cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Can Crataegus douglasii be found in Québec?
Creators: name: Dickinson, Timothy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Crataegus
Douglas hawthorn
Québec
biogeography
Glacial Lake Agassiz-Ojibway

description: The North American Douglas hawthorn, C. douglasii Lindl., is widespread in the Pacific Northwest, with a disjunct occurrence in the Upper Great Lakes basin. In addition, two Ontario specimens document the occurrence of this species in the Hudson Bay drainage, near Lake Abitibi. Unlike other Ontario hawthorn species (and many Ontario tree species generally) C. douglasii in eastern North America appears to be confined almost entirely to areas in close proximity to shorelines of the upper Great Lakes. Its distribution in Ontario bears little resemblance to that of other plant species that together give rise to the climate- and substrate-controlled ecozones and forest regions in this part of the continent. One hypothesis that has been advanced to explain this difference is the role of periglacial lakes as migration routes from west to east, and the limited ability of black-fruited C. douglasii to expand into the hinterland now occupied by red-fruited hawthorns that, together with many other woody species now dominant, most likely recolonized the Great Lakes basin from refugia in southeastern North America. This poster aims to renew awareness of these biogeographic questions and stimulate botanists to look for hitherto ignored or undiscovered occurrences of Douglas hawthorn in northwestern Québec.
description: Canadian Botanical Association, Annual Meeting 1-2 June 2020, "Heading North, virtually," Poster Session, Habitats: challenges and understanding
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28078.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 24.11.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Scientific Irrigation Scheduling for Sustainable Production in Olive Groves
Creators: name: Aziz, Marjan
name: Khan, Madeeha
name: Anjum, Naveeda
name: Sultan, Muhammad
name: Shamshiri, Redmond R.
name: Ibrahim, Sobhy M.
name: Balasundram, Siva K.
name: Aleem, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: olive groves
subject: scientific irrigation scheduling
subject: soil moisture sensors
subject: yield efficiency
subject: 570

description: The present study aimed at investigating scientific irrigation scheduling (SIS) for the sustainable production of olive groves. The SIS allows farmers to schedule water rotation in their fields to abate crop water stress and maximize yields, which could be achieved through the precise monitoring of soil moisture. For this purpose, the study used three kinds of soil moisture sensors, including tensiometer sensors, irrometer sensors, and gypsum blocks for precise measurement of the soil moisture. These soil moisture sensors were calibrated by performing experiments in the field and laboratory at Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal in 2018 and 2019. The calibration curves were obtained by performing gravimetric analysis at 0.3 and 0.6 m depths, thereby equations were developed using regression analysis. The coefficient of determination (R2 ) at 0.3 and 0.6 m depth for tensiometer, irrometer, and gypsum blocks was found to be equal to 0.98, 0.98; 0.75, 0.89; and 0.82, and 0.95, respectively. After that, a drip irrigation system was installed with the calibrated soil moisture sensors at 0.3 and 0.6 m depth to schedule irrigation for production of olive groves as compared to conventional farmer practice, thereby soil moisture profiles of these sensors were obtained to investigate the SIS. The results showed that the irrometer sensor performed as expected and contributed to the irrigation water savings between 17% and 25% in 2018 and 2019, respectively, by reducing the number of irrigations as compared toother soil moisture sensors and farmer practices. Additionally, olive yield efficiencies of 8% and 9%were observed by the tensiometer in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The outcome of the study suggests that an effective method in providing sustainable production of olive groves and enhancing yield efficiency.
Pozo, Cândido, El Credo del Pueblo de Dios. Comentário teológico a la Profesión de Fe de S. S. Pablo VI. Ed. BAC. Vol. de 240 ps. 100x170. Madrid 1969
Creators: name: G., A.
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 1 (1970)
A likelihood-based reconstruction algorithm for top-quark pairs and the KLFitter framework
Creators: name: Erdmann, Johannes
name: Guindon, Stefan
name: Kroeninger, Kevin
name: Lemmer, Boris
name: Nackenhorst, Olaf
name: Quadt, Arnulf
name: Stolte, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A likelihood-based reconstruction algorithm for arbitrary event topologies is introduced and, as an example, applied to the single-lepton decay mode of top-quark pair production. The algorithm comes with several options which further improve its performance, in particular the reconstruction efficiency, i.e., the fraction of events for which the observed jets and leptons can be correctly associated with the final-state particles of the corresponding event topology. The performance is compared to that of well-established reconstruction algorithms using a common framework for kinematic fitting. This framework has a modular structure which describes the physics processes and detector models independently. The implemented algorithms are generic and can easily be ported from one experiment to another.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
High-Quality Fault Resiliency in Fat Trees
Creators: name: Gliksberg, John
name: Capra, Antoine
name: Louvet, Alexandre
name: Garcia, Pedro Javier
name: Sohier, Devan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Coupling regular topologies with optimised routing algorithms is key in pushing the performance of interconnection networks of supercomputers.In this paper we present Dmodc, a fast deterministic routing algorithm for Parallel Generalised Fat-Trees (PGFTs) which minimises congestion risk even under massive network degradation caused by equipment failure.Dmodc computes forwarding tables with a closed-form arithmetic formula by relying on a fast preprocessing phase.This allows complete re-routing of networks with tens of thousands of nodes in less than a second.In turn, this greatly helps centralised fabric management react to faults with high-quality routing tables and no impact to running applications in current and future very large-scale HPC clusters.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2211.11817
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 27931.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.04.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Final Report to the Hudson River Foundation: Influence of Phragmites expansion on energy transfer within tidal wetlands of the Hudson River Estuary.
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Department of Biology, Albright College, Reading, PA : Barry A. Vittor and Associates, Inc., Kingston, NY : Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Year: 2003

description: This report proposes to quantify the use of Phragmites Australis (common reed) habitat by resident nekton intwo tidal marshes of the lower Hudson River Estuary. Additionally, this report relates habitat use to hydrogeomorphic characteristics (flooding regime) within and among P. australis and non-P. australis stands. Its authors hypothesize that hydrogeomorphic variables will have a dominant influence on patterns of habitat use by marshresident nekton. "Appendix One" of this report explores patterns of habitat utilization by resident nekton in Phragmites and typha marshes of the Hudson River Estuary.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28075.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.11.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Boosting Higgs decays into gamma and a Z in the NMSSM
Creators: name: Belanger, G.
name: Bizouard, V.
name: Chalons, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present the computation of the Higgs decay into a photon and a $Z^0$ boson at one-loop level in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). The numerical evaluation of this decay width was performed within the framework of the SloopS code, orginally developped for the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) but which was recently extended to deal with the NMSSM. Thanks to the high level of automation of SloopS all contributions from the various sector of the NMSSM are consistently taken into account, in particular the non-diagonal chargino and sfermion contributions. We then explored the NMSSM parameter space, using HiggsBounds and HiggsSignals, to investigate to which extent these signal can be enhanced.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, typos fixed, matches the public version, results and conclusions unchanged
Existence results for a nonlinear nonautonomus transmission problem via domain perturbation
Creators: name: Riva, Matteo Dalla
name: Molinarolo, Riccardo
name: Musolino, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J25, 35B20, 31B10, 35J65, 47H30

description: In this paper we study the existence and the analytic dependence upon domain perturbation of the solutions of a nonlinear nonautonomous transmission problem for the Laplace equation. The problem is defined in a pair of sets consisting of a perforated domain and an inclusion whose shape is determined by a suitable diffeomorphism $ϕ$. First we analyse the case in which the inclusion is a fixed domain. Then we will perturb the inclusion and study the arising boundary value problem and the dependence of a specific family of solutions upon the perturbation parameter $ϕ$.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28077.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.11.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
This is the way: designing and compiling LEPISZCZE, a comprehensive NLP benchmark for Polish
Creators: name: Augustyniak, Łukasz
name: Tagowski, Kamil
name: Sawczyn, Albert
name: Janiak, Denis
name: Bartusiak, Roman
name: Szymczak, Adrian
name: Wątroba, Marcin
name: Janz, Arkadiusz
name: Szymański, Piotr
name: Morzy, Mikołaj
name: Kajdanowicz, Tomasz
name: Piasecki, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The availability of compute and data to train larger and larger language models increases the demand for robust methods of benchmarking the true progress of LM training. Recent years witnessed significant progress in standardized benchmarking for English. Benchmarks such as GLUE, SuperGLUE, or KILT have become de facto standard tools to compare large language models. Following the trend to replicate GLUE for other languages, the KLEJ benchmark has been released for Polish. In this paper, we evaluate the progress in benchmarking for low-resourced languages. We note that only a handful of languages have such comprehensive benchmarks. We also note the gap in the number of tasks being evaluated by benchmarks for resource-rich English/Chinese and the rest of the world. In this paper, we introduce LEPISZCZE (the Polish word for glew, the Middle English predecessor of glue), a new, comprehensive benchmark for Polish NLP with a large variety of tasks and high-quality operationalization of the benchmark. We design LEPISZCZE with flexibility in mind. Including new models, datasets, and tasks is as simple as possible while still offering data versioning and model tracking. In the first run of the benchmark, we test 13 experiments (task and dataset pairs) based on the five most recent LMs for Polish. We use five datasets from the Polish benchmark and add eight novel datasets. As the paper's main contribution, apart from LEPISZCZE, we provide insights and experiences learned while creating the benchmark for Polish as the blueprint to design similar benchmarks for other low-resourced languages.
description: 10 pages, 8 pages appendix
Understanding aerosol microphysical properties from 10 years of data collected at Cabo Verde based on an unsupervised machine learning classification
Creators: name: Gong, Xianda
name: Wex, Heike
name: Müller, Thomas
name: Henning, Silvia
name: Voigtländer, Jens
name: Wiedensohler, Alfred
name: Stratmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : EGU
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cabo Verde
subject: aerosol property
subject: air mass
subject: algorithm
subject: carbon
subject: 550

description: The Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO), which is influenced by both marine and desert dust air masses, has been used for long-term measurements of different properties of the atmospheric aerosol from 2008 to 2017. These properties include particle number size distributions (PNSD), light-absorbing carbon (LAC) and concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) together with their hygroscopicity. Here we summarize the results obtained for these properties and use an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for the classification of aerosol types. Five types of aerosols, i.e., marine, freshly formed, mixture, moderate dust and heavy dust, were classified. Air masses during marine periods are from the Atlantic Ocean and during dust periods are from the Sahara Desert. Heavy dust was more frequently present during wintertime, whereas the clean marine periods were more frequently present during springtime. It was observed that during the dust periods CCN number concentrations at a supersaturation of 0.30g% were roughly 2.5 times higher than during marine periods, but the hygroscopicity (κ) of particles in the size range from g1/4g30 to g1/4g175gnm during marine and dust periods were comparable. The long-term data presented here, together with the aerosol classification, can be used as a basis to improve our understanding of annual cycles of the atmospheric aerosol in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean and on aerosol-cloud interactions and it can be used as a basis for driving, evaluating and constraining atmospheric model simulations.
On Fixed Points of Locally and Pointwise Contractive Set-Valued Maps with an Application to the Existence of Nash Equilibrium in Games
Creators: name: Loch-Temzelides, Ted
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish the existence of fixed points for set-valued maps defined on metric spaces and satisfying a pointwise or a local version of Banach's contraction property. As an application, we demonstrate the existence of Nash equilibrium in a general class of strategic games played on metric spaces of strategies.
Urresti, T. J., Libertad religiosa. Declaración del Concilio Vaticano II. Edición bilingue. Presentación de Urresti. Ed. PPG. Vol. de 277 ps. 135x185. Madrid 1965
Creators: name: Santos, Alexandrino Fernandes Dos
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 1 (1970)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28053.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.10.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
A situated agent-based model to reveal irrigators' options behind their actions under institutional arrangements in Southern France
Creators: name: Richard, Bastien
name: Bonté, Bruno
name: Barreteau, Olivier
name: Braud, Isabelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been little exploration of the explicit simulation of the set of options of actors in agent-based models and its evolution over time. This study proposes to use affordances as intermediate entities between agents' environment and agent actions. We illustrated the approach on a typical gravity-fed network in the South-East of France to explore how the abandonment of traditional sharing of water changes the irrigators' options to irrigate. We simulated a typical dry year irrigation season under two institutional arrangements (i.e. traditional coordination through daily slots and its abandonment). Simulation results are consistent with field surveys, and reveal an increase in the number of internal conflicts among irrigators as the counterpart of the abandonment of traditional sharing of water. They also highlight the consequences of the heterogeneity of the irrigators' interests within the collective institution. The sensitivity analysis of the model allowed identification of optimal modalities of coordination, and a potential compromise between past and current institutional arrangements. The key benefits of using affordances in ABM lie in the study of their population dynamics for characterizing the interaction situations between actors and their environment and for better understanding the model dynamics.
Readiness for Innovation of Emerging Grass-Based Businesses
Creators: name: Orozco, Richard
name: Grundmann, Philipp
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bioeconomy
subject: business
subject: grasslands
subject: innovation
subject: readiness
subject: 650
subject: 570

description: New business opportunities based on grassland and green fodder present a promising avenue to realize the transition towards a circular and sustainable bio-based economy. Yet, such potential remains largely untapped and grass-based products and businesses remain a small niche in the global economy. To understand this phenomenon, this paper introduces and operationalizes a model to assess innovation readiness built around seven focus areas: technology, manufacturing, business, IPR, customer, team, and funding readiness with their own detailed “progress scales.” We employ necessary condition analysis (NCA) to identify limiting factors and bottlenecks in actual business situations. Our results reveal that lack of consumer awareness, infant conversion technologies and paucity of long-term investments that support emerging bio-based businesses are the most limiting conditions for the growth of emerging grass-based markets. The present study advances our understanding of the factors that limit complex innovations in grassland systems. Focusing on necessary conditions in a coordinated way between practitioners and policy makers by giving priority to fostering positive awareness of bioeconomy businesses, developing conversion technologies, and improving access to capital is a recommended approach to foster emerging grass-based innovations.
Dervish Sound Dress; An Investigation of Wearable Technology Using Computer Music and Haptic Mechanisms for Live Performance
Creators: name: Hurban, Hedy
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Wearable technology
subject: Computer music
subject: Sound design
subject: Performance
subject: Costume and fashion
subject: Dervish
subject: ResM

description: The realm of this thesis combines the areas of computer music, fashion design, digital art, smart clothing, biometrics, cultural traditions and performance. Dervish Sound Dress is a wearable piece of technology; a garment that is inspired by the sacred ‘turning’ experience of the Whirling Dervishes or the Mevlevi Sufi order in Turkey known as the sema. It utilizes the fundamental aspects of the sema such as music, performance and body movement through spiritual elation by creating a unique and interactive experience. Wearable technology is a burgeoning field of research. Fashion designers who are using smart textiles or integrating fashion and technology in some way require collaboration with electrical engineers and programming professionals. The garment functions as a body instrument and can be manipulated by the wearer. The cultural traditions of the Mevlevi Sufis and their metaphysical experience during the turning ritual of the sema performance is the inspiration behind the creation of a garment that emulates sounds by using body movement. Dervish Sound Dress is outfitted with sensors that trigger musical sounds when the wearer touches the bodice interface or changes gesture or movement. The wearer is alerted to the sounds through the use of haptics that are sensed on the body. The sensation is similar to when a musician plays an instrument that reverberates resulting in an immersive relationship that goes further than the auditory. The aim is to develop garments that will inspire the creation of musical sounds that can be controlled by an intuitive interface in clothing. It is a study that uses technology and performance by taking a sacred experience and creating artistic expression. Dervish Sound Dress seeks to examine how technology can be integrated into a garment as an expressive body instrument to augment contemporary sonic performance.
Commissioner's Update, Summer 2005
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Office of the Commissioner
Year: 2005

description: The Commissioner's Update contains news from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). This newsletter, provided alongside a message from the NJDEP's Commissioner, aims to educate and inform New Jersey citizens on environmental issues. This issue features the following articles: New Jersey scores another victory for clean water; Coast 2005 aims to protect treasured shore resources; Restoration of Wreck Pond, Deal Lake flume set to begin; Posters promote public participation; Clean water: It's up to you, New Jersey; Tougher action on toxic mercury; Zero tolerance for delays on cleanups along Delaware; Surf reef project makes waves; DEP awards program honors environmental excellence; Cleaner marinas boost boating business; Voyage to the bottom of the sea; Beach closings up nationwide, but down in New Jersey.
LPS from subgingival plaque and the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, its effect on M1 and M2 macrophage responses and potential as a biomarker
Creators: name: Strachan, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Macrophage
subject: Endotoxin tolerance
subject: Lipopolysaccharide
subject: LPS
subject: Periodontitis
subject: Porphyromonas gingivalis
subject: PhD

description: Chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease which, in response to a dysbiotic biofilm results in tissue destruction and ultimately tooth loss. The mechanisms which initiate the disease are poorly understood, as are the effectors which cause periods of exacerbation and remission experienced by sufferers of the disease. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an archetypal microbial molecular pattern that instigates an immune response from macrophages (MΦ), key orchestrators of host immune response. Repetitive exposure Is also demonstrated to induce a quiescent state known as endotoxin tolerance, thought to be a protective mechanism but which may also confer protective benefits to potential pathogens. Several bacteria, including keystone periopathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis (PG) is able to modify the bio-reactive lipid-A portion of LPS which in turn modifies immune response. The aims of this study were to characterise lipid-A profiles from subgingival plaque and PG LPS and determine their effects on MΦ biology. Lipid-A isolated from patient samples revealed distinct profiles which demonstrated a correlation with inflammatory potential when used to stimulate polarised MΦs. The rFC assay demonstrated sufficient sensitivity to detect these lipid-A profiles and represents a potential diagnostic test. Patient derived and PG LPS induced diverse and opposing reactions in MΦ subsets, with M2 MΦs producing higher levels of TNF-α and Th17 associated IL-23 compared to M1 MΦs. Proteomic and subsequent gene ontology analysis indicated opposing mechanisms of activation in MΦ subsets. The unfolded protein response was identified to be induced in M1 MΦs challenged with PG LPS combined with an increased susceptibility towards internalisation of bacteria. M2 MΦs however identified a potential bacterial evasion mechanism through the manipulation of antigen processing and presentation. Proteomic analysis following secondary stimulation (endotoxin tolerisation) suggests that mechanisms which are associated with tolerisation of M1 MΦs and both stimulation and tolerisation of M2 MΦs is due to reprogramming events conferred by a combination of TNF-α, type-I interferons and epigenetic regulation.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28081.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 30.11.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations
Creators: name: Riechers, Keno
name: Mitsui, Takahito
name: Boers, Niklas
name: Ghil, Michael
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus Ges.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: climate variation
subject: Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle
subject: El Nino-Southern Oscillation
subject: glaciation
subject: orbital forcing
subject: 550

description: The relative role of external forcing and of intrinsic variability is a key question of climate variability in general and of our planet's paleoclimatic past in particular. Over the last 100 years since Milankovic's contributions, the importance of orbital forcing has been established for the period covering the last 2.6gMyr and the Quaternary glaciation cycles that took place during that time. A convincing case has also been made for the role of several internal mechanisms that are active on timescales both shorter and longer than the orbital ones. Such mechanisms clearly have a causal role in Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events, as well as in the mid-Pleistocene transition. We introduce herein a unified framework for the understanding of the orbital forcing's effects on the climate system's internal variability on timescales from thousands to millions of years. This framework relies on the fairly recent theory of non-autonomous and random dynamical systems, and it has so far been successfully applied in the climate sciences for problems like the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the oceans' wind-driven circulation, and other problems on interannual to interdecadal timescales. Finally, we provide further examples of climate applications and present preliminary results of interest for the Quaternary glaciation cycles in general and the mid-Pleistocene transition in particular.
EEG aided boosting of single-lead ECG based sleep staging with Deep Knowledge Distillation
Creators: name: Joshi, Vaibhav
name: V, Sricharan
name: SP, Preejith
name: Sivaprakasam, Mohanasankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An electroencephalogram (EEG) signal is currently accepted as a standard for automatic sleep staging. Lately, Near-human accuracy in automated sleep staging has been achievable by Deep Learning (DL) based approaches, enabling multi-fold progress in this area. However, An extensive and expensive clinical setup is required for EEG based sleep staging. Additionally, the EEG setup being obtrusive in nature and requiring an expert for setup adds to the inconvenience of the subject under study, making it adverse in the point of care setting. An unobtrusive and more suitable alternative to EEG is Electrocardiogram (ECG). Unsurprisingly, compared to EEG in sleep staging, its performance remains sub-par. In order to take advantage of both the modalities, transferring knowledge from EEG to ECG is a reasonable approach, ultimately boosting the performance of ECG based sleep staging. Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a promising notion in DL that shares knowledge from a superior performing but usually more complex teacher model to an inferior but compact student model. Building upon this concept, a cross-modality KD framework assisting features learned through models trained on EEG to improve ECG-based sleep staging performance is proposed. Additionally, to better understand the distillation approach, extensive experimentation on the independent modules of the proposed model was conducted. Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies (MASS) dataset consisting of 200 subjects was utilized for this study. The results from the proposed model for weighted-F1-score in 3-class and 4-class sleep staging showed a 13.40 \% and 14.30 \% improvement, respectively. This study demonstrates the feasibility of KD for single-channel ECG based sleep staging's performance enhancement in 3-class (W-R-N) and 4-class (W-R-L-D) classification.
description: Medical Measurements and Apllications (MeMeA-2022)
New Indicators of Coastal Ecosystem Conditions
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development
Year: 2005

description: Direct and indirect effects of human activities have taken atoll on the nation's estuaries, yet few direct linkages have been identified between human activities on land andresponses in estuarine ecosystems. The Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium (www.aceinc.org) is oneof five national projects funded by EPA's EaGLe program. The goal of the EaGLe program is to develop the nextgeneration of ecological indicators that can be used in a comprehensive coastal monitoring program.
Water Quality Monitoring Networks 2003
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Water Monitoring and Standards, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2003

description: Water Monitoring and Standards (WMS) is the program within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) which is responsible for ambient monitoring of the state's fresh, ground and marine waters. This monitoring is performed in accordance with the objectives of the Federal Clean Water Act which are to 'restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters.' In order to accomplish this, states are expected to develop, adopt and maintain water quality standards which are used in assessments of the quality of the state's waters. These standards and assessments must be based on sound, up-to-date scientific information, including monitoring data. WMS oversees the operation of the primary water quality monitoring networks for the State of New Jersey. This report contains information on each of the networks that are maintained by WMS. Included for each network is a brief description of the network (including, for appropriate networks, the parameters monitored), a map of the sampling site locations, as well as references for the locations of the monitoring results. Additionally, at the end of the report, information is included regarding additional specialized WMS monitoring capabilities.
Forward-backward stochastic differential equations and applications to carbon emissions markets
Creators: name: Chotai, Hinesh
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, we study a class of coupled forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), called singular FBSDEs, which were first introduced in 2013, to model the evolution of emissions and the price of emissions allowances in a carbon market such as the European Union Emissions Trading System. These FBSDEs have two key properties: the terminal condition of the backward equation is a discontinuous function of the terminal value of the forward equation, and the forward dynamics may not be strongly elliptic, not even in a neighbourhood of the singularities of the terminal condition. We first consider a model for an electricity market subject to a carbon market with a single compliance period. We show that the carbon pricing problem leads to a singular FBSDE. This type of model is then extended to a multiperiod emissions trading system in which cumulative emissions are compared with a cap at multiple compliance times. We show that the multi-period pricing problem is well-posed for various mechanisms linking the trading periods. We then introduce an infinite period model, for a carbon market with a sequence of compliance times and no end date. We show that, under appropriate conditions, the value function for the multi-period pricing problem converges, as the number of periods tends to infinity, to a value function for this infinite period model, and present a setting in which this occurs. Finally, we focus on numerical investigations. For the single period model for an electricity market with emissions trading, the processes and functions appearing in the pricing FBSDE are chosen to model the features of the UK energy market, using historical data. Numerical methods are used to solve the pricing FBSDE, and the results are interpreted. In the future, these could support policies seeking to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Shear-margin melting causes stronger transient ice discharge than ice-stream melting in idealized simulations
Creators: name: Feldmann, Johannes
name: Reese, Ronja
name: Winkelmann, Ricarda
name: Levermann, Anders
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: basal melting
subject: ice shelf
subject: ice stream
subject: simulation
subject: 910

description: Basal ice-shelf melting is the key driver of Antarctica's increasing sea-level contribution. In diminishing the buttressing force of the ice shelves that fringe the ice sheet, the melting increases the ice discharge into the ocean. Here we contrast the influence of basal melting in two different ice-shelf regions on the time-dependent response of an isothermal, inherently buttressed ice-sheet-shelf system. In the idealized numerical simulations, the basal-melt perturbations are applied close to the grounding line in the ice-shelf's (1) ice-stream region, where the ice shelf is fed by the fastest ice masses that stream through the upstream bed trough and (2) shear margins, where the ice flow is slower. The results show that melting below one or both of the shear margins can cause a decadal to centennial increase in ice discharge that is more than twice as large compared to a similar perturbation in the ice-stream region. We attribute this to the fact that melt-induced ice-shelf thinning in the central grounding-line region is attenuated very effectively by the fast flow of the central ice stream. In contrast, the much slower ice dynamics in the lateral shear margins of the ice shelf facilitate sustained ice-shelf thinning and thereby foster buttressing reduction. Regardless of the melt location, a higher melt concentration toward the grounding line generally goes along with a stronger response. Our results highlight the vulnerability of outlet glaciers to basal melting in stagnant, buttressing-relevant ice-shelf regions, a mechanism that may gain importance under future global warming.
2001 Annual Report of the Clean Water Enforcement Act
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Water Compliance and Enforcement
Year: 2002

description: The Clean Water Enforcement Act requires the NJDEP to inspect permitted facilities and municipal treatment works at least annually. Additional inspections are required when the permittee is identified as a significant noncomplier. The CWEA also requires the assessment of mandatory minimum penalties for violations of the WPCA that are considered serious violations and for violations by permittees designated as significant noncompliers. This report, required by the CWEA, must be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature by March 31 of each year. The statute also specifies the items that the department must include in the report. The department has organized the required information into several categories, including Permitting, Enforcement, Delegated Local Agencies, Criminal Actions, Fiscal, and Water Quality Assessment.
Impaction in hip arthroplasty
Creators: name: Doyle, Ruben Joseph
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Surgical technique is a critical factor in the success of Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). Cementless implants must be seated by the surgeon through the process of impaction – using a surgical mallet to generate enough force to push an oversized implant into an undersized bone cavity. A careful balance of adequate hoop strain in the bone to ensure implant fixation, but not so much that the bone is fractured, is required. The overarching aim of this PhD thesis was to better understand the process of impaction during THA. An ex-vivo cadaveric study of THA was used to design an in-vitro rig that can replicate impaction in the surgical environment. Patient compliance was identified as an important factor in impact dynamics. Using the in-vitro model, a range of traditional impaction techniques were tested in high and low density bone. It was found that large impaction energies (15J) showed little fixation advantage over strikes of half the energy, but could increase the risk of fracture of bone. In addition a mechanism of strain deterioration, and therefore fixation deterioration, was identified if too many high energy impaction strikes were used. Therefore a medium energy strike, using a heavy surgical mallet but low velocity, is recommended. As well as traditional mallet strikes, emerging oscillatory seating technologies were evaluated. A pneumatic oscillatory device was found to produce similar peak bone strain (and therefore fracture risk) as traditional methods, but less implant fixation. Therefore more research is required to prove the efficacy of these devices over traditional techniques.
The Earth system model CLIMBER-X v1.0 – Part 1: Climate model description and validation
Creators: name: Willeit, Matteo
name: Ganopolski, Andrey
name: Robinson, Alexander
name: Edwards, Neil R.
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: boundary condition
subject: carbon cycle
subject: climate change
subject: land surface
subject: thermodynamic property
subject: 910

description: The newly developed fast Earth system model CLIMBER-X is presented. The climate component of CLIMBER-X consists of a 2.5-D semi-empirical statistical-dynamical atmosphere model, a 3-D frictional-geostrophic ocean model, a dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model and a land surface model. All the model components are discretized on a regular lat-long grid with a horizontal resolution of 5 ° ×5 °. The model has a throughput of ° ∼ 10 000 simulation years per day on a single node with 16 CPUs on a high-performance computer and is designed to simulate the evolution of the Earth system on temporal scales ranging from decades to >100000 years. A comprehensive evaluation of the model performance for the present day and the historical period shows that CLIMBER-X is capable of realistically reproducing many observed climate characteristics, with results that generally lie within the range of state-of-the-art general circulation models. The analysis of model performance is complemented by a thorough assessment of climate feedbacks and model sensitivities to changes in external forcings and boundary conditions. Limitations and applicability of the model are critically discussed. CLIMBER-X also includes a detailed representation of the global carbon cycle and is coupled to an ice sheet model, which will be described in separate papers. CLIMBER-X is available as open-source code and is expected to be a useful tool for studying past climate changes and for the investigation of the long-term future evolution of the climate.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28027.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.09.1989, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1989

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Unearthing New Jersey Vol. 1, No. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS)
Year: 2005

description: The New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS) provides geoscience information to government agencies, consultants, industry, environmental groups, and the public. This first edition of the Survey's newsletter, Unearthing New Jersey, highlights a sampling of current projects that use this information to address environmental concerns and make related economic decisions.  This issue includes a message from the State Geologist, Karl W. Muessig, a list of new NJGS publications, a geology crossword puzzle and the following  articles: Protecting the Highlands' Potable Water, Predicting Earthquake Damage in Middlesex County and Offshore Sand Exploration for Shore Protection Projects.
Singlino Resonant Dark Matter and 125 GeV Higgs Boson in High-Scale Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Kazuya
name: Kitahara, Teppei
name: Takimoto, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a singlino Dark Matter (DM) scenario in a singlet extension model of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, which is so-called the Nearly MSSM (nMSSM). We find that with high-scale supersymmetry breaking the singlino can obtain a sizable radiative correction to the mass, which opens a window for the DM scenario with resonant annihilation via the exchange of the Higgs boson. We show that the current DM relic abundance and the Higgs boson mass can be explained simultaneously. This scenario can be fully probed by XENON1T.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; to be published in Physical Review Letters