cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Economic Analysis of No-till Farming on the Upper Eyre Peninsula SA: A Case Study
Creators: name: Dzoma, Bernard B.
name: Dzoma, Bernard B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: No-till
subject: conventional tillage
subject: Cost Benefit Analysis
subject: Eyre Peninsula

description: Reduced soil disturbance through farming methods such as no-till and reduced tillage is seen as a key practice change that can lead to greater profitability and sustainability in Australian cropping regions. Grain growers in low rainfall farming systems of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia are not only interested in reaping private economic benefits, but also in generating public benefits that arise from adopting environmentally friendly farming practices. Hence, the adoption of no-till farming has been steadily increasing over the past decade. The aim of this case study was to compare no-till systems against conventional tillage systems, using physical and socio-economic data collected from a grain cropping farm located on the upper Eyre Peninsula over a five year period. Results for this case study showed that no-till can be profitable with a higher average gross margin ($339/ha/year) than conventional tillage ($321/ha/year). As well there are additional public benefits like soil erosion mitigation, improved air quality, soil moisture retention and an increase in soil biodiversity. Adding these benefits into the analysis gave a Benefit Cost Ratio of 1.14 and a positive Net Present Value of $220/ha for no-till over conventional tillage over five years. This indicates that the perceived benefits (private, public and environmental) of adopting no-till farming are greater than the associated costs and hence profitable and sustainable in the long run.
Alvania undefined-1
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Rissoidae
Alvania
Alvania undefined-1

description: Alvania sp. 1
(Fig. 8C 1-C 3)
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 1.3 mm, width 0.8 mm. — RGM.1364985 (8), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365091 (107), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365090 (1), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365089 (10), leg. AWJ; RGM.1364987 (2), leg. ACJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Shell small, rissoiform.Protoconch of two smooth whorls. Three teleoconch whorls; spire whorls sculpture of four spiral cords; axial sculpture of around 16 broad orthocline ribs forming a reticulated pattern. Last whorl develops one secondary cord between suture and first cords. Base somewhat depressed, with four spiral cords; axial ribs stop at peribasal cord.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, NW France (this paper).
REMARK
The material at hand is too worn to identify with certainty. In profile and sculpture, it is similar to several Italian Pliocene species such as Alvania lanciae (Calcara, 1845) and A. thalia (De Stefani & Pantanelli, 1878), which both have more numerous cords on the base,
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
The Effect of Heat Stress on Milk Production and the Profitability of Investing in a Permanent Shade Structure
Creators: name: Henty, Sam
name: Griffith, Garry
name: Henty, Sam
name: Griffith, Garry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: dairy industry
subject: heat stress
subject: shade structures
subject: investment analysis

description: This paper details an economic analysis of investment in a permanent shade structure to minimise milk production losses as a result of heat stress. Using data over a seven year period from a northern Victorian dairy farm, the analysis found that annual milk production loss, due to heat stress, varied from 240 litres to 415 litres per cow per year. This variation was due to the number and severity of days that exceeded the Temperature Humidity Index threshold. Three future climate scenarios were developed for the next 20 years and these generated differing milk production losses. Net present values from different scenarios over the 20 year period showed that the level of profitability of investing in a shade structure was determined by the severity of temperatures experienced, with more extreme heat events increasing the profitability of the investment. The milk price received by the farmer also determined the time it took for the investment to become profitable. The minimum price required after 20 years to return a NPV of $0, ranged from of 35.7 to 24.6 cents per litre over the three climate scenarios.
DevInfo: A common database
Creators: name: Croft, Trevor
name: Pron, Nicolas
name: Oswalt, Kris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: The vision is that Member States will someday use a common database system for tracking human development indicators. This database system will contain high-quality data with adequate coverage and depth to sustain good governance around the agenda of achieving the MDGs. DevInfo is a database system endorsed by the UN system that can help realize this vision. It is a general purpose database system designed for the collation, dissemination and presentation of human development indicators. The technology has been specifically designed to support governments in MDG monitoring. In addition, the system can be adapted to include additional user-defined indicators linked to national monitoring frameworks. By serving as a common database, DevInfo can be used to add value to national statistics systems by complementing existing databases and bridging data dissemination gaps. DevInfo presents data in tables, graphs and maps to help countries report on the status of the MDGs and to advocate for their achievement through evidence-based policy development.
RISIS Research Seminar: The labor-market placement of trained PhDs outside academia: measurement and analysis
Creators: name: Iversen, Eric
name: Capasso, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: labour market
PhD careers

description: There is a long tradition of literature linking the 'production of PhDs' to the 'deployment' of trained PhDs in the labor-market. Much of this literature has focused on the 'reproduction rate' of academic positions, indicating a swing from a 'scarcity' of trained PhDs in the 1950s to a notable 'surplus' from about the 1990s. A recent focus has turned to the question of what happens to the increasing number of trained PhDs who do not move into academic careers or careers in aligned 'research sectors' (government labs, hospitals). How many trained PhDs wind up outside the academia? Where do they go? In what ways has this share changed? What implications does this 'export' have for the (knowledge) economy? Focusing on Norway, the seminar presents fresh answers to these perennial questions. The seminar first introduces key analytical issues while briefly taking stock of the strengths/weaknesses of empirical lenses that have been used/are being used to address these questions. Its focus, however, is on the analytical possibilities that result from improving the lenses that are now under development. We focus here on the potential strengths that the evolving international CDH approach (“Career of Doctorate Holders (CDH)” potentially holds in cases where it is built on (education and labor-market) register microdata. We report on work-in-progress* that explores how this approach could be leveraged with other data to better understand the changing deployment of trained PhDs in the labor-market across time. The experimental exercise links education and labor-market microdata (Source Statistics Norway). Three steps are taken to align the resulting (panel) dataset, which is observed in the labor-market, with the concurrent PhD production from Norwegian HEIs. Focusing on of the ‘deployment’ of PhDs in the Norwegian economy for 2009-2016, we show that the approach allows new scope to analyze not only the initial ‘placement’ of ‘newly minted PhDs’ but also of their subsequent careers in the wider labor-market. Results are presented. *Iversen, Eric, Zach Andreadakis, & Marco Capasso (2021) Labor-market placement of doctorate degree holders in Norway Carter Bloch, from University of Aarhus, presented his discussion on the paper.
Automatic detection of acute ischemic stroke using non-contrast computed tomography and two-stage deep learning model
Creators: name: Nishio, Mizuho
name: Koyasu, Sho
name: Noguchi, Shunjiro
name: Kiguchi, Takao
name: Nakatsu, Kanako
name: Akasaka, Thai
name: Yamada, Hiroki
name: Itoh, Kyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background and Purpose: We aimed to develop and evaluate an automatic acute ischemic stroke-related (AIS) detection system involving a two-stage deep learning model. Methods: We included 238 cases from two different institutions. AIS-related findings were annotated on each of the 238 sets of head CT images by referring to head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images in which an MRI examination was performed within 24 h following the CT scan. These 238 annotated cases were divided into a training set including 189 cases and test set including 49 cases. Subsequently, a two-stage deep learning detection model was constructed from the training set using the You Only Look Once v3 model and Visual Geometry Group 16 classification model. Then, the two-stage model performed the AIS detection process in the test set. To assess the detection model's results, a board-certified radiologist also evaluated the test set head CT images with and without the aid of the detection model. The sensitivity of AIS detection and number of false positives were calculated for the evaluation of the test set detection results. The sensitivity of the radiologist with and without the software detection results was compared using the McNemar test. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: For the two-stage model and radiologist without and with the use of the software results, the sensitivity was 37.3%, 33.3%, and 41.3%, respectively, and the number of false positives per one case was 1.265, 0.327, and 0.388, respectively. On using the two-stage detection model's results, the board-certified radiologist's detection sensitivity significantly improved (p-value = 0.0313). Conclusions: Our detection system involving the two-stage deep learning model significantly improved the radiologist's sensitivity in AIS detection.
Data archive in developing countries: preservation and dissemination of microdata as an instrument for better development results
Creators: name: Dupriez, Olivier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: Poverty alleviation has become the overarching objective of many development strategies. Consequently, the demand for socio-economic data for designing, targeting, and monitoring development policies and programs has been constantly growing. Considerable investments have been made in developing countries to collect data. But the return on these investments is far from optimal. National data producers often have weak analytical capacity, and access to survey datasets by secondary users is limited due to political, legal and technical constraints. Most datasets are inadequately preserved, documented and disseminated, and remain under-exploited. To foster better use of existing data by promoting the adoption of international standards and best practice of data preservation, documentation and dissemination, the World Bank and the International Household Survey Network are developing guidelines and tools (such as the DDI-based Data Dissemination Toolkit) and are providing technical and financial assistance in data archiving to statistics producers in developing countries. The paper will present the background and rationale of these activities, and describe how the tools being developed and new partnerships with the dataarchive and research community in developed countries could contribute to better development results.
Additional file 11 of C-reactive protein as a potential biomarker for disease progression in dengue: a multi-country observational study
Creators: name: Nguyen Vuong
name: Duyen, Huynh
name: Lam, Phung
name: Tam, Dong
name: Nguyen Vinh Chau
name: Nguyen Kinh
name: Ngoun Chanpheaktra
name: Lum, Lucy
name: PleitÃ©S, Ernesto
name: Jones, Nick
name: Simmons, Cameron
name: Rosenberger, Kerstin
name: Jaenisch, Thomas
name: Halleux, Christine
name: Olliaro, Piero
name: Wills, Bridget
name: Yacoub, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11. Correlation between CRP and other biomarkers.
Chain Failure Theory as a Framework for Evaluating Horizontal and Vertical Strategic Alliances among Food Value Chain Participants: A Red Meat Industry Perspective
Creators: name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Griffith, Garry
name: Mounter, Stuart
name: Fleming, Euan
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Griffith, Garry
name: Mounter, Stuart
name: Fleming, Euan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: horizontal alliance
subject: vertical alliance
subject: chain failure
subject: chain good
subject: meat industry

description: Useful insights about the operations of value chains can be gained by considering them as “latent clubs”, that is, systems having the potential for improvement through collective action. Club theory therefore can be applied to examine ways to increase the economic surplus of a food value chain by participants taking collective action within a club good framework. The results of such action are called “chain goods”. If these types of goods are not supplied along the value chain, value chain partners cannot maximise whole-of-chain profit. The result is “chain failure”; a concept analogous to the market failure of public goods in the wider economy. If an opportunity exists for partners in a value chain to collectively provide such goods, forming a club may be an efficient way do so. Horizontal and vertical strategic alliances are formed among firms, or groups of firms, in the value chain at the same level and/or across different levels. These alliances within a value chain are formed to correct some particular chain failure(s), such as supplying chain goods or internalising chain externalities. Strategic alliances may comprise all or only some chain members. Thus, they are clubs. The theoretical concepts of chain failure, chain goods and chain externalities can be used as a framework for evaluating whether to invest or not in a strategic alliance. The fact that there are existing alliances which appear to be organised in this way suggests that these concepts have practical as well as theoretical merit.
Event Shape/Energy Flow Correlations
Creators: name: Berger, Carola F.
name: Kucs, Tibor
name: Sterman, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a set of correlations between energy flow and event shapes that are sensitive to the flow of color at short distances in jet events. These correlations are formulated for a general set of event shapes, which includes jet broadening and thrust as special cases. We illustrate the method for electron-positron annihilation dijet events, and calculate the correlation at leading logarithm in the energy flow and at next-to-leading-logarithm in the event shape.
description: 43 pages, eight eps figures; minor changes, references added
Can we use honey to treat asthma?
Creators: name: Panton, Jinelle
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Jinelle Panton, a UBC 3MT Semi-Finalist, presents their research on whether honey can be used to treat epithelial damage in asthma patients. Panton will test their research on asthmatic epithelial cells, analyzing their healing process when treated with honey in comparison to cells not treated. Jinelle Panton is completing their PhD in Experimental Medicine under the supervision of Dr. Scott Tebbutt.
Additional file 10 of C-reactive protein as a potential biomarker for disease progression in dengue: a multi-country observational study
Creators: name: Nguyen Vuong
name: Duyen, Huynh
name: Lam, Phung
name: Tam, Dong
name: Nguyen Vinh Chau
name: Nguyen Kinh
name: Ngoun Chanpheaktra
name: Lum, Lucy
name: PleitÃ©S, Ernesto
name: Jones, Nick
name: Simmons, Cameron
name: Rosenberger, Kerstin
name: Jaenisch, Thomas
name: Halleux, Christine
name: Olliaro, Piero
name: Wills, Bridget
name: Yacoub, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S5. Association between CRP and other laboratory tests result.
Corrigendum: Mediastinal emphysema after long-distance flight with ketoacidosis and underlying diabetes mellitus type 1
Creators: name: Ardila Pardo, Gracia Lana
name: Kuebler, Wolfgang Michael
name: Witzenrath, Martin
name: Oestmann, Jörg-Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Diabetes mellitus type 1
subject: ketoacidosis
subject: long‐distance flight
subject: mediastinal emphysema
subject: pneumomediastinum
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.423.].
Nematic elastomers with aligned carbon nanotubes: new electromechanical actuators
Creators: name: Courty, S.
name: Mine, J.
name: Tajbakhsh, A. R.
name: Terentjev, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate, for the first time, the large electromechanical response in nematic liquid crystalline elastomers filled with a very low (~0.01%) concentration of carbon nanotubes, aligned along the nematic director at preparation. The nanotubes create a very large effective dielectric anisotropy of the composite. Their local field-induced torque is transmitted to the rubber-elastic network and is registered as the exerted uniaxial stress of order ~1kPa in response to a constant field of order ~1MV/m. We investigate the dependence of the effect on field strength, nanotube concentration and reproducibility under multiple field-on and -off cycles. The results indicate the potential of the nanotube-nematic elastomer composites as electrically driven actuators.
Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge
Creators: name: Bliss, Zoe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: This paper will discuss the current acquisitions strategy of AHDS History, one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and outline how it currently identifies, evaluates and accessions data into its collection. In particular it will describe the means employed by AHDS History in conjunction with the AHRB, to ensure that historical digital data created as a result of AHRB funding is offered for deposit with the AHDS. The paper will also discuss the competing influence of funding bodies, creators and users on a robust acquisitions policy.
Simulations of experimental conductance spectra of $YBa_2Cu_3O_y$ junctions: Role of a long d-wave decay length and a small $is$ component in the pair potential near the interface
Creators: name: Lubimova, I.
name: Koren, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extended BTK-type theoretical methods were used for the calculation of conductance spectra of NS and NIS junctions, where S is either a d-wave or a d+is-wave superconductor, and N is a normal metal. We found that the length scale over which the bulk d-wave order parameter varies spatially near the interface (the "decay length") has a significant effect on the main features of the conductance spectra. A relatively large decay length of the order of 10-20$ξ_{0}$ together with a small $is$-wave component, can explain many peculiarities observed in the experimental conductance spectra of various junctions. We attribute the long decay length to either a reversed proximity effect in the high transparency junctions, or to the presence of a low $T_c\leq 10$K s-wave component with a much longer $ξ_{0s}\approx 10ξ_{0d}$ near the interface.
description: 6 Figures
New South Wales Cattle Producers Sceptical About Reducing Methane Emissions From Their Cattle
Creators: name: Andrews, Todd
name: Herd, Robert
name: Robinson, Dorothy
name: Arthur, Paul
name: Andrews, Todd
name: Herd, Robert
name: Robinson, Dorothy
name: Arthur, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: greenhouse gas
subject: survey
subject: cattle breeding

description: Participants at 20 beef industry forums in New South Wales were surveyed in the spring of 2013, the summer of 2013/14 and the spring of 2014, to gauge their attitudes to cattle enteric methane emissions and their contribution to Australia’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and their awareness and knowledge of the opportunity to reduce GHG emissions through animal breeding. A total of 452 participants responded to the survey, with most (75%) identifying themselves as involved in commercial beef cattle production, 6% as being specialist bull breeders and sellers, 11% as being involved in a combination of both, and 8% in other roles, such as private or government advisor. When asked about the importance of trying to reduce methane emissions from beef cattle most respondents were neutral about its importance (47%) or thought it not important (32%) but the proportion of respondents believing it important increased (P<0.01) in each survey period (9% v. 13% v. 20% across the three periods). On the question of whether it was possible to breed cattle for lower methane emissions, 17% of respondents thought that it was not possible. Most respondents were neutral (38%) or did not know (21%) whether breeding for lower methane emissions was likely to compromise productivity. However, only 10% of those identifying as “managers” answered “don’t know” to whether productivity would be compromised, compared to 27% of “owners”, suggesting that a higher proportion of managers have considered this issue. Although a growing proportion of participants across the survey period thought reducing enteric methane emissions to be important, overall more than three-quarters did not, indicating that at the time of the surveys most cattle producers in NSW would be unlikely to adopt changes in their enterprise solely to reduce enteric methane GHG emissions.
Creating the Universe from Brane-Antibrane Annihilation
Creators: name: Barnaby, Neil
name: Cline, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When p-dimensional branes annihilate with antibranes in the early universe, as in brane-antibrane inflation, stable (p-2)-dimensional branes can appear in the final state. We reexamine the possibility that one of these (p-2)-branes could be our universe. In the low energy effective theory, the final state branes are cosmic string defects of the complex tachyon field which describes the instability of the initial state. We quantify the dynamics of formation of these vortices. This information is then used to estimate the production of massless gauge bosons on the final branes, due to their coupling to the time-dependent tachyon background, which would provide a mechanism for reheating after inflation. We improve upon previous estimates indicating that this can be an efficient reheating mechanism for observers on the brane.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures; revised discussion of Kibble mechanism; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Non-thermal desorption of complex organic molecules: Cosmic-ray sputtering of CH3OH embedded in CO2 ice
Creators: name: Dartois, E.
name: Chabot, M.
name: Bacmann, A.
name: Boduch, P.
name: Domaracka, A.
name: Rothard, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methanol ice is embedded in interstellar ice mantles present in dense molecular clouds. We aim to measure the sputtering efficiencies starting from different ice mantles of varying compositions experimentally, in order to evaluate their potential impact on astrochemical models. The sputtering yields of complex organic molecules is of particular interest, since few mechanisms are efficient enough to induce a significant feedback to the gas phase. We irradiated methanol and carbon dioxide ice mixtures of varying ratios with swift heavy ions in the electronic sputtering regime. We monitored the evolution of the infrared spectra and the species released to the gas phase with a mass spectrometer. Methanol and 13C-methanol isotopologue were used to remove any ambiguity on the measured irradiation products. The sputtering of methanol embedded in carbon dioxide ice is an efficient process leading to the ejection of intact methanol in the gas phase. We establish that when methanol is embedded in a carbon-dioxide-rich mantle exposed to cosmic rays, a significant fraction is sputtered as intact molecules. The sputtered fraction follows the time-dependent bulk composition of the ice mantle, the latter evolving with time due to the radiolysis-induced evolution of the bulk. If methanol is embedded in a carbon dioxide ice matrix, as the analyses of the spectral shape of the CO2 bending mode observations in some lines of sight suggest, the overall methanol sputtering yield is higher than if embedded in a water ice mantle. The sputtering is increased by a factor close to the dominant ice matrix sputtering yield, which is about six times higher for pure carbon dioxide ice when compared to water ice. These experiments are further constraining the cosmic-ray-induced ice mantle sputtering mechanisms important role in the gas-phase release of complex organic molecules from the interstellar solid phase.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.03084
THE ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN LEGAL AID COUNCIL IN PROMOTING QUICK AND ACCESSIBLE JUSTICE
Creators: name: Chika, Emmanuel Nwokocha
Publisher: name: NOLAND JOURNALS
Year: 2024
Subjects: Access to Justice', 'Legal aid' 'Legal Aid Council', 'Quick dispensation of justice', 'Justice in Nigeria

description: Various Nigerian constitutions have guaranteed citizens' right to access to justice over time. When taken literally, access to justice refers to a person's ability to go to a court of law to air his grievances against another person or the government. Access to justice encompasses more than just access to a court of law; it also includes citizens' equitable access to political order and available resources in a particular community. Despite the constitution's provision for citizens' access to justice, a number of factors conspire to prevent this from happening in Nigeria. The Legal aid council is a body responsible for guaranteeing access to justice and quick dispensation of justice especially for the poor and other indigent citizens. The objective of this paper is to review the impacts of the legal aid council on access to justice in Nigeria. The paper commenced with reviewing the relevant key terms. The paper adopted a doctrinal research method. It was revealed among others that inequality in the distribution of the nation’s wealth coupled with the poor structure of the legal aid council and other justice administration agencies over the years contributed to delays in access to justice in Nigeria. It was based on the foregoing that recommendations were made
Analytic bootstrap and Witten diagrams for the ABJM Wilson line as defect CFT$_1$
Creators: name: Bianchi, Lorenzo
name: Bliard, Gabriel
name: Forini, Valentina
name: Griguolo, Luca
name: Seminara, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study local operator insertions on 1/2-BPS line defects in ABJM theory. Specifically, we consider a class of four-point correlators in the CFT$_1$ with SU$(1, 1|3)$ superconformal symmetry defined on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line. The relevant insertions belong to the short supermultiplet containing the displacement operator and correspond to fluctuations of the dual fundamental string in AdS$_4 \times \mathbb{C}\textrm{P}^3$ ending on the line at the boundary. We use superspace techniques to represent the displacement supermultiplet and we show that superconformal symmetry determines the four-point correlators of its components in terms of a single function of the one-dimensional cross-ratio. Such function is highly constrained by crossing and internal consistency, allowing us to use an analytical bootstrap approach to find the first subleading correction at strong coupling. Finally, we use AdS/CFT to compute the same four-point functions through tree-level AdS$_2$ Witten diagrams, producing a result that is perfectly consistent with the bootstrap solution.
description: 50 pages, 2 figures. v2: one footnote and one reference added, it matches the published version v3: further references added
Diverse epigenetic mechanisms maintain parental imprints within the embryonic and extraembryonic lineages
Creators: name: Andergassen, Daniel
name: Smith, Zachary D.
name: Kretzmer, Helene
name: Rinn, John L.
name: Meissner, Alexander
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: epigenetic regulators
subject: imprinting
subject: placenta
subject: X chromosome
subject: DNA methylation
subject: scRNA-seq
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Genomic imprinting and X chromosome inactivation (XCI) require epigenetic mechanisms to encode allele-specific expression, but how these specific tasks are accomplished at single loci or across chromosomal scales remains incompletely understood. Here, we systematically disrupt essential epigenetic pathways within polymorphic embryos in order to examine canonical and non-canonical genomic imprinting as well as XCI. We find that DNA methylation and Polycomb group repressors are indispensable for autosomal imprinting, albeit at distinct gene sets. Moreover, the extraembryonic ectoderm relies on a broader spectrum of imprinting mechanisms, including non-canonical targeting of maternal endogenous retrovirus (ERV)-driven promoters by the H3K9 methyltransferase G9a. We further identify Polycomb-dependent and -independent gene clusters on the imprinted X chromosome, which appear to reflect distinct domains of Xist-mediated suppression. From our data, we assemble a comprehensive inventory of the epigenetic pathways that maintain parent-specific imprinting in eutherian mammals, including an expanded view of the placental lineage.
The world through a rat's whiskers : a physical insight into the dynamics of whiskers interacting with the fluid flow
Creators: name: Heydari, Shayan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Shayan Heydari, a UBC 3MT Semi-Finalist, presents their research on the sources of vibrations in rat’s whiskers, a low-speed airflows, with the use of 3D numerical simulations. Better understanding of this sensing strategy may help build advanced robots. Shayan Heydari is completing their Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Rajeev K. Jaiman.
Asymptotics of the perturbative series for f_{B^*}/f_B
Creators: name: Campanario, F.
name: Grozin, A. G.
name: Mannel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the structure of the leading IR renormalon singularity in the QCD/HQET matching coefficients for heavy-light quark currents beyond the large-β_0 limit. From this result, we derive the large-order behaviour of the perturbative series for these coefficients, and for ratios of meson matrix elements, such as f_{B^*}/f_B.
description: 45 pages, 2 eps figures. v2: small corrections, reference added. v3: reference added. v4: errors in some equations of Appendix B, in (5.8) and Table 2 corrected, numerical changes are very small. Paper also available from http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Preprints/
Policy Brief, Issue 7/Democratising access to smart money in EU: evidence from the VICO dataset
Creators: name: Colombo, Massimo G.
name: Guerini, Massimiliano
name: Tenca, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Venture Capital
VICO dataset
Geography
Concentration
Innovative startups

description: Venture Capital (VC) is an important source of finance for the growth of innovative startups. This policy brief aims at providing novel evidence about the geographical distribution of VC activity in Europe and Israel over the 2010-2018 period. Drawing upon a unique dataset, RISIS-VICO, the research describes the agglomeration patterns of VC activity at the regional, metropolitan and industry-level. The main findings can be summarized as follows: i) VC deals are unevenly distributed across countries. the UK and France are the most relevant VC markets in terms of number of VC deals, while Eastern European countries and Israel show the highest incidence rates (VC deals / GDP). ii) VC activity is mostly concentrated in large metropolitan areas, but there is a non-negligible share of VC activity in more peripheral areas. iii) There has been an increasing concentration of VC activity in large metropolitan areas from 2010 to 2018. iv) Important differences emerge across sectors. The life science sector exhibits higher dispersion of VC deals outside the main VC hubs, mainly in areas with relevant knowledge creation activity. Conversely, VC activity in the Software, Internet & TLC and R&D & engineering sectors is concentrating in large metropolitan areas. The findings have important policy implications for democratizing the access to VC in more peripheral areas and for the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The Projective Bundle Formula for Grothendieck-Witt spectra
Creators: name: Rohrbach, Herman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Grothendieck-Witt spectra represent higher Grothendieck-Witt groups and higher Hermitian K-theory in particular. A description of the Grothendieck-Witt spectrum of a finite dimensional projective bundle $\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{E})$ over a base scheme $X$ is given in terms of the Grothendieck-Witt spectra of the base, using the dg category of strictly perfect complexes, provided that $X$ is a scheme over $\text{Spec }\mathbb{Z}[1/2]$ and satisfies the resolution property, e.g. if $X$ has an ample family of line bundles.
description: 20 pages
Combined first-principles statistical mechanics approach to sulfur structure in organic cathode hosts for polymer based lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries
Creators: name: Schütze, Yannik
name: Silva, Ranielle De Oliveira
name: Ning, Jiaoyi
name: Rappich, Jörg
name: Lu, Yan
name: Ruiz, Victor G.
name: Bande, Annika
name: Dzubiella, Joachim
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: polymer-based batteries
subject: organic electrode materials
subject: organic cathode hosts
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Polymer-based batteries that utilize organic electrode materials are considered viable candidates to overcome the common drawbacks of lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. A promising cathode can be developed using a conductive, flexible, and free-standing polymer, poly(4-thiophen-3-yl)benzenethiol) (PTBT), as the sulfur host material. By a vulcanization process, sulfur is embedded into this polymer. Here, we present a combination of electronic structure theory and statistical mechanics to characterize the structure of the initial state of the charged cathode on an atomic level. We perform a stability analysis of differently sulfurized TBT dimers as the basic polymer unit calculated within density-functional theory (DFT) and combine this with a statistical binding model for the binding probability distributions of the vulcanization process. From this, we deduce sulfur chain length (“rank”) distributions and calculate the average sulfur rank depending on the sulfur concentration and temperature. This multi-scale approach allows us to bridge the gap between the local description of the covalent bonding process and the derivation of the macroscopic properties of the cathode. Our calculations show that the main reaction of the vulcanization process leads to high-probability states of sulfur chains cross-linking TBT units belonging to different polymer backbones, with a dominant rank around n = 5. In contrast, the connection of adjacent TBT units of the same polymer backbone by a sulfur chain is the side reaction. These results are experimentally supported by Raman spectroscopy.
Onoba semicostata
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Rissoidae
Onoba
Onoba semicostata

description: Onoba semicostata (Montagu, 1803)
(Fig. 8E 1-E 3)
Turbo semicostatus Montagu, 1803: 326, pl. 21, fig. 5.
Rissoa striata – Wood 1848: 100, pl. 11, fig. 1.
Onoba striata – Harmer 1920: 641, pl. 51, fig. 42.
Cingula (Cingula) semicostata semicostata – Van Regteren Altena et al. 1954: 12, pl. 4, fig. 35b. — A.W. Janssen 1967: 128, pl. 4, fig. 7.
Onoba semicostata – Marquet 1997: 16, pl. 3, fig. 5. — Wienrich 2001: 408, pl. 66, fig. 9. — Raad et al. 2013: 52, fig. 19. — Símonarson & Eiríksson in Eiriksson & Símonarson 2021: 264, pl. 7.3, fig. 5.
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 1.9 mm, width 0.8 mm. — RGM.1364989 (27), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365197 (1), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365095 (800+), leg. AWJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Shell small, rissoiform. Smooth protoconch of 1.5 whorl; five round teleoconch whorls separated by deep suture. Adult sculpture consist of axial ribs marked on the upper whorls and numerous fine crowded spiral cords covering the entire whorl. Ovate aperture; rounded, thickened outer lip.
DISTRIBUTION. — Middle Miocene: NSB, Germany (Janssen 1967; Wienrich 2001). — Lower Pliocene: Coralline Crag, England (Wood 1848; Harmer 1920) and Belgium (Marquet 1997). — Upper Pliocene: NSB, Belgium (Marquet 1997). — Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene: Iceland (Eiriksson & Símonarson 2021). — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, England (Harmer 1920; Norton 1967); Selsoif, NW France (this paper).— Pliocene and Pleistocene (indeterminate):NSB, Netherlands (Van Regteren Altena et al. 1954; Raad et al. 2013). — Holocene: NSB (Strand Petersen 2004). Today this species is present in the Atlantic from Iceland (Warén 1996), Norway (HØisaeter 2009), Kola Peninsula, Russia (Golikov & Kussakin 1978; Nekhaev et al. 2014), British Isles (Fretter & Graham 1978), Madeira (Ávila et al. 2012), southwards to the Alboran Sea in the Mediterranean (Templado & Rolán 1986). Shells collected in the central Mediterranean are probably Late Pleistocene glacial fossils (Amati & Nofroni 2015). Abundant under rocks and among algae, from the intertidal to 1000 m depth.
REMARK
Onoba semicostata (Montagu, 1803) is primarily a cooler water species that occurs today in the Mediterranean in the Alboran Sea in upwelling zones.
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on page 60, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
Numerical confirmation of analytic predictions for the finite volume mass gap of the XY-model
Creators: name: Balog, Janos
name: Knechtli, Francesco
name: Korzec, Tomasz
name: Wolff, Ulli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent exact predictions for the massive scaling limit of the two dimensional XY-model are based on the equivalence with the sine-Gordon theory and include detailed results on the finite size behavior. The so-called step-scaling function of the mass gap is simulated with very high precision and found consistent with analytic results in the continuum limit. To come to this conclusion, an also predicted form of a logarithmic decay of lattice artifacts was essential to use for the extrapolation.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Mode conversion and orbital angular momentum transfer among multiple modes by helical gratings
Creators: name: Fang, Liang
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling feature of helical gratings (HGs) has been studied on flexible conversion between two orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes by both the transverse and longitudinal modulation of HGs. Apart from one to one OAM exchange, HGs can achieve OAM transfer among multiple modes, provided both the helix and phase matching conditions are well satisfied for successive coupling. It is contributed from the fold number of modulation fringes of HGs and the difference multiplication of propagation constants between two of the successive modes. Based on the coupled mode theory, we investigate the mode conversion and OAM transfer among three modes using a 3 fold HGs in a ring core fiber, and numerically simulate it by transmission matrix. Our work about the multiple modes transferring can be regarded as an extension of mode coupling for optical gratings, and might flourish the mode conversion, as well as OAM manipulation in optics fields.
Application of adiabatic passage in Rydberg atomic ensembles for quantum information processing
Creators: name: Beterov, I. I.
name: Tretyakov, D. B.
name: Entin, V. M.
name: Yakshina, E. A.
name: Ryabtsev, I. I.
name: Saffman, M.
name: Bergamini, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review methods for coherently controlling Rydberg quantum states of atomic ensembles using Adiabatic Rapid Passage and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage. These methods are commonly used for population inversion in simple two-level and three-level systems. We show that adiabatic techniques allow us to control population and phase dynamics of complex entangled states of mesoscopic atomic ensembles for quantum information processing with Rydberg atoms. We also propose several schemes of single-qubit and two-qubit gates based on adiabatic passage, Rydberg blockade and Förster resonances in Rydberg atoms.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures. This is a tutorial, submitted to Journal of Physics B. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1606.08198, arXiv:1310.3921
Relationship of Civil Engineering Graduates' First-Year to Fourth-Year Grade Point Average Per Semester to Their Licensure Examination Performance
Creators: name: Alessandra May D. Fernandez, Edwin R. Arboleda, Patricia Grace Perez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The goal of this paper is to determine the relationship of civil engineering graduates’ first year to fourth year grade point average per semester to their licensure examination performance. The study’s relevance was centered on civil engineering students taking the licensure examination from 2013 to 2018. Thegoal of the project is to determine and improvethe passing rate for civil engineer license, as well as to investigate the factors that influence the passing rate in terms of the participants per semester GPA from first to fourth year. It is proved that the per semester grade point average does not have an effect to the licensure performance of the civil engineering graduates. Those graduates that has the highest-grade point average also has the highest passing rates but it is not proved in all instances that the two variables have a relationship. The best classifier is identified in using Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) as a data mining tool. It is the MultiClassClassifier of meta that has an 80% of correct classified instances and takes 0.01 seconds to build the model.
Emergent phonology
Creators: name: Archangeli, Diana
name: Pulleyblank, Douglas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: complex phonological patterns
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: To what extent do complex phonological patterns require the postulation of universal mechanisms specific to language? In this volume, we explore the Emergent Hypothesis, that the innate language-specific faculty driving the shape of adult grammars is minimal, with grammar development relying instead on cognitive capacities of a general nature. Generalisations about sounds, and about the way sounds are organised into meaningful units, are constructed in a bottom-up fashion: As such, phonology is emergent. We present arguments for considering the Emergent Hypothesis, both conceptually and by working through an extended example in order to demonstrate how an adult grammar might emerge from the input encountered by a learner. Developing a concrete, data-driven approach, we argue that the conventional, abstract notion of unique underlying representations is unmotivated; such underlying representations would require some innate principle to ensure their postulation by a learner. We review the history of the concept and show that such postulated forms result in undesirable phonological consequences. We work through several case studies to illustrate how various types of phonological patterns might be accounted for in the proposed framework. The case studies illustrate patterns of allophony, of productive and unproductive patterns of alternation, and cases where the surface manifestation of a feature does not seem to correspond to its morphological source. We consider cases where a phonetic distinction that is binary seems to manifest itself in a way that is morphologically ternary, and we consider cases where underlying representations of considerable abstractness have been posited in previous frameworks. We also consider cases of opacity, where observed phonological properties do not neatly map onto the phonological generalisations governing patterns of alternation.