cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal Offline ORAM with Perfect Security via Simple Oblivious Priority Queues
Creators: name: Thießen, Thore
name: Vahrenhold, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a well-researched primitive to hide the memory access pattern of a RAM computation; it has a variety of applications in trusted computing, outsourced storage, and multiparty computation. In this paper, we study the so-called offline ORAM in which the sequence of memory access locations to be hidden is known in advance. Apart from their theoretical significance, offline ORAMs can be used to construct efficient oblivious algorithms.
 We obtain the first optimal offline ORAM with perfect security from oblivious priority queues via time-forward processing. For this, we present a simple construction of an oblivious priority queue with perfect security. Our construction achieves an asymptotically optimal (amortized) runtime of $Θ(\log N)$ per operation for a capacity of $N$ elements and is of independent interest.
 Building on our construction, we additionally present efficient external-memory instantiations of our oblivious, perfectly-secure construction: For the cache-aware setting, we match the optimal I/O complexity of $Θ(\frac{1}{B} \log \frac{N}{M})$ per operation (amortized), and for the cache-oblivious setting we achieve a near-optimal I/O complexity of $O(\frac{1}{B} \log \frac{N}{M} \log\log_M N)$ per operation (amortized).
description: 23 pages, full version of the paper in ISAAC 2024; minor changes
Achelous ordwayi Stimpson 1860
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Achelous ordwayi

description: Achelous ordwayi Stimpson, 1860
Portunus ordwayi – Takeda 1983: 147, Suriname, French Guiana [32 m]. — Williams 1984: 390, Guyana, Suriname. — Melo 1996: 326, Brazil Amapá; 1998: 477, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2003: 67, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 02°09′ N, 48°42′ W, 21/03/ 98, 34 m]. — Coelho et al. 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m]. — Tavares & Mendonça 2022: 51, Guyana, Brazil Amapá [distribution].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 1– 110 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
title: A Framework That Explores the Cognitive Load of CS1 Assignments Using Pausing Behavior
Creators: name: Urry, Joshua O.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Pausing behavior in introductory Computer Science (CS1) courses has been related to a student’s performance in the course and could be linked to a student’s cognitive load, or assignment difficulty. Having an objective measure of the cognitive load would be beneficial to course instructors as it would help them design assignments that are not too difficult. Two studies are presented in this work. The first study uses Cognitive Load Theory and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development as a theoretical framework to analyze pause times between keystrokes to better understand what types of assignments need more educational support than others. The first study reports the characteristics of eleven assignments, introduces a method to analyze pausing behavior, and investigates how pausing behavior changes with assignment characteristics (e.g., introducing new programming constructs, engaging creativity through Turtle graphics, etc). Evidence is found that pausing behavior does change based on the assignment type and that assignments with particular characteristics that cause students to break code into many small portions, and tie it all back together, may be more likely to have excessive demands on student working memory. Evidence is also found that assignment completion time may not be an accurate measure of assignment difficulty. The second study builds on the first study by validating whether the keystroke latency analysis corroborates results with a self-report questionnaire of cognitive load. The latency analysis does have a relation to self-reported cognitive load, but not in the manner anticipated. A higher proportion of shorter pauses is related to a higher cognitive load score, meaning students who spend more time typing have a higher cognitive load. Furthermore, assignments that take students longer to complete do have higher levels of cognitive load. Further research is needed to investigate the relation between keystroke latencies and cognitive load. However, both studies show assignment differentiation in pausing behavior between assignments, which suggests keystroke latency comparisons between assignments warrant more investigation.
title: Das deutschsprachige Gerichtsdrama
Creators: name: Wilhelms, Kerstin
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 340 Law
subject: 832 German drama

description: Dieser Artikel zeichnet die Geschichte des deutschsprachigen Gerichtsdramas ausgehend von seinen Anfängen im Mittelalter in Form von Fastnachtspielen bis in die Gegenwart nach. In der Frühen Neuzeit erhält das Gerichtsdrama dann eine stärkere politische Ausrichtung, bevor es im 20. Jahrhundert in Deutschland einen regelrechten Boom erlebt. In der Weimarer Republik hat das Gerichtstheater als Zeitstück Konjunktur: Aktuelle und öffentlichkeitswirksame Gerichtsprozesse werden im Theater neu aufgerollt, meist mit dem Ziel einer Justizkritik. Texten aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, die das Urteil schon mitliefern und ihr Publikum auf ein gemeinsames (Ver-) Urteilen einschwören, stehen jüngere Gerichtsdramen gegenüber, die ihr Publikum das Urteilen als Entscheidungsdilemma erfahren lassen.
description: This article traces the history of the courtroom drama in Germany, beginning with the Middle Ages' carnival plays and leading up into the present. During the Early Modern period, the courtroom drama received a more strongly political orientation, before it experienced a real boom in the 20th century. In the Weimar Republic, the courtroom drama is in great demand as the contemporary play: Current and public court trials are newly staged in theatre, usually with the aim of criticizing the justice system. Texts from the 20th century, that already include the judgment and swear their audience to a joint sentencing, are contrasted with newer courtroom dramas, that let their audience experience the act of judging as a dilemma in decision-making.
Consequences of Minimal Entanglement in Bosonic Field Theories
Creators: name: Chang, Spencer
name: Jacobo, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study a recently discovered connection between scattering that minimally entangles and emergent symmetries. In a perturbative expansion, we have generalized the constraints of minimal entanglement scattering, beyond qubits, to general qudits of dimension $d.$ Interestingly, projecting on any qubit subspaces, the constraints factorize, so that it is consistent to analyze minimal entanglement by looking at all such subspaces. We start by looking at toy models with two scalar fields, finding that minimal entanglement only allows quartic couplings which have instabilities at large field values and no symmetries. For the two Higgs doublet model, by considering $H^+ H^-\to H^+ H^-$ scattering, we show that minimal entanglement in this channel does not allow an interacting parameter point with enhanced symmetries. These results show that the connection between minimal entanglement and symmetries depends strongly on the scattering channels analyzed and we speculate on the potential resolutions.
description: v3, 19 pages. Published in PRD, corrected formulas for integrated "partial-wave" amplitudes, conclusions unchanged
Achelous rufiremus
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Achelous rufiremus

description: Achelous rufiremus (Holthuis, 1959)
Portunus rufiremus Holthuis, 1959a: 195, Suriname [7–42 m].
Portunus rufiremus – Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos 1972: 186, Brazil Amapá. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1996: 327, Brazil Amapá; 1998: 478, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al. 1998: 94, Brazil Amapá [75 m]. — Cintra et al. 2003: 68, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 02°42′ N, 49°05′ W, 02/04/ 98, 42 m; 02°08′ N, 48°18′ W, 01/05/ 98, 51 m].
Portunus (Portunus) rufiremus – Coelho et al. 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].
Achelous rufiremus – Mantelatto et al. 2018a: tab. 1, French Guiana [supp. material, French Guiana, USNM 151568 (R/V Oregon II, 4/02/ 1974, 37 m)]. — Silva et al. 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 7– 70 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
Beyond Accuracy Optimization: Computer Vision Losses for Large Language Model Fine-Tuning
Creators: name: Cambrin, Daniele Rege
name: Gallipoli, Giuseppe
name: Benedetto, Irene
name: Cagliero, Luca
name: Garza, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks. However, current training approaches combine standard cross-entropy loss with extensive data, human feedback, or ad hoc methods to enhance performance. These solutions are often not scalable or feasible due to their associated costs, complexity, or resource requirements. This study investigates the use of established semantic segmentation loss functions in natural language generation to create a versatile, practical, and scalable solution for fine-tuning different architectures. We evaluate their effectiveness in solving Math Word Problems and question answering across different models of varying sizes. For the analyzed tasks, we found that the traditional Cross-Entropy loss represents a sub-optimal choice, while models trained to minimize alternative (task-dependent) losses, such as Focal or Lovász, achieve a mean improvement of +42% on exact match without requiring additional data or human feedback. These findings suggest a promising pathway for more efficient and accessible training processes.
description: Accepted in EMNLP 2024 Findings
Plasmonic Metal Oxide Nanocrystals as Building Blocks for Infrared Metasurfaces
Creators: name: Chang, Woo Je
name: Green, Allison M.
name: Sakotic, Zarko
name: Wasserman, Daniel
name: Truskett, Thomas M.
name: Milliron, Delia J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on experimental and simulation methods we helped develop, we are advancing mechanistic understanding of how self-assembled NC metamaterials can produce distinctive near- and far-field optical properties not readily achievable in lithographically patterned structures. First, the impacts of the inevitable defects and disorder associated with self-assembly can be rationalized and, in some cases, recognized as advantageous. Second, self-assembly enables intimate nanoscale intermixing of different NC and molecular components. By incorporating probe molecules within the gaps between NCs where the electric field enhancement is strongest, we show enhanced detection of molecular vibrations that can be optimized by tuning the size and resonance frequency of the NCs. We show how metasurfaces incorporating mixtures of NCs with different doping concentrations can achieve epsilon-near-zero dielectric response over a broad frequency range. Finally, considering the NC metasurface itself as a building block, we show how photonic structures incorporating these assemblies can harness and amplify their distinctive properties. Through modeling the NC monolayer as a slab with an effective permittivity response, we designed a frequency-tunable IR perfect absorber by layering the NCs on a simple open cavity structure. Since the perfect absorption architecture further enhances the IR electric field localization strength, we expect that this integration strategy can enhance molecular vibration coupling or non-linear optical response. The versatility of the NC assembly and integration approach suggests opportunities for various metal oxide NC superstructures, including mixing and stacking of NCs beyond a single monolayer, representing a vast parameter space for design of linear and nonlinear IR optical components.
description: 33 pages, 5 figures
title: Inferring a Hierarchical Input Type for an SQL Query
Creators: name: Aryal, Santosh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: SQL queries are a common method to retrieve information from databases, much like asking a detailed question and getting a precise answer. Plug-and-play queries simplify the process of querying. In a Plug-and-play SQL query a programmer sketches the shape of the input to the query as a hierarchy. But the programmer could make a mistake in specifying the hierarchy and it takes programmer time and effort to specify the hierarchy. A better solution is to automatically infer the hierarchy from a query. This thesis presents a system to infer a hierarchical input type for an SQL query. We consider two cases, with and without knowledge of the organization of the database. Knowledge of the database’s organization can help to create a more precise hierarchy but it not necessary. This thesis describes an inference algorithm for both cases as well as an implementation of the algorithm. Finally, we evaluate the system on a set of database queries.
Stenus fossipennis BERNHAUER 1922
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus fossipennis

description: Stenus fossipennis BERNHAUER, 1922 (Abb. 237, 245)
Stenus fossipennis BERNHAUER, 1922: 10; PUTHZ 1974: 60.
Untersuchtes Material: Holotypus (): BOLIVIEN: Yuracaris (FMCh); 1, 2: ibidem (IRSNB, cP); 5, 6: PERU: Cuzco, Convencion, Coasapata, 0.6 mi NW Pacaypata, 7858 feet, 13 o 23.98’S, 73 o 9.87’W, leaf litter, cloud forest, 8.V.1988, P. Parillo (FMCh, cP); 1, 1: ibidem, bromeliad cloud forest, 11.V.1998, idem (FMCh); 1: Pichita Caluga, Estancia Naranjal San Ramon Junin, 2000m, 21.VII.1965, P. & W. Wygodzinsky (AMNH).
Bemerkungen PM des von Yuracaris: HW: 47; DE: 25; PW: 38; PL: 39; EW: 48; EL: 44; SL: 37. – Körperlänge: 5,0-6,0mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 2,9-3,0mm).- Paraglossen oval. – Das gesamte Abdomen ist flach genetzt.
Männchen: Schenkel gekeult, Metatrochanter mit deutlichem Zahn. Mittelschienen mit kräftigem Apikalzahn, Hinterschienen mit kräftigem Präapikalzahn, dieser etwa um die Breite der Hinterschienen an ihrer Basis von der Schienenspitze entfernt. Metasternum breit eingedrückt, wenig fein, äusserst dicht auf genetztem Grund punktiert und beborstet, seitlich grob und sehr dicht punktiert. Sternite 3-6 median abgeflacht und dichter als an den Seiten punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand sehr flach ausgerandet, 7. Sternit längs der Mitte flach eingedrückt und daselbst fein und dicht punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand sehr flach ausgerandet. 8. Sternit mit spitzwinkligem, seitlich schwächer sklerotisiert gesäumtem Ausschnitt im hinteren Drittel. 9. Sternit apikolateral stumpf/ gesägt vorgezogen. Am Aedoeagus ist der Medianlobus erst weit vorn stärker dreieckig zugespitzt (Abb. 237); im Innern ein kleines Feld von Ananasschuppen, keine stark sklerotisierten Zähne; Parameren kürzer als der Medianlobus, im Spitzenviertel mit etwa 12 Borsten.
Weibchen: 8. Sternit (Abb. 245), zur Hinterrandmitte rundlich vorgezogen. Valviger apikal gesägt. Cucumis kräftig entwickelt.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2015, Neotropische Stenus-Arten mit seitlich gerandetem Abdomen und gelappten Tarsen (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 344. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1601-1727 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2) on page 1678, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5284596
A census of dwarf galaxy satellites around LMC-mass galaxy NGC 2403
Creators: name: Carlin, Jeffrey L.
name: Sand, David J.
name: Mutlu-Pakdil, Burcin
name: Crnojevic, Denija
name: Doliva-Dolinsky, Amandine
name: Garling, Christopher T.
name: Peter, Annika H. G.
name: Brodie, Jean P.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Hargis, Jonathan R.
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Spekkens, Kristine
name: Strader, Jay
name: Willman, Beth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first comprehensive census of the satellite population around a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) stellar-mass galaxy, as part of the Magellanic Analog Dwarf Companions and Stellar Halos (MADCASH) survey. We have surveyed NGC 2403 (D=3.0 Mpc) with the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam imager out to a projected radius of 90 kpc (with partial coverage extending out to ~110 kpc, or ~80% of the virial radius of NGC 2403), resolving stars in the uppermost ~2.5 mags of its red giant branch. By looking for stellar overdensities in the red giant branch spatial density map, we identify 149 satellite candidates, of which only the previously discovered MADCASH J074238+65201-dw is a bona fide dwarf, together with the more massive and disrupting satellite DDO 44. We carefully assess the completeness of our search via injection of artificial dwarf galaxies into the images, finding that we are reliably sensitive to candidates down to M_V ~ -7.5 mag (and somewhat sensitive to even fainter satellites). A comparison of the satellite luminosity function of NGC 2403 down to this magnitude limit to theoretical expectations shows overall good agreement. This is the first of a full sample of 11 Magellanic Cloud-mass host galaxies we will analyze, creating a statistical sample that will provide the first quantitative constraints on hierarchical models of galaxy formation around low-mass hosts.
description: 20 pages, 17 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal; figures 11-17 at reduced resolution
title: The Influence of Individual Strategies on Cougar Ecology: Insights From Predation, Space Use, and Reproduction
Creators: name: Engebretsen, Kristin Nicole
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Carnivores are ecologically important to global ecosystems because they interact with their prey species and other carnivores in a variety of ways. Many carnivores have suffered habitat loss and persecution by humans, which has led some populations to become imperiled or locally extirpated. Despite these challenges, cougars (Puma concolor) continue to exist across North, Central, and South America. They exhibit behavioral adaptation across their wide range, thriving in terrain that ranges from temperate forests, to steppe scrub, to rainforest, to rugged deserts. Across these diverse ecosystems, cougars can successfully establish territories, hunt prey, and raise young to persist for generations. My research focuses on individual variation and behavioral plasticity that cougars exhibit in three key aspects: predation, space use, and reproduction. I collected over 3.5 years of data on adult, subadult, and neonate mountain lions across three study sites in Utah. I found that cougars are resilient in the face of competition with black bears over prey resources. Although bears can displace cougars from their prey items, cougars do not suffer consequences due to loss of prey. Cougars are rarely displaced from their fresh kills in Utah as they are in other areas. Additionally, I found that cougars use a variety of strategies to modify their space use over the course of seasonal changes in resource availability. Some cougars remain resident in one location, but others expand or constrict their home ranges to modify their energetic output and access to prey or suitable landscape features. Across all strategies, cougars were able to obtain consistent biomass from their primary prey, suggesting that cougars use these spatial strategies to allow them to acquire resources over time. Finally, I found that experienced cougar mothers are more successful at raising young than inexperienced cougar mothers overall, but that individual mothers exhibit variation in the amount care they provide to their kittens. Increased levels of maternal care contributed to improved kitten survival for both experience and new mothers. Across space use, predation, and reproduction, individual variation and use of different strategies enabled cougars to achieve successful outcomes, contributing to their overall fitness.
Stenus ovatigutta Puthz 2015, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus ovatigutta

description: Stenus ovatigutta nov.sp. (Abb. 155, 296, 327, 333)
Typus material: Holotypus () und 2 - Paratypen: KOLUMBIEN: Cundinamarca Prov., Finca Bella Vista near Sasaima, 25.V.1965, P.R. Craig. Paratypen: 2: [Meta], Quebrada, Susamuco, 23 km W Villavicencio, 1000m, 3.-5.III.1992, S. J. Peck. - HT und PT in der CAS, PTT auch im FMCh und in cP.
Beschreibung:Wiebei S. ovatiguttatus nov.sp. (s. o.), die Elytrenmakel jedoch erheblich grösser (Abb. 155).
Länge: 4,3-5,0mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 2,4-2,5mm).
PM des HT: HW: 43; DE: 22; PW: 30,5; PL: 34; EW: 45; EL: 44; SL: 34.
Männchen: Sexualcharaktere sehr ähnlich denen des S. ovatiguttatus, Präapikalzahn der Hinterschienen gut um die Länge des 1. Fühlergliedes von der Schienenspitze entfernt. Aedoeagus (Abb. 327, 333).
Weibchen: 8. Sternit (Abb. 296), Valvifer und Cucumis wie bei S. ovatiguttatus nov.sp..
Differenzial diagnose In allen skulpturellen Details mit S. ovatiguttatus übereinstimmend, aber die Elytrenmakeln grösser, der Aedoeagus weniger schlank, die Apikalpartie des Medianlobus stärker dreieckig verengt (Abb. 333).
Etymologie: Wegen ihrer eiförmigen Elytrenmakel nenne ich diese Art " ovatigutta " (Lat.= mit eiförmigem Fleck).
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2015, Neotropische Stenus-Arten mit seitlich gerandetem Abdomen und gelappten Tarsen (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 344. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1601-1727 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2) on page 1675, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5284596
Toward Understanding the Experiences of People in Late Adulthood with Embedded Information Displays in the Home
Creators: name: While, Zack
name: Wheeler-Klainberg, Henry
name: Blascheck, Tanja
name: Isenberg, Petra
name: Sarvghad, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Embedded information displays (EIDs) are becoming increasingly ubiquitous on home appliances and devices such as microwaves, coffee machines, fridges, or digital thermostats. These displays are often multi-purpose, functioning as interfaces for selecting device settings, communicating operating status using simple visualizations, and displaying notifications. However, their usability for people in the late adulthood (PLA) development stage is not well-understood. We report on two focus groups with PLA (n = 11, ages 76-94) from a local retirement community. Participants were shown images of everyday home electronics and appliances, answering questions about their experiences using the EIDs. Using open coding, we qualitatively analyzed their comments to distill key themes regarding how EIDs can negatively affect PLA's ability to take in information (e.g., poor labels) and interact with these devices (e.g., unintuitive steps) alongside strategies employed to work around these issues. We argue that understanding the equitable design and communication of devices' functions, operating status, and messages is important for future information display designers. We hope this work stimulates further investigation into more equitable EID design.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, accepted to the 1st Workshop on Accessible Visualization at IEEE VIS '24
Achelous spinicarpus
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Achelous spinicarpus

description: Achelous spinicarpus (Stimpson, 1871)
Portunus spinicarpus – Holthuis 1959a: 199, Suriname [27–55 m]. — Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos 1972: 187, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda 1983: 148, Suriname, French Guiana [52–250 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Melo 1996: 328, Brazil Amapá; 1998: 478, Brazil Amapá. — Silva et al. 1998: 94, Brazil Amapá [34 m]; 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Guéguen 2000: 692, tab. 1, French Guiana. — Cintra et al. 2003: 71, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 04°27′ N, 30°00′ W, 14/03/ 98, 109 m; 02°08′ N, 48°34′ W, 01/05/ 98, 51 m].
Portunus (Achelous) spinicarpus – Bullis & Thompson 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, stn 2249, 7°40′ N, 57°34′ W, 55 m; stn 2262, 7°18′ N, 56°49′ W, 60 m; stn 2335, 6°50′ N, 55°34′ W, 51 m]. — Coelho et al. 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].
Achelous spinicarpus – Corbari et al. 2015: 165–167, French Guiana [Guyane 2014 Expedition, 63 lots in MNHN, e.g., MNHN-IU-2013-2435, stn CP4350, 28/07/2014, 64–65 m, at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/iu/2013-2435].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 9– 600 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
"Cinque poesie di Adrian C. Louis" a cura di Maurizio Brancaleoni
Creators: name: Brancaleoni, Maurizio
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Poetry--Translating
subject: Translating and interpreting

description: Scrittore statunitense di origini native, Adrian C. Louis nasce nel 1946 nello stato del Nevada. Laureatosi in Scrittura creativa alla Brown University nel Rhode Island, affianca all'attività letteraria quella di giornalista e insegnante. Due volte vincitore del prestigioso premio americano Pushcart Prize, Louis ha pubblicato numerosi libri di poesia, ma anche un romanzo, Skins (1995), di cui è uscita un'omonima trasposizione cinematografica nel 2002, e una raccolta di racconti, Wild Indians & Other Creatures (1996).
title: Radical Antiracism and Anti-Queerphobia in Politicised Education Environments Through Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory
Creators: name: Weeks, Mina Aubrey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: In 2023, the Utah legislature passed bills that alter how secondary education teachers can talk about “divisive topics,” usually referring to topics of race, LGBTQ, or other systemic topics like classism and nationalism. Many teachers committed to anti-racism and anti-queerphobia do not want to water down topics of race and LGBTQ, but they also do not want to lose their jobs for teaching race and LGBTQ in a way that the law restricts. Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory have typically been framed as anti-White, anti-cishet, or overall divisive by State critics due to their radical ideologies, but this comes from an incorrect assumption that radical ideologies aim to cause anti-Whiteness etc. I argue that Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory can be reframed to show how they benefit both White and cisgender/heterosexual (cishet) identities, as well as Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) and LGBTQ identities when they are implemented in secondary education curriculum about racial and LGBTQ topics. This thesis investigates how secondary education teachers who are dedicated to anti-racism and anti-queerphobia can incorporate elements of Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory and reframe them in a way that demonstrates to the State and to students how anti-racism etc. are beneficial to White/cishet identities as well as BIPOC and LGBTQ identities. Special care is taken to ensure that all theory and pedagogical strategies at the time of writing this thesis are compliant with Utah state laws and regulations regarding "divisive" topics in secondary education. Specifically, this thesis outlines theories and pedagogical strategies secondary education teachers can implement into their English and/or multidisciplinary curriculum. The main audience is secondary education teachers who may be less familiar with this work, but also any educators—whether they be other secondary education teachers, university educators, DEI directors, non-profit advocacy organisations, White, BIPOC, cishet, LGBTQ, etc—who are looking for ways to apply radical theory and pedagogy in a way that is designed to reach even the most uninformed recipient.
Evaluation of Code LLMs on Geospatial Code Generation
Creators: name: Gramacki, Piotr
name: Martins, Bruno
name: Szymański, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software development support tools have been studied for a long time, with recent approaches using Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation. These models can generate Python code for data science and machine learning applications. LLMs are helpful for software engineers because they increase productivity in daily work. An LLM can also serve as a "mentor" for inexperienced software developers, and be a viable learning support. High-quality code generation with LLMs can also be beneficial in geospatial data science. However, this domain poses different challenges, and code generation LLMs are typically not evaluated on geospatial tasks. Here, we show how we constructed an evaluation benchmark for code generation models, based on a selection of geospatial tasks. We categorised geospatial tasks based on their complexity and required tools. Then, we created a dataset with tasks that test model capabilities in spatial reasoning, spatial data processing, and geospatial tools usage. The dataset consists of specific coding problems that were manually created for high quality. For every problem, we proposed a set of test scenarios that make it possible to automatically check the generated code for correctness. In addition, we tested a selection of existing code generation LLMs for code generation in the geospatial domain. We share our dataset and reproducible evaluation code on a public GitHub repository, arguing that this can serve as an evaluation benchmark for new LLMs in the future. Our dataset will hopefully contribute to the development new models capable of solving geospatial coding tasks with high accuracy. These models will enable the creation of coding assistants tailored for geospatial applications.
description: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI'24)
Achelous spinimanus
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Achelous spinimanus

description: Achelous spinimanus (Latreille, 1819)
Portunus spinimanus – Holthuis 1959a: 199, Suriname [27–44 m]. — Bullis & Thompson 1965: 11, Guyana, Suriname [R/V Oregon, stn 2249, 7°40′ N, 57°34′ W, 55 m; stn 2261, 7°20′ N, 56°49′ W, 60 m; stn 2262, 7°18′ N, 56°49′ W, 60 m; stn 2335, 6°50′ N, 55°34′ W, 51 m; stn 2338, 6°52′ N, 55°30′ W, 53 m]. — Takeda 1983: 149, Suriname, French Guiana [34–53 m]. — Barreto et al. 1993: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana.
Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus – Coelho et al. 2008: 30, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 1– 393 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
Loxosceles vallenar Brescovit & Taucare-Ríos & Magalhaes & Santos 2017, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Taucare-Ríos, Andrés
name: Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.
name: Santos, Adalberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sicariidae
Loxosceles
Loxosceles vallenar

description: Loxosceles vallenar sp.nov.
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Figs 8E, 10
Diagnosis
Females of Loxosceles vallenar sp. nov. can be distinguished from other Chilean species by the spermathecae with large base and slender, curved receptacles (Fig. 8E).
Etymology
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
Type material
Holotype CHILE: ♀, III Región de Atacama: Huasco, Vallenar, 3 km S of Vallenar, 28.56667 S, 70.75 W, 460 m a.s.l., in scrubby mountain-side, under rocks, 7 Jan. 1985, N. Platnick and O. Francke leg. (AMNH).
Description
Male
Unknown.
Female (holotype, AMNH)
Carapace anteriorly and laterally orange, posteriorly yellow, lacking the dark-coloured violin-shaped median band. Chelicerae red brown. Endites and labium orange. Sternum, legs and coxae, femur and patella of palps yellow. Palpal tibia and tarsus red brown. Opisthosoma uniformly grey. Total length 6.0. Carapace 2.2 long, 1.6 wide. Clypeus 0.25 high. Eye diameters: ALE 0.1, PME 0.12, PLE 0.1. Sternum 1.2 long, 0.9 wide. Leg I: femur 2.1, patella 0.6, tibia 2, metatarsus 1.8, tarsus 0.7, total 7.2. II: 2.2, 0.6, 2.0, 1.8, 0.7, 7.3. III: 1.9, 0.6, 1.5, 1.6, 0.5, 6.1. IV: 2.3, 0.7, 2.2, 2.1, 0.7, 8.0. Leg formula 4213. Palp tarsus 0.7 long, enlarged. Spermathecae with oval receptacle (Fig. 8E).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in the Atacama Region, Chile (Fig. 10).
description: Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio D., Taucare-Ríos, Andrés, Magalhaes, Ivan L. F. & Santos, Adalberto J., 2017, On Chilean Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae): first description of the males of L. surca and L. coquimbo, new records of L. laeta and three remarkable new species from coastal deserts, pp. 1-20 in European Journal of Taxonomy 388 on pages 14-16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.388, http://zenodo.org/record/1133570
Additional file 5: of Comparison of different cell type correction methods for genome-scale epigenetics studies
Creators: name: Akhilesh Kaushal
name: Hongmei Zhang
name: Karmaus, Wilfried
name: Ray, Meredith
name: Mylin Torres
name: Smith, Alicia
name: Wang, Shu-Li
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplemental Material S5. Summary of sensitivity, specificity of Unadjusted, FaST-LMM-EWASher, RefFreeEWAS, SVA, ReFACTor and RefFreeCellMix for 100 simulated data across three settings for Ď â  =â  0, 0.3 and 0.7. (PDF 418 kb)
Achelous tumidulus Stimpson 1871
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Achelous
Achelous tumidulus

description: Achelous tumidulus Stimpson, 1871
Cronius tumidulus – Takeda 1983: 154, Suriname, French Guiana [45 m]. — Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1992: 295, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al. 2008: 29, Brazil Amapá.
Achelous tumidulus – Alves et al. 2012b: 944, Brazil Amapá. — Tavares & Mendonça 2022: 53, Guyana [distribution].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 1– 75 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
'Io sono un Dio': la poesia degli Ottantisti
Creators: name: Brancaleoni, Maurizio
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dutch literature

description: Nel 1881 il ristorante di Amsterdam De Karseboom, crocevia di viaggiatori e tendenze culturali, era il luogo di ritrovo preferito di artisti e letterati. Situato sulla Kalverstraat, doveva il suo fascino anche al fatto di essere uno degli edifici più antichi nei dintorni. Nelle parole dello scrittore Frans Erens, «in tutti gli altri caffè e ristoranti mancava qualcosa, al Karseboom no» (ERENS 1938: 104). In questo luogo dall'atmosfera familiare e raccolta in cui gli avventori chiamavano i camerieri per nome, si tenevano le riunioni del circolo letterario Flanor, a cui partecipavano non solo rispettabili professori universitari e scrittori più o meno affermati, ma anche figure più irregolari e dallo spirito ribelle che di lì a qualche anno, contrapponendosi alla morale comune, avrebbero aspirato a imporsi su una scena letteraria atrofizzata.
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards 1879
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Callinectes
Callinectes bocourti

description: Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
Callinectes diacanthus var. cayennensis A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (1873–1880): 226, French Guiana [“provenant de la Guyane ”].
Callinectes cayennensis – Young 1900: 192, Guyana. Accepted as Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 in WoRMS (2023).
Callinectes bocourti – Rathbun 1930: 128, Guyana, French Guiana. — Holthuis 1959a: 201, Suriname [1–27 m]. — Chace & Hobbs 1969: 127, French Guiana [type locality]. — Coelho 1969: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho & Ramos 1972: 187, Brazil Amapá. — Takeda 1983: 150, Suriname, French Guiana [littoral– 30 m]. — Melo 1996: 313, Brazil Amapá; 1998: 475, Brazil Amapá. — Le Loeuff & Cosel 2000: 25, annex 1, French Guiana. — Tavares 2002d: 344, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Amapá. — Cintra et al. 2003: 56, Brazil Amapá [R/V Almirante Paulo Moreira, 02°31′ N, 49°22′ W, 05/05/ 98, 16 m]. — Almeida et al. 2008: 1231, Brazil Amapá. — Coelho et al. 2008: 28, Brazil Amapá. — Aschenbroich et al. 2016: 66, fig. 6, French Guiana.
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 0– 30 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on pages 124-125, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
Double Configuration Interaction Singles: Scalable and size-intensive approach for orbital relaxation in excited states and bond-dissociation
Creators: name: Tsuchimochi, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel theoretical scheme for orbital relaxation in configuration interaction singles (CIS) based on a perturbative treatment of its electronic Hessian, whose analytical derivation is also established in this work. The proposed method, which can be interpreted as a "CIS-then-CIS" scheme, variationally accounts for orbital relaxation in excited states, thus significantly reducing the overestimation of charge-transfer excitation energies commonly associated with standard CIS. Additionally, by incorporating de-excitation effects from CIS, we demonstrate that our approach effectively describes single bond dissociation. Notably, all these improvements are achieved at a mean-field cost, with the pre-factor further reduced with the efficient algorithm introduced here, while preserving the size-intensive property of CIS.
"Exploring Candida albicans and its related species: A comprehensive overview of its history, biology, taxonomy, life cycle, genetics, genomics, diseases, epidemiology and clinical Iimplications"
Creators: name: Mehrotra, Dr Pankaj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Candida albicans,Candida haemunolii, Candida species, fungi, fungal pathogenesis, fungal genetics, fungal genomics, fungal biology

description: The publication titled "Exploring Candida albicans and its related species: A comprehensive overview of its history, biology, taxonomy, life cycle, genetics, genomics, diseases, epidemiology and clinical implications" provides an extensive examination of Candida albicans, a prominent opportunistic fungal pathogen. This article delves into the organism's dual role as a commensal and a pathogen, highlighting its prevalence in human microbiota and the conditions that facilitate its transition to pathogenicity.Key aspects covered include:

Historical Context: An overview of the evolution and significance of C. albicans within the context of human health.

Biological Characteristics: Detailed insights into the organism's life cycle, cell cycle, and genetic makeup, emphasizing its adaptability and virulence factors.

Taxonomy: A discussion on the classification of C. albicans and its related non-albicans species, providing clarity on their differences and similarities.

Epidemiology: Analysis of the distribution and incidence of C. albicans infections globally, particularly in immunocompromised populations.

Clinical Implications: Examination of various diseases associated with C. albicans, including candidemia and candidiasis, along with their clinical manifestations.

This comprehensive overview aims to enhance understanding of C. albicans, facilitating better diagnosis, treatment strategies, and preventive measures against infections caused by this versatile fungus.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of A candidate RxLR effector from Plasmopara viticola can elicit immune responses in Nicotiana benthamiana
Creators: name: Xiang, Jiang
name: Xinlong Li
name: Yin, Ling
name: Yunxiao Liu
name: Yali Zhang
name: Junjie Qu
name: Lu, Jiang
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Primers used in this study. (DOCX 24 kb)
Additional file 4: of Comparison of different cell type correction methods for genome-scale epigenetics studies
Creators: name: Akhilesh Kaushal
name: Hongmei Zhang
name: Karmaus, Wilfried
name: Ray, Meredith
name: Mylin Torres
name: Smith, Alicia
name: Wang, Shu-Li
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplemental Material S4. Boxplots depicting the difference in proportions for six cell types across cases and control (cancer status). (PDF 795 kb)
Interview with Pietro Roversi
Creators: name: Brancaleoni, Maurizio
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2014

description: Hi Pietro, First of all, thank you for agreeing to this interview. How about starting it off by telling us a bit about yourself and your job? Thank you for this opportunity! I was born in Novara (Italy) by accident, in 1968, my family are from Modena, and when I was 6 we moved to Verona, where I grew up. I went to University in Milano and after my chemistry degree I decided I had no interest in making new molecules, rather I wanted to look at existing ones. This, and a passion for living cells, made me choose protein science [...]
Callinectes danae Smith 1869
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Callinectes
Callinectes danae

description: Callinectes danae Smith, 1869
Callinectes danae – Holthuis 1959a: 201, Suriname [7 m]. — Cintra et al. 2017: tabs 1–6, Brazil Amapá [27–47 m].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine; 0– 75 m.
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
Additional file 1: of Efficacy and safety of Jianzhong decoction in treating peptic ulcers: a meta-analysis of 58 randomised controlled trials with 5192 patients
Creators: name: Sun, Yan
name: Jinping Zhang
name: Yuanyuan Chen
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Sensitivity analysis on the comparison of the total effective rate, Hp eradication rate, recurrence rate, and adverse reactions. (DOCX 808 kb)
Additional file 1: of Efficacy and safety of Jianzhong decoction in treating peptic ulcers: a meta-analysis of 58 randomised controlled trials with 5192 patients
Creators: name: Sun, Yan
name: Jinping Zhang
name: Yuanyuan Chen
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Sensitivity analysis on the comparison of the total effective rate, Hp eradication rate, recurrence rate, and adverse reactions. (DOCX 808 kb)
Callinectes marginatus
Creators: name: Poupin, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Callinectes
Callinectes marginatus

description: Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
Callinectes larvatus Ordway, 1863 – Cintra et al. 2003: 59, Brazil Pará but latitude off Amapá [1°18′ N, 48°13′ W, 07/05/01, 37 m]. Accepted as Callinectes marginatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) in WoRMS (2023).
Callinectes marginatus – Silva et al. 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Pará [off Amapá latitudes, see Remark].
Distribution/Habitat
WA; marine (sea grass flats); 1– 37 m.
Remark
This species reported formally only from Brazil Pará, but probably in Amapá also because collected near the limit of Amapá /Pará (1°18′ N, 48°13′ W).
description: Published as part of Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), pp. 1-197 in European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.954.2653, http://zenodo.org/record/13734759
MOESM13 of A nondestructive method to estimate the chlorophyll content of Arabidopsis seedlings
Creators: name: Liang, Ying
name: Urano, Daisuke
name: Kang-Ling Liao
name: Hedrick, Tyson
name: Yajun Gao
name: Jones, Alan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 13: S13. The effect of different C/N ratios on G protein mutants. Growth condition and treatments are as described for Fig. 3. Data analysis was performed by software SAS8.0. Single factor analysis (n = 48). Different capital letters indicate the similarity groups among four genotypes (p