cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pontomyia oceana TOKUNAGA 1964
Creators: name: Huang, Danwei
name: Cheng, Lanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Pontomyia
Pontomyia oceana

description: PONTOMYIA OCEANA TOKUNAGA, 1964 Australia: Heron Island, Queensland, 23°27 ′ S, 151°55 ′ E, males and females, and pupae (Marks, 1971; Cheng & Hashimoto, 1978). Taiwan: Wanliton, 22°00 ′ N, 120°42 ′ E (this study; P24 and P25), and Howan, 22°03.0 ′ N, 120°41.5 ′ E, Pintung County, males and females, larvae, and pupae (Soong et al., 1999).
description: Published as part of Huang, Danwei & Cheng, Lanna, 2011, The flightless marine midge Pontomyia (Diptera: Chironomidae): ecology, distribution, and molecular phylogeny, pp. 443-456 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (2) on page 446, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00680.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440305
description: {"references": ["Tokunaga M. 1964. Diptera: chironomidae. Insects of Micronesia 12: 485 - 628.", "Marks EH. 1971. Australian marine insects. Australian Natural History 17: 134 - 138.", "Cheng L, Hashimoto H. 1978. The marine midge Pontomyia (Chironomidae) with a description of females of P. oceana Tokunaga. Systematic Entomology 3: 189 - 196.", "Soong K, Chen GF, Cao JR. 1999. Life history studies of the flightless marine midges Pontomyia spp. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zoological Studies 38: 466 - 473."]}
157 nm Pellicles for Photolithography: Mechanistic Investigation of the Deep UV Photolysis of Fluorocarbons
Creators: name: Lee, Kwangjoo
name: Jockusch, Steffen
name: Turro, Nicholas J.
name: French, Roger H.
name: Wheland, Robert C.
name: Lemon, Michael F.
name: Braun, Andre M.
name: Widerschpan, Tatjana
name: Zimmerman, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The advance of 157 nm as the next photolithographic wavelength has created a need to for transparent and radiation durable polymers for the use as pellicles. The most promising materials for the pellicles are fluorinated polymers, but the currently available fluorinated polymers undergo photodegradation and/or photodarkening upon exposure to 157 nm irradiation. To understand the mechanism of the photodegradation and photodarkening of fluorinated polymers, mechanistic studies on the photolysis of liquid model fluorocarbons such as, perfluoro butylethyl ether and perfluoro-2H-3-oxa-heptane, were performed employing UV, NMR, FTIR, GC, and GC/MS analysis. All hydrogen containing compounds showed decreased photostability compared to the fully perfluorinated compounds. Irradiation in the presence of atmospheric oxygen showed reduced photodarkening compared to deoxygenated samples. Irradiations were performed at 157 nm, 172 nm, 185 nm, and 254 nm and showed only minor wavelength dependence. Mechanisms for photodegradation of the fluorocarbons were proposed, where Rydberg excited states are involved.
Winifred Dunn
Creators: name: Hansen, James
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Known for being one of the youngest scenario editors, male or female, during the silent era, Winifred Dunn, like Anita Loos, started writing at a young age. As a girl in Chicago, Dunn discovered her skills as a writer as well as a translator when at the age of eighteen she translated a German play into English and altered the production to fit an American stage. While still in her teens, Dunn began writing two-reel film plays for Selig Polyscope in New York, where her first original feature Too Late (1914) was produced (II16).
Certifying experimental errors in quantum experiments
Creators: name: Moroder, Tobias
name: Kleinmann, Matthias
name: Schindler, Philipp
name: Monz, Thomas
name: Gühne, Otfried
name: Blatt, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When experimental errors are ignored in an experiment, the subsequent analysis of its results becomes questionable. We develop tests to detect systematic errors in quantum experiments where only a finite amount of data is recorded and apply these tests to tomographic data taken in an ion trap experiment. We put particular emphasis on quantum state tomography and present three detection methods: the first two employ linear inequalities while the third is based on the generalized likelihood ratio.
description: 4+ pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published version
Lillian Ducey
Creators: name: Bajar, Daniela
name: Bloom, Livia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: “The skeptical may not believe it… Hundreds of directors may scoff—But—There is one director who is efficient—and without the aid of puttees. Introducing Lillian Ducey, directing Youth Triumphant for the newly formed Fisher Productions. Efficiency plus is said to be Miss Ducey’s middle name,” heralded the Los Angeles Times in reference to Ducey’s first job as a motion picture director in 1923 (III34). With silent star Anna Q. Nilsson in the lead role, Youth Triumphant, alternately titled Enemies of Children, was a melodrama about “a street waif of questionable parentage [who] is taken into a wealthy home,” according to Variety’s summary (26). Distributed by Mammoth Pictures and released on December 13, 1923, the black-and-white six-reeler was based on the 1921 novel by George Gibbs. The film was expected to be the first of many, and as the Los Angeles Times announced a few months later: “Mrs. Ducey’s next production will be an original story of her own … .” (II10). Yet despite these announcements of her directorial debut and the possibility of other films, Lillian Ducey’s only association with directing is a single feature. In this, she can be compared to other writers like Frances Marion and Eugenie Magnus Ingleton who had one opportunity to direct. However, unlike Marion and Ingleton, Ducey’s credit has not been verified. In the American Film Institute Catalog, Ducey is not even credited as the sole author of Youth Triumphant; John M. Voshell receives equal billing for both direction and adaptation.
Explicit Bounds for Entropy Concentration under Linear Constraints
Creators: name: Oikonomou, Kostas N.
name: Grunwald, Peter D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consider the set of all sequences of $n$ outcomes, each taking one of $m$ values, that satisfy a number of linear constraints. If $m$ is fixed while $n$ increases, most sequences that satisfy the constraints result in frequency vectors whose entropy approaches that of the maximum entropy vector satisfying the constraints. This well-known "entropy concentration" phenomenon underlies the maximum entropy method. Existing proofs of the concentration phenomenon are based on limits or asymptotics and unrealistically assume that constraints hold precisely, supporting maximum entropy inference more in principle than in practice. We present, for the first time, non-asymptotic, explicit lower bounds on $n$ for a number of variants of the concentration result to hold to any prescribed accuracies, with the constraints holding up to any specified tolerance, taking into account the fact that allocations of discrete units can satisfy constraints only approximately. Again unlike earlier results, we measure concentration not by deviation from the maximum entropy value, but by the $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ distances from the maximum entropy-achieving frequency vector. One of our results holds independently of the alphabet size $m$ and is based on a novel proof technique using the multi-dimensional Berry-Esseen theorem. We illustrate and compare our results using various detailed examples.
description: 1) An error affecting sec. 3 has been corrected: the parameters delta and theta cannot be chosen independently. Sec. 3 has been revised up to Theorem 3.15 in sec. 3.6. 2) Some minor updates in sec. 4. 3) Some proofs used in both sec. 3 and sec. 4 have been unified (This version to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, December 2015)
title: Role of civil society organizations and traditional authorities towards effective participation in decentralization and local government
title: Die Rolle zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen und traditioneller Autoritäten im Hinblick auf eine wirksame Beteiligung an der Dezentralisierung und lokalen Verwaltung: Eine Fallstudie über ausgewählte Gemeinden in Ghana
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Anderson, Paul Kwaku Larbi
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: Ghana
subject: Local government
subject: Traditional authority
subject: Participation
subject: CSOs
subject: Decentralization
subject: Ghana
subject: Dezentralisation
subject: Kommunalpolitik
subject: Zivilgesellschaft
subject: Politische Beteiligung

description: In recent years, several sub-Saharan African countries have implemented a robust decentralization policy towards governance reformation to enhance civic participation in the decision-making process. Against the background, this study examines civil society organizations and traditional authorities’ role toward effective participation in Ghana’s decentralization and local government policy. The assumption is that traditional authorities and civil society organizations’ legitimacy enable them to play a crucial role in the governance and development discourse. Accordingly, a participatory approach was adopted within a qualitative methodological framework, which informed the case study as the research design type. Data was obtained through a semi-structured interview, non-participant observation, focused group discussions, documents, and material culture analysis. Respondents were purposefully selected from Metropolitan Municipal District Assemblies (MMDAs), Community-based Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and Traditional Authorities from three selected municipalities in Ghana: Nsawam/Adoagyiri, Suhum, and Cape Coast. This study reveals that in addition to the conventional role of civil society organizations and traditional authorities in service areas such as health, education, advocacy, and general community development, they also perform an exceptional function in local governance as an impartial force in providing checks and balances and support on local government functionaries. Thus, their involvement in local government administration in the decision-making and implementation process is vital in enhancing accelerated national development.
Improving PET-Based Physiological Quantification Through Methods of Wavelet Denoising
Creators: name: Lin, Jou-Wei
name: Laine, Andrew F.
name: Bergmann, Steven R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Medicine
Biomedical engineering

description: The goal of this study was to evaluate methods of multidimensional wavelet denoising on restoring the fidelity of biological signals hidden within dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images. A reduction of noise within pixels, between adjacent regions, and time-serial frames was achieved via redundant multiscale representations. In analyzing dynamic PET data of healthy volunteers, a multiscale method improved the estimate-to-error ratio of flows fivefold without loss of detail. This technique also maintained accuracy of flow estimates in comparison with the "gold standard," using dynamic PET with O15-water. In addition, in studies of coronary disease patients, flow patterns were preserved and infarcted regions were well differentiated from normal regions. The results show that a wavelet-based noise-suppression method produced reliable approximations of salient underlying signals and led to an accurate quantification of myocardial perfusion. The described protocol can be generalized to other temporal biomedical imaging modalities including functional magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound.
Marie Dressler
Creators: name: Moore, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Marie Dressler was a top star who died at the height of her popularity. Her career is thoroughly documented, and this synopsis unavoidably recounts the tireless efforts of biographies by Betty Lee and Matthew Kennedy. She remains a comedienne with a loyal following, with a foundation and museum in her birthplace of Cobourg, Ontario. In the context of women behind-the-scenes in early film production, Dressler provides an example of a failed attempt to turn stage and screen fame into an eponymous production company where she had a hand in writing the resulting two-reelers. In the mid-1910s, it was common to turn movie stardom into professional autonomy by creating an eponymous film company. Dressler’s self-produced films were the last before a well-mythologized descent into poverty and reemergence as an MGM early-sound star with the help of loyal friend, screenwriter Frances Marion. Her decline coincided with well-publicized off-screen activities including the World War I bond drive and the 1919 Actors’ Equity strike. Assertions that she was the victim of anti-union blacklisting remain unsubstantiated by her biographers Lee and Kennedy, who conclude instead that she had simply spent too much time off stage and screen, or in lackluster roles.
Lucie Derain
Creators: name: Vichi, Laura
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Lucienne Dechorain, whose professional name was Lucie Derain, was above all a film critic, but she was also a film director, film editor, fiction writer, and very likely a screenwriter. She entered the world of cinema in 1919 by subtitling and editing newsreels at Van Goitsenhoven, Gaumont (in 1921), and Eclipse-Journal (in 1923). We know that she wrote the screenplay La Tour de Vie et de Mort for Films Albatros, although the manuscript provides us with no further information, including a year, and there is no evidence that it was ever made into a film. She was a contributor to Hebdo-Films, La Semaine Cinématographique, Le Quotidien (Paris, 1923-1936), Cinémagazine, Pour vous, Cinémonde, Ciné-Miroir, Photo-Ciné, and La Cinématographie Française. Since in this last journal the editorial board is not mentioned, it is not possible to definitely state for how long she belonged to it, however, she was a member of the editorial board (Thévenet 1953, 233; Beyle and D’Hugues 1999, 131). Between October 11, 1924 and June 1940 she wrote the “Courrier des studios” column (also called “Studios,” “Dans les studios,” “Le Travail dans les studios”), a survey dedicated to the news from the studios and the set. She was also a contributor to La Technique Cinématographique, Ciné-Amateur, and La Vigie Marocaine, as well as the editor-in-chief of Le Film Français from 1945 to 1948.
Velacumantus australis
Creators: name: Strong, Ellen E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Batillariidae
Velacumantus
Velacumantus australis

description: VELACUMANTUS AUSTRALIS (QUOY & GAIMARD, 1834) Material examined South Pacific Ocean: Australia: NSW: Narrabeen Lagoon, 33°52.0′S, 151°08.8′E (USNM 1083383); WA: Nedlands, Perth (USNM 794752). Description Marginal fold S-shaped (Fig. 3B), terminating at posterior tip of sorting area; oesophageal aperture at tip of marginal fold recurved segment; sorting area rectangular, tapering, curving posteriorly to pointed tip; left margin of sorting area with slight anterior bulge; large, flattened, rounded sorting area pad present at left, posterior end of sorting area, with fine, subparallel striae on surface; accessory marginal fold straight, forming deep pocket overhanging posterior tip of sorting area; anterior flap and crescentic pads lacking; large glandular pad forming long, tall narrow mound, extending far posterior to gastric shield; single digestive gland duct opening at left of glandular pad; crescentic ridge long, curving, adhering closely to glandular pad, extending from digestive gland duct to right side of glandular pad just behind gastric shield (gs); proximal crescentic ridge paired; accessory pads, caecum, and caecal folds lacking; U-shaped fold present below lip of style sac; typhlosoles unfused.
description: Published as part of Strong, Ellen E., 2011, More than a gut feeling: utility of midgut anatomy in phylogeny of the Cerithioidea (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda), pp. 585-630 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (3) on pages 590-591, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00687.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440617
Photoisomerization of 2,3-diphenylcyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid derivatives
Creators: name: Sivaguru, J.
name: Jockusch, Steffen
name: Turro, Nicholas J.
name: Ramamurthy, V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Contrary to what is known about cis-1,2-diphenylcyclopropane and its derivatives, we find that they have triplet energies of ca. 311 kJ mol−1, do not undergo intersystem crossing upon direct excitation, undergo the less common adiabatic photoisomerization to the corresponding trans isomers, and show emission from excited 1,3-diradical intermediates.
Spin Ice: Magnetic Excitations without Monopole Signatures using Muon Spin Rotation
Creators: name: Dunsiger, S. R.
name: Aczel, A. A.
name: Arguello, C.
name: Dabkowska, H.
name: Dabkowski, A.
name: Du, M. -H.
name: Goko, T.
name: Javanparast, B.
name: Lin, T.
name: Ning, F. L.
name: Noad, H. M. L.
name: Singh, D. J.
name: Williams, T. J.
name: Uemura, Y. J.
name: Gingras, M. J. P.
name: Luke, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theory predicts the low-temperature magnetic excitations in spin ices consist of deconfined magnetic charges, or monopoles. A recent transverse-field (TF) muon spin rotation (muSR) experiment [S T Bramwell et al, Nature 461, 956 (2009)] reports results claiming to be consistent with the temperature and magnetic field dependence anticipated for monopole nucleation - the so-called second Wien effect. We demonstrate via a new series of muSR experiments in Dy_2Ti_2O_7 that such an effect is not observable in a TF muSR experiment. Rather, as found in many highly frustrated magnetic materials, we observe spin fluctuations which become temperature independent at low temperatures, behavior which dominates over any possible signature of thermally nucleated monopole excitations.
description: 6 pages; 4 figures; published in Phys Rev. Lett. 107, 207207 (2011); Supplementary material and body of paper combined together in 1 file
Gurly Drangsholt
Creators: name: Myrstad, Anne Marit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Gurly Drangsholt is the first woman we know who played a role behind the camera on a Norwegian feature film production during the silent era. True or false? She is known for her collaboration with Harry Ivarson on the screenplay of the crime film Madame Besøker Oslo/Madame Visits Oslo (1927), based on a work by Alf Rød. The film was directed by Ivarson and premiered on October 17, 1927. However, in the surviving premiere program, Drangsholt is also credited as assistant director and head of production, credits confirmed in Lars Braaten’s Norwegian filmography. Madame Besøker Oslo, in which two swindlers try to steal the property of a wealthy banker who has died while abroad, is categorized as both crime comedy and crime drama. The heir and nephew, played by Erling Drangsholt, Gurly’s husband, succeeds in bringing the swindles to light. The film was a departure for the small Norwegian film industry. Norwegian films made in the 1920s were set in a vague past and in what could be called national-romantic surroundings. Madame was marketed as something different: “Norwegian film takes a new road,” cheered the periodical Filmen og Vi/The Film and Us in a September 1927 preview article. The article asks if Norwegian film has at last matured, observing that Madame leaves the peasants and the countryside behind and is instead set among the luxurious estates along the Oslo fjord with sailing yachts, riding horses, cars, and Norway’s famous Hankø Regatta. Even a private airplane is part of the action, this indicating the distance from the typical Norwegian film set in a beautiful but modest and traditional countryside.
Limonium Miller (1754: 1328
Creators: name: Agius, Dolores Rita
name: Galea, Maria Elizabeth
name: Cambria, Salvatore
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Brullo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Plumbaginaceae
Limonium

description: Key to the species of Limonium genus occurring in Malta
 1. Stem prostrate to ascending with branches markedly arcuate to reflexed, forming branching angles 90–160°, spikes with 2–3 spikelets per cm, calyx lobes 1–1.2 mm long.................................................................................................................... L. zeraphae
 - Stem usually erect with branches slightly arcuate, forming branching angles 15–45°, spikes with 3–6 spikelets per cm, calyx lobes 0.6–0.9 mm long................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
 2. Stem up to 12 cm long, spikelet 5–6 mm long, outer bract 1–1.4 mm long with apiculum 0.5–0.6 mm long, inner bract 3.8–4.3 mm long, calyx 4.5–5 mm long with lobes triangular-ovate.................................................................................................. L. lanfrancoi
- Stem up to 45 cm long, spikelet 6–8 mm long, outer bract 1.5–2.5 mm long with apiculum 0.6–0.9 mm long, inner bract 4.8–5.5 mm long, calyx 5–6 mm long with lobes semi elliptical....................................................................................................................3
 3. Leaves withered at anthesis, spikelet straight, 7–8 mm long, 3–4 per cm, calyx 2.5–3 mm exserted from inner bract, with tube 1.5–1.8 mm long............................................................................................................................................................... L. melitense
 - Leaves green at anthesis, spikelet more or less curved, 6–7 mm long, 4–6 per cm, calyx 1.8–2,2 mm exserted from inner bract, with tube 2.5–3 mm long........................................................................................................................................................... L. virgatum
description: Published as part of Agius, Dolores Rita, Galea, Maria Elizabeth, Cambria, Salvatore, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del & Brullo, Salvatore, 2023, Taxonomic survey on the genus Limonium in the Maltese islands, with description of a new species, pp. 99-114 in Phytotaxa 622 (2) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.622.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10146127
Perceptions of advocacy and credibility in policy-relevant natural resource science
Creators: name: Rivers, Andrea Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: There is an ongoing need for scientific information to inform natural resource policy decisions, and scientists are viewed as reliable sources of expertise and objectivity at the interface between science and policy. One important question at this interface is whether or not scientists should advocate policy outcomes, and if so, under what conditions? While advocacy can be advantageous to natural resource management policy formation, the risk of scientific credibility loss is often a major deterrent from scientist engagement in advocacy and policy decisions. This study draws upon the results of a web survey of professional foresters and biologists, academic scientists, and a sample of multi-disciplinary undergraduate students on support for advocacy, and issues of advocacy and credibility in natural resource management science. Responses from the four groups were analyzed to examine the influence of science values, environmental values, and socio-demographic characteristics on an individual’s support for advocacy by scientists. Another objective of the study was to explore the relationship between support for advocacy and perceptions of credibility. Science values and political affiliation were found to be significant influences on a respondent’s support for advocacy, consistent with previous research. No significant differences in support for advocacy were found between the four groups, however the results identify differences in the values and credibility perceptions of professional foresters, biologists, and academic scientists. Risks to credibility were observed to increase with higher levels of advocacy. The results suggest credibility of source and mode of communication as other influences on a respondent’s perception of credibility. Drawing on the results from both components of this study, expert advocacy receives broad support, and political advocacy poses considerable risks to the credibility of scientists. The results also reinforce a number of guidelines for credibility protection, and highlight avenues for future research.
Linear dynamics of quantum-classical hybrids
Creators: name: Elze, Hans-Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formulation of quantum-classical hybrid dynamics is presented, which concerns the direct coupling of classical and quantum mechanical degrees of freedom. It is of interest for applications in quantum mechanical approximation schemes and may be relevant for the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular, when it comes to experiments exploring the quantum-classical border. The present linear theory differs from the nonlinear ensemble theory of Hall and Reginatto, but shares with it to fullfill all consistency requirements discussed in the literature, while earlier attempts failed in this respect. Our work is based on the representation of quantum mechanics in the framework of classical analytical mechanics by A. Heslot, showing that notions of states in phase space, observables, Poisson brackets, and related canonical transformations can be naturally extended to quantum mechanics. This is suitably generalized for quantum-classical hybrids here.
description: Replaced by final revtex version; references updated, section V.E. added
A Partial Intensity Invariant Feature Descriptor for Multimodal Retinal Image Registration
Creators: name: Chen, Jian
name: Tian, Jie
name: Lee, Noah
name: Zheng, Jian
name: Smith, R. Theodore
name: Laine, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Medicine
Biomedical engineering

description: Detection of vascular bifurcations is a challenging task in multimodal retinal image registration. Existing algorithms based on bifurcations usually fail in correctly aligning poor quality retinal image pairs. To solve this problem, we propose a novel highly distinctive local feature descriptor named partial intensity invariant feature descriptor (PIIFD) and describe a robust automatic retinal image registration framework named Harris-PIIFD. PIIFD is invariant to image rotation, partially invariant to image intensity, affine transformation, and viewpoint/perspective change. Our Harris-PIIFD framework consists of four steps. First, corner points are used as control point candidates instead of bifurcations since corner points are sufficient and uniformly distributed across the image domain. Second, PIIFDs are extracted for all corner points, and a bilateral matching technique is applied to identify corresponding PIIFDs matches between image pairs. Third, incorrect matches are removed and inaccurate matches are refined. Finally, an adaptive transformation is used to register the image pairs. PIIFD is so distinctive that it can be correctly identified even in nonvascular areas. When tested on 168 pairs of multimodal retinal images, the Harris-PIIFD far outperforms existing algorithms in terms of robustness, accuracy, and computational efficiency.
Order-disorder transition in a model with two symmetric absorbing states
Creators: name: Park, Su-Chan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of two-dimensional interacting monomers which has two symmetric absorbing states and exhibits two kinds of phase transition; one is an order-disorder transition and the other is an absorbing phase transition. Our focus is around the order-disorder transition, and we investigate whether this transition is described by the critical exponents of the two-dimensional Ising model. By analyzing the relaxation dynamics of "staggered magnetization," the finite-size scaling, and the behavior of the magnetization in the presence of a symmetry-breaking field, we show that this model should belong to the Ising universality class. Our results along with the universality hypothesis support the idea that the order-disorder transition in two-dimensional models with two symmetric absorbing states is of the Ising universality class, contrary to the recent claim [K. Nam et al., J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. (2011) L06001]. Furthermore, we illustrate that the Binder cumulant could be a misleading guide to the critical point in these systems.
description: minor changes. 7 figures
Asteroseismology of the Kepler V777 Her variable white dwarf with fully evolutionary models
Creators: name: Córsico, Alejandro H.
name: Althaus, Leandro G.
name: Bertolami, Marcelo M. Miller
name: Bischoff-Kim, Agnès
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DBV stars are pulsating white dwarfs with atmospheres rich in He. Asteroseismology of DBV stars can provide valuable clues about the origin, structure and evolution of hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs, and may allow to study neutrino and axion physics. Recently, a new DBV star, KIC 8626021, has been discovered in the field of the \emph{Kepler} spacecraft. It is expected that further monitoring of this star in the next years will enable astronomers to determine its detailed asteroseismic profile. We perform an asteroseismological analysis of KIC 8626021 on the basis of fully evolutionary DB white-dwarf models. We employ a complete set of evolutionary DB white-dwarf structures covering a wide range of effective temperatures and stellar masses. They have been obtained on the basis of a complete treatment of the evolutionary history of progenitors stars. We compute g-mode adiabatic pulsation periods for this set of models and compare them with the pulsation properties exhibited by KIC 8626021. On the basis of the mean period spacing of the star, we found that the stellar mass should be substantially larger than spectroscopy indicates. From period-to-period fits we found an asteroseismological model characterized by an effective temperature much higher than the spectroscopic estimate. In agreement with a recent asteroseismological analysis of this star by other authors, we conclude that KIC 8626021 is located near the blue edge of the DBV instability strip, contrarily to spectroscopic predictions. We also conclude that the mass of KIC 8626021 should be substantially larger than thought.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
In situ EPR investigation of the addition of persistent benzyl radicals to acrylates on ZSM-5 zeolites. Direct spectroscopic detection of the initial steps in a supramolecular photopolymerization
Creators: name: Lei, Xuegong
name: Jockusch, Steffen
name: Ottaviani, M. Francesca
name: Turro, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Photolysis of dibenzyl ketone derivatives adsorbed on ZSM-5 zeolites produces persistent benzyl radicals (initiator radicals), which add to methyl acrylates (monomers) to generate persistent adduct radicals. Both initiator and adduct radicals are readily observable by conventional steady-state EPR spectroscopy at room temperature and are persistent for time periods ranging from seconds to many days. The rate of the formation and the amount of the adduct persistent radical formed depends on the structure of the initiator radical (benzyl radical derivative) and the structure of the monomer (acrylate derivative). The lifetimes of the initiator and adduct radicals depend on the supramolecular structure of the radical@zeolite complex and the diffusion and reaction dynamics of the radicals in the complex. The most intense signal and highest addition rate to methyl acrylate were observed for the smallest initiator radical, the benzyl radical, because of its high mobility and relatively rapid diffusion within the internal zeolite surface. With increasing length of an alkyl chain (methyl, ethyl, and pentyl) on either the initiator (α position of the radical) or monomer (alkyl group of acrylate ester), the rate of radical addition to the monomer decreased, a result that is consistent with the decreased mobility and diffusion of the initiator radical or monomer. Deuterium isotope experiments and variation of the methyl acrylate concentration demonstrated that the initial adduct radical from methyl acrylate adds to another methyl acrylate to generate a secondary adduct radical, which, in turn, can continue to propagate to form a polymer that is cross-linked to the zeolite crystals. The results demonstrate that EPR can be a powerful tool for the direct in situ analysis of supramolecular photochemistry involving radicals rendered persistent by supramolecular steric effects. The latter eliminate the need for sophisticated flash photolysis equipment to investigate the structure and dynamics of reactive radicals and require only the use of simpler steady-state lamps.
Paradiopatra pyricirra Budaeva & Fauchald 2011, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Budaeva, Nataliya
name: Fauchald, Kristian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Eunicida
Onuphidae
Paradiopatra
Paradiopatra pyricirra

description: PARADIOPATRA PYRICIRRA SP. NOV. (FIGS 63–65; TABLE 14) Type material: ZMUB 87050, Vityaz St. 3539 (holotype); ZMUB 87051, the same locality as holotype (one paratype). Non-type material examined: SIO RAS, the same locality as holotype (seven). Type locality: Pacific Ocean, south-west of Japan, 30.62°N, 128.695°E, 700–771 m. Diagnosis: First three pairs of parapodia with pseudocompound bidentate falcigers with moderately long pointed hoods and distinct teeth; ventral cirri thick and pyriform on first three chaetigers; subacicular hooks starting from chaetiger 9; branchiae pectinate with between two and four filaments, starting from chaetigers 6–9; peristomial cirri present.
description: Published as part of Budaeva, Nataliya & Fauchald, Kristian, 2011, Phylogeny of the Diopatra generic complex with a revision of Paradiopatra Ehlres, 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae), pp. 319-436 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (2) on pages 393-395, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00701.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5441262
Thermodynamics of String Field Theory Motivated Nonlocal Models
Creators: name: Biswas, Tirthabir
name: Kapusta, Joseph
name: Reddy, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamic properties of the nonlocal tachyon motivated by their nonlocal structure in string field theory. We use previously developed perturbative methods for nonlocal fields to calculate the partition function and the equation of state in the high temperature limit. We find that in these models the tachyons undergo a second order phase transition. We compare our results with those of ordinary scalar field theory. We also calculate the one loop finite temperature effective potential.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1: of Cost-effectiveness of nivolumab plus ipilimumab as first-line therapy in advanced renal-cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Wu, Bin
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Sun, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Calibration curve: progression-free and overall survival. Predicted data (dotted line) were plotted along with the observed data from CheckMate 214 trial (solid line). (PDF 38Â kb)
Beulah Marie Dix
Creators: name: Holliday, Wendy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Beulah Marie Dix became a writer because it was one of the few respectable options available for women in the early twentieth century. The daughter of a factory foreman from an old New England family, Dix was educated at Radcliffe College, where she graduated with honors and became the first woman to win the prestigious Sohier literary prize. Instead of teaching, she decided to write after she sold some stories to popular magazines. She wrote mainly historical fiction, including novels and children’s books. In 1916, she went to California to visit her theatre agent, Beatrice deMille, mother of film pioneers Cecil and William, who had moved there with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Film Company, which was that year to become Famous Players-Lasky after a merger with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players. Dix decided to experiment with writing for the new motion picture industry just for fun, but became a successful and productive silent era scenario writer, as her daughter, Evelyn Flebbe Scott, recalled (7-9).
title: Current understanding of the causes of neonatal calf diarrhoea and a proposal for a programme to investigate the problem in Bangladesh
title: A review of current understanding of the causes of neonatal calf diarrhoea and a proposal for a programme to investigate the problem in Bangladesh
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Debnath, Nitish Chandra
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Annexe MSc Digitisation Project 2022 Block 51
subject: Enteropathogens
subject: Immunity
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Colostrum
subject: Bangladesh

description: Current findings on the epidemiology of the neonatal calf diarrhoea are critically reviewed. In most of the surveys, mixed infections with two or more enteropathogens have frequently been encountered. The commonly found enteropathogens are enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, rotavirus, coronavirus and Cryptosporidium sp., and greater emphasis has been directed towards the characteristics of these organisms as pathogens. In addition to the enteropathogens, important factors that influence the disease are the immune-status of the host, age of the host, quality of feed, husbandry practices and climatic conditions. The most important factor to be considered is the efficiency of transfer of the dam’s immunity to the neonate through colostrum and the development of the immunological competence of the neonate both in overcoming an active infection and resisting reinfection. The major consequences of diarrhoea are dehydration, acidosis and death or impaired growth. Impact of the disease under intensive systems of farming has been shown to be great. Little information is known about the disease situation under the traditional systems of farming found in the tropical developing countries. With that consideration a project proposal has been made to investigate the epidemiology of neonatal calf diarrhoea in Bangladesh.
Double Exposure Materials: Simulation Study of Feasibility
Creators: name: Byers, Jeffrey
name: Lee, Saul
name: Jen, Kane
name: Zimmerman, Paul
name: Turro, Nicholas J.
name: Willson, C. Grant
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Double patterning and double exposure techniques have been proposed as possible methods for reducing half pitch resolution below k1=0.25. Both methods have the potential to reduce the theoretical lithographic half pitch to k1=0.125. Double patterning is a process-intensive method that requires multiple coat, develop, and etch steps to achieve the low k1 imaging. Double exposure processes have been proposed that do not require multiple coat, develop, or etch steps. Potentially, double exposure processes will have a lower cost of ownership that double patterning. However, double exposure materials have not yet been proven to work experimentally. Before applying significant effort to develop double exposure materials, their feasibility can be determined using rigorous simulation techniques. This work presents a feasibility study of four types of double exposure materials and their potential process windows.
Microlocal limits of plane waves and Eisenstein functions
Creators: name: Dyatlov, Semyon
name: Guillarmou, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study microlocal limits of plane waves on noncompact Riemannian manifolds (M,g) which are either Euclidean or asymptotically hyperbolic with curvature -1 near infinity. The plane waves E(z,ξ) are functions on M parametrized by the square root of energy z and the direction of the wave, ξ, interpreted as a point at infinity. If the trapped set K for the geodesic flow has Liouville measure zero, we show that, as z\to +\infty, E(z,ξ) microlocally converges to a measure μ_ξ, in average on energy intervals of fixed size, [z,z+1], and in ξ. We express the rate of convergence to the limit in terms of the classical escape rate of the geodesic flow and its maximal expansion rate - when the flow is Axiom A on the trapped set, this yields a negative power of z. As an application, we obtain Weyl type asymptotic expansions for local traces of spectral projectors with a remainder controlled in terms of the classical escape rate.
description: 78 pages, 5 figures; to appear in Annales de l'ENS
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Creators: name: Ionita, Casiana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: There were two Mrs. Sidney Drews. Both wrote for their husband’s films. The first wife, Gladys Rankin, was a dramatist who wrote under the name of George Cameron. Her play became the scenario for Sidney Drew’s first motion picture The Still Voice (1913). After the death of the first Mrs. Sidney Drew in January 1914, Sidney Drew married Lucille McVey the following July. The second Mrs. Drew, who also used the name Jane Morrow, began her career as a stage actress and then joined Vitagraph in early 1914. That same year she was part of Sidney Drew’s company of players.
Open Science NL - Work programme 2024-2025
Creators: name: Open Science NL
Publisher: name: Open Science NL
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Open Scholarly Communication
FAIR data
Open Software
Citizen Science
Societal Engagement
Funding
National Open Science Programme

description: In its first work programme, Open Science NL announces funding for instruments ranging from open science infrastructure to a national training platform for data stewards, and from investments in sustainable open research software to Citizen Science Hubs. The first instruments are expected to be announced in early 2024.
On 17 November, the Open Science NL Steering Board adopted the 2024-2025 work programme. This programme outlines the funding programmes that will be developed in the next two years. An annual budget of 20 million euros is available for this purpose. This budget runs until 2031; several two-year work programmes will therefore follow after 2025.
The programme is divided into five priority areas:
o Capacity building for Open Science, o Open Science infrastructure, o Robust research processes, o Evidence base for Open Science,o Empowering Open Science communities.
Each priority area contains one or more funding instruments that facilitate the acceleration of the transition to open science. The selection of instruments was partly determined by the NPOS2030 Ambition Document and Rolling Agenda. This document, which outlines the joint ambitions of the Dutch institutions in the field of open science, was produced by NPOS, the predecessor of Open Science NL,.
This first work programme prioritises projects for which there is an immediate need and which are ready to be implemented  in the field. The goal is that initial funding by Open Science NL will eventually pave the way for sustainable initiatives.
The Open Science NL team is actively working on formulating calls and other funding instruments. The first calls for proposal are expected to be published in early 2024. Eligibility for funding varies depending on the instrument.
Long-range interactions between substitutional nitrogen dopants in graphene: electronic properties calculations
Creators: name: Lambin, Philippe
name: Amara, Hakim
name: Ducastelle, François
name: Henrard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Being a true two-dimensional crystal, graphene has special properties. In particular, a point-like defect in graphene may have effects in the long range. This peculiarity questions the validity of using a supercell geometry in an attempt to explore the properties of an isolated defect. Still, this approach is often used in ab-initio electronic structure calculations, for instance. How does this approach converge with the size of the supercell is generally not tackled for the obvious reason of keeping the computational load to an affordable level. The present paper addresses the problem of substitutional nitrogen doping of graphene. DFT calculations have been performed for 9x9 and 10x10 supercells. Although these calculations correspond to N concentrations that differ by about 10%, the local densities of states on and around the defects are found to depend significantly on the supercell size. Fitting the DFT results by a tight-binding Hamiltonian makes it possible to explore the effects of a random distribution of the substitutional N atoms, in the case of finite concentrations, and to approach the case of an isolated impurity when the concentration vanishes. The tight-binding Hamiltonian is used to calculate the STM image of graphene around an isolated N atom. STM images are also calculated for graphene doped with 0.5 % concentration of nitrogen. The results are discussed in the light of recent experimental data and the conclusions of the calculations are extended to other point defects in graphene.