cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A kernel language based exchange framework for behavioural modelling languages
Creators: name: Kletzander, Christian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: AutomationML
subject: Transformations
subject: Model Exchange
subject: AutomationML
subject: Transformations
subject: Model Exchange

description: In der Automatisierungstechnik werden verschiedenste Arten von Verhaltensdiagrammen innerhalb eines Unternehmens eingesetzt. Die Kompatibilität dieser Diagramme zueinander ist begrenzt, weil nur eine spezielle Menge von standardisierten Dateiformaten für den Import und Export unterstützt werden. Derzeit gibt es kein System, welches ein beliebiges Verhaltensdiagramm durch die Nutzung einer generalisierten Kernsprache in ein beliebiges anderes Verhaltensdiagramm transformieren kann. In der Literatur findet man Beispiele, welche einen speziellen Diagrammtyp in einen anderen vordefinierten Diagrammtyp transformieren können, jedoch sind hier die Möglichkeiten auf die vordefinierten Typen beschränkt. In dieser Arbeit möchte ich ein System entwickeln, welches den Intermediate Modelling Layer (IML) des AutomationML Konsortiums als Kernsprache zum Austausch beliebiger Verhaltensdiagramme benutzt. Durch den Einsatz einer Fallstudie möchte ich evaluieren, ob es zu einem Informationsverlust bei der Transformierung mit der Kernsprache IML kommt. Zum Einsatz kommen hierbei zwei verschiedene Verhaltensdiagramme, das Aktivitätsknotennetzwerk (AONN) und GANTT. Nach der Transformation von GANTT nach AONN und retour kommt es zu keinem Informationsverlust. Wenn man AONN nach GANTT und retour transformiert, verliert man die Attribute: Verzögerung, spätester Startzeitpunkt, frühester Startzeitpunkt und spätester Endzeitpunkt.
description: The interoperability for exchanging behavioural models between different tools in automation is only achieved by a small amount, which are supporting standardized import and export formats. There is no transformation framework existing for exchanging different behavioural models through a standardized kernel language. The literature describes several techniques to transform a modelling language into another pre-defined modelling language, but all of these are fixed to specific types of modelling languages and do not support the general exchange between any behavioural modelling language. In this thesis, I introduce a new technique that allows exchanging a small amount of behavioural modelling languages through a standardized kernel language based exchange framework. I am using the Intermediate Modelling Layer (IML) from the AutomationML consortium as a kernel language for exchanging activity-on-node networks (AONN) into GANTT charts and back. By doing a case study based evaluation the generated input and output models of the different behaviour modelling types are analysed for possible information loss after exchanging them. The round trip transformation from GANTT to AONN and back has no information loss, whereas AONN to GANTT and back loses information attributes like delay, latest start time point, earliest start time point and latest end time point.
Statistical mechanics of kinks on a gliding screw dislocation
Creators: name: Boleininger, M.
name: Gallauer, M.
name: Dudarev, S. L.
name: Swinburne, T. D.
name: Mason, D. R.
name: Perez, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability of a body-centered cubic metal to deform plastically is limited by the thermally activated glide motion of screw dislocations, which are line defects with a mobility exhibiting complex dependence on temperature, stress, and dislocation segment length. We derive an analytical expression for the velocity of dislocation glide, based on a statistical mechanics argument, and identify an apparent phase transition marked by a critical temperature above which the activation energy for glide effectively halves, changing from the formation energy of a double kink to that of a single kink. The analysis is in quantitative agreement with direct kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Research Updated: article meta-data
title: Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Implementation of the Lake Okeechobee System Operation Manual (LOSOM)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2023

description: SERO-2022-00967
Polish Rural Development Programmes – Evaluation Results and Lessons Learned
Creators: name: Wieliczko, Barbara
name: Wieliczko, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: Poland
subject: EU
subject: rural development programmes
subject: policy measures
subject: policy implementation

description: In May 2004 Poland became a member of the EU. Thus it became eligible for the EU funds towards rural development. The programmes related to the EU rural development policy are complex. They involve planning numerous measures for a multi-annual implementation. Polish experiences with the implementation of EU co-financed programmes targeted to the development of rural areas show that the reallocation of funds between measures and regions is an effective tool for increasing the total financial absorption. The choice of measures is a difficult issue. Policy instruments designed by public administration often do not prove well fitted to a given economic reality. Therefore, their alterations must be possible during the implementation process as this is the way their efficiency and effectiveness can be improved.
Entanglement Sharing and Decoherence in the Spin-Bath
Creators: name: Dawson, Christopher M.
name: Hines, Andrew P.
name: McKenzie, Ross H.
name: Milburn, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The monogamous nature of entanglement has been illustrated by the derivation of entanglement sharing inequalities - bounds on the amount of entanglement that can be shared amongst the various parts of a multipartite system. Motivated by recent studies of decoherence, we demonstrate an interesting manifestation of this phenomena that arises in system-environment models where there exists interactions between the modes or subsystems of the environment. We investigate this phenomena in the spin-bath environment, constructing an entanglement sharing inequality bounding the entanglement between a central spin and the environment in terms of the pairwise entanglement between individual bath spins. The relation of this result to decoherence will be illustrated using simplified system-bath models of decoherence.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure v2: 6 pages 2 figures, additional example and references
A Study on Multimodal and Interactive Explanations for Visual Question Answering
Creators: name: Alipour, Kamran
name: Schulze, Jurgen P.
name: Yao, Yi
name: Ziskind, Avi
name: Burachas, Giedrius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Explainability and interpretability of AI models is an essential factor affecting the safety of AI. While various explainable AI (XAI) approaches aim at mitigating the lack of transparency in deep networks, the evidence of the effectiveness of these approaches in improving usability, trust, and understanding of AI systems are still missing. We evaluate multimodal explanations in the setting of a Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, by asking users to predict the response accuracy of a VQA agent with and without explanations. We use between-subjects and within-subjects experiments to probe explanation effectiveness in terms of improving user prediction accuracy, confidence, and reliance, among other factors. The results indicate that the explanations help improve human prediction accuracy, especially in trials when the VQA system's answer is inaccurate. Furthermore, we introduce active attention, a novel method for evaluating causal attentional effects through intervention by editing attention maps. User explanation ratings are strongly correlated with human prediction accuracy and suggest the efficacy of these explanations in human-machine AI collaboration tasks.
description: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2560/paper44.pdf
Certain aspects of structural change in rural areas. The experience of selected countries
Creators: name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Chmieliński, Paweł
name: Contini, Caterina
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Karcagi-Kovats, Andrea
name: Karwat-Woźniak, Bożena
name: Katic, Branko
name: Kocmanova, Lucie
name: Kuti, Istvan
name: Majerova, Vera
name: Kinga, Odor
name: Vukovic, Predrag
name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Chmieliński, Paweł
name: Contini, Caterina
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Karcagi-Kovats, Andrea
name: Karwat-Woźniak, Bożena
name: Katic, Branko
name: Kocmanova, Lucie
name: Kuti, Istvan
name: Majerova, Vera
name: Kinga, Odor
name: Vukovic, Predrag
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: social capital
subject: economic development
subject: social development
subject: European Union
subject: rural population
subject: rural areas
subject: structural change

description: Operative instruments supporting the multifunctionality of agriculture. The influence of social capital on the economic and social development of the Czech countryside. Serbia at the gates of the European Union – comparative analysis. Rural population decline in the Visegrad Four countries and Romania. Development prospects of agriculture and rural areas in Poland.
title: Morgan Creek-Prairie Basin Cattle and Horse Grazing Allotment
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7 Formal Consultation and Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Consultation for Livestock Grazing on the Morgan Creek-Prairie Basin Cattle and Horse Allotment, Challis Creek – 1706020116; Morgan Creek – 1706020117; Garden Creek – Salmon River – 1706020118; Lower Camas Creek – 1706020603; and Upper Panther Creek – 1706020309, Custer and Lemhi Counties, Idaho
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2024

description: WCRO-2023-02157
Implementation of Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 in Slovenia and challenges for the future
Creators: name: Bedrac, Matej
name: Cunder, Tomaž
name: Bedrac, Matej
name: Cunder, Tomaž
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: rural development programme
subject: Slovenia
subject: sustainable agriculture

description: Slovenia implements its rural development policy through Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP). In this programming period is within four development axes implemented 21 measures in total amount of 1,177 millions €. The main objective of the paper is to analyse the implementation of rural development policy measures in Slovenia in period 2007-2010 and to give proposals which will increase the efficiency of implementation in the next programming period. An analysis of the implementation shows that there is great imbalance between the strategic goals and actual implementation of the programme. In the first four years of the implementation majority of the funds were allocated to the measures which pursuing economic and environmental components of sustainable development but at the level of implementation especially social and spatial issues are not adequately addressed.
Additional file 1 of Is health research undertaken where the burden of disease is greatest? Observational study of geographical inequalities in recruitment to research in England 2013–2018
Creators: name: Bower, Peter
name: Grigoroglou, Christos
name: Anselmi, Laura
name: Kontopantelis, Evangelos
name: Sutton, Matthew
name: Ashworth, Mark
name: Evans, Philip
name: Lock, Stephen
name: Smye, Stephen
name: Abel, Kathryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1a-S1f. Geographical distribution of recruitment. Figures S2a-S2i. Bar chart of rate of recruitment at different levels of disease prevalence. Figures S3a-S3i. Concentration curves. Table S4. Univariate regression analyses – effects of time on redistribution index.
title: NOAA Modeling Strategy : strategic plan 2024-2033
Creators: name: Morgan, Michael
name: Koch, Dorothy
name: Gross, Brian
name: Carlis, DaNa
name: Burke, Patrick
name: Tolman, Hendrik
name: Vogt, Jennifer
Publisher: name: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Year: 2024

description: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Modeling Strategy aligns, unifies, simplifies, focuses and leverages NOAA’s full Earth System Modeling (ESM) portfolio of research, operations, and applications to support every NOAA mission area. NOAA’s mission areas require a highly complex and integrated modeling infrastructure, where environmental (physical), biogeochemical, ecosystem, space, and human modeling components are foundational. The term “Modeling” is used here for the foundational end-to-end modeling process starting from model initialization to simulations performed with numerical computer models to model testing, evaluation and improvements, as well as product generation and dissemination. Social science is also needed to appropriately refine requirements from stakeholders and to increasingly connect human decisions and activities into Earth System models. The motivation for developing this strategy is to leverage emerging technologies and unify modeling capabilities to increase collaboration, both within and beyond NOAA, to achieve the NOAA mission.
SymmetryNet: Learning to Predict Reflectional and Rotational Symmetries of 3D Shapes from Single-View RGB-D Images
Creators: name: Shi, Yifei
name: Huang, Junwen
name: Zhang, Hongjia
name: Xu, Xin
name: Rusinkiewicz, Szymon
name: Xu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of symmetry detection of 3D shapes from single-view RGB-D images, where severely missing data renders geometric detection approach infeasible. We propose an end-to-end deep neural network which is able to predict both reflectional and rotational symmetries of 3D objects present in the input RGB-D image. Directly training a deep model for symmetry prediction, however, can quickly run into the issue of overfitting. We adopt a multi-task learning approach. Aside from symmetry axis prediction, our network is also trained to predict symmetry correspondences. In particular, given the 3D points present in the RGB-D image, our network outputs for each 3D point its symmetric counterpart corresponding to a specific predicted symmetry. In addition, our network is able to detect for a given shape multiple symmetries of different types. We also contribute a benchmark of 3D symmetry detection based on single-view RGB-D images. Extensive evaluation on the benchmark demonstrates the strong generalization ability of our method, in terms of high accuracy of both symmetry axis prediction and counterpart estimation. In particular, our method is robust in handling unseen object instances with large variation in shape, multi-symmetry composition, as well as novel object categories.
description: 15 pages
Coreless and singular vortex lattices in rotating spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Mizushima, Takeshi
name: Kobayashi, Naoko
name: Machida, Kazushige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate vortex-lattice phases of rotating spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with the ferromagnetic spin-interaction by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The spinor BEC under slow rotation can sustain a rich variety of exotic vortices due to the multi-component order parameters, such as the Mermin-Ho and Anderson-Toulouse coreless vortices (the 2-dimensional skyrmion and meron) and the non-axisymmetric vortices with the sifting vortex cores. Here, we present the spin texture of various vortex-lattice states at higher rotation rates and in the presence of the external magnetic field. In addition, the vortex phase diagram is constructed in the plane by the total magnetization $M$ and the external rotation frequency $Ω$ by comparing the free energies of possible vortices. It is shown that the vortex phase diagram in a $M$-$Ω$ plane may be divided into two categories; (i) the coreless vortex lattice formed by the several types of Mermin-Ho vortices and (ii) the vortex lattice filling in the cores with the pure polar (antiferromagnetic) state. In particular, it is found that the type-(ii) state forms the composite lattices of coreless and polar-core vortices. The difference between the type-(i) and type-(ii) results from the existence of the singularity of the spin textures, which may be experimentally confirmed by the spin imaging within polarized light recently proposed by Carusotto and Mueller. We also discussed on the stability of triangular and square lattice states for rapidly rotating condensates.
description: to be published in Phys. Rev. A
Non-dissipative Thermal Transport and Magnetothermal Effect for the Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Chain
Creators: name: Sakai, Kazumitsu
name: Klumper, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anomalous magnetothermal effects are discussed in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain. The energy current is related to one of the non-trivial conserved quantities underlying integrability and therefore both the diagonal and off diagonal dynamical correlations of spin and energy current diverge. The energy-energy and spin-energy current correlations at finite temperatures are exactly calculated by a lattice path integral formulation. The low-temperature behavior of the thermomagnetic (magnetic Seebeck) coefficient is also discussed. Due to effects of strong correlations, we observe the magnetic Seebeck coefficient changes sign at certain interaction strengths and magnetic fields.
description: 4 pages, references added, typos corrected, Conference proceedings of SPQS 2004, Sendai, Japan
Species diversity and production of antimicrobial compounds by Pacific Northwestern clavicipitalean entomogenous fungi (Cordyceps spp.)
Creators: name: King, Brian Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Members of the fungal genus Cordyceps and its anamorphic genera are mostly pathogens of arthropods (insects, spiders, mites) with a few species parasitizing hypogeous fungi (Elaphomyces spp.). They produce numerous secondary metabolites with a wide range of biological activities which facilitate their life cycle and ecological roles. Examples include immunosuppressant, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, cytotoxic, and insecticidal compounds. This research focused on entomogenous fungi collected from British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. Twenty-eight isolates were selected for DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. Genomic DNA was extracted from mycelium grown on agar media. PCR was used to amplify the ribosomal ITS and LSU regions which were then sequenced. Examination of morphology and DNA sequences grouped the isolates into twelve distinct taxa within the family Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota). Most were from the teleomorphic genus Cordyceps and its anamorphic genera Beauveria, Isaria, Tolypocladium, and Metarhizium. One isolate was in Lecanicillium, an anamorph of the spider and scale pathogen Torrubiella. To screen for antibacterial secondary metabolites, seven isolates from four species of entomogenous fungi were grown on different liquid media. Cultures were filtered through a fine mesh screen to separate the mycelium from the liquid broth. They were then frozen, freeze dried, and extracted in 100% methanol. Antibacterial activity was tested using the disc-diffusion bioassay. The crude extracts from five of six fungi showed significant inhibition of the gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, S. aureus methicillin resistant, Bacillus subtilis, and Enterococcus faecalis. None showed activity against the gram-negative Escherichia coli, and Salmonella typhimurium. The minimum inhibition concentration for extracts showing bioactivity was determined using serial dilutions in a ninety-six well plate. The phenol-red overlay method allowed for the integration of thin layer chromatography and bioactivity. One fungus was selected for further chemical investigation. Using a combination of liquid-liquid partitioning, preparative column chromatography, and preparative thin layer chromatography, three compounds showing antimicrobial activity were isolated. Structural elucidation of these compounds using MS and NMR is currently underway.
A Value Chain Analysis of St Vincent and the Grenadines Banana Industry
Creators: name: Wilson, Elroy
name: Seepersad, Govind
name: Iton, Ardon
name: Wilson, Elroy
name: Seepersad, Govind
name: Iton, Ardon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: banana
subject: Fairtrade
subject: critical analysis
subject: cost of production
subject: St. Vincent and the Grenadines

description: The banana industry played an important role in the economy of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) since it was established in the 1950’s. The industry has contributed to the country’s economy by providing employment and development for rural households. St Vincent and the Grenadines has the highest income dependency percentage (22.3%) among the Windward Islands and has traditionally exported bananas to the United Kingdom (UK) under a preferential treatment marketing import system. Preferential access ceased in 1995 when WTO trade rules were implemented. Currently, the EU has eliminated its quota system and has reduced preferential access to its markets. At present, banana from St Vincent and the Grenadines is exported under the Fairtrade label which guarantees a stable price per box. This research examines the SVG banana industry value chain under a new EU marketing and pricing regime. It focuses on the current economic status of the banana industry and the contributions of the major Stakeholders along the chain. A critical analysis was done of the cost of production and the value potential of bananas in both the UK and regional market. Results indicate that the banana industry’s contribution to the economy has declined significantly in the last few decades. The study also found that most of the value is added after the fruit leaves the farmgate, with Winfresh making the highest contribution to value in the chain. Interestingly, while the volume of exports to the UK has been declining, exports to the regional market has been increasing. Further, the value per tonne of banana sold in the regional market has been increasing since 2004. From a marketing perspective it suggests the need for a closer examination of the attractiveness of regional markets, not just Trinidad and Tobago, for SVG bananas.
title: Cruise report : NOAA Ship PISCES, PC-23-03, Southeast Fishery-Independent Survey (SEFIS)
Creators: name: Bacheler, Nathan
Publisher: name: Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2023

description: The NOAA Ship Pisces hosted the Southeast Fishery-Independent Survey (SEFIS) for a research cruise in continental shelf and shelf-break waters off North and South Carolina in 2023. SEFIS was created by the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2010 and operates out of the NOAA-Beaufort Laboratory. This survey was created to conduct applied fishery-independent sampling and related research focusing on the assessment of spatial variability in distribution and abundance of red snapper and other reef species within the snapper-grouper complex, via data collected from fish traps, video cameras, and acoustics.
title: National Status and Trends Mussel Watch Program : A 2017 Assessment of Legacy Organic Contaminants in the Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: Swam, Lauren M.
name: Rider, Mary M.
name: Apeti, Dennis A.
Publisher: name: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
Year: 2024

description: NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ; 326
description: In 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Mussel Watch Program (MWP) conducted an assessment of the presence, distribution, and concentrations of legacy organic contaminants in Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) from the Gulf of Mexico’s coastal waters. To accomplish this, the MWP utilized a sentinel-based monitoring approach by collecting and analyzing bivalves as surrogates for coastal water pollution. Mussels and oysters are sessile organisms that filter and accumulate particles from water; therefore, measuring contaminant levels in their tissue is a good indicator of local chemical contamination. The oyster samples were measured for 9 legacy compound groups, including butyltins, chlordanes, chlorobenzenes, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDTs), dieldrins, endosulfans, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCHs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in addition to 2 individual contaminants, chlorpyrifos and mirex. Oyster tissue samples from 44 monitoring sites across the Gulf Coasts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were analyzed in this study.
Promoting Agricultural Trade in CARICOM:
Creators: name: Gordon, Ronald M.
name: Gordon, Ronald M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agricultural trade policy
subject: food demand profile
subject: agricultural production
subject: CARICOM

description: Economic theory has established that the basis for international trade is the welfare gains available to trading partners on account of the economic efficiencies obtainable, with specialisation influenced by the comparative advantage to be had. Decisions on trade by economic agents are informed by the policy environment within which they operate, for their economic benefit. Analysis of intra-CARICOM trade data reveals a greater propensity for extra-regional rather than intra-regional agricultural trade, despite the recognized natural resource base in many CARICOM countries. Examination of the countries’ trade data, within the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) food groups, gives an indication of national food demand profiles. Reviews of trade and production data suggest comparative production capabilities. An evaluation of the comparison of food demand profiles and countries’ production capabilities provides an indication of issues that warrant attention in elaborating a policy framework to promote increased agricultural trade within CARICOM. Case study analyses’ illustrate the potential for increased intra-regional agricultural, pointing to specific issues that ought to be addressed. Many of these require national level attention involving multi-party collaboration while some can benefit from regional level collaborative measures.
title: Southwest Fisheries Science Center decadal strategy for Pacific salmon recovery science
Creators: name: Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Publisher: name: Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2023

description: The SWFSC has a comprehensive strategic planning and implementation process that aligns SWFSC science with direction from the Department of Commerce, NOAA, and NMFS, and the needs of its customers. DOC, NOAA, NMFS and the SWFSC produce periodically-updated strategic plans and annual documents that outline high-priority research needs across the SWFSC’s diverse study areas. This document aims to offer more specific guidance to scientists at the SWFSC working in the area of salmon recovery. Pacific salmon1 and steelhead are important species for tribal, commercial, and recreational fisheries; are of high interest to the general public due to their iconic status; and play important roles in freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems. The history and current status of salmon in California is complex: a litany of loss interspersed with examples of resilience. The future of salmon in California is in doubt, but one certainty is that their recovery and sustainability will depend on the effectiveness of conservation actions taken in the face of an increasingly variable and rapidly warming climate and changing ocean.
New Ways to Solve the Schroedinger Equation
Creators: name: Friedberg, R.
name: Lee, T. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a new approach to solve the low lying states of the Schroedinger equation. For a fairly large class of problems, this new approach leads to convergent iterative solutions, in contrast to perturbative series expansions. These convergent solutions include the long standing difficult problem of a quartic potential with either symmetric or asymmetric minima.
description: 72 pages
Additional file 1 of Attitudes about cannabis mediate the relationship between cannabis knowledge and use in active adult athletes
Creators: name: Zeiger, Joanna S.
name: Silvers, William S.
name: Fleegler, Edward M.
name: Zeiger, Robert S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Call to Action for The Athlete PEACE Survey
Additional file 1 of Implementation of a strategy to facilitate effective medical follow-up for Australian First Nations children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infections: study protocol
Creators: name: Schultz, André
name: Chang, Anne B.
name: Gill, Fenella
name: Walker, Roz
name: Barwick, Melanie
name: Munns, Sarah
name: Cooper, Matthew N.
name: Norman, Richard
name: Laird, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview question guide parent.
Agri-food Value Chain Development and Market Information Systems in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Iton, Ardon
name: Iton, Ardon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Value chain development
subject: Market information systems
subject: NAMIS
subject: Information dissemination
subject: Caribbean farmers.

description: Recent years have seen increased discussion of the role of Market Information Systems (MIS) and Value Chains (VC) in economic development, especially in developing countries. This research attempts to identify how many farmers in Trinidad have used the Trinidad and Tobago National Agricultural Market Information System (NAMIS) and what are some of the key differences between users and non-users of NAMIS from a farmers’ perspective. Using data collected from a survey conducted in 2010, the following criteria were used to develop and test several hypotheses to identify those factors that contribute to use or non-use of NAMIS – size of farm, decision making responsibility, educational level, gender and age. Recently, several other CARICOM countries have expressed an interest in adopting NAMIS or versions of it for use in their countries. It is hoped that by identifying some of the differences between users and non-users of NAMIS, better MIS can be developed in the region and a stronger link can be made between MIS and Value Chain Development (VCD) to help Caribbean farmers participate in high value agri-food value chains and make the transition to market oriented agriculture.
title: Computing resonances in metallic photonic crystals
Creators: name: Leumüller, Michael
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: metallic photonic crystals
subject: eigenvalue problems

description: Resonance problems arise in many fields of research. An example are photonic crystals, in which the propagation of waves is defined by resonances. Photonic crystals with band gaps are of special interest. Band gaps are regions of frequencies which cannot propagate through the crystal. To calculate the band structure of photonic crystals many linear resonance problems need to be solved. Fast and reliable linear eigenvalue solvers are needed. Lately, metallic photonic crystals have become more interesting. Differently from photonic crystals the electric permittivity of metallic photonic crystals depends on the frequency leading to rational resonance problems. These problems come with a high computational cost. In this thesis, we introduce an efficient eigenvalue solver for large rational eigenvalue problems. At first, the resonance problems for two and three dimensional metallic photonic crystal are derived from Maxwells equations. Then, they are discretised with Bloch periodic high order finite elements in Netgen/NGSolve. The arising large rational matrix eigenvalue problems are linearised with a rational linearisation schema and solved by the shift-and-invert Arnoldi method. By combining linearisation with the shiftand-invert Arnoldi, systems of linear equations with dimensions larger than the original matrix size have to be solve in each iteration. With the introduced rational linearisation these large systems of linear equations can be reduced to the original problem size. The proposed combination of these two algorithms is applied to two and three dimensional metallic photonic crystals and compared to the shift-andinvert Arnoldi with a standard polynomial linearisation. The appearance of plasmon frequencies is witnessed and the influence on the solver is studied. We show that the proposed method is a reliable and fast solver for large rational eigenvalue problems.
title: Complex scaling for one-dimensional resonance problems in inhomogeneous exterior domains
Creators: name: Heitzinger, Thomas
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: complex scaling
subject: resonance problems

description: In this thesis the one-dimensional complex scaling method for generalized scaling profiles is introduced and applied to equations of Helmholtz-type with well known solutions in the exterior domain. We discuss the meaning of radiating solutions, prove conditions for the existence of unique radiating solutions to scattering problems, and show that solutions to scaled and unscaled problems are equivalent in some sense. We transfer most of these results to the time-independent Schrödinger equation with quadratically decaying potential functions. Potential functions of this type are non-trivial in the exterior domain and lead to solutions with inexplicit asymptotic behavior. We analyze the discrete spectrum of the associated Hamilton operator and test its dependence on the parameter a as well as the influence of discretization parameters. The method is implemented with the finite element software NGSolve.
Additional file 2 of Implementation of a strategy to facilitate effective medical follow-up for Australian First Nations children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infections: study protocol
Creators: name: Schultz, André
name: Chang, Anne B.
name: Gill, Fenella
name: Walker, Roz
name: Barwick, Melanie
name: Munns, Sarah
name: Cooper, Matthew N.
name: Norman, Richard
name: Laird, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Semi-structured interview guide for healthcare provider.
title: Remote-biopsy surveys of Cook Inlet beluga whales : Field Report for 2017-2019
Creators: name: Wade, P. R.
name: Sims, C.
name: Baker, C. S.
name: Goetz, K.
name: McGuire, T.
name: Michel, R.
name: Moisan, M.
name: Parsons, K.
Publisher: name: Alaska Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2024

description: NOAA technical memorandum NMFS AFSC ; 481
description: The Cook Inlet beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a genetically distinct, geographically separated population, which declined rapidly during the 1990s. In response to the critically low numbers of beluga whales following a period of over-hunting in Cook Inlet, Alaska, the U.S. federal government listed this small population as endangered in 2008. This population has not recovered and the cause(s) remain unknown. In 2016, NMFS included the Cook Inlet beluga whale as one of eight ‘Species in the Spotlight’ (SIS), defined as species at high risk needing immediate, targeted efforts to stabilize their population and prevent extinction.
title: The 2023 longline survey of the Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea on the FV Alaskan Leader : Cruise Report AL-23-01
Creators: name: Siwicke, K.
name: Malecha, P.
Publisher: name: Alaska Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2024

description: NOAA technical memorandum NMFS AFSC ; 480
description: In 2023, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center completed the 46th annual longline survey in the eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. The survey sampled demersal waters of the upper continental slope and shelf and provided stock assessment information related to sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) and several other groundfish species. The primary objectives of the survey were to determine 1) relative abundance of groundfish species through a standardized longline survey, 2) age composition of sablefish through otolith collection, and 3) movement patterns of selected groundfish species through a tag and recapture program. This report provides a summary of raw data and details of operations from the 2023 longline survey as well as trends observed on the survey over the last 20 years.
Information literacy: A Proposed Conceptual Framework for Agribusiness Education Reform
Creators: name: Iton, Ingrid
name: Iton, Ardon
name: Iton, Ingrid
name: Iton, Ardon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: The global information intensive economy has brought many changes and challenges to all nations. In this new economy the availability of information is growing at an exponential rate and the technologies which are used to store and access this information continue to change rapidly. In small developing nation states such as those in the Caribbean, the combination of these two factors constitutes a serious threat to the region’s ability to compete effectively in the global marketplace simply because the region does not generally have a workforce which is skilled in the efficient use of information. Knowledge of, and the ability to use computer technology is not an adequate response to this challenge posed by the information society. What is required is a cadre of information consumers who have the ability to know when and how to effectively use the new technologies as well as when and how to use the resources to which these new technologies provide access. And, in this context one of the goals of institutions of higher education in the region must be to graduate these information consumers. To achieve this requires curriculum reform that is supported by an educational philosophy that is informed by the recognition of the critical role of information literacy skills for the knowledge economy. To support the authors’ contention that the teaching of these skills is critical for agribusiness development, the paper will present the results of a survey of the members of the Faculty of Agriculture at The University of the West Indies. The survey seeks to ascertain faculty perceptions of the importance of information literacy competencies for graduates in the faculty as well as their perception of the information research skills of the students they teach. Through the examination of these two variables the authors will propose a conceptual framework to transform the curriculum into one that will produce graduates who are information literate and functional as lifelong learners. In proposing this framework the authors will also establish the significant role information professionals have to play as partners working with academics and administrators to reform the curricula of agricultural education in the region.
Additional file 1 of Solution properties and comparative antimicrobial efficacy study of different brands of toothpaste of Nepal
Creators: name: Narendra Kumar Chaudhary
name: Biswash Guragain
name: Lamichhane-Khadka, Reena
name: Ajaya Bhattarai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Ingredients of various toothpaste selected for antibacterial assessment. Table S2 Active antimicrobial ingredients of toothpastes. Figure S1 Surface tension Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in distilled water (DW) at room temperature. Figure S2 Surface tension Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in tap water (TW) at room temperature. Figure S3 Specific conductivity Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in distilled water (DW) at room temperature. Figure S4 Specific conductivity Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in Tap water (TW) at room temperature. Figure S5 Liner variations of specific conductivity Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in Distilled water at room temperature. Figure S6 Liner variations of specific conductivity Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in Tap water at room temperature. Figure S7 pH Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in distilled water (DW) at room temperature. Figure S8 pH Vs concentration of toothpaste samples in Tap water (TW) at room temperature.
Integrating the urban-agricultural edge : an exploration of new ruralism in south Delta
Creators: name: Porter, Edward Robbins
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Urbanization is eating our foodshed. While policy-level attempts to address agricultural land conversion focus primarily on the preservation of agricultural land and urban containment, few solutions have been explored for the edge - where the two meet. Developed at the regional scale of land-use planning, present-day strategies are generally characterized as prescriptions for land-use conflict mitigation and the resultant places - or placelessness - is largely defined by the segregation and/or buffering of residential development from agricultural land. This project examines the alternative strategy of integration at the urban-agricultural edge, based on the articulation of agriarian values and the ideas presented by ’new-ruralism.’ The application of these principles to the Southlands property in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, serves as a test case to explore strategies for the re-integration of the urban-agricultural edge, the development of agriculturally integrated neighborhoods and the use of development as a mechanism for the transformation of our local food system. Beyond the scale of the Southlands, this project attempts to re-examaine our relationship to agricultural landscapes and proposes the deliberately designed edge as a means to reintegrate city and country, stop urban sprawl, and engender stewardship of the natural systems that sustain us.
title: Equations for Computing Projected Observations, Constraints and their Cofactor Matrices from Original Observations, Constraints and their Cofactor Matrices
Creators: name: Smith, Dru
Publisher: name: National Geodetic Survey (U.S.)
Year: 2023

description: NOAA technical memorandum NOS NGS ; 96
description: This memorandum contains the equations needed to project specific geometric and orthometric values (observations or constraints, and their cofactor matrices) through time. The equations in this memorandum are suitable for immediate incorporation into SPROCCET or any other software that projects geodetic data through time.
Curriculum needs to meet New Agriculture imperatives: A Case Study Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (ECIAF), Trinidad
Creators: name: Ramdwar, Marcus N. A.
name: Ganpat, Wayne
name: Ramdwar, Marcus N. A.
name: Ganpat, Wayne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: curriculum
subject: value-added
subject: job satisfaction

description: Governments in the region are taking action to transform its agriculture sectors and it is important that agricultural professionals meet this challenge. The Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (ECIAF) in Trinidad prepares a significant portion of the para professionals in the region. This study evaluated (1) the perceived level of preparation graduates (n=100) have about their training at the ECIAF and (2) their competency gaps and (3) their job satisfaction. A self reporting survey instrument was used and data analysis involved mainly descriptive statistics and means’ comparisons using SPSS v.17. The results indicated that (1) there is a deficiency in the non-traditional areas of the curriculum particularly with preparation for the new agriculture: sustainability, food safety and value addition (2) that while respondents were generally satisfied with their job, they were unhappy with training opportunities and promotion. The current study reveals that there is a gap between what the curriculum provides and the futuristic realities of the sector. It is recommended that, given the disconnect between curriculum and strategic initiatives for new agriculture in the region, curriculum modification would be required to prepare a well-trained workforce for a competitive, profitable and sustainable agriculture in the region.
Additional file 3 of Implementation of a strategy to facilitate effective medical follow-up for Australian First Nations children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infections: study protocol
Creators: name: Schultz, André
name: Chang, Anne B.
name: Gill, Fenella
name: Walker, Roz
name: Barwick, Melanie
name: Munns, Sarah
name: Cooper, Matthew N.
name: Norman, Richard
name: Laird, Pamela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Healthcare provider focus group guide.