cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potential Differences and Methods of Determining Gypsy Moth Female Flight Capabilities: Implications for the Establishment and Spread in Novel Habitats
Creators: name: Srivastava, Vivek
name: Keena, Melody A.
name: Hamelin, Richard C.
name: Maennicke, Galen
name: Griess, Verena
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The introduction of the Asian gypsy moth into novel environments continues with frequent interceptions in North America. There is a concern that these subspecies will pose a greater threat to the forests and urban environments of North America than the established gypsy moths (Lymantria dispardispar L.), due to their greater capacity for female flight. Asian gypsy moth populations vary in many key traits, including female flight capabilities. The potential impacts of female flight, in combination with the other key traits, on the ecology and spread of this insect are first discussed in this communication. This also provides the first review of most of the current literature on the variations in flight capability and flight distance of gypsy moth populations, as well as variation in other traits of concern and the potential methods of identification, with special attention paid to the Asian subspecies Lymantria dispar japonica Motschulsky and Lymantria dispar asiatica Vinkovskij. There are currently good tools for identifying the general origin of introduced gypsy moth populations, but these do not provide enough information to effectively manage introductions. Gypsy moth key traits differ among populations, even within each subspecies of the gypsy moth, so introduction of gypsy moths from other world areas into locations where the gypsy moth is already present could result in unwanted changes in gypsy moth biology. It also appears that the introduction of flight-capable females could enhance a population’s dispersal capability and require modifications to management protocols used for flightless females. Therefore, rapid tools to assess key traits in introduced populations are needed to adequately plan for, or deal with, new introductions into novel habitats.
Manual y material de orientación para la implementación del marco e instrumento QualiTePE
Creators: name: Ries, Francis
name: Mora Fernández, Matilde
name: Campos-Mesa, Mari-Carmen
name: Del Castillo Andrés, Oscar
name: Crapa, Angelo
name: Langer, Wiebke
name: Herrmann, Christian
name: Gerlach, Erin
name: Cools, Wouter
name: Adamakis, Manolis
name: Slingerland, Menno
name: Borghouts, Lars
name: Costa, João
name: O'Brien, Wesley
name: Lemling, Alina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: En una era de constante innovación y cambio, la lucha por la calidad y la excelencia se ha vuelto crucial. El marco QualiTePE aborda esta necesidad, ofreciendo un enfoque integral para mejorar la calidad en la enseñanza de la Educación Física (EF).

Este manual es una guía práctica para implementar el marco y el instrumento QualiTePE, ayudando a mejorar las prácticas docentes diarias. Simplifica las complejidades de brindar EF de calidad, ofreciendo conocimientos prácticos, orientación paso a paso y apoyo para capacitar a individuos, equipos y organizaciones para que alcancen la excelencia en EF.
Using Time-Series Privileged Information for Provably Efficient Learning of Prediction Models
Creators: name: Karlsson, Rickard K. A.
name: Willbo, Martin
name: Hussain, Zeshan
name: Krishnan, Rahul G.
name: Sontag, David
name: Johansson, Fredrik D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study prediction of future outcomes with supervised models that use privileged information during learning. The privileged information comprises samples of time series observed between the baseline time of prediction and the future outcome; this information is only available at training time which differs from the traditional supervised learning. Our question is when using this privileged data leads to more sample-efficient learning of models that use only baseline data for predictions at test time. We give an algorithm for this setting and prove that when the time series are drawn from a non-stationary Gaussian-linear dynamical system of fixed horizon, learning with privileged information is more efficient than learning without it. On synthetic data, we test the limits of our algorithm and theory, both when our assumptions hold and when they are violated. On three diverse real-world datasets, we show that our approach is generally preferable to classical learning, particularly when data is scarce. Finally, we relate our estimator to a distillation approach both theoretically and empirically.
Dissipation and adhesion hysteresis between (010) forsterite surfaces using molecular-dynamics simulation and the Jarzynski equality
Creators: name: Doan, Baochi
name: Schelling, Patrick K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipation and adhesion are important in many areas of materials science, including friction and lubrication, cold spray deposition, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Another interesting problem is the adhesion of mineral grains during the early stages of planetesimal formation in the early solar system. Molecular-dynamics (MD) simulation has often been used to elucidate dissipative properties, most often in the simulation of sliding friction. In this paper, we demonstrate how the reversible and irreversible work associated with interactions between planar surfaces can be calculated using the dynamical contact simulation approach based on MD and empirical potentials. Moreover, it is demonstrated how the approach can obtain the free-energy $ΔA(z)$ as a function of separation between two slabs using the Jarzynksi equality applied to an ensemble of trajectories which deviate significantly from equilibrium. Furthermore, the dissipative work can also be obtained using this method without the need to compute an entire cycle from approach to retraction. It is expected that this technique might be used to efficiently compute dissipative properties which might enable the use of more accurate approaches including density-functional theory. In this paper, we present results obtained for forsterite surfaces both with and without MgO-vacancy surface defects. It is shown that strong dissipation is possible when MgO-vacancy defects are present. The mechanism for strong dissipation is connected to the tendency of less strongly-bound surface units to undergo large displacements including mass transfer between the two surfaces. Systems with strong dissipation tend to exhibit a long-tailed distribution rather than the Gaussian distribution often anticipated in near-equilibrium applications of the JE.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures
Visualization: the missing factor in Simultaneous Speech Translation
Creators: name: Papi, Sara
name: Negri, Matteo
name: Turchi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is the task in which output generation has to be performed on partial, incremental speech input. In recent years, SimulST has become popular due to the spread of cross-lingual application scenarios, like international live conferences and streaming lectures, in which on-the-fly speech translation can facilitate users' access to audio-visual content. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of the SimulST systems developed so far, discussing their strengths and weaknesses. We then concentrate on the evaluation framework required to properly assess systems' effectiveness. To this end, we raise the need for a broader performance analysis, also including the user experience standpoint. SimulST systems, indeed, should be evaluated not only in terms of quality/latency measures, but also via task-oriented metrics accounting, for instance, for the visualization strategy adopted. In light of this, we highlight which are the goals achieved by the community and what is still missing.
description: Accepted at CLIC-it 2021
Anomalous thermal Hall effect and anomalous Nernst effect of CsV$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$
Creators: name: Zhou, Xuebo
name: Liu, Hongxiong
name: Wu, Wei
name: Jiang, Kun
name: Shi, Youguo
name: Li, Zheng
name: Sui, Yu
name: Hu, Jiangping
name: Luo, Jianlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motived by time-reversal symmetry breaking and giant anomalous Hall effect in kagome superconductor \textit{A}V$_3$Sb$_5$ (\textit{A} = Cs, K, Rb), we carried out the thermal transport measurements on CsV$_3$Sb$_5$. In addition to the anomalous Hall effect, the anomalous Nernst effect and the anomalous thermal Hall effect emerge. Interestingly, the longitudinal thermal conductivity $κ_{xx}$ largely deviates from the electronic contribution obtained from the longitudinal conductivity $σ_{xx}$ by the Wiedemann-Franz law. In contrast, the thermal Hall conductivity $κ_{xy}$ is roughly consistent with the Wiedemann-Franz law from electronic contribution. All these results indicate the large phonon contribution in the longitudinal thermal conductivity. Moreover, the thermal Hall conductivity is also slightly greater than the theoretical electronic contribution, indicating other charge neutral contributions. More than that, the Nernst coefficient and Hall resistivity show the multi-band behavior with possible additional contribution from Berry curvature at the low fields.
Nonsingular Cosmology from an Interacting Vacuum
Creators: name: Bruni, Marco
name: Maier, Rodrigo
name: Wands, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the dynamics of FLRW cosmologies in which the vacuum interacts with a perfect fluid through an energy exchange, focusing on the exploration of nonsingular configurations, including cyclic and bouncing models. We consider two specific choices for the energy transfer. In the first case, the energy transfer is proportional to a linear combination of the vacuum and fluid energy densities which makes the conservation equations exactly integrable. The resulting Friedmann equation can be interpreted as an energy constraint equation with an effective potential for the scale factor that may include an infinite barrier forcing a bounce at small values of the scale factor, as well as a potential well allowing for cycling solutions. In the second case, the energy transfer is a nonlinear combination of the vacuum and fluid energy densities. Nonetheless even in this case the dynamics can be partially integrated, leading to a first integral, reducing the number of degrees of freedom. We show that also in this nonlinear case bouncing and cycling cosmologies may arise. In both cases the structure of the resulting phase space allows for nonsingular orbits with an early accelerated phase around a single bounce, connected via a decelerated matter-dominated era to a late-time accelerated phase dominated by an effective cosmological constant.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures. Updated to reflect the published version
Development of accreditation standards for interprofessional education: a Canadian Case Study
Creators: name: Grymonpre, Ruby E.
name: Bainbridge, Lesley
name: Nasmith, Louise
name: Baker, Cynthia
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Academic institutions worldwide are embedding interprofessional education (IPE) into their health/social services education programs in response to global evidence that this leads to interprofessional collaborative practice (IPC). The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding its 193 member countries accountable for Indicator 3–06 (‘IPE Accreditation’) through its National Health Workforce Accounts. Despite the major influence of accreditation on the quality of health and social services education programs, little has been written about accreditation of IPE. Case study: Canada has been a global leader in IPE Accreditation. The Accreditation of Interprofessional Health Education (AIPHE) projects (2007–2011) involved a collaborative of eight Canadian organizations that accredit pre-licensure education for six health/social services professions. The AIPHE vision was for learners to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide IPC through IPE. The aim of this paper is to share the Canadian Case Study including policy context, supporting theories, preconditions, logic model and evaluation findings to achieve the primary project deliverable, increased awareness of the need to embed IPE language into the accreditation standards for health and social services academic programs. Future research implications are also discussed. Conclusions: As a result of AIPHE, Canada is the only country in the world in which, for over a decade, a collective of participating health/social services accrediting organizations have been looking for evidence of IPE in the programs they accredit. This puts Canada in the unique position to now examine the downstream impacts of IPE accreditation.
A Matéria Escura como Fronteira de Universos Paralelos: Uma Hipótese Filosófico-Cosmológica
Creators: name: Silva, Eloir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este artigo apresenta uma hipótese alternativa sobre a natureza da matéria escura, sugerindo que ela poderia representar uma fronteira gravitacional de um universo paralelo. A proposta é puramente especulativa e filosófica, mas busca levantar uma reflexão sobre os limites da nossa percepção e sobre como universos paralelos — caso existam — poderiam interagir gravitacionalmente sem troca de matéria ou energia detectável. O autor não possui formação acadêmica formal em cosmologia, mas compartilha esta ideia como um exercício livre de pensamento.
Approximating Invertible Maps by Recovery Channels: Optimality and an Application to Non-Markovian Dynamics
Creators: name: Lautenbacher, Lea
name: de Melo, Fernando
name: Bernardes, Nadja K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the problem of reversing quantum dynamics, specifically via optimal Petz recovery maps. We focus on typical decoherence channels, such as dephasing, depolarizing and amplitude damping. We illustrate how well a physically implementable recovery map simulates an inverse evolution. We extend this idea to explore the use of recovery maps as an approximation of inverse maps, and apply it in the context of non-Markovian dynamics. We show how this strategy attenuates non-Markovian effects, such as the backflow of information.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
The climatic interdependence of extreme-rainfall events around the globe
Creators: name: Su, Zhen
name: Meyerhenke, Henning
name: Kurths, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The identification of regions of similar climatological behavior can be utilized for the discovery of spatial relationships over long-range scales, including teleconnections. In this regard, the global picture of the interdependence patterns of extreme rainfall events (EREs) still needs to be further explored. To this end, we propose a top-down complex-network-based clustering workflow, with the combination of consensus clustering and mutual correspondences. Consensus clustering provides a reliable community structure under each dataset, while mutual correspondences build a matching relationship between different community structures obtained from different datasets. This approach ensures the robustness of the identified structures when multiple datasets are available. By applying it simultaneously to two satellite-derived precipitation datasets, we identify consistent synchronized structures of EREs around the globe, during boreal summer. Two of them show independent spatiotemporal characteristics, uncovering the primary compositions of different monsoon systems. They explicitly manifest the primary intraseasonal variability in the context of the global monsoon, in particular the `monsoon jump' over both East Asia and West Africa and the mid-summer drought over Central America and southern Mexico. Through a case study related to the Asian summer monsoon (ASM), we verify that the intraseasonal changes of upper-level atmospheric conditions are preserved by significant connections within the global synchronization structure. Our work advances network-based clustering methodology for (i) decoding the spatiotemporal configuration of interdependence patterns of natural variability and for (ii) the intercomparison of these patterns, especially regarding their spatial distributions over different datasets.
Miltochrista hollowai Kirti & Gill 2009
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Huang, Si-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Miltochrista
Miltochrista hollowai

description: Miltochrista hollowai Kirti & Gill, 2009
(Figs 22, 50)
 Miltochrista hollowai Kirti & Gill, 2009, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 52B (1–2): 112, figs 19–26 (p. 115) (Type locality: “ India: Gujarat: Saputara, 970 m ”).
 Material examined. INDIA: 1 male, [India, Maharashtra, Mumbai] Bombay, 60-7, unique number: NHMUK010604718, gen. prep. No.: NHMUK010314223 (prepared by Volynkin) (NHMUK).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10.5–11.0 mm in males. Miltochrista hollowai is externally similar to A. rubricosa but distinguished by the more curved medial line. The male genitalia of the species are similar to the M. pseudoarcuata – M. paraarcuata species pair (illustrated by Kirti & Singh 2016) but differ in the markedly broader and rounded distal section of the costa, and the smaller medial spur of the distal saccular process. The detailed comparison with M. curvifascia is provided above in the diagnosis of the latter species.
The female is unknown.
 Distribution. Western India (Gujarat, Maharashtra) (Kirti & Gill 2009).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao, 2022, On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 86-108 in Ecologica Montenegrina 58 on page 95, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.58.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13240006
SMART TECHNOLOGY AS A VERITABLE TOOL FOR CREDIBLE ELECTIONS: A NIGERIAN STUDY
Creators: name: Anyanwu,, Christiantus Izuchukwu PhD
Publisher: name: SADI Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Democracy, Election, Smart technology, and System Theory

description: An election is a key component of democracy. Since Nigeria gained independence in 1960, the conduct of elections in the political history of the country has been marred by fraudulent practices, corruption, and violence. Despite a series of electoral reforms, the country has not succeeded in reducing incidences of voter intimidation, ballot box snatching and stuffing, multiple voting, falsification of results and other associated electoral malpractices. In fact, the country has failed to conceive of, implement, a free, fair, transparent, and credible electoral process. Admittedly, part of the efforts made toward the conduct of the 2015 general elections is the introduction and use of a smart card reader (SCR) in the quest to ensure free, fair, and credible elections. Building on the gains of the smart card reader in the 2015 elections, INEC introduced an advanced level of smart technology in elections conducted outside the election circle in 2021, known as the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). It is against this background that this paper investigated the impact of smart technology on the electoral process. The study adopted a quantitative research method because data were gathered from primary sources. David Easton’s system theory was used for the analysis. The study found amongst others that the introduction of smart technologies—the smart card reader and the bimodal voter accreditation system—reduced the incidence of electoral fraud and enhanced free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria. The study recommends adequate facilities, including a legal framework, for the full adoption and operation of smart technology across all facets of the electoral process, including voting in Nigeria.
Leveraging blur information for plenoptic camera calibration
Creators: name: Labussière, Mathieu
name: Teulière, Céline
name: Bernardin, Frédéric
name: Ait-Aider, Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel calibration algorithm for plenoptic cameras, especially the multi-focus configuration, where several types of micro-lenses are used, using raw images only. Current calibration methods rely on simplified projection models, use features from reconstructed images, or require separated calibrations for each type of micro-lens. In the multi-focus configuration, the same part of a scene will demonstrate different amounts of blur according to the micro-lens focal length. Usually, only micro-images with the smallest amount of blur are used. In order to exploit all available data, we propose to explicitly model the defocus blur in a new camera model with the help of our newly introduced Blur Aware Plenoptic (BAP) feature. First, it is used in a pre-calibration step that retrieves initial camera parameters, and second, to express a new cost function to be minimized in our single optimization process. Third, it is exploited to calibrate the relative blur between micro-images. It links the geometric blur, i.e., the blur circle, to the physical blur, i.e., the point spread function. Finally, we use the resulting blur profile to characterize the camera's depth of field. Quantitative evaluations in controlled environment on real-world data demonstrate the effectiveness of our calibrations.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.07745
Miltochrista goaensis Kirti & Gill 2009
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Huang, Si-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Miltochrista
Miltochrista goaensis

description: Miltochrista goaensis Kirti & Gill, 2009
(Figs 23, 24, 51, 65)
 Miltochrista hollowai Kirti & Gill, 2009, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 52B (1–2): 117, figs 27–35. (Type locality: “ India: Goa: Keri, 90 m ”).
 Material examined. INDIA: MEGHALAYA: 1 male, Garo Hills, Nokrek Nat. Park, 25°40'N 91°04'E, 2– 13.VII.1997, 1150m, Afonin & Sinyaev leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 323/2017 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM); KERALA: 1 male, 1 female, 6 km N Munnar, 1700m, Kodalar Tea Estate, 10°06'N 77°04'E, 14–15.IV.1997, Schintlmeister & Sinyaev leg., montane rainforest, 14 °C, gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 303/2017 (male), ZSM Arct. 304/2017 (female) (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length 8.0– 8.5 mm in males and 9.5 mm in female. Miltochrista goaensis is externally very similar to M. curvifascia and the reliable identification is possible through examination of the genitalia structures. The detailed comparison is provided above in the diagnosis of M. curvifascia.
 Distribution. Northeast, Western and South India (Meghalaya, Goa, Kerala) (Kirti & Gill 2009).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao, 2022, On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 86-108 in Ecologica Montenegrina 58 on page 95, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.58.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13240006
Miltochrista kerala Volynkin & Huang, 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Huang, Si-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Miltochrista
Miltochrista kerala

description: Miltochrista kerala sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 9FF851D9-4D63-464E-A55F-F8E423DA2FA9
(Figs 33, 54)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 33, 54): male, “ India mer., Kerala | 6km N Munnar, 1700m | Kodalar Tea Estate | 10’06N/77’04E | 14.– 15.4.1997 leg. | Schintlm. & Siniaev | Bergregenwald 14°С” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 324/2017 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM / ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10.5 mm in the holotype male. Miltochrista kerala sp. n. is externally reminiscent of M. aurora and M. monoklina sp. n. but differs from the former one in the more diffuse forewing pattern, and from the latter one in the narrower forewing with a more diffuse pattern from. The male genitalia structure is most similar to M. monoklina sp. n., the detailed comparison is provided above in the diagnosis of the latter species.
The female is unknown.
 Distribution. South India (Kerala).
 Etymology. The specific epithet is homonymic of the state of Kerala, from where the new species is known. The name is a noun in the nominative singular in apposition.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao, 2022, On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 86-108 in Ecologica Montenegrina 58 on page 100, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.58.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13240006
Zeugophora scutellaris Suffrian 1840
Creators: name: Sergeev, Maxim E.
name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Megalopodidae
Zeugophora
Zeugophora scutellaris

description: Zeugophora scutellaris Suffrian, 1840
 Zeugophora scutellaris Suffrian 1840: 99 [type locality: “Aschersleben, Magdeburg”].
 Zeugophora scutellaris: Heyden 1880-1881: 198 [Salair, Barnaul]; Medvedev, Shapiro 1965: 428 (European part of Russia); Guselnikov, Medvedev 1984: 18 [env. Srednyaya Shush']; Medevedev, Dubeshko 1992: 46 (Western Siberia, Altai, Sayany, Kazakhstan); Riley et al. 2003: 8 (North America); Lopatin, Nesterova 2005: 169 [Altai]; Lopatin 2010: 26 (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, mountainous Tajikistan); Dolgin, Bieńkowski 2011: 59 (northeast of European part of Russia); Sergeev, Sheshurak 2014: 20 [northern Ukraine]; Li, Liang 2018: 130 (China: Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Xinjiang).
 Material. RUSSIA: 1 ex. (ISEA), Altaisky Krai, Barnaul, 11. VI.1920, E. Rodd; 1 ex. (ZIN), Tyva Republic, Dzun-Khemchiksky District, Chadan, 21. VI; 1 ex. (ZIN), Amur Oblast, Mikhailovsky District, 10-20.VII.1928, V. Vereschagin; 1 ex. (ZIN), Khabarovsky Krai, 245 km N of Khabarovsk, 26. V.1911, V.K. Soldatov; 1 ex. (ZIN), Primorsky Krai, Yakovlevsky District, Yakovlevka, 23. V.1926, Filip’ev; KAZAKHSTAN: 1 ex. (ZIN), West Kazakhstan Region, Bayterek District, Yanvartsevo, Ural River, 29. VI.1950, Shteiberg; KIRGISTAN: 1 ex. (ZIN), Issyk-Kul Region, Ak-Terek, on Populus, 16- 22.VII.1961, Ibragimova; 1 ex. (ZIN), Batken Region, Alay Range, Isfayramsay River, 17.VII.1928; TAJIKISTAN: 1 ex. (ZIN), Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Badakhshan, Vanj River, 5.VII.1965, Zaslavskij; 1 ex. (ZIN), Muk (near Kandou), Muksu River, 2000 m, on Populus, 11.VII.1954; 1 ex. (ZIN), Obichingou River, Argochun, on Populus, 20.VII.1954, I. Lopatin.
 Distribution. Russia: European part, Western and South Eastern Siberia (Altai, Sayan Mountains) (fig. 16), Europe, Kazakhstan, China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Xinjiang), North America.
 Host plants. Populus acuminata Rydberg, P. alba L., P. deltoides Marshall, P. grandidentata Michaux, P. nigra L., P.tremula L., Salix sp. (Medevedev, Rogynskaya 1988; Rodríguez- Mirón, 2018).
description: Published as part of Sergeev, Maxim E. & Legalov, Andrei A., 2022, Review of leaf beetles of the family Megalopodidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) from Siberia and the Russian Far East, pp. 44-70 in Ecologica Montenegrina 57 on pages 63-64, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.57.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13240669
title: Nitrogen soil surface budgets for districts in Germany 1995 to 2017
title: Nitrogen soil surface budgets for districts in Germany 1995 to 2017
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Häußermann, Uwe
name: Klement, Laura
name: Breuer, Lutz
name: Ullrich, Antje
name: Wechsung, Gabriele
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Landwirtschaft
Biogas
Stickstoffeffizienz
Bundesrepublik Deutschland

description: Background Nitrogen (N) as a key input for crop production has adverse effects on the environment through emissions of reactive nitrogen. Less than 20% of the fertiliser nitrogen applied to agricultural land is actually consumed by humans in meat. Given this situation, nitrogen budgets have been introduced to quantify potential losses into the environment, to raise awareness in nutrient management, and to enforce and monitor nutrient mitigation measures. The surplus of the N soil surface budget has been used for many years for the assessment of potentially water pollution with nitrate from agriculture. Results For the 402 districts in Germany, nitrogen soil surface budgets were calculated for the time series 1995 to 2017. For the first time, biogas production in agriculture and the transfer of manure between districts were included in the budget. Averaged for all districts, the recent N supply to the utilised agricultural area (UAA) totals 227 kg N ha-1 UAA (mean 2015-2017), among them 104 kg N ha-1 UAA mineral fertiliser, 59 kg N ha-1 UAA manure, 33 kg N ha-1 UAA digestate, 14 kg N ha-1 UAA from gross atmospheric deposition, 13 kg N ha-1 UAA biological N fixation, and 1 kg N ha-1 UAA from seed and planting material. The withdrawal with harvested products accounts for 149 kg N ha-1 UAA, resulting in an N soil surface budget surplus of 77 kg N ha-1 UAA. The N surpluses per district (mean 2015-2017) vary considerably between 26 and 162 kg N ha-1 UAA and the nitrogen use efficiency of crop production ranges from 0.53 to 0.79 in the districts. The N surplus in Germany as a whole has remained nearly constant since 1995, but the regional distribution has changed significantly. The N surplus has decreased in the arable farming regions, but increased in the districts with high livestock density. Some of this surplus, however, is relocated to other districts through the transfer of manure. Conclusions The 23-year time series forms a reliable basis for further interpretation of N soil surface surplus in Germany. Agri-environmental programmes such as the limitation of the N surplus through the Fertiliser Ordinance and the promotion of biogas production have a clear effect on the N surplus in Germany as a whole and its regional distribution. © 2020 BioMed Central Ltd.
Simultaneous measurement of human brain activity using near infra-red spectroscopy, electroencephalogram and the steady state visually evoked potential
Creators: name: Steedman, David John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The focus of this study was the comparison of electrical and blood oxygenation data collected simultaneously from the human visual cortex in response to a steady-state visual stimulus. Electrical brain activity was obtained via the Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal recorded from a single scalp electrode. Simultaneous changes in cortical blood oxygenation were detected and recorded by use of a Continuous Wave (CW) Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) device, located over the region of the occipital cortex. The steady-state visual stimulus used was a white visual flicker. Each flicker frequency between 3Hz and 45Hz was presented one at a time for a period of one minute, with the order of the presentation of the flicker frequencies being randomised. Data collected from five subjects were investigated (both graphically and statistically via correlation analysis) to identify and determine the strength of any relationship between the electrical and oxygenation data. NIRS blood oxygenation data was compared separately to Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) and Power Spectrum data, both of which were obtained via the EEG. It was proposed that any relationship between blood oxygenation and SSVEP amplitude would be negative in nature when the flicker frequency of the visual stimulus was in the Delta, Theta and Alpha frequency ranges. Conversely, when stimulus flicker frequency was in the Beta and Gamma frequency ranges, any relationship between the two data types was expected to be positive. Similar behaviour was anticipated between the blood oxygenation data and EEG power spectrum data, when the power spectrum data was broken up into its’ component frequency ranges (i.e. possible negative relationship in the Delta, Theta and Alpha ranges and positive in the Beta and Gamma ranges). No significant relationship was found between the NIRS blood oxygenation signals and the SSVEP amplitude data. When comparing the EEG power spectrum and NIRS blood oxygenation data, significant negative correlation was seen for one subject in the Delta (0-4Hz) and Theta (4-8Hz) frequency ranges. These correlation coefficients remained significant at α = 0.0001. Even though the experimental aim of this study was achieved, it was recommended that a larger subject pool should be used in future studies, as it may help to reduce the influence that anatomical differences between subjects could have had on the experimental results. This in turn may allow more informed comment to be made as to the existence of a coupling relationship between electrical and vascular cortical activity.
War and peace and North-West Greece: a study of the fourth century B.C. Pegasi
Creators: name: McCarthy-Reece, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This project investigates the motivating factors that led to the minting of silver pegasi (Corinthian-style) coins by fifteen city-states of North-West Greece in the mid-fourth century B.C. The basis of the project is a series of die-studies that will enable the quantification and analysis of each city’s minting activity during this period. The project includes the first diestudies of the pegasi staters of 12 poleis, data that will inform the project’s historical conclusions. Questions of chronology and the purpose for minting, which have been entangled in past literature, are addressed through a comprehensive analysis of the hoards and formation of a relative chronology. Employing postcolonial theory, the project takes a unique regional approach to the geopolitical history of North-West Greece by viewing the minting poleis as an interconnected and communicative network of cities along the coastline of Greece. The thesis also engages with cultural semiotics to evaluate the iconographical significance of the pegasi coin as a symbolic political medium.This research has implications for our understanding of the geopolitical history of North-West Greece in the Classical period, a region of the Mediterranean that is under-researched in the archaeology and underrepresented in both the ancient and modern literature. Furthermore, the project highlights the usefulness of coinage as a class of evidence for the interpretation of macro-historical trends such as colonisation, commerce, and conflict in the ancient world.
How Can We Responsibly Utilise Generative AI to Transform Anatomy Education for Enhanced Learning and Streamlined Administration?
Creators: name: Varsou, Ourania
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460103
subject: Applications in life sciences

description:   
In this talk, we will explore the strategic use of generative AI in anatomy education, focusing on how this technology could be employed to enhance students’ learning experience while also empowering educators to concentrate on higher-level cognitive tasks. Through case studies, we will discuss the customisation of formative assessments to individual learning needs and the development of secure, bespoke ChatGPT models trained on in-house content. We will also consider the use of generative AI in streamlining administrative tasks for effective time management. In summary, this talk aims to showcase the multifaceted benefits of responsibly using generative AI to optimise both educational and administrative processes in the field of anatomy.
Instabilities in freely expanding sheets of associating viscoelastic fluids
Creators: name: Arora, S.
name: Louhichi, A.
name: Vlassopoulos, D.
name: Ligoure, C.
name: Ramos, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the impact of drops on a small solid target as a tool to investigate the behavior of viscoelastic fluids under extreme deformation rates. We study two classes of transient networks: semidilute solutions of supramolecular polymers and suspensions of spherical oil droplets reversibly linked by polymers. The two types of samples display very similar linear viscoelastic properties, which can be described with a Maxwell fluid model, but contrasting nonlinear properties due to different network structure. Upon impact, weakly viscoelastic samples exhibit a behavior qualitatively similar to that of Newtonian fluids: A smooth and regular sheet forms, expands, and then retracts. By contrast, for highly viscoelastic fluids, the thickness of the sheet is found to be very irregular, leading to instabilities and eventually formation of holes. We find that material rheological properties rule the onset of instabilities. We first provide a simple image analysis of the expanding sheets to determine the onset of instabilities. We then demonstrate that a Deborah number related to the shortest relaxation time associated to the sample structure following a high shear is the relevant parameter that controls the heterogeneities in the thickness of the sheet, eventually leading to the formation of holes. When the sheet tears-up, data suggest by contrast that the opening dynamics depends also on the expansion rate of the sheet.
description: accepted for publication in Soft Matter
Measuring post-quench entanglement entropy through density correlations
Creators: name: Del Maestro, Adrian
name: Barghathi, Hatem
name: Rosenow, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following a sudden change of interactions in an integrable system of one-dimensional fermions, we analyze the dependence of the static structure factor on the observation time after the quantum quench. At small waiting times after the quench, we map the system to non-interacting bosons such that we are able to extract their occupation numbers from the Fourier transform of the density-density correlation function, and use these to compute a bosonic entropy from a diagonal ensemble. By comparing this bosonic entropy with the asymptotic steady state entanglement entropy per fermion computed with exact diagonalization we find excellent agreement.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. For associated data and code repository see: https://github.com/DelMaestroGroup/papers-code-QuenchStructureFactorEntanglement
Arctelene Kirti & Gill 2008
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Huang, Si-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Arctelene

description: Genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill, 2008
 Arctelene Kirti & Gill, 2008, Oriental Insects, 42: 360.
 Type species: Arctelene uncodes Kirti & Gill, 2008 (by original designation), a junior subjective synonym of Arctelene rubricosa (Moore, 1878) (see below).
 Species of the genus are externally indistinguishable from members of the genus Miltochrista but display substantial differences in the male genital capsule structure, which is distinguished from Miltochrista by the presence of a dorsal proximal crest of the uncus, and the apically dilated valva lacking the distal membranous lobe and the distal saccular process. The female genitalia of Arctelene are characterised by the sclerotised 7 th abdominal sternite bearing poster-lateral subostial lobes, and the large and membranous appendix bursae. The genus is under revision by Volynkin et al. (in prep.).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao, 2022, On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 86-108 in Ecologica Montenegrina 58 on page 103, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.58.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13240006
Fabrication and Characterization of Lignin/Dendrimer Electrospun Blended Fiber Mats
Creators: name: Akbari, Somaye
name: Bahi, Addie
name: Farahani, Ali
name: Milani, Abbas S.
name: Ko, Frank K.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Blending lignin as the second most abundant polymer in Nature with nanostructured compounds such as dendritic polymers can not only add value to lignin, but also increase its application in various fields. In this study, softwood Kraft lignin/polyamidoamine dendritic polymer (PAMAM) blends were fabricated by the solution electrospinning to produce bead-free nanofiber mats for the first time. The mats were characterized through scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, zeta potential, and thermogravimetry analyses. The chemical intermolecular interactions between the lignin functional groups and abundant amino groups in the PAMAM were verified by FTIR and viscosity measurements. These interactions proved to enhance the mechanical and thermal characteristics of the lignin/PAMAM mats, suggesting their potential applications e.g. in membranes, filtration, controlled release drug delivery, among others.
Joint Far- and Near-End Speech Intelligibility Enhancement based on the Approximated Speech Intelligibility Index
Creators: name: Fuglsig, Andreas Jonas
name: Østergaard, Jan
name: Jensen, Jesper
name: Bertelsen, Lars Søndergaard
name: Mariager, Peter
name: Tan, Zheng-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers speech enhancement of signals picked up in one noisy environment which must be presented to a listener in another noisy environment. Recently, it has been shown that an optimal solution to this problem requires the consideration of the noise sources in both environments jointly. However, the existing optimal mutual information based method requires a complicated system model that includes natural speech variations, and relies on approximations and assumptions of the underlying signal distributions. In this paper, we propose to use a simpler signal model and optimize speech intelligibility based on the Approximated Speech Intelligibility Index (ASII). We derive a closed-form solution to the joint far- and near-end speech enhancement problem that is independent of the marginal distribution of signal coefficients, and that achieves similar performance to existing work. In addition, we do not need to model or optimize for natural speech variations.
The momentum constraint equation in Parameterised Post-Newtonian Cosmology
Creators: name: Anton, Theodore
name: Clifton, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a theory-independent version of the momentum constraint equation for use in cosmology, as a part of the Parameterised Post-Newtonian Cosmology (PPNC) framework. Our equations are constructed by adapting the corresponding quantities from formalisms devised for testing and constraining gravity in isolated astrophysical systems, thereby extending the domain of applicability of these approaches up to cosmological scales. Our parameterised equations include both scalar and divergenceless-vector gravitational potentials, and can be applied to both conservative and non-conservative theories of gravity. They can also be used to describe the gravitational fields of both non-linear structures and super-horizon perturbations. We apply the parameterised equations we propose to quintessence models of dark energy, as well as to scalar-tensor and vector-tensor theories of gravity. We find them to work well in each case. Our equations are highly compact, and are intended to be useful for constraining gravity in a theory-independent fashion in cosmology.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures, v2. Matches version published in CQG
"Unified Recursive Emergence Theory (URET): A Depth‑Limited Quadratic Map Linking Quantum, Neural, and Cosmic Energy Patterns"  (Concise, descriptive, and clearly signals the novel bridge across physical scales.)
Creators: name: Wagner, Allen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Unified Recursive Emergence Theory (URET) posits a common mathematical framework, potentially rooted in quadratic map dynamics (z -> z^2 + c), governing the emergence of complexity across quantum, neural, and cosmic scales. This study presents an initial computational validation of URET by testing the hypothesis that complexity parameters derived independently from these domains exhibit correlations when analyzed through this dynamical system. We derived complexity parameters c_q (quantum), c_n (neural), and c_c (cosmic) from publicly available datasets (Zenodo particle data, MICA-PNI 7T fMRI, SDSS DR8 filaments), obtaining c_q=0.171, c_n=1.066, and c_c=0.507. Using these parameters, we iterated the quadratic map for N=1000 initial seeds, calculating energy moments M_d(z0, c) with numerical guardrails. Pearson correlations (ρ) between moment lists were computed and compared against cubic and logistic-like map null models. A strong, statistically significant positive correlation was found between the quantum and cosmic domains (ρ_qc = 0.645, p < 0.001, n=195), potentially supporting a URET-predicted link. However, severe numerical instability, particularly associated with c_n, rendered correlations involving the neural domain (ρ_qn, ρ_nc) inconclusive (based on n=6 and n=11 valid points, respectively). While the quadratic map showed more specificity than null models, significant limitations include the instability, the use of substitute datasets, and the interpretation of parameter extraction methods. This work provides tentative support for the URET q-c link, but further research is required to address stability and refine the methodology.
LicenseManuscript © 2025 Allen Wagner — Creative Commons BY 4.0.Code — MIT License.Unified Recursive Emergence Theory, URET, complexity, emergence, quadratic map, dynamical systems, quantum physics, neuroscience, cosmology, computational validation, correlation analysis, open data.