cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Large-scale evaluation of rooftop solar potential using raytracing and GIS methods
Creators: name: Burke, Joseph
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: GIS
subject: Solar-Potential
subject: ArcGis
subject: QGis
subject: Rooftop-Solar

description: The motivation for this thesis is to investigate if synergies between the data, toolsand processes already in place for radio network planning can be repurpose deffectively towards evaluating solar rooftop potential and at which tiers the effort of that adaptation may be better applied to using purpose made tools and a more detailed study. The objective of this work is to analyse the feasibility of repurposingradio network planning software and cartographic databases in combination with solar irradiation data to calculate region wide rooftop solar potential using GIS and raytracing techniques. This topic was explored within the framework of the following research questions:1. Can solar irradiation data be imported into a radio network planning software and filtered to building rooftops?2. Can cartography data be sourced with fine enough resolution to show roofslope/orientation, and can this data also be incorporated into the rooftop solar irradiation results?3. Can these results be further refined to include shading effects on building rooftops from the surrounding topography and buildings by simulating the sun as an isotropic radiator and line of sight calculation? It was found that solar radiation data could be filtered with an accuracy of 0.3musing Open Street Map building outline vectors, however this approach is only suitable at a regional or national level. Applying this process at a macro-level i.e.Western Europe, led to instabilities in the software which made the solution impractical. Furthermore, it was determined that, although cartographic data sets can be sourced with a resolution fine enough to determine roof slope and orientation,this data is discarded during the pre-processing necessary to import the data to a radio network planning software. Finally, it was found that an isotropic radiator simulated as a radio transmitter with a ‘Line of Sight’ model can accurately simulate the shadowing caused by the sun in specific positions e.g. summer and winter equinoxes, however the parallax effect causes the method to lose accuracy within a 300m radius of the target coordinates, making the solution unsuitable for a regionwide assessment.The author concludes that if value can be found from a method which employs off the-shelf radio network planning cartography, to assess regional rooftop solar potential, it would be to generate inputs from the pre-categorised clutter data (building classifications) to improve the results of existing or modified statistical methods.
Spin injection and electric field effect in degenerate semiconductors
Creators: name: D'Amico, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze spin-transport in semiconductors in the regime characterized by $T\stackrel{
description: Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Architecture as interface : architecture in the digital world
Creators: name: Keebler, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Today’s world exists in constant flux, as the increasing reliance on digital interfaces like smartphones and AI has shifted our experience into fractions of what it once was. Yet, current architectural practice has primarily only utilized digital tools to speed up old processes for greater productivity and profit. A tension has been created by the discipline between its slow traditional architectural model and its inability to keep up with the hyperfast digital age we are situated in. Architecture as interface speculates the synthesis between the physical realm of architecture and the variable possibility of digital space to develop a new architecture. This requires an evolution in the operation of the architect to think more like a spatial programmer. Through the utilization of digital robotics and 3D printing, this speculation seeks to respond to the user and their behaviours and needs as their lives change and requires a spatial framework that can better respond to them over time and at multiple scales
Additional file 10 of Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease
Creators: name: Chuntao Yin
name: Vargas, Juan M. Casa
name: Schlatter, Daniel C.
name: Hagerty, Christina H.
name: Hulbert, Scot H.
name: Paulitz, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S5. Dual culture assays in vitro for inhibition of growth of Rhizoctonia solani AG8 by bacteria isolates on ¼ TSA medium.
The IYPT and the Ring Oiler Problem
Creators: name: Plesch, Martin
name: Plesník, Samuel
name: Ružičková, Natália
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT) continued in 2018 in Beijing, China and 2019 in Warsaw, Poland with its 31\ts{st} and 32\ts{nd} editions. IYPT is a modern scientific competition for teams of high school students, also known as the Physics World Cup. It involves long time theoretical and experimental work focused on solving 17 publicly announced open ended problems in a teams of five. On top of that, teams have to present their solutions in front of other teams and scientific jury and get opposed and reviewed by their peers. Here we present a brief information about the competition with a specific focus on one of the IYPT 2018 tasks - the Ring Oiler. This seemingly simple mechanical problem appeared to be of such a complexity that even the dozens of participating teams and jurying scientists were not able to solve all of its subtleties.
description: 14 pages
Causal configurations of homogeneous energy density in general relativity
Creators: name: Negi, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the causality condition [the speed of sound always remains less than that of light in vacuum, i. e., $v \leq c = 1$] is imposed on the spheres of homogeneous energy density, the `ratio of the specific heats', $γ\leq 2.59457$, constraints the compaction parameter, $u [\equiv (M/a)$, mass to size ratio in geometrized units] of the dynamically stable configurations $ \leq 0.34056 $ [corresponding to a surface redshift $(z_a) \leq 0.771$]. Apparently, The maximum value of $u$ obtained in this manner belongs to an absolute upper bound, and gives: (i) The maximum value for static neutron star masses as $5.4 M_\odot$, if we substitute the density at the surface of the configuration equal to the average nuclear density, $E = 2 \times 10^{14}$ g cm$^{-3}$ [e.g. {\it Nature}, {\bf 259}, 377 (1976)]. (ii) However, if the density of the static configuration is constrained to the value $1.072 \times 10^{14}$ g cm$^{-3}$, by imposing the empirical result that the minimum rotation period of the fastest rotating pulsar known to date, PSR 1937 + 21, is 1.558 ms, the maximum mass value for static neutron stars exceed upto $7.4 M_\odot$. These masses have important implications for the massive compact objects like Cyg X-1, Cyg XR-1, and LMC-X3 etc., which may not, necessarily, represent black holes. (iii) The minimum rotation periods for a static $1.442 M_\odot$ neutron star to be 0.3041 ms. (iv) A suitable stable model of ultra-compact objects [$u > (1/3)$] which has important astrophysical significance.
description: 7 pages (including 1 figure)
Tight Constraints on the Excess Radio Background at $z = 9.1$ from LOFAR
Creators: name: Mondal, R.
name: Fialkov, A.
name: Fling, C.
name: Iliev, I. T.
name: Barkana, R.
name: Ciardi, B.
name: Mellema, G.
name: Zaroubi, S.
name: Koopmans, L. V. E
name: Mertens, F. G.
name: Gehlot, B. K.
name: Ghara, R.
name: Ghosh, A.
name: Giri, S. K.
name: Offringa, A.
name: Pandey, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ARCADE2 and LWA1 experiments have claimed an excess over the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at low radio frequencies. If the cosmological high-redshift contribution to this radio background is between 0.1% and 22% of the CMB at 1.42 GHz, it could explain the tentative EDGES Low-Band detection of the anomalously deep absorption in the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen. We use the upper limit on the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization ($z=9.1$) based on 141 hours of observations with LOFAR to evaluate the contribution of the high redshift Universe to the detected radio background. Marginalizing over astrophysical properties of star-forming halos, we find (at 95% C.L.) that the cosmological radio background can be at most 9.6% of the CMB at 1.42 GHz. This limit rules out strong contribution of the high-redshift Universe to the ARCADE2 and LWA1 measurements. Even though LOFAR places limit on the extra radio background, excess of $0.1-9.6$% over the CMB (at 1.42 GHz) is still allowed and could explain the EDGES Low-Band detection. We also constrain the thermal and ionization state of the gas at $z = 9.1$ and put limits on the properties of the first star-forming objects. We find that, in agreement with the limits from EDGES High-Band data, LOFAR data constrain scenarios with inefficient X-ray sources and cases where the Universe was ionized by stars in massive halos only.
description: Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2422
Strategic Service Innovation: A Human-Centered Mixed-Methods Approach
Creators: name: Krüger, Nicolai
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Centered Design
subject: Innovation management
subject: Digital Transformation
subject: Business Model Innovation
subject: Technology Acceptance
subject: Design science
subject: User experience design
subject: Prototyping
subject: 004 - Informatik

description: Increasing socio-technological complexity and ongoing environmental and social changes make it difficult to choose suitable approaches in today's innovation endeavors. Explorative and agile methods are increasingly used to reach out for disruptive innovations under uncertainty. However, feasibility of pioneering projects in business-critical contexts faces limitations in regulated branches. This doctoral thesis aims at contributing to service innovation research using a mixed-methods approach, being applied to several domains. Strategic Service Innovation (SSI) aspires to create novel digital service concepts ranging from radical technical innovations to business model pivoting.
ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL PROPERTIES ACROSS THREE ERODED AREAS AT YELWAN TUDU, BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA
Creators: name: Usman, Musa Abdullahi
name: Ibrahim, Ahmed Bello
Publisher: name: NOLAND JOURNALS
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metals, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Least Significant Difference (LSD), Eroded and Uneroded soil Sample.

description: The concentrations of trace metals (mg/kg) in three eroded environments (A, B, C) and a control site (U) in Yelwan Tudu Bauchi, Bauchi State Nigeria were analyzed. The levels of metals, including Na, Ca, Mg, K, N, P Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn in both eroded and uneroded soil Samples were measured using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.

The soil samples were obtained at a depth of 0-30 cm and were thoroughly homogenized to obtain a composite sample for each site and was analyzed using standard procedure. Significant differences in metal concentrations were found across the sites A, B, C and control site, as shown by one-way ANOVA and least significant difference (LSD) tests.
Higher twists in the pion structure function
Creators: name: Melnitchouk, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the QCD moments of the pion structure function using Drell-Yan data on the quark distributions in the pion and a phenomenological model for the resonance region. The extracted higher twist corrections are found to be larger than those for the nucleon, contributing around 50% of the lowest moment at Q^2=1 GeV^2.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
A two-stage algorithm in evolutionary product unit neural networks for classification
Creators: name: Tallón-Ballesteros, Antonio J.
name: Hervás-Martínez, César
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a procedure to add broader diversity at the beginning of the evolutionary process. It consists of creating two initial populations with different parameter settings, evolving them for a small number of generations, selecting the best individuals from each population in the same proportion and combining them to constitute a new initial population. At this point the main loop of an evolutionary algorithm is applied to the new population. The results show that our proposal considerably improves both the efficiency of previous methodologies and also, significantly, their efficacy in most of the data sets. We have carried out our experimentation on twelve data sets from the UCI repository and two complex real-world problems which differ in their number of instances, features and classes.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 11 of Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease
Creators: name: Chuntao Yin
name: Vargas, Juan M. Casa
name: Schlatter, Daniel C.
name: Hagerty, Christina H.
name: Hulbert, Scot H.
name: Paulitz, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S6. Dual culture assays in vitro for inhibition of growth of Rhizoctonia oryzae by bacteria isolates on ¼ TSA medium.
Vancouver Especially : The Value of Deconstruction
Creators: name: Connell, Devin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: The waste processes in most urban contexts are concealed from their citizens. Complex networks and systems made simple by way of drop-off and pick-up make for a disconnected and ignorant society in regards to how their own waste is actually dealt with. What’s out of sight is out of mind. This especially holds true with buildings, the biggest things we consume. One week a building’s there, the next, it’s gone. Where did it go? How were its materials digested into our waste systems? Was every part of that building ready to be treated as waste? The prevailing methods of demolition waste management for single-family homes are inefficient, ineffective, and not aligned with the cultural consciousness of Vancouver or its goal for zero waste. There is still an immense amount of waste piling up in the landfill, and even a lot of the waste that is being diverted, is simply burned or brought elsewhere. The urgency of improving demolition waste management is a multi-fold issue regarding loss of valuable materials we will never see again, historical and cultural significance, meeting future waste goals, and general issues around sustainability and climate change at large. The completion of one single-family home is the culmination of a symphony of industry perfected over centuries. The harvesting of materials, processing, manufacturing, distribution, and ultimately construction, has adapted over time to be successful through the natural selection process of capitalism - survival of the fittest. But what of when we want to rid ourselves of a product of these outputs? What architectural solution and industrial process reflects the inversion of construction? How can we turn a negative into a positive? These are crucial questions to answer at a critical moment in the history of architectural waste management. Society is finally facing the end result of its architectural decisions made in the 20th century. How we choose to deal with the waste these buildings produce will pave the way for all constructions to follow; up until now, and into the future.
title: Mesoscopic Modelling and Simulation of Fluid Phenomena in Material Processing
Creators: name: Zhao, Zuochao
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: Fluid flow is ubiquitous in nature and human life. In material processing, it plays an important role and is in association to many industrial manufacturing process. However, in most of the processes, fluid flow is not the sole phenomenon. Instead it is accompanying chemical reactions, phase transformations and substance diffusion. Many behaviours in materials processing under external fields such as in electric field are desirable to know. Studying fluid behaviours in such cases is a big challenge. The mesoscopic modelling, computation and simulation provides a promising solution. It has the advantages of properly describing the micro structured evolution and hydrodynamic effects as well as considering the thermodynamics and chemical details of substances. Meanwhile, it can balance the modeling resolution and computational cost. The objective of the work contained in this thesis was to understand such challenges. A mesoscopic simulation method based on the integration of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and computational thermodynamics (CT) has been developed. This method is capable of simulating the dynamical evolution of mixing/demixing under the factors of flow and diffusion simultaneously. The simulation demonstrates that the predictions on mixing or demixing are consistent with the phase diagram. Substance diffusivity and flow speed have a significant influence on the speed of demixing and material structure evolution respectively. The model has been further integrated to the electric current thermodynamics. This enables the simulation of interaction between fluid metal and inclusions under electric current. The simulation results show the disturbance of fluid particle velocities caused by inclusions and the trace of inclusions influenced by fluid flow. Both of the developed models are generic. The simulations can be conducted based on real parameters. Other factors such as temperature can be incorporated into the model to simulate more complicated situations. An integration of electric current effect, diffusion, thermodynamics and hydrodynamics can be developed further based on the framework provided by this work.
Additional file 12 of Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease
Creators: name: Chuntao Yin
name: Vargas, Juan M. Casa
name: Schlatter, Daniel C.
name: Hagerty, Christina H.
name: Hulbert, Scot H.
name: Paulitz, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 11: Figure S7. Violacein produced by Janthinobacterium on TSA medium.
Aligning Multilingual Word Embeddings for Cross-Modal Retrieval Task
Creators: name: Mohammadshahi, Alireza
name: Lebret, Remi
name: Aberer, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a new approach to learn multimodal multilingual embeddings for matching images and their relevant captions in two languages. We combine two existing objective functions to make images and captions close in a joint embedding space while adapting the alignment of word embeddings between existing languages in our model. We show that our approach enables better generalization, achieving state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image and image-to-text retrieval task, and caption-caption similarity task. Two multimodal multilingual datasets are used for evaluation: Multi30k with German and English captions and Microsoft-COCO with English and Japanese captions.
El conocimiento didáctico del contenido sobre las actividades prácticas de laboratorio por indagación de profesores de Biología
Creators: name: Fernandez-Marchesi, Nancy Edith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Didactics
subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Laboratories
subject: School Teachers

description: Esta tesis doctoral se llevó a cabo con la intención de realizar una contribución original al conocimiento del Conocimiento Didáctico del Contenido (CDC) sobre las actividades prácticas de laboratorio por indagación. Para ello se investigó sobre las creencias y concepciones sobre las actividades prácticas de laboratorio en profesores en formación y en profesores en ejercicio, comparándolas con las de los estudiantes secundarios. También se analizaron cómo influyen los libros de texto en la imagen de actividad de laboratorio que transmiten. Por último se realizó una intervención didáctica para analizar cómo influye la formación en las concepciones de profesores y profesores de nivel secundario. Para alcanzar estos objetivos se implementaron métodos de investigación educativa de tipo cualitativo. El trabajo se realizó en tres etapas. En la primera etapa se profundizó en el análisis de los libros de texto y cómo éstos influyen en el CDC de los profesores. En la segunda etapa, se tomaron encuestas, entrevistas, se analizaron materiales didácticos (guiones de laboratorio) de profesores en formación de España y Argentina, en profesores en ejercicio de Argentina y en estudiantes de nivel secundario de España y Argentina.

En la tercera etapa, se implementó una secuencia didáctica de ocho clases  con un grupo de profesores en formación de posgrado de la Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego. Se implementaron diversas estrategias en las que se procuró trabajar sobre la propia biografía escolar, la reflexión conjunta, la movilización de marcos teóricos y la meta cognición. Como resultado se han identificado y caracterizado creencias sobre las  actividades de laboratorio como componente central del conocimiento profesional. También, se pudo identificar que la implementación de estrategias de reflexión meta cognitiva permiten hacer específicas las creencias generando un proceso de revisión por parte de los docentes. El aporte más importante de esta tesis ha sido vincular las creencias del profesorado con las creencias de los estudiantes. Además evidenciar que es posible mediante la implementación de estrategias de reflexión meta cognitivas en los procesos formativos docentes hacer específicos de dichas creencias para poder generar cambios en sus prácticas.
Persona: P Emil Larssen
Creators: name: Elbrecht, Karin (edu-sharing NETWORK e.V.)
name: Peil, Ricarda
name: Dinier, Julia
name: Lehmler, Julia
name: Endries, Tara – Marie
name: Schröter, Alexander
name: Erdmann, Sönke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Human - Centered - Design
Persona
Educational Technologies

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Personasammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
Paradonkia farinacea Y. Xu & C. L. Zhao 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Ying
name: Yang, Yang
name: Yang, Xin
name: Chen, Daxiang
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Shen, Kaize
name: Zhang, Sicheng
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Phanerochaetaceae
Paradonkia
Paradonkia farinacea

description: Paradonkia farinacea Y. Xu & C. L. Zhao sp. nov.
Figs 3, 4
Diagnosis.
Differs from other species by the farinaceous basidiomata with the pale cream to gray cream hymenial surface, a monomitic hyphal system, cystidia and cystidioles absent, narrowly clavate basidia, ellipsoid basidiospores.
Holotype.
China • Yunnan Province, Qujing, Zhanyi District, Lingjiao Town, Xiajia Village, 25°58'N, 103°47'E, altitude 2000 m, on the fallen angiosperm branch, leg. C. L. Zhao, 6 March 2023, CLZhao 27184 (SWFC).
Etymology.
farinacea (Lat.): refers to the holotype having a farinaceous hymenial surface.
Fruiting body.
Basidiomata annual, resupinate, adnate, without odor or taste when fresh, farinaceous, upon drying, up to 6.5 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, 110–180 μm thick. Hymenial surface smooth, white to cream when fresh, pale cream to gray cream when dry, unchanged in KOH. Sterile margin narrow, gray cream, 1 mm wide.
Hyphal system.
Monomitic, generative hyphae with simple septa and clamp connections, IKI –, CB –; tissues unchanged in KOH. Subicular hyphae mainly horizontal, colorless, thick-walled, slightly flexuous, rarely branched, interwoven, 6.0–7.5 μm in diameter. Crystals abundant, crowded. Subhymenium indistinct, hyphae in this layer similar to subicular hyphae.
Hymenial layer.
Generative hyphae short-celled, colorless, 3–4 μm in diameter, thin- to slightly thick-walled. Crystals abundant, crowded. Cystidia and cystidioles absent. Basidia narrowly clavate, slightly flexuous, thin-walled, with four sterigmata and a simple septum, 25–29 × 4.5–6.5 μm. Basidioles similar to basidia in shape, but slightly smaller.
Basidiospores.
Ellipsoid, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, occasionally with oil drops, IKI –, CB –, 4–6 (– 6.5) × (2.5 –) 3–4 (– 4.5) μm, L = 4.87 μm, W = 3.37 μm, Q = 1.45 (n = 30 / 1).
Additional specimen examined
(paratype). • Yunnan Province, Qujing, Zhanyi District, Lingjiao Town, Xiajia Village, 25°58'N, 103°47'E, altitude 2000 m, on the fallen angiosperm branch, leg. C. L. Zhao, 6 March 2023, CLZhao 27221 (SWFC).
description: Published as part of Xu, Ying, Yang, Yang, Yang, Xin, Chen, Daxiang, Zheng, Wen, Shen, Kaize, Zhang, Sicheng & Zhao, Changlin, 2025, Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy reveal two new genera and five new species in Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales) from Yunnan, Southwest China, pp. 263-294 in MycoKeys 113 on pages 263-294, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.113.140624
CVD Diamonds in the BaBar Radiation Monitoring System
Creators: name: Bruinsma, M.
name: Burchat, P.
name: Edwards, A. J.
name: Kagan, H.
name: Kass, R.
name: Kirkby, D.
name: Petersen, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To prevent excessive radiation damage to its Silicon Vertex Tracker, the BaBar experiment at SLAC uses a radiation monitoring and protection system that triggers a beam abort whenever radiation levels are anomalously high. The existing system, which employs large area Si PIN diodes as radiation sensors, has become increasingly difficult to operate due to radiation damage. We have studied CVD diamond sensors as a potential alternative for these silicon sensors. Two diamond sensors have been routinely used since their installation in the Vertex Tracker in August 2002. The experience with these sensors and a variety of tests in the laboratory have shown CVD diamonds to be a viable solution for dosimetry in high radiation environments. However, our studies have also revealed surprising side-effects.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures presented at IPRD04, Siena Italy
Academic writing
Creators: name: Tsatsenko, Natalia
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: Writing in Economics
subject: Writing Process
subject: Writing Skills
subject: Schreiben in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft
subject: Prozess des Schreibens
subject: Schreibfähigkeiten
subject: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

description: This work aims to help students get a common insight into the process of writing in Economics. At the different economic course, academic writing under the assignments including writing a seminar paper means that students focus on specific topics, review literature under this topic, analyze the existed literature, use economic methods, show their analytical thinking. This learning material deals with the stages of the writing process, the general structure of a seminar paper, how to make the logical scientific argumentation, how to search the scientific literature, and how to make a correct citation.
Paradonkia Y. Xu & C. L. Zhao 2025, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Ying
name: Yang, Yang
name: Yang, Xin
name: Chen, Daxiang
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Shen, Kaize
name: Zhang, Sicheng
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Phanerochaetaceae
Paradonkia

description: Paradonkia Y. Xu & C. L. Zhao gen. nov.
Type species.
Paradonkia farinacea Y. Xu & C. L. Zhao.
Etymology.
paradonkia (Lat.): “ para ” and “ donkia ” refer to a close phylogenetic relationship with the genus Donkia.
Description.
Basidiomata annual, resupinate, adnate. Hymenial surface farinaceous, pale cream to gray cream. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with both simple septa (more frequent) and clamp connections, colorless. Subicular hyphae colorless, thick-walled. Crystals abundant, crowded at hymenial layer and subiculum. Cystidia and cystidioles absent. Basidia clavate, thin-walled, 4 - sterigmate. Basidiospores ellipsoid, colorless, thin-walled, smooth, IKI –, CB –.
Notes.
In our phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 1), Paradonkia is identified as a monophyletic group typified by P. farinacea. The new genus Paradonkia falls within the family Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales) and is closely related to Donkia. The genus Donkia is distinguished from Paradonkia by its pileate basidiomata with a white to cream context, and cinnamon to orange-brown, odontoid to hydnoid hymenophore (Nakasone 1990; Chen et al. 2021).
description: Published as part of Xu, Ying, Yang, Yang, Yang, Xin, Chen, Daxiang, Zheng, Wen, Shen, Kaize, Zhang, Sicheng & Zhao, Changlin, 2025, Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy reveal two new genera and five new species in Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales) from Yunnan, Southwest China, pp. 263-294 in MycoKeys 113 on pages 263-294, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.113.140624
Continuous variables graph states shaped as complex networks: optimization and manipulation
Creators: name: Sansavini, Francesca
name: Parigi, Valentina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex networks structures have been extensively used for describing complex natural and technological systems, like the Internet or social networks. More recently complex network theory has been applied to quantum systems, where complex network topologies may emerge in multiparty quantum states and quantum algorithms have been studied in complex graph structures. In this work we study multimode Continuous Variables entangled states, named cluster states, where the entanglement structure is arranged in typical real-world complex networks shapes. Cluster states are a resource for measurement-based quantum information protocols, where the quality of a cluster is assessed in term of the minimal amount of noise it introduces in the computation. We study optimal graph states that can be obtained with experimentally realistic quantum resources, when optimized via analytical procedure. We show that denser and regular graphs allow for better optimization. In the spirit of quantum routing we also show the reshaping of entanglement connections in small networks via linear optics operations based on numerical optimization.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 2 of Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease
Creators: name: Chuntao Yin
name: Vargas, Juan M. Casa
name: Schlatter, Daniel C.
name: Hagerty, Christina H.
name: Hulbert, Scot H.
name: Paulitz, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Methodological Supplement for the V1-V3 hypervariable region of 16S rRNA gene was amplified by PCR.
Stripes on a 6-Leg Hubbard Ladder
Creators: name: White, Steven R.
name: Scalapino, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While DMRG calculations find stripes on doped n-leg t-J ladders, little is known about the possible formation of stripes on n-leg Hubbard ladders. Here we report results for a 7x6 Hubbard model with 4 holes. We find that a stripe forms for values of U/t ranging from 6 to 20. For U/t ~ 3-4, the system exhibits the domain wall feature of a stripe, but the hole density is very broadened.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 38 - Meta-evidence review on the impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2
Jill Bernstein, Nancy Johnson, Aslihan Arslan
Creators: name: Bernstein, Jill
name: Johnson, Nancy
name: Aslihan Arslan
name: Bernstein, Jill
name: Johnson, Nancy
name: Aslihan Arslan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Rural development
subject: Sustainable agriculture
subject: Food security
subject: Rrural finance
subject: Poverty

description: The interconnected nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forces the development community to look broadly at solutions and outcomes. By drawing on evidence from systematic and comprehensive reviews, this report provides an overview of the evidence on 10 different intervention types related to agriculture and rural development, and how these intervention types have impacted seven different outcomes associated with SDG 1 (“End poverty in all its forms everywhere”) and SDG 2 (“End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”). The seven outcomes of interest are poverty, income, food security (measured by diet quantity), nutrition security (measured by diet quality and/or nutrition), child stunting, child wasting and agricultural productivity. There is a total of 79 systematic reviews included in this meta-review, including 18 reviews that look at poverty, 33 reviews that look at food security, 36 reviews on nutrition security, 24 reviews on stunting, 18 reviews on child wasting and/or overweight, 31 reviews on productivity and 48 reviews on income. For each intervention/outcome combination, a summary of the evidence is provided, including a designation of the direction of impact and the quality of evidence. We found that cash transfers and agriculture programmes are among the most widely covered intervention types by systematic reviews, but other intervention types showed promising results. The costs and benefits of interventions were rarely studied in a rigorous way, hence the systematic reviews included here repeatedly note the need for more research to support decision-making for policies and programmes aimed at achieving SDGs 1 and 2. Another common message across intervention types is the importance of context in terms of determining the effectiveness of interventions. Given the number and diversity of interventions, outcomes and indicators, the goal is not to synthesize all the findings to say “what we know” about “what has worked”. Rather, by pulling together evidence that is customarily examined by intervention type or by outcome, we hope to encourage reflection on what it means to use evidence to inform agricultural and rural development programming to SDGs 1 and 2 and to identify implications for future impact evaluations and systematic reviews that are conducted with this goal in mind.
Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars I. Development of the method and application to AI Phoenicis
Creators: name: Miller, N. J.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Smalley, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars with accurate and precise effective temperature (T$_{\rm eff}$) measurements are needed to test stellar atmosphere models and calibrate empirical methods to determine T$_{\rm eff}$. There are few standard stars currently available to calibrate temperature indicators for dwarf stars. Gaia parallaxes now make it possible, in principle, to measure T$_{\rm eff}$ for many dwarf stars in eclipsing binaries. We aim to develop a method that uses high-precision measurements of detached eclipsing binary stars, Gaia parallaxes and multi-wavelength photometry to obtain accurate and precise fundamental effective temperatures that can be used to establish a set of benchmark stars. We select the well-studied binary AI Phoenicis to test our method, since it has very precise absolute parameters and extensive archival photometry. The method uses the stellar radii and parallax for stars in eclipsing binaries. We use a Bayesian approach to obtain the integrated bolometric fluxes for the two stars from observed magnitudes, colours and flux ratios. The fundamental effective temperature of two stars in AI Phoenicis are $6199\pm22$ K for the F7V component and $5094\pm16$ K for the K0IV component. The zero-point error in the flux scale leads to a systematic error of only 0.2% ($\approx$ 11K) in T$_{\rm eff}$. We find that these results are robust against the details of the analysis, such as the choice of model spectra. Our method can be applied to eclipsing binary stars with radius, parallax and photometric measurements across a range of wavelengths. Stars with fundamental effective temperatures determined with this method can be used as benchmarks in future surveys.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Pinning Action of Correlated Disorder against Equilibrium Properties of HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_x$: a Delicate Balance
Creators: name: Thompson, J. R.
name: Ossandon, J. G.
name: Krusin-Elbaum, L.
name: Christen, D. K.
name: Kim, H. J.
name: Song, K. J.
name: Sorge, K. D.
name: Ullmann, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report significant alteration of the equilibrium properties of the superconductor HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_x$ when correlated disorder in the form of randomly oriented columnar tracks is introduced via induced fission of Hg-nuclei. From studies of the equilibrium magnetization $M_{eq}$ and the persistent current density over a wide range of temperatures, applied magnetic fields, and track densities up to a ``matching field'' of 3.4 Tesla, we observe that the addition of more columnar tracks acting as pinning centers is progressively offset by reductions in the magnitude of $M_{eq}$. Invoking anisotropy induced ``refocusing'' of the random track array and incorporating vortex-defect interactions, we find that this corresponds to increases in the London penetration depth $λ$; this reduces the vortex line energy and consequently reduces the pinning effectiveness of the tracks.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
title: Mathematicians in Early British Aeronautics through Contemporary Literature
Creators: name: Royle, Anthony Paul
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: The turn of the 20th century heralded a revolution in humankind’s attempts to fly. An incessant race began to produce stronger, faster, more versatile craft that were reliable and controllable. The innocent motive of providing an expeditious means of transport was soon usurped, however, by a more sinister arbiter, that of military application. Indeed, WW1 was the catalyst for huge global advancements in the understanding and technological development of aeronautics, with mathematics at the core of a new genre of engineering created by a cohort of talented academics, a number of whom took to the sky themselves. Contemporary literature played an important role in this story. Not only was it a source of record and reference, it provided a forum for debate and exchange; a medium where new ideas could be distributed to a wider audience to inform, update, and often attract critical review. The nature of written publications relating to the field varied enormously, ranging from highly technical reports to general interest articles in the popular press, in-between, the niche journals, periodicals, and books. A further vault of enlightenment now exists in the form letters, diaries, and reminiscences that serve to draw readers into the period. In this thesis I want to showcase the contributions of a number of mathematicians and scientists to the development of aeronautical engineering in Britain during the early 1900s and, as a sub-theme, use examples in contemporary literature and from existing archival sources to illustrate the extent to which the mathematics being employed in aeronautics was present in the public domain; its essence and function, its impact and worth, and its importance in choreographing and accounting for the efforts of the principal academics and practical engineers involved.
Impact of Border Carbon Adjustments on Agricultural Emissions – Can Tariffs Reduce Carbon Leakage?
Creators: name: Nordin, Ida
name: Wilhelmsson, Fredrik
name: Jansson, Torbjörn
name: Fellmann, Thomas
name: Barreiro-Hurle, Jesús
name: Himics, Mihaly
name: Nordin, Ida
name: Wilhelmsson, Fredrik
name: Jansson, Torbjörn
name: Fellmann, Thomas
name: Barreiro-Hurle, Jesús
name: Himics, Mihaly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: GHG emissions
subject: emission leakage
subject: climate policy
subject: BCA
subject: carbon tax
subject: agriculture

description: There is concern that unilateral climate action in the EU agricultural sector may cause higher emissions abroad (i.e. emission leakage) and harm the competitiveness of the EU´s agricultural sector. Applying the CAPRI model, this paper assesses the potential for border carbon adjustments (BCA) in the form of import tariffs to limit the leakage of emissions and preserve the competitiveness of the EU agricultural sector. Our results show that even though BCA reduces emission leakage, 92 % of the emission reduction in the EU is still offset by emission increases outside the EU. What limits the effectiveness of the investigated BCA measures is that these measures are unilateral, and thus they only adjust for the reduced competitiveness at the EU internal market, whereas EU exports are still largely replaced by commodities produced in less GHG-efficient countries. Therefore, BCA alone cannot solve the high risk of emission leakage in the agri-food sector as a consequence of unilateral EU climate action.
MEDICINAL AND NUTRITIONAL POTENTIAL OF THAUMATOCOCCUS DANIELLII LEAVES: AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY
Creators: name: Nkemjika, Chidi Okoro
name: Obinna, Ugochukwu Eze
Publisher: name: NOLAND JOURNALS
Year: 2024
Subjects: Thaumatococcus daniellii Leaves, Medicinal and Nutritional Potential, protein calorie malnutrition , Cyanogenic glycoside , health community benefits

description: The medicinal and nutritional properties of Thaumatococcus daniellii leaves were investigated in this study. A proximate and phytochemical analysis of leaf samples showed the presence of plant compounds that are of great value to human medicinal and nutritional needs. The leaf of T. daniellii when investigated contained (per 100g): 10.50% moisture, 8.90% Ash, 17.21% Lipid, 21.26% Protein, 24.61% Crude Fibre, 17.52% Carbohydrate and 310.01k/cal of energy value. Cyanogenic glycoside, Alkaloid, Flavenoid and Tannin were significantly present in the leaf in the concentration of 0.51mg/100g, 0.40mg/100g, 0.34mg/100g and 0.70mg/100g respectively. The plant leaves contain compounds which when harnessed properly, can be of medicinal and nutritional value in the prevention of diseases like colon cancer, diabetes and protein calorie malnutrition which is the driver of many nutritional pathologies. Overall, when this is done, the public health community benefits as it will make for a healthier society
In-medium Yang-Mills equations: a derivation and canonical quantization
Creators: name: Djongolov, M. K.
name: Pisov, S.
name: Rizov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations for Yang-Mills field in a medium are derived in a linear approximation with respect to the gauge coupling parameter and the external field. The obtained equations closely resemble the macroscopic Maxwell equations. A canonical quantization is performed for a family of Fermi-like gauges in the case of constant and diagonal (in the group indices) tensors of electric permittivity and magnetic permeability. The physical subspace is defined and the gauge field propagator is evaluated for a particular choice of the gauge. The propagator is applied for evaluation of the cross-section of ellastic quark scattering in the Born approximation. Possible applications to Cherenkov-type gluon radiation are commented briefly.
description: 27 pages, references added, version extended with emphasis on non-Abelian gauge group impact on medium characteristics. To appear in J. Phys. G
Additional file 6 of Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease
Creators: name: Chuntao Yin
name: Vargas, Juan M. Casa
name: Schlatter, Daniel C.
name: Hagerty, Christina H.
name: Hulbert, Scot H.
name: Paulitz, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S1. The phenotype of wheat grown in Lind soil in the growth chamber after the cycle 1. CK: control without Rhizoctonia solani AG8 infection.
USIA Poll # 1985-I85011: UNESCO
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Government performance (1); opinion of certain leaders (4); party preference (2); vote in 1983 General Election (2); knowledge of United Nations (2); United National job performance (1); United Nations as a useful membership (1); effectiveness of United Nations (1); UNESCO (1); country contributing most to UNESCO (1); UNESCO aiding flow of information (1); American withdrawal from UNESCO (4); other countries withdrawing from UNESCO (1); Great Britain involvement with UNESCO (1).
The second law of thermodynamics from concave energy in classical mechanics
Creators: name: Itoi, C.
name: Amano, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently proposed quantum mechanical criterion `concavity of energy' for the second law of thermodynamics is studied also for classical particle systems confined in a bounded region by a potential with a time-dependent coupling constant. It is shown that the time average of work done by particles in a quench process cannot exceed that in the corresponding quasi-static process, if the energy is a concave function of the coupling constant. It is proven that the energy is indeed concave for a general confining potential with certain properties. This result implies that the system satisfies the principle of maximum work in the adiabatic environment as an expression of the second law of thermodynamics.
description: 6 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.01693