cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pohlia atropurpurea Lindb.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Pohlia
Pohlia atropurpurea

description: Pohlia atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Lindb.
RECORDS. — Gandoger (1883): sine loco. Litschauer (1904): Chiffaschlucht und im Tal des Qued-Kebir bei Blidah, 300 m; Michelet und Fort National, 1000 m; Vallon bei Alger, 300 m. Braun-Blanquet & Maire (1924): Tlemcen. Rare.
COMMENT
The reports included here are those published as Bryum atropurpureum in which Wahlenberg (Wahlenb.) appears as the authors. Whereas those in which Bruch & Schimp. are indicated, are considered as reports of Bryum dichotomum (Bryum atropurpureum Bruch & Schimp. nom. illeg.). Nevertheless, as Pohlia atropurpurea is an unfrequent species in the Mediterranean region, the presence of the species in Algeria should be confirmed.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 91, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Quantum annealing with longitudinal bias fields
Creators: name: Graß, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum annealing aims at solving hard computational problems through adiabatic state preparation. Here, I propose to use inhomogeneous longitudinal magnetic fields to enhance the efficiency of the annealing. Such fields are able to bias the annealing dynamics into the desired solution, and in many cases, suitable field configurations can be found iteratively. Alternatively, the longitudinal fields can also be applied as an antibias which filters out unwanted contributions from the final state. This strategy is particularly well suited for instances which are difficult to solve within the standard quantum annealing approach. By numerically simulating the dynamics for small instances of the exact cover problem, the performance of these different strategies is investigated.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Analytical investigations and sensitivity analysis from Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data
Creators: name: Barrat, A.
name: C. Cattuto
name: M. Kivelä
name: S. Lehmann
name: J. Saramäki
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Analytical results and sensitivity analysis
Tingis (Tropidocheila) seidenstueckeri Pericart 1981
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Tingis
Tingis seidenstueckeri

description: Tingis (Tropidocheila) seidenstueckeri Péricart, 1981
 Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Ghahari et al. 2010b), Hormozgan (Linnavuori 2004).
 Host records from Iran. Indigofera sp. (Fabaceae), Phlomis sp. (Lamiaceae) (Linnavuori 2004).
 General distribution. Syria (Péricart & Golub 1996) and Iran.
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 35
New $AdS_3$ Branes and Boundary States
Creators: name: Rajaraman, Arvind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine D-branes on $AdS_3$, and find a three-brane wrapping the entire $AdS_3$, in addition to 1-branes and instantonic 2-branes previously discussed in the literature. The three-brane is found using a construction of Maldacena, Moore, and Seiberg. We show that all these branes satisfy Cardy's condition and extract the open string spectrum on them.
description: 18 pages, latex
Are rural youth disengaging from agriculture? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gutu, Tekalign
name: Gutu, Tekalign
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: male youth
subject: female youth
subject: shadow wage
subject: shadow income
subject: agricultural labor supply

description: This study investigates the trends, patterns and prospects of youth involvement in agriculture in Ethiopia, by gender. It also analyses the determinants of youth labor supply in agriculture using household and youth sample survey data collected during 2010/11 and 2014/15 main agricultural seasons in Oromia, one of the designated high agricultural potential area of Ethiopia. Labor supply is measured as the total annual working days (in adult equivalent) of male and female youth members of the household allocated to on-farm and off-farm work. Based on this data the marginal products (shadow wages) of youth workers of each gender and net income (shadow income) are estimated, using a structural time-allocation models. Then the estimated shadow wages and shadow income are used as regressors in a structural model of youth labor supply. The results indicate that trends and patterns of youth involvement in agriculture vary across gender and work locations, and so do their marginal products. Whilst the on-farm participation of youth is declining across time irrespective of gender, the participation in off-farm agricultural activities is increasing for both. There is statistically no significant decrease in the total agricultural labor supply of both male and female youths. Further, we find that the effect of own shadow wage on labor supply is positive for male youth members, suggesting an upward sloping labor supply. However, the effect of own marginal product of female youth labor is negative, suggesting that female youth agricultural labor supply is backward bending. The findings challenge the presumption that youth are abandoning agriculture, at least in the survey areas. Policy implications of the results would be that changes in economic incentives such as shadow wages and shadow income matter for youth involvement in agriculture and off-farm agricultural employment opportunities could help to reduce youth underemployment.
$T$-dualizing the de-Sitter no-go scenarios
Creators: name: Shukla, Pramod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of realizing de-Sitter vacua and the slow-roll inflation, several no-go conditions have been found in the framework of type IIA (generalized) flux compactifications. In this article, using our recently proposed $T$-dual dictionary in arXiv:1909.07391, we translate various such type IIA no-go conditions which subsequently leads to some interesting de-Sitter no-go scenarios in the presence of (non-)geometric fluxes on the dual type IIB side. We also present the relevance of using $K3/{\mathbb T}^4$-fibred Calabi Yau threefolds in order to facilitate one particular class of the de-Sitter no-go conditions. This analysis helps in refining certain corners of the vast non-geometric flux landscape for the hunt of de-Sitter vacua.
description: 35 pages, arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.07391 in the appendix; version 2: 38 pages, minor updates with text readjustments, typos fixed, references added; version 3: 38 pages, minor changes with Introduction section consolidated, references added, to appear in PRD
Employing the Subsequent Four Years of the Libyan Education Reform Strategy: Administrations and Contributors
Creators: name: Ageila Ali Elabbar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education

description: This paper is the third continuation of the previously published paper “National Libyan Public Education Reform: Entire Transformative Strategies, 2020–2026” (November 2017), which proposes a complete framework for reforming Libyan public education and reflects on the difficulties that educators and learners have faced due to existing confusing conditions. It divides the entire reform plan into six years of gradual reform actions to overcome their complications; these complications stem from the discouraged forms of education, changeable curricula, bureaucratic schools and university administrations, the conservative community, and uncertain education strategies. Another factor is the way that learners acquire information (that is, their learning styles). In addition, upheavals all over Libya have affected the overall stability of education in Libya and led to there being two ministries of education (East and West Libya). Thus, six years of gradual reform stages were proposed so that a new generation of students would start with pre-kindergarten in the academic year 2026 or the equivalent. This paper also is subsequent to the prior published paper (16 May 2018) on the same reverence project, “Contextualizing the First Two Years of the Libyan Education Reform Proposed Strategies (2020–2026): Targeted Candidates and Reflective Activities,” which explains in depth the suggested Phase I of the first two years (2020–2022) of the proposal for reforming Libyan education (2020–2026 or equivalent years). The purpose of this paper is to explain in depth the suggested subsequent four years (2022–2026 or equivalent years) of the proposed strategy of a six-year reform and come out with clearly constructed strategy without conflicting laws or regulations in the country.
Pohlia cruda Lindb.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Pohlia
Pohlia cruda

description: Pohlia cruda (Hedw.) Lindb.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie des Babor, djebel Tababor. Jelenc (1955a): Aurès. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 91, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Electronic Supplementary Material from In situ measurements of human cough aerosol hygroscopicity
Creators: name: Groth, Robert
name: Cravigan, Luke T.
name: Sadegh Niazi
name: Ristovski, Zoran
name: Johnson, Graham R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 40107 Meteorology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Information regarding the differential mobility analyser used in the study, the material data used in the models, evaluation of the models using a known mixture, tabulated growth factor values, tabulated evaporation factors, the change in volume median diameter due to the evaporation factors, and the raw size distributions of the participants' coughs.
Leading Economic Determinants of Foreign Trade Volume in Turkish Agriculture Sector
Creators: name: Ozun, Alper
name: Turk, Mehmet
name: Ozun, Alper
name: Turk, Mehmet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Turkish agriculture sector
subject: foreign trade
subject: principal component analysis
subject: multivariate GARCH

description: We empirically analyze the main economic factors affecting the export and import levels in Turkish agriculture sector. Using monthly time series of certain domestic and international variables, we make three complementary analysis; namely, principal component analysis, causality and co-integration analysis, and multivariate GARCH analysis. The empirical findings point out the fact that foreign trade volume in Turkish agriculture sector is statistically in relation with agricultural production, consumer price index, market capitalization of the firms, and international agriculture prices.
Statistical Hadronization of Supercooled Quark-Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Keränen, A.
name: Csernai, L. P.
name: Magas, V.
name: Manninen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast simultaneous hadronization and chemical freeze out of supercooled quark-gluon plasma, created in relativistic heavy ion collisions, leads to the re-heating of the expanding matter and to the change in a collective flow profile. We use the assumption of statistical nature of the hadronization process, and study quantitatively the freeze out in the framework of hydrodynamical Bjorken model with different quark-gluon plasma equations of state.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Uncertainty in the Reactor Neutrino Spectrum and Mass Hierarchy Determination
Creators: name: Ciuffoli, Emilio
name: Evslin, Jarah
name: Mohammed, Hosam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the challenges that must be overcome in order to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using reactor neutrinos is the theoretical uncertainty in the unoscillated reactor neutrino spectrum: this is one of the reasons why, recently, it was proposed to add a near detector to the JUNO experiment. A model-independent treatment of the spectrum uncertainty will be discussed, as well as the effect that it will have on the final result. Moreover, since the neutrino spectrum depends on the chemical composition of the fuel, the spectra at the near and far detectors will be different, because they will receive neutrinos from different cores. Taking into account the time evolution of the chemical composition of the fuel in the reactor core, it is possible to reconstruct the far detector spectrum from the near detector data. We will show that the method used to reconstruct the spectrum can affect sensitivity to the mass hierarchy, however if the near detector is large enough the difference will be negligible.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
The hidden measurement formalism: what can be explained and where quantum paradoxes remain
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the hidden measurement formalism that we develop in Brussels we explain the quantum structure as due to the presence of two effects, (a) a real change of state of the system under influence of the measurement and, (b) a lack of knowledge about a deeper deterministic reality of the measurement process. We show that the presence of these two effects leads to the major part of the quantum mechanical structure of a theory where the measurements contain the two mentioned effects. We present a quantum machine, where we can illustrate in a simple way how the quantum structure arises as a consequence of the two effects. We introduce a parameter 'epsilon' that measures the amount of the lack of knowledge on the measurement process, and by varying this parameter, we describe a continuous evolution from a quantum structure (maximal lack of knowledge) to a classical structure (zero lack of knowledge). We show that for intermediate values of epsilon we find a new type of structure that is neither quantum nor classical. We analyze the quantum paradoxes and show that they can be divided into two groups: (1) The group (measurement problem and Schrodingers cat paradox) where the paradoxical aspects arise mainly from the application of standard quantum theory as a general theory (e.g. also describing the measurement apparatus). This type of paradox disappears in the hidden measurement formalism. (2) A second group collecting the paradoxes connected to the effect of non-locality (the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and the violation of Bell inequalities). We show that these paradoxes are internally resolved because the effect of non-locality turns out to be a fundamental property of the hidden measurement formalism itself.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Click procedure of phthalocyanine star-shaped mesogens – the effect of size and spacer length
Creators: name: Lehmann, Matthias
name: Dechant, Moritz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A new Click procedure have been recently presented, in which a mixture of a female piece (star mesogen with shape-persistent conjugated arms and intrinsic free space) and a male building block (the same star mesogen sterically overcrowded with fullerenes attached via spacers to the arms) self-assemble in highly ordered filled liquid crystal structures. This self-assembly is based on the space-filling of the intrinsic free space and the nanosegregation of the fullerenes in helices. Here we highlight the synthesis of larger phthalocyanine star mesogens and fullerenes attached via long spacers and their mixtures as well as mixtures of the components with the stars of intermediate size and spacer length. While the system with long spacers do not show any alignment and π-stacking, the click procedure reappears successfully for the combination of a large female star and the intermediate male star.
Additional file 1 of Guillain–Barre syndrome after myocardial infarction: a case report and literature review
Creators: name: Wen, Pu-yuan
name: Chen, Xian-wen
name: Zhang, Min
name: Chu, Wen-zheng
name: Wu, Hong-liang
name: Ren, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Angiograms of the right coronary artery. Initial angiogram showed multiple branches and diffuse lesions in the middle segment of the right crown, with the most severe stenosis reaching 85%, while those taken after PCI show restoration of flow.
Intracluster Red Giant Stars in the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Durrell, Patrick R.
name: Ciardullo, Robin
name: Feldmeier, John J.
name: Jacoby, George H.
name: Sigurdsson, Steinn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the WFPC2 camera of the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain deep F814W images of a blank field in the Virgo Cluster located 41 arcmin northwest of M87. We perform star counts in that field, and in another Virgo field observed by Ferguson, Tanvir & von Hippel (1998), and show that, when compared to the Hubble Deep Field North and South, the Virgo Cluster contains an excess of objects with magnitudes I > 27. We attribute this excess to a population of intracluster red-giant branch (IC-RGB) stars. By modeling the luminosity function of these stars, we show that the tip of the Virgo RGB is at I = 27.31 +0.27/-0.17 and that the cluster contains a small, but significant, excess of stars that are up to ~1 mag brighter than this tip. If this luminous component is due entirely to stars on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB), it implies an age for the population of > 2 Gyr; if foreground RGB stars contribute to the luminous tail, then the derived age for the stars is older still. The luminosity function also suggests that most of the intracluster stars are moderately metal-rich (-0.8 < [Fe/H]
description: 21 pages, 8 figures included, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program
Creators: name: Hurley, Sean P.
name: Bylsma, Jessica
name: Hurley, Sean P.
name: Bylsma, Jessica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In 1978, the County of Stanislaus took a proactive stance on the issue of food processing by-product by developing the Stanislaus County Food Processing By-Product Use Program (Program). This program allows food processors to take their by-products to local agricultural producers, who in turn reuse the by-products by feeding it to their livestock or spreading it across their fields as a soil amendment. Since its inception the county has reported that over 6 million tons of by-products have been reused by agricultural producers and consequently diverted from local landfills. Within the last couple of years, the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) has brought concerns to Stanislaus County that this program may pose a risk to the county’s surface and ground water resources. The RWQCB proposed that program participants implement several new levels of product and environmental monitoring. Program participants believe that the current program is environmentally sound and that additional monitoring may be unnecessary.
Regularized Quantum Master Equation in the Wilsonian Renormalization Group
Creators: name: Igarashi, Yuji
name: Itoh, Katsumi
name: So, Hiroto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Pauli-Villars regularization, we make a perturbative analysis of the quantum master equation (QME), $Σ=0$, for the Wilsonian effective action. It is found that the QME for the UV action determines whether exact gauge symmetry is realized along the renormalization group (RG) flow. The basic task of solving the QME can be reduced to compute the Troost-van Niuwenhuizen-Van Proyen jacobian factor for the classical UV action. When the QME cannot be satisfied, the non-vanishing $Σ$ is proportional to a BRS anomaly, which is shown to be preserved along the RG flow. To see how the UV action fulfills the QME in anomaly free theory, we calculate the jacobian factor for a pure Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions.
description: 18 pages
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Surveys and Scheduler
Creators: name: Bellm, Eric C.
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
name: Barlow, Tom
name: Feindt, Ulrich
name: Graham, Matthew J.
name: Goobar, Ariel
name: Kupfer, Thomas
name: Ngeow, Chow-Choong
name: Nugent, Peter
name: Ofek, Eran
name: Prince, Thomas A.
name: Riddle, Reed
name: Walters, Richard
name: Ye, Quan-Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel algorithm for scheduling the observations of time-domain imaging surveys. Our Integer Linear Programming approach optimizes an observing plan for an entire night by assigning targets to temporal blocks, enabling strict control of the number of exposures obtained per field and minimizing filter changes. A subsequent optimization step minimizes slew times between each observation. Our optimization metric self-consistently weights contributions from time-varying airmass, seeing, and sky brightness to maximize the transient discovery rate. We describe the implementation of this algorithm on the surveys of the Zwicky Transient Facility and present its on-sky performance.
description: Published in PASP Focus Issue on the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab0c2a). 13 Pages, 11 Figures
Cantacader quadricornis
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Cantacader
Cantacader quadricornis

description: Cantacader quadricornis (Lepeletier & Serville, 1828)
 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Lis 2001 b, 2003a; Linnavuori 2011), Golestan (Kiritshenko 1966), Guilan (Wagner 1961), Khuzestan, Lorestan (Linnavuori 2011), Mazandaran (Wagner 1961; Lis 2001 b, 2003a; Linnavuori 2011); Iran (no locality cited) (Péricart 1983).
 General distribution. North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, Ukraine, South European Territory of Russia, Transcaucasia, Asian Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan (Péricart & Golub 1996; Lis 2001 b, 2003a).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 35
A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Maize Production Under Minimum Tillage in Zambia
Creators: name: Ng'ombe, John
name: Kalinda, Thomson
name: Ng'ombe, John
name: Kalinda, Thomson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Minimum tillage and other conservation agriculture practices are not only associated with income gains but are also claimed to be the panacea to the declining agricultural productivity and soil degradation problems in Africa and across the world. The few studies on technical efficiency related to the agricultural sector performance in Zambia have not attempted to determine how technically efficient smallholder farmers that produce maize under minimum tillage are. This study used stochastic frontier analysis based on both the half-normal and exponential model distributions on 2008 cross-sectional nationally representative data of 160 smallholder maize farm households that adopted minimum tillage in Zambia. Results indicate that maize farmers face increasing returns to scale (1.074) implying that there were opportunities for them to improve their technical efficiency as they were operating in stage I of their production functions. The half-normal and exponential model distributions indicate average technical efficiency scores of 60 and 71.7 percent, respectively. Their respective lowest efficiency scores were 9.3 and 8.5 percent. The highest efficiency scores for the half-normal and exponential model distributions were 89.3 and 90.9 percent. Maximum likelihood estimation results show that marital status, level of education of household head, square of household size, off farm income, agro-ecological region III, distance to vehicular road and access to loans are statistically significant factors that affect technical efficiency of smallholder maize farmers that practice minimum tillage in Zambia. The study calls for increased infrastructural development through construction of improved road network, schools and colleges in remote areas as a means to increasing accesss to knowledge and other agricultural services in order to enhance their technical efficiency levels. It also recommends promotion of minimum tillage practices in recommended agro-ecological regions to improve their technical efficiency. The study further acclaims for increased access to loans by smallholder maize farmers that practice minimum tillage as this would in one way induce them to invest in improved varieties and equipment that would help enhance their technical efficiency in Zambia.
Molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations unveil the combating effect of baicalein on human islet amyloid polypeptide aggregates
Creators: name: E. Srinivasan
name: S. Ravikumar
name: S. Venkataramanan
name: Rituraj Purohit
name: R. Rajasekaran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Formation of insoluble toxic aggregates by hIAPP polypeptide is found to be a core component for disease pathogenicity of patients suffering from type II diabetes. Naturally occurring polyphenols that possess anti-aggregation property are being majorly studied in the current scenario for treating various conformational diseases. Herein, we study the disaggregation mechanism of naturally occurring polyphenol baicalein, obtained from the roots of S. baicalensis and Indian trumpet flower on hIAPP dimer using quantum chemical calculation and discrete molecular dynamics. Our study reported that a drastic loss in the secondary structural propensity of hIAPP was seen upon binding of baicalein. Notably, the hydrophobic core and the phenolic groups present in the ends of baicalein molecule play a key role in inhibiting the aggregates formed upon binding to the amyloidogenic core region of hIAPP. Thus, our study provides a comprehensive understanding over the disaggregation effect of baicalein on hIAPP dimer from a computational point of view and thereby bridging the gap for future therapeutic strategy in designing the anti-aggregation compounds that inhibit hIAPP amyloids.
Pseudovector vs. pseudoscalar coupling in one-boson exchange NN potentials
Creators: name: Caia, G.
name: Durso, J. W.
name: Elster, Ch.
name: Haidenbauer, J.
name: Sibirtsev, A.
name: Speth, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of pseudoscalar and pseudovector coupling of the pi and eta mesons in one-boson exchange models of the NN interaction using two approaches: time-ordered perturbation theory unitarized with the relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation, and a reduced Bethe-Salpeter equation approach using the Thompson equation. Contact terms in the one-boson exchange amplitudes in time-ordered perturbation theory lead naturally to the introduction of s-channel nucleonic cutoffs for the interaction, which strongly suppresses the far off-shell behavior of the amplitudes in both approaches. Differences between the resulting NN predictions of the various models are found to be small, and particularly so when coupling constants of the other mesons are readjusted within reasonable limits.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Views of Primary Education Teachers on the Effectiveness of the Use of Experiential Participatory Methods in the Teaching Context of the Hosting Classes
Creators: name: Fragkoulis, Iosif
name: Charitopoulos, Ioannis
name: Vlachogianni, Elissavet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130305 Educational Counselling
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing

description: This paper explores the perceptions of a sample of teachers as far as the teaching of experiential, participatory educational techniques to foreign pupils is concerned. The sample of the survey consisted of 50 teachers of primary schools throughout Greece while the data were collected through a questionnaire. Based on the findings gathered, conclusions are drawn on the cognitive and empirical background of the sample, on the use of techniques, as well as its perceptions on their effectiveness, the difficulties of their application and their training in them. In particular, the survey results show that almost all teachers had formed a good cognitive background about these techniques, but there is a need for further training and modernization of their knowledge on teaching. Finally, further discussion on the issues can be accomplished under study.
Pohlia elongata Hedw.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Pohlia
Pohlia elongata

description: Pohlia elongata Hedw.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): sine loco. Very rare.
COMMENT
The only report of this species in Algeria is based on a single specimen collected by Cordier without indication of locality (Bescherelle 1882).
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Liquid crystal dimers containing Cholesteryl and Triazole-containing mesogenic units
Creators: name: Al-Shargabi, Arwa
name: Guan-Yeow Yeap
name: Mahmood, Wan Ahmad Kamil
name: Chun-Chieh Han
name: Hong-Cheu Lin
name: Ito, Masato M
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: New liquid crystals categorised as cholesteryl dimers have been successfully synthesised through the reaction between cholesteryl 4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)benzoate moieties with n-azido(cholesteryloxy-carbonyl)alkane. All the dimers display enantiotropic mesophases. Whilst the odd-numbered dimers exhibit chiral nematic (N*), twisted grain boundary (TGB) and chiral smectic C (SmC*) phases, the even-numbered members from the same series show chiral smectic A and C. A detailed inspection on mesophase reveals that the chiral centres and the bent conformation of the odd-numbered members are essential for the induction of TGB phase. However, upon decreasing the temperature, the ratio of the transition temperatures (TSmC*-SmA*/TSmA*-I) is found to be 0.95, which indicate the second order transition according to the McMillan’s molecular theory. In addition, the X-ray diffraction study supports the presence of the smectic A phase on the even members rather than the N* by the appearance of the Bragg diffraction peaks at 190°C. A comparison study with the other analogues in which the cholesterol entity is substituted by azobenzene or biphenyl tails has been carried out to assess the relationship between the molecular structure and mesomorphic behaviour.
Additional file 1 of Predicting outcomes in patients with exacerbation of COPD requiring mechanical ventilation
Creators: name: Alzaabi, Obaid
name: Guerot, Emmanuel
name: Planquette, Benjamin
name: Diehl, Jean-Luc
name: Soumagne, Thibaud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical
Creators: name: Zurek, Wojciech H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decoherence is caused by the interaction with the environment. Environment monitors certain observables of the system, destroying interference between the pointer states corresponding to their eigenvalues. This leads to environment-induced superselection or einselection, a quantum process associated with selective loss of information. Einselected pointer states are stable. They can retain correlations with the rest of the Universe in spite of the environment. Einselection enforces classicality by imposing an effective ban on the vast majority of the Hilbert space, eliminating especially the flagrantly non-local "Schrödinger cat" states. Classical structure of phase space emerges from the quantum Hilbert space in the appropriate macroscopic limit: Combination of einselection with dynamics leads to the idealizations of a point and of a classical trajectory. In measurements, einselection replaces quantum entanglement between the apparatus and the measured system with the classical correlation.
description: Final version of the review, with brutally compressed figures. Apart from the changes introduced in the editorial process the text is identical with that in the Rev. Mod. Phys. July issue. Also available from http://www.vjquantuminfo.org
CrackGAN: Pavement Crack Detection Using Partially Accurate Ground Truths Based on Generative Adversarial Learning
Creators: name: Zhang, Kaige
name: Zhang, Yingtao
name: Cheng, Heng-Da
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Fully convolutional network is a powerful tool for per-pixel semantic segmentation/detection. However, it is problematic when coping with crack detection using partially accurate ground truths (GTs): the network may easily converge to the status that treats all the pixels as background (BG) and still achieves a very good loss, named "All Black" phenomenon, due to the unavailability of accurate GTs and the data imbalance. To tackle this problem, we propose crack-patch-only (CPO) supervised generative adversarial learning for end-to-end training, which forces the network to always produce crack-GT images while reserves both crack and BG-image translation abilities by feeding a larger-size crack image into an asymmetric U-shape generator to overcome the "All Black" issue. The proposed approach is validated using four crack datasets; and achieves state-of-the-art performance comparing with that of the recently published works in efficiency and accuracy.
Evolution of binary stars and the effect of tides on binary populations
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod R.
name: Tout, Christopher A.
name: Pols, Onno R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a rapid binary evolution algorithm that enables modelling of even the most complex binary systems. In addition to all aspects of single star evolution, features such as mass transfer, mass accretion, common-envelope evolution, collisions, supernova kicks and angular momentum loss mechanisms are included. In particular, circularization and synchronization of the orbit by tidal interactions are calculated for convective, radiative and degenerate damping mechanisms. We use this algorithm to study the formation and evolution of various binary systems. We also investigate the effect that tidal friction has on the outcome of binary evolution. Using the rapid binary code, we generate a series of large binary populations and evaluate the formation rate of interesting individual species and events. By comparing the results for populations with and without tidal friction we quantify the hitherto ignored systematic effect of tides and show that modelling of tidal evolution in binary systems is necessary in order to draw accurate conclusions from population synthesis work. Tidal synchronism is important but because orbits generally circularize before Roche-lobe overflow the outcome of the interactions of systems with the same semi-latus rectum is almost independent of eccentricity. It is not necessary to include a distribution of eccentricities in population synthesis of interacting binaries, however, the initial separations should be distributed according to the observed distribution of semi-latera recta rather than periods or semi-major axes.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures, to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Glycolipids from natural sources: dry liquid crystal properties, hydrogen bonding and molecular mobility of Palm Kernel oil mannosides
Creators: name: Martinez-Felipe, Alfonso
name: Thamil Selvi Velayutham
name: Aripin, Nurul Fadhilah Kamalul
name: Yusoff, Marina
name: Farquharson, Emma
name: Rauzah Hashim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Glycolipids prepared from palm kernel oil, PKO, in tropical regions represent an excellent opportunity to develop new surfactant formulations for cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical applications while contributing to sustainable economies. Here we report the synthesis of a new mannoside obtained from palm kernel oil, aManPKO, and we characterise its thermotropic properties by using DSC, POM, SAXS, WAXS, FT-IR and broadband dielectric spectroscopy. aManPKO exhibits a monotropic smectic phase with a partially interdigitated bilayer structure, similar to its major unsaturated component, the oleyl mannoside with a C18:1 monounsaturated alkyl chain. The smectic phase of aManPKO vitrifies below room temperature, which is associated to the C18:1 component, but also to the activation of short-range motions, ~4 Å, by cleavage of strong hydrogen bonding between the polar heads of the mannosides. The stability of the liquid crystal phase, on the other hand, is linked to the presence of weak hydrogen bonding, whose breakage leads to the activation of long rate motions in the range of the layer distances, ~39 Å.
COMP2CAT: hunting compact double radio sources in the local Universe
Creators: name: Jimenez-Gallardo, Ana
name: Massaro, Francesco
name: Capetti, Alessandro
name: Prieto, Almudena
name: Paggi, Alessandro
name: Baldi, Ranieri D.
name: Grossova, Romana
name: Ostorero, Luisa
name: Siemiginowska, Aneta
name: Viada, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of compact double radio galaxies (hereafter COMP2$CAT$) listing 43 edge-brightened radio sources whose projected linear size does not exceed 60 kpc, the typical size of their host galaxies. This is the fifth in a series of radio source catalogs recently created, namely: FRI$CAT$, FRII$CAT$, FR0$CAT$ and WAT$CAT$, each focused on a different class of radio galaxies. The main aim of our analysis is to attain a better understanding of sources with intermediate morphologies between FR\,IIs and FR\,0s. COMP2$CAT$ sources were selected from an existing catalog of radio sources based on NVSS, FIRST and SDSS observations for having, mainly, i) edge-brightened morphologies, typical of FR\,IIs, ii) redshifts $z < 0.15$ and iii) projected linear sizes smaller than 60 kpc. With radio luminosities at 1.4 GHz $10^{38} \lesssim L_{1.4} \lesssim 10^{41}$ erg s$^{-1}$, COMP2$CAT$ sources appear as the low radio luminosity tail of FR\,IIs. However, their host galaxies are indistinguishable from those of large-scale radio sources: they are luminous ($-21 \gtrsim M_{r} \gtrsim -24$), red, early-type galaxies with black hole masses in the range of $10^{7.5} \lesssim M_{\rm BH} \lesssim 10^{9.5}\, \rm{M}_\odot$. Moreover, all but one of the COMP2$CAT$ sources are optically classifiable as low excitation radio galaxies, in agreement with being the low radio-power tail of FR\,Is and FR\,IIs. This catalog of compact double sources, which is $\sim 47 \%$ complete at $z<0.15$, can potentially be used to clarify the role of compact double sources in the general evolutionary scheme of radio galaxies.
Additional file 1: of A new efficient method for analyzing fungi species using correlations between nucleotides
Creators: name: Zhao, Xin
name: Tian, Kun
name: Yau, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Figure S1. Barcode gap analyses for the family Leotiaceae using distance histograms. Histograms display the intragenus variation in green and the intergenus variation in blue for the family Leotiaceae. Figure S2. Barcode gap analyses for the family Microascaceae using distance histograms. Histograms display the intragenus variation in green and the intergenus variation in blue for the family Microascaceae. Figure S3. Barcode gap analyses for the family Sarcoscyphaceae using distance histograms. Histograms display the intragenus variation in green and the intergenus variation in blue for the family Sarcoscyphaceae. Figure S4. Barcode gap analyses for the genus Epulorhiza using distance histograms. Histograms display the intraspecific variation in green and the interspecific variation in blue for the genus Epulorhiza. Figure S5. Barcode gap analyses for the genus Eremothecium using distance histograms. Histograms display the intraspecific variation in green and the interspecific variation in blue for the genus Eremothecium. Figure S6. Barcode gap analyses for the genus Fomitiporia using distance histograms. Histograms display the intraspecific variation in green and the interspecific variation in blue for the genus Fomitiporia. Figure S7. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 12-dimensional natural vector method. Figure S8. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 18-dimensional natural vector method. Figure S9. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the multiple alignment method. Figure S10. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the k-mer method (kâ =â 5). Figure S11. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 14-dimensional natural vector without number feature. Figure S12. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 14-dimensional natural vector without mean position feature. Figure S13. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 14-dimensional natural vector without normalized variation feature. Figure S14. Phylogenetic tree for the genus Pachyphloeus with the 12-dimensional natural vector without covariance feature. (DOCX 2782 kb)
Exterior Differentials in Superspace and Poisson Brackets of Diverse Grassmann Parities
Creators: name: Soroka, D. V.
name: Soroka, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that two definitions for the exterior differential in superspace, giving the same exterior calculus, when applied to the Poisson bracket lead to the different results. Examples of the even and odd linear brackets, corresponding to semi-simple Lie groups, are given and their natural connection with BRST and anti-BRST charges is indicated.
description: 5 pages, LATEX 2.09. The talk at the 9th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY'01, JINR, Dubna, Russia, 11-17 June, 2001). To be published in the Proceedings of this Conference. Correction of misprints
Pohlia melanodon A. J. Shaw
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Pohlia
Pohlia melanodon

description: Pohlia melanodon (Brid.) A.J.Shaw
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Alger-Mustapha, rochers humides; Atlas; Constantine, talus humides du Mansourah; Ravins de Babel Oued. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Gorges de la Chiffa, 300 m; Réghaïa. Julien (1894): Région de Constantine. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Sidi-Bel-Abbès. Corbière (1905): Environs de Constantine, La Pépinière; Environs de Constantine, Le Hamma. Maire (1916), Jelenc (1955a): Sud oranais, le djebel Mzi, 2130 m. Braun-Blanquet & Maire (1924), Jelenc (1955a): Tlemcen. Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Atlas de Blida; Constantine; Kabylie du Djurdjura, djebel Gouraya; Orléansville. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 92, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891