cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Finite-size Scaling of O($n$) Systems at the Upper Critical Dimensionality
Creators: name: Lv, Jian-Ping
name: Xu, Wanwan
name: Sun, Yanan
name: Chen, Kun
name: Deng, Youjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Logarithmic finite-size scaling of the O($n$) universality class at the upper critical dimensionality ($d_c=4$) has a fundamental role in statistical and condensed-matter physics and important applications in various experimental systems. Here, we address this long-standing problem in the context of the $n$-vector model ($n=1, 2, 3$) on periodic four-dimensional hypercubic lattices. We establish an explicit scaling form for the free energy density, which simultaneously consists of a scaling term for the Gaussian fixed point and another term with multiplicative logarithmic corrections. In particular, we conjecture that the critical two-point correlation $g(r,L)$, with $L$ the linear size, exhibits a two-length behavior: following the behavior $r^{2-d_c}$ governed by Gaussian fixed point at shorter distance and entering a plateau at larger distance whose height decays as $L^{-d_c/2}({\rm ln}L)^{\hat{p}}$ with $\hat{p}=1/2$ a logarithmic correction exponent. Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we provide complementary evidence for the predictions through the finite-size scaling of observables including the two-point correlation, the magnetic fluctuations at zero and non-zero Fourier modes, and the Binder cumulant. Our work sheds light on the formulation of logarithmic finite-size scaling and has practical applications in experimental systems.
description: 8+6 pages, 4+3 figures
Micropsectra polita
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Micropsectra
Micropsectra polita

description: Micropsectra polita (Malloch)
Figs 49A–G
 Diagnosis. Labrum and premandible as in Fig. 49A; pecten epipharyngis with three toothed plates; labral lamella with tight row of 28 teeth; premandible with two apical teeth; antenna (Fig. 49B) almost as long as head, pedestal (Fig. 49C) with small apical spur, stalk of LO twice as long as segment 2, AR 2.14; mandible (Fig. 49D) with slightly angled outer margin, but without lobe; mentum (Fig. 49E) with toothed margin evenly arched; VM plate with narrow medial gap; posterior end of abdomen as in Fig. 49F; anal tubules curled ventrally; posterior parapod with about 60 claws arranged in horseshoe pattern.
 Notes. Generally fits larval description given by Oliver and Dillon (1994), although the AR was outside the lower end of range (2.20–2.49). Cases (Fig. 49G) are made of loose fine detritus, probably attached to rocks.
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae have a preference for low order streams with maximum range temperature of 10–18 °C and slow seepage areas (Oliver & Dillon 1994). Larvae occurred in all study streams in large numbers. They were the dominant species of Chironomidae in study streams.
 Sampling sites. We found the larvae inhabiting streams in all the provincial parks and districts located in our study area.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Québec. USA: Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Dakota, Illinois south to Arizona.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 59
The Relative Performance of Filled and Feedhorn-Coupled Focal-plane Architectures
Creators: name: Griffin, M. J.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Gear, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern far infrared and submillimeter instruments require large format arrays. We consider the relative performance of filled array (bare pixel) and feedhorn-coupled architectures for bolometer focal planes. Based on typical array parameters, we quantify the relative observing speeds and comment on the merits of the different architectures. Filled arrays can provide higher mapping speed (by a factor of up to 3.5) and simpler observing modes at the expense of reduced sensitivity for pointed observations, increased detector numbers, and greater vulnerability to stray light and electromagnetic interference. Taking advantage of the filled array architecture requires strongly background limited detectors. At millimeter wavelengths, filled arrays must be surrounded by a sufficiently cold enclosure to minimize the background power from the instrument itself.
description: Updated 4 September. Accepted for publication in Applied Optics. Available only in pdf. 45 pages inc. figures
Eotrechus OF
Creators: name: Polhemus, John T.
name: Tran, A. D.
name: Polhemus, Dan A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Eotrechus

description: KEY TO SPECIES OF EOTRECHUS OF VIETNAM
 1. Male pygophore with posterolateral projections bearing a finger-like process at apex. Female genitalia totally concealed by sternum VII and tergum VIII......... E. brevipes Andersen
– Male pygophore with posterolateral projections (if present) without finger-like process at apex. Female genitalia not concealed by sternum VII and tergum VII...........................2
 2. Pronotum and mesonotum with a prominent light median longitudinal stripe, laterally with brownish markings, but not extensive light markings. Male genitalia without prominent posterolateral projections (Figs. 8, 10)............................................................................................ E. fansipan, new species
– Pronotum and mesonotum with extensive light markings medially and laterally. Male genitalia with prominent posterolateral projections (Figs. 14, 16).............................. 3
 3. Male pygophore with a pair of prominent posterolateral digitate and flat projections................. E. vietnamensis Tran & Yang
 – Male pygophore with a pair of prominent posterolateral broad foliate processes, directed upward in lateral view (Figs. 14–16)................................................. E. pumat, new species
description: Published as part of Polhemus, John T., Tran, A. D. & Polhemus, Dan A., 2009, The Genus Eotrechus (Heteroptera: Gerridae) In Vietnam With Descriptions Of Two New Species, pp. 29-37 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341554
Optimization of Experimental parameters from Two different synchronous spectrofluorimetric approaches for simultaneous determination of febuxostat and ibuprofen
Creators: name: Magdy, Galal
name: Fathalla Belal
name: Abdel-Megied, Ahmed M.
name: Hakiem, Ahmed F. Abdel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry
subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy

description: Fig. S3: Effect of diluting solvent (a), pH (b), buffer volume (c), and organized media (d) on synchronous fluorescence intensity of FEB (400.0 ng/mL) and IBU (4.0 µg/mL) in the developed methods
Informationally restricted quantum correlations
Creators: name: Tavakoli, Armin
name: Cruzeiro, Emmanuel Zambrini
name: Brask, Jonatan Bohr
name: Gisin, Nicolas
name: Brunner, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum communication leads to strong correlations, that can outperform classical ones. Complementary to previous works in this area, we investigate correlations in prepare-and-measure scenarios assuming a bound on the information content of the quantum communication, rather than on its Hilbert-space dimension. Specifically, we explore the extent of classical and quantum correlations given an upper bound on the one-shot accessible information. We provide a characterisation of the set of classical correlations and show that quantum correlations are stronger than classical ones. We also show that limiting information rather than dimension leads to stronger quantum correlations. Moreover, we present device-independent tests for placing lower bounds on the information given observed correlations. Finally, we show that quantum communication carrying $\log d$ bits of information is at least as strong a resource as $d$-dimensional classical communication assisted by pre-shared entanglement.
d-blink: Distributed End-to-End Bayesian Entity Resolution
Creators: name: Marchant, Neil G.
name: Kaplan, Andee
name: Elazar, Daniel N.
name: Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
name: Steorts, Rebecca C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62F15, 65C40, 68W15

description: Entity resolution (ER; also known as record linkage or de-duplication) is the process of merging noisy databases, often in the absence of unique identifiers. A major advancement in ER methodology has been the application of Bayesian generative models, which provide a natural framework for inferring latent entities with rigorous quantification of uncertainty. Despite these advantages, existing models are severely limited in practice, as standard inference algorithms scale quadratically in the number of records. While scaling can be managed by fitting the model on separate blocks of the data, such a naïve approach may induce significant error in the posterior. In this paper, we propose a principled model for scalable Bayesian ER, called "distributed Bayesian linkage" or d-blink, which jointly performs blocking and ER without compromising posterior correctness. Our approach relies on several key ideas, including: (i) an auxiliary variable representation that induces a partition of the entities and records into blocks; (ii) a method for constructing well-balanced blocks based on k-d trees; (iii) a distributed partially-collapsed Gibbs sampler with improved mixing; and (iv) fast algorithms for performing Gibbs updates. Empirical studies on six data sets---including a case study on the 2010 Decennial Census---demonstrate the scalability and effectiveness of our approach.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Includes 22 pages of supplementary material. This revision incorporates a case study on the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census
Normal $5$-edge-colorings of a family of Loupekhine snarks
Creators: name: Ferrarini, Luca
name: Mazzuoccolo, Giuseppe
name: Mkrtchyan, Vahan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a proper edge-coloring of a cubic graph an edge $uv$ is called poor or rich, if the set of colors of the edges incident to $u$ and $v$ contains exactly three or five colors, respectively. An edge-coloring of a graph is normal, if any edge of the graph is either poor or rich. In this note, we show that some snarks constructed by using a method introduced by Loupekhine admit a normal edge-coloring with five colors. The existence of a Berge-Fulkerson Covering for a part of the snarks considered in this paper was recently proved by Manuel and Shanthi (2015). Since the existence of a normal edge-coloring with five colors implies the existence of a Berge-Fulkerson Covering, our main theorem can be viewed as a generalization of their result.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Stempellinella fimbriata
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Stempellinella
Stempellinella fimbriata

description: Stempellinella fimbriata (Ekrem)
Figs 52A–D
 Diagnosis. Dorsal surface of head capsule coarsely granular without tubercles; cephalic S3-seta (clypeal) branched; ventral mouthparts as in Fig. 52B; labral lamella well developed pectinate plate; premandible with three slender apical teeth, brush distinct; SI comb-like on inner side with bases contiguous; antenna (Fig. 52C) 5-segmented with large finger-like spur on pedestal, curved ventrally (see Fig. 52A), 2 nd segment with alternating petiolate LO, blade reaching beyond distal LO, AR 1.0; mandible with pale dorsal tooth and three dark inner teeth; mentum with single pale median tooth, 1.75x as wide as 1 st lateral; VM plate fan-shaped, widely separated, with row of spinules along anterior margin; posterior end of abdomen as in Fig. 52D; procercus without spurs, with 4 long apical setae plus shorter one, lateral seta very long; anal tubules short, about half the length of posterior parapods. Portable sand case, generally straight and parallel-sided.
 Notes. The premandible in our larvae have three apical teeth and there is no indication of an additional basal tooth; otherwise, all other characters fit the species description given by Ekrem (2007).
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae were found in riffle and pools of study streams, typically occurred in the woody debris of study streams. The species was found sympatrically with Micropsectra in all habitats sampled. Species also occurs in sublittoral and profundal zones of Canadian lakes (Ekrem 2007).
 Sampling sites. Little White River, Arrowhead and Algonquin Provincial Parks.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia. USA: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, (Ekrem 2007).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on pages 62-63
Additional selection rule for some emission, photoexcitation and Auger spectra
Creators: name: Bernotas, Andrius
name: Karazija, Romualdas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Concentration of the strongest transitions on the high-energy side of some emission, photoexcitation and Auger spectra of atoms is related with the existence of the additional selection rule for the number of vacancy-electron pairs.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures; minor grammar and readability changes, one reference detailed, journal-ref provided
Understanding Public Use of Open Access Social Science Research
Creators: name: Doshi, Ameet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Understanding the context of open science use remains a challenge. Non-researcher use of scholarly information is particularly difficult to capture given the dearth of metrics and metadata needed to structure an empirical inquiry. The “Your Story Matters” program at the Harvard DASH repository is a rare systematic effort to monitor use of OA. The site captures anecdotes about the impact that OA has on those outside of the US academy. For this project, the data consist of 3,548 user comments (e.g. DASH "stories") from 2012 to 2018. The proposed poster describes the nature of this OA use, with particular attention paid to public users and their uptake of social science research. The methodological tools deployed involve classification via supervised machine learning and N-grams. I find that Economic research is of greatest interest among the general public, and non-US international use is also predominant. The research has implications for how to measure contextual impact of Open Science.
Exploring the interaction between tyrphostin 9 and human serum albumin using biophysical and computational methods
Creators: name: Salanee Kandandapani
name: Nor Farrah Wahidah Ridzwan
name: Saharuddin B. Mohamad
name: Tayyab, Saad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Tyrphostin 9 (Tyr 9) is a potent platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) inhibitor, which induces apoptosis in various cancer cell types. The binding of Tyr 9 to the major transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated using several spectroscopic techniques and molecular docking method. Fluorescence quenching titration results showed progressive decrease in the protein fluorescence with increasing drug concentrations. A decreasing trend of the Stern-Volmer constant, Ksv  with increasing temperature characterized the drug-induced quenching as static quenching, thus pointed towards the formation of Tyr 9–HSA complex. The binding constant of Tyr 9–HSA interaction was found to lie within the range 3.48–1.69 × 105 M−1 at three different temperatures, i.e., 15, 25 and 35 °C, respectively and suggested intermediate binding affinity between Tyr 9 and HSA. The drug–HSA complex seems to be stabilized by hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonds, as suggested from the thermodynamic data as well as molecular docking results. The far-UV and the near-UV CD spectral results showed slight alteration in the secondary and tertiary structures, respectively, of the protein upon Tyr 9 binding. Interaction of Tyr 9 with HSA also produced microenvironmental perturbations around protein fluorophores, as evident from the 3-D fluorescence spectral results but increased protein’s thermal stability. Both competitive drug binding results and molecular docking analysis suggested Sudlow’s Site I of HSA as the preferred Tyr 9 binding site.
Additional file 2 of Comparative analysis of similarity measurements in miRNAs with applications to miRNA-disease association predictions
Creators: name: Chen, Hailin
name: Guo, Ruiyu
name: Li, Guanghui
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhang, Zuping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Boxplot of similarity values of the 205 common miRNAs in the 5 datasets.
Effects of Corruption on Infrastructure Projects in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Nouman Khadim
name: Jaffar, Syed Taseer Abbas
name: Musarat, Muhammad Ali
name: Ilyas, Usman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
subject: 220107 Professional Ethics (incl. police and research ethics)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Construction projects are capital and labour intensive with complex financial profiles. Due to this inherent complexity, construction projects are adversely affected by corruption, especially in developing countries. To emphasize the seriousness of the issue and to help eradicate corruption in construction projects, a comprehensive understanding of the effects of corruption is necessary. Therefore, the current study examined the impacts of corruption on infrastructure projects (IP) in the corrupt context of a developing country. Twenty-seven (27) impacts of corruption were identified through an extensive literature review and expert interviews. To rank these factors, a structured questionnaire survey was carried out to collect empirical data from different contractual parties working on various infrastructure projects in Pakistan. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, difficulties were faced in acquiring data. The result demonstrated that corruption is widespread in the local construction industry and it has harmful impacts on project and society inform of the creation of a monopoly, increased procurement and maintenance costs, and lower quality products. The results also revealed that the construction community believes that corruption is beneficial in a way that it reduces time delays and can motivate workers. The findings of the study contribute to an in-depth understanding of the consequences of corruption in an infrastructure project,especially in developing countries.This information would be useful for project personnel, stakeholders, and engineering society to enhance awareness among the parties for the eradication of corruption in construction. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first study of its nature study on corruption in the local context.
The study of the methods' precision from Two different synchronous spectrofluorimetric approaches for simultaneous determination of febuxostat and ibuprofen
Creators: name: Magdy, Galal
name: Fathalla Belal
name: Abdel-Megied, Ahmed M.
name: Hakiem, Ahmed F. Abdel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry
subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy

description: Table S1: Intraday and interday precision data for the determination of the studied drugs by the proposed methods
Effects of Corruption on Infrastructure Projects in Developing Countries Nouman Khadim 3540.pdf
Creators: name: Nouman Khadim
name: Jaffar, Syed Taseer Abbas
name: Musarat, Muhammad Ali
name: Ilyas, Usman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
subject: 220107 Professional Ethics (incl. police and research ethics)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: ABSTRACT: Construction projects are capital and labour intensive with complex financial profiles. Due tothis inherent complexity, construction projects are adversely affected by corruption, especially in developingcountries. To emphasize the seriousness of the issue and to help eradicate corruption in constructionprojects, a comprehensive understanding of the effects of corruption is necessary. Therefore, the currentstudy examined the impacts of corruption on infrastructure projects (IP) in the corrupt context of adeveloping country. Twenty-seven (27) impacts of corruption were identified through an extensive literaturereview and expert interviews. To rank these factors, a structured questionnaire survey was carried out tocollect empirical data from different contractual parties working on various infrastructure projects inPakistan. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, difficulties were faced in acquiring data. The result demonstratedthat corruption is widespread in the local construction industry and it has harmful impacts on project andsociety inform of the creation of a monopoly, increased procurement and maintenance costs, and lowerquality products. The results also revealed that the construction community believes that corruption isbeneficial in a way that it reduces time delays and can motivate workers. The findings of the study contributeto an in-depth understanding of the consequences of corruption in an infrastructure project,especially indeveloping countries.This information would be useful for project personnel, stakeholders, and engineeringsociety to enhance awareness among the parties for the eradication of corruption in construction. To thebest of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first study of its nature study on corruption in the local context.
Preferences for School Milk - How Juveniles Differ
Creators: name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Weible, Daniela
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Weible, Daniela
name: Salamon, Petra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: school milk
subject: youths
subject: preferences
subject: choice experiment
subject: body image

description: Snacks and lunches offered at school can decisively influence children’s dietary habits. In the light of discussions to establish prevention and intervention programs to abate current trends of rising childhood obesity, children’s preferences for food items with lower calorie content gain on importance. But youths preferences concerning different school milk products are not well-known. Therefore, the objective is to investigate if the milk products offered at school still meet older children’s preferences or if modifications could prove to be useful. Based on outcomes of an online survey covering a choice experiment and conducted among juveniles in Germany the probability that youths benefit from different products as well as varying prices, sugar and fat contents is estimated. Socio-demographics, psycho-metrics and perceived weight status are employed to explain youths choices preferring novel school milk products yet unavailable in German schools. Results of the choice experiment show that youths aged 15-18 are a heterogeneous group. They prefer a wider range of different products including drinking yoghurt as an option as well. Results indicate that nutritional aspects (low sugar/fat content, artificial sweetener) and body image are important for some of them.
Assessing Indicators and Limits for a Sustainable Everyday Nutrition
Creators: name: Lukas, Melanie
name: Rohn, Holger
name: Lettenmeier, Michael
name: Liedtke, Christa
name: Wirges, Monika
name: Wiesen, Klaus
name: Schweißinger, Johanna
name: Von Lenthe, Charlotte
name: Lukas, Melanie
name: Rohn, Holger
name: Lettenmeier, Michael
name: Liedtke, Christa
name: Wirges, Monika
name: Wiesen, Klaus
name: Schweißinger, Johanna
name: Von Lenthe, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: food
subject: nutritional footprint
subject: footprints
subject: resource-efficiency
subject: resource conservation
subject: natural resource use
subject: sustainability indicators
subject: sustainable levels

description: Human nutrition is responsible for about 30% of the global natural resource use. In order to decrease resource use to a level in line with planetary boundaries, a resource use reduction in the nutrition sector by a factor 2 is suggested. A large untapped potential to increase resource efficiency and improve consumers’ health status is assumed, but valid indicators and general guidelines to assess these impacts and limits can barely be found. Therefore we will have a try to define sustainable limits towards the individuals’ daily diet and therefore stimulate current available scientific debate. Within the paper an examination of existing indicators and assessment methods is carried out. We set the focus on health indicators, such as energy intake, and environmental indicators, such as the carbon or material footprint. The paper aims to provide first, an assessment of core indicators to explore the sustainability impact of foodstuff, and second, a deeper understanding and a discussion of sustainable limits for those dimensions of food and nutrition. Therefore we will discuss several ecological and health indicators which may be suitable to assess the sustainabilty impact and indicate differences or similarities. As a result it becomes obvious that several ecological indicators “point in the same direction” and therefore a discussion about the variability and the variety of these indicators has to be faced in the future. Further the definition of sustainable levels per indicator is an essential aspect to get an idea about the needed barriers for a sustainable nutrition, by now first steps had been made, but no binding guidelines are available yet. Therefore the paper suggests a few indications to set up sustainable levels for health and environmental indicators, based on the idea to reduce the resource use level up to 30-50% in 2030.
Pros and Cons of Introducing a Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling for Dairy Products in Germany
Creators: name: Salamon, Petra
name: Weible, Daniela
name: Weber, Sascha
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Weible, Daniela
name: Weber, Sascha
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: with a regional declaration of the origin concerning main ingredients and their place of processing, protected designations of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indications (PGI) regulated by (EU) No 1151/2012 defined by particular quality or other value-adding characteristics or attributes. The German Food, Consumer Goods and Feed Code (LFGB) contains regulations for the protection of consumers against fraud and deception regarding origin labelling (LFGB, Article 11(1), sentence 2). Article 3(1) German Food Labelling Ordinance (LMKV) deals with indirect declarations of origin for food e.g., for milk products whereas it is mandatory to specify the name of the company or producer by an id-code so that an identification is guaranteed. In this context the main point is discussion is, that consumers may want to identify place of origin of the raw material and or processing of dairy products, but, at the moment, they are unable to do so with respect to all products offered.
Differential geometry of the q-superplane
Creators: name: Celik, Salih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81R60; 57T05; 17B37

description: Hopf algebra structures on the extended q-superplane and its differential algebra are defined. An algebra of forms which are obtained from the generators of the extended q-superplane is introduced and its Hopf algebra structure is given
description: 7 pages
title: Avatar for the people: A co-creative, community-based approach to designing digital humans
Creators: name: Zelenskaya, Maria
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: digital humans
subject: virtual avatars
subject: animation
subject: co-design

description: The use of digital human avatars (DHAs) is rapidly increasing around the world. Traditionally employed in video games, they are finding new applications in fashion, advertising, public entertainment, and other markets. Previous research suggested that DHAs can engage diverse communities of users, but it is still unclear how specific design decisions can affect their engagement. There is a need for more research and guidelines on the design and development of digital humans to effectively utilise them for various applications and to reach new audiences. In this thesis, I examine the benefits of implementing collaborative design strategies in creating DHAs to serve different user communities. My research aims to answer two questions: 1) What are the advantages of a co-creative approach when designing DHAs? 2) How can co-design strategies be integrated into the production of DHAs in community-based projects? To address these questions, I draw upon the results of three separate creative investigations involving the design and animation of interactive digital humans for different user communities. Each of these projects incorporated some form of creative collaboration and community consultation, providing a rich and diverse set of data to draw upon. For my first creative investigation, I designed and animated a virtual ambassador for an online wildlife conservation campaign run by a local city council. For my second project, I focused on creating a virtual host for a community film festival. For my last project, I worked as part of a larger research team to develop a smart sign language assistant for the local Deaf community. Each project required a unique approach to addressing the needs and expectations of the target community. By combining aspects of practice-based research through design and co-design methodologies, my investigations provide new insights for designers and researchers looking to incorporate DHAs in community programs or campaigns. The result of this three-year doctoral research is a practical model for designing and animating DHAs based on feedback loops and active collaboration between the creator, the end user, and other stakeholders. I hope that my findings will contribute to a better understanding of the value of co-design in digital avatar production and will encourage the use of co-design strategies in future digital human projects.
Supersolid symmetry breaking from compressional oscillations in a dipolar quantum gas
Creators: name: Tanzi, L.
name: Roccuzzo, S. M.
name: Lucioni, E.
name: Famà, F.
name: Fioretti, A.
name: Gabbanini, C.
name: Modugno, G.
name: Recati, A.
name: Stringari, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of a paradoxical supersolid phase of matter, possessing the apparently incompatible properties of crystalline order and superfluidity, was predicted 50 years ago. Solid helium was the natural candidate, but there supersolidity has not been observed yet, despite numerous attempts. Ultracold quantum gases have recently shown the appearance of the periodic order typical of a crystal, due to various types of controllable interactions. A crucial feature of a D-dimensional supersolid is the occurrence of up to D+1 gapless excitations reflecting the Goldstone modes associated with the spontaneous breaking of two continuous symmetries: the breaking of phase invariance, corresponding to the locking of the phase of the atomic wave functions at the origin of superfluid phenomena, and the breaking of translational invariance due to the lattice structure of the system. The occurrence of such modes has been the object of intense theoretical investigations, but their experimental observation is still missing. Here we demonstrate the supersolid symmetry breaking through the appearance of two distinct compressional oscillation modes in a harmonically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, reflecting the gapless Goldstone excitations of the homogeneous system. We observe that the two modes have different natures, with the higher frequency mode associated with an oscillation of the periodicity of the emergent lattice and the lower one characterizing the superfluid oscillations. Our work paves the way to explore the two quantum phase transitions between the superfluid, supersolid and solid-like configurations that can be accessed by tuning a single interaction parameter.
Microvelia inannana Drake & Hottes 1952
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Microvelia
Microvelia inannana

description: Microvelia inannana Drake & Hottes, 1952
This species was described from Argentina and later recorded from Santa Catarina (Moreira 2012). Its description does not provide much useful information for identification, but the following characteristics are mentioned and have been observed in some specimens collected in Minas Gerais: male oblong, with body narrowed posteriorly, and female distinctly ovate; body length around 1.50 mm; head sometimes with a broad stripe on each side of midline; pronotum covering mesonotum, but leaving metanotum exposed; femora without spines; and male hind tibia straight. Male genitalia does not present projections or spines, with segment I broad and truncate dorsally, and deeply roundly emarginated ventrally.
 According to the original description, the pronotum of M. inannana would cover about half of the mesonotum, but, as discussed by Rúdio and Moreira (2011), there are differences in the interpretation of dorsal thoracic sclerites of Microvelia used by Drake and that adopted today. Specimens of M. inannana are very similar to those of M. pulchella Westwood, 1834, but can be separated from them essentially by the length of pronotum, which does not extend over the mesonotum in the latter; and by the shape of hind tibia, which is bent in males of M. pulchella.
 Examined material. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais – Itamonte, pools after Aiuruoca River, 08.IV.2005: 3 apterous males, 4 apterous females (DZRJ).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Barbosa, Julianna Freires, 2012, Two new species of Paravelia Breddin, 1898 and distributional notes concerning the Veliidae from Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), pp. 58-68 in Zootaxa 3354 (1) on pages 63-64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3354.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5251748
Widely Tunable Quantum Phase Transition from Moore-Read to Composite Fermi Liquid in Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Sheng, D. N.
name: Sodemann, Inti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a proposal to realise a widely tunable and clean quantum phase transition in bilayer graphene between two paradigmatic fractionalized phases of matter: the Moore-Read fractional quantum Hall state and the composite Fermi liquid metal. This transition can be realized at total fillings $ν=\pm 3+1/2$ and the critical point can be controllably accessed by tuning either the interlayer electric bias or the perpendicular magnetic field values over a wide range of parameters. We study the transition numerically within a model that contains all leading single particle corrections to the band-structure of bilayer graphene and includes the fluctuations between the $n=0$ and $n=1$ cyclotron orbitals of its zeroth Landau level to delineate the most favorable region of parameters to experimentally access this unconventional critical point. We also find evidence for a new anisotropic gapless phase stabilized near the level crossing of $n=0/1$ orbits.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
EFFECT OF LEVERAGE ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE:  A STUDY OF LISTED FAST-MOVING CONSUMER GOODS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Bright, Moses Oseni
name: Olufemi, Oghonogho Gina
Publisher: name: AMERICA SERIEL JOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Short-Term Leverage Ratio, Long-Term Leverage Ratio and Return on Equity

description: This study examines and compares the impact of financial leverage on the financial performance of listed Fast-Moving Consumer Goods companies in Nigeria. An ex-post facto research design was adopted, Short-Term Leverage Ratio (SLR), Long-Term Leverage Ratio (LL), with Return on Equity (ROE) serving as the dependent variable to measure financial performance. Panel data were analyzed using a fixed effect model to control for individual firm-specific factors and to capture variations within the data. The results revealed that SLR significantly improves ROE in fast consumer goods companies, emphasizing the importance of short-term financial management. The Long-Term Leverage Ratio showing a statistically significant negative impact on performance. The study concludes that financial leverage plays a critical role in determining the financial performance of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods companies. These findings suggest the companies should therefore consider increasing their use of short-term debt to capitalize on immediate growth opportunities and enhance returns. However, this strategy requires careful monitoring to avoid liquidity risks and ensure that debt obligations are met
Manufacturing Restructuring and Rural Economies: Job Growth but Lagging Wages
Creators: name: Bernat, G. Andrew
name: Bernat, G. Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Many nonmetro areas gained manufacturing jobs during the 1980's, while metro areas lost manufacturing jobs. The nonmetro gain, however, was accompanied by wages that fell further below metro wages. Two factors contributing to the deterioration in relative wages were the continuing concentration of nonproduction labor in metro areas and slower labor productivity growth in nonmetro manufacturing.
Single women and motherhood: right now or maybe later?
Creators: name: García, Désirée
name: Vassena, Rita
name: Rodríguez, Amelia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: The decision to have a child might be postponed by the lack of partner, and elective egg freezing (EEF) can afford single women more time to find a suitable companion to reach the desired family structure. Alternatively, some women decide to have a child on their own thorough in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intrauterine insemination (IUI) with donor sperm. This study investigates the motivations and personal characteristics of single women undergoing IVF/IUI or EEF. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study including 281 heterosexual single women who underwent either IVF/IUI with donor sperm for solo motherhood (208) or EEF (73) in 2015 at a large fertility center. An anonymous electronic survey was sent after starting the treatment. Results: The most common reason for not having fulfilled the motherhood desire was lack of partner (72.4% IVF/IUI and 65.9% EEF). We found that women undergoing IVF/IUI report a longer motherhood desire, >10 years (71.3% vs. 54.3%), live closer to their families (75.5% vs. 56.5%), and perceive a stronger family support than women undergoing EEF (85.4% vs. 68.8%). Finally, 100% of EEF obviously knew about the possibility of IVF/IUI with donor sperm, while 59.9% of IVF/IUI knew about EEF. Conclusion: Our results underscore the relevance of family ties in the decision to undergo IVF/IUI as single women. Moreover, these women might not be fully informed about social freezing as an option to postpone motherhood. Health professionals should be aware of these differences when counseling single women on fertility choices.
Antecaridina lauensis
Creators: name: Cai, Yixiong
name: Choy, Satish
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Atyidae
Antecaridina
Antecaridina lauensis

description: Antecaridina lauensis (Edmondson, 1935)
 Mesocaris lauensis Edmondson, 1935a: 13, Fig. 4 [type locality: Namuka and Wangava Island, Lau Archipelago, Fiji]; Edmondson, 1935b: 4.
 Antecaridina lauensis – Edmondson, 1954: 368; Holthuis, 1955: 25, Fig. 8d–f; 1956: 51; 1963: 267; 1965: 4, Figs. 2a–r; 1973: 19; Shokita, 1975: 118; 1979: 201; Suzuki, 1980: 47, Figs. 1–5; Smith & Williams, 1981: 49; Hayashi, 1989a: 378, Figs. 172–174; Sket, 1997: 62; Leberer & Cai, 2003: 355; Cai & Shokita, 2006b: 2124.
 Material examined. – One male, cl 2.8 mm, 16 females, cl 1.8–2.6 mm, 12 juveniles, ZRC 2007.0267, Cave Hinaganan, Panglao, coll. Y. Cai et al., 17 Dec.2000; 60 juveniles, UOL, Cave Hinaganan, Panglao, coll. B. Sket, Feb.1995.
  Remarks. –  Antecaridina lauensis, an anchialine species with a wide but disjunct distribution, has been reported from the Lau Archipelago, Fiji Islands, (Edmondson, 1935a, b), Europa Island, Madagascar (Holthuis, 1965), Sinai Peninsular, Red Sea (Holthuis, 1963), Hawaii Island (Holthuis, 1973), Solomon Islands (Smith & Williams, 1981), Guam (Leberer & Cai, 2003) and the Ryukyus (Shokita, 1975; 1979; Suzuki, 1980). It has previously been reported from Bohol by Sket (1997).
description: Published as part of Cai, Yixiong, Choy, Satish & Ng, Peter K. L., 2009, Epigean And Hypogean Freshwater Shrimps Of Bohol Island, Central Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), pp. 65-89 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341574
Microvelia longipes Uhler 1894
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Microvelia
Microvelia longipes

description: Microvelia longipes Uhler, 1894
This species has its known distribution extending from the Caribbean to Argentina, and has some previous records from Minas Gerais (Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004). Its occurrence on Carmo do Rio Claro Municipality is herein reported for the first time.
 Examined material. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais – Carmo do Rio Claro, 1948: 1 apterous male (MNRJ).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Barbosa, Julianna Freires, 2012, Two new species of Paravelia Breddin, 1898 and distributional notes concerning the Veliidae from Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), pp. 58-68 in Zootaxa 3354 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3354.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5251748
A novel prognostic index for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase
Creators: name: Shen, Ziyuan
name: Zhang, Xudong
name: Li, Yujie
name: Chen, Xicheng
name: Xing, Xing
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Ye, Jingjing
name: Wang, Ling
name: Jia, Tao
name: Zhu, Taigang
name: Miao, Yuqing
name: Wang, Chunling
name: Liu, Hui
name: Wang, Liang
name: Sang, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Aim: This multicenter retrospective study aimed to develop a novel prognostic system for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) patients in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase. Materials & methods: A total of 844 newly diagnosed ENKTL patients were included. Results: Multivariable analysis confirmed that Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, lactate dehydrogenase, Chinese Southwest Oncology Group and Asia Lymphoma Study Group ENKTL (CA) system, and albumin were independent prognostic factors. By rounding up the hazard ratios from four significant variables, a maximum of 7 points were assigned. The model of Huaihai Lymphoma Working Group-Natural killer/T-cell Lymphoma prognostic index (NPI) was identified with four risk groups and the 5-year overall survival was 88.2, 66.7, 54.3 and 30.5%, respectively. Conclusion: Huaihai Lymphoma Working Group-NPI provides a feasible stratification system for patients with ENKTL in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase. Patients with dual positivity for EBER and Epstein–Barr virus DNA status had significantly poorer survival outcomes. The survival of patients who used the DDGP regimen was superior to those who used the SMILE regimen in this study. According to the maximal Chi-square method, 292 and 34.2 were the optimal cutoff points for lactate dehydrogenase and albumin, which distinguished the two prognostic groups most effectively. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, lactate dehydrogenase, CA stage, and albumin were independent prognostic factors for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma patients in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase. The prognostic model of extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma based on the LASSO regression was more accurate than the random forest in this study. We developed a prognostic stratification index (HHLWG-NPI) and divided patients into four risk groups. The area under the curve of HHLWG-NPI was higher than the Korean Prognostic Index, International Prognostic Index, and prognostic index of natural killer lymphoma models in this study. HHLWG-NPI appears to more effectively identify high-risk patients.