cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cosmic Evolution in Generalised Brans-Dicke Theory
Creators: name: Sahoo, B. K.
name: Singh, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the Generalised Brans-Dicke theory and obtained exact solutions of a(t),phi(t),and omega(t) for different epochs of the cosmic evolution .We discuss how inflation,decceleration,cosmic acceleration can result from this solution.The time variation of G(t) is also examined.
description: 12 pages, no figures
Additional file 6: of Identification of cucumber circular RNAs responsive to salt stress
Creators: name: Zhu, Yong-Xing
name: Jia, Jian-Hua
name: Yang, Lei
name: Xia, Yu-Chen
name: Zhang, Hui-Li
name: Jia, Jin-Bu
name: Zhou, Ran
name: Nie, Pei-Yao
name: Yin, Jun-Liang
name: Ma, Dong-Fang
name: Liu, Le-Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. The number of gene pairs in the parent genes of cucumber circRNAs and other species for orthologs. (DOCX 30 kb)
Gated-GAN: Adversarial Gated Networks for Multi-Collection Style Transfer
Creators: name: Chen, Xinyuan
name: Xu, Chang
name: Yang, Xiaokang
name: Song, Li
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Style transfer describes the rendering of an image semantic content as different artistic styles. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as an effective approach in style transfer by adversarially training the generator to synthesize convincing counterfeits. However, traditional GAN suffers from the mode collapse issue, resulting in unstable training and making style transfer quality difficult to guarantee. In addition, the GAN generator is only compatible with one style, so a series of GANs must be trained to provide users with choices to transfer more than one kind of style. In this paper, we focus on tackling these challenges and limitations to improve style transfer. We propose adversarial gated networks (Gated GAN) to transfer multiple styles in a single model. The generative networks have three modules: an encoder, a gated transformer, and a decoder. Different styles can be achieved by passing input images through different branches of the gated transformer. To stabilize training, the encoder and decoder are combined as an autoencoder to reconstruct the input images. The discriminative networks are used to distinguish whether the input image is a stylized or genuine image. An auxiliary classifier is used to recognize the style categories of transferred images, thereby helping the generative networks generate images in multiple styles. In addition, Gated GAN makes it possible to explore a new style by investigating styles learned from artists or genres. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of the proposed model for multistyle transfer.
Tortula caucasica Broth.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula caucasica

description: Tortula caucasica Broth.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Constantnie, sur les rochers couverts de terre, chute du Rummel; Oran, près Mers-el-Kebir; Philippeville. Braun-Blanquet & Maire (1924), Jelenc (1955a): Tlemcen. Jelenc (1955a): Gorges de la Chiffa; Oran. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 103, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Amygdalum peasei
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae
Amygdalum
Amygdalum peasei

description: Amygdalum peasei (Newcomb, 1870)
Figures 6 A–C
 Modiola peasei Newcomb, 1870: p. 163, pl. 17, fig. 2.
 Volsella (Amygdalum) peasei (Newcomb, 1870) — Dall et al., 1938: p. 45, pl. 8, figs. 11–14.
 Amygdalum plumeum Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda et al., 1971: p. 533, pl. 73, fig. 17.
 Amygdalum peasei (Newcomb, 1870) — Kay, 1979: p. 509, figs. 164 C–D; Okutani, 2000: p. 875, pl. 435, fig. 68; Raines, 2002: p. 31, fig. 34; Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 4; Huber, 2010: p. 127, fig. 6; Severns, 2011: p. 436, pl. 199, fig. 3.
 Material examined. Four live taken specimens (8.3 to 16.2 mm) and nearly two dozen fragments from EI (BK), plus specimens from the Hawaiian Islands (MHU) and Marquesas Islands (MHU).
 Diagnosis. Shell small (up to 16 mm in length) elongate, moderately inflated, thin and fragile. Umbones low, hyaline. Prodissoconch, P 1 not visible, P2 round, smooth, yellow to brown coloration, ca. 1.1 mm length and 900 µm height. Nepioconch elongate, smooth, translucent white, ca. 3.2 mm length and 4 mm height. Exterior surface of adult valves smooth to polished. Interior pearly, margins gaping. Hinge simple and weak. Color ivory white with reddish brown streaks and speckles posteriorly.
 Remarks. The genus Amygdalum was tentatively placed in the subfamily Bathymodiolinae by Huber (2010: 542). However, until genetic information becomes available, we have kept it here in its more recognized subfamily Modiolinae. The EI specimens conform well to the Hawaiian and Marquesas material, though their size is well below the maximum of 38 mm (Hawaii).
 Habitat. Occasionally found at several locations around EI, in sand, from 20–50 m.
 Distribution. Amygdalum peasei was originally described from the Hawaiian Islands, but is also known from the Philippines, Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Japan and Easter Island— E5.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 15
Are Free Trade Agreements Good for the Environment? A Panel Data Analysis
Creators: name: Nemati, Mehdi
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Reed, Michael
name: Nemati, Mehdi
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Reed, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Economic Factors
subject: EKC
subject: FTAs
subject: GHG Emissions
subject: Panel Cointegration

description: This study attempts to empirically re-examine the relationship between free trade agreements (FTAs) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For this aim, we chose three different free trade agreements: Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA). These FTAs are between developing countries, developed and developing countries, and only developed countries, respectively. Panel unit root, panel cointegration, and fully modified OLS (FMOLS) estimators are employed to find the longrun relationship between GHG emission, trade liberalization, and other economic factors. The results indicate that the environmental effect of a free trade agreement depends on the agreement type. When the agreement is among only developed or only developing countries, there is no environmental damage to the world and these types of FTAs can be beneficial for the world environment. However, when developing and developed countries are in the agreement, world GHG emissions increase.
Numerical Simulation of Critical Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems with an Absorbing State
Creators: name: Gillman, Edward
name: Carollo, Federico
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simulation of out-of-equilibrium dissipative quantum many body systems is a problem of fundamental interest to a number of fields in physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. For unitary systems, tensor network methods have proved successful and extending these to open systems is a natural avenue for study. In particular, an important question concerns the possibility of approximating the critical dynamics of non-equilibrium systems with tensor networks. Here, we investigate this by performing numerical simulations of a paradigmatic quantum non-equilibrium system with an absorbing state: the quantum contact process. We consider the application of matrix product states and the time-evolving block decimation algorithm to simulate the time-evolution of the quantum contact process at criticality. In the Lindblad formalism, we find that the Heisenberg picture can be used to improve the accuracy of simulations over the Schrödinger approach, which can be understood by considering the evolution of operator-space entanglement. Furthermore, we also consider a quantum trajectories approach, which we find can reproduce the expected universal behaviour of key observables for a significantly longer time than direct simulation of the average state. These improved results provide further evidence that the universality class of the quantum contact process is not directed percolation, which is the class of the classical contact process.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Detecting Persian mediation in Arabisms in Turkish
Creators: name: Stachowski, Kamil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Linguistics

description: There is a sizeable group of words in Turkish whose ultimate origin is known to be Arabic but whose direct donor language is unclear. The paper analyses 69 such words, and compares the phonetic adaptations present in them, to those attested in Arabisms as well as to those found in Farsisms, in order to determine the probability of them belonging to one group or the other. The results are compared to the opinions of the main etymological dictionaries of Turkish, splitting them into two camps.
CropSuite User Manual
Creators: name: Knüttel, Matthias
name: Zabel, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: CropSuite User Manual

Zabel, Knüttel, Poschlod (2024): CropSuite – A comprehensive open-source crop suitability model considering climate variability for climate impact assessment. Preprint. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2526.
Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) laevigatus
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae
Leiosolenus
Leiosolenus laevigatus

description: Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) aff. laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
Figures 6 D–G
 Lithodomus laevigatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835: p. 464, pl. 78, figs. 17, 18.
 Lithophaga laevigata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) — Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 4.
 Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) — Huber, 2010: p. 119, fig. 10.
 Material examined. Three partial valves (ca. 9 to 11 mm) (BK).
 Diagnosis. Leiosolenus laevigatus is a small lithophagid up to 40 mm, thin, fragile and with a smooth exterior. The ventral margin is straight to slightly convex, gradually bending upwards at both ends; the dorsal margin is centrally angulated, gently bending to a straight line at both extremities. The periostracum is pale yellowish at the anteroventral end and light brown at the posterodorsal end. The posterior incrustations are firmly adhered and protrude slightly, up to 1–2 mm only, ending in a somewhat serrated pattern.
 Remarks. The size, shape and calcareous deposits clearly place these partial valves within the genus Leiosolenus. Unfortunately, the important specific level characteristics are unavailable due to the missing posterior portions of each specimen. However, from the lack of oblique sculpture L. mucronatus (Philippi, 1846), known from Marquesas Islands and the Hawaiian Islands, can be excluded. From the color, shape and sculpture L. aristatus (Dillwyn, 1817), known from the Hawaiian Islands, is also excluded. Lastly, the shape and sculpture would exclude L. malaccanus (Reeve, 1857), well known from Marquesas Islands and likely also found in the Hawaiian Islands.
 Leiosolenus laevigatus is known from the Marquesas Islands, and for also being comparatively small in size elsewhere. As with other species in this group, L. laevigatus chemically bores into various living corals, as well as shells.
 Habitat. Occasionally found at several locations around EI, dead in sand, from 30–80 m.
 Distribution. Leiosolenus laevigatus was originally described from Port Dorey, New Guinea, but ranges from Timor, Indonesia to Okinawa, as well as the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago and Gambier Islands. However, it is not known from the Hawaiian Islands, Kermadec Islands or New Zealand. Easter Island appears to be a possible range extension— E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on pages 15-17
Additional file 1 of The adaptation of sport assessment-patella questionnaire into simplified Chinese version: cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity
Creators: name: Weng, Weizong
name: Zhi, Xin
name: Jia, Zhenyu
name: Liu, Shanshan
name: Huang, Jianming
name: Wan, Fang
name: He, Jia
name: Chen, Shiyi
name: Cui, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Demographic characteristics of participants.
Farmers’ Preferences for Supermarket Contracts in Kenya
Creators: name: Ochieng, Dennis O.
name: Veettil, Prakashan C.
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Ochieng, Dennis O.
name: Veettil, Prakashan C.
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: supermarkets
subject: contracts
subject: farmers’ preferences
subject: choice experiment
subject: Kenya

description: Empirical analysis of contractual arrangements between supermarkets and smallholder farmers remains scarce, yet farmers’ contract preferences influence their participation in supermarket contracts. We employ mixed logit model to analyze farmers’ preferences for contracts using discrete choice data from a sample of vegetable farmers of central Kenya, sampled through stratified random sampling procedure. Results show that farmers generally do not exhibit risk aversion to contracts and would choose them depending on their attributes. Certain farmer characteristics influence decision to contract and preferences for contract design attributes. Findings also show that group marketing could be an interesting option to reduce individual risks and transaction costs. Designing contracts that lower risks to smallholder farmers, and or with transparent risk-sharing clauses would enhance their participation in supermarket contracts. Some wider policy implications are discussed.
Tortula cuneifolia Turner 1804
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula cuneifolia

description: Tortula cuneifolia (Dicks.) Turner
RECORDS. — Montagne (1838), Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger. Bescherelle (1882): Philippeville. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Bouzaréah; El Arrouch. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a), Cano et al. (2000): La Calle, parois verticales des fossès, forêt du lac Touga (Tonga); Bône. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Fort National, 1000 m. Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, djebel Ouach. Lapie (1909): Kabylie du Djurjura. Jelenc (1955a): Aïn Taya; Atlas de Blida, oued el Kebir, 200 m; Kabylie du Djurdjura, col des Aït Aïcha; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Isser; Kabylie du Djurdjura, pic Belloua; La Réghaia; Monts de Tlemcen, Tlemcen, forêt d’Hafir; Ouarsenis, Téniet el Had. Jelenc (1956, 1967): Atlas Mitidjien, pic Mouzaïa. Jelenc (1967): Kabylie du Djurdjura, Yakouren, 1000 m; Massif du Bou Zegza, gorges de Keddara, 400 m. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 103, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
TTIP and agricultural trade: The case of tariff elimination and pesticide policy cooperation
Creators: name: Xiong, Bo
name: Beghin, John
name: Xiong, Bo
name: Beghin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
subject: TTIP
subject: maximum residue limit
subject: MRL
subject: sanitary and phytosanitary measures
subject: tariff
subject: trade agreement
subject: NTM

description: A possible Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement will further integrate agricultural markets between the United States and the European Union. The elimination of tariffs and cooperation on Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures will promote cross-Atlantic trade. We empirically estimate the impacts of tariffs and Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) on trade in plant products between the two partners. Furthermore, we simulate trade expansions under plausible negotiation outcomes. We find that a TTIP agreement promotes cross-Atlantic trade in plant products, in both directions, by over 60% if tariffs are removed and MRLs are mutually recognized or harmonized to Codex levels.
description: Updated version posted October 24, 2016.
Uncorrelated scattering approximation for the scattering and break-up of weakly bound nuclei on heavy targets
Creators: name: Moro, A. M.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Gómez-Camacho, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering of a weakly bound (halo) projectile nucleus by a heavy target nucleus is investigated. A new approach, called the Uncorrelated Scattering Approximation, is proposed. The main approximation involved is to neglect the correlation between the fragments of the projectile in the region where the interaction with the target is important. The formalism makes use of hyper-spherical harmonics, Raynal-Revay coefficients and momentum-localized wave functions to expand projectile channel wave functions in terms of products of the channel wave function of the individual fragments. Within this approach, the kinetic energy and angular momentum of each fragment is conserved during the scattering process. The elastic, inelastic and break-up S-matrices are obtained as an analytic combination involving the bound wave function of the projectile and the product of the S-matrices of the fragments. The approach is applied to describe the scattering of deuteron on $^{58}$Ni at several energies. The results are compared with experimental data and continuum-discretized coupled-channels calculations.
description: 34 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A
Lift-up, Kelvin-Helmholtz and Orr mechanisms in turbulent jets
Creators: name: Pickering, Ethan
name: Rigas, Georgios
name: Nogueira, Petrônio A. S.
name: Cavalieri, André V. G.
name: Schmidt, Oliver T.
name: Colonius, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three amplification mechanisms present in turbulent jets, namely lift-up, Kelvin-Helmholtz, and Orr, are characterized via global resolvent analysis and spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) over a range of Mach numbers. The lift-up mechanism was recently identified in turbulent jets via local analysis by Nogueira et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 873, 2019, pp. 211-237) at low Strouhal number ($St$) and non-zero azimuthal wavenumbers ($m$). In these limits, a global SPOD analysis of data from high-fidelity simulations reveals streamwise vortices and streaks similar to those found in turbulent wall-bounded flows. These structures are in qualitative agreement with the global resolvent analysis, which shows that they are a response to upstream forcing of streamwise vorticity near the nozzle exit. Analysis of mode shapes, component-wise amplitudes, and sensitivity analysis distinguishes the three mechanisms and the regions of frequency-wavenumber space where each dominates, finding lift-up to be dominant as $St/m \rightarrow 0$. Finally, SPOD and resolvent analyses of localized regions show that the lift-up mechanism is present throughout the jet, with a dominant azimuthal wavenumber inversely proportional to streamwise distance from the nozzle, with streaks of azimuthal wavenumber exceeding five near the nozzle, and wavenumbers one and two most energetic far downstream of the potential core.
description: 35 pages, 23 figures, Accepted in J. Fluid Mech
The Nuclear Bulge of the Galaxy. III. Large-Scale Physical Characteristics of Stars and Interstellar Matter
Creators: name: Launhardt, R.
name: Zylka, R.
name: Mezger, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse IRAS and COBE DIRBE data at wavelengths between 2.2 and 240 mu of the central 500pc of the Galaxy and derive the large-scale distribution of stars and interstellar matter in the Nuclear Bulge. Models of the Galactic Disk and Bulge are developed in order to correctly decompose the total surface brightness maps and to apply proper extinction corrections. The Nuclear Bulge appears as a distinct, massive disk-like complex of stars and molecular clouds which is, on a large scale, symmetric with respect to the Galactic Centre. It is distinguished from the Galactic Bulge by its flat disk-like morphology, very high density of stars and molecular gas, and ongoing star formation. The Nuclear Bulge consists of an R^-2 Nuclear Stellar Cluster at the centre, a large Nuclear Stellar Disk with radius 230+-20 pc and scale height 45+-5 pc, and a Nuclear Molecular Disk of same size. Its total stellar mass and luminosity are 1.4+-0.6 10^9 M_sun and 2.5+-1 10^9 L_sun, respectively. The total mass of interstellar hydrogen in the Nuclear Bulge is 2+-0.3 10^7 M_sun. Interstellar matter in the Nuclear Bulge is very clumpy with ~90% of the mass contained in dense and massive molecular clouds with a volume filling factor of only a few per cent. This extreme clumpiness enables the strong interstellar radiation field to penetrate the entire Nuclear Bulge and explains the relatively low average extinction towards the Galactic Centre. In addition, we find 4 10^7 M_sun of cold and dense material located outside the Nuclear Bulge, which gives rise to the observed asymmetry in the distribution of interstellar matter in the Central Molecular Zone.
description: 28 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
A new application of non-canonical maps in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Esposito, Giampiero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A proof is given that an invertible and a unitary operator can be used to reproduce the effect of a q-deformed commutator of annihilation and creation operators. In other words, the original annihilation and creation operators are mapped into new operators, not conjugate to each other, whose standard commutator equals the identity plus a correction proportional to the original number operator. The consistency condition for the existence of this new set of operators is derived, by exploiting the Stone theorem on 1-parameter unitary groups. The above scheme leads to modified equations of motion which do not preserve the properties of the original first-order set for annihilation and creation operators. Their relation with commutation relations is also studied.
description: 13 pages, plain Tex. In the revised version, section 3 contains new calculations
PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs
Creators: name: Wei, Zhewei
name: He, Xiaodong
name: Xiao, Xiaokui
name: Wang, Sibo
name: Liu, Yu
name: Du, Xiaoyong
name: Wen, Ji-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: {\it SimRank} is a classic measure of the similarities of nodes in a graph. Given a node $u$ in graph $G =(V, E)$, a {\em single-source SimRank query} returns the SimRank similarities $s(u, v)$ between node $u$ and each node $v \in V$. This type of queries has numerous applications in web search and social networks analysis, such as link prediction, web mining, and spam detection. Existing methods for single-source SimRank queries, however, incur query cost at least linear to the number of nodes $n$, which renders them inapplicable for real-time and interactive analysis. { This paper proposes \prsim, an algorithm that exploits the structure of graphs to efficiently answer single-source SimRank queries. \prsim uses an index of size $O(m)$, where $m$ is the number of edges in the graph, and guarantees a query time that depends on the {\em reverse PageRank} distribution of the input graph. In particular, we prove that \prsim runs in sub-linear time if the degree distribution of the input graph follows the power-law distribution, a property possessed by many real-world graphs. Based on the theoretical analysis, we show that the empirical query time of all existing SimRank algorithms also depends on the reverse PageRank distribution of the graph.} Finally, we present the first experimental study that evaluates the absolute errors of various SimRank algorithms on large graphs, and we show that \prsim outperforms the state of the art in terms of query time, accuracy, index size, and scalability.
description: ACM SIGMOD 2019
Tortula freibergii Dixon & Loeske
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula freibergii

description: Tortula freibergii Dixon & Loeske
RECORDS. — Pierrot (2000): Environs d’Alger, dans le Frais Vallon, près d’El Biar. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 103, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
CYK Tensors, Maxwell Field and Conserved Quantities for Spin-2 Field
Creators: name: Jezierski, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from an important application of Conformal Yano--Killing tensors for the existence of global charges in gravity, some new observations at $\scri^+$ are given. They allow to define asymptotic charges (at future null infinity) in terms of the Weyl tensor together with their fluxes through $\scri^+$. It occurs that some of them play a role of obstructions for the existence of angular momentum. Moreover, new relations between solutions of the Maxwell equations and the spin-2 field are given. They are used in the construction of new conserved quantities which are quadratic in terms of the Weyl tensor. The obtained formulae are similar to the functionals obtained from the Bel--Robinson tensor.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX
MOESM1 of Evaluation of the impacts of a district-level mental health care plan on contact coverage, detection and individual outcomes in rural Uganda: a mixed methods approach
Creators: name: J. Nakku
name: S. Rathod
name: E. Garman
name: J. Ssebunnya
name: S. Kangere
name: M. Silva
name: V. Patel
name: C. Lund
name: F. Kigozi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Implementation and Evaluation timeline for mental health care plan in Kamuli District, Uganda. Figure S2. Consort diagram â treatment cohort studies for mental health patients of primary health care centers in Kamuli District, Uganda. Table S1. Inequality of contact with a primary health care provider for adults with probable depression in Kamuli District, Uganda, 2017. Table S2. Inequality of clinical detection of depression and of alcohol use disorder among adult outpatients in PRIME implementation clinics in Kamuli, Uganda, 2014 & 2017. Table S3. Inequity of change in symptom severity and impairment score for depression, epilepsy and psychosis patients at PRIME implementation clinics in Kamuli, Uganda, 2015-2017.
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer
Creators: name: Lee, Lena J.
name: Kim, Youngmee
name: Shamburek, Robert
name: Ross, Alyson
name: Yang, Li
name: Bevans, Margaret F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Chronic stress is a well-established risk factor for cardiometabolic disease. Caregiving for individuals with cancer is perceived as a chronic stressor yet research on the risk for cardiometabolic disease in this population, opposed to the elderly and those with Alzheimer’s disease, is limited. Additionally, few studies have explored the early physiological changes that occur in family caregivers suggesting an elevated risk for illness. This cross-sectional study was designed to examine levels of cardiometabolic risk biomarkers and their correlates in caregivers of patients with colorectal cancer. Caregivers completed questionnaires that measure exposures to stress and vulnerability factors, psychological distress, and health habits as potential correlates. Traditional lipid and nontraditional lipoprotein particle biomarkers (e.g. concentration and size for all lipoprotein classes) were assayed from blood serum. Caregivers (N = 83, mean age = 49.8, 73% female) displayed levels of cardiometabolic biomarkers that suggest an elevated risk for cardiometabolic disease. Caregivers who were Hispanic, married, highly educated, employed, reported more hours spent caregiving daily, experienced higher caregiver burden associated with the lack of family support and impact on schedule, and psychological distress, demonstrated an elevated risk for cardiometabolic disease; primarily determined by nontraditional lipid biomarkers – large TRL-P, LDL-P, small HDL-P, large HDL-P, TRL-Z, LDL-Z and HDL-Z. These findings suggest that traditional lipid biomarkers may not be robust enough to detect early physiological changes associated with cardiometabolic disease risk in family caregivers. Moreover, findings reiterate the importance of assessing caregiver burden and providing evidence-based interventions to manage caregiving stress with the potential to improve caregivers’ cardiometabolic health.
THE IMPACT OF SELECTED SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS ON ASSET BUILDING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Creators: name: Tackie, Nii O.
name: Aboagye, Judith N.
name: Johnson, Gwendolyn J.
name: Braxton, Millicent
name: Hunt-Haralson, LaTanya
name: Wall, Gertrude D.
name: Tackie, Nii O.
name: Aboagye, Judith N.
name: Johnson, Gwendolyn J.
name: Braxton, Millicent
name: Hunt-Haralson, LaTanya
name: Wall, Gertrude D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Asset Building
subject: Socioeconomic Factors
subject: Black Belt
subject: Rural Communities

description: The study examined the impact of selected socioeconomic factors on asset building. Using a questionnaire, data were obtained from a convenience sample of 204 participants from several Alabama Black Belt Counties, and analyzed using descriptive statistics and logit analysis. The results showed that a majority (64%) was willing to participate in an asset building program. Of this, an overwhelming majority (at most 70%) wanted to set up a small business; further their education, or purchase a home. In addition, one socioeconomic factor, age, had a statistically significant (p = 0.016) effect on willingness to participate in an asset building program. Consequently, it was recommended that policies and programs that encourage participation in asset building be put in place for residents in the study area, focusing on age as a key factor, among others, to improve wealth. Critical resources to use in this effort are the community-based organizations, and research institutions.
Rhadimas Priazhanto-Pra UAS-Profesi Keguruan.
Creators: name: Rhadimas Priazhanto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Kompetensi, yaitu seperangkat pengetahuan , ketrampilan dan perilaku yang harus dimiliki , dihayati dan dikuasai oleh guru dalam melaksanakan tugas keprofesionalan . Guru adalah pendidik profesional dengan tugas utama mendidik, mengajar, membimbing, mengarahkan , melatih, menilai dan mengevaluasi peserta didik Dalam menjalankan profesinya , guru dituntut memilki kompetensi, baik kompetensi pedagogic,, kompetensi kepribadian , kompetensi professional dan kompetensi social. Pengertian dasar Kompetensi (competency) adalah kemampuan atau kecakapan). Kemahiran mengajar merupakan ciri profesi keguruan, karena pencapaian tujuan pembelajaran serta keberhasilan dalam berbagai masalah pembelajaran banyak tergantung pada kemampuan atau kompetensi guru. Selama di sekolah apa yang dipelajari siswa banyak tergantung pada apa yang terjadi dikelas, dan apa yang terjadi dikelas sangat tergantung pada bagaimana prakarsa guru untuk mengimplementasikan kurikulum ke dalam kegiatan pembelajaran . Oleh karenanya seorang guru harus mampu menciptakan kondisi belajar dengan baik bagi siswa, karena mengajar bukan sekedar transfer ilmu semata tetapi juga pengalaman , keteladanan .
Should we invest in cereal pre-breeding now for biosecurity threats?
Creators: name: White, Ben
name: Day, Cheryl
name: Christopher, Mandy
name: Van Klinken, Rieks
name: White, Ben
name: Day, Cheryl
name: Christopher, Mandy
name: Van Klinken, Rieks
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agricultural investment
subject: Biosecurity
subject: Bioeconomic modelling
subject: Cereal breeding
subject: Risk assessment
subject: CLIMEX
subject: Real options
subject: Karnal bunt
subject: exotic wheat stem rust
subject: barley stripe rust
subject: Russian wheat aphid
subject: Hessian fly
subject: sunn pest

description: Investing in pre-breeding for exotic pests and diseases in cereals is characterised as investing in an option of preparedness regardless of whether an incursion occurs. The return to pre-breeding depends on the likelihood of pest arrival, its spread across cereal producing regions and how damaging it will be through time. Any delay in the release of resistant varieties after an incursion translates into yield losses, chemical costs and, for some pests and diseases, price discounts. However, returns to pre-breeding investment are limited by delay time without pre-breeding, management alternatives and the adoption rates for resistant varieties by producers. Our analysis has estimated returns to investment for pre-breeding for six high priority exotic wheat and barley pests and diseases. The methods developed here allows for regional disaggregation and regional pest suitability across Australia’s cereal production landscape. Results indicate that pre-breeding investment is viable for only half of the pest and diseases studied. The relatively high return to these can be explained by significant yield effects, rapid spread and widespread pest suitability across regions. Furthermore, a higher average yield loss can offset lower incursion probability. In contrast, those not viable are due to slow spread, small or erratic yield effect and biosecurity trade issues not addressed by resistance. Investing in pre-breeding is highly risky as the modal investment return for all pests and diseases is zero and returns to breeders are short lived.
Additional file 2 of The adaptation of sport assessment-patella questionnaire into simplified Chinese version: cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity
Creators: name: Weng, Weizong
name: Zhi, Xin
name: Jia, Zhenyu
name: Liu, Shanshan
name: Huang, Jianming
name: Wan, Fang
name: He, Jia
name: Chen, Shiyi
name: Cui, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Internal consistency of VISA-PC.
Persistent current due to a screw dislocation in Weyl semimetals: Role of one-dimensional chiral states
Creators: name: Kodama, Kentaro
name: Takane, Yositake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Weyl semimetal pierced by a screw dislocation accommodates one-dimensional (1D) chiral states along the corresponding dislocation line. As these states propagate in a particular direction determined by their chirality, a persistent current (i.e., charge current in equilibrium) is expected to appear in the interior of the system. To confirm this expectation, we numerically calculate the charge current in a Weyl semimetal in the presence of a screw dislocation. It is shown that a significant charge current is induced by the 1D chiral states near the dislocation. We also analyze the spatial distribution of the charge current focusing on the top and bottom surfaces of the system, at which the screw dislocation is terminated, and give an overview of how the charge current due to the dislocation is converted to that carried by other states near the termination point of the dislocation.
description: 7 pages, 14 figures
Effective hadron masses and couplings in nuclear matter and incompressibility
Creators: name: Tuchitani, Kunito
name: Kouno, Hiroaki
name: Hasegawa, Akira
name: Nakano, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of effective hadron masses and effective couplings in nuclear matter is studied using a generalized effective Lagrangian for sigma-omega model. A simple relation among the effective masses, the effective couplings and the incompressibility K is derived. Using the relation, it is found that the effective repulsive and the effective attractive forces are almost canceled to each other at the normal density. Inversely, if this cancellation is almost complete, K should be 250-350MeV.
description: 13 pages of text, 16 figures
Comparison of the Shakhov and ellipsoidal models for the Boltzmann equation and DSMC for ab initio-based particle interactions
Creators: name: Ambrus, Victor E.
name: Sharipov, Felix
name: Sofonea, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the capabilities of the Boltzmann equation with the Shakhov and ellipsoidal models for the collision term to capture the characteristics of rarefied gas flows. The benchmark is performed by comparing the results obtained using these kinetic model equations with direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) results for particles interacting via ab initio potentials. The analysis is restricted to channel flows between parallel plates and we consider three flow problems, namely: the heat transfer between stationary plates, the Couette flow and the heat transfer under shear. The simulations are performed in the non-linear regime for the 3He, 4He, and Ne gases. The reference temperature ranges between 1 K and 3000 K for 3He and 4He and between 20 K and 5000 K for Ne. While good agreement is seen up to the transition regime for the direct phenomena (shear stress, heat flux driven by temperature gradient), the relative errors in the cross phenomena (heat flux perpendicular to the temperature gradient) exceed 10% even in the slip-flow regime. The kinetic model equations are solved using the finite difference lattice Boltzmann algorithm based on half-range Gauss-Hermite quadratures with the third order upwind method used for the implementation of the advection.
description: 79 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables
Hubungan Kompetensi dan Karir Guru
Creators: name: Riski Ramadani Riski Ramadani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Kompetensi guru ialah semua yang harus dilakukan guru sebagai tugasnya yang harus di terapakan dan dicapai setiap guru. Kompetensi tersebut kompetensi sosial untuk meningkatkan citra guru sebagai mahluk sosial di sekolah maupun masyarakat. Guru sebagai profesi merupakan karir yang harus di tingkatakan dan dijalankan semua itu agar terciptanaya tenaga profesi guru yang berdaya saing dan berkualitas.
A TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SOCIALLY AND HISTORICALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS, 1890 LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS, AND WALMART
Creators: name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Sustainable Agriculture
subject: Agricultural Cooperative
subject: Small Farmers
subject: Corporate Sustainability

description: Ensuring a sustainable future for socially and historically disadvantaged farmers (SHDFs) remains a central mission of many 1890 land grant universities. As major corporations adopt socially responsible and sustainable policies they are exploring new partnerships, including those with the aforementioned farmers and institutions. This article explores the opportunity presented by the partnership between Tuskegee University and Walmart during 2011, 2012, and 2013 that focused on assisting SHDFs to work together to expand their produce marketing opportunities to include large commercial retailers. This article provides perspective for the articles that follow in this issue of the Professional Agricultural Workers Journal (PAWJ). The articles focus specifically on microirrigation and solar powered pumps, integrated pest management, farm and food safety certification, challenges of forming the new cooperative, the role of Black women farmers, and progress made by the Sustainable Agriculture Consortium.
title: Indoor air quality
title: Causes, controls and consequences
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Farr, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis aimed to understand the causes, controls and consequences of managing indoor air quality with an emphasis on ventilation throughout, and considerations to energy efficiency. This was achieved through three complimentary sets of experiments. First this thesis analysed particle number concentrations associated with a series of discrete cooking events to evaluate the efficacy of different types of ventilation in “real world” domestic settings. We identified and characterised 128 discrete cooking events and observed large increases (up to 106 particles/cm3) in particle number concentration in response to these events. A series of key metrics were adopted to enable comparisons to be made between different source and ventilation combinations which revealed that natural ventilation was the most effective means of reducing particle number concentrations in terms of time to background. Second, we replicated these discrete cooking experiments in a specialist test facility to quantify the energy penalties associated with attempts to improve indoor air quality through use of ventilation. We found that energy penalties are modest (0.082–0.193 kWh) if a period of window opening was restricted to no more than 20 minutes, and that the indoor air quality benefits from this are significant in terms of particle removal. We found that the energy penalties associated with mechanical extract ventilation were even lower for such a period (0.063kWh), and that mechanical ventilation provides the best means of meeting the dual objectives of good indoor air quality and energy efficiency. Third, we investigated the prevalence of volatile organic compounds within buildings across a university campus to assess the association between volatile organic compounds concentrations and sustainable building standards. We concluded that there were no associations between sustainable building standard ratings and volatile organic compound concentrations, which could result from a lack of indoor air quality related incentives. We suggest a framework for future sustainable building assessment that not only considers ventilation for improving building sustainability and indoor air quality, but also combines continuous total volatile organic compound measurements with detailed speciation. This thesis was supported by NAQTS who provided access to portable, state-of-the-art V2000 air quality monitoring units. We reflect on the value of such instrumentation and the role it may play in raising public awareness of indoor air quality issues in public and private settings.
EXTENDING SUSTAINABLE IRRIGATION OPPORTUNITIES TO SOCIALLY AND HISTORICALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS IN THE ALABAMA BLACK BELT TO SUPPORT COMMERCIAL-LEVEL PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Shange, Raymon
name: Martin, Richard
name: Khan, Victor
name: Daniels, Kwesi
name: Hunter, George X.
name: Johnson, Gwendolyn J.
name: Musser, Steve
name: Puckett, William
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Martin, Richard
name: Khan, Victor
name: Daniels, Kwesi
name: Hunter, George X.
name: Johnson, Gwendolyn J.
name: Musser, Steve
name: Puckett, William
name: Hill, Walter A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Irrigation
subject: Small Farmers
subject: Agricultural Sustainability
subject: Solar Energy
subject: Black Belt

description: This paper focuses on providing sustainable irrigation opportunities to socially and historically disadvantaged farmers (SHDFs). The ability to provide steady production capacity through the use of renewable energy sources and microirrigation is innovative, in that it demonstrated how to develop and utilize a sustainable irrigation system in both energy and water conservation. This venture is also innovative in that it sought to provide SHDFs with irrigation in a state in which irrigation in agriculture is minimal, while at the same time, offsetting the energy costs that normally accompany irrigation. Several farmers are profiled in their participation in the irrigation program. The lessons learned will provide a starting point for a more permanent research, educational, and outreach partnership between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and SHDF clientele. This relationship will lead to further strengthening the relationships between Tuskegee University and both participating farmers and USDA agencies.