cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Welfare Effects of Eco-label Proliferation: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Creators: name: Lohr, Luanne
name: Lohr, Luanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: eco-labeling
subject: market segmentation
subject: organic agriculture
subject: product differentiation
subject: search costs
subject: simulation
subject: spatial competition

description: Given that existing food eco-labels are still not well defined in consumers’ experience, there is potential for new labels to generate more confusion. Consumers incur fixed costs to learn about a label’s meaning. Market shares for existing certifications may be eroded by perceptions that new products are good substitutes for them. The eco-label certifier must respond with information that reduces these costs or lose consumer and producer confidence in the label. Using a model of spatial competition in attribute space, the effect of search costs and educational expenditures on market share and price for competing certifiers is simulated. The results show that educational spending and/or improvements in efficiency of educational spending increase market share when consumer search costs are positive. Underspending on consumer education reduces the price a firm is able to charge within its market niche. The consumer and producer surplus effects of new certifier entry are calculated using a simulation model of market segmentation. Under the assumptions made, segmentation reduces producer surplus while keeping consumer surplus about the same. Market prices decline due to associated search costs as share is captured from the conventional segment by eco-labels. Within segments, consumers gain at the expense of producers, even if market share is maintained by existing eco-labelers after entry of new labels, and even if consumer search costs decline.
Alopecosa cuneata
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Alopecosa
Alopecosa cuneata

description: Alopecosa cuneata (Clerck, 1757)
NEW DATA. — Entracque: Gias degli Isterpis, Vallone Gesso della Barra, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1368 m, 23.V.2010, 1♂; Valdieri: southern slope of Monte Bourel, Vallone della Meris, Sant’Anna di Valdieri, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1500- 2300 m, 1-31.VIII.2011, 1♀; Vernante: Palanfrè, Pianard, Garbella, sparse wood, grassland, 1600 m, 14.VI.2010, 1♀.
 LITERATURE. — Lambiase et al. (2007); Paschetta et al. (2013).
CHOROTYPE. — PAL.
MACROHABITAT. — Alpine grasslands, Alpine prairies.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Dendrochronologische Befunde zur jüngeren Flußgeschichte von Main, Fulda, Lahn und Oker
Creators: name: Delorme, Axel
name: Leuschner, Hanns-Hubert
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1983

description: Mit Hilfe einer Häufigkeitsverteilung der Keim- und Absterbedaten von 166 sub fossilen Eichenstämmen werden für das Obermaintal jeweils zwei Phasen der Auwaldbildung und -zerstörung im Subatlantikum nachgewiesen. Ein Zusammenhang der Auwaldzerstörung (von 25 BC bis 375 AD und von 600 AD bis 800 AD) mit Rodungsperioden in der römischen Kaiserzeit und im Frühmittelalter und einer dadurch verursachten Steigerung der Flußaktivität ist wahrscheinlich. Die Daten weiterer 74 Eichen aus Aufschlüssen an Fulda, Lahn und Oker zeigen für diese Flußgebiete neben Parallelen zur Entwicklung am Main auch deutliche Unterschiede auf.
description: research
title: The effects of early 'non attachment' in adulthood
Creators: name: Williams, Bryn Thomas Roy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Early conceptualisations of Attachment Theory placed considerable emphasis on the importance of early experiences of relationships on development throughout life. Central to the theory is the notion that early experiences determine internalised representations of relationships and experience which subsequently affect the way individuals perceive themselves in relation to others. However, the evidence suggests that development is not so deterministic and that the impact of early adversity can be overcome through reparative experiences. The current study is part of a larger longitudinal investigation concerned with the impact of pure non attachment on development. The study reported in this thesis aims to consider the impact of early non attachment in adulthood, by exploring the sense that adults have made of their lives having been placed in institutionalised care in early childhood, with no opportunity to develop attachment, and who were then adopted or restored to biological parents. The meanings given to these experiences were explored by conducting a Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the accounts given by 15 participants using the Adult Attachment Interview. The results of the study suggest that the over all experience of non attachment did not prevent or severely inhibit development. However, six themes were identified in the study which highlight difficulties in people's ability to make sense of the pastJUld how they function in the present. The findings provide further insight into the impact of early non-attachment in adulthood and suggest that internalised representations of relationships may have a lasting influence, although alternative experience can ameliorate their impact.
The influence of a fluid core and a solid inner core on the Cassini sate of Mercury
Creators: name: Dumberry, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model of the Cassini state of Mercury that comprises an inner core, a fluid core and a mantle. Our model includes inertial and gravitational torques between interior regions, and viscous and electromagnetic (EM) coupling at the boundaries of the fluid core. We show that the coupling between Mercury's interior regions is sufficiently strong that the obliquity of the mantle spin axis deviates from that of a rigid planet by no more than 0.01 arcmin. The mantle obliquity decreases with increasing inner core size, but the change between a large and no inner core is limited to 0.015 arcmin. EM coupling is stronger than viscous coupling at the inner core boundary and, if the core magnetic field strength is above 0.3 mT, locks the fluid and solid cores into a common precession motion. Because of the strong gravitational coupling between the mantle and inner core, the larger the inner core is, the more this co-precessing core is brought into an alignment with the mantle, and the more the obliquity of the polar moment of inertia approaches that expected for a rigid planet. The misalignment between the polar moment of inertia and mantle spin axis increases with inner core size, but is limited to 0.007 arcmin. Our results imply that the measured obliquities of the mantle spin axis and polar moment of inertia should coincide at the present-day level of measurement errors, and cannot be distinguished from the obliquity of a rigid planet.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures
Universal random matrix correlations of ratios of characteristic polynomials at the spectral edges
Creators: name: Akemann, G.
name: Fyodorov, Y. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown recently [10] that Cauchy transforms of orthogonal polynomials appear naturally in general correlation functions containing ratios of characteristic polynomials of random NxN Hermitian matrices. Our main goal is to investigate the issue of universality of large N asymptotics for those Cauchy transforms for a wide class of weight functions. Our analysis covers three different scaling regimes: the "hard edge", the "bulk" and the "soft edge" of the spectrum, thus extending the earlier results known for the bulk. The principal tool is to show that for finite matrix size N the auxiliary "wave functions" associated with the Cauchy transforms obey the same second order differential equation as those associated with the orthogonal polynomials themselves.
description: 18 pages
Stochastic convex optimization for provably efficient apprenticeship learning
Creators: name: Kamoutsi, Angeliki
name: Banjac, Goran
name: Lygeros, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider large-scale Markov decision processes (MDPs) with an unknown cost function and employ stochastic convex optimization tools to address the problem of imitation learning, which consists of learning a policy from a finite set of expert demonstrations. We adopt the apprenticeship learning formalism, which carries the assumption that the true cost function can be represented as a linear combination of some known features. Existing inverse reinforcement learning algorithms come with strong theoretical guarantees, but are computationally expensive because they use reinforcement learning or planning algorithms as a subroutine. On the other hand, state-of-the-art policy gradient based algorithms (like IM-REINFORCE, IM-TRPO, and GAIL), achieve significant empirical success in challenging benchmark tasks, but are not well understood in terms of theory. With an emphasis on non-asymptotic guarantees of performance, we propose a method that directly learns a policy from expert demonstrations, bypassing the intermediate step of learning the cost function, by formulating the problem as a single convex optimization problem over occupancy measures. We develop a computationally efficient algorithm and derive high confidence regret bounds on the quality of the extracted policy, utilizing results from stochastic convex optimization and recent works in approximate linear programming for solving forward MDPs.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2112.14004
Holstein- und Eem-Interglaziale im Bereich des Lausitzer Grenzwalles und die Gliederung der Saalevereisung zwischen Baruther und Lausitzer Urstromtal
Creators: name: Unger, Kurt P.
name: Hübner, Frank
name: Escher, Dieter
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1995

description: Der erstmalige Nachweis von limnischen Sedimenten des Holstein-Interglazials und von saalefrüh-glazialen Flußablagerungen im Quartär des Braunkohlenfeldes Calau/Süd erfordert - in Verbindung mit mehreren Eemvorkommen - für die westliche Niederlausitz die Revision der bisher gültigen Gliederung der Saalevereisung. Unter der glazialen Serie des Warthestadiums (die betr. Endmoräne quert das Untersuchungsgebiet von NW nach SE) läßt sich nur eine ältere saalezeitliche, die Drenthegrundmoräne nachweisen. Diese spaltet erst weiter nach Süden zu, zur ehemals äußersten Randlage der betreffenden Eisdecke hin, in eine Untere (= Hauptdrenthestadium) und eine Obere Drenthemoräne (= Spätdrenthestadium) auf.
description: research
title: The application of emerging new technologies by Portsmouth Dockyard 1790-1815
Creators: name: Wilkin, Felicity Susan
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The history of the Royal Navy during the war with France between 1793 and 1815 is well documented, but the part played by new technologies in maintaining the Royal Navy as an efficient fighting force and contributing to its ultimate success is much less well recognised. This thesis addresses this problem beginning with an examination of the demands made upon Portsmouth Dockyard, the largest of the Royal Dockyards, due to the growth in the size of the fleet. It studies the nature of the tasks carried out in the Dockyard and the ways in which its personnel undertook them. Following a review of emerging new technologies and considering those which were, or were not potentially relevant to the Dockyard's activities, the thesis examines the technological advances actually applied in the period, how they were related to the site, to each other and to the workforce. The main innovations resulted in a major increase in the throughput of the dry docks, due to new dock design and the imaginative use of steam-power. In the metalworking area too, steam-power, together with other new technologies, provided major benefits to the Navy as a whole, especially in the reprocessing of copper. In the woodworking area revolutionary new blockmaking machinery was at the forefront of advances in efficiency and increased output of blocks for the rigging of ships. These advances were primarily due to a small group of men led by Samuel Bentham and Simon Goodrich, who became first "Engineer of the Navy". For their innovative use of new technologies and their management skills, these men can justifiably claim their place in the history of the Navy and of technology. More importantly, the applications of technology in Portsmouth Dockyard made a significant contribution to the industrial revolution in Britain during the period.
Pardosa bifasciata
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Pardosa
Pardosa bifasciata

description: Pardosa bifasciata (C. L. Koch, 1834)
NEW DATA. — Entracque: Tetti Violin, grassland with bushes, 900- 1100 m, 4.VII.2012, 1♀ (collected within the PIT Summer School 2012); Tetti Violin, grassland with bushes, 900-1100 m, 10.VI.2011, 1♀ (collected within the PIT Summer School 2011); Valdieri: southern slope of Monte Bourel, Vallone della Meris, Sant’Anna di Valdieri, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1500-2300 m, 1-31. VIII.2011 (pitfall traps), 1♀.
CHOROTYPE. — PAL.
MACROHABITAT. — Alpine prairies, shrublands.
NOTES. — New record for the study area.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Nuclear shadowing in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering
Creators: name: Qiu, Jianwei
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the collinear factorized pQCD approach we calculate the small-$x_B$ process-dependent nuclear modification to the structure functions measured in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering. We include both heavy quark mass corrections $(M^2/Q^2)$ and resummed nuclear-enhanced dynamical power corrections in the quantity $(ξ^2/Q^2)(A^{1/3}-1)$ with $ξ^2$ evaluated to leading order in $α_s$. Our formalism predicts a measurable difference in the shadowing pattern of the structure functions $F_2^A(x_B,Q^2)$ and $F_3^A(x_B,Q^2)$ and a significant low- and moderate-$Q^2$ modification of the QCD sum rules. We also comment on the relevance of our results to the NuTeV extraction of $\sin^2θ_W$.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4
Contaminants removal and bacterial activity enhancement along the flow path of constructed wetland microbial fuel cells
Creators: name: Hartl, Marco
name: Bedoya-Ríos, Diego F.
name: Fernández-Gatell, Marta
name: Rousseau, Diederik P. L.
name: Laing, Gijs Du
name: Garfí, Marianna
name: Puigagut, Jaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Microbial fuel cells implemented in constructed wetlands (CW-MFCs), albeit a relatively new technology still under study, have shown to improve treatment efficiency of urban wastewater. So far the vast majority of CW-MFC systems investigated were designed as lab-scale systems working under rather unrealistic hydraulic conditions using synthetic wastewater. The main objective of this work was to quantify CW-MFCs performance operated under different conditions in a more realistic setup using meso-scale systems with horizontal flow fed with real urban wastewater. Operational conditions tested were organic loading rate (4.9+-1.6, 6.7+-1.4 and 13.6+-3.2 g COD/m2.day) and hydraulic regime (continuous vs intermittent feeding) as well as different electrical connections: CW control (conventional CW without electrodes), open-circuit CW-MFC (external circuit between anode and cathode not connected) and closed-circuit CW-MFC (external circuit connected). Eight horizontal subsurface flow CWs were operated for about four months. Each wetland consisted of a PVC reservoir of 0.193 m2 filled with 4/8 mm granitic riverine gravel. All wetlands had intermediate sampling points for gravel and interstitial liquid sampling. The CW-MFCs were designed as three MFCs incorporated one after the other along the flow path of the CWs. Results showed no significant differences between tested organic loading rates, hydraulic regimes or electrical connections, however, on average, systems operated in closed-circuit CW-MFC mode under continuous flow outperformed the other experimental conditions. Closed-circuit CW-MFC compared to conventional CW control systems showed around 5% and 22% higher COD and ammonium removal, respectively. Correspondingly, overall bacteria activity, as measured by the fluorescein diacetate technique, was higher (4% to 34%) in closed-circuit systems when compared to CW control systems.
description: 39 pages, 8 Figures
Additional file 4 of Cross-sectional analysis of circulating tumor DNA in primary colorectal cancer at surgery and during post-surgery follow-up by liquid biopsy
Creators: name: Allegretti, Matteo
name: Cottone, Giuliano
name: Carboni, Fabio
name: Cotroneo, Ettore
name: Casini, Beatrice
name: Giordani, Elena
name: Amoreo, Carla Azzurra
name: Buglioni, Simonetta
name: Diodoro, Maria
name: Pescarmona, Edoardo
name: Zazza, Settimio
name: Federici, Orietta
name: Zeuli, Massimo
name: Conti, Laura
name: Cigliana, Giovanni
name: Fiorentino, Francesco
name: Valle, Mario
name: Giacomini, Patrizio
name: Spinella, Francesca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Diagnostic performance of liquid biopsy. Assay performance were calculated for plasma samples from 39 group A patients at surgery and 10 plasma samples obtained from healthy donors. True positives (TP): CRC patients with at least one detectable (above the pre-determined assay sensitivity threshold) circulating SNV. True negatives (TN): healthy donors with no detectable circulating SNV. False negatives (FN): patients with no circulating SNV but with positive tissue. False positives (FP): SNV called in healthy donors. Specificity: n. of TN / (n. of TN + n. of FP). Sensitivity: n. of TP / (n. of TP + n. of FN). Positive predictive value: n. of TP / (n. of TP + n. of FP). Negative predictive value: n. of TN / (n. of FN + n. of TN). Accuracy: (TP + TN) / (TP + FN + FP + TN).
Gun Control in America An Analysis of the Effects District of Columbia v. Heller Will Have on Gun Control Policy in the United States
Creators: name: Farber, David
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Description to be added
Identifying the preschool home learning experiences that predict early number skills: Evidence from a longitudinal study
Creators: name: Soto-Calvo, Elena
name: Simmons, Fiona R.
name: Adams, Anne-Marie
name: Francis, Hannah N.
name: Patel, Hannah
name: Giofrè, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This study examines the longitudinal relationships between home learning experiences and early number skills. The counting, number transcoding and calculation skills of 274 children were assessed in the penultimate term of preschool (Mage=4:0). Prior to these assessments, parents completed questionnaires that surveyed the frequency of the children's home learning experiences. Three types of experiences were indexed: code-focused home literacy experiences that focus on the phonological and orthographic features of language, meaning-focused home literacy experiences that focus on sharing the meaning of language and text, and home number experiences. The children's language abilities (phonological awareness and vocabulary) and nonverbal abilities (inhibitory control and nonverbal reasoning) were assessed in the final term of preschool (Mage=4:3). Their number skills were reassessed in the final term of the first year of primary school (Mage=5:3). Home letter-sound interaction experiences (interactive code-focused literacy experiences) had significant longitudinal relationships with counting and number transcoding that were independent of language and nonverbal abilities. The relationship between letter-sound interaction experiences and later counting was also independent of the autoregressive influence of baseline counting ability. We extend previous findings by demonstrating that interactive code-focused home literacy experiences in the preschool period predict growth in counting skills even when a broad range of language and cognitive abilities are controlled.
Pardosa blanda
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Pardosa
Pardosa blanda

description: Pardosa blanda (C. L. Koch, 1833)
NEW DATA. — Valdieri: nearby Lago Soprano della Sella, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 2300 m, 1.VIII.2011, 3♂, 1♀; nearby Rifugio Livio Bianco, peatbog, 1900 m, 27. VI.2011, 3♂; along the path to Monte Matto, Alpine scree, 2500-3088 m, 27. VI.2011, 1♂, 1♀; Pian del Valasco, Alpine pasture with rocks, 1764 m, 11- 12.VII.2009 (pitfall traps), 5♂; same locality, 27.VIII-23.IX.2009 (pitfall traps), 3♀; same locality, 29. VI.2009, 3♂; Pian della Casa, Alpine grassland with peatbogs, 1760 m, 29.VI-9.VIII.2007 (pitfall traps), 3♂, leg. K. Wolf-Schwenninger & H. Schwenninger; Rifugio Questa – Lago delle Portette, Alpine scree, 2300 m, 11-12.VII.2009 (pitfall traps), 1♂; southern slope of Monte Bourel, Vallone della Meris, Sant’Anna di Valdieri, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1500-2300 m, 1-31.VIII.2011 (pitfall traps), 1♂; Vallone della Meris, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1200-1800 m, 26. V.2011, 2♂; Vernante: Palanfrè, Gias della Luia, Alpine pasture, 1600 m, 3.VII.2010, 8♂, 20♀, leg. B. Rizzioli; Palanfrè, Pascariund, Alpine pasture, 1600 m, 30.VII-30.VIII.2010 (pitfall traps), 1♂; Palanfrè, Pianard, Garbella, sparse wood, grassland, 1600 m, 30. VI.2010, 1♂; Vallone degli Alberghi, Gias Piamian, stream gravel, 1470 m, 1.VII.2010, 1♀; Vallone degli Alberghi, sparse wood, grassland and rock-debris, 1400-2000 m, 5. VI.2010, 3♂, 3♀.
 LITERATURE. — Isaia et al. (2007); Lambiase et al. (2007); Paschetta et al. (2013).
CHOROTYPE. — SEU.
MACROHABITAT. — Alpine grasslands, Alpine pastures, Alpine prairies, riparian habitats, rocky lands, wetlands, not specified.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on pages 85-86, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Ferromagnetic Domain Structure of La0.78Ca0.22MnO3 Single Crystals
Creators: name: Jung, Grzegorz
name: Markovich, Vladimir
name: van der Beek, Kees
name: Mogilyansky, Dmitrii
name: Mukovskii, Yakov M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magneto-optical technique has been employed to observe spontaneous ferromagnetic domain structures in La0.78Ca0.22MnO3 single crystals. The magnetic domain topology was found to be correlated with the intrinsic twin structure of the investigated crystals. With decreasing temperature the regular network of ferromagnetic domains undergoes significant changes resulting in apparent rotation of the domain walls in the temperature range of 70-150 K. The apparent rotation of the domain walls can be understood in terms of the Jahn-Teller deformation of the orthorhombic unit cell, accompanied by additional twinning.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, to be published in PRB
Evaluating Deep Music Generation Methods Using Data Augmentation
Creators: name: Godwin, Toby
name: Rizos, Georgios
name: Baird, Alice
name: Futaisi, Najla D. Al
name: Brisse, Vincent
name: Schuller, Bjoern W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Despite advances in deep algorithmic music generation, evaluation of generated samples often relies on human evaluation, which is subjective and costly. We focus on designing a homogeneous, objective framework for evaluating samples of algorithmically generated music. Any engineered measures to evaluate generated music typically attempt to define the samples' musicality, but do not capture qualities of music such as theme or mood. We do not seek to assess the musical merit of generated music, but instead explore whether generated samples contain meaningful information pertaining to emotion or mood/theme. We achieve this by measuring the change in predictive performance of a music mood/theme classifier after augmenting its training data with generated samples. We analyse music samples generated by three models -- SampleRNN, Jukebox, and DDSP -- and employ a homogeneous framework across all methods to allow for objective comparison. This is the first attempt at augmenting a music genre classification dataset with conditionally generated music. We investigate the classification performance improvement using deep music generation and the ability of the generators to make emotional music by using an additional, emotion annotation of the dataset. Finally, we use a classifier trained on real data to evaluate the label validity of class-conditionally generated samples.
Heilpädagogische Förderung einer Schülerin mit selektivem Mutismus Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand und Fördervorschläge für die Schule
Creators: name: Thum, Esmée
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderopädagogik
Selektiver Mutismus
Förderunterricht
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht den aktuellen Forschungsstand in der deutschsprachigen Literatur zur (heil-)pädagogischen Förderung eines Kindes mit selektivem Mutismus. Anhand einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse werden themenspezifische Texte, die zuvor in Datenbanken aufgespürt wurden, systematisch nach entsprechenden Fördervorschlägen durchforscht. Ein konkreter Praxisfall eines in der Regelschule integrierten Mädchens mit geistiger Behinderung, welches einen selektiven Mutismus aufweist, wird beschrieben und am Ende werden die Erkenntnisse aus der Literatur darauf bezogen.
Distributional Impacts of Green Taxes on Food Consumption in Catalonia
Creators: name: Dogbe, Wisdom
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Dogbe, Wisdom
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Pigovian tax
subject: Discount rates
subject: EASI demand model
subject: Welfare analysis
subject: Diet quality

description: Spain is likely to miss it Kyoto target in 2020 if it does not shift emphasis from labor taxes towards environmental taxes. Compared to supply-side measures, demand-side measures have proven to be more efficient in reducing GHG emissions. We assess demand-side Pigovian/CO2-eq tax on food CO2-eq reduction, welfare and diet quality in Spain based on different social costs and discount rates. Elasticities for simulations are calculated from a complete EASI demand system. Results show CO2-eq reduction are proportional to taxes. Though, taxes affect diet quality positively, it lowers household welfare indicating a trade-off between emissions goals and household´s welfare.
Effect of Kinematics and Fluency in Adversarial Synthetic Data Generation for ASL Recognition with RF Sensors
Creators: name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Malaia, E.
name: Gurbuz, A. C.
name: Griffin, D. J.
name: Gurbuz, C. Crawfordand S. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: RF sensors have been recently proposed as a new modality for sign language processing technology. They are non-contact, effective in the dark, and acquire a direct measurement of signing kinematic via exploitation of the micro-Doppler effect. First, this work provides an in depth, comparative examination of the kinematic properties of signing as measured by RF sensors for both fluent ASL users and hearing imitation signers. Second, as ASL recognition techniques utilizing deep learning requires a large amount of training data, this work examines the effect of signing kinematics and subject fluency on adversarial learning techniques for data synthesis. Two different approaches for the synthetic training data generation are proposed: 1) adversarial domain adaptation to minimize the differences between imitation signing and fluent signing data, and 2) kinematically-constrained generative adversarial networks for accurate synthesis of RF signing signatures. The results show that the kinematic discrepancies between imitation signing and fluent signing are so significant that training on data directly synthesized from fluent RF signers offers greater performance (93% top-5 accuracy) than that produced by adaptation of imitation signing (88% top-5 accuracy) when classifying 100 ASL signs.
The Prevention of Low Birth Weight Births in Washington, DC : A Health Communications Perspective
Creators: name: Farrar, Meghan
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Description to be added
The effect of attribute non-attendance on choice experiments investigating agri-environmental scheme design
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Entrena, Macario
name: Villanueva, Anastasio J.
name: Gómez-Limón, José A.
name: Rodríguez-Entrena, Macario
name: Villanueva, Anastasio J.
name: Gómez-Limón, José A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Choice experiments
subject: Stated attribute non-attendance
subject: Inferred attribute non-attendance
subject: Willingness to accept
subject: Agri-environmental schemes

description: The objective of this paper is to improve the understanding of attribute non-attendance (ANA) in a choice experiment (CE) investigating farmers’ WTA for participating in agri-environmental schemes in southern Spain. Evidence is found of ANA behaviour for both stated and inferred approaches, with models accounting for ANA clearly outperforming those that do not account for it; however, we produce no conclusive results as to which ANA approach is best. In addition, we investigate sources of observed heterogeneity related to ANA behaviour, our results hinting at a positive relationship between ease of scheme adoption and non-attendance to attributes.
title: Application of biomechanical techniques to improved design of products and environments for an ageing population
Creators: name: Ward, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: This work describes the development of a technique for the evaluation of the performance of a product's physical user interface. The technique is intended to combine the best features cat conventional user group testing with those of computer based biomechanical modelling. A requirement for the new technique exists as social pressure demands that consumer products he optimised for users with a wide range of physical capabilities, while shortening product lifecycles leave less time for extensive user evaluation programmes. A demonstration system was developed, based upon the use of an electromagnetic tracking system to gather upper limb motion data and a two segment, rigid link biomechanical model. Experimental work was carried out to test the effectiveness of the system at following limb movements and average error in reconstruction of hand position from segment angle data was 62mm (Standard deviation 41 mm) The modelling system was applied to the assessment of two types of product: cutlery and drinking vessels and the effectiveness of various statistical techniques in allowing the rapid identification of important design parameters was assessed. The use of Taguchi's smaller-the-better signal to noise ratio was found to be effective for the measurement of the effect of product design on shoulder and elbow forces. Cutlery with enlarged handles designed to reduce grip strength requirements tended to increase forces at the shoulder. The method was also applied to an interface optimisation problem involving the design of a lever mechanism. Partial factorial design was used to minimise experimental cost during the assessment of multiple factors, but strong interactions were detected between interface parameters, reducing the value of the analysis. The overall height of the lever handle relative to the user's shoulder was found to be the most significant design factor, with an optimum operating situation existing where the lever was low enough to require almost full extension of the elbow during use. The work concludes that biomechanical analysis holds further promise for the optimisation of interface parameters, provided the high experimental cost involved with present techniques can be reduced.
Does Crisis Have Impact on the Agglomeration in the Hungarian Pork Sector?
Creators: name: Csonka, Arnold
name: Fertő, Imre
name: Csonka, Arnold
name: Fertő, Imre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Pork
subject: Agglomeration
subject: Spatial econometrics
subject: Crisis

description: The research described in this paper analyses agglomeration effects and spatial externalities in the Hungarian hog sector between 2000 and 2010. We apply a spatial lag – spatial error regression model to capture horizontal and vertical spillover effects and to understand the environmental restrictions that determine the location of pork production at the municipality level. Due to the dual nature of the structure of the Hungarian pork industry, we investigate agglomeration effects for individual and corporate farms separately. Results indicate that pork production by these farm groups is affected by different factors in different ways.
The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399. II. Kinematics of a Large Sample of Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Richtler, T.
name: Dirsch, B.
name: Gebhardt, K.
name: Geisler, D.
name: Hilker, M.
name: Alonso, M. V.
name: Forte, J. C.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Infante, L.
name: Larsen, S.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Rejkuba, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the kinematics and dynamics of the globular cluster system of NGC 1399, the central galaxy of the Fornax cluster. The observational data consists of medium resolution spectra, obtained at the Very Large Telescope. Our sample comprises 468 radial velocities in the magnitude range 20 < m_R < 23. This is the largest sample of globular cluster velocities around any galaxy obtained so far. The radial range is 2 arcmin < r < 9 arcmin, corresponding to 11 kpc to 50 kpc of galactocentric distance. There is the possibility that unbound clusters and/or objects in the foreground contaminate the NGC 1399 cluster sample. Under strong error selection, practically no objects are found with velocities lower than 800 km/s or higher than 2000 km/s. Since the extreme velocities influence the velocity dispersion considerably, uncertainty regarding the exact value of the dispersion remains. Within the above velocity limits, we derive a projected velocity dispersion for the total sample of 274+-9 km/s which within the uncertainties remains constant over the entire radial range. Without any velocity restriction, it increases to 325 km/s. Blue and red clusters show different dispersions corresponding to their different surface density profiles. Spherical models point to a circular velocity of 415+-30$ km/s, assuming isotropy for the red clusters. This value is constant out to 40 kpc. The inferred dark halo potential can be well represented by a logarithmic potential. Also a halo of the NFW type fits well to the observations. Some mass profiles derived from X-ray analyses do not agree with a constant circular velocity within our radial range, irrespective of its exact value.
description: 38 pages, 20 figures, accepted by AJ
Rhinolophus osgoodi Sanborn 1939, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Sanborn, Colin Campbell
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus osgoodi

description: Rhinolophus osgoodi sp. nov. Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. Osgood, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 18, p. 214, 1932. Type from Nguluko (27 ° 5' N. Lat., 100° 15' E. Long.), north of Likiang, Yunnan, China. No. 33296 Field Museum of Natural History. Adult male. Collected February 27, 1929, by H. Stevens. Characters.— Externally very like. lepidus but sella parallelsided, connecting process more rounded and lancet less hastate. General color above light brown, base of hairs light gray; below light gray. Fifth metacarpal usually a trifle longer than fourth; third shortest. Skull small for a bat with so long a forearm. Shape as in lepidus but smaller with especially shorter toothrows. Mastoid width greater than zygomatic width. Upper premolar two in row; lower premolar three external or half in row. Measurements.— Type (paratypes in parentheses): Forearm 43.3 (41.5-45.8). Skull: greatest length 16.2 (16.2-16.4); condylo-basal length 14.4 (14.2-14.5); palatal length 2.4 (2.4-2.6); width of nasal swellings 4.3 (4.2-4.3); interorbital width 2.1 (2.1-2.2); zygomatic width 7.7 (7.6-7.7); mastoid width 8 (8-8.2); width of braincase 6.7 (6.7—6.9); upper toothrow 5.8 (5.7—5.8); across canines 3.8 (3.5-3.8); maxillary width 5.8 (5.6-5.8). External measurements of seven alcoholic specimens: Forearm 42.9-45.8; third finger, metacarpal 32.8-33.9, first phalanx 11.7­ 13.6, second phalanx 14.7-16.3; fourth finger, metacarpal 33.2-34.5, first phalanx 8.8-9.9, second phalanx 10.5-12.5; fifth finger, metacarpal 33.9-34.8, first phalanx 10.5-11.8, second phalanx 10.3-12.2. Ear 12-20; tail 17.5-20.8; tibia 16.6-18.2. Specimens examined.— Total 10. Nguluko, Yunnan, China, 7 males (4 ale.), 3 females (ale.). Remarks.— As Dr. Osgood has already pointed out (l. c.), this species combines characters found in both the lepidus and refulgens sections. The greater mastoid width is a character of lepidus while the parallel-sided sella is found in refulgens and feae. The skull is smaller than in any of these. The species is named in honor of Dr. Osgood, who first noticed these differences but who did not have the material needed at the time to work out the characters fully.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Colin Campbell, 1939, Eight New Bats Of The Genus Rhinolophus, pp. 37-43 in Zoological Series Of Field Museum Of Natural History 24 (5) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3757907
Opportunity agriculture
Creators: name: Ashbridge, Ian
name: Ashbridge, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land
subject: tenancy
subject: share-farming
subject: rent
subject: United Kingdom

description: Rental values for farmland in the United Kingdom seem to bear little relation to the land’s productive capacity. One of the culprits is short-termism, encouraged by shorter and shorter durations of the standard instrument, the Farm Business Tenancy. Following on from his report, Opportunity Agriculture, to the 2014 Oxford Farming Conference, the author argues for alternative models of land tenancy, especially those based on shared ventures.
Kritische Bemerkungen und neue Gesichtspunkte zur jungpaläolithischen Bestattung von Combe Capelle Périgord
Creators: name: Asmus, Gisela
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1964

description: Das Skelett von Combe Capelle wurde bisher in das „Untere Aurignacien" (Périgordien I der neuen Nomenklatur) datiert. Diese Datierung erscheint jedoch zweifelhaft. Die alten Grabungsmethoden waren nicht exakt genug, um mit ihnen zu endgültigen stratigraphischen Schlußfolgerungen zu kommen. Die Bestattung wurde auf dem felsigen Untergrund entdeckt, leicht eingetieft in eine Strate Moustériens und „Unteren Aurignaciens". Aber es ist nicht erwiesen, daß der Tote auch zeitlich im „Unteren Aurignacien" bestattet wurde. Vielmehr scheint es, als handle es sich um ein Grab aus dem „Mittleren Aurignacien" (dem „Aurignacien typique" neuer Nomenklatur) oder sogar aus dem „Oberen Aurignacien" (dem Gravettien neuer Nomenklatur), das nachträglich in die genannten Schichten eingesenkt worden ist. Es ist wahrscheinlich, daß der Mann von Combe Capelle nicht den ältesten Menschenfund des jüngeren Paläolithikums schlechthin darstellt und daß er selber nicht auf französischem Boden bodenständig war.
description: research
Nucleon isovector momentum fraction, helicity and transversity moment using Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Mondal, Santanu
name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Gupta, Rajan
name: Joó, Bálint
name: Lin, Huey-Wen
name: Park, Sungwoo
name: Winter, Frank
name: Yoon, Boram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our recent high precision calculations (Phys. Rev. D102 (2020) no.5, 054512 and JHEP 04 (2021) 044, JHEP 21 (2020) 004) of the first moment of nucleon isovector polarized, unpolarized and transversity distributions, i.e., momentum fraction, helicity and transversity moment, respectively. We use the standard method for the calculation of these moments (via matrix elements of twist two operators), and carry out a detailed analysis of the sources of systematic uncertainty, in particular of excited state contributions. Our calculations have been performed using two different lattice setups (Clover-on-HISQ and Clover-on-Clover), each with several ensembles. They give consistent results that are in agreement with global fit analyses.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE2021
The well-being benefits of sensory-rich farm visits
Creators: name: Mills, Jane
name: Taylor, James
name: Dwyer, Janet
name: Bartlett, Jennifer
name: Mills, Jane
name: Taylor, James
name: Dwyer, Janet
name: Bartlett, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: farm visits
subject: health benefits
subject: sensory engagement
subject: social inclusion
subject: well-being

description: There is increasing evidence to show that exposure to nature positively affects health and well-being of individuals in society. This paper is based on the evaluation of Let Nature Feed Your Senses (LNFYS), an English project to encourage people with disabilities, from areas of high social deprivation, and older people to access and enjoy the natural environment through sensory-rich farm visits. The evidence of positive health and well-being impacts from the project is assessed, and the wider implications for policy and practice are discussed. Qualitative data from 38 follow-up interviews conducted with group leaders one to six months after a visit; testimonies and quotes from visit evaluation forms and letters and comments received by host farmers; and a focus group with 10 group leaders were analysed. The results revealed that enhanced mental well-being and social inclusion were consistently reported as a benefit of the farm visit. Participants particularly referred to the calming impact of the farm environment; an increase in self-esteem and independence; improvements in memory function and reminiscence ability; and increased communication. The paper concludes that whilst there is a clear benefit and demand for such on-farm experiences, in order to secure future funding evidence of their economic impacts and longitudinal follow-up studies of benefits are required.
Bemerkungen zur Stratigraphie des mitteleuropäischen Jungpleistozäns
Creators: name: Müller-Beck, Hansjürgen
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1959

description: Ausgehend von der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um die Gliederung des mitteleuropäischen Jungpleistozäns werden die Aussagemöglichkeiten der paläolithischen Hauptfundstellen des Gebietes untersucht. Als stratigraphisches Ergebnis läßt sich einerseits das Voll-Interglazial (Eem mit Antiquusfauna), andererseits das Voll-Glazial mit einer relativ kurzen Schwankung (Bildungszeit der beiden obersten Jüngeren Löße) hinreichend fixieren. Das klassische Würm (im Sinne von A. Penk & E. Brückner 1909) kann offenbar nur mit dem obersten Jüngeren Löß nach der voll-glazialen Schwankung in etwa parallelisiert werden. Zwischen Voll-Interglazial und Voll-Glazial liegt eine sehr wahrscheinlich langdauernde schwankungsreiche Übergangsperiode, für die die Bezeichnung Jungpleistozänes Anaglazial vorgeschlagen wird. Sie umfaßt einerseits das Spät-Interglazial (mit Mammutfauna), andererseits das Früh-Glazial (mit regional beschränkter Lößbildung). Innerhalb des Anaglazials sind mehrere kleinere und größere Klimaschwankungen zu erwarten. Archäologisch sind Voll-Interglazial und Anaglazial in Mitteleuropa mit keineswegs einheitlichen spät-altpaläolithischen moustéroiden Inventaren verbunden. Kulturträger dürften vorwiegend neandertaloide (anthropologisch ebenfalls kaum einheitliche) Menschenformen gewesen sein. Das Auftreten des echten Jungpaläolithikums („Aurignacien typique") erfolgt erst mit Beginn des Voll-Glazials kurz vor der voll-glazialen Schwankung.
description: research
Piratula knorri
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Piratula
Piratula knorri

description: Piratula knorri (Scopoli, 1763)
NEW DATA. — Entracque: Gorge della Reina, stream banks, 900- 1200 m, 27.V.2011, 2♀; Tetti Violin, banks of a small stream with bushes, 900-1100 m, 10.VI.2011, 1♀ (collected within the PIT Summer School 2011); Tetti Violin, grassland with bushes, 900-1100 m, 4.VII.2012, 1♂ (collected within the PIT Summer School 2012).
CHOROTYPE. — PAL.
MACROHABITAT. — Shrublands, riparian habitats.
NOTES. — New record for the study area.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680