cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HI 21 cm Emission Line Study of Southern Galactic Supernova Remnants
Creators: name: Koo, Bon-Chul
name: Kang, Ji-hyun
name: McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched for HI 21 cm line emission from shocked atomic gas associated with southern supernova remnants (SNRs) using data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey. Among the 97 sources studied, we have detected 10 SNRs with high-velocity HI emission confined to the SNR. The large velocity and the spatial confinement suggest that the emission is likely from the gas accelerated by the SN blast wave. We also detected 22 SNRs which show HI emission significantly brighter than the surrounding regions over a wide ($>10$\kms) velocity interval. The association with these SNRs is less certain. We present the parameters and maps of the excess emission in these SNRs. We discuss in some detail the ten individual SNRs with associated high-velocity HI emission.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in JKAS (Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society)
Communication amongst inflammatory arthritis care teams
Creators: name: Gowan, Chelsey
name: Inouye, Kristy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This video was created as a knowledge translation tool to communicate the key findings of a one-year research project completed by Master of Occupational Therapy students Gowan and Inouye (supervised by Dr. Laura Nimmon and Dr. Melinda Suto). Specifically, this qualitative study examined inflammatory arthritis care team dynamics, focusing on power negotiation and communication amongst care teams for two men with inflammatory arthritis (pseudonyms Cam and Geoff). The data collected for this one-year research project was part of a larger-scale, three-year ethnographic study titled Power of the Patient. The larger-scale study uses a sociological power lens to explore how care is negotiated amongst inflammatory arthritis care teams, and is funded by the Arthritis Society. Gowan and Inouye would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank their research supervisors, the larger Power of the Patient research team, the study participants, and the Arthritis Society. A separate file identifying image and background information sources has also been included.
title: Gallery of signs in Neurovascular Imaging
Creators: name: Toh, Ying Jie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe classic radiology signs representing various neurovascular anomalies or lesions including the pathophysiological correlation and differential...
Mean first passage time analysis reveals rate-limiting steps, parallel pathways and dead ends in a simple model of protein folding
Creators: name: Micheelsen, M. A.
name: Rischel, C.
name: Ferkinghoff-Borg, J.
name: Guerois, R.
name: Serrano, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We have analyzed dynamics on the complex free energy landscape of protein folding in the FOLD-X model, by calculating for each state of the system the mean first passage time to the folded state. The resulting kinetic map of the folding process shows that it proceeds in jumps between well-defined, local free energy minima. Closer analysis of the different local minima allows us to reveal secondary, parallel pathways as well as dead ends.
description: 7 pages
Coping with multiple catastrophic threats: An intertemporal approach
Creators: name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Zemel, Amos
name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Zemel, Amos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: multiple catastrophes
subject: endogenous hazards
subject: dynamic policy
subject: longrun properties

description: Economic modeling of catastrophic threats has largely dealt with each threat in isolation. Recently, Martin and Pindyck (2015) forcefully argued that such an approach can be misleading in the all too common situation of multiple threats, and offered a regulation framework for such situations. The present work extends this framework in two ways: first, it allows for endogenous catastrophic threats; second, it considers intertemporal policies, allowing, inter alia, for gradual threat-mitigation actions to accumulate over time. The long run properties of optimal policies are characterized in terms of key parameters. Possible effects of background threats on the optimal response to a potential catastrophe are illustrated numerically.
title: The Predictive Value of MRI Signs in Diagnosis of the Adverse Clinical Events in Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Ding, Zhiguang
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Complications
subject: Biopsy
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Abdomen

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Background: Placenta accreta spectrum(PAS) disorders is a kind of life-threatening obstetric disease which may lead perinatal massive blood loss, hysterectomy and even death. Accurate prenatal diagnosis and prediction of PAS allows clinical...
Religion, Religiosity, and the Consumption Of Timesaving Foods
Creators: name: McWilliams, Bruce
name: Heiman, Amir
name: Zilberman, David
name: McWilliams, Bruce
name: Heiman, Amir
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: religion
subject: religiosity
subject: convenience
subject: moral
subject: time
subject: social norms

description: This paper studies the effect of the intensity of religiosity within a specific religion affiliation on the consumption of food inputs. Religions set a system of rules that established social norms; religiosity determines the degree of conformity with these social norms. Religion’s norms affect the choice of meals directly by forbidding certain foods and indirectly by imposing cultural and social norms that affect income, time constrain and attitude toward leisure. The paper combines the family production framework with the concept of social norms and derive several hypotheses that are tested with data collected in Israel on purchases of four types of chicken: fresh whole, fresh cut , frozen whole and frozen cut. Frozen versus fresh stands for modernity versus convenience, whole versus cut confronts price, cooking time, income and perception of morality of leisure. We find that in some cases, preferences for traditional lifestyles dominate immediate economic considerations.
Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Scattering on the $^{12}$C Nucleus Within the Coherent Density Fluctuation Model
Creators: name: Ivanov, M. V.
name: Antonov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate quasielastic (anti)neutrino scattering on the $^{12}$C nucleus utilizing a novel scaling variable, $ψ^*$. This variable is derived from the interacting relativistic Fermi gas model, which incorporates both scalar and vector interactions, leading to a relativistic effective mass for the interacting nucleons. For inclusive lepton scattering from nuclei, we develop a new scaling function, denoted as $f^\text{QE}(ψ^*)$, based on the coherent density fluctuation model (CDFM). This model serves as a natural extension of the relativistic Fermi gas (RFG) model applicable to finite nuclei. In this study, we compute theoretical predictions and compare them with experimental data from Miner$ν$a and T2K for inclusive (anti)neutrino cross-sections. The scaling function is derived within the CDFM framework, employing a relativistic effective mass of $m_N^*$ = 0.8 $m_N$. The findings demonstrate a high degree of consistency with experimental data across all (anti)neutrino energy ranges.
description: 11 pages, 2 Figures
Public Opinion towards Agriculture and Rural Areas in Israel
Creators: name: Lewin‐Epstein, Noah
name: Siminovich, Ortal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Lewin‐Epstein, Noah
name: Siminovich, Ortal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Public Economics

description: Rural areas in general and the agricultural sector in particular have experienced dramatic structural changes in recent decades. As in most advanced countries, the number of farms in Israel declined considerably while their size increased. Fewer rural residents are employed in agriculture, while non‐farm employment and gentrification are wide‐spread. From a policy perspective, agriculture has moved from a planned sector, mostly organized in cooperatives, and heavily dependent on subsidies, to a loosely organized, minimally supported and competitive sector (with the exception of a few branches). Recently, rural and agricultural policy became more sensitive to public opinion regarding sustainability, health concerns, food prices, resource allocation, and social justice. A major change in agricultural support policy, of moving from indirect to direct support, is currently being contemplated. This paper deals with public opinion towards agriculture and rural areas in Israel, and public policy towards them. Based on a telephone survey conducted in June 2014, it was found that most people think that the government needs to increase its support of agriculture in rural areas, but are not willing to bear the cost of such support. People prefer local foods but are not willing to pay a premium for this. On the other hand, people are willing to pay a premium for healthier food. Farmers' behavior towards foreign workers in agriculture is perceived to be unacceptable and harms the image of the agricultural sector as a whole. Support for agriculture and support for rural areas seem to be highly correlated. In general, stronger support is found among women, Israeli Arabs, the less educated, those who reside in localities with low socio‐economic status, and those who previously lived in rural areas. This raises the concern that public support of agriculture and rural areas will decline further as the Israeli population becomes more educated and more economically secure. This Poses a challenge for the rural sector to expose the urban population to the positive social, environmental and economic externalities of agriculture and of course to minimize the impacts of negative externalities.
A water economy model
Creators: name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Tsur, Yacov
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water resources
subject: intertemporal management
subject: scarcity
subject: optimal policy
subject: turnpike property

description: We study water management in the context of a prototypical water economy. The optimal water policy is specified in terms of water allocations from each source to each user sector at each point of time and the investment in capital infrastructure needed to carry out these allocations. We find that the optimal policy evolves along three stages: a transition stage, where the water capital stocks are brought as rapidly as possible to their respective turnpikes (singular paths); a singular stage, where the water capital stocks evolve along their turnpikes while the natural water stock advances toward a steady state; and a steadystate stage. Optimal regulation by means of water pricing and quotas are discussed. Extensions to non-stationary situations involving growing water scarcity (due to population and climate change trends) and improved desalination technology are considered.
Is Agriculture Important to Agritourism?: An Analysis of the Agritourism Attraction Market in Israel
Creators: name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Tchetchik, Anat
name: Bar-Nahum, Ziv
name: Talev, Evyatar
name: Fleischer, Aliza
name: Tchetchik, Anat
name: Bar-Nahum, Ziv
name: Talev, Evyatar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: agritourism attractions
subject: differentiated goods
subject: oligopoly markup
subject: constant expenditure model

description: Establishing agritourism attractions is a favored practice for farm diversification among farmers and policy makers who support rural development. Despite the fact that they are all grouped under the category of agritourism, it appears that some of these attractions are based on the active farm, while others are based on rural ambience. In this study, we want to provide answers to the following questions. From a welfare perspective, which type of attraction—one based on the active farm or one based on rural ambience— should a farmer be incentivized to diversify to? Which type of support scheme in this market should be pursued for enhancing welfare? We modeled the agritourism attractions as a differentiated goods market and applied it to data collected from a sample of attractions in the Israeli market. We used the estimated model to simulate a scenario in which all farmers based their attraction on an active farm. We show that in comparison to the present situation, in which only some farmers base their attraction on their active farm, the market would suffer a decrease in the welfare of both consumers and producers. Thus, farmers are better off basing the attractions on rural ambience. We also show, by simulating the market under two support schemes, that an indirect support measure such as infrastructure improvement has a stronger impact on the welfare of consumers and producers in the Israeli market than a direct scheme such as capital subsidization.
Knowledge transfer between neural networks via mutual information maximization
Creators: name: Χαρίτων, Αλέξανδρος Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αμοιβαία πληροφορία
Νευρωνικά δίκτυα
Μεταφορά γνώσης
Mutual Information
Neural Networks
Knowledge Transfer

description: Η εργασία σχετίζεται με τη Βαθιά Μάθηση και πιο συγκεκριμένα με το πρόβλημα της μεταφοράς γνώσης μεταξύ δύο νευρωνικών δικτύων. Με την παραδοχή ότι ένα υπολογιστικό σύστημα έχει περιορισμένους πόρους, όπως ένας επεξεργαστής κινητού τηλεφώνου ή ένα αυτόνομο drone, η χρήση απαιτητικών αλγορίθμων Μηχανικής Μάθησης συχνά δεν είναι εφικτή. Ωστόσο, ελαττώνοντας το πλήθος των υπολογισμών και των παραμέτρων, συχνά αναγκαζόμαστε να θυσιάσουμε μέρος της επίδοσης του μοντέλου. Μέθοδοι που έχουν αναπτυχθεί στοχεύουν στη βελτίωση της επίδοσης που έχει ένα ελαφρύ δίκτυο, έτσι ώστε να προσεγγίσει όσο περισσότερο γίνεται την επίδοση ενός δικτύου για το ίδιο πρόβλημα, το οποίο εκπαιδεύτηκε χωρίς κανένα περιορισμό. Η εργασία προτείνει μια μέθοδο επίλυσης του προβλήματος, κάνοντας χρήση του Σάκου Χαρακτηριστικών για την εκτίμηση και μεγιστοποίηση της αμοιβαίας πληροφορίας μεταξύ των κρυφών αναπαραστάσεων των δύο δικτύων. Περιλαμβάνει επίσης αποτελέσματα πειραμάτων και συγκρίσεις με υπάρχουσες μεθόδους
description: The topic of this thesis is related to the well known knowledge distillation problem in deep learning. Under the assumption of a resource scarce environment, such as the chip of a mobile phone or an autonomous drone, deploying full size machine learning algorithms is often impossible. Restrictions on the hardware do not allow for many computations, thus restricting the learning capacity is unavoidable. The performance needs to be maximized while the number of parameters and computations remains low. The term knowledge distillation describes methods and techniques aimed at narrowing the performance gap between these cases and a network trained without such strict restrictions. The following work attempts to transfer knowledge extracted by a large network, trained with ample resources, to a smaller network which will would be deployed as its lightweight counterpart. It contains a proposed method of estimating a quantity related to Mutual Information between the hidden representations of the two networks and maximizing it via back propagation. The proposed method utilizes fully trainable Bag-of-Features trained to extract histograms from the convolutional layers of the networks. Comparisons with existing knowledge transfer methods are also included
The Effect of Issue Linkage on Cooperation in Bilateral Conflicts: An Experimental Study with Relevance to Transboundary Water
Creators: name: Ert, Eyal
name: Cohen-Amin, Shier
name: Dinar, Ariel
name: Ert, Eyal
name: Cohen-Amin, Shier
name: Dinar, Ariel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Prisoner dilemma
subject: issue linkage
subject: asymmetric games
subject: International Environmental Agreements
subject: transboundary water

description: Environmental bilateral conflicts, such as in international environmental agreements, often involve more than one conflictive issue that requires solution. The theoretical literature suggests that linking issues of conflict open new opportunities for cooperation. We present a new experimental setting of bilateral conflicts, in which each issue is modeled as a different prisoner dilemma game. In two experiments, the effect of issue linkage on cooperation is evaluated by comparing a treatment in which the two games are played sequentially (isolated treatment) with one where they are played simultaneously (linked treatment). Specifically, in the linked treatment each agent observes the payoffs from playing the different paths across games (e.g., cooperate in game1 but defect in game2) and then act accordingly by committing to one of these paths. We differentiate the case where issue linkage implies symmetrical payoffs across games (Experiment 1), from the asymmetric case where one agent receives higher benefits from issue linkage (Experiment 2). The results reveal that issue linkage increase mutual cooperation and decrease mutual defection. We also find that asymmetry reduces the level of cooperation in both isolated and linked games, yet issue linkage facilitates higher cooperation rate even when the payoffs are asymmetric.
Influence of external information in the minority game
Creators: name: de Cara, M. A. R.
name: Guinea, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of a fixed number of agents with the same fixed behavior on the dynamics of the minority game is studied. Alternatively, the system studied can be considered the minority game with a change in the comfort threshold away from half filling. Agents in the frustrated, non ergodic phase tend to overreact to the information provided by the fixed agents, leading not only to large fluctuations, but to deviations of the average occupancies from their optimal values. Agents which discount their impact on the market, or which use individual strategies reach equilibrium states, which, unlike in the absence of the external information provided by the fixed agents, do not give the highest payoff to the collective.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Sick leave, disability, and mortality in acute hepatic porphyria: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Baravelli, Carl
name: Aasne Aarsand
name: Sandberg, Sverre
name: Tollånes, Mette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Matched analyses with 10 controls to each case, frequency-matched on age, sex and educational obtainment for each analysis.
A transference inequality for rational approximation to points in geometric progression
Creators: name: Champagne, Jérémy
name: Roy, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J13, 11J82, 11J83

description: We establish a transference inequality conjectured by Badziahin and Bugeaud relating exponents of rational approximation of points in geometric progression.
description: 3 pages
title: Multimodality imaging of abnormal uterine bleeding : Common and rare causes in females of reproductive age
Creators: name: Mehta, Nirali
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss common and rare causes of abnormal uterine bleeding in females of reproductive age. To know utility of various imaging modalities that can be applied to the diagnosis of these...
Traits for chemical evolution in solar twins: Trends of neutron-capture elements with stellar age
Creators: name: Jofre, Paula
name: Jackson, Holly
name: Maia, Marcelo Tucci
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical processes driving chemical evolution in the Milky Way can be probed using the distribution of abundances in low-mass FGK type stars in space phase at different times. During their final stages of evolution stars experience nucleosynthesis several times, each at different timescales and producing different chemical elements, so finding abundance ratios that have simple variations across cosmic times remains a challenge. Using the sample of 80 solar twins for which ages and abundances of 30 elements were measured with high precision by Bedell et al 2018, we searched for all possible abundance ratios combinations that show linear trends with age. We found 55 such ratios, all combining a neutron-capture element and another one produced by different nucleosynthesis channels. We recovered the ratios of [Y/Mg], [Ba/Mg] and [Al/Y] reported previously in the literature, and found that [C/Ba] had the largest dependency with age with a slope of $0.049 \pm 0.003~\mathrm{dex/Gyr}$, imposing constraints on the magnitude of time dependency of abundance ratios in solar twins. Our results suggest using s-process elements, in lieu of Fe, as a reference for constraining chemical evolution models of the solar neighbourhood. Our study illustrates hows a large variety of chemical elements measured from high resolution spectra is key in facing current challenges in understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy.
description: Accepted by A&A Letters
Higgs pair production at a linear e+e- collider in models with large extra dimensions
Creators: name: Delerue, Nicolas
name: Fujii, Keisuke
name: Okada, Nobuchika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we will derive the cross section formula for the Higgs pair production at a linear $e^+e^-$ collider in models with large extra dimensions and study the feasibility of its measurement through realistic Monte Carlo simulations. Since the process has essentially no Standard Model background, once produced, it will provide us with a very clean signature of physics beyond the Standard Model. Moreover, since the final state particles are spinless, the spin 2 of the intermediate virtual KK gravitons has to be conserved by the orbital angular momentum of the Higgs pair. This results in a very characteristic angular distribution of the final states. Taking into account finite detector acceptance and resolutions as well as initial state radiation and beamstrahlung, we demonstrate in this paper that, given a sufficiently high center of mass energy, the angular distribution of the Higgs pair is indeed measurable at the linear collider and will allow us to prove the spin 2 nature of the KK gravitons exchanged in the s-channel.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by the Physical Review Journal D
Gamow Shell Model description of Li isotopes and their mirror partners
Creators: name: Mao, X.
name: Rotureau, J.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Michel, N.
name: Betan, R. M. Id
name: Jaganathen, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Weakly bound and unbound nuclei close to particle drip lines are laboratories of new nuclear structure physics at the extremes of neutron/proton excess. The comprehensive description of these systems requires an open quantum system framework that is capable of treating resonant and nonresonant many-body states on equal footing. Purpose: In this work, we construct the minimal complex-energy configuration interaction approach to describe binding energies and spectra of selected 5 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 11 nuclei. Method: We employ the complex-energy Gamow shell model (GSM) assuming a rigid $^4$He core. The effective Hamiltonian, consisting of a core-nucleon Woods-Saxon potential and a simplified version of the Furutani-Horiuchi-Tamagaki interaction with the mass-dependent scaling, is optimized in the sp space. To diagonalize the Hamiltonian matrix, we employ the Davidson method and the Density Matrix Renormalization Group technique. Results: Our optimized GSM Hamiltonian offers a good reproduction of binding energies and spectra with the root-mean-square (rms) deviation from experiment of 160 keV. Since the model performs well when used to predict known excitations that have not been included in the fit, it can serve as a reliable tool to describe poorly known states. A case in point is our prediction for the pair of unbound mirror nuclei $^{10}$Li-$^{10}$N in which a huge Thomas-Ehrman shift dramatically alters the pattern of low-energy excitations. Conclusion: The new model will enable comprehensive studies of structure and reactions aspects of light drip-line nuclei.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
The Impact of Third-party and Federal Produce Safety Standards on U.S. Cost of Production
Creators: name: Minor, Travis
name: Astill, Gregory M.
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne D.
name: Dong, Xiao
name: Minor, Travis
name: Astill, Gregory M.
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne D.
name: Dong, Xiao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Presentation ID 16948
Stem galling of Ageratina adenophora (Asterales: Asteraceae) by a biocontrol agent Procecidochares utilis (Diptera: Tephritidae) is elevation dependent in central Nepal
Creators: name: Poudel, Anju Sharma
name: Shrestha, Bharat Babu
name: Jha, Pramod Kumar
name: Baniya, Chitra Bahadur
name: Rangaswamy Muniappan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Gall inducers are widely used as biocontrol agents to suppress the vegetative and reproductive growth of invasive weeds. Procecidochares utilis Stone (Diptera: Tephritidae) is a gall forming fly that was released as a biocontrol agent against the noxious invasive weed Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) R. King and H. Robinson (Asterales: Asteraceae). However, the effectiveness of P. utilis in controlling A. adenophora has been reported to vary according to geographic regions, with very low effectiveness in the Himalaya. In this study, we measured the abundance of P. utilis stem galling on A. adenophora along the elevation gradient (240–2965 m asl) in central Nepal. We found that elevation had a significant effect on gall abundance as well as gall size. Gall abundance and size peaked at mid-elevation (1940–2000 m asl). Stem galling by the fly reduced the stem diameter of the weed and all the three nutrients (N, P and K) in galls were significantly higher than in ungalled stems. Our study indicates that elevation is an important abiotic factor that strongly influences the P. utilis stem gall abundance, as well as gall size, and galls formed by P. utilis act as nutrient sinks. These findings provide insights in insect gall ecology, which may help the successful biocontrol of A. adenophora.
Additional file 2 of Identifying optimal indicators and purposes of population segmentation through engagement of key stakeholders: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Sungwon Yoon
name: Goh, Hendra
name: Kwan, Yu
name: Thumboo, Julian
name: Low, Lian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): 32-item checklist.
title: MR imaging of anti-MOG antibody disease and differentiating it from Multiple Sclerosis and anti-Aquaporin 4 Neuromyelitis Optica
Creators: name: Andrade, Jasbon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Eyes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate the imaging characteristics of anti-MOG antibody disease. Differentiate imaging features of anti-MOG antibody disease from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and anti-Aquaporin 4 Neuromyelitis Optica (anti AQP4...
Theoretical Overview of the Pentaquark Baryons
Creators: name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A review is given of the theoretical ideas concerning the mysterious pentaquark baryons proposed during the first year after its discovery. We focus on the difficulties involved with the constituent quark models and the discrepancy between the QCD predictions and most of the phenomenological models.
description: Review based on the talk given at the YITP Workshop on ``Multi-quark Hadrons; Four, Five and More?'', held on Feb. 17-19, 2004. To be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics as an invited paper
Bicoherent-State Path Integral Quantization of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Bagarello, F.
name: Feinberg, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce, for the first time, bicoherent-state path integration as a method for quantizing non-hermitian systems. Bicoherent-state path integrals arise as a natural generalization of ordinary coherent-state path integrals, familiar from hermitian quantum physics. We do all this by working out a concrete example, namely, computation of the propagator of a certain quasi-hermitian variant of Swanson's model, which is not invariant under conventional $PT$-transformation. The resulting propagator coincides with that of the propagator of the standard harmonic oscillator, which is isospectral with the model under consideration by virtue of a similarity transformation relating the corresponding hamiltonians. We also compute the propagator of this model in position space by means of Feynman path integration and verify the consistency of the two results.
description: latex, 31 pages
Superconducting gap for a 2-leg t-J ladder
Creators: name: Poilblanc, Didier
name: Scalapino, D. J.
name: Capponi, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-particle diagonal and off-diagonal Green's functions of a 2-leg t-J ladder at 1/8-doping are investigated by Exact Diagonalisations techniques. A numerically tractable expression for the superconducting gap is proposed and the frequency dependence of the real and imaginary parts of the gap are determined. The role of the low-energy gapped spin modes whose energies are computed by a (one-step) Contractor Renormalization procedure are discussed.
description: 3 pages, 7 figures
Embates flavoplagiatus Prena 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Prena, Jens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Embates
Embates flavoplagiatus

description: 45. Embates flavoplagiatus Prena sp. n.
(Fig. 159, 240)
Holotype male (dissected), Nicaragua, labeled: “ NICARAGUA, Mat. 7 mi. / N. Matagalpa, 4900'/ VII­15­1974 C.W. & L./ O’Brien & Marshall” (CWOB).
Paratypes 5 (3 males, 2 females), Nicaragua and Honduras, labeled: “ Nica (Matagalpa):/ Fuente Pura / 10–iv­94/ Col. J.M. Maes &/ A. De La Fuente ” (JPPC); “ Nica (Matagalpa):/ Fuente Pura / 26–vi­94/ Maes / Tellez &/ Johnson ” (SEAN); “ HONDURAS: Dept. Atlantida / Rio Congregal, 10 km S./ Januca, 400 ft. 27–V­1993 / coll. M.C. Thomas ” (CWOB); “ HONDURAS:/ La Ceiba/ May 23–30, 1978 / Garry V. Manley ” (NMNH); “ HONDURAS: El Paraiso / Los Lavanderos/ Guinope/ 5 June 1988 / RD Cave colr” (JPPC).
 Description. Habitus: as Fig. 152, total length 8.6–10.4 mm (m=9.4, n=6). Color: integument dark brown; basic vestiture of minute, cupreous scales; scales light yellow in ovate elytral fascia (Fig. 159); venter with slender whitish scales. Head: frontal fovea deep, rostrum moderate, subcylindrical, sides attenuated between apex and antennal insertion, costate dorsomedially, subcostate dorsolaterally in males, basolateral margin moderately edged, length of rostrum ♂♂ 1.12–1.48 x (m=1.29, n=4), ♀♀ 1.46–148 x (n=2) pronotal length, length of ante­antennal portion ♂♂ 0.33–0.43 x (m=0.39, n=4), ♀♀ 0.37– 0.39 x (n=2) total rostral length, dorsal margin of antennal scrobe reaching rostral base well before eye; funicular segment 2 distinctly longer than 1, club oblong ovate. Pronotum: length 0.79–0.90 x (m=0.84, n=6) maximum width, widest in basal fourth, then roundly narrowed, anterior portion tubulate; disk finely punctate, intervals rugose. Elytra: length 1.79–1.94 x (m=1.85, n=6) width at humeri, width 1.17–1.32 x (m=1.25, n=6) maximum pronotal width, sides subparallel in basal half, apices rounded conjointly, preapical callus weakly developed, striae fine to obsolete, punctures distinct, interstriae flat, 9 convex. Legs: slender, tibia nearly straight, ventral margin with distal cluster of cupreous hairs, tarsal claws arcuate and separate at base. Male: aedeagus as E. obliquus.
Plant association. Not known.
Distribution. Honduras and Nicaragua, evergreen montane forests (Fig. 240).
Specific epithet. The name is a compound Latin participle derived from flavus (yellow, blond) and plagiatus (spotted).
 Discussion. Embates flavoplagiatus is related most closely to A. fasciolatus. The two specimens from Honduras exhibit a slightly shorter rostrum than the specimens of the corresponding sex from Nicaragua.
description: Published as part of Prena, Jens, 2005, The Middle American species of Embates Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae), pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 1100 (1) on pages 1-151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1100.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5051728
title: Anatomical variants of short saphenous vein revisited
Creators: name: Monir, Dalia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Varices
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Vascular

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Incompetent short saphenous vein is well reconized cause of lower limb varicosities, actually it represents an important cause of recurrent varicosity if neglected or underestimated. At the same time, vein mapping became a routine test in the era of...
Topology change in (2+1)-dimensional gravity with non-Abelian Higgs field
Creators: name: Nesterov, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study topology change in (2+1)D gravity coupling with non-Abelian SO(2,1) Higgs field from the point of view of Morse theory. It is shown that the Higgs potential can be identified as a Morse function. The critical points of the latter (i.e. loci of change of the spacetime topology) coincide with zeros of the Higgs field. In these critical points two-dimensional metric becomes degenerate, but the curvature remains bounded.
description: This essay was selected for an Honorable Mention by the Gravity Research Foundation, 1996
title: Exploring subareolar region: tips for young radiologists
Creators: name: Perillo, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Management
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the radiological features of the most frequent inflammatory breast conditions involving the sub-areolar parenchyma that can mimic breast...
title: Algorithm for differential diagnosis of arthropathy based on quantitative bone scintigraphy
Creators: name: Prokhorova, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Arthritides
subject: eLearning
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: A number of studies have shown high sensitivity of bone scintigraphy in detecting inflammation in the joints, which is superior to that of radiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. But, osteoscintigraphic semiotics of...
title: The role of color-Doppler in the follow-up of patients with carotid artery stenting: normal findings and complications
Creators: name: Schillirò , Maria Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Catheters
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the role of Color-Doppler Ultrasound (CD-US) in the follow-up of patients with previous carotid artery stenting, highlighting the normal findings and the main related...
Assessing the suppressive effects of biopesticides and phosphite on common scab development in potatoes
Creators: name: Coffin, Robert H.
name: Borza, Tudor
name: Alam, Mohammed Zahidul
name: Yingyi Liu
name: Falguni Desai
name: Yupei Xi
name: Zhizhong Zhang
name: Beaton, Brian
name: Goyer, Claudia
name: Coffin, Joyce
name: Gefu Wang-Pruski
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Potato common scab (CS) is caused by several saprophytic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, including Streptomyces scabies. Various methods have been investigated to control CS, but their efficiency is usually low. Biopesticide formulations, including bacteria from the Bacillus spp., are increasingly used to control soil pathogens. Two Bacillus-based products, Double Nickel 55TM and Microflora PROTM, and the phosphite-based fungicide PhostrolTM, alone or in combination, were examined to determine their effects on CS development on tubers of the potato cultivars Red Pontiac, Prospect, Green Mountain, and Goldrush. CS disease incidence and severity were assessed using 4 parameters: percentage of tuber area covered by CS, necrotic areas, the number of deep pits and of shallow pits. The effects of treatments on tuber periderm morphology were assessed by determining the number of suberised cell layers and the thickness of suberised cell layers. Cultivar Goldrush performed much better than the other three cultivars, in all parameters scored. Among the six treatments, only Double Nickel 55TM + PhostrolTM reduced CS more consistently. Suberised cell size, shape, arrangement, number of layers, and phellem thickness, were found to vary largely across cultivars. A thicker phellem, but not the number of cells in the phellem, was found to be associated with improved resistance to CS. Treatments had limited effect on the number of layers of suberised cells and phellem thickness and these effects seemed to be cultivar specific. Overall, Double Nickel 55TM and Microflora PROTM were found to augment the number of suberised cell layers.
title: Contribution of structural MRI in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: SAFIEDDINE, HIBA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Speech disorders
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: CNS

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The purpose of our study was to identify the contribution of structural MRI in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders by describing the most common brain abnormalities found on our patients...
FeCAM: A Universal Compact Digital and Analog Content Addressable Memory Using Ferroelectric
Creators: name: Yin, Xunzhao
name: Li, Chao
name: Huang, Qingrong
name: Zhang, Li
name: Niemier, Michael
name: Hu, Xiaobo Sharon
name: Zhuo, Cheng
name: Ni, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs) are being actively investigated with the potential for in-memory computing (IMC) over other non-volatile memories (NVMs). Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) are a form of IMC that performs parallel searches for matched entries over a memory array for a given input query. CAMs are widely used for data-centric applications that involve pattern matching and search functionality. To accommodate the ever expanding data, it is attractive to resort to analog CAM for memory density improvement. However, the digital CAM design nowadays based on standard CMOS or emerging nonvolatile memories (e.g., resistive storage devices) is already challenging due to area, power, and cost penalties. Thus, it can be extremely expensive to achieve analog CAM with those technologies due to added cell components. As such, we propose, for the first time, a universal compact FeFET based CAM design, FeCAM, with search and storage functionality enabled in digital and analog domain simultaneously. By exploiting the multi-level-cell (MLC) states of FeFET, FeCAM can store and search inputs in either digital or analog domain. We perform a device-circuit co-design of the proposed FeCAM and validate its functionality and performance using an experimentally calibrated FeFET model. Circuit level simulation results demonstrate that FeCAM can either store continuous matching ranges or encode 3-bit data in a single CAM cell. When compared with the existing digital CMOS based CAM approaches, FeCAM is found to improve both memory density by 22.4X and energy saving by 8.6/3.2X for analog/digital modes, respectively. In the CAM-related application, our evaluations show that FeCAM can achieve 60.5X/23.1X saving in area/search energy compared with conventional CMOS based CAMs.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted
Magnetic energy-level diagrams of high-spin (Mn$_{12}$-acetate) and low-spin (V$_{15}$) molecules
Creators: name: De Raedt, H.
name: Miyashita, S.
name: Michielsen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic energy-level diagrams for models of the Mn12 and V15 molecule are calculated using the Lanczos method with full orthogonalization and a Chebyshev-polynomial-based projector method. The effect of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the appearance of energy-level repulsions and its relevance to the observation of steps in the time-dependent magnetization data is studied. We assess the usefulness of simplified models for the description of the zero-temperature magnetization dynamics.
5G network slicing using SDN and NFV- A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges
Creators: name: Barakabitze, Alcardo Alex
name: Ahmad, Arslan
name: Mijumbi, Rashid
name: Hines, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 68 (Computer Science)

description: In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review and updated solutions related to 5G network slicing using SDN and NFV. Firstly, we present 5G service quality and business requirements followed by a description of 5G network softwarization and slicing paradigms including essential concepts, history and different use cases. Secondly, we provide a tutorial of 5G network slicing technology enablers including SDN, NFV, MEC, cloud/Fog computing, network hypervisors, virtual machines & containers. Thidly, we comprehensively survey different industrial initiatives and projects that are pushing forward the adoption of SDN and NFV in accelerating 5G network slicing. A comparison of various 5G architectural approaches in terms of practical implementations, technology adoptions and deployment strategies is presented. Moreover, we provide a discussion on various open source orchestrators and proof of concepts representing industrial contribution. The work also investigates the standardization efforts in 5G networks regarding network slicing and softwarization. Additionally, the article presents the management and orchestration of network slices in a single domain followed by a comprehensive survey of management and orchestration approaches in 5G network slicing across multiple domains while supporting multiple tenants. Furthermore, we highlight the future challenges and research directions regarding network softwarization and slicing using SDN and NFV in 5G networks.
description: 40 Pages, 22 figures, published in computer networks (Open Access)