cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Research Data Management and data protection in the Social Sciences [Workshop]
Creators: name: Hönegger, Lisa
name: Bodlos, Anita
name: Heider, Veronika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data Management
DMEG
Data management expert guide
data protection

description: This online workshop organized by The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA) focused on the Research Data Management basics, Data Management Plans and common data protection issues in the Social Sciences.  The first part of the workshop was dedicated to RDM basics and Data Management Plans (DMPs). In many projects, DMPs are mandatory deliverables that need to be submitted at the beginning of a project and are updated throughout the project life cycle. During the workshop, it was explained which aspect funders expect to be part of DMPs in Social Sciences and how researchers can benefit from (writing) these documents. In the second part of the workshop, data protection issues that are common in Social Sciences were addressed and how they can be handled. In particular, differences in the curation of quantitative and qualitative data need in order to comply with data protection regulations in general and AUSSDA deposit guidelines in particular. Presentation on how AUSSDA scans quantitative data for potential data protection violations using STATA and gives participants the opportunity to test the code on their own data and devices.
MODELING THE RELIABILITY OF TRANSPORT UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS OF OPERATION AS A QUEUING SYSTEM WITH PRIORITIES
Creators: name: M.D. Katsman
name: V.I. Matsiuk
name: V.K. Myronenko
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: transport system
agent modeling
simulation modeling
queuing systems
absolute priority
arrival and service intensity
service and push-out probabilities
consumer service probabilities

description: The article presents a simulation model of a queuing system (QS) with a queue and relative priority, which can be used to manage the reliability of transport systems under resource constraints. The developed simulation model combines agent and discrete-event simulation principles and allows studying queuing systems in terms of establishing regularities: probabilities (service, failure, push-out), time delays (waiting in a queue, under service), queue sizes, order of queue formation upon arrival of consumers of different priority. As a result of the research, dependencies were obtained for the probability of servicing higher priority consumers depending on the intensities of their arrival and service; probabilities of servicing lower priority consumers depending on the intensity of service and servicing of higher priority consumers; the probability of "pushing out" lower priority consumers from the QS by higher priority consumers depending on service intensities and the arrival of high priority consumers.
Experimental Investigation of Ultimate Loads Carried by Flat, Unstiffened Panels Under Combined Shear and Compression
Creators: name: Butterworth, Wesley Theodore
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1938
Subjects: Aeronautical Engineering
Aeronautics

description: Four series of tests were made on flat, unstiffened panels under combined shear and compression loading for two thicknesses and two length over width ratios.  In each case, the panels were carried to their ultimate loads.  An empirical relation was developed for the variation of shear and compressive stresses of the form:  (Pc/Pco) + (Ps/Pso)4 = 1,
where:
Pco = failure stress, pure compression,
Pso = failure stress, pure shear.
The above equation was found to hold for the entire range of thicknesses and length over width ratios investigated.
Focus on gravitational quantum physics
Creators: name: Aspelmeyer, Marcus
name: Brukner, Časlav
name: Giulini, Domenico
name: Milburn, Gerard
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Research
subject: Gravitational physics
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Quantum theory
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: The interplay between quantum theory and gravity remains one of the least explored fields of physics. The current 'focus on' collection summarises experimental and theoretical results from many of the leading groups around the world on the research of phenomena which cannot be explained without involving both quantum theory and gravitational physics. © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
An Alexander-type duality for valuations
Creators: name: Adiprasito, Karim
name: Sanyal, Raman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove an Alexander-type duality for valuations for certain subcomplexes in the boundary of polyhedra. These strengthen and simplify results of Stanley (1974) and Miller-Reiner (2005). We give a generalization of Brion's theorem for this relative situation and we discuss the topology of the possible subcomplexes for which the duality relation holds.
description: 11 pages
LISA Pathfinder: Optical Metrology System monitoring during operations
Creators: name: Audley, Heather E.
name: LISA Pathfinder Collaboration
Publisher: name: Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interferometers
subject: Laser interferometry
subject: Space probes
subject: Units of measurement
subject: Differential accelerations
subject: In-depth analysis
subject: Laser interferometer space antenna
subject: LISA Pathfinder
subject: Optical Metrology
subject: System monitoring
subject: Monitoring
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission has demonstrated excellent performance. In addition to having surpassed the main mission goals, data has been collected from the various subsystems throughout the duration of the mission. This data is a valuable resource, both for a more complete understanding of the LPF satellite and the differential acceleration measurements, as well as for the design of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Initial analysis of the Optical Metrology System (OMS) data was performed as part of daily system monitoring, and more in-depth analyses are ongoing. This contribution presents an overview of these activities along with an introduction to the OMS. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Geology of the Southern Part of the Red Mountain Quadrangle, California
Creators: name: Ahlroth, Carl Wilhelm
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: An area of about twenty square miles in the southern
half of the Red Mountain Quadrangle, Los Angeles County,
California, was mapped geologically in the spring of 1938.
The area lies within the Transverse Ranges Province of
California, and comprises the following rocks: a pre-Cambrian mica schist (Pelona schist), continental sediments of Oligocene (?) (Sespe formation) and lower-upper Miocene
(Mint Canyon formation) age, and marine sediments of
upper Miocene age (Modelo). The Sespe is overthrust over
the Pelona schist and the Mint Canyon. The Mint Canyon
lies with a depositional contact upon the Pelona schist
and is overlain unconformably by the Modelo which overlaps
it to the west.

The area has undergone several periods of rejuvenation
during Quaternary times, the uplift not being accompanied by
tilting. Remnants of the old land surface and stream terraces at various levels indicate that before uplift the area was in late maturity of the physiographic cycle; now it is in a youthful stage of development.

The main structural features are the Sespe overthrust,
folds trending northeast-southwest, and a well developed
flow cleavage and shear joint system in the schist. Forces
of a static nature have affected the area at one time, as
shown by the flow cleavage in the schist, but the most recent, dominant force acting in the area is considered to be compressive, non-rotational, inclined below the horizontal, and acting in a southwest direction. Its attitude is approximately N10°E.

The area investigated and herein described is situated in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County and in the southwestern part of the San Gabriel Mountains. It comprises the southern half of the Red Mountain Quadrangle, having as its eastern and western limits, 118°30’ and 118°36’ west longitude and as its northern and southern limits, latitudes of 34°33’ and 34°30’ respectively. The area mapped contains about twenty square miles. It is about forty-five miles north-west of Los Angeles and about nine miles north of Saugus. The area lies within the reserves of the Angeles National Forest.

The area is easily reached by automobile, for there
are excellent paved roads from all outlying districts which
lead to Saugus. The main highway from Los Angeles to Saugus
is U.S. 99, but there are others equally good. In addition
a branch of the Southern Pacific railroad passes through
Saugus. The only unpaved road to be encountered is a good,
gravel road in San Francisquito Canyon.
MOMENTS OF GENERALIZED RECORD VALUES FROM MODIFIED FRÉCHET DISTRIBUTION AND ITS CHARACTERIZATION
Creators: name: Anwar, Zaki
name: Khan, Abdul Nasir
name: Rafiqullah Khan
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: Order statistics
generalized record values
modified Fréchet distribution
single moments
product moments
recurrence relations and characterization

description: The aim of this paper is to introduce the relations for moments and characterizing results for the newly introduced modified Fréchet distribution based on generalized record values. Here, we used an ordered random variable approach like generalized record values for generating the results. We have established the recurrence relations for single and product moments of generalized record values from modified Fréchet distribution. These relations are also deduced for the lower record values and some specific distributions, which are the special cases of modified Fréchet distribution. Further, the characterization results for this distribution have been established by using recurrence relations for single and product moments and conditional expectation of a function of generalized record values and truncated moments.
RWTH Open Access Journals : a Cooperation Project by RWTH Aachen University and hbz NRW
Creators: name: Voget, Renate
name: Lohnert, Peter
name: Schirrwagen, Jochen
name: Martin, Felix
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Diamond Open Access
Diamond Open Access Journal
Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW
Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw
OJS
Open Journal System
RWTH Open Access Journals
archimaera
hbz NRW

description: 4. Publishing Forum = 4. Forum Publizieren, Aachen, Germany, 19 Sep 2024 - 19 Sep 2024; 33 Folien (2024). doi:10.18154/RWTH-2024-08281
Indirect dark matter search with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
Creators: name: Lambard, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope during 2007 and 2008, a search for high energy neutrinos coming from the direction of the Sun has been performed. The neutrino selection criteria have been chosen so as to maximize the rejection of the atmospheric background with respect to possible signals produced by the self-annihilation of weakly interactive massive particles accumulated in the centre of the Sun. After data unblinding, the number of neutrinos observed was found to be compatible with background expectations. The results obtained were compared to the fluxes predicted by the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and 90% upper limits for this model were obtained. Our limits are competitive with those obtained by other neutrino telescopes such as IceCube and SuperKamiokande, which give ANTARES limits for the spin-dependent WIMP-proton cross-section that are more stringent than those obtained by direct search experiments.
description: Submitted to PoS(DSU2012)042 of the VIII International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe, June 10-15, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Overview and Status of Advanced Interferometers for Gravitational Wave Detection
Creators: name: Grote, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gravitational effects
subject: Interferometers
subject: Laser interferometry
subject: Advanced detector
subject: Gravitational-wave detection
subject: Laser interferometer
subject: Second generation
subject: Status updates
subject: World-wide networks
subject: Gravity waves
subject: Gravitationswelle
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: The world-wide network of km-scale laser interferometers is aiming at the detection of gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. The second generation of these instruments, called advanced detectors has been, or is in the process of being completed, and a first observational run with the Advanced LIGO interferometers has been performed late in 2015. The basic functionality of advanced detectors is discussed, along with specific features and status updates of the individual projects.
MOMENTS PROPERTIES OF CONCOMITANTS OF GENERALIZED ORDER STATISTICS FROM FGMTBM EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION
Creators: name: Kamal, Mustafa
name: Nayabuddin
name: Intekhab Alam
name: Ahmadur Rahman
name: Salam, Abdul
name: Zarrin, Shazia
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: Generalized order statistics
Concomitants
Record Values
FGMTBM exponential distribution
Single and Product Moments
Minimum variance linear unbiased estimator

description: Concurrent or induced order statistics are produced when individuals in a random sample are ordered in compliance with the corresponding values of some other random sample. Concomitants are most helpful when k(n) individuals are to be chosen using a selection technique based on their X-values. The relevant Y-values are then used to reflect how well a characteristic has performed. In this paper, concomitants of generalized order statistics (GOS) from Farlie Gumbel Morgenstern type bivariate moment (FGMTBM) exponential distribution are obtained. Additionally, distribution function (df) and probaility density function (pdf) r-th generalized order statistics and a joint pdf of r-th and s-th GOS were also obtained. Furthermore, we provide the minimum variance linear unbiased estimator (MVLUE) of the position and scale parameters of the concomitants of the k-th upper record values and order statistics for the distribution under consideration. Finally, an implementation of the suggested methodology has been taken into account.
The Geology of Sand Canyon, California
Creators: name: Carr, Robert Bradwell
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: Sylmar Quadrangle
subject: Santa Clara River
subject: Sand Canyon
subject: Little Tujunga Quadrangle
subject: Soledad Canyon
subject: Bear Canyon
subject: Lang Fault
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Summary

A body of complexly segregated igneous rock has been intruded into sediments at an early period in the
earth's history. The segregations include a dioritic phase and a  magnetite-ilmenite bearing ore phase in the area discussed.

During much later times, the Miocene Mint Canyon formation  was deposited on the west of the igneous body and in turn has been covered by old alluvium in places that has originated in the mountain block composed of the intrusion

Economic Considerations

The bodies of ilmenite bearing ore should be carefully sampled and assayed to determine the percentage of titanium that can be obtained  from the ore. The bodies promise sufficient tonnage and accessibility to be developed economically wit a moderate titanium content that is not too variable.
Bow-tie nano-antenna assisted generation of extreme ultraviolet radiation
Creators: name: Pfullmann, N.
name: Waltermann, C.
name: Noack, M.
name: Rausch, S.
name: Nagy, T.
name: Reinhardt, C.
name: Kovacev, M.
name: Knittel, V.
name: Bratschitsch, R.
name: Akemeier, D.
name: Huetten, A.
name: Leitenstorfer, A.
name: Morgner, Uwe
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publishing Ltd
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: laser oscillator
subject: plasmonics
subject: high-harmonic generation
subject: bow-tie antennae
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We report on the generation of extreme ultraviolet radiation utilizing the plasmonic field enhancement in arrays of bow-tie gold optical antennae. Furthermore, their suitability to support high-order harmonic generation is examined by means of finite-difference time-domain calculations and experiments. Particular emphasis is paid to the thermal properties, which become significant at the employed peak intensities. A damage threshold depending on the antenna length is predicted and confirmed by our experimental findings. Moreover, the gas density in the vicinity of the antennae is characterized experimentally to determine the number of atoms contributing to the measured radiation, which is almost an order of magnitude larger than previously reported.
Geology of a Portion of the Ravenna Quadrangle, Los Angeles County
Creators: name: Cowie, Roger Harrison
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The area investigated contains a section of coarse fanglomerates and basic lavas of middle Tertiary age. It is, as far as known, unfossiliferous. The sediments have been tilted so that they dip in general southwest. Underlying the sediments on the north is a quartz-syenite basement rock. Faulted up on the south is an anorthosite basement. There is a prominent fault with several thousand feet of strike-slip displacement trending NE-SW through the center of the area. There are a number of short faults and steeply plunging open folds which trend in general NE-SW.
A Training effect on electrical properties in nanoscale BiFeO$_3$
Creators: name: Goswami, Sudipta
name: Bhattacharya, Dipten
name: Li, Wuxia
name: Cui, Ajuan
name: Jiang, QianQing
name: Gu, Chang-zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report our observation of the training effect on dc electrical properties in a nanochain of BiFeO$_3$ as a result of large scale migration of defects under combined influence of electric field and Joule heating. We show that an optimum number of cycles of electric field within the range zero to $\sim$1.0 MV/cm across a temperature range 80-300 K helps in reaching the stable state via a glass-transition-like process in the defect structure. Further treatment does not give rise to any substantial modification. We conclude that such a training effect is ubiquitous in pristine nanowires or chains of oxides and needs to be addressed for applications in nanoelectronic devices.
description: 11 pages with 5 figures; published in Nanotechnology
MUlTI-COMPONENT CONDITIONAL STRESS-STRENGTH PARAMETER
Creators: name: Kavoos Khorshidian
name: Abad, Morteza Taheri Saif
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conditional Reliability
Exponential Distribution
Maximum Likelihood Estimator
Multi-Component Systems
Stress-Strength Parameter

description: There are situations in which the experimenter has some information about the components of the operating system and he/she wants to use this information for better assessment or operating of the underlying system. In such cases the notion of conditional probability may help the operator to use that information and improve his/her task. In the present study this notion has been examined, and some conditional stress-strength parameters have been introduced for s of k systems. The multi-component conditional stress-strength parameter (MCCSSP) and its maximum likelihood estimator have been calculated when the strength and stress random variables are exponentially distributed. In the case of having extra information about the parameters, a closed form has been derived for the Bayes estimator of MCCSSP and has been calculated by using an algorithm together with Monte Carlo method. For the case of non-exponential stress or strengths, the nonparametric estimator of the defined parameter has also been derived. Finally, some simulation study on the MLE and Bayes estimator, as well as real data analysis for nonparametric estimators have been done to verify the analytic results.
Managing urban riverscapes: Towards a cultural perspective of land and water governance
Creators: name: Levin-Keitel, Meike
Publisher: name: Abingdon : Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: land and water governance
subject: organizational culture
subject: urban river management
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Urban riverscapes are facing diverse demands concerning riparian uses, ecological, economic and social functionalities, and aesthetic questions. One of the main challenges today is the implementation of an integrative perspective on riverscapes to overcome the horizontal frontiers of traditional water management (water governance) and urban planning (land governance). Led by the theoretical framework of planning culture, the article shows the different rationalities and governance approaches from a cultural perspective. Finally, two quite different local planning cultures are outlined to illustrate the cultural variety with which the challenges of sustainable urban riverscapes are managed. © 2014 International Water Resources Association.
Geologic Report on a Portion of the Lang Quadrangle
Creators: name: Smith, Clay Taylor
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: Lang Quadrangle
subject: Mint Canyon
subject: Soledad Canyon
subject: Escondido Formation
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The area investigated in the Lang Quadrangle, California includes about seven square miles with desert vegetation and a maximum relief of about 1000 feet.

The area consists of two formations separated by an angular unconformity of about 30 degrees, the Escondido tentatively placed in middle Miocene, and the Mint Canyon, either upper middle Miocene or lower upper Miocene. The Escondido formation consists of alternate beds of sandstones and shales and lava flows. The Mint Canyon formation is a series of sandstones, conglomerates, and coarse terrace gravels all of terrestial origin.

The Escondido formation is folded into a tight pitching syncline with minor folds on it southern flank. A great deal of faulting has complicated the otherwise simple structure. The Mint Canyon formation is warped into a broad syncline and anticline which are almost exclusively depositional in origin. A great deal of minor faulting may be seen in this formation not to be correlated with that in the Escondido except in a few cases.

The historical geology has been summarized on page 35.

The economic deposits are unimportant and of no economic significance.
Using Interactive Web Tools in Environmental Planning to Improve Communication about Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Krätzig, Sebastian
name: Warren-Kretzschmar, Bartlett
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: internet
subject: environmental planning
subject: participatory planning
subject: communication
subject: web tools
subject: social media
subject: visualization
subject: local sustainability
subject: Internet
subject: Umweltplanung
subject: Kommunikation
subject: Web-Tools
subject: Social Media
subject: Soziale Medien
subject: Partizipative Planung
subject: Visualisierung
subject: Lokale Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Nachaltigkeit
subject: Region
subject: Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: Internet
subject: Umweltplanung
subject: Interaktive Planung
subject: Kommunikation
subject: Social Media
subject: Visualisierung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: Public involvement in the landscape planning process is an essential opportunity to communicate the goals and objectives of a sustainable planning. However, it is also important to accommodate citizen’s attitudes and perceptions of sustainability on a local or regional scale in the decision-making process. This involvement can be supported by interactive information, discussion, and learning opportunities. This article examines how communication in the context of environmental issues can be supported by modern web tools, social media, and new visualization approaches. Furthermore, the potential of social media to support communication about sustainability on a local scale and the prerequisites for its use in the planning process are discussed. Using a case study about citizens’ response to the development of intensive livestock farming in rural setting, we examine what the perception of sustainability on local scale could mean for citizens. Another case study about interactive landscape planning illustrates how such tools can promote communication about environmental issues and local sustainability. Using a framework for the use of social media, we suggest different application levels of social media in participatory planning. Finally, the opportunities to support sustainable decisions with landscape visualization in environmental planning and decision-making issues are discussed.
A fully quantum mechanical calculation of the diffusivity of hydrogen in iron using the tight binding approximation and path integral theory
Creators: name: Katzarov, I. H.
name: Paxton, A. T.
name: Pashov, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations of free energy barriers and diffusivities as functions of temperature for the diffusion of hydrogen in bcc-Fe. This is a fully quantum mechanical approach since the total energy landscape is computed using a new self consistent, transferable tight binding model for interstitial impurities in magnetic iron. Also the hydrogen nucleus is treated quantum mechanically and we compare here two approaches in the literature both based in the Feynman path integral formulation of statistical mechanics. We find that the quantum transition state theory which admits greater freedom for the proton to explore phase space gives result in better agreement with experiment than the alternative which is based on fixed centroid calculations of the free energy barrier. We also find results in better agreement compared to recent centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) calculations of the diffusivity which employed a classical interatomic potential rather than our quantum mechanical tight binding theory. In particular we find first that quantum effects persist to higher temperatures than previously thought, and conversely that the low temperature diffusivity is smaller than predicted in CMD calculations and larger than predicted by classical transition state theory. This will have impact on future modeling and simulation of hydrogen trapping and diffusion.
Potamogeton filiformis Pers.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: P. filiformis Pers. (P. marinus auct.) Cat. 333. Bis 2550 m. l: Bouveret (Secretan); Lac de Tanay (J.); Illarsaz(Garns); Dorenaz (idem). - 2: Unter Saillon (Muret 1856, Garns); oberer See der Montagne de Fully, 2135 m (A. Thomas 1794, Christ, Pittier, J.), heute wohl verschwunden (Garns). - 3: Lac de Chanrion im Val de Bagnes, 2386 m (Schröter 1896); Bonigersee ob Törbel, 2100m (Stehler); Schwarzsee bei Zermatt, 2550m (Besse 1894 in herb. E.T.H. Zürichunter Ranunculus confervoides, erkannt von W. Koch; Thellung 1919, 1922; Brosi 1947); Hobschensee auf dem Simplon (Garns). Var. alpinus (Blytt) A. et G. - l: Salanfe bei Mieville (Coquoz);Dorenaz(Garns).- 2-3:Kanäle zwischenFully und Charrat (Garns); Petit-Rhönebei Charrat (idem). Zwischenformen zwischendem Typus und der var. alpinus mehrfach im Unterwallis (Gams).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Teaching Scenario-Based Planning for Sustainable Landscape Development: An Evaluation of Learning Effects in the Cagliari Studio Workshop
Creators: name: Albert, Christian
name: Haaren, Christina Von
name: Vargas-Moreno, Juan Carlos
name: Steinitz, Carl
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: sustainable landscape development
subject: landscape planning
subject: scenarios
subject: education
subject: evaluation
subject: Cagliari
subject: Italy
subject: nachhaltige Landschaftsentwicklung
subject: Landschaftsentwicklung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Landschaftsplanung
subject: Szenario
subject: Bildung
subject: Bewertung
subject: Evaluation
subject: Evaluierung
subject: Italien
subject: Landschaftsentwicklung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Landschaftsplanung
subject: Szenario
subject: Evaluation
subject: Cagliari
subject: Sardinien
subject: Italien
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: This paper investigates the contributions of an intensive educational workshop to advance students’ understanding and skills for collaborative, scenario-based landscape planning. The research design involves a case study workshop with thirty international students and several regional experts as well as a multi-stage, in-process evaluation. The workshop resulted in six different alternative futures for the region of Cagliari, Italy, and a seventh combined version that was considered best by regional reviewers. The students’ learning evaluation showed substantial advances in their relevant understanding and skills. Key aspects of the workshop pedagogy and the evaluation are discussed, and recommendations for future applications presented.
ON THE BAYESIAN MODELING OF ROAD ACCIDENTS DUE TO VEHICLE TYPE IN OYO STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: Oladapo M. Oladoja
name: K.O. Obisesan
name: Sururat A. Adebayo
name: T.M. Adegoke
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bayesian Model Averaging
Posterior Inclusion Probability
Predictive
Trend
Transportation
Private Cars

description: Transportation plays an important role in the day to day activities of human race. Road, rail, water and air are the four major forms of transportation in Nigeria. Road transportation is the most common means of movement in Oyo State and this has raise the likelihood of the occurrence of road traffic accident even posing a serious problem that needs serious attention. Road traffic accidents would Continually increase if tangible efforts are not made to tackle is problem. In Oyo state, the epicenter of the western Nigeria, road transportation is the most popular means of transportation. Of concern is the accidents recorded daily on the roads. This study takes into account the series of accidents caused on the state roads due to vehicle types. Seven vehicle types were considered due to the data available. Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA), a variable selection approach, was used to handle uncertainty in the model selection process. Several classical approach like time series have been used in analysing road accidents but few had explored the Bayesian approach via BMA route. A uniform model prior was used with a numeric g-prior to improve the predictive performance. The trend of accidents were observed for a period of 15 years from (2006 2020). 78% of the models were visited and using the Posterior Inclusion Probability results (99.546%), it was seen that the accidents that occurred via private cars was the predominant. It is the most important in modeling vehicle type accidents in Oyo State Nigeria. Also, accidents for 2023 and 2024 were predicted using the posterior predictive distribution. It is imperative for concerned authorities (Federal Road Safety Corps amongst others) in the state to look into the issue of private car owners in the state.
Constructions of Large Graphs on Surfaces
Creators: name: Feria-Puron, Ramiro
name: Pineda-Villavicencio, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the degree/diameter problem for graphs embedded in a surface, namely, given a surface $Σ$ and integers $Δ$ and $k$, determine the maximum order $N(Δ,k,Σ)$ of a graph embeddable in $Σ$ with maximum degree $Δ$ and diameter $k$. We introduce a number of constructions which produce many new largest known planar and toroidal graphs. We record all these graphs in the available tables of largest known graphs. Given a surface $Σ$ of Euler genus $g$ and an odd diameter $k$, the current best asymptotic lower bound for $N(Δ,k,Σ)$ is given by \[\sqrt{\frac{3}{8}g}Δ^{\lfloor k/2\rfloor}.\] Our constructions produce new graphs of order \[\begin{cases}6Δ^{\lfloor k/2\rfloor}& \text{if $Σ$ is the Klein bottle}\\ \(\frac{7}{2}+\sqrt{6g+\frac{1}{4}}\)Δ^{\lfloor k/2\rfloor}& \text{otherwise,}\end{cases}\] thus improving the former value by a factor of 4.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Do Cultivated Varieties of Native Plants Have the Ability to Outperform Their Wild Relatives?
Creators: name: Schröder, Roland
name: Prasse, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: San Francisco : Public Library of Science
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: seeds
subject: seasons
subject: habitats
subject: hybridization
subject: invasive species
subject: grasslands
subject: leaves
subject: death rates
subject: asymmetric competition
subject: population sources
subject: lanceolata 1
subject: restoration
subject: grassland
subject: grasses
subject: establishment
subject: adaptation
subject: strategies
subject: Saatgut
subject: Jahreszeiten
subject: Lebensraum
subject: Hybridisierung
subject: Invasive Arten
subject: Wiese
subject: Grasland
subject: Blätter
subject: Sterberate
subject: Spitzwegerich
subject: Wiesenhornklee
subject: Saatgut
subject: Hybridisierung
subject: Biomasseproduktion
subject: Lebensraum
subject: Jahreszeit
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::720 | Architektur
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Vast amounts of cultivars of native plants are annually introduced into the semi-natural range of their wild relatives for revegetation and restoration. As cultivars are often selected towards enhanced biomass production and might transfer these traits into wild relatives by hybridization, it is suggested that cultivars and the wild x cultivar hybrids are competitively superior to their wild relatives. The release of such varieties may therefore result in unintended changes in native vegetation. In this study we examined for two species frequently used in re-vegetation (Plantago lanceolata and Lotus corniculatus) whether cultivars and artificially generated intra-specific wild x cultivar hybrids may produce a higher vegetative and generative biomass than their wilds. For that purpose a competition experiment was conducted for two growing seasons in a common garden. Every plant type was growing (a.) alone, (b.) in pairwise combination with a similar plant type and (c.) in pairwise interaction with a different plant type. When competing with wilds cultivars of both species showed larger biomass production than their wilds in the first year only and hybrids showed larger biomass production than their wild relatives in both study years. As biomass production is an important factor determining fitness and competitive ability, we conclude that cultivars and hybrids are competitively superior their wild relatives. However, cultivars of both species experienced large fitness reductions (nearly complete mortality in L. corniculatus) due to local climatic conditions. We conclude that cultivars are good competitors only as long as they are not subjected to stressful environmental factors. As hybrids seemed to inherit both the ability to cope with the local climatic conditions from their wild parents as well as the enhanced competitive strength from their cultivars, we regard them as strong competitors and assume that they are able to outperform their wilds at least over the short-term.
The staggered six-vertex model: Conformal invariance and corrections to scaling
Creators: name: Frahm, Holger
name: Seel, Alexander
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier Science BV
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: lattice potts-model
subject: sl(2,r) wzw model
subject: operator content
subject: heisenberg chain
subject: superspin chain
subject: continuum-limit
subject: quantum chains
subject: critical-point
subject: central charge
subject: field-theory
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We study the emergence of non-compact degrees of freedom in the low energy effective theory for a class of Z2Z2-staggered six-vertex models. In the finite size spectrum of the vertex model this shows up through the appearance of a continuum of critical exponents. To analyze this part of the spectrum we derive a set of coupled nonlinear integral equations from the Bethe ansatz solution of the vertex model which allow to compute the energies of the system for a range of anisotropies and of the staggering parameter. The critical theory is found to be independent of the staggering. Its spectrum and density of states coincide with the SL(2,R)/U(1)SL(2,R)/U(1) Euclidean black hole conformal field theory which has been identified previously in the continuum limit of the vertex model for a particular ‘self-dual’ choice of the staggering. We also study the asymptotic behavior of subleading corrections to the finite size scaling and discuss our findings in the context of the conformal field theory.
Open and Closed Prefixes of Sturmian Words
Creators: name: De Luca, Alessandro
name: Fici, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68R15

description: A word is closed if it contains a proper factor that occurs both as a prefix and as a suffix but does not have internal occurrences, otherwise it is open. We deal with the sequence of open and closed prefixes of Sturmian words and prove that this sequence characterizes every finite or infinite Sturmian word up to isomorphisms of the alphabet. We then characterize the combinatorial structure of the sequence of open and closed prefixes of standard Sturmian words. We prove that every standard Sturmian word, after swapping its first letter, can be written as an infinite product of squares of reversed standard words.
description: To appear in WORDS 2013 proceedings
Activation cross-sections of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on rhenium up to 40 MeV
Creators: name: Ditrói, F.
name: Tárkányi, F.
name: Takács, S.
name: Hermanne, A.
name: Yamazaki, H.
name: Baba, M.
name: Mohammadi, A.
name: Ignatyuk, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a part of a thorough work of excitation functions of deuteron induced reactions, experimental cross-sections of ^{185,183m,183g,182}Os and ^{188,186,184m,184g,183}Re activation products on natRe were measured up to 40 MeV for the first time with the activation method using a stacked foil irradiation technique and high resolution γ-spectrometry. Comparison with the former results of other laboratories and with the predictions of the ALICE-IPPE and EMPIRE-3 model codes, modified for improved calculations for deuteron reactions, and with data in the TENDL-2011 library are also presented. Thick target yields were given deduced from our experimental cross-sections and compared with the few literature values. For practical applications (thin layer activation) also activity versus depth distributions were calculated for selected isotopes.
description: Nuclear Instruments & Methods B 2013
On the TeSU−G family of distributions applied to life data analysis
Creators: name: Idzhar A. Lakibul
name: Tubo, Bernadette F.
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2023
Subjects: U-quadratic distribution
T-X family of distributions
Weibull distribution

description: This paper derives distributions from the U-quadratic and the T-X family of distributions labeled as the T-extended Standard U-quadratic−G family of distributions or simply, TeSU−G family. In particular, the TeSU−Weibull distribution (TeSU−W) is explored with respect to some statistical properties such as its limiting distribution, moment, mean and variance and moment generating function. Also, the statistical properties of the TeSU−Exponential distribution (TeSU−E) which is a special case of the TeSU−W are also derived. The Weibull and Exponential distributions are mostly used in life data analysis because of its ability to adapt to different situations. Moreover, the formula for the median is derived via a proposed algorithm. Simulation study is conducted to verify the performance of the ML estimates of the TeSU−W distribution for varied sample sizes. Further, real life data analysis reveals that derived extended distribution can provide a better fit than several well-known distributions.
Ground deformations around the Toktogul reservoir, Kyrgyzstan, from envisat ASAR and sentinel-1 data-A case study about the impact of atmospheric corrections on InSAR time series
Creators: name: Neelmeijer, Julia
name: Schöne, Tilo
name: Dill, Robert
name: Klemann, Volker
name: Motagh, Mahdi
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atmosphere correction
subject: DInSAR
subject: Elastic modelling
subject: Ground deformation
subject: Reservoir monitoring
subject: SBAS
subject: Toktogul reservoir
subject: Deformation
subject: Geodetic satellites
subject: Interferometry
subject: Numerical methods
subject: Orbits
subject: Radar
subject: Radar measurement
subject: Reservoirs (water)
subject: Subsidence
subject: Synthetic aperture radar
subject: Water levels
subject: D-inSAR
subject: Ground deformations
subject: Time series analysis
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau::621 | Angewandte Physik

description: We present ground deformations in response to water level variations at the Toktogul Reservoir, located in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. Ground deformations were measured by Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) and Sentinel-1 Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) imagery covering the time periods 2004-2009 and 2014-2016, respectively. The net reservoir water level, as measured by satellite radar altimetry, decreased approximately 60m (~13.5km3) from 2004-2009, whereas, for 2014-2016, the net water level increased by approximately 51m (~11.2km3). The individual Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) interferograms were heavily influenced by atmospheric effects that needed to be minimized prior to the time-series analysis. We tested several approaches including corrections based on global numerical weather model data, such as the European Centre for Medium-RangeWeather Forecasts (ECMWF) operational forecast data, the ERA-5 reanalysis, and the ERA-Interim reanalysis, as well as phase-based methods, such as calculating a simple linear dependency on the elevation or the more sophisticated power-law approach. Our findings suggest that, for the high-mountain Toktogul area, the power-law correction performs the best. Envisat descending time series for the period of water recession reveal mean line-of-sight (LOS) uplift rates of 7.8 mm/year on the northern shore of the Toktogul Reservoir close to the Toktogul city area. For the same area, Sentinel-1 ascending and descending time series consistently show a subsidence behaviour due to the replenishing of the water reservoir, which includes intra-annual LOS variations on the order of 30mm. A decomposition of the LOS deformation rates of both Sentinel-1 orbits revealed mean vertical subsidence rates of 25 mm/year for the common time period of March 2015-November 2016, which is in very good agreement with the results derived from elastic modelling based on the TEA12 Earth model. © 2018 by the authors.
Autonomous Evolutionary Inclusions with Applications to Problems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Trostorff, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34G25, 35F30, 35R20, 46N20, 47J35

description: We study an abstract class of autonomous differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces and show the well-posedness and causality, by establishing the operators involved as maximal monotone operators in time and space. Then the proof of the well-posedness relies on a well-known perturbation result for maximal monotone operators. Moreover, we show that certain types of nonlinear boundary value problems are covered by this class of inclusions and we derive necessary conditions on the operators on the boundary in order to apply the solution theory. We exemplify our findings by two examples.