cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Superstring Interactions in a pp-wave Background
Creators: name: Spradlin, Marcus
name: Volovich, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct light-cone gauge superstring field theory in a pp-wave background with Ramond-Ramond flux. The leading term in the interaction Hamiltonian is determined up to an overall function of $p^+$ by requiring closure of the pp-wave superalgebra. The bosonic and fermionic Neumann matrices for this cubic vertex are derived, as is the interaction point operator. We comment on the development of a $1/μp^+$ expansion for these results.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures. v3:typos fixed, a couple of helpful remarks added (including one un-commented out from the v1 source file)
FORESAIL-1 cubesat mission to measure radiation belt losses and demonstrate de-orbiting
Creators: name: FORESAIL Collaboration
name: Palmroth, M.
name: Praks, J.
name: Vainio, R.
name: Janhunen, P.
name: Kilpua, E. K. J.
name: Ganushkina, N. Yu.
name: Afanasiev, A.
name: Ala-Lahti, M.
name: Alho, A.
name: Asikainen, T.
name: Asvestari, E.
name: Battarbee, M.
name: Binios, A.
name: Bosser, A.
name: Brito, T.
name: Envall, J.
name: Ganse, U.
name: George, H.
name: Gieseler, J.
name: Good, S.
name: Grandin, M.
name: Haslam, S.
name: Hedman, H. -P.
name: Hietala, H.
name: Jovanovic, N.
name: Kakakhel, S.
name: Kalliokoski, M.
name: Kettunen, V. V.
name: Koskela, T.
name: Lumme, E.
name: Meskanen, M.
name: Morosan, D.
name: Mughal, M. Rizwan
name: Niemelä, P.
name: Nyman, S.
name: Oleynik, P.
name: Osmane, A.
name: Palmerio, E.
name: Pfau-Kempf, Y.
name: Peltonen, J.
name: Plosila, J.
name: Polkko, J.
name: Poluianov, S.
name: Pomoell, J.
name: Price, D.
name: Punkkinen, A.
name: Punkkinen, R.
name: Riwanto, B.
name: Salomaa, L.
name: Slavinskis, A.
name: Säntti, T.
name: Tammi, J.
name: Tenhunen, H.
name: Toivanen, P.
name: Tuominen, J.
name: Turc, L.
name: Valtonen, E.
name: Virtanen, P.
name: Westerlund, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Today, the near-Earth space is facing a paradigm change as the number of new spacecraft is literally sky-rocketing. Increasing numbers of small satellites threaten the sustainable use of space, as without removal, space debris will eventually make certain critical orbits unusable. A central factor affecting small spacecraft health and leading to debris is the radiation environment, which is unpredictable due to an incomplete understanding of the near-Earth radiation environment itself and its variability driven by the solar wind and outer magnetosphere. This paper presents the FORESAIL-1 nanosatellite mission, having two scientific and one technological objectives. The first scientific objective is to measure the energy and flux of energetic particle loss to the atmosphere with a representative energy and pitch angle resolution over a wide range of magnetic local times. To pave the way to novel model - in situ data comparisons, we also show preliminary results on precipitating electron fluxes obtained with the new global hybrid-Vlasov simulation Vlasiator. The second scientific objective of the FORESAIL-1 mission is to measure energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) of solar origin. The solar ENA flux has the potential to contribute importantly to the knowledge of solar eruption energy budget estimations. The technological objective is to demonstrate a satellite de-orbiting technology, and for the first time, make an orbit manoeuvre with a propellantless nanosatellite. FORESAIL-1 will demonstrate the potential for nanosatellites to make important scientific contributions as well as promote the sustainable utilisation of space by using a cost-efficient de-orbiting technology.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables Published online in JGR: Space Physics on 21 May 2019
Always we are last : a study of planning, development and disadvantage in Melanesia
Creators: name: Herlihy, Joan M.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1981

description: This thesis examines the relationship between rural development planning and rural development, as it has affected disadvantaged areas of Melanesia. Its 'problem-solving' framework shows that, in the colonial and post-colonial period, the poor articulation of macro and micro-level interests has resulted in a marked divergence between the issues associated with development planning and those of real world rural development. Attitudinal changes at theoretical level have served to complicate this problem. To some extent the dichotomy can be attributed to the international politics of an era characterized by rapid decolonization, with its implicit o~ explicit demands for equally rapid and often major socio-economic reforms. In the search for simple answers and universal panaceas, much of the complex Third World rural dynamic has been ignored or subordinated to macro-level issues. The study shows that development planning has been a persistent and reliable problem-solving device for macro-level government in Melanesia, but that it usually has addressed problems other than those stated in development plans. These problems centred on the uncertain legitimacy of the colonial and post-colonial governments, and on the capture of scarce resources from the Western world. Though plans and planning have not been directly productive of rural· development, they have been conspicuously successful in achievement of their unstated aims and thus in the improvement of government's capacity to govern. The micro-level evidence demonstrates ,that planning to date has not been geared to cope with the development of a multiplicity of disparate rural communities. Implementation of rural development plans can be inhibited by a wide variety of factors and, even at the preliminary stage of resource and situational assessment, the margin for error in broad-spectrum planning can be enormous. At the same time, the study concludes that villagers and government share many development objectives, one of the most pervasive of which. is the need for expanded cash-earning opportunities. Patterns of European contact indicate that the imposition of macro-level government has been a significant factor in the marginalization of some areas. Nonetheless, villagers display considerable adaptability and have continually acted as 'rational economic man' in their attempts to obtain the benefits of modernization. These attempts illustrate the importance of informal networks to village development. At the same time, the study shows that the lack of development and of reliable government assistance in the 1970s has become a vicious circle, perpetuating itself by the constraints it places on village self-help.
Horses and horsemanship in the Rigveda
Creators: name: Compton, Geoffrey Bryan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1981

description: Few animals have had such a profound effect on the course of history as the horse. It still finds a use today despite mankind's unsurpassed involvement with and reliance upon machines. The horse may continue to be even more popular simply because of this. Thus what may seem a setback to the horse's continued involvement with mankind could well turn to the horse's favour. Fortunately, there still remains among nearly all peoples a certain fascination for this creature. Books about horses are readily available today. They cover nearly every imaginable point on the subject from breeds to management and from the horse mind to dressage. What most have in common is that they concern horses and horse management of today: the present. Few consider the horses of yesterday: extending back to humanity's first association with the horse. There is a wealth of information about horses in mankind's early history. Perhaps the only hindrance is a lack of interest or inability to find it, search through it, and then present the information. It is perhaps true to say that each age steps on the shoulders of the ages that have gone before. Thus the value of what we have today in large measure reflects our debt to our forerunners. Certainly each age has a different weight to bear, but if we can in any way show our appreciation of the labours of the peoples of antiquity who have bequeathed much to us, it is in the least to record what they did. How they used the horse and the developments revolving around it, including the revolution in land transport and its numerous results, is only a small but singly important development in mankind's attempts to improve both himself and those around him.
Dermestes (Montandonis) fuliginosus Rossi 1792
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Háva, Jirí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dermestidae
Dermestes
Dermestes fuliginosus

description: Dermestes (Montandonis) fuliginosus Rossi, 1792
 Distribution in Iran: No locality cited (Háva and Kal´ık 1999; Bulak et al. 2013; Háva 2007a, 2015).
Distribution outside Iran: Europe, Turkey, W Russia (Háva 2015a).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Háva, Jirí, 2017, A Checklist of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Iran, pp. 612-626 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on page 615, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.612, http://zenodo.org/record/5377449
title: A Qualitative Exploration of the Acculturative Process of Resettled Rohingya Refugees in the United States
Creators: name: Zhao, Jenny
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: This phenomenological study explored the complex, multi-directional acculturationprocess of resettled Rohingya refugees in the United States. By taking a phenomenological approach, the study aimed to expand the traditional parameters of acculturation research, exploring acculturation beyond mere social integration, and humanizing the acculturative experience. This study employed semi-structured interviews, facilitated in English, with eight resettled Rohingya refugees living in the United States. The interviews were transcribed, coded, and qualitatively analyzed to describe the phenomenon of the unique acculturative process as experienced from the Rohingya migration context. All participants were active in the Rohingya community as cultural brokers, interpreters, or community-based leaders. While all eight of the participants had unique experiences, five general themes emerged. Three themes captured the effects of prolonged exposure to institutionalized discrimination on resilience, acculturative experiences, and shifts in Rohingya identity, goals, and values. Two themes reflected the process of liberation to pursue wellness in the post-resettlement context. The findings demonstrate how Rohingya diaspora communities are overcoming oppressive conditions and defining liberation by creating cultural roots and establishing permanency.
Sphex flavipennis FABRICIUS 1793
Creators: name: Yildirim, Erol
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Sphex
Sphex flavipennis

description: Sphex flavipennis FABRICIUS, 1793
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Amasya: Suluova, 6.VIII.2017, ♀; Erzurum: Uzundere, 1100 m, 17.VIII.2016. ♀.
 Sphex pruinosus GERMAR, 1817
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: İzmir: Seferihisar, Beyler, 27.V.2016, ♀.
 Ammophila heydeni DAHLBOM, 1845
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: İzmir: Bornova, 15.IV.2010, ♀.
description: Published as part of Yildirim, Erol & Tezcan, Serdar, 2018, New locality records of Crabronidae, Evaniidae, Ichneumonidae, Leucospidae, Mutillidae, Pompilidae, Sapygidae, Sphecidae, Tiphiidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) from Turkey, pp. 1707-1719 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275195
How surfactants influence the drop size in sprays
Creators: name: Sijs, R.
name: Kooij, S.
name: Bonn, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spraying is a widely used method to produce a liquid sheet that break up into droplets of a certain size distribution. When spraying simple liquids, it is known which experimental parameters determine the droplet size distribution. For many applications however, surfactants are added, producing a hitherto unknown effect on the droplet size distribution. Using two generic types of spraying nozzles, we sprayed solutions of different types of aqueous surfactants and measured the droplet size distribution of the sprays. We find that the breakup of surfactant solutions is similar to that of pure water but results in droplets that are on average smaller. The resulting droplet size distribution can be well described using the predictions for simple liquids provided that we replace the parameter of the equilibrium surface tension with the dynamic surface tension of the surfactant solution at a surface age of 20 ms, which is the characteristic time for destabilization and breakup of a liquid sheet. By rescaling them with the mean droplet size, the droplet size distributions of water and sprays with different concentrations of surfactants all collapse onto a single curve and can be well described using the compound Gamma function found previously for pure liquids.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Laser phase modulation approaches towards ensemble quantum computing
Creators: name: Goswami, Debabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Selective control of decoherence is demonstrated for a multilevel system by generalizing the instantaneous phase of any chirped pulse as individual terms of a Taylor series expansion. In the case of a simple two-level system, all odd terms in the series lead to population inversion while the even terms lead to self-induced transparency. These results also hold for multiphoton transitions that do not have any lower-order photon resonance or any intermediate virtual state dynamics within the laser pulse-width. Such results form the basis of a robustly implementable CNOT gate.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, PRL (accepted)
A Multi-epoch X-ray Study of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331
Creators: name: Jin, Ruolan
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray point sources in galaxies are dominated by X-ray binaries (XRBs) that are variables or transients and whether their variability would alter the X-ray luminosity functions (XLF) is still in debate. Here we report on NGC 7331 as an example to test this with 7 Chandra observations. Their detection limit is 7$\times10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.3 -- 8.0 keV energy range by assuming a power-law spectral model with a photon index of 1.7. We detected 55 X-ray sources. Thirteen of them are variables for which 3 of them are transients and some of the sources possess a bimodal luminosity-hardness ratio feature, which is often observed among X-ray binaries. Nine more ultra-luminous X-ray sources are found comparing to previous studies and 8 are likely to be low-mass or high-mass XRBs. Twenty-one optical counterpart candidates are found based on the Hubble Space Telescope images, but we cannot rule out the possibility of positional coincidence. The spectral analysis of SN 2014C shows a trend of increasing soft photons and decreasing hydrogen column densities as its outer shell expands. We fit the 7 incompleteness-corrected XLFs to both a power-law (PL) and a power-law with an exponential cut-off (PLC) model using Bayesian method, which is the first time used in XLF fitting. The hierarchical PLC model can describe the XLF of NGC 7331 best with a slope of $\sim$ 0.5 and a luminosity cut-off around 8$\times$10$^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$. This study proves that multi-epoch observations decrease the deviation due to the variable luminous sources in XLFs.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Using your own money: Discussion guide
Creators: name: McGowan, Jasmine
name: JaneMaree Maher
name: Malowney, Tricia
name: Thomas, Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Gender studies
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: This tool has been written for 3 reasons:To help people with disability to talk about their own money.To tell people where to get help if somebody is not using their money in the right way.To help people who want to help people with disability know what questions to ask.Support workers and other people, such as trusted friends or neighbours, can use this tool to help people with disability. The tool can also be used by workers whose job it is to help people whose money is not being used in the right way.Sometimes when people don’t use your money in the right way it is family violence. If people are not using your money in the right way there might be other family violence happening too. Using these questions might help you to think about whether somebody is not using your money in the right way. There are people who think that not using your money in the right way is OK. It is not OK and you should know that there are things to do and people who can help to stop it from happening.The research team would like to thank the women who participated in the focus groups and final consultation as well as those who shared their stories with us for the original ANROWS-funded research upon which this project is based. We would also like to extend our thanks to the numerous stakeholders and experts who contributed so generously during the focus groups and afterwards.We thank the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust for funding this project as part of their small grants program in 2018-2019. We would also like to acknowledge the ANROWS funding for Women Disability and Violence: Creating Access to Justice that began this work and we would like to thank members of the research team with whom we worked on this project, Dr Claire Spivakovsky and Professor Jude McCulloch from Monash University, Kara Beavis from Oueensland University of Technology, and Dr Jessica Cadwallader, Meredith Lea and Therese Sands from People with Disability Australia.
Additional file 1 of Genome-Wide association study of quantitative biomarkers identifies a novel locus for alzheimer’s disease at 12p12.1
Creators: name: Lee, Brian
name: Yao, Xiaohui
name: Shen, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Material.
Finnegan ESM from Meiotic drive reduces egg-to-adult viability in stalk-eyed flies
Creators: name: Finnegan, Sam Ronan
name: White, Nathan Joseph
name: Koh, Dixon
name: M. Florencia Camus
name: Fowler, Kevin
name: Pomiankowski, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary methods and tables
Strings from Quivers, Membranes from Moose
Creators: name: Mukhi, Sunil
name: Rangamani, Mukund
name: Verlinde, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider N=2 moose/quiver gauge theories corresponding to N_1 D3-branes at a C^2/Z_{N_2} singularity in the ``large moose'' limit where N_1 and N_2 are scaled to infinity together. In the dual holographic description, this scaling gives rise to a maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background with a compact light-cone direction. We identify the gauge theory operators that describe the Discrete Light-Cone Quantization (DLCQ) of the string in this background. For each discrete light-cone momentum and winding sector there is a separate ground state and Fock space. The large moose/quiver diagram provides a useful graphical representation of the string and its excitations. This representation has a natural explanation in a T-dual language. The dual theory is a non-relativistic type IIA string wound around the T-dual direction, and bound by a quadratic Newtonian potential. We end with some comments on D-string/D-particle states, a possible lift to M-theory and the relation to deconstruction.
description: 34 pages, 5 figures, latex, v2: references added, typos etc corrected
One point functions of fermionic operators in the Super Sine Gordon model
Creators: name: Babenko, C.
name: Smirnov, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the integrable structure of the space of local operators for the supersymmetric sine-Gordon model. Namely, we conjecture that this space is created by acting on the primary fields by fermions and a Kac-Moody current. We proceed with the computation of the one-point functions. In the UV limit they are shown to agree with the alternative results obtained by solving the reflection relations.
description: 34 pages, two figures
Initial low/hard state, multiple jet ejections and X-ray/radio correlations during the outburst of XTE J1859+226
Creators: name: Brocksopp, C.
name: Fender, R. P.
name: McCollough, M.
name: Pooley, G. G.
name: Rupen, M. P.
name: Hjellming, R. M.
name: de la Force, C. J.
name: Spencer, R. E.
name: Muxlow, T. W. B.
name: Garrington, S. T.
name: Trushkin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the 1999 soft X-ray transient outburst of XTE J1859+226 at radio and X-ray wavelengths. The event was characterised by strong variability in the disc, corona and jet - in particular, a number of radio flares (ejections) took place and seemed well-correlated with hard X-ray events. Apparently unusual for the `canonical soft' X-ray transient, there was an initial period of low/hard state behaviour during the rise from quiescence but prior to the peak of the main outburst - we show that not only could this initial low/hard state be an ubiquitous feature of soft X-ray transient outbursts but that it could also be extremely important in our study of outburst mechanisms.
description: 12 pages, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
AMBAI : an Austronesian language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Creators: name: Silzer, Peter James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Ambai dialect Grammar
subject: Austronesian languages Dialects

description: Ambai is a little-known Austronesian language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In this work we discuss the more common elements of the phonology, morphology, and clause-level syntax. This work is basically a synchronic description of the Ambai dialect of the Ambai language, but mention is also made of comparative materials in other Austronesian languages , especially in the morphology section, where they shed light on the Ambai data. We have chosen to limit the scope of this work by not discussing any level higher than the simple sentence or what we will call the expanded clause so as to be able to provide some depth of discussion on those areas covered. Chapter 1 places Ambai in its geographical and linguistic setting as a member of Blust's (1978) South Halmahera - West New Guinea group. The theoretical models used are summarized in 1.2 and the scope and purpose of this study in 1.3. In chapter 2 the sound system of Ambai is described in terms of distinctive features, morpheme-structure rules, and phonological processes. An overview of the basic open and closed word classes is given in chapter 3. We also relate Ambai syntax to syntactic universals as put forth by Greenberg (1966) to provide a concise summary of Ambai word order constraints. Chapter 4 discusses the Ambai noun function-based model which describes the NP as phrase employing a consisting of a referential core modified by Association, Qualification, Quantification, and Orientation elements. The final three chapters of this dissertation employ a layered clause model which sees the clause as consisting of a nuclear predicate, core arguments, and peripheral arguments. The clause nucleus is discussed in chapter 5, along with aspect and directionals which are held to be operators over the clause nucleus. The clause core is considered in chapter 6 where the core arguments (i.e. Subject and Object) are defined. Modality, which expresses the intent or ability of the Actor of the predication to perform the action is discussed as the core-level operator. Chapter 7 completes the discussion of the clause by analyzing the peripheral argument~ (e.g. GOAL, LOCATION, etc.) and the operators which obtain to the entire clause (i.e. Status, which includes a realis irrealis continuum; Tense; and Illocutionary Force, which involves declarative, interrqgative, and imperative. Appendix A continues the discussion of the verbal Subject affixes presenting diachronic aspects of the problem. Appendix B presents a narrative text in Ambai and Appendix C provides a basic vocabulary list with the Proto-Austronesian roots from which the words are derived. References cited conclude the dissertation.
Training future teachers in natural sciences and mathematics by means of computer simulation: a social constructivist approach
Creators: name: Teplytskyi, Oleksandr
name: Teplytskyi, Illia
name: Semerikov, Serhiy
name: Soloviev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: K.3.1; J.4; I.6.8
subject: 97B50 (Primary), 97C30, 68U20 (Secondary)

description: The monograph defines the conditions of training of future teachers in natural sciences and mathematics by means of computer simulation, developed a structural-functional model of training, selected socio-constructivist forms of organization, methods and learning tools of computer modeling for future teachers of natural and mathematical disciplines.
description: 278 pages, in Ukrainian
Podalonia hirsuta
Creators: name: Yildirim, Erol
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Sphecidae
Podalonia
Podalonia hirsuta

description: Podalonia hirsuta (SCOPOLI, 1763)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Erzurum: Palandöken, 25.IX.2017, ♀, Uzundere, 1100 m, 17.VIII.2017, ♀; Denizli: 29.IV.2012, ♀; İzmir: Torbalı, 08.IV.1984, ♀.
 Podalonia tydei (LE GUILLOU, 1841)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: İzmir: Bornova, 24.X.1983, ♀.
description: Published as part of Yildirim, Erol & Tezcan, Serdar, 2018, New locality records of Crabronidae, Evaniidae, Ichneumonidae, Leucospidae, Mutillidae, Pompilidae, Sapygidae, Sphecidae, Tiphiidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) from Turkey, pp. 1707-1719 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275195
Anthrenus (Anthrenus) rotundulus Reitter 1889
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Háva, Jirí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dermestidae
Anthrenus
Anthrenus rotundulus

description: Anthrenus (Anthrenus) rotundulus Reitter, 1889
 Distribution in Iran: No locality cited (Háva 2003b, 2007a, 2015a; Tezcan et al. 2004; Herrmann et al. 2010; Bulak et al. 2013).
New material: Kerman province, Abaregh, Mohammadabad; Khuzestan province, Shusthar, Zeidun; Sistan and Baluchestan province, Tis (Háva coll.).
Distribution outside Iran: Armenia, Turkey, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan (Háva 2015a).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Háva, Jirí, 2017, A Checklist of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Iran, pp. 612-626 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on page 619, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.612, http://zenodo.org/record/5377449
Supplementary Tables from The role of humidity and metabolic status on lean mass catabolism in migratory Swainson's thrushes (Catharus ustulatus)
Creators: name: Groom, Derrick J. E.
name: Deakin, Jessica E.
name: M. Collette Lauzau
name: Gerson, Alexander R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Synthetic diet and output summaries of final statistical models.
Prehistoric human morphological variation in Australia
Creators: name: Pardoe, Colin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Aboriginal Australians Craniology
subject: Craniology Australia

description: This thesis seeks to account for patterns of variation of non-metric traits of the skull in Australian Aboriginal skeletal populations. Forty-five features are examined for variation in 38 samples, comprising over 2500 individuals. Two complementary methods are used to describe the data. These are logistic regression and cluster analysis. The former tests the concordance of trait variability to geography (longitude and latitude), 3 clinal effects (east and south coasts and Murray River), a comparison of islands to mainland Australia (Tasmania, Torres Strait and Melville) and an investigation of the relative importance of time and space variation in the Upper Murray. Cluster analysis of a pairwise distance matrix, calculated by the Mean Measure of Divergence, has been used to examine population affinities. Trait frequencies are significant., associated with factors of geography. These are interpretable as clines :;;panning the continent, the east coast and the River Murray. From the multivariate results, two major divisions are identified, a large northern and a much smaller southeastern zone. The River Murray stands out as a region of extreme diversity. The identification of small regional patterns as clines and clusters gives rise to an interpretation of variation based mainly on gen~ flow. It in suggested that diversity is the result of gene flow and the particular spatial relationships that restrict flow.
title: Quantitation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aquaculture Systems
Creators: name: Belunis, Amanda
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Aquaculture
subject: LC-MS/MS
subject: Liquid Chromatography
subject: Mass Spectrometry
subject: PFAS

description: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of synthetic chemicals that have been used since the 1940s in a wide variety of applications including water-repellant clothing, stain-resistant sprays, food packaging, and aqueous film forming foam (AFFF). Due to their prevalent use in consumer products, and their persistence in the environment, PFAS have leached into the air, soil, and water, leaving almost no ecosystem untouched. PFAS are known to be bioaccumulative and studies have shown potential links between exposure and several negative human health effects. A large focus has been placed on understanding and regulating PFAS exposure. Contaminated food and water are believed to be the main routes of exposure for the general population. It has been hypothesized that fish and seafood are one of the main dietary sources of exposure, as associations between consumption and PFAS serum concentrations have been observed globally. With efforts to improve environmental conservation and sustainability while keeping up with increasing demands for fish and seafood, aquaculture has grown rapidly since the 1980s. While numerous studies have shown the presence of PFAS in various environments, data regarding the compounds in aquaculture environments is scarce. In recent years, a large focus has been to reduce the potential for environmental interactions with coastal aquaculture facilities, leading to the increase in land-based marine and freshwater systems. There is currently a lack of understanding with regards to the presence of PFAS in aquaculture environments. As farmed fish continues to account for a large portion of fish for consumption, it is important to understand the fate and transport of PFAS in these environments, requiring proper analytical techniques to be developed. A liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed for the separation and detection of 40 target PFAS. Various solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges were selected and tested to determine the best extraction technique for the target analytes. Automated and manual SPE setups were compared, and the automated setup shows a statistically significant increase in average recovery and reproducibility. Instrument and method figures of merit show the sensitivity, reproducibility, and robustness of the developed method. The method was applied to a proof-of-concept study testing various types of aquaculture tanks across two facilities and PFAS were found in each of the samples tested.
Non-commutative Oscillators and the commutative limit
Creators: name: Muthukumar, B.
name: Mitra, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown in first order perturbation theory that anharmonic oscillators in non-commutative space behave smoothly in the commutative limit just as harmonic oscillators do. The non-commutativity provides a method for converting a problem in degenerate perturbation theory to a non-degenerate problem.
description: Latex, 6 pages, Minor changes and references added
Phradonoma muehlei Herrmann and Hava 2008
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Háva, Jirí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dermestidae
Phradonoma
Phradonoma muehlei

description: Phradonoma muehlei Herrmann and Háva, 2008
Distribution in Iran: Yazd (Dehbala) (Herrmann and Háva 2008).
New material: Isfahan province, Kameran (Herrmann coll.).
Distribution outside Iran: No data.
  Phradonoma nebulosum Háva, 2006  Distribution in Iran: Fars (Komehr) (Háva 2006). Distribution outside Iran: No data.
  Phradonoma nobile (Reitter, 1881)
 Distribution in Iran: Hormozgan (Isin), Kerman (Nosrat-Abad, Rafsanjan), Khuzestan (Ahwaz) (Háva 2006), Sistan and Baluchestan (Nikshahr) (Herrmann et al. 2010, on flowers of C. aurantifolia), no locality cited (Modarres Awal 1997; Háva 2003b, 2007a, 2015; Herrmann and Háva 2008).
Distribution outside Iran: Cyprus, England (introduced), Germany (introduced), Greece, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, India (Madhya Pradesh, Rajastan, Uttar Pradesh), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, USA (Arizona) (introduced) (Háva 2015a).
Hosts: Stored products (Modarres Awal 1997).
  Phradonoma pseudoamoenulum Herrmann and Háva, 2008
Distribution in Iran: Markazi (Tafresh) (Herrmann and Háva 2008).
Distribution outside Iran: No data.
  Phradonoma simile Háva, 2006
Distribution in Iran: Kuhgiloyeh and Boyerahmad (Yasuj) (Háva 2006).
622 New material: Isfahan province, Kashan (Qamsar); Razavi Khorasan, Bardeskan (Herrmann coll.).
Distribution outside Iran: No data.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Háva, Jirí, 2017, A Checklist of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Iran, pp. 612-626 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3) on pages 621-622, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.612, http://zenodo.org/record/5377449
Considering real-world sightline obstructions in crash and injury prevention estimates for left turn across path/opposite direction intersection active safety systems
Creators: name: Bareiss, Max
name: Hampton C. Gabler
name: Sherony, Rini
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous analyses of active safety systems in left turn across path/opposite direction (LTAP/OD) crashes have shown that sensor sightline obstructions might affect the performance of these systems. National retrospective crash databases provide little information about the proportion of cases which have sightline obstructions. One promising alternative are naturalistic driving studies (NDS). The objective of this study was to estimate the proportion of LTAP/OD crashes and near-crashes which have sightline obstructions using a large-scale NDS and update previous estimates of intersection active safety system effectiveness using this information. LTAP/OD crash and near-crash cases were identified from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) dataset. Each case was reviewed for the presence of obstructing vehicles when the left turning vehicle began turning. This study considered 241 crash and near-crash LTAP/OD events selected from SHRP 2. SHRP 2 was an NDS which collected 80 million kilometers of driving from approximately 2,500 participants over a 2.5 year period. The sightline obstruction ratio was defined as the proportion of cases which had sightline obstructions when the turning vehicle began turning. A logistic regression model was used to determine the statistical significance of factors which affected the sightline obstruction ratio, which included event severity, traffic control device, subject vehicle crash configuration, and turning lane presence. LTAP/OD active safety system effectiveness was quantified in a prior study for cases with and without sightline obstructions separately. System effectiveness was re-computed by weighting the results according to the worst-case sightline ratio computed in this study. Traffic control device, subject vehicle crash type (turning or traveling through), and turning lane presence were not found to affect sightline obstruction ratio. In crash cases, the sightline obstruction ratio was 40%. In near-crash cases, the sightline obstruction ratio was 18%. Finally, the effectiveness of an intersection active safety system was evaluated using this sightline obstruction ratio. This study quantified the sightline obstruction ratio, an important parameter needed to evaluate intersection active safety systems. This study also establishes a baseline for evaluating the presence of sightline obstructions in a future naturalistic driving study when road infrastructure has changed.
title: International Adoption Trends From South Korea to America from the 1990s to 2000s
Creators: name: Beyer, Emily
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Leading up to 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, Western media revealed just how many Korean children were sent overseas, along with the price point of these children. There has been intensive research that has been done covering these initial adoptees, specifically those adopted from the 1960s-1980s. And, they show that this initial wave of adoption was fueled by the concept of “Christian Americanism.” Although the more recent studies show remnants of these reasons for adoption from Korea, there is many more factors at work. Korean adoption never fully dissolved. International adoption from Korea is still ongoing, but the adoptees, themselves, are often left out of this narrative. They are pushed to the background of this adoption narrative leaving out a vital source of information. With the help of scholars works, adoptee interviews, and academic journals, the purpose of this study was to find a reason for the Korean adoptions heading into the 21st century.
Gymnomerus laevipes
Creators: name: Yildirim, Erol
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Gymnomerus
Gymnomerus laevipes

description: Gymnomerus laevipes (SHUCKARD, 1837)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Erzurum: Uzundere, Çağlayan, 960 m, N40°39’37.8" E041°40’33.3", 21.V.2016, ♀.
 Hemipterochilus bembeciformis (MORAWITZ, 1867)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: İzmir: Bornova, 25.IV.2009, ♀.
description: Published as part of Yildirim, Erol & Tezcan, Serdar, 2018, New locality records of Crabronidae, Evaniidae, Ichneumonidae, Leucospidae, Mutillidae, Pompilidae, Sapygidae, Sphecidae, Tiphiidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) from Turkey, pp. 1707-1719 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1716, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275195
Direct detections of Majorana dark matter in vector portal
Creators: name: Chao, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the direct detections of Majorana dark matter (MDM) in vector portal. Taking into account that the tree-level scattering cross sections in these models are either dark matter velocity suppressed or spin-dependent, we calculate radiative corrections to the spin-independent cross section in effective field theory approach. Wilson coefficients of effective MDM-quark interactions are calculated at the one-loop level, and the Wilson coefficient of the effective MDM-gluon interaction is derived at the two-loop level. Numerical results show that current constraints can rule out a narrow mass range of MDM when tree-level contributions are considered, and the spin-independent cross section from radiative corrections is reachable by the current direct detection technique for light MDM.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Simple Pulses for Universal Quantum Computation with a Heisenberg ABAB Chain
Creators: name: Benjamin, Simon C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Levy has shown that quantum computation can be performed using an ABAB.. chain of spin-1/2 systems with nearest-neighbor Heisenberg interactions. Levy notes that all necessary elementary computational `gates' can be achieved by using spin-resonance techniques involving modulating the spin-spin interaction strength at high frequency. Here we note that, as an alternative to that approach, it is possible to perform the elementary gates with simple, non-oscillatory pulses.
description: 3 pages including 2 figs
title: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF A THREE-STAGE 3D PRINTED TENSEGRITY ICOSAHEDRON STRUCTURE
Creators: name: Bharata, Abhinav
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Finite Element Analysys
subject: Matlab
subject: Nodal Displacement
subject: Tensegrity Structure
subject: Tension testing
subject: Three stage icosahedron structure

description: Tensegrity is a crucial factor in the progress of humanity in various domains, including architecture and biology. This work is centered on the tensegrity structure of an icosahedron configuration, which is also referred to as a diamond tensegrity. This structure consists of six bars in each stage, with four strings linked to each end of the bar, forming a diamond shape. A three-stage tensegrity-icosahedron (T-Icosahedron) structure, composed of 3D printed components, was studied. The entire structure contains a total of 72 strings and 18 bars manufactured from Ninja Flex and Polylactic acid material. A novel vibration-based method was developed to measure tensions in the strings in the structure. A Polytec laser vibrometer was utilized to accurately measure the tensions and calibrate the nodal coordinates of the structure. The study subsequently focuses on a finite element analysis technique to examine the natural frequencies of the structure and generate its mode shapes using MATLAB. The obtained results are then compared with those obtained from the commercial finite element program ANSYS. This work provides a thorough examination of the T-Icosahedron structure, as well as potential opportunities for additional investigation involving alterations in geometry and material composition of the structure.
Control of coherence resonance by self-induced stochastic resonance in a multiplex neural network
Creators: name: Marius, Yamakou E.
name: Jost, Juergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-layer multiplex network of diffusively coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) neurons in the excitable regime. It is shown, in contrast to SISR in a single isolated FHN neuron, that the maximum noise amplitude at which SISR occurs in the network of coupled FHN neurons is controllable, especially in the regime of strong coupling forces and long time delays. In order to use SISR in the first layer of the multiplex network to control CR in the second layer, we first choose the control parameters of the second layer in isolation such that in one case CR is poor and in another case, non-existent. It is then shown that a pronounced SISR cannot only significantly improve a poor CR, but can also induce a pronounced CR, which was non-existent in the isolated second layer. In contrast to strong intra-layer coupling forces, strong inter-layer coupling forces are found to enhance CR. While long inter-layer time delays just as long intra-layer time delays, deteriorates CR. Most importantly, we find that in a strong inter-layer coupling regime, SISR in the first layer performs better than CR in enhancing CR in the second layer. But in a weak inter-layer coupling regime, CR in the first layer performs better than SISR in enhancing CR in the second layer. Our results could find novel applications in noisy neural network dynamics and engineering.
Interpretable and Steerable Sequence Learning via Prototypes
Creators: name: Ming, Yao
name: Xu, Panpan
name: Qu, Huamin
name: Ren, Liu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the major challenges in machine learning nowadays is to provide predictions with not only high accuracy but also user-friendly explanations. Although in recent years we have witnessed increasingly popular use of deep neural networks for sequence modeling, it is still challenging to explain the rationales behind the model outputs, which is essential for building trust and supporting the domain experts to validate, critique and refine the model. We propose ProSeNet, an interpretable and steerable deep sequence model with natural explanations derived from case-based reasoning. The prediction is obtained by comparing the inputs to a few prototypes, which are exemplar cases in the problem domain. For better interpretability, we define several criteria for constructing the prototypes, including simplicity, diversity, and sparsity and propose the learning objective and the optimization procedure. ProSeNet also provides a user-friendly approach to model steering: domain experts without any knowledge on the underlying model or parameters can easily incorporate their intuition and experience by manually refining the prototypes. We conduct experiments on a wide range of real-world applications, including predictive diagnostics for automobiles, ECG, and protein sequence classification and sentiment analysis on texts. The result shows that ProSeNet can achieve accuracy on par with state-of-the-art deep learning models. We also evaluate the interpretability of the results with concrete case studies. Finally, through user study on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), we demonstrate that the model selects high-quality prototypes which align well with human knowledge and can be interactively refined for better interpretability without loss of performance.
description: Accepted as a full paper at KDD 2019 on May 8, 2019