cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Saccharodite foliata Zelazny & Webb 2011
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite foliata

description: Key to the species of the Saccharodite foliata species group (males)
 1. Forewings with last subcostal sector and adjoining part of costa orange or red, but with no other veins coloured in this way............................................................................... Sa. hollowayi sp. nov., p. 124
- Forewings with other veins and vein-sections orange, orange-brown or red, apart from last subcostal sector and adjoining part of costa............................................................................................. 2
2. Male aedeagus near apex with a pointed process directed to the right (Fig. 261o) or ventrad (Fig. 266m)................. 3
- Male aedeagus without pointed, apical process.............................................................. 4
 3. Stem of male aedeagus, just before apical portion, with a prominent blade-like projection (Fig. 261m); pointed apical process directed to the right (Fig. 261o)...................................................... Sa. affinis sp. nov., p. 123
 - Stem of male aedeagus without such a projection; pointed apical process directed ventrad (Fig. 266m)................................................................................................... Sa. scissa sp. nov., p. 125
4. Left side of stem of male aedeagus with a spatulate process (Fig. 262m) or rounded projection (Fig. 264m).............. 5
 - Stem of male aedeagus without such a process of projection (Fig. 265m).................... Sa. longuida sp. nov., p. 125
 5. Stem of male aedeagus with a lateral, spatulate process (Fig. 262m)......................... Sa. foliata sp. nov., p. 123
 - Stem of male aedeagus with a rounded projection (Fig. 264m)............................. Sa. lamina sp. nov., p. 124
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 123
Entropy and the Law of Small Numbers
Creators: name: Kontoyiannis, Ioannis
name: Harremoes, Peter
name: Johnson, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Two new information-theoretic methods are introduced for establishing Poisson approximation inequalities. First, using only elementary information-theoretic techniques it is shown that, when $S_n=\sum_{i=1}^nX_i$ is the sum of the (possibly dependent) binary random variables $X_1,X_2,...,X_n$, with $E(X_i)=p_i$ and $E(S_n)=\la$, then \ben D(P_{S_n}\|\Pol)\leq \sum_{i=1}^n p_i^2 + \Big[\sum_{i=1}^nH(X_i) - H(X_1,X_2,..., X_n)\Big], \een where $D(P_{S_n}\|{Po}(\la))$ is the relative entropy between the distribution of $S_n$ and the Poisson($\la$) distribution. The first term in this bound measures the individual smallness of the $X_i$ and the second term measures their dependence. A general method is outlined for obtaining corresponding bounds when approximating the distribution of a sum of general discrete random variables by an infinitely divisible distribution. Second, in the particular case when the $X_i$ are independent, the following sharper bound is established, \ben D(P_{S_n}\|\Pol)\leq \frac{1}λ \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{p_i^3}{1-p_i}, % \label{eq:abs2} \een and it is also generalized to the case when the $X_i$ are general integer-valued random variables. Its proof is based on the derivation of a subadditivity property for a new discrete version of the Fisher information, and uses a recent logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the Poisson distribution.
description: 15 pages. To appear, IEEE Trans Inform Theory
Survey Burden and its Impact on Attitudes Toward the Survey Sponsor
Creators: name: McCarthy, Jaki
name: Beckler, Daniel G.
name: McCarthy, Jaki
name: Beckler, Daniel G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Respondent burden
subject: accumulated burden
subject: agricultural survey

description: The organization sponsoring a survey data collection may affect respondents’ willingness to respond. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has begun asking agricultural establishments questions during ongoing surveys about respondents’ knowledge and attitudes about NASS. These questions were asked of both respondents and non-respondents to the surveys, and clearly showed a correlation between respondents’ knowledge and attitudes toward NASS and their willingness to cooperate when contacted by NASS. Past burden (number, length, complexity, frequency of contacts, etc.) imposed by NASS was also measured and found to have little correlation with survey cooperation. It was hypothesized that increased contacts may provide opportunities for public relations and help foster more positive attitudes towards the survey sponsor. If increases in burden create more positive opinions of the survey sponsor, this may offset expected declines in cooperativeness as burden increases. However, little relationship was found between respondents’ attitudes toward NASS and the past burden imposed on them.
Screening without screening: baryon energy at high baryon density
Creators: name: Greensite, Jeff
name: Owen, Evan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the Coulomb interaction energy of dense sets of static quarks in a compact volume (much smaller than the lattice volume) containing one quark per lattice site. The quark color charges are combined into either a set of three-quark nucleon states, or into a non-factorizable "one big hadron" state. In both cases we find that the energy per quark is roughly constant as the volume of quarks increases. A surprise is that if we construct the nucleon states from sets of three quarks chosen at random in the volume, then the energy per quark remains roughly constant, even as the average distance between quarks in a nucleon state grows as the volume increases. This energy dependence of a nucleon in a dense medium is at odds with the behavior of an isolated nucleon as quark separation increases, and for static quarks it is not easily explicable in terms of some version of Debye screening.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Recreational angling as a pathway for invasive non-native species spread: awareness of biosecurity and the risk of long distance movement into Great Britain
Creators: name: Smith, E. R. C.
name: Bennion, H.
name: Sayer, C. D.
name: Aldridge, D. C.
name: Owen, M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Paper
Angling
Biosecurity
Awareness
Invasive species
Human pathways

description: Abstract: Identifying and establishing the relative importance of different anthropogenic pathways of invasive non-native species (INNS) introduction is critical for effective management of their establishment and spread in the long-term. Angling has been identified as one of these pathways. An online survey of 680 British anglers was conducted to establish patterns of movement by British anglers abroad, and to establish their awareness and use of biosecurity practices. The survey revealed that 44% of British anglers travelled abroad for fishing, visiting 72 different countries. France was the most frequently visited country, accounting for one-third of all trips abroad. The estimated time taken to travel from Western Europe into Great Britain (GB) is within the time frame that INNS have been shown to survive on damp angling equipment. Without biosecurity, it is therefore highly likely that INNS could be unintentionally transported into GB on damp angling gear. Since the launch of the Check, Clean Dry biosecurity campaign in GB in 2011, the number of anglers cleaning their equipment after every trip has increased by 15%, and 80% of anglers now undertake some form of biosecurity. However, a significant proportion of the angling population is still not implementing sufficient, or the correct biosecurity measures to minimize the risk of INNS dispersal on damp angling equipment. With the increase in movement of anglers abroad for fishing, further work is required to establish the potential for INNS introduction through this pathway.
Synthesis, characterization, and biological evaluation of indole aldehydes containing N-benzyl moiety
Creators: name: Dattatray N. Survase
name: Shrikrishna S. Karhale
name: Khedkar, Vijay M.
name: Vasant B. Helavi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present study describes the synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of N-benzyl indole aldehydes. The biological activities of the newly synthesized compounds were examined by investigating their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. The potential of these compounds as an antioxidant was determined by 2,2-diphenylpicrylhydrazyl, Nitric oxide, Superoxide, peroxide radical scavenging methods. We found that aldehydes 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4e and shows promising in vitro DPPH scavenging antioxidant activity while aldehyde 4b and 4e show good in vitro anti-inflammatory activity.
A Machine-Designed Sensor to Make Optimal Use of Entanglement-Generating Dynamics for Quantum Sensing
Creators: name: Haine, Simon A.
name: Hope, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use machine optimisation to develop a quantum sensing scheme that achieves significantly better sensitivity than traditional schemes with the same quantum resources. Utilising one-axis twisting dynamics to generate quantum entanglement, we find that rather than dividing the temporal resources into seperate "state-preparation" and "interrogation" stages, a complicated machine-designed sequence of rotations allows for the generation of metrologically useful entanglement while the parameter is interrogated. This provides much higher sensitivities for a given total time compared to states generated via traditional one-axis twisting schemes. This approach could be applied to other methods of generating quantum-enhanced states, allowing for atomic clocks, magnetometers, and inertial sensors with increased sensitivities.
Saccharodite affinis Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite affinis

description: Saccharodite affinis Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 261)
 Description. Forewings 2.1 times longer than wide, length in male 2.6–3.1 mm (mean = 2.9, n = 6). Colour stramineous; orange in front of eyes; labium light orange-brown; the very tip of rostrum reddish (in holotype and some paratypes, in other paratypes stramineous); middle and hind legs with a red mark on femora and light orange tibiae and tarsi. Forewing with faint infuscations from clavus tip to apex of basal median cell, around Ms2 fork and along apical crossveins. A spot of slightly darker infuscation near last subcostal sector; veins stramineous to orange-brown (in some paratypes all veins stramineous), veins around junction of M-Ms3 dark, 3 spots on base of Sc+R+M; margins orange. Hindwings colourless. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval, proximal dorsal process short, distal dorsal process elongated. Aedeagus with stem bearing a prominent, thin, blade-like projection on left side near junction with apical portion; apical part on left side thin and blade-like, right part with a prominent lobe directed dorsad and to the left and ending in a pointed tip.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (affinis, -is, -e = closely related).
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 2.9 mm), NORTH BORNEO: BRUNEI: labels: 1) Brunei, Labi / Bukit Teraja / 30km S.E. of Seria / 21–28.iii.1979 2) Primary mixed/dipterocarp/forest, alt. 60m. 3) light trap 2/ 75m. above ground/ L. Sutton /B.M. 1985-50 (BMNH). Paratypes. 2 ♂ same data as holotype, 3 ♂ same data as holotype but 50 m above ground (fw. 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, 2x 3.1) (BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Saccharodite affinis is very similar to Sa. lamina sp. nov., also from Borneo. The only consistent external difference appears to be the presence of red marks on the hind femora. The males can be recognized by the pointed tip on the dorsal lobe of the apical part of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 123
A Semi-Supervised Self-Organizing Map for Clustering and Classification
Creators: name: Braga, Pedro H. M.
name: Bassani, Hansenclever F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work with both types of data, combining them to obtain better performance for both clustering and classification. Also, these datasets commonly have a high number of dimensions. This article presents a new semi-supervised method based on self-organizing maps (SOMs) for clustering and classification, called Semi-Supervised Self-Organizing Map (SS-SOM). The method can dynamically switch between supervised and unsupervised learning during the training according to the availability of the class labels for each pattern. Our results show that the SS-SOM outperforms other semi-supervised methods in conditions in which there is a low amount of labeled samples, also achieving good results when all samples are labeled.
The Road to Understanding Nonresponse in the June Area Survey
Creators: name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Tran, HoaiNam N. Tran
name: O'Connor, Terry P.
name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Tran, HoaiNam N. Tran
name: O'Connor, Terry P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Agriculture
subject: Refusals
subject: Inaccessibles
subject: Data Collection
subject: Nonresponse

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) surveys farmers and ranchers across the United States and Puerto Rico in order to estimate crops and livestock, assess production practices, and identify economic trends. One of the surveys conducted annually is the June Area Survey (JAS). This survey requires NASS field interviewers (enumerators) to visit sampled land areas (segments) designated on aerial photos and record all agricultural activity occurring within those specified land areas. From 2000 to 2007, the national JAS overall response rate has been gradually deteriorating. In 2000, the response rate was 86.5 percent, but it had fallen to 81.7 percent by 2007. The assumption is that the JAS national response rate will fall below the Office of Management and Budget’s threshold rate of 80 percent in three to four years. Falling below this rate dictates the need for nonresponse bias analysis and, in general, heightens the concern about the potential negative impact on survey results. Since this study was conducted, the national response rate dropped to 80.2 percent in 2008, before rebounding somewhat to 82.0 percent in 2009. Thus, the urgency to reduce nonresponse is on our door step. This study examines some of the underlying causes of nonresponse occurring in the 2008 June Area Survey.
CMOS-compatible titanium nitride for on-chip plasmonic Schottky photodetector
Creators: name: Gosciniak, Jacek
name: Atar, Fatih B.
name: Corbett, Brian
name: Rasras, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we propose titanium nitride (TiN) as an alternative plasmonic material for an on-chip silicon plasmonic Schottky photodetector that is based on an internal photoemission process and operating at telecom wavelengths. The examined structure employs an asymmetric metal-semiconductor-metal waveguide structure with one of the electrodes being gold and the second either gold, titanium or titanium nitride. Apart from the excellent optical properties desired for this type of photodetector such as high absorption losses and reasonably high real part of the permittivity, titanium nitride is a CMOS-compatible material that enables easy integration with existing CMOS technology. For the first time, we find a Schottky barrier height of 0.67 eV for titanium nitride on p-doped silicon, which is very close to the optimal value of 0.69 eV. This value ensures very high signal-to-noise ratio of the photodetector operating at a wavelength of 1550 nm. Additionally, TiN provides shorter penetration depth of the mode into metal compared to Ti, which enhances transmission probability of hot electrons to a semiconductor and gives rise to responsivity enhancement.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Observations on the Cerebral Effects of Refractory Intracranial Hypertension After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Donnelly, Joseph
name: Smielewski, Peter
name: Adams, Hadie
name: Zeiler, Frederick A.
name: Cardim, Danilo
name: Liu, Xiuyun
name: Fedriga, Marta
name: Hutchinson, Peter
name: Menon, David K.
name: Czosnyka, Marek
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Original Work
Traumatic brain injury
Intracranial pressure
Cerebral hemodynamics
Autoregulation
Cerebral oxygenation
Cerebral perfusion pressure
Intracranial hypertension

description: Funder: Woolf Fisher Trust
description: Abstract: Background: Raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is a prominent cause of morbidity and mortality after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, in the clinical setting, little is known about the cerebral physiological response to severe and prolonged increases in ICP. Methods: Thirty-three severe TBI patients from a single center who developed severe refractory intracranial hypertension (ICP > 40 mm Hg for longer than 1 h) with ICP, arterial blood pressure, and brain tissue oxygenation (PBTO2) monitoring (subcohort, n = 9) were selected for retrospective review. Secondary parameters reflecting autoregulation (including pressure reactivity index—PRx, which was available in 24 cases), cerebrospinal compensatory reserve (RAP), and ICP pulse amplitude were calculated. Results: PRx deteriorated from 0.06 ± 0.26 a.u. at baseline levels of ICP to 0.57 ± 0.24 a.u. (p < 0.0001) at high levels of ICP (> 50 mm Hg). In 4 cases, PRx was impaired (> 0.25 a.u.) before ICP was raised above 25 mm Hg. Concurrently, PBTO2 decreased from 27.3 ± 7.32 mm Hg at baseline ICP to 12.68 ± 7.09 mm Hg at high levels of ICP (p < 0.001). The pulse amplitude of the ICP waveform increased with increasing ICP but showed an ‘upper breakpoint’—whereby further increases in ICP lead to decreases in pulse amplitude—in 6 out of the 33 patients. Discussion: Severe intracranial hypertension after TBI leads to decreased brain oxygenation, impaired pressure reactivity, and changes in the pulse amplitude of ICP. Impaired pressure reactivity may denote increased risk of developing refractory intracranial hypertension in some patients.
School Quality and the Urban-Rural Migration of Firms
Creators: name: Marre, Alexander W.
name: Rupasingha, Anil
name: Marre, Alexander W.
name: Rupasingha, Anil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: rural development
subject: firm location
subject: education and human capital

description: This paper uses a Poisson regression model to estimate the determinants of firm relocation from urban areas to rural areas between 2009 and 2012, including controls for land and labor costs, taxes, market size, agglomeration effects, natural amenities, but with a focus on measures of school quality. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of firm relocation between rural and urban areas within the United States and the only study to estimate the impacts of school quality on firm relocation behavior. Preliminary results from these models suggest that lower high school dropout rates and smaller class sizes may increase the expected count of firms relocating from urban to rural areas.
Collisional deexcitation of exotic hydrogen atoms in highly excited states. I. Cross-sections
Creators: name: Jensen, T. S.
name: Markushin, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The deexcitation of exotic hydrogen atoms in highly excited states in collisions with hydrogen molecules has been studied using the classical-trajectory Monte Carlo method. The Coulomb transitions with large change of principal quantum number n have been found to be the dominant collisional deexcitation mechanism at high n. The molecular structure of the hydrogen target is shown to be essential for the dominance of transitions with large Δn. The external Auger effect has been studied in the eikonal approximation. The resulting partial wave cross-sections are consistent with unitarity and provide a more reliable input for cascade calculations than the previously used Born approximation.
description: 10 pages, 20 figures
Rebound Effect of Irrigation Technologies? The Role of Water Rights
Creators: name: Li, Haoyang
name: Zhao, Jinhua
name: Li, Haoyang
name: Zhao, Jinhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: rebound effect
subject: LEPA
subject: water rights

description: In this paper, we study the role of water rights in limiting the rebound effects of LEPA irrigation in the High Plains Aquifer region of Kansas, and farmer incentives to preserve their water rights. We find that the rebound effect is moderated by water rights and is high only when a well has large water rights, and limiting water rights raises farmer incentives to adopt LEPA. Reducing water rights thus can limit the undesirable rebound effects of new technologies without hurting incentives to adopt them. A significant portion of the effects of LEPA in raising water uses is through farmers switching to more water intensive crops such as corn and soybean, and through farmers raising their irrigated acreages after the adoption of LEPA. We also find that farmers have incentive to preserve water rights even when irrigation is not needed in the current period. The incentive is the highest if the farmer expects to use a large volume of water to irrigate, and is the lowest if the farmer expects not to use any water at all in the next period.
Saccharodite foliata Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite foliata

description: Saccharodite foliata Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 262)
 Description. Forewings 2.1 times longer than wide, length in male 3.0– 3.4 mm (mean = 3.2, n = 50). A red mark above eyes. Forewings without a red mark around last subcostal sector; veins in faintly infuscated parts of variable coloration between orange-brown (holotype) to stramineous; last subcostal sector tinted with orange, veins around junction of M-Ms3 dark. Forewings with Sc+R fork near middle of wing; basal median cell broad, more than twice a wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated; proximal dorsal process short and narrow, distal dorsal process long. Stem of aedeagus with a prominent flat process, arising from - and parallel to the stem; apical portion with two short, rounded, overlapping lobes.
 Note. Very similar to Saccharodite scissa sp. nov. The above description has been shortened, due to this similarity.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (foliatus, -a, -um = leafy).
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.4 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Tawau, Quoin Hill / 15–20.VII.1962 2) H. Holtmann / Light Trap / BISHOP (BPBM). Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Tawau, Quoin Hill, 3–20,26– 29. VII.1962, 20♂ (fw. 3.0, 3x 3.2, 11x 3.3, 3.4), light trap, H. Holtmann; Cocoa Res. Sta., 225 m, 20.VIII.1962, 3– 6,14,17,19,23,24,26,29. IX.1962, 1,3. X.1962, 42 ♂ (fw. 2x 3.0, 6x 3.1, 9x 3.2, 13x 3.3, 2x 3.4), light and Malaise trap, Y. Hirashima; Forest Camp, 19 km N. of Kalabakan, 19,30. X.1962, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.2), K.J. Kuncheria (all BPBM).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Saccharodite foliata is closely related to Sa. scissa sp. nov., also from Borneo. The males can be easily recognized by the large flat process arising from the aedeagus stem.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 123-124
Universal property of the information entropy in fermionic and bosonic systems
Creators: name: Massen, S. E.
name: Moustakidis, Ch. C.
name: Panos, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a similar functional form $S=a+b\ln N$ holds approximately for the information entropy S as function of the number of particles N for atoms, nuclei and atomic clusters (fermionic systems) and correlated boson-atoms in a trap (bosonic systems). It is also seen that rigorous inequalities previously found to hold between S and the kinetic energy T for fermionic systems, hold for bosonic systems as well. It is found that Landsberg's order parameter $Ω$ is an increasing function of N for the above systems. It is conjectured that the above properties are universal i.e. they do not depend on the kind of constituent particles (fermions or correlated bosons) and the size of the system.
description: 6 pages, 2 EPS figures, LaTeX
Farmer response to crop insurance incentives under heterogeneous risk-management strategies
Creators: name: Heerman, Kari E.R.
name: Cooper, Joseph
name: Johansson, Robert
name: Worth, Thomas
name: Heerman, Kari E.R.
name: Cooper, Joseph
name: Johansson, Robert
name: Worth, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: crop insurance
subject: premium subsidies
subject: discrete choice
subject: generalized extreme value
subject: ordered alternatives

description: Understanding how farmers respond to premium subsidies and other incentives to purchase crop insurance is fundamental to evaluating how changes in these incentives affect the use of federal crop insurance and thus the Federal savings that can be expected. We use contract-level data for corn enterprise units in 2008 and 2009 to examine how modifications to the out-of-pocket cost of crop insurance affect farmers’ insurance coverage level decisions and government expenditures. Unlike previous studies that have examined this question, we use a specialized discrete choice framework, an ordered generalized extreme value (OGEV) model. This approach explicitly accounts for the natural ordering of the choice set from low to high coverage. Our results suggest a significant difference in the response to changes in the unit price of federal crop insurance for farmers that are observed to choose a low coverage level versus those that are observed to choose a high coverage level. This has significant implications for the potential government cost savings and change in average farmer coverage level that can be expected from a change in the structure of premium subsidies.
Dual-wavelength lasers on generic foundry platform
Creators: name: Virte, Martin
name: Pawlus, Robert
name: Breuer, Stefan
name: Mey, Robbe De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 20504 Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and implement four simple and compact dual-wavelength laser concepts integrated in a Photonic Integrated Circuit based on a InP generic foundry platform. In a first step, we arrange two detuned Distributed-Bragg-Reflectors (DBR) in either a sequential or in a parallel order, acting as narrowband wavelength selective cavity mirrors. In a second step, we close the cavities by using either a third DBR or by using a Multimode-Interference-Reflector. We present LI characteristics and optical spectra emitting around 1550 nm with wavelength separations of 1 nm or 10 nm and evaluate their particular potential for simultaneous dual-wavelength emission. In addition, we find either one or multiple equal power points as well as complete switches when the gain current is being tuned. We discuss the characteristics and limitations of each concept including arranging the detuned DBRs in a sequential or parallelorder.
Manuscript submitted, currently under consideration.
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The host galaxies of double compact objects across cosmic time
Creators: name: Toffano, Mattia
name: Mapelli, Michela
name: Giacobbo, Nicola
name: Artale, Maria Celeste
name: Ghirlanda, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the host galaxies of compact-object binaries (black hole--black hole binaries, BHBs; neutron star--black hole binaries, NSBHs; double-neutron stars; DNSs) across cosmic time, by means of population-synthesis simulations combined with the Illustris cosmological simulation. At high redshift ($z\gtrsim{}4$) the host galaxies of BHBs, NSBHs and DNSs are very similar and are predominantly low-mass galaxies (stellar mass $M<10^{11}$ M$_\odot$). If $z\gtrsim{}4$ most compact objects form and merge in the same galaxy, with a short delay time. At low redshift ($z\leq{}2$), the host galaxy populations of DNSs differ significantly from the host galaxies of both BHBs and NSBHs. DNSs merging at low redshift tend to form and merge in the same galaxy, with relatively short delay time. The stellar mass of DNS hosts peaks around $\sim{}10^{10}-10^{11}$ M$_\odot$. In contrast, BHBs and NSBHs merging at low redshift tend to form in rather small galaxies at high redshift and then to merge in larger galaxies with long delay times. This difference between DNSs and black hole binaries is a consequence of their profoundly different metallicity dependence.
Additional file 3 of Papillary renal neoplasm with reverse polarity may be a novel renal cell tumor entity with low malignant potential
Creators: name: Yang, Tong
name: Kang, Enhao
name: Zhang, Longxiao
name: Zhuang, Jie
name: Li, Yujun
name: Jiang, Yanxia
name: Wang, Han
name: Yu, Wenjuan
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Tables.
An all-electron product-basis set: application to plasmon anisotropy in simple metals
Creators: name: Budagosky, J. A.
name: Krasovskii, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient basis set for products of all-electron wave functions is proposed, which comprises plane waves defined over the entire unit cell and orbitals confined to small non-overlapping spheres. The size of the set and the basis functions are, in principle, independent of the computational parameters of the band structure method. The approach is implemented in the extended LAPW method, and its properties and accuracy are discussed. The method is applied to analyze the dielectric response of the simple metals Al, Na, Li, K, Rb, and Cs with a focus on the origin of the anisotropy of the plasmon dispersion in Al and Na. The anisotropy is traced to tiny structures of the one-particle excitation spectra of Al and Na, and relevant experimental observations are explained.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
International Migration and its Effect on Labor Supply of the Left-Behind Household Members: Evidence from Nepal
Creators: name: Phadera, Lokendra
name: Phadera, Lokendra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: International Migration
subject: Migration
subject: Labor Supply

description: This paper analyzes the differential impact of migration on labor supply of the left-behind household members in Nepal, where international migration for employment, predominantly a male phenomenon, increased substantially between 2001 and 2011. Using the NLSS III data, this paper extends the analysis further by incorporating the impacts on both extensive and intensive margins and answering the question of if they are not wage-employed, what the remaining members in the household engaging in instead. The paper finds that, in response to outmigration of some family members, women realign their priorities and reallocate their time from market employment to self-employment and home production, possibly filling in the roles vacated by the migrants. In contrast, the income effect dominates the impact of migration on the left-behind men; that is, men value their leisure more because of the remittances from abroad and decrease their overall supply of labor.
Additional file 4 of Papillary renal neoplasm with reverse polarity may be a novel renal cell tumor entity with low malignant potential
Creators: name: Yang, Tong
name: Kang, Enhao
name: Zhang, Longxiao
name: Zhuang, Jie
name: Li, Yujun
name: Jiang, Yanxia
name: Wang, Han
name: Yu, Wenjuan
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Materials and Methods.
Saccharodite hollowayi Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite hollowayi

description: Saccharodite hollowayi Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 263)
 Description. Forewings elongated, 2.2 times longer than wide, length in male about 4.3 mm. Colour stramineous; a small red mark above the eyes; margins of facial carinae in front of eyes faintly orange. Forewings glassy; lightly infuscated from clavus tip to base of Cu1, from tip of Cu to apex of first costal cell, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; a dark mark around base of Ms3; veins stramineous, a few sections brownish; last subcostal sector and adjacent part of C red. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and frons angulated; rostrum reaching hindcoxae; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell broad, about twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles widening towards end; proximal dorsal process small and slender; distal dorsal process long. Aedeagus stem long; apical portion with two flat lobes, parallel to each other.
 Etymology. The species is named for the collector and ' hollowayi ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.3 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SARAWAK; labels: 1) SARAWAK/ Gunong Mulu / Nat. Park. Mulu 2) Camp 4, Mulu / 178 m. i.1978 / 1. montane for. 3) J.D. Holloway / RGS Mulu exped./ B.M. 1978-206 (BMNH). Paratype same data as holotype, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.2) (BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Saccharodite hollowayi shows some similarities to Sa. mappa sp. nov., also from Borneo, but lacks the mottled dark forewing infuscation as well as the pointed tip at the apex of the male aedeagus found in that species.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 124
Quantum Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Variable Ordering for Binary Decision Diagrams
Creators: name: Tani, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An ordered binary decision diagram (OBDD) is a directed acyclic graph that represents a Boolean function. OBDDs are also known as special cases of oblivious read-once branching programs in the field of complexity theory. Since OBDDs have many nice properties as data structures, they have been extensively studied for decades in both theoretical and practical fields, such as VLSI design, formal verification, machine learning, and combinatorial problems. Arguably, the most crucial problem in using OBDDs is that they may vary exponentially in size depending on their variable ordering (i.e., the order in which the variable are to read) when they represent the same function. Indeed, it is NP hard to find an optimal variable ordering that minimizes an OBDD for a given function. Hence, numerous studies have sought heuristics to find an optimal variable ordering. From practical as well as theoretical points of view, it is also important to seek algorithms that output optimal solutions with lower (exponential) time complexity than trivial brute-force algorithms do. Friedman and Supowit provided a clever deterministic algorithm with time/space complexity $O^\ast(3^n)$, where $n$ is the number of variables of the function, which is much better than the trivial brute-force bound $O^\ast(n!2^n)$. This paper shows that a further speedup is possible with quantum computers by demonstrating the existence of a quantum algorithm that produces a minimum OBDD together with the corresponding variable ordering in $O^\ast(2.77286^n)$ time and space with an exponentially small error. Moreover, this algorithm can be adapted to constructing other minimum decision diagrams such as zero-suppressed BDDs, which provide compact representations of sparse sets and are often used in the field of discrete optimization and enumeration.
description: 8 figures added; typos corrected
Thermodynamic and Tunneling Density of States of the Integer Quantum Hall Critical State
Creators: name: Yang, S. -R. Eric
name: Wang, Ziqiang
name: MacDonald, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the long wave length limit of the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation irreducible static density-density response function by evaluating the charge induced by an external charge. Our results are consistent with the compressibility sum rule and inconsistent with earlier work that did not account for consistency between the exchange-local-field and the disorder potential. We conclude that the thermodynamic density of states is finite, in spite of the vanishing tunneling density of states at the critical energy of the integer quantum Hall transition.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, minor revisions, published version
What will you do next? A sequence analysis on the student transitions between online platforms in blended courses
Creators: name: Gitinabard, Niki
name: Heckman, Sarah
name: Barnes, Tiffany
name: Lynch, Collin F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Students' interactions with online tools can provide us with insights into their study and work habits. Prior research has shown that these habits, even as simple as the number of actions or the time spent on online platforms can distinguish between the higher performing students and low-performers. These habits are also often used to predict students' performance in classes. One key feature of these actions that is often overlooked is how and when the students transition between different online platforms. In this work, we study sequences of student transitions between online tools in blended courses and identify which habits make the most difference between the higher and lower performing groups. While our results showed that most of the time students focus on a single tool, we were able to find patterns in their transitions to differentiate high and low performing groups. These findings can help instructors to provide procedural guidance to the students, as well as to identify harmful habits and make timely interventions.
Effectiveness of International Food Safety Train-The Trainer Programs in Good Agricultural and Aqua cultural Practices: Evidence from Survey Instruments
Creators: name: Narrod, Clare A.
name: Miller, Mark
name: Chfadi, Tarik
name: Narrod, Clare A.
name: Miller, Mark
name: Chfadi, Tarik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: M&E
subject: food safety trainings

description: The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) aimed to reinforce the move for the US food supply by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. The Act also charged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a comprehensive plan to expand the technical, scientific and regulatory capacity of foreign governments exporting foods to the US, and their respective food industries. To that end, the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), FDA’s international food safety trainings center, developed a monitoring and impact approach that has been in place for all their trainings since late 2012. This poster presents findings from this work
description: POSTER
Activating NPPT distillation with an infinitesimal amount of bound entanglement
Creators: name: Vollbrecht, Karl Gerd H.
name: Wolf, Michael M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that bipartite quantum states of any dimension, which do not have a positive partial transpose, become 1-distillable when one adds an infinitesimal amount of bound entanglement. To this end we investigate the activation properties of a new class of symmetric bound entangled states of full rank. It is shown that in this set there exist universal activator states capable of activating the distillation of any NPPT state.
description: 4 pages, revtex4, 1 figure, references corrected
Collisional deexcitation of exotic hydrogen atoms in highly excited states. II. Cascade calculations
Creators: name: Jensen, T. S.
name: Markushin, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atomic cascades in mu-p and pbar-p atoms have been studied in detail using new results for the cross-sections of the scattering of highly excited exotic atoms from molecular hydrogen. The cascade calculations have been done with an updated version of the extended standard cascade model that computes the evolution in the kinetic energy from the beginning of the cascade. The resulting X-ray yields, kinetic energy distributions, and cascade times are compared with the experimental data.
description: 13 pages, 23 figures
Saccharodite lamina Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite lamina

description: Saccharodite lamina Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 264)
 Description. Forewings elongated, 2.3 times longer than wide, length in male 2.9–3.4 mm (mean = 3.2, n = 12). Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae in front and above eyes slightly orange; labium light orange-brown; fore legs orange, with a bright red longitudinal stripe along femora; a small red mark on middle femora; tibiae and tarsi of middle and hind legs light orange-brown. Forewings glassy, very faintly infuscated around clavus tip, from apex of Cu to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; a light orange-brown mark around last subcostal sector; veins stramineous to light orange-brown, veins at base of Ms3 darker; in some specimens (not holotype) last subcostal sector bright orange-red; 4 dark spots at base of Sc+R. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face slightly angulated; rostrum reaching post trochanters; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae by a low ridge. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell broad, more than twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated; proximal dorsal process short and slender, distal dorsal process long. Stem of aedeagus with a prominent projection on the left side near junction with apical part; apical portion ending in two rounded, overlapping lobes.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin noun (lamina = a plate) used in apposition.
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.1 mm, body 1.9 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) NORTH BORNEO (SE)/ Forest Camp, 19 km N. of Kalabakan / 11.X.1962 2) K.J. Kuncheria / Collector / BISHOP (BPBM). Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH, Tawau, Quoin Hill, Cocoa Res. Sta., 225 m, 6,23,25. IX.1962, 3.X.1962, 4 ♂ (fw. 3.0, 3.2, 2x 3.3), light trap, Y. Hirashima; Tawau, Quoin Hill, 3–20. VII.1962, 4 ♂ (fw. 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4), light trap, H. Holtmann; same data as holotype, 30.X.1962, 3 ♂ (fw. 2.9, 2x 3.2) (all BPBM).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Saccharodite lamina is very similar to Sa. scissa sp. nov., Sa. foliata sp. nov., and Sa. affinis sp. nov., all also from Borneo. The males can be separated from the first two species by the prominent projection on the stem of the aedeagus. Sa. affinis has a similar (although smaller) projection, but in that species the apical part of the aedeagus ends in a pointed hook, which is absent in Sa. lamina.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 124-125