cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rhetorical move structures and politeness strategies employed in request and refusal emails by international students in a Thai ELF context
Creators: name: Liu, Ying
name: De Nguyen, Ngo Dai
name: Nguyen, Huu Chanh
name: Wannaruk, Anchalee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Thailand is becoming a popular destination for international students, where English is used as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academics and daily life. Email writing is a critical skill for their studies and future careers, requiring appropriate rhetorical move structures and politeness strategies. Requests and refusals, as face-threatening acts (FTAs), pose challenges for second language (L2) learners, particularly when addressing higher-status individuals via email. This study examined the rhetorical move structures and politeness strategies in request and refusal emails written by international students in a Thai ELF context, along with underlying factors. Data from the writing task and interviews revealed a new move, and some previously conventional or obligatory moves became optional compared to existing frameworks. Positive strategies were more common in request emails, while negative strategies were prevalent in refusals. As for factors in the choice of politeness strategies, the recipient’s social distance, pragmatic transfer, and language input were found to coincide with the previous studies, yet the addressee’s background was found to be a new factor. The findings may contribute to the existing literature in the field of social linguistics and pragmatics. Pedagogical implications regarding emails’ rhetorical move structures, politeness strategies, and cross-cultural pragmatic awareness are suggested. The current study investigated rhetorical moves and politeness strategies in student-to-professor request and refusal emails, and the factors influencing the use of politeness strategies perceived by international students in a Thai ELF context. Data from the writing task and interviews revealed a new move, and some previously conventional or obligatory moves became optional compared to existing frameworks. Positive strategies were more common in request emails, while negative strategies were prevalent in refusals. Key factors influencing email composition included social distance, language input, pragmatic transfer, and the addressee background. As for factors in the choice of politeness strategies, the receiver’s social distance, pragmatic transfer, and language input were found to coincide with the previous studies, yet the addressee background was found to be a new factor. The findings contribute to the existing literature in sociolinguistics and pragmatics and could provide some pedagogical implications for instructors and learners as well.
Explosion Characteristics of Hydrogen-Air Mixtures at Sub-and Upper-Atmospheric Initial Temperatures
Creators: name: Skřínský, Jan
name: Tadeáš Ochodek
name: Koloničný, Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ISCP2019
The WEBT BL Lac Campaign 2000
Creators: name: Villata, Massimo
name: Raiteri, Claudia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present UBVRI light curves of BL Lacertae from May 2000 to January 2001, obtained by 24 telescopes in 11 countries. More than 15000 observations were performed in that period, which was the extension of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) campaign originally planned for July-August 2000. Rapid flux oscillations are present all the time, involving variations up to a few tenths of mag on hour time scales, and witnessing an intense intraday activity of this source. Colour indexes have been derived by coupling the highest precision B and R data taken by the same instrument within 20 min and after subtracting the host galaxy contribution from the fluxes. The 620 indexes obtained show that the optical spectrum is weakly sensitive to the long-term trend, while it strictly follows the short-term flux behaviour, becoming bluer when the brightness increases. Thus, spectral changes are not related to the host galaxy contribution, but they are an intrinsic feature of fast flares. We suggest that the achromatic mechanism causing the long-term flux base-level modulation can be envisaged in a variation of the relativistic Doppler beaming factor, and that this variation is likely due to a change of the viewing angle. Discrete correlation function (DCF) analysis reveals the existence of a characteristic time scale of variability of about 7 h in the light curve of the core WEBT campaign, while no measurable time delay between variations in the B and R bands is found.
description: 14 pages, 8 PostScript figures, 5 JPEG figures, in press for A&A
Volatile sulfide compounds (VSCs) and ammonia emission characteristics and odor contribution in the process of municipal sludge composting
Creators: name: Zhao, Shan
name: Xiaofang Yang
name: Weijun Zhang
name: Chang, Jiang
name: Dongsheng Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Malodor is becoming the main secondary pollution in the municipal sewage sludge-composting process. Ammonia and volatile sulfide compounds (VSCs) are the representative odorants that generated and emitted during the composting process. The emission characteristics of ammonia and VSCs were studied at different workshops in a full-scale municipal sludge-composting plant in North People's Republic of China. Results show that ammonia was the most dominant odorant of all the workshops and relative high concentrations of VSCs were detected at sludge stacking yard and composting workshop. The odor pattern of VSCs at the composting workshop and stacking yard were different. The odor pollution occurred mainly in the first 15 days of the composting process, in which the odor contribution of ammonia increased with time and the VSCs contributed largely in the first 5 days. The cumulative release concentration of VSCs from compost materials was in the order of DMDS (dimethyl disulfide) > DMS (dimethyl sulfide) > CS2 > MT (methyl mercaptan), and the total VSCs release concentration was in the range of 50–3200 μg·m−3. The production of ammonia correlated to the temperature and nitrogen content and state changes, however, the production of VSCs was more complicated due to the reaction and transformation of VSCs. Optimization of aerobic composting conditions and process parameters should be further studied to reduce the emission of odor gas from compost. Implications: Along with the widespread use of sludge aerobic composting in People's Republic of China, the malodor pollution during the composting treatment is becoming a serious environmental issue. The odor pollution occurred mainly in the first 15 days, and ammonia was the main odorant of all the workshops and need to be controlled. Relative high concentrations of VSCs were detected at sludge stacking yard and composting workshop, however, the odor impact of VSCs were different. The generation of VSCs is more complicated than ammonia due to the reaction and transformation of VSCs.
ЎЗБЕКИСТОННИНГ ЭНЕРГЕТИК СИЁСАТИ ҲАМДА МАРКАЗИЙ ОСИЁДАГИ ЭНЕРГЕТИКА ДИПЛОМАТИЯСИ
Creators: name: Ибрагимова, Севара
name: Олимов, Дильшод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мақолада ҳозирги шиддатли даврда тобора ривожланиб бораётган Ўзбекистоннинг энергетик сиёсати ҳамда унинг Марказий Осиё мамлакатлари билан олиб бораётган энергетика дипломатиясига доир илмий-таҳлилий мулоҳазалар келтирилган. Шунингдек, минтақавий йўналишдаги энергетик тизим самарадорлигини оширишда Ўзбекистон томонидан илгари сурилаётган ташаббуслар, тизим ислоҳотларига қаратилган истиқболли лойиҳалар борасида муҳим маълумотлар келтирилган.
Publishing a Compilation Thesis Open Access – A Quick Guide for Ph.D. Candidates
Creators: name: Becklas, Carolin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: open access
self-archiving
green open access
compilation thesis

description: This handout serves as a mini guide for Ph.D. candidates aiming to publish their compilation thesis open access. It lays out the distinctions between exclusive and non-exclusive licences and sheds light on the potential implications and questions associated with republishing articles as part of a compilation thesis. To aid doctoral candidates, the handout includes a helpful checklist for their path to publishing their thesis open access.
description: Version 1.0 of this handout was created as part of the joint project "open-access.network 2" and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding reference 16KUV014).
Pagurus setosus
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Pagurus
Pagurus setosus

description: Pagurus setosus (Benedict, 1892)
(Fig. 45H)
 Eupagurus setosus Benedict, 1892a: 19.
 Pagurus setosus. — Rathbun 1904: 159, pl. 5, fig. 1. — Schmitt 1921: 136, fig. 58. — McLaughlin 1974: 110, figs. 27–29. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 79.
 Diagnosis. Rostrum rounded, slightly longer than lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk elongate, cornea not dilated, ocular scale pointed. Major cheliped with carpus, chela proper sharply spinose, chela proper setose, bearing 7 longitudinal rows of spines. Minor cheliped setose, carpus, chela also bearing spines. Pereopods 2, 3 with elongate dactyls, series of spines on carpus of anterior pair only, both pairs with scattered setae. Telson with left lobe slightly larger than right, with V-shaped median cleft; right terminal margin with 4–8 small teeth, 1 stronger laterodistal tooth; left with 4–9 small teeth, one larger laterodistal tooth. Carapace length to 21 mm.
 Color in life. Not reported. Rathbun (1904) noted that pereopods 2, 3 were banded.
 Habitat and depth. Mud or sand, 9–476 m.
 Range. Kodiak, Alaska to off Santa Cruz I., California. Type locality Sitka, Alaska.
 Remarks. A small and common hermit crab of the continental shelf off southern California has been identified as P. setosus (Wicksten 1980c: 361). This identification needs confirmation.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 193
The discovery and study of the optical counterparts of the transient X-ray pulsars RXJ0052.1-7319 and XTEJ0111.2-7317 in the SMC
Creators: name: Covino, Stefano
name: Negueruela, Ignacio
name: Campana, Sergio
name: Israel, Gianluca
name: Polcaro, Francesco
name: Stella, Luigi
name: Verrecchia, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery and confirmation of the optical counterparts of the two transient X-ray pulsars, RXJ0052.1-7319 and XTEJ0111.2-7317. In the narrow (~3" radius) X-ray error circle of RXJ0052.1-7319 we found a V=14.6 (B-V=0.1) 09.5IIIe (a classification as a B0Ve star is also possible, since the luminosity class depends on the uncertainty on the adopted reddening). Medium resolution spectra for this object show Balmer lines in emission with an equivalent width of Halpha=-12/-16A. In the X-ray error box of XTEJ0111.2-7317 we found a relatively bright object (V=15.4, B-V=0.06) which has been classified as a B0.5-B1Ve star and that was later confirmed by Coe et al. (2000) as the most plausible counterpart for XTEJ0111.2-7317. Also in this case we easily detect Balmer emission lines with an Halpha equivalent width of about -21A. There is also evidence for the presence of a surrounding nebula, possibly a supernova remnant. A further bright B0Ve star was found just outside the X-ray error circle of XTEJ0111.2-7317. We discuss the implication of these results in the light of the current knowledge of Be/X-ray binary systems in the Magellanic Clouds and within our Galaxy.
description: Accepted by A&A. 8 pages, 8 figures
Study on the application and efficiency of the ceramic filter for dust removal in biomass gasification process
Creators: name: Sitka, Andrzej
name: Wiesław Jodkowski
name: Szulc, Piotr
name: Smykowski, Daniel
name: Bogusław Szumiło
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ISCP2019
Percolating granular superconductors
Creators: name: Janssen, Hans-Karl
name: Stenull, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate diamagnetic fluctuations in percolating granular superconductors. Granular superconductors are known to have a rich phase diagram including normal, superconducting and spin glass phases. Focusing on the normal-superconducting and the normal-spin glass transition at low temperatures, we study he diamagnetic susceptibility $χ^{(1)}$ and the mean square fluctuations of the total magnetic moment $χ^{(2)}$ of large clusters. Our work is based on a random Josephson network model that we analyze with the powerful methods of renormalized field theory. We investigate the structural properties of the Feynman diagrams contributing to the renormalization of $χ^{(1)}$ and $χ^{(2)}$. This allows us to determine the critical behavior of $χ^{(1)}$ and $χ^{(2)}$ to arbitrary order in perturbation theory.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
A survey on survey statistics: What is done and can be done in Stata
Creators: name: Kreuter, Frauke
name: Valliant, Richard
name: Kreuter, Frauke
name: Valliant, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: cluster sampling
subject: complex design
subject: nonresponse
subject: stratified sampling
subject: variance estimation
subject: weights
subject: DEFECT
subject: NHANES
subject: NHIS
subject: PISA

description: This article will survey issues in analyzing complex survey data and describe some of the capabilities of Stata for such analyses. We will briefly review key elements of survey design and explain the effects of different design features on bias and variance. We compare different methods of variance estimation for stratified and clustered samples and discuss the handling of survey weights. We will also give examples for the practical importance of Stata’s survey capabilities.
Paralampona renmark PLATNICK 2000, new species
Creators: name: PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lamponidae
Paralampona
Paralampona renmark

description: Paralampona renmark, new species Figures 816–819; Map 93
TYPE: Male holotype taken in flight intercept trap at a site 79 km NNW Renmark, 338319S, 1408249E, South Australia (Aug. 9– Sept. 7, 1995; K. Pullen), deposited in QMB.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together. Males of this distinctive species can be recognized by the distally sinuous retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 817) and the long, doubly twisted embolus (fig. 816), females by the posterolateral spermathecal lobes (fig. 818, 819).
MALE: Total length 2.1. Abdominal dorsum dark gray except near anterolateral corners, where pale, venter white, legs pale yellow. Palpal femur expanded, hirsute distally, retrolateral tibial apophysis sinuous, abruptly narrowed at tip (fig. 817); embolus long, twisted twice (fig. 816).
FEMALE: Total length 2.4. Abdomen light gray, legs pale yellow. Epigynal hood triangular, prominent (fig. 818); spermathecae with posterolaterally directed lobes (fig. 819).
 OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Parriwi Park, Mosman, 338499S, 1518149E, June 6, 1992, litter (G. Hunt, AMS KS49488), 1/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from eastern South Australia and New South Wales (map 93).
description: Published as part of PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), pp. 1-328 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245) on page 327, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5348675
Fragile Glasses Associated with a Dramatic Drop of Entropy under Supercooling
Creators: name: Lee, Chun-Shing
name: Lulli, Matteo
name: Zhang, Ling-Han
name: Deng, Hai-Yao
name: Lam, Chi-Hang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a distinguishable-particle lattice model of structural glasses with random particle interactions. By varying the interaction distribution and the average particle hopping energy barrier, we obtain an extraordinarily wide range of kinetic fragility. A stretching exponent, characterizing structural relaxation, is found to decrease with the kinetic fragility in agreement with experiments. The most fragile glasses are those exhibiting low hopping barriers and, more importantly, dramatic drops of entropies upon cooling toward the glass transition temperatures. The entropy drops reduce possible kinetic pathways and lead to dramatic slowdowns in the dynamics. In addition, the kinetic fragility is shown to correlate with a thermodynamic fragility.
description: Main text: 6 pages with 4 figures Supplementary: 11 pages with 18 figures
Pagurus spilocarpus Haig 1977
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Pagurus
Pagurus spilocarpus

description: Pagurus spilocarpus Haig, 1977
(Fig. 44I–M, Pl. 9B)
 Pagurus spilocarpus Haig, 1977: 646, figs. 1, 2. — Jensen 1995: 64, fig. 117. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 79.
 Diagnosis (after Haig 1977). Rostrum shorter than or equal to lateral projections of carapace, obtusely triangular or rounded. Eyestalk long, moderately stout, somewhat inflated basally, cornea dilated, ocular scales with prominent subterminal spine. Major cheliped stout, with fine setae, strong spines dorsally. Lateral, mesial margins with prominent spines. Minor cheliped with strong dorsal, lateral spines, also mesial spines except on carpus. Pereopods 2, 3 elongate, propodus, carpus serrate, dactyl slender, longer than propodus. Telson asymmetrical, left lobe larger than right, with lateral notches, terminal margin with median cleft, close-set teeth. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length to 43 mm.
 Color in life. Appendages mostly tan. Chelipeds with spines white at base, purple at apices. Fingers with row of blue tubercles next to cutting edge; longitudinal bluish line outside of tubercles. Carpus with large dark purple spot on dorsal surface. Merus with triangular reddish-brown area dorsodistally; band of reddish-brown on lateral face. Pereopods 2, 3 with reddish-brown blotch on lateral surface of carpus, merus with broad reddish-brown band at distal end. Eyestalk white with reddish brown areas (Haig 1977). In life, setae often covered by silt, color somewhat obscured.
 Habitat and depth. Sand, low intertidal zone to 60 m, usually subtidal.
 Range. Zuma Beach, California to Point Abreojos, Baja California. Type locality off Belmont Pier, Orange County, California.
 Remarks. This hermit crab commonly lives on sand bottoms along the mainland coast of southern California.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on pages 193-194
Diapheridae Panha & Naggs 2010
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Grego, Jozef
name: Sajan, Sheikh
name: Tripathy, Basudev
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Diapheridae

description: Family Diapheridae Panha & Naggs in Sutcharit, Naggs, Wade, Fontanilla & Panha, 2010  Diapheridae Panha & Naggs in Sutcharit et al., 2010: 5.
 Included genera. Bruggennea Dance, 1972, Diaphera Albers, 1850, Laoennea Páll-Gergely in Páll-Gergely et al., 2020, Parasinoennea Z.-Y. Chen & Páll-Gergely, new genus, Platycochlium Laidlaw, 1950, Platylennea Páll-Gergely, new genus, Rowsonia Páll-Gergely, new genus, Sinoennea Kobelt, 1904, Tonkinia J. Mabille, 1887 (see Fig. 2).
 Remarks. Due to the lack of anatomical and molecular evidence, the inclusion of the genera other than Diaphera and Sinoennea in the Diapheridae is questionable (see Discussion).
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Grego, Jozef, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev & Chen, Zhe-Yu, 2020, A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar, pp. 682-718 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 688, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0083, http://zenodo.org/record/5349761
The Distance of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 1866
Creators: name: Walker, A. R.
name: Raimondo, G.
name: Di Carlo, E.
name: Brocato, E.
name: Castellani, V.
name: Hill, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hubble Space Telescope V,I photometry of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 1866 shows a well defined cluster main sequence down to V=25 mag, with little contamination from field or foreground stars. We use the main sequence fitting procedure to link the distance of NGC 1866 to the Hipparcos determination of the distance for the Hyades MS stars, making use of evolutionary prescriptions to allow for differences in the chemical composition. On this basis we find a true distance modulus for NGC 1866 of 18.35 +/- 0.05 mag. If the cluster is assumed to lie in the LMC plane then the LMC modulus is 0.02 mag less.
description: ApJL accepted
Trends and health impacts of major urban air pollutants in Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Aiymgul Kerimray
name: Kenessov, Bulat
name: Karaca, Ferhat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Air quality in Kazakhstan cities has been poorly investigated despite their deteriorating situations. This study evaluates the national air pollution monitoring network data (PM10, NO2, SO2, and O3) in Kazakhstan cities, and provides the estimates of excess mortality rates associated with PM2.5 exposure using the Global Exposure Mortality Model (GEMM) concentration-response function. Morbidity rates associated with PM10 exposure were also estimated. Firstly, an air quality-based priority ranking of the cities was suggested based on the annual concentrations of the pollutants during the period of 3 years between 2015 and 2017. Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Ust-Kamenogorsk, and Aktobe were identified as the most polluted cities by PM10, NO2, SO2, and O3 respectively. Then, the exposure-response assessment was conducted for 21 cities. In major cities of Kazakhstan attributable to ambient air pollution per capita, mortality rate is 1 193 per 100 000 population per year, which is 8.97 times higher than in Europe. It is estimated that fine particulate matter exposure in the major cities of Kazakhstan causes 101 139 premature deaths annually. This study provides quantitative information on potential public health risks and impacts of air pollution, which is valuable for decision-makers to justify national environmental policies. Implications: Quantitative information on health impacts from air pollution can be useful for decision makers in Kazakhstan to justify environmental policies and identify policy and funding priorities for tackling air pollution issues. It can be also useful for policy makers in improving the quality of government funded environmental reports and strategic documents as they have many shortcomings in terms of selection of air quality indicators, identification of priority pollutants, identification of sources of pollution. This study has high significance due to the lack of data and knowledge in the region of Central Asia, in particular, of Kazakhstan.
Correlated timing noise and high precision pulsar timing: Measuring frequency second derivatives as an example
Creators: name: Liu, X. J.
name: Keith, M. J.
name: Bassa, C.
name: Stappers, B. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of noise processes on high-precision pulsar timing. Our analysis focuses on the measurability of the second spin frequency derivative $\ddotν$. This $\ddotν$ can be induced by several factors including the radial velocity of a pulsar. We use Bayesian methods to model the pulsar times-of-arrival in the presence of red timing noise and dispersion measure variations, modelling the noise processes as power laws. Using simulated times-of-arrival that both include red noise, dispersion measure variations and non-zero $\ddotν$ values, we find that we are able to recover the injected $\ddotν$, even when the noise model used to inject and recover the input parameters are different. Using simulations, we show that the measurement uncertainty on $\ddotν$ decreases with the timing baseline $T$ as $T^γ$, where $γ=-7/2+α/2$ for power law noise models with shallow power law indices $α$ ($08$), the measurement uncertainty reduces with $T^{-1/2}$. We applied this method to times-of-arrival from the European Pulsar Timing Array and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and determined $\ddotν$ probability density functions for 49 millisecond pulsars. We find a statistically significant $\ddotν$ value for PSR\,B1937+21 and consider possible options for its origin. Significant (95 per cent C.L.) values for $\ddotν$ are also measured for PSRs\,J0621+1002 and J1022+1001, thus future studies should consider including it in their ephemerides. For binary pulsars with small orbital eccentricities, like PSR\,J1909$-$3744, extended ELL1 models should be used to overcome computational issues. The impacts of our results on the detection of gravitational waves are also discussed.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; Accepted by MNRAS
2010 Michigan Cash Grain Farm Business Analysis Summary
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This report summarizes the 2010 financial and production records of 99 Michigan cash grain farms. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from one or a combination of these items: corn, soybeans, wheat, navy beans, oats, sugar beets and other small grains. The records came from Michigan State University’s TelFarm project and Farm Credit Service of Michigan. The values were pooled into averages for reporting purposes. Farm records were included if a farm financial analysis had completed 2010 data including beginning and ending balance sheets and a statement of income and expenses. The data was checked to verify that cash discrepancy was less than 10% of gross cash inflow and that debt discrepancy was less than $1,000. While considerable variation in the data exists, average values are reported in the summary tables below.
Rising Food Prices and Declining Food Security: Evidence from Afghanistan
Creators: name: D'Souza, Anna
name: D'Souza, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty

description: In Afghanistan, the 2007/08 rapid rise in wheat prices impacted urban and rural household food security, with observed declines in food consumed, calories, protein, and dietary diversity. Households traded off quality for quantity, moving away from micronutrient-rich foods like meat, fruit, and vegetables toward staples. Food price shocks can exacerbate chronically low levels of nutrient intake in countries with large populations living in poverty with generally poor diets.
title: An investigation into the acceptance of digital tools, used for collecting assessment and learning evidence, in vocational education and training in the Northern Territory
Creators: name: Allan, Anthony R
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: vocational education and training (VET)
subject: Northern Territory
subject: technology acceptance model (TAM)

description: This is an investigation into the acceptance of digital tools used for collecting evidence of assessment in a vocational education and training (VET) environment, where acceptance is a positive decision to use a technology. A select group of 14 stakeholders from Australia's Northern Territory participated in semi-structured interviews. The group included trainers who were the users of the tools and the leaders who influenced the trainers' access to the tools. The technology acceptance model (TAM), developed by Davis in 1986, in combination with Berger and Luckmann's seminal sociological text, The Social Construction of Reality, provided a theoretical underpinning for this research. The technology being accepted was specifically the digital evidence collecting tools being used by the 14 stakeholders, otherwise known as participants. The VET environment is highly regulated and it would be reasonable to assume that digital evidence collecting technology is often imposed rather than adopted due to user acceptance. This environment could potentially diminish the significance of understanding acceptance. However, a thorough exploration of acceptance guided by the interpretivist paradigm of this research produced results of substantial value in this regulated environment. In alignment with the research questions the results included, an understanding about the ways that acceptance occurred; how the social construction of reality affected acceptance; factors that influenced acceptance; and how to consider the relationship between use and acceptance. The value of understanding acceptance is not diminished because the definition of acceptance was explored. This showed that acceptance may not directly enable use to be predicted, but the understanding acceptance in combination with the social construction of reality may help managers or future researchers to enable more effective use of digital tools when use is being imposed. [...]
Bruggennea Dance 1972
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Grego, Jozef
name: Sajan, Sheikh
name: Tripathy, Basudev
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Diapheridae
Bruggennea

description: Bruggennea Dance, 1972
 Bruggennea Dance, 1972: 131.
 Bruggennea — Richardson, 1988: 4.
 Bruggennea — Schileyko, 2000: 800.
 Type species. Sinoennea laidlawi Dance, 1970 by original designation.
 Diagnosis. Shell ovoid or conical-ovoid, apertural dentition agree with that of Sinoennea (parietal lamella + columellar lamella, upper palatal tooth situated on peristome, lower palatal tooth situated deeper), varices (remaining expanded peristomes of juvenile shells) are imperfectly arranged in two rows on opposite side of the spire.
 Distribution. Endemic to Borneo.
 Remarks. The apertural dentition agrees with that of Sinoennea. Based on the original description (Dance, 1972), the distinction from Sinoennea is based on shell shape and sculpture, and the presence of varices. A more recent revision of this genus (Vermeulen, 2007) mentioned only the latter character as a distinctive feature. At the moment it is not possible to say more. Bruggennea is probably monophyletic due to the similar traits and geographic distribution, but the very diverse Sinoennea may not be monophyletic without Bruggennea. See Figs. 3 and 22G for comparison.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Grego, Jozef, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev & Chen, Zhe-Yu, 2020, A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar, pp. 682-718 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 688, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0083, http://zenodo.org/record/5349761
Equivariant cohomological rigidity of certain $T$-manifolds
Creators: name: Sarkar, Soumen
name: Song, Jongbaek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N91, 57R91, 53D10

description: We introduce the category of {\it locally $k$-standard $T$-manifolds} which includes well-known classes of manifolds such as toric and quasitoric manifolds, good contact toric manifolds and moment-angle manifolds. They are smooth manifolds with well-behaved actions of tori. We study their topological properties, such as fundamental groups and equivariant cohomology algebras. Then, we discuss when the torus equivariant cohomology algebra distinguishes them up to weakly equivariant homeomorphism.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Reducing Agriculture's Nitrogen Footprint: Are New Policy Approaches Needed?
Creators: name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Ribaudo, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Nitrogen is the single most important input a farmer can control to increase crop yields on nonirrigated fields. Given this, and the fact that nitrogen has been a relatively inexpensive input, farmers have an economic incentive to “apply a little extra” to ensure that crops have the necessary nutrients when they need them most. As a consequence, excess nitrogen remains in the soil and freely moves into water resources or into the atmosphere. Agriculture is the single largest source of nitrogen compounds entering the environment in the U.S., contributing 73 percent of nitrous oxide emissions, 84 percent of ammonia emissions, and 54 percent of nitrate emissions in recent years. The production and release of nitrogen, however, has greatly changed the Earth’s natural balance of nitrogen. The influx of nitrogen compounds that can change form and move easily between air, land, and water, such as nitrate, nitrous oxide, and ammonia, contributes to both beneficial and harmful changes to ecosystems. Increased productivity in agricultural systems is a benefit. On the other hand, ozone-induced injury to crops and forests, acidification and over-enrichment (eutrophication) of aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity losses, visibility-impairing haze, and global climate change are all considered harmful impacts (see box, “Pathways for Nitrogen Losses”). Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and the declining health of the Chesapeake Bay are examples of the consequences of excess nitrogen in the environment, especially when compounded with other factors like the loss of wetlands and the increase in impervious surfaces, such as asphalt roads and parking lots.
Discovery of the host galaxy of HDF850.1, the brightest sub-mm source in the Hubble Deep Field
Creators: name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: McLure, R. J.
name: Yamada, T.
name: Kajisawa, M.
name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Mann, R. G.
name: Hughes, D. H.
name: Aretxaga, I.
name: Muxlow, T. W. B.
name: Richards, A. M. S.
name: Dickinson, M.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Smith, G. P.
name: Smail, I.
name: Serjeant, S.
name: Almaini, O.
name: Lawrence, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite extensive observational efforts, the brightest sub--mm source in the Hubble Deep Field, HDF850.1, has failed to yield a convincing optical/infrared identification almost 4 years after its discovery. This failure is all the more notable given the availability of supporting multi-frequency data of unparalleled depth, and sub-arcsec positional accuracy for the sub-mm/mm source. Consequently, HDF850.1 has become a test case of the possibility that the most violently star-forming objects in the universe are too red and/or distant to be seen in the deepest optical images. Here we report the discovery of the host galaxy of HDF850.1. This object has been revealed by careful analysis of a new, deep K-prime image of the HDF obtained with the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. Its reality is confirmed by a similar analysis of the HST NICMOS F160W image of the same region. This object is extremely faint (K=23.5), clumpy (on sub-arcsec scales) and very red (I-K > 5.2; H-K = 1.4 +- 0.35). The likelihood that it is the correct identification is strongly reinforced by a reanalysis of the combined MERLIN+VLA 1.4-GHz map of the field which yields a new radio detection of HDF850.1 only 0.1 arcsec from the new near-ir counterpart, and with sufficient positional accuracy to exclude all previously considered alternative optical candidates. We have calculated new confidence limits on the estimated redshift of HDF850.1 and find z = 4.1 +- 0.5. We also calculate that the flux density of HDF850.1 has been boosted by a factor of ~3 through lensing by the intervening elliptical 3-586.0, consistent with predictions that a small but significant fraction of blank-field sub-mm sources are lensed by foreground galaxies. We discuss the wider implications of these results for the sub-mm population and cosmic star-formation history.
description: Submitted for publication in MNRAS. 17 pages with 7 figures, one of which (Figure 4) should be printed in colour
Pagurus tanneri
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Pagurus
Pagurus tanneri

description: Pagurus tanneri (Benedict, 1892)
(Fig. 45N)
 Eupagurus tanneri Benedict, 1892: 10.
 Pagurus tanneri. — Holmes 1900: 140. — Rathbun 1904: 158, pl. 4, fig. 7. — Schmitt 1921: 133, fig. 8. — Makarov 1962: 184, pl. 5, fig. 5. — Pereyra & Alton 1972: 450. — McLaughlin 1974: 216, figs. 55, 56. — Hart 1982: 142, fig. 53. — Wicksten 1988a: 243; 1989b: 314. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 79.
 Diagnosis. Rostrum triangular, longer than lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk short and stout, cornea dilated, ocular scale with sharp points. Major cheliped stout, slightly shorter than pereopods 2, 3; merus setose, carpus with small dorsal spines, serrate margins; hand spiny, with raised triangular ridge, small spines on fingers, margin setose. Minor cheliped smaller, slender, hand slightly swollen on left side, with curved raised ridge edged with 2 rows of spines on palm; fingers elongate. Pereopods 2, 3 slender, carpus, merus with dorsal serrate edges, dactyls slightly longer than propodi, curved; with dorsal setae, small ventral spines. Telson asymmetrical, with lateral notches, terminal margin with median notch, teeth. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length 18.1 mm.
 Color in life. Mostly orange to scarlet. Chelipeds with white spines and granules; palm yellowish. orange with white apex, cornea black, antennal flagellum scarlet. Hart (1982) gave a more detailed description of the living color.
 Habitat and depth. Boulders of lower continental shelf and slope, 91–1372 m; usually deeper than 390 m in California.
 Range. Bering Sea and Unalaska to off Point Loma, San Diego County, California. Type locality Clarence Strait, Alaska.
 Remarks. This species often lives in shells of Neptunea sp. or Bathybembix bairdi (Dall, 1889). Stalked barnacles, family Scalpellidae, may attach to the shell.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 194
MILD Combustion of Ethanol-Air with Diluted Hot Oxidant by Recirculation in Opposite Jet
Creators: name: Cha, Chun Loon
name: Lee, Ho Yeon
name: You, Chang Hyun
name: Hwang, Sang Soon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ISCP2019
Demonstration of a time scale based on a stable optical carrier
Creators: name: Milner, William R.
name: Robinson, John M.
name: Kennedy, Colin J.
name: Bothwell, Tobias
name: Kedar, Dhruv
name: Matei, Dan G.
name: Legero, Thomas
name: Sterr, Uwe
name: Riehle, Fritz
name: Leopardi, Holly
name: Fortier, Tara M.
name: Sherman, Jeffrey A.
name: Levine, Judah
name: Yao, Jian
name: Ye, Jun
name: Oelker, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a time scale based on a phase stable optical carrier that accumulates an estimated time error of $48\pm94$ ps over 34 days of operation. This all-optical time scale is formed with a cryogenic silicon cavity exhibiting improved long-term stability and an accurate $^{87}$Sr lattice clock. We show that this new time scale architecture outperforms existing microwave time scales, even when they are steered to optical frequency standards. Our analysis indicates that this time scale is capable of reaching a stability below $1\times10^{-17}$ after a few months of averaging, making timekeeping at the $10^{-18}$ level a realistic prospect.
description: 13 pages, 12 Figures
Do Farm Programs Encourage Native Grassland Losses?
Creators: name: Claassen, Roger
name: Carriazo, Fernando
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Claassen, Roger
name: Carriazo, Fernando
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Federal programs may encourage farmers to convert native grasslands—land that has never been cultivated — to production of corn, soybeans, and other crops, leading to potential losses of Northern Plains' native grasslands. Federally subsidized crop insurance reduces risk associated with crops grown on converted grasslands and, over time, increases average returns to production by making crop farming more attractive. Other programs, including Federal disaster assistance and marketing loan benefits, also reduce risk and increase returns to crop production on converted grasslands. While these programs can be important risk management tools for farmers, they may also result in unintended, environmentally damaging actions.
Combustion characteristics of micron-sized aluminum particles with liquid water: the effects of particle size and equivalence ratio
Creators: name: Ma, Peng
name: Shuangfeng Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ISCP2019
The HI supershell GS061+00+51 and its neighbours
Creators: name: Ehlerova, S.
name: Palous, J.
name: Huchtmeier, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe HI observations of a 4 x 4 degrees field in the Milky Way centered on l=61 deg, b=0 deg made by the Effelsberg radiotelescope. The field contains one previously identified HI supershell, GS061+00+51 (Heiles, 1979); apart from it we find several new structures. We also study the HI distribution in the vicinity of four HII regions, S86, S87, S88 and S89. We confirm the existence of the shell GS061+00+51, and we find that it has two smaller neighbours, spherical shells with a radius around 30 pc. We identify at least one more regular shell at v_LSR = -18 km/s; and one blown-out shell at v_LSR = -54 km/s. In two cases we are able to connect HII regions with features in the HI distribution (S86 and S87), in two other cases no connection is found. Apart from quite regular HI shells we see a number of non-coherent objects, which are probably a result of the turbulence in the interstellar medium.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures; accepted by A&A
Winner Takes (Almost) All: How WIC Affects the Infant Formula Market
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Oliveira, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: USDA's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children— commonly known as WIC—is the largest purchaser of infant formula in the United States. Each State awards a sole-source contract to a formula manufacturer to provide its product to WIC participants. As a result, WIC participants can only redeem their WIC voucher for formula made by the manufacturer that holds the contract for that State.
Operating Fans in Cars of Produce after Arrival at Terminal Markets
Creators: name: Lutz, J. M.
name: Findlen, Herbert
name: Kaufman, Jacob
name: Lutz, J. M.
name: Findlen, Herbert
name: Kaufman, Jacob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: One of the weak links in the movement of fruits and vegetables from the producer to the consumer has been the general failure to operate refrigerator car fans after arrival of the cars at terminal markets. During transit the fans are operated by rotation of the car wheels. However, cars (either full or partly unloaded) are frequently held on track for periods up to several days because of holidays, weekends, insufficient demand or other market conditions. This results in a commodity temperature rise in the top layers of iced cars during warm weather, and may result in chilling or freezing in the bottom layers during cold weather or excessively high temperatures in top layers, in cars under heater service. Tests were conducted in 1954, 1956, and 1957 to determine the effectiveness of operating permanently installed fans in cars in order to maintain desirable temperatures in perishable fruits and vegetables while the cars stand on track at terminal markets. Operating such fans helps avoid excessively high temperatures in the top or dangerously low temperatures at the bottom of the load. The tests were made both on iced and heated cars. Continuing operation of the fans by use of auxiliary motors after the cars arrived at destination improved commodity temperatures under both these classes of service.
Efficiency of the use of modifiers and application system in the combustion process of coal fine
Creators: name: Tic, Wilhelm Jan
name: Guzialowska-Tic, Joanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: ISCP2019
Supplementary document for Ultra-low loss visible light waveguides for integrated atomic, molecular, and quantum photonics - 5653952.pdf
Creators: name: Chauhan, Nitesh
name: Wang, Jiawei
name: Bose, Debapam
name: LIU, KAIKAI
name: Compton, Robert
name: Fertig, Chad
name: Hoyt, Chad
name: Blumenthal, Daniel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised Supplemental