cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optical Signature of a Crossover from Mott- to Slater-type Gap in Sr$_2$Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_{x}$O$_{4}$
Creators: name: Xu, B.
name: Marsik, P.
name: Sheveleva, E.
name: Lyzwa, F.
name: Louat, A.
name: Brouet, V.
name: Munzar, D.
name: Bernhard, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With optical spectroscopy we provide evidence that the insulator-metal transition in Sr$_2$Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_{x}$O$_{4}$ occurs close to a crossover from the Mott- to the Slater-type. The Mott-gap at $x = 0$ persists to high temperature and evolves without an anomaly across the Néel temperature, $T_N$. Upon Rh-doping, it collapses rather rapidly and vanishes around $x = 0.055$. Notably, just as the Mott-gap vanishes yet another gap appears that is of the Slater-type and develops right below $T_N$. This Slater-gap is only partial and is accompanied by a reduced scattering rate of the remaining free carriers, similar as in the parent compounds of the iron arsenide superconductors.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Single-mode approximation and effective Chern-Simons theories for quantum Hall systems
Creators: name: Shizuya, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A unified description of elementary and collective excitations in quantum Hall systems is presented within the single-mode approximation (SMA) framework, with emphasis on revealing an intimate link with Chern-Simons theories. It is shown that for a wide class of quantum Hall systems the SMA in general yields, as an effective theory, a variant of the bosonic Chern-Simons theory. For single-layer systems the effective theory agrees with the standard Chern-Simons theory at long wavelengths whereas substantial deviations arise for collective excitations in bilayer systems. It is suggested, in particular, that Hall-drag experiments would be a good place to detect out-of-phase collective excitations inherent to bilayer systems. It is also shown that the intra-Landau-level modes bear a similarity in structure (though not in scale) to the inter-Landau-level modes, and its implications on the composite-fermion and composite-boson theories are discussed.
description: 9 pages, Revtex4
A systems approach to anakyzing land use options for sustainable rural development in South and Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Roetter, R.
name: Hoanh, C.T.
name: Teng, P.S.
name: Roetter, R.
name: Hoanh, C.T.
name: Teng, P.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: The Project is currently approaching its mid term phase, and is organizing an international workshop on methodology exchange in land use planning (June 15-19, 1998 at Can Tho City, Mekong Delta, Vietnam). During 1997, much effort has been put into data collection and developing novel methodologies for exploring land use options at the regional (subnational) level; the various aspects of work being carried out have not yet been presented as a whole. It is timely and appropriate now to publish some of the ideas, approaches, and preliminary results and convey this information to specialized institutions, all collaborators in the Project, donors and clients, and individual subject matter specialists.
Self-Supervised Visual Terrain Classification from Unsupervised Acoustic Feature Learning
Creators: name: Zürn, Jannik
name: Burgard, Wolfram
name: Valada, Abhinav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile robots operating in unknown urban environments encounter a wide range of complex terrains to which they must adapt their planned trajectory for safe and efficient navigation. Most existing approaches utilize supervised learning to classify terrains from either an exteroceptive or a proprioceptive sensor modality. However, this requires a tremendous amount of manual labeling effort for each newly encountered terrain as well as for variations of terrains caused by changing environmental conditions. In this work, we propose a novel terrain classification framework leveraging an unsupervised proprioceptive classifier that learns from vehicle-terrain interaction sounds to self-supervise an exteroceptive classifier for pixel-wise semantic segmentation of images. To this end, we first learn a discriminative embedding space for vehicle-terrain interaction sounds from triplets of audio clips formed using visual features of the corresponding terrain patches and cluster the resulting embeddings. We subsequently use these clusters to label the visual terrain patches by projecting the traversed tracks of the robot into the camera images. Finally, we use the sparsely labeled images to train our semantic segmentation network in a weakly supervised manner. We present extensive quantitative and qualitative results that demonstrate that our proprioceptive terrain classifier exceeds the state-of-the-art among unsupervised methods and our self-supervised exteroceptive semantic segmentation model achieves a comparable performance to supervised learning with manually labeled data.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
IFAD IMPACT ASSESSMENT - Agricultural value chains support project (PAFA): Senegal
Creators: name: Alessandra, Garbero
name: Dieynab, Diatta
name: Markus, Olapade
name: Alessandra, Garbero
name: Dieynab, Diatta
name: Markus, Olapade
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Impact assessment
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Crop diversification
subject: Small holder
subject: Economic growth

description: Value chain development is an important strategy to achieve sustainable development for smallholder farmers. It focuses not only on farmers and their direct livelihood but recognizes that sustainable agricultural projects ought to consider the entire production process by not only improving the factors of production for smallholder farmers but also allowing for greater integration into local markets, and the strengthening of key stakeholders along the value chain. The Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (in French Projet d’Appui aux Filières Agricoles (PAFA)) capitalizes on the value chain approach to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Senegal’s Groundnut Basin. Approved in 2008 and put into effect on February 5th 2010, the Agricultural Value Chains Support Project has, as of today, reached 37,734 households. The project is articulated around five components: (1) agricultural diversification and access to local market (2) development and structuring of regional value chains, (3) national coordination, knowledge management and project management, (4) climate change adaptation, and (5) support services for rural finance. The project was innovative in that, in addition to providing support to farmers through producer organisations (POs), there was an emphasis on improving concertation and collaboration around key value chains.
HoneyDOC: An Efficient Honeypot Architecture Enabling All-Round Design
Creators: name: Fan, Wenjun
name: Du, Zhihui
name: Smith-Creasey, Max
name: Fernández, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.0; C.2.1

description: Honeypots are designed to trap the attacker with the purpose of investigating its malicious behavior. Owing to the increasing variety and sophistication of cyber attacks, how to capture high-quality attack data has become a challenge in the context of honeypot area. All-round honeypots, which mean significant improvement in sensibility, countermeasure and stealth, are necessary to tackle the problem. In this paper, we propose a novel honeypot architecture termed HoneyDOC to support all-round honeypot design and implementation. Our HoneyDOC architecture clearly identifies three essential independent and collaborative modules, Decoy, Captor and Orchestrator. Based on the efficient architecture, a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enabled honeypot system is designed, which supplies high programmability for technically sustaining the features for capturing high-quality data. A proof-of-concept system is implemented to validate its feasibility and effectiveness. The experimental results show the benefits by using the proposed architecture comparing to the previous honeypot solutions.
description: None
QCD potential as a "Coulomb-plus-linear" potential
Creators: name: Sumino, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show analytically that the QCD potential can be expressed, up to an O(Lambda_QCD^3 r^2) uncertainty, as the sum of a ``Coulomb'' potential (with log corrections at short distances) and a linear potential, within an approximation based on perturbative expansion in alpha_S and the renormalon dominance picture. The expansion of V_QCD(r) is truncated at O(alpha_S^N) [N = 6 pi/(beta_0 alpha_S)], where the term becomes minimal according to the estimate by NLO renormalon, and is studied for N >> 1. Analytic expressions for the linear potential are obtained in some cases.
description: Version to appear in Phys.Lett.B; Explanations on derivation added; Leading ultrasoft logs included in the analysis (Sec.5);12 pages,4 figures
In-Between Density : Distributing the Domestic in Single-Family Neighbourhoods
Creators: name: Sikora, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Within a North American context, ‘single-family’ neighbourhoods have set limits on urban centres, restricting their ability to densify and adapt to new urban conditions. While single-family housing development was a common form of accommodating a rapid increase in population, today’s extremely high land values, previous housing practices and it’s subsequent urban policies have created a divide between classes and generations. The single family home is facilitating this divide, and neglects the evolving cultural values and needs of urban places. This project proposes a new strategy for the future development of Delamont park, a block of 22 city owned houses located along the Arbutus Greenway in Vancouver’s Kitsilano Neighbourhood. Creating a connection within the neighbourhood to the rest of the city, through proposed pathways and a focus on semi-public gradients of interstitial spaces, the range of design interventions investigates how citizens will continue to inhabit the house while making room for new forms of density. Through the proposed re-development of Delamont Park, this project intends to understand the ‘single-family’ home not simply as an object and an ideal, but rather as a dynamic element in the city that shifts expectations as to how we occupy neighbourhoods and co-exist as diverse groups of people.
The CLAS Electromagnetic Calorimeter at Large Angles
Creators: name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Avakian, H.
name: Battaglieri, M.
name: Bianchi, N.
name: Corvisiero, P.
name: De Vita, R.
name: Golovach, E.
name: Gyuriyan, V.
name: Mirazita, M.
name: Mokeev, V.
name: Muccifora, V.
name: Osipenko, M.
name: Polli, E.
name: Ricco, G.
name: Ripani, M.
name: Ronchetti, F.
name: Rossi, P.
name: Sapunenko, V.
name: Taiuti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the response of the two modules of the large-angle electromagnetic shower calorimeter (LAC) of the CLAS detector to charged and neutral particles is reported. The results agree very well with the Monte Carlo simulation. The procedures adopted for the energy and timing calibration are also discussed, proving that the module geometry allows for simple self-calibrating energy and timing algorithms.
Trajectory of a flying plasma mirror traversing a target with density gradient
Creators: name: Chen, Pisin
name: Mourou, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed that laser-induced relativistic plasma mirror can accelerate if the plasma has a properly tailored density profile. Such accelerating plasma mirrors can serve as analog black holes to investigate Hawking evaporation and the associated information loss paradox. Here we reexamine the underlying dynamics of mirror motion in a graded-density plasma to provide an explicit trajectory as a function of the plasma density and its gradient. Specifically, a decreasing plasma density profile (down-ramp) along the direction of laser propagation would in general accelerate the mirror. In particular, a constant-plus-exponential density profile would generate the Davies-Fulling trajectory with a well-defined analog Hawking temperature, which is sensitive to the plasma density gradient but not to the density itself. We show that without invoking nano-fabricated thin-films, a much lower density gas target at, for example, $\sim 1\times 10^{17}{\rm cm}^{-3}$, would be able to induce an analog Hawking temperature, $k_{_B}T_{_H}\sim 6.6 \times 10^{-2}{\rm eV}$, in the far-infrared region. We hope that this would help to better realize the experiment proposed by Chen and Mourou.
description: 7 pages
Anomologa demens Meyrick 1926
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Metz, Mark
name: Rajaei, Hossein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Anomologa
Anomologa demens

description: Anomologa demens Meyrick, 1926
Figs 2, 12, 13, 20
Anomologa demens Meyrick, 1926: 309. Exotic Microlepidoptera, 3 (10): 309. Holotype (♂), in DMSA (examined).
Type material examined. Holotype of A. demens ♂, “ Slypsteendrift, 28.xii.1924, A.J.T. Janse ” | “ Anomologa demens M., Type No. 813” (DMSA).
Material examined. 2 ♂, same data as for holotype (gen. slide 27/13, O. Bidzilya; g. 4134) (DMSA).
Diagnosis. The species can easily be recognized by the uniformly black forewing and bright orange head that are unique for Anomologa. Other species of the genus have a white forewing with dark fasciae. The male genitalia are characterized by having an elongate, subrectangular tegumen (widened in basal part in rest of Anomologa species) in combination with a short saccus, and a long slender phallus (certainly broader in rest of species).
Redescription. Wingspan 21.0– 22.7 mm (Fig. 2). Head (Figs 12, 13) bright, ochreous brown, labial palpus light brown mixed with black, head, thorax and tegulae uniformly black; hindwing and fringe dark, greyish-black.
Male genitalia (Fig. 20). Uncus parallel-sided at basal part, then weakly broadened, slightly longer than broad, extends to 1/2 length of valva; tegumen elongate, subrectangular, anteromedial emargination broadly rounded, extending to 1/4–1/3 length of tegumen; valva moderately broad, dorsal margin weakly bent inwards in middle, apex rounded; sacculus as broad as adjacent portion of valva, dorsal margin gradually rounded, ventral margin direct to 3/4, then narrowed, apex with short pointed tip, extends to 1/2 length of valva; vinculum slender, band-shaped, juxta lobes broadly rounded, separated by deep V-shaped incision; saccus parallel-sided, weakly constricted in middle, apex weakly concave, extends to top of pedunculus; phallus slender, as long as valva, weakly inflated at base, gradually narrowed to 3/4, apex distinctly broadened, posterior margin straight, subapical tooth triangular, short, broad at base.
Female genitalia. Unknown.
Biology. Adults have been observed in December.
Distribution. South Africa (Limpopo province).
Remarks. Anomologa demens was described based on single male collected in Slypsteendrift, Limpopo Province, South Africa. No additional specimens apart from two males collected in sympatry with holotype (coll. DMSA) were available for study.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Karsholt, Ole, Metz, Mark & Rajaei, Hossein, 2025, Revision of the genus Anomologa Meyrick, 1926, including the description of a new species, and its impact on subfamilies of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), pp. 131-150 in Zootaxa 5575 (1) on pages 137-138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14746582
Magnetophoresis in the Rubinstein-Duke model
Creators: name: Drzewinski, A.
name: Carlon, E.
name: van Leeuwen, J. M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the magnetophoresis problem within the Rubinstein-Duke model, i.e. a reptating polymer pulled by a constant field applied to a single repton at the edge of a chain. Extensive density matrix renormalization calculations are presented of the drift velocity and the profile of the chain for various strengths of the driving field and chain lengths. We show that the velocities and the average densities of stored length are well described by simple interpolating crossover formulae, derived under the assumption that the difference between the drift and curvilinear velocities vanishes for sufficiently long chains. The profiles, which describe the average shape of the reptating chain, also show interesting features as some non-monotonic behavior of the links densities for sufficiently strong pulling fields. We develop a description in which a distinction is made between links entering at the pulled head and at the unpulled tail. At weak fields the separation between the head zone and the tail zone meanders through the whole chain, while the probability of finding it close to the edges drops off. At strong fields the tail zone is confined to a small region close to the unpulled edge of the polymer.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
A Novel Approach to the Rudiments of Hypersoft Graphs
Creators: name: Saeed, Muhammad
name: Siddique, Muhammad Khubab
name: Ahsan, Muhammad
name: Ahmad, Muhammad Rayees
name: Rahman, Atiqe Ur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Soft set
Soft graph
Hypersoft set (HSS)
Hypersoft graph (HS-graph)
Hypersoft complete graph (HSC-graph)
Hypersoft subgraph (HS-subgraph)
Hypersoft tree (HS-tree).

description: Graph theory, soft computing and machine learning are being used in our daily life problems in the field of science involving mathematics, optimization and decision sciences. Zadeh introduced the idea of fuzzy set. This idea helped Kauffman to present the concept of fuzzy graph. Molodtsov presented the idea of soft set. Using this concept, Thumbakara et al. discovered a novel idea of soft graphs and Akram et al. discussed the fundamentals of soft graphs. Smarandache conceptualized the hypersoft set (HS) which is the generalization of soft set. Hypersoft set transforms single attribute function to multi-attribute function. In this study, the existing concept of soft graph is extended to HS-graph and some of its rudiments like HS-subgraph, not HS-graph, HS-complete graph, HS-tree, etc., are conceptualized with the help of graphical representation and illustrative examples. Moreover, some theoretic operations are discussed with generalized results on hypersoft set. This study will help the researchers in multi-dimensional fields involving artificial intelligence (AI), soft computing, graph theory and networking, data sciences, etc
Ligyra Newman
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Ligyra

description: Ligyra Newman
 Ligyra Newman 1841: 220.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
IFAD IMPACT ASSESSMENT - Community-based forestry development project in southern states (DECOFOS): Mexico
Creators: name: Romina, Cavatassi
name: Federica, Alfani
name: Adriana, Paolantonio
name: Paola, Mallia
name: Romina, Cavatassi
name: Federica, Alfani
name: Adriana, Paolantonio
name: Paola, Mallia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Impact assessment
subject: Environment
subject: Climate change adaptation
subject: Forestry development
subject: Deforestation

description: The territory of Mexico is covered by forests and wildland up to about 73% of the total territory (World Bank, 2015 and CONAFOR, 2012). This corresponds to around 140 million hectares, 80% of which are owned by communities and ejidos. Starting from the '80s, Mexico has experienced one of the largest deforestation rates in Latin America due to a number of complex socio-economic and political reasons which have reduced incentives to the sustainable use of forests with negative consequences for their long term conservation (Segura, 2000). To address and overcome problems linked to deforestation and forest degradation, the Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (Desarrollo Comunitario Forestal en los Estados del Sur – DECOFOS) was designed and implemented from March 2011 to September 2016 with contribution from the Government of Mexico, IFAD, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and project beneficiaries. The project had two main components. The first component was mainly meant to raise awareness of climate change and of sustainable use and management of natural resources through trainings and capacity development. This component could be instrumental to achieving impacts when combined with the second component which had a more tangible connotation. The second component, indeed, consisted on promoting sustainable management and exploitation of forest and natural resources through reforestation, adoption of agroforestry and of good environmental practices, supporting and facilitating business enterprises through the provision of technical and financial support to the start-up of micro-entrepreneurial projects and small-businesses enterprises.
Bound states in the compactified gravity
Creators: name: Duviryak, Askold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A potential of pointlike mass in the partially compactified multidimensional space is considered. The problem is reduced to the multidimensional Poisson equation with the Dirac comb source in r.h.s. Explicit solutions are built in the cases of 2D and 4D spaces with one compact dimension. The last example of the potential is used in the Schrödinger equation. Bound states of a gravitating test particle on 3D brane of 4D compactified space are studied by means of various approximate methods.
description: 16 pagem 4 figures, 1 table
Partonic energy loss in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions: jet suppression versus jet fragmentation softening
Creators: name: Lokhtin, I. P.
name: Snigirev, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the modification of a jet fragmentation function due to medium-induced partonic energy loss in context of leading particle observables in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus interactions. We also analyze the relation between in-medium softening jet fragmentation function and suppression of the jet rates due to energy loss outside the jet cone. The predicted anti-correlation between two effects allows to probe a fraction of partonic energy loss carried out of the jet cone and truly lost to the jet.
description: LaTeX, 12 pages including 2 eps-figures
Some fluid mechanical aspects of artistic painting
Creators: name: Zenit, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Painting is a fluid mechanical process. The action of covering a solid surface with a layer of a viscous fluid is one of the most common human activities; virtually all man-made surfaces are painted to provide protection against the environment or simply for decoration. This process, in an industrial context, has been vastly studied and it is well understood. In case of artistic painting the purpose is different. Painters learn how to manipulate the non-uniform deposition of paint onto a surface, through lengthy empirical testing of the action and modifying the physical properties of the fluids, to create textures and patterns of aesthetic value. In this paper, an analysis of some notable painting techniques is presented from the point of view of fluid mechanics. In particular, we discuss the so-called `accidental painting' technique, originally devised by David A. Siqueiros, which is the result of a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. An analysis of several techniques used by Jackson Pollock is also presented, showing how he learned to carefully control the motion of viscous filaments to create his famous abstract compositions. We also briefly discuss how pattern and textures are produced in decalcomania and watercolor painting. These investigations indicate that it is possible to establish concrete scientific discussions among modern fluid mechanics, art, art history and conservation.
Real-time nanodiamond thermometry probing in-vivo thermogenic responses
Creators: name: Fujiwara, Masazumi
name: Sun, Simo
name: Dohms, Alexander
name: Nishimura, Yushi
name: Suto, Ken
name: Takezawa, Yuka
name: Oshimi, Keisuke
name: Zhao, Li
name: Sadzak, Nikola
name: Umehara, Yumi
name: Teki, Yoshio
name: Komatsu, Naoki
name: Benson, Oliver
name: Shikano, Yutaka
name: Kage-Nakadai, Eriko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Real-time temperature monitoring inside living organisms provides a direct measure of their biological activities, such as homeostatic thermoregulation and energy metabolism. However, it is challenging to reduce the size of bio-compatible thermometers down to submicrometers despite their potential applications for the thermal imaging of subtissue structures with single-cell resolution. Light-emitting nanothermometers that remotely sense temperature via optical signals exhibit considerable potential in such \textit{in-vivo} high-spatial-resolution thermometry. Here, using quantum nanothermometers based on optically accessible electron spins in nanodiamonds (NDs), we demonstrate \textit{in-vivo} real-time temperature monitoring inside \textit{Caenorhabditis elegans} (\textit{C. elegans}) worms. We developed a thermometry system that can measure the temperatures of movable NDs inside live adult worms with a precision of $\pm 0.22^{\circ}{\rm C}$. Using this system, we determined the increase in temperature based on the thermogenic responses of the worms during the chemical stimuli of mitochondrial uncouplers. Our technique demonstrates sub-micrometer localization of real-time temperature information in living animals and direct identification of their pharmacological thermogenesis. The results obtained facilitate the development of a method to probe subcellular temperature variation inside living organisms and may allow for quantification of their biological activities based on their energy expenditures.
description: 9 + 10 pages, 4 + 11 figures, our submission is jointly with the paper arXiv:2001.02664
IFAD IMPACT ASSESSMENT - Livestock and pasture development project (LPDP): Tajikistan
Creators: name: Romina, Cavatassi
name: Paola, Mallia
name: Romina, Cavatassi
name: Paola, Mallia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Impact assessment
subject: Livestock farms
subject: Pasture improvement
subject: Livestock production
subject: Food security

description: The Republic of Tajikistan is a land locked country, where most of the territory (93%) is occupied by mountains. Poverty is quite widespread with about half of the country’s population living below the poverty line. The poorest people in the country reside in the Khatlon region, where 78 per cent of the population lives under the national poverty line and where land is degraded, the availability of inputs and credit is limited, irrigation facilities are lacking, and access to improved technologies and markets is poor (World Bank, 2015). About 50 per cent of the population depends on agriculture for livelihood, and most farmers lack access to adequate inputs, resources, technology and markets. Livestock is a key part of the agricultural sector and it is of critical importance in the livelihood strategy of poor rural households in Tajikistan. The pasture management system in Tajikistan remains largely unchanged since Soviet times with the exception that the lowest rung in the management system (corporate farms) no longer has adequate resources for pasture upkeep nor an adequate management system. The inadequacy of such a centralized management system is reflected in the overexploitation of pasture which has led to a vicious cycle of ever-lower animal yields and rural income, which is triggered by the legitimate will of farmers to increase their livestock production by adding animal units. This, in turn, has created a greater demand for feed, leading to a decrease in the feed per animal ratio, to a deterioration of the grazing land and to a further fall in animal weight. As a result, the rise in livestock inventories coupled with the fall in feed supplies has meant the dramatic fall of livestock productivity, low milk and meat yields and land degradation in the country, further worsening poverty among households. To address and overcome these problems, the Government of Tajikistan launched the Livestock and Pasture Development Project (LPDP) in August 2011, a project financed jointly by IFAD and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. The project had the goal of reducing poverty in the Khatlon region, increasing the nutritional status and incomes of rural poor households by boosting livestock productivity through the improvement of the productive capacity of pastures.
The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr
Creators: name: Girelli, Giacomo
name: Pozzetti, Lucia
name: Bolzonella, Micol
name: Giocoli, Carlo
name: Marulli, Federico
name: Baldi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding how galaxy properties are linked to the dark matter halos they reside in, and how they co-evolve is a powerful tool to constrain the processes related to galaxy formation. The stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) and its evolution over the history of the Universe provides insights on galaxy formation models and allows to assign galaxy masses to halos in N-body dark matter simulations. We use a statistical approach to link the observed galaxy stellar mass functions on the COSMOS field to dark matter halo mass functions from the DUSTGRAIN simulation and from a theoretical parametrization from z=0 to z=4. We also propose an empirical model to describe the evolution of the stellar-to-halo mass relation as a function of redshift. We calculate the star-formation efficiency (SFE) of galaxies and compare results with previous works and semi-analytical models.
description: accepted for publication in A&A, matching version in press
IFAD IMPACT ASSESSMENT - High value agriculture project in hill and mountain areas (HVAP): Nepal
Creators: name: Kashi, Kafle
name: Kwabena, Krah
name: Tisorn, Songsermsawas
name: Kashi, Kafle
name: Kwabena, Krah
name: Tisorn, Songsermsawas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Impact assessment
subject: Farming systems
subject: Agricultural productivity
subject: Economic growth
subject: Rural poverty

description: This report assesses the impact of the High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP) of Nepal co-financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Government of Nepal (GoN), and the SNV Netherlands Development Organization. The project was implemented between February 2011 and September 2018, and aimed at reducing rural poverty and improving food security in the remote hill and mountainous areas of the landlocked state. Nepal's geographical landscape presents numerous challenges to local economic growth and rural development. The livelihood of the people living in Nepal's rugged landscape is often characterized by low agricultural productivity, and limited access to markets and services. HVAP is a unique project both in terms of its geographical coverage and its type of interventions provided to the target groups. Its unique feature is the inclusive value chain development component which links different actors in the agricultural value chain including producers, retailers, wholesalers, input suppliers, technical service providers, credit and commerce groups, and government line ministries and agencies. In addition, the project helps strengthen the agricultural service delivery by facilitating the linkages among producers, crop and livestock extension speacialists, and technical service providers such as agrovets, para-vets, and plant protectionists through the service market strengthening component. The project covers seven hill and mountaneous districts in Karnali Province (formerly the Mid-Western Development Region)1 and identifies seven agricultural commodities as high value commodities in this area: apple, ginger, vegetable seeds, off-season vegetables turmeric, timur (Sichuan pepper), and goat. To ensure gender representativeness and promite social cohesiveness, all support services are delivered through producer organizations (PO) which are local producer groups or co-operatives that are representative of women and ethinc minorities in the area. The project supported smallholder farmers in 456 POs by strengthening their access to input markets, output markets, and service markets as well as their skills and capacity to produce market-oriented high value agricultural commodities. As part of the awareness and skill development training, the project provided a 30-day business literacy curriculum to both female and male farmers. The project also offered technical support to service markets through providing technical training activities and market information to service providers.
Good governance practices in Ghana’s FLEGT voluntary partnership agreement process: an application of Q methodology
Creators: name: Adams, Marshall Alhassan
name: Kayira, Jean
name: Gruber, James S.
name: Uwafiokun Idemudia
name: Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne
name: Alhassan Nantogmah Attah
name: Tuokuu, Francis Xavier Dery
name: Ansong, Micheal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The aim of the European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade Action Plan and its Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) is to tackle illegal logging and trade in illegal timber, improve forest governance, and foster economic growth in the forest sector. This study employs a Q methodology to assess areas of consensus and disagreement among forest sector stakeholders in Ghana on good forest governance practices as applied to the VPA process. The consensus among these stakeholders is that the VPA process has improved the participation of civil society in decision making and the establishment of a robust verification system to promote transparency and accountability, which are critical for sustainable forest management. However, while the shared perspectives among stakeholders highlight the crucial role of the VPAs in promoting improved forest governance in Ghana, there are still areas of disagreement or tension regarding the issue of accountability, tree tenure rights, and the participation of local communities in the VPA process. The paper concludes by considering the practical implications of the findings for effective forest governance practices in developing countries.
Ligyra vittata
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Ligyra
Ligyra vittata

description: Ligyra vittata (Ricardo)
 Hyperalonia vittata Ricardo, 1901: 104.
 Distribution. Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa (KwaZulu­Natal, Limpopo).
 Material examined. 1♀, between Omaruru and Wilhelmstal, 21°31’S 16°03’E, 3.iv.1998, visiting deep pink flowers of Hermbsteadtia odorata (Burch.) T. Cooke (Acanthaceae), 97/98/217, F.W. & S.K. Gess (AMGS).
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Paradigm shift in Danish wind power: the (un)sustainable transformation of a sector
Creators: name: Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch
name: Cronin, Tom
name: Nyborg, Sophie
name: Karnøe, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: The Danish wind power sector grew out of a combination of small and medium-sized entrepreneurial firms and local pioneers forming small-scale wind farm cooperatives. This paper studies the initial organisation and subsequent transformation of the socio-technical assemblage or ‘agencement’ around wind power in Denmark, focusing on the changing roles and agency of electricity producers. We propose a conceptual model for mapping the transformation over time, following five entangled dimensions: capitalisation instruments, turbine technology, capital investment, regulation of finance and ownership modes. We show how changes in all five socio-material dimensions have produced a ‘paradigm shift’, reconfiguring wind power from a distributed power source to critical infrastructure. This shift has marginalised local players and mobilised new types of producers and ownership forms. Using the conceptual model, we map the controversy resulting from the paradigm shift. Our relational lens of market studies within Science & Technology Studies captures how wind power’s ‘sustainability’ has become contested, and how this cannot be understood as a matter of ‘community acceptance’ dissociated from material factors. Proposing our conceptual model for future studies, we contribute not only to the extant social acceptance literature, but also to critical energy debates on the governance of climate change and sustainability.
Pure spin currents and associated electrical voltage
Creators: name: Pareek, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalize Landauer-Büttiker transport theory for multi-terminal spin transport in presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is pointed out that the presence of spin-orbit interaction results in {\it equilibrium spin currents}, since in presence of spin-orbit interaction spin is not a conserved quantitative. Further we illustrate the theory by applying it to a three terminal Y-shaped conductor. It is shown that when one of the terminal is a potential probe, there exist {\it nonequilibrium pure spin currents} without a n accompanying charge current. It is shown that this pure spin currents causes a voltage drop which can be measured if the potential probe is ferromagnetic.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Anisotropic field dependence of the magnetic transition in Cu2Te2O5Br2
Creators: name: Sologubenko, A. V.
name: Dell'Amore, R.
name: Ott, H. R.
name: Millet, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of measurements of the thermal conductivity of Cu2Te2O5Br2, a compound where tetrahedra of Cu^{2+} ions carrying S=1/2 spins form chains along the c-axis of the tetragonal crystal structure. The thermal conductivity kappa was measured along both the c- and the a-direction as a function of temperature between 3 and 300 K and in external magnetic fields H up to 69 kOe, oriented both parallel and perpendicular to the c-axis. Distinct features of kappa(T) were observed in the vicinity of T_N=11.4 K in zero magnetic field. These features are unaltered in external fields which are parallel to the c-axis, but are more pronounced when a field is applied perpendicularly to the c-axis. The transition temperature increases upon enhancing the external field, but only if the field is oriented along the a-axis.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Reducing model complexity by means of the Optimal Scaling: Population Balance Model for latex particles morphology formation
Creators: name: Rusconi, Simone
name: Schenk, Christina
name: Zarnescu, Arghir
name: Akhmatskaya, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Rational computer-aided design of multiphase polymer materials is vital for rapid progress in many important applications, such as: diagnostic tests, drug delivery, coatings, additives for constructing materials, cosmetics, etc. Several property predictive models, including the prospective Population Balance Model for Latex Particles Morphology Formation (LPMF PBM), have already been developed for such materials. However, they lack computational efficiency, and the accurate prediction of materials' properties still remains a great challenge. To enhance performance of the LPMF PBM, we explore the feasibility of reducing its complexity through disregard of the aggregation terms of the model. The introduced nondimensionalization approach, which we call Optimal Scaling with Constraints, suggests a quantitative criterion for locating regions of slow and fast aggregation and helps to derive a family of dimensionless LPMF PBM of reduced complexity. The mathematical analysis of this new family is also provided. When compared with the original LPMF PBM, the resulting models demonstrate several orders of magnitude better computational efficiency.
Central Asia Oil and Gas Industry - The External Powers’ Energy Interests in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Raimondi, Pier Paolo
name: Raimondi, Pier Paolo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energy Geopolitics
subject: Oil&Gas
subject: Central Asia
subject: Russia
subject: China
subject: USA
subject: European Union

description: After the Soviet breakup, Central Asia has gained importance for several States because of its geographical location and abundance of hydrocarbon reserves. These hydrocarbon reserves are located mainly in three countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Each of them has taken different path regarding its foreign policy and the regulation of investments and participation of external companies and States in its energy sector. Through the development, production and export of their oil and gas reserves, they have pursued a ‘multi-vector’ policy, consolidating differently their relations with other countries. The main States involved – at different levels and for different reasons – in the oil and gas sector of the Central Asian countries are: Russia, China, United States, European countries, Iran, India and Turkey. Among these players, Russia considers Central Asia still part of its sphere of influence for historical reasons, while it has to deal an increasing presence of Beijing. The Western countries has gained influence particularly in Kazakhstan, but they have no political leverage in Turkmenistan. This working paper provides an overview of the current situation of external players’ interests in the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The working paper is structured into four different sections. In the first section, the paper gives an overview of the main interests and pillars of external involvement in Central Asia as a region. The other three sections are devoted to provide separately the current status of energy relations between each Central Asian country and external players, starting from the closest countries (Russia and China) to the regional ones (Iran, Turkey and India) until non-regional countries (United States and European countries). During these analysis, investments in the oil and gas sector as well as energy export routes and volumes are highlighted in order to understand the current situation of the energy relations. At the end of each country section, the main trends and interests of the countries in the regional oil and gas sector are outlined.
Semiexclusive production of vector mesons in proton-proton collisions with electromagnetic dissociation
Creators: name: Cisek, Anna
name: Schäfer, Wolfgang
name: Szczurek, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate distributions of different vector mesons in purely exclusive ($p p \to p p V$) and semi-exclusive ($p p \to p X V$) processes with electromagnetic dissociation of a proton. The cross section for the electromagnetic dissociation is expressed through electromagnetic structure functions of the proton. We include the transverse momentum distribution of initial photons in the associated flux. Contributions of the exclusive and semi-exclusive processes are compared for different vector mesons ($V = ϕ, J/ψ, Υ$). We discuss how the relative contribution of the semi-exclusive processes depends on the mass of the vector meson as well as on different kinematical variables of the vector meson ($y$, $p_t$). The ratio of semi-exclusive to exclusive contributions are shown and compared for different mesons in different variables.
description: 22 pages, 16 figure
Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia
Creators: name: Carrillo, Bladimir
name: Carrillo, Bladimir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Information Avoidance
subject: Energy Efficiency
subject: Moral Wiggle Room

description: This paper examines the long-run impacts of income shocks by exploiting variation in coffee cultivation patterns within Colombia and world coffee prices during cohorts' school-going years in a differences-in-differences framework. The results indicate that cohorts who faced higher returns to coffee-related work during school-going years completed fewer years of schooling and have lower income in adulthood. These findings suggest that leaving school during temporary booms results in a significant loss of long-term income. This is consistent with the possibility that students may ignore or heavily discount the future consequences of dropout decisions when faced with immediate income gains.