cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Seed germination variability and its association with functional traits in submontane tropical forest species of Indonesia: recommendations for direct seeding
Creators: name: Zuhri, Musyarofah
name: Setiawan, Nuri Nurlaila
name: Dewi, Susana Paulina
name: Sulistyawati, Endah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Seed germination is a crucial component of the reproductive cycle of plants, and thus, knowledge of germination strategies plays a vital role in species selection for seed-based forest restoration. Conducting germination testing for tropical species requires enormous resources. Therefore, a functional trait-based approach is needed to predict germination success based on seed traits. However, there is a lack of comprehensive information on germination and the correlation between functional traits and germination for tropical native species. In this study, we assessed seed traits and conducted germination assays for 31 woody plant species from the submontane tropical forest of West Java, Indonesia. Our results indicated that seed functional traits and germination varied among the species examined. Germination clustered into five categories: early-high, early-medium, early-low, late-low, and failed. Specific seed traits can be used to predict both germination percentage and mean germination time. Variability in seed coat ratio and seed dormancy explains differences in germination percentages, while mean germination time is primarily influenced by seed mass and seed coat thickness. This study presents valuable germination data for ten woody tropical native species that germinate readily without the need for special treatments, including Acer laurinum, Aphanamixis polystachya, Engelhardia serrata, Ficus fistulosa, F. ribes, Gaultheria leucocarpa, Maoutia diversifolia, Ormosia penangensis, Phyllanthus emblica, and Saurauia pendula. Incorporating a trait-based approach in species selection strategies may reduce the number of seeds required for direct seeding and enhance the germination success of direct seeding efforts.
Natula longipennis
Creators: name: Hugel, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Trigonidiidae
Natula
Natula longipennis

description: Natula longipennis ( Serville, 1839)
 Trigonidium longipenne Serville, 1839: 351.
 Type locality. Mauritius.
This species is very widespread in tropical and subtropical areas of the Old World, including South Western Indian Ocean islands and is recorded for the first time in Rodrigues.
 Specimen examined (Rodrigues only). 1♀, Rodrigues, Port Sud-Est, Anse Mourouk, réserve, bord réservoir, 22.IV.2009, BIOTAS2009054, S. Hugel leg., S.H. coll.
 Calling song recorded (Rodrigues only). 1 ♂, Rodrigues, Port Mathurin, Solitude, bord réservoir, 21.IV.2009, S. Hugel leg., S.H. coll.
 1 ♂, Rodrigues, Port Sud-Est, Anse Mourouk, réserve, bord réservoir, 22.IV.2009, BIOTAS2009054, S. Hugel leg., S.H. coll.
description: Published as part of Hugel, S., 2012, Trigonidiinae crickets from Rodrigues island: from widespread pantropical species to critically endangered endemic species, pp. 41-55 in Zootaxa 3191 on page 43
Belt and Road Initiative: An Overview of Intellectual Property Protection and Cooperation
Creators: name: Ali, Majid
name: Lu, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: One Belt One Road (OBOR) is currently known as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which was initiated by China and considered a game-changer mega project not only for the regions attached with but also for the whole world. BRI is going to connect the continent Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Africa through the different routes of roads, railway tracks, optic cable and gas pipelines fiber, and so on. The development of the routes has consisted on the land and sea routes. The land routes called the Silk Road Economic Belt, and the routes through the sea are called Maritime Silk Road. It is also levitating the many questions about the validity, influence at the vicinity, and its implementation. Legal rights of China should be protected in the BRI countries, and the element of IP violation also engaged with. This research study has an emphasis on the intellectual property protection, cooperation, promotion, and awareness regarding the BRI. Through the BRI, Chinese corporations and firms are spreading and establishing their commercial enterprises in all BRI countries. That's the way the highly belongings intellectual property rights protection, and concerned cooperation with BRI is essential to aware and enhance IP protection and cooperation between the BRI countries and China.
Leskea polycarpa Hedw.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Leskeaceae
Leskea
Leskea polycarpa

description: Leskea polycarpa Hedw.
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a): Alger. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 85, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
title: Hosta :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Funkia

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Opportunities for, and threats to, marketing regionally produced food: a consumer survey near the Elbe-Valley
Creators: name: Wirthgen, Antje
name: Wirthgen, Antje
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Industrial Organization
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The objective of this report is to present preliminary findings of a consumer survey analysing the purchase behaviour towards regionally and environmentally friendly produced food in general and especially for food of nature conservation from the Elbe-Valley in Lower Saxony. The research was undertaken in June 1999 at three localities at and near the Elbe-Valley in Lower Saxony. The ongoing data analysis includes cross tabulations, factor analysis, regression, cluster - and conjoint analysis. The main findings at this stage are : • Regionally produced food is bought out of preference by the majority of the sample . • The Elbe-Valley, known by nearly 80 % of the interviewees, seems to have a quite positive image . • Interviewees from Hamburg, Luneburg and the Elbe-Valley indicated preference and 'willingness to pay more' for food from the Elbe-Valley, the last especially if it is food of nature conservation. • Concerning the point of sale for regionally produced food, the majority of the sample showed acceptance of the idea of a mini-market in co-operation with shopping centres as well as of a mobile sale in rural areas.
The impact of selective logging on the genetic diversity of Rubroshorea johorensis in the tropical rainforest
Creators: name: Indrioko, Sapto
name: Na’iem, Mohammad
name: Kartikawati, Noor Khomsah
name: Purnomo, Susilo
name: Tani, Naoki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The tropical rainforest of Kalimantan, Indonesia, is dominated by a mixed dipterocarp forest. Rubroshorea johorensis is a commercial species of the Dipterocarpaceae family but is listed as vulnerable. So far, the management of natural forests through selective logging may have a negative impact on genetic diversity. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the genetic diversity of R. johorensis in different forest types representing the management and silvicultural techniques in the tropical rainforest of Kalimantan, including virgin forest (V1-V4 populations), logged over area/LOA (L1-L3 populations), and stand established by enrichment planting after selective logging (E1-E3 populations). The study applied both expressed sequence tags microsatellite (EST-SSR) loci and genomic microsatellite loci. The AMOVA showed that genetic differences among forest types were minimal (2.48%), with most of the variation occurring within individuals (78.51%). All genetic diversity variables of R. johorensis were not significantly different among forest types, although with respect to all genetic variables, enrichment planting was the highest, and LOA was the lowest. The research suggested that selective logging slightly reduced the genetic diversity of R. johorensis, and the enrichment planting using intensive silvicultural technique could increase all genetic variables and the potential of residual stand. In addition, the established R. johorensis progeny trial using selected mother trees from the surrounding concession area is useful for improving the genetic quality and conserving genetic resources in the future. The success of massive rehabilitation in the LOA will promote the standing stock and maintain the forest genetic resources. Furthermore, the consistent involvement of forest concessionaires and government support is crucial for the sustainable management of R. johorensis in its natural habitat.
Adaptive Graph Representation Learning for Video Person Re-identification
Creators: name: Wu, Yiming
name: Bourahla, Omar El Farouk
name: Li, Xi
name: Wu, Fei
name: Tian, Qi
name: Zhou, Xue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent years have witnessed the remarkable progress of applying deep learning models in video person re-identification (Re-ID). A key factor for video person Re-ID is to effectively construct discriminative and robust video feature representations for many complicated situations. Part-based approaches employ spatial and temporal attention to extract representative local features. While correlations between parts are ignored in the previous methods, to leverage the relations of different parts, we propose an innovative adaptive graph representation learning scheme for video person Re-ID, which enables the contextual interactions between relevant regional features. Specifically, we exploit the pose alignment connection and the feature affinity connection to construct an adaptive structure-aware adjacency graph, which models the intrinsic relations between graph nodes. We perform feature propagation on the adjacency graph to refine regional features iteratively, and the neighbor nodes' information is taken into account for part feature representation. To learn compact and discriminative representations, we further propose a novel temporal resolution-aware regularization, which enforces the consistency among different temporal resolutions for the same identities. We conduct extensive evaluations on four benchmarks, i.e. iLIDS-VID, PRID2011, MARS, and DukeMTMC-VideoReID, experimental results achieve the competitive performance which demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed method. The code is available at https://github.com/weleen/AGRL.pytorch.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Thermal entanglement in three-qubit Heisenberg models
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoguang
name: Fu, Hongchen
name: Solomon, Allan I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study pairwise thermal entanglement in three-qubit Heisenberg models and obtain analytic expressions for the concurrence. We find that thermal entanglement is absent from both the antiferromagnetic $XXZ$ model, and the ferromagnetic $XXZ$ model with anisotropy parameter $Δ\ge 1$. Conditions for the existence of thermal entanglement are discussed in detail, as is the role of degeneracy and the effects of magnetic fields on thermal entanglement and the quantum phase transition. Specifically, we find that the magnetic field can induce entanglement in the antiferromagnetic $XXX$ model, but cannot induce entanglement in the ferromagnetic $XXX$ model.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, minor revisions, resubmitted to J. Phys. A
Quantum even spheres Sigma_q^2n from Poisson double suspension
Creators: name: Bonechi, F.
name: Ciccoli, N.
name: Tarlini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14D21; 19D55; 58B32; 58B34; 81R50

description: We define even dimensional quantum spheres Sigma_q^2n that generalize to higher dimension the standard quantum two-sphere of Podle's and the four-sphere Sigma_q^4 obtained in the quantization of the Hopf bundle. The construction relies on an iterated Poisson double suspension of the standard Podle's two-sphere. The Poisson spheres that we get have the same symplectic foliation consisting of a degenerate point and a symplectic plane and, after quantization, have the same C^*-algebraic completion. We investigate their K-homology and K-theory by introducing Fredholm modules and projectors.
description: 13 pages; LaTeX 2e
Leucodon sciuroides Schwagr.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Leucodontales
Leucodontaceae
Leucodon
Leucodon sciuroides

description: Leucodon sciuroides (Hedw.) Schwägr.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Djebel Édough; Djurjura; La Calle; Le petit Atlas; Médéah; Philippeville. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Aurès; Djebel Babor; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Akfadou; Oran, partie méridionale. Brongniart (1882): Blidah. Trabut (1887a): D’Oran à Mécheria. Corbière (1889), Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida, sommet de l’Abd-el-Kader. Litschauer (1904): Col de Tirourda, 1700 m. Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Fort National nach Michelet, 1000 m. Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a, 1966, 1967): Monts de Constantine au djebel Ouach, 1000 m. Lapie (1909): Kabylie du Djurjura, Beni Khalfoun. Jelenc (1949, 1967): Haute-Plaine de Sétif, Ain Trich, 1100 m; Monts de Tlemcen, djebel el Beniane, 1150 m. Jelenc (1953, 1967): Atlas de Blida, Cèdraies du ravin Bleu à Chrèa; Kabylie du Djurdjura, massif de l’Aizer, forêt de Ait Ali, 1600 m; Massif de l’Ouarsenis, flanc nord du Pic Sidi Abdelkader, 1500 m. Jelenc (1953, 1967), Ahayoun et al. (2007): Massif de l’Ouarsenis, cédraie de Téniet el Had, 1500 m. Jelenc (1954b, 1967): Massif de l’Akfadou, camping Blank, 1500 m. Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Kabylie de Collo, djebel Goufi; Kabylie des Babor, Dra el Arba; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aït Ali; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aït Idjer; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Aït Ouaban; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Dra el Mizan; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Dra Inguel; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tala Ghizan; Massif de la Mahouna, Serdj el Aouda; Ouarsenis, djebel Doui. Jelenc (1956): Atlas Mitidjien. Jelenc (1967): Atlas Mitidjien, col des Deux-Bassins, 850 m; Kabylie de Collo. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Common.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 85, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Determinants of Household Drinking Water Quality in Rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Usman, Muhammed Abdella
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie
name: Usman, Muhammed Abdella
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: drinking water quality
subject: water source
subject: Escherichia coli
subject: sanitation and hygiene
subject: rural Ethiopia.

description: Safe and adequate water supply is a vital element to preserve human health; however, access to clean water is limited in many developing countries. Furthermore, improved water sources are often contaminated with fecal matters and consumption of unsafe water poses a great public health risk. This study seeks to identify determinants of microbial contamination of household drinking water under multiple-use water systems in rural areas of Fogera and Mecha districts of Ethiopia. In this analysis, a random sample of 454 households was surveyed from February to March 2014, and water samples from community sources and storage containers were collected and tested for fecal contamination. The number of Escherichia coli (E.coli) colony forming units per 100ml (cfu/100ml) water was used as an indicator of fecal contamination. The results show that 50% of households used protected water sources, 38% used unprotected wells/ spring and 12% used surface water sources. However, water microbiological tests demonstrated that 58% of household storage water samples and 74% of water sources were contaminated with E.coli. After controlling for household sanitary factors, high level of E.coli bacteria colonies were observed in unprotected water compared to surface water and protected wells/springs sources. To ensure the quality and safety of water stored in the household, our findings suggest that point-of-use water treatment, safe water handling and storage, proper hygiene practices such as washing hands after critical times and proper disposal of household garbage should be promoted. On-site water wells should be properly designed to prevent seepage from unhygienic household pit latrine. Furthermore, community water sources should be adequately protected and sanitary measures should be undertaken regularly to reduce contamination from human and animal waste.
Interstellar Deuterium, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Abundances Toward BD +28 4211: Results from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
Creators: name: Sonneborn, G.
name: Andre, M.
name: Oliveira, C.
name: Hebrard, G.
name: Howk, J. C.
name: Tripp, T. M.
name: Chayer, P.
name: Friedman, S. D.
name: Kruk, J. W.
name: Jenkins, E. B.
name: Lemoine, M.
name: Moos, H. W.
name: Oegerle, W. R.
name: Sembach, K. R.
name: Vidal-Madjar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution far-ultraviolet spectra of the O-type subdwarf BD +28 4211 were obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) to measure the interstellar deuterium, nitrogen, and oxygen abundances in this direction. The interstellar D I transitions are analyzed down to Lyman iota at 920.7 A. The star was observed several times at different target offsets in the direction of spectral dispersion. The aligned and coadded spectra have high signal-to-noise ratios (S/N =50-100). D I, N I, and O I transitions were analyzed with curve-of-growth and profile fitting techniques. A model of interstellar molecular hydrogen on the line of sight was derived from H2 lines in the FUSE spectra and used to help analyze some features where blending with H2 was significant. The H I column density was determined from high resolution HST/STIS spectra of Lyman alpha to be log(N HI) = 19.846+/-0.035 (2 sigma), which is higher than is typical for sight lines in the local ISM studied for D/H. We found that D/H =(1.39+/-0.21) E-5 (2 sigma) and O/H = (2.37+/-0.55) E-4 (2 sigma). O/H toward BD +28 4211 appears to be significantly below the mean O/H ratio for the ISM and the Local Bubble.
description: 33 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement
The Impact of Drinking Water Quality and Sanitation Behavior on Child Health: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Usman, Muhammed Abdella
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Von Braun, Joachim
name: Usman, Muhammed Abdella
name: Gerber, Nicolas
name: Von Braun, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: drinking water quality
subject: sanitation
subject: hygiene
subject: child health
subject: diarrhea
subject: instrumental variable
subject: rural Ethiopia.

description: This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, we use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years old. Our results show that uncontaminated household storage water and safe child stool disposal decrease incidence of child diarrhea by 16% and 23% respectively. In contrast, neighborhood concentration of pit latrine increases incidence of child diarrhea by 12%. The latter result casts serious doubt on the assumed health and social benefits of moving from open to fixed-location defecation. Creating open defecation free communities in rural areas is not enough to achieve the desired health benefits of sanitation. To protect rural households from the risk of contracting communicable diseases, existing pit latrines should be upgraded to make them safer to use – fly-proofed and hygienic. There is a need for appropriate policy actions to improve household drinking water quality and to change people’s behavior towards safe sanitation practices. Increasing access to clean water supply and providing means for safe excreta disposal will bring significant health and social gains. Moreover, promotion of hygiene education campaigns about household water treatment, safe water storage and handling, washing hands with soaps at critical times, and adequately removing child feces from the domestic environment can also help ensure that people preserve good health in their household and their community.
A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter: Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b
Creators: name: Hoeijmakers, H. J.
name: Ehrenreich, D.
name: Kitzmann, D.
name: Allart, R.
name: Grimm, S. L.
name: Seidel, J. V.
name: Wyttenbach, A.
name: Pino, L.
name: Nielsen, L. D.
name: Fisher, C.
name: Rimmer, P. B.
name: Bourrier, V.
name: Cegla, H. M.
name: Lavie, B.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Patzer, A. B. C.
name: Stock, J. W.
name: Pepe, F. A.
name: Heng, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets that tend to orbit hot, early type stars - termed ultra-hot Jupiters. The severe stellar irradiation heats their atmospheres to temperatures of $\sim 4,000$ K, similar to the photospheres of dwarf stars. Due to the absence of aerosols and complex molecular chemistry at such temperatures, these planets offer the potential of detailed chemical characterisation through transit and day-side spectroscopy. Studies of their chemical inventories may provide crucial constraints on their formation process and evolution history. Aims: To search the optical transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b for absorption lines by metals using the cross-correlation technique. Methods: We analyse 2 transits observed with the HARPS-N spectrograph. We use an isothermal equilibrium chemistry model to predict the transmission spectrum for each of the neutral and singly-ionized atoms with atomic numbers between 3 and 78. Of these, we identify the elements that are expected to have spectral lines in the visible wavelength range and use those as cross-correlation templates. Results: We detect absorption of Na I, Cr II, Sc II and Y II, and confirm previous detections of Mg I, Fe I, Fe II and Ti II. In addition, we find evidence of Ca I, Cr I, Co I, and Sr II that will require further observations to verify. The detected absorption lines are significantly deeper than model predictions, suggesting that material is transported to higher altitudes where the density is enhanced compared to a hydrostatic profile. There appears to be no significant blue-shift of the absorption spectrum due to a net day-to-night side wind. In particular, the strong Fe II feature is shifted by $0.18 \pm 0.27$ km~s$^{-1}$, consistent with zero. Using the orbital velocity of the planet we revise the steller and planetary masses and radii.
description: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics on January 18, 2019. Accepted on May 3, 2019. 26 pages, 11 figures
Selected Chemical Properties, Microbial Activity and Biomass of Soils Amended with Aqueous Neem Leaf Extract
Creators: name: Mweetwa, Alice M.
name: Lubungo, Aswell C.
name: Chishala, Benson H.
name: Phiri, Mirriam
name: Mweetwa, Alice M.
name: Lubungo, Aswell C.
name: Chishala, Benson H.
name: Phiri, Mirriam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Food Security and Poverty

description: With declining fertility levels of soils and the high cost of agricultural inputs, such as commercial fertilizers and pesticides, the use of organic inputs has increased in Zambia. While neem products have been shown to improve soil fertility status, several negative effects on soil organisms have also been cited. The negative effects have been attributed to several secondary metabolites produced by the neem plant. In Zambia, neem leaf extract is applied by small scale farmers to enhance soil fertility and promote crop productivity. This study reports the suitability of aqueous neem leaf extract as a soil amendment and its effect on soil microbial biomass and activity in local soils. Neem leaves were characterized before being used to prepare aqueous neem extract in the concentrations 2, 5, 10, 15, and 20 % in water. The extract was characterized for selected mineral components and then applied to 5 kg of soil on a weekly basis for five weeks. Each week, for ten weeks, the effect of the extract on microbial biomass and activity were determined using the Chloroform Fumigation and Incubation (CFI) and soil respiration methods, respectively. Selected soil chemical characteristics were determined at the start and end of the experiment. Results indicated that the chemical composition of the neem leaves was comparable to that observed by others and was similar to that of other tree leaves used for preparing leaf extracts. Amending soils with neem did not significantly improve selected chemical properties but only marginally increased soil calcium levels. Neem leaf extract enhanced soil microbial activity up to 10 %, but showed inhibitory effects at 15 and 20 % concentrations. Microbial biomass was also depressed by neem leaf extract at 20 %. The reduction in both microbial activity and biomass was possibly due to the negative effects of the neem secondary metabolites in the leaf extract at these higher concentrations. Although the application of neem leaf extract at 10 % percent or higher can inhibit both microbial biomass and activity, some mineralizable components in the extracts can support growth and activity of some microorganisms in the soil. Based on these results, the application of neem leaf extract at 10 % percent or higher can inhibit both microbial biomass and activity and marginally improve soil Ca levels. The use of neem leaf extract can therefore be of benefit to soils with critically low levels of Ca.
description: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v5n3p103
Earthquake Prediction With Artificial Neural Network Method: The Application Of West Anatolian Fault In Turkey
Creators: name: Cam, Handan
name: Duman, Osman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A method that exactly knows the earthquakes beforehand and can generalize them cannot still been developed. However, earthquakes are tried to be predicted through numerous methods. One of these methods, artificial neural networks give appropriate outputs to different patterns by learning the relationship between the determined inputs and outputs. In this study, a feedforward back propagation artificial neural network that is connected to Gutenberg-Richter relationship and that bases on b value used in earthquake predictions was developed. The artificial neural network was trained employing earthquake data belonging to four different regions which have intensive seismic activity in the west of Turkey. After the training process, the earthquake data belonging to later dates of the same regions were used for testing and the performance of the network was put forward. When the prediction results of the developed network are examined, the prediction results that the network predicts that an earthquake is not going to occur are quite high in all regions. Furthermore, the earthquake prediction results that the network predicts that an earthquake is going to occur are different to some extent for the studied regions.
MOESM1 of Genomic relatedness and diversity of Swedish native cattle breeds
Creators: name: Maulik Upadhyay
name: Eriksson, Susanne
name: Mikko, Sofia
name: Strandberg, Erling
name: StĂĽlhammar, Hans
name: Groenen, Martien
name: Crooijmans, Richard
name: GĂśran Andersson
name: Johansson, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Overview of the Swedish cattle breeds. Table S2. Information on the samples included from the previous studies. Table S3. Cumulative ROH count, ROH length (kb), and average ROH size (kb) per individual.
Renormalization of Poincare Transformations in Hamiltonian Semiclassical Field Theory
Creators: name: Shvedov, Oleg Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiclassical Hamiltonian field theory is investigated from the axiomatic point of view. A notion of a semiclassical state is introduced. An "elementary" semiclassical state is specified by a set of classical field configuration and quantum state in this external field. "Composed" semiclassical states viewed as formal superpositions of "elementary" states are nontrivial only if the Maslov isotropic condition is satisfied; the inner product of "composed" semiclassical states is degenerate. The mathematical proof of Poincare invariance of semiclassical field theory is obtained for "elementary" and "composed" semiclassical states. The notion of semiclassical field is introduced; its Poincare invariance is also mathematically proved.
description: LaTeX, 40 pages; short version of hep-th/0103076
Lewinskya acuminata F. Lara, Garilleti & Goffinet
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae
Lewinskya
Lewinskya acuminata

description: Lewinskya acuminata (H.Philib.) F.Lara, Garilleti & Goffinet
Orthotrichum acuminatum H.Philib.
Nomenclature follows Lara et al. (2016).
RECORDS. — Corbière (1904, 1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, bois du djebel Ouasch, 1100 m. Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 85, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Country-Level Bio-Economic Modeling of Agricultural Technologies to Enhance Wheat-Based Systems Productivity in the Dry Areas
Creators: name: Frija, Aymen
name: Telleria, Roberto
name: Frija, Aymen
name: Telleria, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Environmental Economics and Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: Conservation Agriculture (CA) have a large potential for enhancing cereal yields in the semi-arid areas through better management of soil moisture. The objective of the current paper is to quantify, at national level, the impact of CA adoption in wheat-based agricultural systems in Syria. A country-level bio-economic approach was used for this purpose. Different CA technical packages (TPs) were first developed and simulated through APSIM crop modeling software, in order to estimate the long-term yields of wheat under different CA TPs for the period 2015-2039. The considered CA packages are a combination of zero-tillage, mulching, raised bed, fertilizer doses, and planting dates. The simulated yields are then introduced into IMPACT model while assuming that TPs will be adopted on 35% of the wheat areas in the countries. Results show that the comparative advantages of CA TPs on overcoming the effect of climate change will only be significant after 2030. In 2039, the effect of different TPs on average wheat yields in Syria will be 4% to 12% (depending on the TP) higher than the average yields under climate change and no CA technology adoption. These yield enhancements may reduce the wheat trade deficit with 30 up to 140%, also depending on the technical package. The combination of mulching techniques, together with average nitrogen dose of 30kg/ha, and late planting date of wheat provides the best prospective for the wheat sector in Syria.
description: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v5n3p113
PENGEMBANGAN KOMPETENSI GURU DALAM PEMBELAJARAN
Creators: name: Noor, Muhammad Alian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Guru adalah orang yang memegang peranan penting merancang strategi pembelajaran karena keberhasilan proses pembelajaran tergantung cara dan kemampuan guru dalam mengajar. Sehingga kompetensi guru mutlak harus dimiliki dan dikembangkan oleh seorang guru. Kompetensi guru merupakan suatu kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh seorang guru meliputi aspek pengetahuan, keterampilan, proses berpikir, penyesuaian diri, sikap dan nilai-nilai yang dianut dalam melaksanakan profesi sebagai guru, jenis-jenis kompetensi yang harus dimiliki oleh seorang guru, yaitu kompetensi pedagogik, kompetensi kepribadian, kompetensi sosial dan kompetensi profesional. Di samping itu, kompetensi guru sangat penting dalam rangka penyusunan kurikulum karena kurikulum haruslah disusun berdasarkan kompetensi yang dimiliki oleh guru, begitu juga dalam hal hubungan kegiatan dan hasil belajar siswa, kompetensi guru sangat berperan penting, guru yang berkompeten akan mampu mengelola kelasnya, sehingga belajar pra siswa berada pada tingkat optimal.
Covariant localizations in the torus and the phase observables
Creators: name: Cassinelli, G.
name: De Vito, E.
name: Lahti, P.
name: Pellonpaa, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe all the localization observables of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional box in terms of sequences of unit vectors in a Hilbert space. An alternative representation in terms of positive semidefinite complex matrices is furnished and the commutative localizations are singled out. As a consequence, we also get a vector sequence characterization of the covariant phase observables.
description: 16 pages, no figure, Latex2e
The Light Ray transform on Lorentzian manifolds
Creators: name: Lassas, Matti
name: Oksanen, Lauri
name: Stefanov, Plamen
name: Uhlmann, Gunther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C65, 35R30, 35A27

description: We study the weighted light ray transform $L$ of integrating functions on a Lorentzian manifold over lightlike geodesics. We analyze $L$ as a Fourier Integral Operator and show that if there are no conjugate points, one can recover the spacelike singularities of a function $f$ from its the weighted light ray transform $Lf$ by a suitable filtered back-projection.
MOESM1 of Whatever happened to Chinaâ s neglected tropical diseases?
Creators: name: Hotez, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 252 kb)
ПАТРОНАЖНАЯ СЛУЖБА, КАК КЛЮЧЕВОЙ АСПЕКТ УЛУЧШЕНИЯ МЕДИЦИНСКИХ УСЛУГ ДЛЯ МАТЕРИ И РЕБЁНКА
Creators: name: Мелиев, С.Х.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В здравоохранении Узбекистана особое внимание уделяется системы первичной медико-санитарной помощи. В последние годы все больший акцент делается на дифференцированном подходе к различным группам пациентов.
A Quantum Search Decoder for Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Bausch, Johannes
name: Subramanian, Sathyawageeswar
name: Piddock, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T50, 68Q12, 68T05

description: Probabilistic language models, e.g. those based on an LSTM, often face the problem of finding a high probability prediction from a sequence of random variables over a set of tokens. This is commonly addressed using a form of greedy decoding such as beam search, where a limited number of highest-likelihood paths (the beam width) of the decoder are kept, and at the end the maximum-likelihood path is chosen. In this work, we construct a quantum algorithm to find the globally optimal parse (i.e. for infinite beam width) with high constant success probability. When the input to the decoder is distributed as a power-law with exponent $k>0$, our algorithm has runtime $R^{n f(R,k)}$, where $R$ is the alphabet size, $n$ the input length; here $f<1/2$, and $f\rightarrow 0$ exponentially fast with increasing $k$, hence making our algorithm always more than quadratically faster than its classical counterpart. We further modify our procedure to recover a finite beam width variant, which enables an even stronger empirical speedup while still retaining higher accuracy than possible classically. Finally, we apply this quantum beam search decoder to Mozilla's implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech neural net, which we show to exhibit such a power law word rank frequency.
description: 39 pages, 16 figures, 2 algorithms
Parinesa ariasi Escalona & Slipinski 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Escalona, H. E.
name: Slipinski, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Parinesa
Parinesa ariasi

description: Parinesa ariasi sp. nov.
(Figs 61–75, 148)
 HOLOTYPE: Venezuela, Mérida, La Mucuy, 2100–2800 m, 12–viii–1976, B. Bechyne, ♂ MIZA. PARATYPES: same data as holotype, 2 specimens MIZA.
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished by its black wingless body, elytra bearing incomplete lateral striae, eyes partially divided by ocular canthus and the anterior lobe of prosternum (Fig. 66) well developed, margined and microsculptured.
 Description. Measurements (mm, except ratios): BL: 1.4–1.6. BW: 1.1–1.3. PL: 0.2–0.3; PW: 0.8–0.9; PL/ PW: 0.2–0.4; EL: 1.0–1.2; EL/W: 0.9; CO: 0.7. Form ovoid in dorsal view and very convex, wingless. Color black. Surfaces polished but head and pronotum microsculptured.
 Head flattened (Fig. 61). Clypeus (Fig. 61) well produced, apex broadly rounded. Eyes, partially divided by ocular canthus. Mentum apical borders rounded. Maxilla as in Fig. 63. Antennomere VII strongly transverse (Fig. 65).
Anterior lobe of prosternum (Fig. 66) broadly rounded, edge margined, surface microsculptured with coarse punctures, prosternal process sulcate. Mesoventral process flattened, punctures condensed on apical half. Metaventrite disc flattened and microsculptured with sparse punctures. Elytra with fine punctures, denser at sides, lateral side with incomplete striae. Abdominal intercoxal process (Fig. 69) narrow; ventrite I microsculptured with punctures condensed on disc. Protibia (Figs 67, 68) with external border broadly rounded.
Male genitalia (Figs 70–73); penis curved; penis guide (Fig. 71) subparallel, gradually rounded apically. Parameres (Fig. 70) rounded apically, slightly shorter than penis guide. Female genitalia (Figs 74, 75): coxites (Fig. 74) subtriangular; spermatheca (Fig. 75) slightly angulated with basal gland.
 Etymology. Dedicated to Quintín Arias (MIZA) for his enduring friendship and support of HE.
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality, a cloud forest in La Mucuy, Sierra Nevada National Park, Merida St., Venezuelan Andes (Fig. 148).
description: Published as part of Escalona, H. E. & Slipinski, A., 2012, Revision of the Neotropical ladybird genus Parinesa Gordon (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), pp. 29-53 in Zootaxa 3198 (1) on page 40
MOESM4 of A comparative assessment of adult mosquito trapping methods to estimate spatial patterns of abundance and community composition in southern Africa
Creators: name: Gorsich, Erin
name: Beechler, Brianna
name: Bodegom, Peter
name: Govender, Danny
name: Milehna Guarido
name: Marietjie Venter
name: Schrama, Maarten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S6. Descriptive results comparing species-specific shifts in mosquito communities collected in the net and CDC trap. Species more commonly collected in a trap are listed if 5 more were collected in that trap after all sampling days at the site. Figure S1. The apparent richness (number of unique species) and diversity for sites within each region. Figure S2. Non-metric multidimensional scaling ordinations of trap differences in mosquito communities in Malelane, Satara, Shingwedzi and Punda Maria. Figure S3. Species-specific trap preferences for the net vs CDC trap difference based on rare species not displayed in Fig.Â 3. Dots represent the difference in the number of mosquitoes collected in the net vs the CDC trap based on the total number of mosquitoes sampled across nights at each site. Figure S4. The net trap and the CDC trap caught higher numbers of mosquitoes (Fig.Â 3) and this pattern was not driven by any species or genus-specific trap bias (left figures) but by variation in the total number of the species collected (right figures). Figure S5. Dendrogram of species composition based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and the hierarchical clustering algorithm.
Understanding the Trade-Offs Between Environmental Service Provision through Improved Fallows and Private Welfare Using Stated Preference Approach: A Case Study in Chongwe - Zambia
Creators: name: Kuntashula, Elias
name: Mungatana, Eric
name: Kuntashula, Elias
name: Mungatana, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The trade-offs between environmental service (ES) provision through the uptake of improved fallows and private farmer welfare losses have rarely been evaluated. Unlike inorganic fertiliser, improved fallows provide ES in addition to improving the soil fertility. This study used contingent valuation methodologies to evaluate willingness to provide ES through improved fallows among 324 farmers in Chongwe district of Zambia. Given scenarios that improved fallows, unlike inorganic fertiliser, help in mitigating soil erosion and water pollution, more than 70% of the farmers were willing to supply these services through the technology. The willingness to be pro-fertiliser oriented was positively associated with cropped land sizes and soil fertility challenges and negatively associated with total farm size. In addition, for users of improved fallows, increases in per capita income increased the probability of willingness to embrace fertiliser. Group membership decreased the probability for the users’ willingness to embrace fertiliser. For the non-users, the probability of joining the association that would ensure blockage of an improved fallow policy decreased with maize productivity. For the few farmers, there was no significant difference in the willingness to pay (WTP) (t = 1.546, p = 0.136) to ensure availability of fertiliser or blocking a policy compelling uptake of improved fallows between the users (WTP = K1, 050,000, US$1 = K5, 000) and non-users (WTP= K1, 380,000) of the technology. The trade-off between ES provisions through improved fallows and loss in immediate private welfare by not embracing fertiliser was similar across the technology’ users divide. Therefore a payment for environmental services policy could target the farmers as a homogenous group.
description: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v5n3p124
The geometric classification of nilpotent Tortkara algebras
Creators: name: Gorshkov, Ilya
name: Kaygorodov, Ivan
name: Khrypchenko, Mykola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a geometric classification of all $6$-dimensional nilpotent Tortkara algebras over $\mathbb C$
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.05361
Additional file 6: of Important cardiac transcription factor genes are accompanied by bidirectional long non-coding RNAs
Creators: name: Hori, Yutaro
name: Tanimoto, Yoko
name: Takahashi, Satoru
name: Furukawa, Tetsushi
name: Koshiba-Takeuchi, Kazuko
name: Takeuchi, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S4. List of bidirectional lncRNA candidates that were identified from the analysis of the NCBI RefSeq database (GRCm38.p3). (PDF 148 kb)