cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Where Do We Stand with Implicit Neural Representations? A Technical and Performance Survey
Creators: name: Essakine, Amer
name: Cheng, Yanqi
name: Cheng, Chun-Wun
name: Zhang, Lipei
name: Deng, Zhongying
name: Zhu, Lei
name: Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane
name: Aviles-Rivero, Angelica I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a paradigm in knowledge representation, offering exceptional flexibility and performance across a diverse range of applications. INRs leverage multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to model data as continuous implicit functions, providing critical advantages such as resolution independence, memory efficiency, and generalisation beyond discretised data structures. Their ability to solve complex inverse problems makes them particularly effective for tasks including audio reconstruction, image representation, 3D object reconstruction, and high-dimensional data synthesis. This survey provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art INR methods, introducing a clear taxonomy that categorises them into four key areas: activation functions, position encoding, combined strategies, and network structure optimisation. We rigorously analyse their critical properties, such as full differentiability, smoothness, compactness, and adaptability to varying resolutions while also examining their strengths and limitations in addressing locality biases and capturing fine details. Our experimental comparison offers new insights into the trade-offs between different approaches, showcasing the capabilities and challenges of the latest INR techniques across various tasks. In addition to identifying areas where current methods excel, we highlight key limitations and potential avenues for improvement, such as developing more expressive activation functions, enhancing positional encoding mechanisms, and improving scalability for complex, high-dimensional data. This survey serves as a roadmap for researchers, offering practical guidance for future exploration in the field of INRs. We aim to foster new methodologies by outlining promising research directions for INRs and applications.
title: Epithalamion in nuptiarum festivitatem ornatissimi omnique virtutum ac doctirinarum genere praestantissimi juvenis, Dn. M. Ioannis Sybothi Battimontani
Creators: name: Walther, Philipp
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: Festschrift
Manuscripts & rare books
Handschriften, seltene Bücher

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Epithalamion In Nvptiarvm Festivitatem Ornatissimi Omniqve Virtvtum ac doctirinarum genere præstantissimi juvenis, Dn. M. Ioannis Sybothi Battimontani : ... virginis Margarethæ, reverendi nec non pii viri, Dn. M. Ioannis Stippii, verbi divini apud Rödnavienses ... filiæ, quæ celebrabuntur Francobergæ 16. Maij, anni vertensis 1587 / cognationis ergó scriptum A Philippo Walthero Battimontano. - Marpurgi : Apud Paulum Egenolpum, MDLXXXVII. - [8] Seiten ; 4°. - 
Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - 
Signatur: VIII B 331 db, 23. - 
Werktitel: Epithalamion in nuptiarum festivitatem ornatissimi omnique virtutum ac doctirinarum genere praestantissimi juvenis, Dn. M. Ioannis Sybothi Battimontani. - 
Anmerkung: Titeleinrahmung (Holzschnitt). - 
I und J sowie U und V erscheinen in der Informationsquelle als indentische Type. - 
Titelvignette. - 
(Hassiaca)

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Time-based Torque Controller Extended Protocol Optimization Data from Shortcomings of human-in-the-loop optimization of an ankle-foot prosthesis emulator: a case series
Creators: name: Welker, Cara Gonzalez
name: Voloshina, Alexandra S.
name: Chiu, Vincent L.
name: Collins, Steven H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Metabolic data over time during the optimization of time-based torque controller parameters with the extended protocol demonstrate that there is no clear decreasing trend after the first generation.
Patch alignment manifold matting
Creators: name: Li, Xuelong
name: Liu, Kang
name: Dong, Yongsheng
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image matting is generally modeled as a space transform from the color space to the alpha space. By estimating the alpha factor of the model, the foreground of an image can be extracted. However, there is some dimensional information redundancy in the alpha space. It usually leads to the misjudgments of some pixels near the boundary between the foreground and the background. In this paper, a manifold matting framework named Patch Alignment Manifold Matting is proposed for image matting. In particular, we first propose a part modeling of color space in the local image patch. We then perform whole alignment optimization for approximating the alpha results using subspace reconstructing error. Furthermore, we utilize Nesterov's algorithm to solve the optimization problem. Finally, we apply some manifold learning methods in the framework, and obtain several image matting methods, such as named ISOMAP matting and its derived Cascade ISOMAP matting. The experimental results reveal that the manifold matting framework and its two examples are effective when compared with several representative matting methods.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
MOESM1 of Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and the associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in Northern Peru: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Leyva-Moral, Juan
name: Loayza-Enriquez, Blanca
name: Palmieri, Patrick
name: Guevara-Vasquez, Genesis
name: Elias-Bravo, Ursula
name: Edwards, Joan
name: Feijoo-Cid, María
name: Davila-Olano, Lucy
name: Rodriguez-Llanos, Juan
name: Leon-Jimenez, Franco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. All socio-demographic characteristics of PLHIV and ART adherence at the HIV clinic (2016–2017).
Probing anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings via e+e- --> 4fermions+gamma
Creators: name: Denner, A.
name: Dittmaier, S.
name: Roth, M.
name: Wackeroth, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All lowest-order amplitudes for e+e- --> 4f+gamma are calculated including five anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings that are allowed by electromagnetic gauge invariance and the custodial SU(2)_c symmetry. Three of these anomalous couplings correspond to the operators L_0, L_c, and L_n that have been constrained by the LEP collaborations in WWgamma production. The anomalous couplings are incorporated in the Monte Carlo generator RACOONWW. Moreover, for the processes e+e- --> 4f+gamma RACOONWW is improved upon including leading universal electroweak corrections such as initial-state radiation. The discussion of numerical results illustrates the size of the leading corrections as well as the impact of the anomalous quartic couplings for LEP2 energies and at 500GeV.
description: 27 pages, latex, 42 postscript files, some misprints corrected
Quantum Mpemba effect of localization in the dissipative mosaic model
Creators: name: Dong, J. W.
name: Mu, H. F.
name: Qin, M.
name: Cui, H. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum Mpemba effect in open quantum systems has been extensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon remains elusive. In this paper, we conduct an analytical investigation of the dissipative dynamics of single excitations in the The mosaic model. Surprisingly, we discover that the presence of an asymptotic mobility edge, denoted as $E_c^{\infty}$, can lead to unique dissipation behavior, serving as a hallmark of the quantum Mpemba effect. Especially, it is found that the energy level $E_c^{\infty}$ exhibits a global periodicity in the real configuration, which acts to inhibit dissipation in the system. Conversely, when the system deviates from $E_c^{\infty}$, the quasidisorder sets in, leading to increased dissipative effects due to the broken of periodicity. Furthermore, we find that the rate of dissipation is closely linked to the localization of the initial state. As a result, the quantum Mpemba effect can be observed clearly by a measure of localization.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables
Hycleus cichorii Elytral
Creators: name: Pan, Zhao
name: Ren, Guodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus cichorii

description: Hycleus cichorii (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 17)
 Meloe cichorii Linnaeus, 1758: 419. Type locality: “ Cichoriis totius orientis” (China). Type depository: LSUK.
 Mylabris cichorii: Fabricius, 1775: 261.
 Mylabris (Euzonabris) cichorii: Kuzin, 1954: 358.
 Mylabris cichorii ab. formosensis Kaszab, 1959: 438. Type locality: “ Formosa: Kagi ” (Taiwan, China). Type depository: HNHM.
 Mylabris (Euzonabris) cichorii ab. postscutellomaculata Kaszab, 1960: 259. Type locality: “ Kwangtung: Kwangchou ” (Guangdong, China). Type depository: IZCAS.
 Hycleus cichorii: Bologna, 2008: 386.
Distribution. China: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hong Kong; Japan; Vietnam; Laos; Thailand; India; Nepal.
 Remarks. Pan et al. (2011) wrongly recorded this species in Xizang. It was actually a clerical error.
 Funding This research was supported by the following grants: the Construction Foundation for Comprehensive Strength Promotion of Universities in Mid-western China to Hebei University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31572309, 31702040), the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of Hebei Province (B2015003007), and the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application (14967611D).
 Acknowledgements We wish to thank Prof. Hongzhang Zhou and Dr. Hongbin Liang (IZCAS), Prof. Xinpu Wang (NXU), Prof. Marco A. Bologna (University of “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy), Dr. Ottó Merkl (HNHM) and Dr. Max Barclay (BMNH) for permission to study the Meloidae preserved in their collections. In particular, we are grateful to Prof. Aimin Shi (CWNU) and Dr. Hu Li (CAU) for the present of some specimens. Finally, we thank to all persons who collected the specimens from Xizang for their hard field work.
description: Published as part of Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, pp. 66-88 in Zoological Systematics 43 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201807, http://zenodo.org/record/5366525
Guided Modes in Negative Refractive Index Waveguides
Creators: name: Shadrivov, Ilya V.
name: Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study linear guided waves propagating in a slab waveguide made of a negative-refraction- index material, the so-called left-handed waveguide. We reveal that the guided waves in left-handed waveguides possess a number of peculiar properties, such as the absence of the fundamental modes, mode double degeneracy, and sign-varying energy ux. In particular, we predict the existence of novel types of guided waves with a dipole-vortex structure of the Pointing vector.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Effects of SO(10) D-Term on Yukawa Unification and Unstable Minima of the Supersymmetric Scalar Potential
Creators: name: Datta, Amitava
name: Samanta, Abhijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of SO(10) D-terms on the allowed parameter space (APS) in models with $t - b - τ$ and $b - τ$ Yukawa unifiction. The former is allowed only for moderate values of the D-term, if very precise ($\le$ 5%) unification is required. Next we constrain the parameter space by looking for different dangerous directions where the scalar potential may be unbounded from below (UFB1 and UFB3). The common trilinear coupling $A_0$ plays a significant role in constraing the APS. For very precise $t - b - τ$ Yukawa unification, $-m_{16} < or \approx A_0 < or \approx m_{16}$ can be probed at the LHC, where $m_{16}$ is the common soft breaking mass for the sfermions. Moreover, an interesting mass hierarchy with very heavy sfermions but light gauginos, which is strongly disfavoured in models without D-terms, becomes fairly common in the presence of the D-terms. The APS exhibits interesting characteristics if $m_{16}$ is not the same as the soft breaking mass $m_{10}$ for the Higgs sector. In $b - τ$ unification models with D-terms, the APS consistent with Yukawa unification and radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, increases as the UFB1 constraint becomes weaker. However for $A_0 \leq 0$, a stronger UFB3 condition still puts, for a given $m_{16}$, a stringent upper bound on the common gaugino mass ($m_{1/2}$) and a lower bound on $m_{16}$ for a given $m_{1/2}$. The effects of sign of $μ$ on Yukawa unification and UFB constraints are also discussed.
description: Plain Latex, 22 pages, 11 figures. Small changes in the abstract, the pattern of discussion changed signifiantly, no change in the figures and results, a few new references added, version published in JPG
Cloning of symmetric d-level photonic states in physical systems
Creators: name: Fan, Heng
name: Weihs, Gregor
name: Matsumoto, Keiji
name: Imai, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimal procedures play an important role in quantum information. It turns out that some naturally occurring processes like emission of light from an atom can realize optimal transformations. Here we study how arbitrary symmetric states of a number of d-level systems can be cloned using a multilevel atomic system. It is shown that optimality is always ensured even though the output number of systems is probabilistic.
description: Revtex, 4 pages
Education, proximate determinants and fertility levels in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Hossain, Syeda Zakia
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Fertility, Human Bangladesh

description: This study investigates the effect of education, particularly the individual and the regional level of education, on fertility in Bangladesh, based on a subset of data from the Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) and the Household Survey conducted during 1975-76. The study examines effect of education on the proximate determinants of fertility, namely marriage, postpartum non-susceptibility to conception and contraception and their combined effect on overall fertility levels in education subgroups and areas. Bangladesh has been grouped into High, Moderate, Low and Lowest Education Areas based on the proportion of women with No Schooling. This study has been divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the aims, scope and importance of the study, the· source of data, and background information on the study population. Chapter 2 reviews the relevant literature, while Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the effect of individual and regional levels of education respectively. The Bongaarts model is used to quantify the contribution of proximate determinants of fertility and to determine the effect of education at both these levels . As shown in Chapter 3, a small amount of education tends to increase fertility at the individual level. However, those with higher education have the lowest fertility. At the regional level the effect of education is different, with overall fertility of the area falling as the proportion of educated women in the area increases. Some effect of the community level of education is evident for uneducated women living in a High Education Area. The contribution of the duration of postpartum non-susceptibility is stronger for less educated women and in areas where the overall level of education is lower, while marriage patterns and contraceptive use have important effects when education is high at both the individual and regional levels. Thus, an understanding of the effect of education on fertility at both the individual and regional level is important when population policies to reduce fertility levels are formulated.
Implications of the first neutral current data from SNO for Solar Neutrino Oscillation
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Abhijit
name: Choubey, Sandhya
name: Goswami, Srubabati
name: Roy, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform model independent and model dependent analyses of solar neutrino data including the neutral current event rate from SNO. The inclusion of the first SNO NC data in the model independent analysis determines the allowed ranges of $^{8}{B}$ flux normalisation and the $ν_e$ survival probability more precisely than what was possible from the SK and SNO CC combination. We perform global $ν_e-ν_{active}$ oscillation analyses of solar neutrino data using the NC rate instead of the SSM prediction for the $^{8}{B}$ flux, in view of the large uncertainty in the latter. The LMA gives the best solution, while the LOW solution is allowed only at the $3σ$ level.
description: Latest data included, minor clarifications and a reference added; final version to appear in PLB
Microctonus disonychae Loan
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus disonychae

description: M. disonychae Loan
Figures 40–43
 Microctonus disonychae Loan, 1967, p 233.
Distribution: U.S. and Canada.
Specimens examined: Sixty-five from 23 collection events; questionable female identifications: thirteen from ten collection events.
Flight period: Approximately 98% from May through August.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Equivariant IMU Preintegration with Biases: a Galilean Group Approach
Creators: name: Delama, Giulio
name: Fornasier, Alessandro
name: Mahony, Robert
name: Weiss, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This letter proposes a new approach for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) preintegration, a fundamental building block that can be leveraged in different optimization-based Inertial Navigation System (INS) localization solutions. Inspired by recent advances in equivariant theory applied to biased INSs, we derive a discrete-time formulation of the IMU preintegration on ${\mathbf{Gal}(3) \ltimes \mathfrak{gal}(3)}$, the left-trivialization of the tangent group of the Galilean group $\mathbf{Gal}(3)$. We define a novel preintegration error that geometrically couples the navigation states and the bias leading to lower linearization error. Our method improves in consistency compared to existing preintegration approaches which treat IMU biases as a separate state-space. Extensive validation against state-of-the-art methods, both in simulation and with real-world IMU data, implementation in the Lie++ library, and open-source code are provided.
Additional file 1: of Intact cord resuscitation versus early cord clamping in the treatment of depressed newborn infants during the first 10 minutes of birth (Nepcord III) – a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Andersson, Ola
name: Rana, Nisha
name: Ewald, Uwe
name: Målqvist, Mats
name: Stripple, Gunilla
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Subedi, Kalpana
name: KC, Ashish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: ANOVA analysis including post-hoc multiple comparisons comparing the infants divided into three groups, intact cord resuscitation per protocol (CC ≥ 180 s), intact cord resuscitation protocol violaton (CC
The EU Fruit and Vegetable Sector in the Post 2013 CAP Scenario
Creators: name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
name: Petriccione, Gaetana
name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
name: Petriccione, Gaetana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: fruit and vegetables
subject: CAP
subject: supply chain
subject: producer organizations
subject: vertical coordination

description: The current debate on the role of Producer Organizations (POs) for the fruit and vegetables (F&V) sector of the EU focusses on a changing competitive environment, with price instability and downward pressure on producers’ margins. With the aim of analysing perspective improvements of the common market organisation (CMO) for F&V in the new CAP, the article discusses the main structural changes affecting the F&V supply chain and the results of a recent survey on the implementation of the CMO reform of 2007 in the sector. Proposals for possible improvements in PO’s performance are examined, with special reference to the implications of contracts and competition policy, in shaping the role played by POs, their effectiveness in rebalancing the bargaining power of F&V producers and in sta- bilizing prices and income. Among the key measures provided by the current CMO, the article analyses in depth the performance and limitations of the package devoted to market risk and crisis management.
On predictions of the first results from RHIC
Creators: name: Eskola, Kari J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk, I will discuss the predictions of the first results from RHIC: the charged particle multiplicity $dN_{\rm ch}/dη$, its centrality dependence and the elliptic flow $v_2$.
description: A plenary review talk at Quark Matter 2001, Stony Brook, USA, January 2001, 10 pages
Perfect 1-factorisations of $K_{16}$
Creators: name: Gill, Michael J.
name: Wanless, Ian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We report the results of a computer enumeration that found that there are 3155 perfect 1-factorisations (P1Fs) of the complete graph $K_{16}$. Of these, 89 have a non-trivial automorphism group (correcting an earlier claim of 88 by Meszka and Rosa). We also (i) describe a new invariant which distinguishes between the P1Fs of $K_{16}$, (ii) observe that the new P1Fs produce no atomic Latin squares of order 15 and (iii) record P1Fs for a number of large orders that exceed prime powers by one.
Terrorist propaganda : the Red Army Faction and the Provisional IRA, 1968-1986
Creators: name: Wright, Joanne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Irish Republican Army
subject: Rote Armee Fraktion
subject: Propaganda
subject: Terrorism

description: In Western Europe, the late 1960's saw the emergence of many non-state terrorist groups. Twenty years later several of these groups are still in existence, and still perpetrating terrorist acts. This thesis explores some of the factors facilitating this survival. It concentrates on relating the ideologies and propaganda of two terrorist groups, the Red Army Faction and the Provisional IRA, to their wider operating environment. It concludes that there have been limited instances where the relationship between the two has been close, and terrorists have enjoyed success. The first part of this thesis addresses the question of why the terrorists are rejecting the society in which they live, and what alternative they are proposing? It focuses on ideology and ideological sources. The second part of the thesis asks to whom and what are the terrorists trying to communicate? It analyses the propaganda of both groups within a framework of target audiences; the uncommitted, the sympathetic and the active. The third part of this thesis evaluates the success of both groups' propaganda. It assesses to what degree the terrorists' messages penetrated the target audiences, and to what extent they were accepted. The thesis concludes that in the case of the Red Army Faction, although propaganda is consistent with ideological objectives, ideological objectives are not widely accepted, and even in those areas where the Red Army Faction did achieve success, the linkage with ideological objectives is weak.. The Provisional IRA's ideological objectives are also consistent with its propaganda, but are much more widely accepted than the RAF's. This explains why the Provisional IRA has been comparatively more successful.
A halo model approach for mock catalogs of time-variable strong gravitational lenses
Creators: name: Abe, Katsuya T.
name: Oguri, Masamune
name: Birrer, Simon
name: Khadka, Narayan
name: Marshall, Philip J.
name: Lemon, Cameron
name: More, Anupreeta
name: Collaboration, the LSST Dark Energy Science
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time delays in both galaxy- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lenses have recently attracted a lot of attention in the context of the Hubble tension. Future wide-field cadenced surveys, such as the LSST, are anticipated to discover strong lenses across various scales. We generate mock catalogs of strongly lensed QSOs and SNe on galaxy-, group-, and cluster-scales based on a halo model that incorporates dark matter halos, galaxies, and subhalos. For the upcoming LSST survey, we predict that approximately 3500 lensed QSOs and 200 lensed SNe with resolved multiple images will be discovered. Among these, about 80 lensed QSOs and 10 lensed SNe will have maximum image separations larger than 10 arcsec, which roughly correspond to cluster-scale strong lensing. We find that adopting the Chabrier stellar IMF instead of the fiducial Salpeter IMF reduces the predicted number of strong lenses approximately by half, while the distributions of lens and source redshifts and image separations are not significantly changed. In addition to mock catalogs of multiple-image lens systems, we create mock catalogs of highly magnified systems, including both multiple-image and single-image systems. We find that such highly magnified systems are typically produced by massive galaxies, but non-negligible fraction of them are located in the outskirt of galaxy groups and clusters. Furthermore, we compare subsamples of our mock catalogs with lensed QSO samples constructed from the SDSS and Gaia to find that our mock catalogs with the fiducial Salpeter IMF reproduce the observation quite well. In contrast, our mock catalogs with the Chabrier IMF predict a significantly smaller number of lensed QSOs compared with observations, which adds evidence that the stellar IMF of massive galaxies is Salpeter-like. Our python code SL-Hammocks as well as the mock catalogs are made available online. (abridged)
description: 26 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics, the code available at https://github.com/LSSTDESC/SL-Hammocks and the mock catalogs available at https://github.com/LSST-strong-lensing/data_public ; v4: typos in Introduction fixed
Supply chain relationships and quality certification schemes: a case study in fisheries
Creators: name: Malorgio, Giulio
name: Camanzi, Luca
name: Grazia, Cristina
name: Malorgio, Giulio
name: Camanzi, Luca
name: Grazia, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: supply chain coordination
subject: collective strategy
subject: free riding
subject: quality certification schemes
subject: fishery sector

description: The Italian fishery supply chain is highly fragmented and lacking in organization; consequently most firms experience high operating costs, low sale prices and limited profitability. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the assessment of the effectiveness of policy intervention, in particular the creation of a collective label of origin, to promote local fishery products and increase their value. As a case study, we focus on the quality certification scheme named “PCAA - Prodotto Certificato dell’Alto Adriatico” (Certified Northern Adriatic Product), proposed by the Emilia-Romagna Regional Authority in order to promote the economic development of the regional supply chain and to facilitate private initiatives for coordination among supply chain participants. By means of a direct survey on key regional economic agents, we investigate organisation of firms, relationships between them and their strategic behaviour at each stage of the supply chain - namely fishing and aquaculture firms, wholesale markets, wholesalers, processors and retailers. As a result of the analysis, we provide an assessment of product flows along the supply chain for the main commercial species in Emilia-Romagna. We identify factors affecting the decision to participate in the PCAA certification scheme, and we discuss the expected effects of private agents’strategies on supply chain organization, as well as possible public intervention policies.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 for the observation of cosmic neutrinos
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief description of the work for which the first half of the Nobel prize for physics for the year 2002 is presented.
description: 2 pages plain latex, to appear in Resonance, Journal of Science Education
Additional file 1 of Metastatic breast cancer patient perceptions of somatic tumor genomic testing
Creators: name: Adams, Elizabeth J.
name: Asad, Sarah
name: Reinbolt, Raquel
name: Collier, Katharine A.
name: Abdel-Rasoul, Mahmoud
name: Gillespie, Susan
name: Chen, James L.
name: Cherian, Mathew A.
name: Noonan, Anne M.
name: Sardesai, Sagar
name: VanDeusen, Jeffrey
name: Wesolowski, Robert
name: Williams, Nicole
name: Shapiro, Charles L.
name: Macrae, Erin R.
name: Pilarski, Robert
name: Toland, Amanda E.
name: Senter, Leigha
name: Ramaswamy, Bhuvaneswari
name: Lee, Clara N.
name: Lustberg, Maryam B.
name: Stover, Daniel G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mixed Effects Model Table S2. Patient Motivations and Perceived Risks/Benefits Figure S1. Association of Validated Depression, Anxiety, Physician Trust, and Self-Efficacy Measures with Patient Demographic Features.
Open and closed CDM isocurvature models contrasted with the CMB data
Creators: name: Enqvist, Kari
name: Kurki-Suonio, Hannu
name: Valiviita, Jussi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider pure isocurvature cold dark matter models in the case of open and closed universe. We allow for a large spectral tilt and scan the 6-dimensional parameter space for the best fit to the COBE, Boomerang, and Maxima-1 data. Taking into account constraints from large-scale structure and big bang nucleosynthesis, we find a best fit with $χ^2 = 121$, which is to be compared to $χ^2 = 44$ of a flat adiabatic reference model. Hence the current data strongly disfavour pure isocurvature perturbations.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. V2: Added a discussion of the effect of curvature scale on the primordial power spectrum and made minor changes to match better the Phys. Rev. D 65, 0230XX (2002)
The practising accountant, accounting information and the small business sector
Creators: name: Holmes, Kevin Scott
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Small business AccountingAustralia
subject: Small business ManagementAustralia
subject: Managerial accounting Australia

description: Australian small business research has developed in an ad hoc fashion over the past two decades. The primary impetus having been provided by the Wiltshire Report and it's British counterpart the Bolton Report. A burgeoning area of research relates to the relationship between small business owner/managers and professional sections of the business community, and the fulfillment of the information needs of small businesses by such professionals. Studies in various Australian locations have indicated that pratising accountants are an important source of advice and information to the small business sector. However, prior research has been largely exploratory and descriptive, with a tendency to focus on small samples of businesses operating in regional locations. Particular emphasis has been given to establishing the existence of a professional relationship between the two parties and the extent of services provided. In the existing literature, limited attention however, has been placed on determining the variables which influence and assist in explaining the nature of the emergent relationship. This thesis addresses the perceived deficiencies of Australian research relevant to the relationship between practising accountants, accounting information and small business owner/managers. This was facilitated by two large-scale surveys conducted during 1986. The results identified certain variables which influence the acquisition or preparation of accounting information. These variables are then applied to the estimation of explanatory models employing logistic regression modelling techniques.
Microctonus gastrophysae
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus gastrophysae

description: M. gastrophysae (Ashmead)
Figures 52–57
 Perilitus gastrophysae Ashmead, 1889, p 641.
 Microctonus gastrophysae Muesebeck, 1936, p 17.
Distribution: U.S. and Canada.
Specimens examined: Thirty from eleven collection events; questionable female identifications: two from two collection events.
Flight period: April through July; two from December.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
title: Auf das Sechs und Vierzigste hohe Geburtsfest Ihro Freyherrlichen Gnaden der Frau Oberamtmännin Waitz von Eschen
Creators: name: Dick, Johann Tobias
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: Festschrift
Generalities, Science
Allgemeines, Wissenschaft

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Auf das Sechs und Vierzigste hohe Geburtsfest Jhro Freyherrlichen Gnaden der Frau Oberamtmännin Waitz von Eschen / von Johann Tobias Dick. - [Kassel] : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], [1772]. - [4] Seiten ; 4°. - 
Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - 
Signatur: VIII B 331 db, 26. - 
Werktitel: Auf das Sechs und Vierzigste hohe Geburtsfest Ihro Freyherrlichen Gnaden der Frau Oberamtmännin Waitz von Eschen. - 
Anmerkung: Erscheinungsort und Erscheinungsjahr nach der Datierung auf der Titelseite: "Cassell am 3ten August 1772". - 
(Hassiaca)

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Robust Two-Step Wavelet-Based Inference for Time Series Models
Creators: name: Guerrier, Stéphane
name: Molinari, Roberto
name: Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
name: Haotian Xu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Latent time series models such as (the independent sum of) ARMA(p, q) models with additional stochastic processes are increasingly used for data analysis in biology, ecology, engineering, and economics. Inference on and/or prediction from these models can be highly challenging: (i) the data may contain outliers that can adversely affect the estimation procedure; (ii) the computational complexity can become prohibitive when the time series are extremely large; (iii) model selection adds another layer of (computational) complexity; and (iv) solutions that address (i), (ii), and (iii) simultaneously do not exist in practice. This paper aims at jointly addressing these challenges by proposing a general framework for robust two-step estimation based on a bounded influence M-estimator of the wavelet variance. We first develop the conditions for the joint asymptotic normality of the latter estimator thereby providing the necessary tools to perform (direct) inference for scale-based analysis of signals. Taking advantage of the model-independent weights of this first-step estimator, we then develop the asymptotic properties of two-step robust estimators using the framework of the generalized method of wavelet moments (GMWM). Simulation studies illustrate the good finite sample performance of the robust GMWM estimator and applied examples highlight the practical relevance of the proposed approach.
Microctonus glyptosceli Loan, Klein & Coppel
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus glyptosceli

description: M. glyptosceli Loan, Klein & Coppel
Figures 58–60
 Microctonus glyptosceli Loan, Klein & Coppel, 1969, p 230.
Distribution: Wisconsin.
Specimens examined: Four from one collection event.
Flight period: July.
 Remarks: This species is very similar to M. pachylobii. Further collections from its host might challenge the distinction based on characters in the key. Loan et al. (1969) figured the stipital sclerite of the final instar larva. They noted the sharp and pronounced hypostomal spur is distinctive but did not compare it to those of M. pachylobii.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Additional file 2 of The importance of social environment in preventing smoking: an analysis of the Dead Cool intervention
Creators: name: Badham, Jennifer
name: McAneney, Helen
name: Dunne, Laura
name: Kee, Frank
name: Thurston, Allen
name: Hunter, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The importance of social environment in preventing smoking: RSiena analysis. Analysis of the co-evolution of network and smoking susceptibility using Stochastic Actor Orientated Models. (PDF 108 kb)
Spin dynamics with realistic hydrodynamic background for relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Singh, Sushant K.
name: Ryblewski, Radoslaw
name: Florkowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations of perfect spin hydrodynamics are solved for the first time using a realistic (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic background, calibrated to reproduce a comprehensive set of hadronic observables, including rapidity distributions, transverse momentum spectra, and elliptic flow coefficients for Au+Au collisions at the beam energy of $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$ GeV. The spin dynamics is governed by the conservation of the spin tensor, describing spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles, with particle mass in the spin tensor treated as an effective parameter. We investigate several scenarios, varying both the effective mass and the initial evolution time for the spin polarization tensor. The model predictions are then compared with experimental measurements of global and longitudinal spin polarization of Lambda hyperons. Our results indicate that a successful description of the data requires a delayed initial evolution time for the perfect spin hydrodynamics of about 4 fm/$c$ (in contrast to the standard initial time of 1 fm/$c$ used for the hydrodynamic background). This delay marks a transition from the phase where spin-orbit interaction is significant to the regime where spin-conserving processes dominate. Our findings suggest that the spin-orbit dissipative interaction plays a significant role only in the very early stages of the system's evolution.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
Valuation of Carbon Forestry and the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: A Real Options Approach Using the Binomial Tree Method
Creators: name: Tee, James
name: Scarpa, Riccardo
name: Marsh, Dan
name: Guthrie, Graeme
name: Tee, James
name: Scarpa, Riccardo
name: Marsh, Dan
name: Guthrie, Graeme
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
subject: Climate change policy
subject: Kyoto Protocol
subject: Real options
subject: carbon forestry
subject: tradable permits

description: Under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, forests planted on or after 1st January 1990 earn carbon credits. These credits have to be repaid when the forest is harvested. This paper analyses the effects of this scheme on the value of bareland on which radiata pine is to be planted. A real options method is developed and applied, assuming stochastic carbon and timber prices. We find that land value increases by about 73%, with the rotation age lengthened. The optimal harvest price thresholds are useful in deciding whether to harvest or to wait.
The state versus the individual in international theory : a critical review of three realist conceptions of world order: Hedley Bull, The Anarchical society - Terry Nardin, Law, morality and the relations of states - Charles R. Beitz, Political theory and international relations
Creators: name: Watson, Louis E
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Bull, Hedley. Anarchical society
subject: Nardin, Terry, 1942- Law, morality, and the relations of states
subject: Beitz, Charles R. Political theory and international relations
subject: International relations
subject: World politics

description: In the following chapters, I will examine how three prominent theorists of international relations justify their conception of world order. Bull, Nardin and Beitz have each developed state-centric theories of world order which, they claim, nevertheless protect the common good of individuals within states: Bull argues the interests of individuals are best served by maintaining order among states; Nardin claims human rights considerations are already implicit in customary international law; and Beitz argues it is possible for the system of states to accommodate principles of justice. All three texts under consideration implicitly endorse the realist proposition that promoting order among states will ultimately serve the interests of the individuals within them.
An entanglement monotone derived from Grover's algorithm
Creators: name: Biham, Ofer
name: Nielsen, Michael A.
name: Osborne, Tobias J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper demonstrates that how well a state performs as an input to Grover's search algorithm depends critically upon the entanglement present in that state; the more entanglement, the less well the algorithm performs. More precisely, suppose we take a pure state input, and prior to running the algorithm apply local unitary operations to each qubit in order to maximize the probability P_max that the search algorithm succeeds. We prove that, for pure states, P_max is an entanglement monotone, in the sense that P_max can never be decreased by local operations and classical communication.
description: 7 pages
Additional file 1 of The importance of social environment in preventing smoking: an analysis of the Dead Cool intervention
Creators: name: Badham, Jennifer
name: McAneney, Helen
name: Dunne, Laura
name: Kee, Frank
name: Thurston, Allen
name: Hunter, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Dead Cool Questionnaire. Survey instrument used to collect demographic, psychosocial, social network and smoking related behaviour data. (PDF 153 kb)
Probing cosmic chemical enrichment with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories
Creators: name: Fishbach, Maya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By observing binary black hole (BBH) mergers out to the edge of the Universe, next-generation (XG) ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors like Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope will map the BBH merger rate across all of cosmic history. This merger rate traces the formation rate of their progenitor stars convolved with a delay time distribution. Given theoretically-motivated priors on the delay time distribution, we show how XG observations can measure the BBH progenitor formation rate, probing the star formation rate (SFR) up to $z > 15$. However, the progenitor formation rate does not directly give a measurement of the SFR, but rather a combination of the SFR and its metallicity distribution as a function of redshift. Fortunately, the metallicity-dependence of BBH formation likely varies as a function of BBH mass and/or formation channel. We find that if different BBH subpopulations with distinct metallicity biases can be identified, comparing their rates as a function of redshift yields a simultaneous measurement of the SFR and its metallicity distribution. Given optimistic theoretical priors and one year of observation, this may provide a $\sim10\%$ measurement of the SFR at its peak and a 0.2 dex (0.7 dex) measurement of the median metallicity out to $z = 10$ ($z = 15$) at 90\% credibility, although the uncertainties scale with theoretical uncertainties on BBH delay times and formation efficiencies.
description: Updated to match published version. Invited article for CQG focus issue "Focus on the Science Case for Next Generation (XG) Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors."