cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainable supplier selection and order allocation: a fuzzy approach
Creators: name: Khoshfetrat, Sahar
name: Galankashi, Masoud Rahiminezhad
name: Almasi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: This research develops a fuzzy, multi-objective, multi-product and multi-period mathematical model for sustainable supplier selection and order allocation in the automotive industry. The problem has been investigated in previous studies, but order allocation in fuzzy environments has attracted less attention. To fill this gap, this research integrates sustainable supplier selection and order allocation with inflation, risk and fuzzy uncertainties. The most important criteria of sustainable supplier selection are developed to select the suppliers. The supplier selection process is conducted using an analytical hierarchy process. The order allocation process determines the optimum purchasing quantity of items from each supplier in each period. To achieve this, six objective functions, total cost, economic score, environmental score, social score, inflation rate and risk level, and the related constraints are considered in the model. An approach to a solution and sensitivity analysis are also provided. The results identify the best suppliers and optimum order allocation.
TouchVR: a Wearable Haptic Interface for VR Aimed at Delivering Multi-modal Stimuli at the User's Palm
Creators: name: Trinitatova, Daria
name: Tsetserukou, Dzmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: TouchVR is a novel wearable haptic interface which can deliver multimodal tactile stimuli on the palm by DeltaTouch haptic display and vibrotactile feedback on the fingertips by vibration motors for the Virtual Reality (VR) user. DeltaTouch display is capable of generating 3D force vector at the contact point and presenting multimodal tactile sensation of weight, slippage, encounter, softness, and texture. The VR system consists of HTC Vive Pro base stations and head-mounted display (HMD), and Leap Motion controller for tracking the user's hands motion in VR. The MatrixTouch, BallFeel, and RoboX applications have been developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed technology. A novel haptic interface can potentially bring a new level of immersion of the user in VR and make it more interactive and tangible.
description: 2 pages, Accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 XR
Resonant Production of Scalar Diquarks at the Next Generation Electron-Positron Colliders
Creators: name: Gusso, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the potential of TESLA and JLC/NLC electron-positron linear collider designs to observe diquarks produced resonantly in processes involving hard photons.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, coded in RevTEX, uses epsfig
Intelligent Device Selection in Federated Edge Learning with Energy Efficiency
Creators: name: Peng, Cheng
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2021
Subjects: federated learning
edge computing
reinforcement learning
energy consumption
dynamic programming

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: Due to the increasing demand from mobile devices for the real-time response of cloud computing services, federated edge learning (FEL) emerges as a new computing paradigm, which utilizes edge devices to achieve efficient machine learning while protecting their data privacy. Implementing efficient FEL suffers from the challenges of devices' limited computing and communication resources, as well as unevenly distributed datasets, which inspires several existing research focusing on device selection to optimize time consumption and data diversity. However, these studies fail to consider the energy consumption of edge devices given their limited power supply, which can seriously affect the cost-efficiency of FEL with unexpected device dropouts. To fill this gap, we propose a device selection model capturing both energy consumption and data diversity optimization, under the constraints of time consumption and training data amount. Then we solve the optimization problem by reformulating the original model and designing a novel algorithm, named E2DS, to reduce the time complexity greatly. By comparing with two classical FEL schemes, we validate the superiority of our proposed device selection mechanism for FEL with extensive experimental results. Furthermore, for each device in a real FEL environment, it is the fact that multiple tasks will occupy the CPU at the same time, so the frequency of the CPU used for training fluctuates all the time, which may lead to large errors in computing energy consumption. To solve this problem, we deploy reinforcement learning to learn the frequency so as to approach real value. And compared to increasing data diversity, we consider a more direct way to improve the convergence speed using loss values. Then we formulate the optimization problem that minimizes the energy consumption and maximizes the loss values to select the appropriate set of devices. After reformulating the problem, we design a new algorithm FCE2DS as the solution to have better performance on convergence speed and accuracy. Finally, we compare the performance of this proposed scheme with the previous scheme and the traditional scheme to verify the improvement of the proposed scheme in multiple aspects.
Buninotus Maldonado Capriles 1981
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Buninotus

description: Buninotus Maldonado Capriles, 1981
Type species: Buninotus niger Maldonado Capriles, 1981. By monotypy, two species included.
Diagnosis: First visible labial segment with a pair of spiniform setae; second visible labial segment with a pair of strong setae; anterior pronotal lobe with four protuberances, a pair on each anterior and posterior regions; humeral angles spined; scutellum with a long, inclined process; procoxae, profemora, and protibiae with long spiniform setae; protibiae curved; meso- and metafemora with a pair of spiniform setae at apex; and forewings with three closed cells (Castro-Huertas et al. 2023). In addition, gular region with simple setae; spines of the humeral angles nearly two times longer than its base; subapical posterior region of tergite 9 with a folding; and gonocoxa 8 nearly rectangular, with the medial margin produced.
Examined material: Buninotus niger Maldonado Capriles, 1981: PANAMA: one male, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 14.xi.2012, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W, light trap LT-ARM 4- Nov2012 -A,Bobadilla,Rodríguez,Hernández,Pérez/BCI63328 (STRI); one female, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 20.v.2012, 8°59’ N 79°33’ W, light trap LT-WHE 1-MAY2012 -A Bobadilla, Rodríguez, Hernández, Pérez/BCI53469 (STRI); one female, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is.; 14.xi.2012, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W, Light trap LT-ARM 4-NOV2012 -A, Bobadilla, Rodríguez, Hernández, Pérez/BCI63348 (STRI); one female, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 14.xi.2012, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W, Light trap LT-ARM 3-NOV2012 -A, Bobadilla, Rodríguez, Hernández, Pérez/BCI62746 (STRI); one female, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 5-6.ix.2013, 8°59’ N 79°33’ W, light trap LT-WHE 1-SEP2013 -B, Bobadilla, Pérez, Bonilla, López/BCI76588 (STRI). Buninotus palikur Castro-Huertas, Forero and Melo, 2022: one female, holotype, FRENCH GUIANA: Saül, 1.vii.2008, PL, SEAG magnolia réc/ Buninotus palikur Castro-Huertas, Forero and Melo 2022 (MNHN); five females, paratypes, FRENCH GUIANA: Kaw, PK 37.5, Malaise, 29.xii.2001, Cerda, J. leg. (MLP); Mt. Chevaux, 11.vii.2009, vitre, SEAG réc (JMB); Mt. des Chevaux, 7.xi.2011, Piège vitre, SEAG réc (JMB); Patawa, PK37, malaise, 3.iv.2002, J. Cerda leg. (JMB); Nouragues I, 23.ii.2011, Vitre Camp, SEAG réc (JMB).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-20 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171, http://zenodo.org/record/14826033
Workshop: Online Data Tools for Curricular Use: Raising the Bar on Data Literacy for Undergraduates
Creators: name: Lackie, Paula
name: Brennecke, Adrienne
name: Chiu-Chuang (Lu) Chou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: With tools like SDA, NESSTAR DataVerse, and more specific tools like ICPSR's Online Learning Center, BADGIR, Earth Exploration Toolbook, and FRED, we can help improve undergraduate experience with data. These tools empower students to reference compelling evidence and overcome the temptation to use weasel words. Join us to compare and contrast these web-based resources with particular focus on undergraduate research and writing.
The effect of Homodyne-based feedback control on quantum speed limit time
Creators: name: Haseli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The minimal time a system requires to transform from an initial state to target state is defined as the quantum speed limit time. quantum speed limit time can be applied to quantify the maximum speed of the evolution of a quantum system. Quantum speed limit time is inversely related to the speed of evolution of a quantum system. That is, shorter quantum speed limit time means higher speed of quantum evolution. In this work, we study the quantum speed limit time of a two-level atom under Homodyne-based feedback control. The results show that the quantum speed limit time is decreased by increasing feedback coefficient. So, Homodyne-based feedback control can induce speedup the evolution of quantum system.
Indicators everywhere: The new accountability of agricultural policy?
Creators: name: Wieck, Christine
name: Hausmann, Isabell
name: Wieck, Christine
name: Hausmann, Isabell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Policy monitoring
subject: indicator
subject: SDGs
subject: agro-environmental policies

description: 232 indicators have been selected to monitor the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation (UN 2018), the European Union (EU) Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF), introduced with the aim of measuring the performance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) implementation of the CAP reform 2014-2020, counts 45 context indicators, 84 output indicators, 41 result indicators, 24 target indicators and sixteen impact indicators (EU COM 2018). Questions such as overlap and synergies between different indicator systems, but also questions regarding the appropriate choice and targeting of chosen indicators (e.g. environmental issues or state of animal welfare) or lack of indicators for specific context and fields of controversies (e.g. external dimension of the CAP) arise. This work aims to address questions of choice, overlap and synergies across different indicator systems with a focus on CAP indicators and the SDG indicator system. Special attention is be given to the proposed agri-environmental indicators. In a comparative, descriptive analysis, we qualitatively compare the indicator systems provided for the measuring of the EU agricultural sector and SDG performance and identify synergies, overlap or lack of alignment. The results further the understanding of synergies and linkages between the indicator systems and facilitate
Majorization criterion for distillability of a bipartite quantum state
Creators: name: Hiroshima, Tohya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bipartite quantum states are classified into three categories: separable states, bound entangled states, and free entangled states. It is of great importance to characterize these families of states for the development of quantum information science. In this paper, I show that the separable states and the bound entangled states have a common spectral property. More precisely, I prove that for undistillable -- separable and bound entangled -- states, the eigenvalue vector of the global system is majorized by that of the local system. This result constitutes a new sufficient condition for distillability of bipartite quantum states. This is achieved by proving that if a bipartite quantum state satisfies the reduction criterion for distillability, then it satisfies the majorization criterion for separability.
description: 4 pages, no figures, REVTEX. A new lemma (Lemma 2) added. To appear in Physical Review Letters
Workshop: Introduction to IPUMS and NHGIS: Analyzing and Mapping Demographic Data
Creators: name: Genadek, Katie
name: VanRiper, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: In this day-long two-part workshop, representatives from the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) will demonstrate the very latest harmonized resources for social, demographic, geographic and health research. The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is one of the world's leading developers of demographic data resources. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the content of the MPC data resources and receive basic information about how to get and use the data, which are available free over the internet. The first part of this workshop will focus on the IPUMS projects, which include census and survey microdata data from over 80 countries. Attendees will download the data over the internet and analyze in a statistical package, and use the online analysis system to perform analyses without a statistical package. The second part of this workshop will focus on the NHGIS, which provides aggregate census data from 1790-present. Attendees will learn how the data are constructed, how to obtain the data, and then they will graph it using GIS.
Additional file 1 of Cellular dosimetry of [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-[Tyr3]octreotate radionuclide therapy: the impact of modeling assumptions on the correlation with in vitro cytotoxicity
Creators: name: Tamborino, Giulia
name: Saint-Hubert, Marijke
name: Struelens, Lara
name: Seoane, Dayana
name: Ruigrok, Eline
name: Aerts, An
name: Wiggert Cappellen
name: Jong, Marion
name: Konijnenberg, Mark
name: Nonnekens, Julie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Unbound radioactivity in the medium for different radioactivity concentrations (0.1-2.5MBq/ml) during the 6 days follow-up. Table S1. Self S-values comparison between different morphological assumptions for the cell geometry. The shaded areas guide the comparison of subcellular S-value for similar volumes. Table S2. Effect of cellular volume and source location on the self-dose to the nucleus. Table S3. Effect of cellular volume on the total cross-dose to the nucleus from different source locations. Table S4. Effect of distance between cells on the total cross-dose for different source locations. Table S5. Effect of nucleus placement on the self-dose to nucleus for different source locations. Table S6. Effect of nucleus placement on the total cross-dose to nucleus. Table S7. Unbound (medium), membrane bound and internalized fractions of activity (per cell) for different radioactivity concentrations (0.1-2.5MBq/ml) during the first 4 h uptake and the next 6 days follow up. Table S8. S-values calculated for the 4 h uptake (cellular distance of 1 diameter) and the follo6 days colony forming (from single cells to clusters of increasing size) for different assumptions related to cellular geometry (truncated cone, PM and sphere) and localization of the internalized source (cytoplasm or Golgi for PM).
Symmetric Quantification of Inclusivity/Exclusivity
Creators: name: Mian, Shehrose Ahmad
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024
Subjects: big think
entropy
mechanical entropy
philosophical physics
sean carroll

description: Philosopher Shehrose Mian questions why first-order logic (of both Russellian and Quinean design) uses inclusive and exclusive operators for disjunctions but nowhere else. Through his questioning, he reformulates Russell's 'barber paradox' (or 'set of all sets' paradox) to discover more space for logical joints to describe as well as more precision to logic's identification of ambiguity altogether through the use of 'symmetry'.
SDSS galaxy bias from halo mass-bias relation and its cosmological implications
Creators: name: Seljak, U.
name: Makarov, A.
name: Mandelbaum, R.
name: Hirata, C.
name: Padmanabhan, N.
name: McDonald, P.
name: Blanton, M.
name: Tegmark, M.
name: Bahcall, N.
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine the measurements of luminosity dependence of bias with the luminosity dependent weak lensing analysis of dark matter around galaxies to derive the galaxy bias and constrain nonlinear mass and cosmological parameters. We take advantage of theoretical and simulation predictions that predict that while halo bias is rapidly increasing with mass for high masses, it is nearly constant in low mass halos. We use a new weak lensing analysis around the same SDSS galaxies to determine their halo mass probability distribution. These halo mass probability distributions are used to predict the bias for each luminosity subsample and we find an excellent agreement with observed values. The required nonlinear mass suggests slightly lower matter density than usually assumed, Omegam=0.25+/- 0.03 for the simplest models. We combine the bias constraints with those from the WMAP and the SDSS power spectrum analysis to derive new constraints on bias and sigma_8. For the most general parameter space we find sigma_8=0.88+/- 0.06 and b_*=0.99+/- 0.07. In the context of spatially flat models we improve the limit on the neutrino mass for the case of 3 degenerate families from m_nu<0.6eV without bias to m_nu<0.18eV with bias (95% c.l.), which is weakened to m_nu<0.24eV if running is allowed. The corresponding limit for 3 massless + 1 massive neutrino is 1.37eV.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, accepted in PRD
Enhancing the curvature mode shape method for structural damage severity estimation by means of the distributed genetic algorithm
Creators: name: Bagherkhani, Ali
name: Abdolhossein Baghlani
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An important challenge in damage detection based on the curvature mode shape (CMS) method is recognizing damage severity in damaged structures. Here, an efficient approach is proposed based on the finite element (FE) method, which detects the existence, location and severity of damage using the distributed genetic algorithm in conjunction with CMS. First, using the mode shape of the structure, curvature is calculated at the nodes of the structure in the FE model. By comparing the curvature between the intact and damaged structures, the existence and location of damage are determined. Next, by defining an optimization problem, damage severity in the damaged elements is determined. Results of applying the proposed approach on beam and frame structures under various damage scenarios and an experimental set-up show that this method is very effective in damage detection of such structures. Furthermore, the performance and accuracy of the proposed method are examined for various noise levels.
Quick Guide to Educational Polling in the Social Sciences Classroom (Higher Education)
Creators: name: Hinton, Danielle
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390307
subject: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: This resource provides guidance to using polling in an educational setting such as Higher Education.1. Explain why2. Why consider polling3. General framework for thinking about question design4. Taxonomy of Educational Polling questions5. Orientation type questions6. Polling Question Design Tactics
Benchmarking Deep Spiking Neural Networks on Neuromorphic Hardware
Creators: name: Ostrau, Christoph
name: Homburg, Jonas
name: Klarhorst, Christian
name: Thies, Michael
name: Rückert, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With more and more event-based neuromorphic hardware systems being developed at universities and in industry, there is a growing need for assessing their performance with domain specific measures. In this work, we use the methodology of converting pre-trained non-spiking to spiking neural networks to evaluate the performance loss and measure the energy-per-inference for three neuromorphic hardware systems (BrainScaleS, Spikey, SpiNNaker) and common simulation frameworks for CPU (NEST) and CPU/GPU (GeNN). For analog hardware we further apply a re-training technique known as hardware-in-the-loop training to cope with device mismatch. This analysis is performed for five different networks, including three networks that have been found by an automated optimization with a neural architecture search framework. We demonstrate that the conversion loss is usually below one percent for digital implementations, and moderately higher for analog systems with the benefit of much lower energy-per-inference costs.
description: The final authenticated publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61616-8_49
Characterization and Assessment of Lung and Bone Marrow Derived Endothelial Cells and their Bone Regenerative Potential
Creators: name: Valuch, Conner R.
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2021
Subjects: Endothelial Progenitor Cells
Angiogenesis
Fracture Healing
Vasculogenesis

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: Fracture repair is costly and difficult to treat. One of the main causations of nonunion is a lack of essential blood supply. The needed blood is supplied by the growth of new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis, that invade the damaged tissue early in the healing process. We proposed using bone tissue engineering as an effective therapy. This therapy uses stem cells to aid in tissue regeneration. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) were selected due to their ability to form tube-like networks in vitro. EPCs were isolated from murine bone marrow and lung tissue. We tested EPC’s tube forming, proliferative, and wound migration ability in vitro. To test their ability in vivo we created a femoral fracture in young and old mice. EPCs were seeded to the fracture site upon a collagen scaffold. The in vitro studies displayed that the bone marrow and lung-derived endothelial cells presented EPC traits. In the mouse fracture model bone marrow, endothelial cells did not significantly improve the healing process. In the future, we want to improve our cell extraction and purification method, as well as test a new stem cell delivery biomaterial. We also want to select and use a growth factor (GF) that can help to promote bone regeneration in tandem with the EPCs.
Post climate catastrophe and the pursuit of solace
Creators: name: Parsons, Kevin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This project accepts that climate change will continue to fuel the presence, severity, and continuation of global climate catastrophes. It also acknowledges that western forms of fire management innately hold damaging forms of colonial ideologies. Subsequent ideologies do not fully admit the dynamic forms of landscape identity that occur temporally and spatially within a given community and individual. It also does not fully represent the deeper forms of solace and wayfinding that should occur. Landscape architecture as a profession must begin to accept and embrace catastrophic forest fires as a way of life for many communities. This project will begin to understand the literature involving post climate catastrophe landscapes that will inform a series of design interventions post catastrophe in Lytton, British Columbia. Specifically, it will aim to provide foundational knowledge and insight that will influence present and future post catastrophe landscapes.
Refunding of a climate tax on food consumption: empirical evidence for Sweden
Creators: name: Gren, Ing-Marie
name: Höglind, Lisa
name: Jansson, Torbjörn
name: Gren, Ing-Marie
name: Höglind, Lisa
name: Jansson, Torbjörn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: climate tax
subject: meat
subject: tax refunding
subject: double dividend
subject: partial equilibrium analysis
subject: Sweden

description: Refunding of climate taxes on consumption of food might reduce the resistance towards the introduction of such a tax, which is necessary to achieve climate targets. This paper examines the implication of refunding a tax on consumption of food in Sweden under three refunding schemes; lump sum, in proportion to agricultural area, and payments for ecosystem services on agricultural land (carbon sink enhancement by restoration of drained peatland, biodiversity provision from increased area of grassland, and nutrient regulation by construction of wetlands). The theoretical results showed that economic and environmental conditions can improve compared with the no tax case under all three schemes, but to different farmer categories. The empirical results from a partial agricultural sector model showed that the introduction of a climate tax corresponding to the Swedish tax of 115 Euro per ton CO2e reduces total emissions by 5% without any refunding of the total tax incomes which correspond to 1.391 billion Euro. Refunding with payments for restoration of drained peatlands enhance carbon sink corresponding to 5.9 million metric tons of CO2e and results in net benefit of the tax system as a whole but not for all farmer categories.
Charge Transport in DNA-Based Devices
Creators: name: Porath, Danny
name: Cuniberti, Gianaurelio
name: Di Felice, Rosa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Charge migration along DNA molecules has attracted scientific interest for over half a century. Reports on possible high rates of charge transfer between donor and acceptor through the DNA, obtained in the last decade from solution chemistry experiments on large numbers of molecules, triggered a series of direct electrical transport measurements through DNA single molecules, bundles and networks. These measurements are reviewed and presented here. From these experiments we conclude that electrical transport is feasible in short DNA molecules, in bundles and networks, but blocked in long single molecules that are attached to surfaces. The experimental background is complemented by an account of the theoretical/computational schemes that are applied to study the electronic and transport properties of DNA-based nanowires. Examples of selected applications are given, to show the capabilities and limits of current theoretical approaches to accurately describe the wires, interpret the transport measurements, and predict suitable strategies to enhance the conductivity of DNA nanostructures.
description: A single pdf file of 52 pages, containing the text and 23 figures. Review about direct measurements of DNA conductivity and related theoretical studies. For higher-resolution figures contact the authors or retrieve the original publications cited in the captions
Gallobelgicus Distant 1906
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Gallobelgicus

description: Gallobelgicus Distant, 1906
Type species: Gallobelgicus typicus Distant, 1906. By monotypy, six species included.
The genus has been characterized by the clypeus armed with an anteriorly directed spine; head, first visible labial segment, procoxa, protrochanter, profemur, and protibia with large spiniform setae; humeral angles with long spines; and the first tarsal segment subequal to the lengths of the remaining segments combined (Rédei and Tsai 2010). Currently, Gallobelgicus consists of six species occurring in the Oriental region. Unfortunately, the type species was not included in our data matrix due to the lack of available specimens. Based on the paramere shape, Miller (1957) proposed a ‘ Gallobelgicus complex’ for the genera Gallobelgicus, Choreutocoris Miller, 1957, and Panagrocoris Miller, 1957. However, this grouping was not recovered in our phylogenetic hypothesis. On the other hand, Pristicoris has been previously related to Gallobelgicus (Miller, 1952, Rédei and Tsai, 2009), and our results are consistent with this hypothesis. However, we think that the missing data of the matrix (particularly of genitalic characters) have an important effect in the analysis and resulted in the recovery of Gallobelgicus as paraphyletic. All Gallobelgicus specimens included in the analysis are males, whereas in the case of Pristicoris the specimen studied is a female. It is probable that the inclusion of additional male and female specimens for both genera will help to solve their relationship.
Examined material: Gallobelgicus heissi Rédei and Tsai, 2009: one male, THAILAND: Chiang Mai prov., 20 km SW of FANG, 19°49’57 ʹʹ N 99°02’54 ʹʹ E, 11.i. 2006, 1450 m, Lgt. Becar S and Fouqué R (NMPC). Gallobelgicus nigrovittatus Ishikawa, 2003: one male, Paratype, THAILAND: Chiang Dao, Pa Kia, 4-6.v.2000, Seidai Nagashima /bv beating from dead leaves (TUA).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-20 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171, http://zenodo.org/record/14826033
Entanglement Hamiltonians and the quasiparticle picture
Creators: name: Rottoli, Federico
name: Rylands, Colin
name: Calabrese, Pasquale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) provides the most comprehensive characterization of bipartite entanglement in many-body quantum systems. Ground states of local Hamiltonians inherit this locality, resulting in EHs that are dominated by local, few-body terms. Unfortunately, in non-equilibrium situations, analytic results are rare and largely confined to continuous field theories, which fail to accurately describe microscopic models. To address this gap, we present an analytic result for the EH following a quantum quench in non-interacting fermionic models, valid in the ballistic scaling regime. The derivation adapts the celebrated quasiparticle picture to operators, providing detailed insights into its physical properties. The resulting analytic formula serves as a foundation for engineering EHs in quantum optics experiments.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
A Rough Guide to New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database
Creators: name: Fabling, Richard
name: Sanderson, Lynda
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Sanderson, Lynda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Firm-level data
subject: New Zealand
subject: Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)
subject: Longitudinal Business
subject: Database (LBD)

description: New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database is a rich resource for understanding the behaviour of New Zealand firms. This paper provides an introductory guide to the content and structure of the data aimed at new and prospective users. Where relevant, it references other publications which provide greater detail on particular aspects of the data. It also briefly describes access protocols for researchers, and processes for updating and expanding the database.
Origin of Earth's water: sources and constraints
Creators: name: Meech, Karen
name: Raymond, Sean N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the state of knowledge on the origin of Earth's water. Empirical constraints come from chemical and isotopic measurements of solar system bodies and of Earth itself. Dynamical models have revealed pathways for water delivery to Earth during its formation; most are anchored to specific models for terrestrial planet formation. Meanwhile, disk chemical models focus on determining how the isotopic ratios of the building blocks of planets varied as a function of radial distance and time, defining markers of material transported along those pathways. Carbonaceous chondrite meteorites -- representative of the outer asteroid belt -- match Earth's water isotopes (although mantle plumes have been measured at lower D/H). But how was this connection established -- did Earth's water originate among the asteroids (as in the classical model of terrestrial planet formation)? Or, more likely, was Earth's water delivered from the same parent population as the hydrated asteroids (e.g., external pollution, as in the Grand Tack model)? We argue that the outer asteroid belt -- the boundary between the inner and outer solar system -- is the next frontier for new discoveries. The outer asteroid belt contains a population of icy bodies with volatile-driven activity seen on twelve main belt comets (MBCs); seven of which exhibit sublimation-driven activity on repeated perihelion passages. Measurements of the isotopic characteristics of MBCs would provide essential missing links in the chain between disk models and dynamical models. Finally, we extrapolate to rocky exoplanets. Migration is the only mechanism likely to produce very water-rich planets with more than a few percent water by mass (and even with migration, some planets are pure rock). While water loss mechanisms remain to be studied in more detail, we expect that water should be delivered to the vast majority of rocky exoplanets.
description: Chapter to appear in Planetary Astrobiology (Editors: Victoria Meadows, Giada Arney, David Des Marais, and Britney Schmidt). 32 pages, 12 figures. Abstract shortened to fit
Additional file 1 of Insufficiency of prosthetic posterolateral overlap related to recurrence after laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty, as assessed by video review
Creators: name: Sato, Masanori
name: Nozawa, Masashi
name: Watanabe, Takahiro
name: Takanobu Onoda
name: Matsuyama, Atsuko
name: Norihiko Shiiya
name: Wada, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The type of groin hernia excerpted from The Japan Hernia Society (JHS) Classification. Table S2. Results of a univariate analysis of the items for future recurrence and control cases in the earlier period.
Workshop: Hands on DDI 3 with Colectica
Creators: name: Iverson, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: Colectica is a platform for creating, documenting, managing, distributing, and discovering data. Colectica is built on open standards including DDI 3.This training course covers the following topics: Introduction to Colectica Introduction to DDI 3 Documenting concepts and general study design Designing and documenting data collection instruments Creating and documenting data products Ingesting existing resources Publishing resources Hands-on: use Colectica to manage a sample study"
High-resolution agent-based modeling of COVID-19 spreading in a small town
Creators: name: Truszkowska, Agnieszka
name: Behring, Brandon
name: Hasanyan, Jalil
name: Zino, Lorenzo
name: Butail, Sachit
name: Caroppo, Emanuele
name: Jiang, Zhong-Ping
name: Rizzo, Alessandro
name: Porfiri, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities and the general population are striving to achieve a balance between safety and normalcy. Ever changing conditions call for the development of theory and simulation tools to finely describe multiple strata of society while supporting the evaluation of "what-if" scenarios. Particularly important is to assess the effectiveness of potential testing approaches and vaccination strategies. Here, an agent-based modeling platform is proposed to simulate the spreading of COVID-19 in small towns and cities, with a single-individual resolution. The platform is validated on real data from New Rochelle, NY -- one of the first outbreaks registered in the United States. Supported by expert knowledge and informed by reported data, the model incorporates detailed elements of the spreading within a statistically realistic population. Along with pertinent functionality such as testing, treatment, and vaccination options, the model accounts for the burden of other illnesses with symptoms similar to COVID-19. Unique to the model is the possibility to explore different testing approaches -- in hospitals or drive-through facilities -- and vaccination strategies that could prioritize vulnerable groups. Decision making by public authorities could benefit from the model, for its fine-grain resolution, open-source nature, and wide range of features.
description: 44 pages (including 16 of Supplementary Information). Published online in Advanced Theory and Simulations
Can “happiness data” help evaluate economic policies?
Creators: name: MacCulloch, Robert
name: MacCulloch, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: wellbeing
subject: happiness data
subject: unemployment benefit policy

description: Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase? “Happiness data” offer a new way to make these kinds of evaluations. These data allow us to track the well-being of the whole population, and also sub-groups like the employed and unemployed people, and correlate the results with relevant policy changes.
Estimation and Exploitation of Objects' Inertial Parameters in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation: A Survey
Creators: name: Mavrakis, Nikos
name: Stolkin, Rustam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inertial parameters characterise an object's motion under applied forces, and can provide strong priors for planning and control of robotic actions to manipulate the object. However, these parameters are not available a-priori in situations where a robot encounters new objects. In this paper, we describe and categorise the ways that a robot can identify an object's inertial parameters. We also discuss grasping and manipulation methods in which knowledge of inertial parameters is exploited in various ways. We begin with a discussion of literature which investigates how humans estimate the inertial parameters of objects, to provide background and motivation for this area of robotics research. We frame our discussion of the robotics literature in terms of three categories of estimation methods, according to the amount of interaction with the object: purely visual, exploratory, and fixed-object. Each category is analysed and discussed. To demonstrate the usefulness of inertial estimation research, we describe a number of grasping and manipulation applications that make use of the inertial parameters of objects. The aim of the paper is to thoroughly review and categorise existing work in an important, but under-explored, area of robotics research, present its background and applications, and suggest future directions. Note that this paper does not examine methods of identification of the robot's inertial parameters, but rather the identification of inertial parameters of other objects which the robot is tasked with manipulating.
description: To be published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier
title: Army ant middens – Home and nursery of a diverse beetle fauna
Creators: name: Beeren, Christoph von
name: Pohl, Sebastian
name: Fikáček, Martin
name: Kleinfelder, Stephan
name: Tishechkin, Alexey K.
name: Yamamoto, Shûhei
name: Chani‐Posse, Mariana
name: Żyła, Dagmara
name: Tokareva, Alexandra
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
name: Hall, W. Eugene
name: Sandoval, Liliana P.
name: Kronauer, Daniel J. C.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2024

description: Army ants provide nourishment to a large variety of animals. This includes birds that feed on animals flushed out by army ant raids, symbiotic arthropods that consume the ants' prey or their brood, and other arthropods that scavenge on army ant refuse deposits. The latter have not received much attention, and the few published studies lack detailed species identifications. Here we provide a first systematic inventory of the beetle fauna associated with refuse deposits of Eciton army ants, with a focus on Eciton burchellii. We collected 8364 adult beetles, 511 larvae, and 24 eggs from 34 deposits at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. We used a combination of DNA barcoding and morphology to identify a subset of 436 specimens to species level. The samples included several new species, and we here formally describe two water scavenger beetles (Hydrophilidae). Refuse deposits harbored a diverse beetle fauna. The identified subset consisted of 91 beetle species from 12 families, with rove beetles being the most abundant and diverse visitors. Of the 85 species found with E. burchellii, 50 species were collected from only one or two refuse deposits. Conversely, seven species were found in 10 or more refuse deposits, indicating a certain level of habitat specialization. We matched adults and immatures for 22 beetle species via DNA barcodes, demonstrating that army ant middens also serve as a beetle nursery. The present survey highlights the significant ecological function of army ants as promoters of biodiversity and their status as keystone species in tropical rainforests.
DMRG study of strongly interacting $\mathbb{Z}_2$ flatbands: a toy model inspired by twisted bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Eugenio, P. Myles
name: Dağ, Ceren B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong interactions between electrons occupying bands of opposite (or like) topological quantum numbers (Chern$=\pm1$), and with flat dispersion, are studied by using lowest Landau level (LLL) wavefunctions. More precisely, we determine the ground states for two scenarios at half-filling: (i) LLL's with opposite sign of magnetic field, and therefore opposite Chern number; and (ii) LLL's with the same magnetic field. In the first scenario -- which we argue to be a toy model inspired by the chirally symmetric continuum model for twisted bilayer graphene -- the opposite Chern LLL's are Kramer pairs, and thus there exists time-reversal symmetry ($\mathbb{Z}_2$). Turning on repulsive interactions drives the system to spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry -- a quantum anomalous Hall state described by one particle per LLL orbital, either all positive Chern $|++\cdots+>$ or all negative $|--\cdots->$. If instead, interactions are taken between electrons of like-Chern number, the ground state is an $SU(2)$ ferromagnet, with total spin pointing along an arbitrary direction, as with the $ν=1$ spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ quantum Hall ferromagnet. The ground states and some of their excitations for both of these scenarios are argued analytically, and further complimented by density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and exact diagonalization.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures. Improved presentation, typos fixed, more calculations
Additional file 1 of Y-box binding protein-1 is crucial in acquired drug resistance development in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Ninadh Dâ€™Costa
name: Lowerison, Matthew
name: Raven, Peter
name: Tan, Zheng
name: Roberts, Morgan
name: Raunak Shrestha
name: Urban, Matthew
name: Monjaras-Avila, Cesar
name: Htoo Oo
name: Hurtado-Coll, Antonio
name: Chavez-Munoz, Claudia
name: So, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supportive data for manuscript that are not shown in the main figures are provided as supplementary materials in Additional file 1: Figures 1, 2 and 3.