cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trends in breeding activity of the threatened Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata): what can we expect under a changing climate?
Creators: name: Stenhouse, Peri
name: Moseby, Katherine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Climate change is expected to significantly impact bird species through changes to breeding and survival. Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) are threatened mound-building birds that persist in uncleared mallee and shrubland vegetation in semi-arid parts of southern Australia. Our aim was to understand the relationship between environmental factors and mound breeding activity (a proxy for population trends) to identify likely climate change impacts and possible proactive management actions. We compared annual activity at grids that encompassed groups of mounds at six sites in South Australia for up to 24 years with a range of environmental and habitat variables, focussing on variables predicted to change with a warming climate. Mound activity declined significantly over the study period at five of the six sites. Activity was positively associated with increased cumulative rain in the previous 2 years, lower average maximum temperatures in the winter, higher-than-average Southern Oscillation Index (i.e. more rain) 2 years before breeding and greater winter vegetation cover. These results suggest that moisture and vegetation cover are important for higher breeding activity. Climate change is predicted to lead to drier conditions and more frequent fires in our study region, suggesting that Malleefowl populations will continue to decline. We urge conservation practitioners to minimise climate change impacts through implementing proactive management actions that increase habitat quality for Malleefowl: fire management to reduce the scale of fire events and controlling introduced and overabundant native herbivores to preserve vegetation cover, retain soil moisture, increase food resources and protect from temperature extremes.
title: 40 days and 40 nights: Human rights in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and quarantines
Creators: name: Garg, Eukti
name: Vaishnav, Abhijeet
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Territorial evolution and volcanic hazard, Ischia Island (Southern Italy)
Creators: name: Alberico, Ines
name: Petrosino, Paola
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: The Ischia Island, located in the north-western zone of Napoli bay (Southern Italy), is exposed to many natural events that represent sources of risk for both the tourists visiting the island all over the year and the local inhabitants. In this paper, we take advantage of spatial and temporal analysis available in a Geographic Information System framework in order to compare the spatial distribution of volcanic hazard zones to the temporal evolution of population and urban development over the last 80 years. The volcanic hazard map refers to pyroclastic flows from low to intermediate size explosive events, that could affect the Ischia Island in the next future. The main result of the study centered on the finding that the territorial system development was not sensitive to volcanic hazard as testified by the expansion of urbanized areas within the medium-high hazard zones. The seriousness of the present territorial system status indicates an urgent need for planning aimed at a proper cohabitation of the inhabitants with the hazardous events and at the achievement of acceptable safeness levels.The map presented here gives a synoptic view of the territorial system evolution related to volcanic hazard and it can therefore be considered a valuable tool to support a sustainable territorial planning. The urban development data can be suitably used to assess their relationship with other natural events which could affect the island.
Maximum macroseismic intensity map of Greece for the time period 1953–2011
Creators: name: C. Chalkias
name: D. Papanastassiou
name: E. Karymbalis
name: G. Chalkias
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: The aim of this paper is to present the spatial distribution of macroseismic intensities assigned in modified Mercalli (MM) scale, across the Greek territory. For this purpose, a digital database with more than 30,000 local seismic intensity recordings from 156 major earthquake events that affected Greece and adjacent areas during the period 1953–2011 was developed. These events have focal depths up to about 150 km and surface-wave magnitudes (Ms) greater than 4.4. Various GIS-based techniques for data analysis and map creation were applied. A number of seismic intensity maps have been produced taking into account different attributes like intensities for shallow or deep events, maximum intensities by administrative units, maximum intensity for significant earthquakes, etc. The main map produced is the national map of maximum seismic intensities for shallow earthquakes (scale 1:1.500.000). The final layout also contains the maximum seismic intensities for deep earthquakes, the tectonic lines of Greece, the earthquakes of the database as well as the seismic intensities for two significant earthquakes in the last six decades.
Nectopsyche adusta Flint 1983
Creators: name: Assunção, Otávio Trindade
name: Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Leptoceridae
Nectopsyche
Nectopsyche adusta

description: Nectopsyche adusta Flint, 1983  Literature records:
Flint (1983); Angrisano and Sganga (2007); Calor (2011); Paprocki and França (2014); Holzenthal and Calor (2017).
 Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Bragança, Jiquiri, ramal Arauá, sítio Cururutuia, Igapó 01°04’42.2”S, 46°44’14.58”W, alt 19 m, 08.vii.2022, luz, col. Quinteiro, F.B., Costa, A.M., 1 male (MPEG).
 Distribuição. Argentina, Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Pará states).
description: Published as part of Assunção, Otávio Trindade & Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini, 2023, Two new species and new records of the genus Nectopsyche Müller, 1879 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Pará state, Brazil, pp. 1-9 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20230049) (e 20230049) 67 on page 7, DOI: 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2023-0049, http://zenodo.org/record/13197598
Petro-structural map of the Money Unit (Gran Paradiso Massif, Valnontey valley, Western Alps)
Creators: name: Manzotti, Paola
name: Veslud, Christian Le Carlier De
name: Bayon, Benjamin Le
name: Ballèvre, Michel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Social Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: The Gran Paradiso Massif is one of the Internal Crystalline Massifs (Penninic Zone) in the Alps. This Massif comprises the widely investigated Gran Paradiso Unit and the underlying, much less-explored Money Unit, which is a well-exposed tectonic window below the Gran Paradiso Unit. This contribution provides a new detailed petro-structural map of the Money Unit. An integrated structural and metamorphic study can relate different structures to the evolving metamorphic stages. There is also recognition of evidence of Permo-Carboniferous sedimentation, contact metamorphism and polyphase Alpine evolution, mainly developed under blueschist to greenschist facies conditions.The 1:5000 scale map (and the cross sections) display evidence for the Alpine evolution of the Money Unit and for the structural and geological setting of this area. From these data, a 3D model of the Money Unit and its folded contact with the Gran Paradiso Units is constructed.
Nectopsyche jenseni
Creators: name: Assunção, Otávio Trindade
name: Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Leptoceridae
Nectopsyche
Nectopsyche jenseni

description: Nectopsyche jenseni (Ulmer, 1905)  Literature records:
Ulmer (1905) in Leptocella; Banks (1913); Mangeaud (1996); Cohen (2004); Paprocki et.al (2004); Paprocki and França (2014); Holzenthal and Calor (2017) Oláh and Oláh Jr (2017).
 Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Barcarena, Rio Murucupi, 01º32’53”S, 48º45’03”W, 19. ii.19, alt 24 m, light trap, Andrade, A.L, Bastos, R. C, Rocha, T. S, Cruz, G.M., 1 male (MPEG).
 Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (Amazonas, and Pará states).
description: Published as part of Assunção, Otávio Trindade & Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini, 2023, Two new species and new records of the genus Nectopsyche Müller, 1879 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Pará state, Brazil, pp. 1-9 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20230049) (e 20230049) 67 on page 7, DOI: 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2023-0049, http://zenodo.org/record/13197598
Water Ortho-to-Para ratio in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Creators: name: Cheng, Y. -C.
name: Bockelée-Morvan, D.
name: Roos-Serote, M.
name: Crovisier, J.
name: Debout, V.
name: Erard, S.
name: Drossart, P.
name: Leyrat, C.
name: Capaccioni, F.
name: Filacchione, G.
name: Dubernet, M. -L.
name: Encrenaz, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abundance ratios of the nuclear-spin isomers of H$_2$O and NH$_3$ have been measured in about two dozen comets, with a mean value corresponding to a nuclear-spin temperature of $\sim$ 30 K. The real meaning of these unequilibrated nuclear-spin abundance ratios is still debated. However, an equilibrated water ortho-to-para ratio (OPR) of 3 is also commonly observed. The H channel of VIRTIS (VIRTIS-H) on board Rosetta provided high-resolution 2.5--2.9 $μ$m spectra of H$_2$O vapour in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P), which are suitable for the determination of the OPR of water in this comet. A large dataset of VIRTIS-H spectra obtained in limb-sounding viewing geometry was analysed, covering heliocentric distances from 1.24 to 2.73 au and altitudes from a few hundred metres to $>$ 100 km. The OPR, together with the H$_2$O rotational temperature and column density, were derived for each spectra. The weak lines of the $ν_1$, $ν_1+ν_3-ν_1$ and $ν_2+ν_3-ν_2$ bands in the 2.774--2.910 $μ$m range were used to calculate by how much the strong $ν_3$ band centred at 2.67 $μ$m is attenuated due to optical depth effects, expressed by the attenuation factor $f_{\rm atten}$. Most OPR determinations are strongly affected by opacity effects, as demonstrated by the observed anti-correlation between the OPR and the column density, and the correlation between the OPR and attenuation factor $f_{\rm atten}$. Based on both radiative transfer calculations and OPR values obtained in low-opacity conditions, we derive an OPR of 2.94 $\pm$ 0.06 for comet 67P. The water OPR measured in the coma of 67P is consistent with laboratory experiments showing that water vapour that has thermally desorbed from water ice has a statistical value of 3, regardless of the past formation process of water ice.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, not including additional material in the Appendices. Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Integrating spatial and time sensitive data to monitor social patterns: A dynamic methodology for studying social issues
Creators: name: James, Wesley
name: Cossman, Ronald E.
name: Feierabend, Neal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: This research introduces a dynamic methodology that can be used to monitor social issues using spatial and time sensitive data. The methodology was used in a project funded to assess the Highway Watch® program administered by the American Trucking Associations, United States Department of Homeland Security. The application of the methodology is of interest to a much wider social science audience, and is the focus of this manuscript. The Highway Watch® program was established to be America's ‘eyes on the road’ in the wake of a post-9/11 society. The program was implemented to train trucking professionals to be on alert and report suspicious activity as a means of public safety. In an assessment of this program, our research team combined two unique datasets to measure the density and frequency of freight truck traffic in a sample of urban and interstate roadways to measure the coverage of potential ‘eyes on the road.’ Of interest to social scientists and spatial analysts is the use of social, spatial, and industry segment data, integrated with interactive data visualization software to analyze at-risk places and populations. The method serves as a useful tool for monitoring social issues in time and space.
Making sense of violence risk predictions using clinical notes
Creators: name: Mosteiro, Pablo
name: Rijcken, Emil
name: Zervanou, Kalliopi
name: Kaymak, Uzay
name: Scheepers, Floortje
name: Spruit, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Violence risk assessment in psychiatric institutions enables interventions to avoid violence incidents. Clinical notes written by practitioners and available in electronic health records (EHR) are valuable resources that are seldom used to their full potential. Previous studies have attempted to assess violence risk in psychiatric patients using such notes, with acceptable performance. However, they do not explain why classification works and how it can be improved. We explore two methods to better understand the quality of a classifier in the context of clinical note analysis: random forests using topic models, and choice of evaluation metric. These methods allow us to understand both our data and our methodology more profoundly, setting up the groundwork to work on improved models that build upon this understanding. This is particularly important when it comes to the generalizability of evaluated classifiers to new data, a trustworthiness problem that is of great interest due to the increased availability of new data in electronic format.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2204.13535
ExaASC: A General Target-Based Stance Detection Corpus in Arabic Language
Creators: name: Jaziriyan, Mohammad Mehdi
name: Akbari, Ahmad
name: Karbasi, Hamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Target-based Stance Detection is the task of finding a stance toward a target. Twitter is one of the primary sources of political discussions in social media and one of the best resources to analyze Stance toward entities. This work proposes a new method toward Target-based Stance detection by using the stance of replies toward a most important and arguing target in source tweet. This target is detected with respect to the source tweet itself and not limited to a set of pre-defined targets which is the usual approach of the current state-of-the-art methods. Our proposed new attitude resulted in a new corpus called ExaASC for the Arabic Language, one of the low resource languages in this field. In the end, we used BERT to evaluate our corpus and reached a 70.69 Macro F-score. This shows that our data and model can work in a general Target-base Stance Detection system. The corpus is publicly available1.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables. Accepted at ICCKE 2021
Nectopsyche quatuorguttata
Creators: name: Assunção, Otávio Trindade
name: Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Leptoceridae
Nectopsyche
Nectopsyche quatuorguttata

description: Nectopsyche quatuorguttata (Navás, 1922)  Literature records:
Navás (1922) in Leptocella; Schmid (1949); Flint (1974, 1996); Cohen (2004); Nogueira and Cabette (2011); Paprocki and França (2014); Holzenthal and Calor (2017); Desidério et. al (2017); Ríos-Touma et al, (2017).
 Material examined. Brazil: Pará: Bragança, Jiquiri, ramal Arauá, sítio Cururutuia, Igapó 01°04’42.2”S, 46°44’14.58”W, alt 19 m, 08.vii.2022, luz, col. Quinteiro, F.B., Costa, A.M., 1 male (MPEG).
 Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil (Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and Pará states), Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname.
description: Published as part of Assunção, Otávio Trindade & Quinteiro, Fábio Batagini, 2023, Two new species and new records of the genus Nectopsyche Müller, 1879 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Pará state, Brazil, pp. 1-9 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20230049) (e 20230049) 67 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2023-0049, http://zenodo.org/record/13197598
title: Contents of potentially toxic elements in residual soils of a long-term mining region: a key study from Central and Western Serbia
Creators: name: Jovanovic, Milun
name: Prelević, Dejan
name: Jović, Vidojko
name: Srećković-Batoćanin, Danica
name: Branković, Snežana
Publisher: name: Periodico di Mineralogia
Year: 2022

description: Regional geochemical research of residual soil was conducted in an area of about 20,000 km2 in the region of Central and Western Serbia. This region has six metallogenetic zones where mining has been documented since ancient times. We study the contents, spatial pattern and natural background of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) of this mining province, to establish the geochemical background variation in the residual soil. The natural (geogenic) contents of PTEs were investigated in the top and bottom residual soil samples. Based on 108 geochemical data, the limits of natural background values (mg·kg-1) were determined by the integral method: As (38.5), Cd (0.5), Co (36.3), Cu (51.9), Cr (170.1), Hg (0.21), Mn (1974), Mo (0.9), Ni (215.2), Pb (61.7), Sb (2.4), V (84.4) and Zn (116.6). In the horizontal concentration patterns, four groups of PTEs with similar spatial distributions were identified: (As, Pb, Zn); (Cd, Hg, Mo, Sb); (Co, Cr, Ni) and (Cu, Mn, V). Correlation analysis (CA) distinguishes correlations between As- Sb, Co-Cr-Ni, and Cr-Ni. Principle component analysis indicates five different element groups: (Ni, Co, Cr, Mn); (As, Sb, Mo); (Pb, Zn); (Cu, Cd) and (Hg). Our data show that anomalous concentrations of As, Cr, Hg, Ni, Pb, Sb and Mn are geogenic, whereas higher contents of As, Hg, Pb, Sb and Zn in several locations are of a mixed geogenic and anthropogenic origin. Finally, anomalous concentrations of Pb and Zn, when detected outside the area where the ore deposits occur, are purely anthropogenic.
description: Periodico di Mineralogia, Vol. 91 No. 3 (2022)
Social exclusion and the private rental sector: the experiences of three market liberal countries
Creators: name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Burke, Terry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Australia, Canada and the US social exclusion is associated primarily with the private rental sector rather than with social housing as in some European countries. By European standards, these three countries have large private rental sectors. Increasingly it is the working poor in insecure and low wage jobs and households dependent on social assistance (welfare) who are concentrated in the private rental sector. The paper examines the nature of social exclusion associated with a largely unregulated, private rental sector in these three countries. The location of private rental housing contributes to exclusion from facilities and opportunities. Minimal legal protection results in insecurity and lack of control over housing. Exposure to market forces at the lower end of the rental market can contribute to financial stress and acceptance of inadequate or unsuitable accommodation. The uncertainty and mobility associated with private rental restricts participation in local communities and wider citizenship. The second part of the paper looks at government policy responses to social exclusion in the private rental sector in these three market liberal countries. Governments have adopted pro-market policies that fail to recognise social exclusion experienced in the private rental sector and have instead focused primarily on issues of housing affordability. In Australia, Canada and the US housing policy has fragmented to the extent that there is arguably no national housing policy in these three countries. There has been a retreat from broader housing policies, including supply subsidies for social housing. Instead there is heavy dependence on de facto housing allowances that are part of social assistance (welfare) programs and other housing allowances, which are intended to make some contribution to housing costs, often without an affordability benchmark. Increasingly there are conditions attached to these allowances which are designed to get households off social assistance (welfare) and into work. Getting a job is seen as the route to social inclusion in these three market liberal countries. Whilst there are many similarities between Australia, Canada and the US in approaches to social exclusion in the private rental sector, there are some significant differences as well. The paper concludes by exploring some of the factors that have shaped these differences including the nature of federal government systems, institutional factors and cultural and political differences. These factors have impacted both on perceptions of social exclusion in the private rental sector and the policy response of various levels of government.
Moving towards an integrated facilities management tool to evaluate facilities for service performance in local government
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Appraisal of facility performance has of late concentrated heavily on the strategic evaluation of facility performance – that is, the alignment of the real estate function with the organisation’s overall strategic aims. Here we present a refined model for the measurement, management and benchmarking of facilities in relation to their ability to enable service delivery. Developed specifically for the context of local government, the Logometrix model is the outcome of a collaborative research project with eight local government authorities (LGAs) in Victoria (Australia), Swinburne University (Australia) and UNITEC University (New Zealand). Logometrix allows LGAs to measure the performance of their community facilities strategically and to benchmark with like councils over the Internet using a browser interface. Looking beyond the obvious in property, the model incorporates financial and non-financial indicators, and balances the demands of service delivery with those of maintenance, preservation of asset value, and financial performance. Various models have been used to measure facilities strategically, most of which have been drawn from the general theory and literature on performance measurement. Many of these promote a balanced approach and acknowledge the need to include intangible and non-financial measures of performance together with the more ‘tangible’ financial data. However, these models of performance measurement are limited when transferred directly from a general context in the private sector to the management of facilities in the local government. Recent research indicates the need to view the facility as the nexus of service provision, physical building substance and the community using the facility.
On teletraffic applications to OBS
Creators: name: Zukerman, Moshe
name: Wong, Eric W.
name: Rosberg, Zvi
name: Lee, Gyu M.
name: Vu, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We provide teletraffic models for loss probability evaluation of optical burst switching (OBS). We show that the popular Engset formula is not exact for OBS modeling and demonstrate that in certain cases it is not appropriate. A new exact model is provided. The various models are compared using numerical results for various OBS alternatives with and without burst segmentation.
Failed Disruption Propagation in Integer Genetic Programming
Creators: name: Langdon, William B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We inject a random value into the evaluation of highly evolved deep integer GP trees 9743720 times and find 99.7percent Suggesting crossover and mutation's impact are dissipated and seldom propagate outside the program. Indeed only errors near the root node have impact and disruption falls exponentially with depth at between exp(-depth/3) and exp(-depth/5) for recursive Fibonacci GP trees, allowing five to seven levels of nesting between the runtime perturbation and an optimal test oracle for it to detect most errors. Information theory explains this locally flat fitness landscape is due to FDP. Overflow is not important and instead, integer GP, like deep symbolic regression floating point GP and software in general, is not fragile, is robust, is not chaotic and suffers little from Lorenz' butterfly. Keywords: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, SBSE, information loss, information funnels, entropy, evolvability, mutational robustness, optimal test oracle placement, neutral networks, software robustness, correctness attraction, diversity, software testing, theory of bloat, introns
description: Long version of GECCO 2022 poster
The new China: big brother, brave new world or harmonious society?
Creators: name: Anthony, Marcus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper I examine three textual mythologies regarding China's evolving present. These are an Orwellian world of covert and overt state control; a Brave New World dystopia where the spirit of the people is subsumed in hedonistic distractions; and finally I assess the progress towards the official vision of the current Beijing authorities: the 'harmonious society'. These three 'pulls' of the future are juxtaposed with certain key 'pushes' and 'weights', and I explore their interplay within a 'futures triangle'. Finally, I suggest whether any of these mythologies is likely play a significant role in the possible futures of China.
Flood impact in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Creators: name: Balica, Stefania
name: Dinh, Quang
name: Popescu, Ioana
name: Vo, Thanh Q.
name: Pham, Dieu Q.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Medicine

description: The Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) has an important role in terms of food security and socio-economic development of the region. The VMD is a densely populated area and is a social and economic hotspot for coastal hazard risks and vulnerability. The amount of people exposed to flooding, storm surges and seasonal river floods in VMD is estimated to increase as the sea level rises, land-use changes and urbanization in flood-prone areas is growing. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on assessing and mapping flood hazard, risk and vulnerability of the Mekong delta. There are many flood hazard and risk studies carried out in the VMD, however very little is done with respect to vulnerability. The region is facing a rapid economic growth and vulnerability to floods becomes an important issue to be addressed.The study presented here focuses on mapping of the vulnerability of the VMD, based on the situation in the area and on the available data. The study evaluates the VMD districts from vulnerability point of view and presents maps, which will be helpful to the decision makers who need to take measures on how to reduce and mitigate the flood impact in the area. Collaboration between deltas' administrations, multiple stakeholders and organizations, at national and international level (delta alliances), has to be undertaken to support the most vulnerable areas and to learn from each other. Mapping vulnerability offers the opportunity to get a broad overview on affected areas and on possible adaptation options that could be applied, directing resources at more in-depth investigation of the most promising adaptation strategies. Moreover, at a later stage, it can also serve to evaluate the effectiveness of the adaptation measures.The present study presents a map of flood vulnerability for the VMD for the years 2000 and 2050 (see Main Map). The map is created by applying Coastal Cities Flood Vulnerability Index (CCFVI) methodology; the flood map will overlay flood hazard in order to create flood risk maps using tools such as ArcGIS.
The origin of Earth's mantle nitrogen: primordial or early biogeochemical cycling?
Creators: name: Kurokawa, H.
name: Laneuville, M.
name: Li, Y.
name: Zhang, N.
name: Fujii, Y.
name: Sakuraba, H.
name: Houser, C.
name: Cleaves, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earth's mantle nitrogen (N) content is comparable to that found in its N-rich atmosphere. Mantle N has been proposed to be primordial or sourced by later subduction, yet its origin has not been elucidated. Here we model N partitioning during the magma ocean stage following planet formation and the subsequent cycling between the surface and mantle over Earth history using argon (Ar) and N isotopes as tracers. The partitioning model, constrained by Ar, shows that only about 10% of the total N content can be trapped in the solidified mantle due to N's low solubility in magma and low partitioning coefficients in minerals in oxidized conditions supported from geophysical and geochemical studies. A possible solution for the primordial origin is that Earth had about 10 times more N at the time of magma ocean solidification. We show that the excess N could be removed by impact erosion during late accretion. The cycling model, constrained by N isotopes, shows that mantle N can originate from efficient N subduction, if the sedimentary N burial rate on early Earth is comparable to that of modern Earth. Such a high N burial rate requires biotic processing. Finally, our model provides a methodology to distinguish the two possible origins with future analysis of the surface and mantle N isotope record.
description: 43 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Participatory mapping of flood hazard risk in Munamicua, District of Búzi, Mozambique
Creators: name: Kienberger, Stefan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Detailed maps, appropriate for decision making at the local level are outdated or currently not available in Mozambique. The community map presented in this paper is built on participatory mapping and Participatory GIS practices (especially photo mapping) and links to advanced spatial analysis in the context of disaster risk reduction and flood hazard assessment. Based on a very high-resolution satellite imagery, community members mapped different features such as the community boundary, settlement areas and their names, agricultural areas, important infrastructure and most importantly ‘low’ and ‘high risk’ zones for floods. It has been for the first time that a community was mapped in Mozambique in such a way integrating local knowledge. The identification of hazard zones in a participatory manner was seen as one way to overcome the bottleneck of limited available data for a proper GIS-based hazard modeling. Next to the digitization of the community mapped features, an image classification on land use, settlement areas (houses), and the integration of GPS collected points (infrastructure, photos) was carried out. In a final step the map was printed and handed-over to the community members. In the applied methodology it has been demonstrated that the assessment of risks through the integration of community knowledge and paper-based satellite images is valid. Next to the result of deriving a community-based hazard map, the process of mapping is understood as essential to sensitize and learn about local flood hazard risk.
Rapid mapping of urban development from historic Ordnance Survey maps: An application for pluvial flood risk in Worcester
Creators: name: Visser, Fleur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Between 2004 and 2008 the city of Worcester, UK experienced a number of pluvial flood events. The causes of this kind of flooding are the topic of ongoing research. This paper describes a study that aimed to investigate the urban development of Worcester over time in relation to the location of recorded pluvial flood incidents. A novel rapid mapping method has been developed to derive urban development over five time periods between 1886 and 1995 from scanned Ordnance Survey historical maps. The technique compared well with manual digitisation results with k-hat values ranging from 0.67 to 0.87 for the land use maps created for different time periods. The technique performed least well for the oldest map series, due to misclassification of the abundant symbols and annotation. The method will be particularly beneficial for investigation of town/city development in time over large areas. The resulting map of urban development in Worcester (scale 1:20,000) shows that almost half of the recorded pluvial flood incidents occurred in areas developed between 1956 and 1975, which contradicts local belief that an outdated (Victorian) drainage system causes most of the problems. The quality of the post World War II developments is more likely to be a source for concern.
Book reviews: 'Encyclopaedia of film noir' by Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell and 'European film noir' edited by Andrew Spicer
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Reviews the books 'Encyclopaedia of film noir' by Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell, published by Greenwood Press, Westport, 2007, and 'European film noir' edited by Andrew Spicer, published by Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2007.
The Need for Knowledge Organization. Introduction to the book Linking Knowledge: Linked Open Data for Knowledge Organization
Creators: name: Scharnhorst, Andrea
name: Smiraglia, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This book is not restricted to semantic web (SW) technologies. An aspiration was to contribute to the awakening of a dialogue between information and documentation concerned with knowledge organization systems (KOSs), and branches in computer science with an emphasis on machines, algorithms and ontologies. The technological evolution of the last decades has not only fostered the emergence of ever more KOSs but also semantic web technologies. Both the actions of 'making a KOS' and 'applying existing KOSs' represent research. The design of an information layer for a knowledge domain and the design of a domain specific research process are intrinsically interwoven. We extended our intervention to KOS practices into education, by presenting a translation of existing standards and recommendations about linked open data (LOD) publishing for non-experts. The chapters describe the state of the art in providing KOSs as semantic artefacts; how the state of the art is applied in new fields; how the state of the art is pushed towards new technological solutions by being confronted with new applications; how best practices need to be tailored towards specific solutions; and what challenges occur when merging new and old ways of expressing KOSs. The linked data (LD) ecosystem represents a source of knowledge generation, acquisition, production and dissemination. The underlying discourse shows historical vision alongside the promise of linking knowledge for interaction. The already maturing ecosystems of the SW are interlocking information institutions clearly devoted to the expansion of human experience through the growth of knowledge interaction.
description: author version (pre-publication version)
Radon Measure Solutions to Riemann Problems for Isentropic Compressible Euler Equations of Polytropic Gases
Creators: name: Jin, Yunjuan
name: Qu, Aifang
name: Yuan, Hairong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L65 and 35L67 and 35Q31 and 35R06 and 35R35 and 76N30

description: We solve the Riemann problems for isentropic compressible Euler equations of polytropic gases in the class of Radon measures, and the solutions admit the concentration of mass. It is found that, under the requirement of satisfying the over-compressing entropy condition: (i) there is a unique delta shock solution, corresponding to the case that has two strong classical Lax shocks; (ii) for the initial data that the classical Riemann solution contains a shock wave and a rarefaction wave, or two shocks with one being weak, there are infinitely many solutions, each consists of a delta shock and a rarefaction wave; (iii) there is no delta shocks for the case that the classical entropy weak solutions consist only of rarefaction waves. These solutions are self-similar. Furthermore, for the generalized Riemann problem with mass concentrated initially at the discontinuous point of initial data, there always exists a unique delta shock for at least a short time. It could be prolonged to a global solution. Not all the solutions are self-similar due to the initial velocity of the concentrated point-mass (particle). Whether the delta shock solutions constructed satisfy the over-compressing entropy condition is clarified. This is the first result on the construction of singular measure solutions to the compressible Euler system of polytropic gases, that is strictly hyperbolic, and whose characteristics are both genuinely nonlinear. We also discuss possible physical interpretations and applications of these new solutions.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Into the labyrinth: early career research: the academic journey and the publishing maze
Creators: name: Carthew, Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Early Career Researchers (ECRs) can learn a great deal from the insights of philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates, although most would not necessarily wish to emulate Socrates' aggravation of the Athenian proletariat and subsequent execution (by poisoning) for stirring the status quo. While some similarities may appear between academic gatekeepers and the ancient Athenian hegemony, early career researchers are by definition trying to establish themselves; however, biting the hand that feeds you is a cardinal sin in both publishing and academia, as well as a poor option in achieving fulfilment of life choices. In this reflection based on my active practitioner perspective as a PhD in writing candidate and established children's writer, I wish to explore some of the factors affecting an early career researcher's ability to find publishing outlets and forums for their work and interests. I will in turn highlight the importance of having accessible and encouraging support structures for ECRs, the body academic and publishing forums associated with the arts and writing faculty.
Cancer Genetics and an Interview with a Deaf Biomedical Researcher
Creators: name: Braun, Derek
name: Majocha, Megan
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: In this lesson, learners will learn about cancer genetics and understand and interpret graphs showing quantitative trait locus (QTL) data, survivor curve data, and other genetics data. Then, learners view and reflect on an interview with Deaf biomedical researcher Dr. Megan Majocha, who is doing this research at the National Institutes of Health.
title: Coulomb Excitation of Proton-rich N = 80 Isotones at HIE-ISOLDE
Creators: name: Kern, Ralph
name: Zidarova, Radostina
name: Pietralla, Norbert
name: Rainovski, Georgi
name: Gaffney, Liam P.
name: Blazhev, Andrey
name: Boukhari, Amar
name: Cederkäll, Joakim
name: Cubiss, James G.
name: Djongolov, Martin
name: Fransen, Christoph
name: Gladnishki, Kalin
name: Giannopoulos, Efstathios
name: Hess, Herbert
name: Jolie, Jan
name: Karayonchev, Vasil
name: Kaya, Levent
name: Keatings, James M.
name: Kocheva, Diana
name: Kröll, Thorsten
name: Möller, Oliver
name: O’Neill, George G.
name: Pakarinen, Janne
name: Reiter, Peter
name: Rosiak, Dawid
name: Scheck, Marcus
name: Snall, Jacob
name: Söderström, Pär-Anders
name: Spagnoletti, Pietro
name: Stegmann, Robert
name: Stoyanova, Milena
name: Thiel, Stefan
name: Vogt, Andreas
name: Warr, Nigel
name: Welker, Andree
name: Werner, Volker
name: Wiederhold, Johannes
name: De Witte, Hilde
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: A projectile Coulomb-excitation experiment was performed at the radioactive ion beam facility HIE-ISOLDE at CERN. The radioactive ¹⁴⁰Nd and ¹⁴²Sm ions were post accelerated to the energy of 4.62 MeV/A and impinged on a 1.45 mg/cm²-thin ²⁰⁸Pb target. The γ rays depopulating the Coulomb-excited states were recorded by the HPGe-array MINIBALL. The scattered charged particles were detected by a double-sided silicon strip detector in forward direction. Experimental γ-ray intensities were used for the determination of electromagnetic transition matrix elements. Preliminary results for the reduced transition strength of the B(M1;23+→21+)=0.35(19)μN2 of ¹⁴⁰Nd and a first estimation for ¹⁴²Sm have been deduced using the Coulomb-excitation calculation software GOSIA. The 2³₊ states of ¹⁴⁰Nd and ¹⁴²Sm show indications of being the main fragment of the proton-neutron mixed-symmetry 2⁺₁,ms state.
Geological map of the Miocene-Pleistocene successions of the Mejillones Peninsula, Northern Chile
Creators: name: Celma, Claudio Di
name: Pierantoni, Pietro Paolo
name: Cantalamessa, Gino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: The Mejillones Peninsula (northern Chile) has undergone a complex tectono-sedimentary history from the Miocene onward and is dissected by a network of normal faults that generated three asymmetric half-grabens located in a forearc position with respect to the Chile subduction system. A new 1:50,000-scale geological map of the peninsula, covering an area of ca 800 km2 and based on a detailed facies analysis and field mapping (1:20,000 scale) in conjunction with a comprehensive interpretation of aerial photographs (1:33,000 scale), gives new and updated information about the nature of marine sedimentation and deformation during the Miocene to Pleistocene and permits the geological history of the peninsula during this time period to be reconstructed. An important aspect of organising the Miocene to Pleistocene stratigraphy has been the recognition of three regional allostratigraphic units in the hangingwall basin-fill sediments (the Miocene Caleta Herradura, Pliocene La Portada, and Pleistocene Mejillones alloformations) and two major morphostratigraphic units (PlioMMU and PleiMMU) including extensive flights of Pliocene and Pleistocene marine terraces carved on crestal and flanking areas of adjacent footwall blocks.
Classifications as Linked Open Data. Challenges and Opportunities
Creators: name: Szostak, Rick
name: Smiraglia, Richard P.
name: Scharnhorst, Andrea
name: Slavic, Aida
name: Martínez-Ávila, Daniel
name: Renwick, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Linked Data (LD) as a web--based technology enables in principle the seamless, machine--supported integration, interplay and augmentation of all kinds of knowledge, into what has been labeled a huge knowledge graph. Despite decades of web technology and, more recently, the LD approach, the task to fully exploit these new technologies in the public domain is only commencing. One specific challenge is to transfer techniques developed preweb to order our knowledge into the realm of Linked Open Data (LOD) This paper illustrates two different models in which a general analytico--synthetic classification can be published and made available as LD. In both cases, an LD solution deals with the intricacies of a pre--coordinated indexing language.
title: Schnell heißt nicht rechtmäßig: Die Vergabe der russischen Staatsangehörigkeit in der Ostukraine steht völkerrechtlich auf wackligen Füßen
Creators: name: Kleinert, Lukas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Geochemical reactivity of rocks of the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Tomáš Chuman
name: Gürtlerová, Pavla
name: Hruška, Jakub
name: Adamová, Marie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine

description: In this study, we present a map of the geochemical reactivity of rocks of the Czech Republic at a scale of 1:1,000,000 based on a geodatabase of regional geological maps at a scale of 1:50,000, as well as description of the method of how the map was developed. Research for this study was performed by compiling information between a database of regional geological maps and data from the lithogeochemical database to calculate and classify the rocks into eight groups according to carbonate content and coefficient of alkalinity. Rocks in these groups were further subdivided according to the susceptibility to weathering, forming a total of 28 categories. Knowledge of geochemical background is essential for making informed landscape management decisions, as this information determines the areas with higher levels of susceptibility to soil acidification and/or nutrient degradation. The map from this study will therefore provide essential information, albeit incomplete, to aid landscape management practitioners.