cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Children’s Play in Natural Environments and Their Development of Microcultures : “We Were Born in the Wilderness”
Creators: name: Bauer, Michelle E. E.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Han, Christina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Amid a dearth of research exploring children’s stories of their play in natural environments, we conducted go-along interviews with 105 children aged 10-13 years in Metro Vancouver, Canada. We used narrative inquiry to explore how natural environments shaped their experiences and influenced their development of microcultures. Our thematic narrative analysis resulted in two themes: (1) children played in natural environments to which they had sentimental attachments; and (2) children developed microcultures away from adults. We explored the sentimental and purposeful elements of natural environments that children actively use to develop their microcultures.
Hyperplane families creating envelopes
Creators: name: Nishimura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R45, 58C25

description: A simple geometric mechanism: "the locus of intersections of perpendicular bisectors and normal lines", often arises in many guises in Nonlinear Sciences. In this paper, a new application of this simple geometric mechanism is given. Namely, we show that this mechanism gives answers to all four basic problems on envelopes created by hyperplane families (existence problem, representation problem, equivalence problem of definitions, uniqueness problem) at once.
description: Minor revision. 28 pages, 14 figures, to appear in Nonlinearity
Supplementary document for STED microscopy reveals in-situ photoluminescence properties of single nanostructures in densely perovskite thin films - 5532837.pdf
Creators: name: wang, qingya
name: qin, qilin
name: yuhan, chen
name: yang, tieshan
name: Xu, Qinfeng
name: mu, haifeng
name: han, jing
name: Cao, KunJian
name: Jiao, Mengmeng
name: Liu, Mingliang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Materials
Exploring the predictive ability of the perfectionistic climate questionnaire on psychological safety and wellbeing in athletes
Creators: name: Sharp, Matthew
name: Watson, Dean
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Perfectionism
subject: culture
subject: sport
subject: 150

description: Perfectionism is a personality characteristic that can be conceptualized as both a trait and a state. However, recent research has highlighted how certain aspects of the social environment are perfectionistic. These aspects can pose several problems for athletes that include performance and wellbeing difficulties. In line with theory on the development of perfectionism, athletes who train and compete in highly perfectionistic environments are likely to feel that making mistakes will lead to punishment. In this regard, psychological safety – which is characterised by as asking for help, admitting one’s errors, or seeking feedback from others, is likely to be undermined in such environments. By exploring athlete perceptions of perfectionistic climates, we hope to better understand factors that underpin psychological safety and wellbeing experiences among athletes.
COVID-19 Detection in Cough, Breath and Speech using Deep Transfer Learning and Bottleneck Features
Creators: name: Pahar, Madhurananda
name: Klopper, Marisa
name: Warren, Robin
name: Niesler, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present an experimental investigation into the effectiveness of transfer learning and bottleneck feature extraction in detecting COVID-19 from audio recordings of cough, breath and speech. This type of screening is non-contact, does not require specialist medical expertise or laboratory facilities and can be deployed on inexpensive consumer hardware. We use datasets that contain recordings of coughing, sneezing, speech and other noises, but do not contain COVID-19 labels, to pre-train three deep neural networks: a CNN, an LSTM and a Resnet50. These pre-trained networks are subsequently either fine-tuned using smaller datasets of coughing with COVID-19 labels in the process of transfer learning, or are used as bottleneck feature extractors. Results show that a Resnet50 classifier trained by this transfer learning process delivers optimal or near-optimal performance across all datasets achieving areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC AUC) of 0.98, 0.94 and 0.92 respectively for all three sound classes (coughs, breaths and speech). This indicates that coughs carry the strongest COVID-19 signature, followed by breath and speech. Our results also show that applying transfer learning and extracting bottleneck features using the larger datasets without COVID-19 labels led not only to improve performance, but also to minimise the standard deviation of the classifier AUCs among the outer folds of the leave-$p$-out cross-validation, indicating better generalisation. We conclude that deep transfer learning and bottleneck feature extraction can improve COVID-19 cough, breath and speech audio classification, yielding automatic classifiers with higher accuracy.
Cafius Stephens 1829
Creators: name: Lee, Jae-Seok
name: Yoo, In-Seong
name: Ahn, Kee-Jeong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cafius

description: Genus CAFIUS Stephens
 Cafius Stephens 1829: 23 (Type species: Staphylinus xantholoma Gravenhorst).
description: Published as part of Lee, Jae-Seok, Yoo, In-Seong & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2021, A Taxonomic Review of Coastal Cafius algarum (Sharp) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with Two New Synonyms and Discussion of Its Distributional Extension, pp. 835-844 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on page 838, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.835, http://zenodo.org/record/13252186
Chilhoplites unicinctatus
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Chilhoplites
Chilhoplites unicinctatus

description: 11.4.1 Chilhoplites unicinctatus (Dalla Torre, 1902)
Ichneumon (Ichneumon) unicinctus Spinola, 1851: 479–480. Primary homonym of Ichneumon unicinctus Brullé, 1846 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae).
Ichneumon unicinctatus (Dalla Torre, 1902: 1009). Nomen novum for Ichneumon unicinctus Spinola, 1851.
Distribution. Neotropical; Chile: Región de Coquimbo (Townes & Townes 1966); Región de La Araucanía (Porter 1998); Región de Los Lagos (Porter 1998).
Comments. Spinola (1851: 479–480) described Ichneumon unicinctus from Coquimbo (Chile), which has been recognized as primary homonym of Ichneumon unicinctus Brullé, 1846 by Dalla Torre (1902: 1009) and replaced by Ichneumon unicinctatus Dalla Torre, 1902.
Spinola (1851) does not report any location for the original type series, but Townes & Townes (1966) report it from Coquimbo possibly based on label data.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Aztec-Mexica Temple R of Tlatelolco
Creators: name: Moreiras Reynaga, Diana
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2022

description: This temple was erected by the Mexica (Aztecs) living in Tlatelolco as one of the temples in their ceremonial-ritual complex. The Temple R was dedicated to their wind deity, Ehécatl-Quetzalcoatl. This deity was linked to the main Mexica god Tlaloc, in charge of rain and earth's fertility. As such, ceremonies associated with fertility, rain, and the successful maintenance of agricultural cycles were carried out at this temple. In the 1980s, a team of INAH specialists encountered the remains of several individuals during their excavations at this temple. The individuals, including infants, children and adults, had been sacrificed and placed in particular burial contexts: on the ground and inside pots with several artifacts and ecofacts. This sacrificial event has been linked to a one-time ritual ceremony during the massive drought of 1454- 1457 CE (also known as the "famine of 1 Rabbit" based on the Mexica calendar; during the reign of Motecuhzoma I).
Generalized Hilbert series operators
Creators: name: Jin, Jianjun
name: Tang, Shuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D15, 47A30

description: In this note we study the generalized Hilbert series operator $H_μ$, induced by a positive Bore measure $μ$ on $[0, 1)$, between weighted sequence spaces. We characterize the measures $μ$ for which $H_μ$ is bounded between different sequence spaces. Finally, for certain special measures, we obtain the sharp norm estimates of the operators and establish some new generalized Hilbert series inequalities with the best constant factors.
description: Filomat, to appear
Peculiarities and evolution of Raman spectra of multilayer Ge/Si(001) heterostructures containing arrays of low-temperature MBE-grown Ge quantum dots of different size and number density: Experimental studies and numerical simulations
Creators: name: Storozhevykh, Mikhail S.
name: Arapkina, Larisa V.
name: Novikov, Sergey M.
name: Volkov, Valentyn S.
name: Arsenin, Aleksey V.
name: Uvarov, Oleg V.
name: Yuryev, Vladimir A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ge/Si(001) multilayer heterostructures containing arrays of low-temperature self-assembled Ge quantum dots and very thin Si$_x$Ge$_{1-x}$ layers of varying composition and complex geometry have been studied using Raman spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy. The dependence of Raman spectra on the effective thickness of deposited Ge layers has been investigated in detail in the range from 4 to 18 Å. The position and shape of both Ge and SiGe vibrational modes are of great interest since they are closely related to the strain and composition of the material that plays a role of active component in perspective optoelectronic devices based on such structures. In this work, we present an explanation for some peculiar features of Raman spectra, which makes it possible to control the quality of the grown heterostructures more effectively. A dramatic increase of intensity of both the Ge$-$Ge and Si$-$Ge bands for the structure containing Ge layers of 10 Å and anomalous shift and broadening of the Si$-$Ge band for structures comprising Ge layers of 8 and 9 Å thick were observed. In our model, the anomalous behavior of the Raman spectra with the change of thickness of deposited Ge is connected with the flatness of Ge layers as well as transitional SiGe domains formed via the stress-induced diffusion from {105} facets of quantum dots. The conclusions are supported by the STM studies and the numerical calculations.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Value importance in times of pandemic: how do values change on an intra-individual level in times of great stress
Creators: name: Pop, Doris
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: value change
subject: pandemic
subject: major life event
subject: 150

description: Crisis times lead to changes in mental functioning as a function of adapting to new environmental demands. In present study we examined the change of values for the general population that went through the 2020-2021 pandemic. The aim of the study was to verify if the values do change after a major live event, as a pandemic, we measured personal values and the level of irrationality. In times of crises and isolation some values do change, but most importantly, the isolation makes a difference for this change. As a novelty, we examined if irrationality has a contribution for stability and change of values over time and change in society and it doesn’t as we expected. Future research should look at how this change can affect well-being and mental health.
Do values change after major life events?
Creators: name: Pop, Doris
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: personal value
subject: value change
subject: major life event
subject: 150

description: The universal character of values is agreed upon after more than 10 years of studies surveying participants from all continents. Recent data supports the hypothesis stating that values do change over the lifetime, but they need a major event in order to raise or lower in the personal rank of each individual. We aim to explore the intensity of value change after major life events, cumulated or individual. The subgroup analysis requested grouping personal values in their clusters, and measuring how much they changed for each event or groups of similar events. Each cluster had significant mean-level change in value importance.
Port Parameter Extraction Based Self Consistent Coupled EM-Circuit FEM Solvers
Creators: name: Ramachandran, O. H.
name: O'Connor, Scott
name: Crawford, Zane D.
name: Kempel, Leo C.
name: Shanker, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Self consistent solution to electromagnetic (EM)-circuit systems is of significant interest for a number of applications. This has resulted in exhaustive research on means to couple them. In time domain, this typically involves a tight integration (or coupling) with field and non-linear circuit solvers. This is in stark contrast to coupled analysis of linear/weakly non-linear circuits and EM systems in frequency domain. Here, one typically extracts equivalent port parameters that are then fed into the circuit solver. Such an approach has several advantages; (a) the number of ports is typically smaller than the number of degrees of freedom, resulting in cost savings; (b) is circuit agnostic; (c) can be integrated with a variety of device models. Port extraction is tantamount to obtaining impulse response of the linear EM system. In time domain, the deconvolution required to effect this is unstable. Recently, a novel approach was developed for time domain integral equations to overcome this bottleneck. We extend this approach to time domain finite element method, and demonstrate its utility via a number of examples; significantly, we demonstrate that self consistent solutions obtained using either a fully coupled or port extraction is identical to the desired precision for non-linear circuit systems. This is shown within a nodal network. We also demonstrate integration of port extracted data directly with drift diffusion equation to model device physics.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Diacantharius Schmiedeknecht 1902
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Diacantharius

description: 11.5 Genus Diacantharius Schmiedeknecht, 1902
Diacantharius Schmiedeknecht, 1902: 20.
Type species Diacantharius elegans Schmiedeknecht, 1902, by original monotypy.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions one undescribed species occurring from the Región de Coquimbo to Región Metropolitana.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Kaleidoscopia
Creators: name: Ha Mitford, Winnie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330315
subject: Textile and fashion design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Kaleidoscopia' is a piece of creative textual work commissioned by the innovative London-based platform 'Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters.' The work is a critical response to the issue of image and body representation, in relation to power relations, in the system of fashion, written in the format of fictive prose. At a broader level, the work relates to the theme of 'power' in Issue 4 of Vestoj. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Kaleidoscopia' is part of an ongoing research project that explores new modes of textual and verbal expression in fashion practice. It expands writing in fashion as a form of creative practice in itself. It contributes to an emerging area of fashion practice that questions and interrogates its own language of representation, as well as the expansion of forms and formats of textual expression in fashion. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters is an emerging, innovative communication platform with wide digital presence. In addition it produces an annual journal about dress, bridging the gap between academia, literature and industry within fashion, creating dialogues between theory and practice in order to raise awareness for fashion as a cultural phenomena and field of research. The commission by Vestoj to produce the work in its annual print issue demonstrates the significance of the work. Edited by Anja Cronberg (Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion), 'Kaleidoscopia' was featured alongside prominent and leading academics in the field such as Shaun Cole and Professor Peter McNeil. The print issue is stocked in London (Institute for Contemporary Art, Serpentine Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum), Paris (Palais de Tokyo, Musee des Arts Decoratifs), New York (Moma PS1), Los Angeles, Oslo, Berlin, Barcelona, Milan, Antwerp (MoMu), among others.
Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Findings, Strategies, and Design Decision Support Technologies
Creators: name: Mehaffy, Michael West
Publisher: name: TU Delft Open
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: urban morphology; greenhouse gas emissions; building scale; transportation system; decision support tool
subject: 71

description: The research reported in this dissertation contains three complementary and overlapping parts:One, “findings”: It assesses the factors of urban morphology that contribute to increased rates of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and the ways they interact. It finds a significant but underrepresented set of factors, distinct from but relating the factors at the individual building scale and the scale of regional transportation systems.Two, “strategies”: It assesses the methodologies by which such findings might be put to use in identifying and achieving reductions through changes in urban design, and proposes new strategies to do so using innovative forms of design decision support tools.Three, “design decision support tools”: It then proposes a specific new technology, namely a new class of open-source scenario-modelling tool, embodied in new prototype software. The tool utilizes a new kind of “federated” web-based wiki technology incorporating design pattern languages, which was developed in collaboration with the software engineer and wiki inventor Ward Cunningham.As part of this research, it has been necessary to examine fundamental methodological questions, and to account for limitations of current data as well as current significant gaps in research. In the process, this research has made a modest contribution to the state of knowledge about additional research needed.For me, this work has also highlighted the need for urgent and effective reforms to current “business as usual” practices. The need is all the more urgent given unprecedented rates of urbanisation – much of it sprawling and resource-inefficient – taking place in many parts of the world today.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No 14 (2015): Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Dacnochilus LeConte 1861
Creators: name: Brunke, Adam J.
name: Schnepp, Kyle E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Dacnochilus

description: Dacnochilus LeConte, 1861
 Dacnochilus LeConte 1861: 66.
 Acalophaena Sharp 1886: 554. Jiménez-Sánchez and Galián 2013 (synonym of Dacnochilus).
 Diagnosis and Comments. Dacnochilus is recognized within Lathrobiini by a combination of: metatibia with well-developed ctenidium on both outer and inner faces; pronotum no more than about as long as wide, disc either without or with very few punctures. The more compact species of the former genus Acalophaena Sharp were recently shown to be derived from within the less modified genus Dacnochilus by Jiménez-Sánchez and Galián (2013). However, the authors did not mention the similar genus Paederopsis Wasmann with four species (three in Brazil, one in the United States) (Newton 2019). Paederopsis may be another synonym of Dacnochilus, as at least one of its species (see below) was found to belong to that genus.
description: Published as part of Brunke, Adam J. & Schnepp, Kyle E., 2021, Taxonomic Changes in Nearctic Paederinae, New Records and a Redescription of the Enigmatic Genus Acrostilicus Hubbard (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 883-894 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on page 884, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.883, http://zenodo.org/record/13252228
Does a repeating response retrieve the n-1 task? A task-switching experiment with fictitious cards
Creators: name: Benini, Elena
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: task switching
subject: features binding
subject: episodic retrieval
subject: response-repetition effect
subject: task confusion
subject: response selection
subject: 150

description: In task switching, response repetitions (RR) usually yield performance benefits compared to response switches, but only when the task repeats. When the task switches, RR benefits vanish or even turn into costs, yielding an interaction between repeating versus switching the task and the response. Several theoretical accounts were proposed to explain this interaction. In this study, we tested a prediction derived from binding and retrieval accounts which assumes that task and response are bound in each trial N. Moreover, when the task or the response repeats, it retrieves the task-response binding formed in the N−1 trial. A previous study, we showed that repeating the task indeed retrieves the response. Namely, we found higher probability of erroneously repeating the same response as in N-1 when the repeats than when it switches. This can explain why RR benefits are found in task repetitions. We now wish to examine whether repeating the response retrieves the previous task. To this aim, we will examine whether the probability of erroneously performing the n-1 task is higher in response repetitions than switches. This could explain why RR costs are found in task switches. Such an erroneous selection of the N-1 task in response repetitions might reflect retrieval of the previous episode and thus bring further support to the episodic retrieval account for the RR effect in task switching.
Dacnochilus compactus Det. A. Brunke 2021
Creators: name: Brunke, Adam J.
name: Schnepp, Kyle E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Dacnochilus
Dacnochilus compactus

description: Dacnochilus compactus (Casey, 1905)
 Acalophaena compacta Casey 1905: 146.
 Paederopsis gloydi Kistner 1955: 1. New synonym.
 Dacnochilus compactus: Jiménez-Sánchez and Galián 2013 (redescription).
 Type Material. Paratype (female, FMNH, head mounted on separate slide): “ Wickenburg: Maricopa Co., Ariz., 28.VIII.51/ light trap / Coll. H.K. Gloyd, leg./[female symbol]/mouthparts on slide P-1/ Paederopsis gloydi Kistner Paratype [red label]/ FMNHINS 4087760, FIELD MUSEUM, Pinned [QR code label]/ Dacnochilus compactus (Casey) Det. A. Brunke 2021 ”.
 Note on Type Material. Paederopsis gloydi was described based on a female holotype and two female paratypes. We examined one of the female paratypes, which corresponded well to the description by Kistner (1955) and displayed the following character states: disc of pronotum and elytra without macrosetae; elytron with epipleural carina; head (from description) and pronotum concolorous pale red-brown; pronotum very transverse (approximately 1.60 times wider than long). We therefore conclude that this species belongs in Dacnochilus and is morphologically indistinguishable from D. compactus, sensu Jiménez-Sánchez and Galián (2013), who studied a female syntype from Arizona.
 Diagnosis. This species can be easily recognized among Nearctic Dacnochilus by a combination of: uniformly red body; labrum with paired teeth; elytra without discal rows of punctures; elytron with epipleural carina.
 Distribution. United States: AZ, CA, NV. Mexico: Baja California.
 Comments. When describing P. gloydi, Kistner (1955) was apparently unaware of the distinctive genus Acalophaena (now a synonym of Dacnochilus). An examination of the type material showed that this species was identical with D. compactus. Therefore, the genus Paederopsis is removed from the Nearctic fauna, though an examination of the Brazilian type species is needed to confirm whether this genus is a synonym of Dacnochilus.
description: Published as part of Brunke, Adam J. & Schnepp, Kyle E., 2021, Taxonomic Changes in Nearctic Paederinae, New Records and a Redescription of the Enigmatic Genus Acrostilicus Hubbard (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 883-894 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on pages 884-885, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.883, http://zenodo.org/record/13252228
An Installation of an Experimental Joint for Concrete Pavements
Creators: name: Field, Harvey J.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1950
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The experimental joint described in this paper involves the use of a new type load transfer set-up which was developed by the Oxford Manufacturing Company, Oxford, Indiana, and produced by the Reynolds Metals Company. The producers designed this apparatus on the assumption that the present joints used in concrete pavement construction are not adequate. For example, from the standpoint of load bearing, the dowel bars which theoretically carry the load from one slab to the other are not sufficient in that the very shape of the bars (circular) allows only a limited bearing surface. In order to eliminate the rusting which often renders the dowel bars useless, this apparatus is made of aluminum. Two of these experimental joints were laid early last fall in Paducah, Kentucky, under the supervision of the Division of Construction.
E2Style: Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of StyleGAN Inversion
Creators: name: Wei, Tianyi
name: Chen, Dongdong
name: Zhou, Wenbo
name: Liao, Jing
name: Zhang, Weiming
name: Yuan, Lu
name: Hua, Gang
name: Yu, Nenghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies the problem of StyleGAN inversion, which plays an essential role in enabling the pretrained StyleGAN to be used for real image editing tasks. The goal of StyleGAN inversion is to find the exact latent code of the given image in the latent space of StyleGAN. This problem has a high demand for quality and efficiency. Existing optimization-based methods can produce high-quality results, but the optimization often takes a long time. On the contrary, forward-based methods are usually faster but the quality of their results is inferior. In this paper, we present a new feed-forward network "E2Style" for StyleGAN inversion, with significant improvement in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. In our inversion network, we introduce: 1) a shallower backbone with multiple efficient heads across scales; 2) multi-layer identity loss and multi-layer face parsing loss to the loss function; and 3) multi-stage refinement. Combining these designs together forms an effective and efficient method that exploits all benefits of optimization-based and forward-based methods. Quantitative and qualitative results show that our E2Style performs better than existing forward-based methods and comparably to state-of-the-art optimization-based methods while maintaining the high efficiency as well as forward-based methods. Moreover, a number of real image editing applications demonstrate the efficacy of our E2Style. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/wty-ustc/e2style}
description: To Appear at TIP 2022
Measurement of Surface Irregularities and Riding Qualities of High Type Bituminous Pavements
Creators: name: Field, Harvey J.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1950
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Studies of riding qualities as determined by irregularities in high type bituminous pavements were first treated in Report No. 1 on this subject in December, 1949. At that time interest was centered as much on specifications as on the causes, the thought being that specifications did not provide satisfactory tolerances to produce surfaces with good riding qualities. Specifically, tolerances over relatively short distances longitudinally were though to be at fault.  It was found early in that work that variations in the lateral direction were causing considerable roughness but since longitudinal variations were being studied primarily, no actual measurements were made to evaluate roughness produced by non uniform cross-sections.  This year much work has been directed toward the development of a device for automatically measuring, analyzing, and recording roughness based on human comfort tolerances. Considerable effort has been spent on designing effective equipment or devices for controlling the pavement cross-section.
A Study of Habituation Behavior and Pavlovian Conditioning in the 'Mimosa pudica' Plant
Creators: name: Kirkman, Cyrus
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Plant learning
subject: Mimosa pudica
subject: Plant habituation
subject: Plant Pavlovian conditioning
subject: Plant behavior
subject: Plant intelligence
subject: 150

description: Modern study of complex plant behavior rarely utilizes the psychological frameworks that are common in animal research. Behaviorism is an ideal logical framework in constructing an ecocentric foundation of plant behavior because of its objective treatment of behavioral patterns without dependence upon responsible mechanism. Biologists have recently applied Behavioral paradigms to plant learning experiments and found preliminary success, but have also been met with skepticism stemming from incomplete and improper behavioral procedures and human interference and error. This thesis constructed a novel procedural framework and experimental apparatus featuring automated stimulus implementation and rigorous data collection by which Mimosa pudica plant subjects could be left for weeks at a time without human contact. A photo-analysis algorithm that was blind to experimental conditions measured stimulus responses in order to unambiguously demonstrate behavioral trends in data. Experiment 1 established a habituation protocol to an air flow stimulus and found plants to show a monotonic decrease in magnitude of response over 30d of data collection (but required additional controls to fully establish habituation). Experiment 2 implemented a repeated associative contingency between changes in air flow and vibration stimuli and found a systematic difference in unconditioned response magnitude across experimental and control groups over 28d, thereby establishing preliminary, though still unclear, evidence for Pavlovian conditioning in M. pudica plants. Highly regulated environmental conditions, mechanically automated stimuli, and algorithmic response measurement and comparison reduced the possibility for human error and maximized procedural effectiveness in order to create ideal conditions for observations of plant learning.
Cyparium terminale Matthews 1888
Creators: name: Márquez, Juan
name: Asiain, Julieta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cyparium
Cyparium terminale

description: Cyparium terminale Matthews, 1888
 First Record for the State of Puebla (Fig. 3a). “ Mexico: Puebla, Honey, Chila de Juárez, San Marcos river, 20°17ʹ40.3ʹʹN, 98°13ʹ36.6ʹʹW, 1500 m, cloud forest, interception fly trap, 8 to 15-VIII-2019, J. D. Silva, R. Ramírez and J. Márquez cols.” (5♂, 3♀).
 Previous Records (Fig. 3a). Mexico: Estado de México (without precise locality), Hidalgo (Chapulhuacán: Arroyo Blanco, Tlanchinol: La Cabaña, Xochicoatlán: Malila river), Jalisco (without precise locality), Michoacán (Ocampo: Laguna Seca), Morelos (Tlayacapan: San José de los Laureles), Oaxaca (Santiago Jamiltepec: El Monroy, Santiago Yosondua: La Cascada-road to El Vergel, km 3 road Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec-Juquila Mixes) and Veracruz (Chocaman, Huatusco: km 30 road Fortín-Huatusco, Fortín de las Flores: Barranca Metlac, Sierra de Atoyac: Atoyaquillo, Xalapa); Guatemala and Panama (Márquez 2007; Márquez and Asiain 2017; Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002; Pedraza et al. 2010).
 Biogeographic Comment. This species probably follows the distributional pattern and cenocron named Mountain Mesoamerican (Halffter 2017; Morrone 2015), but its record in Panama is not completely concordant with this pattern or cenocron, which implies the expansion of taxa from the nucleus of Central America (north of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) toward the humid mountains of Mexico.
 Color Variation. Márquez (2007) analyzed the color pattern in some specimens of C. terminale, where he found three predominant forms: one black, one reddish, and a third paler (possibly teneral). The specimens analyzed here correspond to the predominantly black form, with two reddish spots on each elytron, one near the humerus and the other towards the external posterior corner; the elytral epipleura and pronotal hypomeron are partially reddish, with legs bicolored and reddish at the anterior margin of some abdominal segments. The coloration of most of the studied specimens (7) is similar to that presented in fig. 1c of that work, except for one in which the elytra are completely black. The predominantly black specimens were collected in Morelos, Oaxaca and Veracruz. Later, Pedraza et al. (2010) and Márquez and Asiain (2017) recorded it in Hidalgo, but the color variation of these specimens has not yet been analyzed.
description: Published as part of Márquez, Juan & Asiain, Julieta, 2021, New Country and State Records of Uncommon Species of Staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Mexico and Guatemala, pp. 871-881 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on pages 873-875, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.871, http://zenodo.org/record/13252264
Diphyus Kriechbaumer 1890
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Diphyus

description: 11.6 Genus Diphyus Kriechbaumer, 1890
Diphyus Kriechbaumer, 1890: 184.
Type species Diphyes [sic] tricolor Kriechbaumer, 1890, by original monotypy.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions several unidentified species occurring from the Región Metropolitana to Región de Los Lagos.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation
Creators: name: Ellingsen, Simen Å.
name: Akselsen, Andreas H.
name: Chan, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present direct numerical simulation of a mechanism for creating longitudinal vortices in pipe flow, compared with a simple model theory. By furnishing the pipe wall with a pattern of crossing waves secondary flow in the form of spanwise vortex pairs is created. The mechanism `CL1' is kinematic and known from oceanography as a driver of Langmuir circulation. CL1 is strongest when the `wall wave' vectors make an accute angle with the axis, $φ=10^\circ$ - $20^\circ$ (a `contracted eggcarton'), changes sign near $45^\circ$ and is weak and opposite beyond this angle. A competing, dynamic mechanism driving secondary flow in the opposite sense is also observed created by the azimuthally varying friction. Whereas at smaller angles `CL1' prevails, the dynamic effect dominates when $φ\gtrsim 45^\circ$ reversing the flow. Curiously, circulation strength is a faster-than-linearly increasing function of Reynolds number for the contracted case. We explore an analogy with Prandtl's secondary motion of the second kind in turbulence. A transport equation for average streamwise vorticity is derived, and we analyse it for three different crossing angles, $φ=18.6^\circ, 45^\circ$ and $60^\circ$. Mean-vorticity production is organised in a ring-like structure with the two rings contributing to rotating flow in opposite senses. For the larger $φ$ the inner ring decides the main swirling motion, whereas for $φ=18.6^\circ$ outer-ring production dominates. For the larger angles the outer ring is mainly driven by advection of vorticity and the inner by deformation (stretching) whereas for $φ=18.6^\circ$ both contribute approximately equally to production in the outer ring.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Phanolinus speciosus Sharp 1884
Creators: name: Márquez, Juan
name: Asiain, Julieta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Phanolinus
Phanolinus speciosus

description: Phanolinus speciosus Sharp, 1884
 First CountrY Record for Guatemala (Fig. 1a). “ Guatemala: El Progreso, SanAgustínAcasaguastlán, Los Albores, Sierra de Las Minas, 15°03.750ʹN, 89°56.620ʹW, 1670 m, cloud forest, on decaying log, 29-XI-1999, J. Márquez col.” (1♂).
 First Record for Oaxaca State (Fig. 1a). “ Mexico: Oaxaca, Los Chimalapas, San Antonio, Boca Montaña, 16.669400°N, 94.213367°W, 1270 m, cloud forest, direct collection, 16-VII-2018, A. Ramírez-Ponce and D. Curoe cols.” (2♂, 1♀).
 Previous Records (Fig. 1a). Mexico: Veracruz (Córdoba) and Chiapas (Escuintla: 2 km from San Juan Panamá and 8 km from Nueva Morelia, 15°23.920ʹN, 92°30.412ʹW) (Márquez et al. 2015).
 Biogeographic Comment. This species probably shows the cenocron and distributional pattern of Mountain Mesoamerican since it is recorded in Guatemala and the humid mountains of the Mexican southeast.
description: Published as part of Márquez, Juan & Asiain, Julieta, 2021, New Country and State Records of Uncommon Species of Staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Mexico and Guatemala, pp. 871-881 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4) on page 877, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.871, http://zenodo.org/record/13252264
Rational Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies Selective for Pathogenic Forms of Alpha-Synuclein
Creators: name: Gibbs, Ebrima
name: Zhao, Beibei
name: Roman, Andrei
name: Plotkin, Steven
name: Peng, Xubiao
name: Hsueh, Shawn C. C.
name: Aina, Adekunle
name: Wang, Jing
name: Shyu, Clay
name: Yip, Calvin K.
name: Nam, Sung-Eun
name: Kaplan, Johanne M.
name: Cashman, Neil
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Misfolded toxic forms of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of synucleinopathies, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). The α-Syn oligomers and soluble fibrils have been shown to mediate neurotoxicity and cell-to-cell propagation of pathology. To generate antibodies capable of selectively targeting pathogenic forms of α-Syn, computational modeling was used to predict conformational epitopes likely to become exposed on oligomers and small soluble fibrils, but not on monomers or fully formed insoluble fibrils. Cyclic peptide scaffolds reproducing these conformational epitopes exhibited neurotoxicity and seeding activity, indicating their biological relevance. Immunization with the conformational epitopes gave rise to monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with the desired binding profile showing selectivity for toxic α-Syn oligomers and soluble fibrils, with little or no reactivity with monomers, physiologic tetramers, or Lewy bodies. Recognition of naturally occurring soluble α-Syn aggregates in brain extracts from DLB and MSA patients was confirmed by surface plasmon resonance (SPR). In addition, the mAbs inhibited the seeding activity of sonicated pre-formed fibrils (PFFs) in a thioflavin-T fluorescence-based aggregation assay. In neuronal cultures, the mAbs protected primary rat neurons from toxic α-Syn oligomers, reduced the uptake of PFFs, and inhibited the induction of pathogenic phosphorylated aggregates of endogenous α-Syn. Protective antibodies selective for pathogenic species of α-Syn, as opposed to pan α-Syn reactivity, are expected to provide enhanced safety and therapeutic potency by preserving normal α-Syn function and minimizing the diversion of active antibody from the target by the more abundant non-toxic forms of α-Syn in the circulation and central nervous system.
Generation of optical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill states with cavity QED
Creators: name: Hastrup, Jacob
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are a central resource for fault-tolerant optical continuous-variable quantum computing and communication. However, their realization in the optical domain remains to be demonstrated. Here we propose a method for preparing GKP states using a cavity QED system as the only non-Gaussian element. This system can be realized in several platforms such as trapped atoms, quantum dots or diamond color centers. We simulate the protocol with finite-cooperativity systems to evaluate the achievable quality of the produced GKP states in realistic noisy systems. We further combine the protocol with the previously proposed breeding protocol by Vasconcelos et al. to relax the demands on the quality of the QED system. We find that GKP states with more than 10 dB squeezing could be achieved in near-future experiments. Additionally, the approach can be made fully deterministic, thus providing a more scalable and hardware-efficient approach compared to probabilistic approaches based on photon counting.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Monitoring the consumption footprint of countries to support policy-making: An assessment of data availability in Germany
Creators: name: Nuss, Philip
name: Sanyé-Mengual, Esther
name: Sala, Serenella
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Industrielle Ökologie
Ökobilanz

description: The European Green Deal and the German Resource Efficiency Programme both aim at decoupling resource consumption and associated environmental burdens from economic growth. Monitoring the progress of such policies requires robust estimates of environmental pressures and impacts, both from a domestic and a footprint perspective. Building on the life cycle assessment-based consumption footprint (CoF) indicator, developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, we assess the environmental impacts of Germany's consumption in the areas of food, mobility, housing, household goods, and appliances during the period 2010â€Ì2018. A comparison between European and national consumption statistics revealed some differences in terms of data composition, granularity, consumption intensities, and calculated environmental impacts. Using national data sources results in slightly lower environmental impacts (e.g., due to differences in the assessment scope of national statistics) and requires some data preparation to match the CoF indicator. Emerging consumption trends can be highlighted using national data. Both data sources converge on main trends: Germany transgresses the safe operating space for several impact categories, with consumption of food, household goods, and mobility being the main drivers. Domestic impacts have decreased over time at the expense of outsourcing environmental pressures and impacts to other countries. The CoF indicator could complement resource monitoring frameworks and might be further aligned to the national context using country-level consumption statistics and life cycle inventory data. Quelle: Wiley
Energy Efficiency Optimization in Radar-Communication Spectrum Sharing
Creators: name: Grossi, Emanuele
name: Lops, Marco
name: Venturino, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Energy efficiency, possibly coupled with cognition-based and spectrum-sharing architectures, is a key enabling technology for green communications in 5G-and-beyond standards. In this context, the present paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output communication system cooperatively coexisting with a surveillance radar: the objective function is the communication system energy efficiency, while radar operation is safeguarded by constraining the minimum received signal-to-disturbance ratio for a set of range-azimuth cells of the controlled scene, and no time synchronization between them is assumed. The degrees of freedom are the transmit powers of both systems, the space-time communication codebook and the linear filters at the radar receiver. The resulting optimization problem is non-convex, due to both the objective function and the presence of signal-dependent interference (clutter): we develop a block-coordinate-ascent approximate solution, and offer a thorough performance assessment, so as to elicit the merits of the proposed approach, along with the interplay among the achievable energy efficiency, the density of scatterers in the environment, and the size of the set of protected radar cells.
description: Accepted (with minor changes) in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.07943
Eutanyacra Cameron 1903
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Eutanyacra

description: 11.7 Genus Eutanyacra Cameron, 1903
Eutanyacra Cameron, 1903: 227.
Types species Eutanyacra pallidicoxis Cameron, 1903, by original monotypy.
Comments. Porter (1998) mentions several unidentified species occurring from the Región Metropolitana to Región de Los Lagos.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657