cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell
Creators: name: Jackson, Daniel J.
name: McDougall, Carmel
name: Green, Kathryn
name: Simpson, Fiona
name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Degnan, Bernard M.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2006

description: Background: Instructions to fabricate mineralized structures with distinct nanoscale architectures, such as seashells and coral and vertebrate skeletons, are encoded in the genomes of a wide variety of animals. In mollusks, the mantle is responsible for the extracellular production of the shell, directing the ordered biomineralization of CaCO3 and the deposition of architectural and color patterns. The evolutionary origins of the ability to synthesize calcified structures across various metazoan taxa remain obscure, with only a small number of protein families identified from molluskan shells. The recent sequencing of a wide range of metazoan genomes coupled with the analysis of gene expression in non-model animals has allowed us to investigate the evolution and process of biomineralization in gastropod mollusks.Results: Here we show that over 25% of the genes expressed in the mantle of the vetigastropod Haliotis asinina encode secreted proteins, indicating that hundreds of proteins are likely to be contributing to shell fabrication and patterning. Almost 85% of the secretome encodes novel proteins; remarkably, only 19% of these have identifiable homologues in the full genome of the patellogastropod Lottia scutum. The spatial expression profiles of mantle genes that belong to the secretome is restricted to discrete mantle zones, with each zone responsible for the fabrication of one of the structural layers of the shell. Patterned expression of a subset of genes along the length of the mantle is indicative of roles in shell ornamentation. For example, Has-sometsuke maps precisely to pigmentation patterns in the shell, providing the first case of a gene product to be involved in molluskan shell pigmentation. We also describe the expression of two novel genes involved in nacre (mother of pearl) deposition.
Later life in the village. Services for the elderly on farms (VivAge)
Creators: name: Busch, Claudia
name: Busch, Claudia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural Sociology
subject: Elderly
subject: Green Care
subject: Diversification

description: The need of elder people especially in small villages might be covered by offering services on farms creating profits on both sides: the opportunity for an additional income for farmers, and a lively surrounding including certain effects of horticultural or animal-assisted therapies for the elderly. As part of the project VivAge an explorative study was conducted to get a first overview on possibilities and obstacles in the connection of these two separated branches. Results show that especially housing offers are demanded and economical while there are certain difficulties and different solutions to establish those on farms. The quality of services for the elderly, however, seems to depend less on an agricultural environment than on integration in everyday life and the kind of social contacts. Nevertheless, farms have good chances to offer these aspects. Moreover, especially animals seem to be useful in interactions with dementia patients.
Philothamnus heterodermus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Philothamnus
Philothamnus heterodermus

description: Philothamnus heterodermus (Hallowell, 1857)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 12 specimens (MRAC 29674, MRAC 29678, Missahohe; MRAC 29711, Atakpame; MRAC 29713, Kamina; MRAC 73014.0064, Agou; MRAC 29714, Edifou; GHS-W 0023, Agave; GHS-W 0627 and GHS-W 1249, Yo [Agome Yo]; GHS-Togo 49, Sodo; GHS-Togo 51, GHS-Togo 72, Sodo Zion).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 240 to 870 mm; 15 MSR smooth and oblique; 153-161 Ven, keeled; 84-87 Sc, paired; anal single; 8-9 supralabials; 9-10 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 2 + 2 or 3.
 DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits mostly forests. It occurs in ER IV; however, specimens not yet deposited were recently collected near Aledjo in ER II. Previously, Philothamnus heterodermus had been cited from Togo by Matschie (1893), Werner (1902), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909) from Missahohe and Bismarkburg (now Yegue in Adele), Loveridge (1958), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1971), Hughes (1985) and Leaché et al. (2006).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 335, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Nicht vor meiner Haustür! Wo soll Nutztierhaltung stattfinden?
Creators: name: Rovers, Anja
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Saggau, Doreen
name: Brümmer, Nanke
name: Rovers, Anja
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Saggau, Doreen
name: Brümmer, Nanke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Nutztierhaltung
subject: Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz
subject: Gruppendiskussionen
subject: Zielkonflikte
subject: Stallbau

description: In Deutschland ist die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz der Nutztierhaltung durch andauernde öffentliche Debatten um das Tierwohl rückläufig. Bei geplanten Stallbaumaßnahmen kommt es regelmäßig zu Bürgerprotesten. Regionalität ist dagegen für viele Verbraucher ein entscheidendes Kaufkriterium bei tierischen Produkten. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, welche Aspekte bei Stallbaumaßnahmen (Schweine- und Milchviehhaltung) eine zentrale Rolle für Teilnehmer von Gruppendiskussionen spielen. Die nicht-repräsentativen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass subjektive Bedenken, wie Geruchs- und Lärmbelästigung, sowie moralische Bedenken häufig angesprochen werden. Die Teilnehmer sehen dabei insbesondere den Zielkonflikt einer gesellschaftlich favorisierten Freilandhaltung und angenommenen, damit einhergehenden Geruchsbelästigungen für Anwohner, vornehmlich bei der Schweinehaltung.
AdapterFusion: Non-Destructive Task Composition for Transfer Learning
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Jonas
name: Kamath, Aishwarya
name: Rücklé, Andreas
name: Cho, Kyunghyun
name: Gurevych, Iryna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential fine-tuning and multi-task learning are methods aiming to incorporate knowledge from multiple tasks; however, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting and difficulties in dataset balancing. To address these shortcomings, we propose AdapterFusion, a new two stage learning algorithm that leverages knowledge from multiple tasks. First, in the knowledge extraction stage we learn task specific parameters called adapters, that encapsulate the task-specific information. We then combine the adapters in a separate knowledge composition step. We show that by separating the two stages, i.e., knowledge extraction and knowledge composition, the classifier can effectively exploit the representations learned from multiple tasks in a non-destructive manner. We empirically evaluate AdapterFusion on 16 diverse NLU tasks, and find that it effectively combines various types of knowledge at different layers of the model. We show that our approach outperforms traditional strategies such as full fine-tuning as well as multi-task learning. Our code and adapters are available at AdapterHub.ml.
Farm-level investment analysis: what discount rate to use?
Creators: name: Koppenberg, Maximilian
name: Spiegel, Alisa
name: Koppenberg, Maximilian
name: Spiegel, Alisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: farm experiment
subject: discounting
subject: time value of money
subject: Germany
subject: North-Rhine Westphalia

description: A discount rate is based on different aspects and differs across regions, economic sectors, investment projects, and decision makers. The choice of a discount rate requires a fundamental analysis and argumentation, in order to avoid an under- or overestimation of investment projects. Having conducted a farm-level experiment in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW, Germany), we estimated the current discount rates in German agriculture, as well as quantify the effects of different factors on discount rate.
Interdisciplinarity of Innovation Assessments in Plant Breeding - A Citation Network Analysis
Creators: name: Gerullis, Maria K.
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Gerullis, Maria K.
name: Sauer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: citation network analysis
subject: interdisciplinarity
subject: sustainability assessment
subject: plant breeding
subject: innovation
subject: transaction-cost theory

description: The poster contribution asks how interdisciplinary scientific work has become in fields of research relevant to agricultural science. It targets at shedding more light to the answer of this question for identifying structure and quantity of interdisciplinary scientific work within the body of scientific articles concerned with innovation assessments in plant breeding. With a combination of literature and citation network analysis (NEWMANN, 2006, 2011) different quantitative and qualitative methods targeted at analyzing innovations in plant breeding have been identified and the epistemic connections between the life, social and economic sciences were scrutinized.
A stochastic fractal model of the universe related to the fractional Laplacian
Creators: name: Sabelfeld, Karl
Publisher: name: WIAS, Berlin
Year: 2008

description: A new stochastic fractal model based on a fractional Laplace equation is developed. Exact representation for the spectral and correlation functions under random boundary excitation are obtained. Randomized spectral expansion is constructed for simulation of the solution of the fractional Laplace equation. We present calculations for 2D and 3D spaces for a series of fractional parameters showing a strong memory effect: the decay of correlations is several order of magnitudes less compared to the conventional Laplace equation model.
description: research
Improvement of Renormalization-Scale Uncertainties Within Empirical Determinations of the b-Quark Mass
Creators: name: Ahmady, M. R.
name: Elias, V.
name: Squires, A.
name: Steele, T. G.
name: Zhang, Ailin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate determinations of the MS-bar b-quark mass $m_b(m_b)$ from $σ(e^+e^-\to{\rm hadrons})$ experimental data currently contain three comparable sources of uncertainty; the experimental uncertainty from moments of this cross-section, the uncertainty associated with $α_s(M_z)$, and the theoretical uncertainty associated with the renormalization scale. Through resummation of all logarithmic terms explicitly determined in the perturbative series by the renormalization-group (RG) equation, it is shown that the renormalization-scale dependence is virtually eliminated as a source of theoretical uncertainty in $m_b(m_b)$. This resummation also reduces the estimated effect of higher-loop perturbative contributions, further reducing the theoretical uncertainties in $m_b(m_b)$. Furthermore, such resummation techniques improve the agreement between the values of the MS-bar b-quark mass extracted from the various moments of $R(s)=σ(e^+e^-\to{\rm hadrons})/σ_{pt}$ [$σ_{pt}=4πα^2/(3s)$], obviating the need to choose an optimummoment for determining $m_b(m_b)$. Resummation techniques are also shown to reduce renormalization-scale dependence in the relation between b-quark MS-bar and pole mass and in the relation between the pole and $1S$ mass.
description: 19 pages, latex2e, 6 eps figures contained in latex file. Errors corrected in equations (20)--(22)
Economics of mechanical weeding by a swarm of small field robots
Creators: name: Gaus, Cord-Christian
name: Urso, Lisa-Marie
name: Minßen, Till-Fabian
name: De Witte, Thomas
name: Gaus, Cord-Christian
name: Urso, Lisa-Marie
name: Minßen, Till-Fabian
name: De Witte, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: CareRowBot
subject: approximation of future’s product price
subject: swarm of field robots
subject: operating costs
subject: hexagonal spacing of seeds

description: Today’s agricultural production systems with large machinery are facing limits due to problems with road regulations, soil compaction, social acceptance as well as nutrient and pest management. At the same time, current developments in the field of digitalization and automatization have the potential to lead to the development of small autonomous agricultural robots for seeding, cultivating and harvesting, which could help to overcome those limitations. This study evaluates a first concept of mechanical weeding by a swarm of small field robots within a new plant production system.
Mapping leaf area index over semi-desert and steppe biomes in kazakhstan using satellite imagery and ground measurements
Creators: name: Propastin, Pavel
name: Kappas, Martin
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2009

description: Maps of peak seasonal leaf area index (LAI) were produced using the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from SPOT VEGETATION (VEG) satellite at 1 km resolution over a large region in the semi-arid zone of Kazakhstan. Ground measurements of LAI were acquired using indirect and direct techniques across a 150·150 km2 large region. A Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) scene at 30 m spatial resolution was used to locate ground sites and to facilitate spatial scaling to 1 km pixels. A high-resolution LAI map retrieved from the Landsat ETM+ data was aggregated to 1 km resolution and afterwards used as reference data. The methods tested for transfer function between ETM+ LAI and SPOT-VEG were ordinary least squares (OLS) regres-sion, non-linear regression, and reduced major axis (RMA) regression. In this paper, final maps of peak season LAI at a 1 km resolution are presented after an assessment of their accuracy using the aggregated ETM+ LAI scene. The most appropriate results were attained by RMA. Advantages and shortages of the used regression approaches were analysed and discussed. Errors were mostly caused by uncertainties in co-registration of Landsat ETM+ and SPOT-VEG images as it was demonstrated by a pixel degradation experiment. The methodology presented in this paper can serve as a basis for generation of medium- and coarse-resolution LAI satellite products for wide areas of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The study exposed a general transferability of the de-veloped model for LAI estimations at coarser scales. The 1000 m SPOT-VEG model has proved to be fully suitable for utilising with the SPOT-VEG data with resolution of 2 km.
Ultrafast Mott transition driven by nonlinear electron-phonon interaction
Creators: name: Grandi, Francesco
name: Li, Jiajun
name: Eckstein, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear phononics holds the promise for controlling properties of quantum materials on the ultrashort timescale. Using nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory, we solve a model for the description of organic solids, where correlated electrons couple nonlinearly to a quantum phonon mode. Unlike previous works, we exactly diagonalize the local phonon mode within the noncrossing approximation to include the full phononic fluctuations. By exciting the local phonon in a broad range of frequencies near resonance with an ultrashort pulse, we show it is possible to induce a Mott insulator-to-metal phase transition. Conventional semiclassical and mean-field calculations, where the electron-phonon interaction decouples, underestimate the onset of the quasiparticle peak. This fact, together with the nonthermal character of the photoinduced metal, suggests a leading role of the phononic fluctuations and of the dynamic nature of the state in the vibrationally induced quasiparticle coherence.
USING ANECDOTES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Xakimov, Shamsiddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Anecdotes are stories, usually from personal experience, that people tell to make a point or to entertain others during a conversation. [2] It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is “too good to be true”. [3] The literary history of the Anecdote carries us back to the classic ages; though this form of composition was scarcely employed by the ancients in the sense in which we now use it. 'Anecdote' from Greek anekdota "things unpublished," neutral plural of anekdotos, from an- "not" + ekdotos "published," from ek- "out" + didonai "to give". (in Greek: "unpublished", literally "not given out") .
Positive mass theorem for the Yamabe problem on spin manifolds
Creators: name: Ammann, Bernd
name: Humbert, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C21; 58E11; 53C27

description: Let $(M,g)$ be a compact connected spin manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ whose Yamabe invariant is positive. We assume that $(M,g)$ is locally conformally flat or that $n \in \{3,4,5\}$. According to a positive mass theorem of Witten, the constant term in the asymptotic development of the Green's function of the conformal Laplacian is positive if $(M,g)$ is not conformally equivalent to the sphere. In the present article, we will give a proof for this fact which is considerably shorter than previous proofs. Our proof is a modification of Witten's argument, but no analysis on asymtotically flat spaces is needed.
description: A term is missing in Version 2 and the printed version. The term is added in Version 3
Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Schweinefachberatern und Tierärzten in einer gemeinschaftlichen Tiergesundheitsberatung
Creators: name: Hecker, Odile
name: Döring, Susanne
name: Reisner, Lena
name: Schröder, Lynn
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
name: Hecker, Odile
name: Döring, Susanne
name: Reisner, Lena
name: Schröder, Lynn
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Fachberatung
subject: Tierärzte
subject: Tiergesundheit
subject: Zusammenarbeit
subject: Persönlichkeitsmerkmale
subject: Big-Five-Modell

description: Eine gemeinschaftlich ausgerichtete Tiergesundheitsberatung für schweinehaltende Betriebe durch produktionstechnische Berater und Hoftierärzte kann Vorteile bieten. Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchungen ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen nach dem Big-Five-Modell und dem Grad der Zusammenarbeit zu analysieren. Die vorliegende Untersuchung umfasst Daten einer standardisierten persönlichen Befragung von 24 schweinehaltenden Betrieben. Gemeinsame Beratung ist tendenziell erfolgreicher. Eher extravertierte Personen sowie stärker verträgliche Tierärzte und weniger verträgliche Berater sind für eine gemeinsame Beratung eher geeignet. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass neben den oftmals analysierten technischen, auch sozial-organisatorische Innovationen in einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz im Tiergesundheitsmanagement beachtet werden sollten
Additional file 1 of Co-occurrence or dependence? Using spatial analyses to explore the interaction between palms and Rhodnius triatomines
Creators: name: Calderón, Johan M.
name: González, Camila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Palm species infested by Rhodnius triatomines. Table S2. Parameters selected for ecological niche models using the AICc. Figure S1.Rhodnius neglectus ENMs. a, b Final continuous maps (Mean of the continuous log-log outputs obtained from MaxEnt v.3.4.1). c, d Binary maps obtained using the 10% training percentile threshold. e, f Uncertainty maps (Standard deviation of the continuous log-log outputs). Maps were constructed with the raster R package. Figure S2.Rhodnius pictipes ENMs. a, b Final continuous maps (Mean of the continuous log-log outputs obtained from MaxEnt v.3.4.1). c, d Binary maps obtained using the 10% training percentile threshold. e, f Uncertainty maps (Standard deviation of the continuous log-log outputs). Maps were constructed with the raster R package. Figure S3.Rhodnius prolixus ENMs. a, b Final continuous maps (Mean of the continuous log-log outputs obtained from MaxEnt v.3.4.1). c, d Binary maps obtained using the 10% training percentile threshold. e, f Uncertainty maps (Standard deviation of the continuous log-log outputs). Maps were constructed with the raster R package. Figure S4.Rhodnius robustus ENMs. a, b Final continuous maps (Mean of the continuous log-log outputs obtained from MaxEnt v.3.4.1). c, d Binary maps obtained using the 10% training percentile threshold. e, f Uncertainty maps (Standard deviation of the continuous log-log outputs). Maps were constructed with the raster R package.
Ansätze zur betriebswirtschaftlichen Analyse von Nebenströmen der Kartoffelverarbeitung aus der Ernährungswirtschaft
Creators: name: Jorissen, Tobias
name: Recke, Guido
name: Jorissen, Tobias
name: Recke, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft
subject: Nebenströme
subject: Leistungs- und Kostenrechnung
subject: Investitionsrechnung
subject: Risikoanalyse
subject: SWOT-Analyse
subject: Agro-Food Studies

description: In der Forschungsarbeit werden die Verwertungsoptionen von Nebenströmen aus der Kartoffelverarbeitung untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtungen steht die innovative Nutzung von Kartoffelnebenströmen als Substrat für die biotechnologische Produktion von Lebensmittelzusatzstoffen. Ziele der Forschung sind die Ermittlung der Substratkosten der Nebenströme und die Prozessanalyse der anschließenden biotechnologischen Verwertung. Ein wichtiger Meilenstein zur Erreichung der Ziele ist die Definition der Wertschöpfungskette von Kartoffelnebenströmen, ein weiterer die Abschätzung des Aufkommens und der Verwendung der Nebenströme. Die Untersuchungsregion ist Niedersachsen als bedeutende Wirtschaftsregion des Anbaus und der Verarbeitung von Kartoffeln.
Towards simulating 2D effects in lattice gauge theories on a quantum computer
Creators: name: Paulson, Danny
name: Dellantonio, Luca
name: Haase, Jan F.
name: Celi, Alessio
name: Kan, Angus
name: Jena, Andrew
name: Kokail, Christian
name: van Bijnen, Rick
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Zoller, Peter
name: Muschik, Christine A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge theories are the most successful theories for describing nature at its fundamental level, but obtaining analytical or numerical solutions often remains a challenge. We propose an experimental quantum simulation scheme to study ground state properties in two-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (2D QED) using existing quantum technology. The proposal builds on a formulation of lattice gauge theories as effective spin models in arXiv:2006.14160, which reduces the number of qubits needed by eliminating redundant degrees of freedom and by using an efficient truncation scheme for the gauge fields. The latter endows our proposal with the perspective to take a well-controlled continuum limit. Our protocols allow in principle scaling up to large lattices and offer the perspective to connect the lattice simulation to low energy observable quantities, e.g. the hadron spectrum, in the continuum theory. By including both dynamical matter and a non-minimal gauge field truncation, we provide the novel opportunity to observe 2D effects on present-day quantum hardware. More specifically, we present two Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) based protocols for the study of magnetic field effects, and for taking an important first step towards computing the running coupling of QED. For both instances, we include variational quantum circuits for qubit-based hardware, which we explicitly apply to trapped ion quantum computers. We simulate the proposed VQE experiments classically to calculate the required measurement budget under realistic conditions. While this feasibility analysis is done for trapped ions, our approach can be easily adapted to other platforms. The techniques presented here, combined with advancements in quantum hardware pave the way for reaching beyond the capabilities of classical simulations by extending our framework to include fermionic potentials or topological terms.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures
Quotations from Chairman Mao (毛主席语录)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/68549
subject: Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/28307
subject: Mao Quotations

description: A pair of posters released in May 1976 with recent Mao quotations used in the campaign against Deng Xiaoping. Price: 11 fen each (sold separately)
High-Resolution Imaging of Texture and Microstructure by the Moving Detector Method
Creators: name: Bunge, H. J.
name: Klein, H.
name: Wcislak, L.
name: Garbe, U.
name: Weiß, W.
name: Schneider, J. R.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2003

description: In order to describe texture and microstructure of a polycrystalline material completely, crystal orientation g={?1F?2} must be known in all points x={x1?x2?x3} of the material. This can be achieved by locationresolved diffraction of high-energy, i.e. short-wave, X-rays from synchrotron sources. Highest resolution in the orientation- as well as the location-coordinates can be achieved by three variants of a detector sweeping technique in which an area detector is continuously moved during exposure. This technique results in two-dimensionally continuous images which are sections and projections of the six-dimensional orientation location space. Further evaluation of these images depends on whether individual grains are resolved in them or not. Because of the high penetration depth of high-energy synchrotron radiation in matter, this technique is also, and particularly, suitable for the investigation of the interior of big samples.
Noise and Measurement Efficiency of a Partially Coherent Mesoscopic Detector
Creators: name: Clerk, A. A.
name: Stone, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the noise properties and efficiency of a mesoscopic resonant-level conductor which is used as a quantum detector, in the regime where transport through the level is only partially phase coherent. We contrast models in which detector incoherence arises from escape to a voltage probe, versus those in which it arises from a random time-dependent potential. Particular attention is paid to the back-action charge noise of the system. While the average detector current is similar in all models, we find that its noise properties and measurement efficiency are sensitive both to the degree of coherence and to the nature of the dephasing source. Detector incoherence prevents quantum limited detection, except in the non-generic case where the source of dephasing is not associated with extra unobserved information. This latter case can be realized in a version of the voltage probe model.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures; revised dicussion of voltage probe models
DOES AGGREGATION AFFECT INFERENCES, WHEN ANALYSING THE ADOPTION OF AN EMERGING ALTERNATIVE CROP? A COMPARISON OF FARM- AND MUNICIPALITY-LEVEL RESULTS FOR CULTIVATION OF THE STYRIAN OIL PUMPKIN
Creators: name: Niedermayr, Andreas
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Niedermayr, Andreas
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Styrian Oil Pumpkin
subject: PGI
subject: SLX-Tobit model
subject: ecological fallacy
subject: innovation adoption

description: The aim of this study is to assess, whether estimation of the same innovation-adoption model at farm- and municipality-level results in an ecological fallacy, meaning that based on aggregated data, one would make inverse inferences about the driving forces influencing the adoption decision at the farm level. The adoption of an emerging alternative crop in Austria, the Styrian Oil Pumpkin, serves as an applied example. Our findings indicate the presence of an ecological fallacy. We therefore propose further research, which could consist of Monte Carlo simulations in order to analyse sensitivity of results with respect to the degree of aggregation.
Deep genetic divergences among Indo-Pacific populations of the coral reef sponge Leucetta chagosensis (Leucettidae): Founder effects, vicariance, or both?
Creators: name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Epp, Laura S.
name: Macis, Luciana
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2008

description: Background: An increasing number of studies demonstrate that genetic differentiation and speciation in the sea occur over much smaller spatial scales than previously appreciated given the wide distribution range of many morphologically defined coral reef invertebrate species and the presumed dispersal-enhancing qualities of ocean currents. However, knowledge about the processes that lead to population divergence and speciation is often lacking despite being essential for the understanding, conservation, and management of marine biodiversity. Sponges, a highly diverse, ecologically and economically important reef-invertebrate taxon, exhibit spatial trends in the Indo-West Pacific that are not universally reflected in other marine phyla. p. far, however, processes generating those unexpected patterns are not understood.
Additional file 2 of A 12-month follow-up of a transdiagnostic indicated prevention of internalizing symptoms in school-aged children: the results from the EMOTION study
Creators: name: M. E. S. Loevaas
name: S. Lydersen
name: A. M. Sund
name: S-P. Neumer
name: K. D. Martinsen
name: S. Holen
name: J. Patras
name: F. Adolfsen
name: L-M. P. Rasmussen
name: T. Reinfjell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Results from mixed model analyses with MASC child and parent version, and SMFQ child and parent version as dependent variables. Child and school as random effects, and time as a categorical fixed-effects variable using three time-points (pre, post, and 12 months after intervention), interaction between intervention and time, child age and gender as covariates.
Philothamnus nitidus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Philothamnus
Philothamnus nitidus

description: Philothamnus nitidus (Günther, 1863)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — No specimen available.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species was mentioned from Togo by Matschie (1893), Werner (1899), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909:15; from Kete-Kratchi and Bismarkburg [now Adele]) and Chippaux (2006). The specimens of Sternfeld (1908b) presented 160-161 Ven and a temporal scale formula 1 + 2. It is a forest-dwelling species, occurring in ER IV.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 335, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Diagrammatic method for theory of magnetic and resistive properties of manganites
Creators: name: Zubov, E. E.
name: Dyakonov, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective field theory of magnetic and resistive properties of manganites with account of strong Hund exchange coupling and electron-phonon interactions has been evolved under the strong Hund coupling condition. In parallel with Lang-Firsov unitary transformation of the zeroth Hamiltonian, we have realized the diagonalization of Hund's Hamiltonian neglecting the upper triplet. The diagram techniques taking into account the quantum spin fluctuations of lower quintet and hole state with spin S=3/2 was developed. The magnetic structure of the ground state and an influence of electron-phonon interaction have been analyzed using the first nonvanishing approximation of perturbation theory. The calculated temperature dependence of resistivity agrees well with experimental data including these obtained in applied magnetic field.
description: 44 pages, 14 figures
Some properties of Dirac-Einstein bubbles
Creators: name: Borrelli, William
name: Maalaoui, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C27, 58J90, 81Q05

description: We prove smoothness and provide the asymptotic behavior at infinity of solutions of Dirac-Einstein equations on $\mathbb{R}^3$, which appear in the bubbling analysis of conformal Dirac-Einstein equations on spin 3-manifolds. Moreover, we classify ground state solutions, proving that the scalar part is given by Aubin-Talenti functions, while the spinorial part is the conformal image of $-\frac{1}{2}$-Killing spinors on the round sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$.
description: 14 pages. J. Geom. Anal. (2020)
The Change in Rhetoric Towards Female Martyrdom in Hamas : Saving Face or Changing the Face of Women in Palestine?
Creators: name: Tietz, Stephanie
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper will discuss the implications of the use of female martyrdom by Hamas. Considering Hamas’s position of political power within Palestine, the paper argues that their change in rhetoric towards female martyrdom is significant when considering the political empowerment of women in the future. As both a political resistance movement and an Islamic authority for the Palestinian people, Hamas is in the position which will have the most impact on the political future of women in Palestine. Women will not wish to relinquish power which was given to them during a time of conflict, just as Hamas will not wish to relinquish public support after the conflict. For these reasons, Hamas will be the conduit through which female empowerment will occur in Palestine in the future.
Measuring Flavor Ratios of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
Creators: name: Beacom, John F.
name: Bell, Nicole F.
name: Hooper, Dan
name: Pakvasa, Sandip
name: Weiler, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the prospects for next generation neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube, to measure the flavor ratios of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The expected flavor ratios at the sources are $ϕ_{ν_e}:ϕ_{ν_μ}:ϕ_{ν_τ} = 1:2:0$, and neutrino oscillations quickly transform these to $1:1:1$. The flavor ratios can be deduced from the relative rates of showers ($ν_e$ charged-current, most $ν_τ$ charged-current, and all flavors neutral-current), muon tracks ($ν_μ$ charged-current only), and tau lepton lollipops and double-bangs ($ν_τ$ charged-current only). The peak sensitivities for these interactions are at different neutrino energies, but the flavor ratios can be reliably connected by a reasonable measurement of the spectrum shape. Measurement of the astrophysical neutrino flavor ratios tests the assumed production mechanism and also provides a very long baseline test of a number of exotic scenarios, including neutrino decay, CPT violation, and small-$δm^2$ oscillations to sterile neutrinos.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures; combined published paper and appended erratum
Collider Phenomenology of Light Strange-beauty Squarks
Creators: name: Cheung, Kingman
name: Hou, Wei-Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong mixing between right-handed strange and beauty squarks is a possible solution to the CP violation discrepancy in $B\to ϕK_S$ decay as recently suggested by the Belle data. In this scenario, thanks to the strong mixing one of the strange-beauty squarks can be as light as 200 GeV, even though the generic supersymmetry scale is at TeV. In this work, we study the production of this light right-handed strange-beauty squark at hadronic colliders and discuss the detection in various decay scenarios. Detection prospect at the Tevatron Run II is good for the strange-beauty squark mass up to about 300 GeV.
description: RevTex 4, 23 pages, 5 figures
Time Delay Interferometry with Moving Spacecraft Arrays
Creators: name: Tinto, Massimo
name: Estabrook, Frank B.
name: Armstrong, adn J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-borne interferometric gravitational wave detectors, sensitive in the low-frequency (millihertz) band, will fly in the next decade. In these detectors the spacecraft-to-spacecraft light-travel-times will necessarily be unequal, time-varying, and (due to aberration) have different time delays on up- and down-links. Reduction of data from moving interferometric laser arrays in solar orbit will in fact encounter non-symmetric up- and downlink light time differences that are about 100 times larger than has previously been recognized. The time-delay interferometry (TDI) technique uses knowledge of these delays to cancel the otherwise dominant laser phase noise and yields a variety of data combinations sensitive to gravitational waves. Under the assumption that the (different) up- and downlink time delays are constant, we derive the TDI expressions for those combinations that rely only on four inter-spacecraft phase measurements. We then turn to the general problem that encompasses time-dependence of the light-travel times along the laser links. By introducing a set of non-commuting time-delay operators, we show that there exists a quite general procedure for deriving generalized TDI combinations that account for the effects of time-dependence of the arms. By applying our approach we are able to re-derive the ``flex-free'' expression for the unequal-arm Michelson combinations $X_1$, first presented in \cite{STEA}, and obtain the generalized expressions for the TDI combinations called Relay, Beacon, Monitor, and Symmetric Sagnac.
description: Modified version, which is scheduled to appear on the PRD April 15, 2004 issue
Kink Instabilities In Relativistic Jets Can Drive Quasi-Periodic Radiation Signatures
Creators: name: Dong, Lingyi
name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Giannios, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic jets are highly collimated plasma outflows emerging from accreting black holes. They are launched with a significant amount of magnetic energy, which can be dissipated to accelerate nonthermal particles and give rise to electromagnetic radiation at larger scales. Kink instabilities can be an efficient mechanism to trigger dissipation of jet magnetic energy. While previous works have studied the conditions required for the growth of kink instabilities in relativistic jets, the radiation signatures of these instabilities have not been investigated in detail. In this paper, we aim to self-consistently study radiation and polarization signatures from kink instabilities in relativistic jets. We combine large-scale relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations with polarized radiation transfer of a magnetized jet, which emerges from the central engine and propagates through the surrounding medium. We observe that a localized region at the central spine of the jet exhibits the strongest kink instabilities, which we identify as the jet emission region. Very interestingly, we find quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signatures in the light curve from the emission region. Additionally, the polarization degree appears to be anti-correlated to flares in the light curves. Our analyses show that these QPO signatures are intrinsically driven by kink instabilities, where the period of the QPOs is associated to the kink growth time scale. The latter corresponds to weeks to months QPOs in blazars. The polarization signatures offer unique diagnostics for QPOs driven by kink instabilities.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
On an Index of Poverty
Creators: name: Sengupta, Manimay
name: Pattanaik, Prasanta K.
name: Sengupta, Manimay
name: Pattanaik, Prasanta K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Financial Economics

description: We propose a poverty measure that satisfies *a number of properties that make it sensitive to the level of absolute deprivation of the poor. These properties are often violated by several poverty measures discussed in the literature. The measure corresponds to a Cobb-Douglas social welfare function which has a number of egalitarian features.
Large gradients via correlation in random parameterized quantum circuits
Creators: name: Volkoff, Tyler
name: Coles, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling of variational quantum algorithms to large problem sizes requires efficient optimization of random parameterized quantum circuits. For such circuits with uncorrelated parameters, the presence of exponentially vanishing gradients in cost function landscapes is an obstacle to optimization by gradient descent methods. In this work, we prove that reducing the dimensionality of the parameter space by utilizing circuit modules containing spatially or temporally correlated gate layers can allow one to circumvent the vanishing gradient phenomenon. Examples are drawn from random separable circuits and asymptotically optimal variational versions of Grover's algorithm based on the quantum alternating operator ansatz (QAOA). In the latter scenario, our bounds on cost function variation imply a transition between vanishing gradients and efficient trainability as the number of layers is increased toward $\mathcal{O}(2^{n/2})$, the optimal oracle complexity of quantum unstructured search.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
Primordial Nucleosynthesis for the New Cosmology: Determining Uncertainties and Examining Concordance
Creators: name: Cyburt, Richard H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have a long history together in the standard cosmology. The general concordance between the predicted and observed light element abundances provides a direct probe of the universal baryon density. Recent CMB anisotropy measurements, particularly the observations performed by the WMAP satellite, examine this concordance by independently measuring the cosmic baryon density. Key to this test of concordance is a quantitative understanding of the uncertainties in the BBN light element abundance predictions. These uncertainties are dominated by systematic errors in nuclear cross sections. We critically analyze the cross section data, producing representations that describe this data and its uncertainties, taking into account the correlations among data, and explicitly treating the systematic errors between data sets. Using these updated nuclear inputs, we compute the new BBN abundance predictions, and quantitatively examine their concordance with observations. Depending on what deuterium observations are adopted, one gets the following constraints on the baryon density: OmegaBh^2=0.0229\pm0.0013 or OmegaBh^2 = 0.0216^{+0.0020}_{-0.0021} at 68% confidence, fixing N_{ν,eff}=3.0. Concerns over systematics in helium and lithium observations limit the confidence constraints based on this data provide. With new nuclear cross section data, light element abundance observations and the ever increasing resolution of the CMB anisotropy, tighter constraints can be placed on nuclear and particle astrophysics. ABRIDGED
description: 54 pages, 20 figures, 5 tables v2: reflects PRD version minor changes to text and references
The Change in Rhetoric Towards Female Martyrdom in Hamas : Saving Face or Changing the Face of Women in Palestine?
Creators: name: Tietz, Stephanie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper will discuss the implications of the use of female martyrdom by Hamas. Considering Hamas’s position of political power within Palestine, the paper argues that their change in rhetoric towards female martyrdom is significant when considering the political empowerment of women in the future. As both a political resistance movement and an Islamic authority for the Palestinian people, Hamas is in the position which will have the most impact on the political future of women in Palestine. Women will not wish to relinquish power which was given to them during a time of conflict, just as Hamas will not wish to relinquish public support after the conflict. For these reasons, Hamas will be the conduit through which female empowerment will occur in Palestine in the future.