cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A symmetric Bloch-Okounkov theorem
Creators: name: van Ittersum, Jan-Willem M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The algebra of so-called shifted symmetric functions on partitions has the property that for all elements a certain generating series, called the $q$-bracket, is a quasimodular form. More generally, if a graded algebra $A$ of functions on partitions has the property that the $q$-bracket of every element is a quasimodular form of the same weight, we call $A$ a quasimodular algebra. We introduce a new quasimodular algebra consisting of symmetric polynomials in the part sizes and multiplicities.
Comparative Costs and Conservation Policies for the Survival of the Oranutan and Other Species: Includes an Example
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Swarna Nantha, Hemanath
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Swarna Nantha, Hemanath
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Comparative costs
subject: Conservation in situ
subject: costs of conservation
subject: environmental policy
subject: minimum viable populations
subject: opportunity costs
subject: orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

description: The extent to which conservation is feasible is constrained by budgets and the financial sacrifice stakeholders are willing to bear. Therefore a possible objective for conserving a species is to minimise the cost of achieving that stated aim. For example, if a minimum viable population (MVP) of a species is to be conserved, the size and type of habitats reserved for this could be selected to minimise cost. This requires consideration of the comparative (relative) opportunity costs of reserving different land types for conservation. A general model is developed to demonstrate this and is applied to the case of the orangutan. In the ecological literature, recommendations for reserving different types of land for conservation have been based on comparisons of either the absolute economic returns they generate if converted to commercial use or on differences in the density of a species they support. These approaches are shown to be deficient because they ignore relative trade-offs between species population and economic conversion gains at alternative sites. The proposed model for orangutan conservation shows that where land conversion may be impending, the selection of habitats (peat forests or dryland forests or combinations of both) for securing an MVP may in fact be different when comparative costs are factored in than if only absolute values are considered.
Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry: Competing Orders
Creators: name: Tuominen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interplay between chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement both in two color QCD and adjoint QCD. In ordinary QCD we show how the behavior of the Polyakov loop near chiral phase transition is induced by the chiral order parameter, while in adjoint two color QCD one has two truly independent phase transitions. Introducing a finite baryochemical potential we find that adjoint QCD exhibits tetracritical behavior.
description: 5 pages, 3 eps figures, to appear in proceedings of SEWM'04
Additional file 3 of Optimized vs. Standard Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Regimens (OptiStAR): study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial
Creators: name: Bergling, Karin
name: Arteaga, Javier De
name: Fabián Ledesma
name: Öberg, Carl Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3.
Planning an automated storage and retrieval system at UBC Library
Creators: name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The university of British Columbia (UBC) Library plans to install an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) at its Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The system is intended to store 1.4 million volumes of materials, 0.8 million of which have already been identified. The Centre for Operations Excellence (COE) was asked to assist in the design of the system, to recommend desired staffing levels at the service desks and to assist in the selection of the remaining 0.6 million volumes of materials that should be stored in the system. In the ASRS, materials are stored in bins, and we have used stratified sampling in order to obtain the desired distribution of bin heights in the system. We have then formulated the overall bin configuration problem as an integer programming problem, and have used branch and bound and local search to find an optimal system configuration. Two discrete-event simulation models were constructed, using Arena 6.0, to gain insight into the operation of the system, and to recommend staffing levels at the circulation and reference desks, which ensure acceptable service levels. Finally we have used staffing levels and service level criteria to identify the remaining 0.6 million volumes of that should be stored in the system.
Beam Selection for Wideband Millimeter Wave MIMO Relying on Lens Antenna Arrays
Creators: name: Feng, Chenghao
name: Shen, Wenqian
name: An, Jianping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Beamspace multi-input multi-output (MIMO) relying on lens antenna arrays can significantly reduce the number of radio-frequency chains in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems through beam selection. However, the beamforming gain is actually frequency-dependent in wideband mmWave MIMO systems. This phenomenon is called beam squint, which will deteriorate the system's performance when traditional beam selection methods are used. To solve this problem, we propose a wideband beam selection method for mmWave MIMO systems relying on lens antenna arrays. Firstly, we select one beam with the maximal energy averaged over the whole band for each user and then we sequentially select the beams that contribute the most to the sum-rate. Performance analysis of the proposed wideband beam selection method is also presented. Numerical results show that the proposed method achieves higher sum-rate and energy efficiency compared with its traditional counterparts.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Vertex distinction with subgraph centrality: a proof of Estrada's conjecture and some generalizations
Creators: name: Ballini, Francesco
name: Deniskin, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2
subject: 05C50, 15A16, 11J72

description: Centrality measures are used in network science to identify the most important vertices for transmission of information and dynamics on a graph. One of these measures, introduced by Estrada and collaborators, is the $β$-subgraph centrality, which is based on the exponential of the matrix $βA$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of the graph and $β$ is a real parameter ("inverse temperature"). We prove that for algebraic $β$, two vertices with equal $β$-subgraph centrality are necessarily cospectral. We further show that two such vertices must have the same degree and eigenvector centralities. Our results settle a conjecture of Estrada and a generalization of it due to Kloster, Král and Sullivan. We also discuss possible extensions of our results.
description: 8 pages, no figures
Application-Motivated, Holistic Benchmarking of a Full Quantum Computing Stack
Creators: name: Mills, Daniel
name: Sivarajah, Seyon
name: Scholten, Travis L.
name: Duncan, Ross
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computing systems need to be benchmarked in terms of practical tasks they would be expected to do. Here, we propose 3 "application-motivated" circuit classes for benchmarking: deep (relevant for state preparation in the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm), shallow (inspired by IQP-type circuits that might be useful for near-term quantum machine learning), and square (inspired by the quantum volume benchmark). We quantify the performance of a quantum computing system in running circuits from these classes using several figures of merit, all of which require exponential classical computing resources and a polynomial number of classical samples (bitstrings) from the system. We study how performance varies with the compilation strategy used and the device on which the circuit is run. Using systems made available by IBM Quantum, we examine their performance, showing that noise-aware compilation strategies may be beneficial, and that device connectivity and noise levels play a crucial role in the performance of the system according to our benchmarks.
description: 33 pages, 17 figures; v2 - typos corrected; v3 - rearrangements and compression for clarity, reformatted for publication
Path-integral Monte-Carlo simulations for electronic dynamics on molecular chains: II. Transport across impurities
Creators: name: Muehlbacher, Lothar
name: Ankerhold, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron transfer (ET) across molecular chains including an impurity is studied based on a recently improved real-time path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 121}, 12696 (2004)]. The reduced electronic dynamics is studied for various bridge lengths and defect site energies. By determining intersite hopping rates from PIMC simulations up to moderate times, the relaxation process in the extreme long time limit is captured within a sequential transfer model. The total transfer rate is extracted and shown to be enhanced for certain defect site energies. Further, it is revealed that the entire bridge compound approaches a steady state on a much shorter time scale than that related to the total transfer which allows for a simplified description of ET along donor-bridge-acceptor systems in the long time range.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Notes on the Economics of Control of Wildlife Pests
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: market failure
subject: mobility of pests
subject: pest control
subject: pure public goods.

description: Some wildlife species are agricultural pests but these populations are often valued by other than agriculturalists. For non-farmers, the population levels of such wildlife are frequently pure public goods. This is one source of market failure in the economically optimal social control of an agricultural pest of this type. Secondly, if the species is geographically mobile, externalities occur between farmers in the control of the species, and this reduces the incentives of farmers as individuals to control the pest species. It is shown that depending on the relative strength of these opposing types of market failure, farmers may excessively reduce or insufficiently decrease the population of a species from a social economic point of view.
Additional file 1 of Beyond coverage: a qualitative study exploring the perceived impact of Gabon’s health insurance plan on access to and quality of prenatal care
Creators: name: N’doh Ashken Sanogo
name: Arone Wondwossen Fantaye
name: Yaya, Sanni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Women Interview guide
TinyRadarNN: Combining Spatial and Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks for Embedded Gesture Recognition with Short Range Radars
Creators: name: Scherer, Moritz
name: Magno, Michele
name: Erb, Jonas
name: Mayer, Philipp
name: Eggimann, Manuel
name: Benini, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes a low-power high-accuracy embedded hand-gesture recognition algorithm targeting battery-operated wearable devices using low power short-range RADAR sensors. A 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using range frequency Doppler features is combined with a Temporal Convolutional Neural Network (TCN) for time sequence prediction. The final algorithm has a model size of only 46 thousand parameters, yielding a memory footprint of only 92 KB. Two datasets containing 11 challenging hand gestures performed by 26 different people have been recorded containing a total of 20,210 gesture instances. On the 11 hand gesture dataset, accuracies of 86.6% (26 users) and 92.4% (single user) have been achieved, which are comparable to the state-of-the-art, which achieves 87% (10 users) and 94% (single user), while using a TCN-based network that is 7500x smaller than the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, the gesture recognition classifier has been implemented on a Parallel Ultra-Low Power Processor, demonstrating that real-time prediction is feasible with only 21 mW of power consumption for the full TCN sequence prediction network, while a system-level power consumption of less than 100 mW is achieved. We provide open-source access to all the code and data collected and used in this work on tinyradar.ethz.ch.
Additional file 2 of Optimized vs. Standard Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Regimens (OptiStAR): study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial
Creators: name: Bergling, Karin
name: Arteaga, Javier De
name: Fabián Ledesma
name: Öberg, Carl Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Scattering of solitary waves in granular media
Creators: name: Vergara, Lautaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed numerical study of the scattering of solitary waves by a barrier, in a granular media with Hertzian contact, shows the existence of secondary multipulse structures generated at the interface of two "sonic vacua", which have a similar structure as the one previously found by Nesterenko and coworkers.
description: 4 pages, 9 figures (fig 5, replaced). Submitted to PRL
Mechanisms of jump to contact and conductance plateau formation in copper atomic junctions in vacuum and aqueous environments
Creators: name: Saffarzadeh, Alireza
name: Kirczenow, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between groups of water molecules and single-atom contacts, as reflected in the electrical conductances and mechanical forces of copper atomic junctions, is explored by means of first-principles theory and semi-empirical calculations. We study the influence of the atomic geometries of copper electrodes with pyramidal and non-crystalline structures in the presence and absence of water on the conductance profiles as the electrodes approach each other. It is shown that the atomic arrangements of nano-contacts have crucial effects on the formation of plateaus and the conductance values. Groups of hydrogen bonded water molecules bridge the junction electrodes before a direct Cu-Cu contact between the electrodes is made. However, the bridging of the two copper electrodes by a single H$_{2}$O molecule only occurs in the junctions with pyramidal electrodes. Our findings reveal that the presence of H$_{2}$O molecules modifies strongly the conductance profile of these junctions. In the absence of water molecules, the pyramidal junctions exhibit continuous transitions between integer conductance plateaus, while in the presence of H$_{2}$O molecules, these junctions show abrupt jump to contact behavior and no well-defined conductance plateaus. By contrast, in the absence of H$_{2}$O molecules, the non-crystalline junctions display jump to contact behavior and no well-defined plateaus, while in the presence of H$_{2}$O molecules they exhibit a jump to contact and abrupt transitions between fractional and integer plateaus.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 6 of Assessment of changes in place of death of older adults who died from dementia in the United States, 2000–2014: a time-series cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Wei
name: Changshan Wu
name: Fletcher, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Temporal trend in Medicaid expenditure on HCBS by state, 2000–2014
MEASURING THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON VITICULTURE USING AUCTION, RETAIL AND WHOLESALE PRICES
Creators: name: Ashenfelter, Orley
name: Storchmann, Karl
name: Ashenfelter, Orley
name: Storchmann, Karl
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: wine
subject: global warming
subject: auction prices
subject: retail prices
subject: wholesale prices

description: In this paper we measure the effect of year to year changes in the weather on wine prices and winery revenue in the Mosel Valley in Germany in order to determine the effect that climate change is likely to have on the income of wine growers. A novel aspect of our analysis is that we compare the estimates based on auction, retail, and wholesale prices. Although auction prices are based on actual transactions, they provide a thick market only for high quality, expensive wines and may overestimate climate’s effect on farmer revenues. Wholesale prices, on the other hand, do provide broad coverage of all wines sold and probably come closest to representing the revenues of farmers. Overall, we estimate a 1°C increase in temperature would yield an increase in farmer revenue of about 30 percent.
BINGE DRINKING AND RISKY SEX AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
Creators: name: DeSimone, Jeff
name: DeSimone, Jeff
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Health Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This study examines the relationship between binge drinking and sexual behavior in nationally representative data on age 18–24 four-year college students. For having sex, overall or without condoms, large and significant positive associations are eliminated upon holding constant proxies for time-invariant sexual activity and drinking preferences. However, strong relationships persist for sex with multiple recent partners, overall and without condoms, even controlling for substance use, risk aversion, mental health, sports participation, and sexual activity frequency. Promiscuity is unrelated with non-binge drinking but even more strongly related with binge drinking on multiple occasions. Results from a rudimentary instrumental variables strategy and accounting for whether sex is immediately preceded by alcohol use suggest that binge drinking directly leads to risky sex. Some binge drinking-induced promiscuity seems to occur among students, especially males, involved in long-term relationships. Effects are concentrated among non-Hispanic whites and are not apparent for students in two-year schools.
RAISE YOUR GLASS: WINE INVESTMENT AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Creators: name: Masset, Philippe
name: Weisskopf, Jean-Philippe
name: Masset, Philippe
name: Weisskopf, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: wine
subject: alternative assets
subject: financial contagion
subject: portfolio diversification
subject: conditional CAPM

description: This paper uses auction hammer prices over the period 1996-2009, with a special emphasis on periods of economic downturns, to examine risk, return and diversification benefits of fine wine. Our research shows evidence that the wine market is heterogeneous with wine regions and price categories evolving differently in terms of volume and turnover. We construct wine indices for various wine regions and prices using repeat-sales regressions and find out that fine wine yields higher returns and has a lower volatility compared to stocks especially in times of economic crises. Forming portfolios for typical investors and taking risk aversion, different financial assets and various wine indices into consideration we confirm that the addition of wine to a portfolio as a separate asset-class is beneficial for private investors. Not only are returns favourably impacted and risk being minimised but skewness and kurtosis are also positively affected. Particularly, during the recent financial crisis these effects are most pronounced and improve portfolio diversification when it is most needed. Most importantly, balancing a portfolio with fine wine has resulted in added return while reducing volatility with the most prestigious and expensive vintages and estates outperforming the General Wine Index (GWI) during the entire research period. Results from the CAPM show that alpha is significantly positive over the period 1996- 2009 while showing a low beta coefficient. The use of a conditional CAPM model allows us to clarify the time-variance of alphas and betas depending on the economic environment that is not generally captured by the traditional CAPM. The time-varying dynamics of alphas and betas are in particular best explained by the spread between BAA- and AAA-rated bonds and the USD/EUR foreign exchange rate. Our findings confirm that wine returns are primarily related to economic conditions and not to the market risk.
Determination of the equation of the state of the Universe using ~ 0.1 Hz Gravitational Wave Detectors
Creators: name: Takahashi, Ryuichi
name: Nakamura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that ten(one) years operation of the ultimate DECIGO (DECihertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) can determine the cosmic equation of the state with such accuracy that 0.06%(3%), 0.08%(4%) and 0.06%(3%) for $Ω_m$, $Ω_w$ and $w$, respectively. In more realistic case of practical DECIGO or BBO (Big Bang Observer), $w$ will be determined within $\sim 10%$ by ten years observation assuming the flat universe model. Hence, the DECIGO or BBO will give an independent determination of the cosmic equation of the state.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Prog. Theor. Phys
title: Investigation of an Intense Dust Outbreak in the Mediterranean Using XMed-Dry Network, Multiplatform Observations, and Numerical Modeling
Creators: name: Rizza, Umberto
name: Kandler, Konrad
name: Eknayan, Melanie
name: Passerini, Giorgio
name: Mancinelli, Enrico
name: Virgili, Simone
name: Morichetti, Mauro
name: Nolle, Michael
name: Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos
name: Vasilatou, Vasiliki
name: Ielpo, Pierina
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with online coupled chemistry (WRF-Chem) is applied to study an intense Saharan dust outbreak event affecting the Italian peninsula in 15 and 16 April 2018. According to the MODIS retrievals, this intrusion was characterized by an intense aerosol optical depth (AOD) peak value in the southern Mediterranean. Measurements within the Dry Deposition Network Across the Mediterranean (XMed-Dry) are compared with the output of the WRF-Chem model. XMed-Dry samples from Lecce (Italy), Athens (Greece) and San Lawrenz/Gozo (Malta) were analysed with respect to aerosol particle size distribution, relative dust contribution, and composition. The discrepancy between the model and measured deposition indicate the need to formulate in WRF-Chem more sophisticated deposition schemes, this will need to evaluate the sensitivity of the results to the precise particle size limits chosen for the aerosol model. Moreover, satellite retrievals from MODIS sensors elaborated with the MAIAC algorithm, Aeronet stations, and measurements of PM₁₀ at the selected sites were also considered. In a numerical domain that spans the Mediterranean and the northern Saharan desert, two different dust emission schemes, namely Gocart-AFWA and the Shao-2001, were tested and compared with multiplatform observations for simulation period covering the dust outbreak. Actual results indicate that both emission schemes would benefit from replacing the static erodibility map and soil particle distribution with remote sensed and in-situ observational data.
Robust Low-rank Matrix Completion via an Alternating Manifold Proximal Gradient Continuation Method
Creators: name: Huang, Minhui
name: Ma, Shiqian
name: Lai, Lifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Robust low-rank matrix completion (RMC), or robust principal component analysis with partially observed data, has been studied extensively for computer vision, signal processing and machine learning applications. This problem aims to decompose a partially observed matrix into the superposition of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix, where the sparse matrix captures the grossly corrupted entries of the matrix. A widely used approach to tackle RMC is to consider a convex formulation, which minimizes the nuclear norm of the low-rank matrix (to promote low-rankness) and the l1 norm of the sparse matrix (to promote sparsity). In this paper, motivated by some recent works on low-rank matrix completion and Riemannian optimization, we formulate this problem as a nonsmooth Riemannian optimization problem over Grassmann manifold. This new formulation is scalable because the low-rank matrix is factorized to the multiplication of two much smaller matrices. We then propose an alternating manifold proximal gradient continuation (AManPGC) method to solve the proposed new formulation. The convergence rate of the proposed algorithm is rigorously analyzed. Numerical results on both synthetic data and real data on background extraction from surveillance videos are reported to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed new formulation and algorithm over several popular existing approaches.
Magnetic oscillations in planar systems with the Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle excitations II: transport properties
Creators: name: Gusynin, V. P.
name: Sharapov, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum magnetic oscillations of electrical (Shubnikov de Haas effect) and thermal conductivities are studied for graphene which represents a distinctive example of planar systems with a linear, Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle excitations. We show that if a utmost care was taken to separate electron and phonon contributions in the thermal conductivity, the oscillations of electron thermal conductivity, $κ(B)$ and the Lorenz number, $L(B)$ would be observable in the low field (less than a few Teslas) regime.
description: 11 pages, RevTeX4, 6 EPS figures; 2 references, 1 figure and one more section are added; final version published in PRB
Oberthueria lunwan Zolotuhin & Xing Wang 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Wang, Xing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae
Oberthueria
Oberthueria lunwan

description: Oberthueria lunwan Zolotuhin & Xing Wang, sp. nov.
Type material. Holotype: ♂, “ China / Yunnan prov. (NW) | Dali Bai autonom pref., Yunlong | county, Fengshuining –Mts., 2460 m | ---- 13 km N of Coajian---- | 10. - 20. V. 1999, 25 ˚46’N/99˚06’E | leg./ex. coll. Dr. R. Brechlin” (MWM); Genital-slide MWM Nr 18.279. Paratypes: ♂, same data (MWM); ♂, China, NW Yunnan, Gaoligong Mt, Tenchong, ca 3.000 m, VI 1999, leg. Wang & Li (MWM); ♂, China, NW Yunnan, Lijiang/ Zhongdian, near Tuguancun, N2729.700’, E9953.700’, 24–25.v.2012, 3200 m, leg. Floriani (coll. Floriani, Milan, Italy). ♂, Myanmar (NE), Kachin state, Chinese borderline, Kanphant village, N26˚8’51,2”, E98˚34’58,2”, 1642 m, 24.V 2006, at village lights, leg. S. Naumann, S. Löffler & M. Lander (SMFL).
Description. Another large species (Figs 18–20) being the western equivalent of O. formosibia. These species are very similar externally, with distinct contrasted pattern, strongly serrate wing margin, and falcate part of the fore wing. Ground colour of the new species has dominant dark yellow colours more than pinkish or chestnut. Postmedian in the fore wing distinct. Females unknown so far.
Male genitalia (Fig. 27). Very atypical for the genus because valvae are almost symmetrical and right harpe is not developed (from three preparations examined). Uncus lobes curved apically, lyre-shaped; valvae short and broad with narrow apical spur robust. Aedeagus longer than in other species, with larger brush of cornuti.
Diagnosis. This is probably the sister-species of O. formosibia, strongly resembling it in general appearance, the new species is more yellowish, with less contrasting pattern; there is a distinct bifurcate tail (absent in taiwanese species) in the hind wing. Concave postmedial fascia of the fore wing also distinguishes the species fom allopatric O. yandu and O. jiatongae. The species is quite unique judging by male genitalia characters.
Bionomics. High montane species known from the altitudes of 1600–3200 m, and collected only in May and June. Most probably, it produces a second generation in?August. Moths were collected in deep mountain valley in severely destroyed and therefore sparse secondary forest (Figs 32–33).
Distribution (Fig. 34). The species is known so far only from Yunnan and neighboring territory of NE Myanmar.
Comments. Lunwan (Chinese) —the mystic King of Dragos.
description: Published as part of Zolotuhin, Vadim V. & Wang, Xing, 2013, A taxonomic review of Oberthueria Kirby, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae: Oberthuerinae) with description of three new species, pp. 465-478 in Zootaxa 3693 (4) on pages 475-476, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/217409
Neuromechanical Mechanisms of Gait Adaptation in C. elegans: Relative Roles of Neural and Mechanical Coupling
Creators: name: Johnson, Carter L.
name: Lewis, Timothy J.
name: Guy, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37N25 (Primary), 92B25, 92C10, 92C20 (Secondary)

description: Understanding principles of neurolocomotion requires the synthesis of neural activity, sensory feedback, and biomechanics. The nematode \textit{C. elegans} is an ideal model organism for studying locomotion in an integrated neuromechanical setting because its neural circuit has a well-characterized modular structure and its undulatory forward swimming gait adapts to the surrounding fluid with a shorter wavelength in higher viscosity environments. This adaptive behavior emerges from the neural modules interacting through a combination of mechanical forces, neuronal coupling, and sensory feedback mechanisms. However, the relative contributions of these coupling modes to gait adaptation are not understood. The model consists of repeated neuromechanical modules that are coupled through the mechanics of the body, short-range proprioception, and gap-junctions. The model captures the experimentally observed gait adaptation over a wide range of mechanical parameters, provided that the muscle response to input from the nervous system is faster than the body response to changes in internal and external forces. The modularity of the model allows the use of the theory of weakly coupled oscillators to identify the relative roles of body mechanics, gap-junctional coupling, and proprioceptive coupling in coordinating the undulatory gait. The analysis shows that the wavelength of body undulations is set by the relative strengths of these three coupling forms. In a low-viscosity fluid environment, the competition between gap-junctions and proprioception produces a long wavelength undulation, which is only achieved in the model with sufficiently strong gap-junctional coupling.The experimentally observed decrease in wavelength in response to increasing fluid viscosity is the result of an increase in the relative strength of mechanical coupling, which promotes a short wavelength.
description: Pages 25, Figures 14. Submitted to SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
The Influence of the Pace and Scale of Energy Development on Communities: Lessons from the Natural Gas Drilling Boom in the Rocky Mountains
Creators: name: Haefele, Michelle A.
name: Morton, Pete
name: Haefele, Michelle A.
name: Morton, Pete
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Both the number of oil and gas wells drilled annually2 (U.S. Department of Interior [U.S.D.I.], Bureau of Land Management 2009) and the number of producing natural gas wells3 (U.S. Department of Energy 2009) in the Rocky Mountain region4 more than doubled from 1998 to 2008. The proportion of U.S. natural gas production from the region increased from 16% in 1997 to 23% in 2007 (U. S. Department of Energy 2009) and the number of drilling rigs operating in the region grew from 131 in 2002 to 318 in 2009.5 This increase in natural gas drilling in the region has created boomtown conditions in several rural communities. While energy development can benefit rural communities, boomtowns in the Rockies experienced an influx of non-local workers, a rise in crime and emergency service calls, increased demand for public services, more wear and tear on local infrastructure, and upward pressure on local wages and housing costs. Natural gas prices had dropped dramatically by 2009, the drilling boom had subsided, and the bust phase may have begun (Figure 1). The recent energy boom-bust begs the question—how can communities learn from recent history to better take advantage of future energy development for both short-term and long-term benefits?
Additional file 1 of Optimized vs. Standard Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Regimens (OptiStAR): study protocol for a randomized controlled crossover trial
Creators: name: Bergling, Karin
name: Arteaga, Javier De
name: Fabián Ledesma
name: Öberg, Carl Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Frontier Society : perpetuation and misrepresentation of humankind in outer space policy
Creators: name: Blomfield, Hugo Dunon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced a renewal of American space policy that encouraged the United States to return to the Moon by the year 2020 and thereafter proceed to Mars with human exploratory missions. This plan calls for NASA to lead a sustained human presence that would not only explore space, but also facilitate the growth of a burgeoning commercial space-based industry. This announcement was widely supported by the 1 international space community, a loosely affiliated group of people strongly bound by a persistent enthusiasm for the extraterrestrial extension of human settlement. The space environment however, is a peculiar legal and political domain ultimately governed by international treaties written at the United Nations. According to the UN, space is considered a 'global commons' whose use and development should only occur for the benefit of all humanity and future generations. The United States on the other hand, supports a worldview that, similar to its own settling sees the space environment as unclaimed territory whose development is open to whoever can face its challenges. By conducting an extensive literature review of international space treaties, United States civilian and military space policy documents, and the diverse opinions of the space community, this thesis exposes the conflicting worldviews for the use of outer space, ultimately highlighting the dangers to human sustainability of the competitive growth oriented paradigm. Plans for space exploitation expressing this worldview are critiqued using a set of principles developed to reflect the characteristics of more relevant space policy, with long-term human survivability as its fundamental purpose. Based on these principles, three scenarios depicting two possible and one preferable future are presented. These stories give the reader a realistic projection of potential directions that human expansion into space may follow. Ultimately, the preeminence of national sovereignty makes it virtually impossible to guide space activities for the benefit of all humankind and its future generations. Until humanity as an entity can be represented in the formulation of space policy, the regulatory environment of space will allow Earth's most powerful nations to project economic superiority. This expansionist worldview will ultimately undermine the Earth's ability to sustain human civilization.
Braneworld flow equations
Creators: name: Ramirez, Erandy
name: Liddle, Andrew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the flow equations approach to inflationary model building to the Randall-Sundrum Type II braneworld scenario. As the flow equations are quite insensitive to the expansion dynamics, we find results similar to, though not identical to, those found in the standard cosmology.
description: 3 pages RevTex plus one figure
From Heun Class Equations to Painlevé Equations
Creators: name: Dereziński, Jan
name: Ishkhanyan, Artur
name: Latosiński, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34A30, 34B30, 34M55, 34M56

description: In the first part of our paper we discuss linear 2nd order differential equations in the complex domain, especially Heun class equations, that is, the Heun equation and its confluent cases. The second part of our paper is devoted to Painlevé I-VI equations. Our philosophy is to treat these families of equations in a unified way. This philosophy works especially well for Heun class equations. We discuss its classification into 5 supertypes, subdivided into 10 types (not counting trivial cases). We also introduce in a unified way deformed Heun class equations, which contain an additional nonlogarithmic singularity. We show that there is a direct relationship between deformed Heun class equations and all Painlevé equations. In particular, Painlevé equations can be also divided into 5 supertypes, and subdivided into 10 types. This relationship is not so easy to describe in a completely unified way, because the choice of the ''time variable'' may depend on the type. We describe unified treatments for several possible ''time variables''.
Additional file 5 of Assessment of changes in place of death of older adults who died from dementia in the United States, 2000–2014: a time-series cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Wei
name: Changshan Wu
name: Fletcher, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Temporal trend in Medicaid expenditure on institutional LTSS by state, 2000–2014
Chemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities of Essential Oil From Cymbopogon densiflorus (Steud.) Stapf Flowers
Creators: name: Spencer, Paula V.D.
name: Libardi, Silvia H.
name: Dias, Fernanda F.G.
name: Wellington Da S. Oliveira
name: Thomasini, Ronaldo L.
name: Godoy, Helena T.
name: Cardoso, Daniel R.
name: Junior, Stanislau Bogusz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study reports, for the first time, the chemical composition and biological activity of essential oil from Brazilian Cymbopogon densiflorus flowers. Thirty chemical compounds were identified by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS), corresponding to 95 % of total compounds from an essential oil chromatogram obtained by gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (GC-FID ). The essential oil was mainly composed of cis-p-mentha-1(7),8-dien-2-ol (26 %), trans-p-mentha-1(7),8-dien-2-ol (18 %), trans-p-mentha-2,8-dien-1-ol (13 %) limonene (9 %), cis-p-mentha-2,8-dien-1-ol (7 %), cis-carveol (7 %) and carvone (5 %). The identity confirmation of the major compounds was performed by 1H/13C heteronuclear single-quantum coherence nuclear magnetic resonance (HSQC NMR). The essential oil exhibited a weak antioxidant activity by the DPPH method and a wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity against the pathogenic bacterial strains tested, showing some efficacy against 7 of the 10 strains with the greatest inhibition observed with the Gram-negative bacterium Shigella sonnei.
Amplitude ratios for the mass spectrum of the 2d Ising model in the high-T, H \neq 0 phase
Creators: name: Caselle, M.
name: Grinza, P.
name: Rago, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behaviour of the 2d Ising model in the symmetric high temperature phase in presence of a small magnetic perturbation. We successfully compare the quantum field theory predictions for the shift in the mass spectrum of the theory with a set of high precision transfer matrix results. Our results rule out a prediction for the same quantity obtained some years ago with strong coupling methods.
description: 16 pages, 1 eps figure
Formation of super-strong horizontal magnetic field in delta-type sunspot in radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations
Creators: name: Hotta, H.
name: Toriumi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a series of radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations to understand the amplification mechanism of the exceptionally strong horizontal magnetic field in delta-type sunspots. In the simulations, we succeed in reproducing the delta-type sunspot and resulting strong magnetic field exceeding 6000 G in a light bridge between the positive and negative polarities. Our conclusions in this study are summarized as follows: 1. The essential amplification mechanism of the strong horizontal magnetic field is the shear motion caused by the rotation of two spots. 2. The strong horizontal magnetic field remains the force-free state. 3. The peak strength of the magnetic fields does not depend on the spatial resolution, top boundary condition, or Alfven speed limit. The origin of the rotating motion is rooted in the deep convection zone. Therefore, the magnetic field in the delta-spot light bridge can be amplified to the superequipartition values in the photosphere.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication by MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Development of new stability indicating UPLC-UV method for the extraction and quantification of perindopril and indapamide from human plasma
Creators: name: Babji Palakeeti
name: Pothuraju Nageswara Rao
name: Chinta, Jugun Prakash
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Figure S2. Acidic and basic degradation HPLC chromatograms.
A Global Sensitivity Analysis of Parameter Uncertainty in the CLASSIC Model
Creators: name: N., Raj Deepak S.
name: Seiler, Christian
name: Monahan, Adam H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Land surface models (LSMs) have become indispensable for understanding the role of the terrestrial biosphere in the global climate system. However, the ability of LSMs to reproduce observed carbon, water, and energy fluxes varies considerably among models. Some of these deficiencies can be attributed to parameter uncertainties. Global sensitivity analysis (GSA) quantifies model output uncertainties caused by the uncertainty in model inputs. Our study conducts, for the very first time, a GSA for the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) model. Focusing on a site in the humid tropics, we evaluate the model's sensitivity for a wide range of ecosystem variables (17 in total). Considering a total of 90 parameters, we identify the top five most influential parameters using the qualitative Morris method per output variable. These influential parameters are then analysed using the quantitative Sobol' method. The analysis shows that the maximum carboxylation rate parameter has the greatest influence on almost all output variables considered. The impact of the maximum carboxylation rate is partially regulated by the canopy extinction coefficient's uncertainty. The results of this research will guide future efforts to optimize the model's performance more efficiently, focussing on a small subset of the 90 parameters.