cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Slipsheets for Unitized Shipment of Groceries in Trailers
Creators: name: Bouma, John C.
name: Shaffer, Paul F.
name: Bouma, John C.
name: Shaffer, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: This study is part of a continuing research program of the Agricultural Marketing Service, designed to find more efficient and less costly methods for handling agricultural products from producer to consumer. An estimated 70 percent of the grocery receipts arrive at the food distribution warehouse by truck. While the volume of receipts at the truck dock has grown, productivity has lagged behind that experienced at the rail dock. Unitized shipment on pallets in railcars replaced handstacked shipment when pallet-exchange programs and free return of empty pallets made this system less costly. Now unitized shipment on slipsheets is replacing pallets in railcars because of the mounting cost of pallet repairs and pallet-exchange problems. The first objective of this study was to measure the cost of slipsheet shipment and compare the results with conventional shipment by handstacking and pallet loading and unloading. A second objective was to determine the most efficient method of loading and unloading trailers using slipsheets as unit loads. For example, should the product be placed on slipsheets with a clamp-lift truck (a forklift truck with an attachment to pick up and transport unit loads with squeeze-type pressure plates), or should the product be on slipsheets and loaded into the trailer with a forklift having a push-pull attachment? Time and cost standards were developed in two supplier plants for loading trailers, one using the slipsheet attachment and the other using the clamp attachment, and in two wholesale food warehouses on trailer unloading that received five or more trailerloads on slipsheets daily for more than 1 year. The labor studies for loading include all activities from the supplier plant-dock staging area to the completion of loading and include labor to secure either the unit load or the total trailerload.
Meitingsunes Glowska and Skoracki 2010
Creators: name: Skoracki, Maciej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Syringophilidae
Meitingsunes

description: Genus Meitingsunes Glowska and Skoracki, 2010
 Meitingsunes Glowska and Skoracki, 2010: 62.
 Type species: Meitingsunes zenadoura e (Clark, 1964) by original designation.
 Diagnosis. Female: Medium-sized quill mites (length 620 – 775). Gnathosoma. Hypostomal apex without median protuberances. Lateral hypostomal teeth absent. Peritremes M - shaped with clearly visible chambers in each branch. Movable cheliceral digit edentate. Stylophore constricted posteriorly, lineal - shaped. Idiosoma. All idiosomal setae smooth. Propodonotal shield entire, rectangular in shape. Propodonotal region with 5 pairs of setae (vi absent), arranged 2 – 1 – 2. Hysteronotal shield fused to pygidial shield, two additional hysteronotal sclerites arround bases of setae d2 present or absent. Hysteronotal setae long. Setae d1 situated equidistant to level of setae d2 and e2. Terminal setae f2 and h2 long, f1 and h1 short. Genital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Aggenital series with 3 pairs of setae. Legs. Leg setae vsII and dFII–IV absent. Apodemes I slightly divergent, not fused to apodemes II. Coxal fields I and II dissimilar in shape and size. Antaxial and paraxial members of claw pair subequal in size and shape, without basal angle.
 MALE. Characters as in female except: total body length 515 – 555; propodonotal shield weakly sclerotized, entire, variable in shape; propodonotal setae arranged 2–2–1; hysteronotal shield not fused to pygidial shield; hysteronotal setae d2 long, d1 and e2 short; terminal setae f2 and h2 short; aggenital series with 2 pairs of setae; apodemes I strongly divergent; coxal fields I and II similar in shape and size.
 Host range. Mites of this genus are associated with columbiform birds of the family Columbidae.
 Habitat. Quills of secondaries and coverts.
 Species included. At present, 4 species of this genus are known from the Nearctic (1), Ethiopian (2), Neotropic (1), and Palaearctic (1) regions (Table 20).
description: Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, 2011, Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region 2840, pp. 1-414 in Zootaxa 2840 (1) on page 301, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2840.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5289205
QoS-enabled ANFIS Dead Reckoning Algorithm for Distributed Interactive Simulation
Creators: name: Hakiri, Akram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dead Reckoning mechanisms are usually used to estimate the position of simulated entity in virtual environment. However, this technique often ignores available contextual information that may be influential to the state of an entity, sacrificing remote predictive accuracy in favor of low computational complexity. A novel extension of Dead Reckoning is suggested in this paper to increase the network availability and fulfill the required Quality of Service in large scale distributed simulation application. The proposed algorithm is referred to as ANFIS Dead Reckoning, which stands for Adaptive Neuro-based Fuzzy Inference System Dead Reckoning is based on a fuzzy inference system which is trained by the learning algorithm derived from the neuronal networks and fuzzy inference theory. The proposed mechanism takes its based on the optimization approach to calculate the error threshold violation in networking games. Our model shows it primary benefits especially in the decision making of the behavior of simulated entities and preserving the consistence of the simulation.
โมเดลสมการโครงสร้างภาวะผู้นำการเปลี่ยนแปลง การจัดการนวัตกรรมและผลการดำเนินงานด้านนวัตกรรมตามการรับรู้ของผู้บริหารการพยาบาลระดับต้น โรงพยาบาลทั่วไป กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Creators: name: กรุณา ลิ้มเจริญ
Publisher: name: สถาบันบำราศนราดูร
Year: 2564
Subjects: ภาวะผู้นำการเปลี่ยนแปลง
การจัดการนวัตกรรม
ผลการดำเนินงานด้านนวัตกรรม
ผู้บริหารการพยาบาลระดับต้น
Transformational leadership
Innovation management
Innovation performance and First-line nurse Managers

description: วารสารสถาบันบำราศนราดูร, 15, 3, 150-161
WHO guidelines on waist circumference and physical activity and their joint association with cancer risk
Creators: name: Bohmann, Patricia
name: Stein, Michael J.
name: Amadou, Amina
name: Baurecht, Hansjörg
name: Fervers, Béatrice
name: Fontvieille, Emma
name: Freisling, Heinz
name: Friedenreich, Christine M.
name: Konzok, Julian
name: Peruchet-Noray, Laia
name: Leitzmann, Michael F.
name: Sedlmeier, Anja M.
name: Weber, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objective Low body fat and high physical activity
levels are key lifestyle factors in cancer prevention, but
the interplay of abdominal obesity and physical activity
on cancer risk remains unknown. We explored individual
and joint associations of waist circumference and
physical activity with cancer risk.
Methods Using UK Biobank data (n=315 457), we
categorised individuals according to WHO guideline
thresholds for waist circumference and self-reported
physical activity levels. Multivariable-adjusted
Cox
regression was used to estimate HRs and 95% CIs of
total cancer. The reference group comprised individuals
with recommended levels of waist circumference
(<88 cm for women and <102 cm for men) and physical
activity (>10 metabolic equivalent of task hours/week).
Furthermore, we estimated the proportion of cancers
attributable to abdominal obesity and insufficient
physical activity.
Results During a median follow-up
period of 11 years
(3 321 486 person-years),
29 710 participants developed
any type of cancer. Participants not meeting the WHO
guideline on waist circumference had increased cancer
risk, even when sufficiently physically active according
to the WHO (HR 1.11, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.15). Similarly,
individuals not achieving the WHO guideline for physical
activity showed an elevated risk, even if they were
abdominally lean (HR 1.04, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.07).
Not adhering to either guideline yielded the strongest
increase in risk (HR 1.15, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.19).
We estimated that abdominal obesity coupled with
insufficient physical activity could account for 2.0% of
UK Biobank cancer cases.
Conclusion Adherence to both WHO guidelines for
waist circumference and physical activity is essential for
cancer prevention; meeting just one of these guidelines
is insufficient.
Model-independent constraints on the shape parameters of dilepton angular distributions
Creators: name: Faccioli, Pietro
name: Lourenco, Carlos
name: Seixas, Joao
name: Woehri, Hermine K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coefficients determining the dilepton decay angular distribution of vector particles obey certain positivity constraints and a rotation-invariant identity. These relations are a direct consequence of the covariance properties of angular momentum eigenstates and are independent of the production mechanism. The Lam-Tung relation can be derived as a particular case, simply recognizing that the Drell-Yan dilepton is always produced transversely polarized with respect to one or more quantization axes. The dilepton angular distribution continues to be characterized by a frame-independent identity also when the Lam-Tung relation is violated. Moreover, the violation can be easily characterized by measuring a one-dimensional distribution depending on one shape coefficient.
description: 7 pages
Shipping Alternatives for Moving Florida Produce to Eastern and Midwestern Markets
Creators: name: Klindworth, Keith A.
name: Brooks, Eldon E.
name: Klindworth, Keith A.
name: Brooks, Eldon E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Produce
subject: Fruits
subject: Vegetables
subject: Shipping
subject: Transportation
subject: TOFC
subject: railer on flatcar
subject: Intermodal
subject: Florida

description: A significant shift in modal market share has occurred in the movement of Florida fresh fruits and vegetables within the last twenty years with a resulting complete dependence by Florida produce shippers on truck transportation at present. Evaluation of shipping alternatives to truck transportation concentrated on a cost and service comparison of a potential Plan III TOFC shipping program with present truck transportation for the Florida producers. The feasibility of Plan III TOFC shipping to each of seven market areas for Florida produce was found to vary according to assumptions concerning equipment turnaround time and level of backhaul that the shippers obtain. However, under operating information as provided by present TOFC shippers, a Plan III TOFC program for Florida produce shippers was found competitive with present truck transportation to several market areas. The study also examined various entry considerations for shippers wishing to establish a Plan III TOFC shipping program.
Bose-like condensation of Lagrangian particles and higher-order statistics in passive scalar turbulent advection
Creators: name: Dombre, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish an hitherto hidden connection between zero modes and instantons in the context of the Kraichanan model for passive scalar turbulent advection, that relies on the hypothesis that the production of strong gradients of the scalar is associated with Bose-like condensation of Lagrangian particles. It opens the way to the computation of scaling exponents of the N-th order structure functions of the scalar by techniques borrowed from many-body theory. To lowest order of approximation, scaling exponents are found to increase asymptotically as log N in two dimensions.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Jonathan Edwards House with American Flag
Creators: name: Kelsey, Carleton
name: Amagansett Historical Association
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Photographs
Dwellings
Buildings
Structures
Edwards Family

description: This image shows the Jonathan Edwards House with an American Flag hanging from the top window. This photograph was either taken or collected by Amagansett historian and librarian Carleton Kelsey.
description: This photograph is part of the collection of the Carleton Kelsey Collection of the Amagansett Historical Association. Kelsey was a local historian and librarian who collected photographs from others to add to the many photographs he took of the community himself.
Everyday kin (in the) making : spatial and relational obligations in treaty eight territory
Creators: name: Hunt, Dallas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: This project considers the possibility of a relational turn in Indigenous studies, and Indigenous literary studies specifically, toward the study and practice of everyday kinship. This turn does not propose the complete abdication of larger, macro-political projects, but rather suggests we need to be attentive to both macro- and micropolitical projects in tandem, while simultaneously outlining how the micropolitical as a site of analysis in Indigenous communities often receives little sustained interest or engagement from wider academic circles (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous), in comparison to large-scale Indigenous cultural and political issues. Scholars studying forms of Indigenous cultural production (or settler cultural production about/addressing Indigenous peoples) and Indigenous communities have yet to substantively consider how a focus on everyday life and kinship can help outline, navigate, and denaturalize the colonial dimensions and parameters of what is currently called Canada. This dissertation takes Treaty Eight as its immediate intellectual, spatial, and ecological context, and examines three sites of analysis: a small-town archive that makes settler colonial claims to space and in the process erases Indigenous histories; a hazardous waste treatment centre that eradicates Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world, and in the process damages relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, as well as with other-than-human beings; and the creative and critical writing of Treaty Eight poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, whose poetry outlines the harmful effects of imposed masculinities and the gender binary, and gestures to modes of existing otherwise. Each of these sites contain intimate relationships and complex lived realities that are rarely given sustained attention in Indigenous studies, even as they are arguably the fabric of everyday lives within the shared geography of Treaty Eight territory. Thus, I maintain that a rigorous engagement with the shared geographies we inhabit, as well as the enmeshed and entangled ways we relate to one another other, is not only necessary, but vital if we are going to address not only the intimate, everyday symptoms of colonial injustice, but also the root causes of harm reproduced and maintained by settler colonialism.
Syringophilus Heller 1880
Creators: name: Skoracki, Maciej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Syringophilidae
Syringophilus

description: Genus Syringophilus Heller, 1880
 Syringophilus Heller, 1880: 186.
 Type species: Syringophilus bipectinatus Heller, 1880 by monotypy.
 Diagnosis. FEMALE. Large syringophilids (total body length 920–1240). Gnathosoma. Hypostomal apex without protuberances. Lateral hypostomal teeth absent. Peritremes U-shaped, with clearly visible chambers in each branch. Movable cheliceral digits dentate, each with 2 minute teeth. Stylophore constricted posteriorly. Idiosoma. Dorsal propodonotal setae delicately ornamented. Six pairs of propodonotal setae present, arranged 3–1–2. Propodonotal shield entire, bearing bases of all propodonotal setae. Hysteronotal shield variable, fused or not to pygidial shield. Hysteronotal setae medium-sized. Bases of setae d1 situated closer to d2 than to e2. Terminal setae f1 and h1 short, f2 and h2 long. Two pairs of pseudanal, 2 pairs of genital and 3 pairs of aggenital setae present. Legs. Legs I–IV subequal in thickness and with full complement of setae. Apodemes I divergent and fused to apodemes II in posterior part of apodemes II, both dissimilar in shape and size. Antaxial and paraxial members of claw pair subequal in size and shape, without basal angle.
 MALE. Features as in females except: total body length 700–800; movable cheliceral digit edentate; peritremes M-shaped; dorsal idiosomal setae smooth; hysteronotal shield fused to pygidial shield; hysteronotal setae d2 long, d1 and e2 short; terminal setae f2 short, h2 long; 2 pairs of aggenital setae present.
 Host range. Members of this genus are associated with galliform birds of the family Phasianidae.
 Habitat. Mites inhabiting quills of flight feathers: primaries, secondaries, coverts, alulars and tertials.
 Species included. This genus includes 2 species: S. bipectinatus, which has the worldwide distribution, and S. numidae - recorded from the Ethiopian region.
description: Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, 2011, Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region 2840, pp. 1-414 in Zootaxa 2840 (1) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2840.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5289205
NEYROLINGVISTIKA NAZARIYALARI VA MODELLARINING UMUMIY KOʻRINISHI
Creators: name: Mirzayeva, Goʻzal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Neyrolingvistika, til va miya oʻrtasidagi oʻzaro ta'sirlarni oʻrganadigan fan sohasidir. Ushbu maqolada, neyrolingvistikaning asosiy nazariyalariga va modellariga e'tibor qaratilib, ularning tilshunoslik sohasidagi ahamiyati tahlil qilinadi. Neyrolingvistika tilning miya jarayonlariga qanday bog'liqligini, til oʻrganish va ishlatish jarayonlarini tushuntiradi. Asosiy ilmiy yondashuvlar, kognitiv jarayonlar va miya yarimsharalarining tilga ta'siri, shuningdek, neyrobiologik asoslar tahlil qilinadi. Mazkur maqolada tarixiy tadqiqotlardan to zamonaviy modellar va nazariyalargacha boʻlgan rivojlanish jarayoni muhokama qilinadi, shu bilan birga, til va miya oʻrtasidagi oʻzaro ta'sirni tushuntirishga qaratilgan muhim tadqiqotlar va nazariyalar taqdim etiladi.
Asymmetric resonance in selective reflection: Explanation via Fano-like mechanism
Creators: name: Novitsky, Denis V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fano mechanism is the universal explanation of asymmetric resonance appearing in different systems. We report the evidence of Fano-like resonance in selective reflection from a resonant two-level medium. We draw an analogy with the asymmetric resonance previously obtained for the coupled oscillators. We also take into account the effects of dielectric background and local-field correction and connect our results with optical bistability.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; slightly extended version in comparison with the published one
Commodity Treatments: Responses Of Nectarines, Peaches, and Plums to Fumigation with Methyl Bromide
Creators: name: Harvey, J. M.
name: Harris, C. M.
name: Hartsell, P. L.
name: Harvey, J. M.
name: Harris, C. M.
name: Hartsell, P. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Fumigation
subject: phytotoxicity
subject: methyl bromide
subject: stone fruits
subject: peaches
subject: plums
subject: nectarines
subject: residues
subject: handling practices
subject: sorption
subject: ripening
subject: export
subject: quarantine treatments
subject: codling moth
subject: Cydia pomonella
subject: Commodity treatments

description: Symptoms of methyl bromide injury are slight to severe brown blotchy areas on peaches, slight to severe pitting and browning of nectarines, and localized brown or purple discoloration and pitting of plums. Fumigation did not significantly affect weight loss under our experimental conditions. Injury generally increased with increasing dosage of methyl bromide, and the rate of ripening subsequent to treatment generally was slowed as the dosage increased. The effect on ripening was particularly apparent in plums, which change color as they ripen, but also was apparent in nectarines and peaches, which change firmness with ripening. Less injury occurred at high (26.5°C) than at low (4.5°C) temperature, and less injury occurred in field-run fruit than in fruit fumigated after packinghouse handling. Individual cultivars of nectarines, peaches, and plums differed greatly in their susceptibility to injury from methyl bromide fumigation. Inorganic bromide residues were less than 10 parts per million (p/m) in nectarines and plums and less than 12 p/m in peaches fumigated with dosages up to 48 g/m3 methyl bromide. Organic bromide residues in all three fruits were less than 5.0 p/m after 2 days and less than 0.30 p/m after 7 days in cold storage
Emotion through Product Motion Behavior
Creators: name: Liu, Chia-Cheng
name: Chang, Hua-Min
name: Deng, Yi-Shin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: product motion behavior
emotional responses
interactive product design

description: Although the general interest of the emotional arousal in human-product interaction gradually grows, we have few understandings of how it can be addressed by products. In this paper we propound an argument that the feedback style caused by user’s action will give rise to emotional responses. Taking the action of CD player cover for example, we propose an approach to investigating how the different rhythm of the cover’s open and close influences emotion. This result of the research shows the relationship between emotional responses and product motion behavior and facilitates designer’s intention to arouse emotional responses by deciding the product motion behavior in interactive product design.
DNA Metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees
Creators: name: Fernandes, Kristen Marie Rose
name: Prendergast, Kit
name: Bateman, Philip W.
name: Saunders, Benjamin J.
name: Gibberd, Mark
name: Bunce, Michael
name: Nevill, Paul
Publisher: name: Institute of Environmental Science and Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genomics

description: Urbanisation modifies natural landscapes resulting in built-up space and managed green spaces that often substitute native plant species with exotics. Some native bee species have been able to adapt to urban environments, foraging and reproducing in these highly modified areas. However, little is known on how the foraging ecology of native bees is affected by urbanised environments, and whether impacts vary among species with different degrees of specialisation for pollen collection. Here, we aim to investigate the responses of native bee foraging behaviour to urbanisation, using DNA metabarcoding to identify the resources within nesting tubes. We targeted oligolectic (specialist) and polylectic (generalist) cavity-nesting bee species in residential gardens and remnant bushland habitats. We were able to identify 40 families, 50 genera, and 23 species of plants, including exotic species. Oligolectic bee species had higher alpha diversity of plant pollen in their nesting tubes in residential gardens compared to bushland habitats, along with significantly different forage composition between the two habitats. This result implies a greater degree of forage flexibility and urban adaptation for oligolectic bee species than previously thought. In contrast, the richness and composition of plant forage in polylectic bee nesting tubes did not vary between the two habitat types. Our results suggest a complex response of cavity-nesting bees to urbanisation and support the need for additional research to understand how the shifts in foraging resources impact overall bee health.
High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient VLSI Architecture for Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND
Creators: name: Abbas, Syed Mohsin
name: Tonnellier, Thibaud
name: Ercan, Furkan
name: Jalaleddine, Marwan
name: Gross, Warren J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC), a major 5G New-Radio use case, is the key enabler for applications with strict reliability and latency requirements. These applications necessitate the use of short-length and high-rate codes. Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding technique for these short-length and high-rate codes. Rather than decoding the received vector, GRAND tries to infer the noise that corrupted the transmitted codeword during transmission through the communication channel. As a result, GRAND can decode any code, structured or unstructured. GRAND has hard-input as well as soft-input variants. Among these variants, Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) is a soft-input variant that outperforms hard-input GRAND and is suitable for parallel hardware implementation. This work reports the first hardware architecture for ORBGRAND, which achieves an average throughput of up to $42.5$ Gbps for a code length of $128$ at a target FER of $10^{-7}$. Furthermore, the proposed hardware can be used to decode any code as long as the length and rate constraints are met. In comparison to the GRANDAB, a hard-input variant of GRAND, the proposed architecture enhances decoding performance by at least $2$ dB. When compared to the state-of-the-art fast dynamic successive cancellation flip decoder (Fast-DSCF) using a 5G polar $(128,105)$ code, the proposed ORBGRAND VLSI implementation has $49\times$ higher average throughput, $32\times$ times more energy efficiency, and $5\times$ more area efficiency while maintaining similar decoding performance.
description: Accepted for inclusion in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2022. For the updated version, please see IEEE Xplore
A multi-transition methanol maser study of the accretion burst source G358.93-0.03-MM1
Creators: name: Bayandina, O. S.
name: Brogan, C. L.
name: Burns, R. A.
name: Chen, X.
name: Hunter, T. R.
name: Kurtz, S. E.
name: MacLeod, G. C.
name: Sobolev, A. M.
name: Sugiyama, K.
name: Val'tts, I. E.
name: Yonekura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the most complete to date interferometric study of the centimeter wavelength methanol masers detected in G358.93-0.03 at the burst and post-burst epochs. A unique, NIR/(sub)mm-dark and FIR-loud MYSO accretion burst was recently discovered in G358.93-0.03. The event was accompanied by flares of an unprecedented number of rare methanol maser transitions. The first images of three of the newly-discovered methanol masers at 6.18, 12.23, and 20.97 GHz are presented in this work. The spatial structure evolution of the methanol masers at 6.67, 12.18, and 23.12 GHz is studied at two epochs. The maser emission in all detected transitions resides in a region of $\sim$0.2$^{\prime\prime}$ around the bursting source and shows a clear velocity gradient in the north-south direction, with red-shifted features to the north and blue-shifted features to the south. A drastic change in the spatial morphology of the masing region is found: a dense and compact "spiral" cluster detected at epoch I evolved into a disperse, "round" structure at epoch II. During the transition from the first epoch to the second, the region traced by masers expanded. The comparison of our results with the complementary VLA, VLBI, SMA, and ALMA maser data is conducted. The obtained methanol maser data support the hypothesis of the presence of spiral-arm structures within the accretion disk, which was suggested in previous studies of the source.
The Impact of the First Galaxies on Cosmic Dawn and Reionization
Creators: name: Muñoz, Julian B.
name: Qin, Yuxiang
name: Mesinger, Andrei
name: Murray, Steven G.
name: Greig, Bradley
name: Mason, Charlotte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of the first galaxies during cosmic dawn and reionization (at redshifts $z=5-30$), triggered the last major phase transition of our universe, as hydrogen evolved from cold and neutral to hot and ionized. The 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen will soon allow us to map these cosmic milestones and study the galaxies that drove them. To aid in interpreting these observations, we upgrade the publicly available code {\tt 21cmFAST}. We introduce a new, flexible parametrization of the additive feedback from: an inhomogeneous, $H_2$-dissociating (Lyman-Werner; LW) background; and dark matter -- baryon relative velocities; which recovers results from recent, small-scale hydrodynamical simulations with both effects. We perform a large, "best-guess" simulation as the 2021 installment of the Evolution of 21-cm Structure (EOS) project. This improves the previous release with a galaxy model that reproduces the observed UV luminosity functions (UVLFs), and by including a population of molecular-cooling galaxies. The resulting 21-cm global signal and power spectrum are significantly weaker, primarily due to a more rapid evolution of the star-formation rate density required to match the UVLFs. Nevertheless, we forecast high signal-to-noise detections for both HERA and the SKA. We demonstrate how the stellar-to-halo mass relation of the unseen, first galaxies can be inferred from the 21-cm evolution. Finally, we show that the spatial modulation of X-ray heating due to relative velocities provides a unique acoustic signature that is detectable at $z \approx 10-15$ in our fiducial model. Ours are the first public simulations with joint inhomogeneous LW and relative-velocity feedback across the entire cosmic dawn and reionization.
description: 23+3 pages, 23+3 figures. Matches accepted version. Simulation output available at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dqh9r6wb0s68jfo/AACc9ZCqsN0SQ_JJN7GRVuqDa?dl=0
DEP Bulletin: Volume 43 Issue 22
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Deformation of localized states and state transitions in systems of randomly hopping interacting fermions
Creators: name: Orito, Takahiro
name: Kuno, Yoshihito
name: Ichinose, Ikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study the random-hopping fermions (the Cruetz ladder) with repulsion and investigate how the interactions deform localized eigenstates by means of the one particle-density matrix (OPDM). The ground state exhibits resurgence of localization from the compact localized state to strong-repulsion-induced localization. On the other hand, excited states in the middle of the spectrum tend to extend by the repulsion. The transition property obtained by numerical calculations of the OPDM is deeply understood by studying a solvable model in which local integrals of motion (LIOMs) are obtained explicitly. The present work clarifies the utility of the OPDM and also how compact-support LIOMs in non-interacting limit are deformed by the repulsion.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Galliphilopsis Skoracki and Sikora 2004
Creators: name: Skoracki, Maciej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Syringophilidae
Galliphilopsis

description: Genus Galliphilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2004
 Galliphilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2004b: 380.
 Type species: Galliphilopsis francolinus Skoracki and Sikora, 2004 by original designation.
 Diagnosis. FEMALE. Small sized mites (total body length 400–550). Gnathosoma. Hypostomal apex without protuberances. Two pairs of hypostomal lips present. Lateral hypostomal teeth absent. Peritremes M-shaped, each branch with clearly visible chambers. Movable cheliceral digit edentate. Stylophore constricted posteriorly. Idiosoma. All idiosomal setae smooth. Five pairs of propodonotal setae present (vi —absent), arranged 1–1–1–2. Propodonotal shield entire, without pocket-like structures, bearing bases of setae ve, si, se and c1. Hysteronotal shield variable, weakly sclerotized or absent. Hysteronotal setae variable in length. Pygidial shield present or absent. Setae h2 long, setae f1, f2 and h1 short. Two pairs of pseudanal and 2 pairs of genital setae present. Aggenital series with 3 pairs of setae. Legs. Legs I–IV subequal in thickness. Apodemes I slightly divergent not fused to apodemes II, both apodemes different in size and shape. Antaxial and paraxial members of claw pair subequal in size and shape, basal angles absent. Leg setae dGII and dTIII–IV absent. Apodemes I slightly divergent anteriorly, not fused to apodemes II.
MALE. Unknown.
 Host range. Mites of this genus are associated with galliform birds of the family Phasianidae (Table 21).
 Habitat. Quills of covert feathers.
 Species included. This genus includes 3 species distributed in the Ethiopian and Palaearctic regions. The Palaearctic fauna is represented by two species: G. bochkovi and G. lophurus.
description: Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, 2011, Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region 2840, pp. 1-414 in Zootaxa 2840 (1) on pages 309-310, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2840.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5289205
Commodity Treatments: Responses of Tomatoes and Green Bell Peppers to Fumigation with Methyl Bromide or Ethylene Dibromide
Creators: name: Lipton, W. J.
name: Tebbets, J. S.
name: Spitler, G. H.
name: Hartsell, P. L.
name: Lipton, W. J.
name: Tebbets, J. S.
name: Spitler, G. H.
name: Hartsell, P. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Tomato
subject: bell pepper
subject: capsicum
subject: fumigation
subject: phytotoxicity
subject: methyl bromide
subject: ethylene dibromide
subject: residues
subject: sorption
subject: ripening
subject: injury
subject: quarantine treatments
subject: commodity treatments
subject: storage
subject: decay

description: Fumigation of tomatoes with methyl bromide (MB) at dosages that might be used for control of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Wied.) slows the rate of ripening of mature-green fruit by about 20 percent and slightly increases their susceptibility to decay. Splotchy ripening occurred in only one cultivar treated at 32°C. Inorganic bromide residues in tomatoes were less than the legal tolerance of 20 parts per million, even at the maximum dosage of 48 g MB/m3. Green bell peppers were severely injured when fumigated with MB at a dosage effective against the Mediterranean fruit fly. Thus, MB is not a suitable fumigant for green peppers. Fumigation of green bell peppers with ethylene dibromide (EDB) increased the incidence of decay and induced slight surface pitting. However, at the dosage used, the defects induced by EDB are not serious enough to preclude the use of EDB as a fumigant for green peppers to meet quarantine requirements. At a dosage of 8 g EDB/m3, the inorganic bromide residue was less than 25 p/m.
Coverage games in small cells networks
Creators: name: Treust, Mael Le
name: Tembine, Hamidou
name: Lasaulce, Samson
name: Debbah, Mérouane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers the problem of cooperative power control in distributed small cell wireless networks. We introduce a novel framework, based on repeated games, which models the interactions of the different transmit base stations in the downlink. By exploiting the specific structure of the game, we show that we can improve the system performance by selecting the Pareto optimal solution as well as reduce the price of stability.
title: Bending analysis of smart functionally graded plate using the state-space approach
Creators: name: Salmanpour, Niloufar
name: Rouzegar, Jafar
name: Abad, Farhad
name: Lotfian, Saeid
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2024

description: This study uses the state-space approach to study the bending behavior of Levy-type functionally graded (FG) plates sandwiched between two piezoelectric layers. The coupled governing equations are obtained using Hamilton's principle and Maxwell's equation based on the efficient four-variable refined plate theory. The partial differential equations (PDEs) are converted using Levy's solution technique to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). In the context of the state-space method, the higher-order ODEs are simplified to a system of first-order equations and then solved. The results are compared with those reported in available references and those obtained from Abaqus FE simulations, and good agreements between results confirm the accuracy and efficiency of the approach. Also, the effect of different parameters such as power-law index, aspect ratio, type of boundary conditions, thickness-to-side ratio, and piezoelectric thickness are studied.
Unravelling the thread of transmission : pairing traditional epidemiology with genomics to understand tuberculosis transmission dynamics
Creators: name: Guthrie, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Background: In Canada, TB remains a public health concern, with the disease becoming increasingly entrenched in our most vulnerable populations. In 2012, British Columbia (BC) prepared a strategic plan with the aim of reducing incidence in the province by 50% over 10 years. A key aspect of this is preventing person-to-person spread of TB within BC—challenging, as our understanding of endemic transmission is incomplete. The objective of this dissertation is to use new advances in technology, including whole genome sequencing (WGS), to address the knowledge gaps around who, where, and how transmission occurs in BC and provide the foundation upon which new TB prevention policies and programs will be developed. Methods: This dissertation draws on data routinely collected from persons diagnosed with culture-confirmed TB in BC (2005–2014) and linked to laboratory data from their corresponding Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolate(s). Collaborations with Yukon and Ontario provided additional data. 24-locus MIRU-VNTR genotype results were available for each Mtb isolate across all three study populations. WGS of genotypically clustered BC isolates and all Yukon isolates was carried out and the data analyzed using a bioinformatics pipeline developed at Oxford University. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine clinical and demographic characteristics of persons with Mtb isolates belonging to a cluster according to genotyping and WGS methods. Results: Universal genotyping of all Mtb isolates collected in BC over a ten-year period revealed that 57.6% of the study population had a genotypically unique Mtb isolate. Sixteen large genotype clusters were identified, nine in predominately Canadian-born (CB) persons. Application of WGS indicated the large genotypic clusters comprised of mainly non-Canadian-born (nCB) persons did not represent recent, endemic transmission within BC, and WGS additionally refined many of the CB clusters to smaller sub-clusters. The WGS clustered proportion was 25.8%. Conclusions: Approximately one in four of BC’s TB cases occur in CB persons and are largely the result of local transmission. WGS represents a new and important tool for understanding the spread of TB within a population, and using this technology paired with routinely collected case-level data provided significant insights to transmission in BC.
DNA Metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees
Creators: name: Fernandes, Kristen Marie Rose
name: Prendergast, Kit
name: Bateman, Philip W.
name: Saunders, Benjamin J.
name: Gibberd, Mark
name: Bunce, Michael
name: Nevill, Paul
Publisher: name: Institute of Environmental Science and Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genomics

description: Urbanisation modifies natural landscapes resulting in built-up space and managed green spaces that often substitute native plant species with exotics. Some native bee species have been able to adapt to urban environments, foraging and reproducing in these highly modified areas. However, little is known on how the foraging ecology of native bees is affected by urbanised environments, and whether impacts vary among species with different degrees of specialisation for pollen collection. Here, we aim to investigate the responses of native bee foraging behaviour to urbanisation, using DNA metabarcoding to identify the resources within nesting tubes. We targeted oligolectic (specialist) and polylectic (generalist) cavity-nesting bee species in residential gardens and remnant bushland habitats. We were able to identify 40 families, 50 genera, and 23 species of plants, including exotic species. Oligolectic bee species had higher alpha diversity of plant pollen in their nesting tubes in residential gardens compared to bushland habitats, along with significantly different forage composition between the two habitats. This result implies a greater degree of forage flexibility and urban adaptation for oligolectic bee species than previously thought. In contrast, the richness and composition of plant forage in polylectic bee nesting tubes did not vary between the two habitat types. Our results suggest a complex response of cavity-nesting bees to urbanisation and support the need for additional research to understand how the shifts in foraging resources impact overall bee health.
A model for semantic integration of business components
Creators: name: Kzaz, Larbi
name: Elasri, Hicham
name: Sekkaki, Abderrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today, reusable components are available in several repositories. These last are certainly conceived for the reusing However, this re-use is not immediate; it requires, in the fact, to pass through some essential conceptual operations, among them in particular, research, integration, adaptation, and composition. We are interested in the present work to the problem of semantic integration of heterogeneous Business Components. This problem is often put in syntactical terms, while the real stake is of semantic order. Our contribution concerns a model proposal for Business components integration as well as resolution method of semantic naming conflicts, met during the integration of Business Components.
Guided Bug Crush: Assist Manual GUI Testing of Android Apps via Hint Moves
Creators: name: Liu, Zhe
name: Chen, Chunyang
name: Wang, Junjie
name: Huang, Yuekai
name: Hu, Jun
name: Wang, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE), Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

description: Mobile apps are indispensable for people's daily life. Complementing with automated GUI testing, manual testing is the last line of defence for app quality. However, the repeated actions and easily missing of functionalities make manual testing time-consuming and inefficient. Inspired by the game candy crush with flashy candies as hint moves for players, we propose an approach named NaviDroid for navigating testers via highlighted next operations for more effective and efficient testing. Within NaviDroid, we construct an enriched state transition graph with the triggering actions as the edges for two involved states. Based on it, we utilize the dynamic programming algorithm to plan the exploration path, and augment the GUI with visualized hints for testers to quickly explore untested activities and avoid duplicate explorations. The automated experiments demonstrate the high coverage and efficient path planning of NaviDroid and a user study further confirms its usefulness. The NaviDroid can help us develop more robust software that works in more mission-critical settings, not only by performing more thorough testing with the same effort that has been put in before, but also by integrating these techniques into different parts of development pipeline.
description: Accepted to CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22)
DSPSR: Digital Signal Processing Software for Pulsar Astronomy
Creators: name: van Straten, W.
name: Bailes, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DSPSR is a high-performance, open-source, object-oriented, digital signal processing software library and application suite for use in radio pulsar astronomy. Written primarily in C++, the library implements an extensive range of modular algorithms that can optionally exploit both multiple-core processors and general-purpose graphics processing units. After over a decade of research and development, DSPSR is now stable and in widespread use in the community. This paper presents a detailed description of its functionality, justification of major design decisions, analysis of phase-coherent dispersion removal algorithms, and demonstration of performance on some contemporary microprocessor architectures.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, to be published in PASA