cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical mechanics of random graphs
Creators: name: Burda, Zdzislaw
name: Jurkiewicz, Jerzy
name: Krzywicki, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss various aspects of the statistical formulation of the theory of random graphs, with emphasis on results obtained in a series of our recent publications.
description: 6 pages (Talk at Conference: Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis 4, Warsaw 13-15 Nov. 2003)
Consistent large-scale shell-model analysis of the two-neutrino $ββ$ and single $β$ branchings in $^{48}\rm Ca$ and $^{96}\rm Zr$
Creators: name: Kostensalo, Joel
name: Suhonen, Jouni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-neutrino double-beta-decay matrix elements $M_{2ν}$ and single beta-decay branching ratios were calculated for $^{48}$Ca and $^{96}$Zr in the interacting nuclear shell model using large single-particle valence spaces with well-tested two-body Hamiltonians. For $^{48}$Ca the matrix element $M_{2ν}=0.0511$ is obtained, which is 5.5\% smaller than the previously reported value of 0.0539. For $^{96}$Zr this work reports the first large-scale shell-model calculation of the nuclear matrix element, yielding a value $M_{2ν}=0.0747$ with extreme single-state dominance. If the scenario where the first $1^+$ state in $^{96}$Nb is at 694.6 keV turns out to be correct, the matrix element is increased to 0.0854. These matrix elements, combined with the available $ββ$-decay half-life data, yield effective values of the weak axial coupling which in turn are used to produce in a consistent way the $β$-decay branching ratios of $(7.5\pm2.8)$ % for $^{48}$Ca and $(18.4\pm0.09)$ % for $^{96}$Zr. These are larger than obtained in previous studies, implying that the detection of the $β$-decay branches could be possible in dedicated experiments sometime in the (near) future.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Photoemission Spectroscopic Evidence for the Dirac Nodal Line in Monoclinic Semimetal SrAs$_3$
Creators: name: Song, Y. K.
name: Wang, G. W.
name: Li, S. C.
name: Liu, W. L.
name: Lu, X. L.
name: Liu, Z. T.
name: Li, Z. J.
name: Wen, J. S.
name: Yin, Z. P.
name: Liu, Z. H.
name: Shen, D. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological nodal-line semimetals with exotic quantum properties are characterized by symmetry-protected line-contact bulk band crossings in the momentum space. However, in most of identified topological nodal-line compounds, these topological non-trivial nodal lines are enclosed by complicated topological trivial states at the Fermi energy ($E_F$), which would perplex their identification and hinder further applications. Utilizing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, we provide compelling evidence for the existence of Dirac nodal-line fermions in the monoclinic semimetal SrAs$_3$, which are close to $E_F$ and away from distraction of complex trivial Fermi surfaces or surface states. Our calculation indicates that two bands with opposite parity are inverted around \emph{Y} near $E_F$, which results in the single nodal loop at the $Γ$-\emph{Y}-\emph{S} plane with a negligible spin-orbit coupling effect. We track these band crossings and then unambiguously identify the complete nodal loop quantitatively, which provides a critical experimental support to the prediction of nodal-line fermions in the CaP$_3$ family of materials. Hosting simple topological non-trivial bulk electronic states around $E_F$ and no interfering with surface states on the natural cleavage plane, SrAs$_3$ is expected to be a potential platform for topological quantum state investigation and applications.
Euler characteristic of the configuration space of a complex
Creators: name: Gal, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57

description: A closed form formula (generating function) for the Euler characteristic of the configuration space of $\scriptstyle n$ particles in a simplicial complex is given.
description: 6 pages, no figures
DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE IN NIGERIA USING LOCAL MATERIALS
Creators: name: Abdullahi Ibrahim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90503 Construction Materials

description: A broad literature review was conducted in this study on the typical properties of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC). The unique properties of UHPFRC have several advantages over high strength or Normal concrete (NC) owing to its composition and
method of production. The motive behind this review is to undertake significance of the UHPFRC and its current state of the art in terms of its unique properties and to further investigate local composition for UHPFRC. It was gathered that UHPFRC is an excellent strengthening material with ultra high mechanical properties for structural applications. The review of the scholarly articles was undertaken on the subject matter between the periods of 1987 to 2018. The major components of UHPFRC are cement, silica fume (SF), steel fibre, water, superplasticizer, and sand. The local content such as recycled steel fibre (RSF) and rice husk ash (RHA) which are available in Nigeria and has similar properties to industrial steel fibre and silica fume, could be
incorporated into concrete to further improve properties of concrete, promote sustainability and discourage importation of silica fume and other types of fibres. The literature review revealed that fibre dosage, application technique, curing age are the factors that control the mechanical properties of UHPFRC
Additional file 3 of Characterization and genome sequencing of two Propionibacterium acnes phages displaying pseudolysogeny
Creators: name: Lood, Rolf
name: Collin, Mattias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3:Bacteriophage genomes used in phylogenetic alignment. Bacteriophages used in the phylogenetic alignment are ordered together with their accession number for reference. (PDF 98 KB)
Government Induced Bubbles
Creators: name: Beteto, Danilo Lopomo
name: Beteto, Danilo Lopomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Bubbles
subject: financial crises
subject: global games
subject: unique equilibrium.

description: We build a model of bubble inflation based on Morris and Shin (1998), with investors deciding whether or not to buy an asset that entails the risk of a collapse in prices, in which case only government intervention could make them avoid a substantial loss. The more investors decide to buy, the more the bubble inflates, and government intervention takes place only when the collapse in prices is sufficiently large. In the benchmark scenario of common knowledge, self-fulfilling beliefs lead to multiplicity of equilibria. Using a global games approach, the introduction of a small noise in the signal received by the speculators yields a unique equilibrium, with intervention occuring only if the state of fundamentals happens to be higher than a particular threshold. In a comparative static exercise, it is shown that the government is more likely to step in and bubbles be large the less liquid the asset and the higher the aggregate wealth of investors.
Proceedings to the workshops 'What comes beyond the Standard model', 2000, 2001, 2002, Volume 2: Proceedings (Part II)
Creators: name: Borstnik, N. Mankoc
name: Nielsen, H. Bech
name: Froggatt, C. D.
name: Lukman, D.
name: Nevzorov, R. B.
name: Ter-Martirosyan, K. A.
name: Trusov, M. A.
name: Laperashvili, L. V.
name: Ryzhikh, D. A.
name: Takanishi, Y.
name: Erdem, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contents (Part 2): 8.Renormalization of Coupling Constants in the Minimal SUSY Models (R. B. Nevzorov, K. A. Ter-Martirosyan and M. A. Trusov) 9.Multiple Point Model and Phase Transition Couplings ...(L.V. Laperashvili, D.A. Ryzhikh and H.B. Nielsen) 10.Family Replicated Fit of All Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixings (H. B. Nielsen and Y. Takanishi) 11.Family Replicated Calculation of Baryogenesis (H. B. Nielsen and Y. Takanishi) 12. Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum on the Large Distance (D.A. Ryzhikh and K.A. Ter-Martirosyan) 13. Possibility of an Additional Source of Time Reversal Violation for Neutrinos (R. Erdem) 14.Quark-Lepton Masses and the Neutrino Puzzle in the AGUT Model (C.D. Froggatt) 15.Neutrinos in the Family Replicated Gauge Group Model (C.D. Froggatt) (Contents of Part 1 [hep-ph/0301029]: 1.Derivation of Lorentz Invariance and Three Space Dimensions in Generic Field Theory (C D. Froggatt and H. B. Nielsen) 2.Unitary Representations, Noncompact Groups SO(q; d - q)...(N. Mankoc Borstnik, H. B. Nielsen and D. Lukman) 3.Weyl Spinor of SO(1; 13), Families of Spinors ...(A. Borstnik Bracic and N. Mankoc Borstnik) 4.A Tight Packing Problem (A. Kleppe) 5.Why so Few Particle Species? ... (D.L. Bennett and A. Kleppe) 6.About Number of Families (D. Lukman, A. Kleppe and N.S. Mankoc Borstnik) 7.Coupling Constant Unification in Spin-Charge Unifying Model ....(N. Mankoc Borstnik and H. B. Nielsen))
description: Part II contains 8 articles by different authors inspired by the discussions at the Bled workshops (remaining 7 articles are included in Part I, which is available as hep-ph/0301029). The published Proceedings contains both parts. Editors were N. Mankoc Borstnik, H. Bech Nielsen, C.D. Froggatt, D. Lukman
Dynamical suppression of 1/f noise processes in qubit systems
Creators: name: Faoro, Lara
name: Viola, Lorenza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the capability of dynamical decoupling techniques to reduce decoherence from a realistic environment generating 1/f noise. The predominance of low frequency modes in the noise profile allows for decoherence scenarios where relatively slow control rates suffice for a drastic improvement. However, the actual figure of merit is very sensitive to the details of the dynamics, with decoupling performance which may deteriorate for non-Gaussian noise and/or high frequency working points. Our results are promising for robust solid-state qubits and beyond.
description: 4 pages, 3 encapsulated color figures, REVTeX4 style
Where does Haydn end and Mozart begin? Composer classification of string quartets
Creators: name: Kempfert, Katherine C.
name: Wong, Samuel W. K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For centuries, the history and music of Joseph Franz Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have been compared by scholars. Recently, the growing field of music information retrieval (MIR) has offered quantitative analyses to complement traditional qualitative analyses of these composers. In this MIR study, we classify the composer of Haydn and Mozart string quartets based on the content of their scores. Our contribution is an interpretable statistical and machine learning approach that provides high classification accuracies and musical relevance. We develop novel global features that are automatically computed from symbolic data and informed by musicological Haydn–Mozart comparative studies, particularly relating to the sonata form. Several of these proposed features are found to be important for distinguishing between Haydn and Mozart string quartets. Our Bayesian logistic regression model attains leave-one-out classification accuracies over 84%, higher than prior works and providing interpretations that could aid in assessing musicological claims. Overall, our work can help expand the longstanding dialogue surrounding Haydn and Mozart and exemplify the benefit of interpretable machine learning in MIR, with potential applications to music generation and classification of other classical composers.
Media Ethics and Public Journalism
Creators: name: Sharma, Ashish
name: Shukla, Aditya Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: As we know till 20th century, traditional journalism was more passive than active. Publics were supposed to consume news through various outlets made available to them via media houses like newspapers, magazines, radio and so on. There was very little participation on part of us, the publics. But with the rise of digitally networked technologies in 21st century such as the Internet and mobile phones is reshaping reporting across the continent. Public journalism, also called civic journalism, has been drawing the attention of media people in India since several articles reviewing the topic were published Public journalism is not only a way of reporting but also a way of thinking, a philosophy regarding democracy and the relationship between media and democracy. It says that journalism is an indispensable element in the process of democracy, and that journalism must help publics participate in the process to solve problems facing their communities. Public journalism movement is most interesting in the sense that it causes us to reflect on the meaning of freedom of expression, because the movement suggests that freedom of expression is not a negative freedom, which means that no regulations are imposed on expression, but a positive freedom in which people are free to participate in the decision-making process of their communities.Public journalism, or participatory journalism as it is alternately labeled, is the act of a public or group of publics involved in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating news and other forms of information. Instantly they are also criticized by career-journalists due to lack of their training and orientation toward the standards, ethics, norms, and practices of professional journalism. This leads journalists to say that public journalists don't uphold the traditional journalistic value of objectivity when working on a specific subject and only professionally-trained journalists can understand the ethics required of news editors and reporters.This paper analyzes the ethical issues involved in public journalism as it overlaps with many ethical concepts of Journalism and mode of operations.
Singularities and Topology of Meromorphic Functions
Creators: name: Tibar, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S50, 32A20, 32S30

description: We present several aspects of the "topology of meromorphic functions", which we conceive as a general theory which includes the topology of holomorphic functions, the topology of pencils on quasi-projective spaces and the topology of polynomial functions.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure
Government Intervention and Financial Fragility
Creators: name: Beteto, Danilo Lopomo
name: Beteto, Danilo Lopomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Government intervention
subject: financial fragility
subject: financial networks
subject: contagion.

description: This paper studies a model in which banks decide on the projects in which they invest, and the banks to which or from which they obtain loans. Thus, the links (network) created between banks is endogenous. Each bank is characterized by parameters which define the return on its projects, the withdrawal rate of its depositors and its equity available for investments. Maturity mismatch of balance sheets forces a fraction of assets to be prematurely liquidated, at a fire sale cost. The paper focuses on the impact of government intervention, which alleviates this cost by increasing the recovery rate of assets. The fragility of a network is measured by the number of bank failures following shocks of two kinds: first a shock to a single bank, second a simultaneous shock to all banks. The first leads to a ranking of the banks similar to that used by Google to rank websites: the higher its ranking the greater the degree of vulnerability induced by the bank. The vulnerability of the network to simultaneous shocks depends on the probability distribution of the banks characteristics: the more dispersed the distribution the greater its vulnerability. Government intervention increases the vulnerability of the network, the increase being greater the more dispersed the characteristics of the banks. Banking systems with similar leverage can have different degrees of vulnerability, highlighting the importance of networks.
Impact of Grid Tariffs Design on the Zero Emission Neighborhoods Energy System Investments
Creators: name: Pinel, Dimitri
name: Bjarghov, Sigurd
name: Korpås, Magnus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper investigates the relationship between grid tariffs and investment in Zero Emission Neighborhoods (ZEN) energy system, and how the grid exchanges are affected. Different grid tariffs (energy based, time of use (ToU), subscribed capacity and dynamic) are implemented in an optimization model that minimizes the cost of investing and operating a ZEN during its lifetime. The analysis is conducted in two cases: non-constrained exports and exports limited to 100kWh/h. The results suggest that in the case with no limit on export, the grid tariff has little influence, but ToU is economically advantageous for both the ZEN and the DSO. When exports are limited, the subscribed capacity scheme allows to maintain DSO revenue, while the others cut them by half. This tariff also offers the lowest maximum peak and a good duration curve. The dynamic tariff creates new potentially problematic peak imports despite its benefits in other peak hours.
description: Presented at IEEE Powertech 2019 in Milano, 6 pages
Determination of a new spring-flying species of the  Pterourus glaucus complex (Papilionidae) in southern New England
Creators: name: Pavulaan, Harry
Publisher: name: The International Lepidoptera Survey
Year: 2024
Subjects: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, bimodal flight, early-flight, late-flight, hybrid introgression, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, New England Tiger Swallowtail, Mid-Summer Tiger Swallowtail, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, bjorkae

description: The Pterourus glaucus complex in three southern New England states is analyzed for cryptic speciation.  What was historically considered to be one species, P. glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758), was recently split to separate P. canadensis (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) at species rank (Hagen et al., 1991).  Additionally, P. appalachiensis Pavulaan & Wright, 2002, was described as an Appalachian Mountain endemic.  The western member of the complex, P. rutulus (Lucas, 1852), has frequently been considered a subspecies of P. glaucus (Scott, 1986; Tyler, Brown & Wilson, 1994), as was P. alexiares (Höpffer, 1866) (Tyler, Brown & Wilson, 1994). Recently, a bimodal emergence pattern was identified in populations across a regional band stretching from southern New England, through central New York (Hagen & Lederhouse, 1985), northeastern Pennsylvania (Monroe & Wright, 2017) and into southern Ontario (Schmidt, 2020).  This bimodal pattern encompasses two univoltine taxa: an earlier, spring-flying taxon with slightly closer morphological affinity to canadensis; and a later, summer-flying taxon with a closer affinity to glaucus.  The early-flight taxon is here described as a new species, most likely of hybrid origin similar to appalachiensis.  The late-flight taxon, tentatively referred to as the “Mid-Summer Tiger Swallowtail” (Wang, 2017; Schmidt, 2020), also likely of hybrid origin, appears to be undergoing rampant hybridization with glaucus in southern New England, though there is evidence it has achieved early stages of speciation in Ontario.
Hydrology and Economics in Water Management Policy under Increasing uncertainty
Creators: name: Loch, Adam
name: Adamson, David
name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
name: Loch, Adam
name: Adamson, David
name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: public policy
subject: economics
subject: uncertainty Murray-Darling Basin

description: Well-designed public policy stimulates social progress. However, when governments translate political vision into programmes to deliver desirable social change, the complexity of issues can overwhelm the policy-making process, creating disappointment for all parties and suboptimal outcomes. In this paper we examine why well-known approaches to evidence-based policy-making often fail to provide policy-makers with credible, consistent and clear outcomes in line with broad social interest. We use the Murray-Darling Basin to highlight key stages to formulating effective natural resource policy, and identify key sources of difficulties that need to be managed to maximize scientific contributions. We argue that the need for public policy primarily arises from a lack of perfect knowledge, which causes individuals and agencies to behave in ways that counter social interest. We hypothesize that effective public policy formulation involves: determining what evidence is available, relevant and useful; as well as identifying critical gaps to making public policy necessary and meaningful. We then examine how effective public policy decisions can still be made and how information asymmetry can be managed via strong evidence, expert analysis to verify that evidence, and an understanding of knowledge gaps such that critical interventions can be agreed upon and objectives achieved in view of how they will be managed and resourced. We draw attention to the opportunities available and challenges that exist for hydrologists, economists and other social scientists to work together in assisting the policy process, and in particular to minimize the burden of information constraints in making effective water resource policy.
Design of Stormwater Drainage for Student Hostel Area at Federal University of Technology, Gidan-kwano, Minna, Niger State.pdf
Creators: name: Abdullahi Ibrahim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 120506 Transport Planning
subject: 120403 Engineering Design Methods
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 129999 Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning

description: This research work was embarked upon to prevent developing areas from such problems as flood hazard, road deterioration, and soil erosion. Stormwater runoff is the direct response of a watershed to precipitation and includes the surface and subsurface flow that enters a ditch, storm drain, stream or other concentrated flow during and following the precipitation. In this study, the rational method was adopted in estimating the volume of runoff. Manning's Formula was adopted in designing and sizing the stormwater drains and culverts for a catchment area of 98 hectares.
Media Ethics and Public Journalism
Creators: name: Shukla, Aditya Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: As we know till 20th century, traditional journalism was more passive than active. Publics were supposed to consume news through various outlets made available to them via media houses like newspapers, magazines, radio and so on. There was very little participation on part of us, the publics. But with the rise of digitally networked technologies in 21st century such as the Internet and mobile phones is reshaping reporting across the continent. Public journalism, also called civic journalism, has been drawing the attention of media people in India since several articles reviewing the topic were published Public journalism is not only a way of reporting but also a way of thinking, a philosophy regarding democracy and the relationship between media and democracy. It says that journalism is an indispensable element in the process of democracy, and that journalism must help publics participate in the process to solve problems facing their communities. Public journalism movement is most interesting in the sense that it causes us to reflect on the meaning of freedom of expression, because the movement suggests that freedom of expression is not a negative freedom, which means that no regulations are imposed on expression, but a positive freedom in which people are free to participate in the decision-making process of their communities.Public journalism, or participatory journalism as it is alternately labeled, is the act of a public or group of publics involved in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating news and other forms of information. Instantly they are also criticized by career-journalists due to lack of their training and orientation toward the standards, ethics, norms, and practices of professional journalism. This leads journalists to say that public journalists don't uphold the traditional journalistic value of objectivity when working on a specific subject and only professionally-trained journalists can understand the ethics required of news editors and reporters.This paper analyzes the ethical issues involved in public journalism as it overlaps with many ethical concepts of Journalism and mode of operations.
From QCD to Dual Superconductivity to Effective String Theory
Creators: name: Baker, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how an effective field theory of long distance QCD, describing a dual superconductor, can be expressed as an effective string theory of superconducting vortices. We use the semiclassical expansion of this effective string theory about a classical rotating string solution in any spacetime dimension D to obtain the semiclassical meson energy spectrum. We argue that the experimental data on Regge trajectories along with numerical simulations of the heavy quark potentials provide good evidence for an effective string description of long distance QCD.
description: Talk given at the 5th International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Gargnano, Italy, September 2002
Breeding biology of the Creamy-bellied Thrush (Turdus amaurochalinus) in southeast Brazil
Creators: name: Batisteli, Augusto Florisvaldo
name: Costiuc, Mariana Yamamoto
name: Isadora Zavan Santieff
name: Costa, Rosane Oliveira
name: Sarmento, Hugo
name: Pizo, Marco Aurélio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: The description of life-history traits is a prerequisite to understand the complex patterns of bird biodiversity. However, most of the highly diverse Neotropical avifauna still lack basic information on their reproductive behavior. Here, we describe the breeding biology of the Creamy-bellied Thrush (Turdus amaurochalinus) in a periurban area of southeast Brazil. We found 67 nests between early September and December in 2017 and 2018. Nests were 3.8 ± 1.9 m (mean ± SD) above ground, in native plants (43.3%), exotic plants (43.3%), and anthropogenic structures (13.4%). Clutch size was 2.9 ± 0.3 eggs, which were incubated exclusively by females during 75.6 ± 18.1% of the time. Both sexes reared the nestlings, but females performed more feeding trips and removed more fecal sacs than males. Incubation and nestling periods lasted, respectively, 13.0 ± 0.6 and 13.2 ± 1.5 days. Overall nesting success according to Mayfield method was 31.6%, and predation was the major cause of nest failure (52.8%). We concluded that this species had higher nest attentiveness, shorter nestling period, and higher nest survival compared to other Neotropical thrushes. The use of exotic plants and anthropogenic structures as nesting substrate may enhance the settlement of this migratory thrush in human-modified areas.
Natural capital and climate change: Possible negative sustainability impacts from 'gold plating' irrigation infrastructure
Creators: name: Adamson, David
name: Loch, Adam
name: Adamson, David
name: Loch, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: technical efficiency
subject: natural capital
subject: Murray-Darling Basin
subject: climate change
subject: optimisation

description: For an individual irrigator water use efficiency increases in response to investments in on-farm capital. Sustainable river systems require sufficient flows to maintain the value and function of natural capital assets. In constrained water resource settings, federal basin managers may view on-farm capital investments as a policy objective to rebalance water shares between all users to offset negative externalities from over allocation. This paper uses a state contingent modelling approach to review an extended farm capital investment policy in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. We examine technical efficiency gain implications for irrigation and environmental water managers under alternative states of inflow variability and the role increasing climatic uncertainty has on policy objectives. Results suggest that the incentives provided to recover environment water via on-farm capital investments could have two principal negative feedbacks given future uncertainties. First, farm capital investments may encourage inflexible production systems that fail to respond to future water scarcity, exposing that investment to increased risk. Second, technical efficiency gains may reduce return flows leading to perverse policy outcomes to achieve environmental objectives. By highlighting these ulterior policy outcomes it provides both irrigators and policy makers the capacity to adapt and increase their flexibility to develop robust policy and management solutions to help negate future uncertainty.
Pontohoratia smyri Vinarski & Palatov & Glöer 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Vinarski, Maxim V.
name: Palatov, Dmitry M.
name: Glöer, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Pontohoratia
Pontohoratia smyri

description: Pontohoratia smyri sp. nov.
(Figure 5B; 7D)   Type locality
Anatolia Lake in the Novoafonskaya Cave, Abkhazia (see Table 1).   Type series
ZIN, accession number 1 (the holotype), and 2 (seven paratypes). 25 paratypes in the collection of the Museum of Siberian Aquatic Mollusks (Omsk State Pedagogical University), accession number 07-033. The snails from the type series were collected in 2009.   Other material studied
39 specimens sampled in 2010 in the collection of Dmitry Palatov (Moscow).   Holotype shell dimensions at 3.25 whorls (in mm)
SH 1.2; SW 1.4; SpH 0.6; BWH 0.9; AH 0.7; AW 0.6.   Morphological description
Shell very small (up to 1.4 mm), almost planispiral, yellowish-white or corneous, with very wide body whorl and relatively low spire. Shell walls moderately thick. Umbilicus wide and deep, opened. Whorls number up to 3.50. Whorls convex, separated by deep suture. Aperture angular, visibly deflected.
Penis simple, without a lobe (see Figure 5B).   Etymology
The species is named after Givi Smyr, a speleologist, who discovered the Novoafonskaya Cave in 1961.   Differential diagnosis
 Pontohoratia smyri differs from P. birsteini by much lower spire and much wider body whorl (see Figure 7). SW is 1.15–1.45 times more than SH, whereas in P. birsteini this ratio is around 1.00 (see Table 3). Whorls number in P. smyri is lower than in P. birsteini. The honeycomb-like pits on the protoconch surface of the new species are somewhat wider than those of P. birsteini (see Figure 4).    Distribution and ecology
 Pontohoratia smyri is known from the type locality and the closest vicinities of the Novoafonskaya Cave (floodplain of the Psyrtskha River). Perhaps, the original habitat of P. smyri is an underground brook inflowing to the lake Anatolia and the shells were carried out by its flow. The same is true also for empty shells of this species found in several springs in the floodplain of the Psyrtskha River. Empty shells of two other gastropod species were collected along with P. smyri: Paladilhiopsis shadini Starobogatov, 1962 and Belgrandiella (?) abchasica Starobogatov, 1962. The invertebrate community of this cave is very specific and includes some crustacean taxa: amphipods Niphargus spp. (Niphargidae) and Anopogammarus sp. (Typhlogammaridae), and decapod Troglocaris (Xiphocaridinella) fagei Birstein, 1939.
description: Published as part of Vinarski, Maxim V., Palatov, Dmitry M. & Glöer, Peter, 2014, Revision of ' Horatia' snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae sensu lato) from South Caucasus with description of two new genera, pp. 2237-2253 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (37 - 38) on pages 2247-2248, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.917210, http://zenodo.org/record/5194243
Negative-Parity Baryons in Quenched Anisotropic Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Nemoto, Y.
name: Nakajima, N.
name: Matsufuru, H.
name: Suganuma, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study negative-parity baryon spectra in quenched anisotropic lattice QCD. The negative-parity baryons are measured as the parity partner of the ground-state baryons. In addition to the flavor octet and decuplet baryons, we pay much attention to the flavor-singlet negative-parity baryon as a three-quark state and compare it with the Lambda(1405) baryon. Numerical results of the flavor octet and decuplet negative-parity baryon masses are close to experimental values of lowest-lying negative-parity baryons, while the flavor-singlet baryon is much heavier than Lambda(1405). This indicates that the Lambda(1405) would be a multi-quark state such as the N-Kbar molecule rather than the flavor-singlet 3 quark state.
description: 4 pages, 4 figs. Talk given at 16th International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC 02), Osaka, Japan, 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2002
Institutional Development Plan for the Sivalakulama Cascade
Creators: name: Quealy, Harry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Report commissioned by the UNDP Sri Lanka on the topic of institutional development and integrated water resource management of the Sivalakulama Cascade system. This report provides a review of previous Cascade management interventions and makes recommendations for managing the water resources of the Sivalakulama Cascade in an integrated manner based upon primary and secondary research. This report also provides a basic socioeconomic assessment of the Sivalakulama Cascade.
Reliable Expanded Beam Connectors for Single Mode Optical Fiber Sensor Applications in Harsh Environment
Creators: name: Insou, Xavier
name: Quetel, Lionel
name: Claudot, Sébastien
name: Thual, Monique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an expanded beam micro lens in standard single mode connectors, compliant with harsh environment connections. Low Insertion loss, high return loss and relaxed alignment tolerances compared with Single Mode Fiber (SMF) are demonstrated in C and O band. We give one example of harsh environment optical fiber sensor applications.
Buying Paper and Giving Gold: The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Creators: name: Adamson, David
name: Adamson, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Buy-Back
subject: Climate Change
subject: Property Rights
subject: State-Contingent Analysis
subject: Water property rights.

description: Two types of water property rights exist in the Murray Darling Basin: ground water and surface water. The latter has three distinct forms, high security, general security and supplementary. Their value is dependent on location and ability to supply water under known climate signals. This article suggests an optimal mix of property rights to allow the Basin Plan to achieve its objectives in obtaining 3,200 gigalitres of surface water. However, the solution exposes the Basin Plan’s hidden gift of gold to irrigators, an extra 929 gigalitres of ground water extractions. The value of this gift increases under a changing climate.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) fails to improve cognition in patients with parkinson’s disease: a Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: He, Pei Kun
name: Wang, Li Min
name: Chen, Jia Ning
name: Zhang, Yu Hu
name: Gao, Yu Yuan
name: Xu, Qi Huan
name: Qiu, Yi Hui
name: Cai, Hui Min
name: Li, You
name: Huang, Zhi Heng
name: Feng, Shu Jun
name: Zhao, Jie Hao
name: Xian, Gui
name: Nie, Kun
name: Wang, Li Juan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Cognitive decline is one of the greatest concerns for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and their care partners. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a nonpharmacological treatment option used to improve cognitive function in PD, but its efficacy is unclear. We performed a meta-analysis to determine whether rTMS improves cognition in PD patients. Eligibility criteria (PICOS) were as follows: (1) ‘P’: The patients participating were diagnosed with idiopathic PD; (2) ‘I’: Intervention using rTMS; (3) ‘C’: Sham stimulation as control; (4) ‘O’: The outcome of the study included cognitive evaluations; (5) ‘S’: The study adopted randomized controlled design. The standardized mean difference (SMD) of change of score was applied to measure efficacy, and we used Version 2 of the Cochrane tool to assess risk of bias. Twelve studies met the inclusion criteria. Compared with sham-controlled group, the pooled result showed a non-significant short-term effect of rTMS on global cognition (SMD: −0.15, 95% CI: −0.59 to 0.29, I2 = 36.7%), executive function (SMD: 0.03, 95% CI: −0.21 to 0.26, I2 = 0.0%), and attention and working memory (SMD: 0.05, 95% CI: −0.25 to 0.35, I2 = 0.0%). Long-term outcomes were either shown to be statistically nonsignificant. Based on a limited number of studies, rTMS fails to improve cognition in PD. We call for additional high-quality randomized controlled trials with adequate sample sizes to determine the efficacy of rTMS.
Multiple instance dense connected convolution neural network for aerial image scene classification
Creators: name: Bi, Qi
name: Qin, Kun
name: Li, Zhili
name: Zhang, Han
name: Xu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the development of deep learning, many state-of-the-art natural image scene classification methods have demonstrated impressive performance. While the current convolution neural network tends to extract global features and global semantic information in a scene, the geo-spatial objects can be located at anywhere in an aerial image scene and their spatial arrangement tends to be more complicated. One possible solution is to preserve more local semantic information and enhance feature propagation. In this paper, an end to end multiple instance dense connected convolution neural network (MIDCCNN) is proposed for aerial image scene classification. First, a 23 layer dense connected convolution neural network (DCCNN) is built and served as a backbone to extract convolution features. It is capable of preserving middle and low level convolution features. Then, an attention based multiple instance pooling is proposed to highlight the local semantics in an aerial image scene. Finally, we minimize the loss between the bag-level predictions and the ground truth labels so that the whole framework can be trained directly. Experiments on three aerial image datasets demonstrate that our proposed methods can outperform current baselines by a large margin.
description: 5 pages,3 figures, a conference paper accepted by IEEE ICIP 2019
Modeling the geographic distribution of Myocastor coypus (Mammalia, Rodentia) in Brazil: establishing priority areas for monitoring and an alert about the risk of invasion
Creators: name: Pereira, Alan Deivid
name: Adelino, José Ricardo Pires
name: Garcia, Diego Azevedo Zoccal
name: Casimiro, Armando Cesar Rodrigues
name: Marques, Ana Carolina Vizintim
name: Vidotto-Magnoni, Ana Paula
name: Bazilio, Sergio
name: Orsi, Mário Luís
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: is a large semi-aquatic rodent ranked as one of the 100 most invasive species in the world. In Brazil, few ecological studies have been proposed to understand the relationship of this species with the environment. To date, drivers that facilitate its establishment in new areas remain unknown. However, it is generally accepted that the natural distribution of this species is limited to far southern Brazil. The present study aimed to understand the geographic distribution of M. coypus and indicate areas of greater risk of establishment based on bioclimatic predictors and a surveillance map. We observed that M. coypus suitability and risk assessment areas are restricted to the southeastern and southern regions of Brazil and that anthropogenic landscape modifications are an adequate variable to explain the occurrence of the species. Due to the environmental impacts caused by this species, monitoring in environments where it has been introduced is required. The model used herein presented efficient applicability and fit for Brazil. Preventive actions and the management of M. coypus in predicted regions prior to its establishment are recommended.
A new oleanane-type triterpenoid saponin with α-glucosidase inhibitory activity from Camellia nitidissima
Creators: name: Zhao, Miao
name: Xian, Xiao-Ya
name: Yan, Meng-Qi
name: Zhou, Xian-Li
name: Huang, Xiao
name: Su, Yan-Qin
name: Zou, Deng-Feng
name: Liang, Cheng-Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new oleanane-type triterpenoid saponin, 21β, 22α-di-O-angeloyl-15α, 16α, 28-trihydroxyolean-12-ene 3β-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→3)-α-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→3)-β-D-glucopyranoside (1), together with five known compounds (2-5), were isolated from Camellia nitidissima. Their structures were elucidated based on spectroscopic methods, including extensive NMR and MS spectra. Compound 1 showed potential inhibitory activity on α-glucosidase with the IC50 values of 185.9 ± 44.5 µmol/L.
Angular Correlation Function Estimators Accounting for Contamination from Probabilistic Distance Measurements
Creators: name: Awan, Humna
name: Gawiser, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the advent of surveys containing millions to billions of galaxies, it is imperative to develop analysis techniques that utilize the available statistical power. In galaxy clustering, even small sample contamination arising from distance uncertainties can lead to large artifacts, which the standard estimator does not account for. We first introduce a formalism, termed decontamination, that corrects for sample contamination by utilizing the observed cross-correlations in the contaminated samples; this corrects any correlation function estimator for contamination. Using this formalism, we present a new estimator that uses the standard estimator to measure correlation functions in the contaminated samples but then corrects for contamination. We also introduce a weighted estimator that assigns each galaxy a weight in each redshift bin based on its probability of being in that bin. We demonstrate that these estimators effectively recover the true correlation functions and their covariance matrices. Our estimators can correct for sample contamination caused by misclassification between object types as well as photometric redshifts; they should be particularly helpful for studies of galaxy evolution and baryonic acoustic oscillations, where forward-modeling the clustering signal using the contaminated redshift distribution is undesirable.
description: 23 pages and 4 appendices (17 pages). 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ, with this version revised further in response to comments from the referee, with an expanded photo-z model (Section 5.3)
Renormalization Group Approach to the SUSY Flavor Problem
Creators: name: Kubo, Jisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Renormalization group approach to the SUSY flavor problem is elucidated.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX
MOESM1 of Continuous low flow ascites drainage through the urinary bladder via the Alfapump system in palliative patients with malignant ascites
Creators: name: Fotopoulou, Christina
name: Berg, Thomas
name: Hausen, Annekristin
name: Hennig, René
name: Jalan, Rajiv
name: Malagó, Massimo
name: Capel, Jeroen
name: Gottardi, Andrea
name: Stirnimann, Guido
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Includes the adverse events of interest defined by the protocol of the study. Table S2. consists of the questions and possible answers in the Quality of Life Questionnaire used in the study.