cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What is the Value of Hazardous Weather Forecasts? Evidence from a Survey of Backcountry Skiers
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Rheinberger, Christoph M.
name: Leiter, Andrea M.
name: McCormick, Charles A.
name: Mizrahi, Andrew
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Rheinberger, Christoph M.
name: Leiter, Andrea M.
name: McCormick, Charles A.
name: Mizrahi, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Avalanche Risk
subject: Mortality
subject: Value of Hazardous Weather Forecasts
subject: Contingent Valuation
subject: Value of a Statistical Life

description: What is the value of hazardous weather warnings? To answer this question, we focus on the avalanche bulletin for Switzerland issued by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). We take a survey-based, non-market valuation approach to estimating the value of hypothetical improvements in avalanche forecasting. We focus on backcountry skiers because (i) safety is arguably the most important type of benefit associated with the avalanche bulletin, (ii) they voluntarily undertake risks, and (iii) they perceive themselves and are generally perceived by others as skilled in avoiding risks. The respondents’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the improved services ranges between CHF 42 to 46, implying a mean value of statistical life (VSL) of CHF 1.75 million. We find that WTP increases with income and is higher among Swiss nationals and those who rate the current bulletin “useful.” Risk-tolerant individuals, persons who assessed their personal risk as lower than average, professional guides, and those who perceive themselves as proficient in using the existing bulletin report lower WTP figures. This suggests that the monetized value that people place on the enhanced bulletin reflects how productive these individuals are (or think they are) in using information to avoid avalanche risks.
The Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binary Haro 1-14c
Creators: name: Simon, M.
name: Prato, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report detection of the low-mass secondary in the spectroscopic binary Haro 1-14c in the Ophiuchus star forming region. The secondary/primary mass ratio is $0.310\pm 0.014$. With an estimated photometric primary mass of 1.2 $M_{\odot}$, the secondary mass is $\sim 0.4 M_{\odot}$ and the projected semi-major axis is $\sim 1.5$ AU. The system is well-suited for astrometric mapping of its orbit with the current generation of ground-based IR interferometers. This could yield precision values of the system's component masses and distance.
description: Accepted by ApJ Letters
Critical charge fluctuations and emergent coherence in a strongly correlated excitonic insulator
Creators: name: Volkov, Pavel A.
name: Ye, Mai
name: Lohani, Himanshu
name: Feldman, Irena
name: Kanigel, Amit
name: Blumberg, Girsh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitonic insulator is a coherent electronic phase that results from the formation of a macroscopic population of bound particle-hole pairs - excitons. With only a few candidate materials known, the collective excitonic behavior is challenging to observe, being obscured by crystalline lattice effects. Here we use polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy to reveal the quadrupolar excitonic mode in the candidate zero-gap semiconductor Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ disentangling it from the lattice phonons. The excitonic mode pronouncedly softens close to the phase transition, showing its electronic character, while its coupling to non-critical lattice modes is shown to enhance the transition temperature. On cooling, we observe the gradual emergence of coherent superpositions of band states at the correlated insulator gap edge, with strong departures from mean-field theory predictions. Our results demonstrate the realization of a strongly correlated excitonic state in an equilibrium bulk material.
Offering Tables as Ritual Utensils. An attempt at reconstructing ancient Egyptian funerary ritual practice
Creators: name: Lundius, Esmeralda
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 932 Ägypten bis 640

description: The presented article is based on an extensive doctoral thesis project completed in 2022. The thesis offers a diachronic analysis of the design, use, context, and provenance of ancient Egyptian offering tables and similar materia magica. By applying an in-depth analysis of single, specific items, an attempt was made to reconstruct their function and meaning for users within a specific socio-cultural, geographical, and temporal setting. Through the study it was possible to deepen an understanding of the dynamics of the ancient Egyptian funerary cult and how it reflects the changing religious traditions within a constantly changing and yet steadfast culture. When attempting to redefine such a ritual utensil it proved to be necessary to provide a holistic evaluation of its surrounding socio-economic context, especially evident in an all-encompassing funerary landscape (i.e., physical landscape, its inhabitants, and associated settlements). This in turn lead to defining the offering table as a medium for a shared cultural, social, and religious practice. The presented methodology centred around placing ritual objects within their respective physical, social, and religious context, highlighting their diversity and multifunctionality and how they might reflect different religious traditions. This approach led to a new understanding of what offering tables represented within ancient Egyptian funerary tradition; “place-makers”, i.e., representing actual, conceptual, or practical landscapes that in turn became adapted to changing religious traditions. The article provides a summary of the innovative methodology used in the thesis and how it may aid in dismantling previous absolutisms regarding the ancient Egyptian funerary tradition.
Arkkitehtonisen synnyn genre – Eroottisuus arkkitehtuurissa
Creators: name: Risku, Juhani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120101 Architectural Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: 120301 Design History and Theory
subject: 120302 Design Innovation
subject: 120303 Design Management and Studio and Professional Practice
subject: 120399 Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 120307 Visual Communication Design (incl. Graphic Design)
subject: 120305 Industrial Design

description: Artikkelissa todetaan, että arkkitehtuuria synnytetään maskuliinisten ja feminiinisten voimien vallitessa yhdessä arkkitehtipersoonassa. Tämä tapahtuu syntyprosessin ihannetilassa.
Toivo uuden arkkitehtuurin syntymisessä asetetaan naisten varaan toteamalla, että naisella olisi vallitsevan feminiinisyytensä vuoksi miestä parempi mahdollisuus arkkitehtonisiin kvanttihyppyihin: henkinen syvyys, ihmisen fyysisen luonteen parempi tuntemus, maailman ja luonnon välittömämpi kokeminen, varhaisempi biologinen kehitys ja vastuun laajempi tunteminen voisivat oikeassa koulutusympäristössä saada kiihtyvän kehityksen aikaan.

Esille nousee kuitenki avoimia kysymyksiä naiselle.
Kysymykset ovat jo osa ratkaisua, joten ne uskallletaan esittää arkkitehti-naiselle:
- missä teoksissasi näkyy että olet ollut tyttö? Leikkisyys, herkkyys, nokkeluus, iloisuus, ilo?
- missä näkyy että nainen on äiti?
- missä näkyy että nainen on vaimo, rakastava aviopuoliso?
- missä näkyy että arkkitehtinainen on herkkä ja empaattinen? Entä eroottinen?
- missä näkyy että nainen hallitsee monimutkaisia asioita?

Valtaosa arkkitehdeista joutuu luopumaan ihanteistaan ja tavoitteistaan 'kriittisinä vuosina'. Nämä ovat n. 35-45 ikävuoden aikana, jolloin henkinen ja fyysinen taantuma ja ammatillinen tragedia yhdistyvät. Tämän vuoksi arkkitehtuurissa, sen koulutuksessa ja rakentamisessa täytyy tapahtua suuri mullistus, jotta aikalaiset saavat parempia asumuksia ja kaupunkieja.
Arkkitehtiopiskelija 1/2003, s 6-7, 11
Atmospheric NLTE-Models for the Spectroscopic Analysis of Blue Stars with Winds. II. Line-Blanketed Models
Creators: name: Puls, J.
name: Urbaneja, M. A.
name: Venero, R.
name: Repolust, T.
name: Springmann, U.
name: Jokuthy, A.
name: Mokiem, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new or improved methods for calculating NLTE, line-blanketed model atmospheres for hot stars with winds (spectral types A to O), with particular emphasis on a fast performance. These methods have been implemented into a previous, more simple version of the model atmosphere code FASTWIND (Santolaya-Rey et al.1997) and allow to spectroscopically analyze rather large samples of massive stars in a reasonable time-scale, using state-of-the-art physics. We describe our (partly approximate) approach to solve the equations of statistical equilibrium for those elements which are primarily responsible for line-blocking and blanketing, as well as an approximate treatment of the line-blocking itself, which is based on a simple statistical approach using suitable means for line opacities and emissivities. Furthermore, we comment on our implementation of a consistent temperature structure. In the second part, we concentrate on a detailed comparison with results from those two codes which have been used in alternative spectroscopical investigations, namely CMFGEN (Hillier & Miller 1998) and WM-Basic (Pauldrach et al. 2001). All three codes predict almost identical temperature structures and fluxes for lambda > 400 A, whereas at lower wavelengths a number of discrepancies are found. Optical H/He lines as synthesized by FASTWIND are compared with results from CMFGEN, obtaining a remarkable coincidence, except for the HeI singlets in the temperature range between 36,000 to 41,000 K for dwarfs and between 31,000 to 35,000 K for supergiants, where CMFGEN predicts much weaker lines. Consequences due to these discrepancies are discussed.
description: 30 pages incl. 20 figures, accepted by A&A
La pratica rituale nel Tofet di Mozia. Ipotesi ricostruttiva sulla base della cultura materiale
Creators: name: Zielli, Fabiola
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499

description: The tophet, the Phoenician-Punic sanctuary par excellence, has been the subject of complex and controversial studies for a long time. Historically, the studies have been focused on a single ritual performed within the Tophet: the infantile deposition, which more rarely involved animals. This was due also to the heterogeneity of data that focused on the depositional act, rather than the variegated set of the rituals associated with that. The longevity and excellent degree of conservation of the tophet of Motya elevates it to a fundamental reference in this sector. The present research is based on the study of the archaeological evidences and the typological, archeometric and functional analysis of the Phoenician-Punic unpublished pottery, excluding the urns fragments, discovered in this site. The data are elaborated to propose a potential reconstruction of the main ritual activities carried out in this sanctuary, with the purpose to obtain a plausible overview of the life of the cultual place.
Cops and an Insightful Robber
Creators: name: Huggan, Melissa A.
name: Nowakowski, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C57

description: The 'Cheating Robot' version of Cops and Robbers is played on a finite, simple, connected graph. The players move in the same time period. However, before moving, the robot observes to which vertices the cops are moving and it is fast enough to complete its move in the time period. The cops also know that the robot will use this information. More cops are required to capture a robot than to capture a robber. Indeed, the minimum degree is a lower bound on the number of cops required to capture a robot. Only on a tree is one cop guaranteed to capture a robot, although two cops are sufficient to capture both a robber and a robot on outerplanar graphs. In graphs where retracts are involved, we show how cop strategies against a robber can be modified to capture a robot. This approach gives exact numbers for hypercubes, and $k$-dimensional grids in general.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; the title changed and minor rephrasing to the introduction
title: How did a foreign bearded snake become the protector of Alexandria and the Ptolemaic dynasty?
title: Reflections on the cult of the Agathodaimon, the cornerstone of the Greek-Egyptian syncretism
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Delia, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 932 Ägypten bis 640

description: In this paper, the god that will be analysed is, at the same time, one of the least known and probably one of the most important deities in the Alexandrian pantheon: the Agathodaimon. In the next paragraphs, the imagery, the origins, the predecessors, the socio-political context, the success, and the demise of the Agathodaimon will be discussed. This will allow the reader to evaluate the impact that he has had not only in the Hellenistic/Egyptian environment of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic period (5th–1st cent. BCE) but also in the Roman and Christian culture that still resonates in the contemporary collective imagination. The information regarding the Alexandrian religion, similarly to many other aspects of the city, is fragmentary and almost completely relies on literary sources, whose intent rarely was to educate the readers about the worship and traditions that were probably already known by the audience, leaving modern scholars only with references and hints that must be combined with archaeological evidence, where present.
Complete bandgaps in one-dimensional left-handed periodic structures
Creators: name: Shadrivov, Ilya V.
name: Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Artificially fabricated structures with periodically modulated parameters such as photonic crystals offer novel ways of controlling the flow of light due to the existence of a range of forbidden frequencies associated with a photonic bandgap. It is believed that modulation of the refractive index in all three spatial dimensions is required to open a complete bandgap and prevent the propagation of electromagnetic waves in all directions. Here we reveal that, in a sharp contrast to what was known before and contrary to the accepted physical intuition, a one-dimensional periodic structure containing the layers of transparent left-handed (or negative-index) metamaterial can trap light in three-dimensional space due to the existence of a complete bandgap.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Freezing of He-4 and its liquid-solid interface from Density Functional Theory
Creators: name: Ancilotto, F.
name: Barranco, M.
name: Caupin, F.
name: Mayol, R.
name: Pi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, at high densities, fully variational solutions of solid-like type can be obtained from a density functional formalism originally designed for liquid 4He. Motivated by this finding, we propose an extension of the method that accurately describes the solid phase and the freezing transition of liquid 4He at zero temperature. The density profile of the interface between liquid and the (0001) surface of the 4He crystal is also investigated, and its surface energy evaluated. The interfacial tension is found to be in semiquantitative agreement with experiments and with other microscopic calculations. This opens the possibility to use unbiased DF methods to study highly non-homogeneous systems, like 4He interacting with strongly attractive impurities/substrates, or the nucleation of the solid phase in the metastable liquid.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Properties of Galactic B[e] Supergiants: V. 3 Pup -- constraining the orbital parameters and modeling the circumstellar environments
Creators: name: Miroshnichenko, A. S.
name: Danford, S.
name: Zharikov, S. V.
name: Klochkova, V. G.
name: Chentsov, E. L.
name: Vanbeveren, D.
name: Zakhozhay, O. V.
name: Manset, N.
name: Pogodin, M. A.
name: Omarov, C. T.
name: Kuratova, A. K.
name: Khokhlov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a long-term spectroscopic monitoring of the A-type supergiant with the B[e] phenomenon 3 Pup = HD 62623. We confirm earlier findings that it is a binary system. The orbital parameters were derived using cross-correlation of the spectra in a range of 4460-4632 A, which contains over 30 absorption lines. The orbit was found circular with a period of $137.4\pm0.1$ days, radial velocity semi-amplitude $K_{1} = 5.0\pm0.8$ km s$^{-1}$, systemic radial velocity $γ= +26.4\pm2.0$ km s$^{-1}$, and the mass function $f(m) = (1.81^{+0.97}_{-0.76})\times10^{-3}$ M$_{\odot}$. The object may have evolved from a pair with initial masses of $\sim$6.0 M$_{\odot}$ and $\sim$3.6 M$_{\odot}$ with an initial orbital period of $\sim$5 days. Based on the fundamental parameters of the A-supergiant (luminosity $\log$ L/L$_{\odot} = 4.1\pm$0.1 and effective temperature T$_{\rm eff} = 8500\pm$500 K) and evolutionary tracks of mass-transferring binaries, we found current masses of the gainer M$_{2} = 8.8\pm$0.5 M$_{\odot}$ and donor M$_{1} = 0.75\pm0.25$ M$_{\odot}$. We also modeled the object's IR-excess and derived a dust mass of $\sim 5\,\times10^{-5}$ M$_{\odot}$ in the optically-thin dusty disk. The orbital parameters and properties of the H$α$ line profile suggest that the circumstellar gaseous disk is predominantly circumbinary. The relatively low mass of the gainer led us to a suggestion that 3 Pup should be excluded from the B[e] supergiant group and moved to the FS CMa group. Overall these results further support our original suggestion that FS CMa objects are binary systems, where an earlier mass-transfer caused formation of the circumstellar envelope.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, accepted in The Astrophysical Journal
The Influence of Public Attitudes on Policies for Conserving Reptiles
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Attitudes to survival of species
subject: biodiversity conservation
subject: conservation policies
subject: crocodiles
subject: dichotomy in the likeability of reptiles
subject: ecotourism
subject: Phylogenetic similarity principle
subject: reptiles
subject: snakes
subject: turtles.

description: General factors are outlined that may influence the support of members of the public for the conservation of different species of reptiles. Survey results are then summarised of the variations in the likeability of different species of reptiles as well as whether or not their survival is supported by those surveyed. The relationship between these two factors is outlined and its consequences for the survival of reptile species compared to birds and mammals is specified, assuming a decision situation like that depicted by the Noah’s Ark problem. Furthermore, the extent to which the results support the similarity principle are considered. A substantial dichotomy in the likeability of different reptile species is observed: turtle species tend to be liked much more than species of crocodiles and snakes. This requires some modification to the similarity principle. This disparity is reflected in a dichotomy in public policies for the conservation of reptiles. Evidence in favour of this hypothesis is outlined and the hypothesis is illustrated by Australian policies for the consideration of reptiles. Some attention is also given to the changes in attitudes towards the conservation of reptiles that can occur as a result of knowledge provision and ecotourism.
Promustilia yajiangensis Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Xing
name: Wang, Min
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wu, Shipher
name: Huang, Guo-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae
Promustilia
Promustilia yajiangensis

description: 32. Promustilia yajiangensis Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov. (FIGURES 20 C, 20E)
Type locality: Bajiaolou Town, Yajiang County, Sichuan Province, China.
Diagnosis. This species is very similar to P. andracoides,but can be distinguished by the following characters: forewing with postmedial line obscure; submarginal line almost straight over most of its length, edged with white; hindwing with postmedial line straight, bordered with white; saccus narrow.
Description. Male: Wingspan = 35–37 mm; forewing length = 19–22 mm; antennal length = 6–9 mm; body length = 14–16 mm.
Head. Vertex covered with yellow hair; antennae brown, basal 2/3 pectinate, apical 1/3 serrate, base dorsally half white, half dark brown.
Thorax. Densely covered dorsally with brown hairs over ocher; ventrally brown; forewing dark brown over distal half, lower half light brown; costa and inner edge straight; costa at 1/5 from base with a black spot; discal cell with a small black spot; antemedial and postmedial lines almost straight, dark brown; the outer edge of the latter highlighted in white; hindwing is divided into pale and dark brown halves as the forewing; discal cell with a small black spot; postmedial line straight, dark brown, outer edge highlighted in white; inner edge with dark brown fringes, slightly concave near tornus.
Abdomen. Densely covered with black hairs, mixed with a small amount of red-brown and reddish-brown hairs..
Male genitalia. Sternite 8 ovoid, posterior margin slightly concave, anterior margin broadly rounded. Uncus bifid, the lobes finger-shaped; gnathos a broadly triangular and apically rounded plate; valvae large, broad basally, apically angled and broadly rounded, with slender hairs; aedeagus expanded apically, ventral margin produced as a short, blunt process; vesica covered with numerous small sharply pointed cornuti arranged into several fields.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined. Holotype, male, Bajiaolou Town, Yajiang County, Sichuan Province, China, 6.VIII.2004, Min Wang & Xiao-Ling Fan leg. (SCAU); Paratype, 1 male, same data as holotype but 23.VII.2009, Min Wang & Guo-Hua Huang leg. (HUNAU).
Bionomics. Larval host unknown.
Etymology. The scientific name is derived from the type locality, Yajiang county.
Distribution. Mainland China (Sichuan).
Remarks. This new species is endemic to Sichuan Province.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716
d-dimensional Oscillating Scalar Field Lumps and the Dimensionality of Space
Creators: name: Gleiser, Marcelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extremely long-lived, time-dependent, spatially-bound scalar field configurations are shown to exist in $d$ spatial dimensions for a wide class of polynomial interactions parameterized as $V(ϕ) = \sum_{n=1}^h\frac{g_n}{n!}ϕ^n$. Assuming spherical symmetry and if $V''<0$ for a range of values of $ϕ(t,r)$, such configurations exist if: i) spatial dimensionality is below an upper-critical dimension $d_c$; ii) their radii are above a certain value $R_{\rm min}$. Both $d_c$ and $R_{\rm min}$ are uniquely determined by $V(ϕ)$. For example, symmetric double-well potentials only sustain such configurations if $d\leq 6$ and $R^2\geq d[3(2^{3/2}/3)^d-2]^{-1/2}$. Asymmetries may modify the value of $d_c$. All main analytical results are confirmed numerically. Such objects may offer novel ways to probe the dimensionality of space.
description: In press, Physics Letters B. 6 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses revtex4.sty
Feature Selection and Intrusion Detection in Cloud Environment based on Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Javadpour, Amir
name: Abharian, Sanaz Kazemi
name: Wang, Guojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Characteristics and way of behavior of attacks and infiltrators on computer networks are usually very difficult and need an expert In addition; the advancement of computer networks, the number of attacks and infiltrations are also increasing. In fact, the knowledge coming from an expert will lose its value over time and must be updated and made available to the system and this makes the need for the expert person always felt. In machine learning techniques, knowledge is extracted from the data itself which has diminished the role of the expert. Various methods used to detect intrusions, such as statistical models, safe system approach, neural networks, etc., all weaken the fact that it uses all the features of an information packet rotating in the network for intrusion detection. Also, the huge volume of information and the unthinkable state space is also an important issue in the detection of intrusion. Therefore, the need for automatic identification of new and suspicious patterns in an attempt for intrusion with the use of more efficient methods Lower cost and higher performance is needed more than before. The purpose of this study is to provide a new method based on intrusion detection systems and its various architectures aimed at increasing the accuracy of intrusion detection in cloud computing. Keywords : intrusion detection, feature Selection, classification Algorithm, machine learning, neural network.
Towards a Natural Theory of Dark Energy: Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first part of this article summarizes the evidence for Dark Energy and Dark Matter, as well as the naturalness issues which plague current theories of Dark Energy. The main point of this part is to argue why these naturalness issues should provide the central theoretical guidance for the search for a successful theory. The second part of the article describes the present status of what I regard as being the best mechanism yet proposed for addressing this issue: Six-dimensional Supergravity with submillimetre-sized Extra Dimensions (Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions, or SLED for short). Besides summarizing the SLED proposal itself, this section also describes the tests which this model has passed, the main criticisms which have been raised, and the remaining challenges which remain to be checked. The bottom line is that the proposal survives the tests which have been completed to date, and predicts several distinctive experimental signatures for cosmology, tests of gravity and for accelerator-based particle physics.
description: 33 pages
Core Issues in the Economics of Biodiversity Conservation
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: biodiversity conservation
subject: economic valuation
subject: intergenerational equity
subject: phylogenetic similarity principle
subject: precautionary principle
subject: sustainable development.

description: Critically reviews the following core issues in the economics of biodiversity conservation: reliance on the stated preferences of individuals as a guide to biodiversity conservation, the relevance of the phylogenetic similarity principle (and other attributes of organisms) for the survival of species; the implications of the Noah’s ark problem for selecting features of biodiversity to be saved and the difficulties raised by criteria based on safe minimum populations of species or on minimum environmental standards; the extent to which the precautionary principle can be rationally used to support the conservation of biodiversity; the impact of market extensions and globalization, as well as market and other institutional failures, on biodiversity loss; the relationship between the rate of interest and biodiversity loss; and the implications of intergenerational equity for biodiversity conservation. The consequences of changes in biodiversity for sustainable development are given particular attention.
Orbiton-mediated multi-phonon scattering in La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$
Creators: name: Choi, K. -Y.
name: Lemmens, P.
name: Güntherodt, G.
name: Pashkevich, Yu. G.
name: Gnezdilov, V. P.
name: Reutler, P.
name: Pinsard-Gaudart, L.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Revcolevschi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on Raman scattering measurements of single crystalline La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$ ($x$=0, 0.06, 0.09 and 0.125), focusing on the high frequency regime. We observe multi-phonon scattering processes up to fourth-order which show distinct features: (i) anomalies in peak energy and its relative intensity and (ii) a pronounced temperature-, polarization-, and doping-dependence. These features suggest a mixed orbiton-phonon nature of the observed multi-phonon Raman spectra.
description: 6pages, 6figures, submitted to PRB
FIRE IMPACTS ON THE PLANT INDIVIDUAL LEVEL AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF FIRE ECOLOGY IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
Creators: name: Liesenfeld, Marcus Vinicius Athaydes
name: Vieira, Gil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60799 Plant Biology not elsewhere classified

description: In the present days Amazon rainforest reveal no more natural protections against fire. Although fire always acted in vegetation structuring, even though independent of human existence, nowadays fire regimes are changing worldwide, as in the Amazon, motivated by global climate change and climate anomalies. Forest fires impact vegetation differently, depending on the ecosystem, soil type, and plants’ features. Many species can respond positively, with survival mechanisms. Here will be presented data examples on palm species (Arecaceae) in individual level, considering fire can act positively and negatively over the species family. By including questions and presenting knowledge gaps, we intend to suggest news research asks. A better understanding of how Amazon plants respond to fire impact is necessary, to recognize if Amazon is actually still moist forest fire-immune, and how this contributes to species resilience on altered environments.
Indigenous as an allegorical figure in Antonio Caro’s Homenaje a Manuel Quintin Lame and Cildo Meireles’ Zero Cruzeiro
Creators: name: Gaitan, Juan Andres
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis will look at two works of art from the 1970s: Homenaje a Manuel Quintfn Lame (1972) by the Colombian artist Antonio Caro, and Zero Cruzeiro (1974) by the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. In the context of this thesis these works are linked through the reference that both make to indigenous peoples. I argue that their reference to indigenous peoples is laden with a number of complexities that derive from the wide range of political concerns that these artworks addressed. The political panoramas of Colombia and Brazil during the 1970s were primarily framed by an opposition between the peasant movements, which had a nationalist programme, and capitalist developmentalism, which had an internationalist programme. In this sense, the representation of indigenous peoples depended on the spaces they might have occupied within local political landscapes. However, in Colombia and Brazil, the emergence of indigenous organizations, and their detachment from other organisms to which their own struggle for self-determination had been hitherto tied, was an important event during the early 1970s in both Colombia and Brazil. Thus the reference to the indigenous in these works also runs parallel to what is now called a "third space" in politics at the time. I argue that, even if indirectly, these works attended to the restructuring of strategies at the level of indigenous struggles for self-determination. On a second level, I take issue with the ways in which these two works have been linked through the category Latin American Conceptualism, of which they figure today as important examples. This category has been structured around the idea that the works it represents are "more political" than the North American or European counterparts. In this thesis I question the validity of this claim on the basis of it being too superficial to be useful for expounding the complexities of the respective realities that surrounded these works at the time in which they emerged. In this sense, the reference that these works make to indigenous peoples provide an important way for approaching the specificities of the political realities outlined above, as well as a way to dislocate these works from facile generalization such as those found in categories such as Conceptualism or "Political Art."
Open and Hidden Charm Production in d$A$ Collisions at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Vogt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss aspects of open and hidden charm production in deuterium-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. We describe calculations of the total $c \bar c$ cross section and the charm quark transverse momentum distributions. We next explain how shadowing and moderate nuclear absorption can explain the PHENIX $J/ψ$ dAu/$pp$ ratios and predict the combined effect of shadowing and absorption in 6.2 TeV d+Pb collisions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, European Physics Journal conference proceedings style files included, in proceedings of Hard Probes, 2004 Ericeira, Portugal
Theory and simulation for equilibrium glassy dynamics in cellular Potts model of confluent biological tissue
Creators: name: Sadhukhan, Souvik
name: Nandi, Saroj Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glassy dynamics in a confluent monolayer is indispensable in morphogenesis, wound healing, bronchial asthma, and many others; a detailed theoretical framework for such a system is, therefore, important. Vertex model (VM) simulations have provided crucial insights into the dynamics of such systems, but their nonequilibrium nature makes it difficult for theoretical development. Cellular Potts model (CPM) of confluent monolayer provides an alternative model for such systems with a well-defined equilibrium limit. We combine numerical simulations of CPM and an analytical study based on one of the most successful theories of equilibrium glass, the random first order transition theory, and develop a comprehensive theoretical framework for a confluent glassy system. We find that the glassy dynamics within CPM is qualitatively similar to that in VM. Our study elucidates the crucial role of geometric constraints in bringing about two distinct regimes in the dynamics, as the target perimeter $P_0$ is varied. The unusual sub-Arrhenius relaxation results from the distinctive interaction potential arising from the perimeter constraint in such systems. Fragility of the system decreases with increasing $P_0$ in the low-$P_0$ regime, whereas the dynamics is independent of $P_0$ in the other regime. The rigidity transition, found in VM, is absent within CPM; this difference seems to come from the nonequilibrium nature of the former. We show that CPM captures the basic phenomenology of glassy dynamics in a confluent biological system via comparison of our numerical results with existing experiments on different systems.
Local Invariants and Pairwise Entanglement in Symmetric Multi-qubit System
Creators: name: Devi, A. R. Usha
name: Uma, M. S.
name: Prabhu, R.
name: Sudha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pairwise entanglement properties of a symmetric multi-qubit system are analyzed through a complete set of two-qubit local invariants. Collective features of entanglement, such as spin squeezing, are expressed in terms of invariants and a classifcation scheme for pairwise entanglement is proposed. The invariant criteria given here are shown to be related to the recently proposed (Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 120502 (2005)) generalized spin squeezing inequalities for pairwise entanglement in symmetric multi-qubit states.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX, Replaced with a published version
"fig3.png" of "Transverse-single-spin asymmetries of charged pions at midrapidity in transversely polarized $p{+}p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV"
Creators: name: PHENIX Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2022

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description: BNL-RHIC. In 2015, the PHENIX collaboration has measured single-spin asymmetries for charged pions in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV. The pions were detected at central rapidities of |$\eta$|<0.35. The single-spin asymmetries are consistent with zero for each charge individually, as well as consistent with the previously published neutral-pion asymmetries in the same rapidity range. However, they show a slight indication of charge-dependent differences which may suggest a flavor dependence in the underlying mechanisms that create these asymmetries.
The Survival of a Forest-dependent Species and the Economics of Intensity of Logging: A Note
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: biodiversity conservation
subject: conservation of forest-dependent species
subject: forestry
subject: heavy versus light logging
subject: intensive versus extensive land use and conservation
subject: logging and conservation
subject: opportunity cost and species conservation
subject: orangutan conservation.

description: Analyses the economics of alternative land-use allocations for a forested area that ensure a targeted viable population of a forest-dependent species, such as the orangutan. The alternative of setting aside a sufficient fully protected portion of the forested area allowing the rest to be used for intensive forestry (or another intensive land use) in which the focal species is unable to survive is compared with that of fully protecting none of the forested area but allowing a sufficient portion of it to be lightly logged to ensure the survival of the targeted population of the focal species with the remainder of the land area (if any) being available for intensive use. The conditions for determining the least cost option (the one that minimizes profit forgone) are identified. It is not possible to say a priori which land use is the least cost option. The matter should not be prejudged as some conservationists tend to do.
Assessing bound states in a one-dimensional topological superconductor: Majorana versus Tamm
Creators: name: Vigliotti, Lucia
name: Cavaliere, Fabio
name: Carrega, Matteo
name: Ziani, Niccolò Traverso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana bound states in topological superconductors have attracted intense research activity in view of applications in topological quantum computation. However, they are not the only example of topological bound states that can occur in such systems. We here study a model in which both Majorana and Tamm bound states compete. We show both numerically and analytically that, surprisingly, the Tamm state remains partially localized even when the spectrum becomes gapless. Despite this fact, we demonstrate that the Majorana polarization shows a clear transition between the two regimes.
Oberthueria Kirby 1892
Creators: name: Wang, Xing
name: Wang, Min
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wu, Shipher
name: Huang, Guo-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae
Oberthueria

description: XIV. Oberthueria Kirby, 1892 (FIGURES 21–22)
Oberthueria Kirby, 1892, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het., 1: 720. Type species: Euphranor caeca Oberthür, 1880, by monotypy.
Oberthueria Staudinger, 1892, in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid.: 337 Type species: Euphranor caeca Oberthür, 1880, by monotypy (a junior homonym and junior objective synonym of Oberthueria Kirby, 1892).
Oberthüria: Staudinger, 1892, in Romanoff, Mémoires sur les lepidoptères (Mém. Lépid.) 6: 337. (incorrect original spelling).
Euphraor: Kirby, 1892, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het. 1: 720 (incorrect subsequent spelling).
Euphranor Oberthür, 1880, Etudes d’Entomologie (Étud. ent.) 5: 40. Type species: Euphranor caeca Oberthür, 1880, by monotypy (a junior homonym of Euphranor Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae)).
Diagnosis. Characterized by the following features: wings reddish-brown or yellowish-brown; forewing apex falcate; antemedial and postmedial lines serrate; submarginal line straight, outer edge highlighted in white, curved inwards near costa; outer margin with one to several teeth; hindwing with postmedial line serrate;, submarginal line slightly almost straight edged with white; outer margin with variably developed teeth; uncus forcipate; valvae asymmetrical.
Distribution. Sino-Pacific area, from Russian Far East and Japan to southern China and NE Myanmar).
Remarks. Zolotuhin & Wang (2013) revised Oberthueria to include six species based on morphological characters and partial sequences of the mitochondrial gene, cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) (DNA barcodes).
Robinson et al. (2001) and Zolotuhin & Wang (2013) recorded the larval host plants as species of Aceraceae (e.g. Acer palmatum Thunb., 1783, A. septilobum Fang, 1932, A. mono Maxim., 1857), Fagaceae (Quercus acutissima Carruth., 1862, Q. variabilis Bl., 1850 and other species of oaks), Moraceae (Morus alba Linn., 1753) and Theaceae (Camellia japonica Linn., 1753). The larvae are unique in having an extremely long anal horn (Plate 7A–7D). In the present paper, five of the six species of Oberthueria are recorded from China (Map 14).
Map 14. Distribution of Oberthueria spp. mainly in China.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on pages 56-58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716
Identification of antigen-specific neutrophils in the tonsils with recurrent acute inflammation
Creators: name: Cai-Jie Zhou
name: Mo, Li-Hua
name: Luo, Xiang-Qian
name: Yang, Gui
name: Diao, Wei-Liang
name: Hu, Shi-Ping
name: Ping-Chang Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The pathogenesis of recurrent acute tonsillitis (Rtn) is to be further investigated. Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) often associate with the pathogenesis of acute and chronic inflammation. This study aims to identify the antigen-specific PMNs (sPMNs) isolated from the tonsillar tissues with recurrent acute inflammation. In this study, CD66b+ PMNs were isolated from surgically removed tonsils (40 tonsils were from 20 Rtn patients; 24 tonsils were from 12 tonsil tumour patients) by flow cytometry cell sorting. sPMNs were identified through immunological approaches. We found that compared with the control tonsil samples (from marginal non-tumour tissues of tonsil cancer), Rtn samples showed higher PMN frequency, higher levels of myeloperoxidase (MPO) and neutrophil elastase (NE), in which positive correlation was detected between the inflammatory scores in the Rtn tissues and PMN counts (r = .7352; p = .0002), or MPO (r = .6565, p = .0017), or NE (r = .6687, p = .0013). Upon exposure to tonsillar tissue protein extracts in the culture, a portion of Rtn PMNs was activated and released inflammatory mediators. A complex of tonsillar tissue-specific IgG and FcγRI was observed on the surface of Rtn PMNs; these PMNs could specifically recognize the Rtn tissue extracts and were designated the tonsillar antigen-specific PMNs (sPMNs). A signal transduction pathway of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-nuclear factor of T cell activation (NFAT) was activated in sPMNs after exposure to Rtn tissue extracts. In summary, a fraction of sPMN in the Rtn tonsillar tissues was identified and characterized. The sPMNs can be activated upon exposure to tonsil-specific antigens. These sPMNs may contribute to the Rtn pathogenesis.
Sunyaev-Zeldovich effects, free-free emission, and imprints on the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Burigana, Carlo
name: De Zotti, Gianfranco
name: Feretti, Luigina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The signatures from Sunyaev-Zeldovich effects and free-free emission in the intergalactic and intracluster medium and at galactic scales probe the structure evolution at various cosmic times. The detection of these sources and, possibly, the precise imaging of their spatial structure at the high resolution and sensitivity achievable with SKA will greatly contribute to the comprehension of crucial cosmological and astrophysical aspects, as the physical conditions of early ionized halos, quasars and proto-galactic gas and the mapping of the thermal and density structure of clusters of galaxies, with an extremely accurate control of extragalactic radio sources, which represents also a useful by-product for future CMB spectrum experiments devoted to probe the thermal plasma history at early times.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, to appear in: "Science with the Square Kilometer Array", eds. C. Carilli & S. Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews, (Elsevier, Amsterdam)