cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Persona: P Melanie Kittel
Creators: name: Elbrecht, Karin (edu-sharing NETWORK e.V.)
name: Peil, Ricarda
name: Dinier, Julia
name: Lehmler, Julia
name: Schröter, Alexander
name: Endries, Tara – Marie
name: Erdmann, Sönke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Educational Technologies
Human - Centered - Design
Persona

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Personasammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
ESCALATOR Logical Framework
Creators: name: Van Der Walt, Anelda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Log frame
Logical framework
ESCALATOR
Digital Humanities
Computational Social Sciences
South Africa

description: This document is the logical framework for the ESCALATOR programme developed by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR). ESCALATOR aims to support the development of an inclusive and active community of practice in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences in South Africa. The document builds on the ESCALATOR Theory of Change available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4736572. As new information becomes available the document will be updated.
Exoprosopa enigma Greathead & Evenhuis 2001
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Exoprosopa
Exoprosopa enigma

description: Exoprosopa enigma Greathead & Evenhuis
 Exoprosopa enigma Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001: 199.
 Distribution. Namibia.
 Previous records. Damaraland, 14–16.v.1978; Etosha National Park, Kaross, 9–10.v.1987 (Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001)
 Material examined. 3♂♂, Okahanja District, Erichsvelde 44, 21°35’46”S 16°56’16”E, 20–22.iii.2003, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs, Malaise trap sample; 1♂, Windhoek District, Regenstein 32, 24°43’04”S 17°01’54”E, 1–8.iii.1999, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & E. Marais, Malaise trap sample.
 Notes. The Damaraland specimen was listed previously as Exoprosopa sp. near strenua Loew (Greathead, 2000a).
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Credit, Tenancy Choice and Agricultural Efficiency: Evidences from the Northern Region of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Bidisha, Sayema Haque
name: Hossain, Amzad
name: Hasan, Mehedi
name: Alam, Rubaiyat
name: Bidisha, Sayema Haque
name: Hossain, Amzad
name: Hasan, Mehedi
name: Alam, Rubaiyat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Agricultural Productivity
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Stochastic Frontier Model
subject: Tenancy contact

description: Using both household level and plot level data of Northern Bangladesh, this paper analyzes the difference in agricultural productivity across different contractual arrangements among ultra-poor households. Employing fixed effect model on the Pseudo panel data the paper finds evidence of sub-optimal use of inputs and the consequent lower productivity for lands cultivated under share-cropping contract. The inefficiency on part of the sharecroppers is also evidenced by Stochastic Frontier Model. Although the paper finds no direct impact of credit on productivity, results of Logit estimates suggest that availability of credit induces households to opt for fixed rental contract.
Women and Water Supply Development in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Bah, Osman
name: Bah, Osman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Provision of improved wells is part of the Integrated Agricultural Develop­ment Programme (IADP) in Sierra Leone. This study surveys the wells development scheme of two Integrated Agricultural Development Program­mes (IADPs). The schemes are meant to address women and their needs in rural areas. It is believed that women have to spend too much time gathering water, therefore, they are unable to be involved in economic activities-farming and trading. The schemes are meant to release labour from water collection to be used in economic activities. The time budgets of women in two villages with improved wells(Gbo­worbu and Kambia) and two villages without improved wells (Saina and Rolilia) arc not significantly different. Improved wells in the first two villages have not saved women's time collecting water. Improved wells are not specifically designed to benefit women directly, but it is implicit in the rhetoric of funding applications that improved water sources will strengthen and benefit women in the domestic economy.
$K_{\ell3}$ decays in Chiral Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Bijnens, Johan
name: Talavera, Pere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process $K_{\ell3}$ is calculated to two-loop order ($p^6$) in Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) in the isospin conserved case. We present expressions suitable for use with previous work in two-loop CHPT where the order $p^4$ parameters ($L_i^r$) were determined from experiment. We point out that all the order $p^6$ parameters ($C_i^r$) that appear in the value of $f_+(0)$ relevant for the determination of $|V_{us}|$ can be determined from $K_{\ell3}$ measurements via the slope and the curvature of the scalar form-factor. As a by product we update the value of the CKM matrix element $| V_{us} |$.
description: 23 pages, changes: comparison with work of Post-Schilcher extended, comparison with KEK PS E246 added and a value for V_us included, discussion of Ref. [9] changed. Some misprints corrected
Newton Law in DGP Brane-World with Semi-Infinite Extra Dimension
Creators: name: Park, D. K.
name: Tamaryan, S.
name: Miao, Yan-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Newton potential for DGP brane-world scenario is examined when the extra dimension is semi-infinite. The final form of the potential involves a self-adjoint extension parameter $α$, which plays a role of an additional mass (or distance) scale. The striking feature of Newton potential in this setup is that the potential behaves as seven-dimensional in long range when $α$ is nonzero. For small $α$ there is an intermediate range where the potential is five-dimensional. Five-dimensional Newton constant decreases with increase of $α$ from zero. In the short range the four-dimensional behavior is recovered. The physical implication of this result is discussed in the context of the accelerating behavior of universe.
description: 13 pages, no figure
Αλγεβρικές ιδιότητες των συνδέσμων σε αρχιτεκτονικές με βάρη
Creators: name: Φουντουκίδου, Χριστίνα Χρυσοβαλάντη Αναστασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Άλγεβρα των αλληλεπιδράσεων με βάρη
Άλγεβρα των συνδέσμων με βάρη
Συστήματα συντονισμού
Weighted algebra of interactions
Weighted algebra of connectors
Coordination schemes

description: Στόχος της παρούσας διπλωματικής είναι η ποσοτική μοντελοποίηση των συνδέσμων που εφαρμόζονται σε συστήματα βασισμένα σε συνιστώσες. Γι’ αυτό, αρχικά εισάγουμε την Άλγεβρα των Αλληλεπιδράσεων με βάρη σε ένα σύνολο από θύρες και έναν ολικά διατεταγμένο αντιμεταθετικό και ταυτοδύναμο ημιδακτύλιο. Αποδεικνύουμε ότι η άλγεβρα αυτή περιγράφει επαρκώς γνωστά πλαίσια συντονισμού, τα οποία εκφράζουν τους κανόνες επικοινωνίας ανάμεσα στις συνιστώσες των συστημάτων, στο ποσοτικό πλαίσιο. Στη συνέχεια εισάγουμε και μελετάμε την Άλγεβρα των Συνδέσμων με βάρη σε ένα σύνολο από θύρες και έναν ολικά διατεταγμένο αντιμεταθετικό και ταυτοδύναμο ημιδακτύλιο η οποία επεκτείνει την Άλγεβρα των Αλληλεπιδράσεων με βάρη με τύπους που εκφράζουν δύο διαφορετικούς τρόπους συγχρονισμού και συγκεκριμένα, τα λεγόμενα Ραντεβού και Ανταπόκριση. Στη συνέχεια, παρουσιάζουμε διάφορα παραδείγματα συνδέσμων με βάρη σε συγκεκριμένους ημιδακτύλιους, τα οποία αποδεικνύουν την εκφραστικότητα της άλγεβρας. Τέλος, θεωρούμε δύο υποάλγεβρες, την Άλγεβρα των Συγχρονισμών και των Πυροδοτήσεων με βάρη, οι οποίες προκύπτουν περιορίζοντας από την Άλγεβρα των Συνδέσμων με βάρη σε ένα μόνο τύπο συγχρονισμού, και μελετάμε τις ιδιότητες τους
description: The scope of the present Thesis is the quantitative modeling of connectors applied to component-based systems. For this, we firstly introduce a weighted Algebra of Interactions over a set of ports and a totally ordered commutative and idempotent semiring. The algebra serves to encode sufficiently well-known coordination schemes, that express the interaction rules among the components of a system, in the weighted setup. In turn, we introduce and study a weighted Algebra of Connectors over a set of ports and a totally ordered commutative and idempotent semiring which extends the weighted Algebra of Interactions with types that express different modes of synchronization, in particular, Rendezvous and Broadcast. Moreover, we present several examples of weighted connectors over concrete semirings, which proves the expressiveness of the algebra. Finally, we consider two subalgebras, namely the weighted Algebra of Synchrons and Triggers, that result from the weighted Algebra of Connectors by restricting only to one synchronization type, and study their properties
Evaluation of the Extension Program of Njala University College Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Gboku, Mathew L.S.
name: Jibowo, A.A.
name: Gboku, Mathew L.S.
name: Jibowo, A.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the extension programme of Njala University College. Operationally, the study assessed the farmers' adoption level of the agricultural innovations introduced to them, determined their socio-economic characteristics and how these were related to the adoption behavior of the programme participants. Two hundred farmers drawn randomly from six chiefdoms were involved in the study. Data analysis revealed that there was a positively significant rela­tionship between innovation adoption by the participants and farm size, years of schooling, decision making type, cosmopoliteness, land tenure, aspiration to change farm size and number of farm enterprises, number of information sources used and awareness of agricultural innovations. The programme strategy, that is, the trickle down adoption through the non-participants had not been appreciably noticeable in terms of technology transfer from the former to the latter. The participants' farm size, income, social participation, extension contact, number of information sources used, awareness of agricultural innovations, and posititve attitudes toward the extension programme were significantly higher than those of the non­participants. The non-participants within the programme area, however, experienced the programme's spill-over effect more than those non­participants outside the programme area. Lack of credit, shortage of extension agents, and limited number of tractors were discovered as some of the problems confronting the farmers. The study concluded with the following recommendations; a) a review of the extension strategy to extend activities to those farmers who have not benefitted from the programme, b) encouraging group action among farmers,c) re-emphasizing extension contact by increasing the strength of the present field staff and d) assisting farmers in getting credit and the timely supply of inputs such ·as fertilizers and improved seeds.
Very Luminous Carbon Stars in the Outer Disk of the Triangulum Spiral Galaxy
Creators: name: Block, D. L.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Jarrett, T. H.
name: Puerari, I.
name: Worthey, G.
name: Combes, F.
name: Groess, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars with masses in the range from about 1.3 to 3.5 Mo pass through an evolutionary stage where they become carbon stars. In this stage, which lasts a few Myr, these stars are extremely luminous pulsating giants. They are so luminous in the near-infrared that just a few of them can double the integrated luminosity of intermediate-age (0.6 to 2 Gyr) Magellanic Cloud clusters at 2.2 microns. Astronomers routinely use such near-infrared observations to minimize the effects of dust extinction, but it is precisely in this band that carbon stars can contribute hugely. The actual contribution of carbon stars to the outer disk light of evolving spiral galaxies has not previously been morphologically investigated. Here we report new and very deep near-IR images of the Triangulum spiral galaxy M33=NGC 598, delineating spectacular arcs of carbon stars in its outer regions. It is these arcs which dominate the near-infrared m=2 Fourier spectra of M33. We present near-infrared photometry with the Hale 5-m reflector, and propose that the arcs are the signature of accretion of low metallicity gas in the outer disk of M33.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Revised version submitted to A&A Letters
The role of right-handed neutrinos in $b \to c τ\barν$ anomalies
Creators: name: Mandal, Rusa
name: Murgui, Clara
name: Peñuelas, Ana
name: Pich, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the persistent anomalies reported in the $b\to cτ\barν$ data, we perform a general model-independent analysis of these transitions, in the presence of light right-handed neutrinos. We adopt an effective field theory approach and write a low-energy effective Hamiltonian, including all possible dimension-six operators. The corresponding Wilson coefficients are determined through a numerical fit to all available experimental data. In order to work with a manageable set of free parameters, we define eleven well-motivated scenarios, characterized by the different types of new physics that could mediate these transitions, and analyse which options seem to be preferred by the current measurements. The data exhibit a clear preference for new-physics contributions, and good fits to the data are obtained in several cases. However, the current measurement of the longitudinal $D^*$ polarization in $B\to D^*τ\barν$ cannot be easily accommodated within its experimental $1σ$ range. A general analysis of the three-body $B\to D τ\barν$ and four-body $B\to D^*(\to Dπ)τ\barν$ angular distributions is also presented. The accessible angular observables are studied in order to assess their sensitivity to the different new physics scenarios. Experimental information on these distributions would help to disentangle the dynamical origin of the current anomalies.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures. Version published at JHEP
Folding of Proteins in Go Models with Angular Interactions
Creators: name: Cieplak, Marek
name: Hoang, Trinh Xuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Molecular dynamics studies of Go models of proteins with the 10-12 contact potential and the bond and dihedral angle terms indicate statistical similarities to other Go models, e.g. with the Lennard-Jones contact potentials. The folding times depend on the protein size as power laws with the exponents depending on the native structural classes. There is no dependence of the folding times on the relative contact order even though the folding scenarios are governed mostly by the contact order.
description: for Physica A, occasion: - Shlomo Havlin's birthday
ESCALATOR Theory of Change
Creators: name: Van Der Walt, Anelda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ESCALATOR
Theory of Change
Digital Humanities
Computational Social Sciences
South Africa

description: This document is the Theory of Change for the ESCALATOR programme developed by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR). ESCALATOR aims to support the development of an inclusive and active community of practice in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences in South Africa. For more detail, also see the Logical Framework available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4736570.
Exoprosopa heros
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Exoprosopa
Exoprosopa heros

description: Exoprosopa heros (Wiedemann)
 Anthrax heros Wiedemann, 1819: 8.
 Distribution. Widespread in southern Africa.
 Material examined. 2♀♀, Etosha Nat. Park, Batia, 18°57’S 16°43’E, 21.i.1987, J. Irish & E. Marais; 2♀♀, Mariental District, Viljoenskroon 507, 25°10’S 19°58’E, 5–12.iv.1998, G. Olivier, Malaise trap; 1♀, same data except, 12–18.xi.1998; 1♂ (teneral), 34 km on C13 from Helmeringhausen, 26°05’S 16°38’E, 9.iii.1999, F.W. & S.K. Gess, general, 98/99/51 (AMGS); 1♀, Chamnaub, 27°43’S 16°05’E, 28.viii.2002, F.W. & S.K. Gess, on ground, 02/03/9 (AMGS).
 Exoprosopa hypargyra Bezzi
 Exoprosopa hypargyra Bezzi, 1921a: 169.
 Distribution. Angola, Namibia.
 Material examined. 1♀, 60 km E from C14 on C26, 23°15’S 16°16’E, 20.iii.2000, F.W. & S.K. Gess, on damp sand, 99/00/234; 1♂, Maltahöhe District, Nomtsas 26, 24°22’S 16°45’E, 6.xi.1996, E. Marais.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Hyperfine Splitting in the VALD Database of Spectral-line Parameters
Creators: name: Pakhomov, Yu. V.
name: Ryabchikova, T. A.
name: Piskunov, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Vienna Atomic Line Database (VALD) has been supplemented with new data and new functionality -- the possibility of taking into account the effect of hyperfine splitting (HFS) of atomic levels in the analysis of line profiles. This has been done through the creation of an ancillary SQL database with the HFS constants for atomic levels of 58 isotopes of 30 neutral and singly-ionized atoms. The completeness of the collected data and new opportunities for studies of stars of various spectral types is analyzed. The database enables analysis of splitting of up to 60\%\ of lines with measurable effects in the ultraviolet ($λ\gtrsim1000$~Å), and up to 100\%\ of such lines in the optical and infrared ranges ($λ\lesssim25000$~Å) for A--M stars. In the spectra of hot O--B stars, it is necessary to use laboratory measurements for atoms in the second and higher stages of ionization.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Dynamics of multi-frequency minority games
Creators: name: De Martino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The dynamics of minority games with agents trading on different time scales is studied via dynamical mean-field theory. We analyze the case where the agents' decision-making process is deterministic and its stochastic generalization with finite heterogeneous learning rates. In each case, we characterize the macroscopic properties of the steady states resulting from different frequency and learning rate distributions and calculate the corresponding phase diagrams. Finally, the different roles played by regular and occasional traders, as well as their impact on the system's global efficiency, are discussed.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Early trajectories of skin thickening are associated with severity and mortality in systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ledoult, Emmanuel
name: Launay, David
name: Béhal, Hélène
name: Mouthon, Luc
name: Pugnet, Grégory
name: Jean-Christophe Lega
name: Agard, Christian
name: Allanore, Yannick
name: Jego, Patrick
name: Anne-Laure Fauchais
name: Jean-Robert Harlé
name: Berthier, Sabine
name: Aouba, Achille
name: Mekinian, Arsène
name: Diot, Elisabeth
name: Marie-Elise Truchetet
name: Boulon, Carine
name: Duhamel, Alain
name: Hachulla, Eric
name: Sobanski, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Demographics and disease characteristics of patients with less than 2 years of the first non-RP symptom (n = 611)
BC Energy Step Code Local Government Needs Assessment
Creators: name: Lloyd, Geneva
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The BC Energy Step Code is a revolutionary, performance-based strategy that aims to increase energy efficiency standards for all new construction in British Columbia. Since its introduction in 2017, the BC Energy Step Code has been adopted by 26 of the province’s 162 local governments. Adoption of the Step Code continues to grow throughout the province but most of the uptake has occurred in the province’s main population centers and around Vancouver. Smaller governments vary drastically in capacity and context compared to larger governments and therefore face different challenges to adopting the BC Energy Step Code. The Community Energy Association plays a key role in the successful rollout of the BC Energy Step Code by supporting small and medium communities across the province. Capstone project.
title: Theory of Mind in a 'Treatment Resistant' Schizophrenia Sample Detained in a Special Hospital: Its Relationship to Symptom Profiles and Neuropsychological Tests
Creators: name: Murphy, David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The understanding that others have beliefs or mental states different from our own is described as ‘Theory of Mind’ (ToM). ToM deficits may explain some symptoms of schizophrenia'. However, there are few investigations of the occurrence of ToM deficits in schizophrenia patients, and none in a forensic setting. There is also the question of ToM’s independence from other cognitive abilities. This study compares ToM abilities in a sample of ‘treatment resistant’ patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (TRS) and patients diagnosed with a personality disorder (PD controls) resident in an English Special Hospital. Using a ToM task, no significant differences were found between groups in first order ToM (appreciation that another may have a false belief about the state of the world). However, the TRS sample were significantly more impaired in second order ToM (appreciation that another may have a false belief about the mental-state of another individual) than PD controls. Patients with predominantly behavioural signs symptoms performed significantly worse than other symptom groups. Comparisons between second order ToM performance and functioning on conventional cognitive tasks suggested significant relationships between second order ToM and general intellectual functioning, and delayed recall of prose and designs. Although no significant relationships were found between second order ToM and immediate recall of prose and designs, organisation and planning, there was with the ability to shift thinking from one concept to another. Following a summary of the results, some methodological limitations of the study are discussed, along with theoretical and clinical implications and possible future research.
Additional file 12 of Early trajectories of skin thickening are associated with severity and mortality in systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ledoult, Emmanuel
name: Launay, David
name: Béhal, Hélène
name: Mouthon, Luc
name: Pugnet, Grégory
name: Jean-Christophe Lega
name: Agard, Christian
name: Allanore, Yannick
name: Jego, Patrick
name: Anne-Laure Fauchais
name: Jean-Robert Harlé
name: Berthier, Sabine
name: Aouba, Achille
name: Mekinian, Arsène
name: Diot, Elisabeth
name: Marie-Elise Truchetet
name: Boulon, Carine
name: Duhamel, Alain
name: Hachulla, Eric
name: Sobanski, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 12. Survival analyses using Cox regression analysis adjusted for age and sex in the 5-class LCMM
Towards an effective-action approach to fermion-loop corrections
Creators: name: Beenakker, W.
name: Chapovsky, A. P.
name: Kanaki, A.
name: Papadopoulos, C. G.
name: Pittau, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the effective action approach to incorporate higher-order effects in e^+e^- -> n fermions. In its minimal version, the effective action approach is found to exhibit problems with unitarity and high-energy behaviour. We identify the origin of these problems by investigating the zero-mode solutions of the Ward Identities. A numerical analysis of the importance of the zero-mode solutions is presented for four-fermion production processes.
description: 43 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B
Exoprosopa luteicosta Bezzi
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Exoprosopa
Exoprosopa luteicosta

description: Exoprosopa luteicosta Bezzi
 Exoprosopa luteicosta Bezzi, 1921a: 161.
 Distribution. Northeastern, eastern and southern Africa south to Eastern Cape.
 Material examined. 1♀, Katima Mulilo District, Salambala pan, 17°50’00”S 24°35’38”E, 1–4.iii.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs, Malaise trap sample; Etosha Nat. Park, Tweekoppies, 19°02’S 16°59’E, 19–20.i.1987 (J. Irish & E. Marais); 1♂, Waterberg Pl Park, Restcamp, 20°30’S 17°14’E, 9.–13.iv.1993, S.V. Green, Malaise trap.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
A deformation of AdS_5 x S^5
Creators: name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Gutowski, Jan B.
name: Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a one parameter family of supersymmetric solutions of type IIB supergravity that includes AdS_5 x S^5. For small values of the parameter the solutions are causally well-behaved, but beyond a critical value closed timelike curves (CTC's) appear. The solutions are holographically dual to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a non-conformally flat background with non-vanishing R-currents. We compute the holographic energy-momentum tensor for the spacetime and show that it remains finite even when the CTC's appear. The solutions, as well as the uplift of some recently discovered AdS_5 black hole solutions, are shown to preserve precisely two supersymmetries.
description: 16 pages, v2: typos corrected and references added
Longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance of SrTiO$_3$ with a single closed Fermi surface
Creators: name: Awashima, Yudai
name: Fuseya, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetoresistance (MR) of SrTiO$_3$ is theoretically investigated based on the Boltzmann equation by considering its detailed band structure. The formula for MR proposed by Mackey and Sybert is extended to be applicable to a system with an arbitrarily shaped Fermi surface. It is shown that the angular dependence of the diagonal component of the mass tensor causes transverse MR, whereas that of the off-diagonal component causes longitudinal MR with only a single closed Fermi surface, which overturns the textbook understanding of MR. The calculated MR (300% at 10 T) quantitatively agrees with the experimental results for SrTiO$_3$ including the behavior of the linear MR. The negative Gaussian curvature of the Fermi surface of SrTiO$_3$ and its resulting negative longitudinal and transverse MR are also discussed.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Waterfall Atrous Spatial Pooling Architecture for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Artacho, Bruno
name: Savakis, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new efficient architecture for semantic segmentation, based on a "Waterfall" Atrous Spatial Pooling architecture, that achieves a considerable accuracy increase while decreasing the number of network parameters and memory footprint. The proposed Waterfall architecture leverages the efficiency of progressive filtering in the cascade architecture while maintaining multiscale fields-of-view comparable to spatial pyramid configurations. Additionally, our method does not rely on a postprocessing stage with Conditional Random Fields, which further reduces complexity and required training time. We demonstrate that the Waterfall approach with a ResNet backbone is a robust and efficient architecture for semantic segmentation obtaining state-of-the-art results with significant reduction in the number of parameters for the Pascal VOC dataset and the Cityscapes dataset.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
On the Quillen determinant
Creators: name: Furutani, Kenro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D12; 58B15; 53D30

description: We explain the bundle structures of the {\it Determinant line bundle} and the {\it Quillen determinant line bundle} considered on the connected component of the space of Fredholm operators including the identity operator in an intrinsic way. Then we show that these two are isomorphic and that they are non-trivial line bundles and trivial on some subspaces. Also we remark a relation of the {\it Quillen determinant line bundle} and the {\it Maslov line bundle}.
description: 11 pages, to appear in the Journal of Geometry and Physics
Clinical Study on the efficacy of Scalp Acupuncture in combination with Auriculotherapy in Rehabilitation of Stroke patients
Creators: name: Chodankar, Shripad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Stroke
Rehabilitation
Scalp Acupuncture
Auriculotherapy
Stroke rehabilitation

description: Objective: The objectives of this study was to examine the long-term effects of repeated Scalp Acupuncture Treatment in combination with Auriculotherapy treatment on functional activities of daily living in post-acute stroke patients.Design: This study was conducted in Treatment Camp organized in rural village area (440 km away from Mumbai). The treatment frequency was once in a month. General medical conditions are treated in this treatment camp. Seeing the amazing response in stroke patients, the retrospective study was conducted of the cases of Stroke patientsPatients: Patients of any gender, sex or ethnicity with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke in the subacute or chronic phases were eligible. The total 59 cases were studied.Main Outcome Measure: The Functional Coding Index was used to follow the efficacy of treatment. The details of Functional Coding Index are as per Annexure - 1Results: The study was divided in three groups namely Speech affected, Upper Limb (UL) affected, and Lower Limb (LL) affected cases. In all three groups the Functional Coding Index improved significantly in 9 to 12 treatment sessions. This showed the significant functional recovery facilitating the patient’s enhancement of Quality of Life.Conclusions: The data suggest that the Chinese Scalp Acupuncture in combination with Auriculotherapy can achieve a very satisfactory effect in the treatment for the Rehabilitation of Stroke patients. This is very useful method to treat stroke patients and enhance their Quality of Life.
Intermittent nulls in PSR B0818-13, and the subpulse-drift alias mode
Creators: name: Janssen, Gemma
name: van Leeuwen, Joeri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that all long nulls in PSR B0818-13 are trains of rapidly alternating nulls and pulses (each shorter than one pulse period). Sometimes only the nulls coincide with our pulse window, resulting in one of the apparently long nulls seen occasionally. We show these are seen as often as expected if during such a train the probability for nulls is 1.2 times less than for pulses. During nulls, the subpulse drift-speed appears to increase. We assume that the carousel of sparks that possibly underlies the subpulses actually slows down, as it does in similar pulsars like PSR B0809+74, and conclude that the subpulse-drift in this pulsar must be aliased. The carousel must then rotate in 30 seconds or less, making it the fastest found to date.
description: Accepted for A&A. 7 pages with low-resolution images; high-resolution versions are available at http://www.astro.uu.nl/~jleeuwen/preprints/0818-nulls/
Representation of natural image sequences in the primate visual system
Creators: name: Bai, Yoon Ho
name: 0000-0001-6361-8674
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Visual processing
Natural images
Perception
Systems neuroscience
Visual representation

description: A fundamental goal of sensory processing is predicting the future state of the environment. Visual prediction is difficult because the stream of images on the retina evolves according to irregular, curved trajectories. We posit that the visual system seeks to transform natural inputs such that neural representations follow straighter and more predictable trajectories. Previous work has provided psychophysical evidence for this hypothesis by showing that the human visual system selectively straightens the temporal trajectories of natural movies, thus facilitating their extrapolation. In this thesis, I investigate the neural basis of perceptual straightening. We hypothesize that perceptual straightening is achieved through a series of cascaded transformations and found supporting evidence from psychophysical and neurophysiological measurements. We estimated the curvature of internal trajectories from human perceptual judgements across distinct sub-regions of the visual field. Perceptual results suggest that computations that underlie object recognition overlap with those that straighten natural movies, thereby revealing deficits in both processes—crowding and absence of straightening in the periphery. We posit that straightening occurs at multiple stages in the ventral stream as it is linked to recognizing objects. Next, we investigated if straightening occurs as early as the primary visual cortex (V1). We developed a novel computational tool to infer trajectories from neural populations and found robust straightening in V1 recordings from anesthetized macaques. Next, we explored the computational basis of V1 results with an image-computable model. We built a model to describe well-known computations of V1 cells and tested the model with the same movie stimuli. Model-predictions reveal that these computations only partially engage the mechanisms for straightening, revealing the involvement of more complex visual mechanisms. To further test our hypothesis, we asked if additional straightening occurs across the V1-V2 cascade. We recorded populations in areas V1 and V2 from awake fixating monkeys. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find incremental straightening between V1 and V2 elicited by the same natural movies. Together, we find collective evidence of neural straightening as an emergent property that contributes to perceptual straightening in a progressive manner starting from the early stages of vision.
Συνθήματα και Οικονομική κρίση: Σημάδια περιθωριοποίησης ή ενεργή ομάδα;
Creators: name: Αγγουράκη, Εμμανουέλα Μ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συνθήματα
Οικονομική κρίση
Αθήνα
Θεσσαλονίκη
Wall writing
Financial crisis
Athens
Thessaloniki

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας έρευνας αποτελεί η καταγραφή και ανάλυση των συνθημάτων σε τοίχους των δύο μεγαλύτερων πόλεων της Ελλάδας, Αθήνας και Θεσσαλονίκης, συνδυάζοντάς τα με την πρόσφατη οικονομική κρίση. Η καινοτομία της συγκεκριμένης έρευνας έγκειται στο γεγονός στην Ελλάδα δεν έχει πραγματοποιηθεί εξειδικευμένη επιστημονική μελέτη πάνω στο συγκεκριμένο αντικείμενο. Επίσης η πρωτοτυπία της συγκεκριμένης ερευνητικής εργασίας συνίσταται στο γεγονός ότι πέραν της ανάλυσης από πλευράς της Πολιτικής Επιστήμης, στο επίκεντρο της παρούσας έρευνας τοποθετείται και η Κοινωνιολογική Ανάλυση των συνθημάτων, ως μέσο επικοινωνίας που σηματοδοτεί μια κοινωνική πρακτική και τοποθετείται σε ένα ιδιαίτερο κοινωνικό περιβάλλον όπου αναπαράγεται και γίνεται αντικείμενο ερμηνείας και αξιολόγησης. Επίσης καινοτομία της παρούσας μελέτης είναι ότι στο επίκεντρο της έρευνας τοποθετούνται οι ίδιοι οι writers, τα άτομα ή ομάδες που επιλέγουν μέσω του γραπτού λόγου και συγκεκριμένα των συνθημάτων να επικοινωνήσουν δημόσια και να μεταφέρουν ‘ανωνύμως’ προς τα υπόλοιπα μέλη του κοινωνικού συνόλου τις στάσεις και τις αξίες τους πάνω σε θέματα τα οποία τους απασχολούν τη σύγχρονη εποχή.
description: The object of the present research is the recording and analysis of the slogans on the walls of the two largest cities of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, combining them with the recent economic crisis. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that in Greece no specialized scientific study has been carried out on this subject. Also the originality of this research work is the fact that in addition to the analysis by Political Science, the focus of this research is the Sociological Analysis of slogan, as a means of communication that signals a social practice and is placed in a special social environment where it is reproduced and becomes the object of interpretation and evaluation. Also a novelty of the present study is that at the center of the research are placed the writers themselves, the individuals or groups that choose through the written word and specifically the wall writing to communicate publicly and to convey 'anonymously' to the other members of the society the attitudes and their values on issues that concern them in modern times.
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy
Creators: name: Weller, N
name: Jamieson, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Some scholars argue that the public is generally myopic in their attitudes about disaster preparedness spending, because they prefer to spend money on disaster response rather than preparedness, despite the greater cost effectiveness of the later. Given voters’ general lack of policy information, it is possible that limited support for preparedness comes from lack of information about its efficacy. In this paper, we build on these studies by examining how people respond to new information about the effectiveness of policy initiatives in the context of public health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Through two online survey experiments with over 3400 respondents, we demonstrate that information can lead people to update attitudes about preparedness, illustrating the potential for information campaigns to increase support for preparedness policies. Our results suggest that information about the efficacy of preparedness can increase support for these policies, and the information effect exists even for individuals whose prior beliefs were that public health programs were ineffective. These results suggest that information can make people more supportive of preparedness spending, which could provide electoral incentives for its provision. We conclude by providing some directions for future research to enhance our understanding of public opinion and preparedness spending.
Electron-positron pair plasma in TXS 0506+056 and the "neutrino flare" in 2014-2015
Creators: name: Fraija, Nissim
name: Aguilar-Ruiz, Edilberto
name: Galván-Gámez, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of a long flaring activity from blazar TXS 0506+056 in temporal and spatial coincidence with the energetic neutrino IceCube-170922A provided evidence about the photo-hadronic interactions in this source. However, analysis of the archival neutrino and multi-wavelength data from the direction of this blazar between September 2014 and March 2015 revealed a "neutrino flare" without observing quasi-simultaneous activity in the gamma-ray bands, posing challenges to established models. Electron-positron ($e^\pm$) pairs generated from the accretion disks have been amply proposed as a mechanism of bulk acceleration of sub-relativistic and relativistic jets. These pairs annihilate inside the source producing a line around the electron mass which is expected to be blueshifted in the observed frame (on Earth) and redshifted in the frame of the dissipation region of the jet. The redshifted photons in the dissipation region interact with accelerated protons, producing high-energy neutrinos that contribute significantly to the diffuse neutrino flux in the $\sim$ 10 - 20 TeV energy range in connection with gamma-rays from photo-pion process which can be detected by future MeV orbiting satellites. Based on this phenomenological model we can explain the "neutrino flare" reported in 2014-2015.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the phase of oscillatory microwave photoresistance and zero-resistance states
Creators: name: Zudov, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present phenomenological analysis of the period and the phase of oscillatory microwave photoresistance (OMP) and zero-resistance states (ZRS) recently observed in 2D electron systems. The results demonstrate that as OMP evolves into ZRS with increasing magnetic field, the absolute value of the phase becomes progressively smaller, decreasing roughly as 1/B. Virtually eliminating a phase-shift and resulting in different periodicities for the maxima and minima, such specific dependence is supported by a simple model based on oscillatory density of states. Finally, it follows that fine structures first reported in Ref. 3 can be viewed as an experimental evidence for multi-photon processes.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Determinants of Adoption of Improved Practices Among Sorghum Farmers in Michika Local Government Area, Gongola State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Bzugu, Peter M.
name: Igodan, Chris O.
name: Bzugu, Peter M.
name: Igodan, Chris O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The study reported in this paper shows the variables of education, loan availability to farmers, motivation and awareness of information on im­proved farm practices and influence to accept to be significantly related to adoption of recommended farm practices. A further analysis using stepwise regression procedure reveals that these variables, taken together explain about 8.2% variability in adop­tion behaviour.
Exoprosopa luteocera Hesse 1956
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Exoprosopa
Exoprosopa luteocera

description: Exoprosopa luteocera Hesse
 Exoprosopa luteocera Hesse, 1956: 879.
 Distribution. Botswana, Namibia *, South Africa (Mpumalanga), Zambia.
 Material examined. 4♂♂, Tsumkwe District, Nama, 19°54’34”S 20°44’08”E, 20–22.xii.1998 (Kirk­Spriggs, Marais & Mann) Malaise traps.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Additional file 11 of Early trajectories of skin thickening are associated with severity and mortality in systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ledoult, Emmanuel
name: Launay, David
name: Béhal, Hélène
name: Mouthon, Luc
name: Pugnet, Grégory
name: Jean-Christophe Lega
name: Agard, Christian
name: Allanore, Yannick
name: Jego, Patrick
name: Anne-Laure Fauchais
name: Jean-Robert Harlé
name: Berthier, Sabine
name: Aouba, Achille
name: Mekinian, Arsène
name: Diot, Elisabeth
name: Marie-Elise Truchetet
name: Boulon, Carine
name: Duhamel, Alain
name: Hachulla, Eric
name: Sobanski, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 11. Survival analyses using Cox regression analysis without adjustment for age and sex in the 5-class LCMM
Polymer compaction and bridging-induced clustering of protein-inspired patchy particles
Creators: name: Brackley, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: There are many proteins or protein complexes which have multiple DNA binding domains. This allows them to bind to multiple points on a DNA molecule (or chromatin fibre) at the same time. There are also many proteins which have been found to be able to compact DNA in vitro, and many others have been observed in foci or puncta when fluorescently labelled and imaged in vivo. In this work we study, using coarse-grained Langevin dynamics simulations, the compaction of polymers by simple model proteins and a phenomenon known as the "bridging-induced attraction". The latter is a mechanism observed in previous simulations [Brackley et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110 (2013)], where proteins modelled as spheres form clusters via their multivalent interactions with a polymer, even in the absence of any explicit protein-protein attractive interactions. Here we extend this concept to consider more detailed model proteins, represented as simple "patchy particles" interacting with a semi-flexible bead-and-spring polymer. We find that both the compacting ability and the effect of the bridging-induced attraction depend on the valence of the model proteins. These effects also depend on the shape of the protein, which determines its ability to form bridges.
On new examples of Hamiltonian-minimal and minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in $C^n$ and $CP^n$
Creators: name: Mironov, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new method for the construction of Hamiltonian-minimal and minimal Lagrangian immersions of some manifolds in $C^n$ and in $CP^n$. By this method one can construct, in particular, immersions of such manifolds as the generalized Klein's bottle $K^n$, the multidimensional torus, $K^{n-1}\times S^1$, $S^{n-1}\times S^1$, and others. In some cases these immersions are embeddings. For example, it is possible to embed the following manifolds: $K^{2n+1},$ $S^{2n+1}\times S^1$, $K^{2n+1}\times S^1$, $S^{2n+1}\times S^1\times S^1$.
description: 16 pages