cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Information from Low costs of adaptation to dietary restriction
Creators: name: Moger-Reischer, Roy Z.
name: Snider, Elizabeth V.
name: McKenzie, Kelsey L.
name: Lennon, Jay T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Dietary restriction (DR) is the most successful and widespread means of extending organismal lifespan. However, the evolutionary basis of life extension under DR remains uncertain. The traditional evolutionary explanation is that when organisms experience DR, they allocate endogenous resources to survival and postpone reproduction until conditions improve. However, this life-extension strategy should be maladaptive if DR continues for multiple generations due to tradeoffs between longevity and reproduction. To test this prediction, we subjected the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to 1,800 generations of evolution on restricted versus non-restricted diets. Adaptation to a non-restricted diet improved reproductive fitness by 57%, but provided a much smaller (14%) advantage on a restricted diet. By contrast, adaptation to DR resulted in an approximately 35% increase in reproductive fitness on both restricted and non-restricted diets. Importantly, the life-extending effect of DR did not decrease following long-term evolution on the restricted diet. Thus, contrary to theoretical expectations, we found no evidence that the life-extending DR response became maladaptive during multigenerational DR. Together, our results suggest that the DR response has a low cost and that this phenomenon may have evolved as part of a generalist strategy that extends beyond the benefits of postponing reproduction.
Predicting intention to share news through social media: An empirical analysis in Indonesian youth context
Creators: name: Sihombing, Sabrina Oktaria
name: Sihombing, Sabrina Oktaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Information sharing
subject: entertainment
subject: socialization
subject: attitude
subject: intention

description: The development of digital technology encourages the growth of social media. Social media becomes a platform for sharing news, information, images, and many other things. News spreads faster and becomes viral. This phenomenon can be regarded as a "news-find-me" phenomenon. The aim of this research is to assess the relationship between information sharing, entertainment, and socialization as three main predictors of attitude towards news sharing. This research also assesses the relationship between attitude and intention to share news. The data was collected through a survey with the non-probability sampling technique. Specifically, a purposive sampling design involving 200 respondents was applied. The data then were analyzed by applying structural equation modeling. Results show that all research hypotheses were supported.
Leading off-diagonal contribution to the spectral form factor of chaotic quantum systems
Creators: name: Turek, M.
name: Richter, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We semiclassically derive the leading off-diagonal correction to the spectral form factor of quantum systems with a chaotic classical counterpart. To this end we present a phase space generalization of a recent approach for uniformly hyperbolic systems (M. Sieber and K. Richter, Phys. Scr. T90, 128 (2001); M. Sieber, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, L613 (2002)). Our results coincide with corresponding random matrix predictions. Furthermore, we study the transition from the Gaussian orthogonal to the Gaussian unitary ensemble.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. (accepted for publication)
Antecedents of Thai Select restaurant brand loyalty in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Sornsaruht, Puris
name: Sawmong, Sudaporn
name: Sornsaruht, Puris
name: Sawmong, Sudaporn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Brand association
subject: brand awareness
subject: brand image
subject: oriental food
subject: restauranteurs

description: This study examined the determinants of Thai Select restaurant brand loyalty which included restaurant brand image, staff service quality, perceived quality, brand awareness, and brand association on brand loyalty. Of the estimated 1,600 Thai restaurants within the United Kingdom, only 57 have been certified as having the authenticity and quality of Thai Select, which functions as a global branding effort for Thai restaurants by the Thai government. LISREL 9.1 was used to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modelling to test the 12 hypothesized interrelationships affecting overall brand loyalty. Questionnaires were administered to 550 patrons at 13 London metropolitan restaurants. Results showed that the latent variables staff service quality, brand awareness, restaurant brand image, brand awareness, and perceived quality had a total value of 0.88, 0.54, 0.47, 0.42, and 0.26, respectively. Specifically, dining patrons felt that the most important aspect of staff service quality was that the staff could communicate effectively, were knowledgeable about the food they served, and could deliver the food on time.
The Penrose inequality for perturbations of the Schwarzschild initial data
Creators: name: Kopiński, Jarosław
name: Tafel, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in the conformally flat case the Penrose inequality is satisfied for the Schwarzschild initial data with a small addition of the axially symmetric traceless exterior curvature. In this class the inequality is saturated only for data related to special sections of the Schwarzschild spacetime.
description: Paper accepted for publication in CQG
Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation
Creators: name: Lim, Sunghun
name: Lim, Sunghun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Global Value Chains
subject: Structural Transformation
subject: Agricultural Value Chains

description: Can the modern-day developing economies leapfrog manufacturing sector to directly to service sector through the global agricultural production? Global value chains (GVCs) has changed the nature of production around the world. Especially, the rise of global value chains (GVCs) in agriculture has been a salient feature of the world economy over recent years. Despite their importance for the world economy, it is, however, unclear whether participation in GVCs leads the structural transformation ─ that is, the move from an economy primarily based on agriculture to an economy primarily based on manufacture, and then on service. In this paper, I investigate the impact of the participation of GVCs in the agricultural sector on structural transformation in countries by using cross-country panel data for 183 countries (including 48 African countries) from 1990 to 2013. By using country-fixed effects, I find that in response to greater agricultural value chains participation, manufacturing employment remains stable, but employment in the services sector increases. In other words, modern-day developing economies are leapfrogging manufacturing to directly develop their services sector through GVCs in agriculture. This result is strongly and significantly robust to various model specifications with year fixed effects, regional-specific fixed effects, and time monotonicity. Also, by using alternative measures of structural transformation such as GDP shares by sectors or female employment shares, the results are still strongly robust. I measure the extent of agricultural GVCs by adopting the recent method by Wang et al. (NBER, 2017) at the country level. I control for agricultural trade policies, domestic policy to agriculture as well as agricultural land areas, urban population growth, and demographic structure of countries. This is an important result by providing the original evidence that the agricultural GVCs participation has played a significant role in economic development in the world.
A size criterion for macroscopic superposition states
Creators: name: Björk, Gunnar
name: Mana, Piero G. Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An operational measure to quantify the sizes of some ``macroscopic quantum superpositions'', realized in recent experiments, is proposed. The measure is based on the fact that a superposition presents greater sensitivity in interferometric applications than its superposed constituent states. This enhanced sensitivity, or ``interference utility'', may then be used as a size criterion among superpositions.
description: LaTeX2e-REVTeX4, 9 pages, 3 figures. V2: introduction and discussion slightly altered
Anisopodus melzeri Gilmour 1965
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anisopodus
Anisopodus melzeri

description: 29. Anisopodus melzeri Gilmour, 1965
Type locality — Brazil, São Paulo: Amparo. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina.
 Anisopodus melzeri Gilmour, 1965: 568 (cat.); Monné, 2001b: 7 (cat.).
 Anisopodus nigrosparsus Melzer, 1935: 197 (not Anisopodus pusillus var. nigrosparsus Bates, 1885); Bosq, 1943b: 110 (distr.); Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 48 (type); Silva, 1956: 122, fig. 11 (biol.); Biezanko & Bosq, 1956: 12 (distr.); Silva et al., 1968: 399 (hosts).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Wind-luminosity evolution in NLS1 AGN 1H 0707-495
Creators: name: Xu, Yerong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Ultrafast outflows (UFOs) have been detected in the high-quality X-ray spectra of a number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with fairly high accretion rates and are thought to significantly contribute to the AGN feedback. After a decade of dedicated study, their launching mechanisms and structure are still not well understood, but variability techniques may provide useful constraints. In this work therefore we perform a flux-resolved X-ray spectroscopy on a highly accreting and variable NLS1 AGN, 1H 0707−495, using all archival XMM–Newton observations to study the structure of the UFO. We find that the wind spectral lines weaken at higher luminosities, most likely due to an increasing ionization parameter as previously found in a few similar sources. Instead, the velocity is anticorrelated with the luminosity, which is opposite to the trend observed in the NLS1 IRAS 13224−3809. Furthermore, the detection of the emission lines, which are not observed in IRAS 13224−3809, indicates a wind with a larger opening angle in 1H 0707−495, presumably due to a higher accretion rate. The emitting gas is found to remain broadly constant with the luminosity. We describe the variability of the wind with a scenario where the strong radiation extends the launch radius outwards and shields the outer emitting gas, similarly to super-Eddington compact objects, although other possible explanations are discussed. Our work provides several hints for a multiphase outflow in 1H 0707−495.
Details on study sites, methodology and statistics from Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics
Creators: name: C. Adolf
name: C. Tovar
name: N. Kühn
name: H. Behling
name: J. C. Berrío
name: G. Dominguez-Vázquez
name: B. Figueroa-Rangel
name: Z. Gonzalez-Carranza
name: G.A. Islebe
name: H. Hooghiemstra
name: H. Neff
name: M. Olvera-Vargas
name: B. Whitney
name: M. J. Wooller
name: K. J. Willis
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Here, we use 30 long-term, high-resolution palaeoecological records from Mexico, Central and South America to address two hypotheses regarding possible drivers of resilience in tropical forests as measured in terms of recovery rates from previous disturbances. First, we hypothesize that faster recovery rates are associated with regions of higher biodiversity, as suggested by the insurance hypothesis. And second, that resilience is due to intrinsic abiotic factors that are location specific, thus regions presently displaying resilience in terms of persistence to current climatic disturbances should also show higher recovery rates in the past. To test these hypotheses, we applied a threshold approach to identify past disturbances to forests within each sequence. We then compared the recovery rates to these events with pollen richness before the event. We also compared recovery rates of each site with a measure of present resilience in the region as demonstrated by measuring global vegetation persistence to climatic perturbations using satellite imagery. Preliminary results indeed show a positive relationship between pre-disturbance taxonomic richness and faster recovery rates. However, there is less evidence to support the concept that resilience is intrinsic to a region; patterns of resilience apparent in ecosystems presently are not necessarily conservative through time.
title: An abductive framework for interactive data visualisation development from organisational semiotics perspective
Creators: name: Li, Qi
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2025

description: The development of IDV (Interactive Data Visualisation) takes into account users’ inputs, visualisation and analysis, in order to comprehend dataset. Insufficient research focuses on the methodology of developing IDV, with a particular emphasis upon acquiring and managing user demands as well as with different interpretation purposes and in various business contexts. It is vital to construct a framework for facilitating the IDV development. This can help visualisation designers to understand how users make sense of datasets and to deploy suitable interactive mechanisms for the corresponding demands. This research delivers an Abductive Framework for Interactive Data Visualisation Development (FINVID) based on exploration and illustration in two case studies. It mainly lays the building blocks of organisational semiotics, the doctrine of signs in the context of business and organisations. IDV development can be interpreted as a socio-technical design, which needs to establish a holistic view of users’ requirements, including both technical and social aspects. Abduction is also embedded in FINVID to iteratively acquire and incorporate students’ updating demands during the IDV process. IDV development is assumed to maintain an equilibrium between the following three aspects: process and artefact, data and interpretation and subjectivity and objectivity. To be specific, firstly, FINVID portrays IDV development as a norm-centric process, where users’ requirements can be articulated in norm specification to be documented and communicated among different stages of IDV development. Secondly, FINVID adapts an abductive reasoning process in IDV development, where users are empowered to continuously address their new request while exploring and analysing dataset via IDV. Finally, FINVID enables IDV to facilitate users’ knowledge exploration. It demonstrates six significant steps of IDV development with abductive nature. It specifies subactivities and techniques for each step, which involve different stakeholders. This method is used to acquire and refine users’ knowledge.
Constraining LQG Graph with Light Surfaces: Properties of BH Thermodynamics for Mini-Super-Space, Semi-Classical Polymeric BH
Creators: name: Pugliese, D.
name: Montani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work discusses observational evidences of quantum effects on geometry in a black hole (BH) astrophysical context. We study properties of a family of loop quantum corrected regular BH solutions and their horizons, focusing on the geometry symmetries. We explore a recent model where the geometry is determined by a metric quantum modification outside the horizon: a regular static spherical solution of minisuperspace BH metric with Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) corrections. The solutions are characterized by some polymeric functions and the emergence of a singularity in the limiting Schwarzschild geometry. We discuss particular metric solutions for similar properties of structures, the metric Killing bundles (metric bundles MBs), related to the BH horizons properties. A comparison with the Reissner-Nordstrom geometry and the Kerr geometry, similar for their respective MBs properties is done. The analysis provides a way to recognize these geometries and detect phenomenological evidence of LQG origin by the detection of stationary/static observers and the properties of lightlike orbits with the analysis of the conformal invariant MBs related to the (local) causal structure. This approach could be applied in other quantum corrected BH solutions constraining the characteristics of the underlining LQG-graph, as the minimal loop area, through photons detection. Light surfaces associated with a diversified range of BH phenomenology and grounding MB definition provide a research channel of possible astrophysical evidence. The BHs thermodynamic characteristics are studied, luminosity, surface gravity, and temperature. Ultimately the application of this method to this spherically symmetric approximate solution provides a way to clarify some formal aspects of MBs in the presence of static spherical symmetric spacetimes.
description: 34 pages; 16 figure multipanels; 2 tables
Snakes partition their body to traverse large steps stably
Creators: name: Gart, Sean W.
name: Mitchel, Thomas W.
name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many snakes live in deserts, forests, and river valleys and traverse challenging 3-D terrain like rocks, felled trees, and rubble, with obstacles as large as themselves and variable surface properties. By contrast, apart from branch cantilevering, burrowing, swimming, and gliding, laboratory studies of snake locomotion focused on that on simple flat surfaces. Here, to begin to understand snake locomotion in complex 3-D terrain, we study how the variable kingsnake, a terrestrial generalist, traversed a large step of variable surface friction and step height (up to 30% snout-vent length). The snake traversed by partitioning its body into three sections with distinct functions. Body sections below and above the step oscillated laterally on horizontal surfaces for propulsion, while the body section in between cantilevered in a vertical plane to bridge the large height increase. As the animal progressed, these three sections traveled down its body, conforming overall body shape to the step. In addition, the snake adjusted the partitioned gait in response to increase in step height and decrease in surface friction, at the cost of reduced speed. As surface friction decreased, body movement below and above the step changed from a continuous lateral undulation with little slip to an intermittent oscillatory movement with much slip, and initial head lift-off became closer to the step. Given these adjustments, body partitioning allowed the snake to be always stable, even when initially cantilevering but before reaching the surface above. Such a partitioned gait may be generally useful for diverse, complex 3-D terrain.
Erneste-Joseph Le Vasseur de la Thieuloy
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Active matter in a viscoelastic environment
Creators: name: Plan, Emmanuel Lance Christopher VI M.
name: Yeomans, Julia
name: Doostmohammadi, Amin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active matter systems such as eukaryotic cells and bacteria continuously transform chemical energy to motion. Hence living systems exert active stresses on the complex environments in which they reside. One recurring aspect of this complexity is the viscoelasticity of the medium surrounding living systems: bacteria secrete their own viscoelastic extracellular matrix, and cells constantly deform, proliferate, and self-propel within viscoelastic networks of collagen. It is therefore imperative to understand how active matter modifies, and gets modified by, viscoelastic fluids. Here, we present a two-phase model of active nematic matter that dynamically interacts with a passive viscoelastic polymeric phase and perform numerical simulations in two dimensions to illustrate its applicability. Motivated by recent experiments we first study the suppression of cell division by a viscoelastic medium surrounding the cell. We further show that the self-propulsion of a model keratocyte cell is modified by the polymer relaxation of the surrounding viscoelastic fluid in a non-uniform manner and find that increasing polymer viscosity effectively suppresses the cell motility. Lastly, we explore the hampering impact of the viscoelastic medium on the generic hydrodynamic instabilities of active nematics by simulating the dynamics of an active stripe within a polymeric fluid. The model presented here can provide a framework for investigating more complex dynamics such as the interaction of multicellular growing systems with viscoelastic environments.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures. Accepted in Physical Review Fluids
What is the lowest possible reheating temperature?
Creators: name: Hannestad, Steen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study models in which the universe exits reheating at temperatures in the MeV regime. By combining light element abundance measurements with cosmic microwave background and large scale structure data we find a fairly robust lower limit on the reheating temperature of T_RH > 4 MeV at 95% C.L. However, if the heavy particle whose decay reheats the universe has a direct decay mode to neutrinos, there are some small islands left in parameter space where a reheating temperature as low as 1 MeV is allowed. The derived lower bound on the reheating temperature also leads to very stringent bounds on models with $n$ large extra dimensions. For n=2 the bound on the compactification scale is M > 2000 TeV, and for n=3 it is 100 TeV. These are currently the strongest available bounds on such models.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, Revtex
Conscientizing prevention and awareness : an ecological model for halting violence against women and family violence
Creators: name: Legacy, Marc
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: As a pressing social problem, education is often cited as an accompaniment to halting violence against women and family violence. As an accompaniment, education is thought to support intervention at the individual-relationship levels of interaction, and, to supplement programs of prevention and awareness at the community-societal levels of interaction. The purpose of this enquiry is to examine multidimensional approaches for preventing violence against women and family violence at the community-societal levels of interaction. As effective as multidimensional approaches are to halting violence against women and family violence, efforts were strengthened when a multidimensional approach coincided with a multi pronged attack from a variety of organizations ranging from international agencies such as the World Health Organization, national agencies such the Department of Justice and Health Canada, along with Provincial and local service providers as well, all under a multidimensional curricular umbrella to halt violence. Nevertheless, this enquiry concludes by finding a fairly consistent message of conscientization from all service providers that violence against women and family violence are intolerable.
Assessing Thailand’s financial vulnerability: An early warning approach
Creators: name: Hong Puah, Chin
name: Kuek, Tai Hock
name: Arip, M. Affendy
name: Hong Puah, Chin
name: Kuek, Tai Hock
name: Arip, M. Affendy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Financial vulnerability indicator
subject: early warning
subject: signals approach

description: This paper intends to assess financial vulnerability in Thailand through the construction of a financial vulnerability indicator (FVI). This early warning system has been developed using the signals approach proposed by Kaminsky and Reinhart (1999), followed by composite indicator construction. The period under study spans from January 2000 through to December 2016. Our empirical findings indicate that exports has the lowest noise-to-signal ratio (0.13), followed by real GDP (0.15) and house price index (0.20). These suggest that financial crises are usually preceded by a weakening in exports, a slowdown in the economy and a decline in house price. For Thailand, four major financial episodes are successfully outlined during the study period, demonstrating the effectiveness of an early warning system in financial vulnerability forecasting.
Lattice QCD study of static quark and antiquark correlations via entanglement entropies
Creators: name: Takahashi, Toru T.
name: Kanada-En'yo, Yoshiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the color correlation between static quark and antiquark ($q\bar q$) in the confined phase via reduced density matrices $ρ$ defined in color space. We adopt the standard Wilson gauge action and perform quenched calculations with the Coulomb gauge condition for reduced density matrices. The spatial volumes are $L^3 = 8^3$, $16^3$, $32^3$ and $48^3$, with the gauge couplings $β= 5.7$, 5.8 and 6.0. Each element of the reduced density matrix in the sub space of quarks' color degrees of freedom of the $q\bar q$ pair is calculated from staples defined by link variables. As a result, we find that $ρ$ is well written by a linear combination of the strongly correlated $q\bar q$ pair state with the color-singlet component and the uncorrelated $q\bar q$ pair state with random color configurations. We compute the Renyi entropies $S^{\rm Renyi}$ from $ρ$ to investigate the $q\bar q$ distance dependence of the color correlation of the $q\bar q$ pair and find that the color correlation is quenched as the distance increases.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures
Aging under Shear: Structural Relaxation of a Non-Newtonian Fluid
Creators: name: Di Leonardo, R.
name: Ianni, F.
name: Ruocco, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of an applied shear field on the dynamics of an aging colloidal suspension has been investigated by the dynamic light scattering determination of the density autocorrelation function. Though a stationary state is never observed, the slow dynamics crosses between two different non-equilibrium regimes as soon as the structural relaxation time approaches the inverse shear rate. In the shear dominated regime (at high shear rate values) the structural relaxation time is found to be strongly sensitive to shear rate while aging proceeds at a very slow rate. The effect of shear on the detailed shape of the density autocorrelation function is quantitatively described assuming that the structural relaxation process arises from the heterogeneous superposition of many relaxing units each one independently coupled to shear with a parallel composition rule for timescales.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Automated CI/CD testing, installation and deployment of Dataverse infrastructure on a Cloud
Creators: name: Tykhonov, Slava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ci/cd, continuous integration, dataverse, testing, cloud infrastructure

description: Dataverse Community Meeting 2021, Harvard University, 14 June 2021. Over the last several years, the Dataverse Project has increased in maturity and has moved forward with CI/CD as a pipeline concept. In addition to the traditional topics around DevOps, Installation Deployments with Vagrant, Ansible, Jenkins, and Automated Testing, attendees will discuss how the Dataverse Community currently uses Cloud technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to help with the development process and running Dataverse in both production and non-production environments. Serverless computing has also increased in importance recently, to allow for the deployment of shared services as a part of the common data infrastructure.

 You will learn more about the Cloud related features available in the pyDataverse module, which is widely used by the Dataverse Community for various tasks. We are going to show some practical use cases with the Selenium framework used for automation testing for Jenkins integration.
 You will also learn about the Software Quality as a Service (SQAaaS) framework that was developed in EOSC Synergy project in the context of the European Open Science Cloud, which covers the following topics: Promoting adoption of software best practices Automatically validating software and services quality of both: thematic services and generic services Promoting the adoption of FAIR data principles Leveraging actionable features on data repositories to analyse and validate FAIR compliance The further automation of all processes allows the community to increase the Dataverse Software ecosystem capabilities and build maintainable and sustainable services integrated with the data repository. Recording is available online.
Do board characteristics and risk management disclosure have any effect on firm performance? Empirical evidence from deposit money banks in Nigeria
Creators: name: Kakanda, Mohammed Mahmud
name: Salim, Basariah
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
name: Kakanda, Mohammed Mahmud
name: Salim, Basariah
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Board characteristics
subject: risk management disclosure
subject: firm performance
subject: Deposit Money Banks
subject: Nigerian Code of Corporate Governance

description: This study examines the relationship between board characteristics, risk management disclosure and performance of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. Data were obtained from the annual accounts and reports of the 15 DMBs listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) covering 2012 to 2016. For the purpose of testing the relationship between the dependent variable (return on asset [ROA]) and the explanatory variables in this study, Random Effect (RE) regression model was employed. The study finds that board size, board composition, and risk management disclosure have a significant positive effect on ROA, whereas, board meeting has a significant negative influence on ROA. Moreover, the study documents that board expertise has a negative, but an insignificant association with ROA. The finding of this study is essential to both corporate authorities and other corporate stakeholders in Nigeria. The study concludes by providing an agenda for future research in a similar domain.
Dynamical p-adaptivity for LES of compressible flows in a high order DG framework
Creators: name: Abbà, Antonella
name: Bonaventura, Luca
name: Recanati, Alessandro
name: Tugnoli, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the possibility of reducing the computational burden of LES models by employing locally and dynamically adaptive polynomial degrees in the framework of a high order DG method. A degree adaptation technique especially featured to be effective for LES applications, that was previously developed by the authors and tested in the statically adaptive case, is applied here in a dynamically adaptive fashion. Two significant benchmarks are considered, comparing the results of adaptive and non adaptive simulations. The proposed dynamically adaptive approach allows for a significant reduction of the computational cost of representative LES computation, while allowing to maintain the level of accuracy guaranteed by LES carried out with constant, maximum polynomial degree values.
Classification of Types of Visual loss, Measurement and Evaluation of their Impact on Activities and Participation among Older Adults
Creators: name: Boey, Shuying-Debbie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420104
subject: Occupational therapy
classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation
classificationCode: 420305
subject: Health and community services

description: Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Victoria.
This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Anisopodus mexicanus Bates 1881
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anisopodus
Anisopodus mexicanus

description: 30. Anisopodus mexicanus Bates, 1881
Type locality — Mexico, Guerrero: Tuxtla. (BMNH). Distribution — Mexico (Guerrero, Veracruz) to Panama.
 Anisopodus mexicanus Bates, 1881a: 162; 1885: 398 (distr.); Chemsak & Linsley, 1970: 408 (lect.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 134 (cat.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 406 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
$μ$VulDeePecker: A Deep Learning-Based System for Multiclass Vulnerability Detection
Creators: name: Zou, Deqing
name: Wang, Sujuan
name: Xu, Shouhuai
name: Li, Zhen
name: Jin, Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fine-grained software vulnerability detection is an important and challenging problem. Ideally, a detection system (or detector) not only should be able to detect whether or not a program contains vulnerabilities, but also should be able to pinpoint the type of a vulnerability in question. Existing vulnerability detection methods based on deep learning can detect the presence of vulnerabilities (i.e., addressing the binary classification or detection problem), but cannot pinpoint types of vulnerabilities (i.e., incapable of addressing multiclass classification). In this paper, we propose the first deep learning-based system for multiclass vulnerability detection, dubbed $μ$VulDeePecker. The key insight underlying $μ$VulDeePecker is the concept of code attention, which can capture information that can help pinpoint types of vulnerabilities, even when the samples are small. For this purpose, we create a dataset from scratch and use it to evaluate the effectiveness of $μ$VulDeePecker. Experimental results show that $μ$VulDeePecker is effective for multiclass vulnerability detection and that accommodating control-dependence (other than data-dependence) can lead to higher detection capabilities.
description: To be published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Generation and stability of discrete gap solitons
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze stability and generation of discrete gap solitons in weakly coupled optical waveguides. We demonstrate how both stable and unstable solitons can be observed experimentally in the engineered binary waveguide arrays, and also reveal a connection between the gap-soliton instabilities and limitations on the mutual beam focusing in periodic photonic structures.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Inflation in Egypt: A fiscal or monetary phenomenon?
Creators: name: Hashem, Heba Youssef Mohammed
name: Hashem, Heba Youssef Mohammed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Fiscal policy
subject: monetary policy
subject: fiscal-monetary interaction
subject: inflation
subject: SVAR

description: Fiscal and monetary policy are characterized by mutual interdependence. In particular, the levels of budget deficit and public debt affect interest rates and prices. Hence, fiscal policy status affect the conduct and targets of monetary policy, and can undermine its effectiveness in curbing inflation. This paper utilizes a Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approach to investigate the impact of fiscal shocks on monetary policy and overall price level in Egypt. This is particularly relevant for the Egyptian economy since it currently witnesses unprecedented inflation rates and high levels of public debt as well. Hence, it is crucial to understand how the high levels of public debt affect prices, interest rates and other variables. Empirical model results found evidence supporting the application of fiscal theory of prices in Egypt. The main findings of this work is that inflation in Egypt is primarily a fiscal phenomenon, rather than a monetary one, as the impulse response functions have shown that a positive shock to fiscal deficit leads to a significant increase in consumer price index. Although the Central bank reacts to high prices by increasing the discount rate, the effect of this instrument on the price level is not significant, given the high level of budget deficit and public debt. Furthermore, variance decomposition showed that budget deficit proceeds the discount rate in explaining changes in prices, implying that monetary policy alone has limited effectiveness in targeting inflation.
DANCE: a deep learning library and benchmark platform for single-cell analysis
Creators: name: Michigan State University
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: DANCE is the first standard, generic, and extensible benchmark platform for accessing and evaluating computational methods across the spectrum of benchmark datasets for numerous single-cell analysis tasks. Currently, DANCE supports 3 modules and 8 popular tasks with 32 state-of-art methods on 21 benchmark datasets. People can easily reproduce the results of supported algorithms across major benchmark datasets via minimal efforts, such as using only one command line. In addition, DANCE provides an ecosystem of deep learning architectures and tools for researchers to facilitate their own model development. DANCE is an open-source Python package that welcomes all kinds of contributions.
Southeast Asian low-cost carrier airline competitiveness: A solution for economic growth
Creators: name: Srisook, Phoom
name: Panjakajornsak, Vinai
name: Srisook, Phoom
name: Panjakajornsak, Vinai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Aviation industry
subject: competitive advantage
subject: passenger expectations
subject: service marketing mix
subject: Thailand 4.0

description: In 2016, low-cost carrier (LCC) passengers represented 53% of the all airline passengers in Southeast Asia, with new aircraft deliveries in 2017 expected to increase by 11%. In Thailand, LCCs in 2016 represented 44.9% of all passengers through Thailand’s 6 major airports, which represented 54.7 million passengers out of a total of 122 million air travelers. Competition however amongst the LCCs has become fierce, with fare reductions being a common tactic to fill seats. This study, therefore, developed a questionnaire which included 58 items on passenger characteristics, the LCC service marketing mix, service quality, passenger expectations, and LCC competitiveness along with their 18 related observed variables. Multistage random sampling was employed to obtain 320 passenger respondents who were departing on either Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air, Thai Smile, or Nok Air from one of Bangkok’s two main airports. Results determined that the service marketing mix plays the most important role in an LCC’s competitiveness.
title: 03_0345
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Detailed theoretical formulation of cracking moment from Cracking failure of curved hollow tree trunks
Creators: name: Yan-San Huang
name: Chiang, Pei-Lin
name: Ying-Chuan Kao
name: Fu-Lan Hsu
name: Juang, Jia-Yang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanics
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Understanding the failure modes of curved hollow tree trunks is essential from both safety and conservation perspectives. Despite extensive research, the underlying mechanism that determines the cracking failure of curved hollow tree trunks remains unclear due to the lack of theoretical analysis that considers both the initial curvature and orthotropic material properties. Here we derive new mathematical expressions for predicting the bending moment, Mcrack, at which the cracking failure occurs. The failure mode of a tree species is then determined, as a function of t/R and cR, by comparing Mcrack with Mbend, where t, R and c are, respectively, the trunk wall thickness, outer radius and initial curvature; Mbend is the bending moment for conventional bending failure. Our equation shows that Mcrack is proportional to the tangential tensile strength of wood σT, increases with t/R, and decreases with the final cR. We analyse 11 tree species and find that hardwoods are more likely to fail in conventional bending, whereas softwoods tend to break due to cracking. This is due to the softwoods' much smaller tangential tensile strength, as observed from the data of 66 hardwoods and 43 softwoods. For larger cR, cracking failure is easier to occur in curvature-decreasing bending than curvature-increasing due to additional normal tensile force F acting on the neutral cross-section; on the other hand, for smaller cR, bending failure is easier to occur due to decreased final curvature. Our formulae are applicable to other natural and man-made curved hollow beams with orthotropic material properties. Our findings provide insights for those managing trees in urban situations and those managing for conservation of hollow-dependent fauna in both urban and rural settings.
Anisopodus nigripes Bates 1885
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anisopodus
Anisopodus nigripes

description: 31. Anisopodus nigripes Bates, 1885
Type locality — Panama, Chiriquí: Bugaba. (BMNH). Distribution — Panama.
 Anisopodus nigripes Bates, 1885: 399, pl. 24, fig. 12; Chemsak et al., 1992: 134 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND MACROECONOMIC POLICIES: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL TRADE
Creators: name: Denbaly, Mark
name: Denbaly, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: balance of payments
subject: macroeconomic policies
subject: commodity and capital markets
subject: prices
subject: exchange and interest rates

description: Misunderstanding the predominant forces that determine the balance of payments (BOP) has resulted in the recommendation that restrictive trade policies be used to solve the current U.S. BOP "problems." This paper reviews the BOP relationships, accounting concept, theory, and history (1975-86). It shows how various account balances respond simultaneously to international macroeconomic developments and that movements in agricultural trade have mirrored the movements in nonagricultural trade. Imbalances are caused by the same forces and should not be viewed as problems in and of themselves. Therefore, macroeconomic, not commodity-specific, policies are more likely to alleviate imbalances.