cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Managing Transboundary Water Conflicts: The United States and Its Boundary Commissions
Creators: name: Allee, David J.
name: Dworsky, Leonard B.
name: Utton, Albert E.
name: Allee, David J.
name: Dworsky, Leonard B.
name: Utton, Albert E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The management of transboundary water resources between the united states, Mexico and Canada is changing. For about 100 years the governments have depended on two institutions --the International Joint Commission (U.S.-Canada) and the International Boundary and Water Commission (U.S.-Mexico). Forces for change in the roles of the IJC and the IBWC involve the policy movements reflected in the phrases Environmental Management, Ecological Processes, Bio-Diversity, sustainability of Renewable Resources, and Global Climate Change. with Ford Foundation support, a tri-national working conference was convened to consider; Emerging Boundary Environmental Challenges; Improving Management Capacity Of Governments And Commissions; Commissions Relation To States And Provinces; Improving Public Participation; Ecosystem Management; How To Accommodate An Uncertain Future. Summaries are presented with initial thoughts on responses to the issues. Analysis is tentative; conclusions preliminary. The project is still underway and comments are invited. Commissions Relation To States And Provinces and the resulting effects on issue resolution and implementation are examined in more detail here to illustrate the tentative nature of the work. This topic is examined in relation to decisions for local water and related resource use at transboundary areas; and to how changes are affecting the way governments are approaching some classes of international boundary issues.
Twisted characters and holomorphic symmetries
Creators: name: Saberi, Ingmar
name: Williams, Brian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider holomorphic twists of arbitrary supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. Working in the BV formalism, we rederive classical results characterizing the holomorphic twist of chiral and vector supermultiplets, computing the twist explicitly as a family over the space of nilpotent supercharges in minimal supersymmetry. The BV formalism allows one to work with or without auxiliary fields, according to preference; for chiral superfields, we show that the result of the twist is an identical BV theory, the holomorphic $βγ$ system with superpotential, independent of whether or not auxiliary fields are included. We compute the character of local operators in this holomorphic theory, demonstrating agreement of the free local operators with the usual index of free fields. The local operators with superpotential are computed via a spectral sequence, and are shown to agree with functions on a formal mapping space into the derived critical locus of the superpotential. We consider the holomorphic theory on various geometries, including Hopf manifolds and products of arbitrary pairs of Riemann surfaces, and offer some general remarks on dimensional reductions of holomorphic theories along the $(n-1)$-sphere to topological quantum mechanics. We also study an infinite-dimensional enhancement of the flavor symmetry in this example, to a recently-studied central extension of the derived holomorphic functions with values in the original Lie algebra that generalizes the familiar Kac--Moody enhancement in two-dimensional chiral theories.
Ervatamia repeuensis Pierre ex Spire
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ervatamia
Ervatamia repeuensis

description: Ervatamia repeuensis Pierre ex Spire
Caoutchouc Indo-Chine: 141 (1906).
LECTOTYPE. — Pierre 6 7 9 (P), Cambodia, Kompong Speu, Knang Repoe, designated b y Leeuwenberg, Rev. Tabernaemontana 1: 187 (1991).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
From generalisation to segmentation: Douglas-Peucker-Ramer and movement data. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Miller, Aubrey
name: Moore, Antoni
name: Leonard, Greg
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: With an explosion in the sensorisation of moving objects (people, cars, wildlife) that has come from the ease of use and acquisition of low-cost GNSS receivers, the volume of tracking data presents challenges for efficient data processing. For example, in analysis and modelling, tracks often need to be segmented based on particular characteristics (e.g., moving vs. stationary). Here we adapt a commonly used polyline generalisation algorithm (Douglas-Peucker-Ramer) to segment tracking data into uphill and downhill portions of the track based on vertex coordinates in terms of their elevation and distance between neighbouring vertices along a track (relative to start of the track). This adaptation supports robust segmentation even for tracks in complex terrain in order to best capture real-world conditions. We present our adapted algorithm and a case study with volunteered backcountry skier tracking data to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm. We conclude with thoughts on future development of tracking data segmentation algorithms.
Developing a method for exploiting soil bacterial communities as evidence in environmental forensic investigations
Creators: name: Wang, Jianmei
name: Zhang, Qianru
name: Yuan, Meiqing
name: Chu, Haiyan
name: Shi, Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In environmental forensic investigations, soil is often considered as the evidence associated with a crime scene in court. A major challenge is minimizing the uncertainty in linking sets of matched soil to a suspected offender. This article examined the potential methods of analyzing soil bacterial communities via high throughput sequencing, which could generate information of great importance to environmental forensic investigations. Here, we simulated local, regional, and large-scale scenarios, in addition to unknown samples, to investigate the potential of using soil as physical evidence in environmental forensics. At the broad-scale, using heatmap cluster and principal coordinate analyses, we observed that the microbial communities in samples were significantly different across different spatial distances based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity distances. In soil samples obtained within 20 m of each other, the microbial communities revealed the detailed information based on the numbers of specific operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and biomarker species. In the criminal contexts, soils can be obtained and used to decode the origin information. To trace the soil samples to their origins, we analyzed the dissimilarity distances and matched sources of suspected soil samples to simulate crime investigation activities. In our study, source tracker was used to locate the sources of samples obtained from of a shoe or a tool according to soil microbial communities, and the method could be an effective auxiliary approach in forensic soil source tracking based on microbial data. The results demonstrated that high-throughput sequencing combined with the source tracker approach could make soil a powerful source of evidence to facilitate environmental forensic investigations.
Proximity effect in ferromagnet-superconductor hybrid structures: role of the pairing symmetry
Creators: name: Stefanakis, N.
name: Mélin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial variations of the pair amplitude, and the local density of states in d-wave or s-wave superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures are calculated self consistently using the Bogoliubov-deGennes formalism within the two dimensional extended Hubbard model. We describe the proximity effect in superconductor / ferromagnet (SF) bilayers, FSF trilayers, and interfaces between a superconductor and a ferromagnetic domain wall. We investigate in detail the role played by the pairing symmetry, the exchange field, interfacial scattering and crossed Andreev reflection.
description: 27 pages, 14 figures
Tunability of acoustic spectral gaps and transmission in periodically stubbed waveguides
Creators: name: Wang, X. F.
name: Kushwaha, M. S.
name: Vasilopoulos, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical investigation is made of acoustic wave propagation in a periodically stubbed waveguide. In general the waveguide segments and stubs are made of different materials. The acoustic wave in such a system has two independent polarizations: out-of-plane and in-plane modes. The band structure and transmission spectrum is studied for diverse geometries using a simple and efficient version of the transfer-matrix method. For the same material between the waveguide and symmetric stubs the width of some gaps can change, upon varying the stub length or width, by more than one order of magnitude. A further modulation can be achieved for different material between the stubs and the main waveguide or if the stubs are asymmetric. The gaps in the band structure of an infinitely long system correspond to those in the transmission spectrum of the same system but with finite number n of units. For n finite i) there exist pseudogaps that gradually turn into complete gaps with increasing n, and ii) the introduction of defects gives rise to states in the gaps and leads to transmission resonances.
description: Text file in Latex/Revtex format, 13 Postscript figures, Physical Review B, in press
Using crowdsourced data to map bicycling behaviour. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Brum-Bastos, Vanessa
name: Ferster, Colin
name: Trisalyn Nelson
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Growing interest in data for bicycling planning has many jurisdictions aiming to develop a sampling strategy for measuring bicycle counts. However, it can be difficult to determine where bicycling counters should be placed to generate a representative sample of bicycling, and bicycle counts tend to only occur on heavily used bicycle routes. Our goal, is to utilize crowdsourced data on bike ridership, from Strava Metro, and continuous signal processing data mining techniques to map regions of bicycling behaviour in San Francisco – CA, US. Bicycling behaviour regions can be used to stratify bicycle count sampling. Our results indicate it is possible to differentiate bicycling behaviour from Strava and we mapped routes categorized into six unique ridership behaviours including commute to work, commute to school, leisure, 8 am peak , 11 am peak and least utilised. We recommend sampling ridership from each of the categories when developing count programs.
Holarrhena perrotii Spire
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Holarrhena
Holarrhena perrotii

description: Holarrhena perrotii Spire
Caoutchouc Indo-Chine: 142 (1906).
TYPE. — Spire 120, Laos, Khammouane, Phon Thane (not traced).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
XX Heisenberg Spin Chain and an Example of Path Integral with "Automorphic" Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Malyshev, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New representation for the generating function of correlators of third components of spins in the XX Heisenberg spin chain is considered in the form given by the fermionic Gaussian path integrals. A part of the discrete anti-commuting integration variables is subjected to ``automorphic'' boundary conditions in respect of imaginary time. The situation when only a part of the integration variables is subjected to the unusual boundary conditions generalizes more conventional ones when ``automorphic'' boundary conditions appear for all sites in the lattice spin models. The results of the functional integration are expressed as determinants of the matrix operators. The generating function, as well as the partition function of the model, are calculated by means of zeta-regularization. Certain correlation functions at nonzero temperature are obtained explicitly.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX
Determining the recurrence timescale of long-lasting YSO outbursts
Creators: name: Peña, C. Contreras
name: Naylor, T.
name: Morrell, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have determined the rate of large accretion events in class I and II young stellar objects (YSOs) by comparing the all-sky digitised photographic plate surveys provided by SuperCOSMOS with the latest data release from Gaia (DR2). The long mean baseline of 55 years along with a large sample of class II YSOs ($\simeq$15,000) allows us to study approximately 1 million YSO-years. We find 139 objects with $ΔR\geq1$~mag, most of which are found at amplitudes between 1 and 3 mag. The majority of YSOs in this group show irregular variability or long-lasting fading events, which is best explained as hot spots due to accretion or by variable extinction. There is a tail of YSOs at $ΔR\geq3$~mag and they seem to represent a different population. Surprisingly many objects in this group show high-amplitude irregular variability over timescales shorter than 10 years, in contrast with the view that high-amplitude objects always have long outbursts. However, we find 6 objects that are consistent with undergoing large, long lasting accretion events, 3 of them previously unknown. This yields an outburst recurrence timescale of 112 kyr, with a 68\% confidence interval [74 to 180] kyr. This represents the first robust determination of the outburst rate in class II YSOs and shows that YSOs in their planet-forming stage do in fact undergo large accretion events, and with timescales of $\simeq$100,000 years. In addition, we find that outbursts in the class II stage are $\simeq$10 times less frequent than during the class I stage.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Holarrhena pierrei Spire
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Holarrhena
Holarrhena pierrei

description: Holarrhena pierrei Spire
Caoutchouc Indo-Chine: 143 (1906).
TYPE. — Spire 122, Laos, Khammouane (not traced).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Sacramento River Butte City Bridge Replacement Reinitiation 2021.
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-03587
Cranial Nerve Matching Game - Advanced
Creators: name: Door, Rachael
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320906
subject: Peripheral nervous system
classificationCode: 320903
subject: Central nervous system

description: This game is perfect as a group activity for students who need to consolidate their understanding of the cranial nerves.
The cranial nerves are red. Students need to work as a team to correctly order these from I - XII. Students can then work collaboratively to assign each cranial nerve a minimum of one function. This is not an exhaustive list of functions but instead focuses on some of the more challenging or under-discussed functions. 
This creates an excellent scaffold for tutor-student discussions around all the functions, the pathways the nerves take (including cranial foramina), clinical relevance, and any branches. In addition, students learn from incorrect pairings, and this allows a broader discussion of why they might have thought this was the correct answer and in particular on how embryology results in some of the function distributions seen.
Non-symmetric Riemannian gravity and Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds
Creators: name: Ivanov, Stefan
name: Zlatanović, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that a connection with skew-symmetric torsion satisfying the Einstein metricity condition exists on an almost contact metric manifold exactly when it is D-homothetic to a cosymplectic manifold. In dimension five, we get that the existence of a connection with skew torsion satisfying the Einstein metricity condition is equivalent to the existence of a Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifold and vice versa, any Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifold generates a two parametric family of connections with skew torsion satisfying the Einstein metricity condition. Formulas for the curvature and the Ricci tensors of these connections are presented in terms of the Sasaki-Einstein SU(2) structures.
Segmenting the Milk Market into bST-Produced and Non-bST-Produced Milk
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Tauer, Loren W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper discusses the value to milk producers and consumers of segmenting the milk market into bST-produced milk and non-bST-produced milk markets, versus losing milk consumption from consumers who will not consume bST-produced milk. Results indicate that both bST-using producers and non-bST-using producers benefit from a segmented market when compared to losing milk markets. Even if market loss does not occur, segmenting the market benefits producers not able to effectively use b~T and may even benefit bST users if the use of bST significantly shifts the supply curve for milk. Non-bST consuming consumers benefit from the availability of non-bST milk, and consumers who are indifferent to the use of bST pay about the same price in a segmented market.
From generalisation to segmentation: Douglas-Peucker-Ramer and movement data
Creators: name: Moore, Antoni
name: Miller, Aubrey
name: Leonard, Greg
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: With an explosion in the sensorisation of moving objects (people, cars, wildlife) that has come from the ease of use and acquisition of low-cost GNSS receivers, the volume of tracking data presents challenges for efficient data processing. For example, in analysis and modelling, tracks often need to be segmented based on particular characteristics (e.g., moving vs. stationary). Here we adapt a commonly used polyline generalisation algorithm (Douglas-Peucker-Ramer) to segment tracking data into uphill and downhill portions of the track based on vertex coordinates in terms of their elevation and distance between neighbouring vertices along a track (relative to start of the track). This adaptation supports robust segmentation even for tracks in complex terrain in order to best capture real-world conditions. We present our adapted algorithm and a case study with volunteered backcountry skier tracking data to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm. We conclude with thoughts on future development of tracking data segmentation algorithms.
Mu2e calorimeter readout system
Creators: name: Atanov, N.
name: Baranov, V.
name: Baldini, L.
name: Budagov, J.
name: Caiulo, D.
name: Cei, F.
name: Cervelli, F.
name: Colao, F.
name: Cordelli, M.
name: Corradi, G.
name: Davydov, Yu. I.
name: D'Errico, F.
name: Di Falco, S.
name: Diociaiuti, E.
name: Donati, S.
name: Donghia, R.
name: Echenard, B.
name: Faetti, S.
name: Giovannella, S.
name: Giudici, S.
name: Glagolev, V.
name: Grancagnolo, F.
name: Happacher, F.
name: Hitlin, D. G.
name: Lazzeri, L.
name: Martini, M.
name: Miscetti, S.
name: Miyashita, T.
name: Morescalchi, L.
name: Murat, P.
name: Nicolò, D.
name: Pedreschi, E.
name: Pezzullo, G.
name: Polacco, G.
name: Porter, F.
name: Raffaelli, F.
name: Ricci, M.
name: Saputi, A.
name: Sarra, I.
name: Sozzi, M.
name: Spinella, F.
name: Tassielli, G.
name: Tereshchenko, V.
name: Usubov, Z.
name: Vasilyev, I. I.
name: Zhu, R. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter is made of two disks of un-doped parallelepiped CsI crystals readout by SiPM. There are 674 crystals in one disk and each crystal is readout by an array of two SiPM. The readout electronics is composed of two types of modules: 1) the front-end module hosts the shaping amplifier and the high voltage linear regulator; since one front-end module is interfaced to one SiPM, a total of 2696 modules are needed for the entire calorimeter; 2) a waveform digitizer provides a further level of amplification and digitizes the SiPM signal at the sampling frequency of $200\ \text{M}\text{Hz}$ with 12-bits ADC resolution; since one board digitizes the data received from 20 SiPMs, a total of 136 boards are needed. The readout system operational conditions are hostile: ionization dose of $20\ \text{krads}$, neutron flux of $10^{12}\ \mathrm{n}(1\ \text{MeVeq})/\text{cm}^2$, magnetic field of $1\ \text{T}$ and in vacuum level of $10^{-4}\ \text{Torr}$. A description of the readout system and qualification tests is reported.
ЭРКИН ИҚТИСОДИЙ ЗОНАЛАРНИ ТАШКИЛ ЭТИШ МАҚСАДИ ВА ВАЗИФАЛАРИ
Creators: name: Умаралиев, Озодбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ЭИЗлар маълум мақсадлар асосида ташкил этилиб, уларни яратишдан кўзланган мақсад негизида асосий вазифалар алоҳида белгилаб олинади. Бугунги ривожланган дунёда ҳар бир давлат ўз олдига иқтисодий муносабатларни эркинлаштириш, халқаро стандарт талабларига жавоб берадиган махсулотлар ишлаб чиқарилишини йўлга қўйиш, тўғридан-тўғри инвестициялар оқимини янада кенгайтириш каби вазифаларни мақсад қилиб қўяди.
Optimising genetic potential for wool production and quality through maternal nutrition
Creators: name: Hatcher, Sue
name: Johnson, P.R.
name: Hatcher, Sue
name: Johnson, P.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: genetic potential
subject: follicle development
subject: breeding ewe
subject: nutrition
subject: lifetime wool

description: This paper reviews the development of the wool follicle population with a view to the management of breeding ewes so as to optimise the genetic potential of the progeny for wool production and quality throughout their lifetime. It highlights the importance of the pre-weaning environment (i.e. maternal nutrition through pregnancy and lactation) on the initiation and maturation of the secondary follicle population and identifies the last third of pregnancy as the most critical period. The implications of this for the commercial wool producer are discussed in terms of matching the breeding cycle of the ewes to available pasture and provision of supplementary feed. Finally, it introduces a national project 'Lifetime Wool' funded by Australian Wool Innovation which aims to develop profitable ewe management guidelines for wool growers across Australia to adopt in order to optimise the genetic potential of their flock for wool production and quality.
Future dairy farming systems in irrigation regions
Creators: name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Nesseler, R.
name: Doyle, Peter T.
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Nesseler, R.
name: Doyle, Peter T.
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: dairy farming systems
subject: irrigated dairy

description: The dairy industry in northern Victoria has been subject to rapid change in recent years, resulting in great diversity in the irrigated dairy farming systems in the region. Continuing analysis is needed of the various farming systems that may be viable in the future. This study examined possible development options for different farm systems to enable them to maintain financial viability. Four case studies, representative of different farm systems, were used. All four had options to combat the effects of declining terms of trade. However, the option most suitable for one case study may be unsuitable for another farm due to differences in resources, goals or skills. A key outcome of the study was the development of a robust approach to continually analyse farm physical and economic performance in a rapidly changing environment. Importantly, options can be analysed, enabling business managers to evaluate risks and reach informed decisions on investments.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, Letter of Concurrence and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Reinitiation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Operation and Maintenance Dredging of the Oregon Coastal Navigation Projects
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2021-00418
Developing decision-making tools for improving pasture quality on deer farms in New Zealand
Creators: name: Stevens, David R.
name: Woodward, Simon J.R.
name: Westbrooke, Victoria F.C.
name: Stevens, David R.
name: Woodward, Simon J.R.
name: Westbrooke, Victoria F.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: decision making
subject: deer
subject: growth rate
subject: learning packages
subject: pasture quality
subject: software

description: This paper describes the development of a learning package to support improved pasture quality on New Zealand deer farms. The first step has been to determine the specific requirements of deer farmers that will enable them to improve pasture quality decisions on-farm. Decision support software that interprets and demonstrates the impacts of pasture quality and animal physiology on the performance of young growing deer has also been developed. Key themes identified to aid pasture management decision-making included identifying the right pasture quality, management systems to maintain pasture quality and maximising the potential of livestock. This paper reports on the type of knowledge that deer farmers require in the learning package.
Using climate information to approximate the value at risk of a forward contracted canola crop
Creators: name: Wallace, Garry E.
name: Samsul Huda, A.K.
name: Wallace, Garry E.
name: Samsul Huda, A.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Canola crop
subject: agricultural risk management

description: In recent decades farmers have used financial instruments such as cash forward contracts to lock-in a price for increasing proportions of their crop through different stages of the production cycle. Given the high variability of the Australian climate this practice has inherent risk with drought induced crop failure being significantly probable. Under failed crop conditions farmers buy themselves out of the contracted position at prevailing prices thereby compounding the financial burden of crop failure. This paper reports on the role of the relatively recent developments in climate prediction, based on the SOI phase system, to develop crop yield probability distributions using regression approximation and to evaluate the Value at Risk of establishing a forward contracted position. Value at Risk is here defined as the 5% interval of the probability distribution of Enterprise Gross Margin and is used to ascertain the capital adequacy of a business in the face of a worst-case scenario.
Visualising Data From Dolphin Observations Through Adaptively Ordered Space-time Matrices
Creators: name: Rodda, Judy
name: Moore, Antoni
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Spatio-temporal visualisations (e.g. space-time cube) offer a method to observe interactions andpatterns that may not be apparent in a traditional two-dimensional view. Yet the mapping of such timeseries data can still easily lead to visual clutter, leading to the development of abstracting REMO(Relative Motion) and ARM (Adaptive Relative Motion) techniques. ARM uses greedy or simulatedannealing algorithms to optimally reorder object-time matrices from an arbitrary object order at eachtime interval to one that keeps geographically proximal objects close to each other in columns andacross rows in the matrix (effectively applying a travelling salesperson algorithm to traverse objectlocations for a given time). Testing each algorithm on eight seasons worth of space-time data for anendemic species of New Zealand dolphin in a large southern bay revealed better results for the greedyalgorithm. However, given the pronounced orientation of the data (close to the SW-facing shoreline ofthe bay), testing on more area filling data is required. Nevertheless, these results demonstrateencouraging advances into algorithm-derived perceptive rationales of dolphin movements acrossspace and time.
Pseudecheneis tchangi
Creators: name: Zhou, Wei
name: Li, Xu
name: Yang, Ying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Sisoridae
Pseudecheneis
Pseudecheneis tchangi

description: Pseudecheneis tchangi (Hora, 1937)
(Fig. 16)
  Remarks. –  Hora (1937) described Propseudecheneis tchangi based on drawings and simple description of Pseudecheneis sulcatus from Yunnan by Tchang (1936), and suggested that this species occurred in Red River system and could not provide evidence to support his idea.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Wei, Li, Xu & Yang, Ying, 2008, A Review Of The Catfish Genus Pseudecheneis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) From China, With The Description Of Four New Species From Yunnan, pp. 107-124 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354381
Understanding population fluctuations through volunteered geographic information and novel indicators: The experience of Rakiura, Stewart Island, New Zealand
Creators: name: Darling, Mathew
name: Adams, Ben
name: Orchiston, Caroline
name: Wilson, Thomas
name: Bradley, Brendon
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: In an era of heterogeneous data; novel methods and volunteered geographic information provide opportunities to understand how people interact with a place. However, it is not enough to simply have such heterogeneous data, instead an understanding of its usability and reliabilityneeds to be undertaken. Here, we draw upon the case study of Rakiura, Stewart Island where manifested passenger numbers across the Foveaux Strait are known. We have built a population model to ground truth such novel indicators. In our preliminary study, we find that a number ofindicators offer the opportunity to understand fluctuations in populations. Some indicators (such as wastewater volumes) can suggest relative changes in populations in a raw form. While other indicators (such as Tripadvisor reviews or Instagram posts) require further data enrichment toget insights into population fluctuations. This research forms part of a larger research project looking to test and apply such novel indicators to inform disaster risk assessments.
Quasi-automatic semigroups
Creators: name: Blanchette, Benjamin
name: Choffrut, Christian
name: Reutenauer, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A quasi-automatic semigroup is defined by a finite set of generators, a rational (regular) set of representatives, such that if a is a generator or neutral, then the graph of right multiplication by a on the set of representatives is a rational relation. This class of semigroups contains previously considered semigroups and groups (Sakarovitch, Epstein et al., Campbell et al.). Membership of a semigroup to this class does not depend on the choice of the generators. These semigroups are rationally presented. Representatives may be computed in exponential time. Their word problem is decidable in exponential time. They enjoy a property similar to the so-called Lipschitz property, or fellow traveler property. If graded, they are automatic. In the case of groups, they are finitely presented with an exponential isoperimetric inequality and they are characterized by the weak Lipschitz property.
description: 17 pages. In press. Theoretical Computer Science, 2019
Impacts of changing water price and availability on irrigated dairy farms in northern Victoria
Creators: name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Armstrong, Dan P.
name: Doyle, Peter T.
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Ho, Christie K.M.
name: Armstrong, Dan P.
name: Doyle, Peter T.
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: water price policy
subject: irrigated dairy farming

description: Farming systems throughout the Murray-Darling Basin are under increasing scrutiny from the perspective of ecological sustainability of farm and catchment systems. In northern Victoria, the dairy industry is a major user of water, and contributes to the environmental issues. Changes in irrigation water price, availability and policy will invariably impact on the viability of dairy farming in this region, but the diversity of dairy farm systems suggests that the impact will vary between farms. Two case study farms, a ‘water-reliant’ farm and a ‘fodder-reliant’ farm, were used to examine economic and social impacts of changes in water price, availability and policy.
Realizations of the Lie superalgebra q(2) and applications
Creators: name: Debergh, N.
name: Van der Jeugt, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81R05; 17B10

description: The Lie superalgebra q(2) and its class of irreducible representations V_p of dimension 2p (p being a positive integer) are considered. The action of the q(2) generators on a basis of V_p is given explicitly, and from here two realizations of q(2) are determined. The q(2) generators are realized as differential operators in one variable x, and the basis vectors of V_p as 2-arrays of polynomials in x. Following such realizations, it is observed that the Hamiltonian of certain physical models can be written in terms of the q(2) generators. In particular, the models given here as an example are the sphaleron model, the Moszkowski model and the Jaynes-Cummings model. For each of these, it is shown how the q(2) realization of the Hamiltonian is helpful in determining the spectrum.
description: LaTeX file, 15 pages. (further references added, minor changes in section 5)
Economics of extended lactations in dairying
Creators: name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Malcolm, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: extended lactation
subject: dairy systems
subject: benefit cost analysis
subject: farm economics
subject: farm business management

description: This paper deals with the economic analysis and management implications of extending lactations in specialised dairy cows. The main conclusion from this study is that in the two dairy farm cases that have been investigated in depth, the use of extended lactations to achieve efficient herd reproduction is highly likely to give greater profit than alternative systems that could be implemented. This conclusion holds even after allowing for less than total persistency of cows embarking on extended lactations. The overall outcome of a change from having only 10-month lactations to having some cows in the herd milking for extended lactations is determined by the complex interactions of all of the major input, output, cost and income factors at work in a dairy system. The likely net effects of adopting the extended lactation innovation in a dairy system has to be estimated for each unique farm system, with particular attention paid to the skills and aspirations of the people who operate the system.
Genetic liability to insomnia in relation to cardiovascular diseases: a Mendelian randomisation study
Creators: name: Yuan, Shuai
name: Mason, Amy M.
name: Burgess, Stephen
name: Larsson, Susanna C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cardiovascular Disease
Insomnia
Cardiovascular disease
Mendelian randomisation analysis

description: Funder: Karolinska Institute
description: Abstract: The present study aimed to determine the associations between insomnia and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) using Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis. As instrumental variables, we used 208 independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with insomnia at the genome-wide significance threshold in a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the UK Biobank and 23andMe including a total of 397 959 self-reported insomnia cases and 933 057 non-cases. Summary-level data for nine CVDs were obtained from the UK Biobank including 367 586 individuals of European ancestry. After correction for multiple testing, genetic liability to insomnia was associated with higher odds of six CVDs, including peripheral arterial disease (odd ratio (OR) 1.22; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.21, 1.33), heart failure (OR 1.21; 95% CI, 1.13, 1.30), coronary artery disease (OR 1.19; 95% CI, 1.14, 1.25), ischaemic stroke (OR 1.15; 95% CI, 1.06, 1.25), venous thromboembolism (OR 1.13; 95% CI, 1.07, 1.19) and atrial fibrillation (OR 1.10; 95% CI, 1.05, 1.15). There were suggestive associations for aortic valve stenosis (OR, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.04, 1.32) and haemorrhagic stroke (OR 1.14; 95% CI, 1.00, 1.29) but no association for abdominal aortic aneurysm (OR, 1.14, 95% CI, 0.98, 1.33). The patterns of associations remained with mild attenuation in multivariable MR analyses adjusting for genetically correlated phenotypes and potential mediators, including sleep duration, depression, body mass index, type 2 diabetes and smoking. The present MR study suggests potential causal associations of genetic liability to insomnia with increased risk of a broad range of CVDs.
AMS-100: The Next Generation Magnetic Spectrometer in Space -- An International Science Platform for Physics and Astrophysics at Lagrange Point 2
Creators: name: Schael, Stefan
name: Atanasyan, Alexander
name: Berdugo, Javier
name: Bretz, Thomas
name: Czupalla, Markus
name: Dachwald, Bernd
name: von Doetinchem, Philip
name: Duranti, Matteo
name: Gast, Henning
name: Karpinski, Waclaw
name: Kirn, Thomas
name: Lübelsmeyer, Klaus
name: Maña, Carlos
name: Marrocchesi, Pier Simone
name: Mertsch, Philipp
name: Moskalenko, Igor V.
name: Schervan, Thomas
name: Schluse, Michael
name: Schröder, Kai-Uwe
name: von Dratzig, Arndt Schultz
name: Senatore, Carmine
name: Spies, L.
name: Wakely, Scott P.
name: Wlochal, Michael
name: Uglietti, Davide
name: Zimmermann, Jannik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The next generation magnetic spectrometer in space, AMS-100, is designed to have a geometrical acceptance of $100\,\mathrm{m}^2\,\mathrm{sr}$ and to be operated for at least ten years at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2. Compared to existing experiments, it will improve the sensitivity for the observation of new phenomena in cosmic rays, and in particular in cosmic antimatter, by at least a factor of 1000. The magnet design is based on high temperature superconductor tapes, which allow the construction of a thin solenoid with a homogeneous magnetic field of 1 Tesla inside. The inner volume is instrumented with a silicon tracker reaching a maximum detectable rigidity of 100 TV and a calorimeter system that is 70 radiation lengths deep, equivalent to four nuclear interaction lengths, which extends the energy reach for cosmic-ray nuclei up to the PeV scale, i.e. beyond the cosmic-ray knee. Covering most of the sky continuously, AMS-100 will detect high-energy gamma rays in the calorimeter system and by pair conversion in the thin solenoid, reconstructed with excellent angular resolution in the silicon tracker.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures, to be submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. Corresponding author: Stefan Schael
Ichnocarpus oxypetalus Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ichnocarpus
Ichnocarpus oxypetalus

description: Ichnocarpus oxypetalus Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 2: 1256 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Poilane 119 (P), Vietnam, Binh Thuân, Song Long Song, designated by Middleton, Blumea 39: 78 (1994).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Comparing the costs of pedestrian wayfinding heuristics across different urban network morphologies. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Debjit Bhowmick
name: STEPHAN WINTER
name: MARK STEVENSON
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: During wayfinding, pedestrians do not always choose the shortest available route. Instead, route choices are guided by several well-known wayfinding strategies or heuristics. These heuristics minimize cognitive effort and usually lead to satisfactory route choices. The length of the route obtained from applying a wayfinding heuristic is dependent on the spatial arrangement or morphology of the urban pedestrian network. This study evaluates the cost of four popular wayfinding heuristics across nine different urban network morphologies. It observes that the cost of these wayfinding heuristics vary significantly and individually differently with morphology, supporting the assumption that people choose heuristics by environment.
Photoproduction Reactions and Non-Strange Baryon Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Ireland, David G.
name: Pasyuk, Eugene
name: Strakovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the last two decades of using photon beams to measure the production of mesons, and in particular the information that can be obtained on the spectrum of light, non-strange baryons. This is a compendium of experimental results, which should be used as a complement to theoretical reviews of the subject. Lists of data sets are given, together with a comprehensive set of references. An indication of the impact of the data is presented with a summary of the results.
description: Submitted to Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
The value of information from research to enhance testing or monitoring of soil acidity in Western Australia
Creators: name: O'Connell, Michael
name: Bathgate, Andrew D.
name: Glenn, N.A.
name: O'Connell, Michael
name: Bathgate, Andrew D.
name: Glenn, N.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The soil acidity research and extension program in Western Australia is made up of a number of projects, all of which are working towards the overall aim of helping farmers to manage soil acidity profitably. As a means of achieving this aim scientists are undertaking research to provide information that will enable farmers to better quantify potential yield losses due to subsoil aluminium, and to adopt liming strategies to prevent these losses. In this paper we present estimates of the value to farmers of information provided by this aspect of the research. A bio-economic model is used to calculate the profitability of liming for different conditions and Bayesian Decision analysis is employed to estimate the payoff resulting from incrementally refining a lime strategy in three steps. The first step was the adoption of Strategy 1 which is a broad-based liming strategy. This reflects current practice in Western Australia where most lime is applied at 1 t/ha at around 10 year intervals. The second step (Strategy 2) is the adoption by farmers of more refined strategies, according to region, rotation and soil type. This would lead to higher expected profits but is not necessarily optimal. The third step (Strategy 3) is where a farmer is able to use information about the relationship between subsoil acidity and yield to refine the liming strategy on a paddock by paddock basis. The results indicated that the value of current information aimed at improving management of soil acidity is high. However, the value of additional information generated by current research aimed at improving the certainty regarding yield response is lower. While moderately high in the low rainfall zone, the information is of less value to farmers in the medium and high rainfall zones. This may have implications for the future focus of acidity research and for defining a set of indicators for monitoring sustainability.