cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraints on monopole-dipole potential from the tests of gravity
Creators: name: Poddar, Tanmay Kumar
name: Pachhar, Debashis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultralight Axion Like Particle (ALP) can mediate a long range monopole-dipole macroscopic force between Earth and Sun if Earth is treated as a polarized source. There are about $10^{42}$ number of polarized electrons in Earth due to the presence of the geomagnetic field. The monopole-dipole interactions between electrons in Earth and nucleons in Sun can influence the perihelion precession of Earth, gravitational light bending and Shapiro time delay. The contribution of monopole-dipole potential is limited to be no larger than the measurement uncertainty. We obtain the first bound on monopole-dipole strength from single astrophysical observations. The perihelion precession of Earth puts the stronger bound on monopole-dipole coupling strength as $g_Sg_P\lesssim 1.75\times 10^{-16}$ for the ALP of mass $m_a\lesssim 1.35\times 10^{-18}~\rm{eV}$. We also obtain constraints on monopole-dipole coupling strength as $g_Sg_P\lesssim 5.61\times 10^{-38}$ from two different astrophysical observations such as the perihelion precession of the planet and the red giant branch. The bound is three orders of magnitude stronger than the Eöt-Wash experiment and one order of magnitude stronger than the $(\rm{Lab})^N_S\times (\rm{Astro})^e_P$ limit.
description: 27 pages(including appendix), 5 figures. Comments are welcome
Holobus SOLIER 1849
Creators: name: Kapp, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Holobus

description: 8. Holobus SOLIER, 1849
Typusart: Holobus pigmaeus SOLIER, 1849.
Holobus SOLIER, 1849: 335.
Holobus SOLIER, 1849: COIFFAIT & SAIZ 1967: 51-59; SEEVERS 1978: 179, LOHSE 1989: 187, 188; SMETANA 2004: 454; SCHÜLKE & SMETANA 2015: 657.
Holobus (Subgenus) SOLIER, 1849: SHARP 1908: 555; REITTER 1909: 86; BERNHAUER & SCHEERPELTZ 1926: 512; FRANK 1972: 130; WILLIAMS 1970a: 54; 1973b: 222; 1975: 19; 1976: 248; 1978 a: 168; 1978b: 178; LOHSE 1974: 22; PACE 1984: 9-12.
8.1. Geschichte der Gattung
SOLIER (1849) beschrieb aus Chile Holobus pigmaeus und errichtete für diese Art die Gattung Holobus. Trotzdem wurde die Gattung ein Jahrhundert lang von allen Autoren als Untergattung von Oligota MANNERHEIM geführt. Erst COIFFAIT & SAIZ (1967) erhoben sie wieder in Gattungsrang. nachdem sie konstante Unterschiede im Bau der Mundwerkzeuge (Ligula, Mandibeln, Labrum) festgestellt hatten. Nachfolgende Autoren (FRANK 1972; WILLIAMS 1975, 1976, 1978) befolgten vorerst die neue systematische Stellung nicht. Erst als SEEVERS (1978) die nordamerikanischen Aleocharinae auf Gattungs- und Tribusniveau revidierte, wurde Holobus von fast allen Autoren (WILLIAMS 1986; LOHSE 1989; ASSING 1998; SMETANA 2004, SCHÜLKE & SMETANA 2015) als eigenständige Gattung anerkannt.
description: Published as part of Kapp, Andreas, 2019, Revision der westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattungen Oligota MANNERHEƗM, 1830 und Holobus SOLƗER, 1849 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Hypocyphtini), pp. 587-698 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (1) on page 642, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3754300
Acts of Interfacing Podcast: Design & AI Symposium 2023
Creators: name: Giaccardi, Elisa
name: Collins, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Interfaces are not what they used to be. They have extended beyond surfaces, buttons, and levers to something that cuts across infrastructures and entangles the planet, often beyond access and control.

Elisa Giaccardi interviews DCODE fellows Rob Collins, Yuxi Liu, and Grace Turtle and guest authors Christian Andersen (The Metainterface, MIT Press) and Ksenia Fedorova (Tactics of Interfacing, MIT Press) to explore how designers might navigate these new terrains.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LJoGPTeLywhSWZrZuR1mE?si=nGyU0BJnTz6Gjz_M4HarIQ
Neural Network Kinetics for Exploring Diffusion Multiplicity and Chemical Ordering in Compositionally Complex Materials
Creators: name: Xing, Bin
name: Rupert, Timothy J.
name: Pan, Xiaoqing
name: Cao, Penghui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusion involving atom transport from one location to another governs many important processes and behaviors such as precipitation and phase nucleation. Local chemical complexity in compositionally complex alloys poses challenges for modeling atomic diffusion and the resulting formation of chemically ordered structures. Here, we introduce a neural network kinetics (NNK) scheme that predicts and simulates diffusion-induced chemical and structural evolution in complex concentrated chemical environments. The framework is grounded on efficient on-lattice structure and chemistry representation combined with neural networks, enabling precise prediction of all path-dependent migration barriers and individual atom jumps. Using this method, we study the temperature-dependent local chemical ordering in a refractory Nb-Mo-Ta alloy and reveal a critical temperature at which the B2 order reaches a maximum. Our atomic jump randomness map exhibits the highest diffusion heterogeneity (multiplicity) in the vicinity of this characteristic temperature, which is closely related to chemical ordering and B2 structure formation. The scalable NNK framework provides a promising new avenue to exploring diffusion-related properties in the vast compositional space within which extraordinary properties are hidden.
A feature selection method based on Shapley values robust to concept shift in regression
Creators: name: Sebastián, Carlos
name: González-Guillén, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Feature selection is one of the most relevant processes in any methodology for creating a statistical learning model. Usually, existing algorithms establish some criterion to select the most influential variables, discarding those that do not contribute to the model with any relevant information. This methodology makes sense in a static situation where the joint distribution of the data does not vary over time. However, when dealing with real data, it is common to encounter the problem of the dataset shift and, specifically, changes in the relationships between variables (concept shift). In this case, the influence of a variable cannot be the only indicator of its quality as a regressor of the model, since the relationship learned in the training phase may not correspond to the current situation. In tackling this problem, our approach establishes a direct relationship between the Shapley values and prediction errors, operating at a more local level to effectively detect the individual biases introduced by each variable. The proposed methodology is evaluated through various examples, including synthetic scenarios mimicking sudden and incremental shift situations, as well as two real-world cases characterized by concept shifts. Additionally, we perform three analyses of standard situations to assess the algorithm's robustness in the absence of shifts. The results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm significantly outperforms state-of-the-art feature selection methods in concept shift scenarios, while matching the performance of existing methodologies in static situations.
Paralecanium limbatum Green
Creators: name: Chris J. Hodgson
name: Douglas J. Williams
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coccidae
Paralecanium
Paralecanium limbatum

description: Paralecanium limbatum (Green)
Lecanium limbatum Green, 1922, 1023. Type data: SRI LANKA: Batticaloa, on Ixora coccinea. Syntypes, female. Type depository: BMNH, London, England, U.K.
Paralecanium limbatum; Green, 1937, 306. Change of combination.
This species name is synonymised with P. geometricum above, syn. n.
description: Published as part of Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2018, Revision of the soft scale genus Paralecanium (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) with the introduction of three new genera and twenty new species, pp. 1-162 in Zootaxa 4443 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4443.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1305628
Chiral limit and origin of topological flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers
Creators: name: Crépel, Valentin
name: Regnault, Nicolas
name: Queiroz, Raquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of zero field fractional quantum Hall analogs in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) asks for a deeper understanding of what mechanisms lead to topological flat bands in two-dimensional heterostructures, and what makes TMDs an excellent platform for topologically ordered phases, surpassing twisted bilayer graphene. To this aim, we explore the chiral limits of massive Dirac theories applicable to $C_3$-symmetric moiré materials, and show their relevance for both bilayer graphene and TMD homobilayers. In the latter, the Berry curvature of valence bands leads to relativistic corrections of the moiré potential that promote band flattening, and permit a limit with exactly flat bands with nonzero Chern number. The relativistic corrections enter as a \emph{layer-orbit coupling}, analogous to spin-orbit coupling for relativistic Dirac fermions, which we show is non-negligible on the moiré scale. The Berry curvature of the TMD monolayers therefore plays an essential role in the flattening of moiré Chern bands in these heterostructures.
Obstacles to Implementing Foreign Law: A Comparative Study of Afghan and French Laws
Creators: name: Al-Taqwa Institute of Higher Education
Publisher: name: Al-Taqwa Institute of Higher Education
Year: 2024

description: The provisions of Afghan law indicate that applying foreign rulings in Afghanistan is not absolute; rather, it is conditional and subject to various requirements. For instance, a foreign ruling is applicable in Afghanistan only when it does not conflict with the sacred teachings of Islam, public order, or public morals. Additionally, the relevant ruling must be issued by a competent authority, confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, free from forgery or fraud. Similarly, French laws also subject the application of foreign rulings to certain conditions. In France, a foreign ruling is considered applicable if it is issued by a competent authority and does not contradict French public order or general morals. For this research, a bibliographic approach was utilized, with materials and information sourced from reputable books. The purpose of this research is to elucidate, in a comparative manner, the obstacles to the implementation of foreign law from the perspectives of Afghan and French legal systems. Upon completing this research, it was concluded that when Afghan and French courts perceive the application of foreign law to conflict with their respective public orders, they should refrain from applying such law and instead enact relevant Afghan or French law. Additionally, the laws of both Afghanistan and France lack explicit provisions regarding fraud against the law. However, logically, should such a situation arise, the rule to prevent fraud against the law should be applied.
Carbon cycle instability for high-$\mathrm{CO_2}$ exoplanets: Implications for habitability
Creators: name: Graham, R. J.
name: Pierrehumbert, R. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Implicit in the definition of the classical circumstellar habitable zone (HZ) is the hypothesis that the carbonate-silicate cycle can maintain clement climates on exoplanets with land and surface water across a range of instellations by adjusting atmospheric $\mathrm{CO_2}$ partial pressure ($p\mathrm{CO_2}$). This hypothesis is made by analogy to the Earth system, but it is an open question whether silicate weathering can stabilize climate on planets in the outer reaches of the HZ, where instellations are lower than those received by even the Archean Earth and $\mathrm{CO_2}$ is thought likely to dominate atmospheres. Since weathering products are carried from land to ocean by the action of water, silicate weathering is intimately coupled to the hydrologic cycle, which intensifies with hotter temperatures under Earth-like conditions. Here, we use global climate model (GCM) simulations to demonstrate that the hydrologic cycle responds counterintuitively to changes in climate on planets with $\mathrm{CO_2}$-$\mathrm{H_2O}$ atmospheres at low instellations and high $p\mathrm{CO_2}$, with global evaporation and precipitation decreasing as $p\mathrm{CO_2}$ and temperatures increase at a given instellation. Within the MAC weathering formulation, weathering then decreases with increasing $p\mathrm{CO_2}$ for a range of instellations and $p\mathrm{CO_2}$ typical of the outer reaches of the HZ, resulting in an unstable carbon cycle that may lead to either runaway $\mathrm{CO_2}$ accumulation or depletion of $\mathrm{CO_2}$ to colder (possibly Snowball) conditions. While the behavior of the system has not been completely mapped out, the results suggest that silicate weathering could fail to maintain habitable conditions in the outer reaches of the nominal HZ.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Decision-making for Coastal Adaptation: Sustaining Coastal Salt Marshes for Ecosystem Services along the Jersey Shore: README
Creators: name: Lathrop, Richard
name: Sacatelli, Rachael
name: Moody, Joshua
name: Reilly, Erin
name: Haaf, LeAnn
name: Kennish, Michael
name: Kreeger, Danielle
name: Maxwell-Doyle, Martha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This project builds on our conceptual model to generate salt marsh vulnerability maps (i.e., MarshFutures maps) that assess seaward edge erosion, platform “elevation capital”, and landward migration and which predict the fate for selected Marshes of Interest (MOIs). Seven MOIs were studied: 2 in Delaware Bay; 3 in Great Bay; and, 2 in Barnegat Bay/Little Egg Harbor. This concept of elevation capital relates accretion rates and the tidal zone that dominant plants require for optimal growth to estimate the long-term prognosis of a vegetated marsh under a regime of rising sea levels. If marsh accretion rates are higher than rate of sea level rise, then elevation capital is increasing. Conversely, if marsh accretion rates are below the rate of sea level rise, then marsh elevation capital is decreasing.  If any parts of MOIs are deemed to not be keeping pace with sea level rise, we have estimated years until drowning based on the remaining elevation capital. To aid in place-based decision-making the above assessments are combined to generate salt marsh vulnerability maps that highlight those geographic areas most susceptible to conversion over the coming decades. The combined modeling and mapping was undertaken at two different scales of analysis: site level (1-2 ha with a grain size of 1 m grid cells) and landscape level (across entire state of New Jersey with a grain size of 10 m grid cells). The results of the two scales were compared to determine: 1) the comparative accuracy of the landscape scale approach for planning purposes; and, 2) the value of the more refined site-level modeling approach.
Programming and managing distributed software-defined environments
Creators: name: AbdelBaky, Moustafa H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The amount of data generated by applications and digital sources is rising to unprecedented scales. To keep pace, applications and workflows tasked with transforming the data to insight are becoming increasingly dynamic and inherently data-driven. Furthermore, the computational services, i.e., compute, data, and communication, required to run this emerging class of applications are often just as dynamic and heterogeneous. As data sizes continue to grow, one must find new ways of harnessing these services to meet the needs of emerging data-driven workloads.  Building a computational environment capable of supporting these applications presents many complex challenges. For example, there are requirements and dynamic behaviors set forth by multiple components of the environment, i.e., users, service providers, applications, and computational services. Accordingly, an environment must be capable of (1) providing a way for these components to express their requirements at any time in the application lifecycle and (2) reacting in real-time to changes set forth by any of these components by adjusting the service composition. While cloud computing provides the flexibility and diversity of services required by such an environment, determining which services to compose to meet application needs and when to compose them is not supported by current service models and infrastructure.   To address these challenges, this dissertation presents a programming system to enable the creation of a distributed Software-Defined Environment (dSDE); the resulting environment can seamlessly and symbiotically combine compute, data sources, data storage, and network resources. Specifically, this work makes the following contributions: (1) it enables the on-demand aggregation of distributed services while facilitating the continuous deployment of applications on top of them; (2) it provides programming abstractions that allow users, resource providers, and applications to dynamically compose different services based on constraints or requirements; (3) it introduces a runtime framework that can autonomously adapt to changes from any of the components in the environment; and (4) it sets forth a quantification model for application performance and expected quality of service of the resulting distributed Software-Defined Environment, which allows users to reason about trade-offs and requirements with respect to throughput, latency, cost, deadline, etc.   The applicability of this work to real-world scientific applications is validated through a series of experiments where heterogeneous, geographically distributed services are composed based on user, resource provider, and application specifications. The results establish the potential impact of a system capable of real-time adaptability to changes in mixed resource environments, including multiple clouds, grids, clusters, supercomputers, and traditional data centers.
Apoplophora ornata Niedbala 2000
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Mesoplophoridae
Apoplophora
Apoplophora ornata

description: Apoplophora ornata Niedbała, 2000
Apoplophora ornata Niedbała, 2000, p. 51, Figs 67–70; 2001a, p. 369, Figs 13–16; Subías 2004, p. 41; Liu et al. 2009b, p. 51. Distribution: Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Liu, Dong, 2016, Mesoplophoroidea (Acari, Oribatida) of China, pp. 519-539 in Zootaxa 4084 (4) on page 530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1052321
Apoplophora pantotrema
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Mesoplophoridae
Apoplophora
Apoplophora pantotrema

description: Apoplophora pantotrema (Berlese, 1913)
Mesoplophora pantotrema Berlese, 1913, p. 10, Fig. 94; van der Hammen 1959, p. 33; Hammer 1979, p. 6, Fig. 1; Castagnoli & Pegazzano 1985, p. 301.
Mesoplophora discreta Berlese, 1913, p. 101, Fig. 95; Castagnoli & Pegazzano 1985, p. 114; van der Hammen 1959, p. 33.
Mesophophora rostrorugosa Hammer, 1979, p. 7, Fig. 3; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 8, pl. 5 (4–6); Niedbała 1984, p. 149.
Apoplophora remota Aoki, 1980, p. 13, Fig. 4; Niedbała 1984, p. 149.
Apoplophora pantotrema: Niedbała 1984, p. 149, Figs 4–6; Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 1995, p. 89; Chu & Aoki 1997, p. 174; Niedbała 1998, p. 441, Figs 4–6; 2000, p. 53, 323, Figs 64–66; 2001a, p. 369, Figs 17–35, 2006c, p. 117; 2011, p. 32, Fig. 11 (K–M); 2012a, p. 186; 2012b, p. 13; Fujikawa et al. 1993, p. 15; Niedbała & Corpuz-Raros 1998, p. 11, Figs 16–18; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 8, pl. 5 (1–3); Wang, Wen & Chen 2002, p. 109; Subías 2004, p. 41; Niedbała & Penttinen 2007, p. 526; Liu et al. 2009b, p. 51; Chen et al. 2010, p. 190; Niedbała & Ermilov 2013b, p. 527, Fig. 4.
Mesoplophora indica Mahunka, 1985, p. 370, Figs 8–10; Niedbała 2000, p. 53.
Mesoplophora striata Mahunka, 1985, p. 371, Figs 11–13; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 9, pl. 5 (7–9); Niedbała 2000, p. 53.
Apoplophora lineata Mahunka, 1987, p. 773, Figs 4–7; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 9, pl. 5 (10–12); Niedbała 2000, p. 53.
Apoplophora ornatissima Mahunka, 1988b, p. 824, Figs 1 –4; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 8, pl. 4 (4–6); Niedbała 2000, p. 53.
Apoplophora jaccoudi Mahunka, 1991, p. 329, Figs 4–6; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 9, pl. 6 (10–12); Niedbała 2000, p. 53.
Distribution: China (Beijing, Fujian, Hainan, Taiwan), Oriental, Australian and Palaearctic Regions.
description: Published as part of Liu, Dong, 2016, Mesoplophoroidea (Acari, Oribatida) of China, pp. 519-539 in Zootaxa 4084 (4) on pages 530-531, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1052321
Genomic analysis of polyaromatic hydrocarbon degrading Paenibacillus species
Creators: name: Al-Shiti, Ahmed
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of complex organic compounds that contain at least two aromatic rings. Some of the PAHs, which have high molecular weight, are known carcinogens. PAHs are one of the most prevalent pollutants in the environment and have two main sources: petroleum products and the incomplete combustion of wood. Several microorganisms are known for the ability to degrade PAHs, either aerobically or anaerobically, such as algae, bacteria, and fungi. The initial step of the aerobic degradation of PAHs is catalyzed by dioxygenase enzymes, which introduces oxygen atoms into the aromatic rings. The first aim of this study was to isolate and identify bacterial species that may have unique enzymes for PAH degradation. Two strains, Paenibacillus validus RD5 and RD6, were isolated from sediment samples obtained from the Logan River, Utah, USA, by aerobic enrichment using biphenyl as the sole carbon source. The second aim was to sequence the RD5 and RD6 genomes and examine transcription of several predicted dioxygenase genes in P. validus RD5 and P. naphthalenovorans PRN1 during growth on naphthalene, biphenyl, dibenzofuran, cinnamate, and benzoate using the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique.  Based on the RT-PCR results and comparison of the dioxygenase sequences to other enzyme sequences in GenBank hypotheses were formulated about the role of three of the enzymes in biphenyl, naphthalene, and dibenzofuran degradation in the two Paenibacillus strains
Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) hauseri Mahunka 1982
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Mesoplophoridae
Mesoplophora
Mesoplophora hauseri

description: Mesoplophora (M.) hauseri Mahunka, 1982
Mesoplophora hauseri Mahunka, 1982a, p. 181, Figs 1–3; Balogh & Balogh 2002, vol. 1, p. 10, pl. 9 (7–8).
Mesoplophora (M.) hauseri Mahunka, 1982: Niedbała 1985, p. 104, Figs 29–32; 2003, p. 264, Figs 11–14; 2004a, p. 20, Fig. 4 (H–K); 2008d, p. 757; Subías 2004, p. 42; Liu & Chen 2010, p. 150.
Distribution: Neotropical Region.
description: Published as part of Liu, Dong, 2016, Mesoplophoroidea (Acari, Oribatida) of China, pp. 519-539 in Zootaxa 4084 (4) on page 533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1052321
Flexural behavior of concrete beams prestressed with bonded and unbonded tendons
Creators: name: Abu-Obeidah, Adi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The use of unbonded tendons in prestressed concrete beams has been widely utilized in bridges, parking structures, and residential buildings for strengthening, rehabilitation or repair of such members. With the growth of live load and the increase of damaged concrete members, there is a need to develop and utilize new techniques for more efficient and improved designs in prestressed concrete members.    This research presents an experimental and analytical investigation for the use of combination of bonded and unbonded tendons in the same concrete members. With the availability of high strength concrete, as well as the development of new prestressing technologies, the process can be easily performed at the site for repair or capacity upgrading resulting in longer spans for the same section depth or shallower sections. There is a knowledge gap on the behavior of concrete beams prestressed with hybrid tendons and a need to fully understand their overall behavior under full service loads. The hybrid technique introduces unbonded CFRP tendons, which is resistant to corrosion. In addition, CFRP tendons exhibit linear stress-strain relationship resulting in more accurate predictions for the tendon stress at ultimate. This hybrid system presents a challenge in developing an analytical model that could predict their behavior since the unbonded tendon is not bonded with the concrete. This investigation included the testing of 15 High Strength Concrete (HSC) beams prestressed with hybrid tendons. Results from the experimental study included number of cracks, load-deflection behavior, and strains in prestressing strand, reinforcing steel, and concrete. This study emphasizes the prediction of the ultimate stress of the unbonded tendon (fps) in unbonded or hybrid system for computing the ultimate moment resistance. Finite element modeling and analysis of various beams is performed. Based on a comparison of equations available in the literature as well as code provisions with the experimental results, a simplified prediction equation for predicting the stress in the unbonded tendons at ultimate is recommended.
Dendroleon Brauer 1866
Creators: name: Zhan, Qingbin
name: Wang, Zhiliang
name: Ábrahám, Levente
name: Wang, Xinli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae
Dendroleon

description: Dendroleon Brauer, 1866
Dendroleon Brauer, 1866: 42. Type species: Myrmeleon pantherinus Fabricius, 1787 by subsequent designation by Hagen 1873: 394.
Neglurus Navás, 1921 Synonymized by Stange, 1976: 292.
Borbon Navás, 1914 Synonymized by Stange, 1976: 292.
Pantherleon Yang, 1986 Synonymized by Stange, 2004: 83.
Diagnosis. Costal area of forewing simple, Rs arising much before CuA fork, anterior Banksian line discernible. Hindwing with one presectoral crossvein before origin of Rs. Tibial spurs slender and straight. Female: Anterior gonapophysis shorter than posterior gonapophysis. Male with pilula axillaris, gonarcus somewhat hooded, mediuncus large, situated between parameres; parameres usually broad and plate-shaped.
Distribution. North America, Australia, Europe, Asia.
description: Published as part of Zhan, Qingbin, Wang, Zhiliang, Ábrahám, Levente & Wang, Xinli, 2012, A new species of Dendroleon Brauer, 1866 (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae) from China, pp. 64-70 in Zootaxa 3547 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213191
AI-Driven Revolution: Transforming Research in Higher Education
Creators: name: Saaida, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The research landscape in higher education is undergoing a profound metamorphosis driven by the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This transformative technology transcends the limitations of traditional research methods, empowering scholars to unlock a new era of discovery and scientific progress. This introduction delves into the multifaceted ways AI is revolutionizing research, from automating tedious tasks to uncovering hidden patterns within vast datasets.
Using evidence to explore broad trends in nest fate assessments of threatened Piping Plovers
Creators: name: Anholt, Allison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) are federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act. These threatened shorebirds breed on New Jersey’s beaches from April to August annually. They face many threats during this time, including habitat loss and human disturbance. One major threat to Piping Plovers is nest predation by a suite of predators, causing approximately half of nest losses annually. Understanding the fate of nests can help better direct Piping Plover management. The objectives of my research were to 1. Determine the composition and level of occurrence of predators in each site and island in New Jersey between the years 2005-2013, 2. To understand if predator type and frequency change throughout the nesting season and throughout the age of the nest or across years and 3. To use this information to create a practical training manual and guide to common predators to better inform managers, biologists, and field personnel conducting nest fate assessments. Results show that some predators, such as Eastern Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor), Ghost Crabs (Ocypode quadrata), crow (Corvus) and gull (Larus) species occurred most often nearby the nest (66%), and caused 88% of nest losses. The highest levels of predators occurred during peak Piping Plover hatching, but nests were most vulnerable to predation during the first seven days of nest initiation. Each major predator had different activity timelines and geographical distribution throughout the state of New Jersey. Results suggests that different management strategies should be considered for each nesting area and predator type.
Dissident education
Creators: name: Apostol, Corina Lucia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: My thesis identifies and analyzes the effectiveness of a particular mode of politicized art praxis: radical pedagogical initiatives launched within specific art communities in the region from 1980 to the present. My research addresses a newly integrated Europe, a region currently shaped by the economic crisis, growing  social inequalities and the rise of nationalist rhetoric. I focus on three artists' groups, (IRWIN with Marina Gržinic from Slovenia, Chto Delat? from Russia, and Lia Perjovschi and Dan Perjovschi from Romania) who created new practices around suppressed topics during periods of political duress. The issues their art raised included gender discrimination, the false construction of national and ethnic identities, the corrupt nature of political power, and the ethics of working under socialism, and capitalism. I show how these artists realized their concerns in the social sphere in an era when they were repressed or crudely denounced by conservative officials. My strategy addresses the broader question of why, and how, artists who came to maturity under repressive political regimes continued to question the transition from socialism to capitalism.
A neuro-inspired oculomotor controller for a robotic head prototype
Creators: name: Balachandar, Praveenram
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Robotic vision introduces requirements for real-time processing of fast-varying, noisy information in a continuously changing environment. In a real-world environment, convenient assumptions, such as static camera systems and deep learning algorithms devouring high volumes of ideally slightly-varying data, are hard to survive. Leveraging on recent neural studies that show smooth pursuit - that is the slow movement of the eyes - and saccade - their rapid movement - being handled by the same neuronal circuitry, we designed a neuromorphic oculomotor controller and placed it at the heart of a biomimetic robotic head prototype that we designed and built. The oculomotor controller is unique in the sense that 1) the encoding and processing of information is done via spikes communicated across models of biological neurons, and 2) it mimics the brain structure and therefore requires no training to operate. Interestingly, the tracking performance of our proposed system is comparable to that of PID controllers while the robotic eye kinematics are strikingly similar to those reported in human eye studies. This work contributes to the overarching goal of ComBra Lab, which is to develop neuro-mimetic "bottom-up" computational models of brain networks, where the emerged intelligence is used to control robots.
Cleaning and analytical code: All-cause and cardiac mortality in relation to smoke exposure nine years after the Hazelwood coal mine fire
Creators: name: Lane, Tyler
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420203
subject: Environmental epidemiology

description: These files present the cleaning and analytical code used to determine whether PM2.5 from the Hazelwood coal mine fire increased long-term mortality and cardiovascular mortality specifically.
Robotic devices for automated venipuncture and diagnostic blood analysis
Creators: name: Balter, Max Loeb
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Diagnostic blood testing is the most ubiquitous clinical procedure in the world, and influences 80% of medical decisions made in hospital, ambulatory, and primary care settings. However, manual blood draw success rates depend heavily on clinician skill and patient physiology, and results are generated almost exclusively in centralized labs from large-volume samples using labor-intensive analytical techniques. This dissertation describes the development of a medical device that enables complete end-to-end blood testing by performing blood draws and providing diagnostic results in fully automated fashion. The device couples an image-guided venipuncture robot, to address the challenges of routine venous access, with a centrifuge-based blood analyzer to obtain quantitative measurements of hematology within minutes of the sample collection. The system uses 3D near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to guide the robotic needle insertion, a sample handling module to deliver the sample to the processing unit, and an analyzer capable of performing multi-analyte detection. In a series of engineering tests, phantom studies, and motion tracking experiments, the venipuncture robot demonstrated sub-millimeter accuracy, real-time needle servoing in response to moving targets, and improved cannulation success rates compared to manual techniques. Multi-analyte detection was then demonstrated on the blood analyzer through white blood cell counting using a bulk-cell analysis approach, and an absorption-based hemoglobin assay. Once translated, this technology has the potential to impact a number of clinical environments, including laboratory testing facilities, pediatric hospitals, oncology care centers, and emergency settings. The underlying technological advancements cover a spectrum of research disciplines, including hematology and diagnostic medicine, optics and microfluidics, as well as robotics and medical device development.
Interplay of magnetic field and magnetic impurities in Ising superconductors
Creators: name: Fang, Wuzhang
name: Haim, M.
name: Belashchenko, K. D.
name: Khodas, M.
name: Mazin, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phonon-driven $s$-wave superconductivity is fundamentally antagonistic to uniform magnetism, and field-induced suppression of the critical temperature is one of its canonical signatures. Examples of the opposite are unique and require fortuitous cancellations and very fine parameter tuning. The recently discovered Ising superconductors violate this rule: an external magnetic field applied in a certain direction does not suppress superconductivity in an ideal, impurity-free material. We propose a simple and experimentally accessible system where the effects of spin-conserving and spin-flip scattering can be studied in a controlled way, namely NbSe$_2$ monolayers dosed with magnetic $3d$ atoms. We predict that the critical temperature is slightly increased by an in-plane magnetic field in NbSe$_2$ dosed with Cr. Due to the band spin splitting, magnetic spin-flip scattering requires a finite momentum transfer, while spin-conserving scattering does not. If the magnetic anisotropy is easy-axis, an in-plane field reorients the impurity spins and transforms spin-conserving scattering into spin-flip. The critical temperature is enhanced if the induced magnetization of NbSe$_2$ has a substantial long-range component, as is the case for Cr ions.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Actors and conspirators
Creators: name: Barnard, Scott Asher William
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: In the year 411 BC, Athens endured a brief but violent political revolution at a moment when the city’s fortunes were declining in the late stage of the Peloponnesian War. This “coup of 411” was driven by a relatively small number of oligarchic sympathizers who conspired in secret to overthrow the democratic Athenian government and install themselves at the head of a new oligarchic regime, that, they believed, would secure desperately needed aid from the Persian Empire against their Spartan enemies. For all of the civic turbulence these oligarchic conspirators caused, their government collapsed after only a few months and Athenian citizens were left to reinstall their fragile democracy.      In the aftermath of the coup of 411 (and other conspiracies that preceded it) the citizens of Athens were particularly agitated by the possibility that other conspiracies may have been active in the city, and there is evidence that a sense of mutual suspicion was pervasive. And yet, in spite of the political upheaval many of Athens’ civic and cultural institutions remained active – including the annual celebration of the City Dionysia, the festival that served as the venue for the production of Greek tragedy. As a genre, Greek tragedy is keenly sensitive to the civic experiences of its audience, and symbiotically it is informed by and helps its audience process the political realities in existence outside of the theater. As it happens, three tragedies – Euripides’ Phoenissae (410 BC), Sophocles’ Philoctetes (409 BC), and Euripides’ Orestes (408 BC) – survive from these apprehensive years in Athens, and each depicts the formation and implementation of a conspiracy alongside all of the ethical complexities conspirators raise. After closely examining the languge at critical moments in all three plays, I conclude that these dramas helped Athenian citizens contemplate the answers to questions still lingerieng in the city: namely, how co-conspirators or political allies can make distinctions between trustworthy and untrustworthy citizens, and the efficacy for those engaged in conspiracies to provide safety for those under their protection.
Property testing, PCPs and CSPs
Creators: name: Bhangale, Amey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Many optimization problems can be modeled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Hence understanding the complexity of solving or approximating CSPs is a fundamental problem in computer science. The famous PCP (probabilistically checkable proof) Theorem states that certain CSPs are hard to approximate within a constant factor. In the language of proof verification, the theorem implies that a proof of a mathematical statement can be written in a specific format such that it allows an sublinear time verification of the proof. Thus, property testing procedures are central to PCPs, and in fact the proof of the PCP theorem involves many interesting property testing algorithms.    Some of the highlights of this dissertation include the following results:    1. Low degree testing is one of the important components in the proof of the PCP theorem and Dictatorship testing is central in proving hardness of approximation results. This thesis presents a Cube vs Cube low degree test which has significantly better parameters than the previously known tests. We also improve on the soundness of k-bit dictatorship test with perfect completeness.    2. In the area of inapproximability, this thesis offers a complete characterization of approximating the covering number of a CSP, assuming a covering variant of Unique Games Conjecture. We also prove tight inapproximability results for Bi-Covering problem.    3. This thesis studies CSPs from a multi-objective point of view. We give almost optimal approximation algorithms for multi-objective Max-CSP (simultaneous CSPs), and also prove inapproximability results.
The joint effects of human capital dispersion and deployment on team performance.
Creators: name: Bentley, Frederick Scott
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Despite a rich literature on the link between the human capital possessed by individuals and their performance, scholars have placed relatively less attention on the performance implications associated with differences in the human capital possessed by individuals within a given collective.  My dissertation explores how the management of individuals influences the extent to which teams are able to benefit from such differences.  The management of individuals is explored in terms of how opportunities are distributed among individuals.  Moreover, I explore how the contexts in which such management decisions are implemented influence the effectiveness of these management decisions. The hypotheses are tested using a sample of teams from the National Hockey League.  The results indicate that the positive relationship between dispersion in human capital and team performance becomes more positive when opportunities are distributed more broadly across individuals.  This positive moderating relationship is found to depend upon the broader context in which such decisions are implemented.
Segurança no Ártico: um desafio global
Creators: name: Marsili, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ártico
subject: Rotas marítimas
subject: Polar Silk Road
subject: Ice Silk Road
subject: Rota do Mar do Norte
subject: Iniciativa Belt and Road
subject: Nova Rota da Seda
subject: Rússia
subject: China
subject: Marker assisted selection
subject: Rota da Seda Polar
subject: Militarização
subject: soberania
subject: Conselho do Ártico
subject: da Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar
subject: UNCLOS
subject: Cooperação multilateral

description: Resumo em Português

A segurança do Ártico é um desafio de segurança importante – um desafio global, não apenas regional – não só para os países do Ártico, mas para toda a comunidade internacional, em primeiro lugar para a Europa. Com a Federação Russa e a República popular da China a expandir o seu papel na área, e a dificuldade de encontrar uma governação indiscutível nas rotas marítimas e na exploração económica dos recursos, existe o risco de militarização do Ártico. Depois de resumir brevemente os desafios actuais e futuros no Ártico, este artigo analisa os limites devidos a um défice de instrumentos adequados para manter a segurança na região, especialmente em relação ao papel das organizações intergovernamentais internacionais, e sugere algumas soluções para superar estas deficiências.

Abstarct in italiano

La sicurezza dell’Artico rappresenta una delle principali sfide di sicurezza – globale, non solo regionale – non solo per i paesi artici, ma per l’intera comunità internazionale, prima di tutto l’Europa. Con la Federazione Russa e la Repubblica popolare cinese che ampliano il loro ruolo nell’area, e la difficoltà di trovare una governance indiscussa sulle rotte marittime e sullo sfruttamento economico delle risorse, c’è il rischio di militarizzazione dell’Artico. Dopo aver brevemente riassunto le sfide attuali e future nell’Artico, questo lavoro analizza i limiti dovuti alla carenza di strumenti idonei a mantenere la sicurezza nella regione, soprattutto in relazione al ruolo delle organizzazioni intergovernative internazionali, e suggerisce alcuni rimedi per superare tali carenze.
Aspidistra wujiangensis W. F. Xu & S. Z. He 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Wen-Fen
name: Wang, Yong
name: He, Shun-Zhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Aspidistra
Aspidistra wujiangensis

description: Aspidistra wujiangensis W.F.Xu & S.Z.He sp. nov. (Fig. 1)
Type: — CHINA. Guizhou province, Yanhe country, under the shrub beside Wujiang valley, 20 September 2007, W. F. Xu et al. 070920 (holotype, GZTM!).
Herbs perennial, rhizome creeping, subterete, 5 − 7 mm thick, covered with scales. Roots elongate. Leaf sheaths 3 − 4, purple-brown, 3 − 8 cm long, enclosing the base of leaves, fibrous when withered. Leaves solitary, 1.1 − 1.7 cm apart, leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate with small yellowish white spots, 23 − 36 × 3.2 − 4 cm, apex gradually acuminate, base gradually narrowed into petiole; Petiole 14 − 26 cm. Penduncle 0.8 − 1.2 cm, subterete, bracts 4 − 6, 4.5 − 5.5 × 5 − 6 mm. Flower solitary, erect; Perigone campanulate, purple-red, 9.5 − 12 × 8 − 8.5 mm, 8-lobed, perigone tube 7 − 9 mm in length, 8 mm in diameter, lobes yellowish white, 2.5 − 3 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide at base; Stamens 8, inserted at ca. 3 mm above base of tube, filament extremely short, anther ovoid, 1.7 × 1.2 mm; Pistil 3.5 − 4 mm in length with joint between style and stigma, ovary scarcely swelled, ca. 2.5 mm in diameter, stigma dishing swelled, purple-red, 6 − 7 mm in diameter, 4 − lobed at margin, lobes concave apex, the center slightly convex with 4 pairs of radiate ridges on the upper surface and a groove appeared in each pair of ridges; Berry pyriform, 1 − 1.3 cm high and 1.1 − 1.4 cm in diameter, with small spines on the surface. Flowering phase: September to October. Fruiting phase: October to November in the next year.
Distribution and habitat: — This species grows under shrubs on valley slopes, at the height of 300 − 350 m. Distributed in Yanhe country, Guizhou province, China.
Additional specimen examined (paratype):— CHINA. Guizhou province, Yanhe country, 20 September 2007, W. F. Xu et al. 070921 (GZTM!).
Taxonomic relationships:—The new species is similar to Aspidistra sichuanensis Lang & Zhu (1984: 387), Aspidistra ebianensis Lang & Zhu (1999: 492) and Aspidistra longshengensis Lin & Xu (2015: 163). The major differences among these species, which are illustrated in Table 1, lie in the shape of leave, the length of the perigone lobe, the location of stamens insertion, the style joint, and stigma characters.
description: Published as part of Xu, Wen-Fen, Wang, Yong & He, Shun-Zhi, 2015, A new species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) from Guizhou, China, pp. 297-299 in Phytotaxa 231 (3) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.231.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13631885
MPEC 2025-B165 : 2025 BG6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 BG6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.