cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Octahedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (OAPS and OG) - Polyimide hybrid nanocomposite films: Thermo-mechanical, dielectric and morphology properties
Creators: name: Nagendiran, Shanmugam
name: Ayyavu Chandramohan
name: Kannaiyan Dinakaran
name: Muthukaruppan Alagar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The nano-sized SQS based polyimides have been successfully synthesized with different oxide groups such as phosphineoxide, sulfone and siloxane as in the backbone of polymer. The SQS-Polyimide nanocomposites prepared through the condensation process using amine and epoxy functionalized SQS as precursor. The presence of SQS in the resulting polyimide nanocomposites was confirmed by FTIR and XRD analyses. The presence of SQS and greatly enhances the char yield to an extent of 16% when compared to that of neat polyimide. The incorporation of SQS into polyimide lowered the value of dielectric constant from 3.31 to 2.09 at 1 MHz and the value of thermal expansion coefficient from 56.6 to 42.7 ppm/K. The composites sample prepared using 20 wt% SQS possess the lowest value of dielectric constant and CTE value. The hydrophobic nature of SQS contributes to lower the water uptake of composites from a value of 2.76 (neat polyimide) to 2.42 for POS-PI containing 20 wt% SQS. Further, the SQS polyimide composite systems possess the enhanced values of thermal stability and glass transition temperatures according their percentage weight. Data obtained from different studies, it is suggested that these hybrid composites can be used as an effective insulation materials for high performance microelectronics applications.
Domain-wall fermions and chiral symmetries
Creators: name: Aoki, Sinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate chiral properties of the domain-wall fermion (DWF) system. After a brief introduction for the DWF, we summarize the recent numerical results on the chiral properties of the domain-wall QCD (DWQCD), which seem mutually inconsistent. We next derive a formula which connects a chiral symmetry breaking term in the five dimensional DWF Ward-Takahashi identity with the four-dimensional hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator. Based on this formula, we propose a solution, which resolves the inconsistency among recent numerical data, and give a consistent picture of the chiral properties of the DWQCD.
description: LaTex(espcrc2.sty), 7 pages, 8 figures, Talk given at Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics, 9-18 July, 2001, Cairns, Australia
AREN Launch Nov. 2023
Creators: name: Boakye, Emmanuel
name: Elkheir, Lamis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This was a presentation done by Emmanuel Boakye at the AREN virtual launch event on the 22nd of November 2023. It briefly introduces AREN, presents our plan and strategy, and completes with an overview of our community survey data. The survey data was obtained from researchers who signed up to join our community.
IMPACT of the Expected CROP YIELD On the Soybean MARKET In Parana
Creators: name: Adami, Andreia Cristina De Oliveira
name: Ozaki, Vitor Augusto
name: Adami, Andreia Cristina De Oliveira
name: Ozaki, Vitor Augusto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: soybeans
subject: expectations
subject: physical market

description: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of variations in the area and expected yield of soybeans in the Parana state on the market prices. To determine the temporal relationships of precedence among the variables we applied the Granger causality test. The equation for growth rate of the VAR model indicate that only de expection yield and price (5% significance), both in the first time difference, were important to predict the prices behavior. For area, the constant of the model and the first time price difference are important to help explain the growth of the soybean area.
Strange anti-particle to particle ratios at mid-rapidity in sqrt(s_NN)= 130 GeV Au+Au Collisions
Creators: name: Adams, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Values of the ratios in the mid-rapidity yields of anti-Lambda/Lambda = 0.71 +/- 0.01(stat.) +/- 0.04(sys.), anti-Xi+/Xi- = 0.83 +/- 0.04(stat.) +/- 0.05 (sys.), anti-Omega+/Omega- = 0.95 +/- 0.15(stat) +/- 0.05(sys.) and K+/K- 1.092 +/- 0.023(combined) were obtained in central sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV Au+Au collisions using the STAR detector. The ratios indicate that a fraction of the net-baryon number from the initial system is present in the excess of hyperons over anti-hyperons at mid-rapidity. The trend in the progression of the baryon ratios, with increasing strange quark content, is similar to that observed in heavy-ion collisions at lower energies. The value of these ratios may be related to the charged kaon ratio in the framework of simple quark-counting and thermal models.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, revtex4, now accepted by Physics Letters B. All figures improved for clarity, fig. 2 now has kaon ratio separated by technique, fig. 3 now has additional other RHIC data points. Minor clarifications in text in response to referee comments. Updated refs
When the goal is to generate a series of activities: A self-organized simulated robot arm
Creators: name: Koglin, Tim
name: Sándor, Bulcsú
name: Gros, Claudius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Behavior is characterized by sequences of goal-oriented conducts, such as food uptake, socializing and resting. Classically, one would define for each task a corresponding satisfaction level, with the agent engaging, at a given time, in the activity having the lowest satisfaction level. Alternatively, one may consider that the agent follows the overarching objective to generate sequences of distinct activities. To achieve a balanced distribution of activities would then be the primary goal, and not to master a specific task. In this setting, the agent would show two types of behaviors, task-oriented, and task-searching phases, with the latter interseeding the former. We study the emergence of autonomous task switching for the case of a simulated robot arm. Grasping one of several moving objects corresponds in this setting to a specific activity. Overall, the arm should follow a given object temporarily and then move away, in order to search for a new target and reengage. We show that this behavior can be generated robustly when modeling the arm as an adaptive dynamical system. The dissipation function is in this approach time dependent. The arm is in a dissipative state when searching for a nearby object, dissipating energy on approach. Once close, the dissipation function starts to increase, with the eventual sign change implying that the arm will take up energy and wander off. The resulting explorative state ends when the dissipation function becomes again negative and the arm selects a new target. We believe that our approach may be generalized to generate self-organized sequences of activities in general.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Hadronic Mass Moments in Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decays
Creators: name: Cronin-Hennessy, D.
name: Collaboration, CLEO
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the first and second moments of the hadronic mass-squared distribution in B -> X_c l nu, for P(lepton) > 1.5 GeV/c. We find = 0.251 +- 0.066 GeV^2, < (M_X^2 -)^2 > = 0.576 +- 0.170 GeV^4, where M_D[Bar] is the spin-averaged D meson mass. From that first moment and the first moment of the photon energy spectrum in b -> s gamma, we find the HQET parameter lambda_1 (MS[Bar], to order 1/M^3 and beta_0 alpha_s^2) to be -0.24 +- 0.11 GeV^2. Using these first moments and the B semileptonic width, and assuming parton-hadron duality, we obtain |V_cb| = 0.0404 +- 0.0013.
description: 11 pages postscript, also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to PRL
Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on the lattice
Creators: name: Montvay, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent development in numerical simulations of supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theories on the lattice is reviewed.
description: 37 pages, 10 figures
Buffer zone income dynamics for the sub-district producer community: Implications for rural off-farm income, income inequality and the development of household agriculture.
Creators: name: Taruvinga, Amon
name: Mushunje, Abbyssinia
name: Taruvinga, Amon
name: Mushunje, Abbyssinia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Buffer zone incomes
subject: income inequality
subject: household agriculture

description: This paper explores the role of buffer zones in household welfare in Zimbabwe by using primary household level data collected between November and December 2010 from communities that share boundaries with Nyatana Game Park. The descriptive statistics suggest that the contribution of buffer zone activities to household income may be significant, with a positive correlation to household agricultural income for communities that reside inside or close to the Park. Using the Gini decomposition approach and Lorenz curves, the paper further suggest that buffer zone income may be capable of contributing to more equally distributed incomes for rural communities who share boundaries with Game Parks. The implied message is that buffer zones may provide active livelihood sources capable of financing rural household agriculture and reducing income inequality. However, this potential may not be realized because of the current buffer zone design status (created for local secondary use, not for commercial primary use), restrictive policies, high predation, poorly defined buffer zone boundaries and poor institutional support. Need therefore arises to address current barriers as suggested by regression estimates for correlates of household income. This will promote households’ adaptation abilities hence marrying conservation and rural development using positive harvests from buffer zones as incentives for wildlife conservation.
Introduction to Optical/IR Interferometry: history and basic principles
Creators: name: Surdej, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present notes refer to a lecture delivered on 27 September 2017 in Roscoff during the 2017 Evry Schatzman School. It concerns a general introduction to optical/IR interferometry, including a brief history, a presentation of the basic principles, some important theorems and relevant applications.The layout of these lecture notes is as follows. After a short introduction, we proceed with some reminders concerning the representation of a field of electromagnetic radiation. We then present a short history of interferometry, from the first experiment of Fizeau and Stefan to modern optical interferometers. We then discuss the notions of light coherence, including the van Cittert - Zernicke theorem and describe the principle of interferometry using two telescopes. We present some examples of modern interferometers and typical results obtained with these. Finally, we address three important theorems: the fundamental theorem, the convolution theorem and the Wiener-Khinchin theorem which enable to get a better insight into the field of optical/IR interferometry.
description: 45 pages, based on a lecture given at the 2017 edition of the Evry Schatzman school, dedicated to the high-angular resolution imaging of stars and their direct environment. Videos "Introduction to Optical/Infrared Interferometry" IUCCA, PUNE, INDIA, 2018, 10 hours lectures https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/223150 & https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgbVWzVdxoUtI_223J1QEwIeKrzWMVMC1
Magnetic effect from non-magnetic impurity in superconducting CuO_{2} plane
Creators: name: Loktev, V. M.
name: Pogorelov, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new model for impurity center formed by a cathion substitute for Cu, like Zn, in CuO_{2} planes. Its main effect on superconducting electrons is due to the non-zero exchange field on O sites, neighbors to the (non-magnetic) impurity. We discuss a strong suppression of d-wave order parameter, a zero- energy resonance in local density of states, and spin polarization of charge carriers, which can be related to the experimentally observed effects in Zn-doped copper oxides. These results are obtained \emph{without} using the unitary scattering limit.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Europhys. Lett
An injectable dosimeter for small animal irradiations
Creators: name: Garty, Guy
name: Pujol, Monica C.
name: Brenner, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a novel in-vivo dosimeter based on glass encapsulated TLD rods. These encapsulated rods can be injected into mice and used for validating doses to an individual mouse in a protracted irradiation scenario where the mouse is free to move in an inhomogenous radiation field. Data from 30 irradiated mice shows a reliable dose reconstruction within 10% of the nominal delivered dose.
Additional file 4 of Cost of illness for childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of evidence and modelled estimates
Creators: name: Baral, Ranju
name: Nonvignon, Justice
name: Debellut, Frédéric
name: Agyemang, Samuel Agyei
name: Clark, Andrew
name: Pecenka, Clint
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Modelled cost of illness (2015 USD) estimates by country, using IHME service delivery unit cost estimates.
Search for a fermiophobic Higgs at LEP 2
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abreu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgs bosons predicted by the fermiophobic scenario within Two Higgs Doublets Models were searched for in the data collected by the DELPHI detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 202 GeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 380 pb^{-1}. No signal was found and confidence limits were derived in the framework of possible extensions of the Standard Model Higgs sector.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, Accepted by Phys. Lett. B
Fragment Production in Non-central Collisions of Intermediate Energy Heavy Ions
Creators: name: Davin, B.
name: Alfaro, R.
name: Xu, H.
name: Beaulieu, L.
name: Larochelle, Y.
name: Lefort, T.
name: Yanez, R.
name: Hudan, S.
name: Caraley, A. L.
name: de Souza, R. T.
name: Liu, T. X.
name: Liu, X. D.
name: Lynch, W. G.
name: Shomin, R.
name: Tan, W. P.
name: Tsang, M. B.
name: Molen, A. Vander
name: Wagner, A.
name: Xi, H. F.
name: Gelbke, C. K.
name: Charity, R. J.
name: Sobotka, L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The defining characteristics of fragment emission resulting from the non-central collision of 114Cd ions with 92Mo target nuclei at E/A = 50 MeV are presented. Charge correlations and average relative velocities for mid-velocity fragment emission exhibit significant differences when compared to standard statistical decay. These differences associated with similar velocity dissipation are indicative of the influence of the entrance channel dynamics on the fragment production process.
Proterochersis intermedia Fraas 1913
Creators: name: Szczygielski, Tomasz
name: Sulej, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Proterochersidae
Proterochersis
Proterochersis intermedia

description: PROTEROCHERSIS INTERMEDIA   Both Proterochersis robusta and Proterochersis intermedia were named in the same paper by Fraas (1913) on the basis of turtle material from the same strata (Norian, Lowenstein Formation) and region (area around Stuttgart) of Germany. According to Fraas (1913), Proterochersis intermedia differs from Proterochersis robusta in shell curvature and plastron thickness. Such discrimination is problematic for two reasons. Firstly, Fraas (1913) had only two specimens at his disposal, thus having no insight into ontogenetic and intraspecific variability. Secondly, the holotype of Proterochersis intermedia is fragmentary, possibly compacted, and its overall shape most likely changed during restoration (see description of SMNS 11396 in Material and methods). Additionally, our studies on turtle material from the lower Lowenstein Formation demonstrate that the height and curvature of the shells may vary, possibly ontogenetically, taphonomically, or diagenetically, not only between several otherwise morphologically identical specimens, but also between two sides of the same specimen (SMNS 17757). The putative fontanelles between rib endings of Proterochersis intermedia were considered by Fraas to be juvenile characteristics and specific at the same time, whereas we consider them to be artefacts of preservation. The rib tips, which seem to protrude from the distal ends of the first two preserved costal plates (thus bordering ‘fontanelles’) are in fact painted plaster, as shown by the fracture in one of them. No actual bone material indicates their existence. Even if any real bone fragments are embedded in this part, the interpretation of their nature is impossible, but most likely they originated from breakage or weathering. Although the internal mould might have been informative in that case, the condition cannot be inferred from it because the corresponding part is also entirely reconstructed. The only comparable diagnostic part, the fragment of plastron, is structurally identical, with the exception of thickness. Changes in thickness of plastron may be attributed to intraspecific diversity, age of the specimens, or sexual dimorphism. Bearing this in mind, the validity of Proterochersis intermedia is doubtful. Therefore, there is no basis to distinguish between Proterochersis robusta and Proterochersis intermedia, and the latter should be synonymized with the former.
description: Published as part of Szczygielski, Tomasz & Sulej, Tomasz, 2016, Revision of the Triassic European turtles Proterochersis and Murrhardtia (Reptilia, Testudinata, Proterochersidae), with the description of new taxa from Poland and Germany, pp. 395-427 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 177 (2) on page 406, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12374, http://zenodo.org/record/5364971
Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant from Inclusive Jet Production at the Tevatron $\bar pp$ Collider
Creators: name: Affolder, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of the strong coupling constant, $α_s(M_Z)$, extracted from inclusive jet production in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$1800 GeV. The QCD prediction for the evolution of $α_s$ with jet transverse energy $E_T$ is tested over the range 40
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, using RevTeX. Submitted to Physical Review Letters
DMS Accelerator monitoring surveys
Creators: name: Priestley, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open innovation
business accelerators
startups & SMEs

description: This project contains extended data to support the article "Measuring the impact of publicly funded open innovation programmes: the case of Data Market Services Accelerator" by Priestley M, Simperl E, Juc C and Anguiano M. The following documents are provided: DMS Impact Survey template (for cohorts 1 and 2) DMS Needs Analysis Survey template The templates are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0). Additional information regarding DMS Accelerator is available at: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825014
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel androst-17β-amide structurally related compounds as dual 5α-reductase inhibitors and androgen receptor antagonists
Creators: name: Kejing Lao
name: Guoliang Xun
name: Xingchun Gou
name: Xiang, Hua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second leading cause of death in men. Apart from androgen receptor, 5α-reductase has also been recognized as a potential target. In this study, a series of androst-17β-amide compounds have been designed and synthesized targeting both AR and 5α-reductase. Their anti-proliferation activities were evaluated in AR + cell line 22RV1 and AR − cell line PC-3. The results indicated that most of the synthesized compounds inhibited the testosterone-stimulated cell proliferation with good selectivity and safety. Among all the compounds, androst[3,2-c]pyrazole derivatives (9a–9d) displayed the best inhibition activity comparable with flutamide. Moreover, most of the synthesized compounds displayed good 5α-reductase inhibitory activities with IC50 lower than 1 μM. The docking result of 9d-AR indicated that AR was forced to expands its binding cavity and maintain an antagonistic conformation since the steric hindrance of 9d impeded H12 transposition. Overall, compound 9d can be identified as a potential dual 5α-reductase inhibitor and AR antagonist, which might be of therapeutic importance for PCa treatment.
Antrops siberia KITS & MARSHALL 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: KITS, JOEL H.
name: MARSHALL, STEPHEN A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Antrops
Antrops siberia

description: Antrops siberia sp. nov.
(Figs. 8, 79–81, 211)
 Description. As described for A. coniobaptos. Face mostly shiny with a broad band of microtomentum below antenna and lunule. Ocellar and posterior orbital bristles absent. Number of pseudotrachea on labellum not discernable on available specimens. Anepisternum with microtomentum ventrally from spiracle to posteroventral corner. Hind tibia with 2 ventroapical bristles.
Male postabdomen: Sternite 5 broad, posterior margin about half as wide as anterior, with detached lateral lobes, anterior apodeme long, broad, without keel (Fig. 81). Surstylus curved, narrow apically (Fig. 80). Pregonite small, distinct. Postgonite with lobes widely separated, anterior lobe narrow, rounded, posterior lobe broader, pointed. Basiphallus without distinct epiphallus or preepiphallus. Distiphallus with a short, straight, smooth dorsal tube (Fig. 79).
Female unknown.
 Type material. Holotype ♂: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz: Yungas de la Siberia, 26.4 km NW Comarapa, 17°49'37"S 64°39'11"W, 2640 m, Yungas, mixed litter, 28 Jan 1999, R. Anderson, debu00127195 (UASC). Paratype: same data as holotype (1 ♂, DEBU).
 Comments. The species name is derived from the type locality, and should be treated as a noun in apposition. This species is quite similar to A. coniobaptos; see that species for a discussion.
description: Published as part of KITS, JOEL H. & MARSHALL, STEPHEN A., 2013,
  Generic classification of the Archiborborinae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), with a revision of  Antrops  Enderlein,  Coloantrops  gen. nov.,  Maculantrops  gen. nov.,  Photoantrops  gen. nov., and  Poecilantrops  gen. nov.  , pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3704 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3704.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507447
Glucose:urea:NH4Cl low melting mixture for the synthesis of symmetric azines
Creators: name: Letcy V. Theresa
name: M. Shaibuna
name: K. Sreekumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Alternate reaction media have become very important due to the problems created by the highly volatile nature of the solvents. The deep eutectic mixture is a kind of an alternate reaction medium which has emerged in recent years. Low melting mixtures were introduced by making the deep eutectic mixture more cost-effective and renewable by introducing carbohydrates into it. The properties of low melting mixtures include easiness to prepare, usage of low-cost components, biodegradability, solubility in water, easy separation from organic compounds, etc. The low melting mixtures such as glucose:urea:NH4Cl, glucose:ChCl, glucose:urea:ChCl, glycerol:urea:NH4Cl, and ethylene glycol:urea:NH4Cl were used in different ratios for the reactions. The properties such as viscosity, density, acidity, glass transition temperature, and thermal stability were studied. An unusual method for the synthesis of symmetrical azines is introduced wherein benzaldehyde and hydroxylamine are reacted in the presence of glucose:urea:NH4Cl. The method of synthesis needs only less reaction time, temperature and the product was easily separated. The products were confirmed using GC-MS and NMR techniques. The recyclability of glucose:urea:NH4Cl was studied.
The structure of magnetic turbulence in the heliosheath region observed by Voyager 2 at 106 AU
Creators: name: Fraternale, Federico
name: Pogorelov, Nikolai V
name: Richardson, John D
name: Tordella, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is currently believed that the turbulent fluctuations pervade the outermost heliosphere. Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and their link may be responsible for magnetic energy conversion in these regions. The governing mechanisms of such anisotropic and compressible magnetic turbulence in the inner heliosheath (IHS) and in the local interstellar medium (LISM) still lack a thorough description. The present literature mainly concerns large scales which are not representative of the inertial-cascade dynamics of turbulence. Moreover, lack of broadband spectral analysis makes the IHS dynamics critically understudied. Our recent study shows that 48 s magnetic-field data from the Voyager mission are appropriate for a spectral analysis over a frequency range of six decades, from 5 x 10-8 Hz to 10-2 Hz. Here, focusing on the Voyager 2 observation interval from 2013.824 to 2016.0, we describe the structure of turbulence in a sector zone of the IHS. A spectral break around 7 x 10-7 Hz (magnetic structures with size l~1.3 Astronomical Units) separates the energy-injection regime from the inertial-cascade regime of turbulence. A second scale is observed around 6 x 10-5 Hz (l~ 0.017 AU) and corresponds to a peak of compressibility and intermittency of fluctuations.
description: 10
Measurement of V_{cb} from the decay process \bar{B^0} -> D^{*+} \ell^- \barν
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abreu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new precise measurement of |V_{cb}| and of the branching ratio BR(\bar{B^0} -> D^{*+} \ell^- \bar{ν_\ell}) has been performed using a sample of about 5000 semileptonic decays \bar{B^0} -> D^{*+} \ell^- \bar{ν_\ell}, selected by the DELPHI detector at LEP I by tagging the soft pion from D^{*+} -> D^0 π^+. The results are: V_{cb}=(39.0 +/- 1.5 (stat.) ^{+2.5}_{-2.6} (syst. exp.) +/- 1.3 (syst. th.)) x 10^{-3} BR(\bar{B^0} -> D^{*+} \ell^- \bar{ν_\ell})=(4.70 +/- 0.13 (stat.) ^{+0.36}_{-0.31} (syst. exp.))% The analytic dependences of the differential cross-section and of the Isgur Wise form factor as functions of the variable w = v_{B^0}.v_{D^*} have also been obtained by unfolding the experimental resolution.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by Phys. Lett. B; typo corrected, reference updated
Bisphenol A removal from a plastic industry wastewater by Dracaena sanderiana endophytic bacteria and Bacillus cereus NI
Creators: name: Bongkotrat Suyamud
name: Paitip Thiravetyan
name: Gadd, Geoffrey Michael
name: Bunyarit Panyapinyopol
name: Duangrat Inthorn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Understanding the significance of plant-endophytic bacteria for bisphenol A (BPA) removal is of importance for any application of organic pollutant phytoremediation. In this research, Dracaena sanderiana with endophytic Pantoea dispersa showed higher BPA removal than uninoculated plants at 89.54 ± 0.88% and 79.08 ± 1.20%, respectively. Quantitative Real-Time PCR (qPCR) showed that P. dispersa increased from 3.93 × 107 to 8.80 × 107 16S rRNA gene copy number in root tissues from day 0 to day 5 which indicated that it could assist the plant in removing BPA during the treatment period. pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total dissolved solids (TDS), conductivity, and salinity were reduced after 5 days of the experimental period. Particularly, BOD significantly decreased due to activities of the plants and microorganisms. Furthermore, an indigenous bacterial strain, Bacillus cereus NI, from the wastewater could remove BPA in high TDS and alkalinity condition of the wastewater. This work suggests that D. sanderiana plants could be used as a tertiary process in a wastewater treatment system and should be combined with its endophytic bacteria. In addition, B. cereus NI could also be applied for BPA removal from wastewaters with high TDS and salinity.
Modern Markets and Guava Farmers in Mexico
Creators: name: Hernandez, Ricardo
name: Berdegue, Julio A.
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Hernandez, Ricardo
name: Berdegue, Julio A.
name: Reardon, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Mexico
subject: horticulture
subject: supermarkets
subject: wholesale
subject: food markets
subject: rural development

description: This paper analyzes the participation of small farmers in the fresh fruit and vegetable supply systems of supermarkets in Mexico, using the case of small-scale guava farmers in the state of Michoacán. Several findings emerge. The most important determinants of access of these farmers to “more modern markets” channels are their territorial context and the way in which those territories interact with different markets, and their quasi-fixed capital assets. Farm size, education, and participation in organizations are not significant determinants (except for farm size in the Central Region). Policies and projects aimed at promoting the inclusion in modern markets of small-scale farmers such as those producing guava in Michoacán, must act on the territorial dimension of the problem of inclusion/exclusion, and not restrict themselves to actions aimed at improving the supply chains or the capacities of the households or their farms and organizations.
Mean field solution of the Ising model on a Barabasi-Albert network
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean field solution of the Ising model on a Barabasi-Albert scale-free network with ferromagnetic coupling between linked spins is presented. The critical temperature $T_c$ for the ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase transition (Curie temperature) is infinite and the effective critical temperature for a finite size system increases as the logarithm of the system size in agreement with recent numerical results of Aleksiejuk, Holyst and Stauffer.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Fish Drying in Indonesia: Some Economic Issues of Improved Technology
Creators: name: Quilkey, J. J.
name: Manurung, V. T.
name: Kasryno, Faisal
name: McColm, P. M.
name: Fawzya, Nuri
name: Saleh, Soetrisno
name: Gunawardana, P. J.
name: Quilkey, J. J.
name: Manurung, V. T.
name: Kasryno, Faisal
name: McColm, P. M.
name: Fawzya, Nuri
name: Saleh, Soetrisno
name: Gunawardana, P. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Salted fish is an important component of the Indonesian diet. However, little is known about the pattern of salted fish consumption in Indonesia. In this article a description and analysis of the pattern of fish consumption with respect to household expenditure and urban-rural stratification is presented. The database used in the analysis is SUSENAS 1981. Emphasis is given to the level of consumption per capita and the distribution of consumers. In general the result of the analysis shows that salted fish consumption and the proportion of households consuming dried fish is greater at higher levels of income. This indicates that the market for salted fish has good growth prospects under prevailing market conditions. It means the per capita demand prospects for salted fish in the domestic market are steady, over and above the increasing demand due to population growth and quality improvement through innovation in processing technology. Improvements in marketing and technology will have a positive impact on both fishermen and consumers.
Reduced group schemes as iterative differential Galois groups
Creators: name: Maurischat, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12H20 (Primary) 13B05, 34M50 (Secondary)

description: This article is on the inverse Galois problem in Galois theory of linear iterative differential equations in positive characteristic. We show that it has an affirmative answer for reduced algebraic group schemes over any iterative differential field which is finitely generated over its algebraically closed field of constants. We also introduce the notion of equivalence of iterative derivations on a given field - a condition which implies that the inverse Galois problem over equivalent iterative derivations are equivalent.
description: 13 pages
Photon Energy Dependence of Kerr Rotation in Chalcogenide Superlattices
Creators: name: Suzuki, Takara
name: Mondal, Richarj
name: Saito, Yuta
name: Fons, Paul
name: Kolobov, Alexander V.
name: Tominaga, Junji
name: Shigekawa, Hidemi
name: Hase, Muneaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on pump-probe based helicity dependent time-resolved Kerr measurements of chalcogenide superlattices, consisting of alternately stacked GeTe and Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ layers under infrared excitation. The Kerr rotation signal consists of the specular Inverse Faraday effect (SIFE) and the specular optical Kerr effect (SOKE), both of which are found to monotonically increase with decreasing photon energy over a sub-eV energy range. Although the dependence of the SIFE can be attributed to a response function of direct third-order nonlinear susceptibility, the magnitude of the SOKE reflects cascading second-order nonlinear susceptibility resulting from electronic transitions from bulk valence band to interface-originating Dirac states of the superlattice.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
On the Rise of the Proton Structure Function F_2 Towards Low x
Creators: name: H1 Collaboration
name: Adloff, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the derivative (d ln F_2 / d lnx)_(Q^2)= -lambda(x,Q^2) of the proton structure function F_2 is presented in the low x domain of deeply inelastic positron-proton scattering. For 5*10^(-5)<=x<=0.01 and Q^2>=1.5 GeV^2, lambda(x,Q^2) is found to be independent of x and to increase linearly with ln(Q^2).
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
On the diversity of stationary cosmologies in the first half of the twentieth century
Creators: name: Füzfa, E-A. Dubois A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Before the establishment of the hot Big Bang scenario as the modern paradigm of cosmology, it faced several early competitors : the so-called stationary cosmological models. There were truly plural and independent approaches incorporating cosmic expansion but without time evolution of the total cosmological density, thanks to the inclusion of some processes of continuous matter creation. We distinguish here three different independent motivations leading to a stationary vision of the universe. First, Einstein's concerns on the asymptotic behaviour of gravitation led him to consider continuous matter creation in a recently discovered unpublished work dated of 1931. Second, there is the quest by Dirac and Jordan for a scientific explanation of numerical coincidences in the values of fundamental constants, leading both to a time variation of Newton's constant and spontaneous matter creation. The third one appears in the steady-state theory of Bondi and Gold as the postulate of the Perfect Cosmological Principle according to which the properties of the universe do not depend in any way of the location and the epoch of the observer. Hoyle developed a mathematical model of spontaneous matter creation from a modification of general relativity that should be considered as a direct legacy of Einstein's and Dirac's approaches. Hoyle's model allows obtaining a "\textit{wide cosmological principle}" as an end-product, echoing Bondi and Gold's Perfect Cosmological Principle. Somewhat ironically, many modern key questions in hot Big Bang cosmology, like dark energy and inflation, can therefore be directly related to the physical motivations of the early stationary cosmologies.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Income Enhancing and Risk Management Properties of Marketing Practices
Creators: name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Tomek, William G.
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Tomek, William G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: A rational expectations storage model is used to simulate monthly corn prices, which are used to evaluate marketing strategies to manage price risk. The data are generated and analyzed in two formats: for long-run outcomes over 10,000 “years” of monthly prices and for 10,000 cases of 40-year “lifetimes.” Three categories of strategies are analyzed: frequency of post-harvest cash sales, unconditional hedges, and conditional hedges. The comparisons are based on the simulated probability distributions of net returns. One conclusion is that diversifying cash sales, without hedging, is not an efficient means of risk management. Unhedged storage does not reduce risk and, on average, reduces returns. The analysis of the 40- year lifetimes demonstrates, however, that rational decision-makers can face “lucky” and “unlucky” time periods. Thus, although the long-run analysis suggests that routine hedging reduces the variance (and the mean) of returns compared to the base case of selling in the spot market at harvest, the variance of returns (and their means) from both strategies will vary from lifetime to lifetime. Efficient strategies for producers with increasing utility functions vary from lifetime to lifetime, suggesting that efficient strategies likely vary from year-to-year. Nonetheless, strategies that take advantage of locking in returns to storage when relative prices are favorable are efficient in the second-degree sense and appear robust across different lifetimes. We also illustrate that conclusions are influenced by the measure of risk used. Perhaps the major conclusion is, however, that risk-management analysis is complex and potentially filled with pitfalls.
Interaction distance in the extended XXZ model
Creators: name: Patrick, Kristian
name: Caudrelier, Vincent
name: Papic, Zlatko
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the interaction distance to characterise the physics of a one-dimensional extended XXZ spin model, whose phase diagram consists of both integrable and non-integrable regimes, with various types of ordering, e.g., a gapless Luttinger liquid and gapped crystalline phases. We numerically demonstrate that the interaction distance successfully reveals the known behaviour of the model in its integrable regime. As an additional diagnostic tool, we introduce the notion of "integrability distance" and particularise it to the XXZ model in order to quantity how far the ground state of the extended XXZ model is from being integrable. This distance provides insight into the properties of the gapless Luttinger liquid phase in the presence of next-nearest neighbour spin interactions which break integrability.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Modes of transmission and attack rates of group A Streptococcal infection: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Barth, Dylan D.
name: Daw, Jessica
name: Xu, Ruomei
name: Enkel, Stephanie
name: Pickering, Janessa
name: McRae, Tracy
name: Engel, Mark E.
name: Carapetis, Jonathan
name: Wyber, Rosemary
name: Bowen, Asha C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1:. (Additional file 1.pdf) contains Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocol (PRISMA-P) checklist from which this protocol was written [58].
Leveraging Intermediate Representations for Better Out-of-Distribution Detection
Creators: name: Guglielmo, Gianluca
name: Masana, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.9

description: In real-world applications, machine learning models must reliably detect Out-of-Distribution (OoD) samples to prevent unsafe decisions. Current OoD detection methods often rely on analyzing the logits or the embeddings of the penultimate layer of a neural network. However, little work has been conducted on the exploitation of the rich information encoded in intermediate layers. To address this, we analyze the discriminative power of intermediate layers and show that they can positively be used for OoD detection. Therefore, we propose to regularize intermediate layers with an energy-based contrastive loss, and by grouping multiple layers in a single aggregated response. We demonstrate that intermediate layer activations improves OoD detection performance by running a comprehensive evaluation across multiple datasets.
description: Code is available at https://github.com/gigug/LIR
The Adoption of International Labor Standards Conventions: Who, What, and Why?
Creators: name: Chau, Nancy H.
name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Chau, Nancy H.
name: Kanbur, Ravi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Labor Standards
subject: Ratification of ILO Conventions
subject: Peer Effects.

description: The rati¯cation of ILO Labor Standards Conventions is a key explanatory variable in the empirical literature linking labor standards to economic performance. The assumption is that rati¯cation gives information on labor standards implemented in a country. This paper investigates the determinants of rati¯cation directly and, indirectly, the determinants of labor standards. We ¯nd considerable variation across di®erent Conventions, and across developing and developed countries. But there are some systematic and interesting patterns. While economic variables such as real per capita income do not explain rati¯cation, legal systems do. Most interestingly, for some Conventions, even after controlling for basic economic characteristics and domestic legal institutions, we ¯nd that peer e®ects are in play { the probability of adopting an international standard depends on how many other countries in a peer group have already adopted that standard.
title: Recurrent uncomplicated urinary tract infections: definitions and risk factors
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Cai, Tommaso
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine
subject: Urology

description: Introduction: Recurrent uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) have a high impact on patients’ quality of life and high direct and indirect costs for public health. Therefore, optimal management should be of high priority.
Methods: Current international guidelines were reviewed, and a systematic literature search was performed in Medline, Cochrane, and Embase.
Results: Several risks factors have been identified and used in everyday clinical practice to plan the correct strategy for recurrence prevention. Among all factors, the most important are: sexual intercourse, spermicide use, having a new sex partner, having a mother with a history of UTI, having had UTI during childhood, and asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment. Moreover, other risk factors such as reduced fluid intake, habitual and post-coital delayed urination, wiping from back to front after defecation, douching and wearing occlusive underwear, as well as irregular bowel function should be taken into account.
Conclusions: Recurrent UTI show a high impact on clinical practice. Risk factors are generally related to both virulence of pathogens and patient’s behavior or condition. A recently developed nomogram can assist in identifying women at high risk of symptomatic recurrence that can be suitable candidates for a prophylactic strategy.
description: Chapter of the Living Handbook Urogenital Infections and Inflammations