cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anomalous thermal conductivity and local temperature distribution on harmonic Fibonacci chains
Creators: name: Torikai, Masashi
name: Odagaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The harmonic Fibonacci chain, which is one of a quasiperiodic chain constructed with a recursion relation, has a singular continuous frequency-spectrum and critical eigenstates. The validity of the Fourier law is examined for the harmonic Fibonacci chain with stochastic heat baths at both ends by investigating the system size N dependence of the heat current J and the local temperature distribution. It is shown that J asymptotically behaves as (ln N)^{-1} and the local temperature strongly oscillates along the chain. These results indicate that the Fourier law does not hold on the harmonic Fibonacci chain. Furthermore the local temperature exhibits two different distribution according to the generation of the Fibonacci chain, i.e., the local temperature distribution does not have a definite form in the thermodynamic limit. The relations between N-dependence of J and the frequency-spectrum, and between the local temperature and critical eigenstates are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys.: Cond. Mat
Evaluating the Impacts of Biomass Feedstock Transportation on Air Quality: A Tennessee Case Study
Creators: name: Yu,   Tun-Hsiang (Edward)
name: English, Burton C.
name: Larson, James A.
name: De La Torre Ugarte, Daniel G.
name: Fu, Joshua S.
name: Richards, Stephen
name: Yu,   Tun-Hsiang (Edward)
name: English, Burton C.
name: Larson, James A.
name: De La Torre Ugarte, Daniel G.
name: Fu, Joshua S.
name: Richards, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Keywords: lignocellulosic biomass
subject: emissions
subject: optimization
subject: GIS

description: The efficiency of supply chain system of lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) feedstock is crucial to the development of the cellulosic biofuel industry. Moreover, the potential environmental impact of LCB feedstock transportation has also received increasing attention lately. This study first applied a spatial-oriented mixed-integer mathematical programming model linked to a GIS resource model to generate a least-cost solution of alternative typical feedstock supply chain systems for a potential commercial scale biorefinery per year in east, central and west Tennessee. The EPA’s MOVES model was then used to estimate the baseline emissions for 2010 in the study region and additional emissions generated from hauling feedstock. Results showed that switchgrass is more suitable than energy sorghum for biofuel production in Tennessee based on feedstock plant-gate cost and hauling emissions. Also, the large square bale system outperformed the large round bale system in both economic and environmental indicators. Finally, the biorefinery with the most economic feedstock cost and the least feedstock hauling emission is suggested to be sited in Robertson County, TN. The emissions of NOx, CO2, PM10, and PM2.5 from feedstock hauling in related counties increased by 0.12%, 0.04%, 0.15%, and 0.18%, respectively, when comparing with the emissions produced by existing overall traffics.
Rural Poverty and the Landed Elite: South Asian Experience Revisted
Creators: name: Hirashima, S.
name: Hirashima, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty

description: This brief paper tries to highlight two important missing aspects for understanding poverty issues in developing countries. They are the economic analysis of the rural non-farm households, and the behavior of land markets. Taking South Asia as a case, this paper claims that without proper understanding of these aspects, it is difficult to formulate an effective solution to the poverty issue.
Observation of an Anomalous Number of Dimuon Events in a High Energy Neutrino Beam
Creators: name: NuTeV Collaboration
name: Adams, T.
name: Alton, A.
name: Avvakumov, S.
name: de Barbaro, L.
name: de Barbaro, P.
name: Bernstein, R. H.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bolton, T.
name: Brau, J.
name: Buchholz, D.
name: Budd, H.
name: Bugel, L.
name: Conrad, J.
name: Drucker, R. B.
name: Fleming, B. T.
name: Frey, R.
name: Formaggio, J. A.
name: Goldman, J.
name: Goncharov, M.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Koutsoliotas, S.
name: Lamm, M. J.
name: Marsh, W.
name: Mason, D.
name: McDonald, J.
name: McNulty, C.
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nienaber, P.
name: Romosan, A.
name: Sakumoto, W. K.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Shaevitz, M. H.
name: Spentzouris, P.
name: Stern, E. G.
name: Suwonjandee, N.
name: Tzanov, M.
name: Vakili, M.
name: Vaitaitis, A.
name: Yang, U. K.
name: Yu, J.
name: Zeller, G. P.
name: Zimmerman, E. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for long-lived neutral particles (N^0's) with masses above 2.2 GeV/c^2 that decay into at least one muon has been performed using an instrumented decay channel at the NuTeV experiment at Fermilab. Data were examined for particles decaying into the final states mu mu, mu e, and mu pi. Three mu mu events were observed over an expected Standard Model background of 0.069 +/- 0.010 events; no events were observed in the other modes.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Incentives, Inequality and the Allocation of Aid When Conditionality Doesn't Work: An Optimal Nonlinear Taxation Approach
Creators: name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Tuomala, Matti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: International Development

description: This paper analyses the impact of aid, and its optimal allocation, when conditionality is ineffective. It is assumed that the recipient government will implement its own preferences no matter what. In this set up, aid can still affect the behavior of a recipient, not through conditionality but through changing resource constraints. We analyze the problem in the tradition of models of optimal non-linear income taxation. We find that unconditional aid increases national income and makes the poor better off in the recipient country, but that there is a crowding out effect as the recipient country reduces labor supply in response to increased aid. On optimal allocation of aid across countries, we find that poorer countries should get more aid, as should countries with governments that are more inequality averse, which conforms to intuition. However, a striking finding is that more unequal countries should get less aid.
Time-series attribution maps with regularized contrastive learning
Creators: name: Schneider, Steffen
name: Laiz, Rodrigo González
name: Filippova, Anastasiia
name: Frey, Markus
name: Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gradient-based attribution methods aim to explain decisions of deep learning models but so far lack identifiability guarantees. Here, we propose a method to generate attribution maps with identifiability guarantees by developing a regularized contrastive learning algorithm trained on time-series data plus a new attribution method called Inverted Neuron Gradient (collectively named xCEBRA). We show theoretically that xCEBRA has favorable properties for identifying the Jacobian matrix of the data generating process. Empirically, we demonstrate robust approximation of zero vs. non-zero entries in the ground-truth attribution map on synthetic datasets, and significant improvements across previous attribution methods based on feature ablation, Shapley values, and other gradient-based methods. Our work constitutes a first example of identifiable inference of time-series attribution maps and opens avenues to a better understanding of time-series data, such as for neural dynamics and decision-processes within neural networks.
description: Accepted at The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025). Code is available at https://github.com/AdaptiveMotorControlLab/CEBRA
Supporting Public Goods with Voluntary Programs: Non-Residential Demand for Green Power
Creators: name: Fowlie, Meredith
name: Wiser, Ryan
name: Chapman, Duane
name: Fowlie, Meredith
name: Wiser, Ryan
name: Chapman, Duane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The sale of “green power” (electricity generated using renewable energy sources such as wind, solar or geothermal power) to non-residential customers at a premium is one of several market-based approaches for supporting renewables. Why would profit-maximizing firms or budget-conscious institutions be willing to increase their own costs so as to provide environmental improvements which benefit everyone? The literature offers several possible motivations, including increasing “green” market share, public image enhancement and preemption of more stringent environmental regulation. This article tests the hypotheses that (1) firms and institutions purchasing green power are primarily motivated by the private benefits associated with making such a contribution; and (2) participating firms and institutions favor voluntary programs over more direct policy approaches to supporting renewables, such as taxation. Hypotheses are tested using data from a nationwide mail survey of non-residential green power customers. The results of this empirical analysis do not support either of the research hypotheses.
Cost-Effective Clustering
Creators: name: Gottlieb, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small Beowulf clusters can effectively serve as personal or group supercomputers. In such an environment, a cluster can be optimally designed for a specific problem (or a small set of codes). We discuss how theoretical analysis of the code and benchmarking on similar hardware lead to optimal systems.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures (one in color). Color version of paper to be published as part of proceedings of CCP2000 (Brisbane) in a special isssue of Computer Physics Communications
Developing Human Capital for Agri-Food Firms’ Multi-Stakeholder Interactions
Creators: name: Dentoni, Domenico
name: Blok, Vincent
name: Lans, Thomas
name: Wesselink, Renate
name: Dentoni, Domenico
name: Blok, Vincent
name: Lans, Thomas
name: Wesselink, Renate
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: sustainability
subject: human capital
subject: stakeholder management
subject: competencies
subject: capabilities.

description: This essay discusses 1) the current agri-food firms’ need of interacting with multiple stakeholders to undertake sustainable strategies effectively, 2) the relationship between human capital and firm capabilities to effectively interact with multiple stakeholders and 3) a list of competencies characterizing the human capital that would meet the need of agrifood firms and which can be learned – at least to some extent – through higher education and on-the-job training.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
An Agribusiness H.R. Issue: Succeeding at Succession in the Family Business
Creators: name: Bradley, Frank
name: Hill, Paul
name: Connolly, Aidan J.
name: Bradley, Frank
name: Hill, Paul
name: Connolly, Aidan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: family agribusiness
subject: disruption of succession
subject: managing talent for leadership

description: The issue of succession in family owned agribusinesses may be a contentious matter, but it need not be if carefully considered well in advance of the need to seek a new leader. Nevertheless, succession is particularly disruptive since the founder-owner has been central to shaping and developing the company. At the early stages it is crucial that companies improve succession by strengthening the company’s leadership development and focus on those people, internal and external, who might one day take on the role of CEO. Potential new leaders must be good for the company’s existing customers, for the company itself and for the management team. A leadership development program which considers succession as a central element at all levels in the company can be a major part of the company’s value proposition, one that competitors cannot understand, let alone imitate.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Inpatriates and Expatriates: Sources of Strategic Human Capital for Multinational Food and Beverage Firms
Creators: name: Azar, Goudarz
name: Azar, Goudarz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Food and beverage MNEs
subject: human capital
subject: inpatriates
subject: expatriates
subject: global talent management

description: The accelerating pace of globalization makes the strategic role of human resource management increasingly important for global companies. MNEs as key drivers in the process of globalization are becoming much more differentiated networks. This enables them to source the optimal combination of inputs from the global market. Inpatriates and expatriates are MNE’s strategic sources of human capital, through which knowledge is developed, carried, and exchanged within the MNE’s network. This essay discusses the ways in which inpatriates and expatriates can provide competitive advantage for MNEs in the food and beverage industry, and how these MNEs should mange these strategic resources in a competitive global market.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Cultural Dimensions of Human Capital Development
Creators: name: Conley, Dennis M.
name: Conley, Dennis M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: cultural dimensions
subject: human capital
subject: power distance
subject: uncertainty avoidance
subject: acculturation

description: Communication and information technology is making the world more flat by connecting people far and wide. The expanded reach exposes the user to the rugged terrain of human capital and associated cultures. Hofstede’s research (1980, 2001) gives a framework for understanding cultural dimensions of countries and organizations. Examples are provided illustrating the challenges facing managers that work internationally.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Photonic bands, superchirality, and inverse design of a chiral minimal metasurface
Creators: name: Zanotto, Simone
name: Mazzamuto, Giacomo
name: Riboli, Francesco
name: Biasiol, Giorgio
name: La Rocca, Giuseppe C.
name: Tredicucci, Alessandro
name: Pitanti, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photonic band structures are a typical fingerprint of periodic optical structures, and are usually observed in spectroscopic quantities such as transmission, reflection and absorption. Here we show that also the chiro-optical response of a metasurface constituted by a lattice of non-centrosymmetric, L-shaped holes in a dielectric slab shows a band structure, where intrinsic and extrinsic chirality effects are clearly recognized and connected to localized and delocalized resonances. Superchiral near-fields can be excited in correspondence to these resonances, and anomalous behaviors as a function of the incidence polarization occur. Moreover, we introduce a singular value decomposition (SVD) approach to show that the above mentioned effects are connected to specific fingerprints of the SVD spectra. Finally, we demonstrate by means of an inverse design technique that the metasurface based on an L-shaped hole array is a minimal one. Indeed, its unit cell geometry depends on the smallest number of parameters needed to implement arbitrary transmission matrices compliant with the general symmetries for 2d-chiral structures. These observations enable more powerful wave operations in a lossless photonic environment.
Additional file 10 of Diversity of short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) in lepidopteran insects and evidence of horizontal SINE transfer between baculovirus and lepidopteran hosts
Creators: name: Han, Guangjie
name: Zhang, Nan
name: Jiang, Heng
name: Meng, Xiangkun
name: Qian, Kun
name: Zheng, Yang
name: Xu, Jian
name: Wang, Jianjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S9. The typical integration pattern of SINEs within genome of P. xylostella. (A) (B) and (C) are schematic diagrams of several copies inserted into the introns of LOC105382892, LOC105381513 and LOC105383359, respectively. (D) Statistics number of different SINE families inserted into the same gene.
Dynamical phase behavior of the single- and multi-lane asymmetric simple exclusion process via matrix product states
Creators: name: Helms, Phillip
name: Ray, Ushnish
name: Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dynamical phases of the current-biased 1D and multi-lane open asymmetric simple exclusion processes (ASEP), using matrix product states and the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm. In the 1D ASEP, we present a systematic numerical study of the current cumulant generating function and its derivatives, which serve as dynamical phase order parameters. We further characterize the microscopic structure of the phases from local observables and the entanglement spectrum. In the multi-lane ASEP, which may be viewed as finite width 2D strip, we use the same approach and find the longitudinal current-biased dynamical phase behavior to be sensitive to transverse boundary conditions. Our results serve to illustrate the potential of tensor networks in the simulation of classical nonequilibrium statistical models.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Coulomb-nuclear interference in the breakup of $^{11}$Be
Creators: name: Chatterjee, R.
name: Shyam, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a theory of breakup reactions formulated in the framework of the post form distorted wave Born approximation, we calculate contributions of the pure Coulomb and the pure nuclear breakup as well as those of their interference terms to a variety of cross sections in breakup reactions of the one-neutron halo nucleus $^{11}$Be on a number of target nuclei. In contrast to the assumption often made, the Coulomb-nuclear interference terms are found to be non-negligible in case of exclusive cross sections of the fragments emitted in this reaction on medium mass and heavy target nuclei. The consideration of the nuclear breakup leads to a better description of such data.
description: 9 pages, latex, 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. C (Rapid Communication)
Frequency and phase relations of entangled photons observed by a two-photon interference experiment
Creators: name: Bergli, Joakim
name: Adenier, Guillaume
name: Thörn, Andreas P.
name: Vistnes, Arnt Inge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An entangled photon experiment has been performed with a large variation of the temperature of the non-linear crystal generating the entangled pair by spontaneous downconversion. The photon pairs are separated by a nonpolarizing beamsplitter, and the polarization modes are mixed by half wave plates. The correlation function of the coincidences is studied as a function of the temperature. In the presence of a narrow interference filter we observe that the correlation changes between -1 and +1 about seven times within a temperature interval of about 30 degrees C. We show that the common simplified single-mode pair representation of entangled photons is insufficient to describe the results, but that the biphoton description that includes frequency and phase details gives close to perfect fit with experimental data for two different choices of interference filters. We explain the main ideas of the underlying physics, and give an interpretation of the two-photon amplitude which provides an intuitive understanding of the effect of changing the temperature and inserting interference filters.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1309.1084
Human Capital Development for Agricultural Business in Nigeria
Creators: name: Penda, S.T.
name: Penda, S.T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Human Capital Development
subject: agricultural business
subject: Nigeria

description: An investment in people is vital to transforming businesses in Nigeria so a vibrant and entrepreneurially-driven agricultural sector can flourish. Previous failures in large private-sector projects in Nigeria have resulted from the low-level investment into human capital development of agricultural businesses; economic instability and security. The development of the agricultural sector and smallholder farmer requires collaboration among governmental policymakers, educational institutions and private industry. The talent gap in science must be closed in order for a new generation of agricultural business entrepreneurs to transform the numerous challenges into opportunities.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Lathrobium (Lathrobium) shaolaiense WATANABE 1998
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium shaolaiense

description: Lathrobium (Lathrobium) shaolaiense WATANABE, 1998
 Material examined:
 Taiwan: 5 exs., Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2225 m, 2. V.1990, leg. Smetana (cSme, cAss); 1 ex., same data, but 11. V.1992 (cSme); 1 ex., same data, but 14 V.1992 (cSme); 4 exs., Anmashan, 2230 m, 12. V.1992, leg. Smetana (cSme); 1 ex., same data, but 1. V.1990 (cSme); 1 ex., same data, but 4. V.1990 (cAss); 2 exs., Anmashan, Creek, 2185 m, 12. V.1992, leg. Smetana (cSme); 1 ♀ [identification uncertain], Nantou Hsien, Meifeng, 2130 m, 10.VII.1993, leg. Smetana (cSme); 1 ♀, same data, but 2. V.1998 (cSme).
 Comment:
 The original description is based on a single male holotype from "Mt. Shao-lai Shan, Ta-hsüeh Shan Mts., Taichung Hsien" (WATANABE 1998). The aedeagus of the above material is in good agreement with the illustrations provided with the original description, according to which L. shaolaiense refers to the L. pollens group.
Whether or not the two females from Meifeng in fact refer to this species requires clarification; in external characters they are similar to the material from Anmashan. The majority of the above specimens are females.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2010, On the Lathrobiina of Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 301-361 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (2) on page 321, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.2.301-361, http://zenodo.org/record/5365391
Measurement of the Tau Polarisation at LEP
Creators: name: ALEPH Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarisation of $τ$'s produced in Z decay is measured using 160 pb$^{-1}$ of data accumulated at LEP by the ALEPH detector between 1990 and 1995. The variation of the polarisation with polar angle yields the two parameters ${\cal A}_e = 0.1504 \pm 0.0068 $ and ${\cal A}_τ = 0.1451 \pm 0.0059$ which are consistent with the hypothesis of $e$-$τ$ universality. Assuming universality, the value ${\cal A}_{e{-}τ} = 0.1474 \pm 0.0045$ is obtained from which the effective weak mixing angle $\sin^2 {θ_{\mathrm{W}}^{\mathrm{eff}}} =0.23147 \pm 0.00057 $ is derived.
description: 52 pages, 30 figures
Tetartopeus bimaculatus Assing 2010, comb. n.
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tetartopeus
Tetartopeus bimaculatus

description: Tetartopeus bimaculatus (LI, TANG & ZHU, 2007), comb. n.
 Lobrathium bimaculatum LI, TANG & ZHU, 2007: 261 f.
 Comment:
 Based on the illustrations of the habitus, as well as of the male primary and secondary sexual characters provided with the original description, this species undoubtedly refers to the genus Tetartopeus CZWALINA, 1888.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2010, On the Lathrobiina of Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 301-361 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (2) on page 360, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.2.301-361, http://zenodo.org/record/5365391
Additional file 2 of Cost of illness for childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of evidence and modelled estimates
Creators: name: Baral, Ranju
name: Nonvignon, Justice
name: Debellut, Frédéric
name: Agyemang, Samuel Agyei
name: Clark, Andrew
name: Pecenka, Clint
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Diarrhea cost of illness (2015 USD) from literature by level of facility.
Antrops manu KITS & MARSHALL 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: KITS, JOEL H.
name: MARSHALL, STEPHEN A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Antrops
Antrops manu

description: Antrops manu sp. nov.
(Figs. 159, 224)
Head black, face and anterior portion of frons and gena dark reddish brown, prementum dark reddish brown, lighter ventrally, antennae orange. Frons shiny medially anterior of postvertical bristles, orbital stripes with microtomentum reaching bases of interfrontal setae, gena mostly shiny, microtomentum in small spot below eye and ventral stripe, face shiny, small spot of microtomentum below lunule. Subvibrissal bristle about 0.5X length of vibrissa, anterior genal bristle about 0.2X length of vibrissa. About 4 pairs of interfrontal bristles.
Thorax black, sutures dark reddish brown. Anterior postsutural dorsocentral bristle about 0.4X length of posterior dorsocentral bristle.
Trochanters and mid tarsus yellow, fore and hind tarsi brown. Hind tibia with an anteroventral bristle, barely thicker but distinctly longer than surrounding setae, 3 ventroapical bristles.
Abdominal sternites 2–3 difficult to see as abdomen of holotype is shrunken, but appear to be weakly sclerotized, sternite 4 black, heavily sclerotized, covered with tomentum.
Male postabdomen: Sternite 5 with curved lateral margins, widest at basal third, posterior corners projecting slightly and bearing tufts of long setae, posterior margin emarginated forming two shallow lobes, anterior apodeme about as long as external portion, pointed, with a dorsal keel. Surstylus broad, scooped. Pregonite small, fused with postgonite. Postgonite with lobes well separated, anterior lobe rounded, posterior lobe acutely pointed. Basiphallus with short epiphallus, short, narrow preepiphallus. Distiphallus simple, with dorsally projecting, slightly recurved dorsal tube, spinose basally and striated distally (Fig. 159).
Female unknown.
 Type material. Holotype ♂: PERU: Cuzco, Paucartambo, Buenos Aires, km 132, 2400 m, 2 Sep 1988, A. Friedberg, debu01154729 (USNM).
 Notes. This species is very similar to Antrops bellavista, and differs mainly in details of the male genitalia. The dorsal tube is striated rather than spinose at the tip, and the dorsal region of the basal sclerite of the distiphallus is smooth rather than spinose. The longer anterior postsutural dorsocentral bristle may also be useful in distinguishing the species, although it’s unclear if this difference will hold up with a longer series of this species. The species is named after Manú National Park, adjacent to the type locality; the name should be treated as a noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of KITS, JOEL H. & MARSHALL, STEPHEN A., 2013,
  Generic classification of the Archiborborinae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), with a revision of  Antrops  Enderlein,  Coloantrops  gen. nov.,  Maculantrops  gen. nov.,  Photoantrops  gen. nov., and  Poecilantrops  gen. nov.  , pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3704 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3704.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507447
Excitation of Planetary Obliquities Through Planet-Disk Interactions
Creators: name: Millholland, Sarah
name: Batygin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tilt of a planet's spin axis off its orbital axis ("obliquity") is a basic physical characteristic that plays a central role in determining the planet's global circulation and energy redistribution. Moreover, recent studies have also highlighted the importance of obliquities in sculpting not only the physical features of exoplanets but also their orbital architectures. It is therefore of key importance to identify and characterize the dominant processes of excitation of non-zero axial tilts. Here we highlight a simple mechanism that operates early on and is likely fundamental for many extrasolar planets and perhaps even Solar System planets. While planets are still forming in the protoplanetary disk, the gravitational potential of the disk induces nodal recession of the orbits. The frequency of this recession decreases as the disk dissipates, and when it crosses the frequency of a planet's spin axis precession, large planetary obliquities may be excited through capture into a secular spin-orbit resonance. We study the conditions for encountering this resonance and calculate the resulting obliquity excitation over a wide range of parameter space. Planets with semi-major axes in the range $0.3 \ \mathrm{AU} \lesssim a \lesssim 2 \ \mathrm{AU}$ are the most readily affected, but large-$a$ planets can also be impacted. We present a case study of Uranus and Neptune and show that this mechanism likely cannot help explain their high obliquities. While it could have played a role if finely tuned and envisioned to operate in isolation, large-scale obliquity excitation was likely inhibited by gravitational planet-planet perturbations.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted to ApJ
Implementation of a Radiation Protection System at Four Hospitals in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Geletu, Gebre Mesay
name: Abiko, Fikru
name: Sahlu, Shamble
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 07 July 2017

description: Diagnostic imaging procedure using ionizing radiation has been growing due to its enormous benefits. However, using ionizing radiation is also associated with harmful biological effects. Therefore it is important to take consideration on harmful effects of ionizing radiation and have adequate awareness on the area, in order to protect people without limiting the benefits. In Ethiopia, the status of radiation protection practices have not been studied previously, which remain nearly unknown especially around the study area. Thus, in filing this gap the present study initiated to assess status of implementation of radiation protection system. General observation, questionnaire and dose rate measurements were used to get all necessary data for the study. The dose rate measurements at control room (CR), waiting room (WR) and inside X-ray room (XR) were carried out using well calibrated Thermo FH 40 G-L10 survey meter. The results of the general observation and the questionnaire showed poor practice of radiation protection system. The dose rate recordings from CR and WR, when the X-ray machine being switched on or off are within permissible allowed value at all hospitals. XR machine off measurements at two locations are also within the range allowed value. However, XR machine on recordings shows a high level of radiation. This causes very high level unnecessary exposure situation for helper as a result of poor practices of radiation protection system which intern extremely increases the population dose. Therefore there is a great need of radiation protection agency activity at all Hospitals. Considering this scenario we suggest continuous training programs for radiographers; all Hospitals must full fill more modern radiation protection monitoring equipment and should have radiation protection advisers to monitor the radiation protection practices.
description: Accepted: 07 July 2017 on Journal of Radiology & Radiation therapy
Intrinsic phase-decoherence of electrons by two-level systems
Creators: name: Srivastava, Vipin
name: Krishnan, Raishma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental problem of phase saturation of electrons in a disordered mesoscopic system at very low temperatures is addressed. The disorder in the medium has both static and dynamic components, the latter being in the form of two-level systems (TLSs), which becomes just about the only source of inelastic scattering in the limit $T\to 0$. We propose that besides the inelastic nature of scattering from the TLSs, the phase-shift of the electrons is also affected by the nature of tunneling in the TLSs. The tunneling becomes incoherent as $T$ decreases due to increasing long-range interactions among TLSs and affects the phase coherence of electrons scattering from them. The competition between this effect, which increases as $\sim T^{-1}$, and that of the scattering rate $τ_{e-TLS}^{-1}$ behaving as $\sim T$ apparently governs the phase-shift of electrons.
description: 7 Pages, Article style
Kinomorph paper files
Creators: name: Hughes, Alex
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 100404 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Supporting Files for "Kinomorphs: Large-scale shape-shifting tissues for developmental engineering"
Rural Team-Entrepreneurs: An Answer to Innovative, Multi-Disciplinary Human Capital Education
Creators: name: Katona-Kovacs, Judit
name: Bóta-Horváth, Noémi
name: Katona-Kovacs, Judit
name: Bóta-Horváth, Noémi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Rural Team Entrepreneurs
subject: human capital
subject: knowledge-based society

description: The authors map out a pathway to developing human capital in rural regions through a concept called Rural Team-Entrepreneurs (RTE). The idea originated from the author’s research in rural development and through becoming a team-coach at the Team Academy (TA) Debrecen, Hungary.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Hecabolus sulcatus CURTIS 1834
Creators: name: Abdinbekova, Arifa
name: Huseynova, Ellada
name: Kerimova, Ilhama
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Hecabolus
Hecabolus sulcatus

description: Hecabolus sulcatus CURTIS, 1834
 Material:
Nakhchivan AR, dist. Ordubad, 1.VI.1965, fruit gardens, 1 ♀, leg. Mamedov.
 Hosts:
 Hylesinus fraxini PZ., Phloeosinus aubei PERRIS, Ph. thujae PERR.. (Curculionidae), Ptilinus pectinicornis L., P. fuscus GEOFFR.., Cacotemnus rufipesrufipes F., Anobium punctatum DEG., Ochina ptinoides MARSH. (Anobiidae), Ptinus fur L. (Ptiinidae), Phymatodes (Poecilium) alni L. (Cerambycidae).
 Distribution:
West Europe, Russia (Krasnodarsky Land, Dagestan), Azerbaijan, Georgia.
description: Published as part of Abdinbekova, Arifa, Huseynova, Ellada & Kerimova, Ilhama, 2010, Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the Institute of Zoology, NAS of the Azerbaijan Republic Part I. Subfamilies Doryctinae, Rogadinae, Braconinae (Hymenoptera), pp. 427-440 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (2) on pages 428-429, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.2.441-462, http://zenodo.org/record/10109711
Linking Agricultural Research with the Agribusiness Community from a Pro-Poor Perspective: the Importance of Human Capital Development
Creators: name: Donnet, M. Laura
name: Hellin, Jonathan
name: Riis-Jacobsen, Jens
name: Donnet, M. Laura
name: Hellin, Jonathan
name: Riis-Jacobsen, Jens
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: non-profit oganization
subject: agricultural research
subject: innovation
subject: MasAgro.

description: Improved crop varieties are a key output of agricultural research and have contributed to significantin-creases in agricultural production and productivity However, the benefitsfrom advances in plant breeding have often not reached the majority of poor farmers. This essay tackles the challenge of enhancing human capital development in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in order to enhance impact on food security and poverty reduction. Key changes in strategic planning, leadership, organizational alignment, talent and performance culture along with the need for new ways of thinking and action are outlined.
description: This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org
Quark propagator from an improved staggered action in Laplacian and Landau gauges
Creators: name: Bowman, P. O.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Williams, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of gauge dependent quantities are afflicted with Gribov copies, but Laplacian gauge fixing provides one possible solution to this problem. We present results for the lattice quark propagator in both Landau and Laplacian gauges using standard and improved staggered quark actions. The standard Kogut-Susskind action has errors of \oa{2} while the improved ``Asqtad'' action has \oa{4}, \oag{2}{2} errors and this improvement is seen in the quark propagator. We demonstrate the application of tree-level corrections to these actions and see that Landau and Laplacian gauges produce very similar results. In addition, we test an ansatz for the quark mass function, with promising results. In the chiral limit, the infrared quark mass, $M(q^2 = 0)$ is found to be $260\pm 20$ MeV.
description: 5 pages, 8 figs., Talk given at LHP workshop, Cairns
A theory-driven approach to evaluate assessment practice that supports students’ learning
Creators: name: Arthur, Christine
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024

description: Assessment is an integral part of learning in higher education. Because so
 much time and effort is invested in developing assessment tasks,
 assessments should not only measure students but also assist them in
 learning. Although assessment is crucial in higher education, progress in
 developing new concepts and implementing changes to practice has been
 extremely slow. There has been a lot of study on assessment and feedback,
 but this has not translated into widespread implementation.

 This research adopted a theory-driven approach to evaluate the existing
 assessment system in a Malaysian private higher education institution in
 order to gain an understanding of the ways in which assessment practices
 support learning. The initial underpinning theories that are evaluated
 derive from Gibbs & Simpson’s (2004) conditions under which
 assessment practice supports students learning. Teachers and students were
 interviewed to learn how they interpret their experiences.

 Firstly, this study reveals that students struggle with assessment time;
 they end up prioritising graded assessments. Secondly, teachers find it a
 struggle to stay constructive in terms of assessment activities. Finally,
 this study found that assessment feedback is challenging because of an
 imbalance in the Student Staff Ratio (SSR) and lack of feedback literacy.
 These struggles expressed by the participants highlight the institutional
 tensions that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) face in policy
 implementation. Through this detailed exploration, this study reveals the
 need for both a top-down and bottom-up approach – a synthesis approach –
 in the policy implementation process to connect the dots between theory
 and practice. Without this approach, theory and practice will continue to
 exist as separate spheres when they should be integrated for effective
 implementation.

 This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by 1) bridging
 the gap between theory and practice of assessment and feedback in the
 context of HE and 2) highlighting the struggle and support received by
 participants in pursuing assessment tasks that support learning.

 All in all, this study urges HEIs to discuss the steps they need to take
 to close the gap between theory and practice and maximise the learning
 potential of assessment.
Doryctes leucogaster
Creators: name: Abdinbekova, Arifa
name: Huseynova, Ellada
name: Kerimova, Ilhama
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Doryctes
Doryctes leucogaster

description: Doryctes leucogaster (NEES, 1834)
 Material:
c. Baku, 02. V.1938, 2 ♀, leg. Bogachov; dist. Khachmaz, 19. VII.1961, 1 ♂, leg. Abdinbekova; dist. Guba, 27. VII.1962, 2 ♀, leg. Abdinbekova; Nakhichevan AR, dist. Ordubad, 17. V.1965, fruit gardens, on xerophytes, lupine, 1 ♂, leg. Abdinbekova; 9. VI.1965, 1 ♂, leg. Abdinbekova.
 Hosts:
 Rhagium (Rhagium) inquisitor L., Hylotrupes bajulus L., Tetropium castaneum L., Acanthocinus aedilisdilis L., Anaesthetis testaceatestacea F., Exocentrus lusitanuslusitanus L. (Cerambycidae), Hadrobregmus pertinax L., Anobium punctatum DEG. (Anobiidae), Lampra mirifica MULS., Chrysobothris affinisaffinis F., A. manca L.(Buprestidae), Bostrichus capucinuscapucinus L. (Bostrichidae), Ptinus fur L. (Ptinidae), Ips sexdentatus B., Pissodes castaneus DEG. (Curculionidae), Loxostege sticticalissticticalis L. (Pyralidae).
 Distribution:
Caucasus, Mid Asia, Siberia, West Europe, Iran.
description: Published as part of Abdinbekova, Arifa, Huseynova, Ellada & Kerimova, Ilhama, 2010, Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the Institute of Zoology, NAS of the Azerbaijan Republic Part I. Subfamilies Doryctinae, Rogadinae, Braconinae (Hymenoptera), pp. 427-440 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (2) on page 430, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.2.441-462, http://zenodo.org/record/10109711
Projected shell model study on nuclei near the N = Z line
Creators: name: Sun, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Study of the N ~ Z nuclei in the mass-80 region is not only interesting due to the existence of abundant nuclear structure phenomena, but also important in understanding the nucleosynthesis in the rp-process. It is not feasible to apply a conventional shell model due to the necessary involvement of the g_{9/2} sub-shell. In this paper, the projected shell model is introduced to this study. Calculations are systematically performed for the collective levels as well as the quasi-particle excitations. It is demonstrated that calculations with this truncation scheme can achieve a comparable quality as the large-scale shell model diagonalizations for 48Cr, but the present method can be applied for much heavier mass regions. While the known experimental data of the yrast bands in the N ~ Z nuclei (from Se to Ru) are reasonably described, the present calculations predict the existence of K-isomeric states, some of which lie low in energy under certain structure conditions.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, and 2 tables; invited talk on "Nuclear Structure with Large Gamma-Arrays: Status and Perspectives"; to appear in Euro. Phys. J. A
Single-Channel Signal Separation and Deconvolution with Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Kong, Qiuqiang
name: Xu, Yong
name: Wang, Wenwu
name: Jackson, Philip J. B.
name: Plumbley, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Single-channel signal separation and deconvolution aims to separate and deconvolve individual sources from a single-channel mixture and is a challenging problem in which no prior knowledge of the mixing filters is available. Both individual sources and mixing filters need to be estimated. In addition, a mixture may contain non-stationary noise which is unseen in the training set. We propose a synthesizing-decomposition (S-D) approach to solve the single-channel separation and deconvolution problem. In synthesizing, a generative model for sources is built using a generative adversarial network (GAN). In decomposition, both mixing filters and sources are optimized to minimize the reconstruction error of the mixture. The proposed S-D approach achieves a peak-to-noise-ratio (PSNR) of 18.9 dB and 15.4 dB in image inpainting and completion, outperforming a baseline convolutional neural network PSNR of 15.3 dB and 12.2 dB, respectively and achieves a PSNR of 13.2 dB in source separation together with deconvolution, outperforming a convolutive non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) baseline of 10.1 dB.
description: 7 pages. Accepted by IJCAI 2019