cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Materials from Human listeners’ perception of behavioural context and core affect dimensions in chimpanzee vocalizations
Creators: name: Kamiloğlu, Roza G.
name: Slocombe, Katie E.
name: Haun, Daniel B. M.
name: Disa A. Sauter
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Vocalizations linked to emotional states are partly conserved among phylogenetically related species. This continuity may allow humans to accurately infer affective information from vocalizations produced by chimpanzees. In two pre-registered experiments, we examine human listeners' ability to infer behavioural contexts (e.g. discovering food) and core affect dimensions (arousal and valence) from 155 vocalizations produced by 66 chimpanzees in 10 different positive and negative contexts at high, medium or low arousal levels. In experiment 1, listeners (n = 310), categorized the vocalizations in a forced-choice task with 10 response options, and rated arousal and valence. In experiment 2, participants (n = 3120) matched vocalizations to production contexts using yes/no response options. The results show that listeners were accurate at matching vocalizations of most contexts in addition to inferring arousal and valence. Judgments were more accurate for negative as compared to positive vocalizations. An acoustic analysis demonstrated that, listeners made use of brightness and duration cues, and relied on noisiness in making context judgements, and pitch to infer core affect dimensions. Overall, the results suggest that human listeners can infer affective information from chimpanzee vocalizations beyond core affect, indicating phylogenetic continuity in the mapping of vocalizations to behavioural contexts.
EMPLOYMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY IN GERMANY
Creators: name: Menrad, Klaus
name: Menrad, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Employment
subject: Germany
subject: Application industries
subject: Simulation

description: The paper quantitatively analyses the employment effects of biotechnology in Germany. In 2000, a total of 614,000 employees were influenced by this technology of which biotechnology had a high relevance for maintaining competitiveness of around 220,000 jobs. In this high impact cluster the number of jobs increases to a range of 330,000 to 677,000 jobs in the year 2010 which equals to a maximum of approximately 1.7 % of all employees in Germany. Additional spill-over effects of biotechnology will range between 657,000 and more than 1 million jobs in the year 2010, depending mainly on diffusion rates of biotechnology.
description: Paper prepared for presentation at the 8th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: International Trade and Domestic Production Ravello (Italy), July 8 to 11th, 2004
GESTÃO DO PROCESSO DE CAPTAÇÃO DE LEITE: UM ESTUDO DE CASO NA COOPERATIVA AGRÍCOLA ALTO RIO GRANDE LTDA (CAARG)
Creators: name: Ferreira, Antonio Pedro Vasco Batica
name: Santos, Antonio Carlos Dos
name: Ferreira, Antonio Pedro Vasco Batica
name: Santos, Antonio Carlos Dos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: competitive Strategy
subject: Agricultural Cooperative
subject: Vertical Integration
subject: and costs of milk transportation

description: The aim of this work was to assess the milking process in an agricultural cooperative in Lavras, Minas Gerais state. The study was done between August and November/2004, employing a qualitative research methodology that involved the researchers and the cooperative’s employees. Process management promotes the organization and management of information in the company, favoring cost administration and control. The study presented some lines with average costs above R$ 1.51/Km, and others below. This fact could impair the efficiency of the process. To ensure quality, legal parameters were defined, through laboratory analysis, to classify the milk. The observance of the strong and weak points are the best way to maximize the organization’s efficiency. However, these weak points deserve special attention from the CAARG’s decision makers in order to guarantee the cooperative’s performance. The main strategies implemented were financing and allowance of the outgoing tanks, combined with payment according to the volume and quality of the milk. Nevertheless, vertical integration should be adopted through supply contracts or quota definition, which is extremely important in guaranteeing not only the supply, but mainly the quality of the raw-material.
PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline
Creators: name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Hennawi, Joseph F.
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Cooke, Ryan J.
name: Wang, Feige
name: Hsyu, Tiffany
name: Davies, Frederick B.
name: Farina, Emanuele Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PypeIt is a Python package for semi-automated reduction of astronomical, spectroscopic data. Its algorithms build on decades-long development of previous data reduction pipelines by the developers (Bernstein, Burles, & Prochaska, 2015; Bochanski et al., 2009). The reduction procedure -- including a complete list of the input parameters and available functionality -- is provided as online documentation hosted by Read the Docs, which is regularly updated. (https://pypeit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). Release v1.0.3 serves the following spectrographs: Gemini/GNIRS, Gemini/GMOS, Gemini/FLAMINGOS 2, Lick/Kast, Magellan/MagE, Magellan/Fire, MDM/OSMOS, Keck/DEIMOS (600ZD, 830G, 1200G), Keck/LRIS, Keck/MOSFIRE (J and Y gratings tested), Keck/NIRES, Keck/NIRSPEC (low-dispersion), LBT/Luci-I, Luci-II, LBT/MODS (beta), NOT/ALFOSC (grism4), VLT/X-Shooter (VIS, NIR), VLT/FORS2 (300I, 300V), WHT/ISIS.
description: To be submitted to JOSS (once they return to accepting submissions). Find PypeIt at: https://github.com/pypeit/PypeIt
Magnetism in (Ga,Mn)As Thin Films With TC Up To 173K
Creators: name: Wang, K. Y.
name: Campion, R. P.
name: Edmonds, K. W.
name: Sawicki, M.
name: Dietl, T.
name: Foxon, C. T.
name: Gallagher, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As thin films with Mn concentration between 1 and 9%. Ferromagnetic transition temperatures TC of up to 173K are observed. The results are compared to the predictions of the Zener mean-field theory. We find no evidence of a fundamental limit to TC.
description: presented at ICPS-27; 2 pages
INTERCOOPERAÇÃO E ESTILOS DE NEGOCIAÇÃO EM COOPERATIVAS PRODUTORAS DE VINHO NO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Creators: name: Silva, Tania Nunes Da
name: Goncalves, Wilson Magela
name: Dias, Marcelo Fernandes Pacheco
name: Silva, Tania Nunes Da
name: Goncalves, Wilson Magela
name: Dias, Marcelo Fernandes Pacheco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: cooperation
subject: cooperatives
subject: negotiation strategies

description: This aim of the study was to comprehend the relation between the cooperatives’ negotiation strategies and the principle of intercooperation. Sixteen wine producing cooperatives in the State of Rio Grande do Sul were assessed, all members of the Wine Producer Cooperatives’ Federation (FECOVINHO). The data were obtained in a meeting of the Federation in which a representative of each cooperative was present. On that occasion, the survey was presented and its importance and goals were explained. Over 10 questionnaires were distributed in each cooperative, making a total of 176 potential respondents. The questionnaires’ final return was 62, corresponding to an answer percentage of 35.23%. The questionnaire was answered by members, executive members and professional executives. The main conclusions indicate the presence of all styles and behaviours, suggesting that the principles of inter-cooperation are not practiced by all. The results corroborate Kilmann & Thomas’ (1977) findings, who concluded that the styles of conflict management varied for two reasons: the nature of the situation and the individual tendency to use a certain style, regardless of the situation.
PERSPECTIVA DOS RECURSOS E ESTRATÉGIAS EM UMA ORGANIZAÇÃO AGROINDUSTRIAL
Creators: name: Deboca, Leonardo Pinheiro
name: Sobrinho, Zaki Akel
name: Rosvadoski-Da-Silva, Patricia
name: Deboca, Leonardo Pinheiro
name: Sobrinho, Zaki Akel
name: Rosvadoski-Da-Silva, Patricia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: strategy
subject: agro-industrial cooperatives
subject: Resource Based View

description: This article discusses the utilization and the relations between different resource categories in the strategies adopted by an agroindustrial cooperative in Paraná state. The research was carried out through longitudinal with transversal cuts case study. Examining the different resource categories in the context of the changes in the studied organization’s strategies, an integration and complementation process was observed to explain the adoption of these strategies, in which characteristics such as agro-industrialization process, diversification of business activities, growth and insertion in foreign markets, transition from a commodities’ organization to one focused on products with added value, were implicit.
Fast Evaluation of CTEQ Parton Distributions in Monte Carlos
Creators: name: Sullivan, Zack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A few changes to the routines that calculate CTEQ parton distribution functions allow modern compilers to optimize the evaluations, while having no quantitative effect on the results. Overall computation time is reduced by a factor of 4-5 in matrix-element calculations, and by 1.3-2.5 in showering Monte Carlo event generators. Similar improvements in performance may be expected in any calculations relying heavily on interpolation or multiple calls to functions.
description: 13 pgs., uses elsart
Upper bounds for spatial point process approximations
Creators: name: Schuhmacher, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G55 (Primary) 62E20, 62G07. (Secondary)

description: We consider the behavior of spatial point processes when subjected to a class of linear transformations indexed by a variable T. It was shown in Ellis [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 18 (1986) 646-659] that, under mild assumptions, the transformed processes behave approximately like Poisson processes for large T. In this article, under very similar assumptions, explicit upper bounds are given for the d_2-distance between the corresponding point process distributions. A number of related results, and applications to kernel density estimation and long range dependence testing are also presented. The main results are proved by applying a generalized Stein-Chen method to discretized versions of the point processes.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000684 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Generalized constraint-based inference
Creators: name: Chang, Le
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Constraint-Based Inference (CBI) is a unified framework that subsumes many practical problems in different research communities. These problems include probabilistic inference, decision-making under uncertainty, constraint satisfaction, propositional satisfiability, decoding problems, and possibility inference. Solving them efficiently is important for both research and practical applications. Along with the development of inference approaches for concrete CBI problems, researchers are increasingly aware that these problems share common features in representation and essentially identical inference approaches. As the first contribution of this thesis, we explicitly use the semiring concept to generalize various CBI problems into a single formal representation framework with a broader coverage of the problem space based on the synthesis of existing generalized frameworks. Second, the proposed semiring-based unified framework is also a single formal algorithmic framework that provides a broader coverage of both exact and approximate inference algorithms, including variable elimination, junction tree, and loopy message propagation methods. Third, we discuss inference algorithm design and complexity issues based on the abstract representations of CBI problems and inference algorithms. These discussions are examples of applying the abstract knowledge to the concrete application domains. Researchers from various fields can (1) study the most important common characteristics of various CBI problems without representation barriers; (2) analyze and compare different inference approaches; (3) borrow design ideas from other fields and improve the inference approaches' efficiency in their own domains; and (4) significantly reduce the amount of implementation work target ted previously at the individual problems. Finally, we present a software toolkit named the Generalized Constraint- Based Inference Toolkit in Java (GCBIJ) as the last contribution of this thesis. GCBIJ is the first concrete software toolkit that implements the abstract semiring approach to unify the CBI problem representations and the inference algorithms. Users can design their own task-specific semirings or simply use ones provided by the toolkit to solve their own concrete CBI problems through instantiating various already provided abstract inference algorithms. Users can also design their own inference algorithms on the abstract level and apply them to solve different problems. Furthermore, researchers can test, verify, compare, and analyze inference approaches based on this toolkit. The the experimental results based on GCBIJ show that the generalized CBI framework is a useful tool for both research and practical problem-solving.
Multi-particle entanglement manipulation under positive partial transpose preserving operations
Creators: name: Ishizaka, Satoshi
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the transformation of multi-partite states in the single copy setting under positive-partial-transpose-preserving operations (PPT-operations) and obtain both qualitative and quantitative results. Firstly, for some pure state transformations that are impossible under local operations and classical communication (LOCC), we demonstrate that they become possible with a surprisingly large success probability under PPT-operations. Furthermore, we clarify the convertibility of arbitrary multipartite pure states under PPT-operations, and show that a drastic simplification in the classification of pure state entanglement occurs when the set of operations is switched from LOCC to PPT-operations. Indeed, the infinitely many types of LOCC-incomparable entanglement are reduced to only one type under the action of PPT-operations. This is a clear manifestation of the increased power afforded by the use of PPT-bound entanglement. In addition, we further enlarge the set of operations to clarify the effect of another type of bound entanglement, multipartite unlockable bound entanglement, and show that a further simplification occurs. As compared to pure states a more complicated situation emerges in the mixed state settings. While single copy distillation becomes possible under PPT-operations for some mixed states it remains impossible for other mixed states.
description: 12 pages and 1 figure (accepted version)
O PROCESSO DE TOMADA DE DECISÃO SOB O VIÉS DA ECOSSOCIOECONOMIA DAS ORGANIZAÇÕES: O CASO DE UMA COOPERATIVA CATARINENSE DE ARTESÃOS
Creators: name: Felski, Henrique
name: Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce
name: Dallabrida, Ivan Sidney
name: Felski, Henrique
name: Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce
name: Dallabrida, Ivan Sidney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: decision making process
subject: rationality
subject: eco-socio-economics
subject: cooperation
subject: development strategy

description: The objective of this work is to analyze the Arte Rio Cooperative’s decision making process to assess how far it comprehends its members’ cooperative production system, i.e. if there is a logic governing the process that is different from utilitarian economics. It was inferred that the logic involved in the decision making process is contrary to market economy rationality. The cooperative’s decision making process has found mechanisms to adapt to the dictates of the market economy, mechanisms which modify popular culture and knowledge and the cooperative lifestyle of its members. This is a qualitative study supported by bibliographic and document analysis, descriptive exploratory research, participative observation and structured script interviews. In the decision making process, aspects such as popular knowledge and cooperation where highlighted, under the multidisciplinary eco-socioeconomic viewpoint, contrasting it to market logic. It was concluded that the cooperative’s decision making process is fraught with conflicting viewpoints. This is especially relevant today when popular knowledge and social bonds tends to change in such a way that will make them unrecognizable due to the entrance in a market economy.
Capital and Labor Income Pareto Exponents across Time and Space
Creators: name: de Vries, Tjeerd
name: Toda, Alexis Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We estimate capital and labor income Pareto exponents across 475 country-year observations that span 52 countries over half a century (1967-2018). We document two stylized facts: (i) capital income is more unequally distributed than labor income in the tail; namely, the capital exponent (1-3, median 1.46) is smaller than labor (2-5, median 3.35), and (ii) capital and labor exponents are nearly uncorrelated. To explain these findings, we build an incomplete market model with job ladders and capital income risk that gives rise to a capital income Pareto exponent smaller than but nearly unrelated to the labor exponent. Our results suggest the importance of distinguishing income and wealth inequality.
One Hundred and Eight Rosary Beads in Landscape and Architecture Design
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
Numerology

description: A study about monuments containing 108 architectonic and decorative elements,
is here proposed in the framework of their environments and cultural landscapes.
The number is related to Lord Buddha and to the beads of Japamale, that here we call
 as “rosary”. Among the considered monumental sites, we can find the well-known Candi Borobudur.
We will also refer to a publication regarding three temples the archaeologists found linked to Borobudur.
SINGULARIDADES NA GESTÃO DE COOPERATIVAS TRADICIONAIS E POPULARES: ESTUDO DE CASO EM COOPERATIVAS RURAIS DO PARANÁ
Creators: name: Chiariello, Caio Luis
name: Eid, Farid
name: Chiariello, Caio Luis
name: Eid, Farid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: management elements
subject: traditional cooperatives
subject: popular cooperatives

description: This article analyzes management elements in traditional and popular cooperative, as part of a debate that is taking place in Brazil since the 1990´s. Based on the empirical assessment of two agricultural cooperatives - a traditional agribusiness cooperative – COCAMAR, and a popular cooperative belonging to MST (Movement of Rural Workers Without Land)- COPAVI, and using a case study methodology, the aim was to identify the singularities of these cooperatives’ management history, focusing on assets, finance, decision processes and work organization. The results pointed to a management dynamics directed towards gauging of economic results in the case of the COCAMAR, while in the COPAVI the management dynamics pointed to the gauging of better social conditions for the members, apart from maintaining its resistance to processes of land, income and power concentration and centralization in the rural environment.
One Hundred and Eight Rosary Beads in Landscape and Architecture Design
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
Numerology

description: A study about monuments containing 108 architectonic and decorativeelements, is here proposed in the framework of their environments andcultural landscapes. The number is related to Lord Buddha and to the beads of Japamala, that here we call as “rosary”. We can find number 108 in Hinduism too. Among the monumental sites here considered, the reader can find the well-known Candi Borobudur. We will also refer to a publication regarding the temples the archaeologists found linked to Borobudur.
Universal Dynamics of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and a New Spin-Dependent Inverse-Square Law Force
Creators: name: Arkani-Hamed, Nima
name: Cheng, Hsin-Chia
name: Luty, Markus
name: Thaler, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the universal low-energy dynamics associated with the spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance down to spatial rotations. The effective Lagrangian for the associated Goldstone field can be uniquely determined by the non-linear realization of a broken time diffeomorphism symmetry, up to some overall mass scales. It has previously been shown that this symmetry breaking pattern gives rise to a Higgs phase of gravity, in which gravity is modified in the infrared. In this paper, we study the effects of direct couplings between the Goldstone boson and standard model fermions, which necessarily accompany Lorentz-violating terms in the theory. The leading interaction is the coupling to the axial vector current, which reduces to spin in the non-relativistic limit. A spin moving relative to the "ether" rest frame will emit Goldstone Cerenkov radiation. The Goldstone also induces a long-range inverse-square law force between spin sources with a striking angular dependence, reflecting the underlying Goldstone shockwaves and providing a smoking gun for this theory. We discuss the regime of validity of the effective theory describing these phenomena, and the possibility of probing Lorentz violations through Goldstone boson signals in a way that is complementary to direct tests in some regions of parameter space.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures; v2: revised functional form of spin potential, conclusions unchanged; v3: to match JHEP version
VIABILIDADE FINANCEIRA E RISCOS ASSOCIADOS À INTEGRAÇÃO LAVOURA-PECUÁRIA NO ESTADO DO PARANÁ
Creators: name: Lazzarotto, Joelsio Jose
name: Santos, Maurinho Luiz Dos
name: Lima, Joao Eustaquio De
name: Lazzarotto, Joelsio Jose
name: Santos, Maurinho Luiz Dos
name: Lima, Joao Eustaquio De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: farming system
subject: financial indicators
subject: probabilities

description: The Brazilian agricultural sector is characterized by a great diversity of production systems subject to a wide number of risk factors. These risks cannot be completely eliminated, but they can be minimized by the adoption of some strategies, such as diversification of agricultural and livestock activities. In this light, a comparative analysis, under operational and market risk conditions, of the financial viability of integrated crop-livestock systems, in relation to systems characterized by grain exploitation or specialized in livestock (beef cattle), was done. The methodology included data on farming in Paraná state, especially the in area of Guarapuava. Long term financial indicators were generated: net present value, internal return rate and cost-benefit analysis. The results show that, in both deterministic and uncertain conditions, the integrated system generates the best financial results.
Innovation Patterns in Some Successful C2 Technologies
Creators: name: Vassiliou, Marius
name: Agre, Jonathan
name: Davis, Stan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management

description: (2011) In a world of rapidly advancing commercial technology, the U.S. military often still struggles to deliver state-of-the art information technologies for C2 to warfighters and commanders. Some recent success stories include the Tactical Ground Reporting (TIGR) system, the Command Post of the Future (CPOF), and the Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE). These cases can be characterized using a Kline chain- linked model of innovation, with very strong iterative links between R&D and “markets” (military end users in this context). These initiatives also made effective use of available commercial technology, and displayed “edge innovation” by end users. The initiatives identified pressing needs with a minimum of process formalism, and then filled those needs quickly, with dedicated development teams for continual refinement. They often temporarily bypassed normal procurement channels. Initial deployments were often limited, with “at-risk” adoption by commanders, allowing crucial in-theater experimentation and feedback loops in the development process. As the technologies proved useful, deployment expanded. Despite potential problems in interoperability and security, and conflicts with the military bureaucracy, such “Kline-like” innovation shows promise for some C2 technologies.
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title: Risk events in passenger railway transportation: causes, consequences and overcoming
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name: ÐÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð½Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ
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Publisher: name: ÐÐÐÐÐ¢ÐÐ¥-ÐÐ ÐÐ¡Ð¡
Year: 2024
Subjects: ÐÐ°ÑÑÐ°Ð¶Ð¸ÑÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ Ð¿ÐµÑÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð·ÐºÐ¸
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disaster
product pipeline
safety technique

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description: The paper presents a retrospective analysis of the causes and accumulative impact of omissions in the design and operation of transportation systems that led to tragic consequences infamous as the Â«Ashinsk catastropheÂ». The paper chronicles the events, which at first glance had only an indirect impact that, when scrutinized, points to the underlying problems. At the end of the paper there are brief conclusions about what happened and ways of solving the mentioned problems.
Laboratory tests for MIR light detection and transport with specialty optical fibres
Creators: name: Benocci, R.
name: Bonesini, M.
name: Gadedjisso-Tossou, K. S.
name: Morales, H. Cabrera
name: Stoychev, L.
name: Rossella, M.
name: Baruzzo, M.
name: Consonni, M.
name: Suarez-Vargas, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FAMU (Fisica degli Atomi Muonici) experiment at the RIKEN RAL pulsed muon facility will measure the proton Zemach radius with high precision, thus contributing to the solution of the so-called proton radius puzzle. The situation is now confused and new measurements will help reduce the discrepancy as measured with electrons or muons. To this aim, FAMU will make use of a high-intensity pulsed muon beam at RIKEN-RAL impinging on a cryogenic hydrogen target and a tunable Mid-infrared (MIR) laser emitting at around 6.78 um, to measure the hyperfine (HFS) splitting of the 1S state of muonic hydrogen. The injection of light into the cryogenic target and its monitoring via dedicated MIR sensors is an asset for the experiment. A possible solution is via specialty MIR fibres based on hollow core waveguides or polycrystalline fibres. Two dedicated setups based on pulsed QCL lasers, from Alpes Laser, emitting around 6.78 um have been used to study the fibre attenuation while the high energy laser developed at Elettra Sincrotrone in Trieste has been used to study the damage threshold at high energies. The alignment of MIR laser radiation into an optical cavity presents criticalities due to geometrical constraints. Its control requires the use of small and sensitive detectors. The results obtained with a quantum IR sensor with an integrated circuit for signal processing are reported.
HÁBITOS DE COMPRA DOS CLIENTES DA FEIRA LIVRE DE ALFENAS-MG
Creators: name: Carvalho, Flavia Giolo De
name: Rezende, Eliane Garcia
name: Rezende, Marcelo Lacerda De
name: Carvalho, Flavia Giolo De
name: Rezende, Eliane Garcia
name: Rezende, Marcelo Lacerda De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: market
subject: consumer behavior
subject: conglomerate analysis
subject: logit model

description: The objective of this work was to study the consumer habits of street market customers in the municipality of Alfenas, Minas Gerais state. More specifically, the aim was to characterize the customers according to their social and economic status and purchasing habits and to identify the variables that determine their attendance in the street market. Cluster analysis was done to group customers with similar characteristics and habits. The Logit model was then used to test the effects of the variables on the customer’s attendance. The results indicate that the street market presents a heterogeneous public as far as age, per capita income, schooling and occupation are concerned; it does present, however, similarities as to the reason for preferring the street market, the most purchased products and the attendance intervals. It was found that the habit of going to the street market to buy, essentially, fruits and vegetables, is regardless of the customer’s financial status, but is related to the idea that the street market is an appropriate place to obtain healthy foods, which lead to a healthier diet, besides being a leisure environment. The results reinforce the importance of understanding this popular environment more thoroughly because they can subsidize health and nutrition policies which aim to plan, diagnose and intervene in the situations raised.
Multioutput Gaussian Processes with Functional Data: A Study on Coastal Flood Hazard Assessment
Creators: name: López-Lopera, A. F.
name: Idier, D.
name: Rohmer, J.
name: Bachoc, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Surrogate models are often used to replace costly-to-evaluate complex coastal codes to achieve substantial computational savings. In many of those models, the hydrometeorological forcing conditions (inputs) or flood events (outputs) are conveniently parameterized by scalar representations, neglecting that the inputs are actually time series and that floods propagate spatially inland. Both facts are crucial in flood prediction for complex coastal systems. Our aim is to establish a surrogate model that accounts for time-varying inputs and provides information on spatially varying inland flooding. We introduce a multioutput Gaussian process model based on a separable kernel that correlates both functional inputs and spatial locations. Efficient implementations consider tensor-structured computations or sparse-variational approximations. In several experiments, we demonstrate the versatility of the model for both learning maps and inferring unobserved maps, numerically showing the convergence of predictions as the number of learning maps increases. We assess our framework in a coastal flood prediction application. Predictions are obtained with small error values within computation time highly compatible with short-term forecast requirements (on the order of minutes compared to the days required by hydrodynamic simulators). We conclude that our framework is a promising approach for forecast and early-warning systems.
Notes on coarse grainings and functions of observables
Creators: name: Dvurecenskij, A.
name: Lahti, P.
name: Pulmannova, S.
name: Ylinen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Naimark dilation theory we investigate the question under what conditions an observable which is a coarse graining of another observable is a function of it. To this end, conditions for the separability and for the Boolean structure of an observable are given.
Robust visual tracking for multiple targets
Creators: name: Cai, Yizheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: We address the problem of robust multi-target tracking within the application of hockey player tracking. Although there has been extensive work i n multi-target tracking, there is no existing visual tracking system that can automatically and robustly track a variable number of targets and correctly maintain their identities with a monocular camera regardless of background clutter, camera motion and frequent mutual occlusion between targets. We build our system on the basis of the previous work by Okuma et al. [OTdF⁺ 04]. The particle filter technique is adopted and modified to fit into the multi-target tracking framework. A rectification technique is employed to map the locations of players from the video frame coordinate system to the standard hockey rink coordinates so that the system can compensate for camera motion and the dynamics of players on the rink can be improved by a second order auto-regression model. A global nearest neighbor data association algorithm is introduced to assign boosting detections to the existing tracks for the proposal distribution i n particle filters. The mean-shift algorithm is embedded into the particle filter framework to stabilize the trajectories of the targets for robust tracking during mutual occlusion. The color model of the targets is also improved by the kernel introduced by mean-shift. Experimental results show that our system is able to correctly track all the targets in the scene even if they are partially or completely occluded for a period of time.
DeepQTMT: A Deep Learning Approach for Fast QTMT-based CU Partition of Intra-mode VVC
Creators: name: Li, Tianyi
name: Xu, Mai
name: Tang, Runzhi
name: Chen, Ying
name: Xing, Qunliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Versatile Video Coding (VVC), as the latest standard, significantly improves the coding efficiency over its ancestor standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), but at the expense of sharply increased complexity. In VVC, the quad-tree plus multi-type tree (QTMT) structure of coding unit (CU) partition accounts for over 97% of the encoding time, due to the brute-force search for recursive rate-distortion (RD) optimization. Instead of the brute-force QTMT search, this paper proposes a deep learning approach to predict the QTMT-based CU partition, for drastically accelerating the encoding process of intra-mode VVC. First, we establish a large-scale database containing sufficient CU partition patterns with diverse video content, which can facilitate the data-driven VVC complexity reduction. Next, we propose a multi-stage exit CNN (MSE-CNN) model with an early-exit mechanism to determine the CU partition, in accord with the flexible QTMT structure at multiple stages. Then, we design an adaptive loss function for training the MSE-CNN model, synthesizing both the uncertain number of split modes and the target on minimized RD cost. Finally, a multi-threshold decision scheme is developed, achieving desirable trade-off between complexity and RD performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can reduce the encoding time of VVC by 44.65%-66.88% with the negligible Bjøntegaard delta bit-rate (BD-BR) of 1.322%-3.188%, which significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables. Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021
Supplementary Materials from Human listeners’ perception of behavioural context and core affect dimensions in chimpanzee vocalizations
Creators: name: Kamiloğlu, Roza G.
name: Slocombe, Katie E.
name: Haun, Daniel B. M.
name: Disa A. Sauter
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Vocalizations linked to emotional states are partly conserved among phylogenetically related species. This continuity may allow humans to accurately infer affective information from vocalizations produced by chimpanzees. In two pre-registered experiments, we examine human listeners' ability to infer behavioural contexts (e.g. discovering food) and core affect dimensions (arousal and valence) from 155 vocalizations produced by 66 chimpanzees in 10 different positive and negative contexts at high, medium or low arousal levels. In Experiment 1, listeners (n = 310), categorized the vocalizations in a forced-choice task with 10 response options, and rated arousal and valence. In Experiment 2, participants (n = 3120) matched vocalizations to production contexts using Yes/No response options. The results show that listeners were accurate at matching vocalizations of most contexts in addition to inferring arousal and valence. Judgments were more accurate for negative as compared to positive vocalizations. An acoustic analysis demonstrated that, listeners made use of brightness and duration cues, and relied on noisiness in making context judgements, and pitch to infer core affect dimensions. Overall, the results suggest that human listeners can infer affective information from chimpanzee vocalizations beyond core affect, indicating phylogenetic continuity in the mapping of vocalizations to behavioural contexts.
Materials and Methods with supplementary tables and figures from Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record
Creators: name: Tomašových, Adam
name: Albano, Paolo G.
name: Tomáš Fuksi
name: Gallmetzer, Ivo
name: Haselmair, Alexandra
name: Michał Kowalewski
name: Rafał Nawrot
name: Nerlović, Vedrana
name: Scarponi, Daniele
name: Zuschin, Martin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Palaeoecological data are unique historical archives that extend back far beyond the last several decades of ecological observations. However, the fossil record of continental shelves has been perceived as too coarse (with centennial-millennial resolution) and incomplete to detect processes occurring at yearly or decadal scales relevant to ecology and conservation. Here, we show that the youngest (Anthropocene) fossil record on the northern Adriatic continental shelf provides decadal-scale resolution that accurately documents an abrupt ecological change affecting benthic communities during the twentieth century. The magnitude and the duration of the twentieth century shift in body size of the bivalve Corbula gibba is unprecedented given that regional populations of this species were dominated by small-size classes throughout the Holocene. The shift coincided with compositional changes in benthic assemblages, driven by an increase from approximately 25% to approximately 70% in median per-assemblage abundance of C. gibba. This regime shift increase occurred preferentially at sites that experienced at least one hypoxic event per decade in the twentieth century. Larger size and higher abundance of C. gibba likely reflect ecological release as it coincides with an increase in the frequency of seasonal hypoxia that triggered mass mortality of competitors and predators. Higher frequency of hypoxic events is coupled with a decline in the depth of intense sediment mixing by burrowing benthic organisms from several decimetres to less than 20 cm, significantly improving the stratigraphic resolution of Anthropocene fossil record and making it possible to detect sub-centennial ecological changes on continental shelves.
Indirect Land Use Change: a second best solution to a first class problem
Creators: name: Zilberman, David
name: Hochman, Gal
name: Rajagopal, Deepak
name: Zilberman, David
name: Hochman, Gal
name: Rajagopal, Deepak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: land use
subject: biofuels
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: regulations

description: Concern about the possible affects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land use changes (ILUC) associated with their activities when assessing their compliance with biofuel policies. We show that the computation of the ILUC is shrouded with uncertainty; they vary frequently, and are strongly affected by policy choices. It seems that its overall impact on GHGs is relatively minor. Once the ILUCs are introduced other indirect effects of biofuel may need to be considered which will increase the cost of biofuel regulations. Concentrating on direct regulation of biofuel and on efforts to reduce deforestation, wherever it occurs, may be more effective than debating and refining the ILUC.
Receding Horizon Control Based Online Motion Planning with Partially Infeasible LTL Specifications
Creators: name: Cai, Mingyu
name: Peng, Hao
name: Li, Zhijun
name: Gao, Hongbo
name: Kan, Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work considers online optimal motion planning of an autonomous agent subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) constraints. The environment is dynamic in the sense of containing mobile obstacles and time-varying areas of interest (i.e., time-varying reward and workspace properties) to be visited by the agent. Since user-specified tasks may not be fully realized (i.e., partially infeasible), this work considers hard and soft LTL constraints, where hard constraints enforce safety requirement (e.g. avoid obstacles) while soft constraints represent tasks that can be relaxed to not strictly follow user specifications. The motion planning of the agent is to generate policies, in decreasing order of priority, to 1) formally guarantee the satisfaction of safety constraints; 2) mostly satisfy soft constraints (i.e., minimize the violation cost if desired tasks are partially infeasible); and 3) optimize the objective of rewards collection (i.e., visiting dynamic areas of more interests). To achieve these objectives, a relaxed product automaton, which allows the agent to not strictly follow the desired LTL constraints, is constructed. A utility function is developed to quantify the differences between the revised and the desired motion plan, and the accumulated rewards are designed to bias the motion plan towards those areas of more interests. Receding horizon control is synthesized with an LTL formula to maximize the accumulated utilities over a finite horizon, while ensuring that safety constraints are fully satisfied and soft constraints are mostly satisfied. Simulation and experiment results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed motion strategy.
Applying Optimization and the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Enhance Agricultural Preservation Strategies in the State of Delaware
Creators: name: Messer, Kent D.
name: Allen, William L.
name: Messer, Kent D.
name: Allen, William L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: conservation optimization
subject: farmland protection
subject: analytic hierarchy process
subject: binary linear programming

description: Using agricultural preservation priorities derived from an analytical hierarchy process by 23 conservation experts from 18 agencies in the state of Delaware, this research uses weighted benefit measures to evaluate the historical success of Delaware’s agricultural protection fund, which spent nearly $100 million in its first decade. This research demonstrates how these operation research techniques can be used in concert to address relevant conservation questions. Results suggest that the state’s sealed-bid-offer auction, which determines the yearly conservation selections, is superior to benefit-targeting approaches frequently employed by conservation organizations, but is inferior to the optimization technique of binary linear programming that could have provided additional benefits to the state, such as 12,000 additional acres worth an estimated $25 million.