cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Artificial Noisy MIMO Systems under Correlated Scattering Rayleigh Fading -- A Physical Layer Security Approach
Creators: name: Liu, Yiliang
name: Chen, Hsiao-Hwa
name: Wang, Liangmin
name: Meng, Weixiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The existing investigations on artificial noise (AN) security systems assumed that only null spaces is used to send AN signals, and all eigen-subchannels should be used to transmit messages. Our previous work proposed an AN scheme that allocates some of eigen-subchannels to transmit AN signals for improving secrecy rates. Nevertheless, our previous work considered only uncorrelated MIMO Rayleigh fading channels. In fact, the correlations among antennas exist in realistic scattering channel environments. In this paper, we extend our previous AN scheme to spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channels at both legitimate receiver- and eavesdropper-sides and derive an exact theoretical expression for the ergodic secrecy rate of the AN scheme, along with an approximate analysis. Both numerical and simulation results show that the proposed AN scheme offers a higher ergodic secrecy rate than the existing schemes, revealing a fact that the correlation among eavesdropper's antennas can potentially improve the secrecy rate of an MIMO system.
Kinetic energy density functionals for non-periodic systems
Creators: name: Choly, Nicholas
name: Kaxiras, Efthimios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinetic energy functionals of the electronic density are used to model large systems in the context of density functional theory, without the need to obtain electronic wavefunctions. We discuss the problems associated with the application of widely used kinetic energy functionals to non-periodic systems. We develop a method that circumvents this difficulty and allows the kinetic energy to be evaluated entirely in real space. We demonstrate that the method is efficient [O(N)] and accurate by comparing the results of our real-space formulation to calculations performed in reciprocal space, and to calculations using traditional approaches based on electronic states.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Bayesian deep learning with hierarchical prior: Predictions from limited and noisy data
Creators: name: Luo, Xihaier
name: Kareem, Ahsan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Datasets in engineering applications are often limited and contaminated, mainly due to unavoidable measurement noise and signal distortion. Thus, using conventional data-driven approaches to build a reliable discriminative model, and further applying this identified surrogate to uncertainty analysis remains to be very challenging. A deep learning approach is presented to provide predictions based on limited and noisy data. To address noise perturbation, the Bayesian learning method that naturally facilitates an automatic updating mechanism is considered to quantify and propagate model uncertainties into predictive quantities. Specifically, hierarchical Bayesian modeling (HBM) is first adopted to describe model uncertainties, which allows the prior assumption to be less subjective, while also makes the proposed surrogate more robust. Next, the Bayesian inference is seamlessly integrated into the DL framework, which in turn supports probabilistic programming by yielding a probability distribution of the quantities of interest rather than their point estimates. Variational inference (VI) is implemented for the posterior distribution analysis where the intractable marginalization of the likelihood function over parameter space is framed in an optimization format, and stochastic gradient descent method is applied to solve this optimization problem. Finally, Monte Carlo simulation is used to obtain an unbiased estimator in the predictive phase of Bayesian inference, where the proposed Bayesian deep learning (BDL) scheme is able to offer confidence bounds for the output estimation by analyzing propagated uncertainties. The effectiveness of Bayesian shrinkage is demonstrated in improving predictive performance using contaminated data, and various examples are provided to illustrate concepts, methodologies, and algorithms of this proposed BDL modeling technique.
description: 33 pages, 11 figures
Design and test results of the AMS RICH detector
Creators: name: Casadei, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AMS-02 detector will operate for at least 3 years on the International Space Station, measuring cosmic ray spectra at about 400 km above sea level over a wide range of geomagnetic latitude. The proximity focusing ring imaging Čerenkov counter of AMS-02 will measure the particle velocity $β$ with $\approx 0.1%$ uncertainty, making possible to discriminate Beryllium isotopes up to about 15 GeV/nucl. In addition its charge measurement will allow to study the elemental composition of cosmic rays up to Iron. A prototype of the RICH detector was tested with cosmic rays and on a ion beam accelerated by SPS, at CERN (October 2002).
description: 6 pages, 9 figures. Talk given at the "8th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors", Siena (Italy), 21-24 October 2002. To be published on Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplement
Parameria glandulifera var. pierrei Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Parameria
Parameria glandulifera
Parameria glandulifera var. pierrei pitard

description: Parameria glandulifera var. pierrei Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 3: 1201 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Pierre 1458 p.p. (K), Cambodia, Kampot, Cam Chay, designated by Middleton, Blumea 41: 76 (1996).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Limited Food Access as an Equilibrium Outcome: An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Chenarides, Lauren
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Chenarides, Lauren
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Access
subject: Equilibrium
subject: Food-Store Density

description: Lack of access to nutritious and affordable food has become an important public policy issue in the U.S.: various interest groups are seeking to reverse a trend whereby certain areas lack larger, full-service grocery stores that provide “higher” quality foods. Based on game-theoretic findings suggesting that lack of food access can be an equilibrium outcome, we specify a model relating access to higher quality food stores to a vector of supply and demand factors, using seven years of county-level data for the contiguous U.S., and a constrained generalized ordered logit estimator. Our results suggest that demand side factors, especially market size (total income and SNAP funds) play an important role in determining food access, and that large food stores avoid areas with higher poverty. Some cost determinants, such as the ratio of building costs to the total site cost, home price index (for counties with higher poverty rates than the average) and ease of recruiting labor, affect the probability of observing areas with no access. A more favorable business tax regime has no impact on access, while better transportation infrastructure reduces rather than improves food access. Our results shed new light on the determinants of food access in addition to highlighting what policy can and cannot accomplish to improve food access.
Relationships between conjectures on the structure of pro-p Galois groups unramified outside p
Creators: name: Sharifi, Romyar T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R32 (Primary), 11R23,11R29,20Fxx,17B70,14H30,11F80 (Secondary)

description: We consider the canonical representation of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers in the outer automorphism group of the pro-p completion of the fundamental group of the projective line minus 0,1, and infinity. Deligne has conjectured that a certain graded Z_p-Lie algebra arising from this representation becomes a free p-adic Lie algebra on one element in each odd degree starting with 3 when tensored with the Q_p. We construct good choices of these elements and use them to examine the structure of the Z_p-Lie algebra. In particular, we consider how its structure depends upon the regularity of the prime p by examining a consequence of Greenberg's conjecture in multivariable Iwasawa theory.
description: Removes the assumption of Vandiver's conjecture in several of the results. Also includes some minor corrections and additional comments
MOESM2 of Assessment of the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in peritoneal dialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical trials
Creators: name: Ito, Minoru
name: Saka, Yosuke
name: Kuroki, Yusuke
name: Yasuda, Kaoru
name: Tsujimoto, Hiraku
name: Tsujimoto, Yasushi
name: Hidemichi Yuasa
name: Munekazu Ryuzaki
name: Ito, Yasuhiko
name: Hidetomo Nakamoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Summary of findings for ARB or ACEI versus conventional therapy (SR1.1.) in PD patients.
The Impact of Food Environment on Branded vs. Private Label Produce Choice
Creators: name: Schroeter, Christiane
name: Cai, Xiaowei
name: Schroeter, Christiane
name: Cai, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Brand Loyalty
subject: Quality
subject: Private label
subject: Food Environment

description: Over the past two decades, U.S. food retailers are providing more organic private label foods (PLs) which are directly competing with the National Brand (NB) products. From a policy perspective, an increased availability of high-quality PL products might provide consumers with a more affordable way to cover their produce consumption. Using a two-step Heckman selection model, we estimate the impact of purchase information, demographics, and food environment on the purchasing likelihood and expenditure shares of PL organic vs. conventional spinach. Results show that food context, most notably food availability, access, and adult obesity rate, significantly influences organic PL spinach choice.
Quantum stochastic equation for the low density limit
Creators: name: Accardi, L.
name: Pechen, A. N.
name: Volovich, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A new derivation of quantum stochastic differential equation for the evolution operator in the low density limit is presented. We use the distribution approach and derive a new algebra for quadratic master fields in the low density limit by using the energy representation. We formulate the stochastic golden rule in the low density limit case for a system coupling with Bose field via quadratic interaction. In particular the vacuum expectation value of the evolution operator is computed and its exponential decay is shown.
description: Replaced with version published in J. Phys. A. References are added
Uncertainty and Adoption of Sustainable Farming Systems
Creators: name: Pannell, David J.
name: Pannell, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Uncertainty has been under-recognised as an impediment to the adoption of innovative land conservation practices. High levels of uncertainty inhibit adoption because (a) most farmers are psychologically averse to risk and uncertainty, (b) uncertainty leaves room for misunderstanding and misperceptions about the innovation and (c) in some cases there can be an option value from not trialing. A framework is presented that emphasises that adoption is a process involving collection, integration and evaluation of new information (i.e., reduction in uncertainty over time). Thereafter the paper discusses the range of factors that contribute to high uncertainty about conservation innovations, factors that reduce the potential for trials to reduce this uncertainty, and factors that contribute to the high cost of trials of conservation technologies. Some clear implications for policy approaches to land degradation are identified.
Cycloseris hexagonalis
Creators: name: Hoeksema, Bert W.
name: Lane, David J. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Fungiidae
Cycloseris
Cycloseris hexagonalis

description: Cycloseris hexagonalis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
 Cycloseris hexagonalis – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 127.
 One colour photograph of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) was taken in the Philippines; the origin of the other one is not mentioned. The identity and origin of a third coral (diameter 6 cm) showing the aboral side in a black and white photograph is unclear. This specimen shows prominent lower order costae, while C. hexagonalis of that size usually shows a nearly smooth aboral side with costae that are almost invariable in size (Hoeksema, 1989). Because Turak & DeVantier (2011) state that C. hexagonalis may resemble C. tenuis, which has very coarsely ornamented lower order costae, the occurrence of C. hexagonalis at Brunei remains uncertain.
description: Published as part of Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, pp. 566-580 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354576
A Multi-variate Discrimination Technique Based on Range-Searching
Creators: name: Carli, T.
name: Koblitz, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fast and transparent multi-variate event classification technique, called PDE-RS, which is based on sampling the signal and background densities in a multi-dimensional phase space using range-searching. The employed algorithm is presented in detail and its behaviour is studied with simple toy examples representing basic patterns of problems often encountered in High Energy Physics data analyses. In addition an example relevant for the search for instanton-induced processes in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA is discussed. For all studied examples, the new presented method performs as good as artificial Neural Networks and has furthermore the advantage to need less computation time. This allows to carefully select the best combination of observables which optimally separate the signal and background and for which the simulations describe the data best. Moreover, the systematic and statistical uncertainties can be easily evaluated. The method is therefore a powerful tool to find a small number of signal events in the large data samples expected at future particle colliders.
description: Submitted to NIM, 18 pages, 8 figures
Lithophyllon ranjithi Ditlev 2003
Creators: name: Hoeksema, Bert W.
name: Lane, David J. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Fungiidae
Lithophyllon
Lithophyllon ranjithi

description: Lithophyllon ranjithi Ditlev, 2003
 Lithophyllon lobata – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 145.
 One colour photograph of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) was taken in Indonesia; the origin of other photographs is unclear. They present this species as L. lobata, a junior synonym of L. undulatum (see Hoeksema, 1989). The syntypes of L. lobata are large, thin, twirled foliaceous corals with thin septa and mouths scattered over the whole upper surface, whereas specimens of L. ranjithi are thick laminar corals in one plane with folded margins, thick septa, and mouths concentrated at the centre of the upper surface. L. ranjithi is known from East Sabah and East Kalimantan (Ditlev, 2003; Hoeksema et al., 2004; Waheed & Hoeksema, 2013), and it has also been observed in the Kudat region at north Sabah and at Layang-Layang atoll in the South China Sea (Waheed & Hoeksema, in prep.). It was not found at the reefs of Kota Kinabalu (Waheed & Hoeksema, 2014), which are only about 150 km away from Brunei in a NE direction.
description: Published as part of Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, pp. 566-580 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354576
Parameria glandulifera var. poilanei Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Parameria
Parameria glandulifera
Parameria glandulifera var. poilanei pitard

description: Parameria glandulifera var. poilanei Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 3: 1203 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Poilane 2197 (P), Laos, Xieng Khouang, designated here.
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Lasius umbratus
Creators: name: Guénard, Benoit
name: Mccaffrey, Katherine A.
name: Lucky, Andrea
name: Dunn, Rob R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Lasius
Lasius umbratus

description: Lasius umbratus (Nylander, 1846)
 Distribution in North Carolina: All regions. Counties: AA, BL, CB, DD, GA, GU, HA, JH, MD, WK, WY (material examined) and BN, CH, CR, CT, DU, HW, HE, HO, IR, JA, LN, MA, ME, MO, NH, OR, TR, YY (in literature).
 Distribution in surrounding states: GA (Wilson 1955), SC (Davies 2009), TN (Dennis 1938, Cole 1940) and VA (Kjar 2009).
  Nylanderia arenivaga (Wheeler, 1905) *  (rarely collected species)
 Distribution in North Carolina: Southeastern part of the state. Counties: CO, NH (material examined) and MO (in literature).
 Distribution in surrounding states: GA (Graham et al. 2008) and SC (Van Pelt and Gentry 1985).
description: Published as part of Guénard, Benoit, Mccaffrey, Katherine A., Lucky, Andrea & Dunn, Rob R., 2012, Ants of North Carolina: an updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3552 on page 17
A Geometric Formulation of Quantum Stress Fields
Creators: name: Rogers, Christopher L.
name: Rappe, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a derivation of the stress field for an interacting quantum system within the framework of local density functional theory. The formulation is geometric in nature and exploits the relationship between the strain tensor field and Riemannian metric tensor field. Within this formulation, we demonstrate that the stress field is unique up to a single ambiguous parameter. The ambiguity is due to the non-unique dependence of the kinetic energy on the metric tensor. To illustrate this formalism, we compute the pressure field for two phases of solid molecular hydrogen. Furthermore, we demonstrate that qualitative results obtained by interpreting the hydrogen pressure field are not influenced by the presence of the kinetic ambiguity.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B. This paper supersedes cond-mat/0006274
Proceedings of the Ninth Prague Topological Symposium. Contributed papers from the symposium held in Prague, August 19-25, 2001
Creators: name: Simon, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54-06

description: This collection of thirty two reviewed articles covers several fields of General Topology. Several contributions represent invited presentations at the Ninth Prague Topological Symposium.
MOESM1 of Assessment of the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in peritoneal dialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical trials
Creators: name: Ito, Minoru
name: Saka, Yosuke
name: Kuroki, Yusuke
name: Yasuda, Kaoru
name: Tsujimoto, Hiraku
name: Tsujimoto, Yasushi
name: Hidemichi Yuasa
name: Munekazu Ryuzaki
name: Ito, Yasuhiko
name: Hidetomo Nakamoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Search strategy.
Lithophyllon spinifer
Creators: name: Hoeksema, Bert W.
name: Lane, David J. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Fungiidae
Lithophyllon
Lithophyllon spinifer

description: Lithophyllon spinifer (Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987)
 Fungia spinifer – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 139.
 Colour photographs of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) were taken in Indonesia. An additional black and white photograph (locality not indicated) only shows a quarter portion of the upper surface of a thin, coral, which could be a juvenile specimen of L. spinifer or belong to Cycloseris fragilis. Specimens of L. spinifer are shaped like a saucer, usually with a thick, bulging central area, a corallum margin turning upward, and strongly developed lower order costae (Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987; Hoeksema, 1989, 1993).
description: Published as part of Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, pp. 566-580 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354576
Investigation on the synergy mechanism of mixed inhibitors – Mannich base and Na2WO4 on Fe surface by molecules dynamic simulation
Creators: name: Hu, Jun
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Wang, Tiantian
name: Xu, Peiyin
name: Li, Neng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Virology

description: Previous experimental results shows mixed Mannich base (C15H15NO) and Na2WO4 have demonstrated excellent corrosion prevention, and the best corrosion inhibition efficiency is 96.19% when the mixing ratio of the two components is 1:1. In order to clearly understand to inhibition mechanism, molecular dynamics were used to model the inhibition effects of C15H15NO or Na2WO4 molecule on the iron surface. The simulation results indicate there are synergistic effect between C15H15NO and Na2WO4. the synergistic effect has three main factors: for one, the synergistic effect is due to the WO42− (small) can fill in the voids of the C15H15NO (big), the mixed inhibitor film is denser than single inhibitor film; moreover, the WO42− forms H-bond group with H3O+, which makes corrosive particles harder to pass through adsorption film, simultaneously; In addition, the mixed inhibitor significantly reduces the free charges and ions on Fe surface, which makes metal structure is more stable.
Paravallaris macrophylla Pierre ex Hua 1904
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Paravallaris
Paravallaris macrophylla

description: Paravallaris macrophylla Pierre ex Hua
Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 51: 273 (1904).
LECTOTYPE. — Harmand in Pierre 1869 (P), between the Mekong and Huê, designated by Rudjiman, Agric. Univ. Wag. Pap. 86-5: 40 (1987).
Second step lectotypification, designated here (although RUDJIMAN [1987s lectotypified this collection in P in his publication he labelled both specimens in P as isotypes).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Factors Effecting the Implementation by Landowners of Riparian Management Policies
Creators: name: Parminter, Terry G.
name: Moore, J.A.
name: Thorrold, Bruce S.
name: Parminter, Terry G.
name: Moore, J.A.
name: Thorrold, Bruce S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: The results of this project are intended to assist social agencies using educational or economic incentives, to promote voluntary adoption by farmers of riparian management policies. Farmers attending workshops in Taranaki in April 1998 were surveyed to identify the criteria they used to select their preferred riparian policies and reject others. Farmer use of decision criteria was analysed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process and its results compared with their likelihood of using the policies. The riparian management policies included in the study were: permanently excluding livestock, planting timber trees, planting conservation trees, excluding fertilisers, excluding chemicals, or doing nothing distinctive. The farmers most preferred the planting of conservation trees in riparian areas to the other policies. Their policy preferences were highly correlated (r = 0.76-0.96) with policy benefits, but appeared unrelated to the results of the cost benefit analysis. Further research is needed into farmer decision making on their riparian management before a decision model can be developed that satisfactorily explains farmer behaviour.
Global trends in the interplane penetration depth of layered superconductors
Creators: name: Dordevic, S. V.
name: Singley, E. J.
name: Basov, D. N.
name: Komiya, Seiki
name: Ando, Yoichi
name: Bucher, E.
name: Homes, C. C.
name: Strongin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on generic trends in the behavior of the interlayer penetration depth $λ_c$ of several different classes of quasi two-dimensional superconductors including high-T$_c$ cuprates, Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, transition metal dichalcogenides and organic materials of the $(BEDT-TTF)_2X$ - series. Analysis of these trends reveals two distinct patterns in the scaling between the values of $λ_c$ and the magnitude of the c-axis DC conductivity $σ_{DC}$: one realized in the systems with a ground state formed out of well defined quasiparticles and the other seen in systems in which the quasiparticles are not well defined. The latter pattern is found primarily in under-doped cuprates and indicates a dramatic enhancement (factor $\simeq 10^2$) of the energy scale $Ω_C$ associated with the formation of the condensate compared to the data for conventional materials. We discuss the implication of these results on the understanding of superconductivity in high-$T_c$ cuprates.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
No signs of star formation being regulated in the most luminous quasars at z~2 with ALMA
Creators: name: Schulze, A.
name: Silverman, J. D.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Rujopakarn, W.
name: Liu, D.
name: Schramm, M.
name: Mainieri, V.
name: Imanishi, M.
name: Hirschmann, M.
name: Jahnke, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ALMA Band~7 observations at $850μ$m of 20 luminous ($\log\, L_{\rm bol}>46.9$ [erg s$^{-1}$]) unobscured quasars at $z\sim2$. We detect continuum emission for 19/20 quasars. After subtracting an AGN contribution, we measure the total far-IR luminosity for 18 quasars, assuming a modified blackbody model, and attribute the emission as indicative of the star formation rate (SFR). Our sample can be characterized with a log-normal SFR distribution having a mean of 140 $M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ and a dispersion of 0.5 dex. Based on an inference of their stellar masses, the SFRs are similar, in both the mean and dispersion, with star-forming main-sequence galaxies at the equivalent epoch. Thus, there is no evidence for a systematic enhancement or suppression (i.e., regulation or quenching) of star formation in the hosts of the most luminous quasars at $z\sim2$. These results are consistent with the Magneticum cosmological simulation, while in disagreement with a widely recognized phenomenological model that predicts higher SFRs than observed here based on the high bolometric luminosities of this sample. Furthermore, there is only a weak relation between SFR and accretion rate onto their supermassive black holes both for average and individual measurements. We interpret these results as indicative of star formation and quasar accretion being fed from the available gas reservoir(s) in their host with a disconnect due to their different physical sizes, temporal scales, and means of gas processing.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, re-submitted to MNRAS
TORCH D10.3 - Communication and Dissemination Strategy and Action Plan
Creators: name: TORCH Consortium
Publisher: name: CHARM-EU
Year: 2021
Subjects: R&I
European Universities Alliance
Communication Materials

description: The TORCH Communication and Dissemination Strategy describes the guidelines and main approaches to inform about the project activities and results, according to the content and specific target audiences, mainly focused on Research and Innovation (R&I). This strategy will be constantly reviewed and monitored to ensure a successful impact of the project’s activities and serve as a basis for the properly exploitation of the project’s results.
The Structure of the Inverse to the Sylvester Resultant Matrix
Creators: name: Lubachevsky, Boris D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A09; 15A06

description: Given polynomials a(z) of degree m and b(z) of degree n, we represent the inverse to the Sylvester resultant matrix of a(z) and b(z), if this inverse exists, as a canonical sum of m+n dyadic matrices each of which is a rational function of zeros of a(z) and b(z). As a result, we obtain the polynomial solutions X(z) of degree n-1 and Y(z) of degree m-1 to the equation a(z)X(z)+b(z)Y(z)=c(z), where c(z) is a given polynomial of degree m+n-1, as follows: X(z) is a Lagrange interpolation polynomial for the function c(z)/a(z) over the set of zeros of b(z) and Y(z) is the one for the function c(z)/b(z) over the set of zeros of a(z).
description: 11 pages
TASC Toolbox per Azioni più Sostenibili e Collaborative
Creators: name: de Spirito, Denise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Un toolbox di co-design per facilitare processi collaborativi, tra ricerca e impresa, per ideare e progettare concretamente insieme scenari futuri più sostenibili.

Il Toolbox per Azioni più Sostenibile e Collaborative mira a facilitare la progettazione e l'implementazione di processi di co-progettazione tra mondo produttivo e della ricerca, favorendo, da un lato, maggiore comunicazione tra i due mondi e, dall’altro, per comprendere meglio bisogni e peculiarità di entrambi i contesti. La selezione di strumenti e toolkit nuovi ed esistenti qui inclusi, basati su “SISCODE Toolbox” (Menichinelli et al., 2019) e “OSVH Co-designToolbox” (Menichinelli & de Spirito, 2023; Menichinelli et al.,2023) supporta lo sviluppo del processo di progettazione dall'analisi del problema all'ideazione di una soluzione, allo sviluppo di un prototipo e alla sua sperimentazione in un contesto reale. L'obiettivo principale è quello di fornire supporto nell'organizzazione di un processo di co-progettazione, coinvolgendo le diverse tipologie di stakeholder necessari per lo scenario identificato, dai dipendenti ai ricercatori, dalle comunità territoriali a quelle più ampie di settore.  Come in molte attività collaborative e open source online, ogni fase prevede una tavola dedicata alla “DISCUSSIONE” per supportare e documentare la visione collaborativa, in modo che qualsiasi stakeholder che si unisca al processo in una fase successiva possa capire il contesto e lo stato di avanzamento del lavoro. è possibile stampare e utilizzare la tavola “Discussione” tutte le volte che si vuole, in modo tale da non limitare il flusso di dialogo. 

TASC è organizzato in tre sezioni:   La FASE 1 “Analizzare il contesto” è una prima esplorazione della sfida/problema da affrontare, valutazione delle risorse disponibili e stakeholder da coinvolgere. la FASE 2 “Immaginare possibili scenari” è ancora una fase divergente che identifica idee e ipotesi da poter sperimentare in base al contesto scelto e definito. la FASE 3 “Sviluppo e Prototipo” è la definizione di un esperimento che, grazie alle due fasi precedenti, accompagna gli organizzatori e gli stakeholder al prototipo con maggiore consapevolezza. Alla fine di ogni Sezione (1,2,3) troverete delle canvas “ATTIVITÀ” che dovrete compilare per chiarire e sintetizzare le attività necessarie da compiere per portare a termine la fase del processo a cui si sta lavorando. 

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Innovative Solutions to New Invaders: Managing Agricultural Pests, Diseases and Weeds Under Climate Change
Creators: name: Nicholls, Trevor
name: Norgrove, Lindsey
name: Masters, Greg
name: Nicholls, Trevor
name: Norgrove, Lindsey
name: Masters, Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Global agriculture is struggling to keep pace with increasing demands for food as human population increases and food preferences alter. Changes in temperature, greenhouse gas concentrations, precipitation patterns and radiation further challenge farmers. Insect and nematode pests, plant diseases and weeds are major constraints to crop production. Developing models to project the potential distribution and abundance of a pest species under various climate change scenarios is essential, and the Australian scientific community has been at the forefront with the development of CLIMEX and its application to modelling some of the world’s worst weed species, such as the pantropical Asteraceae, Chromolaena odorata. CABI is developing tools to assist farmers in coping with these challenges. In West Africa, C. odorata promotes other crop pests, such as the polyphagous Zonocerus variegatus grasshopper. CABI has developed an efficacious mycopesticide, a formulation of Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum, to prevent threats from increasing grasshopper and locust populations. Climate change models project increased precipitation in parts of the humid tropics. In Central Africa, this will exacerbate yield losses, such as to fungal ‘blackpod’ disease on cocoa. Farmers currently use contact fungicides, but this strategy will become less efficacious with increasing rainfall. CABI and partners are identifying endophytes, such as Trichoderma, as biocontrol agents to deal with this threat.
The $b_1$ resonance in coupled $πω$, $πϕ$ scattering from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Woss, Antoni J.
name: Thomas, Christopher E.
name: Dudek, Jozef J.
name: Edwards, Robert G.
name: Wilson, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first lattice QCD calculation of coupled $πω$ and $πϕ$ scattering, incorporating coupled $S$ and $D$-wave $πω$ in $J^P=1^+$. Finite-volume spectra in three volumes are determined via a variational analysis of matrices of two-point correlation functions, computed using large bases of operators resembling single-meson, two-meson and three-meson structures, with the light-quark mass corresponding to a pion mass of $m_π\approx 391$ MeV. Utilizing the relationship between the discrete spectrum of finite-volume energies and infinite-volume scattering amplitudes, we find a narrow axial-vector resonance ($J^{PC}=1^{+-}$), the analogue of the $b_1$ meson, with mass $m_{R}\approx1380$ MeV and width $Γ_{R}\approx 91$ MeV. The resonance is found to couple dominantly to $S$-wave $πω$, with a much-suppressed coupling to $D$-wave $πω$, and a negligible coupling to $πϕ$ consistent with the `OZI rule'. No resonant behavior is observed in $πϕ$, indicating the absence of a putative low-mass $Z_s$ analogue of the $Z_c$ claimed in $πJ/ψ$. In order to minimally present the contents of a unitary three-channel scattering matrix, we introduce an $n$-channel generalization of the traditional two-channel Stapp parameterization.
Additional file 1: of Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms
Creators: name: Rausch, Philipp
name: RĂźhlemann, Malte
name: Hermes, Britt
name: Shauni Doms
name: Dagan, Tal
name: Dierking, Katja
name: Domin, Hanna
name: Fraune, Sebastian
name: Frieling, Jakob
name: Hentschel, Ute
name: Femke-Anouska Heinsen
name: HĂśppner, Marc
name: Jahn, Martin
name: Jaspers, Cornelia
name: Kohar Kissoyan
name: Langfeldt, Daniela
name: Ateequr Rehman
name: Reusch, Thorsten
name: Roeder, Thomas
name: Schmitz, Ruth
name: Schulenburg, Hinrich
name: Soluch, Ryszard
name: Sommer, Felix
name: Stukenbrock, Eva
name: Weiland-BrĂ¤Uer, Nancy
name: Rosenstiel, Philip
name: Franke, Andre
name: Bosch, Thomas
name: Baines, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Materials. (PDF 6900 kb)
Synchita africana
Creators: name: Schuh, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Synchita
Synchita africana

description: Synchita africana (Grouvelle, 1905)
 Material examined. YEMEN: SOCOTRA ISLAND: wadi Ayhaft, 200 m, 12°36.5′N, 53°58.9′E, 7.–8.xi.2010, 1 spec., Jiří Hájek leg. (NMPC).
 Comment. The species was described from Equatorial Guinea (former Spanish Guinea) by GROUVELLE (1905) and so far reported also from Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (POPE 1961).Additional specimens from Gambia, Kenya, Somalia and continental Yemen have been examined (R. Schuh, unpublished data). First record from Socotra Island.
description: Published as part of Schuh, Rudolf, 2012, Colydiinae (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) of Socotra Island, pp. 287-294 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 on page 288, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354596
Nylanderia concinna
Creators: name: Guénard, Benoit
name: Mccaffrey, Katherine A.
name: Lucky, Andrea
name: Dunn, Rob R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Nylanderia
Nylanderia concinna

description: Nylanderia concinna (Trager, 1984) *
 Distribution in North Carolina: Central and eastern parts of the state. Counties: CT, CU, DV, JH, NH, OR, ST, WK and WI (material examined).
 Distribution in surrounding states: GA (MacGown 2012b) and SC (Davies 2009).
description: Published as part of Guénard, Benoit, Mccaffrey, Katherine A., Lucky, Andrea & Dunn, Rob R., 2012, Ants of North Carolina: an updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3552 on page 17
Investigations of the Structure and Dynamics of Novel Muoniated Radicals
Creators: name: McKenzie, Iain
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2019

description: Muonium (Mu) can be considered as a light isotope of hydrogen in which the nucleus is a positive muon. Radicals labelled with Mu are used to probe the effect of isotopic substitution on the structure and dynamics of radicals. Novel muoniated radicals have been produced in which the muon is attached to the radical centre (muoniated radical) or the unpaired electron is in a (α orbital. The CH₂Mu and CD₂Mu isotopmers of the methl radical were produced by the reaction of Mu with ketene and deuterated ketene, respectively, and the hyperfine coupling constants (hfcs) were measured between approximately 80 and 230 K. The temperature dependence of the hfcs is due to interaction with the solvent which dominated by the spin-rotation mechanism. The reduced muon hfc (given by the muon hfc divided by the ratio of the muon and proton gyromagnetic ratios) is 3% larger than the proton hfc, consistent with the larger zero-point energy of the C-Mu bond compared with the C-H bond. An additional radical was observed just below the boiling point of ketene. Investigation revealed that this radical resulted from Mu addition to the ketene dimer, which forms at temperatures above 200 K. Alpha-muoniated radicals were produced by the reaction of Mu with stable singlet carbenes. Four stable carbenes (1,3-bis(isopropyl)-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene, 1,3bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene, 1,3,4-triphenyl-4-5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-ylidene and 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene) were studied, and in every case Me added exclusively to the carbeneic carbon. The radicals were identified by a comparison of the experimental hfcs with values obtained from density functional theory calculations. The temperature dependence of the muon hfcs cannot be accounted for by only considering vibrational motion at the radical centre. The N-muono-N-tert-butylcarbamoyl and N-muono-N-tert-butylthiocarbamoyl radicals were generated by the reaction of Mu with tert-butylisocyanate and tert-butylisothiocyanate. These radicals have the unpaired electron in a σ orbital and are the first acyl radicals to be observed directly by μSR (muon spin, rotation, resonance and relaxation spectroscopy).
On the Occurrence of Finite-Time-Singularities in Epidemic Models of Rupture, Earthquakes and Starquakes
Creators: name: Sornette, D.
name: Helmstetter, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new kind of critical stochastic finite-time-singularity, relying on the interplay between long-memory and extreme fluctuations. We illustrate it on the well-established epidemic-type aftershock (ETAS) model for aftershocks, based solely on the most solidly documented stylized facts of seismicity (clustering in space and in time and power law Gutenberg-Richter distribution of earthquake energies). This theory accounts for the main observations (power law acceleration and discrete scale invariant structure) of critical rupture of heterogeneous materials, of the largest sequence of starquakes ever attributed to a neutron star as well as of earthquake sequences.
description: Revtex document of 4 pages including 1 eps figure
Paravallaris microphylla Pitard 1933
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Paravallaris
Paravallaris microphylla

description: Paravallaris microphylla Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 3: 1181 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Poilane 47 (P), Vietnam, Khanh Hoa, Hoa Tan, designated by Rudjiman, Agric. Univ. Wag. Pap. 86-5: 60 (1987).
Second step lectotypification, designated here (there were three undifferentiated specimens of Poilane 47 at P).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Topological Information Data Analysis
Creators: name: Baudot, Pierre
name: Tapia, Monica
name: Bennequin, Daniel
name: Goaillard, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper presents methods that quantify the structure of statistical interactions within a given data set, and was first used in \cite{Tapia2018}. It establishes new results on the k-multivariate mutual-informations (I_k) inspired by the topological formulation of Information introduced in. In particular we show that the vanishing of all I_k for 2\leq k \leq n of n random variables is equivalent to their statistical independence. Pursuing the work of Hu Kuo Ting and Te Sun Han, we show that information functions provide co-ordinates for binary variables, and that they are analytically independent on the probability simplex for any set of finite variables. The maximal positive I_k identifies the variables that co-vary the most in the population, whereas the minimal negative I_k identifies synergistic clusters and the variables that differentiate-segregate the most the population. Finite data size effects and estimation biases severely constrain the effective computation of the information topology on data, and we provide simple statistical tests for the undersampling bias and the k-dependences following. We give an example of application of these methods to genetic expression and unsupervised cell-type classification. The methods unravel biologically relevant subtypes, with a sample size of 41 genes and with few errors. It establishes generic basic methods to quantify the epigenetic information storage and a unified epigenetic unsupervised learning formalism. We propose that higher-order statistical interactions and non identically distributed variables are constitutive characteristics of biological systems that should be estimated in order to unravel their significant statistical structure and diversity. The topological information data analysis presented here allows to precisely estimate this higher-order structure characteristic of biological systems.
Genome-wide gene expression profiling of the melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae, during thirteen life stages
Creators: name: Wei, Dong
name: Hui-Qian Xu
name: Chen, Dong
name: Zhang, Su-Yun
name: Li, Wei-Jun
name: Smagghe, Guy
name: Wang, Jin-Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60808 Invertebrate Biology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Supplementary table, including quantitative gene expression among all tissues and the annotation in NCBI non- redundant (NR), Swiss-Prot, Pfam, Gene Ontology (GO), Cluster of Orthologous Group (COG), and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) databases.