cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE CHILLI THRIPS, SCIRTOTHRIPS DORSALIS: CURRENT STATUS IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN REGION
Creators: name: Klassen, Waldemar
name: Seal, Dakshina R.
name: Ciomperlik, Matt A.
name: Fieslemann, Daniel A.
name: Klassen, Waldemar
name: Seal, Dakshina R.
name: Ciomperlik, Matt A.
name: Fieslemann, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: distribution in Greater Caribbean
subject: ornamental
subject: tropical fruit and vegetable crops
subject: carrot
subject: cotton
subject: mango
subject: pepper
subject: sweetpotato

description: In 2003 the chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis, which originated in southern Asia, was found to be established in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Now its current known distribution in the Greater Caribbean Region is Barbados, Florida, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Venezuela and Suriname. It appears to be absent from the French West Indies, Guyana, Hispaniola and Costa Rica. In 1995 S. dorsalis was found on flowers in the baggage of a passenger from El Salvador to the USA, but there is no recent evidence to suggest that the pest is established in El Salvador or in any Central American country or in Cuba. In 2004, the pest was found attacking eggplant (Solanum melongena), pepper (Capsicum spp.), okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) and cucurbits in Trinidad. In the recent past the pest reached damaging levels on hot peppers in St. Lucia and St. Vincent, on carrot, sea island cotton, and sweet potato in Barbados, on mango in Puerto Rico and on roses in Texas and on numerous ornamental landscape plantings in Florida. It is still not an economic problem on vegetable and tropical fruit crops in Florida, although it was damaging in strawberry fields in 2006. In Texas, S. dorsalis is still being found on plants in retail garden centers and it has been detected on one residential property in the Houston area. Interceptions of S. dorsalis at US ports of entry have become infrequent. From January 2007 to June 2008, only three interceptions of S. dorsalis were made at US ports of entry, which indicates that the industry and regulatory officials in infested countries which export into the US market are taking effective actions. Recent advances on the biology and control of this pest are mentioned briefly.
Colonizing microbiota protect zebrafish larvae against silver nanoparticle toxicity
Creators: name: Brinkmann, Bregje W.
name: Koch, Bjørn E. V.
name: Spaink, Herman P.
name: Peijnenburg, Willie J. G. M.
name: Vijver, Martina G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Metal-based nanoparticles exhibiting antimicrobial activity are of emerging concern to human and environmental health. In addition to their direct adverse effects to plants and animals, indirect effects resulting from disruption of beneficial host–microbiota interactions may contribute to the toxicity of these particles. To explore this hypothesis, we compared the acute toxicity of silver and zinc oxide nanoparticles (nAg and nZnO) to zebrafish larvae that were either germ-free or colonized by microbiota. Over two days of exposure, germ-free zebrafish larvae were more sensitive to nAg than microbially colonized larvae, whereas silver ion toxicity did not differ between germ-free and colonized larvae. Using response addition modeling, we confirmed that the protective effect of colonizing microbiota against nAg toxicity was particle-specific. Nearly all mortality among germ-free larvae occurred within the first day of exposure. In contrast, mortality among colonized larvae increased gradually over both exposure days. Concurrent with this gradual increase in mortality was a marked reduction in the numbers of live host-associated microbes, suggesting that bactericidal effects of nAg on protective microbes resulted in increased mortality among colonized larvae over time. No difference in sensitivity between germ-free and colonized larvae was observed for nZnO, which dissolved rapidly in the exposure medium. At sublethal concentrations, these particles moreover did not exert detectable bactericidal effects on larvae-associated microbes. Altogether, our study shows the importance of taking host–microbe interactions into account in assessing toxic effects of nanoparticles to microbially colonized hosts, and provides a method to screen for microbiota interference with nanomaterial toxicity.
The GEF/CABI project "mitigating the threat of invasive alien species in the insular Caribbean"
Creators: name: Krauss, U.
name: Bilz, M.
name: Lopez, V.
name: McLaughlin, K.
name: Polar, P.
name: Seier, M.
name: Murphy, S.
name: Krauss, U.
name: Bilz, M.
name: Lopez, V.
name: McLaughlin, K.
name: Polar, P.
name: Seier, M.
name: Murphy, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Biodiversity
subject: Caribbean
subject: invasive species

description: Invasive Alien Species (IAS) pose a major threat to the vulnerable aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity of Caribbean islands and to people depending on this biodiversity for their livelihoods. Caribbean states have recognized the need for a regional strategy and expressed strong interest in linking up their national efforts in implementing Article 8 (h) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to mitigate the threats of IAS in the Caribbean. The project proposed through CABI and UNEP for GEF funding aims to widen this narrow scope of dealing with IAS by establishing an extensive framework addressing IAS that threaten aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and their biodiversity in the Caribbean. This framework will build on existing national measures in the plant and animal health sector and feed biodiversity capacity into the project by linking with national and regional stakeholders. The proposed project will provide the participating countries and other partners in the Caribbean region with the necessary tools and capacity to address existing and future biological invasions. The five project components are: [1] Development of National IAS strategies in the five participating countries: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Trinidad & Tobago [2] Establishment of Caribbean-Wide Cooperation and Strategy [3] Knowledge generation, management and dissemination [4] Prevention of New IAS Introductions in Terrestrial, Freshwater and Marine Systems [5] Early Detection, Rapid Response and Control of IAS Impacts The project and its preparation is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and cofinanced by the countries themselves and numerous partners. The first phase of the GEF funding cycle, the Project Development Facility-A (PDF-Α) was successfully implemented from July 2006 to February 2007. In April 2008, the second phase, the Project Preparation Grant (PPG) of nine months duration commenced. If successful, this will be followed by a four-year Full Size Project focusing on the above-mentioned countries while benefiting the whole of the Caribbean region as well as global biodiversity.
Strong Influence of the diffuse component on the lattice dynamics in Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_{3}$
Creators: name: Stock, C.
name: Luo, H.
name: Viehland, D.
name: Li, J. F.
name: Swainson, I.
name: Birgeneau, R. J.
name: Shirane, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature and zone dependence of the lattice dynamics in Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_{3}$ is characterized using neutron inelastic scattering. A strong correlation between the diffuse and phonon scattering is measured. The lattice dynamics in Brillouin zones where the diffuse scattering is strong is observed to display qualitatively different behavior than those zones where the diffuse scattering is weak. In the (220) and (200) zones, where there is a weak diffuse component, the dynamics are well described by coupled harmonic oscillators. Compared with SrTiO$_{3}$, the coupling is weak and isotropic, resulting in only a small transfer of spectral weight from one mode to another. A comparison of the scattering in these zones to the (110) zone, where a strong diffuse component is present, reveals a strong coupling of the diffuse (or central) component to the acoustic mode. We speculate that the coupling to the central peak is the reason for several recent conflicting interpretations of the lattice dynamics based on data from zones with a strong diffuse component.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Large-N transition temperature for superconducting films in a magnetic field
Creators: name: Abreu, L. M.
name: Malbouisson, A. P. C.
name: Malbouisson, J. M. C.
name: Santana, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $N$-component Ginzburg-Landau model in the large $N$ limit, the system being embedded in an external constant magnetic field and confined between two parallel planes a distance $L$ apart from one another. On physical grounds, this corresponds to a material in the form of a film in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using techniques from dimensional and $zeta$-function regularization, modified by the external field and the confinement conditions, we investigate the behavior of the system as a function of the film thickness $L$. This behavior suggests the existence of a minimal critical thickness below which superconductivity is suppressed.
description: Revtex, two column, 4 pages, 2 figures
From Zero to Fog: Efficient Engineering of Fog-Based Internet of Things Applications
Creators: name: Pfandzelter, Tobias
name: Hasenburg, Jonathan
name: Bermbach, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In IoT data processing, cloud computing alone does not suffice due to latency constraints, bandwidth limitations, and privacy concerns. By introducing intermediary nodes closer to the edge of the network that offer compute services in proximity to IoT devices, fog computing can reduce network strain and high access latency to application services. While this is the only viable approach to enable efficient IoT applications, the issue of component placement among cloud and intermediary nodes in the fog adds a new dimension to system design. State-of-the-art solutions to this issue rely on either simulation or solving a formalized assignment problem through heuristics, which are both inaccurate and fail to scale with a solution space that grows exponentially. In this paper, we present a three step process for designing practical fog-based IoT applications that uses best practices, simulation, and testbed analysis to converge towards an efficient system architecture. We then apply this process in a smart factory case study. By deploying filtered options to a physical testbed, we show that each step of our process converges towards more efficient application designs.
description: This work has been published in Wiley - Software: Practice and Experience
High-order exceptional points in supersymmetric arrays
Creators: name: Zhang, S. M.
name: Zhang, X. Z.
name: Jin, L.
name: Song, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the intertwining operator technique to synthesize a supersymmetric (SUSY) array of arbitrary size $N$. The synthesized SUSY system is equivalent to a spin-$(N-1)/2$ under an effective magnetic field. By considering an additional imaginary magnetic field, we obtain a generalized parity-time-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian that describes a SUSY array of coupled resonators or waveguides under a gradient gain and loss; all the $N$ energy levels coalesce at an exceptional point (EP), forming the isotropic high-order EP with $N$ states coalescence (EPN). Near the EPN, the scaling exponent of phase rigidity for each eigenstate is $(N-1)/2$; the eigen frequency response to the perturbation $ε$ acting on the resonator or waveguide couplings is $ε^{1/N}$. Our findings reveal the importance of the intertwining operator technique for the spectral engineering and exemplify the practical application in non-Hermitian physics.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: The biology and taxonomy of Mesozoic stromatoporoids
Creators: name: Wood, Rachel Alison
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1987

description: The presence of spicule pseudomorphs and an aquiferous filtration system in Mesozoic stromatoporoids confirms poriferan affinity for this previously problematic group. The form, and postulated original siliceous nature of most of the spicules, indicates that the possessors of these were calcified demosponges; others with originally calcareous spicules were calcareans. Different spicule types and arrangements indicate that the possession of a calcareous skeleton is a convergent feature. Previous defining characteristics are found to be invalid and Mesozoic stromatoporoids are redefined as calcified sponges, so that the term 'stromatoporoid' now only refers to a grade of organisation of the calcareous skeleton and not a taxonomic grouping. 'Chaetetids', 'sphinctozoans' and 'sclerosponges' are also polyphyletic groupings, representing grades, where some members of which are calcified demosponges. These groupings should no longer be considered in isolation, as this has previously obscured their true nature. The original mineralogy of late Mesozoic stromatoporoids was probably low-Mg. calcite. Spicule and calcareous skeleton diagenetic lineages are given to enable workers to determine original microstructures. Analogies with Recent calcified demosponges, suggests that the fossil stromatoporoid demosponges produced a primary framework of siliceous spicules bound together with an organic matrix, which probably provided the nucleation sites for subsequent precipitation of the calcareous skeleton. A new taxonomic scheme is presented based on spicule type, arrangement and relationship of this framework to the microstructure of the calcareous skeleton. On the basis of spicule criteria, calcareous microstructure alone is found to be convergent and can no longer be used as a high-level taxonomic feature. Spiculate species are therefore redescribed and placed within the Recent poriferan classification framework. Synonyms are documented and intra-specific variation discussed. The present cnidarian-based nomenclature is replaced by one modified from Recent poriferan terminology. The possession of a calcareous skeleton is probably a relict feature of a previously widespread calcified sponge fauna. It appears that the calcareous skeleton was acquired independently in a number of lineages in the early Palaeozoic, and has subsequently been lost in many.
Macroscopic evidence of quantum coherent oscillations of the total spin in the Mn-[3x3] molecular nanomagnet
Creators: name: Carretta, S.
name: Santini, P.
name: Liviotti, E.
name: Magnani, N.
name: Caciuffo, R.
name: Guidi, T.
name: Amoretti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular nanomagnets, besides promising to open new frontiers in technology, have attracted huge interest in the scientific community because they can exhibit the phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling of the magnetization, i.e. coherent fluctuations of the direction of the total spin vector. In this paper we study a different quantum phenomenon involving fluctuations of the magnitude of the total spin vector. These fluctuations are related to the mixing between states with different spin quantum number, and imply new macroscopic effects, which we theoretically investigated in the Mn-[3x3] grid.
description: 10 pages latex, 6 figures
Human-Animal Studies
Creators: name: Roscher, Mieke
Publisher: name: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature
Year: 2022

description: Human-Animal Studies focuses on the cultural, social and societal dimensions of non-human animals and human-animal relations. In this respect, Human-Animal Studies is not so much a field in its own right but rather a multidisciplinary research agenda which, with the help of an interdisciplinary research programme and methodological apparatus, aims to investigate the impact of human actions on the living conditions of non-human beings. At the same time, it emphasises the impact of animals upon human societies. Its concern is to break through the boundaries drawn between nature and culture and instead to underscore the cultural nature of animal existence. It is interested in what the dividing line between the species actually mean and what social (and in part also ethical) consequences they have. Furthermore, it asks whether and how it might be possible to look at animals from a non-anthropocentric point of view. In order to outline these concerns of Human-Animal Studies, this entry presents genealogically distinct developments in a field that is still characterised by its disciplinary indeterminacy. The debates are presented on the basis of the field’s defining question of the life and existence of animals and discusses how these can be made experienceable. The categories of representation/semiotics, agency, relationality, practice/practices and materiality will be used to present relevant fields of discourse in Human-Animal Studies, and the entry outlines how animal-human relations are framed in research practice in these fields.
description: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature, No. 1 (2022)
Polycope Sars 1866
Creators: name: Chitnarin, Anisong
name: Crasquin, Sylvie
name: Forel, Marie-Béatrice
name: Tepnarong, Prachya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Halocyprida
Polycopidae
Polycope

description: Polycope sp. B
(Fig. 27 Q-R)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Three complete carapaces.
OCCURRENCES. — Sample 08LO02-5, Tham Nam Maholan section, Nam Maholan Formation, Loei province, northeastern Thailand, Early Permian.
DIMENSION. — H = 0.39-0.40 mm, L = 0.39-0.40 mm, H/L = 1.00.
REMARKS
 Polycope sp. B is subequivalved and has subcircular carapace. DB is convex on both valves with an incised dorsum and H/L ratio is of 1.00.
description: Published as part of Chitnarin, Anisong, Crasquin, Sylvie, Forel, Marie-Béatrice & Tepnarong, Prachya, 2017, Ostracods (Crustacea) of the Early-Middle Permian (Cisarulian-Guadalupian) from Central Thailand (Indochina Block): Part II, Orders Podocopida, Platycopida and Myodocopida, pp. 651-690 in Geodiversitas 39 (4) on page 685, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4536112
MIPS J142824.0+352619: A Hyperluminous Starburst Galaxy at z=1.325
Creators: name: Borys, C.
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Dey, A.
name: Floc'h, E. Le
name: Jannuzi, B. T.
name: Barnard, V.
name: Bian, C.
name: Brodwin, M.
name: Men'endez-Delmestre, K.
name: Thompson, D.
name: Brand, K.
name: Brown, M. J. I.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Eisenhardt, P.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Frayer, D. T.
name: Higdon, J.
name: Higdon, S.
name: Phillips, T.
name: Soifer, B. T.
name: Stern, D.
name: Weedman, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory to obtain 350 micron images of sources detected with the MIPS instrument on Spitzer, we have discovered a remarkable object at z=1.325+/-0.002 with an apparent Far-Infrared luminosity of 3.2(+/-0.7) x 10^13 Lsun. Unlike other z>1 sources of comparable luminosity selected from mid-IR surveys, MIPS J142824.0+352619 lacks any trace of AGN activity, and is likely a luminous analog of galaxies selected locally by IRAS, or at high redshift in the submillimeter. This source appears to be lensed by a foreground elliptical galaxy at z=1.034, although the amplification is likely modest (~10). We argue that the contribution to the observed optical/Near-IR emission from the foreground galaxy is small, and hence are able to present the rest-frame UV through radio Spectral Energy Distribution of this galaxy. Due to its unusually high luminosity, MIPS J142824.0+352619 presents a unique chance to study a high redshift dusty starburst galaxy in great detail.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Theatricalising civic spaces : radix theatre, boca del lupo and site-specific performance in Vancouver
Creators: name: Leung, Parie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In 1985, Minimal Art sculptor Richard Serra emphasized that were his sculpture, the Tilted Arc to be moved from its site in New York's Federal Plaza, it would have been an act of destruction. Since then, his phrase, "To move the work is to destroy the work" has become synonymous with site-specificity, a practice conceptualized in the Minimalist Art era in a bid to redefine relationships between art work and viewer through a heightened sense of site, time and act of viewing. From the fecund experimental, outdoor and street performance work which arose during the late 1960s and 1970s in America and parts of Europe, site-specific performance emerged as a significant form of theatre practice favoured for its potential for sensuous, three dimensional, and visceral performance environments. Due to its conceptual borrowing of site-specificity from visual art theory however, site-specific performance, inherently different from the sculptural form, has amassed various debates, definitions and models proffered by theorists and practitioners, trying to pin down guidelines and rules for the practice. The main debate at hand is whether theatre artists should stay true to Serra's statement with regard to anchoring and fixing their performances in specific sites, or can the ephemeral and live nature of performance rework site-specificity into something more open and fluid. To this end, various theatre companies have approached site-specificity in innovative ways and in my study, I have illuminated the creation process and works of two Vancouver theatre companies - Radix Theatre and Boca del Lupo, who have since 1994 and 2001 respectively, been consistently experimenting with site-specific performance in ways which show a positive divergence from site-specificity's original requirements. My thesis analyses the two companies' process of creating performance, body of work and hones in on two key productions from each company, each of which offer examples as to how the theatre artists have engaged with site and site-specificity in innovative ways.
Likelihood of Hitchhiker Pests Being Moved into and within the Greater Caribbean Region
Creators: name: Lemay, Andrea V.
name: Meissner, Heike E.
name: Lemay, Andrea V.
name: Meissner, Heike E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: contaminating pest
subject: trade-mediated pest movement
subject: hitchhiker

description: A "hitchhiker" pest is defined as an agricultural pest organism moving in or on a commodity which is not one of its hosts or moving in or on a conveyance (airplane, ship) or shipping container. Our objective was to examine the movement of plant pests as hitchhikers in trade. We examined USDA data and the scientific literature to address the frequency of hitchhiking pests arriving at airports and maritime ports in the Greater Caribbean Region. We concluded that most insects, mollusks, weed seeds, and plant pathogens are likely to survive shipping conditions. Of the 6.2 million cargo containers entering maritime ports within the Greater Caribbean Region, more than 1.4 million were estimated to have arrived with contaminants. The immense number of conveyances and containers circulated in international trade make this a pathway that presents a high risk, but is difficult to control.
Investigating the release of coprecipitated uranium from iron oxides
Creators: name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Schöner, A.
name: Dienemann, H.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2006

description: The removal of uranium (VI) from zerovalent iron permeable reactive barriers and wetlands can be explained by its association with iron oxides. The long term stability of immobilized U is yet to be addressed. The present study investigates the remobilization of U(VI) from iron oxides via diverse reaction pathways (acidification, reduction, complex formation). Prior, uranium coprecipitation experiments were conducted under various conditions. The addition of various amounts of a pH-shifting agents (pyrite), an iron complexing agent (EDTA) or iron (III) reduction agent (TiCl3) yielded in uranium remobilization, concentrations above the US EPA allowedmaximum contaminant level(MCL=30 æg/l). This study demonstrates that U(VI) release in nature strongly depends on the conditions and the mechanism of its fixation by geological materials.
description: research
Ontology and Cognitive Outcomes
Creators: name: Limbaugh, David
name: Landgrebe, Jobst
name: Kasmier, David
name: Rudnicki, Ronald
name: Llinas, James
name: Smith, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Here we understand 'intelligence' as referring to items of knowledge collected for the sake of assessing and maintaining national security. The intelligence community (IC) of the United States (US) is a community of organizations that collaborate in collecting and processing intelligence for the US. The IC relies on human-machine-based analytic strategies that 1) access and integrate vast amounts of information from disparate sources, 2) continuously process this information, so that, 3) a maximally comprehensive understanding of world actors and their behaviors can be developed and updated. Herein we describe an approach to utilizing outcomes-based learning (OBL) to support these efforts that is based on an ontology of the cognitive processes performed by intelligence analysts. Of particular importance to the Cognitive Process Ontology is the class Representation that is Warranted. Such a representation is descriptive in nature and deserving of trust in its veridicality. The latter is because a Representation that is Warranted is always produced by a process that was vetted (or successfully designed) to reliably produce veridical representations. As such, Representations that are Warranted are what in other contexts we might refer to as 'items of knowledge'.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
title: Development and Application of an Eulerian Density Function Methodology coupled to Flamelet Progress Variable Approach for the Simulation of Oxyfuel Combustion
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Rihab
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: In the prevailing situation of unsustainable fossil fuel resources and the elevated levels of air pollutant emissions, the state-of-the-art of combustion investigations confronts primarily two challenges. These are, on the one hand, the optimization of the fossil fuel combustion efficiency and, on the other hand, the development and the application of robust strategies to reduce the amount of the released pollutant gases with respect to the new emission standards in accordance with the global energy policies. Within this context, the carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies play an important role as an accepted strategy towards the mitigation of CO2 emissions. One of the important aspects of the CCS techniques is the oxidation of natural gas under oxy-fuel combustion conditions. However, very few scientific contributions have been devoted to the research of these systems, so that there is a lack of understanding of the oxy-combustion processes. The present work aims at the development and the application of an advanced numerical approach for the simulation of oxy-fuel combustion in which the TCI is adequately accounted for within non-premixed combustion regimes using the OpenFOAM platform. The suggested model, which is designed for both RANS and LES applications, consists of a combination of a transported probability density function approach following the Eulerian Stochastic field methodology and the flamelet progress variable (FPV) chemistry reduction mechanism. In the LES framework, the proposed method accurately represents the effect of the sub-grid fluctuations on the flame structure and on combustion characteristics, along with the interaction between turbulence and chemistry. The implemented developed combustion model is first verified, and then validated and applied to different turbulent non-premixed combustion configurations featuring an in- creasing order of complexity. In particular, Sandia flame D, which consists of a turbulent piloted methane-air jet flame, is first employed for model validation in both RANS and LES contexts. The next flames are more challenging cases, namely the non-premixed Sandia oxy-flame series (A & B), which are operated under different Re numbers and characterized by various CO2 and H2 enrichments in the oxidizer and fuel streams, respectively. All investigated cases are well documented with available experimental measurements. The comparison of the obtained results with experimental data in terms of temperature, scalar distributions, PDFs, and scatter plots agree satisfactorily, essentially in the LES context. This work finally reveals that the hybrid ESF/FPV approach removes the weaknesses of the presumed probability density function-based FPV modeling (β-PDF).
MASER as an Open Science Pilot for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
Creators: name: Cecconi, Baptiste
name: Debisschop, Laura
name: Aicardi, Stéphane
name: Savalle, Renaud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The MASER project proposes a tool-box for open science in low frequency radio astronomy (mostly: solar radio bursts and magnetospheric planetary radio emissions). This includes a data repository for publishing digital objects (dataset, catalogues, documents...), with a DOI for citation, and a set of interoperable interfaces to discover and access the data. MASER has been supported by several EU-funded projects, such as Europlanet (which helped to implement virtual observatory interfaces on MASER’s datasets) or FAIR-IMPACT (which supported MASER for improving the vocabulary management, and the dataset landing pages).

In the frame of the Horizon-Europe OSTRAILS project, MASER is a pilot for the “Plan-Track-Assess” pathways introduced by the OSTRAILS team. A machine-actionable DMP (maDMP) tool is understand study to prepare the digital objects ahead from their publication, and to gather the metadata as they are produced, so that they can be reused easily in the further data life cycle stages: e.g., the publication with Datacite will reuse the maDMP content; or, the virtual observatiory interfaces will be implemented using the maDMP content. The digital objects will also be assessed to evaluate their FAIR-ness, using the OSTRAILS tooling, which will have dedicated metrics for astronomy. Finally, the OTRAILS’ Science Knowledge Graph (SKG) will be used to connect the digital objects to other resources (publications, funders, instruments, people, institutions...). In the frame of the project an evolu,on of the SKG will be improved so that accessing the data through virtual observatory interfaces can be adequately defined.

The MASER project is partly supported by CNES and CNRS, as well as EU fundings, through Europlanet 2024 RI (grant agreement No 871149), FAIR-IMPACT (grant agreement No 101057344), and OSTRAILS (grant agreement No 101130187).
Paradoks produktywności w polskim przemyśle spożywczym – aspekt zadłużenia przedsiębiorstw
PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX IN POLISH FOOD INDUSTRY – ASPECT OF DEBT OF ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Jałowiecka, Ewa
name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Jałowiecka, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: przemysł spożywczy
subject: paradoks produktywności
subject: zadłużenie przedsiębiorstw

description: The paper presents the results of one aspect of the productivity paradox in the Polish food processing sector investigations. The effect of modern logistics and ICT solutions using on the corporate debt level. The study was conducted in groups of employees and industries. Obtained results indicate that this aspect of the productivity paradox applies to groups of companies with less complexity of logistics networks. Therefore, modern logistics and ICT solutions using in the food industry for companies with greater complexity of logistics translates into better management of financial resources and the functioning based primarily on equity capitals.
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Passon, Oliver
name: Van Strien, Marij
Publisher: name: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature
Year: 2022

description: Quantum physics is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and a scientifically informed philosophy of nature needs to integrate it. In particular, quantum mechanics is thought to have implications for example for the question whether nature is deterministic, the (im)possibility to observe without intervening, and the possibility of non-local interactions. However, if we look more carefully at what exactly quantum mechanics implies, we encounter a problem: there are different interpretations of quantum mechanics, which are all compatible with observations but which paint very different pictures of physical reality. This entry tries to orient the reader within this complex debate. We introduce briefly what quantum physics is about, what its main interpretations look like and whether some general conclusions with regard to metaphysics and natural philosophy can be drawn from it.
description: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature, No. 1 (2022)
An Analytical Expression for the Non-Singlet Structure Functions at Small $x$ in the Double Logarithmic Approximation
Creators: name: Lublinsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple analytic expression for the non-singlet structure function $f_{NS}$ is given. The expression is derived from the result of Ref. [1] obtained by low $x$ resummation of the quark ladder diagrams in the double logarithmic approximation of perturbative QCD.
description: 5 pages, A few comments and refs are added
Ograniczenie emisji gazów cieplarnianych w cyklu życia biopaliw z uwzględnieniem pośrednich zmian użytkowania gruntów
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LIMITATION IN LIFE CYCLE OF BIOFUELS WITH REGARD OF INDIRECT LAND USE CHANGES
Creators: name: Jarosz, Zuzanna
name: Jarosz, Zuzanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: biopaliwa
subject: emisja gazów cieplarnianych
subject: ograniczenie emisji
subject: pośrednia zmiana użytkowania gruntów

description: The aim of the research was to estimate emissions and greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions resulting in the full life cycle of biofuels and to determine what effect on the reduction of GHG emissions will be when taking into account the additional issue related to the implementation of ILUC. The field N2O emission estimated by the IPCC were replaced by more accurate emissions obtained from the DNDC model. It was found that the production of bioethanol, ensuring compliance with the criteria of sustainable production and acquisition reduction of GHG emission (including ILUC) > 50% is possible from wheat and corn production from tillage with crop residues incorporation or reduced tillage with leaving crop residues at the field. From 2017 obtaining of 50% minimum reduction in the biodiesel production requires the oilseed cultivation in tillage system with crop residues incorporation or reduced tillage system with leaving the straw on the field (with the exception of lubuskie province).
Development and validation of a multi-angle light scattering method for fast engine soot mass and size measurements
Creators: name: Kheirkhah, Pooyan
name: Baldelli, Alberto
name: Kirchen, Patrick
name: Rogak, Steven
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A Fast Exhaust Nephelometer (FEN) is developed for light scattering measurement of particles produced by unsteady combustion processes, such as in diesel engines. The FEN simultaneously measures the light scattering intensity at three angles to infer the mass concentration (Cm), the geometric mass mean mobility diameter (dm,g), and the geometric standard deviation (σm,g) of polydisperse soot. A kernel is used to determine Cm, dm,g, and σm,g based on lookup tables generated with the Rayleigh-Debye-Gans light scattering model for fractal aggregates (RDGFA); the model incorporates the variation of the primary particle size (dp) with aggregate size (da), and nine parameters related to the soot properties, and one to the FEN optics. These parameters are determined a priori from literature and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The inverted Cm and dm,g are within ±10% of the gravimetric mass concentration and SMPS mobility diameter. This, however, largely depends on the choice of the parameters used to generate the lookup tables. A parametric study shows the inferred mass is most sensitive to uncertainties in the soot refractive index, the primary particle size, and the fractal pre-factor kf. Considering the wide range of soot refractive indices in the literature and the sensitivity of the morphological parameters to the processing of soot images, the uncertainty in mass concentration would be over 40%. Because of this, a novel approach of relating the size of primary particles to the size of aggregates is incorporated for the first time in the light scattering model, and reduces the uncertainty to ±25–30%. Copyright © 2020 American Association for Aerosol Research
Exact representations of many body interactions with RBM neural networks
Creators: name: Rrapaj, Ermal
name: Roggero, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are simple statistical models defined on a bipartite graph which have been successfully used in studying more complicated many-body systems, both classical and quantum. In this work, we exploit the representation power of RBMs to provide an exact decomposition of many-body contact interactions into one-body operators coupled to discrete auxiliary fields. This construction generalizes the well known Hirsch's transform used for the Hubbard model to more complicated theories such as Pionless EFT in nuclear physics, which we analyze in detail. We also discuss possible applications of our mapping for quantum annealing applications and conclude with some implications for RBM parameter optimization through machine learning.
Bairdia deweveri Crasquin 2010
Creators: name: Chitnarin, Anisong
name: Crasquin, Sylvie
name: Forel, Marie-Béatrice
name: Tepnarong, Prachya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Bairdiidae
Bairdia
Bairdia deweveri

description: Bairdia cf. deweveri Crasquin, 2010
(Fig. 11A, B)
 Bairdia deweveri Crasquin in Crasquin, Forel, Feng, Yuan, Baudin & Collin et al. 2010a: 342, figs 7O-T.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Nine incomplete carapaces.
OCCURRENCES. — Sample 07 PB04-2, Nong Phai section, Pha Nok Khao Formation, Phetchabun Province, Early Permian; sample 07LB05-C2, Ta Kli section, Tak Fa Formation, Nakhon Sawan province, Central Thailand, Early Permian.
DIMENSIONS. — H = 0.40-0.55 mm, L = 0.77-0.99 mm, H/L = 0.48-0.54.
 REMARKS The present species can be compared to Bairdia deweveri Crasquin, 2010 from the latest Permian of Meishan section, South China (Crasquin et al. 2010a: 19, pl. 7, figs 15-20); however, AB of B.deweveri has smaller radius of curvature than in our specimens.
description: Published as part of Chitnarin, Anisong, Crasquin, Sylvie, Forel, Marie-Béatrice & Tepnarong, Prachya, 2017, Ostracods (Crustacea) of the Early-Middle Permian (Cisarulian-Guadalupian) from Central Thailand (Indochina Block): Part II, Orders Podocopida, Platycopida and Myodocopida, pp. 651-690 in Geodiversitas 39 (4) on page 666, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/4536112
Crystal-lattice coupling to the vortex-melting transition in YBa2Cu3O7-d
Creators: name: Lortz, R.
name: Meingast, C.
name: Welp, U.
name: Kwok, W. K.
name: Crabtree, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distinct discontinuities in the thermal expansion of the crystal lattice are observed at the melting-transition of the vortex lattice in a naturally untwinned reversible YBa2Cu3O7-d-single crystal using high-resolution dilatometry. This coupling between the vortex transition and the crystal lattice demonstrates that the crystal lattice is more than a mere host for the vortices, and it is attributed to a strong pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature and thus to the condensation energy at the vortex melting temperature.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
In-pipe modular scavenging robot
Creators: name: Chandrasekhar Jinendran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Aim is to develop a novel in-pipe robot to clean sewage pipes. This design resolves the problem of manual scavenging and inspection of inner section of pipes. And hopefully will resolve the downsides of existing mechanisms.
Elemental iron (Fe0) for better drinking water in rural areas of developing countries
Creators: name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Woafo, P.
Publisher: name: Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg
Year: 2008

description: Many of the reasons behind the anthropogenic contamination problems in rural environments of developing countries lie in changes in the traditional way of life and the ignorance on the toxic potential of introduced manufactured products. A generalization trend exists within the international community suggesting that water in developing countries is of poor quality. However, the water quality is rarely analytically determined. Existing potabilization solutions may be prohibitively expensive for the rural populations. Therefore, efficient and affordable technologies are still needed to ameliorate the water quality. In the recent two decades,elemental iron has shown the capacity to remove all possible contaminants (including viruses) from the groundwater. This paper presents a concept to scale down the conventional iron barrier technology to meet the requirements of small communities and households in rural environments worldwide.
description: research
Ekonomiczne możliwości rozwoju produkcji i rynku rodzimych roślin białkowych w Polsce
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OF PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AND MARKET OF NATIVE PROTEIN CROPS IN POLAND
Creators: name: Jerzak, Michał A.
name: Krysztofiak, Paweł
name: Jerzak, Michał A.
name: Krysztofiak, Paweł
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: rośliny białkowe
subject: opłacalność produkcji
subject: rynek białka roślinnego

description: The aim of the paper was to examine the economic constraints of protein safety in Poland. In implementing this objective the available results of research concerning the domestic market for protein crops were used. Additionally, the comparative account profitability of native protein crops production was conducted, having regard to the data on the amount of the financial contribution to the cultivation of native plants. Moreover, the costs of production for pig feed using soybean meal and protein derived from indigenous sources were compared. It was found that despite the satisfactory profitability of production of native legumes and lower cost to produce 1 kg of protein compared to post-extraction soya meal, there is no entity participating in the feed market which is interested in the development of the market of these plants. Therefore, this market requires both active animating the turnover as well as support from the state which, through the creation of a national intentional indicator, will oblige national fodder factories to use protein derived from native legumes.
title: The role of Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., in the promotion and development of Lincolnshire canals and navigations
Creators: name: Hunt, William Michael
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., was Lincolnshire's foremost figure of the late 18th. century and his influence within the county was such that few public works were undertaken with which he was not connected. Included in these public works were canal and navigation promotions and major works of drainage of the fenlands which had a secondary navigation function associated with them. This thesis begins with a brief biography of Sir Joseph which places him in his historical setting both nationally and internationally and is followed by a consideration of his life in his home county. In this his waterways' connections are introduced. For Sir Joseph to understand waterways~ promotion he had to learn and this process is discussed in detail. Most of this took place outside Lincolnshire and before the periods of 'Canal Mania' and, therefore, he was ideally placed to make use of this acquired expertise for the benefit of his county when the pressure for canal promotion began in Lincolnshire. The heart of the Lincolnshire systems of canals and navigations is now, as in his day, the River Witham and Banks' role as a Commissioner for drainage and navigation is considered. Included here is his part in the promotion of the drainage of the fens to the east of Boston and the formation of the 'Witham Navigable Drains'. Each of the Lincolnshire waterways with which he had some connection is discussed as are the details of the various roles he assumed. On the Sleaford Navigation, for example, he was a promoter; on the Horncastle Navigation he was 'President' of the company, while on the Grantham Canal he was a protector of the Witham Trusts' interests during the promotion period. In his different capacities Sir Joseph was often in contact with the most important canal engineers of his time. With them he developed different relationships and those with William Jessop, John Rennie and George Maxwell are especially investigated in depth. Finally, an assessment is attempted of the part he played and the significance of his contribution to the promotion and development of the Lincolnshire waterways.