cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Compact packings of the plane with two sizes of discs
Creators: name: Kennedy, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C15

description: We consider packings of the plane using discs of radius 1 and r. A packing is compact if every disc D is tangent to a sequence of discs D_1, D_2, ..., D_n such that D_i is tangent to D_{i+1}. We prove that there are only nine values of r with r<1 for which such packings are possible. For each of the nine values we describe the possible compact packings.
description: Latex, 20 pages, 15 postscript figures Only change in second version is to fix some problems with figure borders
Additional file 1 of Similar yet different: phylogenomic analysis to delineate Salmonella and Citrobacter species boundaries
Creators: name: Pilar, Ana Victoria C.
name: Petronella, Nicholas
name: Dussault, Forest M.
name: Verster, Adrian J.
name: Sadjia Bekal
name: Levesque, Roger C.
name: Goodridge, Lawrence
name: Tamber, Sandeep
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Phenotypic characterization of Citrobacter and Salmonella strains.
Additional file 1 of Robotic Kinematic measures of the arm in chronic Stroke: part 2 – strong correlation with clinical outcome measures
Creators: name: Moretti, Caio B.
name: Hamilton, Taya
name: Edwards, Dylan J.
name: Peltz, Avrielle Rykman
name: Chang, Johanna L.
name: Cortes, Mar
name: Delbe, Alexandre C. B.
name: Volpe, Bruce T.
name: Krebs, Hermano I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
The Fundamental-Weak Scale Hierarchy in the Standard Model
Creators: name: Froggatt, C. D.
name: Laperashvili, L. V.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multiple point principle, according to which several vacuum states with the same energy density exist, is put forward as a fine-tuning mechanism predicting the ratio between the fundamental and electroweak scales in the Standard Model (SM). It is shown that this ratio is exponentially huge: $\sim e^{40}$. Using renormalisation group equations for the SM, we obtain the effective potential in the 2-loop approximation and investigate the existence of its postulated second minimum at the fundamental scale. The investigation of the evolution of the top quark Yukawa coupling constant in the 2-loop approximation shows that, with initial values of the top Yukawa coupling in the interval $h(M_t)=0.95\pm 0.03$ (here $M_t$ is the top quark pole mass), a second minimum of the SM effective potential can exist in the region $ϕ_{min2}\approx 10^{16}-10^{22}$ GeV. A prediction is made of the existence of a new bound state of 6 top quarks and 6 anti-top quarks, formed due to Higgs boson exchanges between pairs of quarks/anti-quarks. This bound state is supposed to condense in a new phase of the SM vacuum. This gives rise to the possibility of having a phase transition between vacua with and without such a condensate. The existence of three vacuum states (new, electroweak and fundamental) solves the hierarchy problem in the SM.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures; to be published in Phys. Atom. Nucl
Testing procedures and hardware for the evaluation of the dynamic performance of outboard motor boat steering systems
Creators: name: Mytting, Christopher Bruce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents testing procedures and hardware for the performance evaluation of steering systems for outboard motor driven pleasure craft. It is intended that this work provide the basis for the evaluation of existing steering systems and the rigorous development of the next generation of systems, specifically, by-wire steering systems. The testing procedures and hardware presented allow the testing of steering systems in a hardware-in-loop configuration that applies both reference inputs and external reactions to the system. Complete steering systems may be tested to assess the steering system response to simple static loads or under dynamic conditions up to the limits associated with typical use patterns. Customized testing procedures can also be formulated to include the emulation of boating conditions, or system-specific testing procedures to examine the response of specific components. The testing hardware consists of a CNC-based system with data acquisition to control system inputs and record the system response. A full description of the testing hardware is provided. An example of the utility of the testing procedures and hardware is presented by using data collected during the standard testing procedures to determine the parameters required in the modelling of a manual hydraulic steering system. To ensure that the hardware in loop simulation inputs are reasonable, boat testing procedures with a representative steering system, boat, and outboard motor combination were performed. These allowed the specification of reasonable input frequency and magnitude of steering effort as well as the measurement of the, force levels required to execute the most extreme manoeuvres likely to be encountered in practice. The data collected, the hardware used to collect the data, a summary of the witnessed operator and disturbance inputs to the steering system, and a simplified model for the prediction of steering loads during boat operation are also included.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Analysis of Human Milk and Breastfeeding: Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Diaz, Lina Juliana Raigoso
name: Alvarado, Laura Sofía Rodríguez
name: Agudelo-Pérez, Sergio Iván
name: Ángel, Julián Manuel Espitia
name: Botero-Rosas, Daniel
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been employed in the medical field for diagnosing various diseases. Moreover, the use of AI has significantly impacted pediatrics by identifying sepsis subtypes, diagnosing pulmonary hypertension and neonatal jaundice, and detecting brain changes in neuroimaging. On the other hand, breastfeeding rates are low, increasing the risk of illness and mortality in children. The use of AI could contribute to improving health indicators and enhancing knowledge about human milk. The aim of this project is to identify and synthesize the currently available information on the application of artificial intelligence in the analysis of human milk and breastfeeding.
Computational modelling of the effect of microstructure on the abrasive wear resistance of tungsten-carbide nickel composite coatings under sub-critical cyclic impact loading
Creators: Parsazadeh, Mohammad
Fisher, Gary
McDonald, André
Hogan, James D.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Abrasive wear was simulated for tungsten carbide-nickel (WC–Ni) composite coatings with different volume fractions of reinforcing particles under abrasive cyclic loading. Using parallelized computing approaches, for the first time in the literature, the effects of reinforcing particle and normal load on material removal mechanisms and wear rates were numerically analyzed for multi-cycle loading. The results demonstrated how various material removal mechanisms compete with each other for varying load, cycles, and particle concentrations. This both confirmed previous experimental observations, as well as motivates future areas towards materials tailoring and optimization. Finally, a statistical predictive model was developed to define the relationship between the wear rate, reinforcing particle volume fraction, and load in order to inform future efforts in materials design.
Frame Covariant Formalism for Fermionic Theories
Creators: name: Finn, Kieran
name: Karamitsos, Sotirios
name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a frame- and reparametrisation-invariant formalism for quantum field theories that include fermionic degrees of freedom. We achieve this using methods of field-space covariance and the Vilkovisky-DeWitt (VDW) effective action. We explicitly construct a field-space supermanifold on which the quantum fields act as coordinates. We show how to define field-space tensors on this supermanifold from the classical action that are covariant under field reparametrisations. We then employ these tensors to equip the field-space supermanifold with a metric, thus solving a long-standing problem concerning the proper definition of a metric for fermionic theories. With the metric thus defined, we use well-established field-space techniques to extend the VDW effective action and express any fermionic theory in a frame- and field-reparametrisation-invariant manner.
description: 31 pages, errors due to a mismatch of conventions eliminated
Principais pesquisas agropecuárias por amostragem probabilística no IBGE desde 1971: Histórico e perspectivas.
Creators: name: Guedes, Carlos Alfredo Barreto
name: Perruso, Julio Cesar
name: Lauria, Carlos Alberto
name: Bolliger, Flavio Pinto
name: Guedes, Carlos Alfredo Barreto
name: Perruso, Julio Cesar
name: Lauria, Carlos Alberto
name: Bolliger, Flavio Pinto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Amostragem probabilística
subject: estatística
subject: pesquisa agropecuária
subject: IBGE
subject: Probabilistic sampling
subject: statistics
subject: agricultural surveys

description: Este trabalho tem como objetivos o levantamento de todas as pesquisas agropecuárias por amostragem probabilística implantadas no IBGE, discutindo-se os sucessos e fracassos ocorridos, sobretudo quanto aos aspectos gerenciais, bem como projetar perspectivas futuras. A data início de referência deste trabalho é coincidente com a criação da CEPAGRO (Comissão Especial de Planejamento, Controle e Avaliação das Estatísticas Agropecuárias) em 1971, um marco histórico para as estatísticas agropecuárias no IBGE. Neste período, ocorreram 15 eventos (11 pesquisas e 4 tentativas) ligados a investigações por amostragem probabilística do setor agropecuário no IBGE, o que não é, em absoluto, algo desprezível. Sob esta ótica, foi possível constatar que a falta de recursos financeiros foi a causa mais freqüente (quatro vezes) para a interrupção definitiva de pesquisas. É possível inferir que somente com aportes expressivos de pessoal e financeiro será possível agregar, às diversas pesquisas agropecuárias do país, novas pesquisas com metodologia por amostragem probabilística.---------------------------------------------This paper intends to rescue all IBGE´s agricultural surveys based on probabilistic sampling, analyzing its successes and failures, specially concerned to the management aspects, as well as projecting future perspectives. The start of this study reference period is coincident with the creation of the CEPAGRO (Special Committee on Planning, Control and Evaluation of the Agricultural Statistics) at 1971, a historical landmark for the farming statisticians in the IBGE. Since then it has occurred 15 events (11 surveys and 4 attempts) on agricultural sampling in IBGE, that it is not something negligible at all. From this perspective, it was possible to evidence that the lack of financial resources was the most frequent cause (four times) for the interruption of the surveys. It allows to infer that only with an expressive staff and financial means it will be possible to add, to the diverse agriculture surveys of the country, new and improved surveys based on probabilistic sampling methodology.
O SETOR FERROVIÁRIO SOB A PERSPECTIVA DA ECONOMIA DOS CUSTOS DE TRANSAÇÃO: A EXPERIÊNCIA DO TRANSPORTE DE ALGUMAS COMMODITIES DO AGRONEGÓCIO
Creators: name: Ojima, Andrea Leda Ramos De Oliveira
name: Comitre, Valeria
name: Ojima, Andrea Leda Ramos De Oliveira
name: Comitre, Valeria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: custos de transação
subject: agronegócio
subject: transporte
subject: logística
subject: transaction costs
subject: agribusiness
subject: transportation
subject: logistics

description: As transformações ocorridas após a privatização do setor ferroviário, aliada a criação da agência reguladora (Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestre - ANTT), fizeram com que a estrutura de governança desse setor fosse alterada. A nova forma de coordenação em que as ferrovias estão inseridas pode ser avaliada através da análise das transações. O presente trabalho busca identificar a existência de custo de transação no ambiente ferroviário avaliando-se a forma de governança. As movimentações de três importantes commodities do agronegócio foram avaliadas: soja, açúcar e álcool. As dimensões das transações analisadas foram: especificidade dos ativos, freqüência e incerteza. Os resultados indicaram que os ativos avaliados apresentaram média e alta especificidade, o que permitiu concluir que no setor ferroviário os custos de transação envolvidos são altos, fazendo com que sejam adotadas novas estratégias e formas de governança para mitigar o risco associado às transações, como por exemplo, os contratos de longo de prazo e de parcerias.---------------------------------------------Changes happened after the rail privatization and the creation of the regulatory agency altered the governance structure of the sector. The new coordination form where the railroads are inserted can be evaluated through an analysis of the transactions. The present work identifies the existence of transaction cost in the rail environment, evaluating the governance. The rail transportation of three important agricultural commodities was appraised: soybean, sugar and alcohol. The dimensions of the analyzed transactions were: asset specificity, frequency and uncertainty. The results show that the appraised assets presented average and high specificity, allowing to conclude that in the railway sector the transaction costs involved are high, conducing that new strategies and governance forms are adopted to mitigate risk associated to the transactions, for instance, long-term contracts and of partnership contracts.
FORMAÇÃO DE PREÇOS, RENTABILIDADE E CONCENTRAÇÃO NO MERCADO DE SUINICOLA BRASILEIRO
Creators: name: Santos Filho, Jonas Irineu Dos
name: Santos Filho, Jonas Irineu Dos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: suinocultura
subject: co-integração
subject: rentabilidade
subject: poder de mercado

description: Neste estudo foram analisados os comportamentos dos preços, rentabilidade do produtor e nível de concentração na suinocultura entre os anos de 1997 a 2007. Para tanto foram coletados dados de preços pagos ao produtor de suínos nos estados do Paraná e São Paulo e dos preços no atacado (meia carcaça) e varejo (carnes, presunto, salsicha, lingüiça e mortadela) no mercado de São Paulo e foram efetuados os testes de co-integração. Adicionalmente foi efetuada revisão na literatura sobre a rentabilidade da suinocultura e grau de concentração dos mercados. O resultado obtido nos permite concluir que o setor de suinos já se encontra suficientemente concentrado para poder exercer poder de mercado frente aos produtores. De fato, ainda que a rentabilidade da atividade possa ser explicada por fatores que afetam a oferta e a demanda, o mercado do produtor não se mostrou integrado ao mercado do varejo. A integração de preços ocorreu somente entre os preços ao produtor no Paraná e o preço pago ao produtor em São Paulo e do preço pago pela meia carcaça no atacado também no estado de São Paulo.
Exact theory of edge diffraction and launching of transverse electric plasmons at two-dimensional junctions
Creators: name: Svintsov, Dmitry
name: Shabanov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exact solution for electromagnetic wave diffraction at the junction of two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) is obtained and analyzed for electric field polarized along the edge. A special emphasis is paid to the metal-contacted and terminated edges. In the former case, electric field at the edge tends to zero; in the latter case, it tends to a finite value which is screened by 2d system in an anomalous fashion. For both types of edge and capacitive type of 2d conductivity, an incident wave excites transverse electric 2d plasmons. The amplitude of excited TE plasmons is maximized and becomes order of incident wave amplitude for capacitive impedance of 2DES order of free space impedance. For both large and small 2DES impedance, the amplitude of TE plasmons tends to zero according to the power laws which are explicitly derived.
Mass-to-light ratio gradients in early-type galaxy haloes
Creators: name: Napolitano, N. R.
name: Capaccioli, M.
name: Romanowsky, A. J.
name: Douglas, N. G.
name: Merrifield, M. R.
name: Kuijken, K.
name: Arnaboldi, M.
name: Gerhard, O.
name: Freeman, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the near future should see a rapidly expanding set of probes of the halo masses of individual early-type galaxies, we introduce a convenient parameter for characterising the halo masses from both observational and theoretical results: \dML, the logarithmic radial gradient of the mass-to-light ratio. Using halo density profiles from LCDM simulations, we derive predictions for this gradient for various galaxy luminosities and star formation efficiencies $ε_{SF}$. As a pilot study, we assemble the available \dML\ data from kinematics in early-type galaxies - representing the first unbiassed study of halo masses in a wide range of early-type galaxy luminosities - and find a correlation between luminosity and \dML, such that the brightest galaxies appear the most dark-matter dominated. We find that the gradients in most of the brightest galaxies may fit in well with the LCDM predictions, but that there is also a population of fainter galaxies whose gradients are so low as to imply an unreasonably high star formation efficiency $ε_{SF} > 1$. This difficulty is eased if dark haloes are not assumed to have the standard LCDM profiles, but lower central concentrations.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Scaling IT Services for Germany's Largest Research Organisation - An Experience Report
Creators: name: Hüser, Christian
name: Ziegner, Norman
name: Huste, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: HIFIS
GitLab
DevOps
Automation
Scaling

description: Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS, see hifis.net) is a joint platform in which most of the research centres in the Helmholtz Association collaborate. HIFIS offers cloud and fundamental backbone services free of charge to scientists in Helmholtz and their partners. A special focus is put on Research Software Engineering with consulting, trainings and community building. One cloud service, which is of particular interesting in terms of DevOps, is a GitLab service called "the Helmholtz Codebase" - a self-hosted free tier of the popular software project management and DevOps platform. By applying DevOps best practices in combination with a high level of automation we observed three major gains: We were able to shrink the downtimes to almost zero and establish a release cycle that is quite close to the one that GitLab Inc. achieves themselves, whilst scaling the service up. With several thousand satisfied scientific users, Helmholtz Codebase has become quite successful. It is a great example for illustrating the transition from a local service bound to one centre to a distributed service accessible by everyone in the Helmholtz Association.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of the LoVI: the Laws on Violence against women and girls Index
Creators: name: Yount, Kathryn M.
name: Lewis, Patricia C.
name: Clark, Cari Jo
name: Heise, Lori
name: Ruchira T. Naved
name: Maxwell, Lauren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 1; Supplemental Table S1. Detailed definitions of LoVI items, from the World Bank Women Business and Law (WB-WBL) 2016 Reports and online database. Table S2. Distribution national laws against violence against women and girls (2016 and 2018) and other indicators (2001-2018). Supplemental Table S3. Laws on Violence against Women and Girls Index (LoVI) and its Component Indicators. Supplemental Table S4. Guide for creating the national LoVI.
TraderTalk: An LLM Behavioural ABM applied to Simulating Human Bilateral Trading Interactions
Creators: name: Vidler, Alicia
name: Walsh, Toby
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel hybrid approach that augments Agent-Based Models (ABMs) with behaviors generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate human trading interactions. We call our model TraderTalk. Leveraging LLMs trained on extensive human-authored text, we capture detailed and nuanced representations of bilateral conversations in financial trading. Applying this Generative Agent-Based Model (GABM) to government bond markets, we replicate trading decisions between two stylised virtual humans. Our method addresses both structural challenges, such as coordinating turn-taking between realistic LLM-based agents, and design challenges, including the interpretation of LLM outputs by the agent model. By exploring prompt design opportunistically rather than systematically, we enhance the realism of agent interactions without exhaustive overfitting or model reliance. Our approach successfully replicates trade-to-order volume ratios observed in related asset markets, demonstrating the potential of LLM-augmented ABMs in financial simulations
description: 4 pages
Metallicity Estimates for Old Star Clusters in M33
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Chen, Jiansheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the theoretical stellar population synthesis models of BC96, Kong et al. (2003) showed that some BATC colors and color indices could be used to disentangle the age and metallicity effect. They found that there is a very good relation between the flux ratio of L_{8510}/L_{9170} and the metallicity for stellar populations older than 1 Gyr. In this paper, based on the Kong et al. results and on the multicolor spectrophotometry of Ma et al. (2001, 2002a,b,c), we estimate the metallicities of 31 old star clusters in the nearby spiral galaxy M33, 23 of which are ``true'' globular clusters. The results show that most of these old clusters are metal poor. We also find that the ages and metal abundance for these old star clusters of M33 do not vary with deprojected radial position.
description: Accepted for Publication in A&A, 13 pages, 7 figures (1 figure of jpg)
Additional file 2 of Robotic Kinematic measures of the arm in chronic Stroke: part 2 – strong correlation with clinical outcome measures
Creators: name: Moretti, Caio B.
name: Hamilton, Taya
name: Edwards, Dylan J.
name: Peltz, Avrielle Rykman
name: Chang, Johanna L.
name: Cortes, Mar
name: Delbe, Alexandre C. B.
name: Volpe, Bruce T.
name: Krebs, Hermano I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Stochastic Viability of Second Generation Biofuel Chains: Micro-economic Spatial Modeling in France
Creators: name: Bamiére, Laure
name: Martinet, Vincent
name: Gouel, Christophe
name: Le Cadre, Elodie
name: Bamiére, Laure
name: Martinet, Vincent
name: Gouel, Christophe
name: Le Cadre, Elodie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuel
subject: Biomass production
subject: Spatial economics
subject: Stochastic viability
subject: Monte Carlo simulation

description: Within an overall project to assess the ability of the agricultural sector to contribute to bioenergy production, we set out here to examine the economic and technological viability of a bioenergy facility in an uncertain economic context, using the stochastic viability approach. We consider two viability constraints: the facility demand for lignocellulosic feedstock has to be satisfied each year and the associated supply cost has to be lower than de profitability threshold of the facility. We assess the viability probability of various supplying strategies consisting in contracting a given share of the feedstock demand with perennial dedicated crops at the initial time and then in making up each year with annual dedicated crops or wood. The demand constraints and agricultural prices scenarios over the time horizon are introduced in an agricultural and forest biomass supply model, which in turns determines the supply cost per MWh and computes the viability probabilities of the various contract strategies. A sensibility analysis to agricultural prices at initial time is performed. Results show that when they are around or under the median (of the 1993–2007 prices), the strategy consisting in contracting 100% of the feedstock supply with perennial dedicated crops is the best one.
Additional file 1 of Autumn migration direction of juvenile willow warblers (Phylloscopus t. trochilus and P. t. acredula) and their hybrids assessed by qPCR SNP genotyping
Creators: name: Tianhao Zhao
name: Ilieva, Mihaela
name: Larson, Keith
name: Lundberg, Max
name: Neto, Júlio M.
name: Sokolovskis, Kristaps
name: Åkesson, Susanne
name: Bensch, Staffan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The DNA sample collection that have been used for SNP genotyping in this study, including the sample sizes, sample sources, sampling year and origin. Figure S1.FST-array results illustrating the genetic differentiation of ~ 4000 SNPs throughout the genome of willow warblers with the positions of the qPCR primers indicated. Table S2. The sequences of primers and probes for the four selected SNPs on chromosome 1 and 5. Figure S2. Examples of sample dual scatterplot of SNP genotyping results. Figure S3. Allele frequencies of the four selected SNPs on chromosome 1 and 5 in northern (upper pie charts) and southern populations (lower pie charts) in Scandinavia. Table S3. Comparison between SNP genotype results from this study and the whole-block genotype results from Lundberg et al. Table S4. SNP genotyping results from sites in Scandinavia. Sites with latitude 65° are regarded as northern population. Table S5. SNP genotyping results from southern Europe in autumn (August–October). Table S6. SNP genotyping results from Africa in winter.
Agri-Environmental Policies When the Spatial Pattern of Biodiversity Reserves Matters
Creators: name: Bamiére, Laure
name: David, Maia
name: Vermont, Bruno
name: Bamiére, Laure
name: David, Maia
name: Vermont, Bruno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agri-environmental policies
subject: biodiversity
subject: mathematical programming
subject: spatial optimization
subject: reserve design
subject: cost-efficiency

description: The aim of this paper is to compare different policy instruments for cost-effective habitat conservation on agricultural lands, when the desired spatial pattern of reserves is a random mosaic. We use a spatially explicit mathematical programming model which studies the farmers' behavior as profit maximizers under technical and administrative constraints. Facing different policy measures, each farmer chooses its land-use at the field level, which determines the landscape at the regional level. A spatial pattern index (Ripley L function) is then associated to the obtained landscape, indicating on the degree of dispersion of the reserve. We compare a subsidy per hectare of reserve with an auction scheme and an agglomeration malus. We find that the auction is superior to the uniform subsidy both for cost-efficiency and for the spatial pattern of the reserve. The agglomeration malus does better than the auction for the spatial pattern but is more costly.
Dual Adversarial Auto-Encoders for Clustering
Creators: name: Ge, Pengfei
name: Ren, Chuan-Xian
name: Feng, Jiashi
name: Yan, Shuicheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As a powerful approach for exploratory data analysis, unsupervised clustering is a fundamental task in computer vision and pattern recognition. Many clustering algorithms have been developed, but most of them perform unsatisfactorily on the data with complex structures. Recently, Adversarial Auto-Encoder (AAE) shows effectiveness on tackling such data by combining Auto-Encoder (AE) and adversarial training, but it cannot effectively extract classification information from the unlabeled data. In this work, we propose Dual Adversarial Auto-encoder (Dual-AAE) which simultaneously maximizes the likelihood function and mutual information between observed examples and a subset of latent variables. By performing variational inference on the objective function of Dual-AAE, we derive a new reconstruction loss which can be optimized by training a pair of Auto-encoders. Moreover, to avoid mode collapse, we introduce the clustering regularization term for the category variable. Experiments on four benchmarks show that Dual-AAE achieves superior performance over state-of-the-art clustering methods. Besides, by adding a reject option, the clustering accuracy of Dual-AAE can reach that of supervised CNN algorithms. Dual-AAE can also be used for disentangling style and content of images without using supervised information.
Additional file 1 of Marker Assisted Forward Breeding to Combine Multiple Biotic-Abiotic Stress Resistance/Tolerance in Rice
Creators: name: Shilpi Dixit
name: Singh, Uma Maheshwar
name: Singh, Arun Kumar
name: Shamshad Alam
name: Challa Venkateshwarlu
name: Vishnu Varthini Nachimuthu
name: Shailesh Yadav
name: Ragavendran Abbai
name: Ramchander Selvaraj
name: M. Nagamallika Devi
name: Perumalla Janaki Ramayya
name: Jyothi Badri
name: T. Ram
name: Jhansi Lakshmi
name: G. Lakshmidevi
name: LRK, Jai Vidhya
name: Ayyagari Phani Padmakumari
name: G. S. Laha
name: M. S. Prasad
name: Seetalam, Malathi
name: Singh, Vikas Kumar
name: Kumar, Arvind
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional File 1: Table S1. Gene based/linked markers used for foreground selection for blast, BLB, BPH, GM and drought resistance/tolerance genes/QTLs and their validation in the developed lines Table S2. List of parents, markers used for parental polymorphism and foreground selection in introgression lines of Swarna+drought Table S3. Allele size of different gene based/linked markers linked to different trait of interest.
EFFICIENCY OF WIND INDEXED TYPHOON INSURANCE FOR RICE
Creators: name: Banerjee, Chirantan
name: Berg, Ernst
name: Banerjee, Chirantan
name: Berg, Ernst
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Basis risk
subject: Typhoon
subject: Index-based Insurance

description: Index-based weather insurances are innovative tools for mitigating weather risks in agriculture. Several donor agencies and development organisations are investing substantially to propagate these programmes in developing countries. However, often due to high basis risks, these products mitigate risk only through diversification effect, thereby defeating the intended purpose. Besides, they send confusing messages to the farmers regarding the very concept of insurance. Therefore, this paper investigates the efficiency of two such index-based weather insurances in Philippines, designed to mitigate rice yield loss caused by strong typhoon winds. The insurance products are designed assuming negative linear correlation between wind speed and rice yield. To verify, we used satellite data and GIS tools to tabulate typhoon wind speeds, concurrent crop stage and the subsequent rice yield in five provinces which have both the programmes. Regression analyses and Ramsey RESET tests confirm that rice yield loss is not a function of incident typhoon wind speed, irrespective of the crop stage. Basis risk estimations, based on minimum variance hedging ratio for a risk averse expected utility maximising consumer show that the products entail basis risks of the order of 99%. Typhoons damage all crops, but wind indexed insurance is inadequate when the insured crop has low head weight and is agile like rice, since wind onslaughts do not determine the degree of yield loss. Notably, a thorough burn analysis for basis risk is a necessity before investing time and money implementing index-based weather insurance schemes as a tool for poverty alleviation.
Musikalisches Jugend-Brevier : eine Anthologie von 270 Tonstücken : aus den Werken von Jos. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. v. Beethoven etc. und aus dem deutschen Volkslieder-Schatz : für das Pianoforte zu zwei und vier Händen
Creators: name: Eschmann, Johann Karl
Publisher: name: Luckhardt; Hug
Year: 1860

description: bearb. und in fortschreitender Stufenfolge geordnet von J. Carl Eschmann
Fundamental properties of flotation frothers and their effect on flotation
Creators: name: Melo, Francisco
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the present work, five different flotation frothers were tested in order to evaluate their performance in the flotation of two coal samples in terms of their effect on the entrainment of fine particles. The experimental program included the characterization of the investigated frothers by means of surface tension measurements, dynamic foamability index (DFI), critical coalescence concentration (CCC) and water recovery tests in aqueous solutions. The experiments also included both forward and reverse batch flotation tests in the presence of the tested reagents. The results indicate that, while there is a clear relationship between water recovery in a two-phase system and the fundamental properties of the frothers, expressed in terms of DFI, the trend observed in the batch flotation tests in the presence of coal for the same frothers is different. This indicates that characterization of flotation frothers in a two-phase experiment is not adequate since the water transport results obtained in the two-phase and three-phase experiments were different. The reverse flotation tests revealed that dodecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (DTAB), which is used as a collector for mineral matter and as a frother, generates froths characterized by low water contents and high stability, which promote the entrainment of unwanted particles to the froth collection zone. It was also observed that when polyacrylamide (PAM) was used in addition to the coal depressant (dextrin) and DTAB, the selectivity of the process slightly improved. However, in the presence of PAM, the rates of transfer of water and solids to the froth also increased, which translated into a higher degree of entrainment of coal particles in the froth product. The selectivity of the coal reverse flotation process and the reagent consumption, at this point of the development of this technology, constitute a problem which remains unsolved.
Foundations of Research Software Publication
Creators: name: Schlauch, Tobias
name: Wolff, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: reproducibility
research software
good practice
software citation
software licenses
citation file format
reuse

description: We will provide you with actionable advice about how to prepare your research code before publishing it or submitting it alongside a research publication. This talk will cover the following topics: Code repository structuring Minimum coding practices Documentation Open source licensing Minimum software release practices Software citation We will discuss theses topics at the example of a data analysis script and will focus on minimum practices for every topic. The slides have been used in the "Foundations of Research Software" workshop held as part of the Incubator Summer Academy - From Zero to Hero.
Controlled observation of a nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition in a nonlinear optical cavity
Creators: name: Esteban-Martin, A.
name: Taranenko, V. B.
name: Garcia, J.
name: de Valcarcel, G. J.
name: Roldan, Eugenio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the controlled observation of the nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition in a broad area nonlinear optical cavity, namely, a quasi-1D single longitudinal-mode photorefractive oscilator in a degenerate four-wave mixing configuration. Our experimental technique allows for the controlled injection of the domain walls. We use cavity detuning as control parameter and find that both Ising and Bloch walls can exist for the same detuning values within a certain interval of detunings, i.e., the Ising-Bloch transition is hysteretic in our case. A complex Ginzburg-Landau model is used for supporting the observations.
description: Three and 1/3 text pages and four figures. Replaced with resubmitted version that now includes a theoretical approach
Right-handed interactions in puzzling $B$-decays
Creators: name: Bečirević, Damir
name: Fajfer, Svjetlana
name: Košnik, Nejc
name: Pavičić, Lovre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explain the difference between the measured decay widths of $b \to c τν$ processes and of $B\to Kν\barν$ and their values predicted in the Standard Model by introducing the right-handed interactions both to quarks and to leptons. At low energy scales, in addition to the Standard Model particles, we assume the presence of an additional neutral lepton (right-handed neutrino). We then show a specific realization of such a scenario in a model with a single scalar leptoquark ($S_1$), and discuss the corresponding phenomenology.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, v2: added appendices, matches published version
EMAP: A Cloud-Edge Hybrid Framework for EEG Monitoring and Cross-Correlation Based Real-time Anomaly Prediction
Creators: name: Prabakaran, Bharath Srinivas
name: Jiménez, Alberto García
name: Martínez, Germán Moltó
name: Shafique, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art techniques for detecting, or predicting, neurological disorders (1) focus on predicting each disorder individually, and are (2) computationally expensive, leading to a delay that can potentially render the prediction useless, especially in critical events. Towards this, we present a real-time two-tiered framework called EMAP, which cross-correlates the input with all the EEG signals in our mega-database (a combination of multiple EEG datasets) at the cloud, while tracking the signal in real-time at the edge, to predict the occurrence of a neurological anomaly. Using the proposed framework, we have demonstrated a prediction accuracy of up to 94% for the three different anomalies that we have tested.
description: Accepted for Publication at the 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA
Additional file 1 of Immunoprofiling of active and inactive systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis reveals distinct biomarkers: a single-center study
Creators: name: Qu, Heshuang
name: Sundberg, Erik
name: Aulin, Cecilia
name: Neog, Manoj
name: Palmblad, Karin
name: Horne, Anna Carin
name: Granath, Fredrik
name: Ek, Alexandra
name: Melén, Erik
name: Olsson, Mia
name: Harris, Helena Erlandsson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods, tables and figures
Decoherence dynamics in molecular qubits: Exponential, Gaussian and beyond
Creators: name: Gustin, Ignacio
name: Chen, Xinxian
name: Franco, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we examine how the structure of system-bath interactions can determine commonly encountered temporal decoherence patterns, such as Gaussian and exponential decay, in molecular and other qubits coupled to a thermal bosonic bath. The analysis, based on a pure dephasing picture that admits analytical treatment, shows that decoherence, in general, is neither purely Gaussian nor exponential but rather the exponential of oscillatory functions, with periods determined by the bath's frequencies. For initially unentangled qubit-bath states Gaussian decay is always present at early times. It becomes increasingly dominant with increasing temperature, qubit-bath interaction strength, and bath correlation time. Initial system-bath entanglement that arises due to displacement in the position of the bath states preserves the Gaussian decay. By contrast, strict exponential decay arises only in very specific models that we isolate. Still, it becomes dominant for times longer than the bath correlation time or for early times when there is initial entanglement due to momentum displacement of the bath states. For molecular electronic decoherence, the long-time exponential regime plays a limited role as it emerges after most coherence is lost. Thus, the Gaussian decay provides a more suitable (albeit imperfect) model of such decoherence. Further, we discuss the connection between electronic decoherence dynamics and electronic spectroscopic lineshape theory, where Gaussian spectral peaks correspond to Gaussian coherence decay and Lorentzian peaks correspond to exponential coherence decay. We find that Gaussian spectral peaks, usually associated with inhomogeneous broadening, can emerge from the entangling unitary system-bath dynamics even when there is no inhomogeneity in the initial conditions.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Color and Metallicity Distributions of M81 Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Chen, Jiansheng
name: Wu, Zhenyu
name: Yang, Yanbin
name: Jiang, Zhaoji
name: Wu, Jianghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present catalogs of photometric and spectroscopic data for M81 globular clusters (GCs). The catalogs include B- and V- photometric and reddening data of 95 GCs, and spectroscopic metallicities of 40 GCs in M81. Using these data, we make some statistical correlations. The results show that the distributions of intrinsic B and V colors and metallicities are bimodal, with metallicity peaks at [Fe/H]=-1.45 and -0.53, respectively as has been demonstrated for our Milky Way and M31. The relation between spectroscopic metallicity and intrinsic B and V color also exists as it does for the Milky Way and M31.
description: Accepted for Publication in PASP, 9 pages, 6 figures
Visual Exploration System for Analyzing Trends in Annual Recruitment Using Time-varying Graphs
Creators: name: Yokoyama, Toshiyuki T.
name: Okada, Masashi
name: Taniguchi, Tadahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Annual recruitment data of new graduates are manually analyzed by human resources specialists (HR) in industries, which signifies the need to evaluate the recruitment strategy of HR specialists. Every year, different applicants send in job applications to companies. The relationships between applicants' attributes (e.g., English skill or academic credential) can be used to analyze the changes in recruitment trends across multiple years' data. However, most attributes are unnormalized and thus require thorough preprocessing. Such unnormalized data hinder the effective comparison of the relationship between applicants in the early stage of data analysis. Thus, a visual exploration system is highly needed to gain insight from the overview of the relationship between applicants across multiple years. In this study, we propose the Polarizing Attributes for Network Analysis of Correlation on Entities Association (Panacea) visualization system. The proposed system integrates a time-varying graph model and dynamic graph visualization for heterogeneous tabular data. Using this system, human resource specialists can interactively inspect the relationships between two attributes of prospective employees across multiple years. Further, we demonstrate the usability of Panacea with representative examples for finding hidden trends in real-world datasets and then describe HR specialists' feedback obtained throughout Panacea's development. The proposed Panacea system enables HR specialists to visually explore the annual recruitment of new graduates.
title: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 66 No. 1S2 (2025): Health Technology Assessment del vaccino antinfluenzale quadrivalente adiuvato Fluad Tetra®: update
title: Health Technology Assessment del vaccino antinfluenzale quadrivalente adiuvato Fluad Tetra®: update
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Journal Of Preventive Medicine And Hygiene
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2025

description: