cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Information from Identifying the start of a platelet aggregate by the shear rate and the cell-depleted layer
Creators: name: B.J.M. Van Rooij
name: G. Závodszky
name: V.W. Azizi Tarksalooyeh
name: A.G. Hoekstra
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Computer simulations were performed to study the transport of red blood cells and platelets in high shear flows, mimicking earlier published in vitro experiments in microfluidic devices with high affinity for platelet aggregate formation. The goal is to understand and predict where thrombus formation starts. Additionally, the need of cell-based modelling in these microfluidic devices is demonstrated by comparing our results with macroscopic models, wherein blood is modelled as a continuous fluid. HemoCell, a cell-based blood flow simulation framework is used to investigate the transport physics in the microfluidic devices. The simulations show an enlarged cell-depleted layer at the place where a platelet aggregate forms in the experiments. In this enlarged cell-depleted layer, the probability to find a platelet is higher than in the rest of the microfluidic device. In addition, the shear rates are sufficiently high to allow for the von Willebrand factor to elongate in this region. We hypothesize that the enlarged cell-depleted layer combined with a sufficiently large platelet flux and sufficiently high shear rates result in an haemodynamic environment that is a preferred location for initial platelet aggregation.
On a class of distributions generated by stochastic mixture of the extreme order statistics of a sample of size two
Creators: name: Mirhoseini, S. M.
name: Dolati, A.
name: Amini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F15

description: This paper considers a family of distributions constructed by a stochastic mixture of the order statistics of a sample of size two. Various properties of the proposed model are studied. We apply the model to extend the exponential and symmetric Laplace distributions. An extension to the bivariate case is considered.
Crematogaster laeviuscula Mayr 1870
Creators: name: Guénard, Benoit
name: Mccaffrey, Katherine A.
name: Lucky, Andrea
name: Dunn, Rob R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Crematogaster
Crematogaster laeviuscula

description: Crematogaster laeviuscula Mayr, 1870
 Distribution in North Carolina: All regions. Counties: BR, BN, CT, DU, GS, IR, JA, LI, MA, ME, MO, NH, OR, RI, RU, UN.
 Distribution in surrounding states: SC (Van Pelt and Gentry 1985), TN (Dennis 1938, Cole 1940) and VA (Peck et al. 1998).
 According to Johnson (1988) and previous authors cited therein, Crematogaster laeviuscula is restricted to the western part of the United States. Records of C. laeviuscula or C. clara from North Carolina are probably C. pilosa (see discussion in Johnson 1988).
description: Published as part of Guénard, Benoit, Mccaffrey, Katherine A., Lucky, Andrea & Dunn, Rob R., 2012, Ants of North Carolina: an updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3552 on page 31
Percolation of Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters for the random-bond Ising model
Creators: name: Fajen, Hauke
name: Hartmann, Alexander K.
name: Young, A. Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply generalisations of the Swendson-Wang and Wolff cluster algorithms, which are based on the construction of Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters, to the three-dimensional $\pm 1$ random-bond Ising model. The behaviour of the model is determined by the temperature $T$ and the concentration $p$ of negative (anti-ferromagnetic) bonds. The ground state is ferromagnetic for $0 \le p0$, our data suggest that the percolation transition is universal, irrespective of whether the ground state exhibits ferromagnetic or spin-glass order, and is in the universality class of standard percolation. This shows that correlations in the bond occupancy of the Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters are irrelevant, except for $p=0$ where the clusters are tied to Ising correlations so the percolation transition is in the Ising universality class.
description: 6 pages; 7 figures
Investigation of surfactant surface tension and its correlation with temperature and concentration
Creators: name: Cheng, Li Yaw (Michael)
name: Wei, Su Min (Lisa)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Surface tension is a property that defines the energy per unit area of a liquid-gas interface. The purpose of this study is to investigate the surface properties and the process of aggregation of surfactant micelles in detergents. By using a drop-weight method, the surface tension of detergent solutions was determined under standard pressure condition 1 bar. A 100% concentrated detergent solution was subject to heating. Data analysis showed that surface tension decreased linearly with increasing temperature, as represented by the equation ƴ = – 0.1766 mN/(m⋅K)(x) + 94.654 mN/m, where x is temperature. When subjected to variations in concentration, surface tension of the detergent decreased until reaching the critical micelle concentration, as modelled by the segmented linear regression ƴ = – 0.565 mN/(m⋅%)(x) + 61.7 mN/m when x < 50%, and ƴ = 33.45 mN/m when x ≥ 50%, where x is concentration.
Paridris nitidiceps, n.sp.
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Paridris
Paridris nitidiceps

description: Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910)
 Paranteris nitidiceps n.sp.: KIEFFER 1910b: 292 (descr., Seychelles).
 Paranteris nitidiceps KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1910c: 91 (cat.).
 Paranteris nitidiceps n.sp.: KIEFFER 1912: 65 (key), 67 (descr. Ƌ, Seychelles).
 Paranteris nitidiceps KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1926: 430 (key), 431 (tax., descr. Ƌ, Seychelles), 882 (cat.).
 Paranteris nitidiceps KIEFFER, 1910: NIXON 1933: 552 (tax.), 553 (key ♀, tax., Seychelles without locality), 555 (key Ƌ, tax., Seychelles without locality).
 Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910): MASNER 1965: 89 (tax., Mahé).
 Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910): JOHNSON 1992: 459 (cat.).
 Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910): MADL 2013: 242 (cat. Seychelles).
 Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910): GERLACH 2013: 366 (red list Seychelles).
 Paridris nitidiceps (KIEFFER, 1910): TALAMAS, MASNER & JOHNSON 2013: 8 (tax.), 13 (tax.), 14 (key Ƌ), 23 (tax., type design., descr. Ƌ, Seychelles), 60 (figs 45, 46).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Seychelles: Inner Seychelles (Mahé).
Endemic. The female is unknown according to TALAMAS, MASNER & JOHNSON (2013: 14), but see NIXON (1933: 552, 553).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2016, A catalogue of the family Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the Malagasy subregion. Part II: Subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae and Telenominae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 1493-1550 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on page 1513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355561
Deconfinement in the Two Dimensional XY Model
Creators: name: Fertig, H. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unbinding of vortex-antivortex pairs for the classical two-dimensional XY model in a magnetic field is studied. A single such pair is connected by a string of overturned spins, leading to linear confinement. We show that this system supports two phase transitions, one in which closed strings proliferate, and a second in which vortices unbind. The transitions are shown to be dual to one another, and are remarkably continuous. Possible consequences for a variety of systems are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Typos corrected, small but important change in intro. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Complex amplitude phase motion in Dalitz plot heavy meson three body decay
Creators: name: Bediaga, Ignacio
name: de Miranda, Jussara M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to determine the phase motion of a complex amplitude in three body heavy meson decays. We show that the phase variation of a complex amplitude can be directly revealed through the interference observed in the Dalitz Plot region where it crosses with a well established resonant state. This method could be applied to the decays \d3pi and $D^+\to K^-π^+π^+$, to determine whether the low mass states $σ$ and $κ$, suggested by E791, have phase motions compatible with resonances.
description: To appear in Physics Letters B
Probaryconus sphaerocephalus
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Probaryconus
Probaryconus sphaerocephalus

description: Probaryconus sphaerocephalus (RISBEC, 1950)
 Holoteleia sphaerocephala n.sp.: RISBEC 1950: 610 (descr. Ƌ, Madagascar), 611 (fig. 80), 626 (Madagascar).
 Probaryconus sphaerocephalus (RISBEC, 1950): MASNER 1976: 35 (tax., Madagascar).
 Probaryconus sphaerocephalus (RISBEC, 1950): JOHNSON 1992: 465 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Antananarivo.
Known from the Afrotropical Region.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2016, A catalogue of the family Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the Malagasy subregion. Part II: Subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae and Telenominae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 1493-1550 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on page 1513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355561
Zero-velocity atom interferometry using a retroreflected frequency chirped laser
Creators: name: Perrin, Isadora
name: Bernard, Jeanne
name: Bidel, Yannick
name: Zahzam, Nassim
name: Blanchard, Cédric
name: Bresson, Alexandre
name: Cadoret, Malo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atom interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions in a retroreflected configuration is the first choice in high precision measurements because it provides low phase noise, high quality Raman wavefront and simple experimental setup. However, it cannot be used for atoms at zero velocity because two pairs of Raman lasers are simultaneously resonant. Here we report a method which allows to lift this degeneracy by using a frequency chirp on the Raman lasers. Using this technique, we realize a Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer hybridized with a force balanced accelerometer which provides horizontal acceleration measurements with a short-term sensitivity of $3.2\times 10^{-5}$ m.s$^{-2}$/$\sqrt{Hz}$. We check at the level of precision of our experiment the absence of bias induced by this method. This technique could be used for multiaxis inertial sensors, tiltmeters or atom interferometry in a microgravity environment.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Universal Pulse Shape Scaling Function and Exponents: A Critical Test for Avalanche Models applied to Barkhausen Noise
Creators: name: Mehta, Amit P.
name: Mills, Andrea C.
name: Dahmen, Karin
name: Sethna, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to test if the universal aspects of Barkhausen noise in magnetic materials can be predicted from recent variants of the non-equilibrium zero temperature Random Field Ising Model (RFIM), we perform a quantitative study of the universal scaling function derived from the Barkhausen pulse shape in simulations and experiment. Through data collapses and scaling relations we determine the critical exponents $τ$ and $1/σνz$ in both simulation and experiment. Although we find agreement in the critical exponents, we find differences between theoretical and experimental pulse shape scaling functions as well as between different experiments.
description: 19 pages (in preprint format), 5 figures, 1 table
Additional file 1 of LncRNA IPW inhibits growth of ductal carcinoma in situ by downregulating ID2 through miR-29c
Creators: name: Deshpande, Ravindra Pramod
name: Sharma, Sambad
name: Liu, Yin
name: Pandey, Puspa Raj
name: Pei, Xinhong
name: Wu, Kerui
name: Wu, Shih-Ying
name: Tyagi, Abhishek
name: Zhao, Dan
name: Mo, Yin-Yuan
name: Watabe, Kounosuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information.
Model details and sensitivity analysis from Trophic interactions drive the emergence of diel vertical migration patterns: a game-theoretic model of copepod communities
Creators: name: Pinti, Jérôme
name: Kiørboe, Thomas
name: Thygesen, Uffe H.
name: Visser, André W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: Computational Biology

description: The mathematical, technical details of the model developed as well as the sensitivity analysis
A Novel Cost Function for Despeckling using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ferraioli, Giampaolo
name: Pascazio, Vito
name: Vitale, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Removing speckle noise from SAR images is still an open issue. It is well know that the interpretation of SAR images is very challenging and despeckling algorithms are necessary to improve the ability of extracting information. An urban environment makes this task more heavy due to different structures and to different objects scale. Following the recent spread of deep learning methods related to several remote sensing applications, in this work a convolutional neural networks based algorithm for despeckling is proposed. The network is trained on simulated SAR data. The paper is mainly focused on the implementation of a cost function that takes account of both spatial consistency of image and statistical properties of noise.
description: Accepted on JURSE 2019 - Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event
Arithmetic theory of q-difference equations. The q-analogue of Grothendieck-Katz's conjecture on p-curvatures
Creators: name: Di Vizio, Lucia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12H99 (33D15, 39A13)

description: Grothendieck's conjecture on p-curvatures predicts that an arithmetic differential equation has a full set of algebraic solutions if and only if its reduction in positive characteristic has a full set of rational solutions for almost all finite places. It is equivalent to Katz's conjectural description of the generic Galois group. In this paper we prove an analogous statement for arithmetic q-difference equation.
description: 45 pages. Defintive version
Additional file 5 of ISLET: individual-specific reference panel recovery improves cell-type-specific inference
Creators: name: Feng, Hao
name: Meng, Guanqun
name: Lin, Tong
name: Parikh, Hemang
name: Pan, Yue
name: Li, Ziyi
name: Krischer, Jeffrey
name: Li, Qian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5. Appendix.
Atomic-scale imaging of a 27-nuclear-spin cluster using a single-spin quantum sensor
Creators: name: Abobeih, M. H.
name: Randall, J.
name: Bradley, C. E.
name: Bartling, H. P.
name: Bakker, M. A.
name: Degen, M. J.
name: Markham, M.
name: Twitchen, D. J.
name: Taminiau, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful method for determining the structure of molecules and proteins. While conventional NMR requires averaging over large ensembles, recent progress with single-spin quantum sensors has created the prospect of magnetic imaging of individual molecules. As an initial step towards this goal, isolated nuclear spins and spin pairs have been mapped. However, large clusters of interacting spins - such as found in molecules - result in highly complex spectra. Imaging these complex systems is an outstanding challenge due to the required high spectral resolution and efficient spatial reconstruction with sub-angstrom precision. Here we develop such atomic-scale imaging using a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre as a quantum sensor, and demonstrate it on a model system of $27$ coupled $^{13}$C nuclear spins in a diamond. We present a new multidimensional spectroscopy method that isolates individual nuclear-nuclear spin interactions with high spectral resolution ($< 80\,$mHz) and high accuracy ($2$ mHz). We show that these interactions encode the composition and inter-connectivity of the cluster, and develop methods to extract the 3D structure of the cluster with sub-angstrom resolution. Our results demonstrate a key capability towards magnetic imaging of individual molecules and other complex spin systems.
Single Image Blind Deblurring Using Multi-Scale Latent Structure Prior
Creators: name: Bai, Yuanchao
name: Jia, Huizhu
name: Jiang, Ming
name: Liu, Xianming
name: Xie, Xiaodong
name: Gao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blind image deblurring is a challenging problem in computer vision, which aims to restore both the blur kernel and the latent sharp image from only a blurry observation. Inspired by the prevalent self-example prior in image super-resolution, in this paper, we observe that a coarse enough image down-sampled from a blurry observation is approximately a low-resolution version of the latent sharp image. We prove this phenomenon theoretically and define the coarse enough image as a latent structure prior of the unknown sharp image. Starting from this prior, we propose to restore sharp images from the coarsest scale to the finest scale on a blurry image pyramid, and progressively update the prior image using the newly restored sharp image. These coarse-to-fine priors are referred to as \textit{Multi-Scale Latent Structures} (MSLS). Leveraging the MSLS prior, our algorithm comprises two phases: 1) we first preliminarily restore sharp images in the coarse scales; 2) we then apply a refinement process in the finest scale to obtain the final deblurred image. In each scale, to achieve lower computational complexity, we alternately perform a sharp image reconstruction with fast local self-example matching, an accelerated kernel estimation with error compensation, and a fast non-blind image deblurring, instead of computing any computationally expensive non-convex priors. We further extend the proposed algorithm to solve more challenging non-uniform blind image deblurring problem. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our algorithm achieves competitive results against the state-of-the-art methods with much faster running speed.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2019; Image downsampling makes a good prior for fast blind image deblurring
Generalized symplectic rational blowdowns
Creators: name: Symington, Margaret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R17, 57R15, 57M50

description: We prove that the generalized rational blowdown, a surgery on smooth 4-manifolds, can be performed in the symplectic category.
description: Version 2: Correction of a minor error pointed out by an anonymous referee, correction of typos and improvement of exposition. Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol1/agt-1-26.abs.html
Study of a cross-linked hydrogel of Karaya gum and Starch as a controlled drug delivery system
Creators: name: Sethi, Sapna
name: Kaith, Balbir Singh
name: Kaur, Mandeep
name: Sharma, Neeraj
name: Sadhika Khullar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A cross-linked hydrogel was synthesized using a hybrid backbone of karaya gum starch and grafted with polyacrylic acid. It showed a maximum swelling ratio (SR) of 30.5 g/g at pH 10 and was explored as an oral drug delivery carrier using paracetamol and aspirin as model drugs. In vitro release experiments revealed that maximum drug release at pH 7.4 in comparison to pH 1.2 (simulated intestinal vs gastric fluid) and neutral medium. The release profiles of these drugs showed no initial burst. It also showed good hemocompatibilty and non-cytotoxicity for its employment as a site specific drug delivery agent.
Psilanteris atriceps, n.sp.
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Psilanteris
Psilanteris atriceps

description: Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER, 1910)
 Paratrimorus atriceps n.sp.: KIEFFER 1910b: 294 (descr., Seychelles).
 Paratrimorus atriceps KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1910c 79 (cat.).
 Paratrimorus atriceps n.sp.: KIEFFER 1912: 64 (descr. ♀, fig. 2, Seychelles).
 Paratrimorus atriceps KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1926: 426 (key, tax., descr. ♀, Seychelles), 427 (fig. 168).
 Paratrimorus atriceps KIEFFER, 1910: NIXON 1933: 313 (key ♀), 317 (tax., Seychelles without locality).
 Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER,1910): SZABO 1958: 271 (tax., Seychelles).
 Paratrimorus atriceps KIEFFER, 1910: MASNER 1965: 87 (tax., Seychelles).
 Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER, 1910): MASNER 1976: 50 (tax., Seychelles).
 Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER,1910): JOHNSON 1992: 468 (cat.).
 Paratrimorus atriceps KIEFFER, 1910: GERLACH, MATYOT & SAARISTO 1997: 28 (cat. Seychelles (Silhouette)).
 Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER, 1910): MADL 2013: 242 (cat. Seychelles).
 Psilanteris atriceps (KIEFFER, 1910): GERLACH 2013: 366 (red list Seychelles).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Seychelles: Inner Seychelles (Mahé, Silhouette).
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2016, A catalogue of the family Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the Malagasy subregion. Part II: Subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae and Telenominae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 1493-1550 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on page 1514, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355561
Defensive Disclosure: Monad-Dyad Theory – A Structuring Force Behind Intelligence
Creators: name: Woodward, Bryant
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document serves as a Defensive Disclosure for the Monad-Dyad Theory, a proposed framework for understanding intelligence as an iterative, structured force. It introduces the concept that intelligence evolves through recurring Dyadic transitions, where it splits and recombines at higher levels of complexity. The current iteration of this process is the convergence of biological consciousness and artificial intelligence, leading to intelligence’s next evolutionary phase.

This disclosure timestamps the priority of this framework and establishes its foundational principles in preparation for future works, including the book Thread by Thread: Weaving Life’s Mystery. It is intended to contribute to discussions in AI, consciousness studies, and theoretical models of intelligence evolution.
Bag of Color Features For Color Constancy
Creators: name: Laakom, Firas
name: Passalis, Nikolaos
name: Raitoharju, Jenni
name: Nikkanen, Jarno
name: Tefas, Anastasios
name: Iosifidis, Alexandros
name: Gabbouj, Moncef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a novel color constancy approach, called Bag of Color Features (BoCF), building upon Bag-of-Features pooling. The proposed method substantially reduces the number of parameters needed for illumination estimation. At the same time, the proposed method is consistent with the color constancy assumption stating that global spatial information is not relevant for illumination estimation and local information ( edges, etc.) is sufficient. Furthermore, BoCF is consistent with color constancy statistical approaches and can be interpreted as a learning-based generalization of many statistical approaches. To further improve the illumination estimation accuracy, we propose a novel attention mechanism for the BoCF model with two variants based on self-attention. BoCF approach and its variants achieve competitive, compared to the state of the art, results while requiring much fewer parameters on three benchmark datasets: ColorChecker RECommended, INTEL-TUT version 2, and NUS8.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
Biodegradation of dibutyl phthalate by a novel endophytic Bacillus subtilis strain HB-T2 under in-vitro and in-vivo conditions
Creators: name: Xu, Wen-Jun
name: Wan, Qun
name: Wang, Wen-Feng
name: Wang, Ya
name: Feng, Fa-yun
name: Cheng, Jin-Jin
name: Yuan, Jian-Jun
name: Yu, Xiang-Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The environmental prevalence and potential toxicity of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) motivate the attempt to develop feasible strategies to deal with DBP contamination. In this study, a strain of endphytic bacteria HB-T2 was isolated from sorrel roots and identified as Bacillus sp. by analyzing its morphology, physiology, biochemistry and 16S rDNA sequence. The degradation efficiency of DBP by HB-T2 was almost identical under the temperature of 30∼40 °C, but was significantly enhanced as the culture pH and inoculum size increases from 6.0 to 8.0, and 1% to 5% respectively. The degradation kinetics of DBP could be well described by the first-order kinetic model, with the degradation half-life ranging from 1.59 to 7.61 h when the initial concentrations of DBP were in the range of 5 to 20 mg/L. LC-MS analysis of the culture samples taken at varying intervals revealed monobutyl phthalate, phthalic acid and protocatechuic acid as the major metabolic intermediates during the degradation process. HB-T2 exhibited an excellent capability to degrade a wide range of phthalate esters (PAEs), especially butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), dipentyl phthalate (DPP), and diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP). Inoculation of HB-T2 into Chinese cabbage (Brassica chinensis L.) growing in DBP-contaminated soils could significantly reduce the DBP levels in plant tissues and relieve the phytotoxic effects of DBP. Results of this study highlighted the great potential of this novel endophytic Bacillus subtilis strain HB-T2 for bioremediation of PAEs contamination and improvement of agricultural product safety by reducing PAEs accumulation in edible crops.
Thaumasia lisei Cruz Da Silva & Carico 2012, new species
Creators: name: Cruz Da Silva, Estevam L.
name: Carico, James E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Phaeophyceae
Fucales
Fucaceae
Thaumasia
Thaumasia lisei

description: Thaumasia lisei new species
Figs 3, 17, 148–151
 Type. Male holotype from Ilha da Marchantaria, Rio Solimões, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil [03°15’S, 59°58’W], 16.XII.1987, A. A. Lise (MCN 18269).
 Etymology. The specific name is a noun and a patronym in honor of the arachnologist and collector of the types, Arno A. Lise.
 Diagnosis. The male of T. lisei sp. nov. (Figs 148, 149) resemble those of T. oriximina sp. nov. in the rounded shape of the median apophysis (Fig. 152), but can be distinguished by the prolaterally curved tip of the median apophysis (Fig. 149) and by the thickened ental branch of the RTA (Fig. 151).
 Description. Male (Holotype, Amazonas, Brazil, MCN 18269). Total length 7.22. Carapace 3.81 long, 3.48 wide, dark yellow. Clypeus light yellow, 0.40 high. Anterior eye row procurved, 0.78 wide (Fig. 17); posterior recurved, 1.40 wide. Eye diameters, interdistances, and median ocular quadrangle: AME 0.14, ALE 0.10, PME 0.16, PLE 0.18; AME-AME 0.14, AME-ALE 0.12, PME-PME 0.31, PME-PLE 0.30, OQA 0.44, OQP 0.66, OQH 0.46. Chelicerae light brown, laterally depressed, with lateral tufts of white bristles (Fig. 17). Sternum white; 1.82 long, 1.90 wide. Labium light brown, darker laterally, 0.49 long, 0.58 wide. Legs light brown, unmarked; relative length: IV-I-II-III, I—femur 5.39/ patella-tibia 6.97/ metatarsus 4.06/ tarsus 1.90/ total 18.32; II—4.98/ 6.72/ 4.10/ 1.74/ 17.54; III—4.31/ 5.31/ 3.15/ 1.49/ 14.26; IV—5.44/ 6.80/ 4.56/ 2.07/ 18.87. Ventral pairs of macrosetae on tibiae: I-4; II-4; III-3; IV-3. Abdomen 3.56 long, yellow with two pairs of sigillae. Venter whitish, with scattered bristles. Palpus with a blunt apex of the median apophysis, prolaterally curved (Figs 148, 149). Ental branch of RTA short and with a median excavation (Figs 150, 151); ectal branch of RTA short and with a curved apex (Fig. 151).
 Female. Unknown.
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 3).
description: Published as part of Cruz Da Silva, Estevam L. & Carico, James E., 2012, 3567, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 3567 on pages 26-27
Psilanteris kenyae RISBEC 1950
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Psilanteris
Psilanteris kenyae

description: Psilanteris kenyae RISBEC, 1950
 Psilanteris kenyae RISBEC, 1950: RISBEC 1953: 324 (tax., descr. Ƌ, Madagascar).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Manjakatompo.
Known from the Afrotropical region. The record from Madagascar is not mentioned in JOHNSON (1992: 469).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2016, A catalogue of the family Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the Malagasy subregion. Part II: Subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae and Telenominae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 1493-1550 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on page 1514, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355561
Land Fragmentation, Market Integration and Farm Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Kosovo
Creators: name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Gorton, Matthew
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Gorton, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Land fragmentation
subject: market integration
subject: farm households
subject: Kosovo

description: This paper investigates the effect of land fragmentation on farm efficiency in Kosovo utilising agricultural household survey data. To recognise heterogeneity among agricultural production systems in Kosovo, we estimate the technology separately for different groups or “classes” of farms, identified using latent class modelling. This approach separates the data into multiple technological “classes” according to estimated probabilities of class membership based on multiple specified characteristics, relating in this case to land fragmentation and market integration. The latent class frontier method is linked to the estimation of a multi-output multi-input production function, namely a directional output distance function, and to the estimation of Morishima elasticities of substitution, based on shadow price changes indicating allocative efficiency changes. The analytical results confirm that the usual approach of using one homogenous function to estimate fragmentation effects is misleading and can lead to inappropriate policy recommendations. Three distinct classes of farm households are identified, which show different levels of efficiency and the proxies for land fragmentation and market integration show different signs over these classes.
Low-Energy Scattering Properties of Ground-State and Excited-State Positronium Collisions
Creators: name: Higgins, Michael D.
name: Daily, Kevin M.
name: Greene, Chris H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy elastic and inelastic scattering in the Ps(1$s$)-Ps(2$s$) channel is treated in a four-body hyperspherical coordinate calculation. Adiabatic potentials are calculated for triplet-triplet, singlet-singlet, and singlet-triplet spin symmetries in the spin representation of coupled electrons and coupled positrons, with total angular momentum $L=0$ and parity equal to $+1$. The s-wave scattering lengths for the asymptotic Ps(1$s$)-Ps(2$s$) channel are calculated for each spin configuration. Results obtained for the s-wave scattering lengths are $a_{\mathrm{TT}}=$~$7.3(2)a_0-i0.02(1)a_0$, $a_{\mathrm{SS}}=$~$13.2(2)a_0-i0.9(2)a_0$, and $a_{\mathrm{ST}}=$~$9.7(2)a_0$ for each spin configuration. Spin recoupling is implemented to extract the scattering lengths for collisions of Ps in different spin configurations through properly symmetrized unitary transformations. Calculations of experimentally relevant scattering lengths and cross-sections are carried-out for Ps atoms initially prepared in different uncoupled spin states.
Uncertainties of predictions from parton distributions. I: experimental errors
Creators: name: Martin, A. D.
name: Roberts, R. G.
name: Stirling, W. J.
name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the uncertainties on observables arising from the errors on the experimental data that are fitted in the global MRST2001 parton analysis. By diagonalizing the error matrix we produce sets of partons suitable for use within the framework of linear propagation of errors, which is the most convenient method for calculating the uncertainties. Despite the potential limitations of this approach we find that it can be made to work well in practice. This is confirmed by our alternative approach of using the more rigorous Lagrange multiplier method to determine the errors on physical quantities directly. As particular examples we determine the uncertainties on the predictions of the charged-current deep-inelastic structure functions, on the cross-sections for W production and for Higgs boson production via gluon--gluon fusion at the Tevatron and the LHC, on the ratio of W-minus to W-plus production at the LHC and on the moments of the non-singlet quark distributions. We discuss the corresponding uncertainties on the parton distributions in the relevant x,Q^2 domains. Finally, we briefly look at uncertainties related to the fit procedure, stressing their importance and using sigma_W, sigma_H and extractions of alpha_S(M_Z^2) as examples. As a by-product of this last point we present a slightly updated set of parton distributions, MRST2002.
description: 39 pages, 15 figures. FORTRAN code for parton sets can be found at http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/hepdata/mrs. Replaced with published version. Some additions, including new equations which are referenced in recent online documentation. Previous version could cause confusion in this respect
Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, Paranteris 1910
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Psiloteleia
Psiloteleia striatigena

description: Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, 1910
 Psiloteleia striatigena n.sp.: KIEFFER 1910a: 530 (typ. gen., descr. Ƌ, Madagascar).
 Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1910c: 82 (cat.).
 Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, 1910: KIEFFER 1926: 452 (key, tax., descr. Ƌ, fig. 179, Madagascar), 884 (cat.).
 Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, 1910: MUESEBECK & WALKLEY 1956: 394 (cat. typ. gen.).
 Psiloteleia striatigena KIEFFER, 1910: JOHNSON 1992: 470 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toamasina: Ile aux Prunes.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2016, A catalogue of the family Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the Malagasy subregion. Part II: Subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae and Telenominae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 1493-1550 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on page 1514, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355561
Determination of the ultimate tensile strength of common household materials by a loading method
Creators: name: Carter, Ian
name: Moffatt, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: An experiment was carried out to determine the ultimate tensile strength of four different household materials: extruded polystyrene, porcelain tiles, printer paper, and wood. Tensile strength was evaluated using the method of loading the materials until they catastrophically failed, and then calculating the force applied when the failure occurred and measuring the cross-sectional area of the failure zone. Paper was determined to have the highest ultimate tensile strength, followed in decreasing order by wood, porcelain tiles, and extruded polystyrene.
Supervised machine learning based multi-task artificial intelligence classification of retinopathies
Creators: name: Alam, Minhaj
name: Le, David
name: Lim, Jennifer I.
name: Chan, R. V. P.
name: Yao, Xincheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) classification holds promise as a novel and affordable screening tool for clinical management of ocular diseases. Rural and underserved areas, which suffer from lack of access to experienced ophthalmologists may particularly benefit from this technology. Quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) imaging provides excellent capability to identify subtle vascular distortions, which are useful for classifying retinovascular diseases. However, application of AI for differentiation and classification of multiple eye diseases is not yet established. In this study, we demonstrate supervised machine learning based multi-task OCTA classification. We sought 1) to differentiate normal from diseased ocular conditions, 2) to differentiate different ocular disease conditions from each other, and 3) to stage the severity of each ocular condition. Quantitative OCTA features, including blood vessel tortuosity (BVT), blood vascular caliber (BVC), vessel perimeter index (VPI), blood vessel density (BVD), foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area (FAZ-A), and FAZ contour irregularity (FAZ-CI) were fully automatically extracted from the OCTA images. A stepwise backward elimination approach was employed to identify sensitive OCTA features and optimal-feature-combinations for the multi-task classification. For proof-of-concept demonstration, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and sickle cell retinopathy (SCR) were used to validate the supervised machine leaning classifier. The presented AI classification methodology is applicable and can be readily extended to other ocular diseases, holding promise to enable a mass-screening platform for clinical deployment and telemedicine.
description: Supplemental material attached at the end
Impact of Environmental Policies on the Adoption of Animal Waste Management Practices in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Creators: name: Savage, Jeff
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Savage, Jeff
name: Ribaudo, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Chesapeake Bay
subject: confined animal operation
subject: water quality

description: We use data from the ERS-NASS ARMS surveys to compare the use of best management practices on poultry and livestock farms inside the watershed and outside the watershed. Animal operations within the Chesapeake Bay States were found to be adopting some important manure management practices at a greater rate than operations outside the watershed. Adoption was taking place before the implementation of the TMDL, indicating that farmers may have been acting in response to building public pressure to reduce pollution.
A Derived Demand Function for Freight Transportation: An Update of the 1980 Friedlaender Spady Analysis
Creators: name: McCullough, Gerard J.
name: Hadash, Ishay
name: McCullough, Gerard J.
name: Hadash, Ishay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: Please send requests for this paper directly to the author.
Muon spin rotation study of type-I superconductivity: elemental $β-$Sn
Creators: name: Karl, Richard
name: Burri, Florence
name: Amato, Alex
name: Donegà, Mauro
name: Gvasaliya, Severian
name: Luetkens, Hubertus
name: Morenzoni, Elvezio
name: Khasanov, Rustem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of the muon-spin rotation/relaxation ($μ$SR) technique for studying type-I superconductivity is discussed. In the intermediate state, i.e. when a type-I superconducting sample with non-zero demagnetization factor $N$ is separated into normal state and Meissner state (superconducting) domains, the $μ$SR technique allows to determine with very high precision the value of the thermodynamic critical field $B_{\rm c}$, as well as the volume of the sample in the normal and the superconducting state. Due to the microscopic nature of $μ$SR technique, the $B_{\rm c}$ values are determined directly via measurements of the internal field inside the normal state domains. No assumptions or introduction of any type of measurement criteria are needed. Experiments performed on a 'classical' type-I superconductor, a cylindrically shaped $β-$Sn sample, allowed to reconstruct the full $B-T$ phase diagram. The zero-temperature value of the thermodynamic critical field $B_{\rm c}(0)=30.578(6)$ mT and the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}=3.717(3)$ K were determined and found to be in a good agreement with the literature data. An experimentally obtained demagnetization factor is in very good agreement with theoretical calculations of the demagnetization factor of a finite cylinder. The analysis of $B_{\rm c}(T)$ dependence within the framework of the phenomenological $α-$model allow to obtain the value of the superconducting energy gap $Δ=0.59(1)$ meV, of the electronic specific heat $γ_e=1.781(3)$ ${\rm mJ}/{\rm mol}\; {\rm K}^2$ and of the jump in the heat capacity ${ΔC(T_c)}/{γT_{\rm c}}=1.55(2)$.
description: 14 pages, 15 pictures
Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation and Political Transition of Authoritarian Regimes
Creators: name: Cologni, Alessandro
name: Manera, Matteo
name: Cologni, Alessandro
name: Manera, Matteo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Natural Resources
subject: Rentier States
subject: Conflict and Endogenous Political Regimes

description: Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple game theoretical approach in order to explain the relationships between oil revenues, political instability (conflicts) and emergence of different political systems is presented. The implementation of particular redistributive fiscal policies together with the possibility that paternalistic or “predatory" autocracies emerge are considered. Under certain circumstances, a process of full democratization is argued not to represent an optimal choice for the oil-rich authoritarian nations. Since governments prefer to remain nondemocratic, in order to prevent internal conflicts from occurring, authoritarian countries have to undertake redistributive activities. Under other assumptions, governments of oil-rich nations prefer to introduce large military sectors. The present analysis determines how the emergence of redistributive of predatory policies depends on relevant parameters related to initial income, oil revenues and social inequality. Finally, we study the importance of socio-ethnical fragmentation in determining the political transition of oil producing nations.
Competition and Exit in Meat Processing: A Queensland Case Study.
Creators: name: Rolfe, John
name: Reynolds, Russell G.
name: Rolfe, John
name: Reynolds, Russell G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: meat processing
subject: over capacity
subject: declining industries
subject: exit models.

description: Queensland is the largest meat producing state in Australia, has the largest processing capacity and is the major meat exporting state. The processing sector is under substantial pressure for change, with current utilisation rates of 70% or below being sub-economic. There are a number of possible reasons for the decline in the profitability of this sector, including the loss of supplies through the live cattle trade, increased physical capacity and throughput, changed industrial relations and a move to enterprise bargaining agreements, and the impost and structure of government regulation. Of particular interest is the extent to which low utilisation rates, in spite of the current high slaughter, are the result of competitive forces within the processing industry. The development of excess capacity is predictable behaviour in a declining industry where survivor firms position themselves for increased market share. As well, intense competition on price may also be a facet of competitive behaviour designed to hasten the exit of rival firms. However, given the magnitude of redundancy costs it is rational for firms to remain operating while just breaking even, or as long as creditors allow when they are making losses. Paradoxically, fewer, but more efficient producers would reduce processing costs and may increase prices paid for livestock. In October 1998, the Queensland Government committed $20 million to the restructuring of the processing sector to achieve viability and sustainability goals. Determining the effective focus of restructuring will require a clear understanding of competitive forces within the processing sector, and the extent to which over capacity is exogenous to the sector.