cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multidimensional solitons in periodic potentials
Creators: name: Baizakov, B. B.
name: Malomed, B. A.
name: Salerno, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of stable solitons in two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) media governed by the self-focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a periodic potential is demonstrated by means of the variational approximation (VA) and in direct simulations. The potential stabilizes the solitons against collapse. Direct physical realizations are a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an optical lattice, and a light beam in a bulk Kerr medium of a photonic-crystal type. In the 2D case, the creation of the soliton in a weak lattice potential is possible if the norm of the field (number of atoms in BEC, or optical power in the Kerr medium) exceeds a threshold value (which is smaller than the critical norm leading to collapse). Both "single-cell" and "multi-cell" solitons are found, which occupy, respectively, one or several cells of the periodic potential, depending on the soliton's norm. Solitons of the former type and their stability are well predicted by VA. Stable 2D vortex solitons are found too.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, Europhys. Lett., in press
Multigap diffraction cross sections. Problems in eikonal methods for the pomeron unitarization
Creators: name: Martynov, E.
name: Tersimonov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large rapidity gap diffraction processes are considered in multi-channel eikonal models. It is shown that shadow corrections to over-fast rising contribution of the input supercritical pomeron (with $α(0)>1$), originating from the pomeron rescatterings or, equivalently, accounting survival probability factor, do not solve the Finkelstein-Kajantie problem. Therefore, in our opinion, another methods of unitarization of supercritical pomeron should be developed.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. v2: Minor changes. Journal version. Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 101, 114003 (2020)
Sphaerodromia kendalli Balicasag
Creators: name: Mclay, Colin L.
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dromiidae
Sphaerodromia
Sphaerodromia kendalli

description: Sphaerodromia kendalli (Alcock & Anderson, 1894)
 Dromidia kendalli Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 175.
 Sphaerodromia kendalli. — Alcock 1900: 153.— Sakai 1976: 28, fig 16. — McLay 1993: 127, figs. 2a­i, 15a.— Ng et al. 2000: 163, fig. 3b.— Ng et al. 2001: 6.
 Material. 1 ovigerous female, 23.7 x 23.5 mm, ca. 200–300 m, 28 Nov 2001, ZRC 2001.519; 1 female, 44.4 x 44.2 mm, ca. 200–300 m, 25–30 Jul 2003, ZRC 2003.674; 2 males, 21.5 x 20.9 mm, 25.5 x 25.0 mm, 200–300 m, Mar 2004, ZRC. All locations in Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines; purchased from local shell fishermen, obtained by tangle nets.
 Remarks. Sphaerodromia kendalli specimens are covered with short yellow­brown tomentum and the cheliped fingers are light pink when fresh. McLay (1993) had recorded a female 40.6 by 39.7 mm from the Visayas, north of Bohol Island in the Philippines. The present female measuring 44.4 by 44.2 mm (ZRC 2001.519) is the largest known specimen of S. kendalli. The largest known male is a 20.1 by 20.8 mm specimen reported from the Moluccas by McLay (1993). The ovigerous female reported above (ZRC 2001.519) carried approximately 2300 eggs which appear to be newly laid, each measuring about 0.4 mm in diameter. Balss (1922) reported that the egg size was 0.5 mm in a female from Japan. These data suggest that S. kendalli has indirect development with free­living zoeal larvae. The actual larval development is unknown for any species of Sphaerodromia.
 Distribution. Sphaerodromia kendalli was reported from the Philippines and southeast Moluccas by McLay (1993). Previous depth records for this species are in a relatively narrow range of 200 to 214 m, and the present specimens come from a similar depth. Other sphaerodromiine crabs are typically found in deeper water down to approximately 400 to 500m (see McLay 1993).
description: Published as part of Mclay, Colin L. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213
The effectiveness of partnership models in clinical nursing education – A scoping review
Creators: name: Nguyen, Ngoc Bich Van
name: Lawrence, Karen
name: McGillion, Anthony
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing

description: Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of partnership models in clinical nursing education with regards to cost effectiveness; student employability, work-readiness, confidence, and competence; and stakeholders' satisfaction. Design: Scoping review. Data sources: Research studies published in English were searched electronically through EbscoHost (CINAHL and ERIC), Scopus, Medline (via Ovid), ProQuest Central, and Web of Science databases. Criteria were developed to guide the selection of original studies published in English before 2019 for review. Review methods: Arksey and Malley's framework (2005) and relevant enhancements guided the conduct of the review. An informal appraisal of selected studies was applied. Results: Two theses and 31 articles with a variation in methodologies, methods, sample sizes, research populations and quality of evidence were included for review. Four themes were identified: (i) Description of partnership models in clinical education, (ii) length of model implementation prior to evaluation, (iii) positive qualitative findings, and (iv) quantitative findings limited by data collection periods and methods. Conclusions: Shared among the reviewed studies is stakeholder view of the positive impacts of partnership models on the clinical learning environment, and the increased level of support and individualised instruction for students. However, the use of not fully validated survey instruments and the lack of description about the implementation period before evaluation in many reviewed studies limit the interpretation of quantifiable effect of the partnership models. This review identifies a lack of attention on student employability, work-readiness, cost evaluation, patient perspective, and partnership models in low-income countries. Future research to address these knowledge gaps using high quality data collection methods and rigorous research design is warranted.
Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition at non-integer filling
Creators: name: Byczuk, Krzysztof
name: Hofstetter, Walter
name: Vollhardt, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlated electrons in a binary alloy $A_{x}B_{1-x}$ are investigated within the Hubbard model and dynamical mean--field theory (DMFT). The random energies $ε_{i}$ have a bimodal probability distribution and an energy separation $Δ$. We solve the DMFT equations by the numerical renormalization group method at zero temperature, and calculate the spectral density as a function of disorder strength $Δ$ and interaction $U$ at different fillings. For filling factors $ν=x$ or $1+x$ the lower or upper alloy subband is half filled and the system becomes a Mott insulator at strong interactions, with a correlation gap at the Fermi level. At the metal--insulator transition hysteresis is observed. We also analyze the effective theory in the $Δ\to \infty $ limit and find good agreement between analytical and numerical results for the critical interaction $U_{c}$ at which the metal--insulator transition occurs.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Economic development and the evolution of internal migration. Moving in steps, returnees, and gender differences
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Andrea
name: Robinson, Sherman
name: Cattaneo, Andrea
name: Robinson, Sherman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper sheds new light on internal migration processes by estimating migration flows for 31 countries, focusing on step migration and on return migration back to rural areas from urban areas. The approach is to estimate the shares of the population (by gender) that move or stay in rural and urban areas over three periods (childhood and two forward periods). Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the estimation was done with an information-theoretic procedure using maximum-entropy econometrics to estimate migration frequencies by population groups. Sizeable urban to rural migration flows are found, with rural returnees often contributing substantially to urban-to-rural flows. This phenomenon is more pronounced in countries in relatively early phases of development, and among male migrants. The analysis also confirms anecdotal evidence that migrants move in several steps and that internal migration patterns vary considerably according to gender; however, in countries that are further along the path of structural transformation, and particularly urbanization, the magnitude of migration flows appears to be similar across genders.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/ca3359en/CA3359EN.pdf
Additional file 6 of Vascular access for renal replacement therapy among 459 critically ill patients: a pragmatic analysis of the randomized AKIKI trial
Creators: name: Benichou, Nicolas
name: Saïd Lebbah
name: Hajage, David
name: Martin-Lefèvre, Laurent
name: Pons, Bertrand
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Boyer, Alexandre
name: Chevrel, Guillaume
name: Lerolle, Nicolas
name: Carpentier, Dorothée
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Lautrette, Alexandre
name: Bretagnol, Anne
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Nseir, Saad
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Thirion, Marina
name: Forel, Jean-Marie
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Hodane Yonis
name: Markowicz, Philippe
name: Thiery, Guillaume
name: Schortgen, Frederique
name: Tubach, Florence
name: Jean-Damien Ricard
name: Dreyfuss, Didier
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S2. Propensity score distribution between femoral and jugular groups for first catheter insertion.
Επιτύμβια ανάγλυφα με απεικονίσεις ιππέων στον ελλαδικό χώρο από τον 5ο αι. π.Χ. έως και τις πρώτες δεκαετίες του 2ο αι. μ.Χ.
Creators: name: Κοκκινίδου, Αθανασία Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Επιτύμβια ανάγλυφα
Ιππείς
Ελλάδα
Grave-reliefs
Horsemen
Greece

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελούν τα επιτύμβια ανάγλυφα που φέρουν παραστάσεις ιππέων από τον ελλαδικό χώρο και χρονολογούνται από την κλασική εποχή έως και τις αρχές του δευτέρου αιώνα μετά Χριστόν. Πρόκειται για ένα σχετικά ομοιογενές υλικό, μολονότι το σύνολο των εκατό σαράντα εννέα αναγλύφων που συλλέχθηκε προέρχεται από διαφορετικά μέρη του σύγχρονου ελλαδικού χώρου κι έχει μεγάλο χρονολογικό εύρος. Αρχικός σκοπός της εργασίας ήταν η συλλογή των επιτύμβιων αναγλύφων που φέρουν παράσταση ιππέα. Η μελέτη των μνημείων αυτών περιλαμβάνει την εξέταση της διασποράς τους μέσα στον ελλαδικό χώρο στις χρονικές περιόδους που αναφέραμε, της τυπολογίας των μνημείων που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν και φέρουν την παράσταση και κυρίως της εικονογραφικής απόδοσης της παράστασης.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the grave-reliefs that bare the depiction of horsemen from Greece and date from the classical era to the beginning of the second post-Christian century. It is a relatively homogeneous material, although the total of one hundred and forty-nine reliefs that have been collected comes from different regions of modern-day Greece and have a vast chronological range. Firstly we tried to collect the grave-reliefs of horsemen. The study of these monuments includes the examination of their dispersion within the Greek space in the time periods mentioned, the typology of the monuments that were used to carry the representation and mainly the iconography of the representation.
Η αναστολή της αριστοτελικής θεωρίας περί κινήσεως από τον Ιωάννη Φιλόπονο
Creators: name: Βελιτσιάνος, Ιωάννης Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Κίνηση
Κενό
Ωθητική δύναμη
Move
Vacuum
Pushing force

description: Η παρούσα μελέτη επιχειρεί, αφ' ενός να καταστήσει σαφές την έννοια της κινήσεως στον Αριστοτέλη μέσα από τα κείμενα της αρχαίας ελληνικής γραμματείας και αφ' ετέρου να διερευνήσει τους λόγους, για τους οποίους ο Φιλόπονος αμφισβητεί την αριστοτελική θεωρία περί δυναμικής - όπως συμπεραίνει κανείς από τα υπομνήματά του -υποκαθιστώντας τη με τη δική του θεωρία περί ωθητικής δύναμης (impetus). Αυτό είχε ως συνέπεια, ο Ιωάννης Φιλόπονος να αποδεσμευτεί από την επιρροή της αριστοτελικής παράδοσης και να προλειάνει μέρος του δρόμου που οδήγησε στις νέες προσεγγίσεις των φυσικών επιστημών. Ενώ με την αριστοτελική αρχή, καθετί που κινείται, κινείται από κάτι άλλο, τα σώματα που κινούνται κατά φύση, κινούνται από εξωτερικά αίτια. Αντιθέτως, κατά τον Φιλόπονο, η φυσική κίνηση έχει μόνο εσωτερικά αίτια. Κατά τον ίδιο, η βαρύτητα, η ελαφρότητα, ή το ποιητικό αίτιο της φυσικής κίνησης αποτελεί ακριβές αντίγραφο της εσωτερικής δύναμης. Συνεπώς, η κίνηση πρέπει να πηγάζει αποκλειστικά από δυνάμεις που βρίσκονται μέσα στο κινούμενο σώμα. Βασικός στόχος του Φιλόπονου, ήταν η προέκταση της εφαρμογής της θεωρίας για την κίνηση από την οντολογική περιοχή στην γνωσιολογική. Ο Φιλόπονος με βάση τη γνωσιοθεωρητική αντίληψη επιχειρεί να μετασχηματίσει την αριστοτελική θεώρηση για την κίνηση, δηλαδή σχετικά με τους προσδιορισμούς της πυκνότητας του μέσου και της βαρύτητας του σώματος.
description: The present study attempts, on the one hand, to make clear the meaning of movement to Aristotle through the texts of the ancient Greek literature and, on the other hand, to investigate the reasons why Philoponus challenges the Aristotelian theory of dynamics - as inferred from his memoirs - substituting it with his own theory of impetus. As a result, Ioannis Filoponos was freed from the influence of the Aristotelian tradition and paved the way for the new approaches of the natural sciences. While with the Aristotelian principle, everything that moves, moves by something else, the bodies that move by nature, move by external causes. On the contrary, according to Philoponus, physical movement has only internal causes. According to him, gravity, lightness, or the poetic cause of physical movement is an exact copy of inner strength. Consequently, the motion must come exclusively from forces within the moving body. Philoponos' main goal was to extend the application of the theory of motion from the ontological area to the epistemological one. On the basis of the epistemological conception, Philoponus attempts to transform the Aristotelian view of motion, that is, of the determinations of the density of the medium and the gravity of the body.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Φιλοσοφίας, Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών), Φιλοσοφικών και Κοινωνικών Σπουδών (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης)
Over 78 000 RR Lyrae Stars in the Galactic Bulge and Disk from the OGLE Survey
Creators: name: Soszyński, I.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Wrona, M.
name: Szymański, M. K.
name: Pietrukowicz, P.
name: Skowron, J.
name: Skowron, D.
name: Poleski, R.
name: Kozłowski, S.
name: Mróz, P.
name: Ulaczyk, K.
name: Rybicki, K.
name: Iwanek, P.
name: Gromadzki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an upgrade of the OGLE Collection of RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic bulge and disk. The size of our sample has been doubled and reached 78 350 RR Lyr variables, of which 56 508 are fundamental-mode pulsators (RRab stars), 21 321 pulsate solely in the first-overtone (RRc stars), 458 are classical double-mode pulsators (RRd stars), and 63 are anomalous RRd variables (including five triple-mode pulsators). For all the newly identified RR Lyr stars, we publish time-series photometry obtained during the OGLE Galaxy Variability Survey. We present the spatial distribution of RR Lyr stars on the sky, provide a list of globular clusters hosting RR Lyr variables, and discuss the Petersen diagram for multimode pulsators. We find new RRd stars belonging to a compact group in the Petersen diagram (with period ratios P_1O/P_F = 0.74 and fundamental-mode periods P_F = 0.44 d) and we show that their spatial distribution is roughly spherically symmetrical around the Milky Way center.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Branes, Rings and Matrix Models in Minimal (Super)string Theory
Creators: name: Seiberg, Nathan
name: Shih, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study both bosonic and supersymmetric (p,q) minimal models coupled to Liouville theory using the ground ring and the various branes of the theory. From the FZZT brane partition function, there emerges a unified, geometric description of all these theories in terms of an auxiliary Riemann surface M_{p,q} and the corresponding matrix model. In terms of this geometric description, both the FZZT and ZZ branes correspond to line integrals of a certain one-form on M_{p,q}. Moreover, we argue that there are a finite number of distinct (m,n) ZZ branes, and we show that these ZZ branes are located at the singularities of M_{p,q}. Finally, we discuss the possibility that the bosonic and supersymmetric theories with (p,q) odd and relatively prime are identical, as is suggested by the unified treatment of these models.
description: 72 pages, 3 figures, improved treatment of FZZT and ZZ branes, minor changes
Fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) of the Werribee grasslands: A case study of a species in decline
Creators: name: Scicluna, Emily
name: Gill, BP
name: Robert, Kylie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Grasslands are among the most endangered ecosystems, with <1% of Victorian grasslands remaining. Extinctions of many grassland fauna species have occurred since European settlement due to loss of suitable habitat, and dramatic range reductions continue for those that still exist. Fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) are the only small ground-dwelling marsupial known to persist in Victorian grassland habitats. The last long-term targeted surveys for this species were conducted in Victoria in the 1970s. Incidental findings from more recent short-term targeted and non-targeted surveys in the same area suggest a decline. We performed direct targeted surveys for fat-tailed dunnarts at the 1970s survey site over a 12-month period in 2019 and found no evidence of fat-tailed dunnart presence. The species is classified as Near Threatened in the state and Least Concern internationally. Our work highlights the importance of targeted surveys to assess the stability of this species across Victoria, and the need for collection of long-term data to better identify population declines.
Climate-change vulnerability in rural Zambia: the impact of an El Nino-induced shock on income and productivity
Creators: name: Alfani, Federica
name: Arslan, Aslihan
name: McCarthy, Nancy
name: Cavatassi, Romina
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Alfani, Federica
name: Arslan, Aslihan
name: McCarthy, Nancy
name: Cavatassi, Romina
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper examines the impacts of the El Nino during the 2015/2016 season on maize productivity and income in rural Zambia. The analysis aims at identifying whether and how sustainable land management (SLM) practices and livelihood diversification strategies have contributed to moderate the impacts of such a weather shock. The analysis was conducted using a specifically designed survey called the El Nino Impact Assessment Survey (ENIAS), which is combined with the 2015 wave of the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Surveys (RALS), as well as high resolution rainfall data from the Africa Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2). This unique, integrated data set provides an opportunity to understand the impacts of shocks like El Nino that are expected to get more frequent and severe in Zambia, as well as understand the agricultural practices and livelihood strategies that can buffer household production and welfare from the impacts of such shocks to drive policy recommendations. Results show that households affected by the drought experienced a decrease in maize yield by around 20 percent, as well as a reduction in income up to 37 percent, all else equal. Practices that moderated the impact of the drought included livestock diversification, income diversification, and the adoption of agro-forestry. Interestingly, the use of minimum soil disturbance was not effective in moderating the yield and income effects of the drought. Policies to support livestock sector development, agroforestry adoption, and off -farm diversification should be prioritized as effective drought resiliency strategies in Zambia.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/ca3255en/CA3255EN.pdf
Paving the way to build the resilience of men and women. How to conduct a gender analysis of resilience
Creators: name: Koolwal, Gayatri
name: D’Errico, Marco
name: Sisto, Ilaria
name: Koolwal, Gayatri
name: D’Errico, Marco
name: Sisto, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Despite significant recent improvements in measuring resilience, there are still relevant gaps in the analysis. One of the relatively unexplored aspects of resilience is whether a gender specific analysis of resilience capacity can become relevant for policy use. This paper contributes to the literature on resilience by analysing a data set with one of the most adopted resilience indicators and highlighting the emerging gaps.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/ca3358en/CA3358EN.pdf
Anti-de Sitter geometry and Teichmüller theory
Creators: name: Bonsante, Francesco
name: Seppi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of these notes is to provide an introduction to Anti-de Sitter geometry, with special emphasis on dimension three and on the relations with Teichmüller theory, whose study has been initiated by the seminal paper of Geoffrey Mess in 1990. In the first part we give a broad introduction to Anti-de Sitter geometry in any dimension. The main results of Mess, including the classification of maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy compact manifolds and the construction of the Gauss map, are treated in the second part. Finally, the third part contains related results which have been developed after the work of Mess, with the aim of giving an overview on the state-of-the-art.
description: 79 pages, 14 figures. The final version of this paper will appear in the book: In the tradition of Thurston (ed. V. Alberge, K. Ohshika and A. Papadopoulos), Springer Verlag, 2020
Lauridromia dehaani Balicasag
Creators: name: Mclay, Colin L.
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dromiidae
Lauridromia
Lauridromia dehaani

description: Lauridromia dehaani (Rathbun, 1923)
 Lauridromia dehaani.— McLay 1993: 145.— Ng et al. 2000: 160, fig. 2c.— Ng et al. 2001: 6.
 Material. 2 males, 50.8 x 46.9 mm, 50.8 x 47.8 mm, Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines, in tangle nets, 200–300 m, coll. local shell fishermen, Jul 2003, ZRC.
 Remarks. Lauridromia dehaani and L. intermedia are two large species and the following characters can be usefully employed to separate them: in L. dehaani the carapace width is distinctly greater than the length (approximately as wide as long in L. intermedia), there are 16 to 20 tiny spines along the inner margins of the dactyli of the first two pairs of walking legs (versus 5–8 spines), and spines are absent on the outer propodal margins of the last two pairs of legs and on the dactylus of the last leg (versus spines present on outer propodal margins of last two pairs of legs and a spine present on outer margin on dactylus of last leg).
 Distribution. Lauridromia dehaani is known from a wide area of the Indo­Pacific and in the Asian area it is known from China, Japan and Taiwan. The specimens from Balicasag Island are a new record for the Philippines.
description: Published as part of Mclay, Colin L. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213
‘The Drug Survey App’: a protocol for developing and validating an interactive population survey tool for drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Creators: name: Conigrave, James
name: Wilson, Scott
name: Conigrave, KM
name: Chikritzhs, T
name: Hayman, Noel
name: Dawson, A
name: Ali, R
name: Perry, Christopher
name: Fitts, MS
name: Degenhardt, L
name: Doyle, M
name: Egert, S
name: Slade, T
name: Ezard, N
name: Dzidowska, Monika
name: Lee, Kylie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Background: Disadvantage and transgenerational trauma contribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians being more likely to experience adverse health consequences from alcohol and other drug use than non-Indigenous peoples. Addressing these health inequities requires local monitoring of alcohol and other drug use. While culturally appropriate methods for measuring drinking patterns among Indigenous Australians have been established, no similar methods are available for measuring other drug use patterns (amount and frequency of consumption). This paper describes a protocol for creating and validating a tablet-based survey for alcohol and other drugs (“The Drug Survey App”). Methods: The Drug Survey App will be co-designed with stakeholders including Indigenous Australian health professionals, addiction specialists, community leaders, and researchers. The App will allow participants to describe their drug use flexibly with an interactive, visual interface. The validity of estimated consumption patterns, and risk assessments will be tested against those made in clinical interviews conducted by Indigenous Australian health professionals. We will then trial the App as a population survey tool by using the App to determine the prevalence of substance use in two Indigenous communities. Discussion: The App could empower Indigenous Australian communities to conduct independent research that informs local prevention and treatment efforts.
Supplementary Information from On the methods for reactivation and replay analysis
Creators: name: Tingley, David
name: Peyrache, Adrien
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: A major task in the history of neurophysiology has been to relate patterns of neural activity to ongoing external stimuli. More recently, this approach has branched out to relating current neural activity patterns to external stimuli or experiences that occurred in the past or future. Here, we aim to review the large body of methodological approaches used towards this goal, and to assess the assumptions each makes with reference to the statistics of neural data that are commonly observed. These methods primarily fall into two categories, those that quantify zero-lag relationships without examining temporal evolution, termed reactivation, and those that quantify the temporal structure of changing activity patterns, termed replay. However, no two studies use the exact same approach, which prevents an unbiased comparison between findings. These observations should instead be validated by multiple and, if possible, previously established tests. This will help the community to speak a common language and will eventually provide tools to study, more generally, the organization of neuronal patterns in the brain.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future’.
Cohort profile: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Adults with Autism
Creators: name: Arnold, Samuel RC
name: Foley, Kitty-Rose
name: Huang, Ye In
name: Richdale, Amanda
name: Uljarevic, Mirko
name: Lawson, Lauren
name: Cai, Ru
name: Falkmer, Torbjorn
name: Falkmer, Marita
name: Lennox, Nick
name: Urbanowicz, Anna
name: Trollor, Julian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose There is a significant knowledge gap regarding the lives of adults on the autism spectrum. Some literature suggests significant health and mental health inequalities for autistic adults, yet there is a lack of comprehensive longitudinal studies exploring risk factors. Further, most research does not include the perspective of autistic adults in its conduct or design. Here, we describe the baseline characteristics and inclusive research approach of a nationwide longitudinal study. Participants The Autism Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism's Australian Longitudinal Study of Adults with Autism (ALSAA) is a questionnaire-based longitudinal study of autistic adults (25+ years old) with follow-up at 2-year intervals. Autistic advisors were involved in each stage of research apart from data analysis. Three questionnaires were developed: self-report, informant report (ie, proxy report) and carers (ie, carer experiences and characteristics). Findings to date An inclusive research protocol was developed and agreed with autistic advisors. Baseline data were collected from 295 autistic adults (M=41.8 years, SD=12.0) including 42 informant responses, 146 comparison participants and 102 carers. The majority of autistic participants (90%) had been diagnosed in adulthood (M=35.3 years, SD=15.1). When compared with controls, autistic adults scored higher on self-report measures of current depression and anxiety. Participant comments informed ongoing data gathering. Participants commented on questionnaire length, difficulty with literal interpretation of forced response items and expressed gratitude for research in this area. Future plans A large comprehensive dataset relating to autistic adults and their carers has been gathered, creating a good platform for longitudinal follow-up repeat surveys and collaborative research. Several outputs are in development, with focus on health service barriers and usage, caregivers, impact of diagnosis in adulthood, further scale validations, longitudinal analyses of loneliness, suicidal ideation, mental illness risk factors and other areas. Baseline data confirm poorer mental health of autistic adults. The ALSAA demonstrates a working approach to inclusive research.
How do extreme weather events affect livestock herders' welfare? Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Conti, Valentina
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Ignaciuk, Ada
name: Conti, Valentina
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Ignaciuk, Ada
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Farm Management
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper examines the impact of the harsh 2012 winter on livestock herding households in Kyrgyzstan and identifies policy options to increase household resilience to such shocks. While existing studies mostly focus on rainfall shocks in tropical or dry climate areas, this analysis examines the exceptionally harsh winter that hit Kyrgyzstan in 2012, which resulted in the death of 25 000 animals. Using a unique household panel survey, merged with observed temperature data, the analysis finds that, on average, the negative effects of the winter shock on household welfare are significant and persistent over time, leading to a 5 percent and a 8 percent decrease in households' food consumption expenditure in the short- (2011'2013) and medium-run (2011'2016), respectively. When disaggregating by income quantiles, the evidence shows that negative impact is concentrated in the upper quantiles of the welfare distribution. Several policy options are identified as effective in mitigating the negative welfare impacts of the weather shock. First, supporting households to restock their herds following weather shocks is found to significantly improve medium-term welfare by 10 percent relative to those that did not restock. Restocking efforts can be addressed in a holistic manner that takes into account immediate household needs, while simultaneously building long-term resilience in the livestock sector. This may include mitigating animal losses through the development of local forage markets that increase the availability of winter forage, combined with efforts to improve the genetic pool of livestock species through breeding programmes that select for resiliency traits. Second, results show that households living in regions with higher access to public veterinary services had significantly better welfare outcomes following the winter shock. Improvements of veterinary services and strengthening community-based organizations focusing on livestock and pasture development may help herding households to cope with weather shocks.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/CA2673EN/ca2673en.pdf
Ανάλυση δεδομένων από την δραστηριότητα μαθητών σχετικά με την εξαγωγή χαρακτηριστικών συμπεριφοράς δραστηριότητας και διατροφικών συνηθειών
Creators: name: Χατζής, Ευάγγελος Παντελή
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Μηχανική Μάθηση
Ανάλυση Εικόνων
Αναγνώριση Φαγητού
Machine Learning
Image Analysis
Food recognition

description: Η παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται το πρόβλημα της αναγνώρισης στοιχείων φαγητού σε εικόνες οι οποίες έχουν τραβηχτεί από παιδιά στα πλαίσια του προγράμματος «BigO: Big data against childhood Obesity». Τα Συνελικτικά Νευρωνικά Δίκτυα (Convolutional Neural Networks) αποτελούν το κύριο εργαλείο στα περισσότερα πλέον προβλήματα Τεχνητής Όρασης (Computer Vision). Η ακρίβεια τους είναι μεγαλύτερη σε μεγάλη ποικιλία προβλημάτων συγκριτικά με άλλες μεθόδους Επεξεργασίας Εικόνας (Image Processing) και για αυτό το λόγο επιλέχθηκε η χρήση τους. Για να επιτευχθεί αυτό χρησιμοποιήθηκε ένα Συνελικτικό Νευρωνικό δίκτυο (CNN). Η διαδικασία του εντοπισμού περιλαμβάνει τη δημιουργία χαρτών ενεργοποίησης κλάσεων από ένα τροποποιημένο δίκτυο VGG16, εκπαιδευμένο σε βάσεις εικόνων δημιουργώντας δυο ταξινομητές. Πιο συγκεκριμένα έναν για αναγνώριση ύπαρξης φαγητού σε εικόνα με βάσεις δεδομένων για την εκπαίδευση τις Food-101 και Selective Search και ο δεύτερος για την αναγνώριση του είδους φαγητού στην εικόνα με βάση εκπαίδευση την food-101. Για την αξιολόγηση των αποτελεσμάτων και στις 2 περιπτώσεις χρησιμοποιήθηκε μία βάση εικόνων φαγητών από το πρόγραμμα «BigO: Big data against childhood Obesity» η οποία περιέχει μεγάλη ποικιλία σε είδη φαγητού. Τέλος, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν τεχνικές βελτίωσης της μάθησης για την αύξηση των μετρικών αξιολόγησης του μοντέλου, όπως η μεταφορά μάθησης και η cross-validation.
description: This thesis project deals with the problem of recognizing food items in images taken by children as part of the "BigO: Big data against childhood Obesity" program. Convolutional Neural Networks are the main tool in most Computer Vision problems. Their accuracy is higher in a wide variety of problems compared to other Image Processing methods and for this reason their use was chosen. To achieve this, a Convolutional Neural Networks was used. The tracking process involves creating class activation maps from a modified VGG16 network, trained in the Food-101 and Selective Search image database by creating two classifiers, one to identify the presence of food in the image and one to identify the type of food in the image. To evaluate the results obtained from the application of the proposed methods, a database of food images from the program "BigO: Big data against childhood Obesity" was used, which contains a wide variety of food items. Finally, learning improvement techniques were used to increase the model metrics of evaluation, such as transfer learning and cross-validation.
MHV Vertices and Fermionic Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory with Quarks and Gluinos
Creators: name: Wu, Jun-Bao
name: Zhu, Chuan-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cachazo-Svrcek-Witten approach to perturbative gauge theory is extended to gauge theories with quarks and gluinos. All googly amplitudes with quark-antiquark pairs and gluinos are computed and shown to agree with the previously known results. The computations of the non-MHV or non-googly amplitudes are also briefly discussed, in particular the purely fermionic amplitude with 3 quark-antiquark pairs.
description: 41 pages, 21 figures; v2, minor changes, references added;v3, 2 important additions, references added
Climate resilience pathways of rural households: evidence from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Maggio, Giuseppe
name: Palma, Alessandro
name: Asfaw, Solomon
name: Maggio, Giuseppe
name: Palma, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty

description: Climate variability and extreme events continue to impose significant challenges to households, particularly to those that are less resilient. By exploring the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011, using panel data, this paper shows important socio-economic and policy determinants of households' resilience capacity. Three policy indications emerge from the analysis. First, government support programmes, such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), appear to sustain households' resilience by helping them to reach the level of pre-shock total consumption, but have no impact on the food-consumption resilience. Secondly, the 'selling out assets strategy' affects positively households' resilience, but only in terms of food consumption ' not total consumption. Finally, the presence of informal institutions, such as social networks providing financial support, sharply increases households' resilience by helping them to reach preshock levels of both food consumption and total consumption.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/CA2653EN/ca2653en.pdf
Consumer acceptance and preference for brown rice—A mixed‐method qualitative study from Nepal
Creators: name: Gyawali, Pratiksha
name: Tamrakar, Dipesh
name: Shrestha, Abha
name: Shrestha, Himal
name: Karmacharya, Sanju
name: Bhattarai, Sanju
name: Bhandari, Niroj
name: Malik, Vasanti
name: Mattei, Josiemer
name: Spiegelman, Donna
name: Shrestha, Archana
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Background: Brown rice consumption reduces the risk of diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing in Nepal; however, dietary preference remains for white rice. This study aimed to understand the perception, enablers, barriers, and facilitators of acceptance brown rice at a worksite cafeteria.
Methods: We conducted a mixed-method qualitative research among 42 employees of a hospital in central Nepal. The participants tasted and rated the qualities of five different combinations of brown and white rice on a hedonic scale. We conducted eight focus group discussions (FGDs)—four before and four after tasting rice combinations. FGDs were recorded, transcribed, and coded verbatim and analyzed manually using inductive–deductive thematic method.
Results: Before tasting, the participants perceived brown rice as poor in quality. After tasting, the participants found that brown rice had better quality and were willing to switch gradually starting with a 25B ratio. Eighty-three percent of participants liked a combination of 25B. Major barriers were poor perception of its quality, tradition, unavailability, lack of awareness of health benefits, and high price. Major facilitators were availability, self and family awareness about the health benefits, knowledge, the brown rice cooking process, serving with side dishes, prior tasting, and gradual substitution of brown rice.
Conclusion: We found that brown rice should be promoted stepwise, first as a mixture with white rice and gradually increasing the proportion of brown rice. Brown rice acceptance can be increased by improved knowledge of its nutrition and health benefits, increasing availability, and affordability.
eLTER PPP Deliverable D1.3 - Roadmap for European and global partnerships
Creators: name: Mirtl, Michael
name: Kaukolehto, Marjut
name: Bäck, Jaana
name: Futter, Martyn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: eLTER PPP

description: This deliverable is the first version of the eLTER vision and mission. Four main strategic goals were identified to accomplish the vision and mission of eLTER. These strategic goals are:1. Facilitate innovative research for addressing grand societal challenges2. Design and operate a distributed and highly functional network of eLTER in-situ facilities across Europe3. Create a unique and widely accessible service portfolio4. Promote collaboration, integration, and a conducive working culture

To achieve these strategic goals, specifically goal 4, the eLTER RI will build on sustainable strategic partnerships. The purpose of these partnerships are synergies and to promote and enable a wider range of strategic, scientific, technological and operational collaborations. Co-location of in-situ facilities with existing and emerging environmental monitoring networks and research infrastructures and initiatives shall be achieved where reasonable
Equilibrium Tidal Response of Jupiter: Detectability by Juno
Creators: name: Wahl, Sean M
name: Parisi, Marzia
name: Folkner, William M
name: Hubbard, William B
name: Militzer, Burkhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An observation of Jupiter's tidal response is anticipated for the on-going Juno spacecraft mission. We combine self-consistent, numerical models of Jupiter's equilibrium tidal response with observed Doppler shifts from the Juno gravity science experiment to test the sensitivity of the spacecraft to tides raised by the Galilean satellites and the Sun. The concentric Maclaurin spheroid (CMS) method finds the equilibrium shape and gravity field of a rotating, liquid planet with the tide raised by a satellite, expanded in Love numbers ($k_{nm}$). We present improvements to CMS theory that eliminate an unphysical center of mass offset and study in detail the convergence behavior of the CMS approach. We demonstrate that the dependence of $k_{nm}$ with orbital distance is important when considering the combined tidal response for Jupiter. Conversely, the details of the interior structure have a negligible influence on $k_{nm}$, for models that match the zonal harmonics $J_2$, $J_4$ and $J_6$, already measured to high precision by Juno. As the mission continues, improved coverage of Jupiter's gravity field at different phases of Io's orbit is expected to yield an observed value for the degree-2 Love number ($k_{22}$) and potentially select higher--degree $k_{nm}$. We present a test of the sensitivity of the Juno Doppler signal to the calculated $k_{nm}$, which suggests the detectability of $k_{33}$, $k_{42}$ and $k_{31}$, in addition to $k_{22}$. A mismatch of a robust Juno observation with the remarkably small range in calculated Io equilibrium $k_{22}=0.58976\pm0.0001$, would indicate a heretofore uncharacterized dynamic contribution to the tides.
description: 26 Pages, 11 figures, 7 Tables, Accepted to ApJ
Application of a bipolar nanopore as a sensor: rectification as an additional device function
Creators: name: Mádai, Eszter
name: Valiskó, Mónika
name: Boda, Dezső
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model and simulate a nanopore sensor that selectively binds analyte ions. This binding leads to the modulation of the local concentrations of the ions of the background electrolyte (KCl), and, thus, to the modulation of the ionic current flowing through the pore. The nanopore's wall carries a bipolar charge pattern with a larger positive buffer region determining the anions as the main charge carriers and the smaller negative binding region containing binding sites. This charge pattern proved to be an appropriate one as shown by a previous comparative study of varying charge patterns (Mádai et al.\ \textit{J. Mol. Liq.}, 2019, \textbf{283}, 391--398.). Binding of the positive analyte ions attracts more anions in the pore thus increasing the current. The asymmetric nature of the pore results in an additional device function, rectification. Our model, therefore, is a dual response device. Using a reduced model of the nanopore studied by a hybrid computer simulation method (Local Equilibrium Monte Carlo coupled to the Nernst-Planck equation) we show that we can create a sensor whose underlying mechanisms are based on the changes of the local electric field as a response to changing thermodynamic conditions. The change of the electric field results in changes in the local ionic concentrations (depletion zones), and, thus, changes in ionic currents.
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, March/April 2009
Creators: name: Campbell, Dan
name: Chesnick, David
name: Braxton Little, Jane
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Burdett, Bruce
name: Wadsworth, James
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Chesnick, David
name: Braxton Little, Jane
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Burdett, Bruce
name: Wadsworth, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features- Passing the Stress Test; Largest co-ops reap record, $88 billion sales; Forestry Co-ops Take Root; The Ethanol Crunch; Royal Treatment; Cotton co-ops benefit from cottonseed oil comeback; Bigger role seen for Ohio farmers’ markets; Co-op educators see critical need to ramp-up, expand education efforts