cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geophilus lindbergi
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Geophilus
Geophilus lindbergi

description: 1. Geophilus lindbergi (Loksa, 1971)
Type locality: Till Pain (Pandjchir, nö. Decht- Rеvat), 2820 m (Loksa 1971).
Fig. 2.
 Clinopodes lindbergi Loksa 1971: 110.
 Clinopodes lindbergi – Titova 1975: 309.
 Geophilus lindbergi – Bonato et al. 2011: 197; Dyachkov & Nedoev 2021: 47.
 Previous records. Panjshir: [Pan2], Ghazni: [Ghaz3], and Herat: [He4] provinces; uncertain locality: “Douazdah Emam (Behntout)” (Loksa 1971).
 Habitat records. Steppe; unknown habitats on 2450, 2820 m (Loksa 1971)
 Distribution. Afghanistan (Loksa 1971), Southern Turkmenistan (Titova 1975).
 Remarks. Material is in SMF.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 11, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Bothriogaster Sseliwanoff 1879
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Bothriogaster

description: Genus Bothriogaster Sseliwanoff, 1879
 Type species: Geophilus signata Kessler, 1874 (by subsequent designation) (Bonato et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 11, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Mesocanthus Meinert 1870
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Mesocanthus

description: Genus Mesocanthus Meinert, 1870
 Type species: Mesocanthus albus Meinert, 1870 (by monotypy) (Bonato et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 12, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Jahresbericht 2020 / Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen in verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen (ZEMA)
Creators: name: Kleiber, Michael
name: Watorowski, Johanna
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Störfall-Verordnung
subject: Meldepflichtiges Ereignis
subject: Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen
subject: Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen (ZEMA)
subject: ZEMA
subject: Störfall-VO
subject: Meldepflichtiger Störfall
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Die Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen in verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen (ZEMA) am Umweltbundesamt registriert seit 1991 zentral für Deutschland alle meldepflichtigen Ereignisse in Anlagen, die der Störfall-Verordnung unterliegen. Der Bericht für das Jahr 2020 berichtet über 22 meldepflichtige Störfälle und Störungen des bestimmungsgemäßen Betriebs in deutschen Industrieanlagen - die meisten in Chemieanlagen. Die häufigste Ursache der Ereignisse waren menschliche Fehler, die häufigsten Folgen die Freisetzungen von Gefahrstoffen gefolgt von Bränden. Es wurde 1 Todesfall gemeldet, 11 Beschäftigte und 2 Einsatzkräfte wurden verletzt. Bei einem Ereignis wurde ein Umweltschaden innerhalb des Betriebsbereiches angezeigt. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen in verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen (⁠ZEMA) am Umweltbundesamt registriert seit 1991 zentral für Deutschland alle meldepflichtigen Ereignisse in Anlagen, die der Störfall-Verordnung unterliegen.Der Bericht für das Jahr 2020 berichtet über 22 meldepflichtige Störfälle und Störungen des bestimmungsgemäßen Betriebs in deutschen Industrieanlagen – die meisten in Chemieanlagen. Die häufigste Ursache der Ereignisse waren menschliche Fehler, die häufigsten Folgen die Freisetzungen von Gefahrstoffen gefolgt von Bränden. Es wurde 1 Todesfall gemeldet, 11 Beschäftigte und 2 Einsatzkräfte wurden verletzt. Bei einem Ereignis wurde ein Umweltschaden innerhalb des Betriebsbereiches angezeigt.
Population-specific VNTR Alleles in the Human Genome
Creators: name: Marzie E. Rasekh
name: Benson, Gary
name: Yozen Hernandez
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) are polymorphic DNA tandem repeat loci in which the number of pattern copies varies across a population. Human minisatellite VNTR loci (with pattern lengths from seven to hundreds of base pairs) have a variety of functional effects (transcription factor binding, RNA splicing) and are associated with disease (neurodegenerative disorders, cancers, Alzheimer’s disease). Despite their importance, relatively few minisatellite VNTRs have been identified and studied in detail. As part of a large survey of VNTR occurrence in over 2,500 human whole genome sequencing samples from the 1000 genomes project, we sought to identify population-specific VNTR alleles. We found 5,541 “common” VNTR loci (occurring in ≥ 5% of the samples) and used their alleles to develop a decision tree classification model to predict super-population membership, with 97.81% accuracy. We then identified 1,283 top population predictive alleles. Finally, we developed a novel ‘Virtual Gel’ illustration showing how alleles differ across populations at population-specific loci. This is the first large-scale study of population-specific VNTRs and the information obtained could be useful for haplotype inference, studies of human migration and evolution, and accurate use of VNTRs in GWAS studies.
Electronic Defects in Metal Oxide Photocatalysts
Creators: name: Pastor, Ernest
name: Sachs, Michael
name: Selim, Shababa
name: Durrant, James R.
name: Bakulin, Artem A.
name: Walsh, Aron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A deep understanding of defects is essential for the optimisation of materials for solar energy conversion. This is particularly true for metal oxide photo(electro)catalysts, which typically feature high concentrations of charged point defects that are electronically active. In photovoltaic materials, except for selected dopants, defects are considered detrimental and should be eliminated to minimise charge recombination. However, photocatalysis is a more complex process where defects can play an active role, for example, by stabilising charge separation and mediating rate-limiting catalytic steps. Here, we review the behaviour of electronic defects in metal oxides, paying special attention to the principles underpinning the formation and function of trapped charges in the form of polarons. We focus on how defects alter the electronic structure, statically or transiently upon illumination, and discuss the implications of such changes in light-driven catalytic reactions. Finally, we consider the applicability of lessons learned from oxide defect chemistry to new photocatalysts based on carbon nitrides, polymers and metal halide perovskites.
description: Review paper. Nat Rev Mater (2022)
Impact of the Persistence of Three Essential Oils with Antifungal Activities on Stored Wheat Grains, Flour, and Baked Products
Creators: name: Juárez, Zaida N.
name: Bach, Horacio
name: Bárcenas-Pozos, María E.
name: Hernández, Luis R.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Wheat grains are exposed to several plagues after harvesting and during storage. These plagues include bacteria, fungi, and insects with detrimental outcomes to their quality and heavy losses to the farmers. Fungi are of special interest because of their ability to produce mycotoxins with health concerns. Once grains are harvested, synthetic fungicides, which are sprayed before long-term storage, normally control fungi; however, these synthetic products represent a health concern because of their toxicities. Previously, we reported the antifungal activity of the essential oils extracted from Porophyllum linaria, Agastache mexicana, and Buddleja perfoliata against fungal strains isolated from stored wheat. In this study, we sprayed wheat grains with the same essential oils to measure their persistence interval and to prepare baked products to assess potential changes in their physical properties. The persistence interval of the essential oils in grains indicated that it takes between 63 and 134 days to eliminate 90% of the original compounds. This extended time of the compounds in the grains together with a lack of physical properties modifications of the flour and baked products (post-treatment) suggest that the presence of oils in the grains is potentially safe to use. The solid data denote the technological feasibility of the treatment and the possible management of residues through adequate safety intervals.
Nonlinear quantum gates for a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Xu, Shu
name: Schmiedmayer, Jörg
name: Sanders, Barry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum interferometry and quantum information processing have been proposed for Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), but BECs are described in complicated ways such as using quantum field theory or using a nonlinear differential equation. Nonlinear quantum mechanics does not mesh well with the superposition principle at the heart of interferometry and quantum information processing but could be compatible. Thus, we develop a rigorous foundation for quantum gates, obtained by solving the equation for evolution, and then we employ this foundation, combined with quantum-control techniques and appropriate state-sampling techniques, to devise feasible nonlinear Hadamard gates and thereby feasible, i.e., high-contrast, nonlinear Ramsey interferometry. Our approach to BEC interferometry and quantum logic shifts the paradigm by enlarging to the case of nonlinear quantum mechanics, which we apply to the cases of BEC interferometry and quantum information processing.
THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR GENDER EQUALITY: ADDRESSING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND SYSTEMIC BARRIES TO ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE SOCIETIES
Creators: name: Zoirova, Azizabonu
name: Mamatqulova, Saida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article explores the multifaceted global struggle for gender equality, emphasizing the significance of gender, cultural differences, and the systemic barriers that persist in obstructing the path toward inclusive and equitable societies. This article includes about how various forms of oppression, such as race, class, ethnicity, and compound the challenges faced by marginalized gender groups. By addressing the unique experiences of individuals across different cultures and social contexts, the article underscores the importance of tailoring gender equality policies to accommodate diverse needs and perspectives. The article also emphasizes the significance of long-term, sustainable efforts in overcoming gender inequality. It stresses that achieving lasting change requires not only policy reform but also cultural shifts and grassroots movements that challenge and deconstruct the social and economic structures that sustain inequality. International collaboration, alongside local and regional action, is seen as crucial in achieving these goals. Finally, the article calls for a global solidarity movement where diverse actors—including policymakers, social activists, and grassroots organizations—work together in an intersectional and culturally sensitive manner to create strategies that dismantle the entrenched systems of inequality.
Mesocanthus latisternus Attems 1934
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Mesocanthus
Mesocanthus latisternus

description: 3. Mesocanthus latisternus Attems, 1934
Terra typica: Afghanistan (Attems 1934).
 Mesocanthus latisternus Attems 1934: 310–311.
 Mesocanthus latisternus – Attems 1951: 394; Zarei et al. 2020: 135; Thofern et al. 2021: 25.
 Previous records. “ Afghanistan ” (Attems 1934).
 Habitat records. Absent.
 Distribution. Afghanistan (Attems 1934; Thofern et al. 2021) and Iran (Attems 1951; Zarei et al. 2020).
 Remarks. Material is in ZMH.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 12, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
'Being Australian is having some sort of cultural background': the Australian identities of Turkish and Latin-American women
Creators: name: Zevallos, Zuleyka
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the ethnic identifications of 50 second-generation migrant- Australian women and I present a threefold typology to show how their identities were influenced by their Australian nationality. The first type is ‘not Australian’, which includes 13 women who rejected an Australian identity and instead adopted migrant ethnicities. The second type is ‘partly Australian’, and this category includes 36 women who adopted hyphenated migrant-Australian ethnic identities. The third type is ‘Australian’, and it included one woman who rejected her migrant ethnicity in favour of an Australian identity. Australian ideals of gender and freedom, ideas of citizenship and the women’s understanding of Anglo-Australian culture influenced the ways in which they negotiated their Australian identities. Beyond these influences, I argue that the participants’ understanding of multiculturalism has primarily influenced the social construction of their Australian nationality. As these women saw it, ‘being Australian was about having some sort of cultural background’ and having an ethnic identity that was a ‘mixture’ of both migrant and Australian identities was the norm. Being ‘100 percent Australian’ was equaled to losing their connection to their migrant cultures.
Topological space-time crystal
Creators: name: Peng, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new class of out-of-equilibrium noninteracting topological phases, the topological space-time crystals. These are time-dependent quantum systems which do not have discrete spatial translation symmetries, but instead are invariant under discrete space-time translations. Similar to the Floquet-Bloch systems, the space-time crystals can be described by a frequency-domain-enlarged Hamiltonian, which is used to classify topologically distinct space-time crystals. We show that these space-time crystals can be engineered from conventional crystals with an additional time-dependent drive that behaves like a traveling wave moving across the crystal. Interestingly, we are able to construct 1D and 2D examples of topological space-time crystals based on tight-binding models which involve only one orbital, in contrast to the two-orbital minimal models for any previous discovered static or Floquet topological phases with crystalline structures.
description: 5 pages + supplemental material. 4 + 2 figures
Studying the operation of an all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator at negative and positive net cavity dispersion
Creators: name: Pielach, Mateusz
name: Szczepanek, Jan
name: Krupa, Katarzyna
name: Stepanenko, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chirped fiber Bragg gratings in Yb-doped fiber lasers allow tuning the net cavity dispersion, thus enabling access to pulse dynamics beyond the typical all-normal-dispersion dissipative soliton regime. This Letter demonstrates an ultrafast dispersion-managed all-polarization-maintaining fiber oscillator mode-locked with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. Using a chirped fiber Bragg grating inside the oscillator, it can work at net cavity dispersion in the range from -0.098 ps$^2$ up to +0.067 ps$^2$ and above at the wavelength of 1 $\mathrmμ$m. Depending on the configuration, the system can deliver stable pulses with energies up to 2.3 nJ and pulse durations as short as 98 fs.
pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces
Creators: name: Heins, Conor
name: Millidge, Beren
name: Demekas, Daphne
name: Klein, Brennan
name: Friston, Karl
name: Couzin, Iain
name: Tschantz, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Active inference is an account of cognition and behavior in complex systems which brings together action, perception, and learning under the theoretical mantle of Bayesian inference. Active inference has seen growing applications in academic research, especially in fields that seek to model human or animal behavior. While in recent years, some of the code arising from the active inference literature has been written in open source languages like Python and Julia, to-date, the most popular software for simulating active inference agents is the DEM toolbox of SPM, a MATLAB library originally developed for the statistical analysis and modelling of neuroimaging data. Increasing interest in active inference, manifested both in terms of sheer number as well as diversifying applications across scientific disciplines, has thus created a need for generic, widely-available, and user-friendly code for simulating active inference in open-source scientific computing languages like Python. The Python package we present here, pymdp (see https://github.com/infer-actively/pymdp), represents a significant step in this direction: namely, we provide the first open-source package for simulating active inference with partially-observable Markov Decision Processes or POMDPs. We review the package's structure and explain its advantages like modular design and customizability, while providing in-text code blocks along the way to demonstrate how it can be used to build and run active inference processes with ease. We developed pymdp to increase the accessibility and exposure of the active inference framework to researchers, engineers, and developers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. In the spirit of open-source software, we also hope that it spurs new innovation, development, and collaboration in the growing active inference community.
Computing with injection-locked spintronic diodes
Creators: name: Mazza, Luciano
name: Puliafito, Vito
name: Raimondo, Eleonora
name: Giordano, Anna
name: Zeng, Zhongming
name: Carpentieri, Mario
name: Finocchio, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spintronic diodes (STDs) are emerging as a technology for the realization of high-performance microwave detectors. The key advantages of such devices are their high sensitivity, capability to work at low input power, and compactness. In this work, we show a possible use of STDs for neuromorphic computing expanding the realm of their functionalities to implement analog multiplication, which is a key operation in convolutional neural networks (CNN). In particular, we introduce the concept of degree of rectification (DOR) in injection-locked STDs. Micromagnetic simulations are used to design and identify the working range of the STDs for the implementation of the DOR. Previous experimental data confirm the applicability of the proposed solution, which is tested in image processing and in a CNN that recognizes handwritten digits.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, supplemental material includes 4 figures
title: Methodenkonvention 3.1 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten
title: Methodenkonvention 3.1 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bünger, Björn
name: Matthey, Astrid
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Umweltschutzkosten
subject: Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung
subject: Methodenkonvention
subject: umweltkosten
subject: Klimakosten
subject: Kosten unterlassenen Umweltschutzes
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Die Methodenkonvention zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (MK) enthält Empfehlungen für Methoden zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (MK 3.0, Teil â€ÌMethodische Grundlagenâ€Ì) sowie im erweiterten Kostensätzeteil (MK 3.1) die aktualisierten Kostensätze aus der MK 3.0 zu den Themen Treibhausgase, Luftschadstoffe, Lärm, Verkehr und Energie, ergänzt um neue Kostensätze zu den Themen Baustoffe, Treibhausgasemissionen der Landwirtschaft sowie Stickstoff- und Phosphoremissionen enthalten. Die Kostensätze machen deutlich, welchen Nutzen Umweltschutz für die Gesellschaft hat und welche Kosten der Gesellschaft durch unterlassenem Umweltschutz entstehen. Sie ermöglichen eine bessere Abschätzung der Folgen von gesetzlichen Regelungen und öffentlichen Investitionen sowie der Ausgestaltung von ökonomischen Instrumenten. In Unternehmen können sie unter anderen verwendet werden, um die Umweltkosten von Produkten zu bestimmen und die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung zu ergänzen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Methodenkonvention zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (MK) enthält Empfehlungen für Methoden zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (MK 3.0, Teil „Methodische Grundlagen“) sowie im erweiterten Kostensätzeteil (MK 3.1) die aktualisierten Kostensätze aus der MK 3.0 zu den Themen Treibhausgase, Luftschadstoffe, Lärm, Verkehr und Energie, ergänzt um neue Kostensätze zu den Themen Baustoffe, Treibhausgasemissionen der Landwirtschaft sowie Stickstoff- und Phosphoremissionen enthalten. Die Kostensätze machen deutlich, welchen Nutzen Umweltschutz für die Gesellschaft hat und welche Kosten der Gesellschaft durch unterlassenem Umweltschutz entstehen. Sie ermöglichen eine bessere Abschätzung der Folgen von gesetzlichen Regelungen und öffentlichen Investitionen sowie der Ausgestaltung von ökonomischen Instrumenten. In Unternehmen können sie unter anderen verwendet werden, um die Umweltkosten von Produkten zu bestimmen und die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung zu ergänzen.
A Study on Characterization of Near-Field Sub-Regions For Phased-Array Antennas
Creators: name: Monemi, Mehdi
name: Bahrami, Sirous
name: Rasti, Mehdi
name: Latva-aho, Matti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We characterize three near-field sub-regions for phased array antennas by elaborating on the boundaries {\it Fraunhofer}, {\it radial-focal}, and {\it non-radiating} distances. The {\it Fraunhofer distance} which is the boundary between near and far field has been well studied in the literature on the principal axis (PA) of single-element center-fed antennas, where PA denotes the axis perpendicular to the antenna surface passing from the antenna center. The results are also valid for phased arrays if the PA coincides with the boresight, which is not commonly the case in practice. In this work, we completely characterize the Fraunhofer distance by considering various angles between the PA and the boresight. For the {\it radial-focal distance}, below which beamfocusing is feasible in the radial domain, a formal characterization of the corresponding region based on the general model of near-field channels (GNC) is missing in the literature. We investigate this and elaborate that the maximum-ratio-transmission (MRT) beamforming based on the simple uniform spherical wave (USW) channel model results in a radial gap between the achieved and the desired focal points. While the gap vanishes when the array size $N$ becomes sufficiently large, we propose a practical algorithm to remove this gap in the non-asymptotic case when $N$ is not very large. Finally, the {\it non-radiating} distance, below which the reactive power dominates active power, has been studied in the literature for single-element antennas. We analytically explore this for phased arrays and show how different excitation phases of the antenna array impact it. We also clarify some misconceptions about the non-radiating and Fresnel distances prevailing in the literature.
Chemical evolution of galactic systems
Creators: name: Fenner, Yeshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the chemical signatures of galaxy formation and evolution using a software package designed specifically for this investigation. We describe the development of this multi-zone chemical evolution code, which simulates the spacetime evolution of stars, gas and a vast array of chemical elements within galactic systems. We use this tool to analyse observations of a wide range of astrophysical systems. The chemical evolution code is first calibrated using empirical constraints from the Milky Way. These simulations help shed light on the nature of the gas accretion processes that fueled the formation of our Galaxy. We demonstrate the importance of low- and intermediate-mass stars in explaining the elemental and isotopic abundance patterns measured in Galactic stars. An intriguing question in astrophysics is whether pollution from intermediate-mass stellar winds is responsible for anomalous abundances in globular cluster stars. We test this scenario by modelling the formation and chemical evolution of a globular cluster. Recently, the most detailed abundance pattern ever measured beyond the local universe was obtained for a high-redshift quasar absorption cloud, providing an exciting opportunity to explore early conditions of galaxy formation. We compare the chemical abundances in this distant object with predictions from a series of models, in order to gain insight into the protogalaxy's age and star formation history. We continue investigating the high-redshift universe, turning our attention to the issue of space-time variations in the fine-structure constant, as suggested by quasar absorption-line constraints. An excess abundance of heavy Mg isotopes in the absorbing clouds could partly account for the data, without needing to invoke variations in fundamental constants of nature. An enhanced early population of intermediate-mass stars could lead to such extreme Mg isotopic ratios, but we show that additional chemical consequences of this scenario conflict with observations.
Polyporogaster Verhoeff 1899
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Polyporogaster

description: Genus Polyporogaster Verhoeff, 1899
 Type species: Polyporogaster tunetana Verhoeff, 1899 (by monotypy) (Bonato et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 12, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Time dependent black holes and gravitational wave in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory with two scalar fields
Creators: name: Nashed, G. G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explores time-varying black holes within the framework of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory with two scalar fields, examining the propagation of gravitational waves (GW). In reconstructed models, ghosts frequently emerge but can be eliminated by applying certain constraints. We investigate the behavior of high-frequency gravitational waves by examining the effects of varying Gauss-Bonnet coupling during their propagation. The speed of transmission is altered by the coupling in the creation of black holes. The speed of gravitational waves varies as they enter a black hole compared to when they exit.
On the Differential Representation and Color-Kinematics Duality of AdS Boundary Correlators
Creators: name: Herderschee, Aidan
name: Roiban, Radu
name: Teng, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AdS boundary correlators and their dual correlation functions of boundary operators have been the main dynamic observables of the holographic duality relating a bulk AdS theory and a boundary conformal field theory. We show that tree-level AdS boundary correlators for generic states can be expressed as nonlocal differential operators of a certain structure acting on contact Witten diagrams. We further write the boundary correlators in a form that is very similar to flat space amplitudes, with Mandelstam variables replaced by certain combinations of single-state conformal generators, prove that all tree-level AdS boundary correlators have a differential representation, and detail the conversion of such differential expressions to position space. We illustrate the construction through the computation of the boundary correlators of scalars coupled to gluons and gravitons; when converted to position space, they reproduce known results. Color-kinematics duality and BCJ relations can be defined in analogy with their flat space counterparts, and are respected by the scalar correlators with a gluon exchange. We also discuss potential approaches to the double copy and find that its direct generalization may require nontrivial extensions.
description: 50 pages; v2: references added, matching published version
First-encounter time of two diffusing particles in two- and three-dimensional confinement
Creators: name: Vot, F. Le
name: Yuste, S. B.
name: Abad, E.
name: Grebenkov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistics of the first-encounter time of diffusing particles changes drastically when they are placed under confinement. In the present work, we make use of Monte Carlo simulations to study the behavior of a two-particle system in two- and three-dimensional domains with reflecting boundaries. Based on the outcome of the simulations, we give a comprehensive overview of the behavior of the survival probability $S(t)$ and the associated first-encounter time probability density $H(t)$ over a broad time range spanning several decades. In addition, we provide numerical estimates and empirical formulas for the mean first-encounter time $\langle \cal{T}\rangle $, as well as for the decay time $T$ characterizing the monoexponential long-time decay of the survival probability. Based on the distance between the boundary and the center of mass of two particles, we obtain an empirical lower bound $t_B$ for the time at which $S(t)$ starts to significantly deviate from its counterpart for the no boundary case. Surprisingly, for small-sized particles, the dominant contribution to $T$ depends only on the total diffusivity $D=D_1+D_2$, in sharp contrast to the one-dimensional case. This contribution can be related to the Wiener sausage generated by a fictitious Brownian particle with diffusivity $D$. In two dimensions, the first subleading contribution to $T$ is found to depend weakly on the ratio $D_1/D_2$. We also investigate the slow-diffusion limit when $D_2 \ll D_1$ and discuss the transition to the limit when one particle is a fixed target. Finally, we give some indications to anticipate when $T$ can be expected to be a good approximation for $\langle \cal{T}\rangle$.
Progressive teaching of mathematics with tablet technology
Creators: name: Loch, Birgit
name: Donovan, Diane
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate a multimodal approach to lecture presentation built on tablet technology. This innovative approach presents a framework which provides organizational structure to the lecture and facilitates incorporation of additional detail through electronic ink. Diagrams, solutions and concept maps are developed spontaneously in real time, thus engaging and promoting student directed learning, through a creative, interactive and dynamic process. Our study analyzes benefits and drawbacks of this approach, through evaluation of instructor experiences and student feedback for three undergraduate mathematics courses held over three consecutive semesters.
Ferromagnetic resonance modulation in $d$-wave superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator bilayer systems
Creators: name: Ominato, Yuya
name: Yamakage, Ai
name: Kato, Takeo
name: Matsuo, Mamoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in $d$-wave superconductor (SC)/ferromagnetic insulator (FI) bilayer systems theoretically. The modulation of the Gilbert damping in these systems reflects the existence of nodes in the $d$-wave SC and shows power-law decay characteristics within the low-temperature and low-frequency limit. Our results indicate the effectiveness of use of spin pumping as a probe technique to determine the symmetry of unconventional SCs with high sensitivity for nanoscale thin films.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Diet as a Potential Moderator for Genome Stability and Immune Response in Pediatric Leukemia
Creators: name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Maxwell, Chris
name: Akella, Neha Manjari
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Pediatric leukemias are the most prevalent cancers affecting children in developed societies, with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) being the most common subtype. As diet is a likely modulator of many diseases, this review focuses on the potential for diet to influence the incidence and progression of childhood ALL. In particular, the potential effect of diets on genome stability and immunity during the prenatal and postnatal stages of early childhood development are discussed. Maternal diet plays an integral role in shaping the bodily composition of the newborn, and thus may influence fetal genome stability and immune system development. Indeed, higher birth weights of newborns are associated with increased risk of ALL, which suggests in-utero biology may shape the evolution of preleukemic clones. Postnatally, the ingestion of maternal breastmilk both nourishes the infant, and provides essential components that strengthen and educate the developing immune system. Consistently, breast-feeding associates with decreased risk of ALL development. For children already suffering from ALL, certain dietary regimens have been proposed. These regimens, which have been validated in both animals and humans, alter the internal hormonal environment. Thus, hormonal regulation by diet may shape childhood metabolism and immunity in a manner that is detrimental to the evolution or expansion of preleukemic and leukemic ALL clones.
Helminth Interactions with Bacteria in the Host Gut Are Essential for Its Immunomodulatory Effect
Creators: name: Jirků, Milan
name: Lhotská, Zuzana
name: Frgelecová, Lucia
name: Kadlecová, Oldřiška
name: Petrželková, Klára Judita
name: Morien, Evan
name: Jirků-Pomajbíková, Kateřina
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Colonization by the benign tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, has been associated with a reduction in intestinal inflammation and changes in bacterial microbiota. However, the role of microbiota in the tapeworm anti-inflammatory effect is not yet clear, and the aim of this study was to determine whether disruption of the microflora during worm colonization can affect the course of intestinal inflammation. We added a phase for disrupting the intestinal microbiota using antibiotics to the experimental design for which we previously demonstrated the protective effect of H. diminuta. We monitored the immunological markers, clinical parameters, bacterial microbiota, and histological changes in the colon of rats. After a combination of colonization, antibiotics, and colitis induction, we had four differently affected experimental groups. We observed a different course of the immune response in each group, but no protective effect was found. Rats treated with colonization and antibiotics showed a strong induction of the Th2 response as well as a significant change in microbial diversity. The microbial results also revealed differences in the richness and abundance of some bacterial taxa, influenced by various factors. Our data suggest that interactions between the tapeworm and bacteria may have a major impact on its protective effect.
Chirally Factorised Truncated Conformal Space Approach
Creators: name: Horvath, D. X.
name: Hodsagi, K.
name: Takacs, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Truncated Conformal Space Approach (TCSA) is a highly efficient method to compute spectra, operator matrix elements and time evolution in quantum field theories defined as relevant perturbations of 1+1-dimensional conformal field theories. However, similarly to other exact diagonalisation methods, TCSA is ridden with the "curse of dimensionality": the dimension of the Hilbert space increases exponentially with the (square root of the) truncation level, limiting its precision by the available memory resources. Here we describe an algorithm which exploits the chiral factorisation property of conformal field theory with periodic boundary conditions to achieve a substantial improvement in the truncation level. The Chirally Factorised TCSA (CFTCSA) algorithm presented here works with inputs describing the necessary CFT data in a specified format. It makes possible much more precise calculations with given computing resources and extends the reach of the method to problems requiring large Hilbert space dimensions. In fact, it has already been used in a number of recent works ranging from determination of form factors, through studying confinement of topological excitations to non-equilibrium dynamics. Besides the description of the algorithm, a MATLAB implementation of the algorithm is also provided as an ancillary file package, supplemented with example codes computing spectra, matrix elements and time evolution, and with CFT data for three different quantum field theories. We also give a detailed how-to guide for constructing the required CFT data for Virasoro minimal models with central charge c<1, and for the massless free boson with c=1.
description: 36 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables; and an implementation of our algorithms as an ancillary file package. The package can be found in the 'anc' directory after downloading and uncompressing the source file of this submission: comments welcome
Exact model of gravitational wave and pure radiation
Creators: name: Osetrin, Konstantin E.
name: Epp, Vladimir Y.
name: Filippov, Altair E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C10, 83C35

description: An exact non-perturbative model of a gravitational wave with pure radiation is constructed. It is shown that the presence of dust matter in this model contradicts Einstein's field equations. Exact solution of Einstein equations for gravitational wave and pure radiation is obtained. The trajectories of propagation and characteristics of radiation are found. For the considered exact model of a gravitational wave, a retardet time equation for radiation is obtained. The obtained results are used to construct an exact model of gravitational wave and pure radiation for Bianchi type IV universe.
description: 21 pages
Photon Fragmentation in the Antenna Subtraction Formalism
Creators: name: Gehrmann, Thomas
name: Schürmann, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theoretical description of photon production at particle colliders combines direct photon radiation and fragmentation processes, which can not be separated from each other for definitions of photon isolation used in experimental measurements. The theoretical description of these processes must account for collinear parton-photon configurations, retaining the dependence on the photon momentum fraction, and includes the parton-to-photon fragmentation functions. We extend the antenna subtraction method to include photon fragmentation processes up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. Collinear photon radiation is handled using newly introduced fragmentation antenna functions and associated phase space mappings. We derive the integrated forms of the fragmentation antenna functions and describe their interplay with the mass factorisation of the photon fragmentation functions. The construction principles of antenna subtraction terms up to NNLO for identified photons are outlined, thereby enabling the application of the method to different photon production processes at colliders.
description: 47 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, two ancillary files with the expressions for the NNLO fragmentation antenna functions enclosed, typos corrected, journal version
Polyporogaster sinuata Silvestri 1919
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Polyporogaster
Polyporogaster sinuata

description: 4. Polyporogaster sinuata Silvestri, 1919
Type locality: N. Baluchistan (Silvestri 1919).
Fig. 4.
 Polyporogaster sinuatus Silvestri 1919: 92.
 Polyporogaster sinuatus – Brölemann 1922: 54–55.
 Polyporogaster sinuata – Attems 1929: 51; Loksa 1971: 109.
 Previous records. Herat: [He3], [He5], Dschuzdschan: [Ds1], Balch: [Bal1], Zabul: [Zab3], and Nangarhar: [Nan1] provinces; uncertain locality: “Pol- Matak (am Eingang des Chour-band-Tales)” (Loksa 1971).
 Habitat records. In a ditch; steppe; stony mountain slope; bank of small stream on 1510 m (Loksa 1971).
 Distribution. Iraq (Brölemann 1922), “N. Baluchistan” (Silvestri 1919; Attems 1929), and Afghanistan (Loksa 1971).
 Remarks. Material is in SMF.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Kohärenzprüfung umweltpolitischer Ziele und Instrumente
Creators: name: Wolff, Franziska
name: Jacob, Klaus
name: Guske, Anna-Lena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Umweltpolitik
subject: Zielkonflikt
subject: Synergismus
subject: Kohärenzprüfung
subject: Umweltberichterstattung
subject: Umweltpolitische Instrumente
subject: Synergien und Konflikte
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Sicherung der Kohärenz von Zielen und Instrumenten ist eine Daueraufgabe für die Umweltpolitik. In diesem Forschungsbericht wird ein Ansatz für die Kohärenzprüfung vorgestellt. Die Interaktionen von Zielen werden über Wirkungsketten erfasst (Wirkungskettenanalyse). Die Analyse der deutschen Umweltpolitik zeigt das hohe Maß der Vernetzung von umweltpolitischen Zielen in Deutschland. Zwischen den Zielen und Instrumenten verschiedener umweltpolitischer Handlungsfelder können Zielkonflikte und Synergien gezeigt werden. Der vorgestellte Ansatz bietet Ansatzpunkte zur Verbesserung der Umweltpolitikplanung, -evaluation und -berichterstattung.
Weakly supervised deep learning model with size constraint for prostate cancer detection in multiparametric MRI and generalization to unseen domains
Creators: name: Trombetta, Robin
name: Rouvière, Olivier
name: Lartizien, Carole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fully supervised deep models have shown promising performance for many medical segmentation tasks. Still, the deployment of these tools in clinics is limited by the very timeconsuming collection of manually expert-annotated data. Moreover, most of the state-ofthe-art models have been trained and validated on moderately homogeneous datasets. It is known that deep learning methods are often greatly degraded by domain or label shifts and are yet to be built in such a way as to be robust to unseen data or label distributions. In the clinical setting, this problematic is particularly relevant as the deployment institutions may have different scanners or acquisition protocols than those from which the data has been collected to train the model. In this work, we propose to address these two challenges on the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) from bi-parametric MRI. We evaluate the method proposed by (Kervadec et al., 2018), which introduces a size constaint loss to produce fine semantic cancer lesions segmentations from weak circle scribbles annotations. Performance of the model is based on two public (PI-CAI and Prostate158) and one private databases. First, we show that the model achieves on-par performance with strong fully supervised baseline models, both on in-distribution validation data and unseen test images. Second, we observe a performance decrease for both fully supervised and weakly supervised models when tested on unseen data domains. This confirms the crucial need for efficient domain adaptation methods if deep learning models are aimed to be deployed in a clinical environment. Finally, we show that ensemble predictions from multiple trainings increase generalization performance.
Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert 1870
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Mecistocephalidae
Mecistocephalus
Mecistocephalus cephalotes

description: 5. Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert, 1870
Type locality: Batavia (Meinert 1870).
Fig. 5.
 Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert 1870: 100.
 Mecistocephalus (Mecistocephalus) cephalotes – Attems 1929: 135; Loksa 1971: 110.
 Mecistocephalus cephalotes – Bonato & Minelli 2004: 47–48.
 Previous records. Zabul: [Zab2] (Loksa 1971) and Kunar: [Kun2], [Kun3] provinces.
 Habitat records. Grotto (Loksa 1971).
 Distribution. Jawa, Vietnam, Afghanistan [? see below] (Attems 1929; Bonato et al. 2016).
 Remarks. Material is in SMF.
 Bonato & Minelli (2004) assigned specimens of M. cephalotes from Himalayas (Silvestri 1919) to M. silvestrii Bonato & Minelli, 2004. Nevertheless, they also assumed M. cephalotes can be presented in highlands of W Himalayas as reported by Loksa (1971). Later Bonato et al. (2016) suggested records of M. cephalotes from Western Himalayas and Hindukush are possibly based on misidentification.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337