cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Sustainable Travel Incentives Optimization in Multimodal Networks
Creators: name: Ghafourian, Hossein
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Tripod, an integrated bi-level transportation management system, is a smartphone application from the potential user’s point of view which would be instantly accessed prior to performing the trip. Since there are constantly several alternatives for any trip, Tripod considers a series and combination of various parameters, including departure time, mode and route, and rewards for each alternative with a number of redeemable points for goods and services called “Tokens”. The framework responsible for computing the optimized number of tokens awarded to the set of available alternatives in order to minimize the system-wide energy consumption under a constrained Token budget, is the System Optimization (SO) implemented in Tripod. To do so, a higher number of tokens would be awarded to the alternatives, guaranteeing a larger energy saving, less energy consumption, alternatively. SO is multimodal whereby public transit, private car, carpooling, etc. are being considered as the potential travel modes. Furthermore, SO is dynamic, predictive and personalized: the same alternative is rewarded differently, depending on the current and predicted future condition of the network and on the individual’s profile. In order to solve this problem, a multimodal simulation-based optimization model will be elaborated.
Coverage Criteria for Model-Based Testing using Property Patterns
Creators: name: Castillos, Kalou Cabrera
name: Dadeau, Frédéric
name: Julliand, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; D.2.5

description: We present in this paper a model-based testing approach aiming at generating test cases from a UML/OCL model and a given test property. The property is expressed using a dedicated formalism based on patterns, and automatically translated into an automaton. We propose new automata coverage criteria that are tailored to the property automata we consider. These criteria are based on the coverage of a relevant subset of the transitions related to the original property, aiming at producing test cases that illustrate the dynamics of the system described in the property. In addition, we propose to produce test cases that can ensure the robustness of the system w.r.t. the property, by mutating the property automaton, in order to try to provoke events that would be forbidden by the property. This approach has been implemented into a large tool set and it has been experimented on realistic case studies, in the context of industrial research projects.
description: In Proceedings MBT 2014, arXiv:1403.7044
Quantum effects in the diffusion of hydrogen on Ru(0001)
Creators: name: McIntosh, Eliza M.
name: Wikfeldt, K. Thor
name: Ellis, John
name: Michaelides, Angelos
name: Allison, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An understanding of hydrogen diffusion on metal surfaces is important, not just for its role in heterogeneous catalysis and hydrogen fuel cell technology, but also because it provides model systems where tunneling can be studied under well-defined conditions. Here we report helium spin-echo measurements of the atomic-scale motion of hydrogen on the Ru(0001) surface between 75 and 250 K. Quantum effects are evident at temperatures as high as 200 K, while below 120 K we observe a tunneling-dominated temperature independent jump rate of 1.9$\times$10$^9$ s$^{-1}$, many orders of magnitude faster than previously seen. Quantum transition state theory calculations based on ab initio path-integral simulations reproduce the temperature dependence of the rate at higher temperatures and predict a crossover to tunneling-dominated diffusion at low temperatures, although the tunneling rate is under-estimated, highlighting the need for future experimental and theoretical studies of hydrogen diffusion on well-defined surfaces.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Dynamic and structural properties of orthorhombic rare-earth manganites under high pressure
Creators: name: Mota, D. A.
name: Almeida, A.
name: Rodrigues, V. H.
name: Costa, M. M. R.
name: Tavares, P.
name: Bouvier, P.
name: Guennou, M.
name: Kreisel, J.
name: Moreira, J. Agostinho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a high-pressure study of orthorhombic rare-earth manganites AMnO3 using Raman scattering (for A = Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb and Dy) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (for A = Pr, Sm, Eu, and Dy). In all cases, a structural and insulator-to-metal transition was evidenced, with a critical pressure that depends on the A-cation size. We analyze the compression mechanisms at work in the different manganites via the pressure dependence of the lattice parameters, the shear strain in the a-c plane, and the Raman bands associated with out-of-phase MnO6 rotations and in-plane O2 symmetric stretching modes. Our data show a crossover across the rare-earth series between two different kinds of behavior. For the smallest A-cations, the compression is nearly isotropic in the ac plane, with presumably only very slight changes of tilt angles and Jahn-Teller distortion. As the radius of the A-cation increases, the pressure-induced reduction of Jahn-Teller distortion becomes more pronounced and increasingly significant as a compression mechanism, while the pressure-induced bending of octahedra chains becomes conversely less pronounced. We finally discuss our results in the light of the notion of chemical pressure, and show that the analogy with hydrostatic pressure works quite well for manganites with small A-cations but can be misleading with large A-cations.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
The Effect of Length on Key Fingerprint Verification Security and Usability
Creators: name: Turner, Dan
name: Shahandashti, Siamak F.
name: Petrie, Helen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.0; H.1.2
subject: 68M25

description: In applications such as end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, secure email, and device pairing, users need to compare key fingerprints to detect impersonation and adversary-in-the-middle attacks. Key fingerprints are usually computed as truncated hashes of each party's view of the channel keys, encoded as an alphanumeric or numeric string, and compared out-of-band, e.g. manually, to detect any inconsistencies. Previous work has extensively studied the usability of various verification strategies and encoding formats, however, the exact effect of key fingerprint length on the security and usability of key fingerprint verification has not been rigorously investigated. We present a 162-participant study on the effect of numeric key fingerprint length on comparison time and error rate. While the results confirm some widely-held intuitions such as general comparison times and errors increasing significantly with length, a closer look reveals interesting nuances. The significant rise in comparison time only occurs when highly similar fingerprints are compared, and comparison time remains relatively constant otherwise. On errors, our results clearly distinguish between security non-critical errors that remain low irrespective of length and security critical errors that significantly rise, especially at higher fingerprint lengths. A noteworthy implication of this latter result is that Signal/WhatsApp key fingerprints provide a considerably lower level of security than usually assumed.
description: Accepted to International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023)
Compsolacon subargillus Prosvirov, 2017: 1130
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Compsolacon
Compsolacon subargillus

description: Compsolacon subargillus (Vats and Kashyap, 1992)
Agrypnus subargillus Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 128.
Compsolacon subargillus (Vats and Kashyap) Prosvirov, 2017: 1130.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Himachal Pradesh (Bhakara Dam).
Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 128): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 78): catalogue; Prosvirov (2017: 1130): combination.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Spinal Test Suites for Software Product Lines
Creators: name: Beohar, Harsh
name: Mousavi, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; D.2.5

description: A major challenge in testing software product lines is efficiency. In particular, testing a product line should take less effort than testing each and every product individually. We address this issue in the context of input-output conformance testing, which is a formal theory of model-based testing. We extend the notion of conformance testing on input-output featured transition systems with the novel concept of spinal test suites. We show how this concept dispenses with retesting the common behavior among different, but similar, products of a software product line.
description: In Proceedings MBT 2014, arXiv:1403.7044
title: Phytophthora ja Quercus ilex L. (rautatammi)
Creators: name: Cordobado Sánchez, Tamara
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut , Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Year: 2013

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Pests and Diagnosis; 2013/61
description: Quercus ilex L. (rautatammi) on eteläeurooppalainen puu, joka kasvaa Välimeren nahkealehtisellä kasvillisuusvyöhykkellä ja on yksi alueen indikaattorilajeista (Plieninger ym., 2004); (http://www.discoverlife.org). Ainavihanta Q. ilex kasvaa erilaisissa ilmasto-oloissa (puolikuivassa, kosteassa ja erittäin kosteassa) ja maaperissä. Rautatammi kasvaa 25 m korkeaksi puuksi. Rautatammen nahkeat lehdet ovat sileät ja kovat ja niiden muoto vaihtelee miltei pyöreästä pitkulaiseen, osassa on piikkejä, osassa ei. Laji jakaantuu kahteen ala-lajiin: Q. ilex subsp. ilex ja Q. ilex subsp. ballota (syn. Q. rotundifolia). Iberian niemimaalla se on tyypillinen puu samoin kuin muilla nk. dehesa alueilla Euroopassa, joissa harjoitetaan samanaikaisesti sekä maa- että metsätaloutta. Näillä alueilla kasvatetaan karjaa, tuotetaan terhoja karjan ravinnoksi, puuta energialähteeksi ja korjataan viljelykasvisatoja. Ekologisesti ja sosiaalisesti dehesa-alueet ovat merkittäviä ympäristöjä sekä luonnolle että ihmisille.
title: Optical-Fiber-Based Laser-Induced Cavitation for Dynamic Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials
Creators: name: Feng, Qian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: In the laser-induced cavitation (LIC) technique, a vapor-gas cavity is generated in water, or a soft material by focusing an intense laser pulse into the sample. The high-strain-rate mechanical properties of these samples can be investigated through a real-time size measurement of the expanding cavity bubble. Although this LIC technique has been applied to multiple research fields such as mechanical, biological and medical areas. It is possible to simplify and improve this LIC method by introducing optical-fibers. In this approach, we propose to employ an optical-fiber to deliver the intense laser pulse to an arbitrary position of an optical opaque specimen. At the same time, we also attempt to generate LIC at one end of the optical-fiber. This optical-fiber based LIC is achieved by dip-coating of the laser absorbing film on the fiber end. Thus, the film can absorb the laser pulse and generate LIC within the sample.
In this study, the development of the coating material, the introduction of the optical-fiber into the existing LIC system, and the optical-fiber based LIC experiments are performed to characterize high-strain-rate mechanical properties of soft materials. We investigate the coating conditions and verify the consistency of the ablation based on the optimized coating materials. By conducting LIC experiments with gelatin samples, the feasibility of developed LIC method is investigated, LIC events are successfully formed at the fiber end which is inserted into the sample, and the rapid expanding dynamics are imaged with ultrafast stroboscopic microscopy. Using the multiple-exposure images, the expanding speeds and maximum cavity sizes are quantified to provide high-strain-rate characteristics of the soft materials. The inconsistency of the cavitation behavior resulted by the fluctuation of the coating condition and the high power intense laser conducting optical-fiber destruction can be improved by developing new coating method and new protective coating on the fiber end in the future.
Phonon and magnetic dimer excitations in Fe-based S=2 spin ladder compound BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O
Creators: name: Popović, Z. V.
name: Šćepanović, M.
name: Lazarević, N.
name: Radonjić, M. M.
name: Tanasković, D.
name: Lei, Hechang
name: Petrovic, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman scattering spectra of new Fe-based S=2 spin ladder compound BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O are measured in a temperature range between 15 K and 623 K. All six A$_{1g}$ and two B$_{1g}$ Raman active modes of BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O, predicted by the factor-group analysis, have been experimentally observed at energies that are in a rather good agreement with the lattice dynamics calculation. The antiferromagnetic long-range spin ordering in BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O below $T_N$=240 K leaves a fingerprint both in the A$_{1g}$ and B$_{1g}$ phonon mode linewidth and energy. In the energy range between 400 and 650 cm$^{-1}$ we have observed magnetic excitation related structure in the form of magnon continuum, with the peaks corresponding to the singularities in the one dimensional density of magnon states. The onset value of magnetic continuum (2$Δ_{S}$) is found at about 437 cm$^{-1}$ at 15 K. The magnetic continuum disappears at about 623 K, which lead us to conclude that the short-range magnetic ordering in BaFe$_2$Se$_2$O exists apparently up to 2.6$T_N$.
Mobilization of a trapped non-wetting fluid from a three-dimensional porous medium
Creators: name: Datta, Sujit S.
name: Ramakrishnan, T. S.
name: Weitz, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use confocal microscopy to directly visualize the formation and complex morphologies of trapped non-wetting fluid ganglia within a model 3D porous medium. The wetting fluid continues to flow around the ganglia after they form; this flow is characterized by a capillary number, Ca. We find that the ganglia configurations do not vary for small Ca; by contrast, as Ca is increased above a threshold value, the largest ganglia start to become mobilized and are ultimately removed from the medium. By combining our 3D visualization with measurements of the bulk transport, we show that this behavior can be quantitatively understood by balancing the viscous forces exerted on the ganglia with the pore-scale capillary forces that keep them trapped within the medium. Our work thus helps elucidate the fluid dynamics underlying the mobilization of a trapped non-wetting fluid from a 3D porous medium.
What can we gain from open access to Australian research? Climate action for a start
Creators: name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Huang, Karl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Access; Scholarly Communications; Open Science; Climate Change; Climate Action.

description: Article in the Australian edition of The Conversation. Published: December 3, 2021 2.12am AEDT. "The COP26 meeting has sharpened the world’s focus on climate change. To adapt and thrive in a world of reduced emissions, Australian businesses and communities need access to the technologies and innovation made possible by the nation’s researchers. But most Australian research is locked behind publisher paywalls."
description: Originally published at: https://theconversation.com/what-can-we-gain-from-open-access-to-australian-research-climate-action-for-a-start-171821
title: Influence of low doses of gamma irradiation on cowpea beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Creators: name: Fawki, Shams
name: Ibrahim, Hatem A. M.
name: Abd El-Bar, Marah M.
name: Abdou, Mohamed A.
name: Mahmoud, Dalia M.
name: El-Gohary, El-Gohary E.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Phytosanitary irradiation for food commodities has been widely accepted in recent years. Gamma irradiation has been used as a phytosanitary treatment against microbial diseases, insect infestation and food spoilage. The goal of the current study was to determine the lowest possible dose of gamma irradiation that will induce longterm sterility of insects through generations. The effect of four gamma irradiation doses examined were; 20,40, 50 and 70 Gy. Irradiated males were crossed with normal females. For the cowpea beetle Callosobruchus maculatus(F.), adult fecundity, hatchability, adult emergence, sterility% was investigated. 100% adult mortality was achieved by 70 Gy dose. Fecundity, hatchability, number of adults emerged, sterility% were significantly reduced when males exposed to 20, 40, and 50 Gy compared to the control. The effect of parental irradiated males exposed to 20 Gy on F2 generation was also studied. Fecundity, hatchability, number of adult emerged, sterility% were significantly reduced in F2 compared to F1 and control progeny. Interestingly, for F1 generation, the effect of gamma rays on adult emergence% exhibit a hermetic effect response although it was not significant. These results demonstrat that pulse irradiation relying on low-doses of gamma radiation induce inherited semi-sterility through generations and is a very promising phytosanitary food technology for postharvest treatments.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol. 1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
title: Radio frequency heat treatment for controlling cigarette beetle in dried tobacco
Creators: name: Chanbang, Yaowaluk
name: Muenmanee, Nadthawat
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is one of many agricultural commodities produced in Thailand. There are Virginia (flue-cured tobacco) and Burley (air-cured tobacco) typesand Cigarette beetle, Lasioderma sericorne F. is the most important insect pest that attacks dried tobacco. The efficacy of radio frequency (RF) heat treatment at 27.12 MHz was examined to control cigarette beetle on dried tobacco. Various growth stages of cigarette beetle were prepared within samples of dried tobacco and were exposed to RF at 55, 60, and 65 °C for 1, 2 and 3 minutes. The results showed that pupal and adult stages of cigarette beetle were the most tolerant stages to RF heat treatments. The RF treatment at 65 °C for 3 minutes is able to cause complete mortality of egg, larval, pupal and adult stages of cigarette beetle4.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol. 1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
Generating Complete and Finite Test Suite for ioco: Is It Possible?
Creators: name: Simao, Adenilso
name: Petrenko, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; D.2.5

description: Testing from Input/Output Transition Systems has been intensely investigated. The conformance between the implementation and the specification is often determined by the so-called ioco-relation. However, generating tests for ioco is usually hindered by the problem of conflicts between inputs and outputs. Moreover, the generation is mainly based on nondeterministic methods, which may deliver complete test suites but require an unbounded number of executions. In this paper, we investigate whether it is possible to construct a finite test suite which is complete in a predefined fault domain for the classical ioco relation even in the presence of input/output conflicts. We demonstrate that it is possible under certain assumptions about the specification and implementation, by proposing a method for complete test generation, based on a traditional method developed for FSM.
description: In Proceedings MBT 2014, arXiv:1403.7044
Cosmological constraints on dark energy
Creators: name: Davis, Tamara M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been only ~15 years since the discovery of dark energy (although some may argue there were strong indications even earlier). In the short time since measurements of type Ia supernovae indicated an accelerating universe, many other techniques have now confirmed the acceleration is real. The variety of ways in which dark energy has been confirmed is one of the reasons we are so confident in the statement that most of the energy in the universe is in a form we can not see except through its gravitational influence. This review aims to summarise briefly the many varied ways we now have measured dark energy. The fact that these different techniques all indicate that the simplest model remains the best -- that dark energy contributes a constant background acceleration -- is remarkable, since each of these different types of measurements represented opportunities for this simplest model to fail. Although we currently lack a compelling theoretical explanation for this acceleration, any explanation will have to explain the wide variety of complementary observations that we review here. This is an informal presentation, following the lines of the talk I presented at the General Relativity and Gravitation (GR20) conference in Warsaw in July 2013.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures. This astro-ph version contains bonus material (indicated by blue text) that would not fit within the published version's page limits
title: The River of Time
Creators: name: Ma, Xingrui
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Watercolor painting
subject: Memory
subject: Drawing
subject: Emigration and immigration

description: Through a visual art practice and research, this thesis explores my personal background as a Chinese immigrant, through depicting scattered childhood memory to seek overlooked connections among people, objects, and places. By investigation of theories of human geography, social psychology, philosophy, especially Yi-Fu Tuan’s Space and Place and Maurice Halbwachs’s On Collective Memory, I considered how people's sense of belonging to homeland is strengthened through memories of ordinary objects and everyday interactions. In relationship to my practice, I define memory as a semi-fabricated hallucination. I further invoke time in my projects in reference to Svetlana Boym’s concept of contemporary nostalgia. The paper analyzes my projects, The Tuesday Afternoon, Snow, and River, which I produced during my study in the MFA program of Emily Carr University. I employ watercolor painting and animation installation as my medium, inspired by artists Luc Tuymans, Christian Boltanski and William Kentridge, to explore the following questions: how do fragmented still images and dynamic animations in dark spaces transmit the feelings of loss and disorder caused during immigration, and the ambivalence of memory? Could these practices create a space of intersection for personal and collective memory? How does the use of obsolete technology contrast with the contemporary concept of time in rapidly developing society?
title: Lethal effects and mechanism of infrared radiation on Sitophilus zeamais and Tribolium castaneum in rough rice
Creators: name: Ding, Chao
name: Pei, Yongsheng
name: Tao, Tingting
name: Yang, Guofeng
name: Wang, Yan
name: Yan, Wei
name: Shao, Xiaolong
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics of adult Sitophilus zeamais and Tribolium castaneum, and the 21.1% dry base (d.b.) MC of rough rice by ATR-FTIR spectra, and determine the theoretical optimum infrared (IR) heating temperature of the tested samples. In laboratory experiments, a ceramic IR drying device was used to heat infested rough rice to research the mortality of Sitophilus zeamais and Tribolium castaneum, the drying characteristics of rough rice, and milling quality. The theoretical calculation optimum temperature of IR heating was 300 °C according to the results of FTIR spectra. In addition, the effects of the different IR radiation intensities and heated rough rice temperatures on mortality of insects, moisture removal, and milling quality were determined in this text. A high insect mortality, heating rate and corresponding high moisture removal were achieved by using IR heating. After heating, tempering process significantly increased insect mortality when the heated tempered rice temperature was less than 55 °C, and improve moisture removal and milling quality of rough rice during nature air cooling. When the rice heated under the IR radiation intensity of 2780 W/m2 for 110 s, the rice temperature reached 60.2° ± 0.5°C, 100% mortality of S. zeamais and T. castaneum, and 3.97 percentage points of moisture removal during the heating period after tempering and natural cooling. In addition, the high rice milling quality can be achieved after tempering treatment. Therefore, it can be concluded that the optimum conditions of simultaneous disinfestation and drying were 60 °C rice temperature under the IR radiation intensity of 2780 W/m2, followed by tempering and natural cooling.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol. 1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
title: An Examination of Tern Diet in a Changing Gulf of Maine
Creators: name: Yakola, Keenan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The Gulf of Maine is a dynamic ecosystem with rapidly warming sea surface temperatures (SSTs), therefore it is vital to understand how species interactions vary over time and space. In chapter two, I quantify and compare dietary differences among four tern species, across seven islands in the region, over a 32-year period. Multivariate statistical analyses were employed to discern spatial and temporal differences in foraging ecology. Findings suggest there are significant differences between species and islands; however, only three prey species comprise the majority of chick diet for all terns and islands. The reliance on only a few prey items led to narrow foraging niches, potentially increasing their vulnerability to climate change, fisheries practices, or other localized disturbances.
The third chapter characterizes long-term trends across nesting islands, describes within-season dietary phenology, and quantifies how warming SSTs may influence diet. Over time there was a declining trend in the occurrence of hake and increasing amounts of sand lance. In addition, hake and sand lance occur with higher frequency earlier in the season, while butterfish and “other fish” showed the opposite trend. Furthermore, results indicated that the within-season decline of hake occurs more rapidly in years with earlier spring thermal transition dates potentially indicating a phenological shift. Finally, warming SSTs were found to be negatively correlated with hake and positively correlated with the “other fish” prey group. Given projections of further warming in the region, understanding how the diet of these seabirds may be impacted in crucial to their conservation.
A revolutionary new approach to making humanities and social sciences books free
Creators: name: Montgomery, Lucy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Open Access; Books; Scholarly Communication; Publishing; Libraries; Humanities

description: Blog post published on the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog on 4 May 2012. "The crisis in academic publishing raises fundamental questions about the nature of scholarly enquiry and highlights a lack of connection between the prized forms of scholarship and contemporary readers. Lucy Montgomery explains why partnering with an academic publisher could produce a revolutionary approach to making scholarly work available for free."
description: Originally published at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/05/04/humanities-social-sciences-free/
Prior-predictive value from fast-growth simulations: Error analysis and bias estimation
Creators: name: Favaro, Alberto
name: Nickelsen, Daniel
name: Barykina, Elena
name: Engel, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variants of fluctuation theorems recently discovered in the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes may be used for the efficient determination of high-dimensional integrals as typically occurring in Bayesian data analysis. In particular for multimodal distributions, Monte-Carlo procedures not relying on perfect equilibration are advantageous. We provide a comprehensive statistical error analysis for the determination of the prior-predictive value in a Bayes problem building on a variant of the Jarzynski equation. Special care is devoted to the characterization of the bias intrinsic to the method. We also discuss the determination of averages over multimodal posterior distributions with the help of a variant of the Crooks theorem. All our findings are verified by extensive numerical simulations of two model systems with bimodal likelihoods.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Proceedings Second Workshop on Synthesis
Creators: name: Finkbeiner, Bernd
name: Solar-Lezama, Armando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Software synthesis is rapidly developing into an important research area with vast potential for practical application. The SYNT Workshop on Synthesis aims to bringing together researchers interested in synthesis to present both ongoing and mature work on all aspects of automated synthesis and its applications. The second iteration of SYNT took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and was co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. The workshop included eleven presentations covering the full scope of the emerging synthesis community, as well as a discussion lead by Swen Jacobs on the organization of two new synthesis competitions focusing on reactive synthesis and syntax-guided functional synthesis respectively.
Nouveaux indicateurs d’efficience de l’azote à l’échelle de l’exploitation
Creators: name: Godinot, Olivier
name: Vertès, Françoise
name: Leterme, Philippe
name: Carof, Matthieu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70105 Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: The excessive use of nitrogen (N) has significant negative impacts on the environment and human health. Increasing N use efficiency and reducing N surplus balances are agricultural priorities. Here, we have developed new indicators that can be used to help manage N levels in production systems. These indicators represent an improvement over those currently in use.
 We describe a new nitrogen use efficiency indicator and a new N balance indicator; both account for the impact of N inputs and variation in soil organic matter. Our third indicator makes it possible to compare a farm’s current nitrogen use efficiency with its potential nitrogen use efficiency.
 We calculated values for these three indicators for 38 dairy farms in Brittany to assess the farms’ nitrogen performance. We found that our indicators yield useful results, especially when evaluating conditions on mixed crop-livestock farms.
 Farmers, agricultural advisors, and researchers can use a free online tool (https://www.nefficiencycalculator.fr/en/) to calculate indicator values, which can help them identify strategies for improving their agricultural systems.
Quantization of T_d- and O_h-symmetric Skyrmions
Creators: name: Lau, P. H. C.
name: Manton, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometrical construction of rational maps using a cubic grid has led to many new Skyrmion solutions, with baryon numbers up to 108. Energy spectra of some of the new Skyrmions are calculated here by semi-classical quantization. Quantization of the B=20 T_d-symmetric Skyrmion, which is one of the newly found Skyrmions, is considered, and this leads to the development of a new approach to solving Finkelstein-Rubinstein (F-R) constraints. Matrix equations are simplified by introducing a Cartesian version of angular momentum basis states, and the computations are easier. The quantum states of all T_d-symmetric Skyrmions, constructed from the cubic grid, are classified into three classes, depending on the contribution of vertex points of the cubic grid to the rational maps. The analysis is extended to the larger symmetry group O_h. Quantum states of O_h-symmetric Skyrmions, constructed from the cubic grid, form a subset of the T_d-symmetric quantum states.
description: 34 pages, 13 figures
title: Βιοηθική και νομική προσέγγιση στην μεταμόσχευση των νεφρών
title: Bioethical and legal approach to kidney transplantation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αγράφα, Γεωργία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Μεταμόσχευση νεφρού
Νεφρική ανεπάρκεια
Νεφρική ανεπάρκεια τελικού σταδίου
Δότης οργάνων
Λήπτης οργάνων
Βιοηθική
Δωρεά οργάνων
Νοµικές αρχές
Ηθικές αρχές

description: Η πρόοδος στη µεταµόσχευση οργάνων συνεχίζει να αναπτύσσεται µε ταχείςρυθµούς. Παρά τις προόδους αυτές, θεµελιώδη ηθικά και νοµικά διλήµµατα συνεχίζουν να διαπερνούν την πρακτική της οργάνωσης της µεταµόσχευσης. Υποστήριξη θεµάτων όπως ο ποιος πρέπει να δώσει όργανα, πώς και πότε πρέπει να ληφθούν τα όργανα από το δότη και ποιοι πρέπει να τα λάβουν, είναι θέµατα που απαιτούν προσεκτική και ορθολογική αξιολόγηση ηθική και νοµική, πολύ πρινεξεταστούν οι πρακτικές για την επιτυχή µεταµόσχευση. Τα ερευνητικά ερωτήµατα τα οποία τίθενται είναι : οι θεµελιώδης 1) νοµικές, 2) ηθικές αρχές που πρέπει να διέπουν τις µεταµοσχεύσεις νεφρού και η σχέση η οποία θα πρέπει να υπάρχει µεταξύ των παραπάνω αρχών που πρέπει να διασφαλίζει την δηµιουργία ενός επιτυχούς κανονιστικού πλαισίου. Η µέθοδος η οποία ακολουθήθηκε για την συγγραφή της προκείµενης µελέτης είναι ηβιβλιογραφική ερεύνα. Διενεργήθηκε επιστάµενη ανασκόπηση της βιβλιογραφίας, συλλογή δεδοµένων από ηλεκτρονικές βάσεις, επεξεργασία και ανάλυση των πληροφοριών.
Island-based Random Dynamic Voltage Scaling vs ML-Enhanced Power Side-Channel Attacks
Creators: name: Chen, Dake
name: Goins, Christine
name: Waugaman, Maxwell
name: Dimou, Georgios D.
name: Beerel, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we describe and analyze an island-based random dynamic voltage scaling (iRDVS) approach to thwart power side-channel attacks. We first analyze the impact of the number of independent voltage islands on the resulting signal-to-noise ratio and trace misalignment. As part of our analysis of misalignment, we propose a novel unsupervised machine learning (ML) based attack that is effective on systems with three or fewer independent voltages. Our results show that iRDVS with four voltage islands, however, cannot be broken with 200k encryption traces, suggesting that iRDVS can be effective. We finish the talk by describing an iRDVS test chip in a 12nm FinFet process that incorporates three variants of an AES-256 accelerator, all originating from the same RTL. This included a synchronous core, an asynchronous core with no protection, and a core employing the iRDVS technique using asynchronous logic. Lab measurements from the chips indicated that both unprotected variants failed the test vector leakage assessment (TVLA) security metric test, while the iRDVS was proven secure in a variety of configurations.
Compsolacon subfaenum Prosvirov, 2017: 1130
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Compsolacon
Compsolacon subfaenum

description: Compsolacon subfaenum (Vats and Kashyap, 1992)
Agrypnus subfaenum Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 133.
Compsolacon subfaenum (Vats and Kashyap) Prosvirov, 2017: 1130.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Himachal Pradesh (Kangra).
Distribution. India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 133): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 78): catalogue; Prosvirov (2017: 1130): combination.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
VdBH 222: a starburst cluster in the inner Milky Way
Creators: name: Marco, A.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: González-Fernández, C.
name: Apellániz, J. Maíz
name: Dorda, R.
name: Clark, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that the compact open cluster VdBH 222 is a young massive distant object. We set out to characterise VdBH 222 using a comprehensive set of multi-wavelength observations. We obtained multi-band optical (UBVR) and near-infrared (JHK) photometry of the cluster field, as well as multi-object and long-slit optical spectroscopy for a large sample of stars in the field. We applied classical photometric analysis, as well as more sophisticated methods using the CHORIZOS code, to determine the reddening to the cluster. We then plotted dereddened HR diagrams and determined cluster parameters via isochrone fitting. We have identified a large population of luminous supergiants confirmed as cluster members via radial velocity measurements. We find nine red supergiants (plus one other candidate) and two yellow supergiants. We also identify a large population of OB stars. Ten of them are bright enough to be blue supergiants. The cluster lies behind 7.5 mag of extinction for the preferred value of Rv of 2.9. Isochrone fitting allows for a narrow range of ages between 12 and 16 Ma. The cluster radial velocity is compatible with distances of 6 and 10 kpc. The shorter distance is inconsistent with the age range and Galactic structure. The longer distance implies an age of 12 Ma and a location not far from the position where some Galactic models place the far end of the Galactic Bar. VdBH 222 is a young massive cluster with a likely mass greater than 20000 Msolar . Its population of massive evolved stars is comparable to that of large associations, such as Per OB1. Its location in the inner Galaxy, presumably close to the end of the Galactic bar, adds to the increasing evidence for vigorous star formation in the inner regions of the Milky Way.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Tables 4, 5, 7 and 8 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?J/A+A/
Beat note stabilization of mode-locked lasers for quantum information processing
Creators: name: Islam, R.
name: Campbell, W. C.
name: Choi, T.
name: Clark, S. M.
name: Debnath, S.
name: Edwards, E. E.
name: Fields, B.
name: Hayes, D.
name: Hucul, D.
name: Inlek, I. V.
name: Johnson, K. G.
name: Korenblit, S.
name: Lee, A.
name: Lee, K. W.
name: Manning, T. A.
name: Matsukevich, D. N.
name: Mizrahi, J.
name: Quraishi, Q.
name: Senko, C.
name: Smith, J.
name: Monroe, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We stabilize a chosen radiofrequency beat note between two optical fields derived from the same mode-locked laser pulse train, in order to coherently manipulate quantum information. This scheme does not require access or active stabilization of the laser repetition rate. We implement and characterize this external lock, in the context of two-photon stimulated Raman transitions between the hyperfine ground states of trapped 171-Yb+ quantum bits.
N=2 supersymmetric radiation damping problem on a noncommutative plane
Creators: name: Abreu, Everton M. C.
name: Mendes, Albert C. R.
name: Oliveira, Wilson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that a direct Lagrangian description of radiation damping is still missing. In this paper a specific approach of this problem was used, which is the standard way to treat the radiation damping problem. A $N=2$ supersymmetric extension for the model describing the radiation damping on the noncommutative plane with electric and magnetic interactions was obtained. The entire supercharge algebra and the total Hamiltonian for the system were analyzed. Finally, noncommutativity features were introduced and its consequences were explored..
description: 13 pages. In memory of prof. Wilson Oliveira. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.7319
Η προστασία του δημιουργού ύστερα από την θέσπιση της Οδηγίας 790/2019/ΕΕ : η θέση του δημιουργού μετά την εισαγωγή των υποχρεωτικών εξαιρέσεων του δικαιώματος αναπαραγωγής
Creators: name: Τρασάνη, Σπηλιανή Κλαρίσσα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Δίκαιο
subject: Πνευματική ιδιοκτησία
subject: Εξόρυξη δεδομένων
subject: Δικαίωμα αναπαραγωγής
subject: Εξαιρέσεις περιουσιακού δικαιώματος

description: Το δίκαιο της πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας συνεχώς εξελίσσεται αλλά συγχρόνως προσαρμόζεται και στα νέα δεδομένα που προκύπτουν με την εξέλιξη της τεχνολογίας και της επιστήμης. Η τεχνολογική πρόοδος συνέβαλλε καθοριστικά στην διαμόρφωση του δικαίου της πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας και την διεύρυνση του συστήματος προστασίας των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων του δημιουργού. Ο τελευταίος απέκτησε μια σειρά εξουσιών αλλά και περιορισμών των δικαιωμάτων του και ήρθε αντιμέτωπος με μια σειρά από προκλήσεις των πνευματικών του δικαιωμάτων στο διαδίκτυο. Ο εκσυγχρονισμός του νομικού πλαισίου που διέπει τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα αποτελεί μονόδρομο, αφού η ψηφιακός μετασχηματισμός της κοινωνικής, οικονομικής και επιχειρηματικής ζωής είναι δεδομένος. Στην προσαρμογή του νομικού καθεστώτος στο ψηφιακό περιβάλλον συνέβαλε ιδιαίτερα η θέσπιση της Οδηγίας 2001/29/ΕΚ η οποία καλείται να αντιμετωπίσει τις προκλήσεις της Κοινωνίας της Πληροφορίας. Μετά από δεκαοχτώ ολόκληρα χρόνια, η Οδηγία 790/2019/ΕΕ ήρθε να ταράξει τα νερά του νομικού κόσμου. Η Οδηγία για την ψηφιακή ενιαία αγορά, καλείται να καλύψει το νομικό χάσμα που έχει δημιουργηθεί διάστημα που μεσολαβεί μεταξύ των δύο παραπάνω νομοθετικών κειμένων. Ανάμεσα σε πολλές διατάξεις, η Οδηγία 790/2019ΕΕ θεσπίζει τρεις υποχρεωτικούς περιορισμούς του περιουσιακού δικαιώματος του δημιουργού. Σε μία προσπάθεια στάθμισης του γενικού συμφέροντος και της προστασίας των δικαιωμάτων του δημιουργού, ο ευρωπαϊκός νομοθέτης υποχρεώνει τα κράτη μέλη να ενσωματώσουν τους παραπάνω περιορισμούς ανάγοντάς τους μάλιστα σε κανόνες αναγκαστικού δικαίου. Αντικείμενο της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η εξέταση των παραπάνω περιορισμών υπό το πρίσμα της προστασίας των δημιουργών. Θα εξετασθούν λοιπόν οι λόγοι που καθιστούν υποχρεωτική την ένταξη τους στην εκάστοτε έννομη τάξη ενώ θα εκτιμηθεί η θέση των δικαιούχων εν συγκρίσει με το προγενέστερο νομικό status που διασφάλιζε τα δικαιώματά τους.
Establishing discipline-specific Data Stewardship at the Data Science Center of the University of Bremen – One Year Review
Creators: name: Zänkert, Sandra
name: Thöricht, Heike
name: Steinmann, Lena
name: Drechsler, Rolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: RDM
DSgG

description: Since summer 2022, Data Stewards have extended the DSC services and have complemented the RDM support landscape at the University of Bremen and the U Bremen Research Alliance. The Data Stewards are discipline-specific experts acting as an interface between researchers and RDM-infrastructures. They offer RDM-trainings and consultation. Their overarching goal is to reduce barriers associated with RDM for scientists and to promote a FAIR-data culture. 
This poster looks back at the achievements of the last year and gives a preview of the road ahead.
Nouveaux indicateurs d’efficience de l’azote à l’échelle de l’exploitation. Fourrages, 241, 45-56.
Creators: name: Godinot, Olivier
name: Vertès, Françoise
name: Leterme, Philippe
name: Carof, Matthieu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70105 Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: The excessive use of nitrogen (N) has significant negative impacts on the environment and human health. Increasing N use efficiency and reducing N surplus balances are agricultural priorities. Here, we have developed new indicators that can be used to help manage N levels in production systems. These indicators represent an improvement over those currently in use.
 We describe a new nitrogen use efficiency indicator and a new N balance indicator; both account for the impact of N inputs and variation in soil organic matter. Our third indicator makes it possible to compare a farm’s current nitrogen use efficiency with its potential nitrogen use efficiency.
 We calculated values for these three indicators for 38 dairy farms in Brittany to assess the farms’ nitrogen performance. We found that our indicators yield useful results, especially when evaluating conditions on mixed crop-livestock farms.
 Farmers, agricultural advisors, and researchers can use a free online tool (https://www.nefficiencycalculator.fr/en/) to calculate indicator values, which can help them identify strategies for improving their agricultural systems.