cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Epidemiology of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV in men who have sex with men, and evaluation of new prevention strategies.
Creators: name: VINCENT JASPER CORNELISSE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110324 Venereology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111706 Epidemiology

description: Rates of gonorrhoea have increased significantly in recent years, particularly among men who have sex with men. This thesis examines the transmission of gonorrhoea between sexual partners, particularly to investigate whether gonorrhoea of the throat transmits to sexual partners through oral sex and tongue kissing. The thesis then examines the transmission of chlamydia, to see if this is different from gonorrhoea. The findings in this thesis highlight the need for new strategies to prevent throat gonorrhoea.
What is an Event and Are We in One?
Creators: name: Wagner-Pacifici, Robin
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: This article describes the temporal and spatial configurations and limitations of the rupture phase of historical events. It does so through a consideration of the intertwined forms and flows of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprising against police violence targeting African-Americans in the United States. The article argues that these ruptures open up a "double exposure", one that makes problematic conventional categories associated with events, like those of past and future and inside and outside, thus challenging our ability to situate ourselves in relation to such events.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021)
Assessing Best-Practice Environmental Management Options at the decision scale: a model for technology choice and policy analysis
Creators: name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Externalities
subject: sugar industry
subject: land management
subject: economic modelling

description: Management of environmental externalities of agricultural production has become a necessity to attain sustainable and efficient use of resources. Policies to promote externality mitigation are moving away from command and control toward industry self-management guided through best-practice guidelines and incentive structures. Assessment of such policies thus entails careful examination of options at operational and strategic levels to ensure optimal compliance at least cost. An integrated modelling approach that links activities at a farm and regional scale is outlined in this paper as a tool for technology assessment and policy analysis. Models are developed to address externalities in Australian sugar cane production in a coastal environment, but may be applicable in a wider context in examining ways to enhance greater environmental compliance through best practice management.
The Potential Impact of Water Market Reform and Dairy Deregulation on Dairy Farming for the Lower Murray
Creators: name: Manson, Andrew
name: Wheeler, Sarah Ann
name: Bright, Melissa
name: Hajkowicz, Stefan
name: Manson, Andrew
name: Wheeler, Sarah Ann
name: Bright, Melissa
name: Hajkowicz, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: irrigated dairy farming
subject: linear program

description: A linear programming model is utilised here to reduce the uncertainty around the impacts of dairy deregulation and water market reform on the future productivity and profitability of irrigated farming in the Lower Murray River Irrigation Area. This information was provided to assist in evaluating the timing and mix of irrigation infrastructure investments under consideration by dairy framers in the Lower Murray Irrigation Area and the South Australian Government. Possible future milk prices received and water rights (including allocations and trade restrictions), together with possible improvements in on farm productivity are assumed in this regionally based model. The model results suggest that some dairy farmers will consider withdrawing from dairying and selling water allocation under a range of potential future milk and water prices.
Factors Determining the Adoption and Impact of a Postharvest Storage Technology
Creators: name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Finger, Robert
name: Fischler, Martin
name: Berlin, Robert
name: Marin, Yuri
name: Perez, Francisco Jose
name: Paiz, Francisco
name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Finger, Robert
name: Fischler, Martin
name: Berlin, Robert
name: Marin, Yuri
name: Perez, Francisco Jose
name: Paiz, Francisco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security
subject: impact assessment
subject: investment decision
subject: postharvest grain losses
subject: Central America

description: This paper evaluates the determinants and impact of adopting the metal silo - a postharvest storage technology for staple grains - which was disseminated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) from 1983 to 2003 in four Central American countries. The aim of the SDC program was to diminish small farmers’ postharvest losses by facilitating the manufacture and dissemination of metal silos and thereby to improve regional food security. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique data set obtained from a survey of 1,600 households from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. We employ a double-hurdle model to identify factors that contributed to the adoption of metal silos. We use tobit and standard regression models to assess the impact of adopting the metal silo on the food security and well-being of the considered households. Our estimation results show that both the household demand for metal silos and the impact of their adoption varied across the four considered countries. This finding points out the relevance of regional policies for the adoption of a technology, as well as its impact. Additionally, our results indicate that - in addition to the household self-sufficiency in maize - the main determinants of adoption were household socio-economic characteristics such as age, land ownership, completion of a training course and quality of basic infrastructure. Finally, when considering a group of economic and social indicators of household well-being, we found that, compared to the silo non-adopters, the adopter-households experienced a significantly higher improvement in their food security and well-being from 2005 to 2009.
Electric field gradients in MgB$_2$ synthesized at high pressure: $^111$Cd TDPAC study and ab initio calculation
Creators: name: Tsvyashchenko, A. V.
name: Fomicheva, L. N.
name: Magnitskaya, M. V.
name: Shirani, E. N.
name: Brudanin, V. B.
name: Filossofov, D. V.
name: Kochetov, O. I.
name: Lebedev, N. A.
name: Novgorodov, A. F.
name: Salamatin, A. V.
name: Korolev, N. A.
name: Velichkov, A. I.
name: Timkin, V. V.
name: Menushenkov, A. P.
name: Kuznetsov, A. V.
name: Shabanov, V. M.
name: Akselrod, Z. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the high-pressure synthesis of novel superconductor MgB$_2$ and some related compounds. The superconducting transition temperature of our samples of MgB$_2$ is equal to 36.6 K. The MgB$_2$ lattice parameters determined via X-ray diffraction are in excellent agreement with results of our ab initio calculations. The time-differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) experiments demonstrate a small increase in quadrupole frequency of $^111$Cd probe with decreasing temperature from 293 to 4.2 K. The electric field gradient (EFG) at the B site calculated from first principles is in fair agreement with EFG obtained from $^11$B NMR spectra of MgB$_2$ reported in the literature. It is also very close to EFG found in our $^111$Cd TDPAC measurements, which suggests that the $^111$Cd probe substitutes for boron in the MgB$_2$ lattice.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Sunius brevipennis subsp. canariensis
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius brevipennis
Sunius brevipennis canariensis (bernhauer, 1928)

description: Sunius brevipennis canariensis (BERNHAUER, 1928)
 Material examined:
 Canary Islands: Gran Canaria: 1 ex., Las Lagunetas, 1.IV.1949, leg. Lindberg (NHMW).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 458, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Sunius fernandezi
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius fernandezi

description: Sunius fernandezi (HERNÁNDEZ & GARCÍA, 1982)
 Material examined:
 Canary Islands: Tenerife: 2 exs., locality not specified, leg. Fernandez (NHMW).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 458, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Beam induced space-charge effects in Time Projection Chambers in low-energy nuclear physics experiments
Creators: name: Randhawa, J. S.
name: Cortesi, M.
name: Ayyad, Y.
name: Mittig, W.
name: Ahn, T.
name: Bazin, D.
name: Beceiro-Novo, S.
name: Carpenter, L.
name: Cook, K. J.
name: Dasgupta, M.
name: Henderson, S.
name: Hinde, D. J.
name: Kolata, J. J.
name: Sammut, J.
name: Santamaria, C.
name: Watwood, N.
name: Yeck, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tracking capabilities in Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are strongly dictated by the homogeneity of the drift field. Ion back-flow in various gas detectors, mainly induced by the secondary ionization processes during amplification, has long been known as a source of drift field distortion. Here, we report on beam-induced space-charge effects from the primary ionization process in the drift region in low-energy nuclear physics experiment with Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC). A qualitative explanation of the observed effects is provided using detailed electron transport simulations. As ion mobility is a crucial factor in the space-charge effects, the need for a careful optimization of gas properties is highlighted. The impact of track distortion on tracking algorithm performance is also discussed.
Thrips aspinus Mound & Masumoto
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Thrips
Thrips aspinus

description: Thrips aspinus Mound & Masumoto
(Figs. 69–73)
 This species is newly recorded from Japan. It is closely related to T. subnudula, which is newly recorded from Japan as below, by having metascutum reticulate (cf. Fig. 215), abdominal tergite VIII (Fig. 72) with posteromarginal comb laterally, sternites (Fig. 73) with many discal setae arranged irregularly in addition to more than 10 posteromarginal setae, and pleurotergites with many discal setae (Fig. 71). It can be distinguished from the latter species by having no long posteroangular setae on pronotum (Fig. 69). These two species share most of above character states with an Australian species T. imaginis Bagnall, but this Australian species has abdominal sternites with 6 posteromarginal setae although a few discal setae are often displaced to the posterior margin.
 Specimens examined. JAPAN, Ryukyus, Iriomote-jima Is., nr. Ohara, Itokawa-rindou, 2 females on dead Arenga engleri frond [Arecaceae], 3-ix-1988, S. Okajima (TUA).
 Distribution. Japan (Ryukyus), Australia, Peninsular Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Hamiltonian of Tensionless Strings with Tensor Central Charge Coordinates
Creators: name: Zheltukhin, A. A.
name: Lindström, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of twistor-like string models in four-dimensional space-time extended by the addition of six tensorial central charge (TCC) coordinates $z_{mn}$ is studied. The Hamiltonian of tensionless string in the extended space-time is derived and its symmetries are investigated. We establish that the string constraints reduce the number of independent TCC coordinates $z_{mn}$ to one real effective coordinate which composes an effective 5-dimensional target space together with the $x^{m}$ coordinates. We construct the P.B. algebra of the first class constraints and discover that it coincides with the P.B. algebra of tensionless strings. The Lorentz covariant antisymmetric Dirac $\hat{\mathbf C}$-matrix of the P.B. of the second class constraints is constructed and its algebraic structure is further presented.
description: 18 pages, Latex, no figures
The Payoff from Generic Advertising by the Australian Pig Industry in the Presence of Trade
Creators: name: Mounter, Stuart W.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Piggott, Roley R.
name: Mounter, Stuart W.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Piggott, Roley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Australian pig meat industry
subject: pig meat
subject: consumer awareness
subject: consumption
subject: Australian Pork Limited
subject: advertising campaign
subject: trade

description: The Australian pig meat industry today competes in a global market environment, with significant quantities of both pork exports and pork imports for further processing. In March 2003 Australian Pork Limited (APL) launched a advertising campaign to raise domestic per capita consumption of pork, and increase consumer awareness and preference for identified Australian pig meat. This is funded from producer levies. Over the period 2003 to 2005, APL advertising expenditure is forecast to be at least 15 per cent above 2001-02 domestic advertising expenditure levels. Domestic advertising expenditure by APL for the 2002-03 financial year was actually 30 per cent above the previous year’s level. The question is whether these pig producer funds are being well spent. Evaluation of pig meat advertising expenditure has been undertaken in the past, but not in the context of a trading industry. An equilibrium displacement model of the Australian pig meat industry accounting for imports and exports was specified to study the returns to producers from different advertising scenarios. Total returns in terms of producer surplus gains were estimated for each scenario. The results indicated that producers receive the largest returns from domestic bacon/ham advertising and the least from export pork advertising. Producer surplus changes associated with a 30 per cent increase in domestic pork advertising expenditure were calculated for three different trade scenarios, including a hypothetical no-trade scenario. Returns to producers were shown to be very sensitive to the value chosen for the elasticity of demand response to advertising, but were unlikely to be positive based on past estimates of the relevant parameter values. Returns to producers were also dependent on assumptions made about the trade status of the industry and the way in which the advertising was funded.
Non-commutative $AdS_2/CFT_1$ duality: the case of massive and interacting scalar fields
Creators: name: de Almeida, Felipe Rodrigues
name: Pinzul, Aleksandr
name: Stern, Allen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the study of the nocommutative $AdS_2 / CFT_1$ correspondence. We extend our previous results obtained for a free massless scalar field to the case of a massive scalar field. Both the free and interacting cases are considered. For both cases it is confirmed that to the leading order in noncommutative corrections the 2- and 3-point correlation functions have the form that is assumed by some (yet unspecified) dual $CFT$. We also argue that there does not exist a map which connects the commutative model to its non-commutative counterpart, and therefore the conformal behaviour of the noncommutative correlators is a non-trivial result.
description: 34 pages
Additional file 5 of CD16 expression on neutrophils predicts treatment efficacy of capecitabine in colorectal cancer patients
Creators: name: Lu, Yu
name: Huang, Yizhou
name: Huang, Lei
name: Xu, Yanjie
name: Wang, Zien
name: Li, Han
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Zhong, Ming
name: Gao, Wei-qiang
name: Zhang, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Gene set enrichment analysis of neutrophil signature. The data of RNA sequencing was compared with published data of neutrophils using GSEA.
Non-universal scaling and dynamical feedback in generalized models of financial markets
Creators: name: Zheng, Dafang
name: Rodgers, G. J.
name: Hui, P. M.
name: D'Hulst, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study self-organized models for information transmission and herd behavior in financial markets. Existing models are generalized to take into account the effect of size-dependent fragmentation and coagulation probabilities of groups of agents and to include a demand process. Non-universal scaling with a tunable exponent for the group size distribution is found in the resulting system. We also show that the fragmentation and coagulation probabilities of groups of agents have a strong influence on the average investment rate of the system.
description: 10pages, 3figures
Conductance fluctuations at the quantum Hall plateau transition
Creators: name: Hohls, F.
name: Zeitler, U.
name: Haug, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the conductance fluctuations observed in the quantum Hall regime for a bulk two-dimensional electron system in a Corbino geometry. We find that characteristics like the power spectral density and the temperature dependence agree well with simple expectations for universal conductance fluctuations in metals, while the observed amplitude is reduced. In addition, the dephasing length $L_Φ\propto T^{-1/2}$, which governs the temperature dependence of the fluctuations, is surprisingly different from the scaling length $L_{sc}\propto T^{-1}$ governing the width of the quantum Hall plateau transition.
Sunius fulgocephalus
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius fulgocephalus

description: Sunius fulgocephalus (COIFFAIT, 1970)
 Material examined:
 Azerbaijan: 5 exs., Ordubad, leg. Leder & Reitter (NHMW); 4 exs., Lenkoran, leg. Leder & Reitter (NHMW).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 458, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Additional file 1: of Effect of dementia on the incidence, short-term outcomes, and resource utilization of invasive mechanical ventilation in the elderly: a nationwide population-based study
Creators: name: Bouza, Carmen
name: MartĂ­Nez-AlĂŠs, Gonzalo
name: LĂłpez-Cuadrado, Teresa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. General characteristics and outcomes of cases by duration of invasive mechanical ventilation (MV). (DOCX 16 kb)
Comment on: `Pipe Network Model for Scaling of Dynamic Interfaces in Porous Media'
Creators: name: Dube, M.
name: Rost, M.
name: Elder, K. R.
name: Alava, M.
name: Majaniemi, S.
name: Ala-Nissila, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that a proposed exponent identity [Phys. Rev. Lett 85, 1238 (2000)] for interface roughening in spontaneous imbibition is wrong. It rests on the assumption that the fluctuations are controlled by a single time scale, but liquid conservation imposes two distinct time scales.
description: 1 page, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Institutional Change and Plant Variety Provisions in Australia
Creators: name: Kingwell, Ross S.
name: Kingwell, Ross S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: institutional change
subject: biotechnology
subject: intellectual property rights
subject: plant variety

description: The science, funding and organisation of plant breeding in Australia has changed greatly since the 1980s. This paper explores the institutional change in plant variety provision in Australia. The roles of key economic and political agents are emphasized, along with the impact of changes in biotechnology and intellectual property rights. Their joint interaction has produced a set of complex agribusiness arrangements that underpin the current funding and supply of plant varieties. The pace of institutional change has been rapid and is uncovering a further set of agribusiness issues such as access to enabling biotechnologies, funder capture, contestability in pricing of varieties and access to royalty collection facilities.
Preparing for the Referendum: Research into the Bougainville Peace Agreement Telephone Information Hotline
Creators: name: Watson, Amanda H A
name: Miller, Jeremy
name: Schmidt, Adriana
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: In late 2019, the people of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea voted in a referendum that offered two choices: greater autonomy or independence. The referendum was required by the Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA), which was signed by Bougainville leaders and the National Government in 2001 after a decade-long conflict. In the pre-referendum period, there was a strong need for the delivery of information to citizens in order to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of the referendum itself. This Discussion Paper focuses on a telephone information hotline that operated for eight weeks just before polling, allowing people through out Bougainville to ring a free-call number and hear pre-recorded informational messages about the referendum and the two other pillars of the BPA, autonomy and weapons disposal. The hotline was one government information initiative supported by Australia and New Zealand, which used a mobile telephone-based platform to deliver awareness. The paper reports on research involving group interviews with leaders, women and youths. This research was designed to determine the effectiveness of the telephone hotline in delivering government information directly to citizens; determine whether there would be benefits to using such a service in the future; and determine recommended changes to any future iterations.
Parallel Hardware for Faster Morphological Analysis
Creators: name: Damaj, Issam
name: Imdoukh, Mahmoud
name: Zantout, Rached
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: B.1.1; B.1.2; B.2.2; B.5.1

description: Morphological analysis in the Arabic language is computationally intensive, has numerous forms and rules, and is intrinsically parallel. The investigation presented in this paper confirms that the effective development of parallel algorithms and the derivation of corresponding processors in hardware enable implementations with appealing performance characteristics. The presented developments of parallel hardware comprise the application of a variety of algorithm modelling techniques, strategies for concurrent processing, and the creation of pioneering hardware implementations that target modern programmable devices. The investigation includes the creation of a linguistic-based stemmer for Arabic verb root extraction with extended infix processing to attain high-levels of accuracy. The implementations comprise three versions, namely, software, non-pipelined processor, and pipelined processor with high throughput. The targeted systems are high-performance multi-core processors for software implementations and high-end Field Programmable Gate Array systems for hardware implementations. The investigation includes a thorough evaluation of the methodology, and performance and accuracy analyses of the developed software and hardware implementations. The pipelined processor achieved a significant speedup of 5571.4 over the software implementation. The developed stemmer for verb root extraction with infix processing attained accuracies of 87% and 90.7% for analyzing the texts of the Holy Quran and its Chapter 29 - Surat Al-Ankabut.
description: 16 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables
Supergravity interacting with bosonic p-branes and local supersymmetry
Creators: name: Bandos, Igor A.
name: de Azcarraga, Jose A.
name: Izquierdo, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the coupling of supergravity with a purely bosonic brane source (bosonic p-brane). The interaction, described by the sum of their respective actions, is self-consistent if the bosonic p-brane is the pure bosonic limit of a super-p-brane. In that case the dynamical system preserves 1/2 of the local supersymmetry characteristic of the `free' supergravity.
description: 11 pages, RevTex
Richly Activated Graph Convolutional Network for Action Recognition with Incomplete Skeletons
Creators: name: Song, Yi-Fan
name: Zhang, Zhang
name: Wang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current methods for skeleton-based human action recognition usually work with completely observed skeletons. However, in real scenarios, it is prone to capture incomplete and noisy skeletons, which will deteriorate the performance of traditional models. To enhance the robustness of action recognition models to incomplete skeletons, we propose a multi-stream graph convolutional network (GCN) for exploring sufficient discriminative features distributed over all skeleton joints. Here, each stream of the network is only responsible for learning features from currently unactivated joints, which are distinguished by the class activation maps (CAM) obtained by preceding streams, so that the activated joints of the proposed method are obviously more than traditional methods. Thus, the proposed method is termed richly activated GCN (RA-GCN), where the richly discovered features will improve the robustness of the model. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, the RA-GCN achieves comparable performance on the NTU RGB+D dataset. Moreover, on a synthetic occlusion dataset, the performance deterioration can be alleviated by the RA-GCN significantly.
description: Accepted by ICIP 2019, 5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Impacts and determinants of panel survey attrition: The case of Northern Uganda survey 2004-2008
Creators: name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah N.
name: Kasirye, Ibrahim
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Uganda
subject: attrition
subject: household survey
subject: panel data
subject: Northern Uganda
subject: EPRC
subject: Kasirye

description: The paper analyses the impact of household attrition in the Northern Uganda Survey panel of 2004 and 2008. These surveys were designed to evaluate the performance of the first phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF). The first survey was conducted in 2004 when the region faced heightened levels or rebel insurgency and the subsequent survey in 2008 when rebel hostilities had ceased. As such, the panel survey was plagued by a high level of attrition—at least 25 percent of the households could not be resurveyed in 2008. The paper examines the impacts of attrition on determinants of household welfare as well as household experience of insecurity shocks. The pattern of attrition is not random with households in urban areas and those that were resident in internally displaced person camps (IDPs) were more likely to be lost during the follow-up survey. Furthermore, residence in West Nile and Acholi sub-regions were key determinants of household attrition. Within these sub-regions, households with younger heads were more likely to be lost in Acholi while households with teenage children are more likely to be lost in West Nile. Finally, the attrition tests confirm that the regression coefficients differ significantly between households resurveyed and lost during the resurvey.
Analysis on hadron spectra in heavy-ion collisions with a new non-extensive approach
Creators: name: Shen, Ke-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum spectra of identified charged hadrons stemming from high energy collisions at different beam energies are described by a new non-extensive distribution, the Kaniadakis $κ$-distribution, with respect to the constraints in non-extensive quantum statistics. All fittings are also compared with the Tsallis distributions as well as the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs one. $χ^2/ndf$ is also used to test the fitting goodness of all functions. Our results show that these different non-extensive approaches can be well applied in high energy collisions rather than the classical one. The Kaniadakis statistics is typically better applied into such systems with both positive and negative particles considered. This provides an alternative non-extensive view to study high energy physics. Analysis on the fitting parameters are present as well. The similar relationships of all functions remind us of the further understanding of the non-extensivity.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures
Comment on "Some implications of the quantum nature of laser fields for quantum computations"
Creators: name: Itano, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent discussion of quantum limitations to the fidelity with which superpositions of internal atomic energy levels can be generated by an applied, quantized, laser pulse is shown to be based on unrealistic physical assumptions. This discussion assumed the validity of Jaynes-Cummings dynamics for an atom interacting with a laser field in free space, that is, when the atom is not surrounded by a resonant cavity. If the laser field is a multimode quantum coherent state, and the Rabi frequency is much greater than the spontaneous decay rate, then the total atomic decoherence rate is on the order of the spontaneous decay rate. With the use of a unitary transformation of the field states due to Mollow, it can be shown that the atomic decoherence rate is the same as if the laser field were treated classically, without any additional contribution due to the quantum nature of the laser field.
description: v2: 2 pages. Unchanged except for a clarification in the next to last paragraph of the text, v3: 3 pages. Various editing changes and clarifications. Version accepted by Physical Review A
Additional file 2: of An augmented prescribed exercise program (APEP) to improve mobility of older acute medical patients â a randomized, controlled pilot and feasibility trial
Creators: name: Braun, Tobias
name: GrĂźneberg, Christian
name: SĂźĂMilch, Kirsten
name: Wiessmeier, Max
name: Schwenk, Isabel
name: Eggert, Sarah
name: Machleit-Ebner, Annika
name: Harras, Irene
name: Thiel, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Histogram of the duration of all 90 APEP sessions performed in the trial. (PDF 271 kb)
Critical Temperature of an Interacting Bose Gas in a Generic Power-Law Potential
Creators: name: Salasnich, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the critical temperature of an interacting Bose gas confined in a trap described by a generic isotropic power-law potential. We compare the results with respect to the non-interacting case. In particular, we derive an analytical formula for the shift of the critical temperature holding to first order in the scattering length. We show that this shift scales as $N^{n\over 3(n+2)}$, where $N$ is the number of Bosons and $n$ is the exponent of the power-law potential. Moreover, the sign of the shift critically depends on the power-law exponent $n$. Finally, we find that the shift of the critical temperature due to finite-size effects vanishes as $N^{-{2n\over 3(n+2)}}$.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, related papers can be found at http://www.mi.infm.it/salasnich/tdqg.html
Thrips coloratus Schmutz
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Thrips
Thrips coloratus

description: Thrips coloratus Schmutz
(Figs. 90–97)
 Female macroptera. Body bicoloured, head to thorax yellow to brownish yellow, abdominal segments yellow or brownish yellow with median half of tergites II to VIII (Fig. 93) and segments IX to X dark brown; antennal segments I to III yellow, IV to VII dark brown often with basal third to half pale; fore wings brown with basal fifth including clavus slightly pale; all legs yellow; prominent body setae dark brown. Head (Fig. 90) rounded at cheeks. Ocellar setae III just lateral to fore ocellus. Postocular setae I the longest and much longer than longitudinal diameter of hind ocelli, II and IV minute. Antennae (Fig. 91) 7-segmented. Pronotum (Fig. 90) strongly sculptured with transverse striae, with about 40 discal setae; posteroangular setae 2 pairs; posteromarginal setae 3 pairs. Metascutum (Fig. 92) sculptured with longitudinal striae except anteromedially; median pair of setae behind anterior margin; CPS present. Fore wing first vein with seven basal and three distal setae. Abdominal tergites with small scallops along posterior margin, these scallops distinct on posterior segments; tergite II with 4 lateral marginal setae; tergite VIII (Fig. 94) with posteromarginal comb complete, microtrichia often irregular in length or space; tergite IX with two pairs of CPS; sternite I without microsetae anteromedially; sternites III to VII (Fig. 95) with about 14 (II with 3 or 4) discal setae transversely arranged in nearly straight line; sternite VII with S1 setae far from posterior margin; pleurotergites without discal setae and ciliate microtrichia.
 Male macroptera. Body uniformly pale yellow. Antennal segment VI with more 20 setae. Abdominal tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb; tergite IX (Fig. 96) with S1 setae at level of S2 setae and slightly shorter than S2 setae, their bases equidistant; sternites III to VII (Fig. 97) each with an oblong pore plate.
 Comments. This species is distributed throughout Japan, Taiwan to India and Australia. It is one of the most common flower-living species in Japan. Female adults of coloratus can be distinguished easily from other species by the body colour. The population on Ogasawara Islands has been considered to be same species although their body is uniformly dark brown in both sexes (Palmer, 1992), but this is here described as a new species.
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369
Sunius bicolor
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius bicolor

description: Sunius bicolor (OLIVIER, 1795)
 Material examined:
 Spain: 1 ex., Navarra, Orgi Robledad, 6.I.2001, leg. Anichtchenko (cSha); 1 ex., Valencia, Alicante, Pinoso, Humedal "El Prado", light, 26.VII.2008, leg. Lencina & Sánchez (cAss); 1 ex., Valencia, Alicante, NE Benissa, Alcalali, Rio Jalon, 38°45'N, 00°03'W, 400 m, river bank, 10.VIII.2008, leg Forcke (cAss); 1 ex., Andalucía, Granada, rio Darro, barranco de Teatino, 6.II.2005, leg. Anichtchenko (cSha); 1 ex., Andalucía, Jaén, Linarejos, Sierra de Cazorla, 1.XI.2006, leg. Baena (cAss). France: 2 exs., Rhône-Alpes, Savoie, Belmont, leg. Poussielgue (NHMW); 4 exs., Midi-Pyrénées, Tarn, Salvages, leg. Savoy (NHMW). Germany: 1 ex., Berlin (NHMW). Austria: 1 ♀, Wien, Bisamberg (NHMW). Czech Republic: 3 exs., Brandýs n. L. (NHMW, cAss).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 458, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Additional file 1: of Burden, clinical outcomes and predictors of time to in hospital mortality among adult patients admitted to stroke unit of Jimma university medical center: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Ginenus Fekadu
name: Legese Chelkeba
name: Ayantu Kebede
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Selection of study participants (DOCX 76 kb)
Mapping Dynamical Magnetic Responses of Ultra-thin Micron-size Superconducting Films using Nitrogen-vacancy Centers in Diamond
Creators: name: Xu, Ying
name: Yu, Yijun
name: Hui, Yuen Yung
name: Su, Yudan
name: Cheng, Jun
name: Chang, Huan-Cheng
name: Zhang, Yuanbo
name: Shen, Y. Ron
name: Tian, Chuanshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional superconductors have attracted growing interest because of their scientific novelty, structural tunability, and useful properties. Studies of their magnetic responses, however, are often hampered by difficulties to grow large-size samples of high quality and uniformity. We report here an imaging method that employed NV- centers in diamond as sensor capable of mapping out the microwave magnetic field distribution on an ultrathin superconducting film of micron size. Measurements on a 33nm-thick film and a 125nm-thick bulk-like film of $Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}$ revealed that the ac Meissner effect (or repulsion of ac magnetic field) set in at 78K and 91K, respectively; the latter was the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of both films. The unusual ac magnetic response of the thin film presumably was due to thermally excited vortex-antivortex diffusive motion in the film. Spatial resolution of our ac magnetometer was limited by optical diffraction and the noise level was at 14 $μT/Hz^{1/2}$. The technique could be extended with better detection sensitivity to extract local ac conductivity/susceptibility of ultrathin or monolayer superconducting samples as well as ac magnetic responses of other two-dimensional exotic thin films of limited lateral size.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Comment on "Analysis of recent interpretations of the Abraham-Minkowski problem"
Creators: name: Partanen, Mikko
name: Tulkki, Jukka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [I. Brevik, Phys. Rev. A 98, 043847 (2018)], Brevik analyzed the experiment by Kundu et al. [A. Kundu et al., Sci. Rep. 7, 42538 (2017)] reporting deformation of a graphene oxide (GO) film after it has been irradiated by a laser beam. The two-dimensional atomic force microscope (AFM) line scanning of the deformation of the GO film after switching off the laser beam takes by far too much time for any elastic changes to remain in the AFM scans. Thus, the changes in the GO film are irreversible and the optoelastic model used by Brevik is not applicable. The rough estimates of the kinetic energy and displacement of atoms by the optical force of a light pulse calculated by Brevik are correct, but in making a comparison with the corresponding high-precision results for the kinetic energy and displacement of atoms in our work [M. Partanen et al., Phys. Rev. A 95, 063850 (2017)], the kinetic energy of atoms is confused with their rest energy. The atoms and their masses are displaced forward by the field and their displaced rest energies give rise to an energy flux. The difference of arguments between ours and Brevik's culminates on the question whether the flux of rest energy caused by the displacement of the medium moving with light should be included in the total energy flux. We also show that the four-divergence of the stress-energy-momentum tensor of the mass polariton theory of light is zero.
Model of separated form factors for unilamellar vesicles
Creators: name: Kiselev, M. A.
name: Lesieur, P.
name: Kisselev, A. M.
name: Lombardo, D.
name: Aksenov, V. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New model of separated form factors is proposed for the evaluation of small-angle neutron scattering curves from large unilamellar vesicles. The validity of the model was checked by comparison to the model of hollow sphere. The model of separated form factors and hollow sphere model give reasonable agreement in the evaluation of vesicle parameters.
description: LaTeX: 3 pages, 1 figure, 14 references; submitted to Applied Physics A
Sunius algiricus
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sunius
Sunius algiricus

description: Sunius algiricus (COIFFAIT, 1970)
 Material examined:
 Tunisia: 4 exs., Fernana (NHMW, cAss); 2 exs., Souk-el-Arba (NHMW).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, Four new species and additional records of Palaearctic Sunius, with two new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 455-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 458, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.455-470, http://zenodo.org/record/5364618
Learning to Plan Hierarchically from Curriculum
Creators: name: Morere, Philippe
name: Ott, Lionel
name: Ramos, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a framework for learning to plan hierarchically in domains with unknown dynamics. We enhance planning performance by exploiting problem structure in several ways: (i) We simplify the search over plans by leveraging knowledge of skill objectives, (ii) Shorter plans are generated by enforcing aggressively hierarchical planning, (iii) We learn transition dynamics with sparse local models for better generalisation. Our framework decomposes transition dynamics into skill effects and success conditions, which allows fast planning by reasoning on effects, while learning conditions from interactions with the world. We propose a simple method for learning new abstract skills, using successful trajectories stemming from completing the goals of a curriculum. Learned skills are then refined to leverage other abstract skills and enhance subsequent planning. We show that both conditions and abstract skills can be learned simultaneously while planning, even in stochastic domains. Our method is validated in experiments of increasing complexity, with up to 2^100 states, showing superior planning to classic non-hierarchical planners or reinforcement learning methods. Applicability to real-world problems is demonstrated in a simulation-to-real transfer experiment on a robotic manipulator.
More on spacetime thermodynamics in the light of Weyl transformations
Creators: name: Hammad, Fayçal
name: Dijamco, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently found that, after performing a Weyl conformal transformation, the familiar analogy between black hole mechanics and black hole thermodynamics becomes ambiguous. It was argued that this fact can be traced back to the fundamental dichotomy between matter and geometry, which is at the heart of Einstein's field equations. As a further study of this issue, we investigate here the general link between spacetime thermodynamics and Weyl transformations from two other angles. We first examine the conformal behaviour of the horizon entropy within Wald's approach based on the fundamental diffeomorphism symmetry of $pure$ geometry. We then revisit $-$ using Weyl transformations $-$ Jacobson's derivation of Einstein's field equations, the starting point of which is precisely built on the fundamental dichotomy between matter and geometry. As a result, we show that in order for Jacobson's approach to be able to yield the right Einstein field equations in the conformal frame, a specific conformal behavior of the horizon temperature and its entropy $-$ different from what Wald's approach implies $-$ is required. The two approaches to spacetime thermodynamics become thus incompatible in the conformal frame. In addition, we show $-$ in greater detail in the conformal frame $-$ that in the presence of a null dust the thermodynamics approach for extracting Einstein's field equations necessarily fails. An extensive discussion of the whole issue is given.
description: 10 pages