cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perdita (Perdita) michelbacheri Timberlake 1962
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita michelbacheri

description: Perdita (Perdita) michelbacheri Timberlake, 1962
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Venancio, Baja California, Mexico; July 17, 1938]
Perdita michelbacheri is widely distributed in the BCP deserts. It has been reported in northern BC in the Central Desert, and in the Magdalena Plains, and Gulf Coast in BCS (Timberlake 1962). We reviewed the male allotype and 19 paratypes (CASC). See fig. 53.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
She Carried the Earth Home
Creators: name: Gil'adi, Maia
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: She Carried the Earth Home is an original novella that focuses on a young woman, Olivia Gid-Oni, and her return from the U.S. to Caracas, Venezuela, where she was raised as a child. She has returned after a long absence because of the impending death of her maternal grandfather, Roberto. During her stay in Caracas, Olivia reminisces about her family's past, the immense change the country has suffered since the election of Hugo Chavez, and the uncertainties of her identity and the place she had regarded and idealized as her home.
Perdita (Perdita) leechi Timberlake 1968
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita leechi

description: Perdita (Perdita) leechi Timberlake, 1968
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ 8.85 km northwest of Todos Santos, Road to la Pastora, Baja California Sur, Mexico; January 13, 1959]
Perdita leechi is endemic to the Gulf Coast ecoregion in La Paz, BCS (Timberlake, 1968). See fig. 52.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
CoServe: Efficient Collaboration-of-Experts (CoE) Model Inference with Limited Memory
Creators: name: Suo, Jiashun
name: Liao, Xiaojian
name: Xiao, Limin
name: Ruan, Li
name: Wang, Jinquan
name: Su, Xiao
name: Huo, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models like GPT-4 are resource-intensive, but recent advancements suggest that smaller, specialized experts can outperform the monolithic models on specific tasks. The Collaboration-of-Experts (CoE) approach integrates multiple expert models, improving the accuracy of generated results and offering great potential for precision-critical applications, such as automatic circuit board quality inspection. However, deploying CoE serving systems presents challenges to memory capacity due to the large number of experts required, which can lead to significant performance overhead from frequent expert switching across different memory and storage tiers.
 We propose CoServe, an efficient CoE model serving system on heterogeneous CPU and GPU with limited memory. CoServe reduces unnecessary expert switching by leveraging expert dependency, a key property of CoE inference. CoServe introduces a dependency-aware request scheduler and dependency-aware expert management for efficient inference. It also introduces an offline profiler to automatically find optimal resource allocation on various processors and devices. In real-world intelligent manufacturing workloads, CoServe achieves 4.5$\times$ to 12$\times$ higher throughput compared to state-of-the-art systems.
description: In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '25)
Tidal effects in the motion of gas clouds around boson stars
Creators: name: Teodoro, Matheus C.
name: Collodel, Lucas G.
name: Kunz, Jutta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report simulations regarding tidal disruption clouds orbiting spherically symmetric compact boson stars in two different regimes. First we consider clouds in three different bound orbits close to the boson star and analyze the mechanisms of debris formation for these. We infer from the simulations that the lifetimes of these hot-spots are longer for circularly orbiting clouds than for clouds on eccentric orbits. Next we compare the evolution of more extended and less dense clouds on circular orbits around a boson star and a Schwarzschild black hole. As an outcome of the simulations we observe the formation of a ring-like structure around the boson star endowed with a spiralling shock structure and a constant thermal bremsstrahlung total luminosity. This final configuration contrasts strongly with the black hole scenario where the gas is totally captured behind the event horizon.
Perdita (Perdita) nigronotata Timberlake 1964
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita nigronotata

description: Perdita (Perdita) nigronotata Timberlake, 1964
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Agua Verde Bay, Baja California, Mexico; March 26, 1953]
Perdita nigronotata is known from the Vizcaíno Desert and Gulf Coast by vouchered specimens at EMEC and CASC. We confirmed this with our fieldwork by capturing one male in March of 2021 at the Vizcaíno Desert in northern BCS. See fig. 54.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Phonon spectrum of underdoped $\text{HgBa}_2\text{CuO}_{4+δ}$ investigated by neutron scattering
Creators: name: Ahmadova, I.
name: Sterling, T. C.
name: Sokolik, A. C.
name: Abernathy, D. L.
name: Greven, M.
name: Reznik, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cuprates exhibit a prominent charge-density-wave (CDW) instability with wavevector along [100], i.e., the Cu-O bond direction. Whereas CDW order is most prominent at moderate doping and low temperature, there exists increasing evidence for dynamic charge correlations throughout a large portion of the temperature-doping phase diagram. In particular, signatures of incipient charge order have been observed as phonon softening and/or broadening near the CDW wavevector approximately half-way through the Brillouin zone. Most of this work has focused on moderately-doped cuprates, for which the CDW order is robust, or on optimally-doped samples, for which the superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) attains its maximum. Here we present a time-of-flight neutron scattering study of phonons in simple-tetragonal $\text{HgBa}_2\text{CuO}_{4+δ}$ ($T_c = 55$ K) at a low doping level where prior work showed the CDW order to be weak. We employ and showcase a new software-based technique that mines the large number of measured Brillouin zones for useful data in order to improve accuracy and counting statistics. Density-functional theory has not provided an accurate description of phonons in $\text{HgBa}_2\text{CuO}_{4+δ}$, yet we find the right set of parameters to qualitatively reproduce the data. The notable exception is a dispersion minimum in the longitudinal Cu-O bond-stretching branch along [100]. This discrepancy suggests that, while CDW order is weak, there exist significant dynamic charge correlations in the optic phonon range at low doping, near the edge of the superconducting dome.
Strategic or tactical partners: A case study exploring relations between Russia and Iran from 1980 to 2010
Creators: name: White, Ganna Oleksandrivna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research analyses the relationship between Russia and Iran for the past thirty years. The main question of this study is whether Russia and Iran have been strategic or tactical partners during this critical period. The answer to this question is essential for understanding the geopolitical future of the wider Middle East and Central Asia region and US role there. An alliance between Russia and Iran and their possible collaboration on Iran's nuclear program would create a major problem for the United States and its allies in the region. This thesis is based on historical analysis and case study methods. Major policy papers, articles, and books on Russia-Iran collaboration were used for this research. The analysis shows that the partnership between Iran and Russia has been driven by the geopolitical balance of power. Both countries wanted to balance the influence of the United States and its allies in the region. The paper analyses the history of collaboration between two countries in the nuclear field, in the economic and in the energy development, as well as in the political collaboration in Central Asia. The research concludes that Russia and Iran have been tactical partners, not strategic ones. Additionally, the research predicts Russia's shift toward greater collaboration with the United States and NATO in the near future.
COST EFFECTIVENESS OF AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR VACCINATION OF VILLAGE FREE-RANGE POULTRY AGAINST NEWCASTLE DISEASE IN IGANGA DISTRICT
Creators: name: Mbabazi, Esther Gloria
name: Mbabazi, Esther Gloria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH AND GRADUATE TRAINING IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY. Advisors: Prof. J. Mugisha, Assoc. Prof. A. E. State, Dr. D. K. Byarugaba
Strategic or tactical partners: A case study exploring relations between Russia and Iran from 1980 to 2010
Creators: name: White, Ganna Oleksandrivna
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This research analyses the relationship between Russia and Iran for the past thirty years. The main question of this study is whether Russia and Iran have been strategic or tactical partners during this critical period. The answer to this question is essential for understanding the geopolitical future of the wider Middle East and Central Asia region and US role there. An alliance between Russia and Iran and their possible collaboration on Iran's nuclear program would create a major problem for the United States and its allies in the region. This thesis is based on historical analysis and case study methods. Major policy papers, articles, and books on Russia-Iran collaboration were used for this research. The analysis shows that the partnership between Iran and Russia has been driven by the geopolitical balance of power. Both countries wanted to balance the influence of the United States and its allies in the region. The paper analyses the history of collaboration between two countries in the nuclear field, in the economic and in the energy development, as well as in the political collaboration in Central Asia. The research concludes that Russia and Iran have been tactical partners, not strategic ones. Additionally, the research predicts Russia's shift toward greater collaboration with the United States and NATO in the near future.
Student Food Security : The Seedlings Café Case Study
Creators: name: MacEwan, Alexa
name: Passmore, Annie
name: Bonnell, Meghan
name: Zhang, Eli
name: Zhu, Kaidi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Seedlings Café is a student-run food outlet which aims to provide environmentally conscious food to the University of British Columbia community. Seedlings Café offers an affordable 100% vegetarian menu, and it also meets the needs of individuals who seek food that is vegan, gluten-free, or dairy-free, thereby attracting a wide clientele made of undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty. Since opening in 2013 Seedlings has succeeded in not only bringing sustainable food to students but also in cultivating a space that fosters values rooted in environmental ethics and social justice, all within the realm of food. The future of the Seedlings Café depends upon the support of its main stakeholders, including the Graduate Students Society (GSS). The management of Seedlings Café has defined support in terms of a positive and transparent relationship with the GSS with the intent to strengthen partnerships and openly communicate and operate within the financial constraints of both parties. The main financial constraint for the café is the rent to be paid to GSS at $100/day. On the other hand, the GSS general manager has confirmed willingness to increase support to Seedlings Café so long as the requests remain within certain limits and be well documented. This report provides literature and survey data as well as an infographic tool in the hope of helping the Seedlings Café management demonstrate the environmental, social, economic and educational values of their enterprise to the GSS and the greater UBC community. The results of a survey of 230 customers executed during three weeks in February and March of 2016 revealed that 30% of Seedlings clientele are graduate students, and that more than half of them frequent Seedlings Café at least once a week. The top three reasons for all customers making purchases from the Seedlings Café include affordability, atmosphere, and the vegan/vegetarian food. The infographic presents the uniqueness of the Seedlings Café and its contribution to sustainability and food security. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Over-fluoridation in District of Columbia (DC) metro area residents: Its prevalence, its risks, and the steps needed to prevent it
Creators: name: Garcon, Shebna Maureen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: This thesis looked at the over-fluoridation in DC metro area residents, particularly its prevalence, its risks, and the steps needed to prevent it. Chapter 1 provides a definition of fluoride, a brief description of history of water-fluoridation, sources of fluoridation, and the risks and benefits of water fluoridation as shown in previous literature. In Chapter 2, a research study, which was done to see the prevalence of over-fluoridation, is described. The hypothesis was that DC metro area residents are overfluoridated. Results showed that the average fluoride water concentration (0.63 ppm or 0.63 mg/L) is less than the standard limit of 0.7 to 1.2 ppm and that the average urine fluoride concentration (1.53 ppm) is within the standard limit of 0.2 to 1.9 ppm. Correlations were seen between urine fluoride concentrations and age and a women's menstrual cycle. Chapter 3 focuses on other countries' takes on water fluoridation and preventative steps that can be taken to lower chances of being over-fluoridated.
Velocity Profiles in Repulsive Athermal Systems under Shear
Creators: name: Xu, Ning
name: O'Hern, Corey S.
name: Kondic, Lou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conduct molecular dynamics simulations of athermal systems undergoing boundary-driven planar shear flow in two and three spatial dimensions. We find that these systems possess nonlinear mean velocity profiles when the velocity $u$ of the shearing wall exceeds a critical value $u_c$. Above $u_c$, we also show that the packing fraction and mean-square velocity profiles become spatially-dependent with dilation and enhanced velocity fluctuations near the moving boundary. In systems with overdamped dynamics, $u_c$ is only weakly dependent on packing fraction $ϕ$. However, in systems with underdamped dynamics, $u_c$ is set by the speed of shear waves in the material and tends to zero as $ϕ$ approaches $ϕ_c$. In the small damping limit, $ϕ_c$ approaches values for random close-packing obtained in systems at zero temperature. For underdamped systems with $ϕ
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Over-fluoridation in District of Columbia (DC) metro area residents: Its prevalence, its risks, and the steps needed to prevent it
Creators: name: Garcon, Shebna Maureen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis looked at the over-fluoridation in DC metro area residents, particularly its prevalence, its risks, and the steps needed to prevent it. Chapter 1 provides a definition of fluoride, a brief description of history of water-fluoridation, sources of fluoridation, and the risks and benefits of water fluoridation as shown in previous literature. In Chapter 2, a research study, which was done to see the prevalence of over-fluoridation, is described. The hypothesis was that DC metro area residents are overfluoridated. Results showed that the average fluoride water concentration (0.63 ppm or 0.63 mg/L) is less than the standard limit of 0.7 to 1.2 ppm and that the average urine fluoride concentration (1.53 ppm) is within the standard limit of 0.2 to 1.9 ppm. Correlations were seen between urine fluoride concentrations and age and a women's menstrual cycle. Chapter 3 focuses on other countries' takes on water fluoridation and preventative steps that can be taken to lower chances of being over-fluoridated.
Additional file 2 of Health status and use of medication and their association with migration related exposures among Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Norway: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Strømme, Elisabeth Marie
name: Haj-Younes, Jasmin
name: Wegdan Hasha
name: Fadnes, Lars T.
name: Kumar, Bernadette
name: Igland, Jannicke
name: Diaz, Esperanza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Title of data: Daily use of drugs (%). Description of data: table with prevalence proportions of daily use of selected drugs combined and stratified by country and gender.
ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF COMPETING LAND- USE OPTIONS AND THEIR DRIVERS IN AMBOSELI ECOSYSTEM, KENYA
Creators: name: Njuguna, Evelyne Wairimu
name: Njuguna, Evelyne Wairimu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI. Advisors: Dr. John Mburu, Prof. Ackello-Ogutu
Smash Cake
Creators: name: Melder, Joseph Andrew
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: This thesis explores the subtle and certain loss of the belief of the great myth of manhood, and the narrowing of youth into something much less manageable and magical, but no less celebrated. Like the title suggests, this thesis aims to imagine life as a first birthday cake, and to smash it joyfully.
Configuration Entropy for Quarkonium in a Finite Density Plasma
Creators: name: Braga, Nelson R. F.
name: da Mata, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the recent years many examples appeared in the literature where the configuration entropy (CE), introduced by Gleiser and Stamatopoulos, plays the role of an indicator of stability of physical systems. It was observed that, comparing states of the same system, the lower is the value of the CE, the more stable is the state. In this work we investigate the behaviour of the differential configuration entropy (DCE) , that is appropriate for systems with continuous degrees of freedom, in a new context. We consider quasi-states of quarkonium (a vector meson made of a heavy quark anti-quark pair) inside a plasma at finite density. It is known that the density increases the dissociation effect for quasi-particles inside a plasma. So, increasing the density of a thermal medium corresponds to reducing the stability of the quasi-particles. In order to investigate how this situation is translated in the Configutation Entropy context, we use a recently developed holographic AdS/QCD model for heavy vector mesons. The quasi-normal modes describing the quasi-states are obtained and the corresponding DCE is calculated. We find, for bottomonium and charmonium $1 S$ quasi-states, that the DCE increases with the quark density, or quark chemical potential, of the medium. This result shows that the DCE works again as an indicator of stability, represented in this case by the dissociation effect associated with the density.
description: In this V2 we consider the Differential Configuration Entropy and also provide more details about the temperature and density dependences. 16 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Version to appear in Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.13498
Impact Assessment of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya: An Application of Correlated Random Effects
Creators: name: Muricho, G.
name: Kulundu, D.
name: Sule, F.
name: Muricho, G.
name: Kulundu, D.
name: Sule, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Welfare implication of agricultural commercialization in developing countries is not clear. Particularly not clear is its effect on household food security. Using panel data collected from smallholder farmers in Kenya, we analyze the impact of agricultural commercialization on household food security by fitting endogenous switching regression model in a correlated random effects framework. The results show that agricultural commercialization significantly improves household food security. Food security probability of commercialized and non-commercialized households was 62% and 32%, respectively. This 30% food security gap between the two groups of households could be reduced by 39 percentage points (12% gap) if non-commercialized households could be as efficient as commercialized household in their resource use. The other 61% percentage points (18% gap) emanated from differences in resource amounts between commercialized and non-commercialized households. The implication of these findings is that policies that stimulate and enhance agricultural commercialization are critical in improving household food security. Acknowledgement : This study was supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and Australian International Food Security Research Centre (AIFSRC) through International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) led Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Cropping Systems in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) program, and Adoption Pathways Project. The views expressed here are those of authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the donor or authors institution. The usual disclaimer applies
Procariama Rovereto 1914
Creators: name: Alvarenga, Herculano M. F.
name: Höfling, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Psilopteridae
Procariama

description: Genus Procariama Rovereto, 1914
 Type Species – Procariama simplex Rovereto, 1914.
 Included Species – Only the type species.
 Distribution – Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene of Argentina. (Catamarca Province).
 Diagnos i s Revised – It is very similar to Psilopterus, being distiguished from this by the larger size and sturdier build (Fig. 1G), and by a slight difference in the proportion of the bones of the hind-limbs, where the femur is proportionally shorter (Patterson & Kraglievich, 1960:16). The wing bones of Procariama are also proportionally smaller (Fig. 3). In the tarsometatarsus, the hipotarsus forms two expansions (one lateral the other medial) in the most proximal part, this thus looking like two crests (Fig. 29A), different from both Psilopterus and Paleopsilopterus.
description: Published as part of Alvarenga, Herculano M. F. & Höfling, Elizabeth, 2003, Systematic Revision Of The Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes), pp. 55-91 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 43 (4) on page 83, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492003000400001, http://zenodo.org/record/4900701
Additional file 1 of Health status and use of medication and their association with migration related exposures among Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Norway: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Strømme, Elisabeth Marie
name: Haj-Younes, Jasmin
name: Wegdan Hasha
name: Fadnes, Lars T.
name: Kumar, Bernadette
name: Igland, Jannicke
name: Diaz, Esperanza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Title of data: Lifetime prevalence of different health conditions (%). Description of data: table with lifetime prevalence proportions of selected health conditions and symptoms combined and stratified by country and gender.
Does sustainable intensification of maize production enhance child nutrition? Evidence from rural Tanzania
Creators: name: Kim, J.
name: Mason, N.
name: Snapp, S.
name: Kim, J.
name: Mason, N.
name: Snapp, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Food insecurity, child malnutrition, and land degradation remain persistent problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural sustainable intensification (SI) has been proposed as a possible solution to simultaneously address these challenges. Yet there is little empirical evidence on if SI do indeed improve child nutrition. To begin to fill this gap, we use Tanzania National Panel Survey data to analyze the child nutrition effects of rural households adoption of farming practices that contribute to the SI of maize production. We group households into four categories based on their use of three soil fertility management practices on maize plots: Non-adoption ; Intensification (use of inorganic fertilizer); Sustainable (use of organic fertilizer, maize-legume intercropping, or both); and SI (joint use of inorganic fertilizer with organic fertilizer and/or maize-legume intercropping). The full-sample results from multinomial endogenous treatment effects models suggest that adoption of all three categories improves children s height-for-age z-score (HAZ) relative to Non-adoption , while only the SI category enhances children s weight-for-age z-score (WAZ). Since children are largely breastfed until age 2, we re-estimate the models using children age 25-59 months, which suggests that adoption of Sustainable and SI categories increases HAZ by 0.44 and 0.38 units, respectively, and WAZ by 0.29 and 0.52 units, respectively. Acknowledgement : This research was supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through funding to the Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification and Food Security Policy, and the USAID Mission to Tanzania. The authors wish to thank Neema Kassim, Jean-Claude Rubyogo, and Felicia Wu for helpful input on this research.
LEAP System for SRE19 CTS Challenge -- Improvements and Error Analysis
Creators: name: Ramoji, Shreyas
name: Krishnan, Prashant
name: Mysore, Bhargavram
name: Singh, Prachi
name: Ganapathy, Sriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation - Conversational Telephone Speech (CTS) challenge 2019 was an open evaluation for the task of speaker verification in challenging conditions. In this paper, we provide a detailed account of the LEAP SRE system submitted to the CTS challenge focusing on the novel components in the back-end system modeling. All the systems used the time-delay neural network (TDNN) based x-vector embeddings. The x-vector system in our SRE19 submission used a large pool of training speakers (about 14k speakers). Following the x-vector extraction, we explored a neural network approach to backend score computation that was optimized for a speaker verification cost. The system combination of generative and neural PLDA models resulted in significant improvements for the SRE evaluation dataset. We also found additional gains for the SRE systems based on score normalization and calibration. Subsequent to the evaluations, we have performed a detailed analysis of the submitted systems. The analysis revealed the incremental gains obtained for different training dataset combinations as well as the modeling methods.
description: Published In Proc. Odyssey 2020, the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Link to GitHub Implementation: https://github.com/iiscleap/NeuralPlda
Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake 1962
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita nigridia

description: Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962
[Holotype: USNM; ♂ Salt Creek, Orocopia Mts., Riverside Co., California, USA; March 20, 1927]
This species occurs in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Mentzelia L. (Fowler 2020). Within BC, it was recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in March 1966 by BBSL (GBIF, 2023). See fig. 54.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Bethe Ansatz equations and exact S matrices for the osp(M|2n) open super spin chain
Creators: name: Arnaudon, Daniel
name: Avan, Jean
name: Crampe, Nicolas
name: Doikou, Anastasia
name: Frappat, Luc
name: Ragoucy, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We formulate the Bethe Ansatz equations for the open super spin chain based on the super Yangian of osp(M|2n) and with diagonal boundary conditions. We then study the bulk and boundary scattering of the osp(1|2n) open spin chain.
description: references added
Chinese Urban Consumer s Perception of the Chinese Urban Consumer s Perception of the Determinants of Food Safety
Creators: name: Wahl, T.
name: Seale, J.
name: Bai, J.
name: Wahl, T.
name: Seale, J.
name: Bai, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Food safety incidents in China have ignited demand for safer food and increased regulation of food products. Reports of sales of adulterated pork, beef, wine, etc. have increased concern over food safety. What do consumers perceive determines the safety of their food? Do consumers perceive that food purchased at large supermarkets is safer than that from traditional wet markets? Do they trust their ability to evaluate the appearance of products? Does government certification of safety matter? Do certain brands elicit trust in the safety of their products? Does an expiration date on the product matter? In this paper, we analyze how consumers determine the safety of meat, milk, fruit, vegetables, and juice products and how these determinants vary with economic and demographic variables. Acknowledgement :
Additional file 2 of RASflow: an RNA-Seq analysis workflow with Snakemake
Creators: name: Xiaokang Zhang
name: Jonassen, Inge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Figure S2. (a) The mean quality scores of raw reads from human prostate cancer data. (b) The mean quality scores of trimmed reads from human prostate cancer data.
Maize Farmers Preferences for ICT-based extension services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Nigeria
Creators: name: Oyinbo, O.
name: Maertens, M.
name: Chamberlin, J.
name: Vanlauwe, B.
name: Craufurd, P.
name: Kamara, A.
name: Oyinbo, O.
name: Maertens, M.
name: Chamberlin, J.
name: Vanlauwe, B.
name: Craufurd, P.
name: Kamara, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research and Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Efforts aimed at addressing low productivity of maize in Nigeria and most parts of SSA via improved soil fertility management have largely been based on the conventional blanket extension recommendations rather than site-specific recommendations which take into consideration the heterogeneity in farmers growing conditions. To contribute in addressing this challenge, a computer-based tool known as Nutrient Expert (NE) for maize is been developed. In anticipation of the introduction of the tool, we use discrete choice experiment to evaluate maize farmers preferences for site-specific extension recommendations at the development phase of the tool where farmers preferences can improve the tool development. We find that farmers have strong preference for site-specific extension recommendations on nutrient management over the traditional blanket recommendations. However, there is heterogeneity of preferences giving rise to two segments of farmers (innovators and conservatives) defined largely by differences in resource endowment. Our empirical findings have implications for improvement, potential uptake and targeting of the tool to meet the needs of different categories of farmers. Acknowledgement : We deeply appreciate the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for funding Taking Maize Agronomy to Scale (TAMASA) project and the PhD research activities that produced this paper.
The role of social location in shaping johns' perceptions and reported treatment of female sex workers
Creators: name: Mancini, Tara
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Western Feminists have long debated the circumstances under which sex work can either be empowering or detrimental for sex workers. It has been argued that prostitution studies often lacked feminist theory, while theoretical work has failed to engage with the empirical. Recently, more comprehensive studies have emerged, but many still do not take into account the demand for sex. This research considers johns' perceptions and reported treatment of sex workers. Rather than regarding johns as a unitary group, I use Connell's masculinities theory and Collins' concept of the matrix of domination, to draw on semi-structured interviews with johns. The analysis takes into account how a john's location within the matrix may influence his perception and treatment of a sex worker based on her perceived social location. I suggest implications of the research as well as new areas for future research.
Income Inequalities among Agricultural Households in India: Assessment and Contributing Factors
Creators: name: Bathla, S.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Bathla, S.
name: Kumar, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Growing inter- and intra-state income inequalities have been at the centre stage of policy discourse in India. A disaggregated analysis of income inequalities among agricultural households and the associated factors can be useful in deliberating the role of public policies toward inclusive growth and welfare. This paper estimates income inequality among agricultural households and identifies the factors that contribute to it by using a farm-level data from nationally representative survey conducted in 2003 and 2013. The results show that households income from crop and animal farming has doubled and that from wage and non-farm activities has increased by 1.3 times over the decade. The inequalities have not widened much but the Gini indices are drastically high in each state, irrespective of land size. The regression based inequality decomposition approach shows land, non-farm income and farm assets as major contributors to inequality with varying magnitude in each state. The contribution of these at all India is estimated at 25.8, 28.6 and 14.3 percent respectively. The findings suggest accelerating public investment and bringing equality in access to land, technology and credit for higher private investment and productivity. The real challenge in mitigating income gaps is to improve the viability of holdings that are increasingly getting fragmented. Acknowledgement :
Experimental Demonstration of Instrument-specific Quantum Memory Effects and Non-Markovian Process Recovery for Common-Cause Processes
Creators: name: Guo, Yu
name: Taranto, Philip
name: Liu, Bi-Heng
name: Hu, Xiao-Min
name: Huang, Yun-Feng
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The duration, strength and structure of memory effects are crucial properties of physical evolution. Due to the invasive nature of quantum measurement, such properties must be defined with respect to the probing instruments employed. Here, using a photonic platform, we experimentally demonstrate this necessity via two paradigmatic processes: future-history correlations in the first process can be erased by an intermediate quantum measurement; for the second process, a noisy classical measurement blocks the effect of history. We then apply memory truncation techniques to recover an efficient description that approximates expectation values for multi-time observables. Our proof-of-principle analysis paves the way for experiments concerning more general non-Markovian quantum processes and highlights where standard open systems techniques break down.
description: 4.5+7 pages; 7 figures; 62 references
Impacts of the 2016-17 Food Insecurity Response Program on maize prices in Malawi
Creators: name: Baulch, B.
name: Baulch, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: In early 2016, Malawi suffered its second consecutive year of harvest failure. An emergency was declared in April 2016 and the resulting humanitarian response, known as the Food Insecurity Response Program (FIRP), was of unprecedented scale: almost 40 percent of the population received in-kind food or cash transfers (or both) at an estimated cost of US$ 287 million. Yet despite the extensive nature of the response, prices for the main food staple, maize, stayed relatively flat throughout most of the year and then declined during the pre-harvest lean season. This paper examines what explains this paradox, focusing on why food distribution in-kind did not depress maize prices while cash transfers did not raise them, using daily information on maize prices, in-kind food distribution and cash transfers from ten major markets during the height of the FIRP. Time series methods are used to analyze the properties of the series and model the formation of maize prices using autoregressive distributed lag models. Limited evidence of price linkages between markets and almost no impact of food distribution and cash transfers on maize prices is found. Sen s distinction between direct and trade-based entitlements is used to help explain this paradox. Acknowledgement :
Types of Commonly Used Anthelminthic Drugs
Creators: name: Types of Commonly Used Anthelminthic Drugs
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Livestock, vital to global agriculture, face constant threats from helminthic infections that significantly impact their health and productivity. This abstract provides a comprehensive overview of anthelmintic strategies employed in livestock farming, focusing on common drug classes and their modes of action against gastrointestinal nematodes and flukes. The primary drug classes discussed include Macrocyclic Lactones (MLs), Benzimidazoles (BZs), Tetrahydropyrimidines-imidazothiazoles, Aminoacetonitrile Derivatives (AADs), and Spiroindoles. The modes of action, including paralysis and disruption of nutrient acquisition, are discussed. Broad-spectrum anthelmintics, preferred for ruminants, offer ease of administration. Effective use of these drugs is crucial for parasite control, with emphasis on preventing resistance through informed management practices. This gives serves as a concise reference for researchers and practitioners in livestock health.
Symbolic stochastic dynamical systems viewed as binary N-step Markov chains
Creators: name: Usatenko, O. V.
name: Yampol'skii, V. A.
name: Kechedzhy, K. E.
name: Mel'nyk, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A theory of systems with long-range correlations based on the consideration of binary N-step Markov chains is developed. In the model, the conditional probability that the i-th symbol in the chain equals zero (or unity) is a linear function of the number of unities among the preceding N symbols. The correlation and distribution functions as well as the variance of number of symbols in the words of arbitrary length L are obtained analytically and numerically. A self-similarity of the studied stochastic process is revealed and the similarity group transformation of the chain parameters is presented. The diffusion Fokker-Planck equation governing the distribution function of the L-words is explored. If the persistent correlations are not extremely strong, the distribution function is shown to be the Gaussian with the variance being nonlinearly dependent on L. The applicability of the developed theory to the coarse-grained written and DNA texts is discussed.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Experimental Evidence of Risk Attitude of Farmers from Risk-Preference Elicitation in India
Creators: name: Patil, V.
name: Veettil, P.C.
name: Patil, V.
name: Veettil, P.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Covariate production risks are some of the central features of the agriculture sector especially in developing countries that merit further economic research. Risk attitudes of the farmers play a crucial role in designing and targeting mechanisms to mitigate risks. As a part of our larger research project towards developing a comprehensive crop insurance product, we conduct risk preferences elicitation experiment with rice-growing farmers in eastern India. The experiment is relatively unique in that it introduces a minimum entry fee which help in eliciting risk preferences that are close to their behaviour in real decision makings. Using zero-inflated ordered probit mode, we analysed the experimental data. The results show that small and marginal farmers tend to opt for options associated with high risk aversion. As majority of the farmers in the sampled states have small and marginal landholdings, in general farmers tend to be risk averse. In addition, compared to young farmers, elder farmers are found to be more risk averse. Education and household size of respondents have also positive effect on riskier options and negative effect on risk averse options. Farmers who belong to minority caste/social class (SC and ST) are more likely to opt the risk aversion strategy. Acknowledgement :