cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pharmacological enhancement of cannabinoid type 1(CBı) receptor
Creators: name: Hill, Matthew Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Accumulating evidence suggests that the endocannabinoid^system may play a role in emotional regulation, and thus may be a novel target for antidepressant pharmacotherapeutics. This experiment aimed to assess whether enhanced CBi receptor activity possesses antidepressant properties. To examine the effect of modulation of cannabinoid activity on behaviors in the rat Porsolt forced swim test, we administered 1 and 5 mg/kg doses of the endocannabinoid uptake inhibitor AM404; 1, 2.5 and 5 mg/kg of the sleep-inducing lipid oleamide, which may possess cannabinoidergic properties; 5, 10 and 25 ug/kg doses of HU-210, a potent CBi receptor agonist; and 1 and 5 mg/kg doses of AM 251, a selective CBi receptor antagonist, and scored the expression of immobility, swimming and struggling during a 5 min test session. Administration of AM404 caused a dose dependent decrease in immobility that was blocked by pretreatment with AM 251. Oleamide also elicited a dose dependent decrease in immobility that was similarly prevented by pretreatment with AM251. Administration of the antagonist AM 251 alone had no effect on immobility at either dose. Furthermore, the agonist HU-210, at doses of 5 and 25 ug/kg, elicited a reduction in immobility. These data suggest that enhancement of CBi receptor signaling results in antidepressant effects in the forced swim test, and that future research should determine whether elevation of endogenous cannabinoids would be a suitable target for the pharmacotherapy of affective and stress related disorders.
Supplemental Text and Figure from It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity
Creators: name: Turner, Morgan L.
name: Falkingham, Peter L.
name: Gatesy, Stephen M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The feet of ground-dwelling birds retain many features of their dinosaurian ancestry. Experiments with living species offer insights into the complex interplay among anatomy, kinematics and substrate during the formation of Mesozoic footprints. However, a key aspect of the track-making process, sub-surface foot movement, is hindered by substrate opacity. Here, we use biplanar X-rays to image guineafowl walking through radiolucent substrates of different consistency (solid, dry granular, firm to semi-liquid muds). Despite substantial kinematic variation, the foot consistently moves in a looping pattern below ground. As the foot sinks and then withdraws, the claws of the three main toes create entry and exit paths in different locations. Sampling these paths at incremental horizons captures two-dimensional features just as fossil tracks do, allowing depth-based zones to be characterized by the presence and relative position of digit impressions. Examination of deep, penetrative tracks from the Early Jurassic confirms that bipeds had an equivalent looping response to soft substrates approximately 200 Mya. Our integration of extant and extinct evidence demonstrates the influence of substrate properties on sinking depth and sub-surface foot motion, both of which are significant sources of track variation in the fossil record of dinosaurs.
Mechanics of multidimensional isolated horizons
Creators: name: Korzynski, M.
name: Lewandowski, J.
name: Pawlowski, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a multidimensional generalization of Isolated Horizon framework has been proposed by Lewandowski and Pawlowski (gr-qc/0410146). Therein the geometric description was easily generalized to higher dimensions and the structure of the constraints induced by the Einstein equations was analyzed. In particular, the geometric version of the zeroth law of the black hole thermodynamics was proved. In this work we show how the IH mechanics can be formulated in a dimension--independent fashion and derive the first law of BH thermodynamics for arbitrary dimensional IH. We also propose a definition of energy for non--rotating horizons.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures (eps), last sections revised, acknowledgements and a section about the gauge invariance of introduced quantities added; typos corrected, footnote 4 on page 9 added
Fine-grained Anomaly Detection via Multi-task Self-Supervision
Creators: name: Jezequel, Loic
name: Vu, Ngoc-Son
name: Beaudet, Jean
name: Histace, Aymeric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting anomalies using deep learning has become a major challenge over the last years, and is becoming increasingly promising in several fields. The introduction of self-supervised learning has greatly helped many methods including anomaly detection where simple geometric transformation recognition tasks are used. However these methods do not perform well on fine-grained problems since they lack finer features. By combining in a multi-task framework high-scale shape features oriented task with low-scale fine features oriented task, our method greatly improves fine-grained anomaly detection. It outperforms state-of-the-art with up to 31% relative error reduction measured with AUROC on various anomaly detection problems.
Traceability Adoption by Specialty Crop Producers in California
Creators: name: Stuller, Zachary J.
name: Rickard, Bradley J.
name: Stuller, Zachary J.
name: Rickard, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Borda’s rule
subject: California
subject: partial budget
subject: specialty crops
subject: survey
subject: traceability

description: Surveys were sent to specialty crop producers in California, predominantly grower-packer-shippers, during the first half of 2006 to better understand the motives for traceability adoption. The questions in our survey allowed respondents to consider the benefits of tracing. A representative tracing system for melons was developed and costs for the system were collected from industry sources. Values were assigned to the benefits of traceability based on the cost of the representative system, responses collected in our survey, and using Borda’s rule. Results suggest that litigation concerns and firm reputation are the key drivers for maintaining traceability.
Enhancing Student Learning Experiences and Providing Value to the Agribusiness Industry by Building the Industry-Institution Interface
Creators: name: Foltz, John C.
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Foltz, John C.
name: Devadoss, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: advisory board
subject: agribusiness management
subject: case studies
subject: continuing education
subject: internships

description: This paper addresses agribusiness industry-institution interfaces, research-education linkages, and improving agribusiness education with opportunities such as agricultural students’ internships with agribusiness companies, conducting applied research, and finding opportunities for agribusiness educational seminars conducted by universities. The rationale for agribusiness internships is discussed, and agribusiness internship structure and planning is outlined. The potential benefits of a Departmental Advisory Board are listed, along with suggestions for implementing such a group. Applied agribusiness research opportunities including case studies and extension, outreach, or trade publications are highlighted, and examples of this type of work are discussed. Finally, continuing education opportunities for agribusiness conferences or symposiums hosted and organized by a university Department of Agribusiness are delineated.
Differential Emission Measure Determination of Collisionally Ionized Plasma: II. Application to Hot Stars
Creators: name: Wojdowski, Patrick S.
name: Schulz, Norbert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper we have described a technique to derive constraints on the differential emission measure (DEM) distribution, a measure of the temperature distribution, of collisionally ionized hot plasmas from their X-ray emission line spectra. We apply this technique to the Chandra/HETG spectra of all of the nine hot stars available to us at the time this project was initiated. We find that DEM distributions of six of the seven O stars in our sample are very similar but that theta Ori has an X-ray spectrum characterized by higher temperatures. The DEM distributions of both of B stars in our sample have lower magnitudes than those of the O stars and one, tau Sco, is characterized by higher temperatures than the other, beta Cru. These results confirm previous work in which high temperatures have been found for theta Ori and tau Sco and taken as evidence for channeling of the wind in magnetic fields, the existence of which are related to the stars' youth. Our results demonstrate the utility of our method for deriving temperature information for large samples of X-ray emission line spectra.
description: The contents of this paper were formerly part of astro-ph/0403603 which was split into two papers
Microcaria albolineata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Microcaria
Microcaria albolineata

description: Microcaria albolineata (Gyllenhal)
(Figs 138, 139a, b)
Coccinella albolineata Gyllenhal, in Scĥnherr, 1808: 158 (Type locality: East India).
Calvia albolineata: Mulsant 1850: 146.
Bothrocalvia albolineata: Crotch 1874: 143; Korschefsky 1932: 521; Poorani 2002a: 322; Ren et al. 2009: 176; Yu 2010: 61.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.70–6.50 mm; width: 3.80–5.00 mm. Form (Figs 138a, 139a, b) broad oval, dorsum strongly convex (Fig. 138b), glabrous except head with sparse pubescence. Head (Fig. 138d) light brownish yellow to testaceous, eyes large with divergent inner margins. Pronotum yellowish-testaceous, with two oblique, oblong, irregularly shaped yellowish-brown spots in the middle, sometimes fused into a roughly M-shaped marking. Elytra dull brown, with pale yellow markings as follows: an elongate, cylindrical marking from basal margin to nearly 2/3 of the elytral length, adjacent to sutural line; a broader band at outer margin extending from humeral callus to nearly half the length of elytron and a narrow line starting from humeral callus and ending at elytral apex, with two brown islands, one at humeral callus and the other just before apex. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 138c) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 138f–i) and spermatheca (Fig. 138e) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Commonly collected in the northeastern region (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal); Nepal; Hong Kong; China; Taiwan; Japan;
Prey/associated habitat. Associated with adelgids and aphids feeding on pine, spruce, and other coniferous trees; feeds on Cinara sp., Pineus sp. (label data). Predatory on Oracella acuta (Lobdell) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) (CABI 2021) and Eulachnus thunbergii Wilson infesting Pinus khasya (Devi 1989).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during January–February, April, June–July, August, and September (northeastern region). Shantibala & Singh (1991) reported this species from an altitude of 2000–2500 m from the northeastern region of India.
Notes. It is common in the northeastern states of India. Rao & So (1967) briefly described it and illustrated the habitus. Devi (1989) and Wadhi & Parshad (1980) provided notes on its hosts and distribution. For more illustrations, see Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Kaon Decays and Vus
Creators: name: Franzini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unitarity for the first row of the quark mixing matrix appears to be fully satisfied by the value of Vus obtained from recent new measurements of kaon semileptonic decay rates.
description: Invited Talk XXIV Physics in Collision, Boston June 27-29, 2004 10 pages, 5 figures. Added author name, corrected typos
Long-range miniature ceramic RFID tags
Creators: name: Dobrykh, Dmitry
name: Yusupov, Ildar
name: Krasikov, Sergey
name: Mikhailovskaya, Anna
name: Shakirova, Diana
name: Bogdanov, Andrey
name: Slobozhanyuk, Alexey
name: Filonov, Dmitry
name: Ginzburg, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a mature technology, which allows performing contactless data readout via wireless communication links. While communication protocols in this field are subject to regulations, there is a room of opportunities to improve the hardware realization of antennas devices, which support the technology. In particular, readout range extension and miniaturization of passive RFID tags is an important objective with far going impact on retail, security, IoT, and many others. Here we introduce a new concept of high-permittivity ceramic tag, which relies on different physical principles. Instead of using conduction currents in metallic wires to drive electronic chips and radiate electromagnetic waves, high permittivity components rely on an efficient excitation of displacement currents. Those are efficiently converted to conduction currents, powering a memory chip. The practical aspect of this approach is improved robustness to environmental fluctuations, footprint reduction, and readout range extension. In particular, our high permittivity ceramic (ε ~ 100) elements have demonstrated a 25% reading range improvement in respect to commercial tags. In case, when state of the art readers and RFID chips are used, the readout distances of the developed ceramic tags are approaching 23 m and could be further extended with improved matching circuits.
Table S2. Spearman correlation coefficients from Evaluating a transfer gradient assumption in a fomite-mediated microbial transmission model using an experimental and Bayesian approach
Creators: name: Wilson, Amanda M.
name: Marco-Felipe King
name: López-García, Martín
name: Weir, Mark H.
name: Sexton, Jonathan D.
name: Canales, Robert A.
name: Kostov, Georgiana E.
name: Julian, Timothy R.
name: Noakes, Catherine J.
name: Reynolds, Kelly A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: Spearman correlation coefficients for the input parameters and estimated infection risks
Isolating Functions at the Hardware Limit with Virtines
Creators: name: Wanninger, Nicholas C.
name: Bowden, Joshua J.
name: Shetty, Kirtankumar
name: Garg, Ayush
name: Hale, Kyle C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.4.6

description: An important class of applications, including programs that leverage third-party libraries, programs that use user-defined functions in databases, and serverless applications, benefit from isolating the execution of untrusted code at the granularity of individual functions or function invocations. However, existing isolation mechanisms were not designed for this use case; rather, they have been adapted to it. We introduce \textit{virtines}, a new abstraction designed specifically for function granularity isolation, and describe how we build virtines from the ground up by pushing hardware virtualization to its limits. Virtines give developers fine-grained control in deciding which functions should run in isolated environments, and which should not. The virtine abstraction is a general one, and we demonstrate a prototype that adds extensions to the C language. We present a detailed analysis of the overheads of running individual functions in isolated VMs, and guided by those findings, we present Wasp, an embeddable hypervisor that allows programmers to easily use virtines. We describe several representative scenarios that employ individual function isolation, and demonstrate that virtines can be applied in these scenarios with only a few lines of changes to existing codebases and with acceptable slowdowns.
description: In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '22), April 5-8, 2022, Rennes, France
Numerical study of the equation of state for two flavor QCD at non-zero baryon density
Creators: name: Ejiri, S.
name: Allton, C. R.
name: Doering, M.
name: Hands, S. J.
name: Kaczmarek, O.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Redlich, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the equation of state (EoS) for two flavor QCD at non-zero temperature and density. Derivatives of $\ln Z$ with respect to quark chemical potential $μ_q$ are calculated up to sixth order. From this Taylor series, the pressure, quark number density and associated susceptibilities are estimated as functions of temperature and $μ_q$. It is found that the fluctuations in the quark number density increase in the vicinity of the phase transition temperature and the susceptibilities start to develop a pronounced peak as $μ_q$ is increased. This suggests the presence of a critical endpoint in the $(μ_q, T)$ plane. Moreover, we comment on the hadron resonance gas model, which explains well our simulation results below $T_c$.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Poster presented at SEWM 2004
Resonance phenomena in conductor-backed asymmetrical coplanar strips
Creators: name: Ghanipour, Pejman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The ground strip of CBACPS represents a patch antenna supporting unwanted parallelplate (PP) modes causing numerous resonances. For typical monolithic-microwave integrated circuits in finite substrates and packaging enclosures, these resonance frequencies lie within the microwave frequency region. In order to suppress coupling into these PP modes, several mode coupling suppression methods are proposed, simulated and tested in the frequency range 0.05 to 50 GHz. These methods include variation of line parameters, suspension of the substrate, application of a superstrate with a high dielectric constant and the use of slow-wave structures. It is shown that the resonance frequencies are accurately estimated by our model, which considers the excitation of the first and second PP modes. Furthermore, the mode coupling suppression schemes are verified by measuring the S-parameters of the fabricated CBACPS lines. This thesis reports the first use of slow-wave electrodes as a mode coupling suppression method for coplanar structures; it is shown that the best mode coupling suppression is achieved by the use slow-wave electrodes along with narrow-width shorted ground strip.
Symmetry reductions of a particular set of equations of associativity in twodimensional topological field theory
Creators: name: Conte, Robert
name: Gandarias, Maria Luz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q58, 35Q99

description: The WDVV equations of associativity arising in twodimensional topological field theory can be represented, in the simplest nontrivial case, by a single third order equation of the Monge-Ampe`re type. By investigating its Lie point symmetries, we reduce it to various nonlinear ordinary differential equations, and we obtain several new explicit solutions.
description: 10 pages, Latex, to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 2005
Research on rolling friction's dependence on ball bearings' radius
Creators: name: Koczan, Grzegorz M.
name: Ziomek, Juliusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70E18, 70F40, 74M10

description: There are two alternative historical laws of rolling resistance formulated by French scientist Coulomb and Dupuit. It has been decided to verify experimentally again, which of these laws describes freely rolling ball bearings on a hard surface better. An inducement to carrying out the measurements was the idea of the constant thickness of roadbed, which is consistent with Dupuit's theory. Measurements have been done using the damped oscillations in the pendulum bearings. Results have shown better consistency with the Coulomb's theory with small, but measurable deviations. These deviations were successfully explained by the so called "Cobblestones model". Parameters designated by this model have been successfully verified by the surface roughness's profile measurement. An additional theoretical aspect of this work is distinguishing two types of rolling friction force: dynamical and kinematical in an analogy to two types of specific heat capacity in the thermodynamics of gases.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, 10 references, 25 equations
Canon IJ Network Tool
Creators: name: wills, michaelwills
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80302 Computer System Architecture
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Canon IJ Network Tool is a toolkit software with the options to keep a check on most of your Canon printer network settings and adjust them according to your requirements. The Canon IJ Network tool will get you through the network settings uninterruptedly.
Možni tržni pristopi (oblike zaščite) pri govejem mesu – primeri iz EU in Slovenije
Creators: name: Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: EN: Lecture at the round table "Opportunities for beef production, Banjščice, July 24, 2010 SI: Predavanje na Okrogli mizi: Priložnosti za rejo mesnih pasem goveda, Banjšice, 24. julij 2010
Transmission des fluctuations et calcul des prix de parité à l’importation du riz et du maïs en Côte d'Ivoire
Creators: name: Noel, M. Kouable
name: Noel, M. Kouable
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Ivory coast
subject: maize
subject: rice
subject: parity prices

description: The main purpose of the study is to measure the level of influence exercised by the recent outbreak world prices of rice and maize, the prices of local products (rice and corn), also how to assess the competitiveness of local products has been affected by this increase in West Africa
Explicit factorization from On explicit Wiener–Hopf factorization of 2 × 2 matrices in a vicinity of a given matrix. 17 January 2020 15 May 2020
Creators: name: L. Ephremidze
name: I. Spitkovsky
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Provides explicit Wiener-Hopf factorization of certain class of 2x2 matrices
Transmission des fluctuations et calcul des prix de parité à l’importation du riz et du maïs au Burkina.
Creators: name: Pale, Eric
name: Pale, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Burkina Faso
subject: Maize
subject: Rice
subject: Parity Price

description: During the first quarter of 2008, the nominal prices of major food items have reached their highest level in nearly 50 years, while prices reached their actual level record in nearly 30 years. Indeed, prices of agricultural products rose sharply in 2006 and 2007 reported an increase more marked in the first quarter of 2008. The FAO food price index rose an average of 8% in 2006 compared to the year earlier and 24% in 2007 compared to 2006. The increase in the average index for first three months of 2008 compared to first quarter 2007 was 53%. Soaring persistent price is mainly due to vegetable oils, which rose to more than 97% during the same period, followed by cereals (87%), dairy (58%) and rice (46%). According to the latest report published by the World Bank on rising prices Food prices global wheat prices rose 181% during the period of 36 months elapsed until February 2008, and global food prices have increased overall 83%. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture, the 36 countries facing a food security crisis, 21 are in Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, rising food prices has had repercussions Social quite important
Microcaria lewisii
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Microcaria
Microcaria lewisii

description: Microcaria lewisii (Crotch)
(Fig. 139)
Bothrocalvia lewisii Crotch, 1874: 143 (Holotype, UCCC; Type locality: China).— Poorani 2002a: 322; Shantibala & Singh 1991: 39–43; Ren et al. 2009: 176.
Calvia lewisi: Korschefsky 1932: 524.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.80–6.50 mm; width: 5.00– 5.50 mm. Form broad oval, dorsum strongly convex and glabrous. Ground colour creamy whitish to yellowish in live specimens, darker yellowish in preserved specimens. Head and pronotum creamy whitish yellow to yellow, pronotum with a roughly M-shaped reddish-brown marking, elytra with three reddish brown or ochreous stripes forming a characteristic pattern as illustrated (Fig. 139a–d), first one parallel to suture, second Y-shaped with a shorter branch arising from its apex, third nearer lateral margin and anteriorly joined with the second stripe. Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. India: Manipur, Nagaland (Shantibala & Singh 1991); Nepal; Bhutan; Myanmar.
Prey / associated habitat. Predatory on pine aphids such as Cinara (Schizolachnus) orientalis (Takahashi) and Eulachnus thunbergii Wilson on Pinus khasya (Devi 1989).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during August and November (Devi 1989). Shantibala & Singh (1991) reported this species from an altitude of 500–2000 m from the northeastern region of India. It looks somewhat similar to a common variant of Harmonia eucharis (Mulsant), one of the most common species in northeastern India but it has a distinctly broader oval form.
Notes. Devi (1989) included it in her Ph.D. dissertation on Coccinellidae of northeastern India with details on its distribution and hosts. Illustrated by Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Electrophoresis of DNA on a disordered two-dimensional substrate
Creators: name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
name: Reichhardt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method for electrophoretic separation of DNA in which adsorbed polymers are driven over a disordered two-dimensional substrate which contains attractive sites for the polymers. Using simulations of a model for long polymer chains, we show that the mobility increases with polymer length, in contrast to gel electrophoresis techniques, and that separation can be achieved for a range of length scales. We demonstrate that the separation mechanism relies on steric interactions between polymer segments, which prevent substrate disorder sites from trapping more than one DNA segment each. Since thermal activation does not play a significant role in determining the polymer mobility, band broadening due to diffusion can be avoided in our separation method.
description: 7 pages, 7 postscript figures; extended version with new results to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Table S1. Comparison of candidate distribution fits to the posterior transfer efficiency values and goodness of fit test results* from Evaluating a transfer gradient assumption in a fomite-mediated microbial transmission model using an experimental and Bayesian approach
Creators: name: Wilson, Amanda M.
name: Marco-Felipe King
name: López-García, Martín
name: Weir, Mark H.
name: Sexton, Jonathan D.
name: Canales, Robert A.
name: Kostov, Georgiana E.
name: Julian, Timothy R.
name: Noakes, Catherine J.
name: Reynolds, Kelly A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: * Distributions should be left- and right-truncated at 0 and 1, due to physical limitations of transfer efficiencies, defined here as a fraction of total virus transferred.
Vorbericht über den Hochgebirgesurvey des TOPOI-Projektes AIII-4
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Landscape Archaeology
subject: GIS
subject: High Mountain Archaeology
subject: Digital survey methods
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: Presentation of methods and preliminary results of the TOPOI-Project AIII4 https://www.topoi.org/group/a-iii-4-topoi-1/ at the Tagung_Digitale Dokumentationsmethoden in Topoi (13.11.09)
Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations on the U.S. Sugar Industry
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: GHG emissions
subject: CO2e
subject: Sugar
subject: spatial equilibrium model
subject: carbon tax
subject: cap and trade

description: The objective of this study is to evaluate the changes in U.S. sugar production and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the sugar industry if the United States regulates GHG emissions from domestic sugar processing facilities. A spatial equilibrium model is developed to optimize sugar production in the United States under a base scenario and three different levels of CO2e taxes or prices of carbon offsets. This research focuses on U.S. sugar production, both beet and cane sugar. In the model the United States is divided into 6 beet growing regions and 4 cane growing regions. The model also includes Mexico as a domestic sugar growing region as Mexico has the ability to export unlimited amount of sugar into the United States under NAFTA. A rest of the world region is included because the United States imports sugar from about 40 different nations. The results indicate that sugar production by the U.S. beet sugar industry will decrease substantially if carbon emissions are taxed in the United States. Production in the U.S. cane industry will also decrease, but only slightly. Sugar imports from Mexico will increase but the majority of the imported sugar will come from other countries as Mexico’s ability to increase sugar production is limited. GHG emissions will decrease, but only slightly, because the GHG emissions that are reduced in the United States are replaced by GHG emission in other nations as U.S. sugar production is shipped overseas. However the impacts on the U.S. sugar industry would be substantial with GHG emission regulations.
Microcaria pupillata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Microcaria
Microcaria pupillata

description: Microcaria pupillata (Swartz)
(Fig. 140)
Coccinella pupillata Swartz, in Scĥnherr, 1808: 184 (Type locality: China).
Coelophora pupillata: Mulsant 1850: 397; 1866: 263; Crotch 1874: 153; Korschefsky 1932: 296; Kapur 1963b: 264. Bothrocalvia pupillata: Timberlake 1943: 34; Poorani 2002a: 322; Ren et al. 2009: 178.
Diagnosis. Length:5.20–6.00mm;width:4.80–5.00mm.Form broad oval,dorsum strongly convex,subhemispherical, and glabrous. Ground colour reddish brown, pronotum with ill-defined dark and paler areas, each elytron with five black spots surrounded by yellowish halos, arranged in a 2-2-1 pattern, two at the level of humeral calli, two around middle and one near apex (Fig. 140a, b); occasionally elytral spots reddish brown with yellowish halos (Fig. 140c). Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 140d) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 140e–h) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (South Andaman (Veenakumari & Mohanraj 2007), West Bengal); Nepal; China; Indonesia; Thailand.
Prey / associated habitat. Collected at light (label data, Kapur 1963b); on Ficus leaves (Veenakumari & Mohanraj 2007). Feeds on Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus (Kirkaldy) in Hawaii (Kapur 1963b).
Note. The illustration of Bothrocalvia decemsignata Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1982 (described from Java) appears to be the same as B. pupillata and it was also recorded from Nepal by Canepari (1997). Kapur (1963b) first recorded it from West Bengal and Veenakumari & Mohanraj (2007) gave notes on its distribution. Also illustrated by Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Online Template Attacks: Revisited
Creators: name: Aldaya, Alejandro Cabrera
name: Brumley, Billy Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An online template attack (OTA) is a powerful technique previously used to attack elliptic curve scalar multiplication algorithms. This attack has only been analyzed in the realm of power consumption and EM side channels, where the signals leak related to the value being processed. However, microarchitecture signals have no such feature, invalidating some assumptions from previous OTA works. In this paper, we revisit previous OTA descriptions, proposing a generic framework and evaluation metrics for any side-channel signal. Our analysis reveals OTA features not previously considered, increasing its application scenarios and requiring a fresh countermeasure analysis to prevent it. In this regard, we demonstrate that OTAs can work in the backward direction, allowing to mount an augmented projective coordinates attack with respect to the proposal by Naccache, Smart and Stern (Eurocrypt 2004). This demonstrates that randomizing the initial targeted algorithm state does not prevent the attack as believed in previous works. We analyze three libraries libgcrypt, mbedTLS, and wolfSSL using two microarchitecture side channels. For the libgcrypt case, we target its EdDSA implementation using Curve25519 twist curve. We obtain similar results for mbedTLS and wolfSSL with curve secp256r1. For each library, we execute extensive attack instances that are able to recover the complete scalar in all cases using a single trace. This work demonstrates that microarchitecture online template attacks are also very powerful in this scenario, recovering secret information without knowing a leakage model. This highlights the importance of developing secure-by-default implementations, instead of fix-on-demand ones.
Agricultural and Food Security Policy Analysis in Central America: Assessing Local Institutional Capacity, Data Availability, and Outcomes
Creators: name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Flores, Luis
name: Mather, David
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Flores, Luis
name: Mather, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: agricultural sector
subject: central america
subject: food security

description: Performance of the agricultural sector in developing countries is fundamental to ensuring robust and equitable economic growth and broad-based food security. Yet donor support to agricultural development in developing countries has declined continuously for 30 years. This same period saw dramatic deterioration in developing countries’ institutional capacity to provide services to their agricultural sectors. These trends may now be changing, due in part to the global food price crisis of 2007 and 2008 and concerns that it unleashed about the world’s ability to feed its poorest inhabitants. This paper reports on the results of a two week trip to Guatemala and Nicaragua made by Michigan State University’s Food Security Group. The purpose of the trip was to assess two aspects that form the foundation for applied agricultural and food security policy analysis and outreach: (a) the organizations involved in research and outreach on these topics, and (b) existing data sets and processes for continued generation of data sets useful in such analysis and outreach. The team also explored the extent to which policy makers and designers of public programs solicit empirical data and analysis for the design and implementation of local food security programs and policies.
Model-Based Longitudinal Clustering with Varying Cluster Assignments
Creators: name: Sewell, Daniel K.
name: Chen, Yuguo
name: Bernhard, William
name: Sulkin, Tracy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is often of interest to perform clustering on longitudinal data, yet it is difficult to formulate an intuitive model for which estimation is computationally feasible. We propose a model-based clustering method for clustering objects that are observed over time. The proposed model can be viewed as an extension of the normal mixture model for clustering to longitudinal data. While existing models only account for clustering effects, we propose modeling the distribution of the observed values of each object as a blending of a cluster effect and an individual effect, hence also giving an estimate of how much the behavior of an object is determined by the cluster to which it belongs. Further, it is important to detect how explanatory variables affect the clustering. An advantage of our method is that it can handle multiple explanatory variables of any type through a linear modeling of the cluster transition probabilities. We implement the generalized EM algorithm using several recursive relationships to greatly decrease the computational cost. The accuracy of our estimation method is illustrated in a simulation study, and U.S. Congressional data is analyzed.
Supporting Information from Novel patterns of expression and recruitment of new genes on the t
Creators: name: Kelemen, Reka K.
name: Elkrewi, Marwan
name: Lindholm, Anna K.
name: Vicoso, Beatriz
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: This file contains supplementary figures 1–10, supplementary tables 1–3, supplementary methods and legends for supplementary data 1–7
Superconducting properties of MgB2 from first principles
Creators: name: Floris, A.
name: Profeta, G.
name: Lathiotakis, N. N.
name: Lüders, M.
name: Marques, M. A. L.
name: Franchini, C.
name: Gross, E. K. U.
name: Continenza, A.
name: Massidda, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid MgB$_2$ has rather interesting and technologically important properties, such as a very high superconducting transition temperature. Focusing on this compound, we report the first non-trivial application of a novel density-functional-type theory for superconductors, recently proposed by the authors. Without invoking any adjustable parameters, we obtain the transition temperature, the gaps, and the specific heat of MgB$_2$ in very good agreement with experiment. Moreover, our calculations show how the Coulomb interaction acts differently on s and p states, thereby stabilizing the observed superconducting phase.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, revised version
Dynamical $\ell$-boson stars: generic stability and evidence for non-spherical solutions
Creators: name: Jaramillo, Víctor
name: Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
name: Barranco, Juan
name: Bernal, Argelia
name: Degollado, Juan Carlos
name: Herdeiro, Carlos
name: Núñez, Darío
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $\ell$-boson stars are static, spherical, multi-field self-gravitating solitons. They are asymptotically flat, finite energy solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an odd number of massive, complex scalar fields. A previous study assessed the stability of $\ell$-boson stars under spherical perturbations, finding that there are both stable and unstable branches of solutions, as for single-field boson stars ($\ell=0$). In this work we probe the stability of $\ell$-boson stars against non-spherical perturbations by performing numerical evolutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system, with a 3D code. For the timescales explored, the $\ell$-boson stars belonging to the spherical stable branch do not exhibit measurable growing modes. We find, however, evidence of zero modes; that is, non-spherical perturbations that neither grow nor decay. This suggests the branching off towards a larger family of equilibrium solutions: we conjecture that $\ell$-boson stars are the enhanced isometry point of a larger family of static (and possibly stationary), non-spherical multi-field self-gravitating solitons.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Young Star Cluster Complexes in NGC 4038/39: Integral field spectroscopy using VIMOS-VLT
Creators: name: Bastian, N.
name: Emsellem, E.
name: Kissler-Patig, M.
name: Maraston, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results of a survey to obtain Integral Field Spectroscopy of merging galaxies along the Toomre Sequence. In the present work, we concentrate on the star cluster complexes in the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39) in the overlap region as well as the nuclear region of NGC 4038. Using optical spectroscopy we derive the extinction age, metallicity, velocity, velocity dispersion of the gas and star formation rate for each of the eight complexes detected. We supplement this study with archival HST-WFPC2 U, B, V, H$α$, and I band imaging. Correcting the observed colours of the star clusters within the complexes for extinction, measured through our optical spectra, we compare the clusters with simple stellar population models, with which we find an excellent agreement. In five of the complexes we detect strong Wolf-Rayet emission features, indicating young ages (3-5 Myr). The ionized gas surrounding the complexes is expanding at speeds of 20-40 km/s. This slow expansion can be understood as a bubble, caused by the stellar winds and supernovae within the complexes, expanding into the remnant of the progenitor giant molecular cloud. We also find that the complexes themselves are grouped, at about the largest scale of which young star clusters are correlated, representing the largest coherent star forming region. We show that the area normalized star formation rates of these complexes clearly place them in the regime of star forming regions in starburst galaxies, thereby justifying the label of localized starbursts. Finally, we estimate the stability of the complexes, and find that they will probably loose a large fraction of their mass to the surrounding environment, although the central regions may merge into a single large star cluster.
description: 14 pages, accepted A&A. A high-resolution pdf version of the paper can be found at http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~bastian/bastian-vimos.pdf
Oenopia adelgivora Poorani
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia adelgivora

description: Oenopia adelgivora Poorani
(Fig. 141)
Oenopia adelgivora Poorani, 2002b: 107 (Holotype male, NBAIR; Type locality: Sikkim).— Kovář 2007: 621.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.40–4.10 mm; width: 2.10–2.50 mm. Form elongate oval (Fig. 141a), ca. 1.6x as long as wide, apical one-third of elytra distinctly narrowed, dorsoventrally somewhat flattened (Fig. 141b), glabrous. Dorsal side dull straw yellow, head with a black, medially excavate posterior macula reaching up to posterior margins of eyes (Fig. 141c); pronotum with one or two pairs of ill-defined, pale brown markings, mostly obliterated; scutellar shield black; elytra with a pair of oblique, dark brown to dull black stripes, running from humeral callus to 3/4 th of the length in a mid-dorsal position, mostly ill-defined or obliterated and a narrow sutural stripe. Ventral side dark brown to black, except antennae, mouthparts, legs, prothoracic hypomera, elytral epipleura and sides of abdomen yellowish brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 141e–g) and spermatheca (Fig. 141d) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Sikkim, West Bengal); Bhutan.
Prey / associated habitat. Collected on adelgids feeding on conifers (Pinus wallichiana, Picea spinulosa, Abies densa); Feeding on Adelges sp. on spruce (label data of holotype).
Note. It appears to be a rare species endemic to the eastern Himalayan region.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Probability distributions in statistical ensembles with conserved charges
Creators: name: Cleymans, J.
name: Redlich, K.
name: Turko, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The probability distributions for charged particle numbers and their densities are derived in statistical ensembles with conservation laws. It is shown that if this limit is properly taken then the canonical and grand canonical ensembles are equivalent. This equivalence is proven on the most general, probability distribution level.
description: 5 pages. A little bit shorter version due to some editorial and language changes. To be published in Phys. Rev. C