cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How to reduce epidemic peaks keeping under control the time-span of the epidemic
Creators: name: Cadoni, Mariano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One of the main challenges of the measures against the COVID-19 epidemic is to reduce the amplitude of the epidemic peak without increasing without control its timescale. We investigate this problem using the SIR model for the epidemic dynamics, for which reduction of the epidemic peak $I_P$ can be achieved only at the price of increasing the time $t_P$ of its occurrence and its entire time-span $t_E$. By means of a time reparametrization we linearize the equations for the SIR dynamics. This allows us to solve exactly the dynamics in the time domain and to derive the scaling behaviour of the size, the timescale and the speed of the epidemics, by reducing the infection rate $α$ and by increasing the removal rate $β$ by a factor of $λ$. We show that for a given value of the size ($I_P$, the total, $I_E$ and average $\hat I_P$ number of infected), its occurrence time $t_P$ and entire time-span $t_E$ can be reduced by a factor $1/λ$ if the reduction of $I$ is achieved by increasing the removal rate instead of reducing the infection rate. Thus, epidemic containment measures based on tracing, early detection followed by prompt isolation of infected individuals are more efficient than those based on social distancing. We apply our results to the COVID-19 epidemic in Northern Italy. We show that the peak time $t_P$ and the entire time span $t_E$ could have been reduced by a factor $0.9 \le 1/λ\le 0.34$ with containment measures focused on increasing $β$ instead of reducing $α$.
description: 9 pages, no figures
La formation à la conduite moto vue par les moniteurs : Analyse des pratiques professionnelles
Creators: name: Legrand, Eve
name: Rubio, Bérengère
name: Aupetit, Samuel
name: Burkhardt, Jean-Marie
name: Assailly, Jean-Pascal
name: Cestac, Julien
Publisher: name: Univ Gustave Eiffel
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sciences de l'Homme et Société
Psychologie

description: Les travaux réalisés au niveau international dressent un tableau mitigé de l’efficacité des formations à la conduite deux-roues motorisés, ces dernières n’ayant que peu d’impact sur les comportements des motards novices. Si la littérature s’est penchée sur les conséquences du suivi d’une formation sur les capacités et compétences des novices, peu de choses sont en fait connues sur le contenu de ces formations. L’objectif de cet article est de recenser et de décrire les pratiques mobilisées par les moniteurs pour former leurs élèves à la conduite, puis de connaître l’impact de la matrice GDE dans les formations. Quatorze moniteurs de moto ont participé à des entretiens semi-directifs et neuf catégories de pratiques ont été extraites. Cinq pratiques sont considérées comme « bonnes » : adapter la difficulté de la tâche, individualiser les apprentissages, rendre l’apprentissage vivant, apprendre plus que ce qui est demandé pour obtenir le permis, et travailler les aspects cognitifs et psychologiques. Quatre sont perçues comme « mauvaises » : ne pas utiliser les pratiques évoquées ci-avant, ne pas ou mal enseigner les techniques de conduite, se focaliser uniquement sur l’examen, et manquer d’exemplarité. La discussion reviendra sur les caractères de « bonnes » et « mauvaises » pratiques au regard de la matrice GDE et des psychologies de l’éducation et de l’apprentissage. Nous proposerons également des pistes d’amélioration de la formation et de l’examen du permis deux-roues motorisés.
description: RTS - Recherche Transports Sécurité, volume 2021
Consumers want safer meat - but not at all costs
Creators: name: Morkbak, Morten Raun
name: Christensen, Tove
name: Gyrd-Hansen, Dorte E.
name: Morkbak, Morten Raun
name: Christensen, Tove
name: Gyrd-Hansen, Dorte E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food safety
subject: consumer valuation
subject: choice experiments

description: Consumers, the public authorities, and the food industry are all concerned with the safety of meat. The increasing demand for safer food from the consumers and the public authorities puts pressure on producers to identify efficient methods to reduce risks. Earlier studies have shown that consumers state a willingness to pay for safer meat – but we know very little about how different methods to reduce risks affect the consumers’ preferences for safer meat. In the present study, a choice experiment for a representative sample of the Danish population was conducted to elicit whether consumers’ willingness to pay for reducing the risks of Salmonella infections was affected by the specific risk reduction methods (risk reductions using the current policy, at farm level, or decontamination at slaughterhouse using water/steam or lactic acid). More specifically, the consumers were asked to choose between different packages of minced pork that differed with respect to Salmonella risks, risk reduction method, and price. The sample consisted of 844 Danish consumers, who answered a questionnaire over the internet. Our results indicate that consumers demand safer meat, but not at all costs – there is a limit to what they will pay and they care about how the risk reduction is obtained. They prefer risk reductions to take place at farm level followed by decontaminations using water/steam and (least preferred) lactic acid.
Impacts of Social Media on Student's Academic Achievement: A Case of Higher Educational Institutions of Southern Punjab of Pakistan
Creators: name: Muhammad Imran Khan, Muhammad Azeem
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Usage of SNSs
Students Performance
Creativity
Knowledge sharing
Collaboration and Interaction
eLearning
Usage of social media
Social networking
Learning process.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 3, 12A3S: 1-11
On building a cluster watch-list for identifying strongly lensed supernovae, gravitational waves and kilonovae
Creators: name: Ryczanowski, Dan
name: Smith, Graham P.
name: Bianconi, Matteo
name: Massey, Richard
name: Robertson, Andrew
name: Jauzac, Mathilde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by discovering strongly-lensed supernovae, gravitational waves, and kilonovae in the 2020s, we investigate whether to build a watch-list of clusters based on observed cluster properties (i.e. lens-plane selection) or on the detectability of strongly-lensed background galaxies (i.e. source-plane selection). First, we estimate the fraction of high-redshift transient progenitors that reside in galaxies that are themselves too faint to be detected as being strongly-lensed. We find $\sim15-50$ per cent of transient progenitors reside in $z = 1-2$ galaxies too faint to be detected in surveys that reach ${\rm AB}\simeq23$, such as the Dark Energy Survey. This falls to $\ls10$ per cent at depths that will be probed by early data releases of LSST (${\rm AB}\simeq25$). Second, we estimate a conservative lower limit on the fraction of strong lensing clusters that will be missed by magnitude limited searches for multiply-imaged galaxies and giant arcs due to the faintness of such images. We find that DES-like surveys will miss $\sim75$ per cent of $10^{15}$M$_\odot$ strong lensing clusters, rising to $\sim100$ per cent of $10^{14}$M$_\odot$ clusters. Deeper surveys, such as LSST, will miss $\sim40$ per cent at $10^{15}$M$_\odot$, and $\sim95$ per cent at $10^{14}$M$_\odot$. Our results motivate building a cluster watch-list for strongly-lensed transients that includes those found by lens-plane selection.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. MNRAS, accepted
Integration of Virtual Resistor in Charging Control System of Electric Vehicles to Mitigate the Harmonic Issues at Power Grid Side
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Ali S.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bi-directional converter
Electric vehicle (EV)
Inverter, EV Battery
Distortion control
Filter
PHEV
AC-DC Converter Control
Virtual resistance
Virtual resistor
Total harmonic distortion (THD)
Smart Grid
Electric power quality.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 3, 12A3T: 1-16
Geometry effects in confined space
Creators: name: Dai, Wu-Sheng
name: Xie, Mi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we calculate some exact solutions of the grand partition functions for quantum gases in confined space, such as ideal gases in two- and three-dimensional boxes, in tubes, in annular containers, on the lateral surface of cylinders, and photon gases in three-dimensional boxes. Based on these exact solutions, which, of course, contain the complete information about the system, we discuss the geometry effect which is neglected in the calculation with the thermodynamic limit $V\to \infty $, and analyze the validity of the quantum statistical method which can be used to calculate the geometry effect on ideal quantum gases confined in two-dimensional irregular containers. We also calculate the grand partition function for phonon gases in confined space. Finally, we discuss the geometry effects in realistic systems.
description: Revtex,15 pages, no figure
Die altgeorgischen Literatur und ihre Probleme
Creators: name: Peradze, Gregor
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (1927): Oriens christianus, Band 24, Heft 2
Green payment programs, asymmetric information and the role of fixed costs
Creators: name: Arguedas, C.
name: Meijerink, Gerdien W.
name: Van Soest, Daan P.
name: Arguedas, C.
name: Meijerink, Gerdien W.
name: Van Soest, Daan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Asymmetric information
subject: environmental benefits
subject: mechanism design

description: Many conservation programs offer financial compensation to farmers in exchange for socially desired services, such as soil conservation or biodiversity protection. Realization of the conservation objective at minimum cost requires payments to just cover the extra costs incurred by each individual (type of) farmer. In the presence of information asymmetries regarding costs, incentive-compatible contracts can be designed to mitigate excess compensation, but these typically only provide partial improvement because of several distortions. We argue that these distortions are inevitable only if all conservation costs are variable in nature. If there are fixed costs too, we find that the least-cost solution can be incentive compatible. We identify the exact conditions under which these maximum savings can be obtained and conclude that, given the relevance of fixed costs in conservation services provision, incentive—compatible contracts deserve a second look.
Comparative Analyses of Plasma Properties and Composition in Two Types of Small-Scale Interplanetary Flux-ropes
Creators: name: Huang, Jin
name: Liu, Yu
name: Liu, Jihong
name: Shen, Yuandeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of small-scale interplanetary magnetic flux-ropes (SIMFRs) and the relationship between SIMFRs and magnetic clouds (MCs) are still controversial. In this study, two populations of SMIFRs were collected, i.e., SIMFRs originating from the Sun (SIMFR-SUN) and those originating from the solar wind (SIMFR-SW). We defined the SIMFR-SUN (SIMFR-SW) as the SMIFRs that include (exclude) the counter-streaming suprathermal electrons and stay away from (close to) the heliospheric current sheet. After fitting with force-free flux-rope model, 52 SIMFR-SUN and 57 SIMFR-SW events observed by Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) from 1998 February to 2011 August were qualified. Using the approach of relating the measurements to their spatial position within the flux-ropes, a comparative survey of plasma and composition characteristics inside the two populations of SIMFRs is presented. Results show that the two populations of SIMFRs have apparent differences. Compared with SIMFR-SW, SIMFR-SUN are MC-like, featuring lower central proton density, higher Vrad, higher low-FIP element abundances, higher and more fluctuate average ion charge-states and the ion chargestate ratios which are related to the heating in low corona. In addition, for the ion charge-state distributions inside SIMFR-SUN, the sunward side is higher than earthward, which might be caused by the flare heating during eruption. Moreover, both SIMFR-SUN and MCs show anti-correlation between plasma beta and He/P trend. These characteristics indicate that SIMFR-SUN and MCs are very likely to have the identical origination. This study supports the two-source origin of SIMFRs, i.e., the solar corona and the solar wind.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Hierarchical solutions of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model: Exact asymptotic behavior near the critical temperature
Creators: name: Janis, V.
name: Klic, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the replica-symmetry-breaking construction in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of a spin glass. We present a general scheme for deriving an exact asymptotic behavior near the critical temperature of the solution with an arbitrary number of discrete hierarchies of the broken replica symmetry. We show that all solutions with finite-many hierarchies are unstable and only the scheme with infinite-many hierarchies becomes marginally stable. We show how the solutions from the discrete replica-symmetry-breaking scheme go over to the continuous one with increasing the number of hierarchies.
description: REVTeX4, 11 pages, no figures
Two sides to staging public space : enhancing civic function and establishing symbolic content to the Vancouver Art Gallery landscape
Creators: name: Guppy, Graeme Blair
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper explores urban design possibilities for the enhancement of the Vancouver Art Gallery landscape. It is understood that urban public places are necessary for not only the daily functioning of society, but as venues of and for celebrations, demonstrations, and communication. All public urban spaces have the potential to serve as significant locations of human experience. The designed urban landscape should have the capacity to elicit response and heighten our perceptions, thereby furthering our understanding of the world. Understanding the Vancouver Art Gallery landscape as a central urban space of significant civic importance, it is necessary that its design illuminate the interactions between humans and the physical world - the actors, the audience, and the stage. A literature review is conducted in order to discern possible connections between museum processes and designed landscapes. Analogies are drawn between the processes and display of art within and around galleries and museums, and the cultural meanings associated with these displays. These processes also reveal themselves in the designed landscape. Second, museum-landscape analogs are proposed, and from these, precedents are researched in order to identify criteria that support and reinforce these analogs. These analogs are typologies that may serve to inform the urban design, and landscape architectural process. In response to the research, the Vancouver Art Gallery landscape is designed according to one of the types (analogs) identified - Landscape as Theatre. The design provides a model for the expression of the theatrical aspects of urban life that contribute to the vibrancy and cultural richness of the urban landscape. The conclusions drawn herein are suggestive of urban design enhancement opportunities that exist within central downtown Vancouver, in particular the Vancouver Art Gallery landscape. It is recognized that significant investment in our urban spaces is a requirement for ensuring the successful evolution of urban life. In addition to the enhancement of human experiences within the city, successful urban projects that elicit international acclaim and recognition further the economic growth of, and investment in the city. Certainly, when public spaces are used and enjoyed steadily and repeatedly the experiences of places are enriched, and human experience is enhanced.
Public transaction cost of agri-environmental schemes and its determinants - Analysing stakeholders’ involvement and perceptions
Creators: name: Mettepenningen, Evy
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Eggers, Jorg
name: Mettepenningen, Evy
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Eggers, Jorg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public transaction costs
subject: agrienvironmental schemes

description: Despite a total budget increase for rural development in the new programming period (2007- 2013), for most older Member States in the now expanded European Union the multi-annual spending plan for the period 2007-2013 predicts a substantial decrease of the budget for rural development and thus for agri-environmental schemes (AESs). It can be assumed that nothing or only part of this loss could be compensated by national funds in most countries. Therefore designing more efficient national governance structures for AESs, which decrease public transaction costs (TCs), would be an appropriate answer to this problem. The objective of this paper is to define the factors influencing these public TCs, because then appropriate action can be taken to reduce them. A statistical analysis with a proxy for public TCs is combined with an analysis of the perception on public TCs influencing factors of the stakeholders involved (not including farmers). The research showed that mainly scheme related factors are perceived to be important, although the governance structure, institutional environment and trust also play a role. High public TCs are however not necessarily a problem, if they would lead to a higher environmental effectiveness of the schemes. It is important to pay attention to the heterogeneity of the natural environment and on the basis of that decide for a more centralised or decentralised approach to AES design.
Scoping review protocol: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on treatment services, cancer screening and early detection– A scoping review of contemporary literature with global comparisons and a cross-sectional mixed-methods survey among cancer health providers in India.
Creators: name: Aprajita Kaushik
name: Krithiga Shridhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111202 Cancer Diagnosis
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Health Care
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Protocol for conducting the scoping review of published contemporary literature aiming at comparing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health service delivery and health systems across the continuum of care for cancer across developed regions and LMICs, with focus on India.
The path to instability in compact multi-planetary systems
Creators: name: Petit, Antoine C.
name: Pichierri, Gabriele
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
name: Johansen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical stability of tightly packed exoplanetary systems remains poorly understood. While for a two-planet system a sharp stability boundary exists, numerical simulations of three and more planet systems show that they can experience instability on timescales up to billions of years. Moreover, an exponential trend between the planet orbital separation measured in units of Hill radii and the survival time has been reported. While these findings have been observed in numerous numerical simulations, little is known of the actual mechanism leading to instability. Contrary to a constant diffusion process, planetary systems seem to remain dynamically quiescent for most of their lifetime before a very short unstable phase. In this work, we show how the slow chaotic diffusion due to the overlap of three-body resonances dominates the timescale leading to the instability for initially coplanar and circular orbits. While the last instability phase is related to scattering due to two-planet mean motion resonances (MMR), for circular orbits the two-planets MMR are too far separated to destabilize systems initially away from them. We develop an analytical model to generalize the empirical trend obtained for equal mass and equally-spaced planets to general systems. We obtain an analytical estimate of the survival time consistent with simulations over four orders of magnitude for the planet to star mass ratio $ε$, and 6 to 8 orders of magnitude for the instability time. We also confirm that measuring the orbital spacing in terms of Hill radii is not adapted and that the right spacing unit scales as $ε^{1/4}$. We predict that beyond a certain spacing, the three-planet resonances are not overlapped, which results in an increase of the survival time. We finally discuss the extension of our result to more general systems, containing more planets on initially non circular orbits.
description: Accepted in A&A. Added numerical tests with test particles and non uniform systems. A notebook as well as python scripts to reproduce the article figure are available at https://github.com/acpetit/PlanetSysSurvivalTime
Mobility in semiconducting carbon nanotubes at finite carrier density
Creators: name: Perebeinos, Vasili
name: Tersoff, J.
name: Avouris, Phaedon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors operate over a wide range of electron or hole density, controlled by the gate voltage. Here we calculate the mobility in semiconducting nanotubes as a function of carrier density and electric field, for different tube diameters and temperature. The low-field mobility is a non-monotonic function of carrier density, and varies by as much as a factor of 4 at room temperature. At low density, with increasing field the drift velocity reaches a maximum and then exhibits negative differential mobility, due to the non-parabolicity of the bandstructure. At a critical density $ρ_c\sim$ 0.35-0.5 electrons/nm, the drift velocity saturates at around one third of the Fermi velocity. Above $ρ_c$, the velocity increases with field strength with no apparent saturation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Thomsen, Peter: Die Palästinaliteratur
Creators: name: Rücker, Adolf
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1927): Oriens christianus, Band 24, Heft 1
Additional file 2 of Giving patients a voice: a participatory evaluation of patient engagement in Newfoundland and Labrador Health Research
Creators: name: Vat, Lidewij Eva
name: Warren, Mike
name: Goold, Susan
name: Everard (Bud) Davidge
name: Porter, Nicole
name: Schuitmaker-Warnaar, Tjerk Jan
name: Broerse, Jacqueline E. W.
name: Etchegary, Holly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Stakeholder engagement.
Contract design in agri-environmental schemes with fixed private transaction costs and countervailing incentives
Creators: name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agri-environmental schemes
subject: principal-agent
subject: countervailing incentives

description: The aim of this paper is to test the relevance of considering private fixed transaction costs for contract design of Agri-Environmental Schemes, when transaction costs are negatively correlated to marginal compliance costs. In order to do so, a principal-agent model of contract design under adverse selection, including fixed private transaction costs, is developed. The model is applied to the design of payments in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. The results show that fixed transaction costs in the range of those actually faced by farmers may significantly affect the optimal amount of environmental good to be produced by each farm type. In some cases, fixed transaction costs can even reverse the standard insight that more of a public good should be produced when the cost of its provision is lower (countervailing incentives). The results call for a higher attention to private transaction costs in the design of agri-environmental contracts.
Additional file 3 of Sweetened beverage taxes and changes in beverage price, imports and manufacturing: interrupted time series analysis in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Teng, Andrea
name: Puloka, Viliami
name: Genç, Murat
name: Filimoehala, Ofeina
name: Latu, Catherine
name: Lolomana’ia, Mohulamu
name: Osornprasop, Sutayut
name: Signal, Louise
name: Wilson, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. STROBE-nut Checklist: An extension of the STROBE statement for nutritional epidemiology.
Superconducting proximity effect and order parameter fluctuations in disordered and quasiperiodic systems
Creators: name: Rai, Gautam
name: Haas, Stephan
name: Jagannathan, Anuradha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the superconducting proximity effect in inhomogeneous systems in which a disordered or quasicrystalline normal-state wire is connected to a BCS superconductor. We self-consistently compute the local superconducting order parameters in the real space Bogoliubov-de Gennes framework for three cases, namely, when states are i) extended, ii) localized or iii) critical. The results show that the spatial decay of the superconducting order parameter as one moves away from the normal-superconductor interface is power law in cases i) and iii), stretched exponential in case ii). In the quasicrystalline case, we observe self-similarity in the spatial modulation of the proximity-induced superconducting order parameter. To characterize fluctuations, which are large in these systems, we study the distribution functions of the order parameter at the center of the normal region. These are Gaussian functions of the variable (case i) or of its logarithm (cases ii and iii). We give arguments to explain the characteristics of the distributions and their scaling with system size for each of the three cases.
Pipistrellus cadornae Thomas 1916
Creators: name: Bates, Paul J. J.
name: Nwe, Tin
name: Bu, Si Si Hla
name: Mie, Khin Mie
name: Swe, Khin Maung
name: Nyo, Nyo
name: Khaing, Aye Aye
name: Aye, Nu Nu
name: Toke, Yin Yin
name: Aung, Naing Naing
name: Thi, Mar Mar
name: Mackie, Iain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus cadornae

description: Pipistrellus cadornae
Thomas’s Pipistrelle
 Pipistrellus cadornae Thomas, 1916: 416; Pashok, 3,500’, Darjeeling, north-east India
 Previous records from Myanmar
Kachin State: Htingnan; Tasa Hku and Ningma (Hill, 1962). There are no new records.
 Descriptive characters
The hairs on the back are chestnut brown with slightly darker roots. On the underside, the tips are pale chestnut brown and the roots dark brown. Forearm length
 is 33.0– 36.6 mm (Table 4, external meas- urements based on specimens from Viet- nam in Bates et al., 1997; FA = 34.2–37.0 mm in Hendrichsen et al., 2001). The fifth metacarpal is about equal in length to the third and fourth. The penis is not greatly enlarged. The baculum, based on an ex- tralimital specimen from Vietnam is small, 2.5 mm in length, but robust. The shaft is curved downwards and is deeply grooved ventrally (Fig. 1F). There are two pro- nounced projections on each side of the base. The distal end is distinctively spoon- shaped. In the skull, the braincase is nar- row and rounded. The basioccipital area has a well defined central ridge running between the two cochleae but the basiocci- pital pits are virtually absent. The zygoma- ta are robust with a dorsal projection on each jugal bone. The second incisor (I3) at- tains the height of the secondary cusp of the first (I2) and is about equal in crown area. The first upper premolar (P2) is very small, about half or less the crown area of I2; it is situated in the recess formed by the upper canine (C1) and the second upper premolar (P4). The P2 of specimen BMNH.50.467 is minute, less than one quarter the crown area of I2. The first lower premolar (P2) is about two-thirds the crown area of the second (P4).
 Similar species
 Pipistrellus cadornae is distinguished from P. pulveratus and P. javanicus by its smaller first upper premolar (P2). The shape of the baculum is diagnostic.
 Ecology
 Pipistrellus cadornae was collected at 708 m a.s.l. at Tasa Hku, where it was ‘caught in a banana tree in a jungle’. It was also found at 920 m at Htinghnan in dry bamboo in ‘medium forest’ (information from the labels of specimens in The Natural History Museum, London).
description: Published as part of Bates, Paul J. J., Nwe, Tin, Bu, Si Si Hla, Mie, Khin Mie, Swe, Khin Maung, Nyo, Nyo, Khaing, Aye Aye, Aye, Nu Nu, Toke, Yin Yin, Aung, Naing Naing, Thi, Mar Mar & Mackie, Iain, 2005, A review of the genera Myotis, Ia, Pipistrellus, Hypsugo, and Arielulus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Myanmar (Burma), including three species new to the country, pp. 205-236 in Acta Chiropterologica 7 (2) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2005)7[205:AROTGM]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/3942897
Quantum Strings and Bethe Equations
Creators: name: Arutyunov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I briefly review the recently proposed construction of the Bethe ansatz which diagonalizes the Hamiltonian for quantum strings on AdS_5\times S^5 at large tension and restricted to the large charge states from a closed su(2) subsector.
description: Latex, 6 pages, Talk delivered at RTN Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Space-time and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions and EXT Workshop on Fundamental Interactions and the Structure of Spacetime, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 5-10 Sep 2004
Building public-private partnerships for agricultural innovation
Creators: name: Hartwich, Frank
name: Tola, Jaime
name: Engler, Alejandra
name: Gonzalez, Carolina
name: Ghezan, Graciela
name: Vazquez-Alvarado, Jorge M.P.
name: Silva, Jose Antonio
name: Espinoza Arellano, Jose De Jesus
name: Gottret, Maria Veronica
name: Hartwich, Frank
name: Tola, Jaime
name: Engler, Alejandra
name: Gonzalez, Carolina
name: Ghezan, Graciela
name: Vazquez-Alvarado, Jorge M.P.
name: Silva, Jose Antonio
name: Espinoza Arellano, Jose De Jesus
name: Gottret, Maria Veronica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Agricultural Innovations
subject: Latin American
subject: Public-private sector cooperation
subject: Agricultural Research
subject: Intellectual property

description: Public-private partnerships are a new way of carrying out research and development (R&D) in Latin America's agricultural sector. These partnerships spur innovation for agricultural development and have various advantages over other institutional arrangements fostering R&D. This report summarizes the experiences of a research project that analyzed 125 public-private research partnerships (PPPs) in 12 Latin American countries. The analysis indicates that several types of partnerships have emerged in response to the various needs of the different partners. Nevertheless, public-private partnerships are not always the most appropriate mechanism by which to carry out R&D and foster innovation in agriculture. Sometimes, it is more efficient to organize research via participatory projects or through research contracts.
OREBA: A Dataset for Objectively Recognizing Eating Behaviour and Associated Intake
Creators: name: Rouast, Philipp V.
name: Heydarian, Hamid
name: Adam, Marc T. P.
name: Rollo, Megan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic detection of intake gestures is a key element of automatic dietary monitoring. Several types of sensors, including inertial measurement units (IMU) and video cameras, have been used for this purpose. The common machine learning approaches make use of the labeled sensor data to automatically learn how to make detections. One characteristic, especially for deep learning models, is the need for large datasets. To meet this need, we collected the Objectively Recognizing Eating Behavior and Associated Intake (OREBA) dataset. The OREBA dataset aims to provide comprehensive multi-sensor data recorded during the course of communal meals for researchers interested in intake gesture detection. Two scenarios are included, with 100 participants for a discrete dish and 102 participants for a shared dish, totalling 9069 intake gestures. Available sensor data consists of synchronized frontal video and IMU with accelerometer and gyroscope for both hands. We report the details of data collection and annotation, as well as details of sensor processing. The results of studies on IMU and video data involving deep learning models are reported to provide a baseline for future research. Specifically, the best baseline models achieve performances of $F_1$ = 0.853 for the discrete dish using video and $F_1$ = 0.852 for the shared dish using inertial data.
description: To be published in IEEE Access
A Study on Leadership Traits in Emergence and Sustenance of Regional Political Parties in India
Creators: name: G.V. Sudhakar Reddy, P Premchand Babu
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Election Commission
Ethnicity
Regionalism
Key character traits
Effective leadership
Public supports
Headship traits
Leadership styles
Sustenance
Factors favouring regional political parties
Regional parties
National election
Elections in India.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 3, 12A3U: 1-10
Spectroscopic Studies of Very Metal-Poor Stars with the Subaru High Dispersion Spectrograph. III. Light Neutron-Capture Elements
Creators: name: Aoki, Wako
name: Honda, Satoshi
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Ando, Hiroyasu
name: Norris, John E.
name: Ryan, Sean G.
name: Izumiura, Hideyuki
name: Sadakane, Kozo
name: Takada-Hidai, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elemental abundance measurements have been obtained for a sample of 18 very metal-poor stars using spectra obtained with the Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph. Seventeen stars, among which 16 are newly analyzed in the present work, were selected from candidate metal-poor stars identified in the HK survey of Beers and colleagues. The metallicity range covered by our sample is -3.1 ~< [Fe/H] ~< -2.4. The abundances of carbon, alpha-elements, and iron-peak elements determined for these stars confirm the trends found by previous work. One exception is the large over-abundance of Mg, Al and Sc found in BS16934--002, a giant with [Fe/H] = -2.8. By combining our new results with those of previous studies, we investigate the distribution of neutron-capture elements in very metal-poor stars, focusing on the production of the light neutron-capture elements (e.g., Sr, Y, and Zr).
description: 52 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables, to appear in ApJ
A Method of Verifying Partition Congruences by Symbolic Computation
Creators: name: Radu, Cristian-Silviu
name: Smoot, Nicolas Allen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Conjectures involving infinite families of restricted partition congruences can be difficult to verify for a number of individual cases, even with a computer. We demonstrate how the machinery of Radu's algorithm may be modified and employed to efficiently check a very large number of cases of such conjectures. This allows substantial evidence to be collected for a given conjecture, before a complete proof is attempted.
description: To appear in the Journal of Symbolic Computation
Income Convergence and Growth in Alabama: Evidence from Sub-county Level Data
Creators: name: Gyawali, Buddhi Raj
name: Fraser, Rory
name: Banerjee, Ban
name: Bukenya, James O.
name: Gyawali, Buddhi Raj
name: Fraser, Rory
name: Banerjee, Ban
name: Bukenya, James O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Alabama
subject: African-Americans
subject: Black Belt
subject: Census Block Groups
subject: Income Convergence

description: 1980 and 2000 Census Block Group (CBG) data were used to examine income convergence in all Alabama counties vis-à-vis Alabama’s Black Belt and Northwest regions. Though all three models demonstrated conditional income convergence, CBGs with smaller initial populations, smaller changes in African-American or dependent age populations had higher income changes.
Vector and Axial-Vector correlators in a instanton-like quark model
Creators: name: Dorokhov, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of the vector Adler function at spacelike momenta is studied in the framework of a covariant chiral quark model with instanton-like quark-quark interaction. The model reproduces the Adler function and $V-A$ correlator extracted from the ALEPH and OPAL data on hadronic $τ$ lepton decays, transformed into the Euclidean domain via dispersion relations. The leading order contribution from hadronic part of the photon vacuum polarization to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_μ^{\mathrm{hvp}(1)} $, is estimated.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at MESON 2004: 8th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interactions, Cracow, Poland, 4-8 Jun 2004
Michels, Thomas: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Bischofsweihetages im christlichen Altertum und im Mittelalter
Creators: name: Mulder, Willem Johannes Maria
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 24 Nr. 1 (1927): Oriens christianus, Band 24, Heft 1
A Fast Certificate for Power System Small-Signal Stability
Creators: name: Gholami, Amin
name: Sun, Xu Andy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Swing equations are an integral part of a large class of power system dynamical models used in rotor angle stability assessment. Despite intensive studies, some fundamental properties of lossy swing equations are still not fully understood. In this paper, we develop a sufficient condition for certifying the stability of equilibrium points (EPs) of these equations, and illustrate the effects of damping, inertia, and network topology on the stability properties of such EPs. The proposed certificate is suitable for real-time monitoring and fast stability assessment, as it is purely algebraic and can be evaluated in a parallel manner. Moreover, we provide a novel approach to quantitatively measure the degree of stability in power grids using the proposed certificate. Extensive computational experiments are conducted, demonstrating the practicality and effectiveness of the proposal.
Additional file 1 of Giving patients a voice: a participatory evaluation of patient engagement in Newfoundland and Labrador Health Research
Creators: name: Vat, Lidewij Eva
name: Warren, Mike
name: Goold, Susan
name: Everard (Bud) Davidge
name: Porter, Nicole
name: Schuitmaker-Warnaar, Tjerk Jan
name: Broerse, Jacqueline E. W.
name: Etchegary, Holly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. GRIPP2 – Long form.
Discussione di alcuni articoli sulla fondazione di Augusta Taurinorum
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Piemonte Romano
Augusta Taurinorum
Julia Augusta Taurinorum
Torino
Archeologia
Storia di Torino
Fondazione di Torino
Iulia Augusta Taurinorum
Fondazione Augusta Taurinorum

description: Discussione di alcuni articoli sulla fondazione di Augusta Taurinorum, la colonia romana che è diventata l'odierna Torino.
description: Per quanto riguarda una panoramica su problematiche storiche ed archeologiche, si veda l'articolo di Roberto Scofienza, Torino in Età Augustea. Problematiche storiche e archeologiche, in "Bollettino della Società Piemontese di Archeologia e Belle Arti", LI, 1999 (2002), pp. 49-75. Per quanto riguarda la datazione di Torino, si veda "Sulla fondazione di Torino come Augusta Taurinorum, ovvero sulla sua datazione". Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4448191 dove viene illustrata la proposta di Guido Cossard (None di Febbraio),
Input-Output Analysis, Linear Programming and Modified Multipliers
Creators: name: Zhu, Erqian Julia
name: Kim, Man-Keun
name: Harris, Thomas R.
name: Zhu, Erqian Julia
name: Kim, Man-Keun
name: Harris, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Input-Output Analysis
subject: Multipliers
subject: Regional Impact Analysis

description: The input-output (IO) analysis explores changes in final demand through the regional economy using multipliers. However, it isn’t flexible to investigate the regional impact from the capacity limitations which are directly imposed on production, not final demand. This is because the multipliers are changing with exogenous restrictions on production. Conventionally, the IO analysis is performed assuming exogenous production restrictions being the changes in final demands or assuming the sector being exogenous sector like the final demand. If researchers or policy makers are interested in only economic impacts from production restrictions, there is no need to look into the modified multipliers. The modified multipliers should be considered when researchers and policy makers attempt to analyze the compensation of impact, especially recovery of loss using government expenditure. We suggest that the linear programming is a useful and efficient tool to derive modified multipliers and estimate correct regional impact from the policy changes.
The application of exhaust gas recirculation to a single cylinder compression ignition engine fuelled with natural gas
Creators: name: McTaggart-Cowan, Gordon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Reducing the emissions of Nitric Oxides from diesel engines is one of the main challenges facing diesel engine designers. Many different methods have been investigated for reducing NO₂ emissions, including exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and the high pressure direct injection (HPDI) of natural gas. Combining these two techniques offers the potential to reduce NO₂ emissions further than either method can individually. To test the effects of EGR on an HPDI engine, the University of British Columbia's Alternate Fuels Research Group recently received a new Cummins ISX heavy-duty truck engine, modified for single-cylinder operation. The new engine was commissioned on HPDI and a series of tests were run to compare its performance and emissions to a six-cylinder HPDI engine. These results showed good agreement for performance, but some significant differences in emissions between the two engines. Although emissions data are not directly transferable to a six-cylinder engine, the trends and general effects identified through testing on the single cylinder engine should be applicable to all HPDI engines. The new engine has also been used to study the combination of EGR and HPDI. While of a preliminary nature, the results indicate that significant NO₂ reductions can be achieved, with the greatest effects being found at low-speed, moderate-load operating conditions. Reductions in NO₂ emissions of as much as an order of magnitude were detected, but these extreme reductions came at the price of increased hydrocarbon emissions and reduced engine performance. More moderate reductions in NO₂ can be achieved with little penalty in either performance or emissions.
Production of $Θ^+$ Hypernuclei with the $(K^+,π^+)$ reaction
Creators: name: Nagahiro, H.
name: Hirenzaki, S.
name: Oset, E.
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results on the production of bound states of $Θ^+$ in nuclei using the $(K^+,π^+)$ reaction. By taking into account the states obtained within a wide range of strength of the $Θ^+$ nucleus optical potential, plus the possibility to replace different nucleons of the nucleus, we obtain an excitation spectra with clearly differentiated peaks. The magnitude of the calculated cross sections is well within reachable range.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, revised model used, added references, conclusion does not change
title: Managing Voyager in small libraries: working with Tomcat
Creators: name: Guy, Laura
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Voyager
subject: Tomcat
subject: Integrated library systems (Computer systems)
subject: Libraries

description: 94 Powerpoint slides and 1 related document.
description: Presentation delivered at the May 2011 Ex Libris Technical Seminar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Additional file 2 of Sweetened beverage taxes and changes in beverage price, imports and manufacturing: interrupted time series analysis in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Teng, Andrea
name: Puloka, Viliami
name: Genç, Murat
name: Filimoehala, Ofeina
name: Latu, Catherine
name: Lolomana’ia, Mohulamu
name: Osornprasop, Sutayut
name: Signal, Louise
name: Wilson, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Study protocol, also available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10523/9432 .