cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The disulphide cleavage derivative (C42-4) of 11′-deoxyverticillin A (C42) fails to induce apoptosis and genomic instability in HeLa cells
Creators: name: Hou, Bolin
name: Yang, Huaiyi
name: Li, Erwei
name: Jiang, Xuejun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Our previous study revealed 11’-deoxyverticillin A (C42), a natural product isolated from the Ophiocordyceps-associated fungus Clonostachys rogersoniana and a member of the epipolythiodioxopiperazines (ETPs), induced both apoptosis and autophagy in HCT116 cells; however, the role of disulphide/polysulphide bridges of C42 in the regulation of autophagy remains unexplored. Here, we revealed that C42 activated both caspase-dependent apoptosis and autophagy in HeLa cells, whereas its disulphide cleavage derivative C42-4 failed to induce the cleavage of both caspase-3 and PARP-1. In contrast, both C42 and C42-4 increased the formation of autophagosomes, punctate staining of LC3, and the ratio of LC3-II to actin, suggesting that disulphide/polysulphide bridges are dispensable for the induction of the autophagic process. Moreover, we found that C42 but not C42-4 led to nuclear instability by increasing the formation of micronuclei and expression of phosphorylated histone H2AX (γ-H2AX), a widely used marker for DNA double strand breaks (DSBs), while Rad51, a protein pivotal for DNA repair, was decreased upon challenge with C42. These results demonstrate that the disulphide bonds in ETPs play an essential role in the induction of caspase-dependent apoptosis and nuclear stability.
BiasEye: A Bias-Aware Real-time Interactive Material Screening System for Impartial Candidate Assessment
Creators: name: Liu, Qianyu
name: Jiang, Haoran
name: Pan, Zihao
name: Han, Qiushi
name: Peng, Zhenhui
name: Li, Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the process of evaluating competencies for job or student recruitment through material screening, decision-makers can be influenced by inherent cognitive biases, such as the screening order or anchoring information, leading to inconsistent outcomes. To tackle this challenge, we conducted interviews with seven experts to understand their challenges and needs for support in the screening process. Building on their insights, we introduce BiasEye, a bias-aware real-time interactive material screening visualization system. BiasEye enhances awareness of cognitive biases by improving information accessibility and transparency. It also aids users in identifying and mitigating biases through a machine learning (ML) approach that models individual screening preferences. Findings from a mixed-design user study with 20 participants demonstrate that, compared to a baseline system lacking our bias-aware features, BiasEye increases participants' bias awareness and boosts their confidence in making final decisions. At last, we discuss the potential of ML and visualization in mitigating biases during human decision-making tasks.
description: IUI' 24, March 18-21, 2024, Greenville, SC, USA
Interstellar polarisation and extinction in the Local Bubble and the Gould Belt
Creators: name: Gontcharov, George A.
name: Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse an all-sky compilation of thirteen data sources with optical interstellar linear polarisation for 3871 {\it Gaia} DR2 and {\it Hipparcos} stars within 500 pc, which do not exhibit a considerable intrinsic polarisation. These data are analysed together with five 3D maps and models of the reddening $E(B-V)$. We consider variations of the polarisation degree $P$, position angle $θ$, and polarisation efficiency $P/E(B-V)$ with Galactic coordinates, distance $R$, and dereddened colour. $P$ shows a maximum at the Gould Belt mid-plane. $P/R$ drops in the Local Bubble by several times defining a boundary of the Bubble at $P=0.1$ per cent. All the data sources of the reddening, except Lallement et al., show a drop of $P/E(B-V)$ in the Bubble. A significant number of stars with a too high $P/E(B-V)$, where the reddening is taken from Arenou et al., Drimmel et al. or Lallement et al., either reject the Serkowski's limit $P/E(B-V)<9.3$ per cent per mag or manifest a systematic underestimation of the reddening by these data sources. The spatial and colour dependent variations of $P$ and $E(B-V)$ outside the Bubble compensate each other, resulting in a nearly constant $P/E(B-V)$. A giant envelope of aligned dust dominates at middle and high latitudes outside the Bubble. The Markkanen's cloud, the North Polar Spur, and some other filaments are parts of this envelope.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Preparing and Preserving Your Research Outputs : Basics and Beyond
Creators: name: Stephens, Tara
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This presentation provides an overview of best practices for preparing and preserving research and teaching outputs such as grant-funded research projects, open education courses, and exceptional student work. Presented by Tara Stephens-Kyte, Digital Repository Librarian at cIRcle, UBC's open access digital repository, this session invites content creators to clarify their goals for dissemination and access across a range of platforms by addressing three key elements for open sharing: permissions, metadata, and preservation. [The original slides were made available online as part of the UBC Open Scholarship in Practice Series in 2021. The PowerPoint and PDF versions available in this record include minor edits to address updates to cIRcle procedures as of April 11, 2023.].
MPEC 2025-D36 : 2025 DT
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 DT

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Late afterglow emission statistics: a clear link between GW170817 and bright short GRBs
Creators: name: Duan, Kai-Kai
name: Jin, Zhi-Ping
name: Zhang, Fu-Wen
name: Zhu, Yi-Ming
name: Li, Xiang
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Wei, Da-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GW170817, the first neutron star merger event detected by advanced LIGO/Virgo detectors, was associated with an underluminous short duration GRB 170817A. In this work we compare the forward shock afterglow emission of GW170817/GRB 170817A to other luminous short GRBs (sGRBs) with both a known redshift and an afterglow emission lasting at least one day after the burst. In the rapid decay phase, the afterglow emission of the bright sGRBs and GW170817/GRB 170817A form a natural and continuous sequence, though separated by an observation time gap. If viewed on-axis, the forward shock afterglow emission of GW170817/GRB 170817A would be among the brightest ones detected so far. This provides a strong evidence for the GW170817-like merger origin of bright sGRBs, and suggests that the detection of the forward shock afterglow emission of most neutron star merger events are more challenging than the case of GW170817 since usually the mergers will be more distant and the viewing angles are plausibly higher.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Nonlinear Supersymmetry, Quantum Anomaly and Quasi-Exactly Solvable Systems
Creators: name: Klishevich, Sergey
name: Plyushchay, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear supersymmetry of one-dimensional systems is investigated in the context of the quantum anomaly problem. Any classical supersymmetric system characterized by the nonlinear in the Hamiltonian superalgebra is symplectomorphic to a supersymmetric canonical system with the holomorphic form of the supercharges. Depending on the behaviour of the superpotential, the canonical supersymmetric systems are separated into the three classes. In one of them the parameter specifying the supersymmetry order is subject to some sort of classical quantization, whereas the supersymmetry of another extreme class has a rather fictive nature since its fermion degrees of freedom are decoupled completely by a canonical transformation. The nonlinear supersymmetry with polynomial in momentum supercharges is analysed, and the most general one-parametric Calogero-like solution with the second order supercharges is found. Quantization of the systems of the canonical form reveals the two anomaly-free classes, one of which gives rise naturally to the quasi-exactly solvable systems. The quantum anomaly problem for the Calogero-like models is ``cured'' by the specific superpotential-dependent term of order $\hbar^2$. The nonlinear supersymmetry admits the generalization to the case of two-dimensional systems.
description: 30 pages, references and comments added. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
On the complex conjugate zeros of the partial theta function
Creators: name: Kostov, Vladimir Petrov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that 1) for any $q\in (0,1)$, all complex conjugate pairs of zeros of the partial theta function $θ(q,x):=\sum _{j=0}^{\infty}q^{j(j+1)/2}x^j$ belong to the set $\{$~Re\,$x\in (-5792.7,0),$~$|$Im\,$x|<132~\}$ $\cup$ $\{ ~|x|<18~\}$ and 2) for any $q\in (-1,0)$, they belong to the rectangle $\{$~$|$Re\,$x|< 364.2,$~$|$Im\,$x|<132~\}$.
Quarkonium: a theory overview
Creators: name: Ferreiro, Elena G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quarkonium has long been proposed as one of the golden probes to identify the phase transition from confined hadronic matter to the deconfined quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Since then, we have achieved a better understanding, not only about the propagation of quarkonium in-medium, but also about its production. Recent theoretical developments in our comprehension of the quarkonium production mechanism in proton-proton collisions and on the propagation of quarkonia in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are reviewed and discussed.
description: 7 pages, quarkonium theory overview proceedings for QM2018
Bioactive steroids from seed germination supporting fungus (Ceratobasidium GS2) of the terrestrial orchid Gymnadenia conopsea
Creators: name: Shi, Lixin
name: Zhao, Zeyu
name: Yang, Luna
name: Ding, Gang
name: Xing, Xiaoke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Almost all orchids rely on mycorrhizal fungus to support their seed germination. To date, the effect of active components in mycorrhizal fungus on orchid seed germination largely remains unknown. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of active components found in mycorrhizal fungus on orchid seed germination. Specifically, we focused on a terrestrial orchid Gymnadenia conopsea and its host-specific seed germination supporting fungus Ceratobasidium GS2. In total, several steroids (1–7) were isolated from this fungus. Notably, compounds 1, 2, 4, and 5 exhibited significant enhancements in protocorm volume. Moreover, compounds 1–6 demonstrated strong promotion of protocorm differentiation. These findings suggest that steroids may play a crucial role in the symbiotic germination of G. conopsea seeds. Future studies should continue to explore the specific mechanisms through which these steroids exert their effects, contributing to our understanding of orchid biology and mycorrhizal interaction.
Discrete Space-Time Volume for 3-Dimensional BF Theory and Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Freidel, Laurent
name: Krasnov, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Turaev-Viro state sum invariant is known to give the transition amplitude for the three dimensional BF theory with cosmological term, and its deformation parameter hbar is related with the cosmological constant via hbar=sqrt{Lambda}. This suggests a way to find the expectation value of the spacetime volume by differentiating the Turaev-Viro amplitude with respect to the cosmological constant. Using this idea, we find an explicit expression for the spacetime volume in BF theory. According to our results, each labelled triangulation carries a volume that depends on the labelling spins. This volume is explicitly discrete. We also show how the Turaev-Viro model can be used to obtain the spacetime volume for (2+1) dimensional quantum gravity.
description: 13 pages, Revtex, figures
title: Das Licht bei Dante; [1956]
title: Vortrag beim 484. Stiftungsfest der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in der Großen Aula am 23. Juni 1956
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Guardini, Romano
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Umschlagtitel
Role-Playing Simulation Games using ChatGPT
Creators: name: Stampfl, Rita
name: Ivkić, Igor
name: Geyer, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions have embarked on digital transformation projects. The success of these projects depends on integrating new technologies and understanding the needs of digitally literate students. The "learning by doing" approach suggests that real success in learning new skills is achieved when students can try out and practise these skills. In this article, we demonstrate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance the quality of teaching by using ChatGPT in a role-playing simulation game scenario to promote active learning. Moreover, we discuss how LLMs can boost students' interest in learning by allowing them to practice real-life scenarios using ChatGPT.
description: Link to online article: https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en136/special/role-playing-simulation-games-using-chatgpt
Transit analysis of the CoRoT-5, CoRoT-8, CoRoT-12, CoRoT-18, CoRoT-20, and CoRoT-27 systems with combined ground- and space-based photometry
Creators: name: Raetz, St.
name: Heras, A. M.
name: Fernández, M.
name: Casanova, V.
name: Marka, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have initiated a dedicated project to follow-up with ground-based photometry the transiting planets discovered by CoRoT in order to refine the orbital elements, constrain their physical parameters and search for additional bodies in the system. From 2012 September to 2016 December we carried out 16 transit observations of six CoRoT planets (CoRoT-5b, CoRoT-8b, CoRoT-12b, CoRoT-18b, CoRoT-20b, and CoRoT-27b) at three observatories located in Germany and Spain. These observations took place between 5 and 9 yr after the planet's discovery, which has allowed us to place stringent constraints on the planetary ephemeris. In five cases we obtained light curves with a deviation of the mid-transit time of up to ~115min from the predictions. We refined the ephemeris in all these cases and reduced the uncertainties of the orbital periods by factors between 1.2 and 33. In most cases our determined physical properties for individual systems are in agreement with values reported in previous studies. In one case, CoRoT-27b, we could not detect any transit event in the predicted transit window.
description: 17 pages, 23 figures, 15 tables, accepted by MNRAS
Identification of lncRNA and weighted gene coexpression network analysis of germinating Rhizopus delemar causing mucormycosis
Creators: name: Kalita, Barsha
name: Roy, Abhijeet
name: Jayaprakash, Aiswarya
name: Arunachalam, Annamalai
name: P.T.V, Lakshmi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Rhizopus delemar, an opportunistic fungal pathogen, causes a highly fatal disease, mucormycosis. Spore germination is a crucial mechanism for disease pathogenesis. Thus, exploring the molecular mechanisms of fungal germination would underpin our knowledge of such transformation and, in turn, help control mucormycosis. To gain insight into the developmental process particularly associated with cell wall modification and synthesis, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was performed including both coding and non-coding transcripts identified in the current study, to find out the module of interest in the germination stages. The module-trait relationship identified a particular module to have a high correlation only at the resting phase and further analysis revealed the module to be enriched for protein phosphorylation, carbohydrate metabolic process, and cellular response to stimulus. Moreover, co-expression network analysis of highly connected nodes revealed cell wall modifying enzymes, especially those involved in mannosylation, chitin-glucan crosslinking, and polygalacturonase activities co-expressing and interacting with the novel lncRNAs among which some of them predicted to be endogenous target mimic (eTM) lncRNAs. Hence, the present study provides an insight into the onset of spore germination and the information on the novel non-coding transcripts with key cell wall–related enzymes as potential targets against mucormycosis.
title: Developing countries’ political cycles and the resource curse
title: Venezuela’s case
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: political cycles
subject: oil windfalls
subject: resource curse
subject: Venezuela
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: The resource curse literature’s main lesson is that developing and natural resourcerich countries should save most of their oil windfalls in foreign currency. Moreover, the political cycle literature’s recent contributions predict stronger cycles in these countries. This paper investigates how political cycles might explain low oil windfall savings. Using Venezuela’s case, the paper argues that power concentration during periods of oil price explosiveness leads to increased public investment in prestige projects aimed at increasing the incumbent’s – or his party’s – re-election probabilities. The article backs the argument analyzing the Chavista democratic period of 1999- 2016. It also identifies parallels with Venezuela’s 1970-1988 period.
The Middle Pleistocene Transition by frequency locking and slow ramping of internal period
Creators: name: Nyman, Karl H. M.
name: Ditlevsen, Peter D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The increase in glacial cycle length from approximately $41$ to on average $100$ thousand years around $1$ million years ago, called the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT), lacks a conclusive explanation. We describe a dynamical mechanism which we call Ramping with Frequency Locking (RFL), that explains the transition by an interaction between the internal period of a self-sustained oscillator and forcing that contains periodic components. This mechanism naturally explains the abrupt increase in cycle length from approximately $40$ to $80$ thousand years observed in proxy data, unlike some previously proposed mechanisms for the MPT. A rapid increase in durations can be produced by a rapid change in an external parameter, but this assumes rather than explains the abruptness. In contrast, models relying on frequency locking can produce a rapid change in durations assuming only a slow change in an external parameter. We propose a scheme for detecting RFL in complex, computationally expensive models, and motivate the search for climate variables that can gradually increase the internal period of the glacial cycles.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Improving Access to Information on Cocoa Planting Material to Benefit Farmers: An Introduction to the Updated International Cocoa Germplasm Database
Creators: name: Turnbull, C.J.
name: Daymond, A.J.
name: End, M.J.
name: Hadley, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Getting the right planting materials to farmers, now and in the future, is a key component of sustainable cocoa production. The International Cocoa Germplasm Database (ICGD) is the primary source of information on the characteristics, origin and location of cocoa clones worldwide and has long been a tool for breeders to identify and locate new genetic resources for breeding improved, resilient cocoa plants. However, the inclusion of 'Recommended Planting Materials' for different regions, as defined by national cocoa organisations, means that ICGD can help the decision-making of cocoa farmers and organisations involved in growing cocoa.
This paper explores the new features available to users of ICGD and illustrates how to best access the wealth of information that the database contains. It explains how searches for multiple traits can be easily combined to form complex queries, describes how the search results are presented in a way that reflects the search inputs, and demonstrates how additional information can be accessed.
ICGD is made available free of charge via the website 'www.icgd.reading.ac.uk', which has been redesigned to allow improved access via mobile devices and better integration with the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre at Reading (ICQC,R) to allow quick access to up-to-date information on the clones available for distribution.
Search options have been updated to be more dynamic (based on available data) and expanded to incorporate new data recently added to ICGD, including recommended planting material, details on available genomic data, and climate change-related physiological traits. Improved access to genetic fingerprints, including reference genotypes, helps breeders and researchers confirm the identity of the plants they are using. Clone lists generated by any search (including group names, such as 'ICS') can be submitted to further searches (e.g. locations holding the clones).
All information in ICGD is referenced to its original source and has been obtained from a wide range of publications, proceedings and reports, as well as directly from individuals in research institutions and genebanks.
With information on around twelve thousand cocoa clones, including yield components, quality attributes and disease reactions, ICGD aims to support the continuing conservation and breeding efforts required to maintain sustainable cocoa production in the face of increasing pressures from pests and diseases, current low yields, and the uncertainties posed by global climate change.
Keywords: information, data, resource, conservation, breeding
Discovering bursts revisited: guaranteed optimization of the model parameters
Creators: name: Tatti, Nikolaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the classic data mining tasks is to discover bursts, time intervals, where events occur at abnormally high rate. In this paper we revisit Kleinberg's seminal work, where bursts are discovered by using exponential distribution with a varying rate parameter: the regions where it is more advantageous to set the rate higher are deemed bursty. The model depends on two parameters, the initial rate and the change rate. The initial rate, that is, the rate that is used when there are no burstiness was set to the average rate over the whole sequence. The change rate is provided by the user. We argue that these choices are suboptimal: it leads to worse likelihood, and may lead to missing some existing bursts. We propose an alternative problem setting, where the model parameters are selected by optimizing the likelihood of the model. While this tweak is trivial from the problem definition point of view, this changes the optimization problem greatly. To solve the problem in practice, we propose efficient ($1 + ε$) approximation schemes. Finally, we demonstrate empirically that with this setting we are able to discover bursts that would have otherwise be undetected.
Group Dynamics Features and Socio-Economic Status of Cocoa Farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Adebayo, Olaoluwa Ayodeji
name: Adebayo, Olaoluwa Ayodeji
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Ogun State
subject: Nigeria
subject: group dynamics features
subject: socioeconomic status
subject: cocoa farmers

description: Group dynamics features are important factors for improving farmers’ socio-economic status. This study focused on the effect of group dynamics features on the socio-economic status of cocoa farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 93 cocoa farmers for the study. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used to analyze the data. Results showed that the mean monetary value of their material possessions, income generated from the cocoa producer per production cycle per year and other agricultural production activities were 9,819,796.60 Naira, 2,693,900 Naira and 1,887,400 Naira respectively. Majority (51.7%) of the cocoa farmers are of moderate socioeconomic status (M=4,800,365.53 Naira). Results showed that the group dynamics features of the cocoa farmers are high in group cohesion (M=31.04) and leadership dynamism (M=25.75) while it is low in group attitude and behavior (M=23.09), discipline, trust and accountability (M=17.76) and group rapport (M=14.47). The results of linear regression revealed that farming experience (β=0.301) and educational level (β=0.561) significantly (p< 0.01) increased the socio-economic status of the cocoa farmers. The study concluded that personal characteristics can influence cocoa farmers’ socio-economic status and their group dynamics features. The study recommended that cocoa farmers’ personal characteristics (educational level and farming experience) should be improved through intervention programs, training and sensitization as this will translate into better-quality group dynamics features thereby enhancing their socio-economic status.
A Comparative Investigation of TOPSIS, Factor Analysis, and Scale Gram Analytical Methods on Rural Development (Case of Islamshahr rural development level)
Creators: name: Dehyouri, Sahar
name: Dehyouri, Sahar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: classification
subject: factor analysis
subject: rural development
subject: scale gram
subject: TOPSIS

description: Rural areas have always played a significant role in the global economy by providing a variety of foods and raw materials. This role is much more prominent in developing countries. Rural development is also an important part of regional policies, covering agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, land use, and economic diversity in these areas. The present study focused on investigating rural development in rural areas of Islamshar County, Iran. Given the lack of productivity in this region and the fact that this county is so close to two metropolitan cities of Karaj and Tehran, it is necessary to examine the level of development of the villages in this county. Among various methods of ranking, the credit and point of rural development in this research were measured by AHPbased TOPSIS, factor analysis, and scale gram methods. Categorization by TOPSIS and factor analysis revealed close results considering 27 criteria for the evaluation of choices. Scale gram analysis generally confirmed these results. Also, the overall results show that the economic factor derived from the factor analysis method and the agricultural factor derived from the AHP method were acceptable. According to the viewpoint of the research population, many of the rural areas in the studied county were categorized in "deprived" group.
Ionization Profiles of Galactic HII Regions
Creators: name: Luisi, Matteo
name: Anderson, L. D.
name: Liu, Bin
name: Roshi, D. Anish
name: Churchwell, Ed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Green Bank Telescope radio recombination line (RRL) data, we analyze the role of leaking radiation from HII regions in maintaining the ionization of the interstellar medium. We observed a sample of eight Galactic HII regions of various sizes, morphologies, and luminosities. For each region the hydrogen RRL intensity decreases roughly as a power-law with distance from the center of the region. This suggests that radiation leaking from the HII region is responsible for the majority of surrounding ionized gas producing RRL emission. Our results further indicate that the hydrogen RRL intensity appears to be fundamentally related to the HII region sizes traced by their photodissociation regions, such that physically smaller HII regions show a steeper decrease in intensity with increasing distance from the region centers. As a result, giant HII regions may have a much larger effect in maintaining the ionization of the interstellar medium. For six of the eight observed HII regions we find a decrease in the 4He+/H+ abundance ratio with increasing distance, indicating that He-ionizing photons are being absorbed within the ionization front of the HII region. There is enhanced carbon RRL emission toward directions with strong continuum background, suggesting that the carbon emission is amplified by stimulated emission.
description: 46 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Rotation sets for graph maps of degree 1
Creators: name: Alsedà, Lluís
name: Ruette, Sylvie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E45, 37E25, 54H20, 37E15

description: For a continuous map on a topological graph containing a loop $S$ it is possible to define the degree (with respect to the loop $S$) and, for a map of degree $1$, rotation numbers. We study the rotation set of these maps and the periods of periodic points having a given rotation number. We show that, if the graph has a single loop $S$ then the set of rotation numbers of points in $S$ has some properties similar to the rotation set of a circle map; in particular it is a compact interval and for every rational $α$ in this interval there exists a periodic point of rotation number $α$. For a special class of maps called combed maps, the rotation set displays the same nice properties as the continuous degree one circle maps.
description: Published in 2008 (freely available on the website of Annales de l'Institut Fourier)
Η Εμπειρία Χρήστη στο Ηλεκτρονικό Εμπόριο
Creators: name: Vavatsioulas, Dimitrios
name: Mylonopoulou, Evangelia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Η παρούσα βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση έχει σκοπό να μελετήσει την επίδραση της Εμπειρίας Χρήστη (User Experience - ­UX) στο ηλεκτρονικό εμπόριο. Αρχικά, παρουσιάζονται βασικές έννοιες και αρχές για τη σχεδίαση της διεπαφής χρήστη, και καταγράφονται ποιοι παράγοντες, τελικά, επηρεάζουν την εμπειρία χρήστη, ενώ γίνονται αναφορές σε ορισμένες σχετικές εμπειρικές μελέτες. Τονίζεται επίσης η αξία της ορθολογικής σχεδίασης για την επιτυχία ενός ηλεκτρονικού καταστήματος, αλλά και η αξί­α των Ευριστικών Κανόνων Χρηστικότητας. Στη συνέχεια, μελετώνται ορισμένες μέθοδοι αξιολόγησης της εμπειρίας χρήστη και προτείνονται τρόποι για να βελτιστοποιηθεί η συνο­λική εμπειρία του καταναλωτή, μεταξύ των οποίων η χρήση αρχέτυπων (personas). Στο δεύτερο μέρος, παρουσιάζεται μία μελέτη περίπτωσης ενός ηλεκτρονικού καταστή­ματος, με έμφαση στην εμπειρία χρήστη. Η αξιολόγηση γίνεται με βάση τα κριτήρια και τους κανόνες που έχουν τεθεί στο πρώτο μέρος και, τελικά, προτείνονται τρόποι για τη βελτίωση της εμπειρίας χρήστη, γεγονός που θα συμβάλλει καθοριστικά στην επιτυχία της ηλεκτρονι­κής επιχείρησης.
Generalized Portrait Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Chahine, Nicolas
name: Ferradans, Sira
name: Vazquez-Corral, Javier
name: Ponce, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective quality score rescaling method based on image semantics, to enhance the precision of fine-grained image quality metrics while ensuring robust generalization to various scene settings beyond the training dataset. The proposed approach is validated by extensive experiments on the PIQ23 benchmark and comparisons with the current state of the art. The source code of FHIQA will be made publicly available on the PIQ23 GitHub repository at https://github.com/DXOMARK-Research/PIQ2023.
description: Pre-print
Comment on "Control landscapes are almost always trap free: a geometric assessment"
Creators: name: Zhdanov, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a recent claim that almost all closed, finite dimensional quantum systems have trap-free (i.e., free from local optima) landscapes (B. Russell et.al. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50, 205302 (2017)). We point out several errors in the proof which compromise the authors' conclusion. Interested readers are highly encouraged to take a look at the "rebuttal" (see Ref. [1]) of this comment published by the authors of the criticized work. This "rebuttal" is a showcase of the way the erroneous and misleading statements under discussion will be wrapped up and injected in their future works, such as R. L. Kosut et.al, arXiv:1810.04362 [quant-ph] (2018).
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Comment on ``Enhancement of the Tunneling Density of States in Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids''
Creators: name: Fabrizio, Michele
name: Gogolin, Alexander O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent Physical Review Letter, Oreg and Finkel'stein (OF) have calculated the electron density of states (DOS) for tunneling into a repulsive Luttinger liquid close to the location of an impurity. The result of their calculation is a DOS which is enhanced with respect to the pure system, and moreover diverging for not too strong repulsion. In this Comment we intend to show that OF's calculation suffers from a subtle flaw which, being corrected, results into a DOS not only vanishing at zero frequency but in fact suppressed in comparison with the DOS of a pure Luttinger liquid.
description: 1 page, Revtex
Fragilaria pinnata var. subcapitata Frenguelli 1930
Creators: name: Vouilloud, Amelia A.
name: Guerrero, José M.
name: Morales, Eduardo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Fragilariales
Fragilariaceae
Fragilaria
Fragilaria pinnata
Fragilaria pinnata var. subcapitata frenguelli 1930

description: Fragilaria pinnata var. subcapitata Frenguelli 1930. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Vol. 34, p. 199, figs 35, 4. Here Figs 1 –11.
 Original description:— “ Difiere de todas las demás variedades de esta especie por sus contornos valvares estrechamente lanceolados, con extremos subcapitados, siendo ligada al tipo por formas de transición. Largo mm. 0,019 a 0,030, ancho mm. 0,006; estrías robustas, 7½ a 8 en mm. 0,01.” Freely translated as: It differs from the rest of the varieties by its narrowly lanceolate valve outline, with subcapitate apices, linked to the type through transitional forms. Length 19–30 µm, width 6 µm; striae robust, 7.5–8.0 in 10 µm (measurements converted from mm to µm by us).
 Expanded description:— Valves heavily silicified, narrowly lanceolate with rostrate to subcapitate apices, more protracted in larger specimens, slightly heteropolar (Figs 2–7). Sternum narrow, linear to lanceolate, sunken with respect to virgae in external view (Figs 8–9). Striae uniseriate, parallel at valve center to slightly radial near apices, with typical ‘punch-hole’ appearance, continuous onto valve mantle (Figs 10 –11). Striae at the same level as sternum in external view. Slit-like areolae, apically elongated, decreasing in size towards sternum and valve mantle (Figs 8 –11). Volae hardly visible in external view, growing from internal part of vimines. Virgae somewhat wider than striae and elevated above sternum and striae (Figs 9, 11). Spines located on virgae, solid, and base occupies 2/3 of virgae width; body cylindrical with tips flattened and forked (Figs 10 –11, arrowheads). Spines present at valve poles. Apical pore fields present at both poles, modest, formed of few round pores (Fig. 11, arrow).
Morphometric data: Length 16.0–21.5 µm; width 3.5–4.0 µm; length:width 4.8–5.2; 10–12 striae in 10 µm; 60–70 areolae in 10 µm.
 Type:— CHILE, Antofagasta Province, Calama: Calama Looser, diatomite. Frenguelli Collection, unknown date, (Lectotype designated here S/ N Slide N °4! England finder L/46 = Fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Vouilloud, Amelia A., Guerrero, José M. & Morales, Eduardo A., 2022, Fragilaria pinnata var. subcapitata Frenguelli, typification and current taxonomic status, pp. 133-139 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/7103532
Modeling of Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources: The Application of Dynamic Systems Approach
Creators: name: Teimoori, Mostafa
name: Mirdamadi, Sayed Mehdi
name: Hosseini, Sayed Jamal
name: Teimoori, Mostafa
name: Mirdamadi, Sayed Mehdi
name: Hosseini, Sayed Jamal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Virtual water
subject: agricultural sector
subject: water resource management
subject: simulation
subject: Hirmand Catchment

description: The purpose of the present study was the simulation of climate change effects on groundwater resources in Iran by using the dynamic systems approach. The approach was performed through system dynamics modeling process including problem explanation, system description, model development, model testing, and the use of the model for policy analysis. The impact of the application of various exogenous scenarios including drought scenarios, management of water supply and population growth was assessed and the behavior of variables of water resources volume and per capita volume of renewable water of the Southern Khorasan Province was simulated by Vensim software for the 2013-2041 period. Data were collected by referring to relevant organizations like South Khorasan Regional Water Organization, South Khorasan Agricultural Organization, and Statistical Center of Iran and the input data of the model were fed into the model in an Excel worksheet. The results showed that the water resource exploitation management scenario had a significant positive effect on the balance of aquifers of South Khorasan Province so that the balance of the province aquifers in the scenario of controlling water resources exploitation has been significantly different from the scenario of the lack of control of different drought in all the studied years. In addition, the results of examination of the province's renewable water showed that droughts have had a negative impact on the volume of renewable water of the province and droughts together with population growth have reduced the province per capita renewable water.
Quasilinear theory of the 2D Euler equation
Creators: name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a quasilinear theory of the 2D Euler equation and derive an integro-differential equation for the evolution of the coarse-grained vorticity. This equation respects all the invariance properties of the Euler equation and conserves angular momentum in a circular domain and linear impulse in a channel. We show under which hypothesis we can derive a H-theorem for the Fermi-Dirac entropy and make the connection with statistical theories of 2D turbulence.
description: 4 pages
Magnetic Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine
Creators: name: Wu, Kai
name: Su, Diqing
name: Liu, Jinming
name: Saha, Renata
name: Wang, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanomaterials, in addition to their small size, possess unique physicochemical properties that differ from the bulk materials, making them ideal for a host of novel applications. Magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) is one important class of nanomaterials that have been widely studied for their potential applications in nanomedicine. Due to the fact that MNPs can be detected and manipulated by remote magnetic fields, it opens a wide opportunity for them to be used in vivo. Nowadays, MNPs have been used for diverse applications including magnetic biosensing (diagnostics), magnetic imaging, magnetic separation, drug and gene delivery, and hyperthermia therapy, etc. This review aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state-of-the-art biological and biomedical applications of MNPs. In addition, the development of high magnetic moment MNPs with proper surface functionalization has progressed exponentially over the past decade. Herein, we also reviewed the recent advances in the synthesis and surface coating strategies of MNPs. This review is not only to provide in-depth insights into the different synthesis, biofunctionalization, biosensing, imaging, and therapy methods but also to give an overview of limitations and possibilities of each technology.
description: 67 pages, 24 figures
Les déterminants du risque de liquidité bancaire : Une analyse empirique sur les banques commerciales marocaines
Creators: name: CHERKAOUI, Kenza
name: BOUCHTAOUI, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: « Risque de liquidité » ; « Banques commerciales marocaines » ; « Stabilité financière » ; « Facteurs macroéconomiques » ; « Gestion bancaire ».

description: Cet article examine les déterminants du risque de liquidité des banques au Maroc en utilisant une approche de régression panel sur une période de six ans et un échantillon de six banques. Les résultats suggèrent que la taille des banques, mesurée par le logarithme de l’actifs total pour chaque année, présente une relation positive avec le risque de liquidité. Le modèle explique une partie de la variation du risque de liquidité, mais d’autres facteurs non inclus dans l’étude peuvent également jouer un rôle important. Malgré certaines limites, cette recherche apporte des éclairages sur le risque de liquidité dans le contexte marocain, soulignant la nécessité de recherche futures pour une compréhension plus approfondie des déterminants de ce risque.
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 7 (37)]
Creators: name: Francesco
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1464
Subjects: subject: Kardinalsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Francesco Gonzaga, Kardinaldiakon von St. Mariae Novae sowie praepositus und rector der Präpositur St. Benedicti in Polirone im Bistum Mantua, verpachtet dem Notar Jacobus, Sohn des verstorbenen Johannes de Maraschis, aus Mantua, diverse Ländereien, gelegen auf dem Gebiet von Quistello.
Invitation to higher local fields, Part II, section 10: Galois modules and class field theory
Creators: name: Erez, Boas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R99, 11S99

description: This is a concise survey of links between Galois module theory and class field theory (CFT). It explores various uses of CFT in Galois module theory, it comments on the absence of CFT in contexts where it might be expected to play a role and indicates some lines of research that might bring CFT to play a more prominent role in Galois module theory.
description: For introduction and notation, see math.NT/0012131 . Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon3/m3-II-10.abs.html
Developing a Radial Basis Function Neural Networks to Predict the Working Days for Tillage Operation in Crop Production
Creators: name: Kosari-Moghaddam, Armaghan
name: Rohani, Abbas
name: Kosari-Moghaddam, Lobat
name: Esmaeipour-Troujeni, Mahdi
name: Kosari-Moghaddam, Armaghan
name: Rohani, Abbas
name: Kosari-Moghaddam, Lobat
name: Esmaeipour-Troujeni, Mahdi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: artificial neural network
subject: multiple linear regression
subject: probability of working days
subject: redial basis function

description: The aim of this study was to determine the probability of working days (PWD) for tillage operation using weather data with Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) artificial networks. In both models, seven variables were considered as input parameters, namely minimum, average and maximum temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and evaporation on a daily basis. The PWD was considered to be the output of the developed models. Performance criteria were RMSE, MAPE, and R2. Results showed that the R2-value was 0.78 and 0.99 for MLR and RBF models, respectively. Both models had acceptable performance, but the RBF model was more accurate than the MLR model. The RMSE and MAPE values for the RBF model were lower than those for the MLR model. Thus, the RBF model was selected as the suitable model for predicting PWD. Moreover, the results of these models were compared to the prior soil moisture model. It was indicated that the results of the studied models had a good agreement with the results of the soil moisture model. However, the RBF model had the highest R2 (99%). In conclusion, the developed RBF model could be used to predict the probability of working days in terms of agricultural management policies.