cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Equation of state effects in the core collapse of a $20$-$M_\odot$ star
Creators: name: Schneider, A. S.
name: Roberts, L. F.
name: Ott, C. D.
name: O'connor, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uncertainties in our knowledge of the properties of dense matter near and above nuclear saturation density are among the main sources of variations in multi-messenger signatures predicted for core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and the properties of neutron stars (NSs). We construct 97 new finite-temperature equations of state (EOSs) of dense matter that obey current experimental, observational, and theoretical constraints and discuss how systematic variations in the EOS parameters affect the properties of cold nonrotating NSs and the core collapse of a $20\,M_\odot$ progenitor star. The core collapse of the $20\,M_\odot$ progenitor star is simulated in spherical symmetry using the general-relativistic radiation-hydrodynamics code GR1D where neutrino interactions are computed for each EOS using the NuLib library. We conclude that the effective mass of nucleons at densities above nuclear saturation density is the largest source of uncertainty in the CCSN neutrino signal and dynamics even though it plays a subdominant role in most properties of cold NS matter. Meanwhile, changes in other observables affect the properties of cold NSs, while having little effect in CCSNe. To strengthen our conclusions, we perform six octant three-dimensional CCSN simulations varying the effective mass of nucleons at nuclear saturation density. We conclude that neutrino heating and, thus, the likelihood of explosion is significantly increased for EOSs where the effective mass of nucleons at nuclear saturation density is large.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Domain Wall from Gauged d=4, N=8 Supergravity: Part I
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
name: Woo, Kyungsung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By studying already known extrema of non-semi-simple Inonu-Wigner contraction CSO(p, q)^{+} and non-compact SO(p, q)^{+}(p+q=8) gauged N=8 supergravity in 4-dimensions developed by Hull sometime ago, one expects there exists nontrivial flow in the 3-dimensional boundary field theory. We find that these gaugings provide first-order domain-wall solutions from direct extremization of energy-density. We also consider the most general CSO(p, q, r)^{+} with p+q+r=8 gauging of N=8 supergravity by two successive SL(8,R) transformations of the de Wit-Nicolai theory, that is, compact SO(8) gauged supergravity. The theory found earlier has local SU(8)x CSO(p, q, r)^{+} gauge symmetry as well as local N=8 supersymmetry. The gauge group CSO(p, q, r)^{+} is spontaneously reduced to its maximal compact subgroup SO(p)^{+} x SO(q)^{+} x U(1)^{+r(r-1)/2}. The T-tensor we obtain describes a two-parameter family of gauged N=8 supergravity from which one can construct A_1 and A_2 tensors. The effective nontrivial scalar potential can be written as the difference of positive definite terms. We examine the scalar potential for critical points at which the expectation value of the scalar field is SO(p)^{+} x SO(q)^{+} x SO(r)^{+} invariant. It turns out that there is no new extra critical point. However, we do have flow equations and domain-wall solutions for the scalar fields are the gradient flow equations of the superpotential that is one of the eigenvalues of A_1 tensor.
description: 65 pp; v2: refs added, redundant parts skipped, improvements added and to appear in NPB; v3: the title changed
Bridging the Language Gap: An Empirical Study of Bindings for Open Source Machine Learning Libraries Across Software Package Ecosystems
Creators: name: Li, Hao
name: Bezemer, Cor-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Open source machine learning (ML) libraries enable developers to integrate advanced ML functionality into their own applications. However, popular ML libraries, such as TensorFlow, are not available natively in all programming languages and software package ecosystems. Hence, developers who wish to use an ML library which is not available in their programming language or ecosystem of choice, may need to resort to using a so-called binding library (or binding). Bindings provide support across programming languages and package ecosystems for reusing a host library. For example, the Keras .NET binding provides support for the Keras library in the NuGet (.NET) ecosystem even though the Keras library was written in Python. In this paper, we collect 2,436 cross-ecosystem bindings for 546 ML libraries across 13 software package ecosystems by using an approach called BindFind, which can automatically identify bindings and link them to their host libraries. Furthermore, we conduct an in-depth study of 133 cross-ecosystem bindings and their development for 40 popular open source ML libraries. Our findings reveal that the majority of ML library bindings are maintained by the community, with npm being the most popular ecosystem for these bindings. Our study also indicates that most bindings cover only a limited range of the host library's releases, often experience considerable delays in supporting new releases, and have widespread technical lag. Our findings highlight key factors to consider for developers integrating bindings for ML libraries and open avenues for researchers to further investigate bindings in software package ecosystems.
Designing Optimal Quantum Detectors Via Semidefinite Programming
Creators: name: Eldar, Yonina C.
name: Megretski, Alexandre
name: Verghese, George C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of designing an optimal quantum detector to minimize the probability of a detection error when distinguishing between a collection of quantum states, represented by a set of density operators. We show that the design of the optimal detector can be formulated as a semidefinite programming problem. Based on this formulation, we derive a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for an optimal quantum measurement. We then show that the optimal measurement can be found by solving a standard (convex) semidefinite program followed by the solution of a set of linear equations or, at worst, a standard linear programming problem. By exploiting the many well-known algorithms for solving semidefinite programs, which are guaranteed to converge to the global optimum, the optimal measurement can be computed very efficiently in polynomial time. Using the semidefinite programming formulation, we also show that the rank of each optimal measurement operator is no larger than the rank of the corresponding density operator. In particular, if the quantum state ensemble is a pure-state ensemble consisting of (not necessarily independent) rank-one density operators, then we show that the optimal measurement is a pure-state measurement consisting of rank-one measurement operators.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cirriphyllum piliferum Grout 1898
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Brachytheciaceae
Cirriphyllum
Cirriphyllum piliferum

description: Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout
RECORDS. — Lapie (1909), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aizer. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Emergent soft-gap Anderson models at quantum criticality in a lattice Hamiltonian within dynamical mean field theory
Creators: name: K., Sujan K.
name: Kulkarni, Vinayak M.
name: Vidhyadhiraja, N. S.
name: Sen, Sudeshna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Local quantum criticality in itinerant fermion systems has been extensively investigated through the soft-gap Anderson impurity model, wherein a localized, correlated impurity, hybridizes with a broad conduction band with a singular, $|ω|^r$, density of states. However, lattice models hosting quantum critical points (QCPs), do not appear to have such a spectrum emerging at the QCP. In this work, we report the emergence of such a singular form of the density of states in a three-orbital lattice model, within dynamical mean field theory, precisely at a quantum critical point, separating a gapless, Fermi liquid, metallic phase from a gapped, Mott insulating phase. A temperature-dependent exponent, $α$, defined using the corresponding Matsubara self-energy, is found to vary from $+1$ deep in the FL regime, to $-1$ in the Mott insulator regime. Interestingly, we find that $α$ becomes temperature independent, and hence isosbestic, precisely at the QCP. The isosbestic exponent is shown to lead to an emergent soft-gap spectrum, $|ω|^r$ at the QCP, where $r = |α_{\rm iso}|$. We discuss the implications of our findings for non-Fermi liquid behaviour in the quantum critical region of the phase diagram.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures
The Cardy-Verlinde Formula and Charged Topological AdS Black Holes
Creators: name: Youm, Donam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the brane universe in the bulk background of the charged topological AdS black holes. The evolution of the brane universe is described by the Friedmann equations for a flat or an open FRW-universe containing radiation and stiff matter. We find that the temperature and entropy of the dual CFT are simply expressed in terms of the Hubble parameter and its time derivative, and the Friedmann equations coincide with thermodynamic formulas of the dual CFT at the moment when the brane crosses the black hole horizon. We obtain the generalized Cardy-Verlinde formula for the CFT with an R-charge, for any values of the curvature parameter k in the Friedmann equations.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX, references added
Philophylla Rondani 1870
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Philophylla

description: 425. Philophylla Rondani, 1870a: 9.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca caesio Harris, 1780.
 TYPE SPECIES: Musca caesio Harris, 1780, by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Norrbom et al. (1999: 187)].
FAMILY: TEPHRITIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 142
Spherically symmetric solutions of the 6th order SU(N) Skyrme models
Creators: name: Floratos, I.
name: Piette, B. M. A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the generalised rational map ansatz introduced by Ioannidou et al. to construct analytically some topologically non-trivial solutions of the generalised SU(3) Skyrme model defined by adding a sixth order term to the usual Lagrangian. These solutions are radially symmetric and some of them can be interpreted as bound states of Skyrmions. The same ansatz is used to construct low-energy configuration of the SU(N) Skyrme model.
description: 21 pages, 9 postscript figues
Adsorption of cadmium by a high-capacity adsorbent composed of silicate-titanate nanotubes embedded in hydrogel chitosan beads
Creators: name: Quiroga-Flores, Roxana
name: Noshad, Asma
name: Wallenberg, Reine
name: Önnby, Linda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology

description: In this study, we developed a nanoparticle-based mesoporous composite that consisted of silicate-titanate nanotubes (STNTs) supported in hydrogel chitosan beads (STNTs-Ch beads) and was studied for Cd2+ adsorption. By using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission and scanning electron microscopy coupled to an energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer, we could determine that the hollow STNTs were highly dispersed in the walls of the hollow beads. The dispersion was attributed to the effect of pH when the composite was prepared and we observed a non-interaction between STNTs and chitosan. The adsorption studies of Cd2+ showed that the kinetic rate (k2) increased 3-fold and that the diffusion rate (Kd) increased 2-fold after the embedment. Moreover, the maximum capacity of adsorption of STNTs-Ch beads was 2.3 times higher than that of STNTs alone. The treatment of a synthetic Cd2+ solution and a real leachate in continuous mode showed two phases in which it was observed higher removed fractions of transition metal ions (Cd2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ and Cu2+) and the post-transition metal ion Pb2+, in comparison to the removed fractions of alkali and alkali-earth metal ions (Ca2+, K+, Mg2+). The composite was successfully reused four times when adsorbing Cd2+, saving three times the needed amounts of TiO2, SiO2 and chitosan for the production of the material. This composite was produced in a simple way and shows the potential for wastewater treatment.
Improving Word Translation via Two-Stage Contrastive Learning
Creators: name: Li, Yaoyiran
name: Liu, Fangyu
name: Collier, Nigel
name: Korhonen, Anna
name: Vulić, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Word translation or bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) is a key cross-lingual task, aiming to bridge the lexical gap between different languages. In this work, we propose a robust and effective two-stage contrastive learning framework for the BLI task. At Stage C1, we propose to refine standard cross-lingual linear maps between static word embeddings (WEs) via a contrastive learning objective; we also show how to integrate it into the self-learning procedure for even more refined cross-lingual maps. In Stage C2, we conduct BLI-oriented contrastive fine-tuning of mBERT, unlocking its word translation capability. We also show that static WEs induced from the `C2-tuned' mBERT complement static WEs from Stage C1. Comprehensive experiments on standard BLI datasets for diverse languages and different experimental setups demonstrate substantial gains achieved by our framework. While the BLI method from Stage C1 already yields substantial gains over all state-of-the-art BLI methods in our comparison, even stronger improvements are met with the full two-stage framework: e.g., we report gains for 112/112 BLI setups, spanning 28 language pairs.
description: ACL 2022 Main
Budget Analysis and Assessment of smart investment in water for smallholder agriculture in Uganda and East Africa
Creators: name: Francis, Mwaura
name: Katunze, Miriam
name: Tony, Muhumuza
name: Isaac, Shinyekwa
name: Francis, Mwaura
name: Katunze, Miriam
name: Tony, Muhumuza
name: Isaac, Shinyekwa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: Uganda’s government has prioritized enhancing agricultural production and productivity as a primary intervention in developing the economy. The advantages of enhancing agricultural production and productivity include improving food security at the household level, increasing income for farmers, reducing food prices for both farmers and non-farmers, and the potential of this reduction for spurring economic growth. Increased productivity is also viewed as a panacea to the challenge of increased pressure on the land, demand for more food and need for employment creation resulting from the high population growth rate. Investment in water for agriculture production (WfAP) infrastructure has been recommended as the best-bet intervention that will break the constraints facing Uganda’s agriculture. The provision and adoption of WfAP will have multiple effects on the agriculture sector by reducing risk associated with agricultural production and thereby enhancing the adoption of higher yielding technologies.
Triangular spectral phase tailoring for the generation of high-quality picosecond pulse trains
Creators: name: Andral, Ugo
name: Fatome, Julien
name: Kibler, Bertrand
name: Finot, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a new electro-optic linear approach to generate high repetition-rate picosecond pulse trains. This simple cavity-free method is based on a temporal sinusoidal phase modulation combined with a triangular spectral phase processing. Experimental results validate the concept at repetition rates ranging from 10 GHz up to 40 GHz with the generation of background-free pulse trains made of nearly Gaussian Fourier-transform limited pulses.
Design of High-Performance Photon Number Resolving Photodetectors Based on Coherently Interacting Nanoscale Elements
Creators: name: Young, Steve M.
name: Sarovar, Mohan
name: Léonard, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of applications in basic science and technology would benefit from high fidelity photon number resolving photodetectors. While some recent experimental progress has been made in this direction, the requirements for true photon number resolution are stringent, and no design currently exists that achieves this goal. Here we employ techniques from fundamental quantum optics to demonstrate that detectors composed of subwavelength elements interacting collectively with the photon field can achieve high-performance photon number resolution. We propose a new design that simultaneously achieves photon number resolution, high efficiency, low jitter, low dark counts, and high count rate. We discuss specific systems that satisfy the design requirements, pointing to the important role of nanoscale device elements.
description: 29 pages + Supplementary Information. Published version
Codonoblepharon forsteri Goffinet
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae
Codonoblepharon
Codonoblepharon forsteri

description: Codonoblepharon forsteri (Dicks.) Goffinet
Zygodon forsteri (Dicks.) Mitt.
Nomenclature follows Goffinet et al. (2004) and Hodgetts et al. (2020).
RECORDS. — Jones (1956), Jelenc (1967): Yakouren (nr. Azazga), Kabylie Mountains. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Quantum Entanglement of Moving Bodies
Creators: name: Gingrich, Robert M.
name: Adami, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of quantum information and quantum entanglement in moving frames. We show that the entanglement between the spins and the momenta of two particles can be interchanged under a Lorentz transformation, so that a pair of particles that is entangled in spin but not momentum in one reference frame, may, in another frame, be entangled in momentum at the expense of spin-entanglement. Similarly, entanglement between momenta may be transferred to spin under a Lorentz transformation. While spin and momentum entanglement each is not Lorentz invariant, the joint entanglement of the wave function is.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. An error was corrected in the numerical data and hence the discussion of the data was changed. Also, references were added. Another example was added to the paper
Growth and Welfare Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Uganda
Creators: name: Edward, Batte Sennoga
name: John Mary, Matovu
name: Edward, Batte Sennoga
name: John Mary, Matovu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Public Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Using a computable general equilibrium model, this paper examines the growth and welfare effects of three macroeconomic shocks in Uganda during the period 2010 17:changes in terms of trade, changes in international oil prices, and changes in development assistance inflows. Our analysis reveals four key findings. First, the largely positive impact of these three shocks on agriculture and services appears to offset the negative impact on industry leading to minimal deviations in real GDP growth from the business-as usual scenario. Moreover, the three shocks only lead to short-term as opposed to permanent deviations from trend growth in real GDP. Second, the three shocks are transmitted to the domestic economy and real GDP growth through changes in the terms of trade, exchange rate, and cost of production. Third, household welfare decreases and remains below the business-as-usual scenario during the entire simulation. Fourth, the poverty reduction rate is lower under the three external shocks compared to the business-as-usual scenario.
Phenol removal from wastewater by surface imprinted bacterial cellulose nanofibres
Creators: name: Derazshamshir, Ali
name: Ilgım Göktürk
name: Tamahkar, Emel
name: Yılmaz, Fatma
name: Sağlam, Necdet
name: Denizli, Adil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: In this study, we have reported a novel wastewater treatment technique by phenol imprinted bacterial cellulose (BC-MIP) nanofibres with high specificity and adsorption capacity. N-methacryloyl-(L) phenylalanine methyl ester (MAPA) functional monomer was used to create specific binding sites for the template molecule phenol via electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions. BC-MIP nanofibres were synthesized by surface imprinting approach in the presence of different amounts of total monomer (% weight), monomer/template ratio and polymerization time. Then, the nanofibres were characterized by FTIR-ATR, surface area analysis (BET), elemental analysis, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and contact angle measurements. Adsorption studies were performed with respect to pH, temperature and ionic strength, and the adsorption capacity was calculated by using the spectrophotometer. In order to desorb the adsorbed phenol from BC-MIP nanofibres, 0.1 M NaCl solution was used. Besides, BC-MIP nanofibres were applied to real wastewater samples from Ergene basin in Turkey. The suitable equilibrium isotherm was determined as Langmuir isotherm. To evaluate the selectivity of the BC-MIP nanofibres, similar molecules were utilized as competitor molecules, which were 2-chlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol and 2,4-dichlorophenol. Electrostatic interactions were found to contribute to the generation of specific recognition binding sites. The results have shown that imprinting of phenol was achieved successfully with high adsorption capacity. The phenol removal efficiency was reported up to 97%. BC-MIP nanofibres were used 10 times with a negligible decrease in adsorption capacity.
Relation of SiO maser emission to IR radiation in evolved stars based on the MSX observation
Creators: name: Jiang, B. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the space MSX observation in bands A(8$μ$m), C(12$μ$m), D(15$μ$m) and E(21$μ$m), and the ground SiO maser observation of evolved stars by the Nobeyama 45-m telescope in the v=1 and v=2 J=1-0 transitions, the relation between SiO maser emission and mid-IR continuum radiation is analyzed. The relation between SiO maser emission and the IR radiation in the MSX bands A, C, D and E is all clearly correlated. The SiO maser emission can be explained by a radiative pumping mechanism according to its correlation with infrared radiation in the MSX band A.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, to appear in ApJL
Coscinodon cribosus Spruce 1849
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Grimmiales
Grimmiaceae
Coscinodon
Coscinodon cribosus

description: Coscinodon cribosus (Hedw.) Spruce
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a): Gorges de la Chiffa, 300- 400 m. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 70, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Phorantha Rondani 1861
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Phorantha

description: 429. Phorantha Rondani, 1861b: 209 [1862d: 6, 21].
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Phorantha musciformis Rondani, 1861.
 TYPE SPECIES: Phorantha musciformis Rondani, 1861 [= Conops subcoleoptratus Linnaeus, 1767], by monotypy.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Phasia Latreille, 1804 [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 409)].
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
 REMARKS: Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 409, 412) correctly dated Phorantha musciformis from Rondani (1861b: 217) but incorrectly dated Phorantha from Rondani (1862d: 6, 21).
 [Phorellia] Rondani, 1870a: 7.
 CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect subsequent spelling of Forellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830.
FAMILY: TEPHRITIDAE.
REMARKS: Criteria for making this name available as an emendation were not found to be fulfilled in this work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 143
Gewinnbringende Integration saisonaler Wärmespeicher in Schweizer Fernwärmenetzen. Ergebnisse des Workshops am 3. März 2023, im Rahmen von SWEET DeCarbCH WP2 / 6.
Creators: name: Speich, Matthias
name: Ulli-Beer, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Dieser Foliensatz ist das Ergebnis eines Workshops, der am 3. März 2023 im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts SWEET DeCarbCH durchgeführt wurde. Ziel des Workshops war es, durch den Austausch zwischen Praxis, Behörden und Forschung eine Strategie für den gewinnbringenden Einsatz von saisonalen thermischen Energiespeichern in Schweizer thermischen Netzen zu skizzieren.

Aus den Diskussionen wurde ein grosser Bedarf an Austausch und Informationen deutlich, und viele unterschiedliche Themenkomplexe wurden angesprochen. Infolge dessen wurde das Workshop-Programm etwas abgeändert, um diese vielfältigen offenen Fragen zu sammeln. Dieser Foliensatz dokumentiert und strukturiert diese Fragestellungen und soll somit als Orientierung für die zukünftige Zusammenarbeit von Forschung und Praxis dienen.
A Survey of Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Communication
Creators: name: Zhu, Changxi
name: Dastani, Mehdi
name: Wang, Shihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Communication is an effective mechanism for coordinating the behaviors of multiple agents, broadening their views of the environment, and to support their collaborations. In the field of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), agents can improve the overall learning performance and achieve their objectives by communication. Agents can communicate various types of messages, either to all agents or to specific agent groups, or conditioned on specific constraints. With the growing body of research work in MADRL with communication (Comm-MADRL), there is a lack of a systematic and structural approach to distinguish and classify existing Comm-MADRL approaches. In this paper, we survey recent works in the Comm-MADRL field and consider various aspects of communication that can play a role in designing and developing multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. With these aspects in mind, we propose 9 dimensions along which Comm-MADRL approaches can be analyzed, developed, and compared. By projecting existing works into the multi-dimensional space, we discover interesting trends. We also propose some novel directions for designing future Comm-MADRL systems through exploring possible combinations of the dimensions.
description: 34 pages, 5 figures, 13 tables; published on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Commercial formulation amendment transiently affects the microbial composition but not the biogas production of a full scale methanogenic UASB reactor
Creators: name: A. Cabezas
name: P. Bovio
name: C. Etchebehere
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The treatment of dairy wastewater in methanogenic reactors cause several problems due to their high lipid content. One strategy to overcome these problems is the use of commercial formulations. Here we studied the effect of adding a commercial formulation, designed to improve fat degradation, on both the microbial community composition and reactor performance. Samples from two full-scale Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactors in parallel arrangement were analysed. The commercial product was added to one of the reactors while the other was used as control. The amendment increased significantly the fat removal but an accumulation of volatile fatty acids was detected. Nevertheless, no significant differences were observed in the total Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) removal and biogas production between reactors. A significant change in the bacterial community was not detected by 16S rRNA gene Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis probably due to the limitation of the technique. A strong change in the composition of the phylum Firmicutes was detected with 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing; however, it didn’t persist during the whole operation period. The relative abundance of minor Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) with sequences related to syntrophic bacteria increased with the amendment. Although a better hydrolytic capacity was obtained when adding the commercial product, the overall process did not improve and no increase in biogas production was detected. Alternative strategies could be applied to avoid the accumulation of intermediary products and improve biogas production as intermittent addition of the commercial product or batch operation of reactors.
THE EVALUATION OF THE DEMAND FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES WITH SERBIAN AGRO-SECTOR COMPANIES
Creators: name: Mihailovic, Branko
name: Milanovic, Milan R.
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Mihailovic, Branko
name: Milanovic, Milan R.
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: consultancy services
subject: demand
subject: agro-sector
subject: standardization

description: Companies often hire consultants because of their external, that is, impartial view and expert opinion, expecting consulting intervention to improve their performances. Beside the need for consulting activities in the fields where the managers’ knowledge is insufficient, consultants can be hired for one-time-only or additional, but very sensitive business activities such as new product introduction, overseas market penetration or aggressive competition struggle. At the same time, the assistance of consultancy organizations can be needed when the company’s management is burdened with other numerous activities, in case of company diversification when the existing, real management capacity does not provide simultaneous optimization of business activities. Consequently, consultancy organizations enable companies to achieve their goals, solve business and management-related problems, identify and exploit new opportunities, improve their knowledge and put into practice the proposed changes. The level of use of consultancy services in serbian agro-sector was researched in these paper, the representation providers of consulting services by type, the future demand for consulting services and financing models for consulting services.
Membranes Wrapped on Holomorphic Curves
Creators: name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Kim, Nakwoo
name: Pakis, Stathis
name: Waldram, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct supergravity solutions dual to the twisted field theories arising when M-theory membranes wrap holomorphic curves in Calabi-Yau n-folds. The solutions are constructed in an Abelian truncation of maximal D=4 gauged supergravity and then uplifted to D=11. For four-folds and five-folds we find new smooth AdS/CFT examples and for all cases we analyse the nature of the singularities that arise. Our results provide an interpretation of certain charged topological AdS black holes. We also present the generalised calibration two-forms for the solutions.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Modeling Intensification for Sign Language Generation: A Computational Approach
Creators: name: İnan, Mert
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Hassan, Sabit
name: Quandt, Lorna
name: Alikhani, Malihe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: End-to-end sign language generation models do not accurately represent the prosody in sign language. A lack of temporal and spatial variations leads to poor-quality generated presentations that confuse human interpreters. In this paper, we aim to improve the prosody in generated sign languages by modeling intensification in a data-driven manner. We present different strategies grounded in linguistics of sign language that inform how intensity modifiers can be represented in gloss annotations. To employ our strategies, we first annotate a subset of the benchmark PHOENIX-14T, a German Sign Language dataset, with different levels of intensification. We then use a supervised intensity tagger to extend the annotated dataset and obtain labels for the remaining portion of it. This enhanced dataset is then used to train state-of-the-art transformer models for sign language generation. We find that our efforts in intensification modeling yield better results when evaluated with automatic metrics. Human evaluation also indicates a higher preference of the videos generated using our model.
description: 15 pages, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
Phoroxypha Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Phoroxypha

description: 431. Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856: 146.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822 (as “ Tachidromya Longicornis Meig. ”).
 TYPE SPECIES: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822 (as “ Tachidromya Longicornis Meig. ”), by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Platypalpus Macquart, 1827 [teste Yang et al. (2007: 391)].
FAMILY: HYBOTIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 143
One- and two-stage anaerobic co-digestion of cucumber waste and sewage sludge
Creators: name: Lowe, Taylor B.
name: Hatch, Benjamin T.
name: Antle, Chad
name: Nartker, Steven
name: Ammerman, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The demand for uniformly sized and shaped produce that are aesthetically pleasing results in significant food waste throughout the world. Cucumber waste is a major agricultural waste product in a number of countries, especially areas with high pickle production. Opportunity exists for wastewater treatment plants containing anaerobic digesters to utilize cucumber agricultural and industrial waste for biogas production. The biomethane potential of cucumber waste as a substrate for co-digestion with sewage sludge was assessed. The impact of long-term co-digestion of cucumber was then evaluated using mesophilic continuously stirred tank reactors (CSTRs), in both single- and two-stage anaerobic co-digestion with sewage sludge. Ground cucumber waste was added to sewage sludge at 8% of the volume (4.5–4.6% of the organic load) and CSTRs were maintained for five hydraulic retention times (HRTs). One-stage co-digestion of cucumber waste produced comparable gas levels as CSTRs without cucumbers (averaging 219 and 221 m3/kgVS/h, respectively) after two HRTs. The two-stage cucumber co-digestion CSTR averaged 64% higher specific gas than the control and single-stage digester, although the volumetric gas produced was lower (averaging 152 m3/kgVS/h) likely due to gas loss in the first stage resulting in a lower organic load rate. After four HRTs, relative methanogen content showed dramatic differences in levels of hydrogenotrophic methanogens for the two-stage digester, while the one-stage digester containing cucumber waste showed minor differences relative to the control. Cucumber waste co-digestion with sewage sludge is effective although numerous conditions could be utilized to optimize gas production.
On the Gamma-ray Nebula of Vela Pulsar. II. the Soft Spectrum of the Extended Radio Nebula
Creators: name: Bao, Yiwei
name: Chen, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Vela\,X pulsar wind nebula (PWN) is characterized by the extended radio nebula (ERN) and the central X-ray "cocoon". We have interpreted the $γ$-ray spectral properties of the cocoon in the sibling paper (Bao et al.\,2019); here, we account for the broadband photon spectrum of the ERN. Since the diffusive escape of the electrons from the TeV emitting region is expected to play an insignificant role in shaping the spectrum of the ERN, we attribute the GeV cutoff of the ERN to the reverse shock-PWN interaction. Due to the disruption of the reverse shock, most of plasma of the PWN is driven into the ERN. During the subsequent reverberation phase, the ERN could be compressed by a large factor in radius, and the magnetic field in the ERN is thus significantly enhanced, burning off the high energy electrons. We thus obtain the electron spectrum of the ERN and the broadband spectrum of the ERN are explained satisfactorily.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Gabor is Enough: Interpretable Deep Denoising with a Gabor Synthesis Dictionary Prior
Creators: name: Janjušević, Nikola
name: Khalilian-Gourtani, Amirhossein
name: Wang, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image processing neural networks, natural and artificial, have a long history with orientation-selectivity, often described mathematically as Gabor filters. Gabor-like filters have been observed in the early layers of CNN classifiers and even throughout low-level image processing networks. In this work, we take this observation to the extreme and explicitly constrain the filters of a natural-image denoising CNN to be learned 2D real Gabor filters. Surprisingly, we find that the proposed network (GDLNet) can achieve near state-of-the-art denoising performance amongst popular fully convolutional neural networks, with only a fraction of the learned parameters. We further verify that this parameterization maintains the noise-level generalization (training vs. inference mismatch) characteristics of the base network, and investigate the contribution of individual Gabor filter parameters to the performance of the denoiser. We present positive findings for the interpretation of dictionary learning networks as performing accelerated sparse-coding via the importance of untied learned scale parameters between network layers. Our network's success suggests that representations used by low-level image processing CNNs can be as simple and interpretable as Gabor filterbanks.
Phrixe Rondani 1862
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Phrixe

description: 433. Phrixe Rondani, 1862a: 40.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Phryxe Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; junior synonym of Phryxe Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. New synonymy.
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “y” to “i” in the same work.
 434. Phthyria Rondani, 1856: 163, 219.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Phthiria Meigen, 1803; junior synonym of Phthiria Meigen, 1803. New synonymy.
FAMILY: BOMBYLIIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “i” to “y” in the same work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on pages 143-144
Unsupervised Representation Learning for 3D MRI Super Resolution with Degradation Adaptation
Creators: name: Liu, Jianan
name: Li, Hao
name: Huang, Tao
name: Ahn, Euijoon
name: Han, Kang
name: Razi, Adeel
name: Xiang, Wei
name: Kim, Jinman
name: Feng, David Dagan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging is critical in aiding doctors in their diagnoses and image-guided treatments. However, acquiring HR images can be time-consuming and costly. Consequently, deep learning-based super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) has emerged as a promising solution for generating super-resolution (SR) images from low-resolution (LR) images. Unfortunately, training such neural networks requires aligned authentic HR and LR image pairs, which are challenging to obtain due to patient movements during and between image acquisitions. While rigid movements of hard tissues can be corrected with image registration, aligning deformed soft tissues is complex, making it impractical to train neural networks with authentic HR and LR image pairs. Previous studies have focused on SRR using authentic HR images and down-sampled synthetic LR images. However, the difference in degradation representations between synthetic and authentic LR images suppresses the quality of SR images reconstructed from authentic LR images. To address this issue, we propose a novel Unsupervised Degradation Adaptation Network (UDEAN). Our network consists of a degradation learning network and an SRR network. The degradation learning network downsamples the HR images using the degradation representation learned from the misaligned or unpaired LR images. The SRR network then learns the mapping from the down-sampled HR images to the original ones. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art networks and is a promising solution to the challenges in clinical settings.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Synthesizing NMR analogues of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states using generalized Grover's algorithm
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingfu
name: Lu, Zhiheng
name: Shan, Lu
name: Deng, Zhiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By designing a proper unitary operator U, we synthesize NMR analogues of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states (pseudo-EPR states) using generalized Grover's algorithm on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum computer. Experiments also demonstrate generalized Grover's algorithm for the case in which there are multiple marked states.
description: 18 pages,2 figures. Reviews are welcomed zhangjfu2000@yahoo.com
A formula for the number of days between the winter solstice and the latest sunrise
Creators: name: Reinsch, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple closed-form expression for the number of days between the winter solstice and the latest sunrise is derived. Formulas for the summer solstice and the sunset are derived as well. These approximate formulas make it easy to see the functional dependence on the latitude of the observer. An approximate expression for the difference in time of day between the latest sunrise and the sunrise on the solstice is also derived. The formulas are not valid in the Arctic, Antarctic or tropics.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure