cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kazakhithyas pectinatus Smit, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hydryphantidae
Kazakhithyas
Kazakhithyas pectinatus

description: Kazakhithyas pectinatus n. sp.
Material examined. Holotype male, Rheohelocrene, 27 km S of Almaty, Ili-Alatau NP, Tien Shan Mountains, Kazakhstan, 43° 0 4.377 N 76° 59.233 E, alt. 2269 m a.s.l., 4-v-2016 (RMNH). Paratypes: 2 males, same data as holotype (RMNH).
Diagnosis. As for genus.
Description. Male: Idiosoma colourless in specimens fixed in Koenike-fluid, dorsally 761 (778–782) long and 437 (478) wide, ventrally 778 (802–842) long. Anteriorly to postocularia an area without papillae, which is probably a remnant of the median eye, but the latter clearly absent (Fig. 1). Postocularia setae 48 long. Coxae in four groups, anterior corners of coxae with a group of 3–4 setae, margins of coxae with many short setae (Fig. 2). Capitulum 152 long, with a very short rostrum (Fig. 4). Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, anterior acetabulum 42 long, posterior acetabulum 38 wide. Genital flaps with four small setae. Pre-genital sclerite small. Excretory pore not sclerotized. Length of P1–5: 50, 82, 62, 144, 41; P2 with four dorsal setae and one medial seta. P4 ventrally slightly convex, with a anteriorly located ventral seta (Fig. 5). Length of I-leg-4–6: 132, 142, 156 (till tip of segment). Length of IV-leg-4–6: 220, 216, 192 (till tip of segment). Each leg claw with two combs, one short and one long comb (Figs. 7–8). Legs without swimming setae.
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2016, A new hydryphantid genus from the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae), pp. 324-326 in Zootaxa 4200 (2) on page 326, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/182229
Gross polluters and vehicles' emissions reduction
Creators: name: Böhm, Matteo
name: Nanni, Mirco
name: Pappalardo, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vehicles' emissions produce a significant share of cities' air pollution, with a substantial impact on the environment and human health. Traditional emission estimation methods use remote sensing stations, missing vehicles' full driving cycle, or focus on a few vehicles. We use GPS traces and a microscopic model to analyse the emissions of four air pollutants from thousands of private vehicles in three European cities. We find that the emissions across the vehicles and roads are well approximated by heavy-tailed distributions and thus discover the existence of gross polluters, vehicles responsible for the greatest quantity of emissions, and grossly polluted roads, which suffer the greatest amount of emissions. Our simulations show that emissions reduction policies targeting gross polluters are way more effective than those limiting circulation based on a non-informed choice of vehicles. Our study contributes to shaping the discussion on how to measure emissions with digital data.
description: Version to be published in Nature Sustainability. Minor changes due to the last round of reviews
Responsible and Regulatory Conform Machine Learning for Medicine: A Survey of Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Petersen, Eike
name: Potdevin, Yannik
name: Mohammadi, Esfandiar
name: Zidowitz, Stephan
name: Breyer, Sabrina
name: Nowotka, Dirk
name: Henn, Sandra
name: Pechmann, Ludwig
name: Leucker, Martin
name: Rostalski, Philipp
name: Herzog, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.3; I.5; I.2.6

description: Machine learning is expected to fuel significant improvements in medical care. To ensure that fundamental principles such as beneficence, respect for human autonomy, prevention of harm, justice, privacy, and transparency are respected, medical machine learning systems must be developed responsibly. Many high-level declarations of ethical principles have been put forth for this purpose, but there is a severe lack of technical guidelines explicating the practical consequences for medical machine learning. Similarly, there is currently considerable uncertainty regarding the exact regulatory requirements placed upon medical machine learning systems. This survey provides an overview of the technical and procedural challenges involved in creating medical machine learning systems responsibly and in conformity with existing regulations, as well as possible solutions to address these challenges. First, a brief review of existing regulations affecting medical machine learning is provided, showing that properties such as safety, robustness, reliability, privacy, security, transparency, explainability, and nondiscrimination are all demanded already by existing law and regulations - albeit, in many cases, to an uncertain degree. Next, the key technical obstacles to achieving these desirable properties are discussed, as well as important techniques to overcome these obstacles in the medical context. We notice that distribution shift, spurious correlations, model underspecification, uncertainty quantification, and data scarcity represent severe challenges in the medical context. Promising solution approaches include the use of large and representative datasets and federated learning as a means to that end, the careful exploitation of domain knowledge, the use of inherently transparent models, comprehensive out-of-distribution model testing and verification, as well as algorithmic impact assessments.
On 1,3-phosphaazaallenes and their diverse reactivity
Creators: name: Fischer, Malte
name: Hering-Junghans, Christian
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Hydroboration
subject: Isonitriles
subject: Lewis acid-base
subject: Wittig reagents
subject: Chemistry
subject: 540

description: 1,3-Phosphaazaallenes are heteroallenes of the type RP-C-NR′ and little is known about their reactivity. In here we describe the straightforward synthesis of ArPCNR (Ar = Mes*, 2,4,6-tBu-C6H2;MesTer, 2.6-(2,4,6-Me3C6H2)-C6H3;DipTer, 2.6-(2,6-iPr2C6H2)-C6H3; R =tBu; Xyl, 2,6-Me2C6H3) starting from phospha-Wittig reagents ArPPMe3and isonitriles CNR. It is further shown that ArPCNtBu are thermally labile with respect to the loss of iso-butene and it is shown that the cyanophosphines ArP(H)CN are synthetically feasible and form the corresponding phosphanitrilium borates with B(C6F5)3, whereas deprotonation ofDipTerP(H)CN was shown to give an isolable cyanidophosphide. Lastly, the reactivity of ArPCNR towards Pier's borane was investigated, showing hydroboration of the C-N bond in Mes*PCNtBu to give a hetero-butadiene, while withDipTerPCNXyl the formation of the Lewis acid-base adduct with a B-P linkage was observed. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021.
Time‐Dependent Cation Selectivity of Titanium Carbide MXene in Aqueous Solution
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Torkamanzadeh, Mohammad
name: Majed, Ahmad
name: Zhang, Yuan
name: Wang, Qingsong
name: Breitung, Ben
name: Feng, Guang
name: Naguib, Michael
name: Presser, Volker
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: electrochemistry
subject: ion selectivity
subject: ion-exchange
subject: MXene
subject: 570
subject: 333.7

description: Electrochemical ion separation is a promising technology to recover valuable ionic species from water. Pseudocapacitive materials, especially 2D materials, are up-and-coming electrodes for electrochemical ion separation. For implementation, it is essential to understand the interplay of the intrinsic preference of a specific ion (by charge/size), kinetic ion preference (by mobility), and crystal structure changes. Ti3C2Tz MXene is chosen here to investigate its selective behavior toward alkali and alkaline earth cations. Utilizing an online inductively coupled plasma system, it is found that Ti3C2Tz shows a time-dependent selectivity feature. In the early stage of charging (up to about 50 min), K+ is preferred, while ultimately Ca2+ and Mg2+ uptake dominate; this unique phenomenon is related to dehydration energy barriers and the ion exchange effect between divalent and monovalent cations. Given the wide variety of MXenes, this work opens the door to a new avenue where selective ion-separation with MXene can be further engineered and optimized.
Qsun: an open-source platform towards practical quantum machine learning applications
Creators: name: Quoc, Chuong Nguyen
name: Ho, Le Bin
name: Tran, Lan Nguyen
name: Nguyen, Hung Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently, quantum hardware is restrained by noises and qubit numbers. Thus, a quantum virtual machine that simulates operations of a quantum computer on classical computers is a vital tool for developing and testing quantum algorithms before deploying them on real quantum computers. Various variational quantum algorithms have been proposed and tested on quantum virtual machines to surpass the limitations of quantum hardware. Our goal is to exploit further the variational quantum algorithms towards practical applications of quantum machine learning using state-of-the-art quantum computers. This paper first introduces our quantum virtual machine named Qsun, whose operation is underlined by quantum state wave-functions. The platform provides native tools supporting variational quantum algorithms. Especially using the parameter-shift rule, we implement quantum differentiable programming essential for gradient-based optimization. We then report two tests representative of quantum machine learning: quantum linear regression and quantum neural network.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
DIVA: An iterative method for building modular integrated models
Creators: name: Hinkel, J.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: climate modeling
subject: global change
subject: sea level change
subject: 550

description: Integrated modelling of global environmental change impacts faces the challenge that knowledge from the domains of Natural and Social Science must be integrated. This is complicated by often incompatible terminology and the fact that the interactions between subsystems are usually not fully understood at the start of the project. While a modular modelling approach is necessary to address these challenges, it is not sufficient. The remaining question is how the modelled system shall be cut down into modules. While no generic answer can be given to this question, communication tools can be provided to support the process of modularisation and integration. Along those lines of thought a method for building modular integrated models was developed within the EU project DINAS-COAST and applied to construct a first model, which assesses the vulnerability of the worlds coasts to climate change and sea-level-rise. The method focuses on the development of a common language and offers domain experts an intuitive interface to code their knowledge in form of modules. However, instead of rigorously defining interfaces between the subsystems at the projects beginning, an iterative model development process is defined and tools to facilitate communication and collaboration are provided. This flexible approach has the advantage that increased understanding about subsystem interactions, gained during the projects lifetime, can immediately be reflected in the model.
Investigations into the characteristics and influences of nonequilibrium evolution
Creators: name: Li, Xiaobing
name: Xu, Mingmei
name: Zhang, Yanhua
name: Li, Zhiming
name: Zhou, Yu
name: Fu, Jinghua
name: Wu, Yuanfang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to estimate qualitatively the influence of nonequilibrium evolution in relativistic heavy ion collisions, we use the three dimensional Ising model with Metropolis algorithm to study the evolution from nonequilibrium to equilibrium on the phase boundary. The evolution of order parameter approaches its equilibrium value exponentially, the same as that given by Langevin equation. The average relaxation time is defined which is demonstrated to well represent the relaxation time in dynamical equations. It is shown that the average relaxation time at critical temperature diverges as the zth power of system size. The third and the fourth cumulants of order parameter during the nonequilibrium evolution could be either positive or negative, depending on the observation time, consistent with dynamical models at T > Tc. It is found that the nonequilibrium evolution at T > Tc lasts very short, and the influence is weaker than that at T < Tc. Those qualitative features are instructive to determine experimentally the critical point and the phase boundary of QCD.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; add fig.3 and up date the eq.(9-10), and contents
Clavigerini
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Rakotondravelo, Miderah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae

description: Discussion
Semiclaviger Wasmann, 1893 is placed in the tribe Clavigerini, where it is closely related to Pseudacerus Raffray, 1895 (2 described and more undescribed species in southern Asia) and Clavister Besuchet & Hlaváč, 2011 (one species in Fiji) by having neck region of head completely inserted into pronotum, not visible dorsaly. The three genera can be separated by following key.
1 Head, pronotum and elytra with long setae; pronotum evenly convex............................................ 2
- Head, pronotum and elytra with minuscule setae, hardly visible; pronotum concave on disc, lateral margins raised...................................................................................... Clavister Besuchet & Hlaváč
2 Setae on pronotum and elytra arranged in longitudinal lines; eyes not visible dorsaly; each elytron on posterior margin with trichomes located laterad; terminal antennomere subcylindrical............................... Semiclaviger Wasmann
- Setae on pronotum and elytra not arranged in longitudinal lines; eyes well-visible dorsaly; elytra lacking trichomes; terminal antennomere bulges into a club and flattened............................................... Pseudacerus Raffray
The similar structure of head is also encountered in the genus Tiracaleda Hlaváč, Parker, Maruyama & Fikáček, 2021 (one species in New Caledonia) but this genus is actually assigned into the tribe Tiracerini.
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter & Rakotondravelo, Miderah, 2024, The Pselaphinae of Madagascar. IX. New species of the genus Semiclaviger Wasmann, 1893 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Clavigeritae), pp. 293-296 in Zootaxa 5471 (2) on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/12190083
India’s COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Creators: name: Ramita Iyer, Diego Maiorano
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: India’s COVID-19 vaccine policy has undergone numerous changes since its inception. It began with an ambitious vaccine diplomacy exercise, followed by a halt in exports amid a surge in infections within the country. With the collapse of the healthcare system and a domestic shortage of vaccines amid a devastating second wave that hit India in April and May 2021, India had to rely on help from abroad. Over the past year, the government has also changed its policy on procurement and distribution multiple times. This has had an impact on the ability to effectively vaccinate its citizens. While the government seems to have started on an unprepared note, in October 2021, the trends look positive with a steady increase in vaccination rates and the introduction of new vaccine players in the market. However, despite the ramp up, it is well behind its target of vaccinating all adult citizens by the end of 2021.
description: India’s COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Hubert Kaufhold als Georgienforscher
Hubert Kaufhold as a kartvelologist
ჰუბერტ კაუფჰოლდი - ქართველოლოგი
Creators: name: Tchumburidze, Tamar
name: ჭუმბურიძე, თამარ
Publisher: name: Orientalie Christiana
Year: 2013
Subjects: Georgienforschung
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Georgian studies
History of science
ქართველოლოგია
მეცნიერების ისტორია

description: NA
Determination of the Azimuthal Extent of Coherent E‐Region Scatter Using the ICEBEAR Linear Receiver Array
Creators: name: Huyghebaert, Devin
name: McWilliams, Kathryn
name: Hussey, Glenn
name: Galeschuk, Draven
name: Chau, Jorge L.
name: Vierinen, Juha
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: E-region coherent scatter
subject: ICEBEAR radar
subject: plasma density irregularities
subject: radar imaging
subject: 620

description: The Ionospheric Continuous-wave E-region Bistatic Experimental Auroral Radar (ICEBEAR) is a VHF coherent scatter radar that operates with a field-of-view centered on 58°N, 106°W and measures characteristics of ionospheric E-region plasma density irregularities. The initial operations of ICEBEAR utilized a wavelength-spaced linear receiving array to determine the angle of arrival of the ionospheric scatter at the receiver site. Initially only the shortest baselines were used to determine the angle of arrival of the scatter. This publication uses this linear antenna array configuration and expands on the initial angle of arrival determination by including all the cross-spectra available from the antenna array to determine both the azimuthal angle of arrival and the azimuthal extent of the incoming ionospheric scatter. This is accomplished by fitting Gaussian distributions to the complex coherence of the signal between different antennas and deriving the azimuthal angle and extent based on the best fit. Fourteen hours of data during an active ionospheric period (March 10, 2018, 0–14 UT) were analyzed to investigate the Gaussian fitting procedure and determine its feasibility for implementation with ICEBEAR. A comparison between mapped scatter, both neglecting azimuthal extent and including azimuthal extent is presented. It demonstrates that the azimuthal extent of the ionospheric E-region scatter is very important for accurately portraying and analyzing the ICEBEAR measurements.
End of the Forever War and US Strategy in South Asia
Creators: name: Monish Tourangbam,
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Given the historical antecedents of American retreat from and return to South Asian geopolitics, what does the current withdrawal and the US strategic compulsions in the Indo-Pacific vis-à-vis China, portend for the stronger undercurrents as well as the more immediate features of US role in South Asia? Based on an understanding of the linkages between the withdrawal from Afghanistan and broader US foreign policy trends, the paper attempts to undertake an assessment of what could guide the shape of things to come, as far Washington’s engagement with New Delhi and Islamabad are concerned.
description: End of the Forever War and US Strategy in South Asia
Forced versus coupled dynamics in Earth system modelling and prediction
Creators: name: Knopf, B.
name: Held, H.
name: Schellnhuber, H.J.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: uncertainty analysis
subject: 550

description: We compare coupled nonlinear climate models and their simplified forced counterparts with respect to predictability and phase space topology. Various types of uncertainty plague climate change simulation, which is, in turn, a crucial element of Earth System modelling. Since the currently preferred strategy for simulating the climate system, or the Earth System at large, is the coupling of sub-system modules (representing, e.g. atmosphere, oceans, global vegetation), this paper explicitly addresses the errors and indeterminacies generated by the coupling procedure. The focus is on a comparison of forced dynamics as opposed to fully, i.e. intrinsically, coupled dynamics. The former represents a particular type of simulation, where the time behaviour of one complex systems component is prescribed by data or some other external information source. Such a simplifying technique is often employed in Earth System models in order to save computing resources, in particular when massive model inter-comparisons need to be carried out. Our contribution to the debate is based on the investigation of two representative model examples, namely (i) a low-dimensional coupled atmosphere-ocean simulator, and (ii) a replica-like simulator embracing corresponding components. Whereas in general the forced version (ii) is able to mimic its fully coupled counterpart (i), we show in this paper that for a considerable fraction of parameter- and state-space, the two approaches qualitatively differ. Here we take up a phenomenon concerning the predictability of coupled versus forced models that was reported earlier in this journal: the observation that the time series of the forced version display artificial predictive skill. We present an explanation in terms of nonlinear dynamical theory. In particular we observe an intermittent version of artificial predictive skill, which we call on-off synchronization, and trace it back to the appearance of unstable periodic orbits. We also find it to be governed by a scaling law that allows us to estimate the probability of artificial predictive skill. In addition to artificial predictability we observe artificial bistability for the forced version, which has not been reported so far. The results suggest that bistability and intermittent predictability, when found in a forced model set-up, should always be cross-validated with alternative coupling designs before being taken for granted.
A rigorous derivation and energetics of a wave equation with fractional damping
Creators: name: Mielke, Alexander
name: Netz, Roland R.
name: Zendehroud, Sina
Publisher: name: Basel : Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bulk-interface coupling
subject: Convergence of semigroups
subject: Energy–dissipation balance
subject: Fractional derivatives
subject: Parabolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map
subject: Surface waves
subject: 510

description: We consider a linear system that consists of a linear wave equation on a horizontal hypersurface and a parabolic equation in the half space below. The model describes longitudinal elastic waves in organic monolayers at the water–air interface, which is an experimental setup that is relevant for understanding wave propagation in biological membranes. We study the scaling regime where the relevant horizontal length scale is much larger than the vertical length scale and provide a rigorous limit leading to a fractionally damped wave equation for the membrane. We provide the associated existence results via linear semigroup theory and show convergence of the solutions in the scaling limit. Moreover, based on the energy–dissipation structure for the full model, we derive a natural energy and a natural dissipation function for the fractionally damped wave equation with a time derivative of order 3/2.
Gomphomastacinae
Creators: name: Qiu, Shaoting
name: Xu, Sheng-Quan
name: Huang, Huateng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Eumastacidae

description: Gomphomastacinae
Genus Myrmeleomastax Yin, 1984: two species
Myrmeleomastax pulvinella Yin. 1984. Amdo (Tibet) region, China.
Myrmeleomastax wideis sp. nov. Yushu (Qinghai), China.
Genus Ptygomastax B.-Bienko, 1959: one species
Ptygomastax heimahoensis Cheng & Huang, 1974. Gonhhe (Qinghai), Luqu (Gansu), China.
Ptygomastax longifemora Yin, 1984. Guinan (Tibet), China.
Genus Sinomastax Yin, 1984: one species
Sinomastax longicornea Yin, 1984. Yushu (Qinghai), China.
Genus Phytomastax B.-Bienko, 1949: one species
Phytomastax quighaiensis Yin, 1984. Yushu (Qinghai), China.
Genus Pentaspinula Yin, 1979: one species
Pentaspinula calcara Yin, 1979. Purang (Tibet), China.
Genus Angulomastax Zheng, 1985: one species
Angulomastax meiospina Zheng, 1985. Yushu (Qinghai), China.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Shaoting, Xu, Sheng-Quan & Huang, Huateng, 2021, A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species, pp. 296-300 in Zootaxa 4903 (2) on pages 297-298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4567417
Performance evaluation of shuttle-based storage and retrieval systems using discrete-time queueing network models
Creators: name: Epp, Martin
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2018
Subjects: Shuttle-System
Bedientheorie
Leistungsbewertung
automatisierte Lagertechnik
shuttle-based storage and retrieval system
queueing theory
performance evaluation
automated storage and retrieval system

description: Shuttle-based storage and retrieval systems (SBS/RSs) are an important part of today‘s warehouses. In this work, a new approach is developed that can be applied to model different configurations of SBS/RSs. The approach is based on the modeling of SBS/RSs as discrete-time open queueing networks and yields the complete probability distributions of the performance measures.
The Role of Social Media in Myanmar’s CDM: Strengths, Limitations and Perspectives from India
Creators: name: Anuradha Rao, Archana Atmakuri
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This paper examines the ways in which social media, specifically Facebook and Twitter, has influenced the CDM, as well as its strengths and limitations. Additionally, it discusses India’s response to the coup and the CDM – both the official response as well as reactions from netizens.
description: The Role of Social Media in Myanmar’s CDM: Strengths, Limitations and Perspectives from India
Myrmeleomastax wideis Qiu & Xu & Huang 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Qiu, Shaoting
name: Xu, Sheng-Quan
name: Huang, Huateng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllidae
Myrmeleomastax
Myrmeleomastax wideis

description: Myrmeleomastax wideis Qiu, sp. nov.
Material examined. Holotype:1 Ƌ,paratypes:1 Ƌ, 5 ♀. China, Yushu (Qinghai), 4390m, (33°31’07’’N 96°29’94’’E), August, 2019. Coll. Ke-Yao Zhang, Zhi-Cuo Dan & Jun-Jie Ge; deposited in the Zoological and Botanical Museum, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China (ZBM).
Description. Male (Fig. 2). Body size larger, head shorter than the length of pronotum, slightly oblique in profile; antennae club-shaped, shorter than head and pronotum together, with 11 segments and distinctly wider in apical part; eyes larger, oval, almost of equal diameter with subocular furrow; Pronotum flat, crossed by three sulci, the ventral posterior margin of its lateral lobes rounded; the length of the mesosternum seven times width; wings absent; hind femur 5.4 times longer than its width, its lower basal lobes longer than upper ones, inner sides with three black spots; the lower lobes of hind knee rounded; hind tibia with ten apical spines on both inner and outer sides. epiproct slightly conical, posterior margin protrude with a promontory in the middle; cercus conical; extending to the tip of epiproct; Subgenital plate conical; Epiphallus bridged, ancora bud-shaped, anterior projection bend down; basal valves of penis conical, apex blunt.
Female (Fig. 2). Similar to male but larger and more robust; width of vertex between two eyes 1.8 times wider than frontal ridge between the antennae; epiproct slightly conical, apex acute, with a longitudinal groove in the basal half; valves of ovipositor longer, with slightly obtuse apex, its outer margin serrated; cercus short conical, not reaching the middle of epiproct; subgenital plate subcylindrical, its posterior margin acute.
Coloration. Body and antennae yellowish-brown; eyes darkish-brown; hind femur yellowish-brown on both inner and outer sides, with three black spots on the inner side; hind tibia yellowish-brown; abdomen and subgenital plate yellowish-brown.
Habitat. Alpine desert steppe.
Measurement. (In mm) Body length: Ƌ 10.1-10.5, ♀ 15.1-18.9; pronotum length: Ƌ 1.5-1.7, ♀ 1.6-1.9; hind femur: Ƌ 5.0-5.4, ♀ 6.8-7.5.
Diagnosis. The new species Myrmeleomastax wideis sp. nov. is similar to Myrmeleomastax pulvinella Yin 1984 from Amdo (Tibet) region, China from which it differs by the characters presented in the Table 1 below.
Etymology. The specific epithet is named for a distinct character of this species, because the width of mesosternum of this species is distinctly wider than other species in this genus.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Shaoting, Xu, Sheng-Quan & Huang, Huateng, 2021, A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species, pp. 296-300 in Zootaxa 4903 (2) on pages 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4567417
Ultrasmall SnO₂ nanocrystals: hot-bubbling synthesis, encapsulation in carbon layers and applications in high capacity Li-ion storage
Creators: name: Ding, Liping
name: He, Shulian
name: Miao, Shiding
name: Jorgensen, Matthew R.
name: Leubner, Susanne
name: Yan, Chenglin
name: Hickey, Stephen G.
name: Eychmüller, Alexander
name: Xu, Jinzhang
name: Schmidt, Oliver G.
Publisher: name: [London] : Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500
subject: 600

description: Ultrasmall SnO2 nanocrystals as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been synthesized by bubbling an oxidizing gas into hot surfactant solutions containing Sn-oleate complexes. Annealing of the particles in N2 carbonifies the densely packed surface capping ligands resulting in carbon encapsulated SnO2 nanoparticles (SnO2/C). Carbon encapsulation can effectively buffer the volume changes during the lithiation/delithiation process. The assembled SnO2/C thus deliver extraordinarily high reversible capacity of 908 mA·h·g−1 at 0.5 C as well as excellent cycling performance in the LIBs. This method demonstrates the great potential of SnO2/C nanoparticles for the design of high power LIBs.
NPBDREG: Uncertainty Assessment in Diffeomorphic Brain MRI Registration using a Non-parametric Bayesian Deep-Learning Based Approach
Creators: name: Khawaled, Samah
name: Freiman, Moti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantification of uncertainty in deep-neural-networks (DNN) based image registration algorithms plays a critical role in the deployment of image registration algorithms for clinical applications such as surgical planning, intraoperative guidance, and longitudinal monitoring of disease progression or treatment efficacy as well as in research-oriented processing pipelines. Currently available approaches for uncertainty estimation in DNN-based image registration algorithms may result in sub-optimal clinical decision making due to potentially inaccurate estimation of the uncertainty of the registration stems for the assumed parametric distribution of the registration latent space. We introduce NPBDREG, a fully non-parametric Bayesian framework for uncertainty estimation in DNN-based deformable image registration by combining an Adam optimizer with stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) to characterize the underlying posterior distribution through posterior sampling. Thus, it has the potential to provide uncertainty estimates that are highly correlated with the presence of out of distribution data. We demonstrated the added-value of NPBDREG, compared to the baseline probabilistic VoxelMorph model (PrVXM), on brain MRI image registration using $390$ image pairs from four publicly available databases: MGH10, CMUC12, ISBR18 and LPBA40. The NPBDREG shows a better correlation of the predicted uncertainty with out-of-distribution data ($r>0.95$ vs. $r<0.5$) as well as a 7.3%improvement in the registration accuracy (Dice score, $0.74$ vs. $0.69$, $p \ll 0.01$), and 18% improvement in registration smoothness (percentage of folds in the deformation field, 0.014 vs. 0.017, $p \ll 0.01$). Finally, NPBDREG demonstrated a better generalization capability for data corrupted by a mixed structure noise (Dice score of $0.73$ vs. $0.69$, $p \ll 0.01$) compared to the baseline PrVXM approach.
description: To appear in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2022.102087. This is an extension representing a more comprehensive work extending preliminary work presented at arXiv:2008.03949
Indirect light absorption model for highly strained silicon infrared sensors
Creators: name: Roisin, Nicolas
name: Brunin, Guillaume
name: Rignanese, Gian-Marco
name: Flandre, Denis
name: Raskin, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of silicon can be greatly tuned by applying strain and opening new perspectives, particularly in applications where infrared is key. In this work, we use a recent model for the indirect light absorption of silicon and include the effects of tensile and compressive uniaxial strains. The model is based on material properties such as the bandgap, the conduction and valence band density-of-states effective masses, and the phonon frequencies, which are obtained from first principles including strain up to +2% along the [110] and [111] directions. We show that the limit of absorption can increase from 1.14 (1.09) to 1.35 $μ$m (0.92 eV) under 2% strain and that the absorption increases by a factor of 55 for the zero-strain cutoff wavelength of 1.14 $μ$m when a 2% compressive strain is applied in the [110] direction. We demonstrate that this effect is mainly due to the impact of strain on the electronic bandgaps of silicon, directly followed by the valence band density-of-states effective mass.
description: Published in Journal of Applied Physics (4 August 2021)
Crises in the Sri Lankan Economy: Need for National Planning and Political Stability
Creators: name: Vagisha Gunasekara,
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Sri Lanka’s current economic quagmire is due to three overlapping economic crises: a meshing of another long drawn-out global capitalist bust phase (which commenced with the 2007 ficial collapse); a domestic economic crisis that has been unfolding since the country’s 1948 ‘Independence’; and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected both global and national supply chains. This paper attempts to tease out the domestic economic crisis, touching upon key areas where the current imperilment is most visible. It does acknowledge that, despite the economic downturn, Sri Lanka has been resilient in many ways, particularly in such areas as food production, logistics, construction and infrastructure development, particularly in the face of a global pandemic. The paper argues for the urgent need for national planning and policy stability in Sri Lanka, while offering a few broad points for consideration in this regard.
description: Crises in the Sri Lankan Economy: Need for National Planning and Political Stability
Time Optimization of Seed-Mediated Gold Nanotriangle Synthesis Based on Kinetic Studies
Creators: name: Podlesnaia, Ekaterina
name: Csáki, Andrea
name: Fritzsche, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Gold nanoprisms
subject: Gold nanotriangles
subject: Kinetics
subject: Localized surface plasmon resonance
subject: Plasmonic nanoparticles
subject: Seed-mediated synthesis
subject: Shape anisotropy
subject: Time-resolved UV–VIS spectroscopy
subject: Triangular gold
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: The synthesis of shape-anisotropic plasmonic nanoparticles such as gold nanotriangles is of increasing interest. These particles have a high potential for applications due to their notable optical properties. A key challenge of the synthesis is usually the low reproducibility. Even the optimized seed-based methods often lack in the synthesis yield or are labor- and time-consuming. In this work, a seed-mediated synthesis with high reproducibility is replicated in order to determine the necessary reaction time for each step. Online monitoring of the reaction mixtures by UV–VIS spectroscopy is used as a powerful tool to track the evolution of the synthesis. The kinetics of the individual stages is elucidated by real-time investigations. As a consequence, the complete synthesis could be optimized and can now be realized in a single day instead of three without any loss in the resulting sample quality.
San People Culture, Arts And Desıgns
Creators: name: Ardatürk, Ahmet Sadi
name: Kural, Tugba
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2025

description: San people are a race that has existed in harsh conditions for tens of thousands of years. Despite the atmospheric and geographical conditions, these people have survived with their knowledge, arts, designs and productions that have been passed down from generation to generation.


This study is basically shaped by examining, analysing and analysing the art and design commodities of the San people in terms of function. At the point of understanding this basic situation, the contexts of each design object with culture and life have been investigated. Field research (observation), visual interpretation and analysis as well as literature review were frequently used in making sense of culture-life and commodity relations and producing information. In the study, examples of innovative design approaches to conventional problems were discussed in detail, while some designs were not included in the study. Form-design-use analyses for the related instruments were examined by comparing them with modern commodities, and discussed in terms of material and production. The initial question of the study is to explore how culture and reality combine with function and reach design with the knowledge of experience through San'lar.


As a result, a design strategy is explained through conventional, traditional and innovative realities, detailed analyses of the designs of San people are made, the behavioural patterns of these analyses are revealed and a research technique is proposed to designers and design students working on innovation.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 6 No 1 (2025): Territories
Field Trace Polynomial Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication
Creators: name: Machado, Roberto Assis
name: D'Oliveira, Rafael G. L.
name: Rouayheb, Salim El
name: Heinlein, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the more servers used, the higher the communication cost. We show that this is not the case. Our central technique relies on adapting results from the literature on repairing Reed-Solomon codes where instead of downloading the whole of the computing task, a user downloads field traces of these computations. We present field trace polynomial codes, a family of codes, that explore this technique and characterize regimes for which our codes outperform the existing codes in the literature.
Pakistan-China Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Creators: name: Masood Khalid,
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: The paper analyses the historical evolution of Pakistan-China relationship and the context of its growing importance in the wake of fast changing regional and global developments. This partnership, often cited as a model in inter-state relationships, has flourished despite numerous headwinds over the last 70 years. An enigma to most, this unique partnership is underpinned by the rationale of mutual trust, common interests and a convergent outlook.
description: Pakistan-China Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Relative Cauchy evolution for linear homotopy AQFTs
Creators: name: Bruinsma, Simen
name: Fewster, Christopher J.
name: Schenkel, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Txx, 18N40

description: This paper develops a concept of relative Cauchy evolution for the class of homotopy algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) that are obtained by canonical commutation relation quantization of Poisson chain complexes. The key element of the construction is a rectification theorem proving that the homotopy time-slice axiom, which is a higher categorical relaxation of the time-slice axiom of AQFT, can be strictified for theories in this class. The general concept is illustrated through a detailed study of the relative Cauchy evolution for the homotopy AQFT associated with linear Yang-Mills theory, for which the usual stress-energy tensor is recovered.
description: 33 pages. v3: Final version accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics
O'ZBEKISTONDA KULOLCHILIK MAKTABLARINING O'RNI VA AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Gubenova, Gozzal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada, o'zbek amaliy san'ati va kulolchiligining tarixiy rivoji va hozirgi kundagi o'rni hamda ahamiyati borasida fikrlar bayon etiladi. Amaliy bezak san'ati va kulolchilik san'atiga tegishli masalalar maqolada aks etgan.
Coherence and de-coherence in the Time-Resolved ARPES of realistic materials: an ab-initio perspective
Creators: name: Marini, Andrea
name: Perfetto, Enrico
name: Stefanucci, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherence and de-coherence are the most fundamental steps that follow the initial photo-excitation occurring in typical Pump&Probe experiments. Indeed, the initial external laser pulse transfers coherence to the system in terms of creation of multiple electron-hole pairs excitation. The excitation concurs both to the creation of a finite carriers density and to the appearance of induced electromagnetic fields. The two effects, to a very first approximation, can be connected to the simple concepts of populations and oscillations. The dynamics of the system following the initial photo-excitation is, thus, entirely dictated by the interplay between coherence and de-coherence. This interplay and the de-coherence process itself, is due to the correlation effects stimulated by the photo-excitation. Single-particle, like the electron-phonon, and two-particles, like the electron-electron, scattering processes induce a complex dynamics of the electrons that, in turn, makes the description of the correlated and photo-excited system in terms of pure excitonic and/or carriers populations challenging.
description: 79 pages, 14 figures, review
Three views of two degrees
Creators: name: Jaeger, C.C.
name: Jaeger, J.
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer Verlag
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 2 degree limit
subject: Climate policy
subject: Costbenefit analysis
subject: Dangerous anthropogenic interference
subject: Tipping points
subject: 360

description: Limiting global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial global mean temperature has become a widely endorsed goal for climate policy. It has also been severely criticized. We show how the limit emerged out of a marginal remark in an early paper about climate policy and distinguish three possible views of it. The catastrophe view sees it as the threshold separating a domain of safety from a domain of catastrophe. The cost-benefit view sees it as a strategy to optimize the relation between the costs and benefits of climate policy. The focal point view sees it as a solution to a complex coordination problem. We argue that the focal point view is the most appropriate. It leads to an emphasis on implementing effective steps toward a near-zero emissions economy, without panicking in the face of a possible temporary overshooting. After several decades of practical experiences, the focal point may or may not be redefined on the basis of knowledge gathered thanks to these experiences.
India-China Space Race: The Role of Private Sector
Creators: name: Ashmita Rana, Yogesh Joshi
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: India has signalled its ambitions of taking its space programme to the next level with the recently launched Indian Space Association (ISpA). Recognising the need for innovative contributions from entrepreneurs in the private sector, ISpA is envisioned to play a crucial role in opening India’s space sector. In the words of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian space sector has received “new wings”. Meanwhile, China’s private space sector, which is also still in its nascent stages, is witnessing rapid progress. Amid the latest developments in the space race between the two countries, the private sector is likely to play a significant role in determining the future trajectory of this competition.
description: India-China Space Race: The Role of Private Sector
The Quad and ASEAN: Perceptions of India, Japan and Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Yogesh Joshi, Ippeita Nishida, Nishant Rajeev
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In analysing the perceptions of India and Japan on ASEAN and the Quad as well as ASEAN’s perception on the Quad, this Special Report examines the interactions between the two as regional institutions in the Indo-Pacific and the challenges that arise from their interactions.
description: The Quad and ASEAN: Perceptions of India, Japan and Southeast Asia
รูปแบบความสัมพันธ์เชิงสาเหตุขององค์ประกอบที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการดำเนินงานสู่ความเป็นเลิศของโรงเรียนเอกชน
Creators: name: กมลทิพย์ ใจดี
Publisher: name: สมาคมปรัชญาดุษฎีบัณฑิตทางสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยรามคำแหง
Year: 2557
Subjects: อิทธิพลต่อผลการดำเนินงาน, ความเป็นเลิศของโรงเรียนเอกชน, Influencing the Performance, Excellence in Private Schools

description: วารสารดุษฎีบัณฑิตทางสังคมศาสตร์, 4, 1
India’s Self-Reliance Initiative: Old Idea or New Direction
Creators: name: Ronojoy Sen, Vani Swarupa Murali
Publisher: name: Institute of South Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: The Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore organised a roundtable on ‘India’s Self-Reliance Initiative: Old Idea or New Direction?’ on 10 December 2020. The event brought together academics and policymakers to discuss key themes about the AatmaNirbhar Bharat campaign. Among others, they discussed various aspects of the campaign through several historical, ideological, social, political and economic lenses.
description: India’s Self-Reliance Initiative: Old Idea or New Direction