cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Finite Chern-Simons matrix model - algebraic approach
Creators: name: Jonke, Larisa
name: Meljanac, Stjepan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the algebra of observables and the physical Fock space of the finite Chern-Simons matrix model. We observe that the minimal algebra of observables acting on that Fock space is identical to that of the Calogero model. Our main result is the identification of the states in the l-th tower of the Chern-Simons matrix model Fock space and the states of the Calogero model with the interaction parameter nu=l+1. We describe quasiparticle and quasihole states in the both models in terms of Schur functions, and discuss some nontrivial consequences of our algebraic approach.
description: 12pages, jhep cls, minor corrections
IQTISODIY SAVODXONLIK TA'LIMI BO'YICHA XALQARO TAJRIBALAR
Creators: name: Yusupova, Shohzoda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Boshlang‘ich sinf о‘quvchilarining yosh va psixologik xususiyatlari о‘qituvchidan alohida mas’uliyatni talab etadi. Ushbu maqolada iqtisodiy savodxonlik ta’limi bo’yicha dunyo olimlarining fikrlari va xalqaro tashkilotlar tomonidan ilgari surilgan ta’lim dasturlari haqida fikr yuritiladi.
IMPLEMENTАTIОN ОF SMАRT TRАNSPОRTАTIОN SYSTEMS IN SАMАRKАND REGIОN
Creators: name: Negmаtоv, S.Yu.
name: Sоliyev, А.T.
name: Nаzаrоv, А.M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In the аrticle, the issues оf implementing "Intellectuаl trаnspоrt systems" in the regiоnаl trаnspоrt system, preventing trаffic jаms, increаsing the efficiency оf the trаnspоrt infrаstructure аnd creаting cоnvenience fоr the pоpulаtiоn were cоnsidered.
Reconfigurable Control of a Class of Multicopters
Creators: name: Khan, Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal
name: Rajput, Jahanzeb
name: Riaz, Jamshed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, a reconfigurable control scheme for a generalized class of multicopters is presented to overcome single or multiple rotor failures. In a multicopter, the rotor failure heavily affects its dynamics and thus its controllability. Limited controllability leads to limited or no reconfigurability. \emph{Available Control Authority Index} has been recently developed \cite{Du2015} as a measure of controllability of multicopters. In this work, the notion of \emph{Available Reduced-Control Authority Index} (ArCAI) is introduced, which shows that in some uncontrollable failures it is still possible to control reduced set of states. Based on this notion, a reconfigurable control scheme is presented, which comprises a \emph{Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion} based baseline control law, a constrained control allocation scheme along with some modifications to incorporate reconfiguration, and a simplified fault detection and isolation technique. Simulation results for a commonly used configuration of Hexacopter are presented in the presence of single and multiple rotor failures.
Speed-vs-Accuracy Tradeoff in Collective Estimation: An Adaptive Exploration-Exploitation Case
Creators: name: Raoufi, Mohsen
name: Hamann, Heiko
name: Romanczuk, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The tradeoff between accuracy and speed is considered fundamental to individual and collective decision-making. In this paper, we focus on collective estimation as an example of collective decision-making. The task is to estimate the average scalar intensity of a desired feature in the environment. The solution we propose consists of exploration and exploitation phases, where the switching time is a factor dictating the balance between the two phases. By decomposing the total accuracy into bias and variance, we explain that diversity and social interactions could promote the accuracy of the collective decision. We also show how the exploration-vs-exploitation tradeoff relates to the speed-vs-accuracy tradeoff. One significant finding of our work is that there is an optimal duration for exploration to compromise between speed and accuracy. This duration cannot be determined offline for an unknown environment. Hence, we propose an adaptive, distributed mechanism enabling individual agents to decide in a decentralized manner when to switch. Moreover, the spatial consequence of the exploitation phase is an emergent collective movement, leading to the aggregation of the collective at the iso-contours of the mean intensity of the environmental field in the spatial domain. Examples of potential applications for such a fully distributed collective estimation model are spillage capturing and source localization.
Investigating the Generation and Reaction of Organoaluminiums in Marine Container Refrigeration Systems
Creators: name: Slaughter, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Organometallic
Aluminium
Organoaluminium
NMR
Crystallography
Refrigeration

description: The unexpected presence of chloromethane in marine container refrigeration systems has led to multiple explosions reported around the world. This is thought to occur due to the generation of methylaluminium chlorides, from the reaction of aluminium with chloromethane, which can then react with the refrigeration oil. This work investigated the generation of organoaluminiums and their subsequent reaction with refrigeration oils. Initial work focused on determining the composition of two industrial refrigeration oils. They analysed as a polyolester (POE) and a polyvinyl ether (PVE). To investigate the reaction of these oils with organoaluminiums, reactions were attempted using simple models of the oils, based on esters and ethers. The reaction of monoesters with organoaluminiums resulted in ester cleavage when reacted with TMA, Me2AlCl or Me1.5AlCl1.5. The products of these reactions revealed that the ester had undergone addition of two methyl groups to form organoaluminium alkoxides. In addition, reactions involving Me2AlCl or Me1.5AlCl1.5 both revealed elimination from the dimethylated species above 60 °C, producing alkenes and methane. To further model the POE oil, two tetraesters were synthesised. Reactions of these tetraesters with organoaluminiums revealed similar reactivity to that seen with monoesters, with ester cleavage observed with TMA, Me2AlCl or Me1.5AlCl1.5. This ester cleavage was also demonstrated with the POE refrigeration oil. Reactions between ethers, models for the PVE oil, and organoaluminiums were then attempted. Whilst most ether-organoaluminium combinations revealed only adduct formation, some led to elimination of the ether to give an organoaluminium alkoxide, an alkene and methane. The PVE oil underwent elimination when reacted with Me2AlCl or MeAlCl2 at elevated temperatures. The reaction of the refrigeration oils with in situ formed organoaluminiums was achieved by combining aluminium, chloromethane and the refrigeration oil in a sealed vessel. Both oils revealed decomposition, with similar reactivity to that seen for the model systems. This oil decomposition is clearly a concern when applied to marine container refrigeration systems as the reaction products cannot provide the same lubrication as the refrigeration oil. Also, the production of alkenes and methane is potentially hazardous due to their flammable nature.
description: Funded by Cambridge Refrigeration Technology and Maersk
Transverse Spin: HERMES Results and Future Plans
Creators: name: Makins, N. C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results from the HERMES experiment are presented on single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive hadron production from longitudinally polarized targets. The data are compared with a number of theoretical calculations which relate the azimuthal dependence of the asymmetries to the transversity structure function h_1(x).
description: 9 pages, 4 figures requiring 9 EPS files, contribution to the European Workshop On The QCD Structure Of The Nucleon (QCD-N'02), to be published in Nucl. Phys. A
WATCH: Wasserstein Change Point Detection for High-Dimensional Time Series Data
Creators: name: Faber, Kamil
name: Corizzo, Roberto
name: Sniezynski, Bartlomiej
name: Baron, Michael
name: Japkowicz, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting relevant changes in dynamic time series data in a timely manner is crucially important for many data analysis tasks in real-world settings. Change point detection methods have the ability to discover changes in an unsupervised fashion, which represents a desirable property in the analysis of unbounded and unlabeled data streams. However, one limitation of most of the existing approaches is represented by their limited ability to handle multivariate and high-dimensional data, which is frequently observed in modern applications such as traffic flow prediction, human activity recognition, and smart grids monitoring. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by proposing WATCH, a novel Wasserstein distance-based change point detection approach that models an initial distribution and monitors its behavior while processing new data points, providing accurate and robust detection of change points in dynamic high-dimensional data. An extensive experimental evaluation involving a large number of benchmark datasets shows that WATCH is capable of accurately identifying change points and outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
Appendix S4 from Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf habitat selection study designs
Creators: name: O'Neil, Shawn T.
name: Beyer, Dean E.
name: Bump, Joseph K.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Preliminary model reduction to remove correlated and unnecessary predictor variable
Modelling text meta-properties in automated text scoring for non-native English writing
Creators: name: Zhang, Meng
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Automated Text Scoring
Natural Language Processing
Machine learning
Multi-domain learning

description: Automated text scoring (ATS) is the task of automatically scoring a text based on some given grading criteria. This thesis focuses on ATS in the context of free-text writing exams aimed at learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The benefit of an ATS system is primarily to provide instant and consistent feedback to language learners, and service reliability also forms a crucial part of an ATS system. Based on previous work, we investigated only partially explored meta-properties in text and integrated them into a machine learning based ATS model across multiple datasets: In most previous work, the proposed models implicitly assume that texts produced by learners in an exam are written independently. However, this is not true for the exams where learners are required to compose multiple texts. We hence explicitly instructed our model which texts are written by the same learner, which boosts model performance in most cases. We used three intra-exam properties within the same exam including prompt, genre and task as a starting point, and we showed that explicitly modelling these properties via frustratingly easy domain adaptation (FEDA) can positively affect model performance in some cases. Furthermore, modelling multiple intra-exam properties together is better than modelling any single property individually or no property in four out of five test sets. We studied how to utilise and combine learners' responses from multiple writing exams. We also proposed a new variant of the transfer-learning ATS model which mitigates the drawbacks of previous work. This variant first builds a ranking model across multiple datasets via FEDA, and the ranking score of each text predicted by the ranking model is used as an extra feature in the baseline model. This variants gives improvement compared to a baseline model on the development sets in terms of root-mean-square error. Furthermore, the transfer-learning model utilising multiple datasets tuned on each development set is always better than the baseline model on the corresponding test set. We found that different datasets favour different meta properties. We therefore combined all the models looking at different meta properties together using ensemble learning. Compared to the baseline model, the combined model has a statistically significant improvement on all the test sets in terms of root-mean-square error based on a permutation test.
description: The Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment
A Bio-Economy of Governance
Creators: name: Harvey, David
name: Harvey, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Public Economics
subject: Governance
subject: Evolution
subject: Social Systems
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Taxonomy
subject: Transactions

description: Repeated calls for interdisciplinary research and communication, both within social science and between social, natural and physical scientists, as well as with the rest of the world, frequently meet a fundamental problem: there is no commonly accepted framework or common language within and through which to integrate the largely separate social understandings generated by our social sciences. This paper is an attempt to outline a possible framework, in the hope that it might stimulate debate about why this conception is wrong or how it is incomplete, and so to develop a more generally acceptable common story. The premises of this speculation are: social systems exist – there are understandable processes by which we live, capable of both theoretical and empirical exploration through which to develop better rules and tools for living; these social systems evolve by adaptation, invention and replication to better fit their contexts and circumstances, through the characters and cultures of people, interacting through social transactions. As a consequence, we would expect to observe, following the natural world, identifiable phyla of social transactions and interactions – a taxonomy of social systems. This taxonomy should be capable of retrodiction - plausible explanation of how and why these transactions came to be, and how they correspond to contemporary analysis. This conjecture identifies a plausible taxonomy and an outline evolutionary story of the emergence of the major transactional phyla.
Appendix S3 from Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf habitat selection study designs
Creators: name: O'Neil, Shawn T.
name: Beyer, Dean E.
name: Bump, Joseph K.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Candidate landscape variables in spatiotemporal habitat selection function (HSF) models, Michigan wolves 1994 – 2013
Efficiency enhancement of ultrathin CIGS solar cells by optimal bandgap grading
Creators: name: Ahmad, Faiz
name: Anderson, Tom H.
name: Monk, Peter B.
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The power conversion efficiency of an ultrathin CIGS solar cell was maximized using a coupled optoelectronic model to determine the optimal bandgap grading of the nonhomogeneous CIGS layer in the thickness direction. The bandgap of the CIGS layer was either sinusoidally or linearly graded, and the solar cell was modeled to have a metallic backreflector corrugated periodically along a fixed direction in the plane. The model predicts that specially tailored bandgap grading can significantly improve the efficiency, with much smaller improvements due to the periodic corrugations. An efficiency of 27.7% with the conventional 2200-nm-thick CIGS layer is predicted with sinusoidal bandgap grading, in comparison to 22% efficiency obtained experimentally with homogeneous bandgap. Furthermore, the inclusion of sinusoidal grading increases the predicted efficiency to 22.89% with just a 600-nm-thick CIGS layer. These high efficiencies arise due to a large electron-hole-pair generation rate in the narrow-bandgap regions and the elevation of the open-circuit voltage due to a wider bandgap in the region toward the front surface of the CIGS layer. Thus, bandgap nonhomogeneity, in conjunction with periodic corrugation of the backreflector, can be effective in realizing ultrathin CIGS solar cells that can help overcome the scarcity of indium.
Appendix S1 from Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf habitat selection study designs
Creators: name: O'Neil, Shawn T.
name: Beyer, Dean E.
name: Bump, Joseph K.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: A simulation of conceptual used & available resource distributions under assumptions of strong territoriality and population growth
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES: THE CASE OF MEXICO
Creators: name: Holguin-Pando, Cristina
name: Phillips, Peter
name: Holguin-Pando, Cristina
name: Phillips, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: technology transfer
subject: transitional economies
subject: innovation
subject: Mexico
subject: R&D

description: Knowledge creation and mobilization is the economic driver of industrial economies, yet developing countries moving from a developing, to a developed economy, are struggling through this transition period. A variety of theories and a range of speculations have been offered as to why some nations are more innovative than others however, little of this literature examines the theoretical applicability of innovation theory based on industrial societies to developing nations. This thesis examines the theoretical rationale for applying technology transfer models developed on experiences from industrial economies to the market realities of transitional economies. In the fifteen years since the 1994-95 collapse of Mexico‟s financial sector and resulting economic crisis, the Mexican economy has made impressive progress towards macro-economic consolidation and stability. The OECD (2004) observes that inflation has fallen from a rate ranging around 50% before and during the economic collapse of 1995, to a rate of about 4% in 2006. Trade liberalization that has been experienced as a partner in the North American Free Trade Agreement has allowed Mexico to consolidate its export base and to specialize in medium- and high-technology manufacturing. However, the industrial sector in Mexico still shows a lack of interest in developing, adopting and investing in technology. The Mexican industrial sector is lead by multinational firms that have located in Mexico due to the cheap costs of labour, while most of the research and development performed by these firms takes place outside of Mexico. Innovation and technology transfer are fundamental components that drive the knowledge economy. As countries transition from developing countries to developed countries, technology transfer plays an important role in facilitating this transition. In Mexico, technology transfer is not efficient. This thesis explores the national system of innovation in Mexico by contrasting the technology transfer process against the theoretical rationale of technology transfer. This highlights the crucial barriers and challenges of the Mexican technology transfer process that will need to be addressed to facilitate Mexico's transition to the developed world.
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, qui assujettit le Magistrat de Tournai à fournir un emplacement convenable au Greffier du Bailliage, pour y faire les devoirs de son état
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire
Auxiliaire de justice

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: created: 19/06/2018
description: created: 03/02/1673
Study of the Phenotypic Characteristics and Genetic Risk Factors of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Creators: name: Srivastava, Brijesh
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: phenotypic characteristics

description: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a progressive chronic cholestatic liver disease, affecting young males predominantly. It causes stricturing of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts, often leading to biliary cirrhosis, with an increased risk of colorectal and hepato-biliary malignancy. It is commonly associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Specific medical therapy is ineffective and for patients who develop end-stage liver disease, liver transplantation remains the only definitive treatment option. The UK PSC study was set up in 2008 to recruit patients with PSC, to collect clinical data and DNA samples, to study phenotypic characteristics and the role of genetic risk factors in PSC. To date, more than 2,000 patients have been recruited from UK hospitals, making it the largest independent PSC cohort worldwide. I studied the phenotypic characteristics of the cohort and identified an increased risk of requiring liver transplantation in patients with both intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct disease, in comparison to those with disease limited to intrahepatic ducts. Further study of the clinical and laboratory parameters, helped develop a UK PSC risk score, which allowed risk stratification of patients with PSC at the time of diagnosis. I performed a replication/candidate gene study followed by a genome wide association study in a cohort of 1,030 and 1,020 patients respectively with 5,162 controls. Genome-wide signficant association was identified at two novel loci: 10p15 and 12q24, containing candidate genes Il2RA and SH2B3/ATXN2 respectively. These genes have important roles in adaptive immune pathways, implicating an immue mediated disease process in the pathogenesis of PSC. As part of UK PSC, I also contributed to two large scale genome wide association studies in an international collaboration, which identified 13 novel loci associated with PSC. The UK PSC cohort is a unique national resource of patients with PSC and further deep phenotyping and quality of life studies are planned, in addition to undertaking clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents. The study of phenotypic characteristics and genetic association, undertaken in patients with PSC are described in this thesis.
description: UK PSC support group Norwegian PSC charity
The Mechanics of Layered Foam
Creators: name: Boyce, Adam
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Foam
Sandwich structure
Residual stress
Indentation
Polymer
Layered structure

description: This thesis contributes to the understanding of the mechanical response of layered and hybrid foam structures, such as the sandwich beam, and protective plates comprising foamed and solid materials. These materials may find applications ranging from critical structural members in aircraft wings and hulls of ships, to the packaging industry as well as protective components in bike helmets or dashboards of cars. The thesis may be broadly split in two parts. Part I considers the influence of residual stress on the elastic indentation mode of collapse of a sandwich beam whilst the effect of residual stress on the elastic limit is also explored. Both are explored by the formulation of analytical models and subsequent numerical models and experiments. The elastic indentation collapse mode increases or decreases in the presence of a tensile or compressive residual stress. The elastic limit of a sandwich beam in bending is dictated by the occurrence of three competing mechanisms and the presence of residual stress, compressive or tensile, is found to negatively affect the load carrying capacity due to earlier yielding of the sandwich beam. In Part II, the plane strain indentation response of a polycarbonate (PC) face sheet adhered to a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) foam substrate is measured. The deformation response is modelled by finite element simulations and, together with experimental observations, an analytical model is synthesised. The model assumes elastic membrane stretching of a face sheet on an elastic, perfectly-plastic foam foundation, and includes the role of shear-lag between face sheet and foam substrate. Finally, a parametric finite element study is performed on the indentation of a PC plate attached to a foam foundation consisting of a high-density PVC foam foundation which is in turn attached to a foundation of low-density foam. The purpose of such a hybrid material is to protect a structure underneath the foam foundation, whilst also providing similar indentation resistance at reduced weight.
description: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, award number 1463953, SABIC
The Pulsar Wind Nebula in G11.2-0.3
Creators: name: Roberts, Mallory S. E.
name: Tam, Cindy R.
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Lyutikov, Maxim
name: Vasisht, Gautam
name: Pivovaroff, Michael
name: Gotthelf, Eric V.
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an X-ray and radio study of the wind nebula surrounding the central pulsar PSR J1811-1925 in the supernova remnant G11.2-0.3. Using high resolution data obtained with the Chandra X-ray observatory and with the VLA radio telescope we show the X-ray and radio emission is asymmetric around the pulsar, despite the latter's central position in the very circular shell. The new X-ray data allow us to separate the synchrotron emission of the pulsar wind nebula from the surrounding thermal emission and that from the pulsar itself. Based on X-ray data from two epochs, we observe temporal variation of the location of X-ray hot spots near the pulsar, indicating relativistic motion. We compare thermal emission observed within the shell, which may be associated with the forward shock of the pulsar wind nebula, to thermal emission from a nearby portion of the remnant shell, the temperature of which implies an expansion velocity consistent with the identification of the remnant with the historical event of 386 A.D. The measured X-ray and radio spectral indices of the nebula synchrotron emission are found to be consistent with a single synchrotron cooling break. The magnetic field implied by the break frequency is anomalously large given the apparent size and age of the nebula if a spherical morphology is assumed, but is consistent with a bipolar morphology.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Stenoloba benedeki Ronkay 2001
Creators: name: Han, H. L.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba benedeki

description: Stenoloba benedeki Ronkay, 2001
(Figs. 6, 29)
 Stenoloba benedeki Ronkay, 2001, Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationals Hungarici. 93: 226, fig. 4–5, Type locality: N Vietnam, Mt. Fan-si-pan, Chapa, 1600–1800m, Holotype: male, preserved in HNHM, Budapest.
 Material examined. 1 male, China, Prov. Shaanxi West Tien-mu-shan Mts., 30.iv.1932 (H. Höne).
 Diagnosis. The species (Fig. 6) is characterized by pale olive-green forewing coloration and wing pattern with distinct basal line and dentate, somewhat diffused antemedial line; subterminal line diffused. In male genitalia (Fig. 29) uncus developed, flat; valva relatively narrow, with sclerotized bar of clasper, armed on the apex with few short spines. Female genitalia described by Ronkay (2001). S. benedeki with its allies S. olivacea Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000 and S. futii Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000 form a group of species. The last two have not yet been found in China. Our record of S. benedeki in an old collection from Prov. Shaanxi significantly extends the distribution of the species northwards.
 Distribution. Central China (Prov. Shaanxi, first record), North Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2009, A review of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China, with description of 6 new species and 7 new records for China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2268 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2268.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5306321
EU BIOFUEL POLICIES: A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME COLLATERAL IMPACTS
Creators: name: Kavallari, Aikaterini
name: Gay, Hubertus
name: Burrell, Alison M.
name: Kavallari, Aikaterini
name: Gay, Hubertus
name: Burrell, Alison M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Indirect land use change
subject: global distribution
subject: sustainability
subject: price volatility
subject: stock management

description: The EU's Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28) set an overall target to source 20% of EU energy needs from renewables by 2020. As part of this target, each member state has to achieve at least 10% of their transport fuel consumption from biofuels. The Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28) and the Fuel Quality Directive (2009/30) set out sustainability criteria for biofuel production and procedures for verifying that these criteria are met. Sustainability can be more easily monitored, the greater the share of the land use impacts occur within the EU. This paper investigates two impacts of the biofuel target using the AGLINK-COSIMO model. First, we quantify the net global increase in cropped land resulting from this policy, and examine how its size and geographic changes with the elimination of EU biofuel tariffs. Second, the complex interaction between world price volatility, higher biomass demand and a global stock management is explored.
Not Color Blind: Using Multiband Photometry to Classify Supernovae
Creators: name: Poznanski, Dovi
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Maoz, Dan
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Leonard, Douglas C.
name: Matheson, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large numbers of supernovae (SNe) have been discovered in recent years, and many more will be found in the near future. Once discovered, further study of a SN and its possible use as an astronomical tool (e.g., as a distance estimator) require knowledge of the SN type. Current classification methods rely almost solely on the analysis of SN spectra to determine their type. However, spectroscopy may not be possible or practical when SNe are faint, numerous, or discovered in archival studies. We present a classification method for SNe based on the comparison of their observed colors with synthetic ones, calculated from a large database of multi-epoch optical spectra of nearby events. We discuss the capabilities and limitations of this method. For example, type Ia SNe at redshifts z < 0.1 can be distinguished from most other SN types during the first few weeks of their evolution, based on V-R vs. R-I colors. Type II-P SNe have distinct (very red) colors at late (t > 100 days) stages. Broadband photometry through standard Johnson-Cousins $UBVRI$ filters can be useful to classify SNe out to z ~ 0.6. The use of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ugriz filters allows the extension of our classification method to even higher redshifts (z = 0.75), and the use of infrared bands, to z = 2.5. We demonstrate the application of this method to a recently discovered SN from the SDSS. Finally, we outline the observational data required to further improve the sensitivity of the method, and discuss prospects for its use on future SN samples. Community access to the tools developed is provided by a dedicated website (http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~dovip/typing) .
description: To appear in the August 2002 issue of PASP, improved webtool for plotting SN evolution curves in color-color space at arbitrary redshift at http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~dovip/typing
MODELLING INDIRECT LAND USE EFFECTS OF BIOFUELS:
Creators: name: Laborde, David
name: Valin, Hugo
name: Laborde, David
name: Valin, Hugo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuels
subject: iLUC
subject: Land Use Change
subject: Computable General Equilibrium
subject: Agricultural Trade Policies.

description: With the growing concerns of stakeholders regarding the environmental impacts of ethanol and biodiesel development, the quantitative assessment of biofuel policies virtues played an increasingly important role in the public debate. Numerous studies have tried to compute the indirect land use effects (iLUC) of the incremental crops demand for bioenergy, aiming to provide policymakers precise values for the iLUC coefficients. However, due to many uncertainties, these estimates have been criticised. In this paper, we show that models are still relevant for conceptualisation and understanding of problems as complicated as biofuel policies and among other aspects, iLUC issues. In particular, if doubts remain – and will remain – on the exact values of iLUC coefficients, the conclusions related to key policy options, such as what biofuel type to prefer and what trade policy to adopt, appears quite robust and should be the focus of larger attention.
MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR URETERAL STONES IN EXTRAGENITAL PATHOLOGIES
Creators: name: Sadikova, D.I.
name: Isroilov, M.U.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The increase in interest in the treatment of urolitiasis is primarily associated with the widespread introduction into clinical practice of devices for remote lithotripsy, nephro- and ureteroscopes, laparoscopic equipment, which often puts the urologist before choosing the optimal method of treating patients with this pathology [1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16].
Cooper-Pair Tunneling in Small Josephson Junction Arrays under Radio-Frequency Irradiation
Creators: name: Kanyolo, Godwill Mbiti
name: Takeda, Kouichi
name: Mizugaki, Yoshinao
name: Kato, Takeo
name: Shimada, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of radio frequency microwaves on the Coulomb blockade characteristics in small Josephson junctions was studied using a one-dimensional array of ten small Al tunnel junctions in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 1000 MHz. Coulomb blockade voltage ($V_{\rm th}$) is diminished with increasing microwave power ($V_{\rm ac}$), where the $V_{\rm th}$-$V_{\rm ac}$ plots for varied frequencies fall on a single curve. We observed and theoretically analyzed a magnetic field $dependent$ renormalization of the applied microwave power, in addition to a magnetic-field $independent$ renormalization effect explained using an effective circuit approach of the array. Due to its high sensitivity to microwave power, the array is well-suited for on-chip detection applications in low temperature environments.
description: 17 pages, 6 Figures, 1 table
Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
Creators: name: Hanebaum, Simone
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Early Modern England
The Reformation
Memory
Identity
Masculinity
Archives
Monuments

description: This study examines how manuscript and print culture functioned as a site of memory and commemoration in early modern England, creating ‘textual monuments’ to individuals, families, and communities. This dissertation shifts scholarly attention from genre and the structures of texts to the commemorative function of a vast array of texts, from diaries to parish histories, to demonstrate the profound impact of identity, religious change, collection, selection and interpretation, and memory on the creation of these textual monuments. This shift of focus to commemorative intent circumvents the pitfalls of genre-driven analysis and encourages a holistic and interdisciplinary study of memory in early modern England. The thesis demonstrates how the term ‘monument’ diversified and came to take on new meanings. Increasingly, it was used to refer to texts and writing in the post-Reformation period. These changes were in part driven by religious change wrought by the Reformation. The decline of purgatory and traditional religion and the rise of Protestant predestinarian and providential belief shifted the purpose of commemoration to edification of the living. This shift, alongside the rise of literacy and expansion of print culture, shaped what was commemorated about the dead, allowed new forms of commemorative texts to emerge, and created new meanings and interpretive frameworks for existing textual monuments, particularly a return to the biblical tradition of memorialising the grace and power of God. The thesis argues that textual monuments not only commemorated the masculine ideals of the patriarchal householder but also that their creation was an act of masculinity articulating a man’s responsibilities for posterity. Finally, the examination of civic, parochial, and personal archives suggests that the archive was inherently monumental and subject to the negotiation of power and authority through processes of selection, transcription, accessibility, and that it commemorated its compilers alongside the communities for which it was created.
description: Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Cambridge Trust
Adaptive Learning of Aggregate Analytics under Dynamic Workloads
Creators: name: Savva, Fotis
name: Anagnostopoulos, Christos
name: Triantafillou, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large organizations have seamlessly incorporated data-driven decision making in their operations. However, as data volumes increase, expensive big data infrastructures are called to rescue. In this setting, analytics tasks become very costly in terms of query response time, resource consumption, and money in cloud deployments, especially when base data are stored across geographically distributed data centers. Therefore, we introduce an adaptive Machine Learning mechanism which is light-weight, stored client-side, can estimate the answers of a variety of aggregate queries and can avoid the big data backend. The estimations are performed in milliseconds are inexpensive and accurate as the mechanism learns from past analytical-query patterns. However, as analytic queries are ad-hoc and analysts' interests change over time we develop solutions that can swiftly and accurately detect such changes and adapt to new query patterns. The capabilities of our approach are demonstrated using extensive evaluation with real and synthetic datasets.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
The International Coffee Agreement: a Tax on Coffee Producers and Consumers?
Creators: name: Bohman, Mary
name: Jarvis, Lovell
name: Bohman, Mary
name: Jarvis, Lovell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Political Economy

description: The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) used export quotas to restrict coffee trade in order to increase and stabilize the international price. A model of domestic pricing policy is developed which shows that the producer price should have fallen in response to ICA quotas. Econometric analysis supports the hypothesis that use of quotas resulted in lower producer prices in most coffee producing countries. The income lost by producers was largely captured by governments and/or exporters to whom the governments assigned quota rights. Since coffee is produced by small farmers in most exporting countries, income distribution within those countries probably worsened.
Stenoloba lichenosella Kononenko & Ronkay 2001
Creators: name: Han, H. L.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba lichenosella

description: Stenoloba lichenosella Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001
(Figs. 12, 27, 43)
 Stenoloba lichenosella Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001, Insecta Koreana, 18(2): 100, fig. 6, 27. Type locality: North Vietnam, Tam Dao, 1200 m. Holotype: male, preserved in ZFMK, Bonn.
 Material examined. 1 male, Prov. Jiangxi, Dayu, 18.vii.1975 (coll. B.L. Zhang); 1 male, Prov. Jiangxi, Dayu, 18.vi.1977; 2 female, Prov. Fujian, Taipingqiao, 21, 22.v. I 1989 (coll. S.C. Qi); 1 male, Aut. Reg. Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 13.vi.2000 (coll. W.Z. Li); 5 males, 1 female, Aut. Reg. Guangxi, Napo, Defu, 19.vi.2000 (coll. J. Yao & J. Chen); 3 males, Prov. Yunnan, Pur, 14.vi.2007 (coll. H.L. Han).
 Diagnosis. The species and its ally S. lichenosa, described from Taiwan, represent a pairs of siblings whose external features are rather remote from other species of the genus. They resemble most dark specimens of S. manley, but differ by prominent grass-green tint. S. lichenosella (Fig. 12) is externally close to S. lichenosa, but can be distinguished by the male genitalia. S. lichenosella (Fig. 27) has, compared with S. lichenosa, somewhat wider uncus, more robust valva with broader, but shorter distal saccular lobe; more sclerotized, narrower distal part of valva; short ventral extension and two small, but strong spines at apex; the shape of aedeagus and vesica are also different. The species has been described from a single male from North Vietnam (Kononenko & Ronkay 2001). Our data significantly extend its known distribution. The female genitalia are described below.
 Female genitalia (Fig. 43). Ovipositor rather short; apophyses anteriores and posteriores equal in length; antrum medium long, flattened, with stronger medial sclerotization; ductus bursae long, narrower than in S. lichenosella, flattened, sclerotized; cervix bursae relatively short, but stronger than in S. lichenosella, heavily sclerotized, folded; corpus bursae somewhat shorter than in S. lichenosella, sacciform, membranous.
 Distribution. South China (Provinces Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Aut. Reg. Guangxi, first record), North Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2009, A review of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China, with description of 6 new species and 7 new records for China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2268 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2268.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5306321
An Unpublished Debate Brought to Light: Karl Popper's Enterprise against the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Del Santo, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Karl Popper published, in 1968, a paper that allegedly found a flaw in a very influential article of Birkhoff and von Neumann, which pioneered the field of "quantum logic". Nevertheless, nobody rebutted Popper's criticism in print for several years. This has been called in the historiographical literature an "unsolved historical issue". Although Popper's proposal turned out to be merely based on misinterpretations and was eventually abandoned by the author himself, this paper aims at providing a resolution to such historical open issues. I show that (i) Popper's paper was just the tip of an iceberg of a much vaster campaign conducted by Popper against quantum logic (which encompassed several more unpublished papers that I retrieved); and (ii) that Popper's paper stimulated a heated debate that remained however confined within private correspondence.
description: 17 pages, 1 table. Contains the reproduction of an unpublished rebut to Popper's 1968 paper on quantum logic (as figures in Appendix). Accepted for publication in Studies on History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Synthesis, characterization and modeling of high quality ferromagnetic Cr-doped AlN thin films
Creators: name: Wu, Stephen Y.
name: Liu, H. X.
name: Gu, Lin
name: Singh, R. K.
name: Budd, L.
name: van Schilfgaarde, M.
name: McCartney, M. R.
name: Smith, David J.
name: Newman, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a theoretical and experimental investigation of Cr-doped AlN. Density functional calculations predict that the isolated Cr t2 defect level in AlN is 1/3 full, falls approximately at midgap, and broadens into an impurity band for concentrations over 5%. Substitutional Al1-xCrxN random alloys with 0.05 <= x <= 0.15 are predicted to have Curie temperatures over 600 K. Experimentally, we have characterized and optimized the molecular beam epitaxy thin film growth process, and observed room temperature ferromagnetism with a coercive field, Hc, of 120 Oersted. The measured magnetic susceptibility indicates that over 33% of the Cr is magnetically active at room temperature and 40% at low temperature.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, submitted to APL
A Worldsheet Description of Large N_c Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Bardakci, Korkut
name: Thorn, Charles B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N_c to infinity limit of a matrix quantum field theory is equivalent to summing only planar Feynman diagrams. The possibility of interpreting this sum as some kind world-sheet theory has been in the air ever since 't Hooft's original paper. We establish here just such a world sheet description for a scalar quantum field with interaction term g\Trϕ^3, and we indicate how the approach might be extended to more general field theories.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, latex, typos corrected, references added, interpretation of ghost determinant clarified