cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Research on Behavior Intentions of Tourists Based on the Rural Image Perception
Creators: name: Hu, Jiajing
name: Tao, Changjiang
name: Hu, Jiajing
name: Tao, Changjiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural image
subject: purchase intention of premium
subject: Recommended purchase
subject: Repeat-purchase

description: During the construction of new socialist countryside, rural tourism has presented its irreplaceable strategic significance in balancing urban and rural development, and in building a socialist harmonious society. It, therefore, has drawn sustained attention both from the government and the academics. By empirical research, a conceptual relationship model has been established of rural image and behavior intentions of tourists. The general rural image in rural tourism is comprised of rural scenery, rural architecture and rural culture image. Furthermore, the overall rural image has a positive effect on tourists’ willingness to pay a premium price, to recommend and to repeat purchase. At the end of this paper, reasonable suggestions have been proposed for rural image enhancement aimed to promote the attractiveness of rural tourism, and to enhance the tourists' positive behavior intentions.
Comparative Analysis on Pesticide Management System between America and China
Creators: name: Zhang, Cunzheng
name: Gong, Yong
name: Shan, Weili
name: Liu, Xianjin
name: Zhang, Cunzheng
name: Gong, Yong
name: Shan, Weili
name: Liu, Xianjin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Pesticide management system of America
subject: Pesticide management system of China
subject: Comparison and reference

description: The production and usage amount of pesticides in US rank the leading position in the world. On the basis of protecting the environment and human health, US government has enacted a series of laws and regulations to normalize and manage the production and use of pesticides so as to ensure the development of modern agriculture. In this paper, US pesticide management system is briefly reviewed and compared with the pesticide management system of China, which may provide good reference for china in establishing its own management system and make steps towards the international standard.
The constant of interpolation
Creators: name: Nicolau, Artur
name: Ortega-Cerdà, Joaquim
name: Seip, Kristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a suitably adjusted version of Peter Jones' formula for interpolation by bounded holomorphic functions gives a sharp upper bound for what is known as the constant of interpolation. We show how this leads to precise and computable numerical bounds for this constant.
Zeadolopus jamaicensis
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus jamaicensis

description: Zeadolopus jamaicensis (Peck) 1978
Figure 46
 Zeadolopus jamaicensis (Peck) 1978: 250; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus). Type male in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Windsor, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica.
 Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 0.9–1.4 mm; greatest width 0.7–0.9 mm. Uniformly yellowish to light reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head finely, moderately sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate, sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly or not impressed; strial punctures larger apically, absent basally; interstriae with minute, scattered punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, smooth, not carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally, punctures smaller medially. Male mesofemur with posterior margin expanded to form small toothlike processes medially and apically, with serrations between the processes in larger specimens; female with a broad process at apex of posterior margin. Male metafemur with posterior margin expanded to form large apical toothlike process; in female, rounded, shallow lobe. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Male with more dense setae on meso- and metatarsi. Aedeagus (Fig. 46) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres moderately slender, reaching near apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with pair of elongate rodlike structures separated medially. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.
 Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica. Trelawny Parish. Windsor, 500 feet [152m]. 5 mi N Alberttown. Portland Parish, 0.5 mi NE Ecclesdown. St. Andrew Parish. Hardwar Gap. Morces Gap, 1375 m. St. Ann Parish. 1 mi S Claremont.
 New records. Jamaica. Ocho Rios, Fern Gully, FIT, 19.II–1.III.84, D. Lindeman (25, SBPC).
 Remarks. The species is known only from forest litter, from about 150 m to 1375m elevation.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Additional file of Genomic organization and evolution of the Atlantic salmon hemoglobin repertoire
Creators: name: Quinn, Nicole L
name: Boroevich, Keith A
name: Lubieniecki, Krzysztof P
name: Chow, William
name: Davidson, Evelyn A
name: Phillips, Ruth B
name: Koop, Ben F
name: Davidson, William S
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Genomic organization and evolution of the Atlantic salmon hemoglobin repertoire
Broadband Geodesic Pulses for Three Spin Systems: Time-Optimal Realization of Effective Trilinear Coupling Terms and Indirect SWAP Gates
Creators: name: Reiss, Timo O.
name: Khaneja, Navin
name: Glaser, Steffen J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Broadband implementations of time-optimal geodesic pulse elements are introduced for the efficient creation of effective trilinear coupling terms for spin systems consisting of three weakly coupled spins 1/2. Based on these pulse elements, the time-optimal implementation of indirect SWAP operations is demonstrated experimentally. The duration of indirect SWAP gates based on broadband geodesic sequence is reduced by 42.3% compared to conventional approaches.
description: 22 pages, incl. 8 figures
Prevalence of and Factors Contributing to Glue Sniffing in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Region: A Scoping Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Khadeeja Munawar
name: Choudhry, Fahad Riaz
name: Hadi, Muhammad Abdul
name: Khan, Tahir Mehmood
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Although glue sniffing has been linked with significant morbidity and mortality, it is still under-researched and poorly recognized issue globally. Objective: A scoping review was performed to identify the factors and outcomes related to glue sniffing in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Methods: Ten databases; Medline via Ovid, Google scholar, EBSCOhost (CINAHL Plus), ProQuest Central, PsycInfo, IndMED, Ovid Embase, Scopus, PubMed, and Science Direct were searched from their inception to January 2019 for both qualitative and quantitative studies examining any aspect of glue-sniffing. Studies published only in English language were included. Prevalence of glue-sniffing in SAARC region was the primary outcome measure. Findings: Of 8951studies screened, 344 were assessed for eligibility and 31 studies were included. The majority of the studies were conducted in India (15) and Pakistan (11). Meta-analysis of proportion, using random effects model, for both primary and secondary outcomes found that the highest incidence of glue sniffing was 57% (0.57, CI 95% 0.49–0.66) in India. The overall incidence of tobacco and naswar (snuff) as was 83% (0.83, 95% CI 0.80–0.86). Conclusions: The prevalence of glue sniffing, especially among street children, is alarmingly high and presents a challenge for health and social services for countries in SAARC region. More research work is required to examine long term impact of glue sniffing on physical and mental health.
title: Using Signal Detection Theory to Examine the Effects of Workload and Likelihood Displays on Human Responses to Alarms
Creators: name: Bustamante, Ernesto A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2005

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of workload and likelihood displays on human responses to alarms through the use of Signal Detection Theory (SDT). Thirty students performed compensatory tracking, resource management, and system monitoring tasks. They interacted with a Binary Alarm System (BAS) or a Likelihood Alarm System (LAS) during varying workload levels. Overall Response Rate (ORR), False Alarm Response Rate (FARR), True Alarm Response Rate (TARR), Sensitivity (d'), and Bias (c), were used as alarm response measures. Root Mean Squared Tracking Error (RMSTE) and Root Mean Squared Resource Management Error (RMSRMF) reflected primary-task performance. Proportion of Correct Resets (PCR) reflected secondary-task performance. As expected, participants responded significantly more often when they used the BAS during low workload. However, they responded significantly more often to true alarms when they used the LAS when compared to the BAS regardless of workload level. Participants were significantly more sensitive when they used the LAS, and they were significantly more biased during high workload. Last, participants performed the system monitoring task significantly better when they used the LAS. The main theoretical contribution of this study was to demonstrate the usefulness of adapting SDT to study human response to alarm signals. The main practical contribution of this study was to show the ability to enhance knowledge-based databases and fault diagnosis methods used by alarm systems by incorporating likelihood information as a fundamental aspect of their decision-making algorithms. Future research should focus on refining the methods used to develop LASs, which may ultimately serve as an adequate way to mitigate the cry-wolf effect.
THE IMPORTANCE OF AGE-SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE PROCESS OF GUIDING THINKING IN LITERARY EDUCATION
Creators: name: Tuychieva, Mahfuza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article is devoted to studying the influence of age-related psychological characteristics on the process of developing logical thinking in children. The work examines the most optimal age period for beginning the targeted development of logical thinking, analyzes the role of literary education in this process, and proposes specific methods of using fiction to form logical analysis and critical thinking skills in children. Special attention is paid to the influence of plot lines, characters, and compositional elements in literary works on the formation of logical thinking.
Information Collection System of Crop Growth Environment Based on the Internet of Things
Creators: name: Yu, Hua
name: Zhang, Guangyu
name: Lu, Ningbo
name: Yu, Hua
name: Zhang, Guangyu
name: Lu, Ningbo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: The Internet of things
subject: Node mechanism
subject: Routing mechanism

description: Based on the technology of Internet of things, for the issues of large amount data acquisition and difficult real time transport in the data acquisition of crop growth environment, this paper designs one information collection system for crop growth environment. Utilizing the range free location mechanism which defines the node position and GEAR routing mechanism give solutions to the problems of node location, routing protocol applications and so on. This system can realize accurate and automatic real time collection, aggregation and transmission of crop growth environment information, and can achieve the automation of agricultural production, to the maximum extent.
Dryocosmus squamus Penzes et al. 2018
Creators: name: IRENE LOBATO-VILA
name: ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA
name: GEORGE MELIKA
name: GRAHAM N. STONE
name: CHANGTI TANG
name: MAN-MIAO YANG
name: ZHIQIANG FANG
name: YING ZHU
name: YIPING WANG
name: SUNGHOON JUNG
name: JAMES A. NICHOLLS
name: JULI PUJADE-VILLAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Dryocosmus
Dryocosmus squamus

description: Dryocosmus squamus (Monzen, 1953)
Andricus squama Monzen, 1953: 17, ♂ ♀.
Dryocosmus squamus (Monzen) Pénzes et al. (2018: 272), ♂ ♀.
Distribution. Japan (Honshu) (Monzen 1953: 17).
Biology. Only the sexual generation has been described, which induces bud galls on Q. serrata (sect. Quercus) (Table 1; Monzen 1953).
description: Published as part of IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5161 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6793652
Which economic tools for quality regulation? Markets and regulations in the agrifood industry
Creators: name: Marette, Stephan
name: Marette, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Faced with the issues of obesity and malnutrition, sanitary crises, the presence of chemical residue in food, issues surrounding market authorizations for genetically modified organisms or meat from cloned animals and so on, the Public Authorities must often intervene to guarantee the transparency of information toward consumers and a satisfactory quality level. However, the impacts of such interventions are not simple and require painstaking research. For example, when the information to consumers is imperfect, the introduction of a minimum quality standard may lead to a reduction in competition. Conversely, by sharing its advertising cost between producers, a collective information policy such as generic advertising counteracts the reduction in competition inherent in advertising, quality or safety expenditure. Furthermore, from an analysis of consumer behaviour faced with the risks (methyl-mercury) and benefits (omega-3) of fish consumption, we show that a taxation/subsidy policy is more efficient than the information policies most often implemented in such a case. A judicious choice between the tax levels applied to the species with toxic product and the subsidy levels to the healthiest species may even result in market regulation with a balanced public budget.
Zeadolopus microps
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus microps

description: Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978
Figure 47
 Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978: 252; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus). Type male in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Morces Gap, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica.
 Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 0.9 mm; greatest width 0.7 mm. Uniformly medium brown in color, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust, strongly setose. Eye reduced, about twice as long as wide. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides roundly angled at middle; posterior angles broadly, roundly obtuse. Elytra with minute, scattered setose punctures; striae absent. Flight wings reduced to tiny paddle-shaped rudiments (Peck 1977). Metasternum without coarse punctures. Male meso- and metafemur with posterior margin expanded, broadly rounded at apex, lacking tooth-like processes. Meso- and metatibia broad and spinose. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 47) elongate, narrow, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, short, not reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median rodlike structure. Female unknown.
 Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica. St. Andrew Parish. Morces Gap, 5000 ft. [1525m].
 New records. None.
 Remarks. The species is known only from leaf litter, at 1525m elevation.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Measuring the Impact of Nutrition Labels on Food Purchasing Decisions: A field experiment with scanner data
Creators: name: Berning, Joshua P.
name: Chouinard, Hayley
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Berning, Joshua P.
name: Chouinard, Hayley
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A simple experiment is used to examine the effect of grocery store nutrition labels on the sales of microwave popcorn in the East Bay area of California. Using an incomplete demand system we estimate the impact of the nutrition labels on sales of healthy (products that merit a nutrition label) and unhealthy (products that do not merit a nutrition label) microwave popcorn. Contrary to expectations, we find that nutrition labels decrease sales of healthy popcorn and increase sales of unhealthy popcorn across all stores. We speculate that nutrition labels on popcorn may signal unwanted product characteristics such as undesirable taste. Our findings highlight unintended effects created by nutrition labels. In terms of public welfare, it is important to consider not just the content of private industry nutrition labels but the effect they have on consumer behavior.
Slow Decline and Rise of the Broad [OIII] Emission Line in Globular Cluster Black Hole Candidate RZ2109
Creators: name: Dage, Kristen C.
name: Zepf, Stephen E.
name: Bahramian, Arash
name: Strader, Jay
name: Maccarone, Thomas J.
name: Peacock, Mark B.
name: Kundu, Arunav
name: Steele, Matthew M.
name: Britt, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: RZ2109 is the first of several extragalactic globular clusters shown to host an ultraluminous X-ray source. RZ2109 is particularly notable because optical spectroscopy shows it has broad, luminous [OIII] 4959,5007 emission, while also having no detectable hydrogen emission. The X-ray and optical characteristics of the source in RZ2109 make it a good candidate for being a stellar mass black hole accreting from a white dwarf donor (i.e. an ultracompact black hole X-ray binary). In this paper we present optical spectroscopic monitoring of the [OIII]5007 emission line from 2007 to 2018. We find that the flux of the emission line is significantly lower in recent observations from 2016-2018 than it was in earlier observations in 2007-2011. We also explore the behaviour of the emission line shape over time. Both the core and the wings of the emission line decline over time, with some evidence that the core declines more rapidly than the wings. However, the most recent observations (in 2019) unexpectedly show the emission line core re-brightening.
description: Accepted to MNRAS. 8 figures, 9 pages
WIC Contract Spillover Effects
Creators: name: Huang, Rui
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Huang, Rui
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Women
subject: Infants
subject: Children
subject: WIC
subject: spillover model

description: The three major infant formula manufacturers bid state by state to be the exclusive provider to poor families under the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and all three compete for non-WIC customers at grocery stores. Previous studies explained the low WIC prices and the higher retail prices as the result of price discrimination. We propose an alternative spillover model. Grocery stores, which supply both WIC participants and others, provide relatively large amounts of shelf space to the firm that wins the state-level WIC contract. Non-WIC customers, inferring from the large shelf space that the WIC brand is superior, are more likely to buy it. Because the contract winner benefits from a spillover effect in the lucrative non-WIC retail market, firms are willing to bid more aggressively for WIC contracts than in a price discrimination model. The spillover model is more consistent with the data than is the price discrimination model. We show that the retail price markup of the firm that wins the state WIC contract does not change when the contract is awarded, but that its shelf space increases in excess of the share of WIC customers.
Additional file 1 of Sex-specific differential gene expression during stolonization in the branching syllid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae)
Creators: name: Ponz-Segrelles, Guillermo
name: Schulze, Thilo
name: Oguchi, Kohei
name: Sato, Daisuke S.
name: Nakamura, Mayuko
name: Hayashi, Yoshinobu
name: Glasby, Christopher J.
name: Miura, Toru
name: Aguado, M. Teresa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Unconventional Charge Ordering in Na0.70CoO2 below 300 K
Creators: name: Gavilano, J. L.
name: Rau, D.
name: Pedrini, B.
name: Hinderer, J.
name: Ott, H. R.
name: Kazakov, S. M.
name: Karpinski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of measurements of the dc-magnetic susceptibility chi(T) and the 23Na-NMR response of Na_{0.70}CoO_{2} at temperatures between 50 and 340 K. The chi(T) data suggest that for T > 75 K, the Co ions adopt an effective configuration of Co^{3.4+}. The 23Na-NMR response reveals pronounced anomalies near 250 and 295 K, but no evidence for magnetic phase transitions is found in chi(T). Our data suggest the onset of a dramatic change in the Co 3d-electron spin dynamics at 295 K. This process is completed at 230 K. Our results maybe interpreted as evidence for either a tendency to electron localization or an unconventional charge-density wave phenomenon within the cobalt oxide layer, CoO_2, 3d electron system near room temperature.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, re-submitted to Physical Review Letters. The manuscript has been revised following the recommendations of the referees. The discussion section contains substantial changes
Milk Cost of Production Estimates for April, May, and June 2011
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: milk
subject: sustainability
subject: Public Act 09-229
subject: New England

description: In July 2009, Connecticut Public Act 09-229 established an agricultural sustainability account to provide financial assistance to Connecticut milk producers during times when the federal milk pay price falls below a minimum sustainable monthly cost of production. This legislation mandates that the Commissioner of Agriculture make payments to Connecticut dairy farmers on a quarterly basis. To determine whether payments are necessary to comply with the legislation, Public Act 09-229 defines the minimum sustainable monthly cost of production as eighty-two percent of the monthly average cost of production for a New England state, as calculated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Services (ERS).
Zeadolopus acinaces Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus acinaces

description: Zeadolopus acinaces Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 48
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 2.6–2.8 mm; greatest width 1.9–2.0 mm. Dark reddish brown, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture on elytra. Head punctation moderately fine and dense. Antenna unicolorous dark reddish brown, club moderately robust; club segments 2 and 3 equal, wider than terminal (4 th) segment. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, moderately sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed, strial punctures large and closely spaced; only 5 th line of punctures reaching elytral base; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered large punctures; epipleuron not punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate with median impunctate area. Femora and tibiae not sexually dimorphic; male pro- and mesotarsi more densely setose ventrally. Mesofemur unmodified; mesotibia broad and strongly spinose, with an elongate, curved spine at inner apical margin. Metafemur slightly produced at apex of posterior margin; metatibia broad, spinose. First metatarsomere longer than second. First visible abdominal segment with about 3 irregular rows of nonfoveate punctures. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 48) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, straight, extending to apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae, one apical and one sub-apical. Inverted internal sac with pair of rodlike structures joined apically. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM. REP: Prov. Pedernales / Las Abejas, 1225m / 18°09’03”N, 71°37’48”W / 28JUL–03AUG1999 / G.O.Dominici, F.I.T.” (WIBF). Paratypes (3) with same data as holotype (1, WIBF; 2, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.
 Etymology. The epithet acinaces (Latin, scimitar) refers to the long, curved mesotibial spine in both sexes of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a Turning Point on China’s Infrastructure Interconnection and Talent Exchange: Case of High-Speed Railway
Creators: name: Gholizadeh, Ali
name: Saneinia, Saba
name: Rongting Zhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has provided new opportunities for the development of China's manufacturing export trade. By strengthening policy communication and economic cooperation with the countries along the road, it helps to exert the potential of trade between the “One Belt and One Road” countries, promote the output of traditional Chinese industries and lead the development of new manufacturing industries. Trade frictions between the United States and China are frequent and growing, and trade protectionism may pose a threat worldwide. Based on the perspective of BRI, this paper taking the development of international trade as the background expounds on the importance of the BRI to the high-speed railway (HSR) talent exchange between China and the countries along the silk road. In view of how to carry out talent exchange with other countries along the road, this article puts forward relevant suggestions, so as to expand the exchange and cultivation of international talents in China so as to meet the new challenges and demands of the construction of talents along the way and enhance the international cooperation and cultural exchange with the countries along the road.
Generating Hot Gas in Simulations of Disk-Galaxy Major Mergers
Creators: name: Cox, T. J.
name: Primack, Joel
name: Jonsson, Patrik
name: Somerville, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the merger-induced generation of a shock-heated gas wind and formation of a remnant gas halo in simulations of colliding disk galaxies. The simulations use cosmologically motivated initial conditions and include the effects of radiative cooling, star formation, stellar feedback and the non-adiabatic heating of gas. The non-adiabatic heating, i.e. shocks, generated in the final merger forces gas out of the central region of the merger remnant and into the dark-matter halo. We demonstrate that the amount of heating depends on the size of the progenitor disk galaxy as well as the initial orbit the galaxies are placed on. Based upon these dependencies, we motivate a possible recipe for including this effect in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, uses emulateapj.cls, submitted to ApJ Letters
Distributed Estimation in the Presence of Strategic Data Sources
Creators: name: Chen, Kewei
name: Ghavidel, Donya
name: Gupta, Vijay
name: Huang, Yih-Fang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Distributed estimation that recruits potentially large groups of humans to collect data about a phenomenon of interest has emerged as a paradigm applicable to a broad range of detection and estimation tasks. However, it also presents a number of challenges especially with regard to user participation and data quality, since the data resources may be strategic human agents instead of physical sensors. We consider a static estimation problem in which an estimator collects data from self-interested agents. Since it incurs cost to participate, mechanisms to incentivize the agents to collect and transmit data of desired quality are needed. Agents are strategic in the sense that they can take measurement with different levels of accuracy by expending different levels of effort. They may also misreport their information in order to obtain greater compensation, if possible. With both the measurements from the agents and their accuracy unknown to the estimator, we design incentive mechanisms that encourage desired behavior from strategic agents. Specifically, we solve an optimization problem at the estimator which minimizes the expected total compensation to the agents while guaranteeing a specified quality of the global estimate.
Comparison of Dairy Farming in Connecticut, Vermont, and Maine for Purposes of Determining the Appropriate Cost of Production Benchmark for Connecticut
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: In the New England region, the U.S. Department of Agriculture only reports milk cost of production (COP) for Maine and Vermont. Basing Connecticut dairy support payments on USDA COP data for a New England state complies with Connecticut Public Acts 09-229 and 11-48. In the past two years, Vermont has served as the benchmark for this program. The objective of this report is to compare cost of production (COP) and dairy farming characteristics in Vermont and Maine in order to assess the suitability of using one or both New England states as a reference for Connecticut milk COP. To this end, this report compares 2010 USDA milk COP for Vermont and Maine, analyzes secondary data on dairy farming in these states and Connecticut, and conducted phone interview with expert dairy economists in New England and the USDA.
Effect of Functionalization on the Properties of Silsesquioxane; a Comparison to Silica
Creators: name: Moradi, Marzieh
name: Woods, Bailey M.
name: Rathnayake, Hemali
name: Williams, Stuart J.
name: Willing, Gerold A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While similar in nature, the properties of silica and silsesquioxane are very different, but little is known about these differences. In this paper, functionalized silsesquioxane microparticles are synthesized by adapting the modified Stöber method and post-functionalized with rhodamine-B. The as synthesized silsesquioxane particles are characterized by a variety of physical and chemical methods. The synthesized particles are amorphous and nonporous in nature and are less dense than silica. While silsesquioxane and silica have some similar physical properties from their siloxane core, the organic functional group of silsesquioxane and the one-half oxygen difference in its structure impact many other properties of these particles like their charging behavior in liquids. These differences not only allow for the ease surface modification as compared to that necessary to modify silica, but also the use in a variety of colloidal systems that due to pH or electrolyte concentrations may not be suitable for silica particles. Keywords: silsesquioxane, Stober method, density, morphology, zeta potential
Zeadolopus angulatus Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus angulatus

description: Zeadolopus angulatus Peck and Cook, new species
Figures 68, 69
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.8–1.9 mm; greatest width 1.3–1.5 mm. Reddish brown, shining, microsculpture absent. Head punctures of moderate size and density. Antennae unicolorous dark reddish brown, club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles broadly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum flat, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; finely, sparsely punctate medially. In both sexes, mesofemur with lobed expansion of apex of posterior margin. Metafemur robust, with a toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin in male, lobed in female. Mesotibia in both sexes broad and spinose; metatibia more slender and spinose. Male with dense pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 68, 69) elongate, cylindrical, strongly angulate dorsoventrally in lateral view; paired apices elongate, parallel. Parameres slender in dorsal view, broad in lateral view, reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median tubelike structure and apical triangular sclerite with two posterior projections. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES: St. Vincent / Hermitage Forest, E of Spring / Village, N31°14.86’ W61°12.77’ / 23–27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT/ 340 m, S. & J. Peck, 06-104B” (SBPC). Paratypes (7) have the following label data: same data as holotype except: 16–27.VIII.06, forest FIT trap, 348 m, 06-103B (3, SBPC); same data as holotype except: 15–27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT trap, 348 m, 06-102B (2, SBPC); St. Vincent, Vermont Nature Trails, 7 km E Buccament, N13°13’ W61°13’, 11–20.VI.07, rainforest FIT, 370 m, S. & J. Peck, 07-18 (2, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from St. Vincent.
 Etymology. The epithet angulatus (Latin, with angles) refers to the strongly angled aedeagus characteristic of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Maine Milk Cost of Production Estimates for April, May, and June 2011
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Rabinowitz, Adam N.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Maine
subject: milk production

description: Maine Milk Cost of Production Estimates for April, May, and June 2011
Imprint of the galactic acceleration scale on globular cluster systems
Creators: name: Bílek, Michal
name: Samurović, Srdjan
name: Renaud, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report that the density profiles of globular cluster (GC) systems in a sample of 17 early-type galaxies (ETGs) show breaks at the radii where the gravitational acceleration exerted by the stars equals the galactic acceleration scale $a_0$ known from the radial acceleration relation or MOND. The match with the other characteristic radii in the galaxy is not that close. We propose possible explanations in the frameworks of the $Λ$CDM model and MOND. We find tentative evidence that in the $Λ$CDM context, GCs reveal not only the masses of the dark halos through the richness of the GC systems but also the concentrations through the break radii of the GC systems.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. To appear in A&A Letters
Dryocosmus taitungensis Tang & Melika 2016
Creators: name: IRENE LOBATO-VILA
name: ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA
name: GEORGE MELIKA
name: GRAHAM N. STONE
name: CHANGTI TANG
name: MAN-MIAO YANG
name: ZHIQIANG FANG
name: YING ZHU
name: YIPING WANG
name: SUNGHOON JUNG
name: JAMES A. NICHOLLS
name: JULI PUJADE-VILLAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Dryocosmus
Dryocosmus taitungensis

description: Dryocosmus taitungensis Tang & Melika, 2016
Dryocosmus taitungensis Tang & Melika in Tang et al. (2016a: 149), ǒ.
Distribution. Taiwan (Schwéger et al. 2015b: 43; Tang et al. 2016a: 156).
Remarks. Schwéger et al. (2015b) described the inquiline species Saphonecrus robustus Schwéger & Melika from specimens reared from galls named by these authors as ‘TWTs16’. According to the photos in by Pénzes et al. (2018: photos 70 and 71), these galls correspond to D. taitungensis.
Biology. Only the asexual generation has been described, which induces dehiscent stem galls on Q. hypophaea (sect. Cyclobalanopsis) (Table 1; Tang et al. 2016a).
description: Published as part of IRENE LOBATO-VILA, ALBA SALA-NISHIKAWA, GEORGE MELIKA, GRAHAM N. STONE, CHANGTI TANG, MAN-MIAO YANG, ZHIQIANG FANG, YING ZHU, YIPING WANG, SUNGHOON JUNG, JAMES A. NICHOLLS & JULI PUJADE-VILLAR, 2022, A catalogue, revision, and regional perspective of Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental oak gall wasps and their inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini, Synergini, Ceroptresini), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5161 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6793652
Semiclassical time-evolution of the reduced density matrix and dynamically assisted generation of entanglement for bipartite quantum systems
Creators: name: Jacquod, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two particles, initially in a product state, become entangled when they come together and start to interact. Using semiclassical methods, we calculate the time evolution of the corresponding reduced density matrix $ρ_1$, obtained by integrating out the degrees of freedom of one of the particles. To quantify the generation of entanglement, we calculate the purity ${\cal P}(t)={\rm Tr}[ρ_1(t)^2]$. We find that entanglement generation sensitively depends (i) on the interaction potential, especially on its strength and range, and (ii) on the nature of the underlying classical dynamics. Under general statistical assumptions, and for short-scaled interaction potentials, we find that ${\cal P}(t)$ decays exponentially fast if the two particles are required to interact in a chaotic environment, whereas it decays only algebraically in a regular system. In the chaotic case, the decay rate is given by the golden rule spreading of one-particle states due to the two-particle coupling, but cannot exceed the system's Lyapunov exponent.
description: Final version, to appear in Physical Review Letters
Satellite galaxies as better tracers of the Milky Way halo mass
Creators: name: Han, Jiaxin
name: Wang, Wenting
name: Li, Zhaozhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inference of the Milky Way halo mass requires modelling the phase space structure of dynamical tracers, with different tracers following different models and having different levels of sensitivity to the halo mass. For steady-state models, phase correlations among tracer particles lead to an irreducible stochastic bias. This bias is small for satellite galaxies and dark matter particles, but as large as a factor of 2 for halo stars. This is consistent with the picture that satellite galaxies closely trace the underlying phase space distribution of dark matter particles, while halo stars are less phase-mixed. As a result, the use of only $\sim 100$ satellite galaxies can achieve a significantly higher accuracy than that achievable with a much larger sample of halo stars.
description: To appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 353: Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys
Zeadolopus atratus Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus atratus

description: Zeadolopus atratus Peck and Cook, new species
Figure 39
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.6–2.3 mm; greatest width 1.1–1.6 mm. Dark reddish brown to black, appendages dark reddish brown; shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head with moderately fine, irregularly spaced punctation. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse, dense; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum finely, irregularly punctate medially; coarsely, densely punctate laterally. In both sexes, posterior margins of meso- and metafemur concave, not expanded; mesotibia evenly widened from base to apex, strongly spinose; metatibia narrower, strongly spinose. Pale setae of ventral face of pro- and mesotarsi more conspicuous in males. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 39) broad, parallel-sided, curved dorsoventrally; paired apices with acute tips inwardly curved. Parameres moderately slender, reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with median tube subtended apically by paired shorter rods that are recurved basally. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Santiago Prov. / Gran Piedra, Isabelica / 7–17.XII.95, 1100m / elfin forest FITs/ S. Peck, 95-84” (SBPC). Paratypes (20) have the following label data: same data as holotype (19, SBPC); same data as holotype except: Met. Radar, 6–17.XII.95, 95-76 (1, SBPC).
 Distribution. Known only from Cuba.
 Remarks. Because of the geographic proximity of south Florida and Cuba, it might be expected that the species of the two areas might be closely related. However, comparison of Z. atratus n. sp. of Cuba with the species of Zeadolopus of south Florida (Peck and Cook 2013b) showed no close affinity.
 Etymology. The epithet atratus (Latin, dressed in black) refers to the dark coloration of this species.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089
Additional file 1 of Exploring the potential and limitations of deep learning and explainable AI for longitudinal life course analysis
Creators: name: Coupland, Helen
name: Scheidwasser, Neil
name: Katsiferis, Alexandros
name: Davies, Megan
name: Flaxman, Seth
name: Hulvej Rod, Naja
name: Mishra, Swapnil
name: Bhatt, Samir
name: Unwin, H. Juliette T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Mid-Infrared Galaxy Morphology Along the Hubble Sequence
Creators: name: Pahre, M. A.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Fazio, G. G.
name: Willner, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mid-infrared emission from 18 nearby galaxies imaged with the IRAC instrument on Spitzer Space Telescope samples the spatial distributions of the reddening-free stellar photospheric emission and the warm dust in the ISM. These two components provide a new framework for galaxy morphological classification, in which the presence of spiral arms and their emission strength relative to the starlight can be measured directly and with high contrast. Four mid-infrared classification methods are explored, three of which are based on quantitative global parameters (colors, bulge-to-disk ratio) similar to those used in the past for optical studies; in this limited sample, all correlate well with traditional B-band classification. We suggest reasons why infrared classification may be superior to optical classification.
description: ApJS (in press), Spitzer Space Telescope Special Issue; 13 pages, LaTeX (or Latex, etc); Figure 1ab is large, color plate; full-resolution plates in .pdf format available at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/irac/publications/
Maine Milk Cost of Production Estimates for April, May, and June 2011
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Lopez, Rigoberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Maine
subject: milk production

description: In July 2009, Connecticut Public Act 09-229 established an agricultural sustainability account to provide financial assistance to Connecticut milk producers during times when the federal milk pay price falls below a minimum sustainable monthly cost of production. This legislation mandates that the Commissioner of Agriculture make payments to Connecticut dairy farmers on a quarterly basis. To determine whether payments are necessary to comply with the legislation, Public Act 09-229 defines the minimum sustainable monthly cost of production as eighty-two percent of the monthly average cost of production for a New England state, as calculated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Services (ERS).