cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A General Study of Highway Construction Materials Jefferson County
title: (A Pilot Study)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Havens, James H.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The general geology of Jefferson County is very similar to that of other counties lying along the fringes of the Outer Bluegrass area -- that is to say, bedrocks are more-or-less horizontally stratified and consist principally of limestones and shales. The present topography is largely the result of erosion; the soil mantles are residual products of weathering of the uppermost stratum of bedrock or shale (as the case may be).  The unique features of the area are associated with the Ohio River and outwashes resulting from encroachments of two glaciations. The toe or southern boundary of ice did not cross the River in this area; but the mouth of the Salt River was blocked; and the deeper channel was filled with a mantle of sediment. This sediment might be encountered in the channel of Floyd's Fork and other tributaries and streams in the county; The westward flow of outwash deposited sands and gravels, etc., in the Ohio River valley; and these materia ls occur as two, fairly distinct terraces or flood plains along the interior arcs of meanders.
Openlane: The Open-source Digital ASIC Implementation Flow
Creators: name: Ghazy, Ahmed
name: Shalan, Mohamed
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: OpenLANE is a tape-out-hardened flow that addresses two main use cases: hardening a macro and integrating a System-on-a-Chip (SoC). It was used successfully to tape out a family of RISC-V based SoCs known as “striVe”. This paper reviews the various components of the flow with a particular focus on the challenges that faced SoC integration while working on the first of the striVe chips and the main ideas used to overcome them, achieving full automation.
Lab observations on prolonged chrysalis diapause of Brahmaea (Acanthobrahmaea) europaea Hartig (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae)
Creators: name: Spicciarelli, Renato
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Brahmaea (Acanthobrahmaea) europaea Hartig, 1963, is an Italian endemic species exhibiting a very restricted geographic distribution (Basilicata and Campania regions, Grotticelle di Monticchio Nature Reserve and neighbouring areas), and developing as larvae on a few Oleaceae (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa, Ligustrum vulgare and Phyllirea latifolia). From spring 2015 to spring 2017 a series of bioethological observations on the moth were conducted, as well as surveys aimed to study the distribution of its host plants in the habitats of SAC “Grotticelle di Monticchio”. In this short communication a prolonged diapause of B. europaea chrysalis kept in the laboratory is documented. In spring 2018, four successfully adult eclosions occurred from two years old pupae, a case never previously reported in literature records for this rare and threatened taxon.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
Review of the distribution of Sapygidae in Italy and new records (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)
Creators: name: Ceccolini, Filippo
name: Cianferoni, Fabio
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The distribution of the Italian species of Sapygidae is reviewed and new occurrence records for some species are given. Monosapyga clavicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) is recorded for the first time in Lazio and Abruzzo, Polochrum repandum Spinola, 1806 in Abruzzo, and Sapygina decemguttata (Jurine, 1807) in Veneto. Due to insufficient sampling efforts in Italy, all the Italian species of Sapygidae should be currently considered as Data Deficient (DD) according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
Using Surveys to Compare the Public's and Decision-makers' Preferences for Urban Regeneration: The Venice Arsenale
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
name: Riganti, Patrizia
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
name: Riganti, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In this paper, we illustrate how surveys can be used to elicit the preferences of the public and of policymakers and city officials for regeneration projects at urban sites. Our methodology uses rating exercises, coupled with conjoint-choice stated preferences for the general public and with ranking exercises for the public officials and other stakeholders, and is then applied to investigate alternative reuses of the Venice Arsenale, Italy, and their economic, environmental and social impacts. One interesting feature of the conjoint choice questions for members of the public is that the responses to these questions can be used to estimate the social benefits of regeneration projects, i.e., how much people are willing to pay for these urban transformations. Another advantage of our approach is that it can be used seek and foster broader public participation into urban decision-making processes.
Amphoraceras rothschildi and A. jordani sp. n.: two sibling species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
Creators: name: Zilli, Alberto
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: One new species of Amphoraceras which has so far remained unrecognised and intermingled within A. rothschildi is described as A. jordani sp. n. Both species are endemic to New Guinea, where they even happen to locally coexist and overlap phenologically. Main diagnostic features between the two taxa occur in the development of the unusual amphora-shaped structure present on male antenna, which is herewith detailed morphologically, aspects of the habitus and features of the genitalia.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
The Impact of Speed Limits on Recreational Boating in the Lagoon of Venice
Creators: name: Zanatta, Valentina
name: Rosato, Paolo
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Reppas, Dimitrios
name: Zanatta, Valentina
name: Rosato, Paolo
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Reppas, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Speed limits were introduced in the Lagoon of Venice in 2002 to reduce wave motion, which damages environmentally sensitive areas in the broader Lagoon as well as buildings in the city of Venice. In this paper, we estimate the welfare losses experienced by recreational boaters as a result of the speed limits. We fit a single-site travel cost model to a sample of boaters intercepted as they depart from or arrive to marinas and launching ramps on the Lagoon. Our Poisson model is corrected for truncation and endogenous stratification. We construct three measures of the price per trip, which allow us to check the sensitivity of models and welfare estimates to possible measurement errors in the opportunity cost of time. Our results are robust to the measure of price used and conservatively peg the welfare losses of boaters to 7.7-9.6 million per year. Even under conservative assumptions, the welfare losses of boaters are sufficiently large that, given current monitoring and enforcement of the speed limits, we believe there is a strong incentive for boaters to disregard the limits.
Lochmann, Jan Milic: Versöhnung und Befreiung
Creators: name: Jaspert, Bernd
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1979): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 28, Heft 1
A planet or primordial black hole in the outer region of the Solar system and the dust flow near Earth orbit
Creators: name: Eroshenko, Yu. N.
name: Popova, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, evidence has been obtained that in the outer region of the Solar System (in the inner part of the Oort cloud), at a distance $\sim300-700$ AU from the Sun, there may be a captured planet or a primordial black hole. In this paper, we show that the gravitational scattering of dust particles in the same region on this object can transfer them to new elongated orbits reaching the Earth's orbit. With the mass of the captured object of the order of 5-10 Earth masses, the calculated dust flow near the Earth $\sim0.1-3$$μ$g m$^{-2}$ yr$^{-1}$ is comparable in order of magnitude with the observed flow. This effect gives a joint restriction on the parameters of the captured object and on the amount of dust in the Oort cloud.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, preprint version
title: Experimental Concrete Pavement Containing Fly Ash Admixtures
title: [1965]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A 2.388-mi section of four-lane highway in Louisville, Ky., was selected for an experimental fly ash concrete pavement installation. The project was divided into three sections: a control section and two experimental sections containing 94 and 140 lb of fly ash per cubic yard, respectively. The solid-volume of fly ash in excess of that required to replace one sack of cement was considered as fine aggregate. The water was adjusted to provide a slump of approximately 2½ in., and an air-entraining admixture was proportioned at the mixer to provide an air content of approximately 4.5 percent.  Beams and cylinders were cast from various random mixtures within each section. Flexural and compressive strength tests were made at 3, 7 and 28 days, and 3, 6 and 12 mo. Beams were also cast for freeze and thaw testing. Test results to date are included in the report, as well as a description of construction procedures and mix design methods.  Early strengths for concrete placed in the experimental sections were lower than those for concrete placed in the control section. On the basis of limited 3-mo age compressive strength tests, a gain in strength at later ages was achieved through the use of fly ash. No reduction in water requirement was gained through the addition of fly ash.
Optical Properties of Radio-selected Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Creators: name: Whalen, D. J.
name: Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A.
name: Moran, E. C.
name: Becker, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the analysis of the optical spectra of 47 radio-selected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). These objects are a subset of the First Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS) and were initially detected at 20 cm (flux density limit ~1 mJy) in the VLA FIRST Survey. We run Spearman rank correlation tests on several sets of parameters and conclude that, except for their radio properties, radio-selected NLS1 galaxies do not exhibit significant differences from traditional NLS1 galaxies. Our results are also in agreement with previous studies suggesting that NLS1 galaxies have small black hole masses that are accreting very close to the Eddington rate. We have found 16 new radio-loud NLS1 galaxies, which increases the number of known radio-loud NLS1 galaxies by a factor of ~5.
description: 18 pages, 20 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
An investigation of the G2 checkpoint
Creators: name: Curman, Darko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Current approaches to treating cancers often involve the use of drugs that are toxic to both cancer cells and normal cells. Over the past decade, advances have been made in understanding the genetic changes underlying the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells that has led to treatment models that would selectively target the cancer cells. It has been found that cancer cells with mutations in p53 that are exposed to DNA damage are hypersensitive to agents that inhibit the G2 checkpoint. To find novel G2 checkpoint inhibitors, mitotic ELISA assays were used to screen 1500 marine bacterial and sponge extracts. Four G2 checkpoint inhibitors were isolated and identified: staurosporine and its oxazolidone derivative, debromohymenialdisine and isogranulatimide. It was found that debromohymenialdisine and isogranulatimide induce entry into mitosis and this is dependent on the activation of cdc25 phosphatase and cdc2 kinase. To gain a better understanding of the G2 checkpoint pathway, attempts were made to identify the in vivo targets of debromohymenialdisine and isogranulatimide by affinity chromatography, overlay assays and immunocytochemistry, without success. However, in vitro kinase assays have shown that debromohymenialdisine and isogranulatimide potently inhibit the kinase GSK-3β. Further studies involving β-catenin, a key downstream component of GSK-3β, provided evidence that the compounds inhibit GSK-3β in vivo as well. The results suggest that GSK-3β and β-catenin may play a yet unidentified role in the G2 checkpoint pathway.
First record of Chaeteessa nigromarginata from Peru (Mantodea: Chaeteessidae)
Creators: name: Bustamante-Navarrete, Abdhiel
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The second Peruvian record of the genus Chaeteessa Burmeister and the first of the species Chaeteessa nigromarginata Salazar 2004 are reported.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
Fluid Antenna-Assisted MIMO Transmission Exploiting Statistical CSI
Creators: name: Ye, Yuqi
name: You, Li
name: Wang, Jue
name: Xu, Hao
name: Wong, Kai-Kit
name: Gao, Xiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the positions of antennas are fixed. To take full advantage of spatial degrees of freedom, a new technology called fluid antenna (FA) is proposed to obtain higher achievable rate and diversity gain. Most existing works on FA exploit instantaneous channel state information (CSI). However, in FA-assisted systems, it is difficult to obtain instantaneous CSI since changes in the antenna position will lead to channel variation. In this letter, we investigate a FA-assisted MIMO system using relatively slow-varying statistical CSI. Specifically, in the criterion of rate maximization, we propose an algorithmic framework for transmit precoding and transmit/receive FAs position designs with statistical CSI. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm in FA-assisted systems significantly outperforms baselines in terms of rate performance.
description: to appear in IEEE Communications Letters
The importance of beech forests as reservoirs of moth diversity in Mediterranean Basin (Lepidoptera)
Creators: name: Infusino, Marco
name: Scalercio, Stefano
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Study analyzes the macrolepidoptera assemblages in beech woodlands of the Orsomarso Mountains (Pollino National Park, Southern Italy) to assess the role of beech forests in preserving diversity in Mediterranean Basin. Research was run between 2015 and 2016 in 15 stands representative of the main successional stages of forest maturation, placed between 990 and 1,475 meters of elevation. Monthlybased sampling was performed using UV-LED light traps. A total of 33,957 individuals belonging to 410 species was collected. The community is rich and the most abundant and characteristic species (Eilema lurideola, Operophtera fagata, Campaea margaritata) are almost all trophically linked to broadleaves or lichens. The community structure appears fairly constant and recognizable in all stands over the two years of sampling. Young beech forests hosted the greatest number of species compared to other forest maturation stages, though the difference is small. The greatest differences in the community structure are found in the clearings, where generalist and/or related to the herbaceous layer species are mostly represented. Biogeographically widely distributed species prevail, 87% of them having European or Asian-European distribution. There are a number of species of faunistic interest, among which Perizoma juracolaria, Chelis maculosa, Tiliacea citrago, Poecilocampa populi, Triphosa dubitata, Sideridis reticulata, Nebula senectaria, including 13 Italian endemics such as Coenotephria antonii. Populations of many species show significant genetic diversities compared to other European populations. The Orsomarso Mountains beech forests represent an important biodiversity reservoir, even at the genetic level, and show a good degree of naturalness.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
A new treatment of mixed virtual and real IR-singularities
Creators: name: Gluza, Janusz
name: Riemann, Tord
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the determination of the infrared singularities of massive one-loop 5-point functions with Mellin-Barnes (MB) representations. Massless internal lines may lead to poles in the $\eps$ expansion of the Feynman diagram, while unresolved massless final state particles give endpoint singularities of the phase space integrals. MB integrals are an elegant tool for their common treatment. An evaluation by taking residues leads to inverse binomial sums.
description: 8 pages, latex, to appear in the proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR 2007): Application of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology, Florence, Italy, 1-5 Oct 2007
The Value of Cultural Heritage Sites in Armenia: Evidence from a Travel Cost Method Study
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper applies the travel cost method to visits to cultural sites in Armenia by domestic visitors. Respondents intercepted at four cultural monuments provided information on their visitation patterns, experience at the site, perception of the state of conservation of the monuments, and rating of the quality of the services and infrastructures. We combine actual trips with stated trips under hypothetical programs that would enhance the conservation of the monuments and improve one of (i) the cultural experience at the site, (ii) the quality of the infrastructure, or (iii) the quality of the services, and use the combined actual and stated trips to fit a panel data model. Our investigation shows that that there are significant use values associated with the four study monuments, and that conservation programs and initiatives that improve the cultural experience, or simply make it easier for the respondent to reach and spend time at the monument, are valued by domestic visitors and would encourage higher visitation rates.
Magnetic fields in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey
Creators: name: Haverkorn, Marijke
name: Gaensler, Bryan M.
name: Brown, Jo-Anne C.
name: McClure-Griffiths, Naomi M.
name: Dickey, John M.
name: Green, Anne J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is a 1.4 GHz radio polarization and HI survey in a large part of the inner Galactic plane at a resolution of about an arcmin. Depolarization and Faraday rotation of polarized radiation from diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission, pulsars, and extragalactic sources can be used to infer information about the strength and structure of the Galactic magnetic field. Here, we discuss science results of the polarization data from the SGPS. We show from statistical analysis of rotation measures of polarized extragalactic sources that fluctuations in the magneto-ionized medium of the spiral arms are probably mainly caused by HII regions, while the rotation measure fluctuations in the interarm regions may be connected to the interstellar turbulent cascade. Furthermore, the variations of rotation measure with Galactic longitude enable modeling of the large-scale component of the Galactic magnetic field, including determination of the number and location of magnetic field reversals. Finally, the SGPS is an excellent way to study subparsec-scale structure in the ionized ISM by way of depolarization studies in HII regions.
description: to appear in proceedings for the conference "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetic Fields", eds R. Beck, G. Brunetti, L. Feretti, and B. Gaensler
A permutation model for free random variables and its classical analogue
Creators: name: Benaych-Georges, Florent
name: Nechita, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L54, 60F05

description: In this paper, we generalize a permutation model for free random variables which was first proposed by Biane in \cite{biane}. We also construct its classical probability analogue, by replacing the group of permutations with the group of subsets of a finite set endowed with the symmetric difference operation. These constructions provide new discrete approximations of the respective free and classical Wiener chaos. As a consequence, we obtain explicit examples of non random matrices which are asymptotically free or independent. The moments and the free (resp. classical) cumulants of the limiting distributions are expressed in terms of a special subset of (noncrossing) pairings. At the end of the paper we present some combinatorial applications of our results.
description: 13 pages, to appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics
New aquatic species of Megaselia Rondani from Bolivia (Diptera: Phoridae)
Creators: name: Disney, R. Henry L.
name: Kovac, Damir
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Ten aquatic species of Megaselia Rondani (1856) are reported from the internodes of the large bamboo Guadua angustifolia var. chacoensis in Bolivia. Megaselia aquatica sp. n., and M. imitatrix Borgmeier (1969) are named and seven species given code letters as their males remain unknown. Five of these species closely resemble the distinctive M. imitatrix. The eggs of species C, in addition to a subterminal plastron, uniquely have the rest of the egg covered in fine hairs. Three additional Megaselia species reported from bamboo or other phytotelms in the Americas, Megaselia hansonix Disney (2009), M. rufipes (Meigen) (1804) and M. scalaris (Loew) (1866) are illustrated. A key for Megaselia from the Americas reported from aquatic situations is presented.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
Modified Gravity on the Brane and Dark Energy
Creators: name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Neves, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dynamics of an AdS5 braneworld with matter fields when gravity is allowed to deviate from the Einstein form on the brane. We consider exact 5-dimensional warped solutions which are associated with conformal bulk fields of weight -4 and describe on the brane the following three dynamics: those of inhomogeneous dust, of generalized dark radiation, and of homogeneous polytropic dark energy. We show that, with modified gravity on the brane, the existence of such dynamical geometries requires the presence of non-conformal matter fields confined to the brane.
description: Revised version published in Gen. Rel. Grav. Typos corrected, updated reference and some remarks added for clarity. 11 pages, latex, no figures
Lexicographic Preferences in Discrete Choice Experiments: Consequences on Individual-Specific Willingness to Pay Estimates
Creators: name: Campbell, Danny
name: Hutchinson, W. George
name: Scarpa, Riccardo
name: Campbell, Danny
name: Hutchinson, W. George
name: Scarpa, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In discrete choice experiments respondents are generally assumed to consider all of the attributes across each of the alternatives, and to choose their most preferred. However, results in this paper indicate that many respondents employ simplified lexicographic decision-making rules, whereby they have a ranking of the attributes, but their choice of an alternative is based solely on the level of their most important attribute(s). Not accounting for these simple decision-making heuristics introduces systemic errors and leads to biased point estimates, as they are a violation of the continuity axiom and a departure from the use of compensatory decision-making. In this paper the implications of lexicographic preferences are examined. In particular, using a mixed logit specification this paper investigates the sensitivity of individual-specific willingness to pay (WTP) estimates conditional on whether lexicographic decision-making rules are accounted for in the modelling of discrete choice responses. Empirical results are obtained from a discrete choice experiment that was carried out to address the value of a number of rural landscape attributes in Ireland.
Proportionality of Willingness to Pay to Small Risk Changes - The Impact of Attitudinal Factors in Scope Tests
Creators: name: Leiter, Andrea M.
name: Pruckner, Gerald J.
name: Leiter, Andrea M.
name: Pruckner, Gerald J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Sensitivity (proportionality) of willingness to pay to (small) risk changes is often used as a criterion to test for valid measures of economic preferences. In a contingent valuation (CV) study conducted in Austria in February 2005 1,005 respondents were asked their willingness to pay (WTP) for preventing an increase in risk by 1/42,500 and 3/42,500, respectively. WTP for the higher risk variation is significantly higher than WTP for the lower risk change. We find evidence that those respondents who have personal experience with avalanches combine the information about future risk increase, provided in the survey, with the observed number of mortal avalanche accidents in the past. The proportionality of WTP holds if such prior experiences are taken into account and the influence of attitudinal factors in scope tests are controlled for.
W4-Groups: Modeling the Who, What, When and Where of Group Behavior via Mobility Sensing
Creators: name: Atrey, Akanksha
name: Zakaria, Camellia
name: Balan, Rajesh
name: Shenoy, Prashant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human social interactions occur in group settings of varying sizes and locations, depending on the type of social activity. The ability to distinguish group formations based on their purposes transforms how group detection mechanisms function. Not only should such tools support the effective detection of serendipitous encounters, but they can derive categories of relation types among users. Determining who is involved, what activity is performed, and when and where the activity occurs are critical to understanding group processes in greater depth, including supporting goal-oriented applications (e.g., performance, productivity, and mental health) that require sensing social factors. In this work, we propose W4-Groups that captures the functional perspective of variability and repeatability when automatically constructing short-term and long-term groups via multiple data sources (e.g., WiFi and location check-in data). We design and implement W4-Groups to detect and extract all four group features who-what-when-where from the user's daily mobility patterns. We empirically evaluate the framework using two real-world WiFi datasets and a location check-in dataset, yielding an average of 92% overall accuracy, 96% precision, and 94% recall. Further, we supplement two case studies to demonstrate the application of W4-Groups for next-group activity prediction and analyzing changes in group behavior at a longitudinal scale, exemplifying short-term and long-term occurrences.
Nonlinear stochastic modeling with Langevin regression
Creators: name: Callaham, Jared L.
name: Loiseau, Jean-Christophe
name: Rigas, Georgios
name: Brunton, Steven L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many physical systems characterized by nonlinear multiscale interactions can be effectively modeled by treating unresolved degrees of freedom as random fluctuations. However, even when the microscopic governing equations and qualitative macroscopic behavior are known, it is often difficult to derive a stochastic model that is consistent with observations. This is especially true for systems such as turbulence where the perturbations do not behave like Gaussian white noise, introducing non-Markovian behavior to the dynamics. We address these challenges with a framework for identifying interpretable stochastic nonlinear dynamics from experimental data, using both forward and adjoint Fokker-Planck equations to enforce statistical consistency. If the form of the Langevin equation is unknown, a simple sparsifying procedure can provide an appropriate functional form. We demonstrate that this method can effectively learn stochastic models in two artificial examples: recovering a nonlinear Langevin equation forced by colored noise and approximating the second-order dynamics of a particle in a double-well potential with the corresponding first-order bifurcation normal form. Finally, we apply the proposed method to experimental measurements of a turbulent bluff body wake and show that the statistical behavior of the center of pressure can be described by the dynamics of the corresponding laminar flow driven by nonlinear state-dependent noise.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures
Sustainable Development Data Availability on the Internet
Creators: name: Caratti, Pietro
name: Ferraguto, Ludovico
name: Riboldi, Chiara
name: Caratti, Pietro
name: Ferraguto, Ludovico
name: Riboldi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which cover different aspects of life often difficult to quantify and describe. Talking about sustainable development means dealing with the development and implementation of SD strategies at international as well as at local level. With this regard, SD information plays a key role in monitoring SD performances at different administration levels. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of sustainable data availability on the internet at international, European, national and regional level. The paper is novel in the fact that the attention of the whole analysis focused on internet, considered as the principal mean for accessing data. In fact, the web has become through the years a fundamental tool for exchanging information amongst people, organisations, institutes, governments, thanks to its easy accessibility for a wide knowledge exchange. Sustainable development data collected at different administrative levels are classified and processed according to different methods and procedures; they are gathered at different scales, in different periods and they have a different frequency of updating. Data accuracy and meta-information on available data considerably vary, too. Few organisations at the international and at the European level such as, for example, World Bank, United Nations, OECD, FAO, Eurostat, EEA committed themselves to process information belonging to different sources aiming at standardising and producing comparable data sets for several nations and regions. Following the above considerations, various international, European and national organisations' databases were investigated in order to check the availability of data at different administrative levels, mostly focusing on those sectors considered as pillars for the definition and monitoring of the implementation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, as pointed out in the Communication of the EC SEC(2005) 161 final.
[Elicitation of verb paradigms, vocabulary, and sentences, story of childhood]
Creators: name: Jerónimo Laureano, Miguel
name: Santiago Francisco, José
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 10 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 105-116 of related field notes. Story is file 009, with transcription and glossing on pp. 115-116.
O`ZBEKISTONDA GASTRONOMIK TURIZM: TAOMLAR ORTIDAGI TARIX
Creators: name: Yo`lchiyeva, Muazzam
name: Yo`ldoshev, Abdumalik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada O‘zbekistonning gastronomik turizm salohiyati, milliy taomlarining tarixiy ildizlari, ularning madaniy va iqtisodiy ahamiyati tahlil qilinadi. Maqolada palov, manti, lag‘mon, non kabi o‘zbek xalqining an’anaviy taomlari orqali xalq tarixi va turmush tarzining aks etishi yoritilgan. Shuningdek, viloyatlar kesimida oshxona madaniyati, turistik qiziqishlar va bu yo‘nalishdagi rivojlanish strategiyalari bayon etilgan. Taomlar tayyorlanish jarayonining madaniy meros sifatida saqlanishi va xalqaro sayyohlar uchun jozibadorlik omili bo‘lib xizmat qilishi tahlil etiladi. Maqola O‘zbekistonda gastronomik turizmni rivojlantirish istiqbollari, zamonaviy yondashuvlar va ijtimoiy-iqtisodiy samaradorlik nuqtai nazaridan yoritilgan.
Differentiable algorithms with data-driven parameterization in 3D vision
Creators: name: Lenssen, Jan Eric
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Deep learning
subject: Differentiable programming
subject: 3d computer vision
subject: 004
subject: Deep learning
subject: Maschinelles Sehen

description: This thesis is concerned with designing and analyzing efficient differentiable data flow for representations in the field of 3D vision and applying it to different 3D vision tasks. To this end, the topic is looked upon from the perspective of differentiable algorithms, a more general variant of Deep Learning, utilizing the recently emerged tools in the field of differentiable programming. Contributions are made in the subfields of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), differentiable matrix decompositions and implicit neural functions, which serve as important building blocks for differentiable algorithms in 3D vision. The contributions include SplineCNN, a neural network consisting of operators for continuous convolution on irregularly structured data, Local Spatial Graph Transformers, a GNN to infer local surface orientations on point clouds, and a parallel GPU solver for Eigendecomposition on a large number of symmetric matrices. For all methods, efficient forward and backward GPU implementations are provided. Consequently, two differentiable algorithms are introduced, composed of building blocks from these concept areas. The first algorithm, Differentiable Iterative Surface Normal Estimation, is an iterative algorithm for surface normal estimation on unstructured point clouds. The second algorithm, Group Equivariant Capsule Networks, is a version of capsule networks grounded in group theory for unsupervised pose estimation and, in general, for inferring disentangled representations from 2D and 3D data. The thesis concludes that a favorable trade-off in the metrics of efficiency, quality and interpretability can be found by combining prior geometric knowledge about algorithms and data types with the representational power of Deep Learning.
Probabilistic programming interfaces for random graphs: Markov categories, graphons, and nominal sets
Creators: name: Ackerman, Nathanael L.
name: Freer, Cameron E.
name: Kaddar, Younesse
name: Karwowski, Jacek
name: Moss, Sean K.
name: Roy, Daniel M.
name: Staton, Sam
name: Yang, Hongseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study semantic models of probabilistic programming languages over graphs, and establish a connection to graphons from graph theory and combinatorics. We show that every well-behaved equational theory for our graph probabilistic programming language corresponds to a graphon, and conversely, every graphon arises in this way.
 We provide three constructions for showing that every graphon arises from an equational theory. The first is an abstract construction, using Markov categories and monoidal indeterminates. The second and third are more concrete. The second is in terms of traditional measure theoretic probability, which covers 'black-and-white' graphons. The third is in terms of probability monads on the nominal sets of Gabbay and Pitts. Specifically, we use a variation of nominal sets induced by the theory of graphs, which covers Erdős-Rényi graphons. In this way, we build new models of graph probabilistic programming from graphons.
description: Accepted for POPL 2024
A constructive algorithm for the Cartan decomposition of SU(2^N)
Creators: name: Earp, Henrique N. Sá
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an explicit numerical method to obtain the Cartan-Khaneja-Glaser decomposition of a general element G of SU(2^N) in terms of its `Cartan' and `non-Cartan' components. This effectively factors G in terms of group elements that belong in SU(2^n) with n
description: 15 pages, no figures, matlab file at http://cam.qubit.org/users/jiannis/
Non-pecuniary Work Incentive and Labor Supply
Creators: name: Farzin, Y. Hossein
name: Akao, Ken-Ichi
name: Farzin, Y. Hossein
name: Akao, Ken-Ichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Recognizing that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs, but also as a means to gain socio-psychological (nonpecuniary) benefits, we show that once nonpecuniary work incentives are incorporated into standard labor supply theory, (i) the wage rate under-estimates (over-estimates) the true value of nonwork/leisure time when work has nonpecuniary benefits (costs), (ii) nonpecuniary benefits can be a substitute for monetary wages as work incentives, (iii) at very low wage rates, work can become a net source of utility, and (iii) the shape of labor supply curve differs from standard theory. We also identify conditions under which a greater nonpecuniary work incentive generates a larger individual labor supply, and examine the effects of non-wage income on labor supply both for paid and voluntary work.
Biodiversity of the endangered coastal beetle Scarites laevigatus: is the northern Adriatic population a geographical subspecies or a case of introgressive hybridisation? (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Creators: name: Zanella, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The ground beetle Scarites laevigatus Fabricius, 1792 is a specialized predator occurring in the Mediterranean sandy shores, currently threatened with disappearance due to the widespread modification of beach ecosystems. The present study purposes a morphological analysis of the northern Adriatic form, described by Puel in 1938 as a subspecies with the name venetianus, in comparison with the typical form of this taxon and S. terricola. The examination of pronotum, elytra, body shape, male genitalia and wing development, suggests that the studied population is different from the nominotypical form and might originate from the introgressive hybridisation of S. terricola with the north Adriatic populations of S. laevigatus. This hypothesis is discussed in the light of current knowledge of the systematics and ecology of the putative parent species.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 2 (2018)
Wind accretion in the massive X-ray binary 4U 2206+54: abnormally slow wind and a moderately eccentric orbit
Creators: name: Ribo, M.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: Blay, P.
name: Torrejon, J. M.
name: Reig, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive X-ray binaries are usually classified depending on the properties of the donor star in classical, supergiant and Be X-ray binaries. The massive X-ray binary 4U 2206+54 does not fit in any of these groups, and deserves a detailed study to understand how the transfer of matter and the accretion on to the compact object take place. To this end we study an IUE spectrum of the donor and obtain a wind terminal velocity (v_inf) of ~350 km/s, which is abnormally slow for its spectral type. We also analyse here more than 9 years of available RXTE/ASM data. We study the long-term X-ray variability of the source and find it to be similar to that observed in the wind-fed supergiant system Vela X-1, reinforcing the idea that 4U 2206+54 is also a wind-fed system. We find a quasi-period decreasing from ~270 to ~130 d, noticed in previous works but never studied in detail. We discuss possible scenarios and conclude that long-term quasi-periodic variations in the mass-loss rate of the primary are probably driving such variability in the measured X-ray flux. We obtain an improved orbital period of 9.5591 d with maximum X-ray flux at MJD 51856.6. Our study of the orbital X-ray variability in the context of wind accretion suggests a moderate eccentricity around 0.15. Moreover, the low value of v_inf solves the long-standing problem of the relatively high X-ray luminosity for the unevolved nature of the donor, BD +53 2790, which is probably an O9.5 V star. We note that changes in v_inf and/or the mass-loss rate of the primary alone cannot explain the diferent patterns displayed by the orbital X-ray variability. We finally emphasize that 4U 2206+54, together with LS 5039, could be part of a new population of wind-fed HMXBs with main sequence donors, the natural progenitors of supergiant X-ray binaries. (Abridged)
description: 12 pages, 9 figures; to appear in A&A; corrected typos, updated references; matches published version
Minnesota Agricultural Economist 689
Creators: name: Pritchett, James G.
name: Liu, Donald J.
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
name: Pritchett, James G.
name: Liu, Donald J.
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Evaluating the Milk Advertising Dollar
Taxonomical and bionomical notes on the Sicilian endemic water beetle Ochthebius (Cobalius) biltoni (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
Creators: name: Sabatelli, Simone
name: Mancini, Emiliano
name: Audisio, Paolo
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: In this paper we present additional information on taxonomy, ecological preferences and conservation biology of the rare and poorly known Sicilian endemic Ochthebius biltoni Jäch & Delgado, 2017. It represents one of the most outstanding endemic elements of the Sicilian and Italian water beetle fauna.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 50 No. 1 (2018)
Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Spheres: Crystallization and the Metastability of Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Creators: name: Omar, Ahmad K.
name: Klymko, Katherine
name: GrandPre, Trevor
name: Geissler, Phillip L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely studied examples of a nonequilibrium phase transition. Here, we show that states of MIPS coexistence are in fact only metastable for three-dimensional active Brownian particles over a very broad range of conditions, decaying at long times through an ordering transition we call active crystallization. At an activity just above the MIPS critical point, the liquid-gas binodal is superseded by the crystal-fluid coexistence curve, with solid, liquid, and gas all coexisting at the triple point where the two curves intersect. Nucleating an active crystal from a disordered fluid, however, requires a rare fluctuation that exhibits the nearly close-packed density of the solid phase. The corresponding barrier to crystallization is surmountable on a feasible timescale only at high activity, and only at fluid densities near maximal packing. The glassiness expected for such dense liquids at equilibrium is strongly mitigated by active forces, so that the lifetime of liquid-gas coexistence declines steadily with increasing activity, manifesting in simulations as a facile spontaneous crystallization at extremely high activity.
description: Final version. Formerly titled "Active Crystallization"
Quantum entanglement analysis based on abstract interpretation
Creators: name: Perdrix, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is a non local property of quantum states which has no classical counterpart and plays a decisive role in quantum information theory. Several protocols, like the teleportation, are based on quantum entangled states. Moreover, any quantum algorithm which does not create entanglement can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. The exact role of the entanglement is nevertheless not well understood. Since an exact analysis of entanglement evolution induces an exponential slowdown, we consider approximative analysis based on the framework of abstract interpretation. In this paper, a concrete quantum semantics based on superoperators is associated with a simple quantum programming language. The representation of entanglement, i.e. the design of the abstract domain is a key issue. A representation of entanglement as a partition of the memory is chosen. An abstract semantics is introduced, and the soundness of the approximation is proven.
description: 13 pages