cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consumer aggression in marketing
Creators: name: Kähr, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2017
Subjects: 330 Economics
650 Management & public relations

description: Digitalization has changed the ways consumers interact with brands and has led to increasingly empowered consumer markets, where some consumers engage in activities that deliberately try to harm a brand. Against this background, this dissertation introduces a conceptual framework of aggressive consumer behavior toward brands and examines the antecedents leading to such behavior, its outcomes, and how managers can respond to diminish its damage. Paper 1 (Kähr et al. 2016) introduces the phenomenon of consumer brand sabotage (CBS) as a form of hostile aggression and develops a conceptual framework of aggressive consumer behavior toward brands. It explains the psychological mechanisms leading to such aggressive behavior and distinguishes between instrumental and hostile aggression. Manuscript 2 examines the brand damage of CBS as a form of hostile aggression. It studies whether, when, and how a CBS activity affects other observing individuals. Finally, Manuscript 3 investigates how a company should respond to negative electronic word-of-mouth as a form of instrumental aggression depending on its credibility.
On the Strong Equivalences of LPMLN Programs
Creators: name: Wang, Bin
name: Shen, Jun
name: Zhang, Shutao
name: Zhang, Zhizheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: By incorporating the methods of Answer Set Programming (ASP) and Markov Logic Networks (MLN), LPMLN becomes a powerful tool for non-monotonic, inconsistent and uncertain knowledge representation and reasoning. To facilitate the applications and extend the understandings of LPMLN, we investigate the strong equivalences between LPMLN programs in this paper, which is regarded as an important property in the field of logic programming. In the field of ASP, two programs P and Q are strongly equivalent, iff for any ASP program R, the programs P and Q extended by R have the same stable models. In other words, an ASP program can be replaced by one of its strong equivalent without considering its context, which helps us to simplify logic programs, enhance inference engines, construct human-friendly knowledge bases etc. Since LPMLN is a combination of ASP and MLN, the notions of strong equivalences in LPMLN is quite different from that in ASP. Firstly, we present the notions of p-strong and w-strong equivalences between LPMLN programs. Secondly, we present a characterization of the notions by generalizing the SE-model approach in ASP. Finally, we show the use of strong equivalences in simplifying LPMLN programs, and present a sufficient and necessary syntactic condition that guarantees the strong equivalence between a single LPMLN rule and the empty program.
description: In Proceedings ICLP 2019, arXiv:1909.07646. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1909.03764
Ray Tracing Lossy Compressed Grid Primitives
Creators: name: Benthin, Carsten
name: Vaidyanathan, Karthik
name: Woop, Sven
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Ray tracing
Visibility
Massively parallel algorithms

description: We propose a new watertight representation of geometry for ray tracing highly complex scenes in a memory efficient manner. Polygon meshes in the scene are first converted into compressed grid primitives, which are represented by a base bilinear patch with quantized displacement vectors. Ray-scene intersections are then computed by efficiently decompressing these grids onthe- fly and intersecting the implicit triangles. Our representation requires just 5:4??6:6 bytes per triangle for the combined geometry and acceleration structure, resulting in a 5-7x reduction in memory footprint compared to indexed triangle meshes. This is achieved with less than 15% increase in rendering time.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 1
description: 4
description: Carsten Benthin, Karthik Vaidyanathan, and Sven Woop
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Ray tracing; Visibility; Massively parallel algorithms
Krombeinella wolfi
Creators: name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Yildirim, Erol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Krombeinella
Krombeinella wolfi

description: Krombeinella wolfi (Invrea 1963)
 Krombeinella wolfi: Özbek et al. 1999: 17, ♂ (Bilecik, Erzurum, Kars, Samsun); Lelej 2002: 19 (Asian Turkey); Yildirim 2006: 278, ♂ (Bilecik, Samsun).
 Material examined. Bilecik: 600 m, 15.VII.1995, 17 ♂.
 Distribution. Turkey (Asian territory), Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (South European territory).
description: Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2160 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2160.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320736
Quantum theory of bilayer quantum Hall smectics
Creators: name: Papa, Emiliano
name: Schliemann, John
name: MacDonald, Allan H.
name: Fisher, Matthew P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mean-field theory predicts that bilayer quantum Hall systems at odd integer total filling factors can have stripe ground states in which the top Landau level is occupied alternately by electrons in one of the two layers. We report on an analysis of the properties of these states based on a coupled Luttinger liquid description that is able to account for quantum fluctuations of charge-density and position along each stripe edge. The soft modes associated with the broken symmetries of the stripe state lead to an unusual coupled Luttinger liquid system with strongly enhanced low-temperature heat capacity and strongly suppressed low-energy tunneling density of states. We assess the importance of the intralayer and interlayer back-scattering terms in the microscopic Hamiltonian, which are absent in the Luttinger liquid description, by employing a perturbative renormalization group approach which re-scales time and length along but not transverse to the stripes. With interlayer back-scattering interactions present the Luttinger liquid states are unstable either to an incompressible striped state that has spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and a sizable charge gap even at relatively large layer separations, or to Wigner crystal states. Our quantitative estimates of the gaps produced by back-scattering interactions are summarized in Fig. [phase_diagram] by a schematic phase diagram intended to represent predicted experimental findings in very high mobility bilayer systems at dilution refrigerator temperatures as a function of layer separation and bilayer density balance.
description: 20 pages; Submitted to Phys. Rev B
Zōho Kai tsūshō kō. Kan no 2
增補華夷通商考. 巻之二
Creators: name: Nishikawa, Joken, 1648-1724
Publisher: name: Kyōto : Umemura Yaemon and Furukawa Saburobē
Year: 2015

description: One map in v.　1: 中華十五省之畧圖 Chūka jūgoshō no ryakuzu (Outline map of the fifteen provinces), v. 1 [p. 7-8]. One map in v. 3: 地球萬國一覧之圖 Chikyū bankoku ichiran no zu (Map of all the countries on the globe), v. 3 [p. 4-5]. Cited in: WSN; 49
The Hidden Benefits of Short Food Supply Chains: Farmers’ Markets Density and Body Mass Index in Italy
Creators: name: Bimbo, Francesco
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Nardone, Gianluca
name: Viscecchia, Rosaria
name: Bimbo, Francesco
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Nardone, Gianluca
name: Viscecchia, Rosaria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: farmers’ markets
subject: BMI
subject: obesity
subject: supermarket access
subject: quantile regression

description: As more farmers adopt short distribution channels, consumers may benefit from them insofar as they increase access to healthier food options. This may lead to potential societal benefits via a reduction in obesity rates. The relationship between the presence of farmers’ markets and adult Italians’ Body Mass Index (BMI) was assessed by applying quantile regression on a cross-sectional, individual-level database, matched with regional farmers’ markets density figures. Findings illustrate that for most adult Italians, a higher density of farmers’ markets is associated with lower BMIs and that this relationship becomes more marked for individuals with higher BMIs facing limited supermarket access.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA). www.ifama.org
Gaming in Elliptic Geometry
Creators: name: Szirmay-Kalos, Laszlo
name: Magdics, Milán
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: An interesting way to explore curved spaces is to play games governed by the rules of non-Euclidean geometries. However, modeling tools and game engines are developed with Euclidean geometry in mind. This paper addresses the problem of porting a game from Euclidean to elliptic geometry. We consider primarily the geometric calculations and the transformation pipeline.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 5
description: 8
description: Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos and Milán Magdics
The microbiological characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients with native valve infective endocarditis
Creators: name: Chung-Jong Kim
name: Kyoung-Ho Song
name: Pyoeng Gyun Choe
name: Park, Wan Beom
name: Eu Suk Kim
name: Park, Kyoung Un
name: Kim, Nam Joong
name: Park, Kyung-Hwa
name: Kwak, Yee Gyung
name: Shinhye Cheon
name: Hee-Chang Jang
name: Kim, Young Keun
name: Lee, Sun Hee
name: Kiem, Sung-Min
name: Shinwon Lee
name: Kim, Hong Bin
name: Myoung-Don Oh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The microbiological characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus causing infective endocarditis (IE) have not been investigated thoroughly. We compared the characteristics of S. aureus isolates from patients with and without IE. Cases of S. aureus bacteremia (SAB) were collected from 10 hospitals over 7 years. Cases of native valve IE were matched with non-IE controls according to the following criteria: central-line-associated infection, community-acquired infection, methicillin susceptibility, and if possible, the primary site of infection. Genes coding virulence factors were analyzed using multiplex polymerase chain reactions. Fibrinogen and fibronectin-binding properties were assessed using in vitro binding assays. The fibronectin-binding protein A gene (fnbpA) was sequenced. Of 2,365 cases of SAB, 92 had IE. After matching, 37 pairs of S. aureus isolates from the IE cases and non-IE controls were compared; fnbpA was detected in 91.9% of the IE isolates and 100% of the non-IE isolates (p = 0.24). While the fibrinogen binding ratio was similar (1.07 ± 0.33 vs. 1.08 ± 0.26, p = 0.89), the fibronectin-binding ratio was significantly higher in the IE-group (1.31 ± 0.42 vs. 1.06 ± 0.31, p = 0.01). The proportions of major single-nucleotide polymorphisms in fnbpA were as follows: E652D (2.9% vs. 2.7%), H782Q (65.6% vs. 60.6%), and K786N (65.6% vs. 72.7%). The fibronectin-binding ratio was positively correlated with the number of SNPs present in IE cases (p < 0.001) but not in the non-IE controls (p = 0.124). Fibronectin-binding might play a key role in SAB IE. However, the degree of binding may be mediated by genetic variability between isolates.
Modeling and Actuation of Cable-driven Silicone Soft Robots
Creators: name: Frâncu, Mihail
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Physical simulation
Computer systems organization
Robotics

description: In this paper we present a framework for modeling cable-driven soft robots fabricated from silicone rubber - an incompressible material. Our forward simulation model can use either the standard or the mixed formulation of the finite element method (FEM). The latter prevents volumetric locking for incompressible materials and is more accurate for low resolution meshes. Hence, we show that mixed FEM is well suited for estimating elastic parameters and simulator validation. We also introduce a cable actuation model using barycentric coordinates and then use it to solve some simple control problems.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 9
description: 12
description: Mihail Frâncu
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Physical simulation; Computer systems organization --> Robotics
From Topological Superconductivity to Quantum Hall States in Coupled Wires
Creators: name: Yang, Fan
name: Perrin, Vivien
name: Petrescu, Alexandru
name: Garate, Ion
name: Hur, Karyn Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of the interplay between topological p-wave superconductivity, orbital magnetic fields and quantum Hall phases in coupled wire systems. First, we calculate the phase diagram and physical observables of a fermionic ladder made of two coupled Kitaev chains, and discuss the presence of two and four Majorana zero modes. Second, we analyze hybrid systems consisting of a Kitaev chain coupled to a Luttinger liquid. By tuning the magnetic field and the carrier density, we identify quantum Hall and charge density wave phases, as well as regimes in which superconductivity is induced in the second chain by proximity effect. Finally, we consider two-dimensional systems made of weakly coupled ladders. There, we engineer a $p+ip$ superconductor and describe a generalization of the $ν=1/2$ fractional quantum Hall phase. These phases might be realized in solid-state or cold-atom nanowires.
description: 27 pages, 11 Figures - Final Version
Paramyrmosa brunnipes
Creators: name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Yildirim, Erol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Paramyrmosa
Paramyrmosa brunnipes

description: Paramyrmosa brunnipes (Lepeletier 1845)
 Paramyrmosa brunnipes: Suárez 1988: 91, ♀, ♂ (Asian Turkey); Özbek et al. 1999: 17, ♀ (Bursa); Lelej 2002: 21 (Asian Turkey); Yildirim 2006: 278, ♂ (Bilecik).
 Material examined. No specimens have been examined..
 Distribution. Turkey, Armenia, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia (Central and South European territory), Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia), France, Spain, Portugal.
description: Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2160 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2160.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320736
Interactive Synthesis of 3D Geometries of Blood Vessels
Creators: name: Rauch, Nikolaus
name: Harders, Matthias
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Computer graphics
Applied computing
Life and medical sciences

description: In surgical training simulators, where various organ surfaces make up the majority of the scene, the visual appearance is highly dependent on the quality of the surface textures. Blood vessels are an important detail in this; they need to be incorporated into an organ's texture. Moreover, the actual blood vessel geometries also have to be part of the simulated surgical procedure itself, e.g. during cutting. Since the manual creation of vessel geometry or branching details on textures is highly tedious, an automatic synthesis technique capable of generating a wide range of blood vessel patterns is needed.We propose a new synthesis approach based on the space colonization algorithm. As extension, physiological constraints on the proliferation of branches are enforced to create realistic vascular structures. Our framework is capable of generating three-dimensional blood vessel networks in a matter of milliseconds, thus allowing a 3D modeller to tweak parameters in real-time to obtain a desired appearance.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 13
description: 16
description: Nikolaus Rauch and Matthias Harders
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Computer graphics; Applied computing --> Life and medical sciences
RestKB: A Library of Commonsense Knowledge about Dining at a Restaurant
Creators: name: Inclezan, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a library of commonsense knowledge, RestKB, developed in modular action language ALM and containing background knowledge relevant to the understanding of restaurant narratives, including stories that describe exceptions to the normal unfolding of such scenarios. We highlight features that KR languages must possess in order to be able to express pertinent knowledge, and expand action language ALM as needed. We show that encoding the knowledge base in ALM facilitates its piecewise construction and testing, and improves the generality and quality of the captured information, in comparison to an initial ASP encoding. The knowledge base was used in a system for reasoning about stereotypical activities, evaluated on the restaurant domain.
description: In Proceedings ICLP 2019, arXiv:1909.07646
Data-driven Garment Pattern Estimation from 3D Geometries
Creators: name: Goto, Chihiro
name: Umetani, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Shape modeling
Neural networks

description: Three-dimensional scanning technology recently becomes widely available to the public. However, it is difficult to simulate clothing deformation from the scanned people because scanned data lacks information required for the clothing simulation. In this paper, we present a technique to estimate clothing patterns from a scanned person in cloth. Our technique uses image-based deep learning to estimate the type of pattern on the projected image. The key contribution is converting image-based inference into three-dimensional clothing pattern estimation. We evaluate our technique by applying our technique to an actual scan.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 17
description: 20
description: Chihiro Goto and Nobuyuki Umetani
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Shape modeling; Neural networks
A Practical Mini-Course on Applied Holography
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a collection of notes based on lectures given at IIT Madras in September 2019 and at IFT Madrid in November 2019. It is supposed to be a concise (and therefore not comprehensive) and pragmatic course on applied holography and especially the (basic) analytic and numerical techniques involved. The lectures are not focused on the large theoretical and fundamental background which can be found already in several places in the literature, but rather on concrete applications of Bottom-Up AdS-CFT to Hydrodynamics, QCD and Condensed Matter. The idea is to accompany the reader step by step through the various benchmark examples with a classmate attitude, providing details of the computations and open-source numerical codes in Mathematica, and sharing simple tricks and warnings collected during my research experience. At the end of this path, the reader will be in possess of all the fundamental skills and tools to learn by himself/herself more advanced techniques and to produce independent and novel research on the topic.
description: Published as a book for the Series "SpringerBriefs in Physics": https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030351830, ISBN 978-3-030-35184-7
Visualising the Transition of Large Networks via Dimensionality Reduction to Illustrate the Evolution of the Human Brain
Creators: name: Ganglberger, Florian
name: Kaczanowska, Joanna
name: Haubensak, Wulf
name: Bühler, Katja
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: Advances in high-throughput imaging techniques enable the creation of networks depicting spatio-temporal biological and neurophysiological processes with unprecedented size and magnitude. These networks involve thousands of nodes, which can not be compared over time by traditional methods due to complexity and clutter. When investigating networks over multiple time steps, a crucial question for the visualisation research community becomes apparent: How to visually trace changes of the connectivity over several transitions? Therefore, we developed an easy-to-use method that maps multiple networks to a common embedding space. Visualising the distribution of node-clusters of interest (e.g. brain regions) enables their tracing over time. We demonstrate this approach by visualizing spatial co-evolution networks of different evolutionary timepoints as small multiples to investigate how the human brain genetically and functionally evolved over the mammalian lineage.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Modeling and Rendering
description: 21
description: 24
description: Florian Ganglberger, Joanna Kaczanowska, Wulf Haubensak, and Katja Bühler
Spin Resolution of Glueballs in 2+1 Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Johnson, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional lattice gauge theory assigns the lowest spin compatible with the symmetry channel of a given operator to the state coupling to that operator. Operators on a cubic lattice, however, are only defined on angles of pi/2, hence states with spin equal modulo 4 may overlap significantly. This paper explores a new technique for generating lattice operators that may be placed onto the lattice at angles other than pi/2, thereby resolving this modulo 4 ambiguity. Calculations of the mass of states with spin equal t o 0, 2, and 4 are performed in the positive parity and charge conjugation channe l and compared to the spectrum from previous lattice calculations. These masses compare well for spin 0 and 2, and for spin 4 the mass agrees with a state conv entionally assigned spin 0, raising the possibility of mis-identification of the spin of states coupling to some traditional operators.
description: 15 pages LaTeX, 7 figures, 4 tables
Visualizing Errors in Rendered High Dynamic Range Images
Creators: name: Andersson, Pontus
name: Nilsson, Jim
name: Shirley, Peter
name: Akenine-Möller, Tomas
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Rendering
General and reference
Metrics

description: A new error metric targeting rendered high dynamic range images is presented. Our method computes a composite visualization over a number of low dynamic range error maps of exposure compensated and tone mapped image pairs with automatically computed, or manually provided, parameters. We argue that our new error maps predict errors substantially better than metrics previously used in rendering. Source code is released with the hope that our work can be a useful tool for future research.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Imaging and Video
description: 25
description: 28
description: Pontus Andersson, Jim Nilsson, Peter Shirley, and Tomas Akenine-Möller
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Rendering; General and reference --> Metrics
The effects of flooding regimes and soil nutrients on lakeshore plant diversity in a pristine lake and a human managed lake in subtropical China
Creators: name: Ruichang Shen
name: Zhichun Lan
name: Yasong Chen
name: Leng, Fei
name: Binsong Jin
name: Changming Fang
name: Jiakuan Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The hydrological regimes of many freshwater lakes have been dramatically changed by human activity. Nevertheless, few studies have reported the effects of human water management on the formation mechanisms of lakeshore plant communities. In this study, we investigated the effects of flooding and soil nutrients on the plant diversity of lakeshore Carex communities fringing a pristine lake (Poyang Lake) and a human managed lake (Shengjin Lake), two adjacent floodplain lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Over time, the Carex meadow at Shengjin Lake experienced a lower flooding frequency and a smaller amplitude of water level fluctuations in comparison with those obtained at Poyang Lake, but similar flooding durations were found for both sites. Soil total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and the ratio of TN to TP in study plots at Shengjin Lake tended to be higher than those in the plots at Poyang Lake at the 0–100 cm soil depth except for soil TP at the 0–10 cm soil depth. A total of 23 plant species were recorded in the Carex communities at the two lakes. Artificial water management increased plant diversity but had no effect on plant biomass in the Carex community. The primary factor in determining plant diversity changed from the flooding regime to the concentrations of soil nutrients as the water regime underwent management. Flooding regimes had strong direct impacts on the plant communities, while imposing few indirect effects on plants by changing soil nutrients in the pristine lake. Our results represent essential information for enhancing the robustness of management efforts for these large and important freshwater lakes.
Quick and (not so) Dirty: Unsupervised Selection of Justification Sentences for Multi-hop Question Answering
Creators: name: Yadav, Vikas
name: Bethard, Steven
name: Surdeanu, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an unsupervised strategy for the selection of justification sentences for multi-hop question answering (QA) that (a) maximizes the relevance of the selected sentences, (b) minimizes the overlap between the selected facts, and (c) maximizes the coverage of both question and answer. This unsupervised sentence selection method can be coupled with any supervised QA approach. We show that the sentences selected by our method improve the performance of a state-of-the-art supervised QA model on two multi-hop QA datasets: AI2's Reasoning Challenge (ARC) and Multi-Sentence Reading Comprehension (MultiRC). We obtain new state-of-the-art performance on both datasets among approaches that do not use external resources for training the QA system: 56.82% F1 on ARC (41.24% on Challenge and 64.49% on Easy) and 26.1% EM0 on MultiRC. Our justification sentences have higher quality than the justifications selected by a strong information retrieval baseline, e.g., by 5.4% F1 in MultiRC. We also show that our unsupervised selection of justification sentences is more stable across domains than a state-of-the-art supervised sentence selection method.
description: Published at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 as long conference paper. Corrected the name reference for Speer et.al, 2017
Automatic Hierarchical Arrangement of Vector Designs
Creators: name: Fisher, Matthew
name: Agarwal, Vineet
name: Beri, Tarun
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied computing
Document analysis
Information systems
Clustering

description: We present a method that transforms an unstructured vector design into a logical hierarchy of groups of objects. Each group is a meaningful collection, formed by proximity in visual characteristics (like size, shape, color, etc.) and spatial location of objects and models the grouping principles designers use. We first simplify the input design by partially or completely flattening it and isolate duplicate geometries in the design (for example, repeating patterns due to copy and paste operations). Next we build the object containment hierarchy by assigning objects that are wholly enclosed inside the geometry of other objects as children of the enclosing parent. In the final clustering phase, we use agglomerative clustering to obtain a bottom-up hierarchical grouping of all objects by comparing and ranking all pairs of objects according to visual and spatial characteristics. Spatial proximity segregates far apart objects, but when they are identical (or near identical) designers generally prefer to keep (and edit) them together. To accommodate this, we detect near identical objects and group them together during clustering despite their spatial separation. We further restrict group formation so that z-order disturbances in the design keep the visual appearance unaffected for tightly-overlapping geometry. The generated organization is equivalent to the original design and the organization results are used to facilitate abstract navigation (hierarchical, lateral or near similar) and selections in the design. Our technique works well with a variety of input designs with commonly identifiable objects and structural patterns.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Imaging and Video
description: 29
description: 32
description: Matthew Fisher, Vineet Agarwal, and Tarun Beri
description: CCS Concepts: Applied computing --> Document analysis; Information systems --> Clustering
From two-dimensional (super-integrable) quantum dynamics to (super-integrable) three-body dynamics
Creators: name: Turbiner, Alexander V
name: Miller, Willard
name: Escobar-Ruiz, M. Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that planar quantum dynamics can be related to 3-body quantum dynamics in the space of relative motion with a special class of potentials. As an important special case the $O(d)$ symmetry reduction from $d$ degrees of freedom to one degree is presented. A link between two-dimensional (super-integrable) systems and 3-body (super-integrable) systems is revealed. As illustration we present number of examples. We demonstrate that the celebrated Calogero-Wolfes 3-body potential has a unique property: two-dimensional quantum dynamics coincides with 3-body quantum dynamics on the line at $d=1$; it is governed by the Tremblay-Turbiner-Winternitz potential for parameter $k=3$.
description: 13 pages, 24 refs; title modified, several explicit examples added, Abstract and Introduction extended, some statements clarified
Bregman Approach to Single Image De-Raining
Creators: name: Szirmay-Kalos, Laszlo
name: Tóth, Márton
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: Surveillance cameras are expected to work also in bad visibility conditions, which requires algorithmic solutions to improve the captured image and to eliminate image degradation caused by these weather conditions. Algorithms for such tasks belong to the field of computational photography and have been successful in eliminating haze, fog, motion blur, etc. This paper presents a simple algorithm to suppress rain or snow from single images. The algorithm uses energy minimization, and we propose a novel data term and a Bregman distance based regularization term reflecting the particular properties of precipitation.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Imaging and Video
description: 33
description: 36
description: Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos and Márton Tóth
Paramyrmosa radoszkowskyi
Creators: name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Yildirim, Erol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Paramyrmosa
Paramyrmosa radoszkowskyi

description: Paramyrmosa radoszkowskyi (Saussure 1880)
 Paramyrmosa radoszkowskyi: Suárez 1988: 89, ♂ (Asian Turkey); Özbek et al. 1999: 17, ♂ (Artvin, Bilecik, Diyarbakır, Erzurum); Lelej 2002: 21 (Asian Turkey); Yildirim 2006: 278, ♂ (Erzurum).
 Material examined. Erzurum: University field, 1850 m, 30.VI.1992, 1 ♂; Oltu, Aksuyayla, 2250 m, 14.VII.1996, 1 ♂; Sütkans, 1650 m, 25.VI 1996, 1 ♂.
 Distribution. Turkey (Asian part), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia.
description: Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2160 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2160.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320736
Brand Premiums in the U.S. Beef Industry
Creators: name: Martinez, Stephen W.
name: Martinez, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The U.S. beef industry has experienced considerable reductions in beef demand over the past 30 years. One possible factor in declining beef demand is lack of progress in the development of consistent, high-quality branded beef products. This article uses Nielsen Homescan data and hedonic models to estimate the value that U.S. consumers place on various beef attributes, including brand.
Large Extra Dimensions from a Small Extra Dimension
Creators: name: Chacko, Z.
name: Fox, Patrick J.
name: Nelson, Ann E.
name: Weiner, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models with extra dimensions have changed our understanding of the hierarchy problem. In general, these models explain the weakness of gravity by diluting gravity in a large bulk volume, or by localizing the graviton away from the standard model. In this paper, we show that the warped geometries necessary for the latter scenario can naturally induce the large volumes necessary for the former. We present a model in which a large volume is stabilized without supersymmetry. We comment on the phenomenology of this scenario and generalizations to additional dimensions.
description: Some formulae altered, conclusions unchanged
The impact of Migrant Remittances on the Technical Efficiency of Arable Crop Farm Households in South Eastern Nigeria
Creators: name: Iheke, Onwuchekwa Raphael
name: Nwaru, Jude Chukwudi
name: Onyenweaku, C. E.
name: Iheke, Onwuchekwa Raphael
name: Nwaru, Jude Chukwudi
name: Onyenweaku, C. E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Migrant Remittances
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Farm Households

description: This study was designed to examine the impact of migrant remittances on the technical efficiency smallholder arable crop farm households in South Eastern Nigeria. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used in choosing the sample. Primary data collected from 120 respondents comprising 60 migrants’ remittance receiving households and non receiving households, respectively were used for the study. Data collected through the cost route method were analyzed using multiple regression analysis employing the stochastic frontier production function analysis in a single stage maximum likelihood estimation method and z test statistic. The results of data analyses show that household size, education, farming experience, and farm size were the significant determinants of technical efficiency of the remittance receiving households; while age, years of education and farm size were the significant determinants of technical efficiency of the non-remittance receiving households. The individual technical efficiency indices range from 0.12 - 1.00 for the remittance receiving households with a mean of 0.42 as against 0.10 – 0.98 for the non-remittance receiving households with a mean of 0.53. The t test revealed that the non-remittance receiving households were more technically efficient than the remittance receiving households in the use of farm resources. It was recommended that there is the need to encourage the households to pursue efficiency in resource utilization by exhibiting higher levels of entrepreneurial capabilities. Policies and programmes that could help them increase their efficiency especially the remittance receiving households should be put in place such as would encourage harnessing and optimizing the use of remittance income, as well as reallocation and redistribution of resources.
Zōho Kai tsūshō kō. Kan no 1
增補華夷通商考. 巻之一
Creators: name: Nishikawa, Joken, 1648-1724
Publisher: name: Kyōto : Umemura Yaemon and Furukawa Saburobē
Year: 2015

description: One map in v.　1: 中華十五省之畧圖 Chūka jūgoshō no ryakuzu (Outline map of the fifteen provinces), v. 1 [p. 7-8]. One map in v. 3: 地球萬國一覧之圖 Chikyū bankoku ichiran no zu (Map of all the countries on the globe), v. 3 [p. 4-5]. Cited in: WSN; 49
Gauge-Independent Off-Shell Fermion Self-Energies at Two Loops: The Cases of QED and QCD
Creators: name: Binosi, Daniele
name: Papavassiliou, Joannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the pinch technique formalism to construct the gauge-independent off-shell two-loop fermion self-energy, both for Abelian (QED) and non-Abelian (QCD) gauge theories. The new key observation is that all contributions originating from the longitudinal parts of gauge boson propagators, by virtue of the elementary tree-level Ward identities they trigger, give rise to effective vertices, which do not exist in the original Lagrangian; all such vertices cancel diagrammatically inside physical quantities, such as current correlation functions or S-matrix elements. We present two different, but complementary derivations: First, we explicitly track down the aforementioned cancellations inside two-loop diagrams, resorting to nothing more than basic algebraic manipulations. Second, we present an absorptive derivation, exploiting the unitarity of the S-matrix, and the Ward identities imposed on tree-level and one-loop physical amplitudes by gauge invariance, in the case of QED, or by the underlying Becchi-Rouet-Stora symmetry, in the case of QCD. The propagator-like sub-amplitude defined by means of this latter construction corresponds precisely to the imaginary parts of the effective self-energy obtained in the former case; the real part may be obtained from a (twice subtracted) dispersion relation. As in the one-loop case, the final two-loop fermion self-energy constructed using either method coincides with the conventional fermion self-energy computed in the Feynman gauge.
description: 30 pages; uses axodraw (axodraw.sty included in the src); final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Robust Image Denoising using Kernel Predicting Networks
Creators: name: Cai, Zhilin
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Manzi, Marco
name: Oztireli, Cengiz
name: Gross, Markus
name: Aydin, Tunç Ozan
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Image processing

description: We present a new method for designing high quality denoisers that are robust to varying noise characteristics of input images. Instead of taking a conventional blind denoising approach or relying on explicit noise parameter estimation networks as well as invertible camera imaging pipeline models, we propose a two-stage model that first processes an input image with a small set of specialized denoisers, and then passes the resulting intermediate denoised images to a kernel predicting network that estimates per-pixel denoising kernels. We demonstrate that our approach achieves robustness to noise parameters at a level that exceeds comparable blind denoisers, while also coming close to state-of-the-art denoising quality for camera sensor noise.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Imaging and Video
description: 37
description: 40
description: Zhilin Cai, Yang Zhang, Marco Manzi, Cengiz Oztireli, Markus Gross, and Tunç Ozan Aydin
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Image processing
Do Source and Quality matter in the Demand for Imported Rice in Côte d’Ivoire?
Creators: name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: AIDS
subject: source differentiation
subject: rice quality demand
subject: Ivorian imports

description: The first difference Almost Ideal Demand System is used to estimate the Ivorian rice import demand differentiated by sources and qualities. Research findings showed that the import demand of rice for all qualities and sources in Cote d’Ivoire is inelastic. Expenditure elasticities reveal that Thailand has the most to benefit from an expansion of the broken rice and the luxury rice market. India will gain from the growth of the standard rice market. Thailand has almost a monopole in the exports of broken rice to Cote d’Ivoire and thereby differentiation of imports of broken rice by its origin is not relevant. The inelasticity of demand for imported rice in Cote d’Ivoire has strong implications in the tariff policy debates of the ECOWAS custom union.
Book Review: A Maritime Lexicon (Salimi & Staples)
Creators: name: Acevedo, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90904 Navigation and Position Fixing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 200318 Middle Eastern Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 91103 Ocean Engineering
subject: 109999 Technology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 220203 History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
subject: 200407 Lexicography
subject: 91199 Maritime Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 210110 Maritime Archaeology
subject: Instrumentation, Techniques, and Astronomical Observations

description: Book review of a 2019 reference book on Indian Ocean Arab maritime sources.
SoftWalks: Real-Time, Two-Ways Interaction between a Character and Loose Grounds
Creators: name: Paliard, Chloé
name: Alvarado, Eduardo
name: Rohmer, Damien
name: Cani, Marie-Paule
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: When walking on loose terrains, possibly covered with vegetation, the ground and grass should deform, but the character's gait should also change accordingly.We propose a method for modeling such two-ways interactions in real-time.We first complement a layered character model by a high-level controller, which uses position and angular velocity inputs to improve dynamic oscillations when walking on various slopes. Secondly, at a refined level, the feet are set to locally deform the ground and surrounding vegetation using efficient procedural functions, while the character's response to such deformations is computed through adapted inverse kinematics. While simple to set up, our method is generic enough to adapt to any character morphology. Moreover, its ability to generate in real time, consistent gaits on a variety of loose grounds of arbitrary slope, possibly covered with grass, makes it an interesting solution to enhance films and games.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Short Papers
description: Animation and Visualization
description: 41
description: 44
description: Chloé Paliard, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, and Marie-Paule Cani
Pseudophotopsis schachruda
Creators: name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Yildirim, Erol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Pseudophotopsis
Pseudophotopsis schachruda

description: Pseudophotopsis schachruda (Skorikov 1935), stat. resurr.
 Ephutomma schachruda Skorikov 1935: 323, ♀ (lectotype (designated by Lelej 1980: 642) – "Shachrud, S[evernaya] Persia, 21.V.1914, Kirichenko" (North Iran) [ZIN], examined).
 Ephutomma schachruda var. robusta Skorikov 1935: 324, ♀, (lectotype (designated by Lelej 1980: 642) – "Caucasus, Araxesthal, Leder, Reitter" [ZIN], examined). New Synonymy.
 Ephutomma mavromoustakisi Suárez 1959: 284, ♀, (holotype – "de Chipre, Limassol " (Cyprus), 14.IV.1956, Mavromoustakis "; paratypes from Cyprus, Turkey and Armenia). New Synonymy.
 Pseudophotopsis schachruda: Özbek et al. 1999: 23, ♀ (schachrudii !) (Adana, Aydın, Çanakkale, Elazığ, Erzurum).
 Pseudophotopsis caucasica: Lelej 1985: 87, ♀ non ♂; 2002: 25, part. (Asian Turkey).
 Diagnosis. Males of Pseudophotopsis schachruda belong to the group of males that lack denticles on the metanotum. P. schachruda differs from other species of this group by having a widened hypostomal carina that correspods to that seen in the female.
 Description. MALE (hitherto unknown). Body length 9.6 mm. Head quadrangular behind the eyes (in dorsal view). Ocelli medial size, ratio of postocellar distance to ocellocular distance 1.1X. Ocelloccipital distance (between posterior ocellus and occipital carina) 2.5X longitudinal posterior ocellus diameter. Hypostomal carina widened. Mandibles weakly excised beneath, with small basal denticle ventrally. First flagellomere 1.6X its width and equal flagellomere 2. Metanotum without denticles. Metasomal tergum 1 length 0.9X its maximal width. Segment 2 with lateral felt lines on tergum and sternum. Tergum 2 shiny, densely punctate. Head, mesosoma, and antennae ferruginous-red. Legs red-testaceous. Metasomal segment 1 reddish-brown, segments 2–7 black. Body and legs clothed with short recumbent and scattered long erect white pubescence. Terga 1–6 and sterna 2–6 with apical white fringes.
 Material examined. Elazıǧ: 1300 m, 1.IX.1973, 1 ♂. Erzurum: Pasinler, 1900 m, 10.VI.1993, 1 ♀. (Both specimens identfied by B. Petersen as P. schachrudi (!)).
 Distribution. Turkey (Asian part), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan (south-west), Iran, Cyprus, Palestine.
 Remarks. The sex association proposed by Lelej (1980) under Pseudophotopsis caucasica was wrong. Discovery of the true male of P. schachruda necessitates the new synonymy of this species. The female of P. caucasica (Radoszkowski 1885) is still unknown.
description: Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S. & Yildirim, Erol, 2009, A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2160 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2160.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320736