cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tailoring Stakeholder Interests to Task-Oriented Functional Requirements
Creators: name: Haindl, Philipp
name: Plösch, Reinhold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Without a specific functional context, non-functional requirements can only be approached as cross-cutting concerns and treated uniformly across all features of an application. This neglects, however, the heterogeneity of non-functional requirements that arises from stakeholder interests and the distinct functional scopes of software systems, which mutually influence how these non-functional requirements have to be satisfied. Earlier studies showed that the different types and objectives of non-functional requirements result in either vague or unbalanced specification of non-functional requirements. We propose a task analytic approach for eliciting and modeling user tasks to approach the stakeholders' pursued interests towards the software product. Stakeholder interests are structurally related to user tasks and each interest can be specified individually as a constraint of a specific user task. These constraints support DevOps teams with important guidance on how the interest of the stakeholder can be satisfied in the software lifecycle sufficiently. We propose a structured approach, intertwining task-oriented functional requirements with non-functional stakeholder interests to specify constraints on the level of user tasks. We also present results of a case study with domain experts, which reveals that our task modeling and interest-tailoring method increases the comprehensibility of non-functional requirements as well as their impact on the functional requirements, i.e., the users' tasks.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Additional file 8 of A mixed methods evaluation of the large-scale implementation of a school- and community-based parenting program to reduce violence against children in Tanzania: a study protocol
Creators: name: Martin, Mackenzie
name: Lachman, Jamie
name: Wamoyi, Joyce
name: Shenderovich, Yulia
name: Mwita Wambura
name: Mgunga, Samwel
name: Ndyetabura, Esther
name: Ally, Amal
name: Asheri Barankena
name: Exavery, Amon
name: Nyasha Manjengenja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8. Secondary data collection measures
Outcomes of the SmartShape/SmartStretch Meat Science Project
Creators: name: Taylor, Johanne
name: Toohey, Edwina
name: Taylor, Johanne
name: Toohey, Edwina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: SmartShapeTM
subject: SmartStretchTM

description: SmartShape™/SmartStretch™ is technology that uses air pressure to shape meat into an even form and to stretch hot-boned meat to prevent muscle contraction during rigor mortis, which produces more tender meat. A project that was designed to research the ability of the technology to create more tender meat and to introduce the technology to industry was conducted from April 2007 to June 2011. Varied success in research results and the needs of industry have shown that the SmartShape™ function, which shapes pieces of meat into an even and easy to manage form, is of most value to industry. The technology is being adopted by a major Australian beef processor and will be commercialised in late 2011.
Consumers’ Preferences for Shell Eggs Regarding Laying Hen Welfare
Creators: name: Heng, Yan
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Li, Xianghong
name: Heng, Yan
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Li, Xianghong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: egg consumption
subject: hen welfare
subject: random parameter logit model

description: DRAFT, do not cite. Please cite formally published version: Heng, Yan, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, and Xianghong Li. "Consumer Attitudes toward Farm-Animal Welfare: The Case of Laying Hens." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 38.3 (2013): 418-434. Available at: http://purl.umn.edu/165936
China's PSE: Are Chinese Farmers Subsidised?
Creators: name: Zhang, Li-Qing
name: Tian, Wei-Ming
name: Zhou, Zhang-Yue
name: Zhang, Li-Qing
name: Tian, Wei-Ming
name: Zhou, Zhang-Yue
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Producer subsidy estimate
subject: agricultural policies
subject: China

description: The Chinese government introduced some pro-farmed policies in the mid 1990s. This has caused some concerns from other countries on whether and how such policy initiatives would affect China's agricultural trade. This study uses OECD's methodology to calculate producer support estimates (PSEs) and total support estimates (TSEs) for farmers. However, it is also evident that the Chinese farmers are still taxed even under the current agricultural policies. The paper concludes by addressing likely further changes in agricultural policies following China's joining the WTO and discussing the implications of China's agricultural policy changes.
Transport resistance strikes back: unveiling its impact on fill factor losses in organic solar cells
Creators: name: Saladina, Maria
name: Deibel, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fill factor (FF) is a critical parameter for solar cell efficiency, but its analytical description is challenging due to the interplay between recombination and charge extraction processes. An often overlooked yet significant factor contributing to FF losses, beyond recombination, is the influence of charge transport. In most state-of-the-art organic solar cells, the primary limitations of the FF arise not just from non-radiative recombination but also from low conductivity. A closer look reveals that even in the highest efficiency cells, performance losses due to transport resistance are significant, highlighting the need for refined models to predict the FF accurately.
 Here, we extend the analytical model for transport resistance to a more general case. Drawing from a large set of experimental current-voltage and light intensity-dependent open-circuit voltage data, we systematically incorporate crucial details previously omitted in the model. Consequently, we introduce a straightforward set of equations to predict the FF of a solar cell, enabling the differentiation of losses attributed to recombination and transport resistance. Our study provides valuable insights into strategies for mitigating FF losses based on the experimentally validated analytical model, guiding the development of more efficient solar cell designs and optimisation strategies.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: Application to WASP-43b observations
Creators: name: Irwin, Patrick G. J.
name: Parmentier, Vivien
name: Taylor, Jake
name: Barstow, Jo
name: Aigrain, Suzanne
name: Lee, Elspeth K. H.
name: Garland, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel retrieval technique that attempts to model phase curve observations of exoplanets more realistically and reliably, which we call the 2.5-dimension (2.5-D) approach. In our 2.5-D approach we retrieve the vertical temperature profile and mean gaseous abundance of a planet at all longitudes and latitudes \textbf{simultaneously}, assuming that the temperature or composition, $x$, at a particular longitude and latitude $(Λ,Φ)$ is given by $x(Λ,Φ) = \bar{x} + (x(Λ,0) - \bar{x})\cos^nΦ$, where $\bar{x}$ is the mean of the morning and evening terminator values of $x(Λ,0)$, and $n$ is an assumed coefficient. We compare our new 2.5-D scheme with the more traditional 1-D approach, which assumes the same temperature profile and gaseous abundances at all points on the visible disc of a planet for each individual phase observation, using a set of synthetic phase curves generated from a GCM-based simulation. We find that our 2.5-D model fits these data more realistically than the 1-D approach, confining the hotter regions of the planet more closely to the dayside. We then apply both models to WASP-43b phase curve observations of HST/WFC3 and Spitzer/IRAC. We find that the dayside of WASP-43b is apparently much hotter than the nightside and show that this could be explained by the presence of a thick cloud on the nightside with a cloud top at pressure $< 0.2$ bar. We further show that while the mole fraction of water vapour is reasonably well constrained to $(1-10)\times10^{-4}$, the abundance of CO is very difficult to constrain with these data since it is degenerate with temperature and prone to possible systematic radiometric differences between the HST/WFC3 and Spitzer/IRAC observations. Hence, it is difficult to reliably constrain C/O.
description: Submitted to M.N.R.A.S. Revised Submission 9th December 2019
Micro-credit programmes of different NGOs/MFIs: A comparative study
Creators: name: Islam, Mohammad
name: Khatun, M.A.
name: Hossain, D.
name: Alom, J.
name: Islam, Mohammad
name: Khatun, M.A.
name: Hossain, D.
name: Alom, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Micro-credit
subject: Client’s perception
subject: Efficiency of programme

description: This study evaluated micro-credit programmes of six leading NGOs/MFIs (BRAC, Grameen Bank, PROSHIKA, ASA, SSS and TMSS) in terms of the clients’ views towards the programmes. The objective of this project is to develop a selection criterion to identify the efficient programme. A total of 406 members from the selected NGOs/MFIs operating micro-credit programmes in Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona, Kishoreganj, Norshingdi, Sylhet and Lalmonirhat were interviewed. The data analyses reveal that the majority of the large amount of loans (above Tk.15000) was taken by GB members (33.7 percent). The respondents who knew the actual interest rate were more in BRAC (42.9 percent). Workers of GB ranked first in terms of field visit (24.9 percent). Request needed to get loan was the highest in BRAC (53.0 percent). The satisfaction level of respondents was more in GB and low in SSS. Poverty alleviation due to micro-credit was the highest among GB members (22.0 percent). Logistic regression analysis suggests that amount of loan taken, experience of poverty alleviation and NGO membership are three important determinants of satisfaction level on the micro-credit programme. A set of characteristics were chosen to find out the best performing micro-credit operating NGOs/MFIs. The data analysis suggests that TMSS is the best performing NGOs/MFIs. The successive NGOs/MFIs in order of rank are GB, SSS, PROSHIKA, BRAC and ASA, respectively.
Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae as a Probe for an Explosion Model
Creators: name: Sorokina, Elena
name: Blinnikov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical UBVI- and bolometric light curves of SNe Ia for several explosion models, computed with our multi-group radiation hydro code. We employ our new corrected treatment for line opacity in the expanding medium. The results are compared with observed light curves. Our goal is to find the most viable thermonuclear SN model that gives good fits not only to a typical SN Ia light curves, but also to X-ray observations of young SN Ia remnants. It appears that classical 1D SN Ia models, such as deflagration model W7 and delayed detonation one DD4, fit the light curves not so good as a new 3D deflagration model by Reinecke et al. (which is averaged over angles for our LC modelling). This model seems good also in reproducing X-ray observations of Tycho SNR. We believe that the main feature of this model which allows us to get correct radiation during the first month, as well as after a few hundred years, when an SNR forms, is strong mixing that pushes material enriched in iron and nickel to the outermost layers of SN ejecta.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; contribution to the proceedings ``From Twilight to Highlight: The Physics of Supernovae'', Eds. W. Hillebrandt and B. Leibundgut, Springer Series ``ESO Astrophysics Symposia'', Berlin; minor corrections
DataBases_Padul2012_2018
Creators: name: Serrano-Ortiz, Penelope
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 40103 Atmospheric Radiation
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40607 Surface Processes
subject: 50301 Carbon Sequestration Science
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: This is the database used in the manuscript "Transition period between vegetation growth and senescence controls interannual variability of C fluxes in a Mediterranean reed wetland " sent to Journal of Geophysical Research (Biogeosciences). The database contains (1) daily averages of evapotranspiration, CO2 and CH4 fluxes measured with the eddy covariance technique, together with meteorologícal and soil state variables; (2) half-hourly meaured fluxes..
Hebrus (Hebrus) limnaeus Drake & Chapman 1958
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Hebridae
Hebrus
Hebrus limnaeus

description: Hebrus (Hebrus) limnaeus Drake & Chapman, 1958
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
Distribution in Brazil: South Region (SC) (Drake & Chapman 1958).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Additional file 1 of Serum metabolomics in chickens infected with Cryptosporidium baileyi
Creators: name: Wu, Xue-Mei
name: Yang, Xin
name: Fan, Xian-Cheng
name: Chen, Xi
name: Wang, Yu-Xin
name: Zhang, Long-Xian
name: Song, Jun-Ke
name: Zhao, Guang-Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Ingredient composition and nutrient levels of the basal diets.
TaxoCom: Topic Taxonomy Completion with Hierarchical Discovery of Novel Topic Clusters
Creators: name: Lee, Dongha
name: Shen, Jiaming
name: Kang, SeongKu
name: Yoon, Susik
name: Han, Jiawei
name: Yu, Hwanjo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Topic taxonomies, which represent the latent topic (or category) structure of document collections, provide valuable knowledge of contents in many applications such as web search and information filtering. Recently, several unsupervised methods have been developed to automatically construct the topic taxonomy from a text corpus, but it is challenging to generate the desired taxonomy without any prior knowledge. In this paper, we study how to leverage the partial (or incomplete) information about the topic structure as guidance to find out the complete topic taxonomy. We propose a novel framework for topic taxonomy completion, named TaxoCom, which recursively expands the topic taxonomy by discovering novel sub-topic clusters of terms and documents. To effectively identify novel topics within a hierarchical topic structure, TaxoCom devises its embedding and clustering techniques to be closely-linked with each other: (i) locally discriminative embedding optimizes the text embedding space to be discriminative among known (i.e., given) sub-topics, and (ii) novelty adaptive clustering assigns terms into either one of the known sub-topics or novel sub-topics. Our comprehensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate that TaxoCom not only generates the high-quality topic taxonomy in terms of term coherency and topic coverage but also outperforms all other baselines for a downstream task.
description: The Web Conference (WWW) 2022, 11 pages, 7 figures
Electronic band structure of nitrogen diluted Ga(PAsN): Formation of the intermediate band, direct and indirect optical transitions, localization of states
Creators: name: Polak, Maciej P.
name: Kudrawiec, Robert
name: Rubel, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic band structure of Ga(PAsN) with a few percent of nitrogen is calculated in the whole composition of Ga(PAs) host using the state-of-the-art density functional methods including the modified Becke-Johnson functional to correctly reproduce the band gap, and band unfolding to reveal the character of the bands within the entire Brillouin zone. As expected, relatively small amounts of nitrogen introduced to Ga(PAs) lead to formation of an intermediate band below the conduction band which is consistent with the band anticrossing model, widely used to describe the electronic band structure of dilute nitrides. However, in this study calculations are performed in the whole Brillouin zone and reveal the significance of correct description of the band structure near the edges of Brillouin zone, especially for indirect band gap P-rich host alloy, which may not be properly captured with simpler models. The theoretical results are compared with experimental studies, confirming their reliability. The influence of nitrogen on the band structure is discussed in terms of application of Ga(PAsN) in optoelectronic devices such as intermediate band solar cells and light emitters. It is found that Ga(PAsN) with low N and As concentration has a band structure suitable for integration in Si tandem solar cells, since the lattice mismatch between Si and Ga(PAsN) is small in this case. Moreover, it is concluded that P-rich Ga(PAsN) alloys with low N concentration have a promising band structure for two colour emitters. Additionally, the effect of nitrogen incorporation on the carrier localization is studied and discussed.
Kinetics of dehydration of potato and development of baked product based on dehydrated potato
Creators: name: Sarker, A.
name: Islam, M.N.
name: Shaheb, M.R.
name: Sarker, A.
name: Islam, M.N.
name: Shaheb, M.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Activation energy
subject: Baked products
subject: Diffusion co-efficient
subject: Kinetics of dehydration
subject: Loading density

description: The aims of this study were to determine the kinetics of dehydration of high yielding potato variety (Diamont), to investigate the various process parameters influencing mechanical drying of potatoes and to develop baked product from the dehydrated potato. From the developed equation it was found that the diffusion co-efficient increased with the increase in temperature. The exponential relationship between diffusion co-efficient (De) versus inverse absolute temperature (Tabs-1), activation energy (Ea) for diffusion of water HYV potato was found to be 7.98 Kcal/gm-mole. The influence of loading density as well as thickness of the product on drying rate were determined and the power law equations which described the relationship between drying rate constant and thickness gave an n-value of 0.4586 for HYV of potato. Organoleptic taste tests demonstrated that among biscuits made of various proportion of potato flour and wheat flour, the results of test panel showed that biscuit made of equal proportion (1:1) of potato flour and wheat flour secured the highest score (8.0). All the other samples of each type of product were also accepted by the panelists either as “like moderately” or “like slightly”.
X-VARS: Introducing Explainability in Football Refereeing with Multi-Modal Large Language Model
Creators: name: Held, Jan
name: Itani, Hani
name: Cioppa, Anthony
name: Giancola, Silvio
name: Ghanem, Bernard
name: Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has led to significant improvements in automated decision-making. However, the increased performance of models often comes at the cost of explainability and transparency of their decision-making processes. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of large language models to explain decisions, using football refereeing as a testing ground, given its decision complexity and subjectivity. We introduce the Explainable Video Assistant Referee System, X-VARS, a multi-modal large language model designed for understanding football videos from the point of view of a referee. X-VARS can perform a multitude of tasks, including video description, question answering, action recognition, and conducting meaningful conversations based on video content and in accordance with the Laws of the Game for football referees. We validate X-VARS on our novel dataset, SoccerNet-XFoul, which consists of more than 22k video-question-answer triplets annotated by over 70 experienced football referees. Our experiments and human study illustrate the impressive capabilities of X-VARS in interpreting complex football clips. Furthermore, we highlight the potential of X-VARS to reach human performance and support football referees in the future.
Absence of spontaneous magnetic order at non-zero temperature in one- and two-dimensional Heisenberg and XY systems with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Bruno, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mermin-Wagner theorem is strengthened so as to rule out magnetic long-range order at T>0 in one- or two-dimensional Heisenberg and XY systems with long-range interactions decreasing as R^{-alpha} with a sufficiently large exponent alpha. For oscillatory interactions, ferromagnetic long-range order at T>0 is ruled out if alpha >= 1 (D=1) or alpha > 5/2 (D=2). For systems with monotonically decreasing interactions ferro- or antiferromagnetic long-range order at T>0 is ruled out if alpha >= 2D.
description: RevTeX, 4 pages. Further (p)reprints available from http://www.mpi-halle.de/~theory ; v2: revised version
Additional file 6 of A mixed methods evaluation of the large-scale implementation of a school- and community-based parenting program to reduce violence against children in Tanzania: a study protocol
Creators: name: Martin, Mackenzie
name: Lachman, Jamie
name: Wamoyi, Joyce
name: Shenderovich, Yulia
name: Mwita Wambura
name: Mgunga, Samwel
name: Ndyetabura, Esther
name: Ally, Amal
name: Asheri Barankena
name: Exavery, Amon
name: Nyasha Manjengenja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Pact research ethics amendment/extension
Supplementary Information on the analysis, data collection, moon altitude, glass eels swimming speed and analysis of the orientation with respect to the sun. from The relationship between the moon cycle and the orientation of glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) at sea
Creators: name: Cresci, Alessandro
name: Durif, Caroline M.
name: Paris, Claire B.
name: Thompson, Cameron
name: Shema, Steven
name: Skiftesvik, Anne Berit
name: Browman, Howard I.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figure S1: Description of data collection and various steps of the analysis of circular data. Figure S2: Average swimming speed of the glass eels during each moon phase. Figure S3. Swimming speed of glass eels in relation to the presence of the moon above or below the horizon. Figure S4: Moon zenith during the deployments at sea. Analysis of sun azimuth and light intensity: Figure S5: Distance between Orientation – moon azimuth by moon phase. Figure S6: Distance between Orientation – sun azimuth by moon phase. Figure S7: Light intensity (lum/ft2) in the DISC during the tests at sea. Figure S8: Pairwise comparison of the light intensity data. Table S1: Values of the data displayed in Fig. 4.
Second-generation stoichiometric mathematical model to predict methane emissions from oil sands tailings
Creators: name: Kong, Jude D.
name: Wang, Hao
name: Siddique, Tariq
name: Foght, Julia
name: Semple, Kathleen
name: Burkus, Zvonko
name: Lewis, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Microbial metabolism of fugitive hydrocarbons produces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands tailings ponds (OSTP) and end pit lakes (EPL) that retain semisolid wastes from surface mining of oil sands ores. Predicting GHG production, particularly methane (CH4), would help oil sands operators mitigate tailings emissions and would assist regulators evaluating the trajectory of reclamation scenarios. Using empirical datasets from laboratory incubation of OSTP sediments with pertinent hydrocarbons, we developed a stoichiometric model for CH4 generation by indigenous microbes. This model improved on previous first-approximation models by considering long-term biodegradation kinetics for 18 relevant hydrocarbons from three different oil sands operations, lag times, nutrient limitations, and microbial growth and death rates. Laboratory measurements were used to estimate model parameter values and to validate the new model. Goodness of fit analysis showed that the stoichiometric model predicted CH4 production well; normalized mean square error analysis revealed that it surpassed previous models. Comparison of model predictions with field measurements of CH4 emissions further validated the new model. Importantly, the model also identified parameters that are currently lacking but are needed to enable future robust modeling of CH4 production from OSTP and EPL in situ.
Run Scenarios for the Linear Collider
Creators: name: Battaglia, M.
name: Barron, J.
name: Dima, M.
name: Hamilton, L.
name: Johnson, A.
name: Nauenberg, U.
name: Route, M.
name: Staszak, D.
name: Stolte, M.
name: Turner, T.
name: Veeneman, C.
name: Wells, J.
name: Butler, J.
name: Montgomery, H. E.
name: Cahn, R. N.
name: Hinchliffe, I.
name: Bernardi, G.
name: Mizukoshi, J. K.
name: Wilson, G. W.
name: Blair, G. A.
name: Jaros, J.
name: Grannis, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scenarios are developed for runs at a Linear Collider, in the case that there is a rich program of new physics.
description: 12 pages, 10 tables, Latex; Snowmass 2001 plenary report
Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geontropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST
Creators: name: Vermeulen, Sander M.
name: Cullen, Torrey
name: Grass, Daniel
name: MacMillan, Ian A. O.
name: Ramirez, Alexander J.
name: Wack, Jeffrey
name: Korzh, Boris
name: Lee, Vincent S. H.
name: Zurek, Kathryn M.
name: Stoughton, Chris
name: McCuller, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GQuEST (Gravity from the Quantum Entanglement of Space-Time) experiment uses tabletop-scale Michelson laser interferometers to probe for fluctuations in space-time. We present a practicable interferometer design featuring a novel photon counting readout method that provides unprecedented sensitivity, as it is not subject to the interferometric standard quantum limit. We evaluate the potential of this design to measure space-time fluctuations motivated by recent `geontropic' quantum gravity models. The accelerated accrual of Fisher information offered by the photon counting readout enables GQuEST to detect the predicted quantum gravity phenomena within measurement times at least 100 times shorter than equivalent conventional interferometers. The GQuEST design thus enables a fast and sensitive search for signatures of quantum gravity in a laboratory-scale experiment.
description: Published in PRX
Hebrus (Hebrus) paulus Drake & Harris 1943
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Hebridae
Hebrus
Hebrus paulus

description: Hebrus (Hebrus) paulus Drake & Harris, 1943
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
Distribution in Brazil: Central-West Region (MT) (Drake & Harris 1943).
 Comments: This species was described from “Chapada, Brazil.” See discussion under Limnogonus (Limnogonus) profugus.
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Role of Noise in the Fairen-Velarde model of bacterial respiration
Creators: name: Kundu, Soumyadeep
name: Acharyya, Muktish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Following our recent study (S. Kundu and M. Acharyya, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 35 (2024) 2450094), we have introduced stochasticity (random noise) in the Fairen-Velarde deterministic differential equations. The role of such noise on time scales is studied. The probability of reaching the domain of fixed points in a given interval is also calculated. The probability is studied as a function of the width of the noise, and a hyperbolic tangent fitting is proposed. The noise reduces the time scale for bringing the bacteria into an inactive state. The area of the fixed-point domain was found to be asympotically linear with noise. The time to reach the fixed-point domain is fitted to a Gaussian function with noise intensity.
description: 16 pages Latex including 7 captioned figures
Effects of addition of tilapia on the abundance of periphyton in freshwater prawn culture ponds with periphyton substrates
Creators: name: Hasan, M.N.
name: Rahman, M.S.
name: Hosen, M.F.
name: Bashar, M.A.
name: Hasan, M.N.
name: Rahman, M.S.
name: Hosen, M.F.
name: Bashar, M.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Periphyton
subject: Freshwater prawn
subject: Tilapia

description: An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of addition of tilapia on abundance of periphyton in freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) in periphyton based culture system for a period of 120 days at Fisheries Field Laboratory Complex, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. A large pond (83×8.9 m) was drained completely and partitioned by galvanized iron sheet into 18 small ponds of 40 m2 each; of which 6 ponds were used for this experiment. The experimental ponds were divided into 2 treatments each with 3 randomly selected ponds. The absence and presence (0 and 0.5 individual m-2) of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) were investigated in 40 m2 ponds stocked with 3 prawn juveniles (5±0.05 g) m-2 with added substrates for periphyton development. A locally formulated and prepared feed containing 30% protein was supplied considering the body weight of prawn only. Addition of periphyton substrates significantly reduced the inorganic N-compounds (TAN, NO2-N, and NO3-N) in water column. Forty six genera of periphyton were identified belonging to the Bacillariophyceae (10), Chlorophyceae (21), Cyanophyceae (7), Euglenophyceae (2), Crustacea (1) and Rotifera (5) with significant difference (P<0.05) of phyto-periphyton except Euglenophyceae and without significant difference (P>0.05) of zoo-periphyton between the treatments. The abundance of periphyton biomass in terms of dry matter, ash, ash free dry matter and chlorophyll-a were significantly higher in tilapia-free ponds comparing to tilapia added ponds. Benthic organisms had no significant difference (p>0.05) between the treatments. Addition of tilapia in periphyton-based system benefited the freshwater prawn culture through (i) reducing toxic inorganic nitrogenous compounds in water (ii) reducing demand for supplemental feed (iii) using periphyton as additional natural feed and, (iv)improving survival and production of prawn and tilapia.
Gravitational Waves as a Probe of Left-Right Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Brdar, Vedran
name: Graf, Lukas
name: Helmboldt, Alexander J.
name: Xu, Xun-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Left-right symmetry at high energy scales is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this paper we consider a typical minimal scenario in which it gets spontaneously broken by scalar triplets. Such a realization has been scrutinized over the past few decades chiefly in the context of collider studies. In this work we take a complementary approach and investigate whether the model can be probed via the search for a stochastic gravitational wave background induced by the phase transition in which $SU(3)_C \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ is broken down to the Standard Model gauge symmetry group. A prerequisite for gravitational wave production in this context is a first-order phase transition, the occurrence of which we find in a significant portion of the parameter space. Although the produced gravitational waves are typically too weak for a discovery at any current or future detector, upon investigating correlations between all relevant terms in the scalar potential, we have identified values of parameters leading to observable signals. This indicates that, given a certain moderate fine-tuning, the minimal left-right symmetric model with scalar triplets features another powerful probe which can lead to either novel constraints or remarkable discoveries in the near future. Let us note that some of our results, such as the full set of thermal masses, have to the best of our knowledge not been presented before and might be useful for future studies, in particular in the context of electroweak baryogenesis.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
Selection of suitable media and intervals of media inoculation for culturing Tubificid worms
Creators: name: Mollah, M.F.A.
name: Mosharaf, K.
name: Mariom
name: Mollah, M.F.A.
name: Mosharaf, K.
name: Mariom
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Tubificid worms
subject: Oligochaeta
subject: Culture media
subject: Intervals of media inoculation

description: Tubificid worms are aquatic invertebrates, belonging to the class Oligochaeta and family Tubificidae, used as an important live food for fishes. The study was conducted to culture Tubificid worms under running water in order to develop a suitable culture media and an optimum duration of media inoculation for culturing Tubificid worms. The worms were cultured under two experiments in cemented culvert system (160×25×10 cm3 ) for 90 days. In the first experiment the worms were cultured in three different media designated as treatment-I, treatment-II and treatment-III. The highest yield (503.39±22.98 mg cm-2) was found at 70th day of culture duration in the culture media containing a mixture of 35% mustard oil cake, 20% wheat bran, 25% cow-dung and 20% fine sand (treatment-III). Only 1.99 kg media ingredients valued BDT 29.85 were needed to yield 1 kg worms. In the second experiment, the worms were cultured at three different intervals of media inoculation i.e., 6, 10 and 15 days interval designated as treatment-I, treatment-II and treatment-III respectively using the media found best in the first experiment. Inoculation of media at 10 days interval showed significantly (P<0.01) higher production (488.94±5.60 mg cm-2).
Evolution of the X-ray spectrum in the flare model of Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Collin, S.
name: Coupé, S.
name: Dumont, A-M.
name: Petrucci, P-O.
name: Różańska, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nayakshin & Kazanas (2002) have considered the time-dependent illumination of an accretion disc in Active Galactic Nuclei, in the lamppost model. We extend their study to the flare model, which postulates the release of a large X-ray flux above a small region of the accretion disc. A fundamental difference with the lamppost model is that the region of the disc below the flare is not illuminated before the onset of the flare. A few test models show that the spectrum which follows immediately the increase in continuum flux should display the characteristics of a highly illuminated but dense gas, i.e. very intense X-ray emission lines and ionization edges in the soft X-ray range. The behaviour of the iron line is different in the case of a "moderate" and a ``strong'' flare: for a moderate flare, the spectrum displays a neutral component of the Fe K$α$ line at 6.4 keV, gradually leading to more highly ionized lines. For a strong flare, the lines are already emitted by FeXXV (around 6.7 keV) after the onset, and have an equivalent width of several hundreds of eV. We find that the observed correlations between $R$, $Γ$, and the X-ray flux, are well accounted by a combination of flares having not achieved pressure equilibrium, strongly suggesting that the observed spectrum is dominated by regions in non-pressure equilibrium, typical of the onset of the flares. Finally a flare being confined to a small region of the disc, the spectral lines should be narrow (except for a weak Compton broadening), Doppler shifted, and moving.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted in A & A, english corrected version
A Universal Protocol to Benchmark Camera Calibration for Sports
Creators: name: Magera, Floriane
name: Hoyoux, Thomas
name: Barnich, Olivier
name: Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Camera calibration is a crucial component in the realm of sports analytics, as it serves as the foundation to extract 3D information out of the broadcast images. Despite the significance of camera calibration research in sports analytics, progress is impeded by outdated benchmarking criteria. Indeed, the annotation data and evaluation metrics provided by most currently available benchmarks strongly favor and incite the development of sports field registration methods, i.e. methods estimating homographies that map the sports field plane to the image plane. However, such homography-based methods are doomed to overlook the broader capabilities of camera calibration in bridging the 3D world to the image. In particular, real-world non-planar sports field elements (such as goals, corner flags, baskets, ...) and image distortion caused by broadcast camera lenses are out of the scope of sports field registration methods. To overcome these limitations, we designed a new benchmarking protocol, named ProCC, based on two principles: (1) the protocol should be agnostic to the camera model chosen for a camera calibration method, and (2) the protocol should fairly evaluate camera calibration methods using the reprojection of arbitrary yet accurately known 3D objects. Indirectly, we also provide insights into the metric used in SoccerNet-calibration, which solely relies on image annotation data of viewed 3D objects as ground truth, thus implementing our protocol. With experiments on the World Cup 2014, CARWC, and SoccerNet datasets, we show that our benchmarking protocol provides fairer evaluations of camera calibration methods. By defining our requirements for proper benchmarking, we hope to pave the way for a new stage in camera calibration for sports applications with high accuracy standards.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables
Quality deterioration of wet fish caught in Mymensingh farm in different steps of distribution channel towards Dhaka
Creators: name: Hossain, M.M.
name: Hassan, M.N.
name: Lithi, U.J.
name: Nowsad, A.A.K.M.
name: Hossain, M.M.
name: Hassan, M.N.
name: Lithi, U.J.
name: Nowsad, A.A.K.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Post-harvest loss
subject: Defect point
subject: Distribution channel
subject: Quality loss

description: The fish landed for domestic consumption suffers from serious post harvest loss due to ignorance and negligence of the people involved in the harvest, distribution, processing and trade. Low quality fish is a constraint for food security and public health and is a cause for economic loss. The present study was carried out to identify the cause and to quantify the post harvest loss by a sensory tool. Quality deterioration of some major inland species of wet fish was determined at different steps of distribution channel from the fish farm gate of Mymensingh to Dhaka retail markets in June and July 2010. Five distribution channels i.e. farm gate, transport, arot (commission agent), wholesale and retail markets were studied to find out the deterioration level of the quality of fish. Data were collected by travelling with fish and from the stakeholders in distribution channel through questionnaire interviews. In the distribution channel of wet fish RRA and SWOT analysis were done with fish farmer, arotder, transporter, wholesaler and retailer. The major species studied were Indian major carps (Labeo rohita, Catla catla and Cirrhina mrigala), pangas (Pagasius sutchi), silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molitrix) and tilapia (Oriochromis niloticus). Different species showed different levels of deterioration of quality at various steps of distribution channels. The quality of fish was found to be changed in between arot and retail market. Inadequate knowledge and practice in handling, icing and container use were found to be the major bottlenecks to keep the fish in acceptable quality.
Semiclassical dynamics in the mixed quantum-classical limit
Creators: name: Church, Matthew S.
name: Ananth, Nandini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semiclassical Double Herman-Kluk Initial Value Representation is an accurate approach to computing quantum real time correlation functions, but its applications are limited by the need to evaluate an oscillatory integral. In previous work, we have shown that this `sign problem' can be mitigated using the modified Filinov filtration technique to control the extent to which individual modes of the system contribute to the overall phase of the integrand. Here we follow this idea to a logical conclusion: we analytically derive a general expression for the mixed quantum-classical limit of the semiclassical correlation function - AMQC-IVR, where the phase contributions from the `classical' modes of the system are filtered while the `quantum' modes are treated in the full semiclassical limit. We numerically demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the AMQC-IVR formulation in calculations of quantum correlation functions and reaction rates using three model systems with varied coupling strengths between the classical and quantum subsystems. We also introduce a separable prefactor approximation that further reduces the computational cost, but is only accurate in the limit of weak coupling between the quantum and classical subsystems.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
PRISMA-P-checklist for "Children and young people's experiences of living with developmental coordination disorder dyspraxia: study protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis".docx
Creators: name: O'Dea, Aine
name: Coote, Susan
name: Robinson, Katie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health Care

description: PRISMA-P-checklist for "Children and young people's experiences of living with developmental coordination disorder dyspraxia: study protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis"
Hebrus (Hebrus) plaumanni Porter 1952
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Hebridae
Hebrus
Hebrus plaumanni

description: Hebrus (Hebrus) plaumanni Porter, 1952
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
Distribution in Brazil: South Region (SC) (Porter 1952).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Generalized Valence Bond State and Solvable Models for Spin-1/2 Systems with Orbital degeneracy
Creators: name: Shen, Shun-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin-1/2 system with double orbital degeneracy may possess SU(4) symmetry. According to the group theory a global SU(4) singelt state can be expressed as a linear combination of all possible configurations consisting of four-site SU(4) singlets. Following P. W. Andersion's idea for spin 1/2 system, we propose that the ground state for the antiferromagnetic SU(4) model is SU(4) resonating valence bond (RVB) state. A short-range SU(4) RVB state is a spin and orbital liquid, and its elementary excitations has an energy gap. We construct a series of solvale models which ground states are short-range SU(4) RVB states. The results can be generalized to the antiferromagnetic SU(N) models.
description: 4 pages
Altered Spontaneous Brain Activity in Poststroke Aphasia: A Resting-state fMRI Study
Creators: name: , Fan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200311 Chinese Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology

description: In this study, we investigated the whole-brain (especially the left perilesional and right hemisphere homologous areas) spontaneous activity in patients with poststroke aphasia by ReHo and ALFF analysis using resting-state fMRI.