cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic and Business Relations Between Australia and China: An Overview and an Assessment
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Australia's trade with China
subject: FDI
subject: Australia
subject: China
subject: Australia-China Free Trade Agreement

description: This article highlights trends in the comparative value of Australia’s merchandise trade with China and considers the relative importance of Australia for China’s international merchandise trade and vice versa. The composition of the merchandise trade between Australia and China is also examined. Trade in services between Australia and China is of increasing importance and its composition and balance is discussed. As a result of global economic reforms, international mobility of capital has increased. China has become the world’s major destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) and is now itself an important source of FDI. However, Australia is not a major investor in China nor a major outlet for China’s FDI. Reasons for this, and for the other features observed in economic and business relations between Australia and China, are outlined. Prospects are explored for future economic relations between Australia and China, particularly in the light of a proposed Australia-China Free Trade Agreement.
The averaged null energy conditions in even dimensional curved spacetimes from AdS/CFT duality
Creators: name: Iizuka, Norihiro
name: Ishibashi, Akihiro
name: Maeda, Kengo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider averaged null energy conditions (ANEC) for strongly coupled quantum field theories in even (two and four) dimensional curved spacetimes by applying the no-bulk-shortcut principle in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. In the same context but in odd-dimensions, the present authors previously derived a conformally invariant averaged null energy condition (CANEC), which is a version of the ANEC with a certain weight function for conformal invariance. In even-dimensions, however, one has to deal with gravitational conformal anomalies, which make relevant formulas much more complicated than the odd-dimensional case. In two-dimensions, we derive the ANEC by applying the no-bulk-shortcut principle. In four-dimensions, we derive an inequality which essentially provides the lower-bound for the ANEC with a weight function. For this purpose, and also to get some geometric insights into gravitational conformal anomalies, we express the stress-energy formulas in terms of geometric quantities such as the expansions of boundary null geodesics and a quasi-local mass of the boundary geometry. We argue when the lowest bound is achieved and also discuss when the averaged value of the null energy can be negative, considering a simple example of a spatially compact universe with wormhole throat.
description: 30 pages, two figures
Orientation changes of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection
Creators: name: Brown, Eric
name: Nikoleanko, Alexei
name: Ahlers, Guenter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the orientation theta_0(t) of the large-scale circulation (LSC) of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection in cylindrical cells of aspect ratio 1. theta_0(t) undergoes irregular reorientations. It contains reorientation events by rotation through angles Delta theta with a monotonically decreasing probability distribution p(Delta theta), and by cessations (where the LSC stops temporarily) with a uniform p(Delta theta). Reorientations have Poissonian statistics in time. The amplitude of the LSC and the magnitude of the azimuthal rotation rate have a negative correlation.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. Under consideration for publication in Physical Review Letters. Some new content has been added, and some content has been removed to make space
China's Economic Performance and Transition in Relation to Globalisation: From Isolation to Centre-Stage?
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Globalisation
subject: China
subject: global environmental impacts
subject: natural resources
subject: China's economic growth.

description: This paper considers China’s global economic situation in relation to the general process of globalisation. After discussing the general process of economic globalisation, it examines political change and transition of the former communist planned economies, especially China’s, and their impact on globalisation. Then it provides measures of the recent expansion of economic globalisation and China’s involvement in this process. Positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of globalisation are highlighted. China’s progress in catching up with more developed economies and the dynamics of its economic growth and future prospects for this growth are examined in a global context. The question is posed of whether globalisation is likely to result in unsustainable economic growth because of adverse environmental impacts generated by it. It is argued that this is so and that fears about this will eventually result in increasing global political pressure on China to curb its global environmental impacts and reduce its natural resource use as its economy becomes large. With China’s continuing economic growth, its ecological footprint will become heavier.
Additional file 3 of Metabolite profiling of rhizosphere soil of different allelopathic potential rice accessions
Creators: name: Yingzhe Li
name: Lining Xu
name: Puleng Letuma
name: Lin, Wenxiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Principal component analysis of the compounds absorbed by ADS-21 resin from the rhizosphere soils of different potential allelopathic rice accessions. Note: The numbers 1, 2, and 3 in the figure represent three parallel duplicates of the same sample. PI stands for allelopathic rice PI312227 (PI). PAL for PAL2–1 inhibited transgenic line PR. O for the transgenic line PO of PAL2–1 overexpressed in allelopathic rice PI312227 (PI). Le for non-allelopathic rice Lemont (Le). LOP for the transgenic line LO of PAL2–1 overexpressed in non-allelopathic rice Le.
Divided government in Canada
Creators: name: Lockhart, Julia Kate
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Divided government in Canada refers to the common situation when the federal and provincial governments are held by different political parties. The study of divided government can aid in the understanding of voter behaviour. The thesis reviews the relevant literature on divided government, split-ticket voting and party identification in Canada and the United States. From the literature several voter strategies are extracted that describe the possible individual level processes that result in the aggregate outcome of divided government. This linkage, between individual decisions and collective outcomes, is crucial to understanding divided election outcomes and it is to the exploration of this concept that the thesis contributes. Using a dataset of party vote shares in provincial and federal elections from 1904 to 2003, the thesis looks for aggregate effects of the individual level strategies that it identifies. The thesis argues that divided government in Canada is a result of staggered election timing and policy learning across levels which combine to produce a cyclical effect in election results.
SPEED: Secure, PrivatE, and Efficient Deep learning
Creators: name: Sébert, Arnaud Grivet
name: Pinot, Rafael
name: Zuber, Martin
name: Gouy-Pailler, Cédric
name: Sirdey, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a deep learning framework able to deal with strong privacy constraints. Based on collaborative learning, differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, the proposed approach advances state-of-the-art of private deep learning against a wider range of threats, in particular the honest-but-curious server assumption. We address threats from both the aggregation server, the global model and potentially colluding data holders. Building upon distributed differential privacy and a homomorphic argmax operator, our method is specifically designed to maintain low communication loads and efficiency. The proposed method is supported by carefully crafted theoretical results. We provide differential privacy guarantees from the point of view of any entity having access to the final model, including colluding data holders, as a function of the ratio of data holders who kept their noise secret. This makes our method practical to real-life scenarios where data holders do not trust any third party to process their datasets nor the other data holders. Crucially the computational burden of the approach is maintained reasonable, and, to the best of our knowledge, our framework is the first one to be efficient enough to investigate deep learning applications while addressing such a large scope of threats. To assess the practical usability of our framework, experiments have been carried out on image datasets in a classification context. We present numerical results that show that the learning procedure is both accurate and private.
description: 32 pages, 3 figures. Mach Learn (2021)
title: Microwave Liquid Crystal Enabling Technology for Electronically Steerable Antennas in SATCOM and 5G Millimeter-Wave Systems
Creators: name: Jakoby, Rolf
name: Gaebler, Alexander
name: Weickhmann, Christian
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Future satellite platforms and 5G millimeter wave systems require Electronically Steerable Antennas (ESAs), which can be enabled by Microwave Liquid Crystal (MLC) technology. This paper reviews some fundamentals and the progress of microwave LCs concerning its performance metric, and it also reviews the MLC technology to deploy phase shifters in different topologies, starting from well-known toward innovative concepts with the newest results. Two of these phase shifter topologies are dedicated for implementation in array antennas: (1) wideband, high-performance metallic waveguide phase shifters to plug into a waveguide horn array for a relay satellite in geostationary orbit to track low Earth orbit satellites with maximum phase change rates of 5.1°/s to 45.4°/s, depending on the applied voltages, and (2) low-profile planar delay-line phase shifter stacks with very thin integrated MLC varactors for fast tuning, which are assembled into a multi-stack, flat-panel, beam-steering phased array, being able to scan the beam from −60° to +60° in about 10 ms. The loaded-line phase shifters have an insertion loss of about 3 dB at 30 GHz for a 400° differential phase shift and a figure-of-merit (FoM) > 120°/dB over a bandwidth of about 2.5 GHz. The critical switch-off response time to change the orientation of the microwave LCs from parallel to perpendicular with respect to the RF field (worst case), which corresponds to the time for 90 to 10% decay in the differential phase shift, is in the range of 30 ms for a LC layer height of about 4 µm. These MLC phase shifter stacks are fabricated in a standard Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) process for manufacturing low-cost large-scale ESAs, featuring single- and multiple-beam steering with very low power consumption, high linearity, and high power-handling capability. With a modular concept and hybrid analog/digital architecture, these smart antennas are flexible in size to meet the specific requirements for operating in satellite ground and user terminals, but also in 5G mm-wave systems.
Additional file 2 of Metabolite profiling of rhizosphere soil of different allelopathic potential rice accessions
Creators: name: Yingzhe Li
name: Lining Xu
name: Puleng Letuma
name: Lin, Wenxiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a reliable method for simplifying and reducing multidimensional data in an unsupervised pattern. On the basis of preserving the original data to the greatest extent, a linear combination was performed to determine the trend of metabolome separation between the samples of each group. PCA of the compounds in absorption phase by ADS-8 resin from rhizosphere soils of different allelopathic potential rice accessions. Note: The numbers 1, 2, and 3 in the figure represent three parallel duplicates of the same sample. PI stands for allelopathic rice PI312227 (PI). PAL for PAL2–1 inhibited transgenic line PR. O for the transgenic line PO of PAL2–1 overexpressed in allelopathic rice PI312227 (PI). Le for non-allelopathic rice Lemont (Le). LOP for the transgenic line LO of PAL2–1 overexpressed in non-allelopathic rice Le.
Additional file 1 of Amino acid encoding for deep learning applications
Creators: name: ElAbd, Hesham
name: Bromberg, Yana
name: Hoarfrost, Adrienne
name: Lenz, Tobias
name: Franke, Andre
name: Wendorff, Mareike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1 Fig. S1. Comparison between classical encoding and machine-learned (LE) encoding schemes used to encode amino acids for a CNN-LSTM based peptide-HLA-II interaction model. Fig. S2: Comparison between classical encoding and random frozen embedding (LE) encoding schemes used to encode amino acids for a CNN-LSTM based peptide-HLA-II interaction model. Fig. S3: Comparison between classical encoding schemes and machine-learnt encoding schemes. Table S1: The parameters of the four convolution modules used with the model. For convolutional module 1–3 average pooling was used and for convolutional module four global average pooling was used.
Search for Supersymmetry with Gauge-Mediated Breaking in Diphoton Events at D0
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a search for supersymmetry (SUSY) with gauge-mediated breaking in the missing transverse energy distribution of inclusive diphoton events using 263 pb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in 2002--2004. No excess is observed above the background expected from standard model processes, and lower limits on the masses of the lightest neutralino and chargino of about 108 and 195 GeV, respectively, are set at the 95% confidence level. These are the most stringent limits to date for models with gauge-mediated SUSY breaking with a short-lived neutralino as the next-lightest SUSY particle.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Presentation: Green Industry in Coal Mining in Indonesia: Government Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Asep Saepudin
name: Rachmawati, Iva
name: Soesilo, Joko
name: Heru Heryadi
name: Hestutomo R
name: Kuncoro
name: Yuseptia Angretnowati
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material has presented on 1st International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology. October 25, 2022
Absence of eigenvalues of analytic quasi-periodic Schrodinger operators on $\mathbb{R}^d$
Creators: name: Shi, Yunfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ the quasi-periodic Schrödinger operator $H=-Δ+ λV(x),$ where $V$ is a real analytic quasi-periodic function and $λ>0$. We first show that $H$ has no eigenvalues in \textit{low energy region}. We also provide in \textit{low energy region} the new phase transition parameter, i.e. the competition between the strength of coupling and the length for frequencies.
description: Comments welcome, a revised version, 22 pages
Additional file 1 of Bisphenol A shapes children’s brain and behavior: towards an integrated neurotoxicity assessment including human data
Creators: name: Mustieles, Vicente
name: Fernández, Mariana F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Summary of results reported in mother-child cohorts addressing the relationship between prenatal urinary BPA concentrations and children’s behavior. Supplemental Table 2. Comparison of prenatal vs. postnatal associations between urinary BPA concentrations and children’s behavior. Supplemental Table 3. Comparison of associations among the cohorts that assessed both cognitive and other behavioral outcomes in relation to prenatal and/or postnatal BPA exposure.
Simulating the Diverse Instabilities of Dust in Magnetized Gas
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Squire, Jonathan
name: Seligman, Darryl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Squire & Hopkins showed that charged dust grains moving through magnetized gas under the influence of any external force (e.g. radiation pressure, gravity) are subject to a spectrum of instabilities. Qualitatively distinct instability families are associated with different Alfvenic or magnetosonic waves and drift or gyro motion. We present a suite of simulations exploring these instabilities, for grains in a homogeneous medium subject to an external acceleration. We vary parameters such as the ratio of Lorentz-to-drag forces on dust, plasma $β$, size scale, and acceleration. All regimes studied drive turbulent motions and dust-to-gas fluctuations in the saturated state, can rapidly amplify magnetic fields into equipartition with velocity fluctuations, and produce instabilities that persist indefinitely (despite random grain motions). Different parameters produce diverse morphologies and qualitatively different features in dust, but the saturated gas state can be broadly characterized as anisotropic magnetosonic or Alfvenic turbulence. Quasi-linear theory can qualitatively predict the gas turbulent properties. Turbulence grows from small to large scales, and larger-scale modes usually drive more vigorous gas turbulence, but dust velocity and density fluctuations are more complicated. In many regimes, dust forms structures (clumps, filaments, sheets) that reach extreme over-densities (up to $\gg 10^{9}$ times mean), and exhibit substantial sub-structure even in nearly-incompressible gas. These can be even more prominent at lower dust-to-gas ratios. In other regimes, dust self-excites scattering via magnetic fluctuations that isotropize and amplify dust velocities, producing fast, diffusive dust motions.
description: 30 pages, 29 figures, Revised to match published MNRAS version. Animations and higher-resolution images available at http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/animations/dust-and-gas-in-astrophysic/ . Simulation code available at http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/GIZMO.html
Scalability of Network Visualisation from a Cognitive Load Perspective
Creators: name: Yoghourdjian, Vahan
name: Yang, Yalong
name: Dwyer, Tim
name: Lawrence, Lee
name: Wybrow, Michael
name: Marriott, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Node-link diagrams are widely used to visualise networks. However, even the best network layout algorithms ultimately result in 'hairball' visualisations when the graph reaches a certain degree of complexity, requiring simplification through aggregation or interaction (such as filtering) to remain usable. Until now, there has been little data to indicate at what level of complexity node-link diagrams become ineffective or how visual complexity affects cognitive load. To this end, we conducted a controlled study to understand workload limits for a task that requires a detailed understanding of the network topology---finding the shortest path between two nodes. We tested performance on graphs with 25 to 175 nodes with varying density. We collected performance measures (accuracy and response time), subjective feedback, and physiological measures (EEG, pupil dilation, and heart rate variability). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first network visualisation study to include physiological measures. Our results show that people have significant difficulty finding the shortest path in high-density node-link diagrams with more than 50 nodes and even low-density graphs with more than 100 nodes. From our collected EEG data we observe functional differences in brain activity between hard and easy tasks. We found that cognitive load increased up to a certain level of difficulty after which it decreased, likely because participants had given up. We also explored the effects of global network layout features such as size or number of crossings, and features of the shortest path such as length or straightness on task difficulty. We found that global features generally had a greater impact than those of the shortest path.
description: To be presented at IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2020)
Analyzing Code Comments to Boost Program Comprehension
Creators: name: Shinyama, Yusuke
name: Arahori, Yoshitaka
name: Gondow, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are trying to find source code comments that help programmers understand a nontrivial part of source code. One of such examples would be explaining to assign a zero as a way to "clear" a buffer. Such comments are invaluable to programmers and identifying them correctly would be of great help. Toward this goal, we developed a method to discover explanatory code comments in a source code. We first propose eleven distinct categories of code comments. We then developed a decision-tree based classifier that can identify explanatory comments with 60% precision and 80% recall. We analyzed 2,000 GitHub projects that are written in two languages: Java and Python. This task is novel in that it focuses on a microscopic comment ("local comment") within a method or function, in contrast to the prior efforts that focused on API- or method-level comments. We also investigated how different category of comments is used in different projects. Our key finding is that there are two dominant types of comments: preconditional and postconditional. Our findings also suggest that many English code comments have a certain grammatical structure that are consistent across different projects.
Calvia vulnerata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Calvia
Calvia vulnerata

description: Calvia vulnerata (Hope)
(Fig. 45)
Coccinella vulnerata Hope, 1831: 31 (Lectotype, HEC, OMNH; Type locality: Nepal).
Calvia vulnerata: Korschefsky 1932: 529; Booth 1997: 927; Poorani 2002a: 324; Yu 2010: 61.
Coccinella uniramosa Hope, 1831: 31; Mulsant 1866: 244 (as Verania); Korschefsky 1932: 529.—Synonymized by Booth & Pope 1989: 367; Booth 1997: 927.
Calvia flaccida Mulsant, 1853a: 151.— Korschefsky 1932: 524.— Gordon 1987.—Synonymized by Booth & Pope 1989: 368; Booth 1997: 927.
Anisocalvia vishnu Crotch, 1874: 145; Korschefsky 1932: 529.—Synonymized by Booth & Pope 1989: 368; Booth 1997: 927.
Anisocalvia krishna Crotch, 1874: 145; Korschefsky 1932: 524.—Synonymized by Booth & Pope 1989: 368; Booth 1997: 927.
Anisocalvia buddha Crotch, 1874: 145; Korschefsky 1932: 521.—Synonymized by Booth & Pope 1989: 368; Booth 1997: 927.
Diagnosis. Length: 6.70–7.00 mm. A highly variable species, ground colour of elytra pale pinkish (Fig. 45a–c) or yellow to yellowish brown (Fig. 45d, e) or darker reddish brown (Fig. 45f), rarely black, usually with six spots (arranged as in Fig. 45a–c, d, f), spots either yellow or black, with or without a paler or darker outer ring; in all spotted forms, the positions occupied by each spot constant, apical and lateral spots often fused to some extent (Fig. 45a–c); rarely elytra 11-spotted with a black sutural stripe (Fig. 45e). If spots absent, then elytra with narrow black suture and black sublateral line; rarely elytra fully black except for fine reddish-brown margin, pronotum uniform orange-brown. Elytral punctation dual, with larger punctures closely arranged, separated on average by slightly more than one diameter, usually with a single row of small punctures between adjacent large punctures. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 45g) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 45h–j) as illustrated.
Distribution: India (Sikkim, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Delhi); Bhutan; Nepal; China.
Prey / associated habitat. Feeding on aphids infesting Dalbergia sissoo (label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during February, March, April–June (label data).
Notes. It is a highly variably coloured Himalayan species and appears to be rarely collected. Booth (1997) reviewed it with illustrations of the genitalia and a list of synonyms.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Imaging Optically-Thin Hot Spots Near the Black Hole Horizon of Sgr A* at Radio and Near-Infrared Wavelengths
Creators: name: Broderick, Avery E.
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sub milli-arcsecond astrometry and imaging of the black hole Sgr A* at the Galactic centre may become possible in the near future at infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths. Motivated by observations of short-term infrared and X-ray variability of Sgr A*, in a previous paper we computed the expected images and light curves, including polarization, associated with an compact emission region orbiting the central black hole. We extend this work, using a more realistic hot-spot model and including the effects of opacity in the underlying accretion flow. We find that at infrared wavelengths the qualitative features identified by our earlier work are present, namely it is possible to extract the black hole mass and spin from spot images and light curves of the observed flux and polarization. At radio wavelengths, disk opacity produces significant departures from the infrared behaviour, but there are still generic signatures of the black hole properties. Detailed comparison of these results with future data can be used to test general relativity and to improve existing models for the accretion flow in the immediate vicinity of the black hole.
description: 13 pages, 26 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Rare two-body decays of the top quark into a bottom meson plus an up or charm quark
Creators: name: d'Enterria, David
name: Shao, Hua-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare two-body decays of the top quark into a neutral bottom-quark meson plus an up- or charm-quark: $t\to {\overline B}^0+ u, c$; $t\to {\overline B}^0_{s}+ c,u$; and $t \to Υ(nS)+ c,u$, are studied for the first time. The corresponding partials widths are computed at leading order in the non-relativistic QCD framework. The sums of all two-body branching ratios amount to $\mathcal{B}(t \to {\overline B}^0+ {\rm jet}) \approx \mathcal{B}(t \to {\overline B}^0_{s}+ {\rm jet}) \approx 4.2\cdot 10^{-5}$ and $\mathcal{B}(t \to Υ(nS)+ {\rm jet}) \approx 2\cdot 10^{-9}$, respectively. The feasibility to observe the $t\to {\overline B}^0_{(s)}+{\rm jet}$ decay is estimated in top-pair events produced in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 14, 100$ TeV at the LHC and FCC, respectively. Combining many exclusive hadronic ${\overline B}^0_{(s)}$ decays, with $J/ψ$ or $D^{0,\pm}$ final states, about 50 (16000) events are expected in 3 (20) ab$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity at the LHC (FCC), after typical selection criteria, acceptance, and efficiency losses. An observation of the two-body top-quark decay can also be achieved in the interesting $t\to b(\rm{jet})+c(\rm{jet})$ dijet final state, where the ${\overline B}^0_{(s)}$ decay products are reconstructed as a jet, with 5300 and 1.4 million signal events above backgrounds expected after selection criteria at the LHC and FCC, respectively. Such unique final states provide a new direct method to precisely measure the top-quark mass via simple 2-body invariant mass analyses.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Extreme intra-hour variability of the radio source J1402+5347 discovered with Apertif
Creators: name: Oosterloo, T. A.
name: Vedantham, H. K.
name: Kutkin, A. M.
name: Adams, E. A. K.
name: Adebahr, B.
name: Coolen, A. H. W. M.
name: Damstra, S.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: De'nes, H.
name: Hess, K. M.
name: Hut, B.
name: Loose, G. M.
name: Lucero, D. M.
name: Maan, Y.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Moss, V. A.
name: Mulder, H.
name: Norden, M. J.
name: Offringa, A. R.
name: Oostrum, L. C.
name: Orru`, E.
name: Ruiter, M.
name: Schulz, R.
name: Brink, R. H. van den
name: van der Hulst, J. M.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Vermaas, N. J.
name: Vohl, D.
name: Wijnholds, S. J.
name: Ziemke, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of radio waves from distant compact radio sources through turbulent interstellar plasma in our Galaxy causes these sources to twinkle, a phenomenon called interstellar scintillation. Such scintillations are a unique probe of the micro-arcsecond structure of radio sources as well as of the sub-AU-scale structure of the Galactic interstellar medium. Weak scintillations (i.e. an intensity modulation of a few percent) on timescales of a few days or longer are commonly seen at centimetre wavelengths and are thought to result from the line-of-sight integrated turbulence in the interstellar plasma of the Milky Way. So far, only three sources were known that show more extreme variations, with modulations at the level of some dozen percent on timescales shorter than an hour. This requires propagation through nearby (d ~ 10^ 14K. }
description: Accepted for Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters
On black holes in BMN plane wave
Creators: name: Hsien-Hang, Shieh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, we attempt to construct a black hole solution with BMN plane wave asymptotics. We find it to be a very complicated problem. Through explicit computations, we showed the Penrose limit of the Schwarzschild Anti de-Sitter spacetime do not result "in a background with event horizon, in accord with the no go theorems reviewed which suggest the symmetries of plane wave spacetimes are not compatible with the existence of regular event horizon. The detailed boundary and light cone structure of the BMN spacetime are studied. It is made clear that the conformal boundary of the plane wave is not related to the boundary of Anti-de Sitter. In order to understand the concept of temperature and thermal state in the BMN background, we study the response of an Unruh monople detector following various trajectories. The detector response function shows the vacuum state natural to the BMN plane wave has very different thermal behavior from the Minkowski vacuum. In particular, observers following any Killing trajectory will not regard the plane wave vacuum as a thermal state. This result can be viewed as a semi-classical verification of the no-go theorems. We also review the solution generating technique, the null Melvin twist and the correspondence principle of the black string solutions so generated in the plane wave geometry.
Immigration Reform: Implications for Agriculture
Creators: name: Martin, Philip L.
name: Martin, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: About half of U.S. farm workers are not authorized to work in the United States. Pending immigration reforms aim to prevent the entry and employment of more unauthorized foreigners, but they differ on what to do about unauthorized workers already in the United States. These unauthorized workers are not likely to disappear overnight, and agricultural adjustments to a legal work force are likely to be determined by enforcement patterns, the structure of new guest worker programs, and the speed at which current farm workers find nonfarm jobs.
Board Games for Quantum Computers
Creators: name: Wu, Biao
name: Chen, Hanbo
name: Luo, Zhikang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scalable board games, including Five in a Row (or gomoku) and weiqi (or go), are generalized so that they can be played on or by quantum computers. We adopt three principles for the generalization: the first two are to ensure that the games are compatible with quantum computer and the third is to ensure that the standard classical games are the special cases. We demonstrate how to construct basic quantum moves and use them to set up quantum games. There are three different schemes to play the quantized games: one quantum computer with another quantum computer (QwQ), two classical computer playing with each other on one quantum computer (CQC), and one classical computer with another classical computer(CwC). We illustrate these results with the games of Five in a Row and weiqi.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures
Cheilomenes Chevrolat
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Cheilomenes

description: Genus Cheilomenes Chevrolat
Cheilomenes Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836: 435.
Type species: Coccinella lunata Fabricius 1775, designated by Crotch 1874: 179.
Chilomenes: Crotch 1874: 179. Unjustified emendation.
Menochilus Timberlake, 1943: 40. Replacement name for Cheilomenes sensu Mulsant 1850.
Diagnosis. Form broad oval to slightly elongate. Anterior clypeal margin semicircularly arcuate between lateral projections (Fig. 46a). Antenna (Fig. 46b) 11-segmented, shorter than interocular distance, scape broader than long, with inner side strongly rounded and produced and outwardly carinate. Inner ocular margins straight. Terminal maxillary palpomere securiform (Fig. 46c). Pronotum with anterior margin trapezoidally excavated and slightly convex, anterior angles narrowly rounded; sides gently arched with lateral borders narrowly upturned. Elytra narrowly expanded on the sides, not marginated. Prothoracic hypomeron lacking a fovea, prosternal process with a pair of short, abbreviated carinae reaching up to middle of prosternum (Fig. 46d); anterior margin of mesoventrite weakly emarginate. Elytral epipleura very slightly foveate to receive meso- and metatibial apices. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, with a short, oblique lateral line (Fig. 46e). Meso- and metatibial apices with a pair of spurs. Male genitalia (Fig. 46f–j) with penis apex greatly attenuated, long and thread-like. Female genitalia (Fig. 46k) with sperm duct very long and coiled (Fig. 46l, m).
Distribution. This genus is widely distributed in the Oriental, Australasian and Afrotropical regions (Ślipiński et al. 2020).
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it in the Coccinella- group of genera based on their phylogenetic analyses and recovered it as a distinct clade including Elpis Mulsant and Menochilus Timberlake. The generic limits of Cheilomenes and its related genera, Elpis and Cydonia Mulsant, were discussed by Fürsch (1989) and Ślipiński et al. (2020).
Ślipiński (2007) used the name Menochilus for this genus in his review of Australian genera of Coccinellidae, but Ślipiński et al. (2020) used the name Cheilomenes in their conspectus of Coccinellini of Australo-Pacific region and the same is followed here.
Included species. In South Asia, this genus is represented by Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius), probably the most widespread and well-studied species of the Oriental and Indian region.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Transfer maps in generalized group homology via submanifolds
Creators: name: Nitsche, Martin
name: Schick, Thomas
name: Zeidler, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $N \subset M$ be a submanifold embedding of spin manifolds of some codimension $k \geq 1$. A classical result of Gromov and Lawson, refined by Hanke, Pape and Schick, states that $M$ does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature if $k = 2$ and the Dirac operator of $N$ has non-trivial index, provided that suitable conditions are satisfied. In the cases $k=1$ and $k=2$, Zeidler and Kubota, respectively, established more systematic results: There exists a transfer $\mathrm{KO}_\ast(\mathrm{C}^{\ast} π_1 M)\to \mathrm{KO}_{\ast - k}(\mathrm{C}^\ast π_1 N)$ which maps the index class of $M$ to the index class of $N$. The main goal of this article is to construct analogous transfer maps $E_\ast(\mathrm{B}π_1M) \to E_{\ast-k}(\mathrm{B}π_1N)$ for different generalized homology theories $E$ and suitable submanifold embeddings. The design criterion is that it is compatible with the transfer $E_\ast(M) \to E_{\ast-k}(N)$ induced by the inclusion $N \subset M$ for a chosen orientation on the normal bundle. Under varying restrictions on homotopy groups and the normal bundle, we construct transfers in the following cases in particular: In ordinary homology, it works for all codimensions. This slightly generalizes a result of Engel and simplifies his proof. In complex K-homology, we achieve it for $k \leq 3$. For $k \leq 2$, we have a transfer on the equivariant KO-homology of the classifying space for proper actions.
description: 28 pages
Parton and Hadron Correlations in Jets
Creators: name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
name: Tan, Zhiguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlation between shower partons is first studied in high $p_T$ jets. Then in the framework of parton recombination the correlation between pions in heavy-ion collisions is investigated. Since thermal partons play very different roles in central and peripheral collisions, it is found that the correlation functions of the produced hadrons behave very differently at different centralities, especially at intermediate $p_T$. The correlation function that can best exhibit the distinctive features is suggested. There is not a great deal of overlap between what we can calculate and what has been measured. Nevertheless, some aspects of our results compare favorably with experimental data.
description: 28 pages in Latex + 13 figures. This is a revised version with extended discussions added without quantitative changes in the results
Additional file 1 of Metabolite profiling of rhizosphere soil of different allelopathic potential rice accessions
Creators: name: Yingzhe Li
name: Lining Xu
name: Puleng Letuma
name: Lin, Wenxiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The original full-length Western-blot images. A: Western blotting detection of the OsPAL2–1 expression on rice roots. B: Western blotting detection of the β-actin expression on rice roots.
From Einstein's Theorem to Bell's Theorem: A History of Quantum Nonlocality
Creators: name: Wiseman, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Einstein Year of Physics it seems appropriate to look at an important aspect of Einstein's work that is often down-played: his contribution to the debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Contrary to popular opinion, Bohr had no defence against Einstein's 1935 attack (the EPR paper) on the claimed completeness of orthodox quantum mechanics. I suggest that Einstein's argument, as stated most clearly in 1946, could justly be called Einstein's reality-locality-completeness theorem, since it proves that one of these three must be false. Einstein's instinct was that completeness of orthodox quantum mechanics was the falsehood, but he failed in his quest to find a more complete theory that respected reality and locality. Einstein's theorem, and possibly Einstein's failure, inspired John Bell in 1964 to prove his reality-locality theorem. This strengthened Einstein's theorem (but showed the futility of his quest) by demonstrating that either reality or locality is a falsehood. This revealed the full nonlocality of the quantum world for the first time.
description: 18 pages. To be published in Contemporary Physics. (Minor changes; references and author info added)
Generalized Quantum Walk in Momentum Space
Creators: name: Romanelli, A.
name: Auyuanet, A.
name: Siri, R.
name: Abal, G.
name: Donangelo, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a new model of quantum walk on a one-dimensional momentum space that includes both discrete jumps and continuous drift. Its time evolution has two stages; a Markov diffusion followed by localized dynamics. As in the well known quantum kicked rotor, this model can be mapped into a localized one-dimensional Anderson model. For exceptional (rational) values of its scale parameter, the system exhibits resonant behavior and reduce to the usual discrete time quantum walk on the line.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Attention-Based Deep Learning Framework for Human Activity Recognition with User Adaptation
Creators: name: Buffelli, Davide
name: Vandin, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled by modern ubiquitous computing devices. While several techniques based on hand-crafted feature engineering have been proposed, the current state-of-the-art is represented by deep learning architectures that automatically obtain high level representations and that use recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to extract temporal dependencies in the input. RNNs have several limitations, in particular in dealing with long-term dependencies. We propose a novel deep learning framework, \algname, based on a purely attention-based mechanism, that overcomes the limitations of the state-of-the-art. We show that our proposed attention-based architecture is considerably more powerful than previous approaches, with an average increment, of more than $7\%$ on the F1 score over the previous best performing model. Furthermore, we consider the problem of personalizing HAR deep learning models, which is of great importance in several applications. We propose a simple and effective transfer-learning based strategy to adapt a model to a specific user, providing an average increment of $6\%$ on the F1 score on the predictions for that user. Our extensive experimental evaluation proves the significantly superior capabilities of our proposed framework over the current state-of-the-art and the effectiveness of our user adaptation technique.
description: Accepted for publication on the IEEE Sensors Journal
HOW RELIABLE ARE GROUP INFORMANT RATINGS? A TEST OF FOOD SECURITY RATING IN HONDURAS
Creators: name: Bergeron, Gilles
name: Morris, Saul Sutkover
name: Banegas, Juan Manuel Medina
name: Bergeron, Gilles
name: Morris, Saul Sutkover
name: Banegas, Juan Manuel Medina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The reliability of food security rating, a variant of the more familiar wealth ranking procedure, was tested in a rural area of Western Honduras. Twenty workshop sessions were conducted in 13 different communities, with members of organized small farmers' groups attended by a large agricultural development project. Participants were all poor farmers with no more than 10 hectares of land. Participants, who generally knew each other well, were split into small sets and each set was asked to rate the food security status of all households in their organized group. Inter-rater agreement was assessed using the Kappa statistic, and related to other characteristics of the informants and workshop sessions, using multiple regression methods. Agreement was very poor (median value 6 = 0.29), especially for the category "Intermittenly Food Insecure," and was associated with time elapsed since training of the session moderators. Women were 49 percent more likely than men to classify a given family as food insecure (P <0.001). The authors put forward seven different hypotheses to explain the poor reliability of the rating method, which should be investigated in future research if the credibility of the method is to be reinforced.