cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Chart of Some Place
Creators: name: Beck, London
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

“The Chart of Some Place” explores grief, loss, loneliness through the lens of poetry. Split into four sections, like different stages of grief, the poems in each section represent different eras of the speakers life. The “Place” that is referred throughout is in reference to a small farming town in Utah. The relationships built throughout a span of three years and an abrupt separation led to reminiscent grief and an abundance of lost love and friendship.
GRINGA-RICAN
Creators: name: Ruiz-Robles, Ashley M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Gringa-Rican is a collection of short stories told through the lens of various female, Puerto Rican protagonists. They highlight the duality of one’s existence, when one is from neither here nor there. The stories explore ideas of dislocation, assimilation and identity, through a Puerto Rican family that moves from their home island to the United States. I was inspired to write these stories because of my own family’s pursuit of the American Dream. This thesis is, in part, a labor of love. Growing up, there were not many stories with families like mine. For this reason, when I decided I wanted to be a writer, I found myself trying to depict someone I wasn’t. I did not feel like I could truly write about my experience in the diaspora, because it did not matter. Eventually, this changed when I read books like We the Animals by Justin Torres, When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. For the first time, I saw myself as someone with a story worthy of being written and read. This collection is the product of years of writing, drafting and editing. I have laughed and cried, worried and dreamed. Now, I send it off to the world hoping that my work inspires others. I hope that these stories serve as both mirrors and windows. I hope that these characters, these lives I’ve created, feel as real to the reader as they do to me.
Impact of Innovativeness and Environmental Stewardship on Adoption of Energy Crops
Creators: name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energgy Crops
subject: Innovativeness
subject: Environmental Stewardship
subject: Ordered Probit

description: The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 set a renewable fuel standard of 36 billion gallons of biofuel production by 2022, of which 21 billion gallons are to come from cellulosic sources, such as Switchgrass and Miscanthus.The objective of this study is to measure the impact of innovativeness and environmental stewardship on farmers’ willingness to grow Switchgrass and Miscanthus.The results of the current study show that innovative farmers are not more willing to grow Switchgrass or Miscanthus than late adopters and laggards. Farmers’ environmental stewardship is found to have a negative impact on willingness to grow Switchgrass and Miscanthus
Portable Day
Creators: name: Cocking, Cameron
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

The aim of these poems is to evidence that the self neither contains nor is contained, that the self is persistently, turbulently multiple, that the self is not prior to but constituted by its entanglements, that the self is constantly made and unmade in a common, general incompleteness of process. These poems are ‘about’ entanglements. And entanglement, as Fred Moten and Karen Barad might say, is not the joining or fusing of separate, individual entities but the refusal of separateness, of individuation. The person who writes the poetry, the individual, can and does emerge, all the time, into the world and life, but this emergence does not happen once and for all. The individual person is continuously made and unmade through each intra-action, including the very one through which they came into existence, and, undergoing such constant differentiation, ‘the person now’ and ‘the person then’, the person ‘here’ and the person ‘there,’ the person who writes the poetry and the larger personhood they find and are found by in the writing of poetry, are impossible to separate. The poem evidences this entanglement, and in so doing enacts a spectrum of possibility that precedes and evades its regulation into separate categories.
Alpha MAML: Adaptive Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
Creators: name: Behl, Harkirat Singh
name: Baydin, Atılım Güneş
name: Torr, Philip H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is a meta-learning technique to train a model on a multitude of learning tasks in a way that primes the model for few-shot learning of new tasks. The MAML algorithm performs well on few-shot learning problems in classification, regression, and fine-tuning of policy gradients in reinforcement learning, but comes with the need for costly hyperparameter tuning for training stability. We address this shortcoming by introducing an extension to MAML, called Alpha MAML, to incorporate an online hyperparameter adaptation scheme that eliminates the need to tune meta-learning and learning rates. Our results with the Omniglot database demonstrate a substantial reduction in the need to tune MAML training hyperparameters and improvement to training stability with less sensitivity to hyperparameter choice.
description: 6th ICML Workshop on Automated Machine Learning (2019)
Microscopic foundations of nuclear supersymmetry
Creators: name: Geyer, Hendrik B
name: Cejnar, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a microscopic framework for phenomenological boson-fermion models of nuclear structure based on the U($n/m$) type of superalgebras. The generalized Dyson mapping of fermion collective superalgebras provides a basis to do so and to understand how collectivity selects the required preservation of boson plus fermion number as a good quantum number. We also consider the difference between dynamical and invariant supersymmetries based on possible supermultiplets of spectra of neighboring odd and even nuclei. We point out that different criteria exist for choosing the appropriate single particle transfer operators in the two cases and discuss a microscopically based method to construct these operators in the case of dynamical supersymmetry.
description: 8 pages LaTeX. To appear in Proceedings of CGS11; 11th International Symposium on Capture Gamma Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, Prague, 2-6 Sept 2002
Stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma – a systematic review on outcome
Creators: name: M. Dobrzycka
name: P. Spychalski
name: O. Rostkowska
name: M. Wilczyński
name: P. Kobiela
name: M. Grąt
name: V. Dell’Acqua
name: M. Høyer
name: B. A. Jereczek-Fossa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence is rising worldwide, especially due to increased detection of early-stage or small-sized tumors. Nevertheless, most of the patients are still not qualified for surgical resection at diagnosis due to the localization of the tumor, underlying liver disease or comorbidities. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a radiotherapy modality which can deliver a high dose of radiation to the target tissue with a high degree of precision. It shows promise in terms of efficacy and morbidity. Material and methods: The aim of this systematic review is to summarize current knowledge on patient-specific outcomes of SBRT for small HCC including overall survival, local control, the effect of dose escalation and the toxicity of the treatment. The systematic review was performed according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). After a comprehensive database search, 16 studies (973 patients with 1034 lesions) were included in qualitative and quantitative analyses; 14 of them were retrospective. Results: Average tumor diameter was 23 mm and 95% of patients were in good general condition. Median BED10 (biologically equivalent dose calculated for α/β ratio of 10 Gy) was 100 Gy (range 59.5–180 Gy). Mean weighted local control across studies was 94%, 92% and 93% at 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively. Mean weighted overall survival across studies was 90.9%, 67.5% and 73.4% at 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively. There were 171 grade 1–2 toxicities (17.5%) and 53 ≥ grade 3 toxicities (5.3%). There was no treatment-associated mortality. Conclusion: SBRT offers high local control with overall survival that is comparable with radiofrequency ablation and surgery. Quality of findings, especially on toxicities, is decreased by incomplete reporting and retrospective designs of published studies. Therefore, there is a need for better reporting and prospective studies to univocally recommend SBRT as a definitive treatment option in the guidelines for small HCCs.
Analysis of cohort stepped wedge cluster-randomized trials with non-ignorable dropout via joint modeling
Creators: name: Gasparini, Alessandro
name: Crowther, Michael J.
name: Hoogendijk, Emiel O.
name: Li, Fan
name: Harhay, Michael O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial (CRTs) designs randomize clusters of individuals to intervention sequences, ensuring that every cluster eventually transitions from a control period to receive the intervention under study by the end of the study period. The analysis of stepped wedge CRTs is usually more complex than parallel-arm CRTs due to more complex intra-cluster correlation structures. A further challenge in the analysis of closed-cohort stepped wedge CRTs, which follow groups of individuals enrolled in each period longitudinally, is the occurrence of dropout. This is particularly problematic in studies of individuals at high risk for mortality, which causes non-ignorable missing outcomes. If not appropriately addressed, missing outcomes from death will erode statistical power, at best, and bias treatment effect estimates, at worst. Joint longitudinal-survival models can accommodate informative dropout and missingness patterns in longitudinal studies. Specifically, within the joint longitudinal-survival modeling framework, one directly models the dropout process via a time-to-event submodel together with the longitudinal outcome of interest. The two submodels are then linked using a variety of possible association structures. This work extends linear mixed-effects models by jointly modeling the dropout process to accommodate informative missing outcome data in closed-cohort stepped wedge CRTs. We focus on constant intervention and general time-on-treatment effect parametrizations for the longitudinal submodel and study the performance of the proposed methodology using Monte Carlo simulation under several data-generating scenarios. We illustrate the methodology in practice by reanalyzing data from the 'Frail Older Adults: Care in Transition' (ACT) trial, a stepped wedge CRT of a multifaceted geriatric care model versus usual care in 35 primary care practices in the Netherlands.
Introduction of New Technologies in Agriculture: A Study of the Challenges in the Adoption of Hybrid Rice in India
Creators: name: Khandker, Varsha
name: Gandhi, Vasant P.
name: Khandker, Varsha
name: Gandhi, Vasant P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Rice is India’s number one foodgrain and is crucial to its food security. Raising its production with increasing demand and escalating commodity prices is a major challenge. The promising hybrid rice technology, despite its success in neighboring China and Bangladesh, has faced serious difficulties in India. The study examines the complexities in the introduction and adoption behavior of hybrid rice. It develops a conceptual framework to understand the adoption which includes technological, economic, behavioral, market and policy factors. The research uses secondary data, interviews, and primary farmer sample surveys to explore and test the conceptual model. Preliminary specific findings on the processes, determinants and challenges in the adoption of hybrid rice are reported. This would help in identifying critical factors and recommendations of relevance to this and other such technologies.
Chiral effective theory of strong interactions
Creators: name: Ioffe, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The review of chiral effective theory (CET) is given. CET is based on quantum chromodynamics and describes the processes of strong interaction at low energies. It is proved, that CET comes as a consequence of the spontaneous violation of chiral symmetry in QCD - the appearance of chiral symmetry violating vacuum condensates. The Goldstone theorem for the case of QCD is proved and the existence of the octet of massless Goldstone bosons (pi, K, eta) is demonstrated in the limit of massless u,d,s quarks (or the triplet of massless pions in the limit m_u,m_d->0). It is shown, that the same phenomenon - the appearance of quark condensate in QCD - which causes the Goldstone bosons, results in appearance of violating chiral symmetry massive baryons. The general form of CET Lagrangian is derived. Few examples of higher order corrections to tree diagrams in CET are given. The Wess-Zumino term (of order p^4 term in CET Lagrangian) is presented. Low energy sum rules are presented. QCD and CET at finite temperature are discussed. In the framework of CET the T^2 correction to quark condensate in QCD at finite temperature T is calculated and the results of higher order temperature corrections are demonstrated. These results indicate on phase transition in QCD at T \sim 150-200 MeV. The mixing of current correlators in order T^2 is proved.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures
Spatially dependent node regularity in meshless approximation of partial differential equations
Creators: name: Rot, Miha
name: Jančič, Mitja
name: Kosec, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we address a way to reduce the total computational cost of meshless approximation by reducing the required stencil size through spatially varying computational node regularity. Rather than covering the entire domain with scattered nodes, only regions with geometric details are covered with scattered nodes, while the rest of the domain is discretized with regular nodes. A simpler approximation can be used in regions covered by regular nodes, effectively reducing the required stencil size and computational cost compared to the approximation on scattered nodes where a set of polyharmonic splines is added to ensure convergent behaviour.
 This paper is an extended version of conference paper entitled "Spatially-varying meshless approximation method for enhanced computational efficiency" [arXiv:2303.01760] presented at "International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2023". The paper is extended with discussion on development and implementation of a hybrid regular-scattered node positioning algorithm (HyNP). The performance of the proposed HyNP algorithm is analysed in terms of separation distance and maximal empty sphere radius. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that HyNP nodes can be used for solving problems from fluid flow and linear elasticity, both in 2D and 3D, using meshless methods. The extension also provides additional analyses of computational efficiency and accuracy of the numerical solution obtained on the spatially-variable regularity of discretization nodes. In particular, different levels of refinement aggressiveness and scattered layer widths are considered to exploit the computational efficiency gains offered by such solution procedure.
description: 36 pages, 23 figures; Submitted to the Journal of Computational Science as an extension of arXiv:2303.01760. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2303.01760
Composite two-particle sources
Creators: name: Moskalets, Michael
name: Kotilahti, Janne
name: Burset, Pablo
name: Flindt, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-particle sources constitute an interesting new paradigm following the recent development of on-demand single-electron sources. Versatile devices can be designed using several single-electron sources, possibly of different types, coupled to the same quantum circuit. However, if combined \textit{non-locally} to avoid cross-talk, the resulting architecture becomes very sensitive to electronic decoherence. To circumvent this problem, we here analyse two-particle sources that operate with several single-electron (or hole) emitters attached in series to the same electronic waveguide. We demonstrate how such a device can emit exactly two electrons without exciting unwanted electron-hole pairs if the driving is adiabatic. Going beyond the adiabatic regime, perfect two-electron emission can be achieved by driving two quantum dot levels across the Fermi level of the external reservoir. If a single-electron source is combined with a source of holes, the emitted particles can annihilate each other in a process which is governed by the overlap of their wave functions. Importantly, the degree of annihilation can be controlled by tuning the emission times, and the overlap can be determined by measuring the shot noise after a beam splitter. In contrast to a Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment, the wave functions overlap close to the emitters and not after propagating to the beam splitter, making the shot noise reduction less susceptible to electronic decoherence.
description: contribution to the Special Issue on "New directions in the physics of one-dimensional electron systems"
Trochosa C. L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Trochosa

description: Genus Trochosa C.L. Koch, 1847
 Trochosa C.L. Koch, 1847: 95. Type species: Aranea lupus ruricola De Geer, 1778, from Europe.
Remarks. Currently, 92 species are known worldwide, of which 15 species are reported from China (WSC, 2020).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Entanglement Swapping of Generalized Cat States and Secret Sharing
Creators: name: Karimipour, Vahid
name: Bagherinezhad, Saber
name: Bahraminasab, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce generalized cat states for d-level systems and obtain concise formulas for their entanglement swapping with generalized Bell states. We then use this to provide both a generalization to the d-level case and a transparent proof of validity for an already proposed protocol of secret sharing based on entanglement swapping
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, REVTEX
Laser control of magnonic topological phases in antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Nakata, Kouki
name: Kim, Se Kwon
name: Takayoshi, Shintaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered as a time-periodic perturbation, we apply the Floquet theory and perform the inverse frequency expansion by focusing on the high frequency region. Using the obtained effective Floquet Hamiltonian, we study nonequilibrium magnon dynamics away from the adiabatic limit and its effect on topological phenomena. We show that a linearly polarized laser can generate helical edge magnon states and induce the magnonic spin Nernst effect, whereas a circularly polarized laser can generate chiral edge magnon states and induce the magnonic thermal Hall effect. In particular, in the latter, we find that the direction of the magnon chiral edge modes and the resulting thermal Hall effect can be controlled by the chirality of the circularly polarized laser through the change from the left-circular to the right-circular polarization. Our results thus provide a handle to control and design magnon topological properties in the insulating AF.
description: 6+4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Lambda and Sigma0 Pair Production in Two-Photon Collisions at LEP
Creators: name: L3 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strange baryon pair production in two-photon collisions is studied with the L3 detector at LEP. The analysis is based on data collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 91 GeV to 208 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 844 pb-1. The processes gamma gamma -> Lambda Anti-lambda and gamma gamma -> Sigma0 Anti-sigma0 are identified. Their cross sections as a function of the gamma gamma centre-of-mass energy are measured and results are compared to predictions of the quark-diquark model.
Economic implications of an ageing population
Creators: name: Ferguson, Brian Stephen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Aging Economic aspects Mathematical models
subject: Consumption (Economics) Mathematical models

description: This thesis is a theoretical investigation of economic implications of population ageing of the sort experienced in Canada, Australia and the United States as a result of the post-war baby boom. It analyses distributional effects in the framework of Samuelson’s consumption-loan model, and uses simulation techniques to study the behavior of models containing several age groups. After a general discussion of the effects of population ageing the thesis considers the structure of the consumption-loan model and the form of the consumption functions to be used in the analysis that follows. We then undertake qualitative analysis of a small consumption-loan system, which provides insights into the behavior of the interest rate but is too small to display realistic demographic dynamics. From there we go to simulation analysis of larger systems, one a pure consumption-loan system in which age specific incomes are exogenous and the other a model in which age specific income is determined by a neoclassical production function with capital and several ages of labour as inputs. We run simulations on this last system using current projections of the Canadian population to the year 2026. The major conclusion of the thesis, demonstrated in the final simulations, is that the distributional effects of the post war baby boom operate against the baby boom cohorts not only when they reach the older years but through their entire working lives.
Size and Distribution of Research Benefits in the Australian Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Liu, Esther
name: Tarrant, Katherine A.
name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Liu, Esther
name: Tarrant, Katherine A.
name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Griffith, Garry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Australian dairy industry
subject: research evaluation
subject: equilibrium displacement model

description: An equilibrium displacement model of the Australian dairy industry is being developed for estimating the net benefits from dairy research undertaken by DPI Victoria. In this initial version, the dairy industry is represented by a system of aggregate demand and supply relationships for two input sectors, raw milk and milk processing inputs, and three output sectors, export and domestic manufactured milk and domestic fluid milk. Quantities and prices are calibrated in terms of milk equivalents. The vertical and horizontal disaggregation of the industry in the model enables the distribution of benefits from farmers to consumers to be assessed. The results for a 1% hypothetical shift in the supply curve in the farm and processing sectors are presented. Sensitivity analysis is also conducted for the uncertain elasticity values specified in the model.
Design of galardine analogs as putative psudolysin inhibitors based on ab initio fragment molecular orbital calculations
Creators: name: Ezawa, Takuya
name: Sugiyama, Satoshi
name: Ara, Ayami
name: Ingebrigt Sylte
name: Kurita, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Pseudolysin (PLN) is a metalloproteinase secreted from bacteria that degrades extracellular proteins to produce bacterial nutrition. It is thus expected that inhibitors against PLN can suppress the growth of bacteria and their pandemic spread. In addition, since these inhibitors do not attack to bacteria directly, there is a reduced risk for producing drug-resistant bacteria. On the other hand, as PLN has large structural similarity in the active sites with human matrix-metalloproteinases (MMPs), there is a possibility that the inhibitors for PLN also inhibit MMP activity, resulting in a loss of necessary nutrients to be produced by MMPs. Therefore, it is required the agents inhibiting the activity of only PLN not MMPs. In the present study, we employed a hydroxamate compound galardin, which has a significant inhibition effect against PLN and MMP, and investigated its specific interactions with PLN/MMP at atomic and electronic levels, by use of ab initio molecular simulations. Based on the results, we proposed several derivatives of galardin and elucidated which derivatives that can bind more strongly to PLN and be putative antimicrobial agents capable of inhibiting the PLN activity. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Trochosa honggiana Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong 2012
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Lu, Tian
name: Cai, Ducheng
name: Barrion, Alberto Tomas
name: Heong, Kong-Luen
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Trochosa
Trochosa honggiana

description: Trochosa honggiana Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2012 (Figs 61A–C, 62A–B)
 Trochosa honggiana Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2012: 20, figs 21A–B (♀).
Material examined. 1♀ (holotype), Haiko, Honggi Village, 9.IV.2011, A. T. Barrion, J.L.A. Catindig & S.C. Villareal leg. (HANU).
 Diagnosis. The female of this species is similar to T. ruricoloides Schenkel, 1963 (Figs 63G–H, 65C–D) but differs by the robust septum and the large spermathecal heads of the epigyne (Figs 61B–C, 62A–B).
Description. Female (Fig. 61A) total length 21.97. Carapace 8.23 long, 6.21 wide; opisthosoma 12.29 long, 7.44 wide. Carapace brown. Eye region black. Cervical groove and radial furrows indistinct. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.30, ALE 0.26, PME 0.75, PLE 0.61; AME–AME 0.21, AME–ALE 0.15, PME–PLE 0.69. Clypeus height 0.71. Chelicerae elongate, black-brown. Labium black-brown. Endites black-brown, longer than wide. Sternum black-brown and scutellate, with brown setae. Legs brown, with black pigmentation. Leg measurements: I 22.44 (6.58, 8.06, 4.68, 3.12); II 20.52 (5.86, 7.08, 4.31, 3.27); III 19.17 (5.15, 6.32, 4.68, 3.02); IV 27.38 (7.17, 8.94, 7.56, 3.71). Opisthosoma oval. Dorsum of opisthosoma grey-brown, cardiac mark indistinct. Ventrum black.
Epigyne (Figs 61B–C, 62A–B). Septum broad, inverse T-shaped. Spermathecal heads large and round, spermathecal stalks wide, only constricted near spermathecal heads. Fertilization ducts short.
Male unknown.
Distribution. China (Hainan).
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Lu, Tian, Cai, Ducheng, Barrion, Alberto Tomas, Heong, Kong-Luen, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2021, Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 16-74 in Zoological Systematics 46 (1) on pages 61-64, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021102, http://zenodo.org/record/5366340
Goniocolletes parvus Maynard 2013, sp.n.
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Goniocolletes
Goniocolletes parvus

description: Goniocolletes parvus sp.n.
 Types
 Goniocolletes parvus — South Australia: holotype ♂, 20 miles (32 k) NE Eucla, 21.i.1970, T.F. Houston, off Eucalyptus oleosa (SAM); paratypes, 5♀, same data as holotype (SAM).
 Additional material examined: 3♀, 9♂ Queensland: 5km E Mt Isa. Victoria: 19km S Murrayville. South Australia: Orroroo; Mt Pleasant; Hartley; Sherlock; 6 k N Rendelsham.
 Months collected: January, February, March, December..
 Floral visitations: Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus argillacea, Eucalyptus oleosa, Eucalyptus socialis, Eucalyptus brachycalyx, Eucalyptus spp., Melaleuca lanceolatum; Scrophlariaceae: Myoporum platycarpum.
 Female —Length ca 11 mm; head and mesosoma black; metasoma orange with dark patches. Head— Facial fovea clearly defined on upper margin, weakly defined on lower margin; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; scape reaching median ocellus, tapering basally; F1–10 length equal to, or less than width; antennal sockets not depressed or only shallowly so; supraclypeal area polished, strongly raised above frons level, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; mandibles red with black tips; malar space very narrow polished; hair white; scape black; supraclypeal area polished medially, with moderate length branched hair laterally. Mesosoma — Hair long, yellow to brown; propodeal triangle polished basally, with strong transverse carina; inner hind tibial spur with about 7, long slender teeth; basitibial plate black, thick hairs obscuring marginal carina. Metasoma— Hair dorsally short, sparse; postgradular area with weaker sculpture than pregradular area. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 9 mm. Head— Hair yellow appressed; F1 length about equal to width; F2–11 length greater than width; mandibles black with red tips; labrum polished, convex narrow; beard long, white. Mesosoma — Legs simple yellow with dark patches; hair yellow, long. Metasoma— Hair long, yellow to dark, sparse; fringes absent; pygidium clearly defined. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 217–219.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387
The Impact of Price Floors -A Real Options Based Experimental Approach-
Creators: name: Maack, Moritz
name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Maack, Moritz
name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Price floors
subject: investment decisions
subject: real options
subject: experimental economics.

description: In order to stimulate investments, agricultural policies frequently use price floors, which guarantee a price above a certain limit. In some cases, however, a price floor does not have the desired effects. In this study, we experimentally analyse differences in the investment be-haviour with respect to the presence of a price floor and compare the actual investment be-haviour to normative benchmarks of the net present value and the real options approach. Furthermore, we look at treatment order and learning effects. The results show that the price floor has no significant impact on the decision behaviour of participants, whereas the effects of treatment order were statistically significant. Regarding the analysis of policy impacts, the latter result shows that the investment reluctance arising from an abolishment of a price floor is stronger than the investment stimulation arising from the introduction of a price floor. Consequently, neither the net present value nor the real options approach is appropriate to predict the investment behaviour in general. Nevertheless, we found out that the predictions of the real options approach enable an approximation of the participants’ investment behav-iour if the individuals have an adequate chance to learn from personal experience.
Lu.i -- A low-cost electronic neuron for education and outreach
Creators: name: Stradmann, Yannik
name: Göltz, Julian
name: Petrovici, Mihai A.
name: Schemmel, Johannes
name: Billaudelle, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With an increasing presence of science throughout all parts of society, there is a rising expectation for researchers to effectively communicate their work and, equally, for teachers to discuss contemporary findings in their classrooms. While the community can resort to an established set of teaching aids for the fundamental concepts of most natural sciences, there is a need for similarly illustrative experiments and demonstrators in neuroscience. We therefore introduce Lu.i: a parametrizable electronic implementation of the leaky-integrate-and-fire neuron model in an engaging form factor. These palm-sized neurons can be used to visualize and experience the dynamics of individual cells and small spiking neural networks. When stimulated with real or simulated sensory input, Lu.i demonstrates brain-inspired information processing in the hands of a student. As such, it is actively used at workshops, in classrooms, and for science communication. As a versatile tool for teaching and outreach, Lu.i nurtures the comprehension of neuroscience research and neuromorphic engineering among future generations of scientists and in the general public.
Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog with Maximal User Task Success and Minimal Human Agent Use
Creators: name: Rajendran, Janarthanan
name: Ganhotra, Jatin
name: Polymenakos, Lazaros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural end-to-end goal-oriented dialog systems showed promise to reduce the workload of human agents for customer service, as well as reduce wait time for users. However, their inability to handle new user behavior at deployment has limited their usage in real world. In this work, we propose an end-to-end trainable method for neural goal-oriented dialog systems which handles new user behaviors at deployment by transferring the dialog to a human agent intelligently. The proposed method has three goals: 1) maximize user's task success by transferring to human agents, 2) minimize the load on the human agents by transferring to them only when it is essential and 3) learn online from the human agent's responses to reduce human agents load further. We evaluate our proposed method on a modified-bAbI dialog task that simulates the scenario of new user behaviors occurring at test time. Experimental results show that our proposed method is effective in achieving the desired goals.
description: Author final version of article accepted for publication in TACL - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/tacl_a_00274 and oral presentation at ACL 2019
Delocalization of the axial charge in the chiral limit
Creators: name: Jaffe, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nucleon's axial vector charge, g_A, becomes delocalized in the chiral limit. When m_π= 0, and SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R is exact, 1/3 of the nucleon's axial charge is to be found at infinite distance from the nucleon. For finite m_πthis result is approached smoothly as m_π-> 0. We illustrate this effect by considering the lepton-proton spin-spin interaction arising from Z^0 exchange as a function of m_π. Delocalization may have implications for lattice calculations of g_A and in nuclei.
description: Revised content: Further explanation of the limit m_pi -> 0 and an example of a physical process (spin-spin interaction in a hydrogenic atom mediated by Z^0 exchange) which can, in principle, measure the delocalization of g_A. Ten pages using RevTeX; email correspondence to R.L. Jaffe
Giant microwave absorption in the vortex lattice in $s$-wave superconductors
Creators: name: Liu, T.
name: Smith, M.
name: Andreev, A. V.
name: Spivak, B. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we study microwave absorption in superconductors in the presence of a vortex lattice. We show that in addition to the conventional absorption mechanism associated with the vortex core motion, there is another mechanism of microwave absorption, which is caused by the time-dependence of the quasiparticle density of states outside the vortex cores. This mechanism exists even in the absence of vortex motion and provides the dominant contribution to microwave absorption in a broad interval of physical parameters. At low frequencies, the dissipative part of the microwave conductivity $σ(ω)$ is proportional to the inelastic relaxation time, $τ_{\mathrm{in}}$, which is typically much larger than the elastic relaxation time, $τ_{\mathrm{el}}$. At high frequencies $σ(ω)$ is proportional to the quasiparticle diffusion time across the inter-vortex distance, $τ_{\mathrm D}$, which is still larger than $τ_{\mathrm{el}}$.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Goniocolletes rugosus Maynard 2013, sp.n.
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Goniocolletes
Goniocolletes rugosus

description: Goniocolletes rugosus sp.n.
 Type
 Goniocolletes rugosus — Western Australia: holotype ♀, Balladonia, 1935, A.E. Baesjou (SAM).
 Additional material examined: 2♀ Western Australia: Beelerup.
 Months collected: February.
 Floral visitations: None recorded.
  Female —  Length ca 12 mm; head and mesosoma black with paler clypeus and supraclypeal area; metasoma orange. Head —Facial fovea poorly defined ventrally; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; scape reaching median ocellus, tapering basally; inner eye margin straight converging below; F1–10 length equal to, or less than width (female); antennal sockets not depressed or only shallowly so; supraclypeal area strongly raised above frons level, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; hair white, dense on paraocular area and frons; moderately dense, simple on clypeus, branched on supraclypeal area; scape black, supraclypeal area punctate covered with moderately long branched hair; mandible dark reddish; malar space polished, length about 0.2 x width; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa; maxillary palps reaching just beyond apex of extended glossa. Mesosoma —Hair off white to pale brown; propodeal triangle rough basally with strong transverse carina; claws large with inner ramus basal; fore tibial spur with a few teeth; inner hind tibial spur with about 8 long, fine teeth; basitibial plate obscured by dense, dark, branched hair, marginal carina obscured. Metasoma— Hair bands absent; hair fine, sparse, white; pygidial plate strongly raised medially, broad, blunt apically; prepygidial fimbria black; gradulus absent.  Male —  Unknown.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387
Penguin Contractions and Factorization in B -> K pi Decays
Creators: name: Ciuchini, M.
name: Franco, E.
name: Martinelli, G.
name: Pierini, M.
name: Silvestrini, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Lambda_{QCD}/m_B corrections to factorization in B -> K pi decays. First, we analyze these decay channels within factorization, showing that, irrespectively of the value of gamma, it is not possible to reproduce the experimental data. Then, we discuss Lambda_{QCD}/m_B corrections to these processes, and argue that there is a class of doubly Cabibbo enhanced non-factorizable contributions, usually called charming penguins, that cannot be neglected. Including these corrections, we obtain an excellent agreement with experimental data. Furthermore, contrary to what is obtained with factorization, we predict sizable rate asymmetries in B^\pm -> K^\pm π^0 and B -> K^\pm pi^\mp.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Talk given by L. Silvestrini at BCP4, Ise-Shima, Japan, 18-23 Feb 2001
The Global business cycle, commodity prices and the small open economy : a monetary approach
Creators: name: Bond, Gary E
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Business cycles Mathematical models
subject: Monetary policy Mathematical models

description: The analyses contained in this Thesis seek to provide insight into the complex mechanisms through which global monetary disturbances affect the small open economy. The key insight provided by this study is that the adjustment response within the small open economy depends critically on both the characteristics of the economy itself and the transmission linkages affected by the monetary shock. An important contribution lies in the analysis of the case where the small open economy possesses no market power and must face terms of trade determined on world markets. The analysis demonstrates how a non-neutral monetary disturbance in the world economy can lead to relative price changes among traded goods which in turn imply terms of trade adjustments for the small economy. From this emerges additional perspectives on the transmission of global business cycle effects to small economies than have been previously established. Within this framework, a number of other relevant considerations are investigated, such as the role of non-traded goods in the transmission of foreign disturbances, the implications of supply versus demand induced export growth, and the domestic consequences of supply versus monetary induced commodity price increases. Wherever possible, the analytical results are examined against established empirical findings. This provides not only a 'real world' perspective on matters which might otherwise be regarded as purely hypothetical, but adds relevance to consideration of policy responses as well.
Behavioral Salinity Response: Estimating Salinity Policies from Remote Sensed Micro-Data
Creators: name: MacEwan, Duncan
name: Howitt, Richard E.
name: MacEwan, Duncan
name: Howitt, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In arid regions, including Australia's Murray-Darling basin and California's Central Valley, increasing salinity is a problem affecting agriculture, regional economies, urban areas, and the environment. The direct costs of salinity to agriculture in the Murray-Darling basin and California’s Central Valley are on the order of $500 million per year. Policymakers want to design policies to effectively manage salinity and, as such, need to understand how farmers respond to changing salinity levels. Reduced crop yields account for the largest direct cost of salinity to agriculture however farmers are able to mitigate effects through field management. Consequently, there is a difference between experimentally estimated yield-salinity functions and those which result from farmer behavioral response to salinity. The latter are relevant for salinity policy analysis and, to our knowledge, have not previously been estimated in the literature. We model farmers as profit-maximizing crop portfolio managers and estimate the behavioral yield-salinity functions for 6 crop groups using geo-referenced field data. We find behavioral yield-salinity functions are close to those generated in experimental settings but costs using experimental functions understate the costs of salinity.
Accelerating lattice quantum Monte Carlo simulation using artificial neural networks: an application to the Holstein model
Creators: name: Li, Shaozhi
name: Dee, Philip M.
name: Khatami, Ehsan
name: Johnston, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81-08

description: Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are essential computational approaches with widespread use throughout all areas of science. We present a method for accelerating lattice MC simulations using fully connected and convolutional artificial neural networks that are trained to perform local and global moves in configuration space, respectively. Both networks take local spacetime MC configurations as input features and can, therefore, be trained using samples generated by conventional MC runs on smaller lattices before being utilized for simulations on larger systems. This new approach is benchmarked for the case of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) studies of the two-dimensional Holstein model. We find that both artificial neural networks are capable of learning an unspecified effective model that accurately reproduces the MC configuration weights of the original Hamiltonian and achieve an order of magnitude speedup over the conventional DQMC algorithm. Our approach is broadly applicable to many classical and quantum lattice MC algorithms.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures