cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MOESM6 of Pairwise growth competitions identify relative fitness relationships among artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum field isolates
Creators: name: Tirrell, Abigail
name: Vendrely, Katelyn
name: Checkley, Lisa
name: Davis, Sage
name: McDew-White, Marina
name: Cheeseman, Ian
name: Vaughan, Ashley
name: FranĂ§Ois Nosten
name: Anderson, Timothy
name: Ferdig, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6. Parasite line win/loss records order lines by competition outcomes. Each parasite line was competed against all seven other parasite lines, and win/loss records were determined for each and used to order lines from highest competitive fitness to lowest fitness. NHP4026 (7-0 record) had complete wins over all seven other parasite lines. The least fit parasite lines, NHP4373 and NHP3032, were unable to outcompete any other parasite line and had records of 0 wins, 0 losses, 1 tie. Middle-range fitness parasite lines (NHP4076, NHP4333, NHP1337, and NHP4302) had records that were a mix of complete and partial wins.
Mobulidae Gill 1893
Creators: name: LARSON, HELEN K.
name: WILLIAMS, REX S.
name: HAMMER, MICHAEL P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Mobulidae

description: Mobulidae   (devil rays)
 Mobula japanica (Muller and Henle, 1841)
Japanese Devilray
 Cephaloptera japanica Muller and Henle, 1841: 185 (Japan).
 Mobula japonica —Stevens, Davis and Church 1982: 42 (E of Melville Island; combined experimental gillnet sets). Last and Stevens (2009) do not mention this record; but as the specimen was not retained it cannot be verified.
description: Published as part of LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013,  An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia , pp. 1-293 in Zootaxa 3696 (1) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10099395
Advaitāmoda : (a study of Advaita and Viśiṣṭādvaita)
Creators: name: Comans, Michael
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1986

description: This work consists of (a) a translation of the Sanskrit text Advaitamoda and (b) my own supplementary comments to the discussion contained in the text. The work is divided into four chapters, corresponding to the Anandasrama publication of the text. The Sanskrit text has been further divided into sections with the translation following directly under each section in double spacing. My comments upon the text are in 1.5 spacing and have been placed under the translation of the relevant section. The first chapter: "the teaching of Advaita" (Advaitamatam) gives a detailed overview of the philosophy of the Advaita Vedanta. The second chapter: "the teaching of Visistadvaita" (Visistadvaitamatam) outlines the philosophical view of the Visistadvaita Vedanta. At the conclusion of the second chapter, the author summarizes what he considers to be the fundamental differences between Advaita and Visistadvaita. The third chapter: "the logical untenability of the Visistadvai ta teaching" (Visistadvaitamatanupapatti) and chapter four: "the logical tenability of Ignorance" (avidyopapattih) constitute the major part of the text. These chapters consist of a detailed reply to Ramanuja's critique of Advaita in the Laghusiddhanta and the Mahasiddhanta portions of his Sribhasya 1.1.1. The procedure followed in these chapters is that the author firstly cites the Sribhasya passage and then takes up that passage for discussion. In this manner, the major part of the above sections of the Sribhasya are systematically discussed.
Brain correlates of task-load and dementia elucidation with tensor machine learning using oddball BCI paradigm
Creators: name: Rutkowski, Tomasz M.
name: Koculak, Marcin
name: Abe, Masato S.
name: Otake-Matsuura, Mihoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Dementia in the elderly has recently become the most usual cause of cognitive decline. The proliferation of dementia cases in aging societies creates a remarkable economic as well as medical problems in many communities worldwide. A recently published report by The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 47 million people are suffering from dementia-related neurocognitive declines worldwide. The number of dementia cases is predicted by 2050 to triple, which requires the creation of an AI-based technology application to support interventions with early screening for subsequent mental wellbeing checking as well as preservation with digital-pharma (the so-called beyond a pill) therapeutical approaches. We present an attempt and exploratory results of brain signal (EEG) classification to establish digital biomarkers for dementia stage elucidation. We discuss a comparison of various machine learning approaches for automatic event-related potentials (ERPs) classification of a high and low task-load sound stimulus recognition. These ERPs are similar to those in dementia. The proposed winning method using tensor-based machine learning in a deep fully connected neural network setting is a step forward to develop AI-based approaches for a subsequent application for subjective- and mild-cognitive impairment (SCI and MCI) diagnostics.
description: In ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 8578-8582, May 2019
Comment on Intrinsic and dynamically generated scalar meson states
Creators: name: Rupp, George
name: van Beveren, Eef
name: Scadron, Michael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar-meson assignments of Shakin and Wang in a generalized Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model are contradicted by recent experimental information. Also the strict distinction made by these authors between ``intrinsic'' and ``dynamically generated'' states is contested, as well as a number of other statements.
description: 7 pages, (v2 cosmetics, v3 corrections in one reference), to be published in Phys.Rev.D
Muon g-2 and Electric Dipole Moments in SUGRA Models
Creators: name: Arnowitt, R.
name: Dutta, B.
name: Hu, B.
name: Santoso, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SUSY contribution to the muon magnetic moment anomaly, a_mu^SUGRA, and the electron electric dipole moment, d_e, is discussed within the framework of a modified mSUGRA model where the magnitudes of the soft breaking masses are universal, but arbitrary phases are allowed. It is shown analytically how the cancellation mechanism can allow for large phases (i.e. theta_B
description: Plenary talk at SUSY'01, June 2001, Dubna, Rusia
Optimal conversion of non--local unitary operations
Creators: name: Dür, W.
name: Vidal, G.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study when a non--local unitary operation acting on two $d$--level systems can probabilistically simulate another one when arbitrary local operations and classical communication are allowed. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the simulation to be possible. Probabilistic interconvertability is used to define an equivalence relation between gates. We show that this relation induces a finite number of classes, that we identify. In the case of two qubits, two classes of non--local operations exist. We choose the CNOT and SWAP as representatives of these classes. We show how the CNOT [SWAP] can be deterministically converted into any operation of its class. We also calculate the optimal probability of obtaining the CNOT [SWAP] from any operation of the corresponding class and provide a protocol to achieve this task.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Exocoetidae Risso 1827
Creators: name: LARSON, HELEN K.
name: WILLIAMS, REX S.
name: HAMMER, MICHAEL P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Beloniformes
Exocoetidae

description: Exocoetidae   (flyingfishes)
 Cheilopogon heterurus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Piebald Flyingfish
 Exocoetus heterurus Rafinesque, 1810: 58 (Palermo, Sicily).
 Cypselurus heterurus —Munro 1957: 58 (Timor Sea, NT).
Munro’s record is very probably a misidentification (no specimens known from the area).
description: Published as part of LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013,  An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia , pp. 1-293 in Zootaxa 3696 (1) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10099395
Advancing airborne Doppler lidar wind measurements for atmospheric boundary layer research
Creators: name: Gasch, Philipp
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021

description: There is a need for improvement of observational capabilities with respect to wind measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer (BL). This work is dedicated to the commissioning of a new airborne Doppler lidar (ADL) system, which provides wind measurements inside the turbulent BL at highest resolution up to date. To assess the potential of such measurements and address new challenges presented by them, a two-step approach based on virtual observations and real-world measurements is employed. As a first part of this work, a novel large eddy simulation (LES)-based airborne Doppler lidar simulator (ADLS) is developed. In the ADLS, simulated measurements are conducted based on LES wind fields, which provides the advantage of knowing the 3-D wind field along the lidar measurement curtain. In a first step, the ADLS is used to assess the error in ADL retrieved wind profiles, due to the violation of the flow homogeneity assumption postulated in the retrieval, for a common system setup and retrieval strategy. In a second step, the ADLS is used to identify preferable system setups and to quantify retrieval strategy limits beyond which ADL wind profiling becomes unreliable. Additionally, the ADLS is used to validate a proposed data-driven uncertainty estimation method, offering new possibilities for wind profile accuracy assessment. In the second part of this work, real-world measurements obtained on four research flights with a new prototype ADL system are presented. In data processing, the motion correction accuracy, time synchronization, beam alignment and lidar signal quality control is evaluated. It is shown that the measured ground return velocities allow for a flight state dependent assessment of error in the inertial navigation system, which is used for motion correction. A refined ground return based motion correction procedure is demonstrated to be beneficial for measurement accuracy. The results show that reliable measurements are possible even when the aircraft is flying inside the turbulent BL. Thus, in combination with the ADLS results, the accuracy of the retrieved wind profiles is assessed. Further, it is shown that the vertical wind mean and variance, and their associated uncertainties, can be quantified from ADL measurements by taking into account the fixed-beam geometry, lidar pulse averaging effects, as well as random and systematic uncertainties due to the finite measurement lengths. Finally, the analysis of three application studies demonstrates that the prototype system provides substantial new insight into flow and turbulence characteristics of the BL.
Scaling Laws and Effective Dimension in Lattice SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory with a Compactified Extra Dimension
Creators: name: Ejiri, Shinji
name: Fujimoto, Shouji
name: Kubo, Jisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo simulations are performed in a five-dimensional lattice SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with a compactified extra dimension, and scaling laws are studied. Our simulations indicate that as the compactification radius $R$ decreases, the confining phase spreads more and more to the weak coupling regime, and the effective dimension of the theory changes gradually from five to four. Our simulations also indicate that the limit $a_4 to 0$ with $R/a_4$ kept fixed exists both in the confining and deconfining phases if $R/a_4$ is small enough, where $a_4$ is the lattice spacing in the four-dimensional direction. We argue that the color degrees of freedom in QCD are confined only for $R < R_{\rm max}$, where a rough estimate shows that $1/R_{\rm max}$ lies in the TeV range. Comments on deconstructing extra dimensions are given.
description: 15 pages, TeX, 5 figures
MOESM5 of Pairwise growth competitions identify relative fitness relationships among artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum field isolates
Creators: name: Tirrell, Abigail
name: Vendrely, Katelyn
name: Checkley, Lisa
name: Davis, Sage
name: McDew-White, Marina
name: Cheeseman, Ian
name: Vaughan, Ashley
name: Nosten, François
name: Anderson, Timothy
name: Ferdig, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5. Consistency between 5 ml and 96-well plate competition assays. In the competition P3 versus NF54, NF54 outcompeted P3 by day 22 in 5 ml flasks (A) and 96-well plates (B). P2 outcompeted P3 by day 32 in 5 ml flasks (C) and by day 42 in 96-well plates (D). NF54 outcompeted NHP1337 by day 22 in both 5 ml flasks (E) and 96-well plates (F). These confirm the reliability of 96-well plate competitive growth assay methodology.
Additional file 1: of The effect on participation rates of including focused spirometry information in a health check invitation: a cluster-randomised trial in Denmark
Creators: name: ĂRts, Lene
name: LĂ¸Kke, Anders
name: Anne-Louise Bjerregaard
name: Maindal, Helle
name: Norman, Kasper
name: Bech, Bodil
name: Annelli SandbĂŚk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Invitation, leaflet, and website text to the invitation and comparison group. (PDF 4012 kb)
FontCraft: Multimodal Font Design Using Interactive Bayesian Optimization
Creators: name: Tatsukawa, Yuki
name: Shen, I-Chao
name: Dogan, Mustafa Doga
name: Qi, Anran
name: Koyama, Yuki
name: Shamir, Ariel
name: Igarashi, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Creating new fonts requires a lot of human effort and professional typographic knowledge. Despite the rapid advancements of automatic font generation models, existing methods require users to prepare pre-designed characters with target styles using font-editing software, which poses a problem for non-expert users. To address this limitation, we propose FontCraft, a system that enables font generation without relying on pre-designed characters. Our approach integrates the exploration of a font-style latent space with human-in-the-loop preferential Bayesian optimization and multimodal references, facilitating efficient exploration and enhancing user control. Moreover, FontCraft allows users to revisit previous designs, retracting their earlier choices in the preferential Bayesian optimization process. Once users finish editing the style of a selected character, they can propagate it to the remaining characters and further refine them as needed. The system then generates a complete outline font in OpenType format. We evaluated the effectiveness of FontCraft through a user study comparing it to a baseline interface. Results from both quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that FontCraft enables non-expert users to design fonts efficiently.
description: 14 pages
Priacanthidae Gunther 1859
Creators: name: LARSON, HELEN K.
name: WILLIAMS, REX S.
name: HAMMER, MICHAEL P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Priacanthidae

description: Priacanthidae   (bigeyes)
 Priacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)
Blotched Bigeye
 Labrus cruentatus Lacepède, 1801: 452 (Martinique).
 Priacanthus cruentatus — Wei et al. 1972: 44 (Arafura Sea); Russell and Houston 1989: 81 (Arafura Sea).
 No specimens from the NT known. Material collected by Wei et al. (1972); occurrence could not be confirmed by specimens with verified location.
description: Published as part of LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013,  An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia , pp. 1-293 in Zootaxa 3696 (1) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10099395
Forests for Woods’ Sake: The Demand for Primary Wood Products to 2020
Creators: name: De Fegely, Rob
name: De Fegely, Rob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This presentation covers the main factors driving demand for wood products, global and regional demand to 2020, the significance of developing countries in supply and demand, and the role of Australia in Asia-Pacific.
Forest Product Markets, Forests and Poverty Reduction
Creators: name: Belcher, Brian M.
name: Belcher, Brian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: There is a new and increasing emphasis on poverty alleviation and livelihoods improvement in forestry, representing both a challenge and an opportunity. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the ‘livelihoods’ issue, analyses the concept of ‘poverty alleviation’ and discusses means by which forestry can contribute to livelihoods improvement. It focuses on the contributions of forest products and markets, questioning the typical timber vs nontimber dichotomy. The role and the potential of a forest product is determined more by the socioeconomic and environmental context of the production, processing and marketing system than by the physical characteristics of the product itself. This is important as new opportunities arise through increased control of resources by local people and new markets for forest products. Helping achieve poverty alleviation through forestry requires protecting poverty mitigation functions, enhancing income and employment options, and taking advantage of opportunities to build and strengthen local institutions through policies and project-level interventions.
Wavelet Domain Image Separation
Creators: name: Mohammad-Djafari, Ali
name: Ichir, Mahieddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of blind signal and image separation using a sparse representation of the images in the wavelet domain. We consider the problem in a Bayesian estimation framework using the fact that the distribution of the wavelet coefficients of real world images can naturally be modeled by an exponential power probability density function. The Bayesian approach which has been used with success in blind source separation gives also the possibility of including any prior information we may have on the mixing matrix elements as well as on the hyperparameters (parameters of the prior laws of the noise and the sources). We consider two cases: first the case where the wavelet coefficients are assumed to be i.i.d. and second the case where we model the correlation between the coefficients of two adjacent scales by a first order Markov chain. This paper only reports on the first case, the second case results will be reported in a near future. The estimation computations are done via a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) procedure. Some simulations show the performances of the proposed method. Keywords: Blind source separation, wavelets, Bayesian estimation, MCMC Hasting-Metropolis algorithm.
description: Presented at MaxEnt2002, the 22nd International Workshop on Bayesian and Maximum Entropy methods (Aug. 3-9, 2002, Moscow, Idaho, USA). To appear in Proceedings of American Institute of Physics
Semantic flow in language networks
Creators: name: Corrêa, Edilson A.
name: Marinho, Vanessa Q.
name: Amancio, Diego R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study we propose a framework to characterize documents based on their semantic flow. The proposed framework encompasses a network-based model that connected sentences based on their semantic similarity. Semantic fields are detected using standard community detection methods. as the story unfolds, transitions between semantic fields are represent in Markov networks, which in turned are characterized via network motifs (subgraphs). Here we show that the proposed framework can be used to classify books according to their style and publication dates. Remarkably, even without a systematic optimization of parameters, philosophy and investigative books were discriminated with an accuracy rate of 92.5%. Because this model captures semantic features of texts, it could be used as an additional feature in traditional network-based models of texts that capture only syntactical/stylistic information, as it is the case of word adjacency (co-occurrence) networks.
Regional Income Inequality and Economic Growth: A Spatial Econometrics Analysis for Provinces in the Philippines
Creators: name: Pede, Valerien O.
name: Sparks, Adam H.
name: McKinley, Justin D.
name: Pede, Valerien O.
name: Sparks, Adam H.
name: McKinley, Justin D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: clusters
subject: growth
subject: inequality
subject: spatial econometrics

description: This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship using data at the sub-national (provincial) level in the Philippines over the period 1991- 2000. A conditional convergence growth model is considered where the growth of per capita income depends on inequality and other growth factors. The contribution of each province to the overall inequality obtained from the Theil index is considered. Results indicate that inequality has a positive and significant effect on per capita income growth. However, the magnitude of the inequality effect is not stable across regions. Geographically Weighted Regression estimates show that the magnitude of the inequality growth relationship varies over a range of 0.72 to 3.36. Other results are also noteworthy in this study. Per capita income grows faster in provinces that contribute more to the overall inequality. Provinces with higher poverty incidence tend to grow less and human capital appears to be a significant booster to per capita income growth. Additionally, urban provinces tend to grow faster than the rural ones.
Precision test of a Fermion mass texture
Creators: name: Roberts, R. G.
name: Romanino, A.
name: Ross, G. G.
name: Velasco-Sevilla, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Texture zeros in the quark Yukawa matrices generally lead to precise and simple expressions for CKM matrix elements in terms of ratios of quark masses. Using the new data on $b-$decays we test a particularly promising texture zero solution and show that it is at best approximate. We analyse the approximate texture zero structure and show it is consistent with experiment. We investigate the implications for the CKM unitarity triangle, measurements at $BaBar$ and $BELLE$ as well as for the theories which invoke family symmetries.
description: 28 pages, 6 figs. One figure added and minor changes included
Evatt and the Manus Negotiations
Creators: name: Ferranti, Richard De
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Evatt, Herbert Vere, 1894-1965
subject: Australia Foreign relations 1945-1965
subject: Manus (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government

description: Most histories of Australian-American relations in the period immediately after the war mention, at least in passing, the curious phenomenon of Australia at tempting to bargain with the United States over the US’ rights to use a base which the Americans themselves had built on Australian mandated territory in the process of beating back the Japanese from Australian shores. Manus Island, previously shrouded in obscruity, became the focus of an extended debate both in parliament and in the press over the state of Australia's relations with the USA and whether or not Dr. Evatt's 'wheeling and dealing' on the matter had contributed to a perceived deterioration in the Australian-US relationship, considered to have been so close during the war.
Additional file 1: of Development of a combined RLEP/16S rRNA (RT) qPCR assay for the detection of viable M. leprae from nasal swab samples
Creators: name: Beissner, Marcus
name: Woestemeier, Anna
name: Malkin Saar
name: Kossi Badziklou
name: Issaka Maman
name: Amedifou, Charlotte
name: Wagner, Magdalena
name: Wiedemann, Franz
name: Komi Amekuse
name: Kobara, Basile
name: Karl-Heinz Herbinger
name: Abiba Kere
name: Löscher, Thomas
name: Bretzel, Gisela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The additional file comprises: Protocol 1. Conventional extraction of M. leprae DNA from clinical specimens; pp. 1–4. Protocol 2. RLEP PCR run protocol; pp. 5–6. Protocol 3. RLEP qPCR run protocol; pp. 7–8. Protocol 4. 16S rRNA RT qPCR run protocol; pp. 9–10. Protocol 5. Preparation of PANTA transport medium and stabilization of Mycobacterium leprae DNA/RNA in swab samples; pp. 11–13. Protocol 6. FastPrep extraction of M. leprae DNA from clinical specimens; pp. 14–17. Protocol 8. GAPDH mRNA (RT) qPCR run protocol; pp. 26–27. Table S1. Inter-assay variability; pp. 28. Table S2. Intra-assay variability; pp. 29. (PDF 265 kb)
Unbiased Learning to Rank with Query-Level Click Propensity Estimation: Beyond Pointwise Observation and Relevance
Creators: name: Yu, Lulu
name: Bi, Keping
name: Guo, Jiafeng
name: Liu, Shihao
name: Yin, Dawei
name: Cheng, Xueqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most existing unbiased learning-to-rank (ULTR) approaches are based on the user examination hypothesis, which assumes that users will click a result only if it is both relevant and observed (typically modeled by position). However, in real-world scenarios, users often click only one or two results after examining multiple relevant options, due to limited patience or because their information needs have already been satisfied. Motivated by this, we propose a query-level click propensity model to capture the probability that users will click on different result lists, allowing for non-zero probabilities that users may not click on an observed relevant result. We hypothesize that this propensity increases when more potentially relevant results are present, and refer to this user behavior as relevance saturation bias. Our method introduces a Dual Inverse Propensity Weighting (DualIPW) mechanism -- combining query-level and position-level IPW -- to address both relevance saturation and position bias. Through theoretical derivation, we prove that DualIPW can learn an unbiased ranking model. Experiments on the real-world Baidu-ULTR dataset demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art ULTR baselines. The code and dataset information can be found at https://github.com/Trustworthy-Information-Access/DualIPW.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by The ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2025 Short Paper Track
Supplying Forest Services and Products from Natural Forests and Plantations: Can We Meet the Challenge?
Creators: name: Bevege, Ian
name: Bevege, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Sensible and equitable use of the world’s forests while ensuring sustainable delivery of forest-based goods and services devolves upon many interlinked social, economic, environmental and developmental issues. Increasing global population, rising standards of living with concomitant consumption of forest products, and widening expectations of the forests to provide environmental services and regulate water supplies, are placing huge demands on forest resources. While the yield from industrial and fuelwood plantations increasingly complements the harvest of wood products from native forests, the establishment of plantations is not offsetting the current rate of deforestation. Clearing for agriculture, often associated with uncontrolled logging and fuelwood collection, remains the major cause of net forest loss. Conversion of tropical forest to industrial plantations may have negative implications for biodiversity, but positive ones for carbon sequestration and wood production. Harvesting traditional nonwood forest products can have mixed outcomes on the forest, depending on the levels of exploitation and management. The level of exploitation of forest products is determined by need, demand and price. In general, forest commodity prices have steadily dropped over the last several years in line with many other commodity prices. This places pressure on producers to reduce costs, and this pressure is reflected in the level and effectiveness of forest management. Current forest valuation processes tend to ignore the value of forest services and goods other than wood; this leads to a restricted forest policy horizon and undervaluation of forests, and consequently to inappropriate pricing for goods and services and levels of investment in forest management. This situation is reflected in a lack of sectorally-integrated forest policies, rundown forest management authorities and inadequate R&D, and a lack of investment in training of staff. The capacity for ecologically sustainable forest management is inevitably severely compromised. The international development community needs to take stock of what past development assistance in the forest sector has achieved. A paradigm shift is necessary, focussed on governance, forest policy and capacity building if the pressures on forests are to be met and the expectations of the global community realised.
The multiple solutions of self-consistency condition in Walecka model and the validity of the Brown-Rho scaling law
Creators: name: Benwei, Zhang
name: Defu, Hou
name: Jiarong, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the self-consistency condition (SCC) of mean-field theory in Walecka model and find that the solutions of the SCC are multiple at high temperature and chemical potential. Using the effective Lagrangian approach, we study medium effects on the $ω$ meson mass by taking into account of vacuum effects. We show that the $ω$ meson mass decreases with both temperature and chemical potential with a general tendency, while near the critical point several $ω$ meson masses become degenerate due to the multiple solutions of the SCC. We check the validity of Brown-Rho scaling law in this case. Finally, we calculate the thermodynamic potential and prove that the multiple solutions of the SCC result from a first-order phase transition of nuclear matter in the Walecka model at high temperature and chemical potential.
description: 10 pages in Revtex with 9 figures
Loss and Saturation in Superconducting Travelling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers
Creators: name: Zhao, Songyuan
name: Withington, Stafford
name: Goldie, David J.
name: Thomas, Chris N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a coupled-mode analysis framework for superconducting travelling-wave parametric amplifiers using the full Telegrapher's equations to incorporate loss-related behaviour. Our model provides an explanation of previous experimental observations regarding loss in amplifiers, advantages of concatenating amplifiers to achieve high gains, and signal gain saturation. This work can be used to guide the design of amplifiers in terms of the choice of material systems, transmission line geometry, operating conditions, and pump strength.
Photoconductance Quantization in a Single-Photon Detector
Creators: name: Kosaka, Hideo
name: Rao, Deepak S.
name: Robinson, Hans D.
name: Bandaru, Prabhakar
name: Sakamoto, Toshitsugu
name: Yablonovitch, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have made a single-photon detector that relies on photoconductive gain in a narrow electron channel in an AlGaAs/GaAs 2-dimensional electron gas. Given that the electron channel is 1-dimensional, the photo-induced conductance has plateaus at multiples of the quantum conductance 2e$^{2}$/h. Super-imposed on these broad conductance plateaus are many sharp, small, conductance steps associated with single-photon absorption events that produce individual photo-carriers. This type of photoconductive detector could measure a single photon, while safely storing and protecting the spin degree of freedom of its photo-carrier. This function is valuable for a quantum repeater that would allow very long distance teleportation of quantum information.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 4: of Stable distinct core eukaryotic viromes in different mosquito species from Guadeloupe, using single mosquito viral metagenomics
Creators: name: Chenyan Shi
name: Beller, Leen
name: Deboutte, Ward
name: Kwe Yinda
name: Delang, Leen
name: Anubis Vega-RĂşa
name: Anna-Bella Failloux
name: Matthijnssens, Jelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Alpha diversity of eukaryotic viruses on species level between gender or locations. (PDF 428 kb)
Persian Gulf in the Soviet perceptions : a case study of the Ba'thist Iraq (1968-1975)
Creators: name: Sheikh, Ali Tauqeer
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1987

description: his sub-thesis studies Soviet policy towards the Ba'thist Iraq. Basically, it is a recapitulation of the Iraqi scene which offered, or denied, opportunities to the USSR during the period 1968-75. It sets out the context, as projected by Soviet media, within which the Soviet policy operated. Without undertaking an exhaustive treatment of the nature, or evolution of, Soviet relations with Iraq, this subthesis attempts to outline the Soviet perception of the following three inter-related problems of the area directly involving Iraq and, subsequently, affecting development of the Soviet policy: a. formation of a ‘united front' of all 'progressive' forces of the Ba'thist Iraq. b. resolution of the 'nationalities question' of autonomy/separation seeking Kurds. c. promotion of friendlier relations of Iraq with the neighbouring Iran. In other words, this sub-thesis will project and explain the nature of Moscow's pattern of interaction with Iraq and its governing logic in the regional context. Instead of undertaking a country to country approach, Iraq was selected, arbitrarily, for the purpose of this research. It was done, because Iraq was, Kremlin believed, the only country of the area which "on the whole” was striving for socialist construction and following the non-capitalist path of development and had all the aforesaid problems on its agenda. Thus, the study of the Ba'thist Iraq provided us with a unique example where the Soviet response towards these three dimensions of political process could be seen progressing simultaneously. Hence, it was held imperative to delimit ourselves to the post-68 Ba'thist Iraq.
Induced land use emissions due to first and second generation biofuels and uncertainty in land use emissions factors
Creators: name: Taheripour, Farzad
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
name: Taheripour, Farzad
name: Tyner, Wallace E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: cellulosic biofuels
subject: land use change emissions

description: Much research has provided estimates of induced land use change and emissions for first generation biofuels. Relatively little has estimated land use change for the second generation cellulosic biofuels. In this paper we estimate induced land use change and emissions for these biofuels. Estimated emissions due to land use changes induced by biofuels production are uncertain not only because their associated land use changes are uncertain, but also because of uncertainty in the land use emissions factors (EFs). This paper also examines uncertainties related to these EFs and their assumptions. Three emissions factors including EFs obtained based on Woods Hole (WH) data, EFs developed by California Air Resources Board (CARB), and EFs obtained from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) are examined. Using these three EFs, induced land use emissions are calculated for several biofuel pathways under alternative assumptions. The land use change results suggest that corn stover (and by implication other crop residues) have no significant induced land use change associated with biofuel production, but that is not the case for dedicated energy crops. Use of dedicated energy crops induces land use change and transfers natural land (in particular forest) to crop production. Producing bio-gasoline from miscanthus generates the lowest land requirement across all alterative pathways. The largest land requirement is associated with the switchgrass. The difference is due largely to the assumed yields of switchgrass and miscanthus in this analysis. The two major conclusions from this emissions analysis are: 1) inclusion or exclusion of cropland pasture makes a huge difference; and 2) there is wide divergence among the emission factor sources, especially for dedicated crop conversion to ethanol. Inclusion of cropland pasture emissions doubles or triples the emissions obtained using the WH EFs. The estimated induced land use emissions for ethanol and bio-gasoline produced from dedicated crops are essentially the same using the WH EFs, but vastly different using the CARB or TEM EFs factors, with cellulosic ethanol producing substantially more emissions.
India-Bangladesh political relations during the Awami League Government, 1972-75
Creators: name: Hassan, Shaukat
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1987

description: This study deals with the nature and content of I ndia-Bang1adesh political relations during the period 1972-75, when the Awami League Government was in power in Bangladesh. The Government of India had assisted the League, first, in bringing about the secession of East Pakistan and, subsequently, in consolidating its political power in the new State. This gave rise to a number of allegations in Bangladesh against the League Government, namely, that in seeking Indian military assistance to rid Bangladesh of the Pakistan Army, it had reached secret understandings with India which were inimical to Bangladesh's Interests; that it subsequently became a subaltern to Indian interests; and that Bangladesh's sovereignty was undermined by its political intimacy with New Delhi. In the process of assessing the validity of these allegations, the thesis has sought to answer a larger and a more important question: What were the causes behind the deterioration of political relations between India and Bangladesh by 1975, after an euphoric start In 1972? As a theoretical tool the concept of influence relationship has been used in this study, where influence has been defined as follows: influence is manifested when A (the Indian leadership) affects, through non-coercive means, directly or indirectly, the behaviour of B (the Bangladesh leadership) in the hope that it redounds to the policy advantage of A, and vice versa. Such a theoretical tool has necessitated the treatment of only selective instances of bilateral relations between them; only those Issues where influence could have operated in either direction have been chosen for examination. The thesis comprises nine chapters in which are discussed, intev alia, the following issues: the Indo-Bang1adesh friendship treaty; the Bangladesh Army; the Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini; the border trade agreement; land border and maritime boundary delimitation talks; oil exploration in the Bay of Bengal; and the Ganges waters dispute. The findings of this study do not support any of the allegations stated above. While the Tajuddin Government did accommodate the Indira Government during the crisis period, and was also willing to kowtow to it subsequently, Mujib was generally steadfast In his unwillingness to compromise on Bangladesh's national interests. The study also finds that the gradual collapse in Indo-Bang1adesh political relations was a direct corollary of the League leadership's political myopia, administrative ineptitude and its proprietary attitude that characterized its rule in Bangladesh. While India does not stand exonerated, the League must bear the lion's share of the blame for the deterioration in that relationship.
Relevant logics, modal logics and theory change
Creators: name: Fuhrmann, André
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988

description: This thesis is a contribution to applied relevant logics. In Part One relevant logics are presented proof-theoretically and semantically. These logics are then extended to modal logics. Completeness proofs for all of the logics presented in Part One are provided. In Part Two, the logics of Part One are applied to certain problems in philosophical logic and Artificial Intelligence. Deontic and epistemic logics based on relevant logics are presented in chapter three and chapter four contains an extensive investigation of the logic of theory change (or database updating).
Abelian chromomagnetic fields and confinement
Creators: name: Cea, Paolo
name: Cosmai, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study vacuum dynamics of SU(3) lattice gauge theory at finite temperature using the lattice Schrödinger functional. The SU(3) vacuum is probed by means of an external constant Abelian chromomagnetic field. We find that by increasing the strength of the applied external field the deconfinement temperature decreases towards zero. This means that strong enough Abelian chromomagnetic fields destroy confinement of color. We discuss some consequences of this phenomenon on confinement and quark stars.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 3 of Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms
Creators: name: Ran, Mingxia
name: Hu, Bo
name: Cheng, Lumin
name: Hu, Shenqiang
name: Liu, Hehe
name: Li, Liang
name: Hu, Jiwei
name: Wang, Jiwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. KEGG classification histogram of all group
An international retailer’s perspective
Creators: name: Glover, John
name: Glover, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Retailers and wholesalers today are investing the major share of their development funds into the Asian marketplace to bring modern retail and wholesale concepts to the Asian consumer. With a large growth in urbanisation across Asia, the region represents huge opportunities as well as big challenges to international players. At the same time there is a growing demand in Asia for high quality and safe goods, which presents a great opportunity for modern retail and wholesale formats. Many companies have recognised the need to promote sustainable production and consumption models in order to be successful also in the next 20–50 years. In the fast-developing markets in Asia international companies thus have the opportunity to leapfrog international best practices and to install sustainable concepts right from the start. They are also challenged by population growth and the demand and supply of food to supply their customers into the future. Modern retailers and wholesalers are working closely with farmers and co-ops to improve food standards and quality, to employ sustainable farming and processing methods and to create savings in the supply chain, which also leads to improvements in the incomes and living standards of the farmers. By doing so they are making opportunities for farming and processing industries to serve the global procurement needs of their chains, which are developing Trading Offices within the region. With rising incomes and a rapid growth of the middle class we see a greater demand for imported goods for home consumption and also for the food-service industry. This creates great opportunities for countries like Australia to become the source of ultra fresh and processed products. It is important that the mindsets of Australian farmers, exporters and producers change to recognise that brands need to be built in these markets. Brands like Sunkist, Dole, Cape, Anchor, Zespri are well known in Asia and globally recognised. Global retailers are changing the face of retail and wholesale in Asia and developing markets and will invest in the future. The challenges are not just with them but with the willingness of others to change.