cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Application of GIS in New Socialist Countryside Construction
Creators: name: Yan, Shunxi
name: Yan, Yonglu
name: Wang, Xiaolei
name: Yan, Shunxi
name: Yan, Yonglu
name: Wang, Xiaolei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: New socialist countryside construction
subject: Supporting decisions
subject: Agricultural informationization
subject: Thematic map

description: Survey and research of new socialist countryside construction in Hebei Province are favorable for determining approaches and construction mode of new socialist countryside in other areas, and favorable for advancing the urban and rural integration in Hebei Province. With the aid of GIS technology, it is able to create spatial information database, correlate with rural statistical data and spatial information. Then, in the form of thematic map, it can visually indicate current situations of rural economy, and existing problems of development. Finally, it is expected to promote rural information construction and guide new countryside planning, to facilitate inquiry and search of information, and to provide supporting decisions for new socialist countryside construction.
A semiclassical analysis of dark state transient dynamics in waveguide circuit QED
Creators: name: Wiegand, E.
name: Rousseaux, B.
name: Johansson, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between superconducting qubits and one-dimensional microwave transmission lines has been studied experimentally and theoretically in the past two decades. In this work, we investigate the spontaneous emission of an initially excited artificial atom which is capacitively coupled to a semi-infinite transmission line, shorted at one end. This configuration can be viewed as an atom in front of a mirror. The distance between the atom and the mirror introduces a time-delay in the system, which we take into account fully. When the delay time equals an integer number of atom oscillation periods, the atom converges into a dark state after an initial decay period. The dark state is an effect of destructive interference between the reflected part of the field and the part directly emitted by the atom. Based on circuit quantization, we derive linearized equations of motion for the system and use these for a semiclassical analysis of the transient dynamics. We also make a rigorous connection to the quantum optics system-reservoir approach and compare these two methods to describe the dynamics. We find that both approaches are equivalent for transmission lines with a low characteristic impedance, while they differ when this impedance is higher than the typical impedance of the superconducting artificial atom.
Control of Raman Lasing in the Nonimpulsive Regime
Creators: name: Pearson, B. J.
name: Bucksbaum, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore coherent control of stimulated Raman scattering in the nonimpulsive regime. Optical pulse shaping of the coherent pump field leads to control over the stimulated Raman output. A model of the control mechanism is investigated.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
ESM 1 from Functional constraints during development limit jaw shape evolution in marsupials
Creators: name: Fabre, Anne-Claire
name: Dowling, Carys
name: Miguez, Roberto Portela
name: Fernandez, Vincent
name: Noirault, Eve
name: Goswami, Anjali
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplemetary figures and tables
Additional file 2: of A cytoplasmic long noncoding RNA LINC00470 as a new AKT activator to mediate glioblastoma cell autophagy
Creators: name: Liu, Changhong
name: Zhang, Yan
name: She, Xiaoling
name: Fan, Li
name: Li, Peiyao
name: Feng, Jianbo
name: Fu, Haijuan
name: Liu, Qing
name: Liu, Qiang
name: Zhao, Chunhua
name: Sun, Yingnan
name: Wu, Minghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: The relationship between LINC00470, AKT, and p-AKT. A: RT-qPCR and Western blotting measured the expression of LINC00470 and AKT in GBM cell lines and primary GBM cells. Data presented as mean ± S.E.M. of three independent experiments. B: Western blotting measured the expression of AKT and p-AKT in GBM cell lines and primary GBM cells. Data showed positive correlation between the expression of LINC00470 and p-AKT in GBM. (DOCX 302 kb)
Robust and reliable sustainability assessment tool for building renovation strategies
Creators: name: Galimshina, Alina
name: Hollberg, Alexander
name: Moustapha, Maliki
name: Sudret, Bruno
name: Lasvaux, Sébastien
name: Habert, Guillaume
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: Building renovation
life cycle assessment
life cycle cost
uncertainty quantification

description: Selecting the best energy-efficiency measure for retrofitting existing buildings is difficult due to the uncertainties of events during the life span of the building. This project will propose a robust and reliable assessment of various renovation strategies for the building stock in Switzerland based on life cycle assessment and life cycle costing. Through statistical calculations for uncertainty propagation, the project will provide an insight on the uncertainties, which might occur during the life stage of the building. Different renovation packages will be defined. For each of them, the uncertainty of the relevant input parameters will be evaluated to identify the most robust solutions. Finally, the results will be used to provide guidelines on robust renovation strategies for Switzerland that can be used by architects, clients and policy makers.
The Intriguing Polar EU Cancri in the Eyes of Kepler K2
Creators: name: Hill, Katherine
name: Littlefield, Colin
name: Garnavich, Peter
name: Szkody, Paula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the light curve of EU Cnc, the first published analysis of a Kepler light curve of a polar. Although EU Cnc was extremely faint during campaign 16 and 18 its light curve showed a large-amplitude pulse that lasted for half of each orbit, which we interpret to be light from an accretion region that rotates behind the limb of the white dwarf for half of the orbit. Remarkably, the pulse profile showed no appreciable variability in either campaign. Additionally, we note weak dips of unknown origin with a depth of ~10% at the beginning and end of the orbital hump. The K2 waveform is consistent with all previously reported variations on the orbital timescale, suggesting that EU Cnc has possibly been at the same low state for its entire observational history. We then explore the possibility that EU Cnc's unusual combination of a low mass-transfer rate and consistent light curve indicates the possibility that EU Cnc might be a low-accretion-rate polar (LARP).
Near-real-time VTEC maps: new contribution for Latin America Space Weather
Creators: name: Mendoza, Luciano Pedro Oscar
name: Meza, Amalia
name: Paz, Juan Manuel Aragon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of regional services able to provide ionospheric vertical totalelectron content (VTEC) maps and ionospheric indexes with a high spatialresolution, and in near-real-time, are of great importance for both civilianapplications and the research community. We provide here the methodolo-gies, and an assessment, of such a system. It relies on the public GlobalNavigational Satellite Systems (GNSS) infrastructure in South America, in-corporates data from multiple constellations (currently GPS, GLONASS,Galileo and BeiDou), employs multiple frequencies, and produces continen-tal wide VTEC maps with a latency of just a few minutes. To assess theability of our system to model the ionospheric behavior we performed a year-round intercomparison between our near-real-time regional VTEC maps, andVTEC maps of verified quality produced by several referent analysis centers,resulting in mean biases lower than 1 TEC units (TECU). Also, the evalua-tion of our products against direct and independent GNSS-based slant TECmeasurements shows RMS values better than 1 TECU. In turn, ionospheric W-index maps were generated, for calm and disturbed geomagneticscenarios, solely employing our quality verified VTEC maps. The spatial rep-resentation of these W-index maps reflects the state of the ionosphere, with aresolution of 0.5x0.5 degrees. Finally, we conclude that our products, com-puted every 15 minutes, do provide an excellent spatial representation of theregional TEC, and are able to provide the bases for the possible computationof ionospheric W-index maps, also in near-real-time
description: Accepted for publication in Advance in Space Research
3D N=2 massive super Yang-Mills and membranes/D2-branes in a curved background
Creators: name: Hyun, Seungjoon
name: Park, Jeong-Hyuck
name: Yi, Sang-Heon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a three dimensional novel massive N=2 super Yang-Mills action as a low energy effective worldvolume description of the D2-branes on a pp-wave. The action contains the Myers term, mass terms for three Higgs, and terms mixing the electric fields with other two Higgs. We derive the action in three different ways, from the M-theory matrix model, from the supermembrane action, and from the Dirac-Born-Infeld action. We verify the consistent mutual agreement and comment how each approach is complementary to another. In particular, we give the eleven dimensional geometric interpretation of the vacua in the worldvolume theory as the membranes tilted to the eleventh direction with the giant gravitons around.
description: 1+28 pages, No figure, JHEP style; A reference added
Fast Neutrino Flavor Instability in the Neutron-star Convection Layer of Three-dimensional Supernova Models
Creators: name: Glas, Robert
name: Janka, H. -Thomas
name: Capozzi, Francesco
name: Sen, Manibrata
name: Dasgupta, Basudeb
name: Mirizzi, Alessandro
name: Sigl, Guenter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinos from a supernova (SN) might undergo fast flavor conversions near the collapsed stellar core. We perform a detailed study of this intriguing possibility, analyzing time-dependent state-of-the-art 3D SN models of 9 and 20 Msun. Both models were computed with multi-D three-flavor neutrino transport based on a two-moment solver, and both exhibit the presence of the lepton-number emission self-sustained asymmetry (LESA). The transport solution does not provide the angular distributions of the neutrino fluxes, which are crucial to track the fast flavor instability. To overcome this limitation, we use a recently proposed approach based on the angular moments of the energy-integrated electron lepton-number distribution. With this method we find the possibility of fast neutrino flavor instability at radii
description: 21 pages, 13 figures; more detailed explanations added due to referee comments; accepted by PRD
Multimodal Affect Detection among Couples for Diabetes Management
Creators: name: Boateng, George
name: Santhanam, Prabhakaran
name: Lüscher, Janina
name: Scholz, Urte
name: Kowatsch, Tobias
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: Emotion recognition
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Wearable Computing
Mobile Computing

description: Diabetes mellitus Type II (T2DM) is a common chronic disease of the endocrine system in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin to metabolize blood glucose or the body becomes less sensitive to insulin. To manage blood glucose levels and to reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, vision loss, amputations), patients need to follow medical recommendations for healthy eating, physical activity, and medication adherence in their everyday life. Evidence suggests that for married adults, illness management is mainly shared with their spouses. Spousal support is associated with healthier habits among diabetes patients. Additionally, spousal support has been shown to have beneficial effects on well-being or affect (feelings). Given that there is some relationship between spousal support and affect, through affect detection, we may have a proxy for received spousal support. Considering the health benefits of spousal support especially for chronic disease management, affect detection could be used to inform just-in-time adaptive interventions. In this ongoing work to develop an affect detection system for couples’ chronic illness management, we describe the specific research questions we want answer, our potential technical contributions, our data collection plan and finally our data analysis plan.
When sea creatures take over: Low-power participants are more distracted by an unfinished goal than high-power participants
Creators: name: Straub, Leila
name: Schmid, Petra
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Psychologie gestaltet: 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) - Abstracts
description: ISBN:978-3-95853-437-7
description: ISBN:978-3-95853-438-4
Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight Earth-mass planet K2-18 b
Creators: name: Tsiaras, Angelos
name: Waldmann, Ingo P.
name: Tinetti, Giovanna
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
name: Yurchenko, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past decade, observations from space and ground have found H$_2$O to be the most abundant molecular species, after hydrogen, in the atmospheres of hot, gaseous, extrasolar planets. Being the main molecular carrier of oxygen, H$_2$O is a tracer of the origin and the evolution mechanisms of planets. For temperate, terrestrial planets, the presence of H$_2$O is of great significance as an indicator of habitable conditions. Being small and relatively cold, these planets and their atmospheres are the most challenging to observe, and therefore no atmospheric spectral signatures have so far been detected. Super-Earths -- planets lighter than ten M$_\oplus$ -- around later-type stars may provide our first opportunity to study spectroscopically the characteristics of such planets, as they are best suited for transit observations. Here we report the detection of an H$_2$O spectroscopic signature in the atmosphere of \planet\ -- an eight M$_\oplus$ planet in the habitable-zone of an M-dwarf -- with high statistical confidence (ADI = 5.0, $\sim$3.6$σ$). In addition, the derived mean molecular weight suggests an atmosphere still containing some hydrogen. The observations were recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 camera, and analysed with our dedicated, publicly available, algorithms. While the suitability of M-dwarfs to host habitable worlds is still under discussion, \planet\ offers an unprecedented opportunity to get insight into the composition and climate of habitable-zone planets.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy
Martarega hungerfordi Truxal 1949
Creators: name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Martarega
Martarega hungerfordi

description: Martarega hungerfordi Truxal, 1949
(Figures 7A–D, 14B)
 Martarega hungerfordi Truxal, 1949: 12 [Guyana].
 Martarega hungerfordi: Fittkau 1977: 16 [Brazil].
 Martarega hungerfordi: Heckman 2011: 489 [South America].
 No specimens were collected in the regions sampled. Nieser (1970, 1975) reports that M. hungerfordi was taken from the States of Amazonas and Pará (Figure 14B). These records refer to the species M. nieseri sp. nov. otherwise (Nico Nieser in litt.), with which M. hungerfordi may be confused. Martarega hungerfordi was recorded by Fittkau (1977) from the Amazon Region, but the record could not be verified, because the author provided only a list of species.
 Martarega hungerfordi may be mistakenly keyed out to M. oriximinaensis in Barbosa et al. (2010) key to Martarega species occurring in political northern Brazil. This is because its hind trochanters have a sharp concavity at its distal end (Figure 7B) and its median stripe does not bifurcate at apex of hemelytra (Figure 7A).
description: Published as part of Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2012, A synopsis of Martarega White, 1879 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) occurring in the Brazilian Amazonia, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 1025-1057 in Journal of Natural History 46 (17 - 18) on page 1044, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651645, http://zenodo.org/record/5199782
Fish Trap – A floating Proto-assembly for Responsive Cities: Towards Citizen-Driven Customised Water Urban Spaces
Creators: name: Buš, Peter
name: Tartar, Ayça
name: Wu, ShiYen
name: Schmitt, Gerhard
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: Customised Urban Water Spaces
Floating Responsive Cities
Participatory Design
Citizen design science

description: Urban water spaces, lakes and rivers have an impact on the image of the city and have played a key role in the socioeconomic development of cities throughout the centuries. This positive trend makes the redevelopment of waterfronts an ideal test-bed for new concepts of citizen engagement and adaptive and responsive architectural designs. Unfortunately, waterfronts often change and change is activated from bottom-up, but even today, we can not actively engage the users in the design process. Hence, in this project, we will build a floating proto-architectural system, consisting of a set of simple pre-defined modules which can be assembled, re-assembled and assembled again in different configurations by the end users (citizens) on-site, leading to a diverse number of more complex architectural and spatial variants. Water, as a key environmental and architectural feature of a given space, will serve as a medium for adaptability, flexibility and interaction with the city. Our proto-assembly will behave like an ancient FISH TRAP; but this time in London, in waters of Thames; our novel fish trap will harness latest material, technological and computational achievements and digital fabrication methods together with robust architectural design practices. The users will transform the old design idea of simple fish trap to a unique proto-architecture.
Generalized reliability based on distances
Creators: name: Xu, Meng
name: Reiss, Philip T.
name: Cribben, Ivor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) is a classical index of measurement reliability. With the advent of new and complex types of data for which the ICC is not defined, there is a need for new ways to assess reliability. To meet this need, we propose a new distance-based intraclass correlation coefficient (dbICC), defined in terms of arbitrary distances among observations. We introduce a bias correction to improve the coverage of bootstrap confidence intervals for the dbICC, and demonstrate its efficacy via simulation. We illustrate the proposed method by analyzing the test-retest reliability of brain connectivity matrices derived from a set of repeated functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. The Spearman-Brown formula, which shows how more intensive measurement increases reliability, is extended to encompass the dbICC.
Agriculture for development in sub-Saharan Africa: An update
Creators: name: Janvry, Alain De
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Janvry, Alain De
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: agriculture
subject: development
subject: sub-Saharan Africa

description: Agriculture has multiple functions to fulfill for the development of the sub-Saharan Africa countries. It should be a source of growth and an instrument for poverty reduction and contribute to the provision of environmental services. Yet it is still used far below its potential, with gains in land and labor productivity lagging behind those of other regions. Successful use of agriculture for development will require greater attention from governments and donors, supported by scholarship and learning. The economics profession has an important role to play in helping to re-conceptualize in a new paradigm the role of agriculture for development, to design and evaluate new approaches, to contribute to capacity building, to advise on policy and to mobilize political support.
Phantom elements and its Applications
Creators: name: Pan, Jianzhong
name: Woo, Moo Ha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P10,55P60,55P62,55R10

description: In our previous work, a relation between Tsukiyama problem about self homotopy equivalence was found by using a generalization of phantom map. In this note, fundamental result is established for such a generalization. This is the first time one can deal with phantom maps to space not satisfying finite type condition. Application to Forgetful map is also discussed briefly.
description: 10 pages
Towards sustainable systems of land administration: Recent evidence and challenges for Africa
Creators: name: Deininger, Klaus
name: Deininger, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land registration
subject: land acquisition
subject: land rights
subject: women’s land rights
subject: Africa

description: A number of factors, including a recent rediscovery of the agricultural sector, growing demands for large-scale land acquisition, and economic growth, have increased demand for land registration in Africa. On the basis of a review of evidence, we argue that, in most cases, a key benefit from such interventions will be greater tenure security and the associated investment or rental market participation rather than credit effects. Interventions to formalize rights in the African context need to be designed so as to minimize associated risks and be sustainable in the long term. The example of recent land registration in Ethiopia shows not only that this can be accomplished but also that, even in an imperfect policy environment, it can yield significant benefits in terms of land-related investment and greater land rental market participation.
Let's FACE it. Finnish Poetry Generation with Aesthetics and Framing
Creators: name: Hämäläinen, Mika
name: Alnajjar, Khalid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a creative poem generator for the morphologically rich Finnish language. Our method falls into the master-apprentice paradigm, where a computationally creative genetic algorithm teaches a BRNN model to generate poetry. We model several parts of poetic aesthetics in the fitness function of the genetic algorithm, such as sonic features, semantic coherence, imagery and metaphor. Furthermore, we justify the creativity of our method based on the FACE theory on computational creativity and take additional care in evaluating our system by automatic metrics for concepts together with human evaluation for aesthetics, framing and expressions.
Benchmarking Noise Extrapolation with OpenPulse
Creators: name: Garmon, J. W. O.
name: Pooser, R. C.
name: Dumitrescu, E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distilling precise estimates from noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) data has recently attracted considerable attention. In order to augment digital qubit metrics, such as gate fidelity, we discuss analog error mitigability, i.e. the ability to accurately distill precise observable estimates, as a hybrid quantum-classical computing benchmarking task. Specifically, we characterize single qubit error rates on IBM's Poughkeepsie superconducting quantum hardware, incorporate control-mediated noise dependence into a generalized rescaling protocol, and analyze how noise characteristics influence Richardson extrapolation-based error mitigation. Our results identify regions in the space of Hamiltonian control fields and circuit-depth which are most amenable to reliable noise extrapolation, as well as shedding light on how low-level hardware characterization can be used as a predictive tool for uncertainty quantification in error mitigated NISQ computations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome
ETH-Singapore Month 2019: The Future of Urban Society – STP3 Workshop: Science – Technology – (Prototyping, Policy, Practice)
Creators: name: Angélil, Marc
name: Richthofen, Aurel von
name: Kim, Frederick
name: Roth, David
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019
Subjects: wicked problems
urban society
Design Thinking
Critical thinking
Prototyping
Practice
Policy
Singapore
Future Cities Laboratory (FCL)

description: Inspired by ETH Zurich's "Critical Thinking Initiative" and particularly the success of "ETH Week," the ETH Singapore Month brings together a group of approx. 60 graduate students from different disciplines and universities to tackle contemporary societal and environmental challenges. The workshop, under the heading "The Future of Urban Society," focuses on global urbanization processes in view of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the latter understood as a modern-day contrat social in need of implementation strategies.

Foregrounding the role of design (and design thinking) as a platform for multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary work, students are confronted with so-called "wicked problems" – to borrow an expression introduced by design theorists Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber in the early 1970s. Teams of students are asked to deploy their imagination and respective disciplinary knowledge to develop approaches for transferring scientific and technical findings pertaining to societal challenges into applicable propositions. Moving from science to technology to practice, the educational framework aims to foster self-critical thinking and an ethical posture vis-à-vis society at large – via dialogue and playful interaction.

The didactic approach is framed by 5 input themes that students will be asked to simultaneously address: a) one of the 17 SDGs foregrounding a particular global challenge; b) models of governance raising the question of policy and societal organization; c) a particular theoretical text allowing to situate the work within the history of ideas; d) a specific modeling or prototyping technique addressing the importance of 'making' within design 'thinking'; and e) a certain physical and cultural context within which to ground the work in situ – i.e., the specificity of place. The input themes aim to bridge the alleged gaps between theory and practice, the general and the specific, as well as the abstract and the concrete.

The workshop is taking place outside the confines of a familiar setting – namely, within the research environment of Singapore in South East Asia.

Participating universities: ETH Zurich, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), TU Munich, National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
title: Students' perceptions of value and motivations for studying an undergraduate degree in the humanities
Creators: name: Stecker-Doxat, Nicola Sharon
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2020

description: This research examines how humanities students understand the purpose of going to university and the value of their degree in an increasingly market-driven higher education policy context. Utilising a sequential (follow-up) explanatory mixed methods approach, the research focuses on one particular institutional context to allow for an in-depth investigation. Data was collected from students studying for an undergraduate degree in the humanities at a UK research-intensive university, who commenced their studies between 2012-13 and 2015-16, and from graduates who commenced their studies prior to 2012.

The main findings suggest that there is a complex web of extrinsic and intrinsic motivations for studying an undergraduate degree in the humanities, strongly shaped by three core influencing contexts (societal, familial, educational). Strong media and political discourse on the financial investment and return of an undergraduate degree make humanities students feel that it is not enough to quantify the value of their degree in terms of its intrinsic value (i.e. their love of the subject area), thereby creating an inner conflict as they feel pressured to attribute a value to their degree based on their future employment outcomes. As such, perceptions of value are enacted in the policy context of marketisation and the impact of oversupply and competition. Graduates who studied under a lower or no tuition fee regime were less likely than contemporary counterparts to have instrumental motivations, however nonetheless reflect on the value of their degree in the context of their success in negotiating the graduate labour market. Humanities students under a higher university tuition fee regime are more likely to have consumerist attitudes compared with those who studied under a lower or no tuition fee regime.

With the voice of humanities students noticeably missing from existing literature, this research seeks to fill this gap by offering a deeper and more nuanced understanding as to how the marketisation of higher education has influenced studentsâ motivations and choice relating to university and shaped notions of the value of a degree.
Characterization of a Lolium multiflorum diploid assembly
Creators: name: Copetti, Dario
name: Kuon, Joel‑Elias
name: Yates, Steven
name: Kölliker, Roland
name: Studer, Bruno
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019

description: Grasses of the genera Lolium and Festuca are the main feed sources for a sustainable livestock production due to their high palatability and biomass production. Since decades, their importance for the agriculture of temperate regions led to the development of new varieties through traditional breeding programs. However, newer crop improvement methods such as genomic selection could benefit from a high quality reference genome assembly. In the past, attempts in delivering such a dataset have struggled due to the complexity of the genome and the high heterozygosity of individual genotypes. We sequenced an individual of the L. multiflorum (Italian ryegrass) cv. Rabiosa, producing a highly contiguous (N50 of 3 Mb) and complete assembly (97% of the BUSCO gene models). Due to the high heterozygosity of the line, the assembly (4.5 Gb) resulted to be as large as the diploid genome, and presented the sequence of both alleles in separate scaffolds. About ~70,000 gene models were identified, and the repeat content approached 80%. The comparison of a representative allelic region showed an extensive amount of intergenic sequence variation, supporting the high dynamicity of grass genomes. Compared to the available Lolium genome assemblies, the Rabiosa assembly improves contiguity by >40-fold, contains both haplotypes of the diploid parent, and assigns most of the sequence to chromosomes.
The availability of a complete and highly-contiguous genome assembly of Italian ryegrass paves the road to the exploitation of the forage crops genetic resources by means of modern genomic platforms.
Rank 4 vector bundles on the quintic threefold
Creators: name: Madonna, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05

description: By the results of the author and Chiantini in Math.AG/0110102, on a general quintic threefold $X \subset {\mathbf P}^4$ the minimum integer $p$ for which there exists a positive dimensional family of irreducible rank $p$ vector bundles on $X$ without intermediate cohomology is at least three. In this paper we show that $p \leq 4$, by constructing series of positive dimensional families of rank 4 vector bundles on $X$ without intermediate cohomology. The general member of such family is an indecomposable bundle from the extension class $Ext^1(E,F)$, for a suitable choice of the rank 2 ACM bundles $E$ and $F$ on $X$. The existence of such bundles of rank $p = 3$ remains under question.
description: v2: 8 pages. Title changed. One wrong example is removed. More explicit examples are given - v3: typos corrected according to referees suggestions - v.4 final version, to appear on Central European Journal of Mathematics
Analyzing intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution via the overlap intensity-level velocity correlator
Creators: name: Keshavamurthy, Srihari
name: Cerruti, Nicholas R.
name: Tomsovic, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous experimental and theoretical studies have established that intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) in isolated molecules has a heirarchical tier structure. The tier structure implies strong correlations between the energy level motions of a quantum system and its intensity-weighted spectrum. A measure, which explicitly accounts for this correaltion, was first introduced by one of us as a sensitive probe of phase space localization. It correlates eigenlevel velocities with the overlap intensities between the eigenstates and some localized state of interest. A semiclassical theory for the correlation is developed for systems that are classically integrable and complements earlier work focusing exclusively on the chaotic case. Application to a model two dimensional effective spectroscopic Hamiltonian shows that the correlation measure can provide information about the terms in the molecular Hamiltonian which play an important role in an energy range of interest and the character of the dynamics. Moreover, the correlation function is capable of highlighting relevant phase space structures including the local resonance features associated with a specific bright state. In addition to being ideally suited for multidimensional systems with a large density of states, the measure can also be used to gain insights into the phase space transport and localization. It is argued that the overlap intensity-level velocity correlation function provides a novel way of studying vibrational energy redistribution in isolated molecules. The correlation function is ideally suited to analyzing the parametric spectra of molecules in external fields.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures (low resolution)
Martarega brasiliensis Truxal 1949
Creators: name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Martarega
Martarega brasiliensis

description: Martarega brasiliensis Truxal, 1949
(Figures 12A–E, 13A)
 Martarega brasiliensis Truxal, 1949: 7 [Brazil, Peru].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Nieser 1968: 111 [Suriname].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Nieser 1970: 72 [Brazil].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Nieser 1975: 198 [Suriname].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Fittkau 1977: 16 [Brazil].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Barbosa et al. 2010: 59 [Brazil].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Ribeiro et al. 2010: 308 [Brazil].
 Martarega brasiliensis: Heckman 2011: 492 [South America].
 Martarega brasiliensis is a common species in Brazil. It has been found at several localities except the central-western political region (Figure 13A). Male specimens of M. brasiliensis possess a narrow longitudinal median stripe on hemelytra (Figure 12A), as well as a spine just on the basal half of forefemora at inner margin (in brachypterous and macropterous forms), similar to aforementioned M. uruguayensis (Figure 10C). Martarega brasiliensis can be easily recognized by (1) their male mesotrochanters with thin and yellowish setae at ventral surface (Figure 12C), and (2) the distinctive female hemelytral stripes (Figure 12B).
 Material examined
 Brazil, State of Roraima, Pacaraima Municipality, Vila Pereira (Surumu), Surumu River [4.183 ◦ N, 60.783 ◦ W], 28.X.1987, (V. Py-Daniel and U.C. Barbosa), det. J. F. Barbosa: 1 m and 1 f, brachypterous (INPA); Amajarí Municipality, Maracá Island, Uraricoera River, Curuquerema Falls [3.4 ◦ N, 61.6 ◦ W], 26. V.1987: 9 m and 3 f, brachypterous (INPA). State of Pará, Juruti Municipality, Amazonas River, Recreio, paraná, boat [U. V. light] [2.06626 ◦ S, 55.56099 ◦ W], 26.IX.2003, (P. De Marco and N. Ferreira Jr): 1 m, macropterous (DZRJ); Oriximiná Municipality, Trombetas River, 07.X.1985, (V. Py-Daniel and U.C. Barbosa): 3 m and 2 f, brachypterous (INPA); Poana River, above Cachoeira Porteira [1.46 ◦ N, 57.12 ◦ W], 09.X.1985: 2 m, brachypterous (DZRJ); in front of Cachoeira Porteira, Mapuera River (tributary of Trombetas River), [lake] [1.09 ◦ S, 57.06 ◦ W], 04. VI.1986: 2 m, macropterous (INPA).
description: Published as part of Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2012, A synopsis of Martarega White, 1879 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) occurring in the Brazilian Amazonia, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 1025-1057 in Journal of Natural History 46 (17 - 18) on page 1054, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651645, http://zenodo.org/record/5199782
The role of beam geometry in population statistics and pulse profiles of radio and gamma-ray pulsars
Creators: name: Gonthier, Peter L.
name: Van Guilder, Robert
name: Harding, Alice K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a pulsar population synthesis study that incorporates a number of recent developments and some significant improvements over our previous study. We have included the results of the Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey in our select group of nine radio surveys, doubling our sample of radio pulsars. We adopted with some modifications the radio beam geometry of Arzoumanian, Chernoff & Cordes (2002). For the $γ$-ray beam, we have assumed the slot gap geometry described in the work of Muslimov & Harding (2003). To account for the shape of the distribution of radio pulsars in the $\dot P-P$ diagram, we continue to find that decay of the magnetic field on a timescale of 2.8 Myr is needed. With all nine surveys, our model predicts that EGRET should have seen 7 radio-quiet (below the sensitivity of these radio surveys) and 19 radio-loud $γ$-ray pulsars. AGILE (nominal sensitivity map) is expected to detect 13 radio-quiet and 37 radio-loud $γ$-ray pulsars, while GLAST, with greater sensitivity is expected to detect 276 radio-quiet and 344 radio-loud $γ$-ray pulsars. When the Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey is excluded, the ratio of radio-loud to radio-quiet $γ$-ray pulsars decreases, especially for GLAST. The decrease for EGRET is 45%, implying that some fraction of EGRET unidentified sources are radio-loud $γ$-ray pulsars. In the radio geometry adopted, short period pulsars are core dominated. Unlike the EGRET $γ$-ray pulsars, our model predicts that when two $γ$-ray peaks appear in the pulse profile, a dominant radio core peak appears in between the $γ$-ray peaks. Our findings suggest that further improvements are required in describing both the radio and $γ$-ray geometries.
description: 39 pages, 13 eps figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, April 1, 2004
Coherent control of intersubband optical bistability in quantum wells
Creators: name: Wijewardane, H. O.
name: Ullrich, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the nonlinear intersubband (ISB) response of conduction electrons in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well to strong THz radiation, using a density-matrix approach combined with time-dependent density-functional theory. We demonstrate coherent control of ISB optical bistability, using THz control pulses to induce picosecond switching between the bistable states. The switching speed is determined by the ISB relaxation and decoherence times, T1 and T2.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Institutional innovations for smallholder farmers’ competitiveness in Africa
Creators: name: Oluoch-Kosura, Willis
name: Oluoch-Kosura, Willis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: institutions
subject: smallholder agriculture
subject: financial markets
subject: public-private partnerships
subject: producer organizations
subject: sub-Saharan Africa reforms

description: In most sub-Saharan African economies, agriculture is the dominant sector and plays an essential role in rural and overall economic development. Paradoxically, sub-Saharan Africa is the sole region in the developing world where per capita food production has remained low for many years. Agricultural growth in the region has been impeded by factors related to production, marketing and institutions, and by macro-economic factors and policies. This paper offers an indepth analysis of how institutional innovations can enhance smallholder agriculture in the region. Institutional support systems are needed to help integrate smallholders into national economic systems. Smallholder farming has been the institutional structure underpinning some of the most effective contributions of agriculture to economic development. Institutional reforms will play out in five functional areas critical to agricultural growth: contractual arrangements, functioning financial markets, agricultural insurance, public-private partnerships and vibrant producer organizations.
APPLICATION OF ASSET SECURITIZATION IN FINANCING AGRICULTURE IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Mirović, Vera
name: Bolesnikov, Dragana
name: Mirović, Vera
name: Bolesnikov, Dragana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: financing agriculture
subject: securitization
subject: collateral
subject: insurance.

description: This paper aims to point out the possibilities of applying asset securitization in financing the Serbian agriculture. Government subsidies and banking loans do not provide sufficient funds so new sources of financing are in need. The process of asset securitization will enable the inflow of funds for agricultural loans approval as well as hedging. Agricultural loans can be used as collateral for issuing securities, although warehouse receipt, repurchase agreement and future income can also serve as collateral. Securitization can enable transfer of risk from insurance companies to financial market through CAT bonds and credit default swaps (CDS). The experience of countries having structured financing in agriculture is valuable for first steps in applying asset securitization in Serbia.
description: Review Article
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN UKRAINE: CURRENT STATE AND TENDENCIES
Creators: name: Moroz, Serhiy
name: Moroz, Serhiy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: rural households
subject: rural regions
subject: Ukraine.

description: Households are primary means of survival for rural people of Ukraine under conditions of limited employment and income-earning opportunities in the countryside. In this paper, main tendencies of development of rural households are analyzed. Particular attention is given to socio-demographic characteristics, agricultural production activities, and changes in incomes and expenditures of the household sector. Further possible scenarios of development of households are considered.
description: Review Article
THE EFFECTS OF INPUT SUBSIDIES ON FIELD CROP PRODUCTION IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Munćan, Petar
name: Božić, Dragica
name: Munćan, Petar
name: Božić, Dragica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: input subsidies
subject: field crop production
subject: family farm
subject: economic position

description: Since 2007 input subsidies given out by the government in support to field crop and vegetable production has had the greatest share in the agricultural budget of Serbia. The principal goal of input subsidy programs, as measures of agricultural support, is primarily the promotion of productivity and competitiveness of field crop production. The employment of optimal agricultural practices stimulated an increase in the use of mineral fertilizers, declared seeds, etc. At the same time these measures were noted to raise both output and quality of agricultural products including farmers’ income. The implementation and importance of these measures has so far not been attracting sufficient attention and therefore the objective of the study was to analyze the effects of input subsidies on the economic position of production of some major field crops (wheat, corn, sunflower, soybean, sugar beet) on family farms owning 6-20 hectares of arable land and focused on field crop production in 2007-2011 in the plain regions of Serbia.
description: Review Article
The 1845 expedition to conquer the Dargo aul – the failed attempt to subjugate Imam Shamil
Creators: name: Morar, Bogdan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The article analyzes the expedition of Count M.S. Vorontsov, the viceroy of the Caucasus, in 1845 to destroy the Murid movement led by Shamil. The action, which led to the conquest of the capital of this movement, ended completely differently from what the tsarist leadership of the Caucasus had intended.
Dark breathers in Klein-Gordon lattices. Band analysis of their stability properties
Creators: name: Alvarez, A.
name: Archilla, J. F. R.
name: Cuevas, J.
name: Romero, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrete bright breathers are well known phenomena. They are localized excitations that consist of a few excited oscillators in a lattice and the rest of them having very small amplitude or none. In this paper we are interested in the opposite kind of localization, or discrete dark breathers, where most of the oscillators are excited and one or a few units of them have very small amplitude. We investigate using band analysis, Klein--Gordon lattices at frequencies not close to the linear ones. Dark breathers at low coupling are shown to be stable for Klein--Gordon chains with soft on--site potentials and repulsive dispersive interaction, and with hard on--site potentials and attractive dispersive interactions. At higher coupling dark breathers lose their stability via subharmonic, harmonic or oscillatory bifurcations, depending on the model. However, most of these bifurcations are harmless in the sense that they preserve dark localization. None of these bifurcations disappear when the system is infinite. Dark breathers in dissipative systems are found to be stable for both kinds of dispersive interaction.
description: 20 pages, 21 figures