cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aphalara sauteri Burckhardt 1983
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphalaridae
Aphalara
Aphalara sauteri

description: Aphalara sauteri Burckhardt, 1983
 Aphalara sauteri Burckhardt, 1983: 47.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Fours, Bois de laTellière, 1420 m, 44°19’5.415’’N- 6°37’52.8996’’E, 01.IX.2012 C. Cocquempot (CBGP), 1 adult; Alpes-Maritimes, Bolène-Vesubie, massif de la cime du Diable, 1800-2600 m, 28.VIII.1995, 1♂ I. Malenovský (MMBC); Alpes-Maritimes, La Brigue, French-Italian border between Mt Grai (2013 m) and Cime de Marte (2135 m), 21.VIII.1996, 1♀, I. Malenovský (MMBC).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, France, Italy (mainland + Sardinia), Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Slovenia.
COMMENTS
 Description and biology in Burckhardt & Lauterer (1997). Host-plant: Rumex scutatus L. (Polygonaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 254, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
A Novel Methodology for designing Policies in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems
Creators: name: Di Stefano, Alessandro
name: Scatà, Marialisa
name: Attanasio, Barbara
name: La Corte, Aurelio
name: Liò, Pietro
name: Das, Sajal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile crowdsensing is a people-centric sensing system based on users' contributions and incentive mechanisms aim at stimulating them. In our work, we have rethought the design of incentive mechanisms through a game-theoretic methodology. Thus, we have introduced a multi-layer social sensing framework, where humans as social sensors interact on multiple social layers and various services. We have proposed to weigh these dynamic interactions by including the concept of homophily and we have modelled the evolutionary dynamics of sensing behaviours by defining a mathematical framework based on multiplex EGT, quantifying the impact of homophily, network heterogeneity and various social dilemmas. We have detected the configurations of social dilemmas and network structures that lead to the emergence and sustainability of human cooperation. Moreover, we have defined and evaluated local and global Nash equilibrium points by including the concepts of homophily and heterogeneity. We have analytically defined and measured novel statistical measures of social honesty, QoI and users' behavioural reputation scores based on the evolutionary dynamics. We have defined the Decision Support System and a novel incentive mechanism by operating on the policies in terms of users' reputation scores, that also incorporate users' behaviours other than quality and quantity of contributions. Experimentally, we have considered the Waze dataset on vehicular traffic monitoring application and derived the disbursement of incentives comparing our method with baselines. Results demonstrate that our methodology, which also includes the local (microscopic) spatio-temporal distribution of behaviours, is able to better discriminate users' behaviours. This multi-scale characterisation of users represents a novel research direction and paves the way for novel policies on mobile crowdsensing systems.
Craspedolepta nebulosa
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphalaridae
Craspedolepta
Craspedolepta nebulosa

description: Craspedolepta nebulosa (Zetterstedt, 1828)
 Chermes nebulosa Zetterstedt, 1828: 551.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Lantosque, Col d’Andrion (Col du Fort), 1990 m, 44°1’3.8202’’N- 7°15’12.1206’’E, 13.VII.2009, on Epilobium angustifolium L., C. Cocquempot (CBGP), 48 adults.
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Canada, Ireland, Kazakhstan, United States of America (Alaska, California, Colorado, New Hampshire, Washington).
COMMENTS
 Description in Hodkinson & White (1979a) and Ossiannilsson (1992). Biology in Ossiannilsson (1992), Conci et al. (1993) and Lauterer (1993). Host-plant: Epilobium angustifolium L. (Onagraceae). New for France.
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 254, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
Cyber-Security Internals of a Skoda Octavia vRS: A Hands on Approach
Creators: name: Urquhart, Colin
name: Bellekens, Xavier
name: Tachtatzis, Christos
name: Atkinson, Robert
name: Hindy, Hanan
name: Seeam, Amar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The convergence of information technology and vehicular technologies are a growing paradigm, allowing information to be sent by and to vehicles. This information can further be processed by the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and the Controller Area Network (CAN) for in-vehicle communications or through a mobile phone or server for out-vehicle communication. Information sent by or to the vehicle can be life-critical (e.g. breaking, acceleration, cruise control, emergency communication, etc. . . ). As vehicular technology advances, in-vehicle networks are connected to external networks through 3 and 4G mobile networks, enabling manufacturer and customer monitoring of different aspects of the car. While these services provide valuable information, they also increase the attack surface of the vehicle, and can enable long and short range attacks. In this manuscript, we evaluate the security of the 2017 Skoda Octavia vRS 4x4. Both physical and remote attacks are considered, the key fob rolling code is successfully compromised, privacy attacks are demonstrated through the infotainment system, the Volkswagen Transport Protocol 2.0 is reverse engineered. Additionally, in-car attacks are highlighted and described, providing an overlook of potentially deadly threats by modifying ECU parameters and components enabling digital forensics investigation are identified.
description: 13 pages, 27 figures
Distribution of income in Polish agriculture
Creators: name: Klank, Leszek
name: Klank, Leszek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: transition
subject: parity
subject: income distribution
subject: Polish farmers

description: During the transition period Poland achieved a rather quick rate of economic growth, exceeding 4.9% per annum. Inflation rate significantly decreased, even below the level observed in many EU countries. However, there were not only successes. Poland has reported very high, growing unemployment rate, beyond 20% of active labour force. Growth of the unemployment, in both rural and urban areas, is the main issue to be solved. Another important "hot " issue is income distribution. The period of economic transition in the post-communist countries, including Poland, brought about a considerable increase of income differentiation of the society. This differentiation applied to a greater extent to agriculture and rural population than to non-agricultural and urban population. In 1984 the Gini coefficient for all households was 0.240, but by 1998 it rose to 0.312 and for farmers these numbers were, respectively: 0.362 and 0.449.
Cacopsylla albipes
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Cacopsylla
Cacopsylla albipes

description: Cacopsylla albipes (Flor, 1861)
 Psylla albipes Flor, 1861: 364.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Saorge, M 10- CAI1400-T5-M2, 1♀ (MNHN); same mocality, M10-CAI2000-T1- M1, 1♀ (BMNH); Alpes-Maritimes, Bolène-Vesubie, massif de la cime du Diable, 1800-2600 m, 28.VIII.1995, 1♂, I. Malenovský (MMBC).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Bulgaria, Crimea, Czech Republic, Georgia, Slovenia, Turkey.
COMMENTS
 Description in Hodkinson & White (1979a), Vondráček (1957), Burckhardt (2010). Biology in Conci et al. (1993). Host-plants: several species of Sorbus (Rosaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on pages 256-257, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
The changes in and the spatial patterns of Polish agriculture
Creators: name: Kulikowski, Roman
name: Kulikowski, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: agriculture
subject: spatial differentiation
subject: labour resources
subject: agrarian structure
subject: land and labour productivity

description: Although the contribution of agricultural production to national income decreased from 58% in 1947 to 3.3% in 2001, Polish agriculture still provides employment to roughly 20% of the total of persons employed in the country. Average size of individual farms increased from 7.2 hectares in 1990 to 8 hectares in 2001. The small acreage of private holdings is prevalent in the southern provinces of the country. Worsening of the profitability of agricultural production at the beginning of 1990s (the loss of eastern markets), liquidation of state farming, increase offallow areas, and a marked fall offunds in farm investments entailed a collapse in crop production, in animal breeding (especially in cattle raising) and in agricultural production as a whole. Gross agricultural production showed in 2000 the decrease by 12.4% in comparison with its level in 1990.
Open Wide: Vietnam’s Agricultural Trade Policy
Creators: name: Vanzetti, David
name: Vanzetti, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Vietnam
subject: WTO negotiations
subject: trade
subject: agricultural tariffs

description: Vietnam is about to join the WTO. As a major exporter of rice, coffee, cashew nuts and pepper, accession to the WTO will have little impact on these export markets, as tariffs on these exports are already low. However, accession will require Vietnam to expose some of its inefficient agricultural sectors, such as sugar and maize, to international competition. Furthermore, multilateral reforms within the WTO are likely to raise prices of temperate product goods that are imported by Vietnam, worsening its terms of trade. A quantitative analysis of likely policy changes is undertaken assuming Vietnam’s accession terms are likely to bring its agricultural tariffs down to an average of 18 per cent. A likely WTO outcome is then simulated. The impacts suggest Vietnam gains from accession but further WTO liberalisation raises import prices and has a negative impact.
Hydrothermal activities on C-complex asteroids induced by radioactivity
Creators: name: Fujiya, Wataru
name: Higashi, Hisato
name: Hibiya, Yuki
name: Sugawara, Shingo
name: Yamaguchi, Akira
name: Kimura, Makoto
name: Hashizume, Ko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: C-complex asteroids, rich in carbonaceous materials, are potential sources of Earth's volatile inventories. They are spectrally dark resembling primitive carbonaceous meteorites, and thus, C-complex asteroids are thought to be potential parent bodies of carbonaceous meteorites. However, the substantial number of C-complex asteroids exhibits surface spectra with weaker hydroxyl absorption than water-rich carbonaceous meteorites. Rather, they best correspond to meteorites showing evidence for dehydration, commonly attributed to impact heating. Here, we report an old radiometric age of 4564.7 million years ago for Ca-carbonates from the Jbilet Winselwan meteorite analogous to dehydrated C-complex asteroids. The carbonates are enclosed by a high-temperature polymorph of Ca-sulfates, suggesting thermal metamorphism at >300°C subsequently after aqueous alteration. This old age indicates the early onset of aqueous alteration and subsequent thermal metamorphism driven by the decay of short-lived radionuclides rather than impact heating. The breakup of original asteroids internally heated by radioactivity should result in asteroid families predominantly consisting of thermally metamorphosed materials. This explains the common occurrence of dehydrated C-complex asteroids.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Effectiveness of bDMARDs in ankylosing spondylitis patients by biologic use: experience from the CorEvitas PsA/SpA Registry
Creators: name: Mease, Philip J.
name: Blachley, Taylor
name: Malatestinic, William N.
name: Harrold, Leslie R.
name: Dube, Blessing
name: Lisse, Jeffrey R.
name: Bolce, Rebecca J.
name: Hunter, Theresa M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: To describe bDMARD initiators by biologic experience among ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients and change in disease activity and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in real-world US patients. We included patients ≥18 years with AS based on physician diagnosis enrolled between 3/2013 and 11/2019 in the CorEvitas Psoriatic Arthritis (PSA)/Spondyloarthritis Registry (NCT02530268). Patients concurrently diagnosed with PSA were excluded. Baseline (bDMARD initiation) demographics, comorbidities, disease characteristics, treatment, and PROs were collected. Response rates and changes in disease activity and PROs between baseline and 6- and 12- month follow-up visits were calculated. Of the 489 AS patients in the PsA/SpA Registry, 254 AS (52.0%) patients initiated a bDMARD at enrollment or during follow-up (total initiations: AS = 313). Of the 313 AS initiations, 179 (57.2%) had a 6-month follow-up, 122 (39.0%) had a 12-month follow-up, and 94 (30.0%) had a 6- and 12-month follow-up visit. For those AS initiators with a 6-month follow-up, the mean age was 49.1 years, 44.4% were female, and 70.4%, 47.5%, 96.1%, and 46.9% had never used cDMARDs, TNFis, non-TNFis, and bDMARDs, respectively. Of these 179 AS initiators, 20.1% and 14.0% achieved ASAS20/40, respectively. Further, only 34% achieved low disease activity (ASDAS <2.1). When stratified by biologic-naivete and biologic-experience, the ASAS 20/40 achievement rates were 26.2% and 14.7%, and 21.4% and 7.4%, respectively, for this cohort. Although AS patients initiate bDMARDs, many do not achieve optimal treatment responses. Future research is needed to investigate the aspects associated with inadequate improvement and treatment response to bDMARDs.
WR 20a is an Eclipsing Binary: Accurate Determination of Parameters for an Extremely Massive Wolf-Rayet System
Creators: name: Bonanos, A. Z.
name: Stanek, K. Z.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Wyrzykowski, L.
name: Zebrun, K.
name: Kubiak, M.
name: Szymanski, M. K.
name: Szewczyk, O.
name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Soszynski, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a high-precision I-band light curve for the Wolf-Rayet binary WR 20a, obtained as a sub-project of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Rauw et al. have recently presented spectroscopy for this system, strongly suggesting extremely large minimum masses of 70.7 +/- 4.0 Mo and 68.8 +/- 3.8 Mo for the component stars of the system, with the exact values depending strongly on the period of the system. We detect deep eclipses of about 0.4 mag in the light curve of WR 20a, confirming and refining the suspected period of P=3.686 days and deriving an inclination angle of i=74.5 +/- 2 deg. Using these photometric data and the radial velocity data of Rauw et al., we derive the masses for the two components of WR 20a to be 83.0 +/- 5.0 Mo and 82.0 +/- 5.0 Mo. Therefore, WR 20a is confirmed to consist of two extremely massive stars and to be the most massive binary known with an accurate mass determination.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJL
Accommodating Indigenous Cultural Heritage Values in Resource Assessment
Creators: name: Venn, Tyron J.
name: Quiggin, John C.
name: Venn, Tyron J.
name: Quiggin, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: indigenous cultural heritage
subject: resource assessment
subject: valuation

description: In this paper we consider the problem of accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment and valuation. We suggest a need for price-based approaches to valuation to be replaced by or complemented with quantitative constraints, reflecting the requirement that rights should not be violated.
Cacopsylla iteophila
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Cacopsylla
Cacopsylla iteophila

description: Cacopsylla iteophila (Löw, 1876)
 Psylla iteophila Löw, 1876: 196.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Colmarsles-Alpes, Col des Champs, 1920 m, 44°11’4.884”N- 6°40’15.3984”E, 10.VII.2011, on Larix decidua Mill., C. Cocquempot (CBGP), 8 adults.
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Slovenia.
COMMENTS
 Description in Conci &Tamanini (1990b). Biology in Conci et al. (1993). Host-plants: several species of Salix (Salicaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 258, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
The lowest order inelastic QED processes at polarized photon-electron high energy collisions
Creators: name: Bartos, E.
name: Galynskii, M. V.
name: Gevorkyan, S. R.
name: Kuraev, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The compact expressions for cross sections of photoproduction of a pair of charged particles $\mathrm{e}^+,\mathrm{e}^-$; $μ^+,μ^-$; $π^+,π^-$ as well as the double Compton scattering process are given. The explicit analytic expressions for the case of polarized photon and the initial electron in the kinematics when all the particles can be considered as a massless ones are presented. The photon polarization is described in the terms of Stokes parameters.
description: LaTeX2e, 9 pages
High-frequency magnon excitation due to femtosecond spin-transfer torques
Creators: name: Ritzmann, Ulrike
name: Baláž, Pavel
name: Maldonado, Pablo
name: Carva, Karel
name: Oppeneer, Peter M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Femtosecond laser pulses can induce ultrafast demagnetization as well as generate bursts of hot electron spin currents. In trilayer spin valves consisting of two metallic ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic one, hot electron spin currents excited by an ultrashort laser pulse propagate from the first ferromagnetic layer through the spacer reaching the second magnetic layer. When the magnetizations of the two magnetic layers are noncollinear, this spin current exerts a torque on magnetic moments in the second ferromagnet. Since this torque is acting only within the sub-ps timescale, it excites coherent high-frequency magnons as recently demonstrated in experiments. Here, we calculate the temporal shape of the hot electron spin currents using the superdiffusive transport model and simulate the response of the magnetic system to the resulting ultrashort spin-transfer torque pulse by means of atomistic spin-dynamics simulations. Our results confirm that the acting spin-current pulse is short enough to excite magnons with frequencies beyond 1 THz, a frequency range out of reach for current induced spin-transfer torques. We demonstrate the formation of thickness dependent standing spin waves during the first picoseconds after laser excitation. In addition, we vary the penetration depth of the spin-transfer torque to reveal its influence on the excited magnons. Our simulations clearly show a suppression effect of magnons with short wavelengths already for penetration depths in the range of 1 nm confirming experimental findings reporting penetration depths below $2\, {\rm nm}$.
Learning Regional Attraction for Line Segment Detection
Creators: name: Xue, Nan
name: Bai, Song
name: Wang, Fu-Dong
name: Xia, Gui-Song
name: Wu, Tianfu
name: Zhang, Liangpei
name: Torr, Philip H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents regional attraction of line segment maps, and hereby poses the problem of line segment detection (LSD) as a problem of region coloring. Given a line segment map, the proposed regional attraction first establishes the relationship between line segments and regions in the image lattice. Based on this, the line segment map is equivalently transformed to an attraction field map (AFM), which can be remapped to a set of line segments without loss of information. Accordingly, we develop an end-to-end framework to learn attraction field maps for raw input images, followed by a squeeze module to detect line segments. Apart from existing works, the proposed detector properly handles the local ambiguity and does not rely on the accurate identification of edge pixels. Comprehensive experiments on the Wireframe dataset and the YorkUrban dataset demonstrate the superiority of our method. In particular, we achieve an F-measure of 0.831 on the Wireframe dataset, advancing the state-of-the-art performance by 10.3 percent.
description: Accepted to IEEE TPAMI. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.02122
Predicting Trust Using Automated Assessment of Multivariate Interactional Synchrony
Creators: name: Meynard, Adrien
name: Seneviratna, Gayan
name: Doyle, Elliot
name: Becker, Joyanne
name: Wu, Hau-Tieng
name: Borg, Jana Schaich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Diverse disciplines are interested in how the coordination of interacting agents' movements, emotions, and physiology over time impacts social behavior. Here, we describe a new multivariate procedure for automating the investigation of this kind of behaviorally-relevant "interactional synchrony", and introduce a novel interactional synchrony measure based on features of dynamic time warping (DTW) paths. We demonstrate that our DTW path-based measure of interactional synchrony between facial action units of two people interacting freely in a natural social interaction can be used to predict how much trust they will display in a subsequent Trust Game. We also show that our approach outperforms univariate head movement models, models that consider participants' facial action units independently, and models that use previously proposed synchrony or similarity measures. The insights of this work can be applied to any research question that aims to quantify the temporal coordination of multiple signals over time, but has immediate applications in psychology, medicine, and robotics.
Productivity Change in the Australian Sheep Industry Revisited
Creators: name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Farrell, Terence C.
name: Fleming, Pauline
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Farrell, Terence C.
name: Fleming, Pauline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: sheep
subject: stochastic output distance function
subject: technical change
subject: total factor productivity

description: Recent low estimates of total factor productivity change for wool producers in the Australian sheep industry indicate that they are struggling to improve their performance. This evidence is at odds with the views of many technical observers of industry performance, prompting us to re-estimate total factor productivity change for farmers in a benchmarking group in south-west Victoria who had been the subject of such a negative finding. An important transformation in sheep production in Australia in recent decades has been a change in enterprise mix, notably a greater presence of prime lamb production. This change complicates the process of computing efficiency and productivity change. We demonstrate that a multi-input multi-output approach, based on the use of a stochastic output distance function and assuming non-neutral technical change, helps to avoid errors of estimation of productivity change. Following this approach, we find substantial technical progress and productivity gains on farms over the period, 1995/1996 to 2003/2004, for merino wool specialists. Growth in total factor productivity on properties operating wool and prime lamb enterprises is less impressive, indicating an initial decline in total factor productivity in 1996/1997 as farmers adopted a more diversified enterprise mix. Following this decline, however, farms achieved a modest increase in total factor productivity.
Chemical-potential standard for atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Kohler, Sigmund
name: Sols, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When subject to an external time periodic perturbation of frequency $f$, a Josephson-coupled two-state Bose-Einstein condensate responds with a constant chemical potential difference $Δμ=khf$, where $h$ is Planck's constant and $k$ is an integer. We propose an experimental procedure to produce ac-driven atomic Josephson devices that may be used to define a standard of chemical potential. We investigate how to circumvent some of the specific problems derived from the present lack of advanced atom circuit technology. We include the effect of dissipation due to quasiparticles, which is essential to help the system relax towards the exact Shapiro resonance, and set limits to the range of values which the various physical quantities must have in order to achieve a stable and accurate chemical potential difference between the macroscopic condensates.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Market-Based Instrument approaches to implementing priority revegetation in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin
Creators: name: Ward, John
name: Bryan, Brett
name: Gale, Glenn
name: Hobbs, Trevor
name: Ward, John
name: Bryan, Brett
name: Gale, Glenn
name: Hobbs, Trevor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Financial Economics
Political Economy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Resource condition targets have been specified for river salinity, biodiversity conservation, and wind erosion mitigation in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin (SA MDB). The revegetation of cleared, privately owned agricultural land with deep rooted perennials has been widely promoted as one approach to satisfy the resource condition targets. Current estimates indicate the scale of revegetation necessary to meet the targets is extensive and associated with high establishment and opportunity costs, largely borne by private landholders. In this paper we evaluate the potential of three classes of market based instruments (MBI) to motivate private revegetation of deep-rooted perennials. We conclude: that a singular reliance on an auction or tender based instrument without associated commercial opportunities to augment farm incomes, will yield a small contribution to natural resource management targets given current levels of funding. There is limited potential for quantity based cap and trade instruments due to limited differential in the marginal costs of revegetation, and limited numbers of potential traders. Revegetation needs to form the basis of an alternative farming system that is commercially viable. The elimination of institutional barriers to provide better access to existing and newly created markets provides the best opportunity to motivate revegetation-based farming systems. We develop quantitative, spatially explicit models of the economic viability and resource condition contributions of biomass production and carbon trading for the entire SA MDB. Our results demonstrate that both biomass and carbon production are potentially economically viable alternative farming systems and make substantial contributions to regional natural resource management targets. For large scale adoption of these alternative farming systems three actions need to occur. Firstly, a biomass industry needs to be developed in the region. Secondly, institutional barriers to trade in the European carbon market need to be removed (or an Australian Market expanded). Thirdly, widespread uptake of these alternative farming systems by private individuals is required. We recognise that the actual level of adoption is partially contingent on a number of complex, interacting factors. These include individual attributes and behaviours, cultural norms, traditions and conventions, social institutions, the ease and predictability of land use change, and the effectiveness of communicating the economic benefits of new farming systems relative to current agricultural production These are aspects of ongoing and future research.
Cacopsylla limbata
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Cacopsylla
Cacopsylla limbata

description: Cacopsylla limbata (Meyer-Dür, 1871)
 Psylla limbata Meyer-Dür, 1871: 392.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, La Brigue, French-Italian border between Mt Grai (2013 m) and Cime de Marte (2135 m), 21.VIII.1996, 1♂, I. Malenovský (MMBC).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: France, Italy, Switzerland; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: no additional data.
COMMENTS
 Description in Conci &Tamanini (1982). Biology in Conci & Tamanini (1989b) and Conci et al. (1993). Host-plants: Rhamnus alpina L. and R. pumila Turra (Rhamnaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 258, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
Productivity Growth in Thailand and Indonesia: How Agriculture Contributes to Economic Growth
Creators: name: Warr, Peter G.
name: Warr, Peter G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: total factor productivity growth
subject: Thailand
subject: Indonesia

description: Total factor productivity growth in the agricultural, industry and services sectors is studied in this paper for two countries: Thailand and Indonesia, over the period 1981 to 2002. A feature of the analysis is the decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity growth into two components: productivity growth in individual sectors; and the reallocation of resources from low productivity to high productivity sectors. The results show that in both countries virtually all factor productivity growth at the sectoral level derives from agriculture, but the reallocation of resources away from agriculture was a much larger source of aggregate productivity growth.
Roads and Poverty in Rural Laos
Creators: name: Warr, Peter G.
name: Warr, Peter G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Asia
subject: Laos
subject: poverty incidence
subject: rural roads

description: The relationship between poverty incidence and road development is analyzed in this paper, in the context of rural Laos. The results indicate that improving road access is an effective way of reducing rural poverty. Between 1997-98 and 2002-03, rural poverty incidence in Laos declined by almost on tenth of the rural population. Over this same period road improvement was significant, providing all-season access to many areas previously having only dry season access. The analysis provided in this paper suggests that about 13 per cent of the poverty reduction can be attributed to improvements in road access.
Optical Identification of the ASCA Lynx Deep Survey: An Association of QSOs and a Supercluster at z=1.3?
Creators: name: Ohta, Kouji
name: Akiyama, Masayuki
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Yamada, Toru
name: Nakanishi, Kouichiro
name: Dalton, Gavin B.
name: Ogasaka, Yasushi
name: Kii, Tsuneo
name: Hayashida, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of optical identification of the ASCA Lynx deep survey are presented. Six X-ray sources are detected in the 2-7 keV band using the SIS in a 20'x20' field of view with fluxes larger than ~4x10^{-14} erg s-1 cm-2 in the band. Follow-up optical spectroscopic observations were made, and five out of six sources are identified with AGNs/QSOs at redshifts of 0.5-1.3. We also identify two more additional X-ray sources detected in a soft X-ray band with AGNs/QSOs. It is found that three QSOs identified are located at z~1.3. Two rich clusters and several groups of galaxies are also placed at the same redshift in the surveyed field, and projected separations between the QSOs and the clusters are 3-8 Mpc at the redshift.
description: 15 pages with 3 figures. Accepted to ApJ
Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics, Fractal Phase-Space Distributions, the Cantor Set, and Puzzles Involving Information Dimensions for Two Compressible Baker Maps
Creators: name: Hoover, William Graham
name: Hoover, Carol Griswold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deterministic and time-reversible nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations typically generate "fractal" [ fractional-dimensional ] phase-space distributions. Because these distributions and their time-reversed twins have zero phase volume, stable attractors "forward in time" and unstable (unobservable) repellors when reversed, these simulations are consistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. These same reversibility and stability properties can also be found in compressible Baker Maps, or in their equivalent random walks, motivating their careful study. We illustrate these ideas with three examples: a Cantor-Set Map and two linear compressible Baker Maps, N2$(q,p)$ and N3$(q,p)$. The two Baker Maps' Information dimensions estimated from sequential mappings agree while those from pointwise iteration do not, with the estimates dependent upon details of the approach to the maps' nonequilibrium steady states.
description: 20 pages with 9 figures, invited and accepted by Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, Figures 7 and 8 replaced for additional labels
A k-nearest neighbors approach to the design of radar detectors
Creators: name: Coluccia, Angelo
name: Fascista, Alessio
name: Ricci, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A k-nearest neighbors (KNN) approach to the design of radar detectors is investigated. The idea is to start with either raw data or well-known radar receiver statistics as feature vector to be fed to the KNN decision rule. In the latter case, the probability of false alarm and probability of detection are characterized in closed-form; moreover, it is proved that the detector possesses the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) property and the relevant performance parameters are identified. Simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Optimization of enzyme production of glucosyltransferase URE 13-300 by cultivation of recombinant strain Escherichia coli BL21-URE13-300 and enzyme synthesis of insoluble glucan
Creators: name: Angelova, Stanimira
name: Mollova-Doshkova, Daniela
name: Vasileva, Tonka
name: Bivolarski, Veselin
name: Iliev, Ilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The enzyme URE 13-300 is an α-transglucosylase, part of GH70 family, synthesizing insoluble glucan with α-1,6 and α-1,3 linkage. This enzyme is an object of great interest because of the high prebiotic potential of its oligosaccharide products and branched glucan. The obtained enzyme was used in enzyme reactions for synthesis of insoluble glucan using sucrose as donor of glucose residues and maltose and low-molecular dextran as acceptors.
description: Acknowledgements: This work was supported by Department for Scientific Research – PU, Bulgaria, grant МУ19-БФ-019/2019, and by operational program "Science and education for smart growth" 2014–2020, grant number BG05M2OP001-1.002-0005-C01, Personalized Innovative Medicine Competence Centre (PERIMED).
Parking: Learning from Japan
Creators: name: Axhausen, Kay W.
name: Chikaraishi, Makoto
name: Seya, Hajime
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015
Subjects: Parking
Price
Parking reform
Shoup
Asia
Japan

description: Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 1095
Cacopsylla picta
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Cacopsylla
Cacopsylla picta

description: Cacopsylla picta (Foerster, 1848)
 Psylla picta Foerster, 1848: 81.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Saorge, M10- CAI1400-T5-M2, 1♂ (MNHN).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Moldova, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Bulgaria, Great Britain, Slovenia.
COMMENTS
 Description in Ossiannilsson (1992), as Cacopsylla (Thamnopsylla) costalis (Flor, 1861), and Burckhardt (2010). Biology in Ossiannilsson (1992). Host-plants: several species of Malus (Rosaceae).
 Cacopsylla propinqua (Schaefer, 1949) (Fig. 1A)
 Psylla propinqua Schaefer, 1949: 37.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Saint-Dalmasde-Tende, Lac de la Muta, 2365 m, 44°2’57.2742”N- 7°26’5.694”E, 18.VII.2009, C. Cocquempot (CBGP), 1 adult.
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, Slovakia (doubtful), Sweden, Switzerland; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: no additional data.
COMMENTS
 Description in Schaefer (1949) and Conci & Tamanini (1986a). Biology in Conci et al. (1993). Host-plants: several species of Salix (Salicaceae). New for France.
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
Modelling future urban and rural water requirements in a CGE framework
Creators: name: Wittwer, Glyn
name: Wittwer, Glyn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: structural change
subject: technological growth
subject: environment
subject: water allocation
subject: hydrology

description: Water is increasingly being treated as a tradable commodity. This paper describes our efforts to include water accounts in a multi-regional CGE model. In order to understand the conditions under which water trade might occur, we need to add a number of features to the model and scenarios. These might concern structural change in the economy, differences in yield functions between different crop types, dynamics and hydrology. Each of these features requires substantial theoretical and database additions. As a first step, we consider the first of these, structural change, by projecting the model forwards to the point in the future at which Australia has 25 million people. We use this application as a platform for discussing further possible changes to the model.
The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation: an intuitive approach
Creators: name: Houchmandzadeh, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) is one of the most elegant approach to Lagrangian systems such as geometrical optics and classical mechanics, establishing the duality between trajectories and waves and paving the way naturally for the quantum mechanics. Usually, this formalism is taught at the end of a course on analytical mechanics through its technical aspects and its relation to canonical transformations. I propose that the teaching of this subject be centered on this duality along the lines proposed here, and the canonical transformations be taught only after some familiarity with the HJE has been gained by the students.
An N=1 Lagrangian for the rank 1 E6 superconformal theory
Creators: name: Zafrir, Gabi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that a certain $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(4)$ gauge theory flows in the IR to the rank $1$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ strongly coupled SCFT with $E_6$ global symmetry and $25$ free chiral fields. This proposal is tested by comparing various RG invariant quantities, notably, anomalies and the superconformal index. We discuss the generalization to $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(2n+2)$ gauge theory models flowing in the IR to the $R_{(2,2n+1)}$ family of strongly coupled SCFTs plus free fields.
description: 20 pages
Estimating Price Rigidity in Vertically Differentiated Food Product Categories with Private Labels
Creators: name: Bocionek, Milena
name: Anders, Sven M.
name: Bocionek, Milena
name: Anders, Sven M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Price rigidity
subject: private labels
subject: quality levels
subject: wholesale price

description: Due to the rapid development of private labels and their segmentation into quality levels, the question arises how they have an effect on price ridigity. There is also much discussion about the impact of private label development on wholesale prices. Based on the roughly availability of appropriate data, questions in regard to the wholesale price are fairly unanswered. This paper fills this research gap by applying two approaches to analyze retail pricing behavior on the basis of weekly scanner data including the wholesale price of a chain distributing in Canada. The results of two case studies indicate higher price rigidities for private labels, especially for premium private labels in the case of salad dressings. Price variability is rather explained by price promotions than changes in the wholesale price. Long-term contracts and stable wholesale prices might be the result of increasing power by retailers due to rising private labels market shares.
Efficiency Enhancement of Genetic Algorithms via Building-Block-Wise Fitness Estimation
Creators: name: Sastry, Kumara
name: Pelikan, Martin
name: Goldberg, David E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; G.3; I.2.6; I.2.8

description: This paper studies fitness inheritance as an efficiency enhancement technique for a class of competent genetic algorithms called estimation distribution algorithms. Probabilistic models of important sub-solutions are developed to estimate the fitness of a proportion of individuals in the population, thereby avoiding computationally expensive function evaluations. The effect of fitness inheritance on the convergence time and population sizing are modeled and the speed-up obtained through inheritance is predicted. The results show that a fitness-inheritance mechanism which utilizes information on building-block fitnesses provides significant efficiency enhancement. For additively separable problems, fitness inheritance reduces the number of function evaluations to about half and yields a speed-up of about 1.75--2.25.
description: IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2004)