cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dold sequences, periodic points, and dynamics
Creators: name: Byszewski, Jakub
name: Graff, Grzegorz
name: Ward, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B50, 37C25, 55M20

description: In this survey we describe how the so-called Dold congruence arises in topology, and how it relates to periodic point counting in dynamical systems.
description: 38 pages; survey
Backreaction in the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi model
Creators: name: Rasanen, Syksy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study backreaction analytically using the parabolic Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi universe as a toy model. We calculate the average expansion rate and energy density on two different hypersurfaces and compare the results. We also consider the Hubble law and find that backreaction slows down the expansion if measured with proper time, but speeds it up if measured with energy density.
description: 11 pages, JCAP-style. v2: Published version. One added reference, no major changes
CAN FAO's MEASURE OF CHRONIC UNDERNOURISHMENT BE STRENGTHENED?
Creators: name: Smith, Lisa C.
name: Nai Ken, Logan
name: Smith, Lisa C.
name: Nai Ken, Logan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: In its Sixth World Food Survey released at the 1996 World Food Summit, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that 841 million people in developing countries are chronically undernourished. This number and its country- and regional-level disaggregations have proved tremendously useful to countless aid agencies and researchers. In the context of a recent wave of new nationally-representative household food consumption and expenditure data, this paper examines the estimation methodology underlying this food insecurity indicator, which relies on national aggregate measures of food availability and distribution. The paper finds that the measure is methodologically biased toward national food availability and does not fully account for the effects of poverty—the most widespread cause of food insecurity in developing countries. The implications of this bias for use of the indicator in cross-country comparisons of food insecurity and for tracking changes in it over time are drawn out. The paper concludes by arguing that the time has come to review the potential for employing the new household survey data for strengthening the empirical foundations of the FAO's measure of chronic undernourishment.
Universal mean moment rate profiles of earthquake ruptures
Creators: name: Mehta, Amit P.
name: Dahmen, Karin A.
name: Ben-Zion, Yehuda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earthquake phenomenology exhibits a number of power law distributions including the Gutenberg-Richter frequency-size statistics and the Omori law for aftershock decay rates. In search for a basic model that renders correct predictions on long spatio-temporal scales, we discuss results associated with a heterogeneous fault with long range stress-transfer interactions. To better understand earthquake dynamics we focus on faults with Gutenberg-Richter like earthquake statistics and develop two universal scaling functions as a stronger test of the theory against observations than mere scaling exponents that have large error bars. Universal shape profiles contain crucial information on the underlying dynamics in a variety of systems. As in magnetic systems, we find that our analysis for earthquakes provides a good overall agreement between theory and observations, but with a potential discrepancy in one particular universal scaling function for moment-rates. The results reveal interesting connections between the physics of vastly different systems with avalanche noise.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Calvia monosha Bielawski
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Calvia
Calvia monosha

description: Calvia monosha Bielawski
(Fig. 38)
Calvia monosha Bielawski, 1979: 122 (Holotype male, NHMB; Type locality: Bhutan); Booth 1997: 927; Poorani 2002a: 323.
Diagnosis. Length: 6.70–7.00 mm. Form broad oval, dorsum convex and glabrous. Elytra black with basal and external margins narrowly yellow and with five large yellow spots arranged in a 2-2-1 pattern (Fig. 38b), or spots partly joined laterally into bands (Fig. 38a). Pronotum shining between punctures, contrasting with head where frons between eyes has microreticulate sculpture. Elytral punctures dual, larger elytral punctures close and deep, interstices convex with small punctures. Middle and hind tibiae with a pair of apical spurs. See Bielawski (1979) for male genitalia illustrations.
Distribution. Bhutan.
Seasonal occurrence. Collected in June (label data).
Notes. It is a very distinct species and unlikely to be confused with its congeners from this region.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Impact of the returning radiation on the analysis of the reflection spectra of black holes
Creators: name: Riaz, Shafqat
name: Szanecki, Michal
name: Niedzwiecki, Andrzej
name: Ayzenberg, Dimitry
name: Bambi, Cosimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fraction of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the surface of a geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disk of a black hole returns to the disk because of the strong light bending in the vicinity of the compact object (returning radiation). While such radiation clearly affects the observed spectrum of the source, it is often neglected in theoretical models. In the present paper, we study the impact of the returning radiation on relativistic reflection spectra. Assuming neutral material in the disk, we estimate the systematic uncertainties on the measurement of the properties of the system when we fit the data with a theoretical model that neglects the returning radiation. Our NICER simulations show that the inclination angle of the disk and the black hole spin parameter tend to be overestimated for low viewing angles, while no clear bias is observed for high viewing angles. The iron abundance of the disk is never overestimated. In the most extreme cases (in particular, for maximally rotating black holes) the returning radiation flattens the radial emissivity beyond a few gravitational radii. In such cases, it also produces residuals that cannot be compensated by adjusting the parameters of models neglecting the returning radiation. This may be an important issue for interpretation of data from future X-ray missions (e.g. Athena). When we simulate some observations with NuSTAR and we fit data above 10 keV, we find that some conclusions valid for the NICER simulations are not true any longer (e.g., we can get a high iron abundance).
description: 21 pages, 12 figures. v2: refereed version
ОРГАНИ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ВЛАДИ УКРАЇНИ ЯК СУБ'ЄКТИ ЗАКОНОДАВЧОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ОХОРОНИ
Creators: name: Скриньковський, Р. М.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Вивчення цілісного комплексу проблем, пов’язаних зі сферою забезпечення державної охорони органів державної влади України та посадових осіб, втіленням правових норм та інституційних принципів і цінностей Конституції, має стати актуальним завданням правової науки на сучасному етапі її розвитку. З огляду на це, метою статті є дослідження діяльності органів державної влади України як суб’єктів законодавчого забезпечення державної охорони. Методологічною основою дослідження є сукупність філософських, загальнонаукових та спеціально-юридичних засобів і способів пізнання, що забезпечують об’єктивність та всебічність у вивченні проблем державної охорони, зумовлену міждисциплінарним, системним і структурно-функціональним методом пізнання. У статті проводиться комплексне вивчення умов, які зумовлюють законодавчу та правореалізаційну діяльність органів державної влади України як суб’єктів законодавчого забезпечення державної охорони, а також розглядаються проблеми, пов’язані зі створенням та використанням нормативного забезпечення на практиці. Правове регулювання державної охорони доповнює та компенсує традиційні та формальні механізми взаємодії громадян та органів державної влади, створюючи додаткові інститути або доповнюючи традиційні. Еволюція законодавства щодо державної охорони значно змінила відносини між державою та суспільством, поступово підвищуючи частоту та якість взаємодії між громадянами та посадовими особами органів публічної влади. Зазначені процеси змінюють структуру та зміст державної політики і державного управління, у тому числі в сфері національної безпеки. Централізація системи органів виконавчої влади щодо державної охорони супроводжується посиленням державного регулювання державної безпеки загалом, що відбивається на повноваженнях органів спеціальної компетенції. Підзаконна нормотворчість та правозастосовна діяльність органів виконавчої влади спеціальної компетенції відіграють ключову роль у регулюванні державної охорони України.
Laparoscopic Nissen's fundoplication for gastro-esophageal reflux disease audit of experience and short term outcome.pdf
Creators: name: SHRIRANG KULKARNI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110307 Gastroenterology and Hepatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Laparoscopic Nissen's fundoplication for gastro-esophageal reflux disease audit of experience and short term outcome.pdf
The phase diagram of three-flavor quark matter under compact star constraints
Creators: name: Blaschke, D.
name: Fredriksson, S.
name: Grigorian, H.
name: "Oztas, A. M.
name: Sandin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of three-flavor quark matter under compact star constraints is investigated within a Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Local color and electric charge neutrality is imposed for beta-equilibrated superconducting quark matter. The constituent quark masses and the diquark condensates are determined selfconsistently in the plane of temperature and quark chemical potential. Both strong and intermediate diquark coupling strengths are considered. We show that in both cases, gapless superconducting phases do not occur at temperatures relevant for compact star evolution, i.e., below T ~ 50 MeV. The stability and stucture of isothermal quark star configurations are evaluated. For intermediate coupling, quark stars are composed of a mixed phase of normal (NQ) and two-flavor superconducting (2SC) quark matter up to a maximum mass of 1.21 M_sun. At higher central densities, a phase transition to the three-flavor color flavor locked (CFL) phase occurs and the configurations become unstable. For the strong diquark coupling we find stable stars in the 2SC phase, with masses up to 1.326 M_sun. A second family of more compact configurations (twins) with a CFL quark matter core and a 2SC shell is also found to be stable. The twins have masses in the range 1.301 ... 1.326 M_sun. We consider also hot isothermal configurations at temperature T=40 MeV. When the hot maximum mass configuration cools down, due to emission of photons and neutrinos, a mass defect of 0.1 M_sun occurs and two final state configurations are possible.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
The large N limit of C/Z_N and supergravity
Creators: name: Headrick, Matthew
name: Raeymaekers, Joris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The C/Z_N orbifold of type II string theory has localized tachyons with m^2 ranging from -1+1/N to -2/N in units of 2/α'. We show that by restricting attention to the lightest tachyons it is possible to take a zero-slope limit where N is taken to infinity while Nα' is held fixed. This is done by applying Buscher duality in the angular direction of the cone to obtain a supergravity solution on which the tachyons are gravitational instabilities. In this picture, supergravity provides a natural off-shell description of the tachyonic interactions. For example, the three-point couplings can be read off easily (to leading order in 1/N) from the supergravity action, and are in agreement with the on-shell couplings computed using CFT techniques.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure; v2: reference added
Datos eye tracking.sav
Creators: name: Carmona, Diego Gómez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: Estos datos muestran la influencia de las variables de preocupación ambiental en la atención de los consumidores. Además, se puede ver cómo el enfoque regulatorio de los participantes también influye en la atención prestada a cada uno de los anuncios.
How Phase Transitions induce classical behaviour
Creators: name: Rivers, R. J.
name: Lombardo, F. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the analysis of the onset of classical behaviour in a scalar field after a continuous phase transition, in which the system-field, the long wavelength order parameter of the model, interacts with an environment, of its own short-wavelength modes and other fields, neutral and charged, with which it is expected to interact. We compute the decoherence time for the system-field modes from the master equation and directly from the decoherence functional (with identical results). In simple circumstances the order parameter field is classical by the time the transition is complete.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure: To be published in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (2005) as part of the Proceedings of the "Peyresq Physics 9" meeting (2004) on "Micro and Macro structures of spacetime",ed. E. Verdaguer
Cureus Laparoscopic Nissen's fundoplication for gastro-esophageal reflux disease audit of experience and short term outcome.pdf
Creators: name: SHRIRANG KULKARNI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110307 Gastroenterology and Hepatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Laparoscopic Nissen's fundoplication for gastro-esophageal reflux disease audit of experience and short term outcome.pdf
Holding the police to account in a divided society : the Northern Ireland reforms
Creators: name: McGovern, Clare Joanna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis uses a case study of Northern Ireland to examine the difficulties involved in holding the police to account in a divided society. Northern Ireland is a deeply-divided society where the primary political/religious cleavage is reinforced by the fact that the two communities tend to live in distinct areas and use separate educational, social, political, cultural and economic institutions. This has led to long-standing violence and instability, particularly over the last 35 years. Since 1993 there has been a peace process, which has led to an inter-party / inter-governmental agreement on the way forward, ceasefires from the main paramilitary groups, new political institutions and the devolution of government from Westminster (although the local assembly is currently suspended). One element of the conflict has been the different attitudes of each community to the local police force (the Royal Ulster Constabulary or RUC). Unionists looked to the police for protection against an Irish Nationalist insurgency whereas Nationalists viewed the RUC as a tool of oppression. As part of the peace process an independent commission examined this issue and recommended radical change to the RUC's personnel, structure, training and operations. Police accountability was seen as particularly important - the commission made 35 recommendations in this area alone. Examination of these recommendations suggests four different approaches to accountability based on democratic, legalistic, technocratic and community based institutions respectively. This thesis assesses these four models of accountability against three criteria, drawn from the literature concerning the management of ethnic conflict and public management. Firstly, the models are evaluated for their involvement of the public in evaluation and decision-making. The second criterion is whether accountability mechanisms can be insulated from the Unionist/Nationalist conflict, or alternatively, whether they can contribute to the management of this conflict. Finally, the type of competence promoted by each model is considered -whether the police are encouraged to focus on fiscal concerns, political responsiveness, compliance with rules or longterm strategic issues. This analysis suggests that any one model of accountability operating alone has serious flaws. However, collectively, the four models meet all three criteria. This leads to the conclusion that a multi-stranded approach is required if Northern Ireland is to successfully hold its reformed police service to account.
Calvia punctata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Calvia
Calvia punctata

description: Calvia punctata (Mulsant)
(Fig. 39)
Harmonia punctata Mulsant, 1853a: 143 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: India); 1866: 69.
Anisocalvia punctata: Crotch 1874: 144; Gordon 1987: 17.
Calvia punctata: Korschefsky 1932: 524; Bielawski 1963a: 17–18; Booth 1997: 928; Poorani 2002a: 323.
Propylea obversepunctata Mulsant, 1853a: 156; 1853b: 28; 1866: 151; Crotch 1874: 144 (as Anisocalvia); Synonymized by Bielawski 1963a: 17; Gordon 1987: 17.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.00– 5.80 mm. Form elongate oval, moderately convex, and glabrous. Head yellowish, interspaces between punctations strongly microreticulate. Pronotum black, external borders yellowish, interspaces between punctations smooth and shiny. Elytral pattern highly variable (Fig. 39a–f), ground colour of elytra dull yellow to black, elytral pattern usually yellow with six black spots arranged in 3-2-1 pattern or with the number of spots reduced or occasionally fully black with only external margins dark reddish brown to yellow; elytral punctures distinctly dual, large, deep punctures intermixed with finer punctures. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 39g) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 39i–k) and spermatheca (Fig. 39h) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: North and northwestern regions (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand); Pakistan; Nepal; Afghanistan; Also recorded from the Central Asian States of the former Soviet Union (Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982).
Prey/associated habitat. Mainly aphidophagous. Recorded hosts include: Aphididae: Aphis gossypii Glover, Aphis craccivora Koch, Acyrthosiphon gossypii Mordvilko, Chromaphis juglandicola (Kaltenbach), Myzus persicae (Sulzer). Undetermined aphids, psyllids, and scale insects (Booth 1997); feeds on Comstockaspis perniciosa (Comstock) (Diaspididae) in Pakistan (Irshad 2001). Found feeding on scale insects on walnut tree and other wild vegetation in Pakistan (Khan et al. 2006). Collected on apple, pear, plum, walnut, almond, mustard and willow (Kundoo 2019; label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during March, May–July, and August–September (label data).
Notes. Bielawski (1963b) described it and illustrated the colour morphs and the genitalia. Booth (1997) included it in his key to the Indian species and illustrated the male genitalia. There are many variants and all are not illustrated here.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 57-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
INDIGO-DataCloud:A data and computing platform to facilitate seamless access to e-infrastructures
Creators: name: DataCloud Collaboration
name: Salomoni, Davide
name: Campos, Isabel
name: Gaido, Luciano
name: de Lucas, Jesus Marco
name: Solagna, Peter
name: Gomes, Jorge
name: Matyska, Ludek
name: Fuhrman, Patrick
name: Hardt, Marcus
name: Donvito, Giacinto
name: Dutka, Lukasz
name: Plociennik, Marcin
name: Barbera, Roberto
name: Blanquer, Ignacio
name: Ceccanti, Andrea
name: David, Mario
name: Duma, Cristina
name: López-García, Alvaro
name: Moltó, Germán
name: Orviz, Pablo
name: Sustr, Zdenek
name: Viljoen, Matthew
name: Aguilar, Fernando
name: Alves, Luis
name: Antonacci, Marica
name: Antonelli, Lucio Angelo
name: Bagnasco, Stefano
name: Bonvin, Alexandre M. J. J.
name: Bruno, Riccardo
name: Cetinic, Eva
name: Chen, Yin
name: Chiarello, Fabrizio
name: Costa, Alessandro
name: Pra, Stefano Dal
name: Davidovic, Davor
name: Dorigo, Alvise
name: Ertl, Benjamin
name: Fanzago, Federica
name: Fargetta, Marco
name: Fiore, Sandro
name: Gallozzi, Stefano
name: Kurkcuoglu, Zeynep
name: Lloret, Lara
name: Martins, Joao
name: Nuzzo, Alessandra
name: Nassisi, Paola
name: Palazzo, Cosimo
name: Pina, Joao
name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Segatta, Matteo
name: Sgaravatto, Massimo
name: Spiga, Daniele
name: Taneja, Sonia
name: Tangaro, Marco Antonio
name: Urbaniak, Michal
name: Vallero, Sara
name: Verlato, Marco
name: Wegh, Bas
name: Zaccolo, Valentina
name: Zambelli, Federico
name: Zangrando, Lisa
name: Zani, Stefano
name: Zok, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper describes the achievements of the H2020 project INDIGO-DataCloud. The project has provided e-infrastructures with tools, applications and cloud framework enhancements to manage the demanding requirements of scientific communities, either locally or through enhanced interfaces. The middleware developed allows to federate hybrid resources, to easily write, port and run scientific applications to the cloud. In particular, we have extended existing PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions, allowing public and private e-infrastructures, including those provided by EGI, EUDAT, and Helix Nebula, to integrate their existing services and make them available through AAI services compliant with GEANT interfederation policies, thus guaranteeing transparency and trust in the provisioning of such services. Our middleware facilitates the execution of applications using containers on Cloud and Grid based infrastructures, as well as on HPC clusters. Our developments are freely downloadable as open source components, and are already being integrated into many scientific applications.
description: 39 pages, 15 figures.Version accepted in Journal of Grid Computing
More Than Just Policing: Police Reform in Post-conflict Bougainville
Creators: name: Dinnen, Sinclair
name: Peake, Gordon
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2013

description: This brief summarises the findings of an independent evaluation of the Bougainville Community Policing Project (BCPP), which was conducted in late 2012 on behalf of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.1 Broadly speaking, the BCPP has two elements, which provide advisory support to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's two separate but linked policing organisations: the Bougainville Police Service (BPS) and the Community Auxiliary Police (CAP). The BPS consists of approximately 200 officers based in the three urban centres (Buka, Arawa, and Buin) and, sitting under it, are nearly 350 members of the CAP, based in their own communities throughout rural Bougainville.
LEKSIK CHEGARALANGAN SO'ZLARNING LINGVOKULTUROLOGIK TADQIQI OLIMLAR TADQIQOTLARI
Creators: name: Madrimova, Gulmira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Leksik jihatdan cheklangan so‘zlarni o‘rganish ularning madaniy o‘ziga xoslikni saqlash va yetkazishdagi o‘ziga xos o‘rni tufayli til va madaniy tadqiqotlarda muhim o‘rin egalladi. Ko'pincha muayyan mintaqalar, jamoalar yoki ijtimoiy guruhlar bilan chegaralangan bu so'zlar madaniy kontekstlarda chuqur ildiz otgan ma'nolarni qamrab oladi va ularning talqinini ular faoliyat yuritadigan madaniy doirani tushunish uchun zarur qiladi. Ushbu maqolada lug‘aviy jihatdan cheklangan so‘zlar sohasida olimlar tomonidan olib borilgan tadqiqotlar, ularning madaniy ahamiyati, semantik xususiyatlari va bu kabi so‘zlarni tillar bo‘ylab tarjima qilish yoki izohlashda duch keladigan qiyinchiliklar o‘rganilgan.
Long-term Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction using Mutable Intention Filter and Warp LSTM
Creators: name: Huang, Zhe
name: Hasan, Aamir
name: Shin, Kazuki
name: Li, Ruohua
name: Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trajectory prediction is one of the key capabilities for robots to safely navigate and interact with pedestrians. Critical insights from human intention and behavioral patterns need to be integrated to effectively forecast long-term pedestrian behavior. Thus, we propose a framework incorporating a Mutable Intention Filter and a Warp LSTM (MIF-WLSTM) to simultaneously estimate human intention and perform trajectory prediction. The Mutable Intention Filter is inspired by particle filtering and genetic algorithms, where particles represent intention hypotheses that can be mutated throughout the pedestrian motion. Instead of predicting sequential displacement over time, our Warp LSTM learns to generate offsets on a full trajectory predicted by a nominal intention-aware linear model, which considers the intention hypotheses during filtering process. Through experiments on a publicly available dataset, we show that our method outperforms baseline approaches and demonstrate the robust performance of our method under abnormal intention-changing scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/tedhuang96/mifwlstm.
description: Accepted by RA-L Special Issue on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction
Transnational Crime in the Pacific - A Conversation Starter
Creators: name: Peake, Gordon
name: Dinnen, Sinclair
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: This In Brief draws out some of the key themes raised during a recent policy workshop on transnational crime, hosted by the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies and facilitated by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, the Australian National University. Convened by Senator Brett Mason, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the workshop on 12 May 2014 brought together government officials, practitioners and academics to discuss a longstanding area of policy concern in Australia and the region.
Symmetric products of surfaces; a unifying theme for topology and physics
Creators: name: Blagojevic, Pavle
name: Grujic, Vladimir
name: Zivaljevic, Rade
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55S15; 52C35

description: This is a review paper about symmetric products of spaces $SP^n(X):= X^n/S_n$. We focus our attention on the symmetric products of 2-manifolds and make a journey through selected topics of algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, theoretical mechanics etc. where these objects play an important role, demonstrating along the way the fundamental unity of diverse fields of physics and mathematics.
Accelerating the computation of FLAPW methods on heterogeneous architectures
Creators: name: Davidović, Davor
name: Fabregat-Traver, Diego
name: Höhnerbach, Markus
name: di Napoli, Edoardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Legacy codes in computational science and engineering have been very successful in providing essential functionality to researchers. However, they are not capable of exploiting the massive parallelism provided by emerging heterogeneous architectures. The lack of portable performance and scalability puts them at high risk: either they evolve or they are doomed to disappear. One example of legacy code which would heavily benefit from a modern design is FLEUR, a software for electronic structure calculations. In previous work, the computational bottleneck of FLEUR was partially re-engineered to have a modular design that relies on standard building blocks, namely BLAS and LAPACK. In this paper, we demonstrate how the initial redesign enables the portability to heterogeneous architectures. More specifically, we study different approaches to port the code to architectures consisting of multi-core CPUs equipped with one or more coprocessors such as Nvidia GPUs and Intel Xeon Phis. Our final code attains over 70\% of the architectures' peak performance, and outperforms Nvidia's and Intel's libraries. Finally, on JURECA, the supercomputer where FLEUR is often executed, the code takes advantage of the full power of the computing nodes, attaining $5\times$ speedup over the sole use of the CPUs.
description: 22 pages, submitted to special issue of CCPE
Does solar structure vary with solar magnetic activity?
Creators: name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Mandel, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence that solar structure changes with changes in solar activity. We find that the adiabatic index, Gamma_1, changes near the second helium ionization, i.e., at a depth of about 0.98 R_sun. We believe that this change is a result of the change in the effective equation of state caused by magnetic fields. Inversions should be able to detect the changes in Gamma_1 if mode sets with reliable and precise high-degree modes are available.
description: To appear in ApJ Letters
Impurity-induced transition to a Mott insulator in Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Mathieu, R.
name: Asamitsu, A.
name: Kaneko, Y.
name: He, J. P.
name: Yu, X. Z.
name: Kumai, R.
name: Onose, Y.
name: Takeshita, N.
name: Arima, T.
name: Takagi, H.
name: Tokura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electrical, magnetic, and structural properties of Sr$_3$(Ru$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$)$_2$O$_7$ (0 $\leq x \leq$ 0.2) are investigated. The parent compound Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ is a paramagnetic metal, critically close to magnetic order. We have found that, with a Ru-site doping by only a few percent of Mn, the ground state is switched from a paramagnetic metal to an antiferromagnetic insulator. Optical conductivity measurements show the opening of a gap as large as 0.1 eV, indicating that the metal-to-insulator transition is driven by the electron correlation. The complex low-temperature antiferromagnetic spin arrangement, reminiscent of those observed in some nickelates and manganites, suggests a long range orbital order.
description: REVTeX 4 style; 5 pages, 4 figures
Theoretical Models of the Halo Occupation Distribution: Separating Central and Satellite Galaxies
Creators: name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Berlind, Andreas A.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Benson, Andrew J.
name: Baugh, Carlton M.
name: Cole, Shaun
name: Dave, Romeel
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Katz, Neal
name: Lacey, Cedric G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relation between galaxies and dark matter at the level of individual dark matter halos. The properties of galaxies residing at the centers of halos differ from those of satellite galaxies because of differences in their formation histories. Using a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation and a semi-analytic (SA) galaxy formation model, we examine the separate contributions of central and satellite galaxies to the HOD, more specifically to the probability P(N|M) that a halo of virial mass M contains N galaxies of a particular class. In agreement with earlier results for dark matter subhalos, we find that the mean occupation function for galaxies above a baryonic mass threshold can be approximated by a step function for central galaxies plus a power law for satellites, and that the distribution of satellite numbers is close to Poisson at fixed halo mass. For galaxy samples defined by different baryonic mass thresholds, there is a nearly linear relation between the minimum halo mass Mmin required to host a central galaxy and the mass M1 at which an average halo hosts one satellite, with M1 ~ 14 Mmin (SPH) or M1 ~ 18 Mmin (SA). The mean occupation number of young galaxies exhibits a local minimum at M ~ 10 Mmin where halos are too massive to host a young central galaxy but not massive enough to host satellites. We show that the conditional galaxy mass function at fixed halo mass cannot be described by a Schechter function because central galaxies produce a "bump" at high masses. We suggest parameterizations for the HOD and the conditional luminosity function that can be used to model observed galaxy clustering. Many of our predictions are in good agreement with recent results inferred from clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
description: 38 pages, 13 figures. Figures are added to show model predictions on CLF and the conditional mass distribution of halos hosting galaxies at fixed luminosity. Accepted for publication in ApJ
The growing trend towards political secularization in Iran : a deviant case
Creators: name: Monsef, Camran
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The prevailing view about the Muslim world is that it is moving towards embracing Islamism and rejecting secularism and modernity. The thesis of this paper is that there is a demand for political secularization in Iran which makes Iran stand out as a deviant case. This paper seeks first to explain the historical context of the current situation, to illustrate how certain factors out of the past have a direct bearing on the political setting today, and then to examine the agents and manifestations of this demand for secularization in contemporary Iran. The methodology used is that of deviant and interpretive case studies. Secularization theory and Modernization theory are broken down and analyzed in the Iranian context. Contrary to the predictions of many theorists, modernization is not always unilinear and all-encompassing. Some areas progress, while others regress. The general conclusion of this thesis is that the demand for political secularization has been expressed through, and can be seen in, societal unrest, voting patterns, and opposition activities. Advances have been made towards modernization in areas such as education and the media, but retreats from modernization in such areas as a rational basis for government can also be seen. This thesis concludes that the retreat to tradition through a political system that is a strict theocracy—a system never before experienced in Iran— coupled with regime repression, have turned many Iranians against the idea of Islamism and have exacerbated the demand for secularization on a political level.
Human Milk: An Invisible Food Resource
Creators: name: Hatloy, Anne
name: Oshaug, Arne
name: Hatloy, Anne
name: Oshaug, Arne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: Food Security
subject: Human Nutrition
subject: Public health

description: Human milk is a food that meets all conditions for an infant's nutrition security and is the most important food for more than 10 percent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa (children less than three years of age). Statistics on production of human milk at local and national levels are lacking for Africa. In this paper, the quantity of human milk production in Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe is estimated. The annual production in the urban and rural areas in a county in Mali is estimated at 13 and 17 kilograms per capita, respectively. National annual median production is estimated to be between 144,000 (Mali) and 1.3 million metric tons (Nigeria), and production per capita between 8 (Zimbabwe) and 15 kilograms per year (Mali). In Sub-Saharan Africa, the production of human milk is about 50 percent of that of cow's milk. The paper argues that overlooking human milk production/consumption in data analysis and policymaking has negative consequences for children's health and nutritional status.
Is there an Intrahousehold Flypaper Effect? : Evidence from a School Feeding Program
Creators: name: Jacoby, Hanan G.
name: Jacoby, Hanan G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food Security
subject: Philippines
subject: Resource Allocation
subject: School Children
subject: Food
subject: Child Feeding

description: Are public transfers targeted toward children largely neutralized by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold “flypaper effect” whereby such transfers “stick” to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding program on child caloric intake in the Philippines. Because children are interviewed on school days and nonschool days, and because some schools offer a feeding program and others do not, the dietary impact of the program is identified under mild restrictions. The empirical results confirm an intrahousehold flypaper effect; indeed, they indicate virtually no intrahousehold reallocation of calories in response to the feeding program. In poorer households, however, children’s gains from the program appear to be “taxed” more heavily.
Almost formality of quasi-Sasakian and Vaisman manifolds with applications to nilmanifolds
Creators: name: Cappelletti-Montano, Beniamino
name: De Nicola, Antonio
name: Marrero, Juan Carlos
name: Yudin, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 53C55, 53D35, 55P62

description: We provide models that are as close as possible to being formal for a large class of compact manifolds that admit a transversely Kaehler structure, including Vaisman and quasi-Sasakian manifolds. As an application we are able to classify the corresponding nilmanifolds.
description: 33 pages, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics
Plant Breeding: A Long-term Strategy for the Control of Zinc Deficiency in Vulnerable Populations
Creators: name: Ruel, Marie T.
name: Bouis, Howarth E.
name: Ruel, Marie T.
name: Bouis, Howarth E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Human Nutrition
subject: Minerals
subject: Planting Breeding

description: Because trace minerals are important not only for human nutrition, but for plant nutrition as well, plant breeding holds great promise for making a significant low-cost and sustainable contribution to reducing micronutrient deficiencies in humans, and may have important spinoff effects for increasing farm productivity in developing countries in an environmentally beneficial way. This paper describes ongoing plant breeding research that could increase the intake of bioavailable zinc from food staple crops among vulnerable populations in developing countries. The three most promising plant breeding strategies to achieve this goal are (1) increasing the concentration of zinc in the plant, (2) reducing the amount of phytic acid (a strong inhibitor of zinc absorption), and (3) raising the levels of sulfur-containing amino acids (which are thought to promote zinc absorption). The agronomic advantages and disadvantages as well as the potential benefits and limitations of each approach for human nutrition are described. Research is currently underway to identify the optimal combination of these approaches that will maximize impact on human zinc nutrition.
PRODUCTOS ORGÁNICOS; AGRONEGOCIO EXITOSO EN MÉXICO
Creators: name: Martinez Salazar, Gerardo M.
name: Oaxaca Torres, Jesus
name: Guerra Martinez, Rodrigo
name: Martinez Salazar, Gerardo M.
name: Oaxaca Torres, Jesus
name: Guerra Martinez, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In this research, we present information about the valuable net analysis of organic products in Mexico, especially in the exportation business net. The first instrument of this analysis was applied to 108 organic farmers and/or exporters with the objective to know some economics aspects and opinion about expectations of organic market and governmental intervention. In the other hand to visualize of contrast opinion was diligent a second instrument to know the opinion of investigators, certifies, organic farmers, exporters, civil servants and agronomy and adjacent students with respect to SWOT analysis framework for organic agriculture in Mexico. As a result of this, we obtained data about sales volume, margin profit, diversity of exportation destinies, difference of prices respect to conventional products, etc. Also we got the opportunity to appreciate the market perception in name of merchants and other agents related with relative aspects to opportunities and challenges of this sector.
Quantum trajectory analysis for electrical detection of single-electron spin resonance
Creators: name: Jin, Jinshuang
name: Guo, Jianhong
name: Luo, Junyan
name: Li, Xin-Qi
name: Yan, YiJing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Monte Carlo simulation on the basis of quantum trajectory approach is carried out for the measurement dynamics of a single electron spin resonance. The measured electron, which is confined in either a quantum dot or a defect trap, is tunnel-coupled to a side reservoir and continuously monitored by a mesoscopic detector. The simulation not only recovers the observed telegraphic signal of detector current, but also predicts unique features in the output power spectrum which are associated with electron dynamics in different regimes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Additional file 1 of Knowledge and stigma of latent tuberculosis infection in Brazil: implications for tuberculosis prevention strategies
Creators: name: Rebeiro, Peter F.
name: Cohen, Mollie J.
name: Ewing, Heather M.
name: Figueiredo, Marina Cruvinel
name: Peetluk, Lauren Saag
name: Kleydson B. Andrade
name: Eakin, Marshall
name: Zechmeister, Elizabeth J.
name: Sterling, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. TB/Zika questions and allocation in AmericasBarometer survey in Brazil. TBQ3 and TBK7A did not have clearly correct answers, so they were excluded from analyses. Figure S2. Knowledge of LTBI and incidence of TB in Brazil from adjusted regression models. Table S1. Tuberculosis incidence in study survey sites, by region, state, and municipality in Brazil. Table S2. Knowledge and health-seeking behavior of tuberculosis disease and latent tuberculosis infection. Table S3. Avoidance behavior and stigma towards persons with tuberculosis. Table S4. Avoidance behavior and stigma towards persons with zika virus infection. Table S5. Associations between knowledge of TB and stigmatizing attitudes toward Zika. Survey-weighted logistic model odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals), after adjusting for clinical and demographic factors, including region of Brazil, and stratified by municipality. Table S6. Evaluating knowledge of TB as a mediator of the influence of TB incidence on avoidance behavior and stigmatizing attitudes toward TB. Survey-weighted odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals), after adjusting for clinical and demographic factors, including region of Brazil, and stratified by municipality. Table S7. Clinical and demographic characteristics of the survey-weighted study population receiving the TB-specific stigma-related questions and Zika-specific stigma-related questions.
APRENDIZAJE Y VINCULACIÓN ENTRE UNIVERSIDADES Y SECTORES PRODUCTIVOS
Creators: name: Zayas Barreras, Rosa Armida
name: Lopez Leyva, Santos
name: Romero Lozoya, Marisol
name: Mazo Sandoval, Isabel Cristina
name: Zayas Barreras, Imelda
name: Zayas Barreras, Rosa Armida
name: Lopez Leyva, Santos
name: Romero Lozoya, Marisol
name: Mazo Sandoval, Isabel Cristina
name: Zayas Barreras, Imelda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Learning
subject: Entailment
subject: Productive Sectors and Institutions of Higher Education .

description: The learning and technological change needs of the companies have been modified as well as their relations of entailment with the Institutions of Higher Education with the evolution of the world-wide economy. Another reality have been formed, under the premises of the preparation to harness the factors of regional natural resources and of the environment, as well as the capacity and creativity of the producer like main factors of development. The objective of this research was to analyze the process used for the learning and use of the technological innovation in the enterprises and their position, respect to the entailment for the formation of innovating human resource, looking for the approach between the human resource training institutions and the enterprise activity in the region of the Evora. With the approach of these objectives, we could know the form in which the companies carry out their process of learning on the technological innovation and how technology is changing. This was done mainly through interviews with employers in the North Central Zone of the State of Sinaloa, investigating the learning processes of innovation and technological change in companies, as well as their considerations with regard to the process of joint formation between company and school, of human resources with emphasis in the innovation. A new proposal of work for the formation of human resources that combines the interests of companies and schools must begin to existing reality to manage to overcome the present condition. Finally any action to prosper in an approach of the learning oriented technological innovation requires an attitude ready by the main actors in the learning process, mainly employers and those responsible of Institutions of Higher Education in their role as managers of he conditions and means to the learning.