cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cordyla nitidula Edwards 1925
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Cordyla
Cordyla nitidula

description: 54. Cordyla nitidula Edwards, 1925 *
 Material examined. C07 20–24.V.06 ♂♂. C58 10–11.XI.06 ♂♂, 12–13.XI.06 lt ♂♂. S1 25.VII–8.VIII.06 ♂♂, 8–22.VIII.06 ♀, 19.IX–3.X.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 ♂♂, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂. S2 19.IX–3.X.06 2 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 ♂♂, 17–31.X.06 ♂♂. S3 19.IX–3.X.06 ♂♂, 3–17.X.06 2 ♂♂. SAR1 29.IX–21.X.03 4 ♂♂, 21.X–12.XI.03 ♂♂, 12.XII.03–8.I.04 ♂♂, 16.II–15.VI.04 ♂♂, 15–30.VI.04 ♂♂, 5–22.XI.04 ♂♂, 22.XI–17.XII.04 ♂♂, 16.VI–14.VII.05 1 ♂, 5.VIII.13.IX.05 1 ♂, 13–30.IX.05 5 ♂♂, 30.IX–17.X.05 20 ♂♂, 17.X–3.XI.05 10 ♂♂, 3–16.XI.05 6 ♂♂, 6.X–5.XI.06 ♂♂. U2 21.XI.05 1 ♂. U4 22.XI.05 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 2 (revised from 3 in Chandler et al. (2006)) [1.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Palaearctic.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Chandler 2003c; Kurina 2008) and Sardinia.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Physical velocity of particles in relativistic curved momentum space
Creators: name: Mignemi, Salvatore
name: Rosati, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show in general that for a relativistic theory with curved momentum space, i.e.~a theory with deformed relativistic symmetries, the physical velocity of particles coincides with their group velocity. This clarifies a long-standing question about the discrepancy between coordinate and group velocity for this kind of theories. The first evidence that this was the case had been obtained at linear order in the deformation parameter in Phys.Lett.B700(2011)150 for the specific case of $κ$-momentum space. The proof was based on the recent understanding of how relative locality affects these scenarios. We here rely again on a careful implementation of relative locality effects, and obtain our result for a generic (relativistic) curved momentum space framework at all orders in the deformation/curvature parameter. We also discuss the validity of this result when the deformation depends on the coordinates as well as on the momenta.
Gamma-ray line emission from OB associations and young open clusters. II. The Cygnus region
Creators: name: Knodlseder, J.
name: Cervino, M.
name: Duigou, J. -M. Le
name: Meynet, G.
name: Schaerer, D.
name: von Ballmoos, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray and microwave observations of the Cygnus region reveal an intense signal of 1.809 MeV line emission, attributed to radioactive decay of 26Al, that is closely correlated with 53 GHz free-free emission, originating from the ionised interstellar medium. We modelled both emissions using a multi-wavelength evolutionary synthesis code for massive star associations that we applied to the known massive star populations in Cygnus. For all OB associations and young open clusters in the field, we determined the population age, distance, and richness as well as the uncertainties in all these quantities from published photometric and spectroscopic data. We propagate the population uncertainties in model uncertainties by means of a Bayesian method. The young globular cluster Cyg OB2 turns out to be the dominant 26Al nucleosynthesis and ionisation source in Cygnus. Our model reproduces the ionising luminosity of the Cygnus region very well, yet it underestimates 26Al production by about a factor of 2. We attribute this underestimation to shortcomings of current nucleosynthesis models, and suggest the inclusion of stellar rotation as possible mechanism to enhance 26Al production. We also modelled 60Fe nucleosynthesis in the Cygnus region, yet the small number of recent supernova events suggests only little 60Fe production. Consequently, a detection of the 1.137 MeV and 1.332 MeV decay lines of 60Fe from Cygnus by the upcoming INTEGRAL observatory is not expected.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Climate change perceptions and experiences from tourists visiting popular destinations in South Africa
Creators: name: Chapungu, Lazarus
name: Maoela, Malebajoa Anicia
name: Mashula, Nthivhiseni
name: Kunene, Hlengiwe
name: Nhamo, Godwell
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Popular tourism destinations are not insulated from climate change variability and vulnerability. Conversely, these destinations also contribute to climate change. Although several studies have investigated the climate change-tourism nexus, there remains limited knowledge regarding tourist perceptions of climate change on popular African destinations. This study examines tourist perceptions of climate change at the Sun City Resort, a popular destination in South Africa attracting both domestic and international tourists all year round. Data were generated from a survey of 278 tourist participants. The data were analysed in JMP Pro generating descriptive statistics to determine variable and response frequencies, and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to examine the relationships, mediations, and associations among key constructs. The results reveal significant associations among climate change awareness, climate change experiences, climate change impacts, and response strategies. Most tourists are familiar with climate change and its existential and potential impacts on the resort. The most prominent weather events include heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and droughts. The impacts include water scarcity, disruption of recreational activities, and destruction of habitats. Low carbon transport systems and green accommodation facilities, carbon friendly activities, investing in climate disaster early warning systems, climate-proofed infrastructure, ensuring facilities and upgrading of disaster rescue operations were highlighted as suitable response strategies. The study concludes that tourists are generally conscious of climate change, and they have knowledge of the necessary actions to ensure popular destination suitability in the face of climate change. The study opens the possibility for crafting destination specific climate action plans that promote destination sustainability.
Aspiring Muslims in Russia: Form-of-Life and Political Ecoonomy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement
Creators: name: Benussi, Matteo
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Islam in Russia
halal
Islamic reform
Islam and post-socialism
Form of life
Ethics
Agamben
Post-Soviet social change
Russia's politcal economy
Povolzhye
Idel-Ural
middle class
civil society in Russia

description: This thesis is concerned with the ways in which Muslims in Russia’s Povolzhye region define, and strive towards, spiritual and material well-being. It explores how pious subjectivities are cultivated in a secular and often politically hostile environment. In addition, it deals with Povolzhye Muslims’s pursuit of worldly success in the context of social change brought about by Russia’s transition to a market economy. Povolzhye is a prosperous, multi-ethnic and multi-confessional historical region, home to Russia’s second largest ethnic group, the Volga Tatars. Although the Tatars have been Sunni Muslims for centuries, the post-Soviet emergence of cosmopolitan, scripturalist piety trends – which I collectively refer to as Povolzhye’s ‘halal movement’ – has raised unprecedented concerns and disputes about the meaning of Muslimness and the place of Muslims in Russian society. Scripturalist virtue-ethics projects have been underrepresented within the expanding body of anthropological literature concerning Islam in the former USSR, and particularly in the Russian Federation. With its explicit ethnographic focus on Povolzhye’s halal movement, this work aims at filling this gap. The halal movement is characterised by its hypermodern transnational imagery as well as significant discursive overlapping with the realms of business and economy. The pursuit of a virtuous existence is particularly appealing to those ascending sectors of society that most successfully engage with Russia’s post-socialist free-market environment, while the idiom of piety both communicates and dissimulates novel forms of stratification and exclusion. This project brings together anthropological theories of ethical self-cultivation with approaches that focus on power, social change, and political economy. In order to explore the political life of the halal movement vis-à-vis both state institutions and the market, I employ Giorgio Agamben’s notions of ‘form-of-life’ and ‘rule/law’, which shed light on the relationship between power and virtue in original ways. In addition, particular attention is given to the social distribution of virtue and the role it plays in reproducing distinction, status, and a ‘capitalist spirit’.
description: My doctoral work was supported by CHESS (fees only), the William Wyse Fund, the Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, and the Ling Roth Fund.
Electronic Supplemental Material_Revised
Creators: name: Malikova, Jana
name: Kaci, Alba
name: Dusatkova, Petra
name: Aukrust, Ingvild
name: Janniche Torsvik
name: Vesela, Klara
name: Kankova, Pavla Dvorakova
name: Njølstad, Pål R.
name: Stepanka Pruhova
name: Bjørkhaug, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Revised Electronic Supplemental Material for Malikova et al 2019_JCEM
SUSY Ward identities in 1-loop perturbation theory
Creators: name: Farchioni, Federico
name: Feo, Alessandra
name: Galla, Tobias
name: Gebert, Claus
name: Kirchner, Robert
name: Montvay, Istvan
name: Muenster, Gernot
name: Peetz, Roland
name: Vladikas, Anastassios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present preliminary results of a study of the supersymmetric (SUSY) Ward identities (WIs) for the N=1 SU(2) SUSY Yang-Mills theory in the context of one-loop lattice perturbation theory. The supersymmetry on the lattice is explicitly broken by the gluino mass and the lattice artifacts. However, the renormalization of the supercurrent can be carried out in a scheme that restores the nominal continuum WIs. The perturbative calculation of the renormalization constants and mixing coefficients for the local supercurrent is presented.
description: Lattice2001(higgssusy); 3 pages
Environmental Policy Performance and its Determinants: Application of a Three-level Random Intercept Model
Creators: name: Galeotti, Marzio
name: Rubashkina, Yana
name: Salini, Silvia
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Galeotti, Marzio
name: Rubashkina, Yana
name: Salini, Silvia
name: Verdolini, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Energy Policy
subject: Environmental Policy
subject: Ranking
subject: Policy Portfolios

description: We propose the use of a three-level random intercept model to measure the degree of environmental policy performance of different countries and to study its determinants. Inspired by the literature on multilevel latent models and Item Response Theory (IRT), this framework treats policy commitment as a latent variable which is estimated conditional on the difficulty of the policy portfolio implemented by each country. We contribute to the study and scoring of environmental and energy policies in three main ways. First, the model results in a ranking of countries which is conditional on the complexity of their chosen policy portfolio. Second, we provide a unified framework in which to construct a policy indicator and to study its determinants through a latent regression approach. The resulting country ranking can thus be cleaned from the effect of economic and institutional observables which affect policy design and implementation. Third, the model estimates parameters which can be used to describe and compare policy portfolios across countries. We apply this methodology to the case of energy efficiency policies in the industrial sectors of 29 EU countries between 2004 and 2011. We conclude by highlighting the future possible applications of this approach, which are not confined to the realm of environmental and energy policy.
Pressure-temperature phase diagrams of selenium and sulfur in terms of Patashinski model
Creators: name: Son, L. D.
name: Rusakov, G. M.
name: Katkov, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pressure - temperature phase diagrams of Se and S are calculated. Both melting and polymorphous phase transition are described in the frames of statistical Patashinski model. The results are in good agreement with experimental data of Brazhkin et. al.
description: 3 eps figures, will appear in Physica A, mail to first author ldson@mail.ru
Energy Technology Expert Elicitations for Policy: Workshops, Modeling, and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Diaz Anadon, Laura
name: Chan, Gabe
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Nemet, Gregory
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Diaz Anadon, Laura
name: Chan, Gabe
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Nemet, Gregory
name: Verdolini, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Expert Elicitations
subject: Energy Technology Innovation
subject: Public R&D
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Optimization

description: Characterizing the future performance of energy technologies can improve the development of energy policies that have net benefits under a broad set of future conditions. In particular, decisions about public investments in research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) that promote technological change can benefit from (1) an explicit consideration of the uncertainty inherent in the innovation process and (2) a systematic evaluation of the tradeoffs in investment allocations across different technologies. To shed light on these questions, over the past five years several groups in the United States and Europe have conducted expert elicitations and modeled the resulting societal benefits. In this paper, we discuss the lessons learned from the design and implementation of these initiatives in four respects. First, we discuss lessons from the development of ten energy-technology expert elicitation protocols, highlighting the challenge of matching elicitation design with a particular modeling tool. Second, we report insights from the use of expert elicitations to optimize RD&D investment portfolios. These include a discussion of the rate of decreasing marginal returns to research, the optimal level of overall investments, and the sensitivity of results to policy scenarios and selected metrics for evaluation. Third, we discuss the effect of combining online elicitation tools with in-person group discussions on the usefulness of the results. Fourth, we summarize the results of a meta-analysis of elicited data across research groups to identify the association between expert characteristics and elicitation results.
ADOLF HITLER: Del fanatismo común al racismo científico al genocidio
Creators: name: A.E. Samaan
name: MARÍA SEMIDEY RONDÓN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hitler
Nazi
Fascismo
Segunda Guerra Mundial
El Holocausto
Racismo
Genocidio

description: Se incluye un capítulo del volumen 1 de la serie de libros The Eugenics Anthology: “From a ‘Race of Masters’ to a ‘Master Race’: 1948 to 1848”. Este capítulo se separa debido a que versa sobre un problema específico acerca de la evolución de Adolf Hitler desde un fanático común a un maníaco genocida. Esta transformación se evidencia en la cronología de los discursos de Hitler. En lo que respecta al conocimiento de este autor, nadie más ha tomado nota de este cambio discernible en la retórica de los discursos de Hitler. Adolf Hitler fue desde un vulgar intolerante dotado con las elucubraciones de un maniático de a pie a salir de su estancia en la prisión como un maníaco genocida dotado con el racismo científico de los biólogos de la Ivy League. Este es un cambio discernible y muy importante en el tipo de racismo de Hitler. Un estudio de los discursos pre y post-Landberg de Hitler demuestra este cambio en su retórica. Es notable que Adolf Hitler cambió su retórica racial y pasó de definir a la población judía como los opresores astutos a caracterizarlos como alimañas débiles.
Novel approach towards pathogenesis and treatment of sickle cell disease
Creators: name: Al Balushi, Halima
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sickle cell disease
HbS-Oman
Red cell
Potassium pereability.

description: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common genetic diseases worldwide. HbS polymerisation causes altered red blood cell (RBC) rheology and fragility, increase in blood viscosity with blockage of small blood vessels, and RBC membrane permeability changes. Excessive levels of cell-free Hb, high autoxidation of Hb, contribute to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in SCD patients. In this work, oxidants showed direct and indirect effects on the main cation permeability pathways involved in dehydration of HbS/S RBCs – Psickle, the Gardos channel and the KCl cotransporter (KCC) - and thus on RBC volume causing polymersation. Psickle and Gardos channel activities showed significant correlation, consistent with the hypothesis that Ca2+ entry via Psickle causes activation of the Ca2+-dependent K+ channel. Treatment of SCD remains inadequate relying on the blood transfusion and supportive therapy depending on the organ affected. In the present study antioxidants and aromatic aldehydes showed some promising results towards future alternative treatments for SCD. Antioxidants showed inhibitory effects on the cation permeability pathways leading to inhibition of polymerisation and haemolysis and thus maintained RBC volume. Aromatic aldehydes interact with HbS and are usually given to increase oxygen affinity, thereby reducing its tendency to polymerise. GBT1118 had a marked inhibitory effect on all three cation permeability pathways. It reduced sickling, Psickle and Gardos activity. It inhibited KCC by affecting the regulatory protein phosphorylation cascade. It maintained RBC hydration, and stabilised RBCs. Historically Oman was the principal trading port of the Persian Gulf region, resulting in the complex mix of social and ethnic backgrounds. In 1989 a second mutation in the β chain of Hb, at position β121 was found in an Omani patient in addition to the usual HbS mutation at the β6 position, and termed HbS-Oman. At low percentage of HbS-Oman patients show severe SCD symptoms. Despite RBCs containing at most 25% HbS-Oman, there was high sickling percentage and K+ permeability showed many features similar to those seen in homozygous HbS/S patients. The presence of α thalassaemia was protective and represents an obvious potential prognostic marker for this rare SCD genotype. Overall, the present work contributes to elucidation of the pathogenesis of SCD, suggests approaches to the development of novel therapies and increases our understanding of a rare SCD genotype, HbS-Oman
Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
Creators: name: Xia, Menglin
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Language Processing
Text Readability
Summarisation Evaluation
L2 Reading
Text Similarity
Text Classification
Automated Summarisation Assessment

description: This thesis focuses on two important aspects of non-native reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading comprehension. We approach both tasks as supervised machine learning problems and present automated assessment systems that achieve state-of-the-art performance. We first address the task of text readability assessment for L2 learners. One of the major challenges for a data-driven approach to text readability assessment is the lack of significantly-sized level-annotated data aimed at L2 learners. We present a dataset of CEFR-graded texts tailored for L2 learners and look into a range of linguistic features affecting text readability. We compare the text readability measures for native and L2 learners and explore methods that make use of the more plentiful data aimed at native readers to help improve L2 readability assessment. We then present a summarisation task for evaluating non-native reading comprehension and demonstrate an automated summarisation assessment system aimed at evaluating the quality of learner summaries. We propose three novel machine learning approaches to assessing learner summaries. In the first approach, we examine using several NLP techniques to extract features to measure the content similarity between the reading passage and the summary. In the second approach, we calculate a similarity matrix and apply a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to assess the summary quality using the similarity matrix. In the third approach, we build an end-to-end summarisation assessment model using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Further, we combine the three approaches to a single system using a parallel ensemble modelling technique. We show that our models outperform traditional approaches that rely on exact word match on the task and that our best model produces quality assessments close to professional examiners.
Cordyla fasciata Meigen 1830
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Cordyla
Cordyla fasciata

description: 51. Cordyla fasciata Meigen, 1830 *
 Material examined. S1 17–31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. S2 17 –31.X.06 ♂♂ ♀. SAR1 12.XII.03–8.I.04 ♂♂, 15– 30.VI.04 ♂♂, 22.XI–17.XII.04 ♀, 20.V–16.VI.05 ♂♂, 30.IX–17.X.05 ♂♂, 6.X–5.XI.06 ♂♂ ♀, 5–16.XI.06 ♀.
 Chorotype. Type 2 [1.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Palaearctic.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Chandler 2003c) and Sardinia.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
title: Entretien avec J. Leibowitch
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Retranscription d'un entretien par des étudiants du Médialab de SciencesPo, corrigée par Jacques Leibowitch.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311113242128
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Novel Ferromagnetic Atom Waveguide with in situ loading
Creators: name: Vengalattore, M.
name: Rooijakkers, W.
name: Prentiss, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magneto-optic and magnetostatic trapping is realized near a surface using current carrying coils wrapped around magnetizable cores. A cloud of 10^7 Cesium atoms is created with currents less than 50 mA. Ramping up the current while maintaining optical dissipation leads to tightly confined atom clouds with an aspect ratio of 1:1000. We study the 3D character of the magnetic potential and characterize atom number and density as a function of the applied current. The field gradient in the transverse dimension has been varied from < 10 G/cm to > 1 kG/cm. By loading and cooling atoms in-situ, we have eliminated the problem of coupling from a MOT into a smaller phase space.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Chandra High-Resolution Spectrum of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61
Creators: name: Juett, Adrienne M.
name: Marshall, Herman L.
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: Schulz, Norbert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a 25 ks observation of the 8.7 s anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U~0142+61 with the High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The continuum spectrum is consistent with previous measurements and is well fit by an absorbed power-law + blackbody with photon index Gamma=3.3+/-0.4 and kT=0.418+/-0.013 keV. No evidence was found for emission or absorption lines, with an upper limit of ~50 eV on the equivalent width of broad features in the 2.5-13 A (0.95-5.0 keV) range and an upper limit of ~10 eV on the equivalent width of narrow features in the 4.1-17.7 A (0.7-3.0 keV) range. If the source is a magnetar, then the absence of a proton cyclotron line strongly constrains magnetar atmosphere models and hence the magnetic field strength of the neutron star. We find no strong features that are indicative of cyclotron absorption for magnetic field strengths of (1.9-9.8)x10^{14} G. This is still consistent with the dipole field strength of B=1.3x10^{14} G (at the polar cap) estimated from the pulsar's spindown.
description: 4 pages including 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Deep Retinal Image Segmentation with Regularization Under Geometric Priors
Creators: name: Cherukuri, Venkateswararao
name: BG, Vijay Kumar
name: Bala, Raja
name: Monga, Vishal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as micro-aneurysms and hemorrhages. Early approaches addressing this problem employed hand-crafted filters to capture vessel structures, accompanied by morphological post-processing. More recently, deep learning techniques have been employed with significantly enhanced segmentation accuracy. We propose a novel domain enriched deep network that consists of two components: 1) a representation network that learns geometric features specific to retinal images, and 2) a custom designed computationally efficient residual task network that utilizes the features obtained from the representation layer to perform pixel-level segmentation. The representation and task networks are {\em jointly learned} for any given training set. To obtain physically meaningful and practically effective representation filters, we propose two new constraints that are inspired by expected prior structure on these filters: 1) orientation constraint that promotes geometric diversity of curvilinear features, and 2) a data adaptive noise regularizer that penalizes false positives. Multi-scale extensions are developed to enable accurate detection of thin vessels. Experiments performed on three challenging benchmark databases under a variety of training scenarios show that the proposed prior guided deep network outperforms state of the art alternatives as measured by common evaluation metrics, while being more economical in network size and inference time.
description: Accepted to IEEE TIP
Exechiopsis (Exechiopsis)
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Exechiopsis

description: 61. Exechiopsis (Exechiopsis) sp.
 Material examined. SAR1 21.I–16.II.04 2 ♀.
 Notes. These specimens resemble E. pulchella (Winnertz, 1863) in the structure of the ovipositor but males are required for confirmation of their identity.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Function Approximation via The Subsampled Poincar\' e Inequality
Creators: name: Chen, Yifan
name: Hou, Thomas Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Function approximation and recovery via some sampled data have long been studied in a wide array of applied mathematics and statistics fields. Analytic tools, such as the Poincaré inequality, have been handy for estimating the approximation errors in different scales. The purpose of this paper is to study a generalized Poincar\' e inequality, where the measurement function is of subsampled type, with a small but non-zero lengthscale that will be made precise. Our analysis identifies this inequality as a basic tool for function recovery problems. We discuss and demonstrate the optimality of the inequality concerning the subsampled lengthscale, connecting it to existing results in the literature. In application to function approximation problems, the approximation accuracy using different basis functions and under different regularity assumptions is established by using the subsampled Poincaré inequality. We observe that the error bound blows up as the subsampled lengthscale approaches zero, due to the fact that the underlying function is not regular enough to have well-defined pointwise values. A weighted version of the Poincar\' e inequality is proposed to address this problem; its optimality is also discussed.
The QCD Effective Charge to All Orders
Creators: name: Binosi, D.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the pinch technique, we show how to construct the QCD effective charge to all orders.
description: 4 pages, no figures. Contributed to QCD 02: High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics, Montpellier, France, 2-9 July 2002
Displacement-induced destitution in Cameroon: seeking durable livelihood solutions for internally displaced persons from the Anglophone crisis
Creators: name: Bang, Henry Ngenyam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: The proliferation of internal displacement is a socio-economic crisis in Africa that requires scrutiny of the livelihoods of the internally displaced. Despite acknowledging the vulnerabilities, poverty, and insecurity of internally displaced people reliant on humanitarian assistance, governments and other stakeholders have not taken concrete initiatives to remedy the situation. This study focuses on civil conflict-induced internal displacement and received funding from the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund to address an urgent socio-economic need in developing countries. The research interrogated viable livelihood options for internally displaced persons from Cameroon’s ongoing Anglophone crisis. Anchored by a sustainable livelihood conceptual lens, the methodology utilised a predominantly qualitative research design to generate empirical data from local humanitarian agencies servicing internally displaced persons through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Key findings reveal limited humanitarian assistance and numerous livelihood challenges facing the internally displaced, poor management of humanitarian funds by public agencies, ways to assist IDPs in achieving sustainable livelihoods, weak collaboration/coordination between the government and local humanitarian agencies to help displaced persons in sustaining their livelihoods, the assistance local humanitarian organisation needs to help displaced persons gain self-reliant livelihoods, broad support for viable livelihoods and suggestions on achieving them. This study provides evidence-based knowledge on durable livelihoods for internally displaced people and enhances academic literature and policy development on internal displacement. Insights from the findings inform recommendations that would mitigate the risk of permanently trapping displaced persons in a vicious cycle of destitution and food aid dependency and instead foster self-reliance during internal displacement.
Community participation in affordable housing provision in developing cities: A study of Nigerian cities
Creators: name: Ebekozien, Andrew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Studies showed that rapid urbanization creates encumbrance for affordable housing in many developing world cities. Community participation has been proved as a successful platform of infrastructural facilities provision in developing cities but how far regarding affordable housing provision is yet to receive in-depth studies in Nigeria. Therefore, the study investigated the role of community in the provision of affordable housing and proffer possible solutions to enhance home ownership. Five communities in Benin City were engaged as the case study to achieve the study’s objectives via a phenomenology type of qualitative research design. The study combined MAXQDA 2018 with thematic analysis to explain the data. Absence of recognition by government, inadequate infrastructural facilities, housing finance inaccessibility, lax policy to engage community leaders, and high cost of available land emerged as the root cause of factors impeding community participation in housing provision. Findings show that addressing the root cause will determine the success or failure of community within Benin and in other developing cities (with related cultural, economic, and social attributes) to participate in affordable housing provision. As part of this paper’s implications, findings will enhance policymakers and lawmakers in decision-making concerning community-based housing policy toward achieving urban futures for Nigerian cities.
The CAP's Impact on Agriculture and Food Demand in Central European Countries after EU Accession: Who Will Lose and Who Will Gain?
Creators: name: Weber, Gerald
name: Weber, Gerald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Development

description: The population of Central European countries (CECs) is becoming less enthusiastic about European Union (EU) accession than was the case immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain. It is feared that consumers will have to pay higher food prices. National agricultural policies of most CECs are less protective than the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Its implementation is therefore expected to lead to adjustments in farm production, farm incomes and consumer welfare. Farmers in CECs are concerned about growing competition from Western Europe. The 'Central and Eastern European Countries Agricultural Simulation Model' (CEEC-ASIM) (Frohberg et al., 1997) is used to assess these impacts for Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia (CEC-I), the potential first-wave accession countries. In this paper a scenario of EU accession under full application of the EU market regulations is compared with one of unchanged national agricultural policies.
Lyapunov growth in quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Craps, Ben
name: De Clerck, Marine
name: Janssens, Djunes
name: Luyten, Vincent
name: Rabideau, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ising spin chain with longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields is often used in studies of quantum chaos, displaying both chaotic and integrable regions in its parameter space. However, even at a strongly chaotic point this model does not exhibit Lyapunov growth of the commutator squared of spin operators, as this observable saturates before exponential growth can manifest itself (even in situations where a spatial suppression factor makes the initial commutator small). We extend this model from the spin 1/2 Ising model to higher spins, demonstrate numerically that a window of exponential growth opens up for sufficiently large spin, and extract a quantity which corresponds to a notion of a Lyapunov exponent. In the classical infinite-spin limit, we identify and compute the appropriate classical analogue of the commutator squared, and show that the corresponding exponent agrees with the infinite-spin limit extracted from the quantum spin chain.
description: 32 pages, 17 figures; Added references and an explicit demonstration of the match between classical and quantum Lyapunov regimes. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Period Changes of the SMC Cepheids from the Harvard, OGLE and ASAS Data
Creators: name: Pietrukowicz, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Comparison of the old observations of Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud from the Harvard data archive, with the recent OGLE and ASAS observations allows an estimate of their period changes. All of matched 557 Cepheids are still pulsating in the same mode. One of the Harvard Cepheid, HV 11289, has been tentatively matched to a star which is now apparently constant. Cepheids with log P > 0.8 show significant period changes, positive as well as negative. We found that for many stars these changes are significantly smaller than predicted by recent model calculations. Unfortunately, there are no models available for Cepheids with periods longer than approximatelly 80 days, while there are observed Cepheids with periods up to 210 days.
description: small changes, 15 pages with 7 figures, latex, published in Acta Astronomica, 52, 177
Citations v/s Altmetric Attention Score: A Comparison of Top 10 Highly Cited Papers in Nature
Creators: name: Vysakh Chingath
name: H, Dr.Rajendra Babu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified

description: This study aims to analyze the correlation between citations and altmetric score of top 10 highly cited papers in Nature by extracting the data from Google metrics. It tries to investigate whether a highly cited paper has high altmetric score or not by using correlation method and the result show that there exists a high correlation. The study found that Mendeley is the main medium through which scientific papers are being disseminated more and contributing to the altmetric score intensely. The country wise tweeting data show that U.S and U.K holds the first and second position in tweeting with 1143 &14 tweets respectively. As the altmetric values the online attention, it prompts the entire research community to opt for social media for publication for getting good attentions and there by promoting open access. Even though, altmetrics is not at all a replacement of traditional metrics but acts as supplement to it.
Fault Detection and Identification using Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Sun, Weike
name: Paiva, Antonio R. C.
name: Xu, Peng
name: Sundaram, Anantha
name: Braatz, Richard D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 68T05

description: In processing and manufacturing industries, there has been a large push to produce higher quality products and ensure maximum efficiency of processes. This requires approaches to effectively detect and resolve disturbances to ensure optimal operations. While the control system can compensate for many types of disturbances, there are changes to the process which it still cannot handle adequately. It is therefore important to further develop monitoring systems to effectively detect and identify those faults such that they can be quickly resolved by operators. In this paper, a novel probabilistic fault detection and identification method is proposed which adopts a newly developed deep learning approach using Bayesian recurrent neural networks~(BRNNs) with variational dropout. The BRNN model is general and can model complex nonlinear dynamics. Moreover, compared to traditional statistic-based data-driven fault detection and identification methods, the proposed BRNN-based method yields uncertainty estimates which allow for simultaneous fault detection of chemical processes, direct fault identification, and fault propagation analysis. The outstanding performance of this method is demonstrated and contrasted to (dynamic) principal component analysis, which are widely applied in the industry, in the benchmark Tennessee Eastman process~(TEP) and a real chemical manufacturing dataset.
description: 43 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering
Non-perturbative parton mass for the gluon
Creators: name: Philipsen, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gauge invariant, non-local observable is constructed in pure gauge theory, which is identical to the gluon propagator in a particular gauge, permitting to define a non-perturbative parton mass for the gluon. This mass can be shown to be related to the 1P-1S mass splitting of heavy quarkonia. Preliminary numerical results for 3d SU(2) yield m_A=0.37(6)g^2, while from the \bar{b}b spectrum one infers m_A\approx 420 MeV for QCD.
description: Lattice2001(spectrum),3 pages, 3 figures
Land Use in the European Union by 2020
Creators: name: Nucifora, Antonio M.D.
name: Nucifora, Antonio M.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Recent revolutionary changes in European agricultural policies imply dramatic shifts in future land use needs. Even a superficial examination of recent trends would suggest that large parts of current agricultural land will not be needed in the future, and the idea of a land surplus in the European Union has been repeated more insistently in recent literature (Edwards, 1986; Lee, 1987; North, 1988; inter alia). However, some authors argue that, with declining profitability, the removal of inputs and resources will result in a less intensive production process and significant areas of land are unlikely to leave agricultural production (Bowers, 1988; Harvey and Whitby, 1988; Harvey, 1991; Swinbank, 1992). The importance of assessing the degree of pressure placed on agricultural land in the medium term must not be underestimated. Land is a non-renewable resource and, as a result, land use planning is long-term in nature. In addition, land use demand changes incrementally because of rigidities and inertia. There is consequently a lag between the setting and implementation of a policy and its effect. As a result, accurate predictions of land use trends have an immediate and immense value to setting good policy. This paper presents the results of forecasts for land use change in the EU-91 to the year 2020. The study addresses the need of policy makers to acquire information about the future implications of current land use trends, by developing an econometric model to forecast future land use. Because of the more appropriate methodology adopted, the forecasts of land use change estimated in this study
Caregiver perceptions of the benefits of hippotherapy for children with various disorders, disabilities, and medical conditions
Creators: name: Scotland-Coogan, Diane
name: Whitworth, James D.
name: O’Brien, Casey N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This article describes the findings of a qualitative investigation that provide some of the first detailed information from the caregiver’s perspective about utilizing hippotherapy for children with a wide range of needs. In contrast to prior studies that focused primarily on the benefits of hippotherapy for children with cerebral palsy (CP) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), this study included children with a broader range of congenital disorders, developmental disabilities, and medical issues. Many research studies have looked at the benefits of hippotherapy for those with CP and ASD. There is limited research on the impact of this form of therapy on various other childhood diseases or disorders. This multiple case study identified patterns of caregivers’ responses to semi-structured interview questions as to the impact of hippotherapy on their children. Semi-structured interviews were completed with 11 caregivers. Thematic analysis of the qualitative interviews identified four themes; caregiver life concerns for their children, benefits of hippotherapy, quality of life improvements, and use of other therapies. The findings of this study represent a valuable first step in gaining a better understanding of the benefits of hippotherapy for these children. They are consistent with and expand upon findings of earlier studies that found therapeutic benefits for children with ASD and CP who participated in hippotherapy.
Exactly solvable model of three interacting particles in an external magnetic field
Creators: name: Nakhmedov, E. P.
name: Morawetz, K.
name: Ameduri, M.
name: Yurtsever, A.
name: Radehaus, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum mechanical problem of three identical particles, moving in a plane and interacting pairwise via a spring potential, is solved exactly in the presence of a magnetic field. Calculations of the pair--correlation function, mean distance and the cluster area show a quantization of these parameters. Especially the pair-correlation function exhibits a certain number of maxima given by a quantum number. We obtain Jastrow pre-factors which lead to an exchange correlation hole of liquid type, even in the presence of the attractive interaction between the identical electrons.
description: 8 pages 3 figures