cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pristoderus dissimilis
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pristoderus
Pristoderus dissimilis

description: Pristoderus dissimilis (Sharp, 1886)
(Figs. 251–253)
 Ulonotus dissimilis Sharp, 1886: 387, pl. 12, fig. 18. Broun 1893b: 1081 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1886: 387). Hutton 1904: 168. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 38.
 Pristoderus dissimilis: Implied combination based on Ulonotus as a junior synonym of Pristoderus in Ivie and Ślipiński 1990: 9.
 Pristoderus dissimilis: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Bealey [Greymouth and Picton also given in original description].
 Broun number: 1926.
 Remarks: Sharp did not mention the number of specimens examined but stated he was sent “an example from Captain Broun (with the No. 109 attached),” which “was found in numbers at Bealey and Picton by Helms,” and is conspecific with a specimen that Reitter sent “some time ago from Greymouth…” In order to stabilize this name, a lectotype and 15 paralectotypes are here designated from the material of Ulonotus dissimilis.
 Type material examined: Lectotype (BMNH): mounted on same card as 3 paralectotypes, left-most specimen is the lectotype, “ Ulonotus dissimilis. Types D.S. Bealey. N. Zeal d. Helms. [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Type [round label with red border] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313. // BMNH (E) #651706”. Paralectotypes (BMNH): 3, mounted on same card as lectotype, left-most specimen is the lectotype, right-most specimen is mounted venter-up, labels same as lectotype. Paralectotypes (BMNH): 4, mounted together on same card and pin, “ Ulonotus dissimilis D.S. Bealey N.Z. Helms 1886 [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.” Paralectotypes (BMNH): 4, mounted together on same card and pin, “ Ulonotus dissimilis Picton Helms 1884 [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.” Paralectotypes (BMNH): 2, mounted together on same card and pin, “ Picton, New Zealand. Helms. // Ulonotus dissimilis [in Sharp’s hand] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.” Paralectotype (BMNH): “Nov Zeeland Helms. Reitter [with black border] // Greymouth, New Zealand. [red underline] Helms. // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.” Paralectotype (BMNH): “109 // Ulonotus dissimilis. Tairua Broun [in Sharp’s hand] // Sharp Coll. 1905-313.”
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Review Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors for Child Abuse and Neglect
Creators: name: Luo, Zhidi
name: Yeyige, Chen
name: Epstein, Richard A.
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Child Abuse
subject: Risk Factors

description: Child abuse and neglect, collectively referred to as "child maltreatment," is a major national public health concern, with 618,000 victims and 1,750 fatalities reported in the United States in Fiscal Year 2020. This issue is associated with heightened risks of diverse behaviors and adverse health outcomes, spanning poor nutrition, delinquent behavior, diabetes, lung disease, vision problems, posttraumatic stress disorder, depressive disorders, suicide, attachment and social difficulties, and diminished cognitive functioning skills. The societal impact extends to increased healthcare, social welfare, and special education costs. While previous reviews have provided valuable insights, limitations include lack of contemporaneity, absence of systematic review methods, absence of quantitative synthesis, and focus on a single maltreatment type. To address these gaps, this study conducts a systematic review and meta-analysis, offering timely and quantitative insights crucial for addressing this pressing public health issue.
Effects of Systematic Uncertainties on the Supernova Determination of Cosmological Parameters
Creators: name: Kim, Alex G.
name: Linder, Eric V.
name: Miquel, Ramon
name: Mostek, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mapping the recent expansion history of the universe offers the best hope for uncovering the characteristics of the dark energy believed to be responsible for the acceleration of the expansion. In determining cosmological and dark-energy parameters to the percent level, systematic uncertainties impose a floor on the accuracy more severe than the statistical measurement precision. We delineate the categorization, simulation, and understanding required to bound systematics for the specific case of the Type Ia supernova method. Using simulated data of forthcoming ground-based surveys and the proposed space-based SNAP mission we present Monte Carlo results for the residual uncertainties on the cosmological parameter determination. The tight systematics control with optical and near-infrared observations and the extended redshift reach allow a space survey to bound the systematics below 0.02 magnitudes at z=1.7. For a typical SNAP-like supernova survey, this keeps total errors within 15% of the statistical values and provides estimation of Omega_m to 0.03, w_0 to 0.07, and w' to 0.3; these can be further improved by incorporating complementary data.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, A4 format. v2: A few typos corrected. Some explanations added. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Recurrent Neural Network Control of a Hybrid Dynamic Transfemoral Prosthesis with EdgeDRNN Accelerator
Creators: name: Gao, Chang
name: Gehlhar, Rachel
name: Ames, Aaron D.
name: Liu, Shih-Chii
name: Delbruck, Tobi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lower leg prostheses could improve the life quality of amputees by increasing comfort and reducing energy to locomote, but currently control methods are limited in modulating behaviors based upon the human's experience. This paper describes the first steps toward learning complex controllers for dynamical robotic assistive devices. We provide the first example of behavioral cloning to control a powered transfemoral prostheses using a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based recurrent neural network (RNN) running on a custom hardware accelerator that exploits temporal sparsity. The RNN is trained on data collected from the original prosthesis controller. The RNN inference is realized by a novel EdgeDRNN accelerator in real-time. Experimental results show that the RNN can replace the nominal PD controller to realize end-to-end control of the AMPRO3 prosthetic leg walking on flat ground and unforeseen slopes with comparable tracking accuracy. EdgeDRNN computes the RNN about 240 times faster than real time, opening the possibility of running larger networks for more complex tasks in the future. Implementing an RNN on this real-time dynamical system with impacts sets the ground work to incorporate other learned elements of the human-prosthesis system into prosthesis control.
description: Accepted at 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
Pristoderus dorsalis
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pristoderus
Pristoderus dorsalis

description: Pristoderus dorsalis (Broun, 1882)
(Figs. 254–255)
 Dryptops dorsalis Broun, 1882: 292. Broun 1886: 763 (reprinted from Broun 1882). Hutton 1904. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 35. Ivie and Ślipiński 1990: 8.
 Pristoderus dorsalis: Ślipiński and Lawrence 1997: 407, based on synonymy of Dryptops with Pristoderus (p. 406). Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Waitakere Range.
 Broun number: 1354.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1354. [green label] // Waitakerei // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Dryptops dorsalis [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
title: Process-Mining in der digitalisierten Produktion
title: unter welchen Rahmenbedingungen Process-Mining bei modular aufgebauten Montagesystemen in der Massenfertigung einen Mehrwert bieten kann
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gunz, Johannes M.
Publisher: name: FH Vorarlberg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 650 Management

description: Durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung der Produktion ergeben sich zunehmend neue Möglichkeiten. Eine dieser Möglichkeiten ist der Einsatz von Process Mining. Mit Process Mining können Daten einem Prozess zugeordnet werden, um diesen zu visualisieren und zu untersuchen. Dadurch ist es möglich, Prozesse real zu entdecken, zu überwachen und zu verbessern. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht, unter welchen Rahmenbedingungen Process-Mining bei modular aufgebauten Montagesystemen in der Massenfertigung einen Mehrwert bieten kann. Durch eine ausführliche Literaturanalyse und dem praktischen Versuch mittels eines Experiments wird darauf eine Antwort gegeben.
Study of Customer Adaptability for Electronic Banking Services in India
Creators: name: Kamal, Yusuf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory
subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified

description: The modern age has thrown many inventions that are unavoidable for society. The business and banking have shared a long lasting and parallel relationship. The payment banks have shown rapid and remarkable progress in India since the Demonetisation 2016. Year 2016 in India has also shown the rapid expansion in internet usage and usage of smart phones. There exist a relationship between the marketing aspects of business management and the retention of the existing customer of a bank. A new trend has been seen in the Indian banking environment which shows the assignment of relationship manager to every single savings bank holder. This paper is an attempt to examine the customer adaptability building mechanism and the corresponding banking management. Examination of measures to improve the customer adaptability in a electronic banking customer makes a remarkable difference in the client management and business expansion. Analysis of “Loyalty in a bank customer is an important tangent of bank business management.
An Examination of Animal Food Sources in Totem Residences as they contribute to UBC Community Biodiversity Green Corridor Landscape
Creators: name: Madden, Cheryl-Lee
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this study is to continue the University of British Columbia Biodiversity Green Corridor project located within Totem Residence area. Specifically, to provide four species at risk, through knowledge of their habitat and food sources with those advantages necessary to thrive yearlong in this area. Understanding habitat quality and food sources for animals and birds is crucial for landscape architects and managers. For managers to understand where the distribution of food sources for species at risk are located, the quality of food sources and identification of species must first be measured. The scope of this project allowed for this student to photograph Totem food sources whilst on other occasions join a walk of this grid with UBC Birding Club members identifying those birds and mammals at risk. Once those species were identified these photographs were loaded onto Google Maps which then could be downloaded into KML network links. Next these files can be opened in Google Earth by Landscape Architects to view the map. In addition, UBC landscape design maps from 1960s to present day, identified those plants that had been planted within the grid area. The student then compared with what had existed with what this student found on her ecological studies. One plant invasive species was discovered, the yellow flag iris which the client, landscape architect explained will be removed from the last remaining wetland area beside Totem forest. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
THE CONGRESSMAN'S CONCEPTION OF HIS ROLE. A STUDY OF THE USE OF PUBLIC OPINION POLLS BY MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Creators: name: Hawver, Carl Fullerton
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 26-02, page: 1203.
Review Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors for Child Abuse and Neglect
Creators: name: Luo, Zhidi
name: Yeyige, Chen
name: Epstein, Richard A.
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Risk Factors
subject: Child Abuse

description: Child abuse and neglect, collectively referred to as "child maltreatment," is a major national public health concern, with 618,000 victims and 1,750 fatalities reported in the United States in Fiscal Year 2020. This issue is associated with heightened risks of diverse behaviors and adverse health outcomes, spanning poor nutrition, delinquent behavior, diabetes, lung disease, vision problems, posttraumatic stress disorder, depressive disorders, suicide, attachment and social difficulties, and diminished cognitive functioning skills. The societal impact extends to increased healthcare, social welfare, and special education costs. While previous reviews have provided valuable insights, limitations include lack of contemporaneity, absence of systematic review methods, absence of quantitative synthesis, and focus on a single maltreatment type. To address these gaps, this study conducts a systematic review and meta-analysis, offering timely and quantitative insights crucial for addressing this pressing public health issue.
Pristoderus fulvus
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pristoderus
Pristoderus fulvus

description: Pristoderus fulvus (Broun, 1893)
(Figs. 258–259)
 Ulonotus fulvus Broun, 1893b: 1080. Hutton 1904: 168. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 38.
 Pristoderus fulvus: Implied combination based on Ulonotus as a junior synonym of Pristoderus in Ivie and Ślipiński 1990: 9. Pristoderus fulvus: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Moeraki.
 Broun number: 1925.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen. We located one specimen in the BMNH Broun collection with a “1925” Broun number and identification label (but lacking a locality label), which we assume to be the holotype. Broun’s determination label on the lectotype reads “ Ulonotus fulvous,” but the name given in the original description is Ulonotus fulvus.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1925. [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Ulonotus fulvous [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Unsupervised Multilingual Alignment using Wasserstein Barycenter
Creators: name: Lian, Xin
name: Jain, Kshitij
name: Truszkowski, Jakub
name: Poupart, Pascal
name: Yu, Yaoliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: We study unsupervised multilingual alignment, the problem of finding word-to-word translations between multiple languages without using any parallel data. One popular strategy is to reduce multilingual alignment to the much simplified bilingual setting, by picking one of the input languages as the pivot language that we transit through. However, it is well-known that transiting through a poorly chosen pivot language (such as English) may severely degrade the translation quality, since the assumed transitive relations among all pairs of languages may not be enforced in the training process. Instead of going through a rather arbitrarily chosen pivot language, we propose to use the Wasserstein barycenter as a more informative "mean" language: it encapsulates information from all languages and minimizes all pairwise transportation costs. We evaluate our method on standard benchmarks and demonstrate state-of-the-art performances.
description: Code is available at https://github.com/alixxxin/multi-lang
title: Factors shaping social learning in chimpanzees
Creators: name: Watson, Stuart Kyle
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2018

description: Culture is an important means by which both human and non-human animals transmit useful behaviours between individuals and generations. Amongst animals, chimpanzees live particularly varied cultural lives. However, the processes and factors that influence whether chimpanzees will be motivated to copy an observed behaviour are poorly understood. In this thesis, I explore various factors and their influence on social learning decisions in chimpanzees. In turn, the chapters examine the influence of (i) rank-bias towards copying dominant individuals, (ii) majority and contextual influences and finally (iii) individual differences in proclivity for social learning. In my first experiment, I found evidence that chimpanzees are highly motivated to copy the behaviour of subordinate demonstrators and innovators in an open-diffusion puzzle-box paradigm. In contrast, behaviours seeded by dominant individuals were not transmitted as faithfully. This finding has important implications for our understanding of the emergence of novel traditions. In my second experiment, I found that some chimpanzees are highly motivated to relinquish an existing behaviour to adopt an equally rewarding alternative if it is consistently demonstrated by just one or two individuals within a group context, but not in a dyadic context. This contrasts with prior studies which argue that chimpanzees are highly conservative and may hint at a hitherto unrecognised process by which conformity-like behaviour might occur. Finally, I performed a novel type of ‘meta’ analysis on 16 social learning studies carried out at our research site to determine whether individuals demonstrated consistency in their social learning behaviour across experimental contexts. Strong evidence for individual differences in social information use was found, with females more likely to use social information than males. No effect of age, research experience or rearing history was found. This presents a promising new method of studying individual differences in behaviour using the accumulated findings of previous work at a study site.
Program for a Field Meet at the Machine Gun Range
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1918
Subjects: subject: Base Hospital No. 12
subject: Entertainment
subject: Field Day
subject: Sports
subject: Running
subject: Competition
subject: Games
subject: World War, 1914-1918

description: Front cover of the program for a field meet at the machine gun range under the auspices of Base Hospital No. 12. The promgram lists what athletic events will be held along with the committee members who helped to organize this field day.
Practitioner Based Research - An Emergent Study
Creators: name: Irving-Bell, Dawne
name: Wooff, David
name: Hughes, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: This work presents the preliminary findings of the third phase of a small-scale research study conducted by the authors with a small number of serving secondary school teachers of design and technology based in the North West of England. The work originates from a study designed to improve the ability of Flexible PGCE design and technology trainee teachers to gain a ‘Level 7’ in the submission of their research assignments utilising a classroom evidence-based approach (Bell et al. 2011). It was during this study that unanticipated findings emerged, which set a new course of enquiry; to explore the potential to support teachers in the generation of evidence-based classroom practitioner research, of which the preliminary ‘pilot’ work is reported here.
Pristoderus fuscatus
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pristoderus
Pristoderus fuscatus

description: Pristoderus fuscatus (Broun, 1886)
(Figs. 260–261)
 Ulonotus fuscatus Broun, 1886: 948. Hutton 1904: 168. Broun 1914a: 96. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 38.
 Pristoderus fuscatus: Implied combination based on Ulonotus as a junior synonym of Pristoderus in Ivie and Ślipiński 1990: 9. Pristoderus fuscatus: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Mount Egmont.
 Broun number: 1707.
 Remarks: Broun did not mention the number of specimens examined. In order to stabilize this name, the single specimen of Ulonotus fuscatus in the BMNH Broun collection is here designated as the lectotype.
 Type material examined: Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1707. [in Broun’s hand] // Egmont // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Ulonotus fuscatus. [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Photoemission study of the metal-insulator transition in VO_2/TiO_2(001) : Evidence for strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interaction
Creators: name: Okazaki, K.
name: Wadati, H.
name: Fujimori, A.
name: Onoda, M.
name: Muraoka, Y.
name: Hiroi, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have made a detailed temperature-dependent photoemission study of VO_2/TiO_2(001) thin films, which show a metal-insulator transition at \sim 300 K. Clean surfaces were obtained by annealing the films in an oxygen atmosphere. Spectral weight transfer between the coherent and incoherent parts accompanying the metal-insulator transition was clearly observed. We also observed a hysteretic behavior of the spectra for heating-cooling cycles. We have derived the ``bulk'' spectrum of the metallic phase and found that it has a strong incoherent part. The width of the coherent part is comparable to that given by band-structure calculation in spite of its reduced spectral weight, indicating that the momentum dependence of the self-energy is significant. This is attributed to by ferromagnetic fluctuation arising from Hund's rule coupling between different d orbitals as originally proposed by Zylbersztejn and Mott. In the insulating phase, the width of the V 3d band shows strong temperature dependence. We attribute this to electron-phonon interaction and have reproduced it using the independent boson model with a very large coupling constant.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE 'IRAQI REVOLUTION, INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL PROBLEMS: 1918-1945
Creators: name: Patton, John Strohm
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 24-11, page: 4660.
Recomendaciones[31867].pdf
Creators: name: Pérez-Miralles, Francisco Carlos
name: Gascón, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Recomendaciones de la Societat Valenciana de Neurologia para pacientes con esclerosis múltiple.
COVID-19 y EM_def[31868].pdf
Creators: name: Pérez-Miralles, Francisco Carlos
name: Gascón, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Recomendaciones de la Societat Valenciana de Neurologia para el profesional sanitario que atiende a pacientes con esclerosis múltiple.
Pristoderus integratus
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pristoderus
Pristoderus integratus

description: Pristoderus integratus (Broun, 1886)
(Figs. 264–265)
 Ulonotus integratus Broun, 1886: 949. Hutton 1904: 168. Broun 1914a: 96. Hudson 1923: 368. Hetschko 1930: 38. Pristoderus integratus: Implied combination based on Ulonotus as a junior synonym of Pristoderus in Ivie and Ślipiński 1990: 9. Pristoderus integratus: Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Purakanui, Otago.
 Broun number: 1710.
 Remarks: Broun did not explicitly mention the number of specimens examined; however, the wording was ambiguous and he referred to “a small example” from Purakanui and provided a single length measurement. Only one specimen matching this data was located in the BMNH Broun collection, therefore we assume Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1710. [in Broun’s hand] // Purakanui // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Ulonotus integratus [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Direct reconstruction of the effective atomic number of materials by the method of multi-energy radiography
Creators: name: Naydenov, Sergey V.
name: Ryzhikov, Vladimir D.
name: Smith, Craig F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A direct method is proposed for reconstruction of the effective atomic number by means of multi-energy radiography of the material. The accuracy of the method is up to 95% . Advantages over conventional radiographic methods, which ensure accuracy of just about 50%, are discussed. A physical model has been constructed, and general expressions have been obtained for description of the effective atomic number in a two-energy monitoring scheme. A universal dependence has been predicted for the effective atomic number as a function of relative (two-energy) radiographic reflex. The established theoretical law is confirmed by the experimental data presented. The proposed development can find multiple applications in non-destructive testing and related fields, including those in the civil sphere as well as anti-terrorist activities.
description: 15 pages LaTeX, 4 figures, the paper accepted in Nuclear Methods and Instruments in Physics Research, Section B
Leading fermionic three-loop corrections to electroweak precision observables
Creators: name: Chen, Lisong
name: Freitas, Ayres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future electron-position colliders, such as CEPC and FCC-ee, have the capability to dramatically improve the experimental precision for W and Z-boson masses and couplings. This would enable indirect probes of physics beyond the Standard Model at multi-TeV scales. For this purpose, one must complement the experimental measurements with equally precise calculations for the theoretical predictions of these quantities within the Standard Model, including three-loop electroweak corrections. This article reports on the calculation of a subset of these corrections, stemming from diagrams with three closed fermion loops to the following quantities: the prediction of the W-boson mass from the Fermi constant, the effective weak mixing angle, and partial and total widths of the Z boson. The numerical size of these corrections is relatively modest, but non-negligible compared to the precision targets of future colliders. In passing, an error is identified in previous results for the two-loop corrections to the Z width, with a small yet non-zero numerical impact.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Relativistic Aharonov--Bohm effect in the presence of two-dimensional Coulomb potential
Creators: name: Khalilov, Vladislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain exact solutions to the Dirac equation and the relevant binding energies in the combined Aharonov--Bohm--Coulomb potential in 2+1 dimensions. By means of solutions obtained the quantum Aharonov--Bohm effect is studied for free and bound electron states. We show that the total scattering amplitude in the combined Aharonov--Bohm--Coulomb potential is a sum of the Aharonov--Bohm and the Coulomb scattering amplitudes. This modifies expression for the standard Aharonov--Bohm cross section due to the interference these two amplitudes with each other.
description: Revtex4, 7 pages, 0 figures
A Luminous Recurrent Supersoft X-ray Source in NGC 300
Creators: name: Kong, A. K. H.
name: Di Stefano, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of XMM-Newton observations for an especially luminous supersoft X-ray source (SSS) with bolometric luminosity of 10^39 erg/s in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. The source was detected as a SSS in 1992 and disappeared in subsequent X-ray observations. The source was active again during recent XMM-Newton observations. It appeared to be very soft (kT~60 eV) and very luminous (~10^38 - 10^39 erg/s). The two XMM-Newton observations also reveal that the source went from a ``high'' state to a ``low'' state in 6 days. We also found a 5.4-hr periodicity during the ``low'' state. We consider white dwarf, black hole, and neutron star models to explain the nature of the source.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, ApJL accepted
Suitability Analysis for Specialized Hospital Locations in Bangladesh during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Creators: name: Bishal Roy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The current severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak started in January of 2020, and the cases in Bangladesh started in March 2020. Since then, the number of patients requiring intensive medical care and hospitalization has increased many folds. In this study, the method used for determining the best possible locations for establishing new specialized hospitals was raster-based suitability analysis to deliver health care with more excellent efficiency. The primary focus during this analysis was the concentration of infected patients and proximity to nearby facilities. Furthermore, analyzing these factors, the most suitable locations were observed.
Growth, saturation and collapse of laser-driven plasma density gratings
Creators: name: Ma, H. H.
name: Weng, S. M.
name: Li, P.
name: Li, X. F.
name: Wang, Y. X.
name: Yew, S. H.
name: Chen, M.
name: McKenna, P.
name: Sheng, Z. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The plasma density grating induced by intersecting intense laser pulses can be utilized as an optical compressors, polarizers, waveplates and photonic crystals for the manipulation of ultra-high-power laser pulses. However, the formation and evolution of the plasma density grating are still not fully understood as linear models are adopted to describe them usually. In this paper, two nonlinear theoretical models are presented to study the formation process of the plasma density grating. In the first model, a nonlinear analytical solution based on the fluid equations is presented while in the second model a particle-mesh method is adopted to investigate the kinetic effects. It is found that both models can describe the plasma density grating formation at different stages, well beyond the linear growth stage. More importantly, the second model can reproduce the phenomenon of "ion wave-breaking" of plasma density grating, which eventually induces the saturation of plasma density grating. Using the second model, the saturation time of the plasma density grating is obtained as a function of laser intensity and plasma density, which can be applied to estimate the lifetime of the plasma density grating in experiments. The results from these two nonlinear models are verified using particle-in-cell simulations.
description: 15pages, 5figures
Parallelising the Queries in Bucket Brigade Quantum RAM
Creators: name: Paler, Alexandru
name: Oumarou, Oumarou
name: Basmadjian, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum algorithms often use quantum RAMs (QRAM) for accessing information stored in a database-like manner. QRAMs have to be fast, resource efficient and fault-tolerant. The latter is often influenced by access speeds, because shorter times introduce less exposure of the stored information to noise. The total execution time of an algorithm depends on the QRAM access time which includes: 1) address translation time, and 2) effective query time. The bucket brigade QRAMs were proposed to achieve faster addressing at the cost of exponentially many ancillae. We illustrate a systematic method to significantly reduce the effective query time by using Clifford+T gate parallelism. The method does not introduce any ancillae qubits. Our parallelisation method is compatible with the surface code quantum error correction. We show that parallelisation is a result of advantageous Toffoli gate decomposition in terms of Clifford+T gates, and after addresses have been translated, we achieve theoretical $\mathcal{O}(1)$ parallelism for the effective queries. We conclude that, in theory: 1) fault-tolerant bucket brigade quantum RAM queries can be performed approximately with the speed of classical RAM; 2) the exponentially many ancillae from the bucket brigade addressing scheme are a trade-off cost for achieving exponential query speedup compared to quantum read-only memories whose queries are sequential by design. The methods to compile, parallelise and analyse the presented QRAM circuits were implemented in software which is available online.
description: accepted in Physical Review A, changed title and abstract, included a discussion about overheads
Optically bright Active Galactic Nuclei in the ROSAT-Faint Source Catalogue
Creators: name: Veron-Cetty, M. -P.
name: Balayan, S. K.
name: Mickaelian, A. M.
name: Mujica, R.
name: Chavushyan, V.
name: Hakopian, S. A.
name: Engels, D.
name: Veron, P.
name: Zickgraf, F. -J.
name: Voges, W.
name: Xu, D. -W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To build a large, optically bright, X-ray selected AGN sample we have correlated the ROSAT-FSC catalogue of X-ray sources with the USNO catalogue limited to objects brighter than O=16.5 and then with the APS database. Each of the 3,212 coincidences was classified using the slitless Hamburg spectra. 493 objects were found to be extended and 2,719 starlike. Using both the extended objects and the galaxies known from published catalogues we built up a sample of 185 galaxies with O_APS < 17.0 mag, which are high-probability counterparts of RASS-FSC X-ray sources. 130 galaxies have a redshift from the literature and for another 34 we obtained new spectra. The fraction of Seyfert galaxies in this sample is 20 %. To select a corresponding sample of 144 high-probability counterparts among the starlike sources we searched for very blue objects in an APS-based color-magnitude diagram. Forty-one were already known AGN and for another 91 objects we obtained new spectra, yielding 42 new AGN, increasing their number in the sample to 83. This confirms that surveys of bright QSOs are still significantly incomplete. On the other hand we find that, at a flux limit of 0.02 count /-1 and at this magnitude, only 40 % of all QSOs are detected by ROSAT.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, accepted by A&A
Outcome of the Nairobi WTO 10th Ministerial conference - Implications for the EAC cotton sector development
Creators: name: Munu, Martin Luther
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Munu, Martin Luther
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: WTO;
subject: Cotton subsidies;
subject: Prices; production quantities;
subject: Export earnings

description: The paper examines the outcomes of the World Trade Organization (WTO) 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi, what is termed the Nairobi package (WTO, 2015). Specifically, we investigate the implications of the package for the cotton sector development in the economy of the EAC as well as in the economies of member countries, with special focus on Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The paper employs a desk review and a quantitative approach to simulate the effects of removal of subsidies on cotton production, prices and export earnings in the EAC. The results indicate that the removal of subsidies would reduce cotton production among the top producing countries, reducing their export earnings while increasing both production and export earnings in the EAC. We conclude that EAC countries need to monitor the implementation of the decision on the elimination of export subsidies and increase cotton production to take advantage of these opportunities.
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD'S CONCEPT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: AN ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF A CHRISTIAN APPROACH
Creators: name: Tyson, Brady Bradford
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 26-02, page: 1153.
Universal Quantum Computation through Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling
Creators: name: Stepanenko, D.
name: Bonesteel, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for quantum computation which uses control of spin-orbit coupling in a linear array of single electron quantum dots. Quantum gates are carried out by pulsing the exchange interaction between neighboring electron spins, including the anisotropic corrections due to spin-orbit coupling. Control over these corrections, even if limited, is sufficient for universal quantum computation over qubits encoded into pairs of electron spins. The number of voltage pulses required to carry out either single qubit rotations or controlled-Not gates scales as the inverse of a dimensionless measure of the degree of control of spin-orbit coupling.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (minor revision, references added)
An Analytical Study of Customer Satisfaction Orientation for Electronic Banking Services In India
Creators: name: Kamal, Yusuf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology

description: The rising E Commerce has shown many facet the online shopping has only given rise to many industries, among those industries the one industry of Logistics and transportation for the delivery of the products and services ordered through online mode, hence this is a proved statement that the “Electronicity” in trade and commerce is with potential to accelerate the growth of several related industries. In the age of consumerism this becomes crucial to collect the satisfied customers and another challenge is to maximise the customer base that are satisfied post purchase and showing the willingness to extent their affiliation in buying more with the existing vendor. This paper is an attempt to examine the biggest driver in electronic banking services that causes the customer satisfaction.
The pursuit of industrialization in the EAC region: The role of trade facilitating infrastructure in promoting exports of manufactured goods
Creators: name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Ntale, Anita
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Ntale, Anita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: Subsides
subject: Production
subject: Exports

description: In December 2015, the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting adopted the “Nairobi package” of decisions targeting agriculture, cotton and issues related to least-developed countries. This brief examines the implications of the Nairobi package for the development of cotton sector in the East African Community (EAC). The results indicate that the removal of subsidies would reduce cotton production among the top producing countries, reducing their export earnings while increasing both production and export earnings in the EAC. Therefore, the EAC needs to monitor the implementation the agreement and increase cotton production to take advantage of the opportunity.
Birational sheets in reductive groups
Creators: name: Ambrosio, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G20, 14L30

description: We define the group analogue of birational sheets, a construction performed by Losev for reductive Lie algebras. For G semisimple simply connected, we describe birational sheets in terms of Lusztig-Spaltenstein induction and we prove that they form a partition of G, and that they are unibranch varieties with smooth normalization by means of a local study.
description: 25 pages, to appear in Math. Z. A distinction between birational sheets and weakly birational sheets has been introduced. Key modifications/additions: Definition 3.8, Remark 4.4, Subsection 5.1, Remark 5.4, Example 5.5, Remark 5.17, Subsection 5.4, Theorem 6.8
PERSIA IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOVIET POLITICAL STRATEGY
Creators: name: Bavand, Davoud Hermidas
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 25-01, page: 6000.
Explicating the Interaction between Marketing Dexterity and Constitutive Elements of an Enterprise
Creators: name: R, Geetha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory
subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management

description: This paper explicates the immanent association between Constitutive Elements of an Enterprise (CEE) and Marketing Dexterity (MD) based on five key constructs. In the context of research, marketing Dexterity is surmised as a sequel to effective- strategy, structure, system, skill- inventory and style of leadership. The five key constructs are construed as antecedents to improved marketing performance of business firms. To ensure quick conformance to market dynamics, many organizations redesign or reconstitute their organization structure, strategies, systems, and skills-inventory and leadership styles. However the prevailing anecdotal accounts are not indicative of the propinquity between CEE and Marketing Dexterity. Because of its pervasive influence on manufacturing and business performance, there is a need to scientifically develop and test multi-item scale pertaining to CEE. In this direction, a portfolio of five generic constructs was hypothesized to be associated with Marketing Dexterity. Each of the five constructs is then operationalized based on a five point Likert measurement scale. A survey technique was adopted to gather data from 40 marketing executives and managers of medium and large sized manufacturing firms in and around Bangalore city. The time frame set for study was two years between 2012-14.