cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraints on the Spacetime Dynamics of an Early Dark Energy Component
Creators: name: Khoraminezhad, Hasti
name: Viel, Matteo
name: Baccigalupi, Carlo
name: Archidiacono, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an Early Dark Energy (EDE) cosmological model, and perform an analysis which takes into account both background and perturbation effects via the parameters $c^{2}_{\rm eff}$ and $c^{2}_{\rm vis}$, representing effective sound speed and viscosity, respectively. By using the latest available data we derive constraints on the amount of dark energy at early times and the present value of the equation of state. Our focus is on the effect that early dark energy has on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, including polarization and lensing, in a generalized parameter space including a varying total neutrino mass, and tensor to scalar ratio, besides the 6 standard parameters of the minimal cosmological model. We find that the inclusion of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data and CMB lensing significantly improves the constraints on the EDE parameters, while other high redshift data like the Quasar Hubble diagram and the Lyman-$α$ forest BAO have instead a negligible impact. We find $Ω_{\rm eDE} < 0.00391 $ and $w_{0} < -0.9500 $ at the $95 \%$ C.L. for EDE accounting for its clustering through the inclusion of perturbation dynamics. This limit becomes weaker $Ω_{\rm eDE} < 0.00337$ if perturbations are neglected. The constraints on the EDE parameters are remarkably stable even when $Σm_ν$, and $r$ parameters are varied, with weak degeneracies between $Ω_{\rm eDE}$ and $r$ or $Σm_ν$. Perturbation parameters are not constrained with current data sets, and tensions between the CMB derived $H_0$ and $σ_8$ values and those measured with local probes are not eased. This work demonstrates the capability of CMB probes to constrain the total amount of EDE well below the percent level.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables. comments welcomed. In v2: new tables added on the impact of EDE and perturbation parameters on CMB spectrum, and on the effect of neutrino mass and tensor to scalar ratio. v2 matches version published in JCAP
Lycodon davisonii
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Lycodon
Lycodon davisonii

description: Lycodon davisonii (Blanford, 1878) — Erroneous.
Blanford’s Bridle Snake
Singapore records.
No published records.
Remarks. Specimen ZMUC-R603482 has the location “ Singapore?” inscribed on its specimen tag. One of us examined photographs of the specimen and confirmed that it is indeed L. davisonii (A. Figueroa pers. obs.). As L. davisonii ranges from Bhutan east to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam (Wallach et al. 2014), then the locality of the specimen is incorrect.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. ZMUC.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 268, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Modeling the environmental safety management system using multiphase disperse structures in the explosion of methane-air mixture and coal dust in underground drifts of coal mines
Creators: name: Skob, Yurii
name: S.A. Vambol
name: N.V. Nechiporuk
name: O.A. Trukhmaev
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 80205 Numerical Computation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91502 Computational Heat Transfer

description: В настоящей работе рассмотрена математическая модель процесса взрыва облака метано-воздушной смеси и угольной пыли в подземных горных выработках угольных шахт. Проведен анализ способа защиты горных выработок от разрушительного воздействия взрывов путем создания водяных завес для снижения концентрации угольной пыли в воздухе.
Upper bounds on the private capacity for bosonic Gaussian channels
Creators: name: Jeong, Kabgyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there have been considerable progresses on the bounds of various quantum channel capacities for bosonic Gaussian channels. Especially, several upper bounds for the classical capacity and the quantum capacity on the bosonic Gaussian channels, via a technique known as quantum entropy power inequality, have been shed light on understanding the mysterious quantum-channel-capacity problems. However, upper bounds for the private capacity on quantum channels are still missing for the study on certain universal upper bounds. Here, we derive upper bounds on the private capacity for bosonic Gaussian channels involving a general Gaussian-noise case through the conditional quantum entropy power inequality.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Synchronous Relaxation for Parallel Ising Spin Simulations
Creators: name: Lubachevsky, Boris
name: Weiss, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: D.1.3; D.4.1; D.4.8; I.6.8

description: A new parallel algorithm for simulating Ising spin systems is presented. The sequential prototype is the n-fold way algorithm cite{BKL75}, which is efficient but is hard to parallelize using conservative methods. Our parallel algorithm is optimistic. Unlike other optimistic algorithms, e.g., Time Warp, our algorithm is synchronous. It also belongs to the class of simulations known as ``relaxation'' cite{CS8 hence it is named ``synchronous relaxation.'' We derive performance guarantees for this algorithm. If N is the number of PEs, then under weak assumptions we show that the number of correct events processed per unit of time is, on average, at least of order N/log(N). All communication delays, processing time, and busy waits are taken into account.
description: Extended abstract. Conference version. The full paper in preparation
Domain-Independent Cost-Optimal Planning in ASP
Creators: name: Spies, David
name: You, Jia-Huai
name: Hayward, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the problem of cost-optimal planning in ASP. Current ASP planners can be trivially extended to a cost-optimal one by adding weak constraints, but only for a given makespan (number of steps). It is desirable to have a planner that guarantees global optimality. In this paper, we present two approaches to addressing this problem. First, we show how to engineer a cost-optimal planner composed of two ASP programs running in parallel. Using lessons learned from this, we then develop an entirely new approach to cost-optimal planning, stepless planning, which is completely free of makespan. Experiments to compare the two approaches with the only known cost-optimal planner in SAT reveal good potentials for stepless planning in ASP. The paper is under consideration for acceptance in TPLP.
description: Paper presented at the 35th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2019), Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, 20-25 September 2019, 16 pages
Method for calculating thermal loads in space from radiation of a flame of arbitrary shape
Creators: name: Skob, Yurii
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 70503 Forestry Fire Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 40103 Atmospheric Radiation
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A mathematical method is presented that allows one to determine thermal loads in space near the strait fire flame from an arbitrary contour spill spot taking into account the radiation exposure of visible flame surfaces
Additional file 2 of The prevention of – and first response to – injuries in Nepal: a review of policies and legislation
Creators: name: Pant, Puspa Raj
name: Mytton, Julie
name: Dharel, Milan Raj
name: Dangi, Amrit
name: Writu Bhatta Rai
name: Joshi, Sunil Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Relevant provisions in the Constitution and the Local Government Operation Act.
IFOP Study of Public Opinion
Creators: name: Institut Francais D'Opinion Publique
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Death of General Eisenhower (1); regionalization and Senate reform referendum (4); electoral list (1); voting for April 27th referendum (6); General de Gaulle as President (1); legislative elections (1); presidential elections (1); approval of de Gaulle (3); positions on April 27th referendum (3); sources of information (1); reform project facts (1); notoriety and influence of personalities (1).
Quantum key distribution with unconditional security for all optical fiber network
Creators: name: Hirota, Osamu
name: Kato, Kentaro
name: Shoma, Masaki
name: Usuda, Tsuyoshi Sasaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present an efficient implementation method of physical layer of Y-00 which can support a secure communication and a quantum key distribution (more generally key expansion) by IMDD(intensity modulation/direct detection) or FSK(frequency shift keying)optical fiber communication network. Although the general proof of the security is not yet given, a brief sketch of security analysis is shown, which involve an entanglement attack.
description: SPIE conference on quantum commun. Proc. SPIE no-5161
Oligodon bitorquatus H. Boie
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Oligodon
Oligodon bitorquatus

description: Oligodon bitorquatus H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827— Erroneous.
Boie’s Kukri Snake
Singapore records.
Oligodon subquadratus —F. M̧ller, 1878: 592, 756.
Remarks. M̧ller (1878) listed a specimen of O. bitorquatus at BNHM with the locality Singapore. However, O. bitorquatus is only known from Java, Sumbawa, and Timor, with records from Sumatra and Borneo being doubtful (Wallach et al. 2014). Therefore, the Singapore record is also questionable.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Genus Oreocryptophis Utiger, Schätti & Helfenberger, 2005 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 268-269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
A new general purpose event horizon finder for 3D numerical spacetimes
Creators: name: Diener, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a new general purpose event horizon finder for full 3D numerical spacetimes. It works by evolving a complete null surface backwards in time. The null surface is described as the zero level set of a scalar function, that in principle is defined everywhere. This description of the surface allows the surface, trivially, to change topology, making this event horizon finder able to handle numerical spacetimes, where two (or more) black holes merge into a single final black hole.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Ptyas mucosa
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Ptyas
Ptyas mucosa

description: Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus, 1758) — Erroneous.
Oriental Rat Snake
Singapore records.
Zamenis mucosus — Boulenger, 1893: 386.— Flower, 1896: 882.—Ridley, 1899: 208.— de Rooij, 1917: 98.
Ptyas mucosus — Davison, 1892: 89.—Sworder, 1923: 63.— de Haas, 1950: 547.—F.L.K. Lim & Lee, 1989: 44, 115.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 145.— L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— Manthey & Grossmann, 1997: 386.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.— Das, 2010: 299.—Wallach et al., 2014: 617.
Ptyas mucosa — Auliya, 2010: 6.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.— Das, 2012a: 64.— de Lang, 2017: 191.— Das, 2018: 76.
Remarks. Boulenger (1893) examined a specimen collected in Singapore by Dennys. However, at an earlier date, Blanford (1881) confirmed that the specimen was collected in Hong Kong. For some unknown reason, Boulenger (1893) changed the locality, but since the species is known not to occur in Singapore, we side with Blanford (1881). Tweedie (1953) removed it from the list for Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore; however, P. mucosa was still included in subsequent checklists, although some listed it as doubtful (e.g., Lim & Chou 1990; Baker & Lim 2012). Three specimens at ANSP, CAS, and SMNS have not been referenced before. Specimen ANSP-15627 was probably sent to the Philadelphia Zoo, where Brown worked, or the specimen was sent to Philadelphia Zoo from elsewhere but transited through Singapore. Specimen CAS 8557 is dated 1907 and SMNS 6015 is from 1981. The distribution of P. mucosa covers an expansive distance, which includes Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, northern Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Bali (Wallach et al. 2014).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): BMNH 1880.9.10.1 (no date).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): ANSP, CAS, SMNS.
Subfamily Natricinae Bonaparte, 1838 (4 species)
Genus Amphiesma Duméril & Bibron, 1854 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Simulation of flow separation control in interblade channels of turbomachines
Creators: name: Skob, Yurii
name: Ugryumov, Mykhaylo
name: Menshikov, Vasiliy
name: V.V. Konstantinov
name: A.M. Tsegelnik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91508 Turbulent Flows

description: The article discusses the means of controlling the separation of the flow in the blades of the turbomachines. A technique for simulating flow simulation when using flow separation controls is described. The results of calculations of the flow in the impeller of the high-pressure compressor in the initial version, in the version with air extraction and with the re-profiling of the blade and end surfaces of the channel are presented.
mu problem in an extended gauge mediation supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Suematsu, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $μ$ problem and the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking in an extended gauge mediation supersymmetry breaking (GMSB) model, in which the messenger fields are assumed to couple to the different singlet fields due to the discrete symmetry. Since the spectrum of superpartners is modified, the constraint from the $μ$ problem can be relaxed in comparison with the ordinary GMSB at least from the viewpoint of radiative symmetry breaking. We study the consistency of the values of $μ$ and $B_μ$ with the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking and also the mass spectrum of superpartners. We present such a concrete example in a supersymmetric SU(5) unified model which is constructed from a direct product gauge structure by imposing the doublet-triplet splitting.
description: 17 pages, latex, 4 figures
Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Creators: name: Beaman, Lori
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Udry, Christopher R.
name: Thuysbaert, Bram
name: Beaman, Lori
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Udry, Christopher R.
name: Thuysbaert, Bram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: returns to fertilizer
subject: agricultural economics

description: Not available
Additional file 1 of Patient experiences with the role of physical activity in inflammatory bowel disease: results from a survey and interviews
Creators: name: Lamers, Carlijn R.
name: De Roos, Nicole M.
name: Koppelman, Lola J. M.
name: Hopman, Maria T. E.
name: Witteman, Ben J. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide.
Comparing optimized renormalization schemes for QCD observables
Creators: name: Akrami, M.
name: Mirjalili, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the renormalization group summation method of McKeon ${\it et\; al.}$, it is shown that the renormalization group equation, while related to the radiatively mass scale $μ$, would perform a summation over QCD perturbative terms. Employing the full QCD $β$-function within this summation, all logarithmic corrections can be presented as log-independent contributions. In another step of this approach, the renormalization scheme dependence of QCD observables, characterized by Stevenson, is required to be examined. In this regard, two choices of renormalization scheme would be exposed. In one of them, the QCD observable is expressed in terms of two powers of running coupling constant. In the other one, the perturbative series expansion is written as an infinite series in terms of the two-loop running coupling represented by the Lambert $W$-function. In both cases, the QCD observable involves parameters which are renormalization scheme invariant and a coupling constant which is independent of the renormalization scale. We then consider the approach of complete renormalization group improvement (CORGI). In this approach, using the self consistency principle, it is possible to reconstruct the conventional perturbative series in terms of scheme invariant quantities and the coupling constant as a function of Lambert $W$-function. One of the key differences between CORGI and the renormalization group summation method of McKeon ${\it et\; al.}$ is that the later treats renormalization scale and scheme independently while the former would encounter both dependencies together. In continuation, numerical results of the two approaches are compared for $R_{e^+e^-}$ ratio and the Higgs decay width to gluon-gluon.
Yang-Mills Theory In, Beyond, and Behind Observed Reality
Creators: name: Wilczek, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The character of jets is dominated by the influence of intrinsically nonabelian gauge dynamics. These proven insights into fundamental physics ramify in many directions, and are far from being exhausted. I will discuss three rewarding explorations from my own experience, whose point of departure is the hard Yang-Mills interaction, and whose end is not yet in sight. Given an insight so profound and fruitful as Yang and Mills brought us, it is in order to try to consider its broadest implications, which I attempt at the end.
description: Solicited contribution to the volume ``Fifty Years of Yang-Mills Theory'' (WorldScientific). 12 pp
Density of states in d-wave superconductors of finite size
Creators: name: Fominov, Ya. V.
name: Golubov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of the finite size in the ab-plane on the surface density of states (DoS) in clean d-wave superconductors. In the bulk, the DoS is gapless along the nodal directions, while the presence of a surface leads to formation of another type of the low-energy states, the midgap states with zero energy. We demonstrate that finiteness of the superconductor in one of dimensions provides the energy gap for all directions of quasiparticle motion except for θ=45 degrees (θis the angle between the trajectory and the surface normal); then the angle-averaged DoS behaves linearly at small energies. This result is valid unless the crystal is 0- or 45-oriented (α\ne 0 or 45 degrees, where αis the angle between the a-axis and the surface normal). In the special case of α=0, the spectrum is gapped for all trajectories θ; the angle-averaged DoS is also gapped. In the special case of α=45, the spectrum is gapless for all trajectories θ; the angle-averaged DoS is then large at low energies. In all the cases, the angle-resolved DoS consists of energy bands that are formed similarly to the Kronig-Penney model. The analytical results are confirmed by a self-consistent numerical calculation.
description: 9 pages (including 5 EPS figures), REVTeX 4
Microcredit impact in Kyrgyzstan: A Case Study
Creators: name: Angioloni, Simone
name: Kudabaev, Zarylbek
name: Ames, Glenn C.W.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Angioloni, Simone
name: Kudabaev, Zarylbek
name: Ames, Glenn C.W.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: microcredit
subject: microfinance
subject: Kyrgyzstan Republic

description: Microcredit has expanded rapidly since its beginnings in the last 1970s, but whether and how much it reduces poverty is the subject of intense debate. Generally it depends on how the program is implemented and the set of policies that regulate it. In this spirit, microcredit impacts in the Kyrgyz Republic are investigated and a modest program evaluation undertaken, using a data set of 5012 households from the Kyrgyzstan Integrated Household Survey (KIHS) that covers 2006-2010. Microfinance is used to fight the poverty, buying food, and to start a new business and less for buying some Results indicate a good targeting of microfinance with respect to education, family size and age, but a reverse targeting for the income. Finally, a test on the impact of microfinance on the income generation was not significant.
International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Dorn, Agnieszka
name: Stark, Oded
name: Dorn, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Human capital formation
subject: Savings
subject: Intertemporal choice
subject: Prospect of migrating

description: In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of earth system model and atmospheric inversion using total column CO2 observations from GOSAT and OCO-2
Creators: name: Patra, Prabir K.
name: Hajima, Tomohiro
name: Saito, Ryu
name: Chandra, Naveen
name: Yoshida, Yukio
name: Ichii, Kazuhito
name: Kawamiya, Michio
name: Kondo, Masayuki
name: Ito, Akihiko
name: Crisp, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1: Same as Fig. 5 but for data over land surface only. Figure S2: Same as Fig. 5, but for the observations over water bodies only. Animation S1: Same as Fig. 6 for the time series of XCO2 for all the 15 land regions and 11 ocean regions for the period of 2009-2018. Note that these plots consist of 2 additional panels showing the model-measurement differences and the detrended seasonal cycles, for which the statistics are presented in Table 1. ( https://ebcrpa.jamstec.go.jp/~prabir/data/Pubctn/XCO2model/Animation_S1.gif ). Animation S2: Same as Animation S1, but for the OCO-2 measurement period (2014-2018). ( https://ebcrpa.jamstec.go.jp/~prabir/data/Pubctn/XCO2model/Animation_S2.gif ). Animation S3: Same as Fig. 7 for XCO2 seasonal cycle amplitudes for different years, and those for ACTM_InvF and OCO-2 only for the period 2014 to 2018. ( https://ebcrpa.jamstec.go.jp/~prabir/data/Pubctn/XCO2model/Animation_S3.gif ). Animations are also available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14343383.v1 .
Automated software package for calculating viscous spatial flows in turbomachine channels
Creators: name: Skob, Yurii
name: Ugryumov, Mykhaylo
name: V.V. Konstantinov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Automated software package for calculating viscous spatial flows in turbomachine channels
Amphiesma stolatum
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Natricidae
Amphiesma
Amphiesma stolatum

description: Amphiesma stolatum (Linnaeus, 1758) — Erroneous.
Buff Striped Keelback
Singapore records.
Tropidonotus stolatus — Dennys, 1880a: 3.— Blanford, 1881: 215.— Boulenger, 1893: 254.— Flower, 1896: 880.— Flower, 1899: 662.—Ridley, 1899: 207.— Boulenger, 1912: 126.— de Rooij, 1917: 88.
Natrix stolata —Sworder, 1923: 61.— de Haas, 1949: 81.
Amphiesma stolata —K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1988d: 87.
Remarks. Specimen BMNH 1880.9.10.32 is said to be from Singapore (Dennys 1880a; Blanford 1881; Boulenger 1893); however, Blanford (1881) listed Singapore and Hong Kong as the locality. Smith (1943) discredited any record of A. stolatum in the Malay Peninsula, and de Haas (1949) recommended removing it from the herpetofauna list of the Malay Peninsula, which was completed by Tweedie (1953). However, Lim & Lim (1988d) described A. stolatum as rare, if not extinct in Singapore. Nonetheless, A. stolatum ranges from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal east through Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (Wallach et al. 2014). Thus, it is likely the specimen came from Hong Kong.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): BMNH 1880.9.10.32 (no date).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Genus Fowlea Theobald, 1868 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 270-271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Nonlocality of Accelerated Systems
Creators: name: Mashhoon, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conceptual basis for the nonlocality of accelerated systems is presented. The nonlocal theory of accelerated observers and its consequences are briefly described. Nonlocal field equations are developed for the case of the electrodynamics of linearly accelerated systems.
description: LaTeX file, no figures, 9 pages, to appear in: "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Cosmology" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2003)
SU(2) Landau gluon propagator on a 140^3 lattice
Creators: name: Cucchieri, Attilio
name: Mendes, Tereza
name: Taurines, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of the gluon propagator in lattice Landau gauge for three-dimensional pure-SU(2) lattice gauge theory at couplings beta = 4.2, 5.0, 6.0 and for lattice volumes V = 40^3, 80^3, 140^3. In the limit of large V we observe a decreasing gluon propagator for momenta smaller than p_{dec} = 350^{+ 100}_{- 50} MeV. Data are well fitted by Gribov-like formulae and seem to indicate an infra-red critical exponent kappa slightly above 0.6, in agreement with recent analytic results.
description: 5 pages with 2 figures and 3 tables; added a paragraph on discretization effects
Regulating Individual Actions of Professional Vegetable Farmers by Administrative Measures
Creators: name: Li, Changwu
name: Li, Changwu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Vegetable in Shandong Province
subject: Administrative measures
subject: Professional vegetable farmers
subject: Individual actions

description: In individual production of professional vegetable farmers in Shandong Province, there are problems of inadequate standardization and lack of supervision influencing quality safety of vegetable. In view of these problems, this paper analyzes the feasibility of regulating individual actions of professional vegetable farmers by administrative measures. It is partly because of imperfect laws and regulations and partly because of Shandong Province satisfying applicable conditions of regulating individual actions of professional vegetable farmers by administrative measures. On the basis of these, it comes up with following recommendations: (1) in professional vegetable planting regions, townships should set up vegetable quality and safety committee; (2) villages should establish “five vegetable farmer households mutual assistance and joint guarantee system” for vegetable quality and safety; (3) it should implement vegetable real-name system and traceability system; (4) it should implement vegetable farmer training system.
CN Variations in NGC 7006
Creators: name: Harbeck, Daniel
name: Smith, Graeme H.
name: Grebel, Eva K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotationally induced mixing with subsequent dredge-up of nucleosynthesized material is discussed as a second parameter of the horizontal branch morphology in globular clusters. CNO abundances have been proposed as tracers of the dredge up of processed material. \ngc is a prominent example of a second parameter GC: Its HB morphology is too red for its metallicity. We present spectroscopic measurements of CN molecular band strengths S(3839) and CH band CH(4300) strengths for 12 giants in \ngc to test rotationally-driven mixing as a second parameter in this cluster. Our observations reveal (i) a scatter in star-to-star CN absorption strengths with the same amplitude as seen in other GCs of the same metallicity, but different HB morphologies; (ii) a possible continuous distribution of CN absorption strength with a preference for CN-enriched stars, and (iii) a possible weak radial gradient in the number ratio of CN-strong and CN-weak stars. We argue against the hypothesis that CN-variations are directly correlated with the second parameter effect of the HB morphology. However, the small sample of stars measured in \ngc prevents us from drawing firm conclusions. Finally, we identify one star of our sample as a foreground dwarf carbon star.
description: to be published in A&A (accepted)
Additional file 2 of Patient experiences with the role of physical activity in inflammatory bowel disease: results from a survey and interviews
Creators: name: Lamers, Carlijn R.
name: De Roos, Nicole M.
name: Koppelman, Lola J. M.
name: Hopman, Maria T. E.
name: Witteman, Ben J. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary table 1 (Characteristics of the interview study population consisting of 7 CD and 7 UC participants).
Non-abelian color dielectric - towards the effective model of the low energy QCD
Creators: name: Wereszczynski, A.
name: Slusarczyk, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice motivated triplet color scalar field theory is analyzed. We consider non-minimal as well as covariant derivative coupling with SU(2) gauge fields. Field configurations generated by external electric sources are presented. Moreover non-Abelian magnetic monopoles are found. Dependence on the spatial coordinates in the obtained solutions is identical as in the usual Abelian case. We show also that after a decomposition of the fields a modified Faddeev-Niemi action can be obtained. It contains explicit O(3) symmetry breaking term parameterized by the condensate of an isoscalar field. Due to that Goldstone bosons observed in the original Faddeev-Niemi model are removed.
description: 19 pages
Pteris barklyae Li Bing Zhang, X. F. Gao & Liang Zhang, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Liang
name: Zhou, Xin-Mao
name: Gao, Xin-Fen
name: Zhang, Li-Bing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Pteris
Pteris barklyae

description: Pteris barklyae (Baker) Li Bing Zhang, X.F.Gao & Liang Zhang, comb. nov.
 Basionym: Pellaea barklyae Baker in W.J.Hooker & J.G.Baker (1867: 151).
 Type:—THE SEYCHELLES. Without location, 1864, Lady A. Maria Barkly s.n. (holotype, K-000435410!).
 Homotypic synonym:— Afropteris barklyae (Baker) Alston (1956: 6).
Distribution: The Seychelles.
 N otes: — Afropteris consists of A. repens (C. Christensen) Alston (1956: 5) of tropical West Africa and A. barklyae (Baker) Alston (1956: 6) endemic to the Seychelles. The former was originally placed in Pteris, i.e., P. repens C. Christensen (1906: 606). The latter is the only one that needs to be transferred to Pteris. It should be noted that the Barkly specimen was collected in 1864, not 1804 as sometime believed.
 Additional specimen examined: ––THE SEYCHELLES. Praslin Island: Vallée de May, along trail through coco-de-mer forest, on laterite soil, 4°20′S, 55°44′E, 2010, M. C. Mamamik 5896 (MO-2270986).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Liang, Zhou, Xin-Mao, Gao, Xin-Fen & Zhang, Li-Bing, 2014, Pteris barklyae (Pteridaceae): A new combination and neotypication of Adiantum pallens for the fern flora of the Indian Ocean Islands, pp. 116-118 in Phytotaxa 174 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.174.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5152746
Pathogenesis and treatment of idiopathic and rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial pneumonia. The possible lesson from COVID-19 pneumonia
Creators: name: A Manfredi
name: F Luppi
name: G Cassone
name: C Vacchi
name: C Salvarani
name: M Sebastiani
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Main clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection are characterized by fever, dyspnea, and interstitial pneumonia, frequently evolving in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Features of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents some common points with interstitial lung disease (ILD) both idiopathic and related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), typically characterized by a chronic progression over time and possibly complicated by acute exacerbation (AE). The study of common pathogenetic mechanisms, such as the involvement of toll-like receptor 4, could contribute to the knowledge and treatment of idiopathic and RA-ILD. Moreover, hyperinflammation, mainly characterized by increase of effector T-cells and inflammatory cytokines, and activation of coagulation cascade, observed in COVID-19 related ARDS have been already shown in patients with AE of idiopathic and RA-ILD. A literature search was performed in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science, together with a manual search in COVID-resource centers of the main journals. Despite the uncertainty about pathogenetic aspects about COVID-19- pneumonia, it could be a possible model for other forms of ILD and AE. The great amount of data from studies on COVID-19 could be helpful in proposing safe therapeutic approaches for RA-ILD, in understanding pathogenesis of usual interstitial pneumonia and to develop new therapeutic strategies for AE.
Sub-shot-noise-limited fiber-optic quantum receiver
Creators: name: Shcherbatenko, M. L.
name: Elezov, M. S.
name: Sych, D. V.
name: Goltsman, G. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate a quantum receiver based on Kennedy scheme for discrimination between two phase-modulated weak coherent states. The receiver is assembled entirely from the standard fiber-optic elements and operates at the conventional telecom wavelength 1.55 microns. The local oscillator and the signal are transmitted through different optical fibers, and the displaced signal is measured with a high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detector. We show the discrimination error rate two times below the shot-noise limit.
CALLC_evaluation_predictions.zip
Creators: name: Bouwmeester, Robbin
name: Degroeve, Sven
name: Martens, Lennart
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predictions that are linked to the evaluation of CALLC. Please unzip this file and put the unzipped filed in the folder "data/predictions/".
Fowlea piscator
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Fowlea
Fowlea piscator

description: Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799) — Erroneous.
Checkered Keelback
Singapore records.
No published records.
Remarks. As mentioned above under F. flavipunctatus, F. piscator is a species-complex with a problematic taxonomic history (Vogel & David 2012). After Taylor (1965) described F. flavipunctatus as a separate species, the distribution of F. piscator was circumscribed to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and southern China (Wallach et al. 2014). Ģnther (1858b) first reported F. piscator from Singapore, but the specimen actually represents F. flavipunctatus and the locality is likely wrong (see F. flavipunctatus above). In addition, specimens of F. piscator seen repeatedly in the Mandai area (Teo & Rajathurai 1997) are also F. flavipunctatus, and the individuals are considered escaped individuals and their descendants from specimens imported from Thailand by Singapore Zoo (Lim & Lim 1988). The NMW has one specimen catalogued as F. piscator that we were unable to examine to determine if it is indeed F. piscator or F. flavipunctatus.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): NMW.
Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (2 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Assessment of Contrast Sensitivity in Cataract Simulation
Creators: name: Tzamouranis, Dorotheos Dimitrios
name: Kakoura Stavroula
name: Karetsos George
name: Chandrinos Aristeidis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111303 Vision Science
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111399 Ophthalmology and Optometry not elsewhere classified
subject: 20599 Optical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Abstract Cataract is an opacification of the crystalline lens, lessening vision and eventually leading to blindness, if left untreated. Affects almost half of the population aged over 60s. Age-related type is a common reason for eye surgery in the elderly. Contrast sensitivity is the visual ability to distinguish an object from its background and to discriminate between similar shades. It may be in influenced by both ocular and neurological conditions. Contrast sensitivity declines with age and eye disorders, like cataract or diabetic retinopathy. Although various charts have been designed for contrast sensitivity evaluation the Pelli-Robson chart provides a quick and reliable test in the clinical setting. In current study, 12 healthy young people have been tested in simulated age-related cataract conditions, including three stages of severity. After statistical analysis, results illustrated much in influence of contrast sensitivity at all states, reaching high level of decline in late stages, both monocular and binocular.
 Keywords: Age-related cataract; Contrast sensitivity (CS); Pelli-Robson chart; Simulation
Brane-Universes with Variable G and Lambda
Creators: name: de Leon, J. Ponce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmological consequences of a brane-world theory which incorporates time variations in the gravitational coupling G and the cosmological term Lambda. We analyze in detail the model where (dG/dt)/G ~ H and Lambda ~ H^2, which seems to be favored by observations. We show that these conditions single out models with flat space sections. We determine the behavior of the expansion scale factor, as well as, the variation of G, Lambda and H for different possible scenarios where the bulk cosmological constant can be zero, positive or negative. We demonstrate that the universe must recollapse, if it is embedded in an Anti-de Sitter five-dimensional bulk, which is the usual case in brane models. We evaluate the cosmological parameters, using some observational data, and show that we are nowhere near the time of recollapse. We conclude that the models with zero and negative bulk cosmological constant agree with the observed accelerating universe, while fitting simultaneously the observational data for the density and deceleration parameters. The age of the universe, even in the recollapsing case, is much larger than in the FRW universe.
description: Few comments added, references updated. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Quantifying the Announcement Effects in the U.S. Lumber Market
Creators: name: Ismailova, Zarina
name: Shakya, Shishir
name: Etienne, Xiaoli L.
name: Ismailova, Zarina
name: Shakya, Shishir
name: Etienne, Xiaoli L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The impact of new information from public reports has been widely investigated in many commodity markets, but little attention has been paid to the lumber market. In this paper, we examine the impact of two housing market reports, namely the New Residential Construction (Housing Starts) and the New Residential Sales reports, on the U.S. lumber futures market. Our results suggest that the housing starts report indeed affect lumber market volatility, while the New Residential sales report exerts a minor impact on lumber price volatility. We further find that the effect of the two reports on volatility differs depending on the level of inventory and nature of the news. When the level of inventory is low, larger-than-expected housing starts has the largest effect on lumber volatility. During periods of abundant inventory, lower-than-expected housing starts increases the volatility most. For the new home sales reports, we find that while lower-than-expected sales do not affect the volatility of lumber prices, larger-than-expected sales do increase the volatility.
Do Livestock Markets Still Value USDA Information?
Creators: name: Karali, Berna
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga Isengildina-
name: Karali, Berna
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga Isengildina-
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The informational value of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) livestock reports for cattle and hogs futures markets is analyzed to determine potential impact of increased market concentration seen in the livestock industry over the last three decades. Both market surprises, the difference between the USDA’s and private analysts’ forecasts, and price reactions to those surprises are analyzed for possible changes over time using sub-period analysis and rolling-window regressions. The results suggest that while the market surprise component of the reports decreased over time for both Cattle on Feed and Hogs and Pigs reports, the price reaction to those surprises increased in the early 2000s, suggesting that USDA reports still provide valuable information to market participants beyond private analysts’ expectations.
Kane-Mele with a twist: Quasicrystalline higher-order topological insulators with fractional mass kinks
Creators: name: Spurrier, Stephen
name: Cooper, Nigel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish an analytic low-energy theory describing higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases in quasicrystalline systems. We apply this to a model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with oppositely propagating edge modes, analogous to the Kane-Mele model, and with a $30^\circ$ twist. We show that the resulting localized modes at corners, characteristic of a HOTI, are not associated with conventional mass inversions but are instead associated with what we dub "fractional mass kinks". By generalizing the low-energy theory, we establish a classification for arbitrary $ n $-fold rotational symmetries. We also derive a relationship between corner modes in a bilayer and disclination modes in a single layer. By using numerics to go beyond the weak-coupling limit, we show that a hierarchy of additional gaps occurs due to the quasiperiodicity, which also harbor corner-localized modes.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures