cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Uncovering the primary X-ray emission and possible starburst component in the polarized NLS1 Mrk 1239
Creators: name: Buhariwalla, Margaret Z.
name: Waddell, Sophia G. H.
name: Gallo, Luigi C.
name: Grupe, Dirk
name: Komossa, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray observations of the unique NLS1 galaxy Mrk 1239 spanning 18-years are presented. Data from XMM-Newton, Suzaku, Swift and NuSTAR are combined to obtain a broad-band, multi-epoch view of the source. There is spectral variability in the 3-10 keV band over the 18-years. An analysis of the NuSTAR and Suzaku light curves also suggests rapid variability in the 3-10 keV band, which is consistent with the NLS1 definition of the source. However, no variability is seen below 3 keV on any timescale. Two distinct physical models are adopted to describe the data above and below ~3 keV. The low energies are dominated by a hot, diffuse gas likely associated with a starburst component at large physical scales. The higher energy spectrum is dominated by emission from the central region. Ionised partial covering and relativistic blurred reflection are considered for the central region emission. In both cases, the underlying power law has a photon index of $Γ\sim2.3-2.4$. A distant reflector, a neutral partial covering component with a covering fraction near $\sim1$, and contributions from starburst emission are always required. The blurred reflection model requires a reflection dominated spectrum, which may be at odds with the low emissivity index and radio properties of the source. By contrast, the two absorption components required in the ionised partial covering model may correspond to the two distinct regions of polarization observed in the optical. Regardless of the physical model, spectral changes between epochs are driven by the absorption components and on short time scales by intrinsic AGN variability.
description: Accepted for publications in ApJ. 17 pages
Rural development policy and the provision of public goods: challenges for evaluation
Creators: name: Slee, William
name: Thomson, Kenneth J.
name: Slee, William
name: Thomson, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: public goods
subject: evaluation

description: Environmental “public goods” generated by agricultural land use are discussed in terms of their conceptual underpinnings and how they have been addressed to date in European Union policy for agriculture and rural development. The current debate on CAP reform has intensified the already considerable debate over how these goods should be valued, and how the relevant policy measures should be evaluated. Against this background, a number of methodological and practical issues for evaluation are discussed, including accounting for spatial scale and diversity, the estimation of use and non-use values, governance, potential conflict between “public goods” and their marketisation, and accounting for the marginal effects of rural development policy on environmental assets and their values.
Power-law dependence of the angular momentum transition fields in few-electron quantum dots
Creators: name: Anisimovas, E.
name: Matulis, A.
name: Tavernier, M. B.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the critical magnetic fields at which a few-electron quantum dot undergoes transitions between successive values of its angular momentum (M), for large M values follow a very simple power-law dependence on the effective inter-electron interaction strength. We obtain this power law analytically from a quasi-classical treatment and demonstrate its nearly-universal validity by comparison with the results of exact diagonalization.
description: Uses RevTeX4, 6 figures included in the text
Adopción y difusión de prácticas de no laboreo en el olivar de la provincia de Granada
Creators: name: Franco, Juan Agustin
name: Calatrava-Leyva, Javier
name: Franco, Juan Agustin
name: Calatrava-Leyva, Javier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Erosión
subject: no laboreo
subject: olivar
subject: adopción de tecnologías
subject: difusión de tecnologías.

description: En este trabajo se analiza el proceso de adopción del no laboreo en el olivar de la provincia de Granada utilizando información procedente de un sondeo realizado en 2005-2006 a 215 olivicultores. Se analiza en primer lugar el proceso de difusión agregada de las prácticas de no laboreo realizadas en la zona mediante la estimación de varios modelos de difusión temporal. A continuación se identifican, mediante la estimación de dos modelos probit, algunos factores que influyen en la adopción de dichas prácticas. Los resultados obtenidos muestran cómo las prácticas de no laboreo son realizadas por el 90% de los agricultores. Su difusión ha sido intensa desde mediados de los noventa, predominando el efecto imitación, basado en la interacción entre los agricultores de la zona, sobre otros factores externos. Algunos factores que influyen en la adopción de las diferentes prácticas de no laboreo son el regadío, la continuidad familiar de la explotación o la percepción que tiene el agricultor del problema de la erosión.
Kinetics of the chiral phase transition in a quark-meson $σ$-model
Creators: name: Meistrenko, Alex
name: van Hees, Hendrik
name: Greiner, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study an effective description in the 2PI effective-action formalism for systems of quarks and mesons in and out of equilibrium within a numerical approach is developed, allowing to approximate the complexity of QCD by taking only the lightest and most relevant degrees of freedom into account. In particular the temporarily building up of fluctuations of the net-baryon number encoded by the fourth-order cumulant (or the rescaled curtosis) for lower momenta is being demonstrated when the phase transition occurs near the critical point, or even stronger when the phase transition is of first order, although the initial system is prepared with purely Gaussian fluctuations in the net baryon number. This is the result of the evolving slow and critical order parameter, i.e., the $σ$-field. On the other hand, depending on the speed of the (Hubble-)expansion scale, the final dissipative evolution due to the collisions among the mesons, the quarks and anti-quarks and the order field weakens the final fluctuations considerably.
description: 84 pages, 24 figures
Association pour la promotion de SIK-ISEA
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA
Large-Scale Non-Gaussianities in the 21 cm Background Anisotropies From the Era of Reionization
Creators: name: Cooray, Asantha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The brightness temperature fluctuations in the 21 cm background related to neutral Hydrogen distribution provide a probe of physics related to the era of reionization when the intergalactic medium changed from a completely neutral to a partially ionized one. We formulate statistics of 21 cm brightness temperature anisotropies in terms of the angular power spectrum, the bispectrum, and the trispectrum. Using the trispectrum, we estimate the covariance related to the power spectrum measurements and show that correlations resulting from non-Gaussianities are below a percent, at most. While all-sky observations of the 21 cm background at arcminute-scale resolution can be used to measure the bispectrum with a cumulative signal-to-noise ratio of order a few ten, in the presence of foregrounds and instrumental noise related to first-generation interferometers, the measurement is unlikely to be feasible. For most purposes, non-Gaussianities in 21 cm fluctuations can be ignored and the distribution can be described with Gaussian statistics. Since 21 cm fluctuations are significantly contaminated by foregrounds, such as galactic synchrotron or low-frequency radio point sources, the lack of a significant non-Gaussianity in the signal suggests that any significant detection of a non-Gaussianity can be due to foregrounds. Similarly, in addition to frequency information that is now proposed to separate 21 cm fluctuations from foregrounds, if the non-Gaussian structure of foregrounds is a priori known, one can potentially use this additional information to further reduce the confusion.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Las preferencias discontinuas en los experimentos de elección: impacto en el cálculo de la prima de los programas agroambientales
Creators: name: Espinosa-Goded, Maria
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
name: Espinosa-Goded, Maria
name: Barreiro-Hurlé, Jesús
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Experimento de elección
subject: medidas agroambientales
subject: modelo logístico de parámetros aleatorios
subject: precios implícitos
subject: preferencias discontinuas.

description: En los experimentos de elección se presupone que los individuos consideran todos los atributos que describen un bien a la hora de escoger su opción preferida. Sin embargo, existe evidencia de que los individuos pueden obviar algún atributo. Este trabajo investiga el impacto derivado de las preferencias discontinuas en las estimaciones de la compensación necesaria para acogerse a la medida agroambiental relativa a la siembra de leguminosas en secano. La consideración de las preferencias discontinuas mejora la bondad de ajuste de los modelos, sin embargo únicamente afecta de manera significativa a la compensación demandada por uno de los cuatro atributos no monetarios que definen el programa agroambiental para la submuestra de los agricultores no participantes y en dos atributos para la submuestra de participantes en el programa agroambiental.
Negative heat-capacity at phase-separations in microcanonical thermostatistics of macroscopic systems with either short or long-range interactions
Creators: name: Gross, D. H. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional thermo-statistics address infinite homogeneous systems within the canonical ensemble. However, some 170 years ago the original motivation of thermodynamics was the description of steam engines, i.e. boiling water. Its essential physics is the separation of the gas phase from the liquid. Of course, boiling water is inhomogeneous and as such cannot be treated by conventional thermo-statistics. Then it is not astonishing, that a phase transition of first order is signaled canonically by a Yang-Lee singularity. Thus it is only treated correctly by microcanonical Boltzmann-Planck statistics. This was elaborated in the talk presented at this conference. It turns out that the Boltzmann-Planck statistics is much richer and gives fundamental insight into statistical mechanics and especially into entropy. This can be done to a far extend rigorously and analytically. The deep and essential difference between ``extensive'' and ``intensive'' control parameters, i.e. microcanonical and canonical statistics, was exemplified by rotating, self-gravitating systems. In the present paper the necessary appearance of a convex entropy $S(E)$ and the negative heat capacity at phase separation in small as well macroscopic systems independently of the range of the force is pointed out.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; contribution to the international conference "Next Sigma Phi" on news, expectations, and trends in statistical physics, Crete 2005
Personnes, chiffres, faits
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA
Scientific integrity, public policy and water governance in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
name: Grafton, R. Quentin
name: Williams, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: We examine the impediments to scientific integrity with an analysis of the water science-policy interface for the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia. We highlight the dangers to the public interest of ‘administrative capture’ of science, whereby scientists are incentivised to narrow or close down the scientific questions asked, the debates on evidence and the scientific dialogue so to support predetermined policy actions. Administrative capture of science is not intended to be objective or disinterested and contributes to a diminution of trust in science and scientists. Using an integrative theoretical framework for analysis of the different stances taken by scientists in science–policy interactions, we show how scientists as Issue Advocates have sought to limit debate and the options available in relation to water reform in the MDB. We provide six possible actions to reduce administrative capture that encourages scientists to become Issue Advocates. These actions include procedural, professional, evaluative, judicial, instrumental and external controls that support scientific integrity by individuals and agencies that use and/or undertake publicly funded research.
Metal-induced gap states in epitaxial organic-insulator/metal interfaces
Creators: name: Kiguchi, Manabu
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Yoshikawa, Genki
name: Tanida, Yoshiaki
name: Ikeda, Susumu
name: Entani, Shiro
name: Nakai, Ikuyo
name: Kondoh, Hiroshi
name: Ohta, Toshiaki
name: Saiki, Koichiro
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have shown, both experimentally and theoretically, that the metal-induced gap states (MIGS) can exist in epitaxially grown organic insulator/metal interfaces. The experiment is done for alkane/Cu(001) with an element-selective near edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS), which exhibits a pre-peak indicative of MIGS. An {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculation supports the existence of the MIGS. When the Cu substrate is replaced with Ni, an interface magnetism (spin-polarized organic crystal at the interface) is predicted to be possible with a carrier doping.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Who Gained and Who Lost from Zambia's 2010 Maize Marketing Policies?
Creators: name: Nkonde, Chewe
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Nkonde, Chewe
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: food security
subject: marketing
subject: agricultural policy
subject: zambia

description: Zambia's record-breaking maize harvest of nearly 2.8 million metric tons (MT) in 2010 is a major achievement and a testimony to what input subsidies, output price incentives, and favorable weather can do to elicit a major supply response. Maize-growing smallholders harvested more than in previous years and so have more to eat. Public markets are currently well stocked with maize grain, to the benefit of urban consumers and maize-buying rural households. Farmers who were able to sell their crop to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) at K65,000 per 50-kg bag, a price well above market levels, have clearly benefited from the bumper crop and FRA‟s involvement in maize marketing. The FRA‟s high buy price and purchase of nearly 900,000 MT of maize are also likely to have put upward pressure on market prices for maize. As a result, farmers who sold maize to private sector buyers may have benefited indirectly from the FRA‟s activities. However, the policies adopted by the Zambian government (GRZ) to handle the 2010 maize bumper crop have produced both winners and losers. This paper examines the key features of the 2010/11 GRZ maize marketing policies and their likely income distributional effects on various stakeholder groups: large-scale farmers, three categories of smallholder households (net sellers of maize, net buyers of maize, and those that neither buy nor sell maize), urban consumers, millers, traders, and government. We then propose a set of alternative policies GRZ could use to manage future maize bumper crops and explore the likely distributional effects of these policies on the various stakeholder groups.
Absolute negative refraction and imaging of unpolarized electromagnetic waves by two-dimensional photonic crystals
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Absolute negative refraction regions for both polarizations of electromagnetic wave in two-dimensional photonic crystal have been found through both the analysis and the exact numerical simulation. Especially, absolute all-angle negative refraction for both polarizations has also been demonstrated. Thus, the focusing and image of unpolarized light can be realized by a microsuperlens consisting of the two-dimensional photonic crystals. The absorption and compensation for the losses by introducing optical gain in these systems have also been discussed.
Paris suisse, pari d’artiste
Creators: name: Burkhalter, Sarah
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: Au lendemain de la Révolution, les artistes suisses font le pari de la capitale française. Des ateliers aux Salons, de cours en concours, ils sont plus de 400 à puiser dans les répertoires et réseaux parisiens. L’épicentre de leur cosmopolitisme? L’Ecole des beaux-arts.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA
Risk premiums and GM traits
Creators: name: Nolan, Elizabeth
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Nolan, Elizabeth
name: Santos, Paulo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Production functions
subject: yield
subject: risk
subject: skewness
subject: corn
subject: genetically modified traits

description: An argument in favor of the development of genetically modified (GM) hybrids is that their presence is considered to be risk decreasing. On this basis, insurance premiums for corn growers in the United States who plant approved hybrids have been reduced. In this study we investigate, using a large dataset of experimental data compiled from reports of results from experimental field trials of corn hybrids by the State Agricultural Extension Services of ten universities over 20 years, whether the presence in a corn hybrid of a GM trait, or a combination of these traits, is likely to increase or decrease risk. The effects of input use on production uncertainty can be quantified through the specification and estimation of heteroskedastic production functions that allow for the variance of yield to change with the level of inputs, and we follow this approach in this study. We also use the flexible moments approach of Antle (1983) to estimate skewness of yield. We estimate a production function for the whole sample, and for three ERS regions represented in the dataset. For each model we use the residuals of the mean function to estimate the marginal effect of each input on variance and skewness of yield. The results show that there is not a systematic relationship between the presence of GM traits and variance and skewness of yield, and the results are not entirely consistent between ERS regions.
Quasinormal modes and classical wave propagation in analogue black holes
Creators: name: Berti, Emanuele
name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Lemos, Jose' P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many properties of black holes can be studied using acoustic analogues in the laboratory through the propagation of sound waves. We investigate in detail sound wave propagation in a rotating acoustic (2+1)-dimensional black hole, which corresponds to the ``draining bathtub'' fluid flow. We compute the quasinormal mode frequencies of this system and discuss late-time power-law tails. Due to the presence of an ergoregion, waves in a rotating acoustic black hole can be superradiantly amplified. We compute superradiant reflection coefficients and instability timescales for the acoustic black hole bomb, the equivalent of the Press-Teukolsky black hole bomb. Finally we discuss quasinormal modes and late-time tails in a non-rotating canonical acoustic black hole, corresponding to an incompressible, spherically symmetric (3+1)-dimensional fluid flow.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, ReVTeX4; v2: minor modifications and corrections
The 6D SuperSwirl
Creators: name: Parameswaran, S. L.
name: Tasinato, G.
name: Zavala, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel supersymmetric solution to a nonlinear sigma model coupled to supergravity. The solution represents a static, supersymmetric, codimension-two object, which is different to the familiar cosmic strings. In particular, we consider 6D chiral gauged supergravity, whose spectrum contains a number of hypermultiplets. The scalar components of the hypermultiplet are charged under a gauge field, and supersymmetry implies that they experience a simple paraboloid-like (or 2D infinite well) potential, which is minimised when they vanish. Unlike conventional vortices, the energy density of our configuration is not localized to a string-like core. The solutions have two timelike singularities in the internal manifold, which provide the necessary boundary conditions to ensure that the scalars do not lie at the minimum of their potential. The 4D spacetime is flat, and the solution is a continuous deformation of the so-called ``rugby ball'' solution, which has been studied in the context of the cosmological constant problem. It represents an unexpected class of supersymmetric solutions to the 6D theory, which have gravity, gauge fluxes and hyperscalars all active in the background.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures, JHEP3 class. Typos corrected, analysis expanded, references added
Star Formation Timescales of the Halo Populations from Asteroseismology and Chemical Abundances
Creators: name: Matsuno, Tadafumi
name: Aoki, Wako
name: Casagrande, Luca
name: Ishigaki, Miho
name: Shi, Jianrong
name: Takata, Masao
name: Xiang, Maosheng
name: Yong, David
name: Li, Haining
name: Suda, Takuma
name: Xing, Qianfan
name: Zhao, Jingkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine asteroseismology, optical high-resolution spectroscopy, and kinematic analysis for 26 halo red giant branch stars in the \textit{Kepler} field in the range of $-2.52$), which constrains a relative age dispersion to $<18\%$, corresponding to $<2\,\mathrm{Gyr}$. The precise chemical abundances allow us to separate the stars with [{Fe}/{H}]$>-1.7$ into two [{Mg}/{Fe}] groups. While [$α$/{Fe}] and [{Eu}/{Mg}] ratios are different between the two subsamples, [$s$/Eu], where $s$ stands for Ba, La, Ce, and Nd, does not show a significant difference. These abundance ratios suggest that the chemical evolution of the low-Mg population is contributed by type~Ia supernovae, but not by low-to-intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch stars, providing a constraint on its star formation timescale as $100\,\mathrm{Myr}
description: 44 pages. accepted version
Using an ecosystem services approach to re-frame the management of flow constraints in a major regulated river basin
Creators: name: Kahan, Georgia
name: Colloff, Matthew
name: Pittock, Jamie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Worldwide, floodplains have been alienated from river channels for flood protection and water resource development, but several recent programs have restored connectivity, generating considerable ecological and , socio-economic benefits. In Australia, under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, water purchased from irrigators is used to restore wetlands. Maximising ecological benefits with limited water requires constraints relaxation, whereby high flow volumes for ecologically effective floods are released from headwater dams and allowed to flood public and private land en route to wetlands downstream, requiring infrastructure works and rights to inundate private land. We examined five focal areas in the Basin Constraints Management Strategy to determine ecosystem services benefits generated by floods on land between dams and target wetlands We found multiple examples where significant co-benefits could be realised but had not been identified. Accordingly, the assessment of costs and benefits was primarily focussed on costs. We categorised ecosystem services for each focal area as of low, medium or high importance andassigned monetary values where possible. Regulating and cultural services, rather than provisioning services, ranked highest across all focus areas, including groundwater recharge, regulation of riparian habitat quality, aesthetic appreciation, recreation and tourism, Indigenous and community values. The business cases seek to maximise costs and thus the transfer of public funds in compensation to landholders. However, there are important public policy considerations of equity, accountability and transparency, including proof of damage prior to compensation, as well as offsetting losses against ecosystem services benefits. We consider that an ecosystem services approach could greatly improve acceptance of constraints relaxation amongst landholders and the development of novel policy options and instruments that can help advance the implementation of the Basin Plan.
Halyzia nepalensis Canepari
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Halyzia
Halyzia nepalensis

description: Halyzia nepalensis Canepari
(Figs 79e–g, 80)
Halyzia nepalensis Canepari, 2003: 261 (Holotype female, NKME; Type locality: Nepal).— Poorani & Thangjam 2019: 549.
Diagnosis. Length: 7.00 mm; width: 5.50 mm. Form elongate oval (Fig. 79e–g) to slightly broader oval (Fig. 80), dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Ground colour bright lemon yellow in live specimens (Fig. 79e– g); pronotum with a pair of subtriangular brown spots on posterior margin above scutellar shield; elytral pattern characteristic with a broad sutural stripe from scutellar shield to apex and four ochreous to dark reddish brown spots on each elytron as follows: two elongate oval spots next to sutural stripe, first positioned below anterior margin and the second a little below midline, a longitudinal discal spot adjacent to the first two spots and the fourth spot located on lateral side a little above middle of elytra; all elytral maculae bordered white in live specimen (Fig. 79e); lateral borders of pronotum and elytra transparent. Underside yellowish. Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh); Nepal Himalayas; Bhutan; Myanmar.
Prey / associated habitat. It appears to be attracted to light [photos in (Fig. 79f, g) received from Lepidoptera collectors].
Notes. Poorani & Thangjam (2019) recorded it from India (Arunachal Pradesh) and Myanmar. For detailed description and genitalia illustrations, see Canepari (2003) and Dorji et al. (2021).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Optimal Timing of Farmland Investment - An Experimental Study on Farmers' Decision Behavior -
Creators: name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Experimental Economics
subject: Investment
subject: Real Options

description: Optimal timing of farmland investment represents fundamental decisions for agricultural entrepreneurs. It is known that the land price value is significantly higher than the expected present value of expected future gains. In this paper we experimentally analyze the investment behavior of real farmers and contrast the observed investment decisions with theoretical benchmarks of the classical investment theory and the Real Options Approach. Furthermore, we investigate framing effects. Our results show that the framing of the investment situation has no significant influence on the decision behavior in the experiment. Moreover, the investment behavior of farmers approximates the predictions of the Real Options Approach if they are given an equitable chance to learn from personal experience.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 5/26/11.
Multiple-channel security model and its implementation over SSL
Creators: name: Song, Yong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Multiple-Channel SSL (MC-SSL) is a new model and protocol to secure client-server communication. In contrast to SSL, which provides a single end-to-end secure channel, MCSSL can provide applications with multiple channels, and each channel can have a various number of application proxies, its own cipher suite and data flow direction. MC-SSL enjoys a few advantages over SSL including end-to-end security and selective security. This thesis first introduces the background and analyzes some security-related problems in client-server communications, especially when resource-constrained handheld devices are involved. The multiple-channel model of MC-SSL is then presented as a solution, and compared with other related work. This thesis further focuses on the protocol design and implementation of MC-SSL.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating a multicomponent program to improve hypertension control in Guatemala: study protocol for an effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial
Creators: name: Paniagua-Avila, Alejandra
name: Fort, Meredith P.
name: Glasgow, Russell E.
name: Gulayin, Pablo
name: Hernández-Galdamez, Diego
name: Kristyne Mansilla
name: Palacios, Eduardo
name: Peralta, Ana Lucia
name: Roche, Dina
name: Rubinstein, Adolfo
name: He, Jiang
name: Ramirez-Zea, Manuel
name: Irazola, Vilma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol.
Halyzia sanscrita Mulsant
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Halyzia
Halyzia sanscrita

description: Halyzia sanscrita Mulsant
(Figs 76, 78c, 81)
Halyzia sanscrita Mulsant, 1853a: 152 (Type locality: N. India).—Crotch 1874: 132; Korschefsky 1932: 571; Poorani 2002a: 342; Ren et al. 2009: 238; Yu 2010: 148.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.90–5.60 mm; width: 3.50–4.20 mm. Form (Figs 78c, 81a–g) elongate oval, dorsum convex and glabrous. Ground colour ochreous to yellowish brown with creamy white maculae on pronotum and elytra as follows: pronotum with five maculae, four on lateral sides and one elongate median one, elytral pattern consisting of narrow stripes and spots, sometimes confluent. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 76c) very short, incomplete, apically recurved. Male genitalia (Figs 76d, e; 81h–j) and spermatheca (Fig. 76f) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Northern and northwestern regions (Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh); Pakistan; Bhutan; Nepal; Tibet; China; Taiwan.
Prey/associated habitat. Feeds on mildews infecting Dalbergia sissoo, mulberry, pear, berseem, Abutilon indicum, etc.Also recorded as feeding on Cinara tujafilina (del Guercio), Cinara sp., Adelges sp. on silver fir. Beeson (1941), perhaps erroneously, reported it as feeding on the epidermis of leaves of D. sissoo, causing defoliation. Collected on mustard and peas (label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during August–April from different parts of north and northwestern India. Active during May–June in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2017).
Notes. See Mader (1934), Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) for more illustrations / description.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 117-118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Benchmarking Indigenous water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin: a crucial step towards developing water rights targets for Australia
Creators: name: Hartwig, Lana D
name: Markham, Francis
name: Jackson, Sue
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Australia’s ability to address Indigenous claims for water rights and to advance both national Indigenous and water policy is hampered by a lack of information on Indigenous water entitlements and the communities that hold them. This paper contributes to the policy agenda of increasing Indigenous water rights by developing a method that quantifies and enables spatially explicit comparison of Indigenous-held water within and across Murray-Darling Basin jurisdictions. We construct baselines for (i) Indigenous population (ii) Indigenous holdings of surface water entitlements, and (iii) Indigenous holdings of groundwater entitlements across water management units in the Basin. We estimate that Indigenous surface water holdings constitute no more than 0.17% of the equivalent permitted take across the entire Basin. Groundwater entitlements held by Indigenous entities constitute 0.02% of all available groundwater. The approximate market value of these water entitlements is A$19.2 million in 2015–16 terms, which equates to 0.12% of the total $16.5 billion market value. In contrast, 5.3% of the Murray-Darling Basin population is Indigenous, a proportion that is rapidly increasing. The production of estimates of this type, and Indigenous control of the data needed to generate them, are first steps in a reparations process that can contribute towards Indigenous water justice.
Additional file 1 of Contemporary public image of the nursing profession in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Elmorshedy, Hala
name: AlAmrani, Abrar
name: Hassan, Mona Hassan Ahmed
name: Fayed, Amel
name: Albrecht, Susan Ann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Histoire de l’art numérique: SIK-ISEA et la communauté des chercheurs prennent position
Creators: name: Krähenbühl, Regula
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: SIK-ISEA a organisé avec l’Université et l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Zurich une journée d’étude internationale sur l’histoire de l’art à l’ère du numérique. Le résultat, la «Déclaration zurichoise sur l’histoire de l’art numérique (2014)», a trouvé un large écho.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA
On Self Selection in PES Schemes
Creators: name: Russell, Noel P.
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Russell, Noel P.
name: Sauer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Payment for Environmental Services
subject: Self-Selection in PES Schemes
subject: UK Environmental Stewardship Schemes
subject: Beneficial Selection.

description: This paper investigates participation by farmers in the UK Environmental Stewardship Schemes and how decisions to join the scheme are related to land productivity levels on the one hand and ecological conservation on the other. In particular the paper will explore the extent to which the self selection of farmers onto the scheme influences likely scheme performance. The first part of the paper analyses a theoretical model for the provision of ecological services where an uninformed government agency offers to contracts to well-informed farmers. The results of this analysis indicate the extent to which self selection by farmers can impair the efficiency of PES schemes and point to specific strategies that might be used by a government agency to mitigate these effects. These results are used to motivate the empirical analysis of a sample of participants in the UK’s Environmental Stewardship Schemes (ESS). We use a comprehensive dataset for more than 10,000 ESS agreements over different years to estimate different regression models. The results of this preliminary analysis can inform policy makers on a more adequate design of conservation schemes with respect to positive and/or negative effects of self-selection.
Recherches technologiques sur la peinture de Cuno Amiet 1883–1914
Creators: name: Beltinger, Karoline
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: Dans le passé, les travaux consacrés à la peinture de Cuno Amiet portaient généralement sur les idées sous-jacentes à ses oeuvres et sur leur apparence extérieure. Ce n’est que depuis peu que des analyses fondées sur la technologie de l’art abordent aussi la dimension matérielle de cette production.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA
การผลิตเซลล์ตรึงไซยาโนแบคทีเรียออสซิลลาทอเรีย ในการเพิ่มปริมาณออกซิเจนในน้ำเสียสังเคราะห์
Creators: name: สุรศักดิ์ ละลอกน้ำ
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2021
Subjects: เซลล์ตรึง
ไซยาโนแบคทีเรีย
ออกซิเจนละลายน้ำ

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 18, 2, 16-23
A Two Stage Generalized Block Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (TSGBOMP) Algorithm
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Samrat
name: Chakraborty, Mrityunjoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recovery of an unknown sparse signal from a few of its projections is the key objective of compressed sensing. Often one comes across signals that are not ordinarily sparse but are sparse blockwise. Existing block sparse recovery algorithms like BOMP make the assumption of uniform block size and known block boundaries, which are, however, not very practical in many applications. This paper addresses this problem and proposes a two step procedure, where the first stage is a coarse block location identification stage while the second stage carries out finer localization of a non-zero cluster within the window selected in the first stage. A detailed convergence analysis of the proposed algorithm is carried out by first defining the so-called pseudoblock-interleaved block RIP of the given generalized block sparse signal and then imposing upper bounds on the corresponding RIC. We also extend the analysis for complex vector as well as matrix entries where it turns out that the extension is non-trivial and requires special care. Furthermore, assuming real Gaussian sensing matrix entries, we find a lower bound on the probability that the derived recovery bounds are satisfied. The lower bound suggests that there are sets of parameters such that the derived bound is satisfied with high probability. Simulation results confirm significantly improved performance of the proposed algorithm as compared to BOMP.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Theory of valuations on manifolds, I. Linear spaces
Creators: name: Alesker, Semyon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is the first part of a series of articles where we are going to develop theory of valuations on manifolds generalizing the classical theory of continuous valuations on convex subsets of a linear space. In this article we still work only with linear spaces. We introduce a space of smooth (non-translation invariant) valuations on a finite dimensional linear space. We present three descriptions of this space. We describe the canonical multiplicative structure on it generalizing the results for polynomial valuations obtained by the author in Geom. Funct. Anal. 14 (2004).
description: 24 pages, revised version
Pricing Attributes of Wines from Emerging Suppliers on the British Columbia Market
Creators: name: Yoo, Veronica
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Carew, Richard
name: Yoo, Veronica
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Carew, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: hedonic pricing
subject: objective characteristics
subject: New World countries
subject: wine

description: We examine British Columbia (BC) wine consumers’ valuation of wine imported from emerging suppliers (Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia and Hungary) through the estimation of a hedonic price function. Retail sales data employed in this study comes from the BC Liquor Distribution Branch and covers weekly sales of table wine that was imported from all five countries into the province of British Columbia. The results indicate that the grape variety is an important factor influencing consumers’ willingness to pay. In particular, white and red wines from Chile are associated with larger price premia while wines from Argentina command a premium only among red wines. Wines from Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary, although sold in large quantities in the BC market, are associated with significant price discounts compared to wines from New World suppliers.
Untimely passages : young adult daughters share their experiences of parental cancer
Creators: name: Puterman, Jennifer Katzenstein
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Parental cancer during young adulthood is often unexpected and potentially disruptive to the developmental goals of this period. This study explored how young adult women experienced a parent's cancer diagnosis and treatment. Five young adult participants, who had a parent receiving cancer treatment, were interviewed for this research. The interactive interview format, derived from an autoethnographic approach, allowed the researcher to include her own experiences of her mother's cancer in the data and analysis. Themes arising from the data included: (1) time, (2) the meaning of cancer, (3) coping, (4) relationships and interaction, (5) family relationships, and (6) spirituality and hope. Although parental cancer presents numerous challenges, the experience appears to become a learning opportunity incorporated into development. Overall, young adult daughters demonstrated resiliency and adaptability in response to their parents' illnesses, and managed to negotiate their own needs while continuing to provide support to their parents and families.
Tuning quantum transport by controlling spin reorientations in Dirac semimetal candidates Eu$_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$MnSb$_{2}$
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Liu, Jinyu
name: Cao, Huibo
name: Phelan, W. Adam
name: DiTusa, J. F.
name: Tennant, D. Alan
name: Mao, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic topological semimetals have attracted intense attention recently since these materials carry a great promise for potential applications in novel spintronic devices. Here, we report an intimate interplay between lattice, Eu magnetic order and topological semimetallic behavior in Eu$_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$MnSb$_{2}$ driven by nonmagnetic Sr doping on magnetic Eu site. Different types of Eu spin reorientations are controllable by the Sr concentration, temperature or magnetic field, and coupled to the quantum transport properties of Dirac fermions generated by the 2D Sb layers. Our study opens a new pathway to achieving exotic magnetic order and topological semimetallic state via controlling spin reorientation. The effective strategy of substituting rare-earth site by nonmagnetic element demonstrated here may be applicable to the AMnCh$_{2}$ (A=rare-earth elements; Ch=Bi/Sb) family and a wide variation of other layered compounds involving spatially separated rare-earth and transition metal layers.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, plus supplementary materials
การสกัดเซลลูโลสจากไซยาโนแบคทีเรียนอสตอกเพื่อเป็นแหล่งพลังงานทางเลือก
Creators: name: สุรศักดิ์ ละลอกน้ำ
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2021
Subjects: ไซยาโนแบคทีเรีย
เซลลูโลส
ผลผลิต

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 18, 2, 24-32
Catalogue raisonné des peintures de Cuno Amiet
Creators: name: Müller, Franz
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2022

description: Le 4 mars 2015, SIK-ISEA a présenté le catalogue raisonné des peintures de Cuno Amiet. La version papier porte sur les oeuvres de 1883 à 1919, qui font l’objet de commentaires détaillés, alors que la version en ligne recense également les peintures réalisées de 1920 à la mort d’Amiet en 1961.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2015: Jahresbericht 2014 SIK-ISEA