cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Investigating Performance Career Making and Career Transition through the Lens of Australia's Elite Classical Singers
Creators: name: Connell, Kathleen R
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performance Career Making
subject: Career Transition
subject: Classical Singers
subject: Creative careers
subject: performing arts

description: Creative careers in the performing arts follow a somewhat unique trajectory that is driven by specific skill demands and market conditions. This thesis investigates the careers of Australian classical singers through a qualitative interview-based study and analysis. The thesis outlines a trajectory of singers’ careers as they have become evident in the experiences of professional singers. Interviews with 13 retired professional classical singers were undertaken. Career theories and empirical studies from elite dance and sportsperson were interrogated to provide a basis for a qualitative examination of performance careers. Building on this, an analysis of the singers’ experiences of their professional life was undertaken. Implications arising were related to career models from the film industry, to discourses from cultural economics and sociology, to music training concepts and to the latest research on entrepreneurial approaches to working in the creative arts. The result was the identification of a distinct career trajectory for professional classical singers comprising several stages. The career stages proposed are: (1) pre-career; (2) breaking in; (3) the peak career; (4) denouement; (5) moving on. Other findings include that creativity and identity are tightly intertwined for the professional singers in the study, and when seeking new directions following the denouement stage, the majority of the singers attempted to remain attached to an artistic field even when they accepted that their time as a professional singer had passed. The thesis highlights that creative careers are difficult to sustain and that the fragility of the creative career, once realised, can have very real implications for the well-being of the creative professional. The research also revealed that career trajectories in professional singing follow a distinctive arc because of the way the work is creatively embodied. The findings suggest that career planning has often been inadequate in this industry and it is only in the consideration of the lifecycle of a creative performance career that the critical link between pre- and post-career stages can be made.
The role of collapsed matter in the decay of black holes
Creators: name: Casadio, Roberto
name: Giusti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We try to shed some light on the role of matter in the final stages of black hole evaporation from the fundamental frameworks of classicalization and the black-to-white hole bouncing scenario. Despite being based on very different grounds, these two approaches attempt at going beyond the background field method and treat black holes as fully quantum systems rather than considering quantum field theory on the corresponding classical manifolds. They also lead to the common prediction that the semiclassical description of black hole evaporation should break down and the system be disrupted by internal quantum pressure, but they both arrive at this conclusion neglecting the matter that formed the black hole. We instead estimate this pressure from the bootstrapped description of black holes, which allows us to express the total Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass in terms of the baryonic mass still present inside the black hole. We conclude that, although these two scenarios provide qualitatively similar predictions for the final stages, the corpuscular model does not seem to suggest any sizeable deviation from the semiclassical time scale at which the disruption should occur, unlike the black-to-white hole bouncing scenario. This, in turn, makes the phenomenology of corpuscular black holes more subtle from an astrophysical perspective.
description: 5 pages, no figure
Melchus perplexus Anderson, new species
Creators: name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dryophthoridae
Melchus
Melchus perplexus

description: Melchus perplexus Anderson, new species
Figs. 7–8, 14, 17
 Types. Holotype male labelled ‘‘ San Jose, Dept / La Paz Bolivia / September 1925 / GL Harrington’ ’ (USNM).
 Derivation of Species Name. The species is named because of its similarity to M. onorei and resulting initial uncertainty as to whether or not it represented a different species.
 Identification. Melchus perplexus can be separated from the very similar M. onorei by the less distinctly sinuate rostrum (Fig. 14) which is dorsally more shallowly and less coarsely punctate near the base with a broad median impunctate area (Fig. 17).
 Description. Female not known. Male, length, 8.7 mm; width 4.4 mm. Color dark reddish brown, extensively infuscate throughout, integument with scattered tufts of micropilosity or micropilose nodules, especially towards declivity of elytra.
 As in M. onorei but rostrum with only slight sinuation at basal one-third; dorsally with less dense shallow punctures near base and broad median impunctate area. Antenna with club with apical pilose part one-third length entire club. Male genitalia as in M. onorei.
 Distribution. Bolivia (La Paz). The type locality is given only as ‘‘San Jose.’’ This might refer to San Jose de Chupiamonas.
 Natural History. There is no information available on the natural history of this species.
description: Published as part of Anderson, Robert S., 2003, Neotropical Dryophthoridae: Redescription of the Genus Melchus Lacordaire with Description of Daisya Anderson, New Genus, and Seven New Species (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 413-432 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (4) on pages 421-422, DOI: 10.1649/579, http://zenodo.org/record/10103766
NeRF-AD: Neural Radiance Field with Attention-based Disentanglement for Talking Face Synthesis
Creators: name: Bi, Chongke
name: Liu, Xiaoxing
name: Liu, Zhilei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Talking face synthesis driven by audio is one of the current research hotspots in the fields of multidimensional signal processing and multimedia. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has recently been brought to this research field in order to enhance the realism and 3D effect of the generated faces. However, most existing NeRF-based methods either burden NeRF with complex learning tasks while lacking methods for supervised multimodal feature fusion, or cannot precisely map audio to the facial region related to speech movements. These reasons ultimately result in existing methods generating inaccurate lip shapes. This paper moves a portion of NeRF learning tasks ahead and proposes a talking face synthesis method via NeRF with attention-based disentanglement (NeRF-AD). In particular, an Attention-based Disentanglement module is introduced to disentangle the face into Audio-face and Identity-face using speech-related facial action unit (AU) information. To precisely regulate how audio affects the talking face, we only fuse the Audio-face with audio feature. In addition, AU information is also utilized to supervise the fusion of these two modalities. Extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our NeRF-AD outperforms state-of-the-art methods in generating realistic talking face videos, including image quality and lip synchronization. To view video results, please refer to https://xiaoxingliu02.github.io/NeRF-AD.
description: Accepted by ICASSP 2024
Theories of Parenting and their Application to Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: Croeser, Sky
name: Eckersley, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As machine learning (ML) systems have advanced, they have acquired more power over humans' lives, and questions about what values are embedded in them have become more complex and fraught. It is conceivable that in the coming decades, humans may succeed in creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) that thinks and acts with an open-endedness and autonomy comparable to that of humans. The implications would be profound for our species; they are now widely debated not just in science fiction and speculative research agendas but increasingly in serious technical and policy conversations. Much work is underway to try to weave ethics into advancing ML research. We think it useful to add the lens of parenting to these efforts, and specifically radical, queer theories of parenting that consciously set out to nurture agents whose experiences, objectives and understanding of the world will necessarily be very different from their parents'. We propose a spectrum of principles which might underpin such an effort; some are relevant to current ML research, while others will become more important if AGI becomes more likely. These principles may encourage new thinking about the development, design, training, and release into the world of increasingly autonomous agents.
The power spectrum of galaxies in the 2dF 100k redshift survey
Creators: name: Tegmark, Max
name: Hamilton, Andrew J. S.
name: Xu, Yongzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the real-space power spectrum and the redshift-space distortions of galaxies in the 2dF 100k galaxy redshift survey using pseudo-Karhunen-Loeve eigenmodes and the stochastic bias formalism. Our results agree well with those published by the 2dFGRS team, and have the added advantage of producing easy-to-interpret uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements of the galaxy-galaxy, galaxy-velocity and velocity-velocity power spectra in 27 k-bands, with narrow and well-behaved window functions in the range 0.01h/Mpc < k < 0.8h/Mpc. We find no significant detection of baryonic wiggles, although our results are consistent with a standard flat Omega_Lambda=0.7 ``concordance'' model and previous tantalizing hints of baryonic oscillations. We measure the galaxy-matter correlation coefficient r > 0.4 and the redshift-distortion parameter beta=0.49+/-0.16 for r=1 (beta=0.47+/- 0.16 without finger-of-god compression). Since this is an apparent-magnitude limited sample, luminosity-dependent bias may cause a slight red-tilt in the power spectum. A battery of systematic error tests indicate that the survey is not only impressive in size, but also unusually clean, free of systematic errors at the level to which our tests are sensitive. Our measurements and window functions are available at http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/2df.html together with the survey mask, radial selection function and uniform subsample of the survey that we have constructed.
description: Replaced to match accepted MNRAS version, with new radial/angular systematics plot and sigma8 typo corrected. High-res figures, power spectra, windows and our uniform galaxy subsample with mask at http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/2df.html or from max@physics.upenn.edu. 26 journal pages, 28 figs
Collective performance of a finite-time quantum Otto cycle
Creators: name: Kloc, Michal
name: Cejnar, Pavel
name: Schaller, Gernot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the finite-time effects in a quantum Otto cycle where a collective spin system is used as the working fluid. Starting from a simple one-qubit system we analyze the transition to the limit cycle in the case of a finite-time thermalization. If the system consists of a large sample of independent qubits interacting coherently with the heat bath, the superradiant equilibration is observed. We show that this phenomenon can boost the power of the engine. Mutual interaction of qubits in the working fluid is modeled by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that in this case the quantum phase transitions for the ground and excited states may have a strong negative effect on the performance of the machine. Reversely, by analyzing the work output we can distinguish between the operational regimes with and without a phase transition.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Pimplini
Creators: name: Çoruh, S.
name: Özbek, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae

description: Key to genera of Pimplini   1 Inner margins of eyes quite strongly curved towards antennal bases (fig. 25a); pretarsal claws usually with a large basal tooth (fig. 26)..................................... Itoplectis FOERSTER
- Inner oculer margins slightly and evenly curved towards antennal bases (fig. 25b); pretarsal claws without basal tooth.....................................................................................2
 2 In females face convex forwards; second flagellomer shorter than wide (fig. 31b); ovipositor not protruding beyond abdominal apex, its long shorter than half of fore wing................................................................................................... Strongylopsis BRAUNS
 - In females not convex forwards; second flagellomere 5 times as long as wide in females (fig. 29c); ovipositor protruding beyond abdominal apex, its fore wing ½ as long as fore wing..................................................................................... Pimpla FABRICIUS
description: Published as part of Çoruh, S. & Özbek, H., 2008, A faunistic and systematic study on Pimplinae (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae) in Eastern and Northeastern parts of Turkey, pp. 419-462 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 434, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5427877
title: Music Masters: Facilitating community music participation by older adults in instrumental ensembles
Creators: name: Kunaeva, Teresa V
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: community music
subject: older adults
subject: music facilitation
subject: leisure constraints

description: This thesis examined music participation and non-participation by older adults in Queensland, Australia. It explored why relatively few older adults take up or resume playing a musical instrument despite the reported benefits of participation in community music ensembles. It also sought to better understand the constraints faced by active, older-adult musicians, and how these constraints could be overcome to fulfil music motivations. Specifically, the thesis sought to address the following research question: How can participation by older adults in community music instrumental ensembles be better facilitated in order to initiate, promote, and sustain appropriate, engaging, and dynamic music-making experiences? Over the past two decades, increasing attention has been given to global ageing, evoking UN and government reports that address this demographic transformation. In 2010, the Queensland Government’s strategy Positively Ageless was followed in 2011 by the Brisbane City Council’s program of activities for seniors Growing Older and Living Dangerously. In this program, sporting or other non-music activities appear to take priority over music activities even though participation in music making has shown to provide cognitive, physical, and social benefits that improve the quality of life of older adults. This mixed methods research began with an online survey that investigated the leisure choices of older adults and the perceived barriers to community music participation. Motivations for and constraints to music learning and engagement were then explored in interviews with older-adult musicians from music ensembles in South East Queensland. Following this was a focus on the intrapersonal, structural, and interpersonal constraints to music participation. The research findings led to the development of the MASTER framework, which recommends that activities are made musical, attractive, social, timely, educational, and regulated. This framework is offered as a way to better facilitate community music activities for older adults in Queensland, but it could be applied to other national and international participatory music settings. With increasing numbers of baby boomers now entering retirement, this research has implications for promoting healthy ageing, and for creating musically vibrant communities not only in Queensland but across geographic boundaries.
Daisya Anderson, new genus
Creators: name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dryophthoridae
Daisya

description: Daisya Anderson, new genus
Figs. 24–52
description: Published as part of Anderson, Robert S., 2003, Neotropical Dryophthoridae: Redescription of the Genus Melchus Lacordaire with Description of Daisya Anderson, New Genus, and Seven New Species (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 413-432 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (4) on page 423, DOI: 10.1649/579, http://zenodo.org/record/10103766
Transverse Temperature Interfaces in the Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn Driven Lattice Gas
Creators: name: Mukhamadiarov, Ruslan I.
name: Priyanka
name: Täuber, Uwe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the intriguing spatial patterns that emerge in a two-dimensional spatially inhomogeneous Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn (KLS) driven lattice gas with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions. The domain is split into two regions with hopping rates governed by different temperatures T > T_c and T_c, respectively, where T_c indicates the critical temperature for phase ordering, and with the temperature boundaries oriented perpendicular to the drive. In the hotter region, the system behaves like the (totally) asymmetric exclusion processes (TASEP), and experiences particle blockage in front of the interface to the critical region. To explain this particle density accumulation near the interface, we have measured the steady-state current in the KLS model at T > T_c and found it to decay as 1/T. In analogy with TASEP systems containing "slow" bonds, we argue that transport in the high-temperature subsystem is impeded by the lower current in the cooler region, which tends to set the global stationary particle current value. This blockage is induced by the extended particle clusters, growing logarithmically with system size, in the critical region. We observe the density profiles in both high-and low-temperature subsystems to be similar to the well-characterized coexistence and maximal-current phases in (T)ASEP models with open boundary conditions, which are respectively governed by hyperbolic and trigonometric tangent functions. Yet if the lower temperature is set to T_c, we detect marked fluctuation corrections to the mean-field density profiles, e.g., the corresponding critical KLS power law density decay near the interfaces into the cooler region.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Itoplectis alternans
Creators: name: Çoruh, S.
name: Özbek, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Itoplectis
Itoplectis alternans

description: Itoplectis alternans (GRAVENHORST 1829)
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia, Near East, Oriental Region (ANONYMOUS 2007).
M a t e r i a l: Bingöl: Yenibaşlar, 1400 m, 03.VI.2003,. Erzurum: University field, 1850 m, 08.VI.2000,.
 R e m a r k s: although many species in the orders of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera were listed by (THOMPSON 1957) as hosts of I. alternans two specimens reared from Archips rosana L (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) feeding on Betula pendula Roth. in the University field and it is a new host for I. alternans.
description: Published as part of Çoruh, S. & Özbek, H., 2008, A faunistic and systematic study on Pimplinae (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae) in Eastern and Northeastern parts of Turkey, pp. 419-462 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 435, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5427877
$L_0$-ARM: Network Sparsification via Stochastic Binary Optimization
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Ji, Shihao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider network sparsification as an $L_0$-norm regularized binary optimization problem, where each unit of a neural network (e.g., weight, neuron, or channel, etc.) is attached with a stochastic binary gate, whose parameters are jointly optimized with original network parameters. The Augment-Reinforce-Merge (ARM), a recently proposed unbiased gradient estimator, is investigated for this binary optimization problem. Compared to the hard concrete gradient estimator from Louizos et al., ARM demonstrates superior performance of pruning network architectures while retaining almost the same accuracies of baseline methods. Similar to the hard concrete estimator, ARM also enables conditional computation during model training but with improved effectiveness due to the exact binary stochasticity. Thanks to the flexibility of ARM, many smooth or non-smooth parametric functions, such as scaled sigmoid or hard sigmoid, can be used to parameterize this binary optimization problem and the unbiasness of the ARM estimator is retained, while the hard concrete estimator has to rely on the hard sigmoid function to achieve conditional computation and thus accelerated training. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art pruning rates with almost the same accuracies of baseline methods. The resulting algorithm $L_0$-ARM sparsifies the Wide-ResNet models on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 while the hard concrete estimator cannot. The code is public available at https://github.com/leo-yangli/l0-arm.
description: Published as a conference paper at ECML 2019
Itoplectis aterrima JUSSILA 1965
Creators: name: Çoruh, S.
name: Özbek, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Itoplectis
Itoplectis aterrima

description: Itoplectis aterrima JUSSILA 1965
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Caucasus, Europe, Turkey (KOLAROV 1997).
M a t e r i a l: Erzurum: Olur, Sarıbaşak, 1850 m, 24.VIII.1992,,.
description: Published as part of Çoruh, S. & Özbek, H., 2008, A faunistic and systematic study on Pimplinae (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae) in Eastern and Northeastern parts of Turkey, pp. 419-462 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 435, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5427877
Robust inference of the Galactic centre gamma-ray excess spatial properties
Creators: name: Song, Deheng
name: Eckner, Christopher
name: Gordon, Chris
name: Calore, Francesca
name: Macias, Oscar
name: Abazajian, Kevork N.
name: Horiuchi, Shunsaku
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
name: Pohl, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gamma-ray Fermi-LAT Galactic centre excess (GCE) has puzzled scientists for over 15 years. Despite ongoing debates about its properties, and especially its spatial distribution, its nature remains elusive. We scrutinize how the estimated spatial morphology of this excess depends on models for the Galactic diffuse emission, focusing particularly on the extent to which the Galactic plane and point sources are masked. Our main aim is to compare a spherically symmetric morphology - potentially arising from the annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles - with a boxy morphology - expected if faint unresolved sources in the Galactic bulge dominate the excess emission. Recent claims favouring a DM-motivated template for the GCE are shown to rely on a specific Galactic bulge template, which performs worse than other templates for the Galactic bulge. We find that a non-parametric model of the Galactic bulge derived from the VVV survey results in a significantly better fit for the GCE than DM-motivated templates. This result is independent of whether a GALPROP-based model or a more non-parametric ring-based model is used to describe the diffuse Galactic emission. This conclusion remains true even when additional freedom is added in the background models, allowing for non-parametric modulation of the model components and substantially improving the fit quality. When adopted, optimized background models provide robust results in terms of preference for a boxy bulge morphology of the GCE, regardless of the mask applied to the Galactic plane.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
Mixed Making: Navigating Complexity Through a More Tangible Mixed Reality
Creators: name: Hines, Joseph
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design

description: While emerging technologies like mixed reality (MR) have continued to blur the boundaries between hardware and software, experiences situated in MR are often still constrained to the very same desktop metaphors used in the design of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for decades. In response, designers and technologists have sought out new patterns for interaction that challenge these preconceptions and capitalize on the ability for MR to couple rich digital information onto physical objects and environments. Building off of Mark Billinghurst et al. ‘s investigations into Tangible Augmented Reality, this thesis explores how the design of hybrid objects and environments might foster a stronger and more intuitive connection between physical and digital worlds. Yet the question remains as to who stands to benefit from these emerging environments?

In this regard, the resources and platforms that support the maker community are particularly well suited for intervention. Through the use of analog and digital resources, these makers often find new skills, community, and a renewed sense of agency. However, the benefits experienced by those who engage in these making practices, whether it be through physical computing, home repair, knitting or the like, are often not equally distributed. As such, through a series of co-creation exercises, design explorations, physical prototypes, and technical probes centered around the use of littleBits, this thesis questions how a more tangible mixed reality can be used to navigate complexity through the lens of the making.
Global Alfven Wave Heating of the Magnetosphere of Young Stars
Creators: name: Elfimov, A. G.
name: Galvao, R. M. O.
name: Jatenco-Pereira, V.
name: Opher, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitation of a Global Alfven wave (GAW) is proposed as a viable mechanism to explain plasma heating in the magnetosphere of young stars. The wave and basic plasma parameters are compatible with the requirement that the dissipation length of GAWs be comparable to the distance between the shocked region at the star's surface and the truncation region in the accretion disk. A two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic plasma model is used in the analysis. A current carrying filament along magnetic field lines acts as a waveguide for the GAW. The current in the filament is driven by plasma waves along the magnetic field lines and/or by plasma crossing magnetic field lines in the truncated region of the disk of the accreting plasma. The conversion of a small fraction of the kinetic energy into GAW energy is sufficient to heat the plasma filament to observed temperatures.
description: Submitted to ApJ, aheatf.tex, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Multicolor Emitting N-Doped Carbon Dots Derived from Ascorbic Acid and Phenylenediamine Precursors
Creators: name: Wang, Linlin
name: Choi, Won Mook
name: Chung, Jin Suk
name: Hur, Seung Hyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Information.
Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields for Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Bertschinger, Edmund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the generation of initial conditions for numerical simulations in cosmology with multiple levels of resolution, or multiscale simulations. We present the theory of adaptive mesh refinement of Gaussian random fields followed by the implementation and testing of a computer code package performing this refinement called GRAFIC2. This package is available to the computational cosmology community at http://arcturus.mit.edu/grafic/ or by email from the author.
description: 38 pages. Submitted to ApJ Supplement
On unfolded off-shell formulation for higher-spin theory
Creators: name: Misuna, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an unfolded off-shell formulation for free massless higher-spin fields in 4d Minkowski space in terms of spinorial variables. This system arises from the on-shell one by the addition of external higher-spin currents, for which we find an unfolded description. Also we show that this off-shell system can be interpreted as Schwinger-Dyson equations and restore two-point functions of higher-spin fields this way.
description: 11 pages. V3: evaluation of two-point functions detailed, typos corrected, reference added. To appear in Physics Letters B
High-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac and Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry: Exploring merging of Weyl nodes
Creators: name: Medic, Luka
name: Mravlje, Jernej
name: Ramšak, Anton
name: Rejec, Tomaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore anomalous high-harmonic generation in a model that realizes a transition from a broken time-reversal symmetry Weyl-semimetal to a semi-Dirac regime, i.e. a gapless semimetal with dispersion that is parabolic in one direction and conical in the other two. We point out the intensity of the induced anomalous high harmonics is high in the semi-Dirac regime. For Weyl semimetals, we reveal anomalous high harmonics are due to excitations at momenta where the dispersion is not strictly linear and that in the linearized low-energy theory the anomalous response is harmonic only. Our findings aid experimental characterization of Weyl, Dirac, and semi-Dirac semimetals.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
X-ray Bursts from the Source A1742-294 in the Galactic-Center Region
Creators: name: Lutovinov, A. A.
name: Grebenev, S. A.
name: Pavlinsky, M. N.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of observations of the X-ray burster A1742-294 near the Galactic center with the ART-P telescope onboard the Granat observatory. The shape of its persistent spectra was well described by the model of bremsstrahlung from optically thin plasma, and it had remained essentially unchanged over $\sim2.5$ years of observations. We show that the mean interval between X-ray bursts from the source is several times shorter than assumed previously, and that the burst profile itself depends on the flux during the burst. We analyze in detail the strong X-ray burst detected from this source on October 18, 1990, and trace the evolution of its luminosity and radiation temperature.
description: 14 pages including 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomy Letters
Additional file 2 of Cathodal tDCS exerts neuroprotective effect in rat brain after acute ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Zhang, Ke-Ying
name: Rui, Gang
name: Zhang, Jun-Ping
name: Guo, Ling
name: An, Guang-Zhou
name: Lin, Jia-Jin
name: He, Wei
name: Ding, Gui-Rong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. The results of mNSS score.
Biometry and dimensions of the animals and skulls used in the present study. from Influence of head morphology and natural postures on sound localization cues in crocodilians
Creators: name: L. Papet
name: N. Grimault
name: N. Boyer
name: N. Mathevon
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Biometry and dimensions of the animals and skulls used in the present study.
Experimental CMB Status and Prospects: A Report from Snowmass 2001
Creators: name: Staggs, S.
name: Church, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years the promise of experimental study of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been demonstrated. Herein a brief summary of the field is followed by an indication of future directions. The prospects for further revelations from the details of the CMB are excellent. The future work is well-suited to the interests of high energy physics experimentalists: the projects seek to understand the fundamental nature of the universe, require subtle experimental techniques to keep systematics in control, produce large, rich data sets, and must be implemented by multi-institutional collaborations.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures. Figure 7 was submitted separately as the file e6_1_staggs_1023_fig8.jpg
title: The Implications of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 on Carbon Emissions Disclosure Practices in Australia: 2005 to 2011
Creators: name: Rayner, Rowena Ruth
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Carbon emissions
subject: National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Act 2007
subject: Carbon emission disclosure practices

description: Carbon emissions make a significant contribution to climate change and global warming. The accounting standards, though, are silent on the treatment for carbon emissions and disclosures. As a result, stakeholders, other than the Australian Government, are reliant on voluntarily disclosed carbon emission information. This thesis investigates voluntary carbon emission disclosure practices of firms set within a carbon-based economy, Australia. Specially, this thesis notes the changes in voluntary carbon emission disclosures over time, prior to the introduction of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Act 2007 to post-legislation, 2005 to 2011. In addition, this thesis also investigates the determinants of such disclosures. A multi-theoretical framework incorporating legitimacy, signalling and institutional theories support this thesis. The sample comprises of hand-collected and manually-coded data from 170 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed firms with 85 of these firms listed on the NGER register; the other 85 firms are control firms chosen using matched-pair design. Content analysis is used to capture the changes in voluntary carbon emission disclosures while logistic regression analysis is used to investigate the determinants that contribute to these disclosures. Ordinary least squares regression results using the number of words and the number of sentences on voluntary carbon emission disclosures are generally consistent with the logistic regression results. This thesis finds voluntary carbon emission disclosures increased over the period 2005 through to 2011. However, heavy emitting firms that later listed on the NGER-registered voluntarily disclosed less carbon emission information during 2005 and 2006 than firms not required to register. Though, by 2008 registered firms’ propensity to voluntary disclose carbon emissions increased at a greater rate than other firms. In addition, it is found sustainability reports convey carbon emission data more than annual reports; however can be raised about the timeliness of information in such reports are not produced annually, if they are produced at all.
title: Factors Affecting People-Park Relationships in Peri-Urban National Parks
Creators: name: Rossi, Sebastian Dario
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: National Parks usage
subject: Recreational parks
subject: Recreational park management
subject: Protected environmentakl areas

description: Protected areas such as national parks are key mechanisms for conserving nature. They also provide important opportunities for people to engage in a range of nature based tourism and recreation activities, engendering active lifestyles and providing access to fresh air, solitude and nature. In part due to the psychological and health benefits of these activities, visitation to protected areas is increasingly popular, especially for parks close to cities. Rapid urban growth in many cities has also heightened demand for, and increased use of, protected areas. Visitor use of protected areas can however, adversely impact both visitors and local communities if not properly managed. National park managers face the challenge of accommodating often times competing expectations about these types of protected areas, including providing access without negatively affecting the natural environment or visitors’ experiences. Reliable information is needed about visitor characteristics, the activities they undertake, and their expectations of parks including the types of activities permitted. We also need to know how the values, attitudes, and travel patterns of visitors shape their park experiences. Moreover, we need to know how nearby communities interact with the park and their attitudes about visitor activities. To better understand how these factors potentially affect people-park interactions, including parks close to cities, this thesis assessed six peri-urban national parks in South East Queensland, Australia.
The Photometric Plane of Elliptical Galaxies
Creators: name: Graham, Alister W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sersic r^(1/n) index n of an elliptical galaxy (or bulge) has recently been shown to correlate strongly (r=0.8) with a galaxy's central velocity dispersion. This index could therefore prove extremely useful and cost-effective (in terms of both telescope time and data reduction) for many fields of extragalactic research. It is a purely photometric quantity which apparently not only traces the mass of a bulge but has additionally been shown to reflect the degree of bulge concentration. This paper explores the affect of replacing the central velocity dispersion term in the Fundamental Plane with the Sersic index n. Using a sample of early-type galaxies from the Virgo and Fornax clusters, various (B-band) `Photometric Planes' were constructed and found to have a scatter of 0.14-0.17 dex in log(r_e), or a distance error of 38-48% per galaxy (the higher values arising from the inclusion of the S0 galaxies). The corresponding Fundamental Plane yielded a 33-37% error in distance for the same galaxy (sub-)samples (i.e. ~15-30% less scatter). The gains in using a hyperplane (i.e. adding the Sersic index to the Fundamental Plane as a fourth parameter) were small, giving a 27-33% error in distance, depending on the galaxy sample used. The Photometric Plane has been used here to estimate the Virgo-Fornax distance modulus; giving a value of Δμ=0.62(+/-0.30) mag (cf. 0.51(+/-0.21), HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance Scale). The prospects for using the Photometric Plane at higher redshift appears promising. Using published data on the intermediate redshift cluster Cl 1358+62 (z=0.33) gave a Photometric Plane distance error of 35-41% per galaxy.
description: To appear in MNRAS. 6 pages
Itoplectis maculator
Creators: name: Çoruh, S.
name: Özbek, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Itoplectis
Itoplectis maculator

description: Itoplectis maculator (FABRICIUS 1775)
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary, Corsica, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portuguese, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia, Near East, North Africa, Oriental Region (ANONYMOUS 2007).
M a t e r i a l: Artvin: Genya Mt., 1860 m, 28.VII.2004,. Bayburt: Kop Mt., 2300 m, 25.VII.2001,. Erzurum: Kargapazarı Dağları, Radar Yolu, 1350 m, 25.VII.2001,; University field, 1850 m, 8. VI.2000, 6; Ilıca, Atlıkonak, 2100 m, 21. VI.2004, 2; Oltu, Tavşantepe, 1350 m, 11.IV.2001,, Uzunoluk, Köroğlu, 2200 m, 12.VII.2004,; Şenkaya, Turnalı, 1750 m, 25.VII.1996,,; Tortum, Alapınar, 1650 m, 19.VI.2003,, Aksu, 1750 m, 12.VIII.1998,,, Esendurak, 1400 m, 18.VII.2004,. Gümüşhane: Vauk Dağı, 1800 m, 26.VI.2000,. Kars: Sarıkamış, Karakurt, TCK Çeşmesi, 1500 m, 12.VII.2003,, 28.VIII.2004,. Rize: Ovit Dağı, 2300 m, 29.VII.2000,.
 R e m a r k s: one specimen reared from Archips rosana L. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) feeding on Ribes rubrum L., one specimen reared from Acleris rhombana D.& S. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) feeding on Prunus mahaleb L., one specimen reared from Hyponomeuta evonymella L. (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) feeding the same plant. A. rhombana is a new host for the I. maculator.
description: Published as part of Çoruh, S. & Özbek, H., 2008, A faunistic and systematic study on Pimplinae (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae) in Eastern and Northeastern parts of Turkey, pp. 419-462 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on pages 435-436, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5427877
Itoplectis tunetana
Creators: name: Çoruh, S.
name: Özbek, H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Itoplectis
Itoplectis tunetana

description: Itoplectis tunetana (SCHMIEDEKNECHT 1914)
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary, Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portuguese, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia, Near East, North Africa, Oriental Region (ANONYMOUS 2007).
M a t e r i a l: Erzurum: University field, 1850 m, 22.VII.1997,; Tortum, Aşağımeydanlar, 1700 m, 07.VIII.1996,. Kars: Sarıkamış, Karakurt, TCK Çeşmesi, 1500 m., 12.VII.2003,, 7. VII. 2004,, 28.VIII.2004,.
 R e m a r k s: one specimen obtained from Hyponomeuta evonymella L. (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) feeding on Prunus mahaleb L. H. evonymella is new host for the I. tunetana.
description: Published as part of Çoruh, S. & Özbek, H., 2008, A faunistic and systematic study on Pimplinae (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae) in Eastern and Northeastern parts of Turkey, pp. 419-462 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 436, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5427877
title: Heuristic Based Optimisation of Pavement Management Scheduling
Creators: name: Cancian, Glen Andrew
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pavement maintenance
subject: Road maintenance

description: The issue of effectively scheduling pavement maintenance and rehabilitation treatments over a multi-year planning horizon plagues road authorities around the world with the significance of this issue being amplified by both an ageing pavement network and the trend towards insufficient fund allocation. The scope of the problem can be quantified as follows: if only a single treatment is able to be applied to each individual road segment in a single year, then the total number of possible programmed maintenance and rehabilitation schedule alternatives for a moderate-sized network of 1,000 road segments, with eight different treatments possible, over a twenty year anaysis period is ((1.0 × 103)8)20 = 1.0 × 10480. Assuming that a computer can build and evaluate 100 complete maintenance and rehabilitation schedules a second, to identify the optimal schedule for this 1,000 segment road network would take 3.17 × 10471 years. The overall goal of this study is to investigate the benefits of applying modern heuristic optimisation techniques to the problem of pavement main- tenance and rehabilitation scheduling over a multi-year planning horizon. To address this goal, a four stage approach was utilised using a real road network with real pavement condition data as the test benchmark.
Signal Processing on PV Time-Series Data: Robust Degradation Analysis without Physical Models
Creators: name: Meyers, Bennet
name: Deceglie, Michael
name: Deline, Chris
name: Jordan, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A novel unsupervised machine learning approach for analyzing time-series data is applied to the topic of photovoltaic (PV) system degradation rate estimation, sometimes referred to as energy-yield degradation analysis. This approach only requires a measured power signal as an input--no irradiance data, temperature data, or system configuration information. We present results on a data set that was previously analyzed and presented by NREL using RdTools, validating the accuracy of the new approach and showing increased robustness to data anomalies while reducing the data requirements to carry out the analysis.
description: Presented at 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2019), accepted with revisions to IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, final proof submitted November 2019
ОБ ОБОБЩЕНИИ ФОРМУЛЫ ХУА ЛО-КЕНА В МАТРИЧНОМ ПОЛИЭДРЕ
Creators: name: Э. М. Махкамов
Publisher: name: Academic research in educational sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: математика
ХУА ЛО-КЕН
полиэдр
теорема
формула.

description: Интегральные формулы, обобщающие интегральную формулу Коши в теории функций одного комплексного переменного служат в качестве важного конструктивного инструмента. Локальные вычеты многих комплексных переменных и интегральные формулы в многомерном комплексном анализе служат в качестве основы в задачах связи значений функции внутри области с границей области или с частью границы. Поэтому изучение интегральных формул и вычетов многих переменных в теории функций играет важную роль и считается одним из актуальных направлений современной математики