovae and neutron star mergers, but which cannot be nearly as well constrained at this time by experiment. In addition, we consider the role of the equation of state in medium-energy heavy-ion collisions.
description: 87 pages, 20 figures, Accepted for Phys. Rep (Gerald E. Brown's Memorial Volume)
A Nash type solution for hemivariational inequality systems
Creators: name: Repovš, Dušan
name: Varga, Csaba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B34, 47J20, 58E05

description: In this paper we prove an existence result for a general class of hemivariational inequalities systems using the Ky Fan version of KKM theorem (1984) or the Tarafdar fixed point theorem (1987). As application we give an infinite dimensional version for existence result of Nash generalized derivative points introduced recently by Kristály (2010) and also we give an application to a general hemivariational inequalities system.
General Relativity from Intersection Theory
Creators: name: Frellesvig, Hjalte
name: Teschke, Toni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper combines the post-Minkowskian expansion of general relativity with the language of intersection theory. Because of the nature of the soft limit inherent to the post-Minkowskian expansion, the intersection-based approach is of enhanced utility in that theory compared to a generic quantum field theory. In the language of intersection theory, Feynman integrals are rephrased in terms of twisted cocycles. The intersection number is a pairing between two such cocycles and its existence allows for the direct projection onto a basis of master integrals. In this paper we use this approach to compute the second post-Minkowskian contribution to the scattering of two compact astronomical objects, getting results in agreement with previous findings.
description: Ten pages, two figures
Achyranthes aspera Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Achyranthes
Achyranthes aspera

description: Achyranthes aspera Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 204. 1753, typ. cons. "Habitat in Sicilia, Zeylona, Jamaica." RCN: 1654. Conserved type (Townsend in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 71: 35. 1974): Herb. Hermann 2: 69, No. 105 (BM-000621744). Generitype of Achyranthes Linnaeus, nom. cons. Current name:  Achyranthes aspera L. (Amaranthaceae). Note: Achyranthes aspera was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 555. 1992) and this was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006). Although Townsend (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 38. 1980) restricted his original type choice (1974) to one of the specimens on p. 69, his earlier unrestricted choice appeared in the conservation proposal and the conserved type is therefore listed in the Vienna Code (2006) in this way.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 256, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
A survey on the needs experienced by people recently diagnosed or treated for cancer and the impact on their quality of life
Creators: name: Gerry, Peter
name: Seymour, Emma
Publisher: name: AMRC Open Research
Year: 2022

description: This briefing document aims to provide a holistic view of the supportive care needs of people living with cancer, and the impact of this on their quality of life. We hope this will be useful for understanding the impact of cancer on individuals and planning how best to support them. We present a short literature review on the needs of people living with cancer and then the results of a survey with this population across the UK. We hope this work will be useful for those working to support the needs of the cancer population as it grows and changes.
Supplemental Table 1-5 and Figures 1-2 from Community composition of coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae differs across fine-scale environmental gradients in Kāne‘ohe Bay
Creators: name: de Souza, Mariana Rocha
name: Caruso, Carlo
name: Ruiz-Jones, Lupita
name: Dury, Crawford
name: Gates, Ruth
name: Toonen, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Tables: 1)Site information, 2)Permanova of Symbiodiniaceae per blocks, 3) Temperature summary, 4) Permanova environmental factors and 5)Correlation of environmental factors. Figures: 1)Symbiodiniaceae per colony, 2)Comparison of proportion of D in Innis et al (2018)
Inkjet-printed vertically emitting solid-state organic lasers
Creators: name: Mhibik, Oussama
name: Chénais, Sébastien
name: Forget, Sébastien
name: Defranoux, Christophe
name: Sanaur, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we show that Inkjet Printing can be successfully applied to external-cavity vertically-emitting thin-film organic lasers, and can be used to generate a diffraction-limited output beam with an output energy as high as 33.6 uJ with a slope efficiency S of 34%. Laser emission shows to be continuously tunable from 570 to 670 nm using an intracavity polymer-based Fabry-Perot etalon. High-optical quality films with several um thicknesses are realized thanks to ink-jet printing. We introduce a new optical material where EMD6415 commercial ink constitutes the optical host matrix and exhibits a refractive index of 1.5 and an absorption coefficient of 0.66 cm-1 at 550-680 nm. Standard laser dyes like Pyromethene 597 and Rhodamine 640 are incorporated in solution to the EMD6415 ink. Such large size " printed pixels " of 50 mm 2 present uniform and flat surfaces, with roughness measured as low as 1.5 nm in different locations of a 50um x 50um AFM scan. Finally, as the gain capsules fabricated by Inkjet printing are simple and do not incorporate any tuning or cavity element, they are simple to make, have a negligible fabrication cost and can be used as fully disposable items. This works opens the way towards the fabrication of really low-cost tunable visible lasers with an affordable technology that has the potential to be widely disseminated.
CCMVal Archive at BADC
Creators: name: Pascoe, Charlotte L
name: Lawrence, Bryan N
name: Pamment, J Alison
name: Hooper, David A
name: Pepler, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: data and information
subject: CF NetCDF
subject: metadata
subject: standard names
subject: repurpose
subject: reuse
subject: citation
subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2018002590.html
subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084334.html

description: There are many good reasons to keep data and here are three of the best... 1) Re-use 2) Re-purposing 3) Citation. This presentation is all about why you were asked to provide CCMVal data to the BADC in CF complient NetCDF and how this self-describing standard enables the BADC to fulfill it's role as custodian of the CCMVal data archive. RE-USE Providing data in CF complient NetCDF allows your data to be shared with other scientist now and in the future. Right now the CF NetCDF common fomat is facilitating the quick verification of data from different CCMVal models with the use of standard diagnositic tools. Twenty years from now the data will still be understood because it uses the self describing CF NetCDF standard. RE-PURPOSING Using CF standard names to describe the CCMVal variables will enable scientists from other diciplines to make use of the CCMVal data when it is eventually made available to them. The CF standard names facilitate data discovery through vocabulary servers which allow users to find data without needing to know the exact names of variables. Such value added services satisfy the increasing expactation from funders that science data can be used by different research communities. CITATION CCMVal data is an ideal candidate for publication in the new data journals because it used the CF NetCDF standard. Once the CCMVal data has been verified and moved to the archive at the BADC our data scientists can help with the process of publishing the data so that your data can be cited.
description: Previously curated at: http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/782/ Event type: workshop. The publish date on this item was its original submitted date. This work was funded by: EU 7th Framework Programme (project #211753). This item was not refereed before the publication Associated projects: CCMVal Metafor Main files in this record: Pascoe_Toronto_2009_06_CCMVal.ppt Pascoe_Toronto_2009_06_CCMVal.pdf Item originally deposited with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) document repository by Dr Charlotte L Pascoe. Transferred to CEDA document repository community on Zenodo on 2022-11-24
Achyranthes indica Mill.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Achyranthes
Achyranthes indica

description: Achyranthes aspera Linnaeus var. indica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 204. 1753. RCN: 1654. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 101.1 (S); Herb. Linn. No. 287.1 (LINN); [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 10, f. 4. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 26. 1696; [icon] in Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 16, t. 5, f. 3. 1737. Current name:  Achyranthes indica (L.) Mill. (Amaranthaceae). Note: Although some authors (e.g. Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 3: 136. 1914; Townsend in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Amaranthaceae: 102. 1985) treat the type as from the Hermann herbarium (BM), and therefore homotypic with var. aspera L., var. indica has as the source of its diagnosis a Burman description and figure. In addition, although some authors treat A. indica (L.) Mill. as synonymous with A. aspera, others do not.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on pages 256-257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Direct calculation of the critical Casimir force in a binary fluid
Creators: name: Puosi, Francesco
name: Cardozo, David Lopes
name: Ciliberto, Sergio
name: Holdsworth, Peter C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that critical Casimir effects can be accessed through direct simulation of a model binary fluid passing through the demixing transition. We work in the semi grand canonical ensemble, in slab geometry, in which the Casimir force appears as the excess of the generalized pressure, $P_{\bot}-nμ$. The excesses of the perpendicular pressure, $P_{\bot}$, and of $nμ$, are individually of much larger amplitude. A critical pressure anisotropy is observed between forces parallel and perpendicular to the confinement direction, which collapses onto a universal scaling function closely related to that of the critical Casimir force.
Data Authenticity, Consent, & Provenance for AI are all broken: what will it take to fix them?
Creators: name: Longpre, Shayne
name: Mahari, Robert
name: Obeng-Marnu, Naana
name: Brannon, William
name: South, Tobin
name: Gero, Katy
name: Pentland, Sandy
name: Kabbara, Jad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New capabilities in foundation models are owed in large part to massive, widely-sourced, and under-documented training data collections. Existing practices in data collection have led to challenges in tracing authenticity, verifying consent, preserving privacy, addressing representation and bias, respecting copyright, and overall developing ethical and trustworthy foundation models. In response, regulation is emphasizing the need for training data transparency to understand foundation models' limitations. Based on a large-scale analysis of the foundation model training data landscape and existing solutions, we identify the missing infrastructure to facilitate responsible foundation model development practices. We examine the current shortcomings of common tools for tracing data authenticity, consent, and documentation, and outline how policymakers, developers, and data creators can facilitate responsible foundation model development by adopting universal data provenance standards.
description: ICML 2024 camera-ready version (Spotlight paper). 9 pages, 2 tables
Emergence of helical edge conduction in graphene at the ν=0 quantum Hall state
Creators: name: Tikhonov, Pavel
name: Shimshoni, Efrat
name: Fertig, H. A.
name: Murthy, Ganpathy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a ferromagnetic (FM) ν=0 quantum Hall state. We develop a theory for the electric transport in this system based on the spin-charge connection, whereby the evolution in the nature of collective spin excitations is reflected in the charge-carrying modes. To this end, we derive an effective field theoretical description of the low-energy excitations, associated with quantum fluctuations of the spin-valley domain wall ground-state configuration which characterizes the two-dimensional (2D) system with an edge. This analysis yields a model describing a one-dimensional charged edge mode coupled to charge-neutral spin-wave excitations in the 2D bulk. Focusing particularly on the FM phase, naively expected to exhibit perfect conductance, we study a mechanism whereby the coupling to these bulk excitations assists in generating back-scattering. Our theory yields the conductance as a function of temperature and the Zeeman energy - the parameter that tunes the transition between the FM and CAF phases - with behavior in qualitative agreement with experiment.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Loxotropa fuliginosi Box 1921
Creators: name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diapriidae
Loxotropa
Loxotropa fuliginosi

description: Loxotropa fuliginosi Box, 1921: 16.
Valid name
Basalys pedisequa (Kieffer, 1911).
Summary of types
Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.762.
Primary type data
Loxotropa / fuliginosi/ Woking/ 30.v.20; Assoc. with/ Lasius fuliginosus; Ex coll./ Donisthorpe/ B.M.1934-4; Loxotropa / fuliginosi Box; Holo-/ type.
Type locality
England, Woking.
Remarks
This species was described from an unspecified number of females from Donisthorpe’s collection. The sole surviving syntype is mounted on a card and is entire. Nixon’s (1980) interpretation of Basalys pedisequa (Kieffer, 1911) is followed here.
description: Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on page 29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/3862773
Capabilities and Operation of the FAAM EZLidar
Creators: name: Mareno, Franco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: LiDAR
subject: Volcanic Ash
subject: EZlidar
subject: UKMO
subject: Technical Note
subject: OBR
subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084334.html

description: The FAAM EZLidar is one of the most valuable instruments on the FAAM aircraft, which was (for example) used to measure volcanic ash in the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud in April 2010. This document (Observation Based Research (OBR) Technical Note 79) gives in depth information about the capabilities and operation of the instrument.
description: Previously curated at: http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/785/ The publish date on this item was its original published date. Main files in this record: capabilities_and_operation_of_the_faam_ezlidar.pdf Item originally deposited with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) document repository by Mr Jurgen Reinecke. Transferred to CEDA document repository community on Zenodo on 2022-11-24
The War Within: Perceived Legitimacy and Psychological Trauma Among Post-9/11 Veterans
Creators: name: Sewell, Tia
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: War
subject: Veterans
subject: Iraq War (2003-2011)
subject: Afghan War (2001-2021)
subject: War on Terrorism (2001-)
subject: Nation-building
subject: Mental health
subject: Suicide
subject: Moral injuries
subject: Soldiers
subject: Military policy
subject: Counterinsurgency
subject: Veterans--Medical care
subject: Just war doctrine

description: Since the start of the Global War on Terror, over four times as many U.S. soldiers deployed in the conflicts have died by suicide than have been killed in action. Recent studies have established an association between veteran suicide and moral injury (MI), a type of psychological trauma rooted in “perpetrating, failing to prevent, bearing witness to, or learning about acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.” This thesis examines the moral injury element of service member suicide in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeking to understand whether veterans’ perception of the legitimacy of war they fought within is related to their sense of moral transgression for participating in that conflict. This study surveyed 54 anonymous U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. I find significant correlation between moral injury and suicidality among participants. The analysis also shows that veterans with lower perceptions of the legitimacy of the conflict(s) they served in tend to have higher scores for moral injury. Finally, I find that perceived legitimacy also acts as a negative moderator on the relationship between MI and suicidality, meaning that the relationship between suicidality and moral injury is stronger when the legitimacy score is lower. These findings empirically support the hypothesis that service members’ mental health is related to their perception of war legitimacy. Through analysis of existing research and interviews with U.S. veterans, this thesis also examines emerging evidence of a causal chain underlying this relationship, indicating that when troops’ experiences in war result in a lessened view of the legitimacy of the conflict, they may be at risk of losing some of the sense of purpose that they had formerly associated with their service. Additionally, I find that political events can impact mental health in the military community by altering perceptions of conflict legitimacy even after one’s service has concluded.
Non-extensive statistics in Au-Au collisions
Creators: name: Costa, Juliana O.
name: Aguiar, Isabelle
name: Barauna, Jadna L.
name: Megías, Eugenio
name: Deppman, Airton
name: da Silva, Tiago N.
name: Menezes, Débora P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particle production yields measured in central Au-Au collision at RHIC are obtained with free Fermi and Bose gases and also with a replacement of these statistics by non-extensive statistics. For the latter calculation, a set of different parameters was used with values of the Tsallis parameter $q$ chosen between 1.01 and 1.25, with 1.16 generating the best agreement with experimental data, an indication that non-extensive statistics may be one of the underlying features in heavy ion-collisions.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
TRNet: Two-level Refinement Network leveraging Speech Enhancement for Noise Robust Speech Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Chen, Chengxin
name: Zhang, Pengyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: One persistent challenge in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the ubiquitous environmental noise, which frequently results in deteriorating SER performance in practice. In this paper, we introduce a Two-level Refinement Network, dubbed TRNet, to address this challenge. Specifically, a pre-trained speech enhancement module is employed for front-end noise reduction and noise level estimation. Later, we utilize clean speech spectrograms and their corresponding deep representations as reference signals to refine the spectrogram distortion and representation shift of enhanced speech during model training. Experimental results validate that the proposed TRNet substantially promotes the robustness of the proposed system in both matched and unmatched noisy environments, without compromising its performance in noise-free environments.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Aulatopria tucumana Brethes 1927
Creators: name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulatopria
Aulatopria tucumana

description: Aulatopria tucumana Brèthes, 1927a: 164.
Valid name
Bruchopria tucumana (Brèthes, 1927).
Summary of types
Syntypes ♀, ♂.
Primary type data
Reared; Rosenfeld y/ Barber, colls.; Est. Exp./ A.C. No. 115; Tucumán / I-22-1913; Aulatopria / tucumana Brèthes; Pres. By Imp. Bur. Ent./ Brit. Mus./ 1928-347 (syntypes ♀, ♂).
Type locality
Argentina, Tucumán.
Remarks
The description for this species was published twice, in the Revista industrial y agrícola de Tucumán (Brèthes 1927a) and translated into English in the Bulletin of Entomological Research (Brèthes 1927b). It is most probable that the Revista came first, as this work was published every two months at that time; volume 17(7-8) contains weather reports up to 31 January 1927 and was probably published shortly afterwards, whereas the English translation in the Bulletin has the cover date December 1927. Brèthes mentions that the specimens were reared during studies of the sugar-cane moth borer Diatraea saccharalis Fabricius, 1794 by Rosenfeld and Barber and published in 1914 also in Revista industrial y agrícola de Tucumán. Rosenfeld and Barber’s paper could not be traced during this study, but is mentioned here since it may throw further light on the composition of the type series. Two syntypes were found which had been reared by Rosenfeld and Barber in 1913, labelled by Brèthes, and received at the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, shortly after the date of the description. Both syntypes are mounted on card points and are somewhat dirty: the female is missing the left fore wing and has the right fore wing chipped; the male is entire. This species is now placed in Bruchopria Kieffer, 1921 following Masner & García (2002).
description: Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on page 29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/3862773
The Limits of Permissiveness: International Law, the UN, and the War in Ukraine
Creators: name: Queener, Stephen
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: International law
subject: United Nations
subject: United Nations. Security Council
subject: United Nations. General Assembly
subject: Ukraine Conflict (2014-)
subject: Justification (Law)
subject: International relations
subject: Diplomacy--Language

description: Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is widely considered to be a gross violation of the Charter of the United Nations and, for some scholars, just another example of a major power undermining the international rule of law, akin to the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’. However, new scholarship on the justificatory power of international law provides a different outlook: While international law is used to serve political interests, there are limits. States must make appeals to law that accomplish a level of ‘plausible legality’ for their actions, or risk contestation and condemnation on the grounds of their betrayal of universal international principles. But, how are these discursive limits imposed by the international community and to what extent do they constrain state behavior?

In this thesis, I analyze the United Nations (UN) debates and resolutions that occurred in response to the war in Ukraine as a potential best case study for exploring how states draw upon international law in opposition, and the extent to which mass legal contestation impacts state behavior. Through a qualitative analysis of the first five resolutions and six meetings of the United Nations 11th Emergency Special Session, I show how legal principles dominate states’ efforts to discredit and delegitimize Russian actions and that states use broadly accepted legal principles to do so, like the UN Charter. Regardless of their position, states seek to portray themselves as supporters of the international rule of law, either by stating directly their disagreement with or indirectly distancing themselves from Russian actions.

Further, I investigate whether, by acting against an ‘illegal’ act, states can establish a discursive notion of “Russian illegality” to justify and empower actual cost-inflicting actions. I find that although states’ efforts to contest Russia’s actions on legal grounds is viewed as fair, there are varying degrees of and a limit to the amount of permissiveness that states can pursue when making legal arguments. Indeed, some states’ extrapolation of legal arguments seem to pass a limit of permissiveness, where their actions no longer clearly follow from the universal legal principles under discussion, leaving the door open to counter-contestation and dissent. In this light, legal contestation can be understood as a self-interested process, in which states attempt to use their questioning of other states' legality to build their own empowered position from which to act. This thesis provides insight into questions about the relevance and effectiveness of international law in foreign policy justifications and the extent to which law can both empower and constrain states’ actions and positions.
The different origins of magnetic fields and activity in the Hertzsprung gap stars, OU Andromedae and 31 Comae
Creators: name: Borisova, A.
name: Aurière, M.
name: Petit, P.
name: Konstantinova-Antova, R.
name: Charbonnel, C.
name: Drake, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: When crossing the Hertzsprung gap, intermediate-mass stars develop a convective envelope. Fast rotators on the main sequence, or Ap star descendants, are expected to become magnetic active subgiants during this evolutionary phase. Aims: We compare the surface magnetic fields and activity indicators of two active, fast rotating red giants with similar masses and spectral class but diferent rotation rates - OU And (Prot=24.2 d) and 31 Com (Prot=6.8 d) - to address the question of the origin of their magnetism and high activity. Methods: Observations were carried out with the Narval spectropolarimeter in 2008 and 2013.We used the least squares deconvolution technique to extract Stokes V and I profiles to detect Zeeman signatures of the magnetic field of the stars. We provide Zeeman-Doppler imaging, activity indicator monitoring, and a precise estimation of stellar parameters. We use stellar evolutionary models to infer the evolutionary status and the initial rotation velocity on the main sequence. Results: The detected magnetic field of OU And is a strong one. Its longitudinal component Bl reaches 40 G and presents an about sinusoidal variation with reversal of the polarity. The magnetic topology of OU And is dominated by large scale elements and is mainly poloidal with an important dipole component, and a significant toroidal component. The detected magnetic field of 31 Com is weaker, with a magnetic map showing a more complex field geometry, and poloidal and toroidal components of equal contributions. The evolutionary models show that the progenitors of OU And and 31 Com must have been rotat Conclusions: OU And appears to be the probable descendant of a magnetic Ap star, and 31 Com the descendant of a relatively fast rotator on the main sequence.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Achyranthes sicula All.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Achyranthes
Achyranthes sicula

description: Achyranthes aspera Linnaeus var. sicula Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1:204. 1753. RCN: 1654. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 287.1 (LINN); [icon] in Boccone, Icon. Descr. Rar. Pl. Siciliae: 16, 17, t. 9. 1674; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 260, f. 2. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 26. 1696. Current name:  Achyranthes sicula (L.) All. (Amaranthaceae). Note: Townsend (in Bosser & al., Fl. Mascareignes 142: 21. 1994) stated "Type: Amaranthus radice perpetua, t. 9 in Herb. Boccone (P. holo.: photo.!)" but it is unclear if this is a copy of Boccone’s published figure (in which case it can be the type), or a specimen (which would not have been seen by Linnaeus and therefore cannot be the type).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Hyperspectral Data Quality Report 24/04/2009
Creators: name: Groom, Steve
name: Grant, Mike
name: Taylor, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040468.html

description: Hyperspectral Data Quality Report 24/04/2009
description: Previously curated at: http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/787/ The publish date on this item was its original published date. Associated projects: ARSF Main files in this record: data_quality-20090424.pdf Item originally deposited with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) document repository by Mr KC Paxman. Transferred to CEDA document repository community on Zenodo on 2022-11-24
The Feynman rules for neutrinos and new neutralinos in BLMSSM
Creators: name: Dong, Xing-Xing
name: Zhao, Shu-Min
name: Zhang, Hai-Bin
name: Wang, Fang
name: Feng, Tai-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a supersymmetric extension of the standard model where baryon and lepton numbers are local gauge symmetries(BLMSSM), we deduce the Feynman rules for neutrinos and new neutralinos. We briey introduce the mass matrices for the particles and the related couplings in this work, which are very useful to research the neutrinos and new neutralinos.
description: Accepted by Chinese Physics C
Nothosaerva brachiata Wight 1853
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Nothosaerva
Nothosaerva brachiata

description: Achyranthes brachiata Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 186; Mantissa Plantarum: 50. 1767. "Habitat in Suratte." RCN: 1670. Basionym of: Illecebrum brachiatum (L.) L. (1771). Lectotype (Townsend in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 71: 32. 1974): Herb. Linn. No. 290.1 (LINN). Current name:  Nothosaerva brachiata (L.) Wight (Amaranthaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Delayed Choice Experiments and the Bohm Approach
Creators: name: Hiley, B. J.
name: Callaghan, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The delayed choice experiments of the type introduced by Wheeler and extended by Englert, Scully, Süssmann and Walther [ESSW], and others, have formed a rich area for investigating the puzzling behaviour of particles undergoing quantum interference. The surprise provided by the original delayed choice experiment, led Wheeler to the conclusion that "no phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon", a radical explanation which implied that "the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present". However Bohm, Dewdney and Hiley have shown that the Bohm interpretation gives a straightforward account of the behaviour of the particle without resorting to such a radical explanation. The subsequent modifications of this experiment led both Aharonov and Vaidman and [ESSW] to conclude that the resulting Bohm-type trajectories in these new situations produce unacceptable properties. For example, if a cavity is placed in one arm of the interferometer, it will be excited by a particle travelling down the {\em other} arm. In other words it is the particle that does {\em not} go through the cavity that gives up its energy! If this analysis is correct, this behaviour would be truly bizarre and could only be explained by an extreme non-local transfer of energy that is even stronger than that required in an EPR-type processes. In this paper we show that this conclusion is not correct and that if the Bohm interpretation is used correctly, it gives a {\em local} explanation, which actually corresponds exactly to the standard quantum mechanics explanation offered by Englert, Scully, Süssmann and Walther [ESSW].
description: 33 pages. 8 figures
Charged analog of anisotropic dark energy star in Rastall gravity
Creators: name: Rej, Pramit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark energy is one of the potential strategies for preventing compact objects from gravitationally collapsing into singularities. Because it is the cause of the accelerated expansion of our universe, it has the greatest impact on the cosmos. Thus, it is plausible that dark energy will interact with any stellar object that is compact in the universe [\textit{Phys. Rev. D} \textbf{103}, 084042 (2021)]. Our main goal in this work is to create a simplified model, in the Rastall gravitational framework, of a charged strange star coupled to anisotropic dark energy in Krori-Barua spacetime [\textit{J. Phys. A, Math. Gen.} \textbf{8}:508, 1975]. Here, we consider a specific strange star object, Her X-1, with observed values of mass $=(0.85 \pm 0.15)M_{\odot}$ and radius $= 8.1_{-0.41}^{+0.41}$ km., so that we can develop our model. In this context, we began by modeling dark energy using the equation of state (EoS), in which the dark energy density is proportional to the isotropic perfect fluid matter-energy density. The Darmois-Israel condition has been used to calculate the unknown constants that are present in the metric. We perform a detailed analysis of the model's physical properties, including the mass-radius relation, pressure, density, metric function, and dark energy parameters, by varying the Rastall coupling parameter. We also examine the stability and force equilibrium of our proposed stellar configuration. Following a comprehensive theoretical analysis, we discovered that our suggested model is both singularity-free and meets all stability requirements needed to be a stable, physically reasonable stellar model.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics on 22.08.2024
Paramesius fasciatipennis Cameron 1888
Creators: name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diapriidae
Paramesius
Paramesius fasciatipennis

description: Paramesius fasciatipennis Cameron, 1888: 437, pl. 18, fig. 18.
Valid name
Spilomicrus fasciatipennis (Cameron, 1888).
Summary of types
Syntype ♀, BMNH number 9.639. Syntypes ♀, ♂.
Primary type data
Bugaba,/ Panama / Champion; Type/ H.T.; B.C.A. Hymen. I./ Paramesius / fasciatipennis/ Cam.; Paramesius / fasciatipennis/ Cam. type (syntype ♀). Fasciati-/ pennis; V.de Chiriqui / 25-4000ft / Champion; P.Cameron Coll./ 1914-110 (syntype ♀). Maculi-/ fasciati-/ pennis; V.de Chiriqui / 25-4000ft / Champion; P.Cameron Coll./ 1914-110 (syntype ♂).
Type locality
Panama, Bugaba, Volcán de Chiriquí.
Remarks
This species was described from at least one specimen of each sex. Two female and one male syntypes were found. Cameron appears to have later changed his mind about the identification of the male, crossing out the name fasciatipennis and replacing it with maculipennis; however, this specimen is clearly the male referred to as it agrees so well with the description, and not with that of maculipennis. Another female labelled “fasciatipennis” differs significantly from the description in having shallow notauli, a shorter petiole, different antennal proportions, the altitude is wrong, and it is not considered syntypic. All three syntypes are mounted on cards and are entire.
description: Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on page 30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/3862773
Producing Fully-Charmed Tetraquarks via Charm Quark Fragmentation in Colliders
Creators: name: Bai, Xiao-Wei
name: Feng, Feng
name: Gan, Chang-Man
name: Huang, Yingsheng
name: Sang, Wen-Long
name: Zhang, Hong-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD), we calculate the fragmentation function for a charm quark into an $S$-wave fully-charmed tetraquark, denoted as $T_{4c}$. The charm-to-$T_{4c}$ fragmentation function is expressed as a sum of products of the perturbatively calculable short-distance coefficients and the nonperturbative long-distance matrix elements (LDMEs). The short-distance coefficients are ascertained through the perturbative matching procedure at lowest order in $α_{s}$ expansion. The LDMEs are approximated using the $T_{4c}$ four-body wave functions at the origin, which have been evaluated by various phenomenological potential models in literature. Incorporating the celebrated QCD factorization and the charm-to-$T_{4c}$ fragmentation function, we predict the $T_{4c}$ production rate at high transverse momentum $p_T$ regime in colliders. %After implementing appropriate kinematic constraints, Both the differential distribution over $p_T$ and the integrated cross sections are predicted at the \texttt{LHC}. The cross sections for $T_{4c}$ states production can reach several femtobarns to several hundreds femtobarns, suggesting a substantial potential for $T_{4c}$ event production at the \texttt{LHC}. Additionally, we estimate for the photoproduction of $T_{4c}$ in electron-proton ($ep$) collisions. It is observed that the cross sections for these processes are moderate at the \texttt{HERA} and \texttt{EIC}, and relatively small at the \texttt{EicC}. Given the luminosities of these colliders, the prospect of detecting these fully-charmed tetraquarks at $ep$ colliders is somewhat challenging.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables; significant enhancement aligns with the published edition
Polycarpaea corymbosa Lam.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Polycarpaea
Polycarpaea corymbosa

description: Achyranthes corymbosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 205. 1753. "Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 1658. Lectotype (Turrill in Turrill & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Caryophyllaceae: 8. 1956): Herb. Hermann 3: 3, No. 100 (BM-000621797). Current name:  Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. (Caryophyllaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Edge-Disjoint Node-Independent Spanning Trees in Dense Gaussian Networks
Creators: name: AlBdaiwi, Bader
name: Hussain, Zaid
name: Cerny, Anton
name: Aldred, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Independent trees are used in building secure and/or fault-tolerant network communication protocols. They have been investigated for different network topologies including tori. Dense Gaussian networks are potential alternatives for 2-dimensional tori. They have similar topological properties; however, they are superiors in carrying communications due to their node-distance distributions and smaller diameters. In this paper, we present constructions of edge-disjoint node-independent spanning trees in dense Gaussian networks. Based on the constructed trees, we design algorithms that could be used in fault-tolerant routing or secure message distribution.