cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An economic study of foreign demand for Thai cassava products
Creators: name: Sanguanwongwan, Kanchana
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Cassava Thailand

description: Cassava products have become one of the most important exports of Thailand since 1960. About 95 per cent of total production of cassava is exported. Most of the cassava products are exported in the form of chips, meal and pellets as a raw material for animal feed production. Thai cassava products for animal feed are mostly exported to the European Economic Community (EEC) countries, especially the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Since 1962, the quantity of Thai cassava products exported to these three countries has been increasing considerably. This was due to the introduction of the Common Agricultural Policy in the EEC which raised the prices of grains. In turn, this increased the feed compounder demand for grain substitutes such as cassava in order to lower the cost of feed production. At the same time, these three countries also have been expanding their livestock industries which induced the increasing use of cassava in feeding livestock. Estimation of foreign demand for Thai cassava has been attempted. The results indicated that changes in substitute prices had different effects on cassava imports in each country and so did the change in livestock numbers. However, on the aggregate demand equation, livestock numbers were the most important factor explaining the changes in demand for Thai cassava. The projection of foreign demand for Thai cassava has indicated that in 1980 the projected level of cassava imported by these three countries together will be 1,945 thousand tons on the assumption of constant price and 2,552 thousand tons on the assumption of continuation of price trend. Nevertheless, it can be concluded that Thai cassava trade is not quite as successful as it should be. Recommendations are given for improving the existing standard (quality) of the products.
Comments on Solutions of Vacuum Superstring Field Theory
Creators: name: Ohmori, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study classical solutions of vacuum version of Berkovits' superstring field theory, focusing on the (super)ghost sector. We first argue that the supersliver state which is annihilated by eta_0, though it has the correct quantum numbers and solves the equation of motion, is actually non-perturbatively pure-gauge, and hence it fails to describe a D-brane. As a step toward the construction of non-trivial solutions, we calculate e^{-Phi}Qe^{Phi} for twisted superslivers. As a by-product, we find that the bc-twisted sliver solution in bosonic VSFT can, at least formally, also be written as a pure-gauge configuration.
description: 1+21 pages, no figures. v2:Some expressions in eqs.(4.11)-(5.4) have been corrected, with our main conclusions unchanged
title: Reg-Tune: A Regression-focused Fine-tuning Technique for Energy-efficient Embedded Deployment
Creators: name: Mazumder, Arnab Neelim
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Energy Efficient Hardware Deployment
subject: Explainable AI
subject: Incremental Learning
subject: Metric Learning
subject: Performance Profiling of Deep Neural Networks
subject: Semantic Segmentation

description: Fine-tuning deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential for developing inference modules suitable for deployment on edge or FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) platforms. Traditionally, various parameters across DNN layers have been explored using grid search, neural architecture search (NAS), and other brute-force techniques. While these methods yield optimal network parameters, the search process can be time-consuming and may not account for the deployment constraints of the target platform. The dissertation addresses this issue by formulating hardware-aware regression polynomials for the energy-efficient deployment of DNN models through Reg-Tune. A general formulation is provided to profile different metrics across various device platforms for both single and multi-objective solutions. The objective is to ascertain hardware friendly configurations based on the experience span for a limited set of configurations derived from a combination of variables in terms of accuracy, power, and latency. Once the regression fits are established for the metrics of interest, single or multi-objective contours related to these metrics can be created to analytically and experimentally identify the near-optimal solution for deployment. The dissertation also demonstrates that introducing LIME (Local Model Agnostic Explanations)-based sample weights into the training framework or employing metric learning in conjunction with the Reg-Tune method can enhance the inference accuracy of deployed models without altering network parameters. Furthermore, the LIME-based weighting method is shown to be effective for handling unbalanced datasets and mitigating catastrophic forgetting in incremental learning. Additionally, different metrics are profiled across two different device platforms and for a variety of applications, thereby increasing the applicability of the method. For instance, deployments based on the fine-tuning method for physical activity recognition on FPGA demonstrate at least 5.7x better energy efficiency than recent implementations without compromising accuracy. On the other hand, when combined with weighted loss-based training, the Reg-Tune approach identifies a deployment configuration with approximately 8x better energy efficiency than recent keyword spotting implementations on FPGA. Finally, the integration of metric learning with Reg-Tune results in a 14.5x and 101.8x reduction in model size, alongside 2.5x and 5.9x improvements in inference efficiency for keyword spotting and image classification on the Nvidia Jetson Nano 4GB SDK, compared to baseline and recent implementations, respectively.
One-dimensional quantum chaos: Explicitly solvable cases
Creators: name: Dabaghian, Yu.
name: Jensen, R. V.
name: Blümel, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present quantum graphs with remarkably regular spectral characteristics. We call them {\it regular quantum graphs}. Although regular quantum graphs are strongly chaotic in the classical limit, their quantum spectra are explicitly solvable in terms of periodic orbits. We present analytical solutions for the spectrum of regular quantum graphs in the form of explicit and exact periodic orbit expansions for each individual energy level.
description: 9 pages and 4 figures
The pig cycle and stabilization scheme for the Thai pork sector
Creators: name: Monkoltananont, Nopmanee
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Pork industry and trade Thailand
subject: Pork Prices Thailand

description: The pig cycle, which can be described in terms of price and production or demand and supply, arises from the interaction of prices, the level of pig production and the volume of pig slaughterings. The basic theory underlying the pig cycle analysis is the cobweb theorem. The modified models of it used in this analysis follow those of Hartman (1974), who applied the cobweb theorem to the egg cycle. Standard econometric techniques were used to analyse the demand and supply responses. The A.N.U, statistical package computer programs were used throughout. Results from the analysis show that the pig cycle does exist in the Thai pork sector though its length is somewhat longer than the 4 years predicted by theory (Harlow's studies). This is due to the slow reaction of farmers to price changes and to traditional practices in the Thai pig industry. The demand analysis, on the one hand, shows that the relationship between quantity and price is significant in an economic sense. It also shows that beef is a complementary commodity for pork The problem of autocorrelation is solved by either using appropriate statistical computer programs (AUTREGAL) or by including the lagged dependent variable in the demand equation. On the other hand, the supply analysis indicates that the time lags in the price of pork and the feed price are significant up to 21 months or 7 quarters. Seasonal dummy variables were also included in this analysis in order to test whether or not the seasonality in the dependent variable has been accounted for by the independent variables. They were generally found to be significant. An Almon lag prodecure, which shows how the quantity responds to distributed prices for successive time lags was adopted. It revealed a time lag of up to 8 quarters. The stability test (Chow's test) shows that there have been no structural changes in the pig industry during the period studied (1961-1975). Various stabilization schemes arc proposed and discussed in order to overcome the problems of instabilities which exist in the pig industry. Some instabilities are inherent and some are due to intervention by the government which, for example, maintained low prices of pork for the benefit of a small group of consumers but to the detriment of the majority of producers. A fixed minimum price for pork and price controls on feed are the proposed price stabilization policies, while a breeding program and the regulation of supply are the suggested output stabilization schemes. In a Thai situation, the supplementary policies e.g. more free market environment, formation of co-operative or semi co-operative organizations are also discussed. Effective implementation of suggested stabilization schemes will give a welfare gain to both producers and consumers and to the Thai economy as a whole in the long-run.
The epidemiology and prehospital care of motorcycle crashes in a sub-Saharan African urban center
Creators: name: A. Rosenberg
name: F. Z. Uwinshuti
name: M. Dworkin
name: V. Nsengimana
name: E. Kankindi
name: M. Niyonsaba
name: J. M. Uwitonze
name: I. Kabagema
name: T. Dushime
name: E. Krebs
name: S. Jayaraman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are common among motorcyclists in Kigali, Rwanda. The Service d’Aide Medicale Urgente (SAMU), a prehospital ambulance service, responds to many of these crashes. We aimed to describe motorcycle-related RTCs managed by SAMU. SAMU clinical data including demographic information, injury characteristics, and management details were analyzed descriptively for all motorcycle crashes occurring between December 2012 and July 2016. Every patient included in this study was injured. These patients all called the ambulance for their injuries after a motorcycle crash. There were 2,912 motorcycle-related RTCs over the study period, representing 26% of all patients managed by SAMU. The incidence of motorcycle crashes in Kigali was 258 crashes per 100,000 people over the 3.5-year study period. The average age was 30 years and 80% were males. The most common injuries were to the lower extremities (n = 958, 33%), head (n = 878, 30%), or upper extremities (n = 453, 16%). Injuries often resulted in fractures of extremities (n = 740, 25%) and external hemorrhage anywhere in the body (unspecified region; n = 660, 23%), yet few were severe based on the Kampala Trauma Score (n = 23, 2%) and Glasgow Coma Scale (n = 42, 1.5%). The most common interventions were provision of diclofenac (n = 1,526, 52.5%), peripheral intravenous (IV) access (n = 1,217, 42%), and administration of IV fluids (n = 1,048, 36%). Motorcycle-related RTCs represent a large burden of disease for patients treated by SAMU in Kigali, Rwanda. Young men are most at risk of injury, which imposes a financial strain on society. Though injuries occurred frequently, critical trauma cases from motorcycle crashes were uncommon. This may be a result of several initiatives in Rwanda to improve road safety.
What does the local black hole mass distribution tell us about the evolution of the quasar luminosity function?
Creators: name: Ciotti, Luca
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a robust method to derive the duty cycle of QSO activity based on the empirical QSO luminosity function and on the present-day linear relation between the masses of supermassive black holes and those of their spheroidal host stellar systems. It is found that the duty cycle is substantially less than unity, with characteristic values in the range $3-6\times 10^{-3}$. Finally, we tested the expectation that the QSO luminosity evolution and the star formation history should be roughly parallel, as a consequence of the above--mentioned relation between BH and galaxy masses.
description: 2 pages, to appear on ESO Astrophysics Symposia "The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift", R. Bender and A. Renzini, eds
Results of the ESO-SEST Key Programme on CO in the Magellanic Clouds. IX. The giant LMC HII region complex N11
Creators: name: Israel, F. P.
name: de Graauw, Th.
name: Johansson, L. E. B.
name: Booth, R. S.
name: Boulanger, F.
name: Garay, G.
name: Kutner, M. L.
name: Lequeux, J.
name: Nyman, L. -A.
name: Rubio, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present maps and a catalogue containing the J=1-0 12CO parameters of 29 individual molecular clouds in the second-brightest LMC star formation complex, N11. In the southwestern part of N11, molecular clouds occur in a ring or shell surrounding the major OB star association LH9. In the northeastern part, a chain of molecular clouds delineates the rim of one of the so-called supergiant shells in the LMC. The well-defined clouds have dimensions close to those of the survey beam (diameters of 25 pc or less). Some of the clouds were also observed in J=2-1 12CO, and in the lower two transitions of 13CO. Clouds mapped with a twice higher angular resolution in J=2-1 12CO show substructure with dimensions once again comparable to those of the mapping beam. The few clouds for which we could model physical parameters have fairly warm (T(kin) = 60 - 150 K) and moderately dense (n(H2) = 3000 cm-3) gas. The northeastern chain of CO clouds, although lacking in diffuse intercloud emission, is characteristic of the more quiescent regions of the LMC and appears to have been subject to relatively little photo-processing. The clouds forming part of the southwestern shell or ring, however, are almost devoid of diffuse intercloud emission and also exhibit other characteristics of an extreme photon-dominated region (PDR).
description: 14 pages; accepted for publication in A&A
Prostrepsiceros rotundicornis
Creators: name: Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S.
name: Bernor, Raymond L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Prostrepsiceros
Prostrepsiceros rotundicornis

description: Prostrepsiceros cf. rotundicornis (Weithofer, 1888) (Fig. 16)
 Helicoceras rotundicorne Weithofer, 1888: 288, pl. 18, figs 1-4.
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 A single isolated horn-core in MNHN.F (Fig. 16A, B) differs from the P. fraasi sample in its closer spiralling, tighter twisting, faster tapering, presence of a weak posterior keel associated with a furrow in the proximal part and some anterior grooving. The specimen lacks any indication of its insertion on the frontals and thus the orientation of its basal crosssection relatively to the sagittal plane is unknown. The horn-core proportions are 37.0 × 28.6 mm at the base and 21.8 × 28.0 mm at 7 cm above the base. These metrics imply less compressed horn-cores than in P. cf. vinayaki from Maragheh, which also differs in the stronger anterior keel. The specimen falls by its size within the lower values of P. houtumschindleri range but it is distinguished from it by the much weaker expressed posterior keel, the presence of anterior furrows and the less strong posterior curvature in side view. Most of MAR1832 characters compare very closely with those of P. rotundicornis from Pikermi (Fig. 16C) and Chomateri (Roussiakis 2009), and is the most likely referral.
description: Published as part of Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, pp. 649-708 in Geodiversitas 33 (4) on page 676, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5377377
title: Disenfranchisement and Democracy in the Old Line State, 1900-1915
Creators: name: Novick, Matthew Alexander
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Black Resistance
subject: Disenfranchisement
subject: Disfranchise
subject: Jim Crow
subject: Maryland
subject: Suffrage League

description: This thesis investigates the complex day-by-day account of the development and resistance towards disenfranchisement measures in early 20th century Maryland. Through primary source newspaper articles published by the Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore Afro-American and others, this study examines the growth of the three disenfranchising amendments in 1905, 1909, and 1911. It also examines Black resistance against voter suppression, the lack of cooperation between Black and White organizations working to combat the amendments, and the ability of White framers to enact limited disenfranchisement at the municipal level. Disenfranchisement in Maryland was not a simple affair with a foregone conclusion of its defeat. Democratic Party framers actively investigated the failure of each disenfranchisement attempt and tailored each subsequent attempt. This required the Black anti-disenfranchisement movement to constantly evolve and develop new means of resistance. Although local disenfranchisement also faced resistance, it was typically only in court after the laws were successfully passed. Local disenfranchisement remained the primary means by which Black Marylanders were disenfranchised from 1900-1915, as municipal measures avoided the visibility and red tape that led to resistance of the state-wide amendments.
BaTiO3 thin films as transitional ferrroelectrics with giant dielectric response
Creators: name: Everhardt, A. S.
name: Denneulin, T.
name: Gruenebohm, A.
name: Shao, Y-T.
name: Ondrejkovic, P.
name: Zhou, S.
name: Domingo, N.
name: Catalan, G.
name: Hlinka, J.
name: Zuo, J-M.
name: Matzen, S.
name: Noheda, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proximity to phase transitions (PTs) is frequently responsible for the largest dielectric susceptibilities in ferroelectrics. The impracticality of using temperature as a control parameter to reach those large responses has motivated the design of solid solutions with phase boundaries between different polar phases at temperatures (typically room temperature) significantly lower than the paraelectric-ferroelectric critical temperature. The flat energy landscapes close to these PTs give rise to polarization rotation under external stimuli, being responsible for the best piezoelectrics so far and a their huge market. But this approach requires complex chemistry to achieve temperature-independent PT boundaries and often involves lead-containing compounds. Here we report that such a bridging state is possible in thin films of chemically simple materials such as BaTiO3. A coexistence of tetragonal, orthorhombic and their bridging low-symmetry phases are shown to be responsible for the continuous vertical polarization rotation, recreating a smear in-transition state and leading to giant temperature-independent dielectric response. These features are distinct from those of single crystals, multi-domain crystals, ceramics or relaxor ferroelectrics, requiring a different description. We believe that other materials can be engineered in a similar way to form a class of ferroelectrics, in which MPB solid solutions are also included, that we propose to coin as transitional ferroelectrics.
description: Limited figure quality. No Supplemental info included due to memory restrictions (available from corresponding author)
Marriage and marriage dissolution in a rural area of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Shaikh, M. A. Kashem
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marriage Case studiesBangladesh
subject: Divorce Case studiesBangladesh

description: The aim of this thesis is to study the age and sex patterns and differentials of marriage formation and marriage dissolution in rural Bangladesh, using a unique set of marital status registration data from the Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) for the years 1975-1979. This study is the first of its kind in Bangladesh to use marital status registration data. In rural Bangladesh marriage is universal and early, especially for females. It appears from this study that female age at first marriage has been increasing somewhat during the past 5 years but for males age at marriage remains almost constant. A pronounced seasonality of marriages prevails in the rural areas of Bangladesh. As in other societies, education has a substantial effect on age at marriage of both males and females. Groom's occupation has only a slight effect on age at marriage. Divorce in rural Bangladesh is frequentand largely occurs early in marriage. Age difference between groom and bride at marriage has a strong impact on the incidence of widowhood. It also has a marked effect on divorce. Education, husband's occupation and religion have a differential influence on the stability of marriage and on remarriage after divorce or widowhood.
title: Exploring the Effects of Self-Expression Modalities on Positive and Negative Self-Reflection Toward the Design of an Interactive Technology for Emotional Well-Being
Creators: name: Rajendran, Kavya
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Affective Computing
subject: Digital Mental Health Applications
subject: Human-Computer Interaction
subject: Multimodal Self-Reflection
subject: Self-Expression

description: Stress and anxiety have heightened among graduate students since the pandemic, challenging their emotional well-being and academic success. Psychology advocates for self-expression techniques like expressive writing, creative arts, and dance/movement to promote mental resilience. However, there is limited research on the integration of these modalities within interactive self-reflection technologies. Considering three self-expression forms—written, visual, and physical movement—this research explores how these modalities influence affect regulation during positive and negative self-reflection. Findings suggest that self-reflection was calming, and participants preferred modalities they were more familiar and comfortable with. While written reflections served as a tool for processing emotions to provide relief, the other modalities distracted them from overwhelming emotions or kept them in check. This research contributes to the field of HCI by investigating how and why integrating diverse modalities into interactive affective technologies can support users in emotional regulation and mental well-being.
The 'working class' in a pre-capitalist culture : a study of the jute workers of Calcutta, 1890-1940
Creators: name: Chakrabarty, Dipesh
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Jute industry workers India Kolkata
subject: Working class India Kolkata

description: This thesis examines the problems of protest, solidarity, organization and class consciousness in the history of the jute mill workers of Calcutta in the period 189Q to 1940. The jute workers were a very large labour force, numbering well over 250,000 in the years mentioned, who were involved in several strikes and other militant acts of protest against their employers. Yet they never formed strong and enduring trade unions and their sense of class-solidarity remained remarkably fragile, often giving way to internecine conflicts of religion or ethnicity. It is argued here that none of these problems can be reduced to purely political, technical or economic explanations. In particular,the thests examines the relationships of power and authority that the workers were involved in both inside and outside the jute mills. The consciousness of the Calcutta jute workers is shown here to be of a pre-bourgeois nature and this, it is contended, presents special problems in the development of labourcapital relationship or of class consciousness among the workers in the Calcutta jute industry. The history of this group of industrial labourers thus provides grounds for reflection on Marx's theory of the working class which takes a hegemonic bourgeois culture for granted.
Wood as a source of energy for domestic uses in Tanzania
Creators: name: Kilahama, Felician B. R
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Energy industries Tanzania
subject: Fuelwood industry Tanzania

description: The needs and options for increased energy supplies for domestic use in Tanzania are examined. The problems associated with providing for the needs have much in common with those in other developing countries in Africa and Asia. It is stressed that relief from the often critical energy shortage in the villages of rural areas will require increased fuelwood supplies. This will depend on government leadership, professional advice and an appreciation by the villages of existing and looming problems such as overcutting or destruction of the forests near to the villages. Severe and critical shortages of fuelwood are foreseen for urban populations. It is concluded that the only feasible alternative for meeting these shortages is the establishment of fuelwood plantations close to the centres of populations. In some situations the supply of wood is such that fuelwood for cooking and house-warming may become even more critical and it is noted that widespread use of more efficient stoves and more efficient charcoal production techniques are desirable. Proposals are made to expedite increased fuelwood production.
Semicausal operations are semilocalizable
Creators: name: Eggeling, T.
name: Schlingemann, D.
name: Werner, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove a conjecture by DiVincenzo, which in the terminology of Preskill et al. [quant-ph/0102043] states that ``semicausal operations are semilocalizable''. That is, we show that any operation on the combined system of Alice and Bob, which does not allow Bob to send messages to Alice, can be represented as an operation by Alice, transmitting a quantum particle to Bob, and a local operation by Bob. The proof is based on the uniqueness of the Stinespring representation for a completely positive map. We sketch some of the problems in transferring these concepts to the context of relativistic quantum field theory.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, revtex
A Direct Approach to Robust Deep Learning Using Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Huaxia
name: Yu, Chun-Nam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks have been shown to perform well in many classical machine learning problems, especially in image classification tasks. However, researchers have found that neural networks can be easily fooled, and they are surprisingly sensitive to small perturbations imperceptible to humans. Carefully crafted input images (adversarial examples) can force a well-trained neural network to provide arbitrary outputs. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. In this paper we propose a new defensive mechanism under the generative adversarial network (GAN) framework. We model the adversarial noise using a generative network, trained jointly with a classification discriminative network as a minimax game. We show empirically that our adversarial network approach works well against black box attacks, with performance on par with state-of-art methods such as ensemble adversarial training and adversarial training with projected gradient descent.
description: 15 pages
Data for "Quantifying the individual impact of artificial barriers in freshwaters: a standardized and absolute genetic index of fragmentation "
Creators: name: Prunier, Jérôme
name: Poesy, Camille
name: Dubut, Vincent
name: Veyssiere, Charlotte
name: Loot, Geraldine
name: Poulet, Nicolas
name: Blanchet Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 60411 Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

description: The "RawData.txt" provides raw datasets (as simulated in Quantinemo and processed in R) used for predictions of GDmax and for validation of the FINDEX. Each line stands for a simulated replicate ("Replicate") and provides (when applicable) the mutation rate ("Mutation"), the migration rate ("Migration"), the carrying capacity ("Ne"), the generation at which genetic samples were collected ("Generation"), the expected heterozygosity ("He") and the two measures of genetic differentiation "PhiST" and "GST2".
The "FINDEX_R-walkthrough.pdf" provides a step-by-step illustration of out to compute the standardized genetic index of fragmentation FINDEX in R.

The "FINDEXpackage.rda" file contains all the R-objects and functions required to compute the FINDEX.
The "Prunier2018_illustration.zip" file contains a parameter file and several genetic datasets: they are provided in an illustrative purpose, for users to test the CINDEX function.
Supplementary Material for the manuscript: ‘Experimentally disentangling intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of natal dispersal in a nocturnal raptor’ by Fattebert et al. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1537
Creators: name: Fattebert, Julien
name: Perrig, Marco
name: Naef-Daenzer, Beat
name: Grüebler, Martin U.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figure S1 - Time line of the experimental cross-fostering and supplementary feeding events in relation to the age of juvenile little owls. Supplement S2 - R script for the analysis of the owl trajectory and segmentation, and R script for the Linear Mixed Modelling of the dispersal parameters Table S3 - Fixed and random coefficients and credibility intervals of generalized linear mixed-models investigating factors affecting age at first settlement in 89 little owl fledglings. Coefficients with 95% credibility interval not overlapping zero are denoted significant effects. Figure S4 - Predicted net dispersal distance with 95% CrI in female and male little owl fledglings (closed symbol). Grey circles are raw data of female fledglings, and grey dots are raw data of male fledglings (females: N = 52; males: N = 37).
Proximity Induced Superconductivity in CdTe-HgTe Core-Shell Nanowires
Creators: name: Hajer, Jan
name: Kessel, Maximilian
name: Brüne, Christoph
name: Stehno, Martin P.
name: Buhmann, Hartmut
name: Molenkamp, Laurens W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we report on proximity superconductivity induced in CdTe-HgTe core-shell nanowires, a quasi-one-dimensional heterostructure of the topological insulator HgTe. We demonstrate a Josephson supercurrent in our nanowires contacted with superconducting Al leads. The observation of a sizable $I_c R_n$ product, a positive excess current and multiple Andreev reflections up to fourth order further indicate a high interface quality of the junctions.
description: Accepted for publication in Nano Letters
China's agricultural trade policy in the 1980s : the economic costs of food self-sufficiency
Creators: name: Yang, Yongzheng
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Food supply Government policy China
subject: Agriculture Economic aspects China
subject: Food prices Government policy China
subject: China Commercial policy
subject: China Economic policy

description: This thesis examines options for China's food trade policy In the 1980s. The emphasis Is on the economic costs of food self-sufficiency. Despite the Increase In output in Chinese agriculture since the rural economic reform, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of food self-sufficiency in the medium term. China's smaller-than-average endowments of arable land and water per capita suggests that, as food demand grows, production costs will exceed those of better-endowed countries. To achieve overall self-sufficiency by 1995 through further protection would result in large income transfers from consumers to producers and net economic losses of up to 12% of GNP. Food policies of most East Asian economies protect farmers to ensure self-sufficiency in staple foods for human consumption. Such a policy would prove to be at least as costly as overall self-sufficiency, with similar levels of income transfers. There is no way of avoiding these costs in the framework of self-sufficiency through protection. Forcing higher rates of saving and slower growth of disposable income would help reduce food demand. However, in the longer run, it would be in China's economic interest to make great efforts to develop an internationally competitive agriculture reflecting its real comparative advantage, rather than to protect agriculture increasingly in order to maintain food self-sufficiency.
Link Invariants from Classical Chern-Simons Theory
Creators: name: Leal, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking as starting point a perturbative study of the classical equations of motion of the non-Abelian Chern-Simons Theory with non-dynamical sources, we search for analytical expressions for link invarians. In order to present these expressions in a manifestly diffeomorphism-invariant form, we introduce a set of differential forms associated with submanifolds in Euclidean three-space that allow us to write the link invariants as a kind of surface-dependent diffeomorphism-invariants that present certain Abelian gauge symmetry.
description: Corrected typos
Palaeoreas Gaudry 1861
Creators: name: Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S.
name: Bernor, Raymond L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Palaeoreas

description: Genus Palaeoreas Gaudry, 1861
 TYPE SPECIES. — Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner, 1848).
description: Published as part of Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, pp. 649-708 in Geodiversitas 33 (4) on page 678, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5377377
X-ray Statistical Properties of the Central Cool Component in Clusters of Galaxies
Creators: name: Ikebe, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Central cool gas component that is often observed from a well-relaxed cluster system has long been interpreted as a consequence of ``Cooling Flow'' (CF), radiative cooling followed by inflow of Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM). However, recent XMM-Newton spectroscopy has shown no signatures of cooler gas phases below certain temperatures in typical CF clusters (A1795, Tamura et al. 2001; A1835, Peterson et al. 2001). This contradicts the conventional CF model or at least requires a major revision of the model. In order to investigate statistical properties of the central cool component, we performed systematic analysis of ASCA data on 85 clusters. We found that 1) temperature of the central cool component strongly depends on the temperature of the main ICM, 2) the cool component is selectively found around a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) that coincide with the X-ray peak position, and 3) the luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation of the cool component shows nice agreement with the L-T relation of the main ICM. Together with the previous observational fact that, in some of the ``CF'' clusters, the total gravitating mass is clustering in two distinct spatial scales, a main cluster component and a second small-scale system, we conclude that the central cool component is associated with the second small-scale self-gravitating system that is immersed in the host cluster, and the cool component temperature reflects the gravitational potential depth.
description: Proceedings of "Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Clusters of Galaxies", Sesto Pusteria, Bolzano, Italy, July 3-6, 2001
title: Shigure – A high-performance object storage system with rich metadata provided by a distributed ledger
Creators: name: Sebald, Lawrence John
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: blockchain
subject: distributed ledgers
subject: distributed storage
subject: filesystems
subject: object storage

description: Networked computer systems often require massive data storage systems for powering the input needs of the system and providing for a place to store computation results. However, not all networked systems have such high data demands -- sometimes a networked system is just one that holds a family's media and data backups. No matter what the size of the system, a need for data storage will still exist. Where there is data, there is also metadata to describe and help search through the data. Metadata management within networked data storage is a messy proposition, and is often a woefully overlooked component of the system. Typical computer filesystems provide little in the way of metadata support beyond basic file attributes without relying on external software to maintain some sort of index for the user. Modern object storage systems do provide additional metadata support, but do not provide any sort of indexing beyond what a typical filesystem does. I have developed, implemented, and tested Shigure to address the problems of providing adaptable storage with rich metadata support, including indexing. Shigure combines a modern, high-performance object storage system with a distributed ledger for keeping track of and indexing metadata and providing access control to the data stored within the system. This allows Shigure to provide scalable storage with rich metadata indexing support that allows unique access patterns that typical filesystems and object storage systems do not provide without the need for an external database. Shigure also implements a hierarchical model for user permissions that goes beyond the typical idea of users and groups that filesystems provide, allowing for a user-friendly way of sandboxing client programs that wish to make use of the data stored within the system. Shigure has been tested on a variety designs of storage systems to evaluate its performance in various situations -- from a single-node system that might be used by an individual in a home network to a system approximating a big data cloud storage environment with multiple storage nodes communicating over the Internet.
Limonocoris kunzi Heiss 2020, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Limonocoris
Limonocoris kunzi

description: Limonocoris kunzi nov.sp. (Figs 5, 7, 9, 10-15)
Holotype ♂ labelled: Costa Rica: S.Jose / Cart. Km 69 Int.Am.Hwy / Tres de Junio, 2600m // 09, 39.30 N, 83, 51.30 W / cloud forest litter 97-004 / 7 VI 97 R. S. Anderson //. Paratype ♂ collected with holotype, pygophore dissected.
D i a g n o s i s: Largest species, differs from congeners by the size and outline of lateral expansions of deltg V-VII.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Head about as long as wide (0.80 / 0.95);), antennae 2.26 times as long as width of head; length of antennal segments I / II / III / IV = 0.60 / 0.35 / 0.80 / 0.40, I thickest.
Thorax: Pronotum strongly transverse, about 3 times as wide as long (1.45 / 0.55), lateral margins reflexed, sinuately converging to rounded and produced anterolateral angles.
Mesonotum. Scutelllum medially raised and carinate 3.6 times as wide incl. wingpads as long (1.80 / 0.50), wingpads rounded and laterally reflexed. Metanotum consisting of two oval sclerites with granulate surface.
Abdomen: Mtg I+II transverse and raised medially, separated by sutures; tergal plate with distinct pattern of flat impressions marking the fused mtg III-VI; deltg V-VII angularly expanded and reflexed laterally. Male pygophore conical and narrowly rounded, parameres as Figs. 12-15.
M e a s u r e m e n t s: Length, 5.0mm; length of antennae 2.2; width of abdomen across tergites IV-VII = 2.60 / 2.80 / 2.45 / 2.00.
E t y m o l o g y: This species is dedicated to Gernot Kunz, Biologist at the University of Graz, Austria, recognizing his ambitious and successful efforts to compile the Mobile App “Animals of Costa Rica ”, an excellent field guide with 7000 photos of about 4700 species.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Central Costa Rica at an altitude of 2350-2600m.
 C o m m e n t s: A brachypterous female labelled: Costa Rica: S. Jose / Cart. Km 55 Int.Am.Hwy / 3km S El Palme, 2350m / 09, 42.30 N, 83,57 W / oak forest litter 97-008 / 8 VI 97 R.S.Anderson // although of different not posteriorly widening habitus as the males, but sharing their essential structures, might be the opposite sex of L.kunzi sp.n. (Fig. 7). As however females are only recorded from L. jolyi but never been figured and not available for comparison, its status remains uncertain and is therefore not included as paratype.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, 2020, Review of the neotropical Mezirinae genus Limonocoris KORMILEV, 1971 with description of two new species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae), pp. 151-159 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1) on pages 153-154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275169
title: Shaping Ownership in Augmented Reality: The Impact of Annotation Control on Psychological Ownership and Collaboration
Creators: name: Seo, Jwawon
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Augmented Reality
subject: Psychological Ownership
subject: Remote Collaboration

description: Augmented Reality (AR) has emerged as a transformative technology, reshaping the way we interact, collaborate, and perceive our surroundings. This dissertation delves into the intricate dynamics of psychological ownership within AR collaborative workspaces, focusing on the influence of annotation control capabilities. Through a series of controlled experiments using the HoloMentor system, this study examines how different levels of annotation control shape Individual and Collective Psychological Ownership (IPO and CPO) across blended workspaces. The research investigates the mediating and moderating roles of five dimensions of psychological ownership (possession, control, identity, responsibility, and territoriality) and explores how CPO mediates the relationship between annotation control and group processes. Key findings reveal that parallel annotation control consistently fosters the strongest sense of CPO while decreasing IPO across all blended workspace types. A notable spillover effect demonstrates that control over virtual annotations influences ownership perceptions beyond the immediate virtual environment. The comprehensive path analysis uncovers contrasting mechanisms through which parallel and full control influence CPO and collaboration outcomes. In parallel control scenarios, CPO emerges primarily through heightened responsibility, while in full control scenarios, it develops through a stronger sense of personal connection and identification with the task. The study also reveals a paradoxical relationship between individual control and CPO in shared environments, where the increased individual sense of control can sometimes attenuate the positive effect of parallel control on CPO. Furthermore, the research demonstrates that CPO significantly mediates the relationship between annotation control and various group process outcomes, particularly in collaboration quality, performance, and satisfaction. This mediation analysis highlights the importance of fostering CPO in enhancing collaboration, while also revealing that different control modes may be optimal for different aspects of group processes. This research contributes to both theory and practice in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It extends our understanding of psychological ownership in AR collaboration, illuminating the complex interplay between system features, psychological factors, and group performance. Additionally, it provides practical design guidelines for creating AR collaboration tools that foster CPO and enhance outcomes. By bridging theoretical insights with design implications, this dissertation advances the development of effective and satisfying AR collaborative systems.
REV-Focal Adhesion Clustering Drives Endothelial Cell Morphology_Supporting information; Raw data files from Focal adhesion clustering drives endothelial cell morphology on patterned surfaces
Creators: name: C. F. Natale
name: J. Lafaurie-Janvore
name: M. Ventre
name: A. Babataheri
name: A. I. Barakat
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

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