cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Informing the Design of Proxemic Interactions
Creators: name: Marquardt, Nicolai
name: Greenberg, Saul
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Human Factors
subject: Proxemics, interaction, ubiquitous computing

description: Proxemic Interactions envision interactive computer systems that exploit peoples’ and devices’ spatial relationships (proxemics) to provide more natural and seamless interactions with ubicomp technology. It builds upon fundamental proxemic theories about people’s understanding and use of the personal space around them. In this paper, we focus on how nuances of the proxemic theories and concepts of Proxemic Interaction can be applied to address six key challenges of ubicomp interaction design, where we consider how we can leverage information on fine grained proxemic relationships. We also discuss how previous proxemic2aware systems addressed these challenges.
Shared Living, Experiences, and Intimacy over Video Chat in Long Distance Relationships
Creators: name: Greenberg, Saul
name: Nuestaedter, Carman
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Video chat
subject: Long Distance Relationships
subject: Shared Living, Video chat

description: Many couples live a portion of their lives being separated from each other as part of a long-distance relationship. This includes a large number of dating college students as well as established couples who are geographicallyseparated because of situational demands such as work. Long distance couples often face challenges in maintaining some semblance of intimacy given the physical distance between them. Traditional media helped here, where they would stay connected by physical letters, telephones, e-mail, texting, and instant messaging. More recently, many couples resort to “hanging out” over the new generation of video chat systems in order to stay connected. We explore this phenomenon by presenting case studies of how couples in long distance relationships hang out over video. Each couple is in a unique relationship situation, yet all share increased intimacy over distance by leaving a video link going between their residences for extended periods of time. These episodes involve couples participating in activities that are sometimes shared and sometimes not, where the key component is simply feeling the presence and involvement of the remote partner in day to day life.
Relativistic complex separable potential for describing the neutron-proton system in $^3S_1$-$^3D_1$ partial-wave state
Creators: name: Bondarenko, S. G.
name: Burov, V. V.
name: Rogochaya, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a covariant Bethe-Salpeter approach the relativistic complex separable kernel of the neutron-proton interaction for the coupled $^3S_1^+$-$^3D_1^+$ partial-wave state is constructed. The rank-six separable potential elaborated earlier is real-valued, and therefore makes it possible to describe only the elastic part (phase shifts, low-energy parameters, deuteron properties, etc.) of the elastic neutron-proton scattering. The description of the inelasticity parameter comes out of the imaginary part introduced intthe potential. The complex potential parameters are obtained using the available elastic neutron-proton scattering experimental data up to 1.1 GeV.
description: 4 pages, 1 table, 3 figures; submitted to Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplement
Superconducting Hair on Charged Black String Background
Creators: name: Nakonieczny, Lukasz
name: Rogatko, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Behaviour of Dirac fermions in the background of a charged black string penetrated by an Abelian Higgs vortex is elaborated. One finds the evidence that the system under consideration can support fermion fields acting like a superconducting cosmic string in the sence that a nontrivial Dirac fermion field can be carried by the system in question. The case of nonextremal and extremal black string vortex systems were considered. The influence of electric and Higgs charge, the winding number and the fermion mass on the fermion localization near the black string event horizon was studied. It turned out that the extreme charged black string expelled fermion fields more violently comparing to the nonextremal one.
description: RevTex, 16 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Phys.REvD15
Resource allocation and optimization for multiple-user legacy and cognitive radio systems
Creators: name: Al-Khasib, Tariq
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The rapid transition towards user mobility and the increased demand it carries for bandwidth and data rates has been the driver for significant advancements in research and development in wireless communications in the last decade. These advancements materialized through enhancements to the well established legacy systems and conceptual innovations with great potential. Not far from that, in this thesis, we consider a diverse set of tools and techniques that facilitate efficient utilization of system resources in legacy and Cognitive Radio (CR) systems without hindering the integrity and robustness of the system design. First, we introduce the concept of service differentiation at the receiver, which can be realized by means of a new multiple-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) detector based on the well known V-BLAST algorithm. We devise the DiffSIC algorithm that is able to differentiate between users in service based on their priorities or imminent needs. DiffSIC achieves its goal by determining the optimal order of detection, at the receiver, that best fits the users' profiles. Second, we propose a channel allocation technique for the transmitter of MIMO multiple-user access systems which enhances the system capacity without aggravating the complexity of the receiver. In particular, we allow users to share resources to take full advantage of the degrees of freedom available in the system. Moreover, we show how to realize these enhancements using simple, yet powerful, modulation and detection techniques. Next, we propose new robust system designs for MIMO CR systems under the inevitable reality of imperfect channel state information at the CR transmitter. We apply innovative tools from optimization theory to efficiently and effectively solve design problems that involve multiple secondary users operating over multiple frequency carriers. At last, we observe the effect of primary users' activity on the stability of, and quality of service provided by, CR systems sharing the same frequency resource with the primary system. We propose admission control mechanisms to limit the effect of primary users' activity on the frequency of system outages at the CR system. We also devise pragmatic eviction control measures to overcome periods of system infeasibility with a minimally disruptive approach.
Letter. Heather Anderson to East Hampton Town Board, June 18, 1997
Creators: name: Anderson, Heather
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: East Hampton
Springs
Correspondence
Fishing industry

description: This letter was written on June 18, 1997 by Heather Anderson of the Springs Historical Society to the East Hampton Town Board in regards to the Boards plans for the Fishing station at Maidstone Park.
Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Heracleum sosnowskyi
Creators: name: Pioarca-Ciocanea, C.M.
name: Manolache, A.S.
name: Anastasiu, P.
name: Rozylowicz, L.
name: Manta, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: specii invazive
invasive alien species
Heracleum sosnowskyi
Branca ursului

description: Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Heracleum sosnowskyi
description: Managementul adecvat al speciilor invazive din România, în conformitate cu Regulamentul UE 1143/2014 referitor la prevenirea și gestionarea introducerii și răspândirii speciilor alogene invazive, POIM 2014+ 120008, 2018-2022. http://invazive.ccmesi.ro/
Intimacy in Long-Distance Relationships over Video Chat
Creators: name: Neustaedter, Carman
name: Greenberg, Saul
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group and Organization Interfaces
subject: Computer-supported cooperative work
subject: Video conferencing, domestic, long distance relationships, media spaces

description: Many couples live a portion of their lives being separated from each other as part of a long-distance relationship (LDR). This includes a large number of dating college students as well as couples who are geographicallyseparated because of situational demands such as work. We conducted interviews with individuals in LDRs to understand how they make use of video chat systems to maintain their relationships. In particular, we have investigated how couples use video to “hang out” together and engage in activities over extended periods of time. Our results show that regardless of the relationship situation, video affords a unique opportunity for couples to share presence over distance, which in turn provides intimacy and reduced idealization. While beneficial, couples still face challenges in using video, including contextual (e.g., location of partners, time zone differences), technical (e.g., mobility, audio and video quality, networking), and personal (e.g., a lack of true physicality needed by most in order to support intimate sexual acts) challenges.
Boletín Fármacos: Políticas 2023; 26(3)
Creators: name: Salud y Fármacos
Publisher: name: Salud y Fármacos
Year: 2023
Subjects: Políticas de medicamentos
Políticas farmacéuticas
Políticas globales
América Latina
Europa y el Reino Unido
EE UU y Canadá
Asia y Oceanía
Organismos internacionales
Covid

description: Boletín Fármacos es un boletín electrónico de la organización Salud y Fármacos (https://www.saludyfarmacos.org/) que se publica cuatro veces al año: febrero, mayo, agosto y noviembre.

El "Boletín Fármacos: Políticas" incluye información sobre evaluaciones de políticas de medicamentos, así como las políticas que están en discusión o que han adoptado diferentes países del mundo.

Este documento corresponde al 2023, Vol. 26, N°3.
A Imprescritibilidade da Reparação por Danos Ambientais: Uma Análise Jurídica e Intergeneracional
Creators: name: Costa, Pablo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 480104
subject: Labour law
classificationCode: 440704
subject: Environment policy
classificationCode: 440208
subject: Environmental crime
classificationCode: 480203
subject: Environmental law
classificationCode: 480702
subject: Constitutional law
classificationCode: 480303
subject: Conflict of laws (incl. private international law)
classificationCode: 480505
subject: Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
classificationCode: 480201
subject: Animal law
classificationCode: 480401
subject: Criminal law
classificationCode: 480601
subject: Contract law
classificationCode: 480701
subject: Administrative law
classificationCode: 480403
subject: Law and humanities
classificationCode: 480306
subject: International criminal law
classificationCode: 500104
subject: Human rights and justice issues (excl. law)

description: This paper affirms the position that there should be no prescriptive period for environmental damage indemnification, a standpoint grounded in the vital need to preserve the rights of current and future generations in environmental protection. This necessity arises from the transindividual nature of the environment as a legal good, whose importance is increasingly urgent and indispensable. This perspective aligns perfectly with the principles of sustainability and intergenerational responsibility, highlighting the importance of protecting the environment against irreversible damages and ensuring the maintenance of ecological balance for future generations.
HerMES: point source catalogues from deep Herschel-SPIRE observations
Creators: name: Smith, A. J.
name: Wang, L.
name: Oliver, S. J.
name: Auld, R.
name: Bock, J.
name: Brisbin, D.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Chanial, P.
name: Chapin, E.
name: Clements, D. L.
name: Conversi, L.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Eales, S.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Franceschini, A.
name: Glenn, J.
name: Griffin, M.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Mortier, A. M. J.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Papageorgiou, A.
name: Pearson, C. P.
name: Pérez-Fournon, I.
name: Pohlen, M.
name: Rawlings, J. I.
name: Raymond, G.
name: Rodighiero, G.
name: Roseboom, I. G.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Savage, R.
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Seymour, N.
name: Symeonidis, M.
name: Tugwell, K. E.
name: Vaccari, M.
name: Valtchanov, I.
name: Vigroux, L.
name: Ward, R.
name: Wright, G.
name: Zemcov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the generation of single-band point source catalogues from submillimetre Herschel-SPIRE observations taken as part of the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). Flux densities are found by means of peak-finding and the fitting of a Gaussian point-response function. With highly-confused images, careful checks must be made on the completeness and flux density accuracy of the detected sources. This is done by injecting artificial sources into the images and analysing the resulting catalogues. Measured flux densities at which 50 per cent of injected sources result in good detections at (250, 350, 500) μm range from (11.6, 13.2, 13.1) mJy to (25.7, 27.1, 35.8) mJy, depending on the depth of the observation (where a `good' detection is taken to be one with positional offset less than one full-width half-maximum of the point-response function, and with the measured flux density within a factor of 2 of the flux density of the injected source). This paper acts as a reference for the 2010 July HerMES public data release.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. For associated data release, see http://hedam.oamp.fr/HerMES
A hybrid phase-locked loop for clock and data recovery applications
Creators: name: Jalali, Mohammad Sadegh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits are among critical building blocks of wireline receivers. In these receivers, typically after compensating for the adverse effects of the channel by an equalizer, the received signal is processed to the CDR block. The timing of the signal is first extracted (clock recovery), and then the actual data is recovered (data recovery). To recover the clock, phase-locked loops (PLLs) are usually used. The PLL output can track the phase and the frequency of its input. In this thesis, a hybrid PLL architecture is proposed. The PLL starts its operation using a binary phase/frequency detector (PFD) to achieve a fast lock and a wide tuning range. The operation is then automatically switched to a linear phase detector (PD) to achieve a low jitter clock signal upon lock, and finally the bandwidth is decreased to decrease the output jitter even more. Automatic switching of the operation from the binary to the linear PD is achieved by detecting the point at which the clock frequency crosses the data frequency. This PLL structure is particularly suitable for CDR applications, as its output is insensitive to continuous data streams. Also, a feedback-based technique is used in the charge pump (CP) to increase its swing. This is done by detecting the change in the drain-source voltages of the current source transistors of the CP and changing their gate-source voltages in a closed-loop feedback system to keep their currents constant. The PLL is designed and simulated in a 0.13 μm CMOS technology. Post-layout simulations show that the tuning range of the PLL is from ∼8.3 GHz to 9.6 GHz, and it consumes about 35 mW from a 1.2 V supply and has a deterministic jitter of about 35 fs. The total random jitter of the designed PLL is about 0.1 unit interval (UI) (11.7 ps with a clock frequency of 8.5 GHz). The worst-case lock time of the PLL is slightly less than 30 ns.
Digital Rights Management
Creators: name: Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh
name: Sheppard, Nicholas Paul
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Digital rights management
subject: electronic information
subject: Machine-readable licence

description: Digital rights management allows information owners to control the use and dissemination of electronic documents via a machine-readable licence. Documents are distributed in a protected form such that they may only be used with trusted environments, and only in accordance with terms and conditions stated in the licence. Digital rights management has found uses in protecting copyrighted audio-visual productions, private personal information, and companies’ trade secrets and intellectual property. This chapter describes a general model of digital rights management together with the technologies used to implement each component of a digital rights management system, and desribes how digital rights management can be applied to secure the distribution of electronic information in a variety of contexts.
THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION JUDICIAL PRACTICES IN UZBEKISTAN: LEGAL FOUNDATIONS, PRESSING ISSUES, AND WAYS OF IMPROVEMENT
Creators: name: Affiliation: Alfraganus University Field of Study: International Relations Author: Diyor Xudoyberdiyev, Second-Year Student Supervisor: Senior Lecturer Madiyor Turdiyev
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article examines the legal foundations, current challenges, and strategies for improving the application of international anti-corruption judicial practices in Uzbekistan. The study analyzes the adaptation of Uzbekistan's legal framework to international standards, drawing on the regulatory documents of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and other international organizations. It evaluates the effectiveness of international judicial practices, their impact on Uzbekistan's legal system, and the role of courts in combating corruption. Based on this analysis, specific recommendations are proposed to enhance anti-corruption judicial practices in Uzbekistan.

Keywords: corruption, judicial practice, international law, UN Convention, national legislation, legal reforms, anti-corruption measures, judicial system, international experience, corruption prevention
Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Humulus scandens
Creators: name: Pioarca-Ciocanea, C.M.
name: Manolache, A.S.
name: Anastasiu, P.
name: Rozylowicz, L.
name: Manta, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: specii invazive
invasive alien species
Humulus scandens
hamei japonez

description: Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Humulus scandens
description: Managementul adecvat al speciilor invazive din România, în conformitate cu Regulamentul UE 1143/2014 referitor la prevenirea și gestionarea introducerii și răspândirii speciilor alogene invazive, POIM 2014+ 120008, 2018-2022. http://invazive.ccmesi.ro/
Liothrips
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence
name: Goldarazena, Arturo
name: Lopez-Guillen, Guillermo
name: Hance, Thierry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Liothrips

description: Liothrips species of economic interest
 The most widespread Liothrips of economic importance is L. vaneeckei, the lily-bulb thrips that was described from Europe but which has been moved around the world by the horticultural trade in bulbs and orchids. Three other species of Liothrips have also been reported as localized plant pests. Liothrips oleae is a pest of olive trees in the European Mediterranean countries (Moritz et al. 2004). Liothrips adisi was described as a pest of the commercial liane Paullinea cupana in Brazil, and Liothrips austriacus has been implicated as a pest of Pistacia crops in Iran (Minaei & Mound 2014). In addition, three species in this genus have been investigated as biocontrol agents of weedy plants, L. urichi against Clidemia hirta (Simmonds 1933), L. mikaniae against Mikania micrantha (Cock 1982), and L. tractabilis against Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Mound & Pereyra 2008). The species of Liothrips reported here as damaging Jatropha in Mexico is of considerable potential interest in economic entomology because of increasing interest in the cultivation of Jatropha as a profitable crop.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence, Goldarazena, Arturo, Lopez-Guillen, Guillermo & Hance, Thierry, 2016, Replacement names for two homonyms of Liothrips brevitubus Karny: one from California, the other for a species damaging Jatropha crops in Mexico, pp. 594-599 in Zootaxa 4208 (6) on page 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215123
Vision-Based Stabilization for Fixed-Wing Flight
Creators: name: Boyd, Jeffrey
name: Thornton, Chris
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Vision
subject: Flight
subject: Vision-Based Stabilization, Fixed-Wing Flight

description: Vision and flight are closely linked, leading to a longstanding interest in how the two are connected. Past research has proposed models for vision in control for biological examples of flight, and there has been recent interest in the use of vision for low-level control of small robotic aircraft such as quad-rotor helicopters. In the work presented here, we show a system for stabilization of a small, fixedwing aircraft in the yaw axis using estimates of parametric optical flow obtained by registration of consecutive video images from a camera mounted on the aircraft. Estimates of angular velocity from the registration replace the values that would otherwise come from a gyro in a conventional stabilization system. No markers or special targets are required – just an environment with enough visual variation to enable image registration. We demonstrate the system in flight and show qualitatively the efficacy of the stabilization from external observation of the aircraft, and from the video acquired from the onboard camera. 1 Introduction
A Reduced Reference Image Quality Measure Using Bessel K Forms Model for Tetrolet Coefficients
Creators: name: Abdelouahad, Abdelkaher Ait
name: Hassouni, Mohammed El
name: Cherifi, Hocine
name: Aboutajdine, Driss
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a Reduced Reference Image Quality Assessment (RRIQA) measure based on the natural image statistic approach. A new adaptive transform called "Tetrolet" is applied to both reference and distorted images. To model the marginal distribution of tetrolet coefficients Bessel K Forms (BKF) density is proposed. Estimating the parameters of this distribution allows to summarize the reference image with a small amount of side information. Five distortion measures based on the BKF parameters of the original and processed image are used to predict quality scores. A comparison between these measures is presented showing a good consistency with human judgment.
Boletín Fármacos: Agencias Reguladoras 2023; 26(3)
Creators: name: Salud y Fármacos
Publisher: name: Salud y Fármacos
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicamentos
Agencias reguladoras
Regulación internacional
América Latina
Europa y el Reino Unido
EE UU y Canadá
Asia y Oceanía
FDA
EMA
Regulación de medicamentos en países de altos ingresos
Regulación de medicamentos en países de medianos y bajos ingresos
Covid

description: Boletín Fármacos es un boletín electrónico de la organización Salud y Fármacos (https://www.saludyfarmacos.org/) que se publica cuatro veces al año: febrero, mayo, agosto y noviembre.

El "Boletín Fármacos: Agencias Reguladoras" incluye información sobre el desempeño de las agencias reguladoras en materia de medicamentos, tanto las de países de altos ingresos como las de países de medianos y bajos ingresos.

Este documento corresponde al 2023, Vol. 26, N°3.
Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Impatiens glandulifera
Creators: name: Pioarca-Ciocanea, C.M.
name: Manolache, A.S.
name: Anastasiu, P.
name: Rozylowicz, L.
name: Manta, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: specii invazive
invasive alien species
Impatiens glandulifera
slabanog himalayan

description: Fisa descriere si cheie de identificare pentru specia Impatiens glandulifera
description: Managementul adecvat al speciilor invazive din România, în conformitate cu Regulamentul UE 1143/2014 referitor la prevenirea și gestionarea introducerii și răspândirii speciilor alogene invazive, POIM 2014+ 120008, 2018-2022. http://invazive.ccmesi.ro/
Unsupervised Classification Using Immune Algorithm
Creators: name: Al-Muallim, M. T.
name: El-Kouatly, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unsupervised classification algorithm based on clonal selection principle named Unsupervised Clonal Selection Classification (UCSC) is proposed in this paper. The new proposed algorithm is data driven and self-adaptive, it adjusts its parameters to the data to make the classification operation as fast as possible. The performance of UCSC is evaluated by comparing it with the well known K-means algorithm using several artificial and real-life data sets. The experiments show that the proposed UCSC algorithm is more reliable and has high classification precision comparing to traditional classification methods such as K-means.
A New Enforcement on Declassification with Reachability Analysis
Creators: name: Sun, Cong
name: Tang, Liyong
name: Chen, Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Language-based information flow security aims to decide whether an action-observable program can unintentionally leak confidential information if it has the authority to access confidential data. Recent concerns about declassification polices have provided many choices for practical intended information release, but more precise enforcement mechanism for these policies is insufficiently studied. In this paper, we propose a security property on the where-dimension of declassification and present an enforcement based on automated verification. The approach automatically transforms the abstract model with a variant of self-composition, and checks the reachability of illegal-flow state of the model after transformation. The self-composition is equipped with a store-match pattern to reduce the state space and to model the equivalence of declassified expressions in the premise of property. The evaluation shows that our approach is more precise than type-based enforcement.
description: 7 pages, this is a full version of the work presented on 2011 IEEE INFOCOM Workshops
Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence
name: Goldarazena, Arturo
name: Lopez-Guillen, Guillermo
name: Hance, Thierry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae
Jatropha
Jatropha curcas

description: Thrips damaging Jatropha curcas
 Jatropha curcas is a perennial flowering plant that is cultivated primarily for its high oil content seeds. These are used in cosmetics and medicine, and are also important as a source of “biodiesel”. Cultivation of the crop is increasingly encouraged in Latin America, Africa and Asia. For further development of such crops, studies are needed on suitable agronomic practices and on the importance of pests. Currently, the only thrips reported as damaging this crop are leaffeeding members of the Panchaetothripinae, including Selenothrips rubrocinctus in Brazil (Resende et al. 2012), Retithrips syriacus in India (Anitha & Vareprasad 2012), and Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis, Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus, Selenothrips rubrocinctus and Zaniothrips ricini in Indonesia (Asbani & Sartiami 2011). In contrast, in Chiapas State, Mexico during 2015, the leaves of a Jatropha crop growing in a 5 hectare experimental orchard were found to be seriously distorted (Figs 1–5). These malformations were induced by large populations of the blackish-brown Phlaeothripidae species that is discussed further below. The plants were pruned late in November, and the first leaves appeared early in December soon after the rains ceased, and were quickly infested by the thrips. Malformations were induced on the young leaves, but infested terminal buds developed multiple branches into “witches broom” structures. Preliminary results suggest that the large infestation reduced the numbers of fruits produced by the crop, but further studies are needed to determine the economic losses to this thrips. Later in the season, pirate bugs (Orius sp., Anthocoridae) were found feeding on the thrips, and also observed were several adults of a Leptothrips species (Phlaeothripidae) that may also be predatory.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence, Goldarazena, Arturo, Lopez-Guillen, Guillermo & Hance, Thierry, 2016, Replacement names for two homonyms of Liothrips brevitubus Karny: one from California, the other for a species damaging Jatropha crops in Mexico, pp. 594-599 in Zootaxa 4208 (6) on page 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215123
RbFe2+Fe3+F6: Synthesis, Structure, and Characterization of a New Charge-Ordered Magnetically Frustrated Pyrochlore-Related Mixed-Metal Fluoride
Creators: name: Kim, Sun Woo
name: Kim, Sang-Hwan
name: Halasyamani, P. Shiv
name: Green, Mark A.
name: Bhatti, Kanwal Preet
name: Leighton, C.
name: Das, Hena
name: Fennie, Craig J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new charge-ordered magnetically frustrated mixed-metal fluoride with a pyrochlore-related structure has been synthesized and characterized. The material, RbFe2F6 (RbFe2+Fe3+F6) was synthesized through mild hydrothermal conditions. The material exhibits a three-dimensional pyrochlore-related structure consisting of corner-shared Fe2+F6 and Fe3+F6 octahedra. In addition to single crystal diffraction data, neutron powder diffraction and magnetometry measurements were carried out. Magnetic data clearly reveal strong antiferromagnetic interactions (a Curie-Weiss temperature of -270 K) but sufficient frustration to prevent ordering until 16 K. No structural phase transformation is detected from the variable temperature neutron diffraction data. Infrared, UV -vis, thermogravimetric, and differential thermal analysis measurements were also performed. First-principles density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations were also done. Crystal data: RbFe2F6, orthorhombic, space group Pnma (No. 62), a = 7.0177(6) Å, b = 7.4499(6) Å, c = 10.1765(8) Å, V = 532.04(8) Å3, Z = 4.
Timelapse Image Analysis Manual
Creators: name: Greenberg, Saul
name: Godin, Theresa
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Photographs
subject: Field-mounted camera
subject: Timelapse, Analyzer Software

description: Using a timelapse camera, scientists can track entities (such as people and wildlife) and conditions (such as weather and visibility) that occur in a particular place over time. Cameras are placed at strategic locations, where images are automatically taken at regular intervals (e.g., every 5 minutes, every hour), or via motion detection. After collecting the camera's card, an analyst visually examines each image and counts/describes the entities and conditions of interest. The Timelapse Image Analyser described in this manual helps scientists do this last visual analysis and counting step. In brief, the tool lets a coordinating biologist configure a series of 'codes' specific to the biologist's project and to the sets of images that require analysis. An analyzer later opens an image set using the tool. As a first step, the tool automatically: goes through all images and extracts information it can such as dates and times; and categorizes unusual images including dark ones (night time) and corrupted images. As the second step, the analyst goes through the images, where he or she can fill in codes by either typing, or by selecting from menus, or (for counting) simply by clicking on items in the image. The tool also includes various means to simplify coding over a group of images as well as data correction. To help the biologist find items of interest in the image, the tool includes a magnifying glass, pan and zoom capabilites (where switching images will keep the same pan/zoom levels), as well as several image enhancement methods. All data is written to a file that can be opened in Excel.
SPIDER - V. Measuring Systematic Effects in Early-Type Galaxy Stellar Masses from Photometric SED Fitting
Creators: name: Swindle, R.
name: Gal, R. R.
name: La Barbera, F.
name: de Carvalho, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present robust statistical estimates of the accuracy of early-type galaxy stellar masses derived from spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting as functions of various empirical and theoretical assumptions. Using large samples consisting of 40,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, of which 5,000 are also in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey, with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.05 \leq z \leq 0.095, we test the reliability of some commonly used stellar population models and extinction laws for computing stellar masses. Spectroscopic ages (t), metallicities (Z), and extinctions (A) are also computed from fits to SDSS spectra using various population models. These constraints are used in additional tests to estimate the systematic errors in the stellar masses derived from SED fitting, where t, Z, and A are typically left as free parameters. We find reasonable agreement in mass estimates among stellar population models, with variation of the IMF and extinction law yielding systematic biases on the mass of nearly a factor of 2, in agreement with other studies. Removing the near-infrared bands changes the statistical bias in mass by only 0.06 dex, adding uncertainties of 0.1 dex at the 95% CL. In contrast, we find that removing an ultraviolet band is more critical, introducing 2σ uncertainties of 0.15 dex. Finally, we find that stellar masses are less affected by absence of metallicity and/or dust extinction knowledge. However, there is a definite systematic offset in the mass estimate when the stellar population age is unknown, up to a factor of 2.5 for very old (12 Gyr) stellar populations. We present the stellar masses for our sample, corrected for the measured systematic biases due to photometrically determined ages, finding that age errors produce lower stellar masses by 0.15 dex, with errors of 0.02 dex at the 95% CL for the median stellar age subsample.
description: Accepted for Publication in the Astronomical Journal
Nucleation pathways on complex networks
Creators: name: Shen, Chuansheng
name: Chen, Hanshuang
name: Hou, Zhonghuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Identifying nucleation pathway is important for understanding the kinetics of first-order phase transitions in natural systems. In the present work, we study nucleation pathway of the Ising model in homogeneous and heterogeneous networks using the forward flux sampling method, and find that the nucleation processes represent distinct features along pathways for different network topologies. For homogeneous networks, there always exists a dominant nucleating cluster to which relatively small clusters are attached gradually to form the critical nucleus. For heterogeneous ones, many small isolated nucleating clusters emerge at the early stage of the nucleation process, until suddenly they form the critical nucleus through a sharp merging process. By analyzing the properties of the nucleating clusters along the pathway, we show that the main reason behind the different routes is the heterogeneous character of the underlying networks.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Classifying the Data Semantics of Patches
Creators: name: Locasto, Michael
name: Gonzalez, Robin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Patches
subject: Data Semantics
subject: Patch triage, security

description: Patching software remains a key defensive technique for mitigating flaws and vulnerabilities. Patches, however, entail complications that are hard to predict. Patches can be incomplete or incorrect, thereby not fully addressing the targeted flaw or introducing new bugs and unintended behavior. System administrators and owners are often at a loss to assess the risk that applying a patch might carry. Without a lengthy evaluation, they cannot predict how the patch will behave in or affect their environment. Such obstacles often prevent the use of hot patching or dynamic software updating. One major obstacle to hot patching arises from the desynchronization of existing data with the patch’s new code semantics. This paper adopts a machine learning approach to assist this kind of prediction: whether the patch contains elements that are likely to cause problems if the patch is applied to the running system. We drive this automated assessment (based on a Support Vector Machine) via an analysis of the control and data modification operations in the patch. Our SVM classifies a set of 25 unlabeled patches with 92% accuracy. As a baseline, it also classifies its testing set of 50 patches (blindly, without labels) with 84% accuracy.
Boletín Fármacos: Ética y Derecho 2023; 26(3)
Creators: name: Salud y Fármacos
Publisher: name: Salud y Fármacos
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ética
Derecho
Integridad de publicaciones científicas
Sesgos de publicación
Conflictos de interés
Conducta de la industria farmacéutica
Publicidad y promoción de medicamentos
Adulteraciones y falsificaciones de medicamentos
Multas y litigios
Covid
Integridad de la Ciencia
Ensayos clínicos y Ética
Litigios contra los Sistemas de Salud y/o Agencias Reguladoras
Litigios por Opioides
Litigios por Patentes de Productos Covid
Litigios por las Patentes del VIH
Litigios por Abusos y Violaciones Regulatorias por Países, Empresas o Individuos
Litigios para Impedir Fusiones de Empresas
Litigios entre Empresas Farmacéuticas

description: Boletín Fármacos es un boletín electrónico de la organización Salud y Fármacos (https://www.saludyfarmacos.org/) que se publica cuatro veces al año: febrero, mayo, agosto y noviembre.

El "Boletín Fármacos: Ética y Derecho" contiene información sobre la integridad de las publicaciones científicas, es decir sobre los sesgos de publicación y como los conflictos de interés afectan la calidad de lo que se publica en las revistas médicas; sobre la conducta de la industria farmacéutica (por ejemplo, las estrategias para maximizar sus beneficios y/o para mejorar su imagen), los conflictos de interés que intervienen en las diferentes fases del ciclo de medicamentos (desde las decisiones sobre el tipo de investigación que se realiza, las relaciones de la industria con los prescriptores y dispensadores de medicamentos, y con los gestores de los sistemas de salud), y las actividades y gastos de la industria en publicidad y promoción. También se incluye información sobre adulteraciones y falsificaciones de medicamentos, y las multas, acuerdos extrajudiciales y resultados de litigios que involucran a los productores o prescriptores de medicamentos.

Este documento corresponde al 2023, Vol. 26, N°3.
Projeto Mapear-Ser. Tutorial para manuseio do My Maps.
Creators: name: Novaes Júnior, René A.
name: Monteiro, Jussara O.
Publisher: name: INPE
Year: 2023

description: Este tutorial tem como objetivo orientar estudantes participantes do Projeto "Mapear-Ser " a utilizarem o My Maps na confecção de mapas apontando demandas identificadas em termos de infraestrutura básica, de modo que e os permita expressar as suas relações de afeto com estes lugares.
Towards Next-Generation Remote Physiotherapy with Videoconferencing Tools
Creators: name: Tang, Anthony
name: Dillman, Kody
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Remote Physiotherapy
subject: injuries
subject: Videoconferencing Tools, Telerehabilitation

description: Many common injuries can be treated effectively with physiotherapy, but getting access to this treatment is difficult for those living in remote or rural locations. To help formulate design requirements for next-generation tools for supporting remote physiotherapy (i.e. telerehabilitation), we conducted design sessions with five practicing physiotherapists. We developed three technology probes as prompts for these discussions, helping us to gain an understanding of physiotherapists’ activities and communication practices. Our analysis shows that telerehabilitation tools should be specifically designed to address communication and work in relation to clients’ physical bodies, and that visual communication can be enhanced through augmentation to videoconferencing tools and accessible hardware to account for a lack of tactile communication.
Infrastructure interdependencies simulation (I2Sim) system model and toolbox
Creators: name: Lee, HyunJung
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The interdependencies between infrastructures have become more complex with the growth of the civilization. As a result, the cascading effects on the system caused by a failure of one infrastructure became larger and unpredictable. As seen from the major disasters such as the Sichuan earthquake in China, understanding infrastructure interdependencies and allocating resources efficiently in the system can facilitate the recovery process significantly. As a part of Canadian Government’s effort to develop innovative ways to mitigate large disaster situations and grow resiliences of systems, Joint Infrastructure Interdependencies Research Program (JIIRP) has been formed. The UBC’s Infrastructure Interdependencies Simulation (I2Sim) group led by Dr. Jose Marti participated to study decision making for critical linkages in infrastructure networks. At the end of the program period, its achievement was recognized, and the I2Sim group was selected to develop a simulator for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. As a part of this research, the concept of cells, channels, and tokens along with components consisting the cells were developed. The core of the cells and the channels are formed by the Human Readable Tables (HRT) which describe the relationship between the inputs and the outputs of the unit. The HRT allows a reasonable prediction of the real life system even with limited data. As a result, the infrastructure owners do not have to disclose the confidential operational information of the system. The test case models were built based on the UBC Campus first and extended to the Olympics sites in Vancouver. To simulate the test cases, a customized Matlab/Simulink toolbox called I2Sim was developed. The I2Sim toolbox follows a graphical drag-and-drop box format. Since the user of the toolbox only has to deal with the graphical interface, even the non-experts can build a case easily. The main improved features included in the new version is that the effect of time delay in the channels and the human flow. The test case results helps producing an optimal resource allocation and the restoration priorities during disasters.
Synthetic spatially graded Rac activation drives directed cell polarization and locomotion
Creators: name: Lin, Benjamin
name: Holmes, William R.
name: Wang, ChiaoChun
name: Ueno, Tasuku
name: Harwell, Andrew
name: Edelstein-Keshet, Leah
name: Inoue, Takanari
name: and, Andre Levchenko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Migrating cells possess intracellular gradients of Rho GTPases, but it is unknown whether these shallow gradients themselves can induce motility. Here we describe a new method to present cells with induced linear gradients of active, endogenous Rac without receptor activation. Gradients as low as 15% were sufficient to not only trigger cell migration up the synthetic gradient, but also to induce both cell polarization and repolarization. Response kinetics were inversely proportional to Rac gradient values, in agreement with a new mathematical model, suggesting a role for natural input gradient amplification upstream of Rac. Increases in Rac levels beyond a well-defined threshold dramatically augmented polarization and decreased sensitivity to the gradient value. The threshold was governed by initial cell polarity and PI3K activity, supporting a role for both in defining responsiveness to natural or synthetic Rac activation. Our methodology suggests a general way to investigate processes regulated by intracellular signaling gradients.
A single layer hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) based lift-off process for germanium and platinum
Creators: name: Passi, Vikram
name: Lecestre, Aurélie
name: Krzeminski, Christophe
name: Larrieu, Guilhem
name: Dubois, Emmanuel
name: Raskin, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primarily used as etch mask, single layer hydrogen silsesquioxane has never been investigated for lift-off technique. In this article, we propose a new technique where a single layer of hydrogen silsesquioxane, a negative tone electron beam resist, is used to make lift-off of germanium and platinum. Removal of exposed hydrogen silsesquioxane is tested for various concentrations of hydrofluoric acid. Ultrasonic agitation is also used to reduce the formation of flakes due to accumulation of matter (evaporated metal in our case) along the sidewalls of the lift-off narrow slots. Results demonstrate potential in applying the hydrogen silsesquioxane as a negative tone lift-off resist to pattern nanometer scale features into germanium and platinum layers.
Equivalence of the Hawking temperature in conformal frames
Creators: name: Marques, Glauber Tadaiesky
name: Rodrigues, Manuel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conformal invariance of the Hawking temperature, conjectured for the asymptotically flat and stationary black holes by Jacobson and Kang, is semiclassically evaluated for a simple particular case of symmetrical spherically and non asymptotically flat black hole. By using the Bogoliubov coefficients, the metric euclideanization, the reflection coefficient and the gravitational anomaly, as methods of calculating the Hawking temperature, we find that it is invariant under a specific conformal transformation of the metric. We discuss briefly the results for each method.
description: 21 pages
Blueprint of Shopping Mall Parking Lot and Street View C, October 12, 1939
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows the parking lot and street view "C" of a shopping center located in Stony Brook, L. I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York.