cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods. III. Systematic Behaviors of Operational Solar Flare Forecasting Systems
Creators: name: Leka, K. D.
name: Park, Sung-Hong
name: Kusano, Kanya
name: Andries, Jesse
name: Barnes, Graham
name: Bingham, Suzy
name: Bloomfield, D. Shaun
name: McCloskey, Aoife E.
name: Delouille, Veronique
name: Falconer, David
name: Gallagher, Peter T.
name: Georgoulis, Manolis K.
name: Kubo, Yuki
name: Lee, Kangjin
name: Lee, Sangwoo
name: Lobzin, Vasily
name: Mun, JunChul
name: Murray, Sophie A.
name: Nageem, Tarek A. M. Hamad
name: Qahwaji, Rami
name: Sharpe, Michael
name: Steenburgh, Rob
name: Steward, Graham
name: Terkildsen, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A workshop was recently held at Nagoya University (31 October - 02 November 2017), sponsored by the Center for International Collaborative Research, at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan, to quantitatively compare the performance of today's operational solar flare forecasting facilities. Building upon Paper I of this series (Barnes et al. 2016), in Paper II (Leka et al. 2019) we described the participating methods for this latest comparison effort, the evaluation methodology, and presented quantitative comparisons. In this paper we focus on the behavior and performance of the methods when evaluated in the context of broad implementation differences. Acknowledging the short testing interval available and the small number of methods available, we do find that forecast performance: 1) appears to improve by including persistence or prior flare activity, region evolution, and a human "forecaster in the loop"; 2) is hurt by restricting data to disk-center observations; 3) may benefit from long-term statistics, but mostly when then combined with modern data sources and statistical approaches. These trends are arguably weak and must be viewed with numerous caveats, as discussed both here and in Paper II. Following this present work, we present in Paper IV a novel analysis method to evaluate temporal patterns of forecasting errors of both types (i.e., misses and false alarms; Park et al. 2019). Hence, most importantly, with this series of papers we demonstrate the techniques for facilitating comparisons in the interest of establishing performance-positive methodologies.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Singular Lagrangians in supermechanics
Creators: name: Cariñena, José F.
name: Figueroa, Héctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58A50, 58C50, 70H33

description: The time evolution operator $K$ is introduced in the graded context and its main properties are discussed. In particular, the operator $K$ is used to analize the projectability of constraint functions arising in the Lagrangian formalism for singular Lagrangians.
description: 16 pages
Differences in the Content of Protein and Essential Amino Acids between Different Rice Varieties
Creators: name: ZHANG, Zhiyuan
name: TANG, Jianzhou
name: ZHOU, Ling
name: LIU, Xinghai
name: ZHANG, Zhiyuan
name: TANG, Jianzhou
name: ZHOU, Ling
name: LIU, Xinghai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rice
subject: Essential amino acids
subject: Protein
subject: High essential amino acids
subject: Nutritional rice

description: Evaluation of the protein content is a major indicator of the nutritional quality of rice, and the protein quality of rice is the best among cereal crops. Essential amino acids play an irreplaceable role in human growth, development and health care. Essential amino acid is a key ingredient to measure the nutritional value of rice. Using the experimental rice processed from the rice variety "Yuzhenxiang" sprayed with plant nutrients (patent number: ZL201110103910.9), namely high essential amino acid nutritional rice, combined with five kinds of high quality rice imported by COFCO and homegrown "Wuchang rice", we send the samples of the seven kinds of rice to Hunan Food Testing Center, and adopt HPLC method to test the content of protein and eight kinds of essential amino acids. Three bags of rice are randomly selected for each kind of rice, and each bag is a replication. The test results show that there are highly significant differences in the content of essential amino acids between different kinds of rice (F=246.29**, P=5×10-71), and there are also highly significant differences in the content between different kinds of essential amino acids (F=3937.09**, P=4×10-146). The test results of protein content indicate that there are highly significant differences in the content of protein between different kinds of rice (F=3937.0973.29**, P=5.81×10-11), and the test results of lysine content show that there are highly significant differences in the content of lysine between different kinds of rice (F=3937.0973.29**，P=5.81×10-11).
Odontotarsus obsoletus subsp. obsoletus Horvath 1906
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Odontotarsus
Odontotarsus obsoletus
Odontotarsus obsoletus obsoletus horváth, 1906

description: Odontotarsus obsoletus obsoletus Horváth, 1906
 Material examined. GILAN: Manjil, 1 speimen, 16.v.-14.vi.1995. KHORASAN: Mashhad, 1 specimen, 10.v.1994.
 Comments. In hilly steppes. Middle-Asiatic. The pale-colored nominate subspecies, which has not been recorded from Iran before, is known from Turkey, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The dark-colored subspecies, O. obsoletus furvus Kiritshenko, 1926, has been recorded from Kazakhstan, Iran, Kirgizia, and Uzbekistan.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
title: Rural teachers’ attitudes towards mindfulness-based school interventions
title: a qualitative study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Grunewald, Nikki Mathur
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2024
Subjects: Mindfulness
Qualitative
Rural
Schools

description: I examined the perspectives of 11 teachers with experience in rural settings on school-based mindfulness interventions using a consensual qualitative research method (CQR; Hill, 2012). With the foundational orientation of Community-Based Participatory Research, the potential impact of the rural setting of the schools was examined as most previous research on mindfulness-based school interventions was based on data from schools in urban settings. Results were consistent with seven domains: teacher factors, school factors, student factors, barriers to use, rural community attitude, successful strategies, and recommendations for future implementation. Overall, the attitudes and perceptions of teachers with experience in rural schools were largely specific to the individual and aligned with existing research. School factors, student factors, and the rural community’s attitude toward mindfulness were found to impact the usefulness of school-based mindfulness interventions. Finally, findings were mixed regarding whether mindfulness activities need to be adjusted to meet the unique needs of rural schools. Researchers engaged in providing services to rural schools or implementing programming should consider the unique needs of rural schools along with the feedback from teachers directly involved with students as they create and implement mindfulness programming.
description: Keywords: Mindfulness, school-based mindfulness, rural, implementation factors,
description: consensual qualitative research, community-based participatory research
Odontotarsus purpureolineatus
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Odontotarsus
Odontotarsus purpureolineatus

description: Odontotarsus purpureolineatus (Rossi, 1790)
 Material examined. GILAN: Manjil, 2 specimens, 19.v.-14.vi.1995, 8.-10.v.2001; Sang Rud – Jirandeh, 2 specimens, 31.v.1995; Tutkabon – Rudbar, 1 specimen, 29.v.-28.vi.1995. ARDABIL: Khalkhal – Kivi, 1 specimen, 4.viii.1996; near Kivi, 1 specimen, 8.vii.2002. TEHRAN: Azad Bar, 5 specimens, 8.-10.vii.1995; Kordan, 1 specimen, 14.vii.2002; Shahrestenak, 1 specimen, 10.-12.vii.1995. GOLESTAN: near Maraveh, 2 specimens, 21.vii.2005. KHORASAN: Golestan Park 150 km W of Bojnurd, 1 specimen, 14.vii.1994; Zard 100 km WNW of Bojnurd, 1 specimen, 13.vii.1994.
 Comments. In mountain steppes, recorded on Centaurea and Sanguisorba. Holomediterranean, extending to Central Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Tasks, Techniques, and Tools for Genomic Data Visualization
Creators: name: Nusrat, Sabrina
name: Harbig, Theresa
name: Gehlenborg, Nils
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Genomic data visualization is essential for interpretation and hypothesis generation as well as a valuable aid in communicating discoveries. Visual tools bridge the gap between algorithmic approaches and the cognitive skills of investigators. Addressing this need has become crucial in genomics, as biomedical research is increasingly data-driven and many studies lack well-defined hypotheses. A key challenge in data-driven research is to discover unexpected patterns and to formulate hypotheses in an unbiased manner in vast amounts of genomic and other associated data. Over the past two decades, this has driven the development of numerous data visualization techniques and tools for visualizing genomic data. Based on a comprehensive literature survey, we propose taxonomies for data, visualization, and tasks involved in genomic data visualization. Furthermore, we provide a comprehensive review of published genomic visualization tools in the context of the proposed taxonomies.
description: 25 pages, 21 figures, 6 tables
Massive creation of entangled exciton states in semiconductor quantum dots
Creators: name: Hohenester, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An intense laser pulse propagating in a medium of inhomogeneously broadened quantum dots massively creates entangled exciton states. After passage of the pulse all single-exciton states remain unpopulated (self-induced transparency) whereas biexciton coherence (exciton entanglement) is generated through two-photon transitions. We propose several experimental techniques for the observation of such unexpected behavior.
A Study of Students' Achievement Evaluation Modes Based on Practical Courses concerning Higher Vocational Gardening Technology Major
Creators: name: MA, Jimin
name: MA, Jimin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Gardening
subject: Practical courses
subject: Achievement evaluation

description: True, objective and impartial course and achievement evaluation is the requirement of modern higher vocational education, and can avoid "high scores and low abilities" of students to the maximum. This article focuses on expounding the "two connections and five combinations" dual evaluation modes of higher vocational gardening technology major students' achievement on practical courses, namely connection between major and industry; connection between achievement and occupation; combination of on-campus and off-campus teachers' evaluation; combination of process and results evaluation; combination of course evaluation and professional skill appraisal; combination of students' self-evaluation and teachers' evaluation; combination of examination paper and non-examination paper evaluation; combination of group and individual evaluation.
Self-paced Ensemble for Highly Imbalanced Massive Data Classification
Creators: name: Liu, Zhining
name: Cao, Wei
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Bian, Jiang
name: Chen, Hechang
name: Chang, Yi
name: Liu, Tie-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many real-world applications reveal difficulties in learning classifiers from imbalanced data. The rising big data era has been witnessing more classification tasks with large-scale but extremely imbalance and low-quality datasets. Most of existing learning methods suffer from poor performance or low computation efficiency under such a scenario. To tackle this problem, we conduct deep investigations into the nature of class imbalance, which reveals that not only the disproportion between classes, but also other difficulties embedded in the nature of data, especially, noises and class overlapping, prevent us from learning effective classifiers. Taking those factors into consideration, we propose a novel framework for imbalance classification that aims to generate a strong ensemble by self-paced harmonizing data hardness via under-sampling. Extensive experiments have shown that this new framework, while being very computationally efficient, can lead to robust performance even under highly overlapping classes and extremely skewed distribution. Note that, our methods can be easily adapted to most of existing learning methods (e.g., C4.5, SVM, GBDT and Neural Network) to boost their performance on imbalanced data.
description: IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2020)
title: Texte de Jacques Leibowitch sans titre sur les débuts de la recherche sur le sida
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111031798172
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Study on the Discipline Reputation of Agricultural Colleges and Universities
Creators: name: XU, Yufen
name: XU, Yufen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural colleges and universities
subject: Discipline
subject: Reputation

description: This paper first studies the main factors affecting the reputation of colleges and universities, and then uses the analytic hierarchy process to analyze the discipline reputation of colleges and universities from student scale, quality of teaching, school site, and achievements in scientific research. Finally, this paper makes the following recommendations: strengthening specialty construction in agricultural colleges and universities; establishing the competitiveness assessment system for colleges and universities based on discipline competitiveness; scientifically choosing the suitable discipline when students choose colleges and universities and discipline; consolidating the basic position of undergraduate teaching; improving the teaching level and teaching ability of young teachers; creating a good academic research atmosphere based on agriculture.
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¼Ð°Ð³Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Computational Optimization of the Piston Design of a Boosted Diesel Engine
Creators: name: ÐÐ°ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ð½Ð°, Ð­Ð²ÐµÐ»Ð¸Ð½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: ÐÐ¾ÑÑÐ½Ð¸ Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð³Ð°ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹ Ð´Ð¸Ð·ÐµÐ»Ñ
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ÑÐµÐ¼Ð¿ÐµÑÐ°ÑÑÑÐ°
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optimization
working process
temperature
stress

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑÑÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ²Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½Ñ Ð´Ð¸Ð·ÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐµÑÑÑÑÑÑÐ°ÐºÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð³Ð°ÑÐµÐ»Ñ Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ, Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð½Ð°Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð»ÐµÐ³ÐºÐ¾Ð²ÑÑ Ð°Ð²ÑÐ¾Ð¼Ð¾Ð±Ð¸Ð»ÐµÐ¹. Ð ÑÐ°Ð¼ÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð¸ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÑ: ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ» Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð³Ð°ÑÐµÐ»Ñ, ÑÐµÐ¿Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ðµ Ð½Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐ¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½Ñ Ð² Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÐ¸Ð³ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸, Ð° ÑÐ°ÐºÐ¶Ðµ Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð°Ð½ÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÐµÐ¹ Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ Ð¾ÑÐ»Ð°Ð¶Ð´ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð¹ Ð³ÑÑÐ¿Ð¿Ñ Ð¸ Ð¾Ð³Ð½ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸.
description: This work is devoted to improving the design of the piston of a four-stroke diesel engine with increased power intended for passenger cars. As part of the study, calculations were carried out: the engine operating cycle, the thermal stress of the piston in the original configuration, as well as a multivariate analysis of pistons designs with different cooling systems for the piston group and the firing surface.
Odontotarsus robustus Jakovlev 1884
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Odontotarsus
Odontotarsus robustus

description: Odontotarsus robustus Jakovlev, 1884
 Material examined. GILAN: Ganjeh, 1 specimen, 14.v.-13.vi.1995; Rustam Abad – Salan Sar, 4 specimens, 24.x.1996; Sang Rud – Jirandeh, 1 specimen, 31.v.1995; Tutkabon – Rudbar, 2 specimens, 26.v.-8.vii.1998. ZANJAN: near Mamalan, 1 specimen, 12.-14.v.2001. KHORASAN: Golestan Park 150 km W of Bojnurd, 1 specimen, 14.vii.1994; Mashhad, 1 specimen, 5.vii.1994.
 Comments. In hilly steppes. On Centaurea. Holomediterranean.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Non-relativistic Effective Interactions of Spin 1 Dark Matter
Creators: name: Catena, Riccardo
name: Fridell, Kåre
name: Krauss, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 dark matter (DM) with the aim of identifying features in the phenomenology of DM-quark interactions which are specific to vector DM. In the case of DM-quark interactions mediated by a spin 1 particle, we find two DM-nucleon interaction operators arising from the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 DM that are specific to spin 1 DM, and which were not considered in previous studies. They are quadratic in the momentum transfer, linear in a symmetric combination of polarisation vectors for the DM particle, and arise from simplified models which do not generate momentum transfer independent operators as leading interactions in the non-relativistic expansion of DM-nucleon scattering amplitudes. Within these simplified models, the new operators cannot be neglected when computing DM signals at direct detection experiments. For example, we find that nuclear recoil energy spectra computed by including or neglecting the new operators can differ by up to one order of magnitude for nuclear recoil energies larger than about 20 keV and DM masses below $50$ GeV. Furthermore, the shape of the expected nuclear recoil spectra depends significantly on whether the new operators are taken into account or not. Finally, neglecting the contribution to DM direct detection signals from the new operators leads to inaccurate conclusions when assessing the compatibility of a future direct detection signal with CMB constraints on the DM relic density, especially when the number of signal events is small, e.g. $\mathcal{O}(1)$.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures and 2 tables
Irochrotus turanicus Kerzhner 1976
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Irochrotus
Irochrotus turanicus

description: Irochrotus turanicus Kerzhner, 1976
 Material examined. GILAN: Manjil, 2 specimens, 26.vi.1996.
 Comments. In a mountain meadow. Middle-Asiatic.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Eclipses by a Circumstellar Dust Feature in the Pre-Main Sequence Star KH15D
Creators: name: Hamilton, Catrina M.
name: Herbst, William
name: Shih, Candice
name: Ferro, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photometry and spectroscopy of the unique pre-main sequence eclipsing object KH15D in the young cluster NGC 2264 are presented. The orbital period is 48.34 days and both the length (~16 d) and depth (~3 mag) of the eclipse have increased with time. A brightening near the time of central eclipse is confirmed in the recent data but at a much smaller amplitude than was originally seen. Spectra taken when the star is bright show that the primary is a weak T Tauri star of spectral type K7. During eclipse there is no detectable change in spectral type or reddening, indicating that the obscuration is caused by rather large dust grains and/or macroscopic objects. Evidently the star is eclipsed by an extended feature in its circumstellar disk orbiting with a semi-major axis of ~0.2 AU. Continued photometric monitoring should allow us to probe the disk structure with a spatial resolution of ~3 x 10^6 km or better.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, To be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Validation of a simplified human body model in relaxed and braced conditions in low-speed frontal sled tests
Creators: name: Devane, Karan
name: Johnson, Dale
name: F. Scott Gayzik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Objective: The goal of this study was to implement active musculature into the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) average male simplified occupant model (M50-OS v2) and validate its performance in low-speed frontal crash scenarios. Methods: Volunteer and postmortem human subjects (PMHS) data from low-speed frontal sled tests by Beeman et al., including 2.5 and 5.0 g acceleration pulses, were used to simulate events in LS-DYNA. All muscles were modeled as 1D beam elements and assigned a Hill-type muscle material. From the output of proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controllers, the activation level for each muscle was calculated using a sigmoid function, representing the firing rate of motor neurons. The PID controller attempts to preserve the initial posture of the model. Percentage muscle contribution for all skeletal muscles was precalculated using the M50-OS with active muscles (M50-OS + Active). The M50-OS + Active employs varying levels of neural delays to represent volunteer relaxed and braced conditions, taken from literature. Braced condition experiments were simulated using elevated joint angle set values for the PID controller. The M50-OS + Active model was used to simulate 2 muscle conditions (relaxed and braced) at 2 pulse severities (2.5 and 5.0 g). A control set of simulations was conducted to compare the effect of adding active muscle. Ten whole-body simulations were conducted. Results: The results from volunteer simulations showed a strong dependence of reaction loads and kinematics on muscle activation. Compared to baseline, M50-OS, at 5.0 g acceleration, 33.3% and 7.6% decreases were observed in the overall head kinematics of the M50-OS + Active for the braced and relaxed conditions, respectively. Regarding the anterior direction, similar reductions in overall kinematics were observed for both volunteer test conditions. In comparison to control simulations in which no active muscle was implemented, objective evaluation scores increased markedly at both speeds for the braced condition. Little to no gain was found in the relaxed condition. Conclusions: The results justify the need for use of an active human body model for predicting low-speed frontal kinematics, particularly in the braced condition. Head kinematics were reduced when using active modeling for all simulations (braced and relaxed).
Open Pharma status update: June–September 2019
Creators: name: Macdonald, Steph
name: Sabir, Sarah
name: Watts, Zoe
name: Fiford, Cassidy
name: Cusack, Jodi
name: Koder, Tim
name: Farrow, Paul
name: Rees, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Pharma
Year: 2019
Subjects: Science Policy
Pharmacology

description: Summer has been busy for the Open Pharma team, and we are delighted to share an update of our activities since June. Highlights for this quarter include our call with the ABPI to discuss open access policies in pharma, our virtual open access journal club and the launch of the Open Pharma open access calendar.

Find out more about what we have accomplished this quarter and our upcoming activities in our status report.
AGN-selected clusters as revealed by weak lensing
Creators: name: Wold, M.
name: Lacy, M.
name: Dahle, H.
name: Lilje, P. B.
name: Ridgway, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a pilot study to investigate the distribution of matter in the fields of powerful AGN, we present weak lensing observations of deep fields centered on the radio-quiet quasar E1821 + 643, the radio galaxy 3C295, and the two radio-loud quasars, 3C334 and 3C254. The host clusters of E1821 + 643 and 3C295 are comfortably detected via their weak lensing signal, and we report the detection of a cluster-sized mass concentration in the field of the z=0.734 quasar 3C254. The data for the 3C334 field are so far inconclusive. We find that the clusters are massive and have smooth mass distributions, although one shows some evidence of past merger activity. The mass-to-light ratios are found to be moderately high. We discuss the results in light of the cooling flow and the merger/interaction scenarios for triggering and fuelling AGN in clusters, but find that the data do not point unambiguously to neither of the two. Instead, we speculate that sub-cluster mergers may be responsible for generating close encounters or mergers of galaxies with the central cluster member, which could trigger the AGN.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Metallicities and Abundance Ratios from Quasar Broad Emission Lines
Creators: name: Hamann, Fred
name: Korista, K. T.
name: Ferland, G. J.
name: Warner, Craig
name: Baldwin, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The broad emission lines (BELs) of quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are important diagnostics of the relative abundances and overall metallicity in the gas. Here we present new theoretical predictions for several UV BELs. We focus specifically on the relative nitrogen abundance as a metallicity indicator, based on the expected secondary enrichment of nitrogen at metallicities Z > 0.2 Z_o. Among the lines we consider, N III] 1750/O III] 1664, N V 1240/(C IV 1549 + O VI 1034) and N V/He II 1640 are the most robust diagnostics. We argue, in particular, that the average N V BEL is not dominated by scattered Ly-alpha photons from a broad absorption line wind. We then compare our calculated line ratios with observations from the literature. The results support earlier claims that the gas-phase metallicities near quasars are typically near or several times above the solar value. We conclude that quasar activity is preceded by, or coeval with, an episode of rapid and extensive star formation in the surrounding galactic (or proto-galactic) nuclei. Chemical evolution models of these environments suggest that, to reach Z > Z_o in well-mixed interstellar gas, the star formation must have begun > 10^8 yr before the observed quasar activity.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures in 6 files, in press with ApJ. This version fixes some minor glitches and includes previously omitted references
Mallinella Dankittipakul & Jocqué & Singtripop 2012
Creators: name: Dankittipakul, Pakawin
name: Jocqué, Rudy
name: Singtripop, Tippawan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Mallinella

description: The tuberculata -group
 The tuberculata -group represents a monophyletic clade within Mallinella. Members are united by two synapomorphies: the elevated tubercle on the dorsal side of RTA (Figs 128–129) (Ch. 49, state 1) and the pronounced apicoretrolateral arm on the TA (Figs 120, 130) (Ch. 78, state 1). There are six other homoplasious characters including: the presence of a tegular spine on the tegulum (Figs 130, 139) (Ch. 60, state 1); the longitudinal furrow (Ch. 73, state 0) on the unbranched embolus (Ch. 74, state 0); the simple, rostrated TA (Ch. 83, state 1) lacking apical modifications (Ch. 82, state 0) but always with a mesal tooth (Ch. 90, state 1).
 Species of the tuberculata -group are easily recognized by a pair of enlarged, anterior pale spots, followed by a transverse band and a series of folium-like chevrons on the opisthosoma (Figs 104–107). Other distinctive characters shared among its members include: the cylindrical PVS (Figs 122–125); the distinctly enlarged AME (Fig. 110); the narrow, longitudinal dorsal scutum; the deeply excavated epigynal plate (Figs 114–116); the very compact spermathecae (Figs 117–119) with broad internal ducts and few distal coils. This species-group, represented by three species from Thailand, is found in dry habitats, mainly in deciduous forests.
 Species account. Three species: M. atromarginata sp. nov., M. brachiata sp. nov., and M. tuberculata sp. nov.
 Distribution. Northern and northeastern Thailand.
description: Published as part of Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Jocqué, Rudy & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2012, Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae) 3369, pp. 1-327 in Zootaxa 3369 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5252563
Rooting of cuttings of Passiflora suberosa, a medicinal passion fruit species: characterization and modulation by external biochemical factors: supplementary material
Creators: name: Johnatan Vilasboa
name: Cibele Tesser Da Costa
name: Matsuura, Hélio Nitta
name: Fett-Neto, Arthur Germano
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Passiflora suberosa L. (Passifloraceae) can be found throughout the Americas, and has several medicinal properties, including antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-hemolytic, lipidemic, and glycemic activities. Germination rates of P. suberosa are low, even with dormancy breaking treatments, posing an obstacle for its multiplication. Vegetative propagation is a valuable approach to produce clones of elite individuals with important pharmacological characteristics, affording fast genetic improvement of biomass source for both phytomedicine manufacturing and bioactive compound isolation. Understanding the rooting process of this species is an important step to exploit its full potential in a sustainable way. We investigated adventitious rooting (AR) in absence or presence of exogenous auxin in P. suberosa cuttings, using a non-aerated hydroponic system. Changes in concentration of flavonoids, phenolics, hexoses, starch, and auxin, as well as peroxidase activity, were monitored along AR. Cuttings showed spontaneous rooting, although the application of exogenous indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) yielded higher number of shorter roots. Biochemical parameters, mainly concentration of carbohydrates and total phenolics, as well as peroxidase activity, varied along the course of the experiments. Based on these results, attempts were made to up- or down-modulate rooting responses by applying putative regulators to the growth solution at different time points. It was possible to block the positive effect of auxin on root development, with only minor positive impacts on the modulated control devoid of auxin. Overall analyses suggested that the rooting system proved effective and specific peroxidase activity showed partial correlation with AR, being able to suffer modulation by culture solution factors.
An algorithm for solving unconstrained unitary quantum brachistochrone problems
Creators: name: Campaioli, Francesco
name: Sloan, William
name: Modi, Kavan
name: Pollock, Felix Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of an initial, randomly chosen, Hamiltonian, by reducing its components that do not actively contribute to driving the system. We show that our method converges rapidly even for large dimensional systems, and that its solutions saturate any attainable bound for the minimal time of evolution. We provide a rigorous geometric interpretation of the iterative method by exploiting an isomorphism between geometric phases acquired by the system along a path and the Hamiltonian that generates it, and discuss resulting similarities with Grover's quantum search algorithm. Our method is directly applicable as a powerful tool for state preparation and gate design problems.
description: Main: 6 pages, 2 figures. Appendix: 2 pages, 3 figures
Eurygaster integriceps Puton 1881
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Eurygaster
Eurygaster integriceps

description: Eurygaster integriceps Puton, 1881
 Material examined. GILAN: Manjil, 2 specimens, 12.v.-14.vi.1995, 26.vi.1996; Sang Rud – Jirandeh, 1 specimen, 31.v.1995. ARDABIL: Khalkhal, 1 specimen, 30.vii.1996. TEHRAN: Azad Bar, 2 specimens, 8.-10.vii.1995; Kordan, 1 specimen, 14.vii.2002. KHORASAN: 70 km W of Darreh Gaz, 1 specimen, 14.vi.1994; Deh Shor, 2 specimens, 15.v.1994; near Zaman Soofi 65 km W of Bojnurd, 2 specimens, 12.-13.vii.1994.
 Comments. In hilly steppes and fields. On Poaceae. Pontomediterranean, extending to the Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
E. coli "super-contaminates" narrow ducts fostered by broad run-time distribution
Creators: name: Figueroa-Morales, Nuris
name: Rivera, Aramis
name: Soto, Rodrigo
name: Lindner, Anke
name: Altshuler, Ernesto
name: Clement, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One striking feature of bacterial motion is their ability to swim upstream along corners and crevices, by leveraging hydrodynamic interactions. This motion through anatomic ducts or medical devices might be at the origin of serious infections. However, it remains unclear how bacteria can maintain persistent upstream motion while exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics. Here we demonstrate that E. coli can travel upstream in microfluidic devices over distances of 15 millimeters in times as short as 15 minutes. Using a stochastic model relating the run times to the time bacteria spend on surfaces, we quantitatively reproduce the evolution of the contamination profiles when considering a broad distribution of run times. Interestingly, the experimental data cannot be reproduced using the usually accepted exponential distribution of run times. Our study demonstrates that the run-and-tumble statistics determine macroscopic bacterial transport properties. This effect, that we name "super-contamination", could explain the fast onset of some life-threatening medical emergencies.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
title: Investigating the processing of α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease primary patient cells to aid in drug discovery
Creators: name: Smith, Jessica K
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Parkinson's disease
subject: protein-trafficking
subject: α-synuclein

description: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that is characterised by the accumulation of proteinaceous inclusions known as Lewy bodies (LBs) in dopaminergic neurons. LBs are primarily comprised of aggregated α-synuclein, a vital neuronal protein involved in neurotransmission. The aetiology of PD results from an elaborate interplay of genetics, environmental exposures and gene-environment interactions, making it complex to model in vitro. Therefore, α-synuclein pathogenesis is often modelled for pharmaceutical intervention. After consulting the literature, it was clear that there was a great need for relevant models to investigate the uptake, processing and clearance of α-synuclein to inhibit the pathogenic, propagative properties that can lead to LB formation. An in vitro model of α-synuclein inhibitors did not exist without manipulation of α-synuclein or the vital trafficking systems of the cell. Therefore, this project aimed to design a cellular system that could investigate inhibitors of pathogenic α-synuclein as it is being trafficked in the cell. [...]
Policy-change Triggered Environmental Uncertainty in a Dairy Cooperative: The Case of Mila in South Tyrol
Creators: name: Charlebois, Sylvain
name: Charlebois, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production Economics
subject: Dairy cooperative
subject: dairy production
subject: dairy processing
subject: production quotas

description: On April 1st 2015, the European Union lifted its quotas for dairy production, a system that has been in place since 1984. Prior to this, the region of South Tyrol in Northern Italy enjoyed protection from the constraints and penalties of overproduction. With the lifting of quotas in Europe, „Bergmilch Südtirol“, a dairy cooperative based in Bozen, Italy, faces significant challenges. The aim of this exploratory single case study is to gain a better understanding of how a dairy cooperative copes with uncertainty in the context of a new economic environment. The data collected included semi-structured interviews, observations, and a review of internal documents of the cooperatives. Results support claims of the cooperative’s resilience, despite new economic pressures. Recent Russian embargoes have also added to the challenges „Bergmilch Südtirol“ faces. Despite good governance practices and sound financial performance in recent years, „Bergmilch Südtirol“ may need to readjust its strategy, beginning with how the cooperative compensates its farmer-members for their milk
The Axially Symmetric Ejecta of Supernova 1987A
Creators: name: Wang, L.
name: Wheeler, J. C.
name: Hoeflich, P.
name: Khokhlov, A.
name: Baade, D.
name: Branch, D.
name: Challis, P.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Garnavich, P.
name: Kirshner, R. P.
name: Lundqvist, P.
name: McCray, R.
name: Panagia, N.
name: Pun, C. S. J.
name: Phillips, M. M.
name: Sonneborn, G.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extensive early observations proved that the ejecta of supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) are aspherical. Fifteen years after the supernova explosion, the Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the rapidly expanding ejecta. The late-time images and spectroscopy provide a geometrical picture that is consistent with early observations and suggests a highly structured, axially symmetric geometry. We present here a new synthesis of the old and new data. We show that the Bochum event, presumably a clump of $^{56}$Ni, and the late-time image, the locus of excitation by $^{44}$Ti, are most naturally accounted for by sharing a common position angle of about 14\degree, the same as the mystery spot and early speckle data on the ejecta, and that they are both oriented along the axis of the inner circumstellar ring at 45\degree to the plane of the sky. We also demonstrate that the polarization represents a prolate geometry with the same position angle and axis as the early speckle data and the late-time image and hence that the geometry has been fixed in time and throughout the ejecta. The Bochum event and the Doppler kinematics of the [Ca II]/[O II] emission in spatially resolved HST spectra of the ejecta can be consistently integrated into this geometry. The radioactive clump is deduced to fall approximately along the axis of the inner circumstellar ring and therefore to be redshifted in the North whereas the [Ca II]/[O II] 7300 Åemission is redshifted in the South. We present a jet-induced model for the explosion and argue that such a model can account for many of the observed asymmetries. In the jet models, the oxygen and calcium are not expected to be distributed along the jet, but primarily in an expanding torus that shares the plane and northern blue shift of the inner circumstellar ring.
description: To Appear in ApJ
Designing Sustainable Production and Distribution Scenarios for the Beef and Pork Supply Chains in Brazil
Creators: name: Dondè, Giulia
name: Trienekens, Jacques
name: Bloemhof, Jacqueline
name: Dondè, Giulia
name: Trienekens, Jacques
name: Bloemhof, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: sustainability
subject: beef
subject: pork
subject: supply chain
subject: supply chain management
subject: Brazil
subject: scenario development

description: Due to the intensive use of natural resources in food production in Brazil and the consequent air and water pollution, sustainable production is high on the agenda of businesses and policy makers. This paper designs sustainable production and distribution scenarios for the beef and pork supply chains in Brazil, covering Planet, People and Profit aspects. A case study design is employed in a multi-phase qualitative approach, consisting of two rounds of interviews to pursue the final design of six feasible scenarios for the beef and pork chains. Three sustainable production and distribution scenarios for beef are designed: intensification, local production and sustainable operations and integrated land use, and three for pork: integration of animal and crop production, sophistication and balanced sustainability. The core improvements that can be extracted from the scenarios are: increased chain collaboration, information sharing in the chain, and governmental involvement in the Brazilian beef and pork supply chains. A major value of the paper lays in the three-phase methodology set-up. This paper will also contribute to the debate on sustainable improvements feasible in these Brazilian food chains.
Consumers’ Preference for Sweet Peppers with different Process Attributes: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Taiwan
Creators: name: Yeh, Ching-Hua
name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Yeh, Ching-Hua
name: Hartmann, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: choice experiment
subject: food safety information
subject: production methods
subject: country of origin
subject: logit models

description: Based on an online discrete choice experiment (DCE) this study investigates the relative importance of food label information (country of origin, production methods, chemical residue testing (CRT)) and price for Taiwanese consumers’ in their purchase of sweet peppers. Results show that respondents focus mostly on the COO labeling during their sweet-pepper shopping, followed by price. Information concerning CRT results and production methods are of less importance. Our findings also indicate that interaction between attributes matter and that preference for attribute levels differs depending on socioeconomic characteristics.
Cubic ice Ic free from stacking defects synthesized from ice XVII
Creators: name: del Rosso, Leonardo
name: Celli, Milva
name: Grazzi, Francesco
name: Catti, Michele
name: Hansen, Thomas C.
name: Fortes, Andrew Dominic
name: Ulivi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the over eighteen different forms of water ice, only the common hexagonal phase and a cubic phase are present in nature on Earth. The existence of these two polytypes, almost degenerate in energy, represents one of the most important and unresolved topics in the physics of ice. It is now widely recognised that all the samples of "cubic ice" obtained so far are instead a stacking-disordered form of ice I (i.e. ice Isd), in which both hexagonal and cubic stacking sequences of hydrogen-bonded water molecules are present. Here we describe a new method to obtain cubic ice Ic in large quantities, and demonstrate its unprecedented structural purity from two independent neutron diffraction experiments performed on two of the leading neutron diffraction instruments in Europe.
Eurygaster maura
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Eurygaster
Eurygaster maura

description: Eurygaster maura (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Material examined. KHORASAN: Golestan Park 150 km W of Bojnurd, 4 specimens, 14.vii.1994.
 Comments. In a hilly meadow on Poaceae. Euro-Siberian.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454