cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Causes of ferroelectricity in HfO$_{2}$-based thin films: An $\textit{ab initio}$ perspective
Creators: name: Dogan, Mehmet
name: Gong, Nanbo
name: Ma, Tso-Ping
name: Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive first principles study of doped hafnia in order to understand the formation of the ferroelectric orthorhombic [001] grains. Assuming that tetragonal grains are present during the early stages of growth, matching plane analysis shows that tetragonal [100] grains can transform into orthorhombic [001] during thermal annealing, when they are laterally confined by other grains. We show that among 0%, 2% and %4 Si doping, 4% doping provides the best conditions for the tetragonal [100] to orthorhombic [001] transformation. This also holds for Al doping. We also show that for Hf$_{x}$Zr$_{1-x}$O$_{2}$, where we have studied ${x}=1.00,0.75,0.50,0.25,0.00$, the value ${x}=0.50$ provides the most favorable conditions for the desired transformation. In order for this transformation to be preferred over the tetragonal [100] to monoclinic [100] transformation, out-of-plane confinement also needs to be present, as supplied by a top electrode. Our findings illuminate the mechanism that causes ferroelectricity in hafnia-based films and provide an explanation for common experimental observations for the optimal ranges of doping in Si:HfO$_{2}$, Al:HfO$_{2}$ and Hf$_{x}$Zr$_{1-x}$O$_{2}$. We also present model thin film heterostructure computations of Ir/HfO$_{2}$/Ir stacks in order to isolate the interface effects, which we show to be significant.
Can a concern for status reconcile diverse social welfare programs?
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Jakubek, Marcin
name: Stark, Oded
name: Jakubek, Marcin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Maximization of social welfare
subject: Rawlsian social welfare function
subject: Utilitarian social welfare function
subject: Inefficient policy of income redistribution
subject: Distaste for low status

description: Let there be two individuals: “rich,” and “poor.” Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution policy, if a social planner were to tax the rich in order to transfer to the poor, only a fraction of the taxed income would be given to the poor. Under such inefficiency and a standard utility specification, a Rawlsian social planner who seeks to maximize the utility of the worst-off individual will select a different allocation of incomes than a utilitarian social planner who seeks to maximize the sum of the individuals’ utilities. However, when individuals prefer not only to have more income but also not to have low status conceptualized as low relative income, and when this distaste is incorporated in the individuals’ utility functions with a weight that is greater than a specified critical level, then a utilitarian social planner will select the very same income distribution as a Rawlsian social planner.
Leucothoe spinulosa Chevreux 1919
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe spinulosa

description: Leucothoe spinulosa Chevreux, 1919 –1920
 Leucothoe spinulosa Chevreux, 1919 –1920: 579, 580. — Chevreux, 1927: 79–81, pl. 6, figs 1–10.
 Type locality and specimens. Banc d'Arguin, Africa. Holotype, male, 6 mm; paratype, female, 6 mm.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Chevreux (1920).
 Diagnosis. Minute accessory flagellum. Gnathopod 2 carpus with large subdistal tooth; propodus palm with five major tubercles. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner sinuous with simple cusp. Telson apex truncate.
 Note. The descriptions of L. spinulosa are vague. Examination of type or topotypic material will help to clarify diagnostic characters.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 2 propodus smaller with fewer denticles.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 235 m.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: Banc d'Arguin, Mauritiana, Africa (Chevreux 1920; Chevreux 1927).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
The Impact of a Rural Road Development Project on Multidimensional Poverty in Nepal
Creators: name: Bucheli, José R.
name: Bohara, Alok K.
name: Villa, Kira
name: Bucheli, José R.
name: Bohara, Alok K.
name: Villa, Kira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: multidimensional poverty
subject: infrastructure
subject: living standards
subject: health
subject: education
subject: rural development
subject: road construction

description: Although the effect of rural road development projects on income poverty has been well studied, little research has been undertaken on the impact on the multiple dimensions of poverty. In this study, we examine the effect of the improvement and construction of rural roads in rural Nepal on household deprivation of health, education, and living standards. We use data from two rounds of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (2001, 2011) and a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the average treatment effect on multidimensional poverty. Our study finds evidence of reductions in household deprivation, mainly driven by improvements in asset ownership and dwelling infrastructure. We fail to observe significant effects on the health and education indicators. We test these findings by using propensity-score matching and inverse-probability weighting methods as robustness checks, and generally find similar estimates. In line with the literature in the field, we find heterogeneity in the results across socioeconomic groups and poverty dimensions. Further exploration suggests that household land ownership and economic activity might be driving this heterogeneity. Our work highlights the importance of using multidimensional measures to assess poverty and to empirically evaluate the impact of infrastructure projects on the development of countries, especially their rural regions.
Additional file 4: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S4. Structure of Csa1G535800 and two mutation sites in CGN19839. a Structure of Csa1G535800. Boxes and lines indicate exons and introns, respectively. Two green boxes in Csa1G535800 indicate the 5′ UTR and the 3′ UTR. Sequencing results revealed that, compared to WT, CGN19839 has a SNP in the first exon and a 4-bp deletion in the sixth exon of Csa1G535800. The yellow box shows the deletion sequence in CGN19839. b The position of the SNP and the 4-bp deletion in the encoding sequence. Sequencing results revealed that there was a SNP (‘A’ in C-8-6 and ‘G’ in CGN19839) at 139 bp and a 4-bp deletion at 1234–1237 bp from the ATG start codon (PDF 188 kb)
Additional file 8: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S7. Alignment of coding sequence of CsUP from WT and up with 19 other cucumber lines. The whole coding sequence length is 1404 bp. The 491–495 bp position of up and B1 is the 5-bp deletion highlighted in blue. The 139 bp position of CGN19839 that altered from A to G is highlighted in red, and the 1234–1237 bp position in CGN19839 is the 4-bp deletion in blue (PDF 451 kb)
Leucothoe squalidens Ledoyer 1984
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe squalidens

description: Leucothoe squalidens Ledoyer, 1984
 Leucothoe squalidens Ledoyer, 1984: 82, fig. 40a. — Ledoyer, 1986: 677–680, fig. 261.
 Type locality and specimens. Noumea, New Caledonia. Holotype, female, 2.7 mm.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Ledoyer (1984 a, 1986).
 Diagnosis (female). Truncate anterior head margin. Maxilliped outer plate tuberculate. Gnathopod 1 propodus palm denate with large triangular teeth; dactylus with proximal notch. Gnathopod 2 carpus distally truncate.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Among Halodule and Cymodocea seagrasses; depth not reported.
 Distribution. Pacific Ocean: New Caledonia, Noumea (Ledoyer 1984). Indian Ocean: Tulear, Madagascar (Ledoyer 1986).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Full-field mode sorter using two optimized phase transformations for high-dimensional quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Fickler, Robert
name: Bouchard, Frédéric
name: Giese, Enno
name: Grillo, Vincenzo
name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Karimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-dimensional encoding schemes have emerged as a novel way to perform quantum information tasks. For high dimensionality, temporal and transverse spatial modes of photons are the two paradigmatic degrees of freedom commonly used in such experiments. Nevertheless, general devices for multi-outcome measurements are still needed to take full advantage of the high-dimensional nature of encoding schemes. We propose a general full-field mode sorting scheme consisting only of up to two optimized phase elements based on evolutionary algorithms that allows for joint sorting of azimuthal and radial modes in a wide range of bases. We further study the performance of our scheme through simulations in the context of high-dimensional quantum cryptography, where high-fidelity measurement schemes are crucial.
Evidence of different climatic adaptation strategies in humans and non-human primates
Creators: name: Buck, L. T.
name: De Groote, I.
name: Hamada, Y.
name: Hassett, B. R.
name: Ito, T.
name: Stock, J. T.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/158/857
/631/181/19/2471
/141
/123
/129
article

description: Abstract: To understand human evolution it is critical to clarify which adaptations enabled our colonisation of novel ecological niches. For any species climate is a fundamental source of environmental stress during range expansion. Mammalian climatic adaptations include changes in size and shape reflected in skeletal dimensions and humans fit general primate ecogeographic patterns. It remains unclear however, whether there are also comparable amounts of adaptation in humans, which has implications for understanding the relative importance of biological/behavioural mechanisms in human evolution. We compare cranial variation between prehistoric human populations from throughout Japan and ecologically comparable groups of macaques. We compare amounts of intraspecific variation and covariation between cranial shape and ecological variables. Given equal rates and sufficient time for adaptation for both groups, human conservation of non-human primate adaptation should result in comparable variation and patterns of covariation in both species. In fact, we find similar amounts of intraspecific variation in both species, but no covariation between shape and climate in humans, contrasting with strong covariation in macaques. The lack of covariation in humans may suggest a disconnect in climatic adaptation strategies from other primates. We suggest this is due to the importance of human behavioural adaptations, which act as a buffer from climatic stress and were likely key to our evolutionary success.
Additional file 9: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S8. Genomic DNA sequence alignment of Cs535790 from WT and up (PDF 67 kb)
Land Capability for Cattle-Farming in the Merapi Volcanic Slope of Sleman Regency Yogyakarta
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: This research carried out to study the cattle farming development based on the land capability in rural areas of the Merapi Volcanic slope of Sleman Regency Yogyakarta after eruption 2010. Samples taken were Glagaharjo village (Cangkringan Sub-District) as impacted area and Wonokerto village (Turi Sub-District) as unimpacted area. Survey method used were to land evaluation analysis supported by Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Materials used were Indonesian topographical basemap (RBI) in 1:25000 scale, IKONOS image [2015], land use map, landform map, and slope map as supplements. Potential analysis of land capability for cattle forage using the production unit in kg of TDN per AU. The result showed that based on the land capability class map, both villages had potential of carrying capacity for forage feed that could still be increased as much as 1,661.32 AU in Glagaharjo and 1,948.13 AU in Wonokerto.
Quantifying Breakeven Price Distributions in Stochastic Techno-Economic Analysis — A Case of Cellulosic Biofuel Production from Fast Pyrolysis and Hydroprocessing Pathway
Creators: name: Zhao, Xin
name: Guolin, Yao
name: Wallace, Tyner
name: Zhao, Xin
name: Guolin, Yao
name: Wallace, Tyner
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: breakeven price
subject: techno-economic analysis
subject: cellulosic biofuel
subject: Monte-Carlo simulation

description: Techno-economic analysis (TEA) is a well-established modeling process in which benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is used to evaluate the economic feasibility of emerging technologies. Most previous TEA studies focused on creating reliable cost estimates but returned deterministic net present values (NPV) and deterministic breakeven prices. Nevertheless, the deterministic results cannot convey the considerable uncertainties embedded in techno-economic variables such as capital investment, conversion technology yield, and output prices. We obtain distributions of NPV, IRR, and breakeven price. The breakeven price is the most important indicator in TEA because it is independent of scale and communicates results effectively. The deterministic breakeven price is the price for which there is a 50 percent probability of earning more or less than the stipulated rate of return. For an investment under relatively high uncertainty, it is unlikely that investors would provide financing to a project with a 50 percent probability of loss. The point estimate breakeven price, therefore, does not represent the threshold under which investment would occur. In this study, we introduce the stochastic techno-economic analysis in which we incorporate Monte Carlo simulation into traditional TEA. A case of cellulosic biofuel production from fast pyrolysis and hydroprocessing pathway is used to illustrate the method of modeling stochastic TEA and quantifying the breakeven price distribution. The input uncertainties are translated to outputs so that the probability density distribution of both NPV and breakeven price are derived. Two methods, a mathematical method and a programming method, are developed to quantify breakeven price distribution in a way that can consider future price trend and uncertainty. We analyze two scenarios, one assuming constant real future output prices, and the other assuming that future prices follow an increasing trend with stochastic disturbances. We demonstrate that the breakeven price distributions derived using our methods are consistent with the corresponding NPV distributions regarding the percentile value and the probability of gain/loss.
The complete costs of genome sequencing: a microcosting study in cancer and rare diseases from a single center in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Schwarze, Katharina
name: Buchanan, James
name: Fermont, Jilles M.
name: Dreau, Helene
name: Tilley, Mark W.
name: Taylor, John M.
name: Antoniou, Pavlos
name: Knight, Samantha J. L.
name: Camps, Carme
name: Pentony, Melissa M.
name: Kvikstad, Erika M.
name: Harris, Steve
name: Popitsch, Niko
name: Pagnamenta, Alistair T.
name: Schuh, Anna
name: Taylor, Jenny C.
name: Wordsworth, Sarah
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
article
genome sequencing
cost
cancer
rare diseases
next-generation sequencing

description: Abstract: Purpose: The translation of genome sequencing into routine health care has been slow, partly because of concerns about affordability. The aspirational cost of sequencing a genome is $1000, but there is little evidence to support this estimate. We estimate the cost of using genome sequencing in routine clinical care in patients with cancer or rare diseases. Methods: We performed a microcosting study of Illumina-based genome sequencing in a UK National Health Service laboratory processing 399 samples/year. Cost data were collected for all steps in the sequencing pathway, including bioinformatics analysis and reporting of results. Sensitivity analysis identified key cost drivers. Results: Genome sequencing costs £6841 per cancer case (comprising matched tumor and germline samples) and £7050 per rare disease case (three samples). The consumables used during sequencing are the most expensive component of testing (68–72% of the total cost). Equipment costs are higher for rare disease cases, whereas consumable and staff costs are slightly higher for cancer cases. Conclusion: The cost of genome sequencing is underestimated if only sequencing costs are considered, and likely surpasses $1000/genome in a single laboratory. This aspirational sequencing cost will likely only be achieved if consumable costs are considerably reduced and sequencing is performed at scale.
Internal combustion engine exhaust gas analysis
Creators: name: Collings, Nick
name: Glover, Keith
name: Campbell, Bruce
name: Fisher, Stewart
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016

description: This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE via http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468087416656946
description: A generalized approach, based on linear algebra, is described for processing exhaust gas analyser data. Systematic methods of deriving useful relationships from arbitrary data are proposed and used to produce several novel and useful results, as well as to show how existing relationships may be derived in forms that involve no approximations. The methods developed lend themselves to automatic real-time assessment of the consistency of gas analyser data, and in the case of inconsistencies, identifying plausible reasons. The approach is also used to develop methods to examine storage and release mechanisms within after-treatment devices, such as oxygen storage/release in three-way catalysts, soot oxidation in particle filters and water condensation/evaporation.
Leucothoe stylifera Stimpson 1856
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe stylifera

description: Leucothoe stylifera Stimpson, 1856
 Leucothoe stylifera Stimpson, 1856b: 383. — Bate, 1862: 377, 378. — Della Valle, 1893: 656. — Stebbing, 1906: 169.
 Type locality and specimens. Japan. Holotype, sex unknown, 16.8 mm (reported as 1/ 3 inch).
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Bate (1862).
 Diagnosis (sex unknown): Leucothoe stylifera should not be considered a valid species pending examination of type or topotypic material. Stimpson’s (1856) original description and illustrations and subsequent reports are vague. Bate reports this species as pale orange with red eyes.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat and depth not reported.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Japan (Stimpson 1856b).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Big-Box Retailers and Personal Income Growth in the U.S.
Creators: name: Peralta, Denis
name: Kim, Man-Keun
name: Peralta, Denis
name: Kim, Man-Keun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Big-box retailers
subject: Growth
subject: Income convergence
subject: Personal income
subject: Spatial econometrics
subject: Walmart
subject: Target

description: This paper addresses a research gap in the literature by investigating the impact of big-box retailers’ presence on personal income growth in U.S. counties between 2000 and 2005, based on neoclassical growth models of cross-country income convergence. Whether big-box retailers have a negative effect on local economic growth has been a permeating question amongst regional developers, policy makers and economists. Walmart’s and Target’s economic impacts are estimated in regards to the degree in which their individual presence affects personal income growth. Different model specifications are applied in the analysis, including spatial models that control for spatial autocorrelation. Results suggest that counties with the presence of both Walmart and Target stores have experienced slower growth in personal income - even after controlling for spatial autocorrelation. Walmart’s individual effect on personal income growth is negative and highly significant. Target’s individual effect is also negative, but statistically insignificant after controlling for spatial dependence.
Comparison and strategy of nitrogen removal at different low temperatures in a pilot-scale A2/O system
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaoying
name: Zeng, Ao
name: Wang, Yatao
name: Liu, Peiju
name: Chen, Yuan
name: Jiang, Yinghe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: To ensure low effluent total nitrogen (TN ≤ 15 mg L−1) and NH3–N( ≤ 5 mg L−1) at low temperatures (8.8–14.7°C), a pilot-scale A2/O system with a low return activated sludge (200%) was employed to seek the optimal operation strategy. In the 90 days’ experiment, the tests were separated into three stages (14.2°C, 11.0°C, and 9.1°C), and the 49 samples were analysed. Our results showed that the nitrification was remarkably inhibited when the temperature was below 10°C, while the denitrification was remarkably inhibited at the temperatures of 10–15°C. Once the effluent NH3–N concentration was over 2.5 mg L−1, or NO3−−N concentration was over 13 mg L−1, the effluent TN would be in excess of 15 mg L−1. When the temperature was over 10°C, increasing dissolved oxygen (DO) was an optimal strategy to reduce the effluent NH3–N; nevertheless, when the temperature was below 10°C, simultaneously increasing DO and MLVSS would be carried out due to the low max. nitrification rates (36.0 mg (g−1 d−1)). If the carbon source (CODcr/NO3−−N ratio ≥ 7.3) was enough, increasing MLVSS was an effective method to relieve the negative influence of low temperature on denitrification.
Causality and radiatively induced CPT violation
Creators: name: Adam, C.
name: Klinkhamer, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum electrodynamics with an additional Lorentz- and CPT-violating axial-vector term in the fermionic sector and discuss the possibility that radiative corrections induce a Lorentz- and CPT-violating Chern-Simons-like term for the gauge field. From the requirement of causality and the assumed validity of perturbation theory, we conclude that the induced Chern-Simons-like term must be absent in the full quantum field theory.
description: LaTeX, 12 pages, 2 PS figures, v3: to appear in PLB
Leucothoe tarte
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe tarte

description: Leucothoe tarte (J.L. Barnard, 1974)
 Leucothoe tarte J.L. Barnard, 1974b: 97–99, fig. 59. — Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 156.
 Type locality and specimens. Port Phillip, Victoria. Holotype, male, 14.0 mm, NMV.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by J. L. Barnard (1974).
 Diagnosis. Ventral keel with anterior projection and anteroventral cusp. Antennae 1–2 very short, thick. Gnathopod 2 propodus palm with six small tubercles. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner produced.
 Note. Examination of type or topotypic material will clarify diagnostic characters for this species.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). No significant sexually dimorphic character.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 10–12 m (reported as 35–40 ft).
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Victoria (J.L. Barnard 1974; Lowry & Stoddart 2003).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Stable de Sitter Vacua from N=2 Supergravity
Creators: name: Fre, Pietro
name: Trigiante, Mario
name: Van Proeyen, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find extrema of the potential of matter couplings to N=2 supergravity that define de Sitter vacua and no tachyonic modes. There are three essential ingredients in our construction: namely non-abelian non-compact gaugings, de Roo-Wagemans rotation angles, and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure; v2: Added reference, and typos corrected. Version to be published in CQG
Quantum advantage in postselected metrology
Creators: name: Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M.
name: Yunger Halpern, Nicole
name: Lepage, Hugo V.
name: Lasek, Aleksander A.
name: Barnes, Crispin H. W.
name: Lloyd, Seth
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/639/766/483/481
/639/766/483/1139
/639/766/483/1255
article

description: Abstract: In every parameter-estimation experiment, the final measurement or the postprocessing incurs a cost. Postselection can improve the rate of Fisher information (the average information learned about an unknown parameter from a trial) to cost. We show that this improvement stems from the negativity of a particular quasiprobability distribution, a quantum extension of a probability distribution. In a classical theory, in which all observables commute, our quasiprobability distribution is real and nonnegative. In a quantum-mechanically noncommuting theory, nonclassicality manifests in negative or nonreal quasiprobabilities. Negative quasiprobabilities enable postselected experiments to outperform optimal postselection-free experiments: postselected quantum experiments can yield anomalously large information-cost rates. This advantage, we prove, is unrealizable in any classically commuting theory. Finally, we construct a preparation-and-postselection procedure that yields an arbitrarily large Fisher information. Our results establish the nonclassicality of a metrological advantage, leveraging our quasiprobability distribution as a mathematical tool.
The Welfare Consequences of the 2015 California Drought Mandate: Evidence from New Results on Monthly Water Demand
Creators: name: Buck, Steven
name: Nemati, Mehdi
name: Sunding, David
name: Buck, Steven
name: Nemati, Mehdi
name: Sunding, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: California
subject: demand
subject: government policy
subject: urban water utilities
subject: water supply shortage

description: In response to the severe California drought, in April 2015, Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order mandating statewide reductions in water use. The mandate aimed to reduce the amount of water consumed statewide in urban areas by 25% from 2013 levels. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) proposed regulatory instructions that grouped urban water utilities into nine tiers, with conservation standards ranging from 8% to 36%. In this paper we evaluate welfare losses caused by this mandate. Understanding the proposed regulation’s welfare losses requires estimating water demand. Using fixed effect models and data from 2004 to 2009 on 111 urban water utilities, an annual demand curve is estimated. The estimated demand elasticity is between -0.61 and -0.1 which is heterogeneous across the regions and seasons. In the second step, we use the estimated annual demand function to recover price elasticities for a sample of 53 urban water utilities in California, which provide water for more than 20 million customers. We considered two scenarios to calculate welfare losses in Northern and Southern California: the governor’s mandate, and a hypothetical 25% uniform cut back. The results for Northern California indicate an average welfare loss of $6,132 per acre-foot of shortage for a governor’s mandate and $4,424 for a 25% uniform shortage. In Southern California, the average estimated welfare loss is $2,113 per acre-foot of shortage for a governor’s mandate and $2,171 for a 25% uniform shortage. Results indicate the monthly household-level willingness-to-pay to avoid the governor’s mandate is $36 in Northern California and $25 in Southern California.
Leucothoe tolkieni Vinogradov 1990
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe tolkieni

description: Leucothoe tolkieni Vinogradov, 1990
 Leucothoe tolkieni Vinogradov, 1990: 46–48, pls 8, 9.
 Type locality and specimens. Southeastern Pacific. Holotype, female, 5.5 mm.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Vinogradov (1990). Diagnosis (female). Truncate anterior head margin; cuspate anterodistal corner. Eyes covering most of head. Gnathopod 1 basis anteroproximally expanded; propodus curved, proximally inflated. Gnathopod 2 carpus distally truncate, spoon-like; propodus with two mediofacial setal rows, palm smooth. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded. Telson apex rounded.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 50–365 m.
 Host. Unknown, collected in "traps" close to bottom.
 Distribution. Southeastern Pacific Ocean (Vinogradov 1990).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
OʻQUVCHILAR ONGIDA OILAVIY MUHITNING PSIXOLOGIK MEXANIZMLARI.
Creators: name: Ropiqova, Umidaxon
name: Bobayeva, Ziyodaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: ushbu maqola orqali shaxsning ijtimoiy shakllanishiga ta’sir qiladigan ta’sirlardan biri – oilaviy muhit va uning o’ziga xos psixologik hususiyatlari yoritib berilgan. Shuningdek, jamiyat ijtimoiy taraqqiyoti jarayonidagi shaxsning ijtimoiy shakllanishining ahamiyati hamda, bunga doir bir qator olimlarning fikrlari ham ko’rsatib o’tilgan.
Attenuation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence by Some Indonesian Medicinal Plants Ethanolic Extract
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111504 Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This study aims to discover quorum sensing inhibitors (QSI) from some Indonesian medicinal plants ethanol extract to analyze their inhibitory activities against QS-mediated virulence factors in P. aeruginosa using in-vitro experimental study-laboratory setting. Indonesian medicinal plant ethanolic extracts were tested for their capability to inhibit P. aeruginosa motility, biofilm formation using microtiter plate method, pyocyanin and LasA production using LasA staphylolytic assay. Statistical significance of the data were determined using one way ANOVA, followed by Dunnett’s test. Differences were considered significant with P values of 0.05 or less. The findings obtained showed that Ethanolic extract of T. catappa leaves and A. alitilis flower capable to inhibit P. aeruginosa motility as well as pyocyanin production and biofilm formation. Both extracts also showed capability in reducing LasA protease production. It is concluded that T. catappa and A. alitilis are an interesting sources of innovative plant derived quorum quenching compound(s), thus can be used in the development of new antipathogenic drug.
Last Branching in Directed Last Passage Percolation
Creators: name: Ferrari, Patrik L.
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35 (Primary), 82B44 (Secondary)

description: The 1+1 dimensional directed polymers in a Poissonean random environment is studied. For two polymers of maximal length with the same origin and distinct end points we establish that the point of last branching is governed by the exponent for the transversal fluctuations of a single polymer. We also investigate the density of branches.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, Latex2e
Limitations in the screening of potentially anti-cryptosporidial agents using laboratory rodents with gastric cryptosporidiosis
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The emergence of cryptosporidiosis, a zoonotic disease of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract caused by Cryptosporidium Tyzzer, 1907, triggered numerous screening studies of various compounds for potential anti-cryptosporidial activity, the majority of which proved ineffective. Extracts of Indonesian plants, Piper betle and Diospyros sumatrana, were tested for potential anticryptosporidial activity using Mastomys coucha (Smith), experimentally inoculated with Cryptosporidium proliferans Kváč, Havrdová, Hlásková, Daňková, Kanděra, Ježková, Vítovec, Sak, Ortega, Xiao, Modrý, Chelladurai, Prantlová et McEvoy, 2016. None of the plant extracts tested showed significant activity against cryptosporidia; however, the results indicate that the following issues should be addressed in similar experimental studies. The monitoring of oocyst shedding during the entire experimental trial, supplemented with histological examination of affected gastric tissue at the time of treatment termination, revealed that similar studies are generally unreliable if evaluations of drug efficacy are based exclusively on oocyst shedding. Moreover, the reduction of oocyst shedding did not guarantee the eradication of cryptosporidia in treated individuals. For treatment trials performed on experimentally inoculated laboratory rodents, only animals in the advanced phase of cryptosporidiosis should be used for the correct interpretation of pathological alterations observed in affected tissue. All the solvents used (methanol, methanol-tetrahydrofuran and dimethylsulfoxid) were shown to be suitable for these studies, i.e. they did not exhibit negative effects on the subjects. The halofuginone lactate, routinely administered in intestinal cryptosporidiosis in calves, was shown to be ineffective against gastric cryptosporidiosis in mice caused by C. proliferans. In contrast, the control application of extract Arabidopsis thaliana, from which we had expected a neutral effect, turned out to have some positive impact on affected gastric tissue.
A new Painleve-integrable equation possessing KdV-type solitons
Creators: name: Sakovich, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new three-dimensional second-order nonlinear wave equation is introduced which passes the Painleve test for integrability and possesses KdV-type multisoliton solutions. Lax integrability of this equation remains unknown.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Leucothoe traillii Thomson 1882
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe traillii

description: Leucothoe traillii Thomson, 1882
 Leucothoe traillii Thomson, 1882: 234, 235, pl. 18, fig. 1. — Stebbing, 1906: 164. — Chilton, 1911: 129, 130. —J.L. Barnard, 1972b: 137, 138, fig. 76.
 Leucothoe spinicarpa Chilton, 1923: 88.
 Type locality and specimens. Port Pegasus, New Zealand. Sex unknown, 8.9 mm (reported as 0.35 inch).
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Thomson (1882).
 Diagnosis (sex unknown): Thomson’s original description and illustrations of Leucothoe trailli are vague, doing little more than placing this species in the Leucothoidae. Barnard (1972) illustrates a ventral keel with an anterior cusp and sharp anteroventral projection and suggests that the maxilla 1 palp is lacking a distinct articulation with article 2.
 Note. Material used in both descriptions should be examined to determine if they are the same and to clarify diagnostic characters for this species.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 9–45 m (reported as 5–25 fthm).
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Tasman Sea: Port Pegasus, Paterson Inlet, New Zealand (Thomson 1882; Stebbing 1906), Morgans Pool, New Zealand (J.L. Barnard 1972b), New Zealand (Chilton 1911; Chilton 1923).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Compton Scattering by the Proton using a Large-Acceptance Arrangement
Creators: name: Wolf, S.
name: Lisin, V.
name: Kondratiev, R.
name: Massone, A. M.
name: Galler, G.
name: Ahrens, J.
name: Arends, H. -J.
name: Beck, R.
name: Camen, M.
name: Capitani, G. P.
name: Grabmayr, P.
name: Härter, F.
name: Hehl, T.
name: Jennewein, P.
name: Kossert, K.
name: L'vov, A. I.
name: Molinari, C.
name: Ottonello, P.
name: Owens, R. O.
name: Peise, J.
name: Preobrajenskij, I.
name: Proff, S.
name: Robbiano, A.
name: Sanzone, M.
name: Schumacher, M.
name: Schmitz, M.
name: Wissmann, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compton scattering by the proton has been measured using the tagged-photon facility at MAMI (Mainz) and the large-acceptance arrangement LARA. The new data are interpreted in terms of dispersion theory based on the SAID-SM99K parameterization of photo-meson amplitudes. It is found that two-pion exchange in the t-channel is needed for a description of the data in the second resonance region. The data are well represented if this channel is modeled by a single pole with mass parameter m(sigma)=600 MeV. The asymptotic part of the spin dependent amplitude is found to be well represented by pi-0-exchange in the t-channel. A backward spin-polarizability of gamma(pi)=(-37.1+-0.6(stat+syst)+-3.0(model))x10^{-4}fm^4 has been determined from data of the first resonance region below 455 MeV. This value is in a good agreement with predictions of dispersion relations and chiral pertubation theory. From a subset of data between 280 and 360 MeV the resonance pion-photoproduction amplitudes were evaluated leading to a E2/M1 multipole ratio of the p-to-Delta radiative transition of EMR(340 MeV)=(-1.7+-0.4(stat+syst)+-0.2(model))%. It was found that this number is dependent on the parameterization of photo-meson amplitudes. With the MAID2K parameterization an E2/M1 multipole ratio of EMR(340 MeV)=(-2.0+-0.4(stat+syst)+-0.2(model))% is obtained.
A search for cosmogenic neutrinos with the ARIANNA test bed using 4.5 years of data
Creators: name: Anker, A.
name: Barwick, S. W.
name: Bernhoff, H.
name: Besson, D. Z.
name: Bingefors, N.
name: García-Fernández, D.
name: Gaswint, G.
name: Glaser, C.
name: Hallgren, A.
name: Hanson, J. C.
name: Klein, S. R.
name: Kleinfelder, S. A.
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Latif, U.
name: Nam, J.
name: Novikov, A.
name: Nelles, A.
name: Paul, M. P.
name: Persichilli, C.
name: Plaisier, I.
name: Prakash, T.
name: Shively, S. R.
name: Tatar, J.
name: Unger, E.
name: Wang, S. -H.
name: Welling, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary mission of the ARIANNA ultra-high energy neutrino telescope is to uncover astrophysical sources of neutrinos with energies greater than $10^{16}\mathrm{eV}$. A pilot array, consisting of seven ARIANNA stations located on the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, was commissioned in November 2014. We report on the search for astrophysical neutrinos using data collected between November 2014 and February 2019. A straight-forward template matching analysis yielded no neutrino candidates, with a signal efficiency of 79%. We find a 90% confidence upper limit on the diffuse neutrino flux of $E^2Φ=1.7\times 10^{-6}\mathrm{GeV cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1}}$ for a decade wide logarithmic bin centered at a neutrino energy of $10^{18}\mathrm{eV}$, which is an order of magnitude improvement compared to the previous limit reported by the ARIANNA collaboration. The ARIANNA stations, including purpose built cosmic-ray stations at the Moore's Bay site and demonstrator stations at the South Pole, have operated reliably. Sustained operation at two distinct sites confirms that the flexible and adaptable architecture can be deployed in any deep ice, radio quiet environment. We show that the scientific capabilities, technical innovations, and logistical requirements of ARIANNA are sufficiently well understood to serve as the basis for large area radio-based neutrino telescope with a wide field-of-view.
description: Replaced with version accepted for publication
Additional file 10 of LILRB2-mediated TREM2 signaling inhibition suppresses microglia functions
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng
name: Xu, Yuanzhong
name: Jiang, Lu-Lin
name: Fan, Xuejun
name: Ku, Zhiqiang
name: Li, Leike
name: Liu, Xiaoye
name: Deng, Mi
name: Arase, Hisashi
name: Zhu, Jay-Jiguang
name: Huang, Timothy Y.
name: Zhao, Yingjun
name: Zhang, Chengcheng
name: Xu, Huaxi
name: Tong, Qingchun
name: Zhang, Ningyan
name: An, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 10: Supplementary Table 4. Titration profiles of purified LILRB2 antibodies binding to plate-coated LILRB2 as measured by ELISA.
The Impact of Receiving Indemnity Payout on Informal Risk Sharing
Creators: name: Xu, Chang
name: Miranda, Mario
name: Xu, Chang
name: Miranda, Mario
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: index insurance
subject: informal risk sharing
subject: Kenya
subject: drought
subject: basis risks

description: Recent research has proposed combining index insurance with informal group risk sharing to overcome the individual shortcomings of informal risk sharing and index insurance. If this complimentary relationship holds universally, it can potentially: 1. alleviate the low take-up rate puzzle faced by index insurance pilot programs; 2. improve the sustainability of informal risk sharing in the case of aggregate shocks. We specifically investigated the hypothesis that the availability of indemnity payment from index insurance will increase the involvement in informal risk sharing. We utilized the Index-Based Livelihood Insurance program piloted on pastoralists in Kenya and use the data provided by the International Livestock Research Institute. We found that, except for receiving cash, having received index insurance indemnity significantly increases the tendency to receive cash, receive in-kind transfer and give in-kind transfer as a gift from/to any other households.