cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corrugation of an unpaved road surface under vehicle weight
Creators: name: Matsuyama, Chiharu
name: Tanaka, Yukihiro
name: Sato, Motohiro
name: Shima, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Road corrugation refers to the formation of periodic, transverse ripples on unpaved road surfaces. It forms spontaneously on an initially flat surface under heavy traffic and can be considered to be a type of unstable growth phenomenon, possibly caused by the local volume contraction of the underlying soil due to a moving vehicle's weight. In the present work, we demonstrate a possible mechanism for road corrugation using experimental data of soil consolidation and numerical simulations. The results indicate that the vertical oscillation of moving vehicles, which is excited by the initial irregularities of the surface, plays a key role in the development of corrugation.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Euserica alcaidei Baraud 1965
Creators: name: Ahrens, Dirk
name: Bezděk, Aleš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Euserica
Euserica alcaidei

description: Euserica alcaidei Baraud, 1965a: 82 N: MO
Euserica alonsoi Ruiz & Ávila, 1993: 116 N: MO
description: Published as part of Ahrens, Dirk & Bezděk, Aleš, 2024, Catalogue of Palaearctic Sericinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) - revised and updated fourth edition, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5520 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5520.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13921956
The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya's Maasiland: Triggers and Motivations
Creators: name: Mwangi, Esther
name: Mwangi, Esther
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Property rights
subject: privatization
subject: land tenure
subject: group ranches
subject: Maasai
subject: pastoralism
subject: Kajiado

description: This paper explores the puzzle of why the pastoral Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya, supported the individualization of their collectively held group ranches, an outcome that is inconsistent with theoretical expectation. Findings suggest that individuals and groups will seek to alter property rights in their anticipation of net gains from a new assignment, even as they seek to eliminate disadvantages that were present in the status quo property rights structure. Heightened perceptions of impending land scarcity, failures of collective decision making, the promise of new income opportunities and the possibility of accessing capital markets motivated individuals to support group ranch subdivision. More importantly individuals were confronted with a declining security of tenure over their lands. Their supporting a transition to individual rights also represents a rational response anticipated to secure land claims against unauthorized appropriations by both Maasai and non-Maasai elite. Given the differentiated structure of group ranch communities, the costs and benefits of property transformation were unevenly distributed. The political process yielded beneficial outcomes for those with access to decision making, while creating vulnerabilities for those with less access such as women, the youth and poor herders.
A Planck-scale axion and SU(2) Yang-Mills dynamics: Present acceleration and the fate of the photon
Creators: name: Giacosa, Francesco
name: Hofmann, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the time of CMB decoupling onwards we investigate cosmological evolution subject to a strongly interacting SU(2) gauge theory of Yang-Mills scale $Λ\sim 10^{-4}$ eV (masquerading as the $U(1)_{Y}$ factor of the SM at present). The viability of this postulate is discussed in view of cosmological and (astro)particle physics bounds. The gauge theory is coupled to a spatially homogeneous and ultra-light (Planck-scale) axion field. As first pointed out by Frieman et al., such an axion is a viable candidate for quintessence, i.e. dynamical dark energy, being associated with today's cosmological acceleration. A prediction of an upper limit $Δt_{m_γ=0}$ for the duration of the epoch stretching from the present to the point where the photon starts to be Meissner massive is obtained: $Δt_{m_γ=0}\sim 2.2$ billion years.
description: v3: consequences of an error in evolution equation for coupling rectified, only a minimal change in physics results, two refs. added
Additional file 2 of Longitudinal changes in EEG power, sleep cycles and behaviour in a tau model of neurodegeneration
Creators: name: C. M. Holton
name: N. Hanley
name: E. Shanks
name: P. Oxley
name: A. McCarthy
name: B. J. Eastwood
name: T. K. Murray
name: A. Nickerson
name: Wafford, K. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary figure 2. correlation of NREM sleep or ofLMA vs atrophy. Correlation of atrophy vs NREM sleep; actual values (A) and residuals (B). Correlation of atrophy vs log distance in open field LMA; actual values (C) and residuals (D). Small symbols represent individual subjects. In the correlations with the actual values, the large symbols represent the average of the treatment group. Spearman’s correlation calculations in Table 1.
Improving the Effectiveness of Collective Action: Sharing Experiences From Community Forestry in Nepal
Creators: name: Acharya, Krishna P.
name: Gentle, Popular
name: Acharya, Krishna P.
name: Gentle, Popular
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Community forestry
subject: Nepal
subject: gender
subject: poverty
subject: forest management and governance

description: The forest management strategy of Nepal is based on people’s participation, which is known as community forestry. This approach was formally introduced in 1978 to encourage active participation of local people in forest management activities as a means to improve their livelihoods. Under the community forestry structure, local people make decisions regarding forest management, utilization and distribution of benefits from a forest; they are organized as a Community Forest User Group. Presently about 1.2 million hectares of forest is under the control of about 14,000 Community Forest User Groups. It has received highest priority within the forestry sector and is one of the most successful development initiatives in Nepal. However, emerging evidence indicates that forest user groups have excluded rather than included women’s participation in their activities This paper is based on the findings from six forest users groups implementing a program aimed at strengthening governance at the local level through increased women’s participation and increased advocacy skills and capacity of selected civil society groups. It presents the process of women’s empowerment in forest user groups by describing changes made in those groups once women begin participating and holding key decision-making positions. The findings note significant variation in funds allocated for social and community development activities, which are necessary to address the issues of poverty and social equity in Nepal. In addition, they note the importance of building both the capacity of individual women leaders and an enabling environment to support the women’s initiatives. A collaborative and inclusive approach that includes women and marginalized groups as committee executives and members of local government bodies is necessary to build the enabling environment.
Finite time extinction for a damped nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation in the whole space
Creators: name: Bégout, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation set in the whole space with a single power of interaction and an external source. We first establish existence and uniqueness of the solutions and then show, in low space dimension, that the solutions vanish at a finite time. Under a smallness hypothesis of the initial data and some suitable additional assumptions on the external source, we also show that we can choose the upper bound on which time the solutions vanish.
Chaos and localization in the wavefunctions of complex atoms NdI, PmI and SmI
Creators: name: Angom, Dilip
name: Kota, V. K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wavefunctions of complex lanthanide atoms NdI, PmI and SmI, obtained via multi-configuration Dirac-Fock method, are analyzed for density of states in terms of partial densities, strength functions ($F_k(E)$), number of principal components ($ξ_2(E)$) and occupancies ($\lan n_α\ran^E$) of single particle orbits using embedded Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of one plus two-body random matrix ensembles [EGOE(1+2)]. It is seen that density of states are in general multi-modal, $F_k(E)$'s exhibit variations as function of the basis states energy and $ξ_2(E)$'s show structures arising from localized states. The sources of these departures from EGOE(1+2) are investigated by examining the partial densities, correlations between $F_k(E)$, $ξ_2(E)$ and $\lan n_α\ran^E$ and also by studying the structure of the Hamiltonian matrices. These studies point out the operation of EGOE(1+2) but at the same time suggest that weak admixing between well separated configurations should be incorporated into EGOE(1+2) for more quantitative description of chaos and localization in NdI, PmI and SmI.
description: There are 9 figures
Evolutionary origin of power-laws in Biochemical Reaction Network; embedding abundance distribution into topology
Creators: name: Furusawa, Chikara
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The evolutionary origin of universal statistics in biochemical reaction network is studied, to explain the power-law distribution of reaction links and the power-law distributions of chemical abundances. Using cell models with catalytic reaction network, we find evidence that the power-law distribution in abundances of chemicals emerges by the selection of cells with higher growth speeds. Through the further evolution, this inhomogeneity in chemical abundances is shown to be embedded in the distribution of links, leading to the power-law distribution. These findings provide novel insights into the nature of network evolution in living cells.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Decentralization and Environmental Conservation: Gender Effects From Participation in Joint Forest Management
Creators: name: Agrawal, Arun
name: Yadama, Gautam
name: Andrade, Raul
name: Bhattacharya, Ajoy
name: Agrawal, Arun
name: Yadama, Gautam
name: Andrade, Raul
name: Bhattacharya, Ajoy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Joint Forest Management
subject: Gender equity
subject: Decentralization
subject: Forestry Resources

description: This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India’s flagship program to involve communities in forest governance. We focus on two outcomes relevant for local livelihoods: control of illicit grazing and control of illicit felling in the forest. The paper statistically estimates the effects of women’s participation on outcomes, and also the source of this effect in terms of women’s representation in committees and action in protecting forests. We find that women’s participation has substantial positive effects on regulating illicit grazing and felling, even after controlling for the effects of a range of independent variables. We also find that the “action effect” is more important than the “representation effect,” confirming some major arguments advanced by feminist environmentalists. Our statistical results are robust to different specifications and provide considerable empirical support for promoting women’s participation in community-based protection of natural resources.
Truncated disc versus extremely broad iron line in XTE J1650-500
Creators: name: Done, Chris
name: Gierlinski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is growing evidence from both spectral and timing properties that there is a truncated inner accretion disc in low mass accretion rate Galactic black hole systems. The detection of extremely smeared relativistic iron lines in some of these systems is the only current piece of evidence which conflicts with this geometrical interpretation of the low/hard state. Here we show that the line width in the BeppoSAX data of a bright low/hard state of the transient black hole XTE J1650-500 is indeed consistent with extreme relativistic effects. However, the relativistic smearing can be significantly reduced if there is also resonance iron K line absorption from an outflowing disc wind. The iron line smearing is then completely compatible with a truncated disc, so gives no information on the black hole spin.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Neuromorphic AI Empowered Root Cause Analysis of Faults in Emerging Networks
Creators: name: Bothe, Shruti
name: Masood, Usama
name: Farooq, Hasan
name: Imran, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Mobile cellular network operators spend nearly a quarter of their revenue on network maintenance and management. A significant portion of that budget is spent on resolving faults diagnosed in the system that disrupt or degrade cellular services. Historically, the operations to detect, diagnose and resolve issues were carried out by human experts. However, with diversifying cell types, increased complexity and growing cell density, this methodology is becoming less viable, both technically and financially. To cope with this problem, in recent years, research on self-healing solutions has gained significant momentum. One of the most desirable features of the self-healing paradigm is automated fault diagnosis. While several fault detection and diagnosis machine learning models have been proposed recently, these schemes have one common tenancy of relying on human expert contribution for fault diagnosis and prediction in one way or another. In this paper, we propose an AI-based fault diagnosis solution that offers a key step towards a completely automated self-healing system without requiring human expert input. The proposed solution leverages Random Forests classifier, Convolutional Neural Network and neuromorphic based deep learning model which uses RSRP map images of faults generated. We compare the performance of the proposed solution against state-of-the-art solution in literature that mostly use Naive Bayes models, while considering seven different fault types. Results show that neuromorphic computing model achieves high classification accuracy as compared to the other models even with relatively small training data
Additional file 1 of COVID-19 crisis, safe reopening of simulation centres and the new normal: food for thought
Creators: name: Ingrassia, Pier Luigi
name: Capogna, Giorgio
name: Diaz-Navarro, Cristina
name: Demian Szyld
name: Tomola, Stefania
name: Leon-Castelao, Esther
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. COVID-19 “Health-Declaration” Form.
title: Revealing the Microbiome Associated With the Soil and Root of Shepherdia Species in Utah
Creators: name: Devkota, Ananta Raj
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: The world is facing the crisis of climate change, and our crops are exposed to a wide variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. This has challenged the effort to maintain and improve the crop yield to feed the increasing population. Plants associated microbes from extreme climatic conditions have the ability to help plant adapt to various stresses and such microbes can be used as inoculum to grow plants during challenging environmental conditions. Our study aims to explore and analyze the microbiome associated with the Shepherdia species available in Utah. Two native Shepherdia species, S. rotundifolia, and S. argentea, along with their hybrid S. utahensis, were selected for the study. The soil and root samples of all three species from all the locations were collected and processed in the Utah State University laboratory and made ready for DNA extraction. Additionally, the rhizosphere samples were stored for bacterial culture. The alpha diversity analysis suggests that there was significantly different (p≤0.05) bacterial alpha diversity in the bulk soil and rhizosphere of S. rotundifolia across the three locations. Similarly, the rhizosphere bacterial alpha diversity differed significantly (p≤0.05) between the two native species within the same location. However, the alpha diversity of the hybrid buffaloberry samples among the three locations were not significantly different (p>0.05). The beta diversity analysis suggests that the bacterial community composition differed significantly among the locations, bulk soil and nodules in case of hybrid buffaloberry and between the species within the same location. Proteobacteria and Actinobacteriota are dominant in the bulk soil and rhizosphere; while Actinobacteriota are dominant in the root and nodules of all species. Frankia is the dominant genus in the roots and nodules of S. utahensis but there is great diversity in the genus composition in the remaining samples. A total of fifty-nine different bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere of the hybrid buffaloberry and tested for seven plant growth-promoting (PGP) traits, of which 11 isolates showed all seven PGP traits, which will be further tested for their growth promotion efficiency in plants and commercialized if found effective.
A role for neuropeptides in tardive dyskinesia : blockade of opioid and non-opioid peptide receptors suppresses neuroleptic-induced vacuous chewing movements
Creators: name: McCormick, Siobhan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The treatment of schizophrenia with chronic neuroleptic therapy leads to the development of tardive dyskinesia, an involuntary movement disorder principally manifest in the orobuccal region, in approximately 20- 30 % of patients. While the pathogenesis of tardive dyskinesia remains uncertain, altered function of both opioid and non-opioid peptides in the basal ganglia has been implicated in its emergence. The levels of both the opioid peptides dynorphin and enkephalin are increased following long-term treatment with classical antipsychotic drugs. In addition, the levels of striatal neurotensin, a non-opioid peptide, are augmented following chronic neuroleptic treatment. Using a rodent model of tardive dyskinesia, vacuous chewing movements induced by chronic neuroleptic therapy, we have examined the role of these opioid and non-opioid peptides in the emergence of tardive dyskinesia. Animals received chronic administration of fluphenazine decanoate (25mg/kg i.m.) or its vehicle, sesame oil, every 3 weeks for a minimum of 18 weeks. Animals were then surgically implanted with stainless steel guide cannulae aimed at the striatum, the substantia nigra pars reticulata, or the globus pallidus. In order to examine the role of opioid peptides in tardive dyskinesia, we infused the kappa opioid receptor antagonist, nor-binaltorphimine, into the substantia nigra pars reticulata, or the nonspecific opioid antagonist, naloxone, into the globus pallidus. To further clarify the specific receptor subtypes involved, we infused D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Orn-Thr-Pen-Thr Amide (CTOP), a selective mu-opioid receptor antagonist, or naltrindole, a specific delta- opioid receptor antagonist, into the globus pallidus of separate groups of animals. For investigation of the role of the non-opioid peptide neurotensin in tardive dyskinesia, we infused the neurotensin antagonist 2-[(1-(7-chloro-4-qumolinyl)-5-(2,6-dimethoxyphenyl)pyrazol-3-yl)carbonylamino] tricyclo(3.3.1.1.³‧⁷) decan-2-carboxylic acid (SR48692) into the striatum, the substantia nigra pars reticulata, or the globus pallidus. Chronic treatment with fluphenazine decanoate resulted in the robust development of vacuous chewing movements. All antagonist compounds suppressed vacuous chewing movements to varying degrees, depending on the compound used and the location of infusion. These results suggest a possible role for opioid and non-opioid peptides in the emergence of tardive dyskinesia. Thus, drug treatments which reduce or prevent the effects of increased expression of these peptides may be helpful in the management of tardive dyskinesia.
Additional file 1 of Longitudinal changes in EEG power, sleep cycles and behaviour in a tau model of neurodegeneration
Creators: name: C. M. Holton
name: N. Hanley
name: E. Shanks
name: P. Oxley
name: A. McCarthy
name: B. J. Eastwood
name: T. K. Murray
name: A. Nickerson
name: Wafford, K. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figure 1. spectral power. EEG spectral power from a 1-week recording period at 22 weeks of age or earlier in the dark (A) and light phase (B). EEG power from a 1-week recording period at 40 weeks of age or later in the dark (C) and light phase (D). Spectral frequency bands were delta (δ, 0.1 to 4 Hz), theta (θ, 5.1 to 9 Hz), alpha (α, 9.1 to 12 Hz) and beta (β, 12 to 20 Hz).
Symmetry breaking in single crystal SrTiO$_3$ plates: EPR manifestations
Creators: name: Gabbasov, Bulat F.
name: Gracheva, Irina N.
name: Rodionov, Alexander A.
name: Nikitin, Sergey I.
name: Zverev, Dmitry G.
name: Trepakov, Vladimir A.
name: Dejneka, Alexandr
name: Jastrabik, Lubomir
name: Yusupov, Roman V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of the impurity Fe$^{3+}$ and Mn$^{4+}$ centers indicate that the symmetry of the crystal structure of millimeter-scale strontium titanate plates above 105 K lowers in the bulk from cubic to tetragonal, different from that of the conventional low-temperature antiferrodistortive phase. It is shown that the effect does not originate from the residual stress; its magnitude (observed tetragonal distortion) and particular manifestations depend on plate orientation, surface quality and the geometry of a sample. Peculiarities of the observed phenomenon are presented and possible scenario of its realization is discussed.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
The role of holistic nutritional properties of diets in the assessment of food system and dietary sustainability
Creators: name: Dave, Lakshmi A.
name: Hodgkinson, Suzanne M.
name: Roy, Nicole C.
name: Smith, Nick W.
name: McNabb, Warren C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Advancing sustainable diets for nutrition security and sustainable development necessitates clear nutrition metrics for measuring nutritional quality of diets. Food composition, nutrient requirements, and dietary intake are among the most common nutrition metrics used in the current assessment of sustainable diets. Broadly, most studies in the area classify animal-source foods (ASF) as having a substantially higher environmental footprint in comparison to plant-source foods (PSF). As a result, much of the current dietary advice promulgates diets containing higher proportions of PSF. However, this generalization is misleading since most of these studies do not distinguish between the gross and bioavailable nutrient fractions in mixed human diets. The bioavailability of essential nutrients including β-carotene, vitamin B-12, iron, zinc, calcium, and indispensable amino acids varies greatly across different diets. The failure to consider bioavailability in sustainability measurements undermines the complementary role that ASF play in achieving nutrition security in vulnerable populations. This article critically reviews the scientific evidence on the holistic nutritional quality of diets and identifies methodological problems that exist in the way the nutritional quality of diets is measured. Finally, we discuss the importance of developing nutrient bioavailability as a requisite nutrition metric to contextualize the environmental impacts of different diets.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 29/2021
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Neufassung der Corona Ordnung für den Studien- und Prü-fungsbetrieb an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2021;29
Tachyon condensation and D-branes in generalized geometries
Creators: name: Grange, Pascal
name: Minasian, Ruben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In generalized complex geometry, D-branes can be seen as maximally isotropic spaces and are thus in one-to-one correspondence with pure spinors. When considered on the sum of the tangent and cotangent bundles to the ambient space, all the branes are of the same dimension and the transverse scalars enter on par with the gauge fields; the split between the longitudinal and transverse directions is done in accordance with the type of the pure spinor corresponding to the given D-brane. We elaborate on the relation of this picture to the T-duality transformations and stability of D-branes. A discussion of tachyon condensation in the context of the generalized complex geometry is given, linking the description of D-branes as generalized complex submanifolds to their K-theoretic classification.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX
Stizocera lissonota
Creators: name: Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo
name: Taboada-Verona, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Stizocera
Stizocera lissonota

description: Stizocera lissonota (Bates, 1870)
(Fig. 15)
Known distribution. Panama (Panamá Oeste, Colón), Colombia (Bolívar), Brazil (Pará, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maranhão, Piauí, and Goiás), French Guiana, and Bolivia (Beni and Santa Cruz) (Tavakilian & Chevillote 2025, Lanuza-Garay & Monné 2025).
Material examined. 2 specimens, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 24.v.1977, H. Wolda leg. (STRI _ENT_0029680, STRI_ENT_0029685); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 29.v.1977, H. Wolda leg. (STRI _ENT_0029681); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 18.iv.1978, H. Wolda leg. (STRI _ENT_0029682); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 07.v.1978, H. Wolda leg. (STRI _ENT_0029683); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 18.vi.1977, H. Wolda leg. (STRI _ENT_0029684); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Maje Station, 18.v.1974, D. Engleman leg. (STRI _ENT_ 0060549); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Interamerican Hwy, 3 Km E of Ipeti, 03.v.1992, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_0060550); 3 specimens, PANAMA, Panamá, Chepo, Altos De Maje, 17.v.1975, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_0060551, STRI_ENT_0060556, STRI_ENT_0060560); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 01.vi.1974, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_0060552); 2 specimens, PANAMA, Colón, Canal Zone, Coco Solo Hospital, 20.iv.1972, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_0060558, STRI_ENT_0060559); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Colón, Canal Zone, Coco Solo Hospital, 10.v.1974, D. Engleman leg. (STRI _ENT_0060557); 2 specimens, PANAMA, Colón, Canal Zone, Coco Solo Hospital, 07.v.1978, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_ 0060553, STRI_ENT_0060555); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Canal Zone, Ancon, 01.vi.1976, H. Stockwell leg. (STRI _ENT_0060554); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Canal Zone, Ancon, 09.v.1995, H. Stockwell col. (STRI _ENT_0060563); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Arraijan, Loma del Rio, 17.vi.2004, A. Aiello col. (STRI _ ENT_0110926); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá Oeste, Canal Zone, BCI, 22.v.1977, R. Silberglied & A. Aiello leg. (STRI _ENT_0110927); 1 specimen, PANAMA, Panamá, Arraijan, Loma del Rio, 16.v.2005, A. Aiello leg. (STRI _ENT_0110928); 1 male, PANAMA, Colón, Fort Espinar, 13.iv.1994 M. Akers leg. (MACO).
Remarks. Linsley (1935), based on several specimens (USNM), recorded S. lissonota for Panamá, Panamá Oeste, La Chorrera, followed by Chemsak et al. (1992), Martins (2005), and Martins et al. (2014). New locations in Panamá Oeste: (Arraiján) and Colón (Fort Espinar) are recorded.
description: Published as part of Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo & Taboada-Verona, Carlos, 2025, Description of a new species of Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Central America, and new distributional records and taxonomic notes of Peruvian and Panamanian Cerambycidae, pp. 273-284 in Zootaxa 5621 (2) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15262683
The Many Meanings of Collective Action: Lessons on Enhancing Gender Inclusion and Equity in Watershed Management
Creators: name: German, Laura
name: Taye, Hailemichael
name: Charamila, Sarah
name: Tolera, Tesema
name: Tanui, Joseph
name: German, Laura
name: Taye, Hailemichael
name: Charamila, Sarah
name: Tolera, Tesema
name: Tanui, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Watershed management
subject: gender
subject: collective action

description: Collective action in agriculture and natural resource management is all too often perceived of in terms of the mere number of participants, with little consideration given to who participates, why, and the outcomes of inequitable participation. The literature is replete with cases of how uncritical approaches to participation structure positions of privilege vis-a-vis project benefits and the natural resource base. Yet lessons on how to engage with local communities in ways that promote equitable participation of women, the poor and other stakeholders are only now coming to light. This paper focuses on approaches under development under the rubric of the African Highlands Initiative to bring collective action principles to bear on gender-equitable change processes in natural resource management. The paper utilizes a number of case studies to illustrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches for enhancing gender inclusion and equity throughout the stages of problem diagnosis, planning and monitoring. The analysis suggests that an arbitrary definition of collective action is insufficient for assessing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and that method evaluation should consider the different forms that collective action can take. A typology of different forms of collective action is proposed, and then utilized to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches for fostering gender inclusion and equity in watershed management.
Measurements with silicon detectors at extreme neutron fluences
Creators: name: Mandić, I.
name: Cindro, V.
name: Gorišek, A.
name: Hiti, B.
name: Kramberger, G.
name: Mikuž, M.
name: Zavrtanik, M.
name: Skomina, P.
name: Hidalgo, S.
name: Pellegrini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin pad detectors made from 75 $μ$m thick epitaxial silicon on low resistivity substrate were irradiated with reactor neutrons to fluences from 2.5$\times 10^{16}$ n/cm$^2$ to 1$\times 10^{17}$ n/cm$^2$. Edge-TCT measurements showed that the active detector thickness is limited to the epitaxial layer and does not extend into the low resistivity substrate even after the highest fluence. Detector current was measured under reverse and forward bias. The forward current was higher than the reverse at the same voltage but the difference gets smaller with increasing fluence. Rapid increase of current (breakdown) above ~ 700 V under reverse bias was observed. An annealing study at 60$^\circ$C was made to 1200 minutes of accumulated annealing time. It showed that the reverse current anneals with similar time constants as measured at lower fluences. A small increase of forward current due to annealing was seen. Collected charge was measured with electrons from $^{90}$Sr source in forward and reverse bias configurations. Under reverse bias the collected charge increased linearly with bias voltage up to 6000 electrons at 2.5$\times 10^{16}$ n/cm$^2$ and 3000 electrons at 1$\times 10^{17}$ n/cm$^2$. Rapid increase of noise was measured above $\sim$ 700 V reverse bias due to breakdown resulting in worse S/N ratio. At low bias voltages slightly more charge is measured under forward bias compared to reverse. However better S/N is achieved under reverse bias. Effective trapping times were estimated from charge collection measurements under forward bias showing that at high fluences they are much longer than values extrapolated from low fluence measurements - at 1$\times 10^{17}$ n/cm$^2$ a factor of 6 larger value was measured.
Water, Women, and Local Social Organization in the Western Kenya Highlands
Creators: name: Were, Elizabeth
name: Swallow, Brent M.
name: Roy, Jessica
name: Were, Elizabeth
name: Swallow, Brent M.
name: Roy, Jessica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: gender
subject: Kenya
subject: water
subject: collective action
subject: community organization
subject: community-based organizations
subject: women

description: Safe water is widely recognized as both a fundamental human need and a key input into economic activity. Across the developing world, the typical approach to addressing these needs is to segregate supplies of water for domestic use from water for large-scale agricultural production. In that arrangement, the goal of domestic water supply is to provide small amounts of clean safe water for direct consumption, cleaning, bathing and sanitation, while the goal of agricultural water supply is to provide large amounts of lower quality water for irrigated agriculture. A new third use of water is now being given more attention by researchers: small amounts of water employed in selected household enterprises. This third use may be particularly important for women. There is a potential, therefore, that provision of modest amounts of water to smallholder farmers can enhance household economic production, save labor time for women and girls, and improve family health. This paper adds to the emerging literature on the multiple values of improved water supplies – improved health, time savings, and small-scale production for individual farmers and collectives – for the case of a rural community in the western highlands of Kenya. With minimum external support, two groups in this community have managed to install and operate systems of spring protection and piped water to their members’ homesteads. Members of those households, particularly women, have benefited substantially in terms of time savings, health and small-scale production. The experience of this community also illustrates some of the challenges that must be faced for a community to effectively self-organize the investment and maintenance of a community-based water scheme. There are challenges of finance, gender relations, and conflict over scarce water supplies, group leadership, enforcement of community bi-laws, and policy. Data from a census of springs in the same area show that successful collective action for water management is unusual, but certainly not unique, in this region of Kenya. Although women emerge as the main beneficiaries of improved water management in the community, their substantial contributions are largely hidden behind social norms regarding gender roles and relations. Research methods need to carefully triangulate information sources in order to clarify the very substantial and active roles performed by women. Kenya’s water policy should be modified to better recognize and facilitate small-scale community-based water projects.
Lithium abundances in exoplanet host stars as test of planetary formation scenarii
Creators: name: Castro, M.
name: Richard, O.
name: Vauclair, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the observations of Israelian et al. 2004, we compare different evolutionary models in order to study the lithium destruction processes and the planetary formation scenarii.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, proceeding of the meeting "Element Stratification in stars : 40 years of atomic diffusion", Mons 6-11 Juin 2005
Strings, world-sheet covariant quantization and Bohmian mechanics
Creators: name: Nikolic, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The covariant canonical method of quantization based on the De Donder-Weyl covariant canonical formalism is used to formulate a world-sheet covariant quantization of bosonic strings. To provide the consistency with the standard non-covariant canonical quantization, it is necessary to adopt a Bohmian deterministic hidden-variable equation of motion. In this way, string theory suggests a solution to the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics.
description: 9 pages, version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C
Experimental reversion of the optimal quantum cloning and flipping processes
Creators: name: Sciarrino, Fabio
name: Secondi, Veronica
name: De Martini, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum cloner machine maps an unknown arbitrary input qubit into two optimal clones and one optimal flipped qubit. By combining linear and non-linear optical methods we experimentally implement a scheme that, after the cloning transformation, restores the original input qubit in one of the output channels, by using local measurements, classical communication and feedforward. This significant teleportation-like method demonstrates how the information is preserved during the cloning process. The realization of the reversion process is expected to find useful applications in the field of modern multi-partite quantum cryptography.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Property Rights and the Management of Animal Genetic Resources
Creators: name: Anderson, Simon
name: Centonze, Roberta
name: Anderson, Simon
name: Centonze, Roberta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: animal genetic resource
subject: property rights
subject: poverty
subject: pastoralists
subject: option value
subject: India
subject: South Asia

description: Genetic erosion in animal genetic resources (AnGR) is of concern where livelihoods of the poor are affected and option values for society are being lost. The poor often live in marginal areas and their livestock maintain adaptive characteristics. However, processes leading to genetic erosion do not precipitate adaptation through natural selection. This paper explores how local property rights systems in poor communities for AnGR are organized. The dynamism and dialectical aspects of these systems are considered and the impact of their breakdown assessed in terms of AnGR diversity. The conservation of AnGR option values through livestock husbandry by the poor is a hitherto unrecognized and unrewarded service to society.
Additional file 1 of Natural history, prognostic factors and patient perceived response to treatment in chronic spontaneous urticaria
Creators: name: Stepaniuk, Peter
name: Manstein Kan
name: Kanani, Amin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Study questionnaire provided to patients.
Dietary components and the risk of non-melanoma skin cancer: A systematic review of epidemiological studies
Creators: name: Hezaveh, Erfan
name: Jafari, Sahar
name: Jalilpiran, Yahya
name: Zargarzadeh, Nikan
name: Mahdavi, Reza
name: Gargari, Bahram Pourghassem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common cancer among white-skinned people. The main environmental risk factor for all types of skin cancer is ultraviolet (UV) exposure to the sun. However, significant modifiable risk factors, such as diet, have been studied about NMSC risk. Several original studies have been conducted on the link between various dietary components and the risk of NMSC in the past decade, but have not been systematically reviewed. This review focuses on the potential impact of dietary components in the prevention of NMSC and evaluates the findings of epidemiologic evidence for dietary factors. We conducted a systematic search of three databases, including Scopus, ISI Web of Science, and PubMed, to identify relevant epidemiological studies published between 2000 and July 6, 2021. Finally, forty-three articles were included. Because of the inherent limitations of epidemiological studies, no definitive conclusions can be drawn; however, the links between folate, citrus, caffeine, and alcohol with BCC are notable; thus, high dietary folate intake, as well as citrus and alcohol consumption, are associated with an increased risk of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), whereas caffeine is associated with a lower risk. More research is required to reach a definitive conclusion.
Biting the Bullet : How to Secure Access to Drylands Resources for Multiple Users
Creators: name: Mwangi, Esther
name: Dohrn, Stephan
name: Mwangi, Esther
name: Dohrn, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Drylands
subject: secure access
subject: land tenure
subject: customary rights
subject: natural resources
subject: multiple users
subject: Africa

description: Close to one billion people worldwide depend directly upon the drylands for their livelihoods. Because of their climatic conditions and political and economic marginalization drylands also have some of the highest incidents of poverty. Pastoral and sedentary production systems coexist in these areas and both very often use common property arrangements to manage access and use of natural resources. Despite their history of complementary interactions, pastoralists and sedentary farmers are increasingly faced with conflicting claims over land and other natural resources. Past policy interventions and existing regulatory frameworks have not been able to offer lasting solutions to the problems related to land tenure and resource access; problems between the multiple and differentiated drylands resource users, as part of broader concerns over resource degradation and the political and economic marginalization of the drylands. This paper discusses enduring tension in efforts to secure rights in drylands. On the one hand are researchers and practitioners who advocate for statutory law as the most effective guarantor of rights, especially of group rights. On the other side are those who underscore the complexity of customary rights and the need to account for dynamism and flexibility in drylands environments in particular. It explores innovative examples of dealing with secure access to resources and comes to the conclusion that process, rather than content, should be the focus of policy makers. Any attempt to secure access for multiple users in variable drylands environments should identify frameworks for conflict resolution, in a negotiated manner, crafting rules from the ground upwards, in addition to a more generalized or generic identification of rights. Elite capture and exclusion of women and young people continue to pose significant challenges in such decentralized processes. For rights to be meaningfully secured there is need to identify the nature and sources of threats that create insecurities.
A New Exact Method for Line Radiative Transfer
Creators: name: Elitzur, Moshe
name: Ramos, Andres Asensio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method, the Coupled Escape Probability (CEP), for exact calculation of line emission from multi-level systems, solving only algebraic equations for the level populations. The CEP formulation of the classical two-level problem is a set of {\em linear equations}, and we uncover an exact analytic expression for the emission from two-level optically thick sources that holds as long as they are in the "effectively thin" regime. In comparative study of a number of standard problems, the CEP method outperformed the leading line transfer methods by substantial margins. The algebraic equations employed by our new method are already incorporated in numerous codes based on the escape probability approximation. All that is required for an exact solution with these existing codes is to augment the expression for the escape probability with simple zone-coupling terms. As an application, we find that standard escape probability calculations generally produce the correct cooling emission by the CII 158 mic line but not by the $^3$P lines of OI.
description: To be published in MNRAS, 13 pages, 10 figures
Stability of lattice QCD simulations and the thermodynamic limit
Creators: name: Del Debbio, L.
name: Giusti, L.
name: Lüscher, M.
name: Petronzio, R.
name: Tantalo, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral gap of the Wilson--Dirac operator in two-flavour lattice QCD as a function of the lattice spacing $a$, the space-time volume $V$ and the current-quark mass $m$. It turns out that the median of the probability distribution of the gap scales proportionally to $m$ and that its width is practically equal to $a/\sqrt{V}$. In particular, numerical simulations are safe from accidental zero modes in the large-volume regime of QCD.
description: Plain TeX source, 23 pages, 8 figures