cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BBN And CMB Constraints On Dark Energy
Creators: name: Kneller, James P.
name: Steigman, Gary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current observational data favor cosmological models which differ from the standard model due to the presence of some form of dark energy and, perhaps, by additional contributions to the more familiar dark matter. Primordial nucleosynthesis provides a window on the very early evolution of the universe and constraints from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) can bound the parameters of models for dark matter/energy at redshifts of order ten billion. The spectrum of temperature fluctuations imprinted on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation opens a completely different window on the universe at epochs from redshifts of order ten thousand to nearly the present. The CMB anisotropy spectrum provides constraints on new physics which are independent of, and complementary to those from BBN. Here we consider three classes of models for the dark matter/energy: extra particles which were relativistic during the early evolution of the universe (X); Quintessence models involving a minimally-coupled scalar field (Q); models with a non-minimally coupled scalar field which modify the strength of gravity during the early evolution of the universe (G). We constrain the parameters of these models using data from BBN and the CMB and identify the allowed regions in their parameter spaces consistent with the more demanding joint BBN and CMB constraints. For X and Q such consistency is relatively easy to find; it is more difficult for the G models with an inverse power law potential for the scalar field.
description: REVTEX4. 17 pages, 7 figures. Replaced with version to be published in PRD
Faint Source Counts from Off-source Fluctuation Analysis on Chandra Observations of the Hubble Deep Field-North
Creators: name: Miyaji, Takamitsu
name: Griffiths, Richard E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of fluctuation analysis of the off-source field from the 1 Million second Chandra observation of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N). The distribution of the counts in cells has been compared with the expectations from the Log N - Log S model to constrain the behavior of the source number density down to a factor of several lower than the source-detection limit. Our results show that the number counts in the soft band (0.5-2 [keV]) continue to grow down to Sx = 7e-18 [erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}], possibly suggesting the emergence of a new population and agree well with a prediction of star forming galaxies by Ptak et al. (2001). For the hard band (2-10 keV), the fluctuation analysis can loosely constrain the source counts fainter than the detection limit and we found an upper limit of 10000 [srcs deg^{-2}] at Sx=2e-16 [erg s^{-1}cm^{-2}].
description: 7 Pages 2 Figures. Fig. 2 replaced due to a minor labeling error. This version is more updated than the journal artilcle and includes color figures
Milli-arcsecond scale Rotation Measure in the CSS Quasars 0548+165 and 1524-136
Creators: name: Mantovani, F.
name: Junor, W.
name: Ricci, R.
name: Saikia, D. J.
name: Salter, C.
name: Bondi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two Compact Steep-spectrum Sources (CSSs), 0548+165 and 1524-136, chosen from a list of CSSs with polarization percentages that decrease with decreasing frequency and high rotation measure values (RM > 450 rad/m**2) on arcsecond scales, were observed with the VLBA at 4.9 and 8.4 GHz. RM values up to ~10**4 rad/m**2 were found in several regions along the jets in both sources. We suggest that a thin screen of magneto-ionic material with about 1 kpc thickness is responsible for these high RMs. The observed depolarization may be due to beam depolarization and/or inhomogeneities in the magnetic field.
description: Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics; plain tex, 11 pages, 7 figures
Polaron-transformed dissipative Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model
Creators: name: Kopylov, Wassilij
name: Schaller, Gernot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model coupled to a thermal bath. Since the isolated model itself exhibits a quantum phase transition, we explore the critical signatures of the open system. Starting from a system-reservoir interaction written in positive definite form, we find that the position of the critical point remains unchanged, in contrast to the popular mean-field prediction. Technically, we employ the polaron transform to be able to study the full crossover regime from the normal to the symmetry-broken phase, which allows us to investigate the fate of quantum-critical points subject to dissipative environments. The signatures of the phase transition are reflected in observables like stationary mode occupation or waiting-time distributions.
Baorangia G. Wu & Zhu L. Yang 2016
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Liang, Zhi-Qun
name: Jiang, Shuai
name: Xu, Chang
name: Fu, Xin-Hua
name: Zeng, Nian-Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Boletales
Boletaceae
Baorangia

description: Key to the species of Baorangia known from the world.
1. Pileus <15 cm in diam when mature.................................................................................................................................................2
1. Pileus> 15 cm in diam when mature.................................................................................................................................................5
 2. Hymenophore changing to dark blue when injured, then dingy orange-yellow or olive................................................. B. alexandri
2. Hymenophore changing to blue when injured....................................................................................................................................3
 3. Pileus grayish red, grayish rose, reddish gray, reddish brown, a distribution in Asia............................................. B. pseudocalopus
 3. Pileus darker, deep apple red, pinkish red, brick red to brownish red, a distribution in North America...........................................4 4. Cap colored with deep vinaceous red that slowly fades to dull ochraceous with red splashes, and stipe context golden yellow..................................................................................................................................................................................................... B. bicolor
 4. Cap colored with a mottled brick red to brownish red, and stipe context paler yellow............................................. B. rufomaculata
 5. Basidiospores with Q m> 2.60, distribution in temperate areas...................................................................................... B. emileorum
5. Basidiospores with Q m <2.60, distribution in tropical areas..............................................................................................................6
 6. Basidiomata larger when mature (up to 23 cm), basidiospores shorter but wider [(6–)7.5–9(–10) × (4–)4–5(–5.5) µm] with Q m = 2.52, cheilocystidia smaller (21–37 × 11.5–15 µm)............................................................................................................... B. major
 6. Basidiomata smaller when mature (up to 17 cm), basidiospores longer but narrower [7.5–11.5(–12.5) × 3.5–5 µm] with Q m = 2.24, cheilocystidia larger (39.5–63.5 × 16.5–23 µm)....................................................................................................... B. duplicatopora
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xu, Liang, Zhi-Qun, Jiang, Shuai, Xu, Chang, Fu, Xin-Hua & Zeng, Nian-Kai, 2021, Baorangia duplicatopora (Boletaceae, Boletales), a new bolete from tropical China, pp. 49-58 in Phytotaxa 508 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5425776
Gallup Poll # 1967-0742: Vietnam War/1968 Presidential Election
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Lyndon Johnson job performance (2); Vietnam War (3); voting age (1); religion's influence on American life (1); 1968 presidential election (5); "Open-Housing" Bill (2); president power to change bills/laws (1); moving election day to September (1); Robert Kennedy's position on the Vietnam War (1); federal income taxes (1); required to job labor unions (1); 1964 presidential election (1).
Drimys xerophila var. aromatica P. Parm.
Creators: name: Turner, I. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Canellales
Winteraceae
Drimys
Drimys xerophila
Drimys xerophila var. aromatica p.parm.

description: 9. Drimys xerophila var. aromatica P.Parm.
Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 27: 226 (1896).
— Type: Australia, Tasmania, Mt Bischoff, Anon. s.n. (holo-, P [P00734777]).
Tasmannia lanceolata (Poir.) A.C. Sm.: Taxon 18: 287 (1969) (Guymer 2007).
REMARKS
It is not entirely clear that Parmentier intended to name this variety aromatica.The only occurence is on p. 226 where the description begins as follows: “La seconde variété (2) ou var. β aromatica, est caractérisée par”.Additional confusion arises because this could be construed as a reduction of Drimys aromatica (DC.) F. Muell. to a variety of Parmentier’s D. xerophila. However, as Parmentier recognises D. aromatica and D. xerophila as distinct species in the Histoire des Magnoliacées, such a reduction does not appear to be what Parmentier intended.
description: Published as part of Turner, I. M., 2012, The taxa described by Paul Évariste Parmentier in Histoire des Magnoliacées, pp. 237-249 in Adansonia (3) (3) 34 (2) on page 240, DOI: 10.5252/a2012n2a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5205948
Cosmic Ray Models
Creators: name: Kachelriess, M.
name: Semikoz, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review progress in high-energy cosmic ray physics focusing on recent experimental results and models developed for their interpretation. Emphasis is put on the propagation of charged cosmic rays, covering the whole range from $\sim (20-50)$ GV, i.e. the rigidity when solar modulations can be neglected, up to the highest energies observed. We discuss models aiming to explain the anomalies in Galactic cosmic rays, the knee, and the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays.
description: 89 pages, 56 figures; v2: minor additions, version to appear
A New Look at the Large-Scale HI Structure of the LMC
Creators: name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Kim, S.
name: Calabretta, M. R.
name: Haynes, R. F.
name: Kesteven, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Parkes multibeam \HI survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This survey, which is sensitive to spatial structure in the range 200 pc to 10 kpc, complements the Australia Telescope Compact survey, which is sensitive to structure in the range 15 pc to 500 pc. With an rms column density sensitivity of 8 x 10^16/cm^2 for narrow lines and 4 x 10^17/cm^2 for typical linewidths of 40 km/s, emission is found to be extensive well beyond the main body of the LMC. Arm-like features extend from the LMC to join the Magellanic Bridge and the Leading Arm, a forward counterpart to the Magellanic Stream. These features, whilst not as dramatic as those in the SMC, appear to have a common origin in the Galactic tidal field, in agreement with recent 2MASS and DENIS results for the stellar population. The diffuse gas which surrounds the LMC, particularly at pa's 90 to 330 deg, appears to be loosely associated with tidal features, but loosening by the ram pressure of tenuous Galactic halo gas against the outer parts of the LMC cannot be discounted. High-velocity clouds, which lie between the Galaxy and the LMC in velocity and which appear in the UV spectra of some LMC stars, are found to be associated with the LMC if their heliocentric velocity exceeds about +100 km/s. They are possibly the product of energetic outflows from the LMC disk. The HI mass of the LMC is found to be (4.8+/-0.2) x 10^8 Msun (for an assumed distance of 50 kpc), substantially more than previous recent measurements.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 19 pages, 13 figurs, 21 eps files, full resolution paper (1.4 M) available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~lstavele/papers/lmc_mb_paper.ps.gz
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online
Creators: name: Nicholls, Florence Smith
name: Cook, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games boomed in the late 1990s to 2000s. In parallel, ethnographic studies of these communities emerged, generally involving participant observation and interviews. Several decades on, many MMOs have been reconfigured, remastered or are potentially no longer accessible at all, which presents challenges for their continued study and long-term preservation. In this paper we explore the "go-along" methodology, in which a researcher joins a participant on a walk through a familiar place and asks them questions, as a qualitative research method applicable for the study and preservation of games culture. Though the methodology has been introduced in digital media studies, to date it has had limited application in digital games, if at all. We report on a pilot study exploring applications of the go-along method to the sandbox MMO Wurm Online; a persistent, player-directed world with a rich history. We report on our motivations for the work, our analysis of the resulting interviews, and our reflections on both the use of go-alongs in digital games, as well as the unique and inspiring culture and community of this lesser-known game.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Gallup Poll # 1967-0743: Politics/Vietnam
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Johnson job performance (1); approve/disapprove of Johnson's handling of Vietnam situation (1); favor/oppose three percent of income tax being returned to states (1); favor/oppose court-appointed committee to handle strikes that go on for more than twenty-one days (1); who would like to see win if presidential election were held today (4); Vietnam (3); 1964 presidential election (1).
Analysis of hysteresis effect in p mode frequency shifts and solar activity indices
Creators: name: Tripathy, S. C.
name: Kumar, Brajesh
name: Jain, Kiran
name: Bhatnagar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using intermediate degree p mode frequency data sets for solar cycle 22, we find that the frequency shifts and magnetic indices show a `hysteresis' phenomenon. It is observed that the magnetic indices follow different paths for the ascending and descending phases of the solar cycle, the descending path always seems to follow a higher track than the ascending one. However, for the radiative indices, the paths cross each other indicating phase reversal.
description: Accepted in Solar Phys. Uses Kluwer.cls. Also available at http://www.uso.ernet.in/~sushant/paper.html
Search by Lackadaisical Quantum Walk with Nonhomogeneous Weights
Creators: name: Rhodes, Mason L.
name: Wong, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lackadaisical quantum walk, which is a quantum walk with a weighted self-loop at each vertex, has been shown to speed up dispersion on the line and improve spatial search on the complete graph and periodic square lattice. In these investigations, each self-loop had the same weight, owing to each graph's vertex-transitivity. In this paper, we propose lackadaisical quantum walks where the self-loops have different weights. We investigate spatial search on the complete bipartite graph, which can be irregular with $N_1$ and $N_2$ vertices in each partite set, and this naturally leads to self-loops in each partite set having different weights $l_1$ and $l_2$, respectively. We analytically prove that for large $N_1$ and $N_2$, if the $k$ marked vertices are confined to, say, the first partite set, then with the typical initial uniform state over the vertices, the success probability is improved from its non-lackadaisical value when $l_1 = kN_2/2N_1$ and $N_2 > (3 - 2\sqrt{2}) N_1$, regardless of $l_2$. When the initial state is stationary under the quantum walk, however, then the success probability is improved when $l_1 = kN_2/2N_1$, now without a constraint on the ratio of $N_1$ and $N_2$, and again independent of $l_2$. Next, when marked vertices lie in both partite sets, then for either initial state, there are many configurations for which the self-loops yield no improvement in quantum search, no matter what weights they take.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
Synthesis, structural characterization, antioxidant, antimicrobial, DNA incision evaluation and binding investigation studies on copper(II) and cobalt(II) complexes of benzothiazole cored Schiff bases
Creators: name: Sreenu Daravath
name: Rambabu, Aveli
name: Narendrula Vamsikrishna
name: Ganji, Nirmala
name: Raj, Shiva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Three Schiff base ligands, L1H = (2-((benzo[d]thiazol-6-ylimino)methyl)-6-nitrophenol), L2H = (2-((benzo[d]thiazol-6-ylimino)methyl)-4,6-diiodophenol), L3H = (2-((benzo[d]thiazol-6-ylimino)methyl)-4-bromo-6-methoxyphenol) and their binary metal complexes, 1 [Cu(L1)2], 2 [Co(L1)2], 3 [Cu(L2)2], 4 [Co(L2)2], 5 [Cu(L3)2] and 6 [Co(L3)2], have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, NMR, ESI mass, FT-IR, ESR, UV–Visible, magnetic susceptibility and TGA studies. The analytical and various spectral data suggested a square-planar geometry around the metal for all complexes with N2O2-donor atoms from the Schiff base ligands. Antimicrobial study was investigated against two Gram-positive, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Staphylococcus aureus, and one Gram-negative, Escherichia coli, bacteria as well as against two fungal species, Macrophomina phaseolina and Sclerotium rolfsii, by using Streptomycin and Mancozeb as standard drugs, respectively. The results revealed that metal complexes show more potent activity than free ligands and moderate compared to standard drugs. The free-radical scavenging ability of the complexes was evaluated by DPPH and ABTS assay methods using ascorbic acid as a standard antioxidant, complexes 1 and 2 showed good scavenging activity. DNA-binding titrations were also performed and indicated that all complexes bind to calf-thymus DNA via an intercalation mode. Additionally, the complexes exhibited good cleavage ability against the pBR322 DNA even at low concentrations in the presence of activators, H2O2 as well as UV light.
Kadsura acuminata P. Parm.
Creators: name: Turner, I. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Austrobaileyales
Schisandraceae
Kadsura
Kadsura acuminata

description: 10. Kadsura acuminata P.Parm.
Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 27: 238, 315, 323 (1896).
— Type: India, Assam, F. Jenkins s.n. (lecto-, designated by Saunders (1998), P [P00210495]; iso-, CAL, E, L, NY).
Kadsura heteroclita (Roxb.) Craib: Flora Siamensis Enumeratio 1: 28 (1925) (Saunders 1998).
description: Published as part of Turner, I. M., 2012, The taxa described by Paul Évariste Parmentier in Histoire des Magnoliacées, pp. 237-249 in Adansonia (3) (3) 34 (2) on page 240, DOI: 10.5252/a2012n2a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5205948
“She is the one who knows”: A qualitative exploration of oral and injectable PrEP as part of a community empowerment approach to HIV prevention among female sex workers in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania
Creators: name: Mbwambo, Jessie
name: Donastorg, Yeycy
name: Shembilu, Catherine
name: Barrington, Clare
name: Likindikoki, Samuel
name: Beckham, S. Wilson
name: Gomez, Hoisex
name: Mantsios, Andrea
name: Muraleetharan, Ohvia
name: Davis, Wendy
name: Perez, Martha
name: Kerrigan, Deanna
name: Karver, Tahilin Sanchez
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2022

description:
Despite documented interest among female sex workers (FSW), uptake of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention has been low. Recent trials and regulatory approval of long-acting injectable (LAI) PrEP offer new hope for the potential of this biomedical intervention. We examined FSW's PrEP-related interest and preferences regarding both oral and LAI PrEP situating these dynamics within their specific social and occupational realities. We conducted this work using qualitative methods across two distinct contexts by conducting 40 in-depth interviews with FSW in Tanzania and the Dominican Republic. Textual data was coded using iterative thematic content analysis. Analytic summaries were developed and reviewed to identify recurring themes. We systematically organized themes within each country and then compared across settings. Women in both settings expressed strong interest in PrEP seeing it as an important option to protect themselves in their work. Most participants preferred LAI PrEP due to expectations of reduced stigma and concerns about daily pill adherence and side effects. Occupational factors such as alcohol use, overnight dates with clients, and fear of violence from clients were identified as barriers to daily oral PrEP. LAI PrEP was seen as having the potential to reduce stress related to oral PrEP. Women who preferred pills discussed fear of needles, skepticism about the injections, and others relayed that taking a daily pill would not be challenging for them. There was a pre-dominant sentiment that women know best whether they are better suited for oral or LAI PrEP. Participants stressed the importance of FSW understanding both options to ensure informed decision-making around PrEP and described community-led peer education as key to delivering trusted information. Community empowerment approaches led by FSW which address structural and psychosocial constraints and promote safe work environments may facilitate equitable access and uptake of PrEP among FSW across settings.
Ontology-based Modeling of Time, Places and Agents in the Project DigiKAR (Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich /Digital Map Lab Holy Roman Empire)
Creators: name: Frank, Ingo
name: Barget, Monika (Renate)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: geohumanities, ontology, space, place, GIS, Holy Roman Empire, territories, borders, Kurmainz, Kursachsen
subject: gnd:4100026-2
subject: gnd:4051176-5

description: Poster and abstract for the virtual Data for History Conference 2021 (#d4h21)
description: Contact: digikar@ieg-mainz.de
The SCUBA 8-mJy survey - I: Sub-millimetre maps, sources and number counts
Creators: name: Scott, S.
name: Fox, M.
name: Dunlop, J.
name: Serjeant, S.
name: Peacock, J.
name: Ivison, R.
name: Oliver, S.
name: Mann, R.
name: Lawrence, A.
name: Efstathiou, A.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Hughes, D.
name: Archibald, E.
name: Blain, A.
name: Longair, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present maps, source lists, and number counts from the largest, unbiassed, extragalactic sub-mm survey so far undertaken with the SCUBA camera on the JCMT. Our maps cover 260 sq. arcmin, to a noise level S(850)=2.5 mJy/beam. We have reduced the data using both SURF, and our own pipeline which produces zero-footprint maps and noise images. The uncorrelated noise maps produced by the latter approach have allowed application of a maximum-likelihood method to measure the statistical significance of each peak, leading to properly quantified flux-density errors for all potential sources. We detect 19 sources with S/N > 4, 38 with S/N > 3.5, and 72 with S/N > 3. To assess completeness and the impact of source confusion we have applied our source extraction algorithm to a series of simulated images. The result is a new estimate of the sub-mm source counts in the flux-density range S(850)=5-15mJy, which we compare with other estimates, and with model predictions. Our estimate of the cumulative source count at S(850) > 8 mJy is 320 (+80,-100) per square degree. Assuming that the majority of sources have z > 1.5, the co-moving number density of high-z galaxies forming stars at a rate >1000 solar masses per year is 10^-5 per Mpc^3, with only a weak dependence on the precise redshift distribution. This number density corresponds to that of massive ellipticals with L > 3-4 L* at low redshift and is also the same as the co-moving number density of comparably massive, passively-evolving objects in the redshift band 1
description: Minor revisions. 27 pages, 13 figures. Higher resolution versions of Figs 5,6,7 and 8 are available from the author
Bat songs as acoustic beacons - male territorial songs attract dispersing females
Creators: name: Knörnschild, Mirjam
name: Blüml, Simone
name: Steidl, Patrick
name: Eckenweber, Maria
name: Nagy, Martina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Animal behaviour
subject: Behavioural ecology
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: Male song in birds and mammals is important for repelling rivals, stimulating mates or attracting them to a specific location. Nevertheless, direct experimental evidence for the mate attraction function of male song is limited to a few studies. Here, we provide strong experimental evidence that male songs attract wild female bats (Saccopteryx bilineata). Playbacks of territorial songs reliably elicited phonotaxis in females but not males. Most females captured during playbacks were subadults searching for new colonies to settle in. In S. bilineata, multiple males sing simultaneously at dawn and dusk, thereby creating a conspicuous chorus which encodes information on colony identity and size. Since territorial songs have a large signalling range, male songs constitute acoustic beacons which enable females to localize new colonies. In our playbacks, females strongly preferred local territorial songs over foreign territorial songs from two different locations, indicating that song familiarity influences phonotaxis. Our study provides the first clear experimental evidence that male song elicits female phonotaxis in a non- human mammal. Bats are an especially promising taxon for studying mammalian song since male song has been described in different species with diverse social organisations and natural histories, thus providing exciting opportunities for phylogenetically controlled comparative studies.
SoK: Prudent Evaluation Practices for Fuzzing
Creators: name: Schloegel, Moritz
name: Bars, Nils
name: Schiller, Nico
name: Bernhard, Lukas
name: Scharnowski, Tobias
name: Crump, Addison
name: Ebrahim, Arash Ale
name: Bissantz, Nicolai
name: Muench, Marius
name: Holz, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage feedback, the field of fuzzing has seen a vast amount of scientific work proposing new techniques, improving methodological aspects of existing strategies, or porting existing methods to new domains. All such work must demonstrate its merit by showing its applicability to a problem, measuring its performance, and often showing its superiority over existing works in a thorough, empirical evaluation. Yet, fuzzing is highly sensitive to its target, environment, and circumstances, e.g., randomness in the testing process. After all, relying on randomness is one of the core principles of fuzzing, governing many aspects of a fuzzer's behavior. Combined with the often highly difficult to control environment, the reproducibility of experiments is a crucial concern and requires a prudent evaluation setup. To address these threats to validity, several works, most notably Evaluating Fuzz Testing by Klees et al., have outlined how a carefully designed evaluation setup should be implemented, but it remains unknown to what extent their recommendations have been adopted in practice. In this work, we systematically analyze the evaluation of 150 fuzzing papers published at the top venues between 2018 and 2023. We study how existing guidelines are implemented and observe potential shortcomings and pitfalls. We find a surprising disregard of the existing guidelines regarding statistical tests and systematic errors in fuzzing evaluations. For example, when investigating reported bugs, ...
Constraining the Matter Power Spectrum Normalization using the SDSS/RASS and REFLEX Cluster surveys
Creators: name: Viana, Pedro T. P.
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Liddle, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new approach to constrain the amplitude of the power spectrum of matter perturbations in the Universe, parametrized by sigma_8 as a function of the matter density Omega_0. We compare the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity function of the REFLEX survey with the theoretical mass function of Jenkins et al. (2001), using the mass-luminosity relationship obtained from weak lensing data for a sample of galaxy clusters identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data and confirmed through cross-correlation with the ROSAT all-sky survey. We find sigma_8 = 0.38 Omega_0^(-0.48+0.27 Omega_ 0), which is significantly different from most previous results derived from comparable calculations that used the X-ray temperature function. We discuss possible sources of systematic error that may cause such a discrepancy, and in the process uncover a possible inconsistency between the REFLEX luminosity function and the relation between cluster X-ray luminosity and mass obtained by Reiprich & Bohringer (2001).
description: Accepted to ApJ Letters. 4 pages using emulateapj.sty
An Analysis of STIS HST UV Spectra of M33 early B Supergiants
Creators: name: Urbaneja, M. A.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Kudritzki, R. P.
name: Bresolin, F.
name: Corral, L. J.
name: Puls, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present terminal velocities of M33 B-supergiants, obtained from STIS HST spectra as part of our programme to investigate the Wind Momentum -- Luminosity Relationship (WLR) in the Local Group. Terminal velocities are derived from their NV, CIV, and SiIV resonance lines in UV spectra. Comparing with IUE spectra of Galactic B-supergiants we found evidence of low metallicity in three of our objects. %%The terminal velocities are found to be consistent with the %%values found for Galactic stars, except for B-133. For this The terminal velocities are consistent with the corresponding values of Galactic stars, except for B-133. For this star we find a very large vterm and a red SiIV component deeper than the blue one, that might be an indication of binarity. The average ratio between terminal and turbulent wind velocities is 0.25, well above the value found for Galactic stars.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Supernova relic neutrinos and observational implications for neutrino oscillation
Creators: name: Ando, Shin'ichiro
name: Sato, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the flux of supernova relic neutrinos (SRN) for several neutrino oscillation models with parameters inferred from recent experimental results. In the calculation, we adopt the realistic {\it time-dependent} supernova density profile, which is very different from the static progenitor profile owing to shock propagation. The Earth matter effect is also included appropriately using realistic density profile of the Earth. As a result, these two effects are found to induce the flux difference by a few % in the detection energy range ($E_ν> 19.3$ MeV). We also set 90% C.L. upper limit on SRN flux for various oscillation models using the recently released observational result by Super-Kamiokande (SK). In the near future, further reduced upper limit is actually expected, when the current SK data are reanalyzed using some technique to reduce background events against SRN signals. It is expected that the reduced upper limit is sufficient to provide useful implications for neutrino oscillation.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Calorimeter shower superresolution
Creators: name: Pang, Ian
name: Raine, John Andrew
name: Shih, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Calorimeter shower simulation is a major bottleneck in the Large Hadron Collider computational pipeline. There have been recent efforts to employ deep-generative surrogate models to overcome this challenge. However, many of best performing models have training and generation times that do not scale well to high-dimensional calorimeter showers. In this work, we introduce SuperCalo, a flow-based superresolution model, and demonstrate that high-dimensional fine-grained calorimeter showers can be quickly upsampled from coarse-grained showers. This novel approach presents a way to reduce computational cost, memory requirements and generation time associated with fast calorimeter simulation models. Additionally, we show that the showers upsampled by SuperCalo possess a high degree of variation. This allows a large number of high-dimensional calorimeter showers to be upsampled from much fewer coarse showers with high-fidelity, which results in additional reduction in generation time.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, v3: title changed, matches published version
Additional file 1 of Suicide in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: a time trend analysis from 1981 to 2018
Creators: name: Pollock, Nathaniel J.
name: Liu, Li
name: Wilson, Margo M.
name: Reccord, Charlene
name: Power, Nicole D.
name: Mulay, Shree
name: Karaivanov, Yordan
name: Tonmyr, Lil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Number, crude, and age-standardized suicide rates by sex in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1981–2018 (See attached).
Overcoming the curse of dimensionality in the approximative pricing of financial derivatives with default risks
Creators: name: Hutzenthaler, Martin
name: Jentzen, Arnulf
name: von Wurstemberger, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used in the mathematical modeling of natural phenomena and man made complex systems. In particular, parabolic PDEs are a fundamental tool to determine fair prices of financial derivatives in the financial industry. The PDEs appearing in financial engineering applications are often nonlinear and high dimensional since the dimension typically corresponds to the number of considered financial assets. A major issue is that most approximation methods for nonlinear PDEs in the literature suffer under the so-called curse of dimensionality in the sense that the computational effort to compute an approximation with a prescribed accuracy grows exponentially in the dimension of the PDE or in the reciprocal of the prescribed approximation accuracy and nearly all approximation methods have not been shown not to suffer under the curse of dimensionality. Recently, a new class of approximation schemes for semilinear parabolic PDEs, termed full history recursive multilevel Picard (MLP) algorithms, were introduced and it was proven that MLP algorithms do overcome the curse of dimensionality for semilinear heat equations. In this paper we extend those findings to a more general class of semilinear PDEs including as special cases semilinear Black-Scholes equations used for the pricing of financial derivatives with default risks. More specifically, we introduce an MLP algorithm for the approximation of solutions of semilinear Black-Scholes equations and prove that the computational effort of our method grows at most polynomially both in the dimension and the reciprocal of the prescribed approximation accuracy. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first result showing that the approximation of solutions of semilinear Black-Scholes equations is a polynomially tractable approximation problem.
description: 71 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.01212
STROOPWAFEL: Simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources
Creators: name: Broekgaarden, Floor S.
name: Justham, Stephen
name: de Mink, Selma E.
name: Gair, Jonathan
name: Mandel, Ilya
name: Stevenson, Simon
name: Barrett, Jim W.
name: Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro
name: Neijssel, Coenraad J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational-wave observations of double compact object (DCO) mergers are providing new insights into the physics of massive stars and the evolution of binary systems. Making the most of expected near-future observations for understanding stellar physics will rely on comparisons with binary population synthesis models. However, the vast majority of simulated binaries never produce DCOs, which makes calculating such populations computationally inefficient. We present an importance sampling algorithm, STROOPWAFEL, that improves the computational efficiency of population studies of rare events, by focusing the simulation around regions of the initial parameter space found to produce outputs of interest. We implement the algorithm in the binary population synthesis code COMPAS, and compare the efficiency of our implementation to the standard method of Monte Carlo sampling from the birth probability distributions. STROOPWAFEL finds $\sim$25-200 times more DCO mergers than the standard sampling method with the same simulation size, and so speeds up simulations by up to two orders of magnitude. Finding more DCO mergers automatically maps the parameter space with far higher resolution than when using the traditional sampling. This increase in efficiency also leads to a decrease of a factor $\sim$3-10 in statistical sampling uncertainty for the predictions from the simulations. This is particularly notable for the distribution functions of observable quantities such as the black hole and neutron star chirp mass distribution, including in the tails of the distribution functions where predictions using standard sampling can be dominated by sampling noise.
description: Accepted. Data and scripts to reproduce main results is publicly available. The code for the STROOPWAFEL algorithm will be made publicly available. Early inquiries can be addressed to the lead author
Attitude and Academic Success in Practical Agriculture: Evidence from Public Single-Sex High School Students in Ibadan, Nigeria
Creators: name: Otekunrin, Olutosin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 70108 Sustainable Agricultural Development
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: This study examined the attitude and academic performance of public single-sex (Boys’ and Girls’ only) high school students in the teaching and learning of Agricultural Science in the aspect of practical knowledge of Agriculture. We investigated whether there were significant differences inthe mean achievement test scores of students in practical Agriculture in the selected schools. We also examined the relationship between their academic performance in practical agriculture and their attitude to the subject. The study was a descriptive survey design carried out at Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria. Six public single-sex (Boys’ and Girls’ only) schools were randomly selected from three Local Government Areas (LGAs) within Ibadan Zone comprising eleven LGAs in 2018. Sixty-nine Senior Secondary School (SSS III) students were randomly selected in Boys’ only (3) schools while ninety-seven students were randomly selected in Girls’ only (3) schools giving a total of 166 students that participated in this study. Practical Agricultural Science Students’ Achievement Test (PASSAT) and Students’ Attitude towards Practical Agriculture Questionnaire (SATPAGQ) were used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, OnewayAnalysis of Variance (ANOVA), Multiple Comparison techniques and t-test for equality of means. The ANOVA test was significant (p = .00). Post Hoc (Tukey HSD) test, a multiple comparison technique on the ANOVA showed that PASSAT mean scores obtained by one Girls’ only school was significantly different from one Boys’ only schools another two Girls’ only schools’ mean scores at 5% significant level. It was found that availability of school farm, use of instructional materials were not enough to bring about significant boost in academic success in PASSAT especially in three of the schools with less than average mean scores of 34.51, 40.23 and 44.07. The study therefore recommended that government and relevant stakeholders (Parents- Teachers Association, Old Boys’ and Girls’ Association among others) should provide human resources and needed infrastructural facilities for effective teaching and learning of Agricultural Science in both single-sex and Co-educational schools for better academic performance.
Astrometric Weak Lensing with Gaia DR3 and Future Catalogs: Searches for Dark Matter Substructure
Creators: name: Mondino, Cristina
name: Tsantilas, Andreas
name: Taki, Anna-Maria
name: Van Tilburg, Ken
name: Weiner, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small-scale dark matter structures lighter than a billion solar masses are an important probe of primordial density fluctuations and dark matter microphysics. Due to their lack of starlight emission, their only guaranteed signatures are gravitational in nature. We report on results of a search for astrometric weak lensing by compact dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way with Gaia DR3 data. Using a matched-filter analysis to look for correlated imprints of time-domain lensing on the proper motions of background stars in the Magellanic Clouds, we exclude order-unity substructure fractions in halos with masses $M_{l}$ between $10^{7} \, M_{\odot}$ and $10^{9} \, M_{\odot}$ and sizes of one parsec or smaller. We forecast that a similar approach based on proper accelerations across the entire sky with data from Gaia DR4 may be sensitive to substructure fractions of $f_{l} \gtrsim 10^{-3}$ in the much lower mass range of $10 \, M_{\odot} \lesssim M_{l} \lesssim 3 \times 10^{3} \, M_{\odot}$. We further propose an analogous technique for stacked star-star lensing events in the regime of large impact parameters. Our first implementation is not yet sufficiently sensitive but serves as a useful diagnostic and calibration tool; future data releases should enable average stellar mass measurements using this stacking method.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures; v2: published version, references and minor comments added
The Clustering Properties of Lyman-Break Galaxies at Redshift z~3
Creators: name: Porciani, Cristiano
name: Giavalisco, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new measure of the angular two-point correlation function of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3, obtained from the variance of galaxy counts in 2-dimensional cells. By avoiding binning of the angular separations, this method is significantly less affected by shot noise than traditional measures, and allows for a more accurate determination of the correlation function. We used a sample of about 1,000 galaxies with R<=25.5 extracted from the survey by Steidel and collaborators, and found the following results. At scales in the range 30
description: 67 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Supercontinuum generation in a graded-index multimode tellurite fiber
Creators: name: Krutova, Ekaterina
name: Salmela, Lauri
name: Eslami, Zahra
name: Karpate, Tanvi
name: Klimczak, Mariusz
name: Buczynski, Ryszard
name: Genty, Goëry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a near two-octave spanning supercontinuum (SC) from 790 nm to 2900 nm in a nanostructured tellurite graded-index multimode fiber with a nanostructured core. We study the SC dynamics in different dispersion regimes and observe near-single mode spatial intensity distribution at high input energy values. Numerical simulations of the (3+1)D generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation are in good agreement with our experiments. Our results open a new avenue for the generation of high-power mid-infrared SC sources in soft glass fibers.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Possibilités culturales de l'Oranger. Périmètre irrigué de l'Oued Beth
title: Possibilités culturales de l'Oranger. Périmètre irrigué de l'Oued Beth
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Irrigation
subject: Oranger
subject: Périmètre irrigué
subject: Arboriculture

description: Cartographie
description: BESM-carto_1961-90-p161_90-01
description: 161
description: 90
description: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM) > BESM (Cartographie)
description: Relation: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/idurl/1/81919
description: Coverage: Oued Beth
description: Coverage: Maroc
description: Coverage: XXe siècle
description: Temporal: XXe siècle
description: Bibliographic citation: « Possibilités culturales de l'Oranger. Périmètre irrigué de l'Oued Beth », In Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM), n° 90, 1961
description: Provenance: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Provenance: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/