cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Holographic RG flows and symplectic deformations of N=4 gauged supergravity
Creators: name: Karndumri, Parinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity with $SO(4)\times SO(4)\sim SO(3)\times SO(3)\times SO(3)\times SO(3)$ gauge group in the presence of symplectic deformations. There are in general four electric-magnetic phases corresponding to each $SO(3)$ factor, but two phases of the $SO(3)$ factors embedded in the $SO(6)$ R-symmetry are fixed. One phase can be set to zero by $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ transformations. The second one gives equivalent theories for any non-vanishing values and can be set to $\fracπ{2}$ resulting in gauged supergravities that admit $N=4$ supersymmetric $AdS_4$ vacua. The remaining two phases are truely deformation parameters leading to different $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ gauged supergravities. As in the $ω$-deformed $SO(8)$ maximal gauged supergravity, the cosmological constant and scalar masses of the $AdS_4$ vacuum at the origin of the scalar manifold with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ symmetry do not depend on the electric-magnetic phases. We find $N=1$ holographic RG flow solutions between $N=4$ critical points with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ and $SO(3)_{\textrm{diag}}\times SO(3)\times SO(3)$ or $SO(3)\times SO(3)_{\textrm{diag}}\times SO(3)$ symmetries. We also give $N=2$ and $N=1$ RG flows from these critical points to various non-conformal phases. However, contrary to the $ω$-deformed $SO(8)$ gauged supergravity, there exist non-trivial supersymmetric $AdS_4$ critical points only for particular values of the deformation parameters within the scalar sectors under consideration.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected, references added
Rugilus (Rugilus) erichsonii
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Rugilus
Rugilus erichsonii

description: Rugilus (Rugilus) erichsonii (Fauvel, 1867)
  Material examined: Beira Alta, Guarda, Pinhel, Souro Pires, 4-IX-2004, 1 ex.
 Distribution: See Sch̡lke & Smetana (2015). Distribution in Portugal: Guarda, Minho.
 Remarks: Length 3.5-4.5 mm. Species black with posterior area of elitra yellowish to straw color. Legs, antennae and mouthparts entirely yellow-reddish. Head without mouthparts wider than long, and as width as elytra. For a more complete description see Coiffait (1984). Aedeagus as in Fig. 2. The species is found all year round with two peaks, one from March to April and the other from June to August. Immatures are frequently found in August and the adults hibernate. Adults found in a wet and muddy spot between brushes and decaying plant materials. This species is not referred for Portugal in the Palaearctic Catalogue (Sch̡lke & Smetana, 2015). Gamarra & Outerelo (2020) mention the species from Minho and Rougemont (1988) reports this species from Guarda.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2021, The genus Rugilus Leach, 1819 in the Portuguese fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 243-248 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 24 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244639
A Water Quality Model for Regional Stream Assessment and Conservation Strategy Development
Creators: name: Meixler, Marcia S.
name: Bain, Mark B.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Conservation strategy development
Model
Reach scale
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Lake Ontario (N.Y. and Ont.)
Geographic Information Systems
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Sediment

description: Nonpoint-source (NPS) pollution remains the primary source of stream impairment in the United States. Many problems such as eutrophication, sedimentation, and hypoxia are linked with NPS pollution and reduced water quality for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Increasingly, NPS pollution models have been used for landscape scale pollution assessment and conservation strategy development. Our modeling approach functions at a scale between simple landscape level assessments and complex, data intensive modeling by providing a rapid, landscape scale geographic information system (GIS) model with minimal data requirements and widespread applicability. Our model relies on curve numbers, literature-derived pollution concentrations, and land status to evaluate total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN) and suspended solids (SS) at the reach scale. Model testing in the Chesapeake Bay watershed indicated that predicted distributions of water quality classes were realistic at the reach scale but precise estimates of pollution concentrations at the local scale can have errors. Application of our model in the tributary watersheds along Lake Ontario suggested that it is useful to managers in watershed planning by rapidly providing important information about NPS pollution conditions in areas where large data gaps exist, comparisons among stream reaches across numerous watersheds are required, or regional assessments are sought.
New supersymmetric Janus solutions from N=4 gauged supergravity
Creators: name: Assawasowan, Tissana
name: Karndumri, Parinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study $N=4$ gauged supergravity with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ gauge group in the presence of symplectic deformations and find new classes of Janus solutions preserving $N=1$ and $N=2$ supersymmetries. The $N=2$ solutions preserve $SO(2)\times SO(2)\times SO(2)\times SO(2)$ symmetry and interpolate between $N=4$ supersymmetric $AdS_4$ vacua with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ symmetry. These correspond holographically to $N=(2,0)$ two-dimensional conformal defects within the dual $N=4$ CSM theories with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ symmetry. The $N=1$ solutions contain two families of Janus configurations, one interpolating between $N=4$ $AdS_4$ vacua with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ symmetry and the other interpolating between $N=4$ $AdS_4$ vacua with $SO(3)\times SO(3) \times SO(3)$ symmetry. These respectively describe $N=(1,0)$ conformal defects in $N=4$ CSM theories with $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ and $SO(3)\times SO(3) \times SO(3)$ symmetries. The latter give the first example of Janus solutions involving non-trivial $AdS_4$ vacua in addition to the trivial $SO(4)\times SO(4)$ critical point at the origin of the scalar manifold within the framework of $N=4$ gauged supergravity.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, a sequel to arXiv: 2203.01766, typos corrected, references added
Quantifying Daily Evolution of Mobile Software Based on Memory Allocator Churn
Creators: name: Kudrjavets, Gunnar
name: Thomas, Jeff
name: Kumar, Aditya
name: Nagappan, Nachiappan
name: Rastogi, Ayushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The pace and volume of code churn necessary to evolve modern software systems present challenges for analyzing the performance impact of any set of code changes. Traditional methods used in performance analysis rely on extensive data collection and profiling, which often takes days. For large organizations utilizing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), these traditional techniques often fail to provide timely and actionable data. A different impact analysis method that allows for more efficient detection of performance regressions is needed. We propose the utilization of user mode memory allocator churn as a novel approach to performance engineering. User mode allocator churn acts as a proxy metric to evaluate the relative change in the cost of specific tasks. We prototyped the memory allocation churn methodology while engaged in performance engineering for a major iOS application. We find that calculating and analyzing memory allocator churn (a) results in deterministic measurements, (b) is efficient for determining the presence of both individual performance regressions and general performance-related trends, and (c) is a suitable alternative to measuring the task completion time.
description: 5 pages. To be published in Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA
Architectural Support for Address Translation on GPUs
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Abhishek
name: Pichai, Bharath
name: Hsu, Lisa
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013

description: The proliferation of heterogeneous compute platforms, of which CPU/GPU is a prevalent example, necessitates a manageable programming model to ensure widespread adoption. A key component of this is a shared unified address space between the heterogeneous units to obtain the programmability benefits of virtual memory. Indeed, processor vendors have already begun embracing heterogeneous systems with unified address spaces (e.g., Intel’s Haswell, AMD’s Berlin processor, and ARM’s Mali and Cortex cores). We are the first to explore GPU Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) and page table walkers for address translation in the context of shared virtual memory for heterogeneous systems. To exploit the programmability benefits of shared virtual memory, it is natural to consider mirroring CPUs and placing TLBs prior (or parallel) to cache accesses, making caches physically addressed. We show the performance challenges of such an approach and propose modest hardware augmentations to recover much of this lost performance.We then consider the impact of this approach on the design of general purpose GPU performance improvement schemes. We look at: (1) warp scheduling to increase cache hit rates; and (2) dynamic warp formation to mitigate control flow divergence overheads. We show that introducing cache-parallel address translation does pose challenges, but that modest optimizations can buy back much of this lost performance. Overall, this paper explores address translation mechanisms on GPUs. While cache-parallel address translation does introduce non-trivial performance overheads, modestly TLB-aware designs can move overheads into a range deemed acceptable in the CPU world (5-15% of runtime). We presume this initial design leaves room for improvement but hope the larger result, that a little TLB-awareness goes a long way in GPUs, spurs future work in this fruitful area.
Rugilus (Rugilus) festivus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Rugilus
Rugilus festivus

description: Rugilus (Rugilus) festivus (Mulsant & Rey, 1853)
  Material examined: Beira Litoral, Coimbra, Coimbra, Choupal, 13-VII-1967, 1 ex.
 Distribution: See Sch̡lke & Smetana (2015). Distribution in Portugal: Coimbra.
 Remarks: Length 5.5-6.5 mm. Head and pronotum red. Elytra and abdomen black or black-brownish. Legs, mouthparts brown-blackish. Head longer than wider, gena two times longer than eyes. Pronotum narrower than head. Head longer than head. For a more complete description see Coiffait (1984). Aedeagus as in Fig. 3. Adults found in wet sand with flood debris and loose bark. Oliveira (1893) said About the species: “ Je l’ai trouvé dans les détritus des inondations du Mondego, à Coimbra ”. OliveirA (1899), Fuente (1922) and Seabra (1943) likely refer the species from Coimbra as of Oliveira (1893). Ferreira (1962) mentions the species for Portugal without any locality. Gamarra & Outerelo (2020) mention the species from Beira Litoral whilst it is not referred for Portugal in the Palaearctic Catalogue (Sch̡lke & Smetana, 2015).
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2021, The genus Rugilus Leach, 1819 in the Portuguese fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 243-248 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 24 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244639
'It's like having your cake and eating it too.' The fate of culinary traditions in the modern world
Creators: name: Benny, Helen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examines the food traditions of 31 people from diverse backgrounds who live in Brunswick, Victoria. It argues, in contrast to some current sociological projections that see modern food systems eroding traditions, that many culinary traditions remain important in contemporary societies. The empirical data provides important insights into the various roles culinary traditions play for both collective and individual identity. It also shows that culinary traditions are not static and often undergo profound transformations. This brings an additional benefit to our understanding of the way intercultural interactions take place in everyday contexts in multicultural contexts.
Anisotropic Electrene T'-Ca2P with Electron Gas Magnetic Coupling as Anode Material for Na/K Ion Batteries
Creators: name: Jiang, Jiaxin
name: Wang, Kai
name: Guo, Hongyan
name: Zuo, Guizhong
name: Zhuo, Zhiwen
name: Lu, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is an urgently need for the high-performance rechargeable electrical storage devices as supplement or substitutions of lithium ion batteries due to the shortage of lithium in nature. Herein we propose a stable 2D electrene T'-Ca2P as anode material for Na/K ion batteries by first-principle calculations. Our calculated results show that T'-Ca2P monolayer is an antiferromagnetic semiconducting electrene with spin-polarized electron gas. It exhibits suitable adsorption for both Na and K atoms, and its anisotropic migration energy barriers are 0.050/0.101 eV and 0.037/0.091 eV in b/a direction, respectively. The theoretical capacities for Na and K are both 482 mAh/g, while the average working voltage platforms are 0.171-0.226 V and 0.013-0.267 V, respectively. All the results reveal that the T'-Ca2P monolayer has promised application prospects as anode materials for Na/K ion batteries.
On the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality and its Relationship to Linear Programming, Matrix Scaling, and Gordan's Theorem
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Arithmetic-geometric mean inequality
Gordan's theorem
Diagonal matrix scaling
Convexity
Convex domains
Linear Programming

description: It is a classical inequality that the minimum of the ratio of the (weighted) arithmetic mean to the geometric mean of a set of positive variables is equal to one, and is attained at the center of the positivity cone. While there are numerous proofs of this fundamental homogeneous inequality, in the presence of an arbitrary subspace, and/or the replacement of the arithmetic mean with an arbitrary linear form, the new minimization is a nontrivial problem. We prove a generalization of this inequality, also relating it to linear programming, to the diagonal matrix scaling problem, as well as to Gordan's theorem. Linear programming is equivalent to the search for a nontrivial zero of a linear or positive semidefinite quadratic form over the nonnegative points of a given subspace. The goal of this paper is to present these intricate, surprising, and significant relationships, called scaling dualities, and via an elementary proof. Also, to introduce two conceptually simple polynomialtime algorithms that are based on the scaling dualities, significant bounds, as well as Nesterov and Nemirovskii's machinery of self-concordance. The algorithms are simultaneously applicable to linear programming, to the computation of a separating hyperplane, to the diagonal matrix scaling problem, and to the minimization of the arithmetic-geometric mean ratio over the positive points of an arbitrary subspace. The scaling dualities, the bounds, and the algorithms are special cases of a much more general theory on convex programming, developed by the author. For instance, via the scaling dualities semidefinite programming is a problem dual to a generalization of the classical trace-determinant ratio minimization over the positive definite points of a given subspace of the Hilbert space of symmetric matrices.
Continuous-flow, electrically-triggered, single cell-level electroporation
Creators: name: Zheng, Mingde
name: Sherba, Joseph J.
name: Shan, Jerry
name: Lin, Hao
name: Shreiber, David I.
name: Zahn, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Single Cell
Electroporation
Permeabilization
Microﬂuidics
Molecular-transport

description: Electroporation creates transient openings in the cell membrane, allowing for intracellular delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic substances. The degree of cell membrane permeability during electroporation plays a key role in regulating the size of the delivery payload as well as the overall cell viability. A microﬂ uidic platform offers the ability to electroporate single cells with impedance detection of membrane permeabilization in a high-throughput, continuous-ﬂ ow manner. We have developed a ﬂ ow-based electroporation microdevice that automatically detects, electroporates, and monitors individual cells for changes in permeability and delivery. We are able to achieve the advantages of electrical monitoring of cell permeabilization, heretofore only achieved with trapped or static cells, while processing the cells in a continuous-ﬂ ow environment. We demonstrate the analysis of membrane permeabilization on individual cells before and after electroporation in a continuous-ﬂ ow environment, which dramatically increases throughput. We have conﬁ rmed cell membrane permeabilization by electrically measuring the changes in cell impedance from electroporation and by optically measuring the intracellular delivery of a ﬂ uorescent probe after systematically varying the electric ﬁ eld strength and duration and correlating the pulse parameters to cell viability. We ﬁ nd a dramatic change in cell impedance and propidium iodide (PI) uptake at a pulse strength threshold of 0.87 kV/cm applied for a duration of 1 ms or longer. The overall cell viability was found to vary in a dose dependent manner with lower viability observed with increasing electric ﬁ eld strength and pulse duration. Cell viability was greater than 83% for all cases except for the most aggressive pulse condition (1 kV/cm for 5 ms), where the viability dropped to 67.1%. These studies can assist in determining critical permeabilization and molecular delivery parameters while preserving viability.
Deliverable 4.2 -  project E³UDRES² Ent-r-e-novators
Creators: name: Ent-r-e-novators WP4 team
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: ENTRENOVATORS SWOT analysis of training offers/needs in OS/OI/OE/OA and Development of a training curricula for providing OS/OI/OE/OA skills and competences
Los romances glosados en la Carta del rey Amet Maluco al reino de Portugal: oralidad, escritura e imprenta
Creators: name: Asensio Jiménez, Nicolás
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Diapositivas de la conferencia «Los romances glosados en la Carta del rey Amet Maluco al reino de Portugal: oralidad, escritura e imprenta» de Nicolás Asensio Jiménez en el «II Seminario LIPOIMXVI: «Oygan todos los nascidos»: Literatura popular impresa y oralidad», celebrado en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid el 6 de mayo de 2025.
The Combined Use of Gentamicin and Silver Nitrate in Bone Cement for a Synergistic and Extended Antibiotic Action against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria
Creators: name: Jackson, John
name: Lo, Joey
name: Hsu, Eric
name: Burt, Helen Mary, 1954-
name: Shademani, Ali
name: Lange, Dirk (Microbiologist)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Using bone cement as a carrier, gentamicin was for years the default drug to locally treat orthopedic infections but has lost favor due to increasing bacterial resistance to this drug. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of combining gentamicin with silver nitrate in bone cement against S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. Antibacterial effects (CFU counts) of gentamicin and silver were initially studied followed by studies using subtherapeutic concentrations of each in combination. The release rates from cement were measured over 10 days and day 7 release samples were saved and analyzed for antibiotic activity. A strong synergistic effect of combining silver with gentamicin was found using both dissolved drugs and using day 7 bone cement release media for both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The cement studies were extended to vancomycin and tobramycin, which are also used in bone cement, and similar synergistic effects were found for day 7 release media with P. aeruginosa but not S. aureus. These studies conclude that the combined use of low loadings of gentamicin and silver nitrate in bone cement may offer an economical and much improved synergistic method of providing anti-infective orthopedic treatments in the clinic.
Rugilus (Rugilus) geniculatus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Rugilus
Rugilus geniculatus

description: Rugilus (Rugilus) geniculatus (Erichson, 1839)
 Material examined: (Ferreira, 2021).
  Douro Litoral, Porto, Porto, PaÇos de Ferreira, Penamaior, 3 ex.
 (PRNC)
 Distribution: See Sch̡lke & Smetana (2015). Distribution in Portugal: Beja, Castelo Branco, Lisboa, Porto, Vila Real.
 Remarks: Length 5- 5,5 mm. Species black with posterior margins of elytra brown-yellowish. Legs, antennae and mouth parts yellow-reddish. Head, pronotum and elytra slightly longer than wide, but elytra wider than head. For a more complete description see Coiffait (1984). Aedeagus as in Fig. 4. The species displays two peaks, one in May and the other in September. Larvae unknown. Adults found along brooks and river margins, in wet substracts and decaying plant materials. Barros (1913) reported this species from S. MArtinho d"AntA.  Fuente (1922) and Seabra (1943) refer to Barros (1913) as the one that mentions the species for Portugal. Ferreira (1962) recorded the species for Portugal without any locality. Rougemont (1988) refers the species from Beja. Gamarra & Outerelo (2020) mention the species from Baixo Alentejo e Castelo Branco. Also referred for Portugal in the Palaearctic Catalogue (Sch̡lke & Smetana, 2015). There is one specimen from Lisboa, Alvalade, collected in 31-May-2000 and identified by Pedro MendonÇa (Lopes et al., 2019), but it was not possible to confirm the identification.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2021, The genus Rugilus Leach, 1819 in the Portuguese fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 243-248 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 24 on page 245, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244639
The effect of fracture roughness on the onset of non-linear flow
Creators: name: Drazer, German
name: Cunningham, David
name: Auradou, Harold
name: Shojaei-Zadeh, Shahab
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Fractures
Forchheimer
Critical Reynolds number
Surface roughness
Inertial effects
Non-linear flow

description: In fractures where surface fluctuations are large compared to their aperture (narrow fractures) the flow is forced to move in tortuous paths that produce additional viscous friction and are subject to inertia effects. We consider the relation between the magnitude of surface roughness and the onset of inertial effects in the pressure driving the flow through a single open fracture. We performed experiments systematically varying the average aperture of the open fracture and covering a wide range of Reynolds numbers. For each aperture, we analyze the data in terms of the Forchheimer equation and show that the critical Reynolds number, defined as the Reynolds number at which inertial effects contribute 10% of the total pressure losses is highly correlated with the roughness of the surface. In particular, we show that significant inertial effects appear early as the relative importance of surface roughness increases. Finally, we present results showing that the magnitude of the deviations in the pressure field compared to a linear profile, taken at different points in the fracture along the flow direction,are directly related to the relative surface roughness of the fracture.
title: Business, Armed Conflict, and Protection of the Environment: What Avenues for Corporate Accountability?
Creators: name: Davoise, Marie
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2020

description: In July 2019, the International Law Commission (ILC) provisionally adopted, on first reading, a series of draft principles on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict (the Draft Principles). The role of businesses in armed conflict is addressed in Draft Principle 10 and Draft Principle 11. The latter, in particular, requires States to implement appropriate measures to ensure that corporations operating in or from their territories can be held accountable for environmental harm in the context of armed conflict. The inclusion of those two Draft Principles reflects increasingly vocal calls for corporate accountability, which has been the focus of the growing field of Business and Human Rights (BHR), an umbrella term encompassing a variety of legal regimes from tort law to criminal law. This contribution will look at the link between businesses, the environment, and armed conflict. Using the newly adopted Draft Principle 11 as a starting point, it explores three major liability regimes through which businesses could be held accountable for damage to the environment in armed conflict: State responsibility, international criminal law, and transnational tort litigation. Using case studies, the article discusses some of the challenges associated with each of those regimes, before concluding that the cross-fertilization phenomenon observed in this article (between public/private law, domestic/international level, and across various jurisdictions) is making BHR an increasingly salient discipline and useful tool in the fight against impunity for corporate environmental harm in armed conflict.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 10, no. 1, page 151-201
description: Special Issue: Enhancing the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts – the Draft Principles of the International Law Commission and Beyond
Rugilus (Rugilus) orbiculatus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Rugilus
Rugilus orbiculatus

description: Rugilus (Rugilus) orbiculatus (Paykull, 1789)
  Material examined: Alto Alentejo, Évora, Évora, Jardim Ṗblico, 7-XI-1963, 1 ex. Beira Litoral, Aveiro, Aveiro, Eirol, 11-VIII-1967, 1 ex.; Coimbra, Coimbra, Pinhal de Marrocos, 20-IV-1967, 1 ex. Minho, Braga, Braga, Vieira do Minho, Serra do Gerês, 2-VII-1969, 2 ex.; Viana do Castelo, Caminha, Foz do Rio Minho, Pinhal do Camarido, 24-VI-1966, 1 ex.; ValenÇa, S. Pedro da Torre, 30-VI-1966, 1 ex.
 Distribution: See Sch̡lke & Smetana (2015). Distribution in Portugal: Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Évora, Faro, Porto, Viana do Castelo.
  Remarks: Length 3.5-4.5 mm. Species black, with posterior margin of elytra yellowish and with legs, antennae and mouthparts brown-reddish. Head as long as wide. Pronotum longer than wide. For a more complete description see Coiffait (1984). Aedeagus as in Fig. 5. This species occurs all year around. The larvae was described by Rey (1880) and Paulian (1941). Adults found along river margins in hardwood and mixed forests among compost and decaying plant material. This species was reported from Coimbra as Stilicus affinis Erichson, 1839 by Heyden (1870), from Portugal without any locality by Fauvel (1877) and from Coimbra, LeÇa and Estarreja by Oliveira (1885, 1893). Ferreira (1962) mentions the species without a locality but later mentions the species from Eirol (Ferreira, 1971). Gamarra & Outerelo (2020) mention Douro Litoral, Beira Litoral and Algarve. Referred for Portugal in the Palaearctic Catalogue (Sch̡lke & Smetana, 2015). Referred as part of the collection of Padre Ramiro Neves from Monte Córdova by 10 specimens an  d with the № 56 by one specimen (Ferreira, 2021).
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2021, The genus Rugilus Leach, 1819 in the Portuguese fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 243-248 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 24 on page 245, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244639
The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly vetted candidate exoplanets
Creators: name: Cacciapuoti, Luca
name: Kostov, Veselin B.
name: Kuchner, Marc
name: Quintana, Elisa V.
name: Colón, Knicole D.
name: Brande, Jonathan
name: Mullally, Susan E.
name: Chance, Quadry
name: Christiansen, Jessie L.
name: Ahlers, John P.
name: Di Fraia, Marco Z.
name: Luca, Hugo A. Durantini
name: Ienco, Riccardo M.
name: Gallo, Francesco
name: de Lima, Lucas T.
name: Hyogo, Michiharu
name: Andrés-Carcasona, Marc
name: Fornear, Aline U.
name: de Lambilly, Julien S.
name: Salik, Ryan
name: Yablonsky, John M.
name: Wallace, Shaun
name: Acharya, Sovan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected thousands of exoplanet candidates since 2018, most of which have yet to be confirmed. A key step in the confirmation process of these candidates is ruling out false positives through vetting. Vetting also eases the burden on follow-up observations, provides input for demographics studies, and facilitates training machine learning algorithms. Here we present the TESS Triple-9 (TT9) catalog -- a uniformly-vetted catalog containing dispositions for 999 exoplanet candidates listed on ExoFOP-TESS, known as TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs). The TT9 was produced using the Discovery And Vetting of Exoplanets pipeline, DAVE, and utilizing the power of citizen science as part of the Planet Patrol project. More than 70% of the TOIs listed in the TT9 pass our diagnostic tests, and are thus marked as true planetary candidates. We flagged 144 candidates as false positives, and identified 146 as potential false positives. At the time of writing, the TT9 catalog contains ~20% of the entire ExoFOP-TESS TOIs list, demonstrates the synergy between automated tools and citizen science, and represents the first stage of our efforts to vet all TOIs. The DAVE generated results are publicly available on ExoFOP-TESS.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted on MNRAS
Digital Colonization and Virtual Indigeneity: Indigenous Knowledge and Algorithm Bias
Creators: name: Gasparotto, Melissa
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Indigenous knowledge
Algorithm bias
Internet
Search engines
Latin America

description: A growing body of research examining the role of technology in indigenous knowledge production and distribution has helped define the new ways that communities are connecting to each other and organizing around the world. At the same time, social justice activist focus in the United States has turned to the underlying infrastructure of the internet and the ways in which it may in fact hinder these connections, not the least due to the amply documented “filter bubble” which delivers content supporting one’s own existing opinion and may prevent alternate and minority voices from being seen or heard. In an environment where nascent artificial intelligence Twitter bots can become white supremacists within hours, where auto-generated tags classify photos of African Americans as gorillas and where searching Google for “Latina lesbian” delivers only pornography, what exactly does a self-determined representation for any minority group look like online? This paper will examine how we got here and what projects are currently underway to resist the dominant racial classification hierarchies online that help feed algorithm bias. By pulling together two areas of scholarship (online indigenous networks and anticolonial algorithm critique) in the context of current projects giving indigenous communities control over the terms of access to their own web-based cultural production, I hope to suggest alternate ways to think about online information discovery in terms of social justice.
title: Enhancing Environmental Protection During Occupation Through Human Rights
Creators: name: Hulme, Karen
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2020

description: Environmental protection is not specifically included in treaty law relating to State obligations during situations of occupation. While clearly not of the same scale as damage caused to the environment during armed conflict, damage caused during occupation is often similar in nature – largely due to those who seek to exploit any governance vacuum and a failure to restore damaged environments. What can human rights offer in helping to protect the environment during occupations? What protection can be offered by an analysis of environmental human rights law?
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 10, no. 1, page 203-241
description: Special Issue: Enhancing the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts – the Draft Principles of the International Law Commission and Beyond
CMEs and SEPs During November-December 2020: A Challenge for Real-Time Space Weather Forecasting
Creators: name: Palmerio, Erika
name: Lee, Christina O.
name: Mays, M. Leila
name: Luhmann, Janet G.
name: Lario, David
name: Sánchez-Cano, Beatriz
name: Richardson, Ian G.
name: Vainio, Rami
name: Stevens, Michael L.
name: Cohen, Christina M. S.
name: Steinvall, Konrad
name: Möstl, Christian
name: Weiss, Andreas J.
name: Nieves-Chinchilla, Teresa
name: Li, Yan
name: Larson, Davin E.
name: Heyner, Daniel
name: Bale, Stuart D.
name: Galvin, Antoinette B.
name: Holmström, Mats
name: Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.
name: Maksimovic, Milan
name: Mitrofanov, Igor G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predictions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are a central issue in space weather forecasting. In recent years, interest in space weather predictions has expanded to include impacts at other planets beyond Earth as well as spacecraft scattered throughout the heliosphere. In this sense, the scope of space weather science now encompasses the whole heliospheric system, and multi-point measurements of solar transients can provide useful insights and validations for prediction models. In this work, we aim to analyse the whole inner heliospheric context between two eruptive flares that took place in late 2020, i.e. the M4.4 flare of November 29 and the C7.4 flare of December 7. This period is especially interesting because the STEREO-A spacecraft was located ~60° east of the Sun-Earth line, giving us the opportunity to test the capabilities of "predictions at 360°" using remote-sensing observations from the Lagrange L1 and L5 points as input. We simulate the CMEs that were ejected during our period of interest and the SEPs accelerated by their shocks using the WSA-Enlil-SEPMOD modelling chain and four sets of input parameters, forming a "mini-ensemble". We validate our results using in-situ observations at six locations, including Earth and Mars. We find that, despite some limitations arising from the models' architecture and assumptions, CMEs and shock-accelerated SEPs can be reasonably studied and forecast in real time at least out to several tens of degrees away from the eruption site using the prediction tools employed here.
description: 50 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Space Weather (v2 contains updated CCMC links after their website update)
TAC: Optimizing Error-Bounded Lossy Compression for Three-Dimensional Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations
Creators: name: Wang, Daoce
name: Pulido, Jesus
name: Grosset, Pascal
name: Jin, Sian
name: Tian, Jiannan
name: Ahrens, James
name: Tao, Dingwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today's scientific simulations require a significant reduction of data volume because of extremely large amounts of data they produce and the limited I/O bandwidth and storage space. Error-bounded lossy compression has been considered one of the most effective solutions to the above problem. However, little work has been done to improve error-bounded lossy compression for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulation data. Unlike the previous work that only leverages 1D compression, in this work, we propose to leverage high-dimensional (e.g., 3D) compression for each refinement level of AMR data. To remove the data redundancy across different levels, we propose three pre-process strategies and adaptively use them based on the data characteristics. Experiments on seven AMR datasets from a real-world large-scale AMR simulation demonstrate that our proposed approach can improve the compression ratio by up to 3.3X under the same data distortion, compared to the state-of-the-art method. In addition, we leverage the flexibility of our approach to tune the error bound for each level, which achieves much lower data distortion on two application-specific metrics.
description: 13 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables, published by ACM HPDC 2022
Irradiation with visible light enhances the antibacterial toxicity of silver nanoparticles produced by laser ablation
Creators: name: Ratti, Matthew
name: O'Malley, Sean M.
name: Trout, Cory
name: Bubb, Daniel M.
name: Klein, Eric A.
name: Naddeo, J. J.
name: Tan, Yuying
name: Griepenburg, Julianne C.
name: Tomko, John
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016

description: The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rapidly growing global health concern. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths per year occur in the USA due to antibiotic resistance. In recent years, there has been a surge in the use of metal nanoparticles as coatings for orthopedic implants, wound dressings, and food packaging, due to their antimicrobial properties. In this report, we demonstrate that the antibacterial efficacy of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is enhanced with exposure to light from the visible spectrum. We find that the increased toxicity is due to augmented silver ion release and bacterial uptake. Interestingly, silver ion toxicity does not appear to depend on the formation of reactive oxygen species. Our findings provide a novel paradigm for using light to regulate the toxicity of AgNPs which may have a significant impact in the development of new antimicrobial therapeutics.
title: The Martens Clause and Environmental Protection in Relation to Armed Conflicts
Creators: name: Fleck, Dieter
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2020

description: The existing treaty law on the protection of the natural environment during armed conflicts is less than adequate. Treaty provisions relating to international armed conflicts are limited to the prohibition of damage of an extreme kind and scale that has not occurred so far and may hardly be expected from the conduct of hostilities unless nuclear weapons would be used. Even in such a scenario, States possessing nuclear weapons have explicitly objected to the applicability of that treaty law. For internal wars, no pertinent treaty provisions exist in the law of armed conflict. Yet multilateral environmental agreements concluded in peacetime stand as an alternative approach to enhance environmental protection during war. As a civilian object, the environment may not be targeted nor attacked in an armed conflict, but this does not exclude collateral damage, nor does this principle as such offer specific standards for proportionality in attacks. In an effort to close these apparent gaps of treaty law, the present contribution looks into other sources of international law that could be used. In this context, the author revisits the role of the famous Martens Clause in the interplay of international humanitarian law, international environmental law, and human rights law. The role of the Clause in closing gaps caused by the indeterminacy of treaty law is reviewed and customary rules, general principles, and best practices are considered to this effect. For the protection of the natural environment during armed conflicts, the Martens Clause may, indeed, be used as a door opener to facilitate the creation and application of uncodified principles and rules. Particular standards for proportionality in attacks can be derived from the Martens Clause. Pertinent soft law instruments need to be developed in international practical cooperation and by academia. Yet it deserves further study to explore whether, and to what extent, the Martens Clause, which was adopted in the law of armed conflict, may also apply in post-conflict peacebuilding as a case of interaction between the jus in bello and the jus post bellum, at least as far as the protection of the natural environment is concerned.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 10, no. 1, page 243-266
description: Special Issue: Enhancing the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts – the Draft Principles of the International Law Commission and Beyond
Towards Digital Twin-enabled DevOps for CPS providing Architecture-Based Service Adaptation & Verification at Runtime
Creators: name: Dobaj, Jürgen
name: Riel, Andreas
name: Krug, Thomas
name: Seidl, Matthias
name: Macher, Georg
name: Egretzberger, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPSS) denote a service-oriented (SO) way of providing access to CPS capabilities. The design of such systems bears high risk due to uncertainty in requirements related to service function and behavior, operation environments, and evolving customer needs. Such risks and uncertainties are well known in the IT sector, where DevOps principles ensure continuous system improvement through reliable and frequent delivery processes. A modular and SO system architecture complements these processes to facilitate IT system adaptation and evolution. This work proposes a method to use and extend the Digital Twins (DTs) of IPSS assets for enabling the continuous optimization of CPS service delivery and the latter's adaptation to changing needs and environments. This reduces uncertainty during design and operations by assuring IPSS integrity and availability, especially for design and service adaptations at CPS runtime. The method builds on transferring IT DevOps principles to DT-enabled CPS IPSS. The chosen design approach integrates, reuses, and aligns the DT processing and communication resources with DevOps requirements derived from literature. We use these requirements to propose a DT-enabled self-adaptive CPS model, which guides the realization of DT-enabled DevOps in CPS IPSS. We further propose detailed design models for operation-critical DTs that integrate CPS closed-loop control and architecture-based CPS adaptation. This integrated approach enables the implementation of A/B testing as a use case and central concept to enable CPS IPSS service adaptation and reconfiguration. The self-adaptive CPS model and DT design concept have been validated in an evaluation environment for operation-critical CPS IPSS. The demonstrator achieved sub-millisecond cycle times during service A/B testing at runtime without causing CPS operation interferences and downtime.
description: Final published version appearing in 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2022)
The effect of mechanical strain on properties of lubricated tablets compacted at different pressures
Creators: name: Pawar, Pallavi
name: Joo, Hee
name: Muzzio, Fernando J.
name: Callegari, Gerardo
name: Drazer, German
name: Cuitino, Alberto M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tensile strength
Porosity
Shear strain
Magnesium stearate
Compaction
Pharmaceutical tablets

description: A full factorial design of experiments was used to study the effect of blend shear strain on the compaction process, relative density and strength of pharmaceutical tablets. The powder blends were subjected to different shear strain levels (integral of shear rate with respect to time) using an ad hoc Couette shear cell. Tablets were compressed at different compaction forces using an instrumented compactor simulator, and compaction curves showing the force-displacement profiles during compaction were obtained. Although the die-fill blend porosity (initial porosity) and the minimum in-die tablet porosity (at maximum compaction) decreased significantly with shear strain, the final tablet porosity was surprisingly independent of shear strain. The increase in the in-die maximum compaction with shear strain was, in fact, compensated during post-compaction relaxation of the tables, which also increased significantly with shear strain. Therefore, tablet porosity alone was not sufficient to predict tablet tensile strength. A decrease in the ‘work of compaction’ as a function of shear strain, and an increase in the recovered elastic work was observed, which suggested weaker particle-particle bonding as the shear strain in- creased. For each shear strain level, the Ryskewitch Duckworth equation was a good fit to the tensile strength as a function of tablet porosity, and the obtained asymptotic tensile strength at zero porosity exhibited a 60% reduction as a function of shear strain. This was consistent with a reduced bonding efficiency as the shear strain increased.
Hydrological, hydraulic and multicriteria evaluations of flood susceptibility in coastal urban areas: a case study of Juqueriquere River basin in Brazil
Creators: name: Galvao Boulomytis, Vassiliki Terezinha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Natural disasters like floods have become more frequent due to the increase of extreme climatic events. It is very challenging to understand the hydrological impacts of urban developments in ungauged watersheds. The studied floodplains are in the northern coastline of Sao Paulo, Brazil, comprising limited and non-representative spatially and temporally data. Thus, alternative methods and modelling techniques, such as the multicriteria decision analysis, were used to determine the likelihood of flood susceptibility in the studied plains. The methodology was successful and might be used in other areas, especially where data is scarce and complex physical constraints are involved.
Shape Derivative for Penalty-Constrained Nonsmooth-Nonconvex Optimization: Cohesive Crack Problem
Creators: name: Kovtunenko, Victor A.
name: Kunisch, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R37, 49J40, 49Q10, 74RXX

description: A class of non-smooth and non-convex optimization problems with penalty constraints linked to variational inequalities (VI) is studied with respect to its shape differentiability. The specific problem stemming from quasi-brittle fracture describes an elastic body with a Barenblatt cohesive crack under the inequality condition of non-penetration at the crack faces. Based on the Lagrange approach and using smooth penalization with the Lavrentiev regularization, a formula for the shape derivative is derived. The explicit formula contains both primal and adjoint states and is useful for finding descent directions for a gradient algorithm to identify an optimal crack shape from a boundary measurement. Numerical examples of destructive testing are presented in 2D.
description: 27 pages