cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling Faraday Screens in the Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Wolleben, Maik
name: Reich, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maps of Galactic polarized continuum emission at 1408, 1660, and 1713 MHz towards the local Taurus molecular cloud complex were made with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. Minima in the polarized emission which are located at the boundary of a molecular cloud were detected. Beside high rotation measures and unusual spectral indices of the polarized intensity, these features are associated with the molecular gas. At the higher frequencies the minima get less distinct. We have modelled the multi-frequency observations by placing magneto-ionic Faraday screens at the distance of the molecular cloud. In this model Faraday rotated background emission adds to foreground emission towards these screens. The systematic variation of the observed properties is the result of different line-of-sight lengths through the screen assuming spherical symmetry. For a distance of 140 pc to the Taurus clouds the physical sizes of the Faraday screens are of the order of 2 pc. In this paper we describe the data calibration and modelling process for one such object. We find an intrinsic rotation measure of about -29 rad/m^{2} to model the observations. It is pointed out that the observed rotation measure differs from the physical. Further observational constraints from H-alpha observations limit the thermal electron density to less than 0.8 cm^{-3}, and we conclude that the regular magnetic field strength parallel to the line-of-sight exceeds 20 micro Gauss to account for the intrinsic rotation measure.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Uniqueness, mixing, and optimal tails for Brownian line ensembles with geometric area tilt
Creators: name: Caputo, Pietro
name: Ganguly, Shirshendu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider non-colliding Brownian lines above a hard wall, which are subject to geometrically growing (given by a parameter $λ>1$) area tilts, which we call the $λ$-tilted line ensemble (LE). The model was introduced by Caputo, Ioffe, Wachtel [CIW] in 2019 as a putative scaling limit for the level lines of low-temperature 3D Ising interfaces. While the LE has infinitely many lines, the case of the single line, known as the Ferrari-Spohn (FS) diffusion, is one of the canonical interfaces appearing in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. In contrast with well studied models with determinantal structure such as the Airy LE constructed by Corwin and Hammond as well as the FS diffusion, the $λ$-tilted LE is non-integrable. [CIW] constructed a stationary infinite volume Gibbs measure (the zero boundary LE) as a limit of finite LEs on finite intervals with zero boundary conditions, and obtained control on its fluctuations in terms of first moment estimates. Subsequently, Dembo, Lubetzky, Zeitouni revisited the case of finitely many lines and established an equivalence between the free and the zero boundary LEs.
 In this article we develop probabilistic arguments to resolve several questions that remained open. We prove that the infinite volume zero boundary LE is mixing and hence ergodic and establish a quantitative decay of correlation. Further, we prove an optimal upper tail estimate for the top line matching that of the FS diffusion. Finally, we prove uniqueness of the Gibbs measure in the sense that any uniformly tight LE (a notion which includes all stationary $λ$-tilted LE) must be the zero boundary LE. This immediately implies that the LE with free boundary conditions, as the number of lines and the domain size go to infinity arbitrarily converges to this unique LE.
description: 39 pages, 11 figures; abstract shortened to meet arXiv requirements
Integração de plataformas institucionais: o caso EUDAT
Creators: name: Amorim, Ricardo Carvalho
name: Silva, Fábio
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: A qualidade dos dados de investigação é um debate recorrente entre instituições e investigadores. A constante preocupação em garantir que os dados sobrevivem aos seus criadores tem contribuído para o aparecimento de plataformas que, em casos mais avançados, permitem que os investigadores sejam envolvidos diretamente no processo de gestão dos seus dados. A plataforma EUDAT surge como um exemplo de uma uma solução para os inúmeros desafios da investigação, proporcionando ambientes colaborativos, ferramentas de processamento e outras mais valias para instituições que têm dificuldades em adquirir estas ferramentas de forma individual. Contudo, a divulgação de dados de investigação deve ter como princípios não só a sua preservação a longo prazo, mas também a sua potencial reutilização dentro da comunidade científica, pelo que é necessário transpor o conhecimento gerado durante a investigação para os dados associados. O Dendro surge como uma plataforma para apoiar a descrição de dados desde o momento em que são criados, permitindo que os registos produzidos os acompanhem e permitam mais tarde uma interpretação extensiva dos dados. Este caso de estudo apresenta a integração entre o Dendro e o EUDAT com o objetivo de promover um ambiente de gestão de dados abrangente que envolva os diversos responsáveis no processo.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
Beyond mean rainfall and temperature changes: distributional effects of stochastic yield variability in the Sudan
Creators: name: Grethe, H.
name: Siddig, K.
name: Stepanyan, D.
name: Zhu, T.
name: Wiebelt, M.
name: Grethe, H.
name: Siddig, K.
name: Stepanyan, D.
name: Zhu, T.
name: Wiebelt, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: global climate
subject: local yield changes
subject: the Sudan
subject: climate variability
subject: interventions

description: Several environmental changes have encountered the Sudan in the past; several are ongoing and others are projected to happen in the future. The Sudan has witnessed increases in temperature, various floods, rainfall variability and concurrent droughts (USAID, 2016). This study do not only look at the economywide impacts of climate change, but also consults national policy plans, strategies and various other environmental assessments to propose possible interventions. We feed the climate forcing as well as water demand and macro-socioeconomic trends into a modelling suite that includes models for global hydrology, river basin management, water stress and a DSSAT1 all connected to IMPACT2 model. The outcomes are annual crop yield (ton/hectare) and global food prices under various climate change scenarios until 2050. The distributional effects of such changes are assessed using a single country dynamic CGE3 model for the Sudan. Additionally, we introduce yield variability into the CGE model based on stochastic projections of crop yield until 2050. Results reveal that while the projected mean climate changes bring some good news for the Sudan, extreme negative variability cost the Sudan accumulatively (2018-2050) US$ 109.8 billion in total absorption and US$ 105.1 billion in GDP relative to no climate change scenario.
Subclinical cardiovascular dysfunction in children and adolescents with asthma
Creators: name: Karakaya, Zeynep
name: Cavkaytar, Özlem
name: Tosun, Öykü
name: Arga, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: There is close association between asthma and cardiovascular functions as both diseases share common inflammatory pathways. The current study was aimed at investigating the risk factors, associated with endothelial and cardiac functions in children with newly-diagnosed mild-persistent asthma. A total of 33 steroid-naive asthmatic children [median(interquartile-range); 9.1 years(7.8-13.5)] and 16 healthy controls [11.5 years(9.9-13.6)] were included. Their demographic, clinical and laboratory findings were recorded. Carotid Artery intima-media thickness (CIMT), stiffness, distensibility and strain were measured as atheroclerosis markers. Conventional and tissue Doppler imaging was performed to evaluate ventricular function. The patients with asthma had higher CIMT and stiffness and lower strain and distensibility compared to controls (p p p p Children with mild persistent asthma had subclinical atherosclerosis and ventricular dysfunction even in the early stage of disease. Symptom duration was closely associated with both subclinical atherosclerosis and ventricular dysfunction. Myocardial performance index was abnormal in the asthmatic children when assessed by tissue Doppler Imaging even though they had normal ejection fraction in conventional echocardiography. Future prospective studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these findings and to assess the possible protective effect of ICSs in the prevention of subclinical atherosclerosis.
Learning without Forgetting for Vision-Language Models
Creators: name: Zhou, Da-Wei
name: Zhang, Yuanhan
name: Wang, Yan
name: Ning, Jingyi
name: Ye, Han-Jia
name: Zhan, De-Chuan
name: Liu, Ziwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) or continual learning is a desired capability in the real world, which requires a learning system to adapt to new tasks without forgetting former ones. While traditional CIL methods focus on visual information to grasp core features, recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLM) have shown promising capabilities in learning generalizable representations with the aid of textual information. However, when continually trained with new classes, VLMs often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of former knowledge. Applying VLMs to CIL poses two major challenges: 1) how to adapt the model without forgetting; and 2) how to make full use of the multi-modal information. To this end, we propose PROjectiOn Fusion (PROOF) that enables VLMs to learn without forgetting. To handle the first challenge, we propose training task-specific projections based on the frozen image/text encoders. When facing new tasks, new projections are expanded and former projections are fixed, alleviating the forgetting of old concepts. For the second challenge, we propose the fusion module to better utilize the cross-modality information. By jointly adjusting visual and textual features, the model can capture semantic information with stronger representation ability. Extensive experiments on nine benchmark datasets validate PROOF achieves state-of-the-art performance. Code is available at https://github.com/zhoudw-zdw/PROOF
description: Accepted to TPAMI. Code is available at https://github.com/zhoudw-zdw/PROOF
Additional file 4 of Palmitate reduces starvation-induced ER stress by inhibiting ER-phagy in hypothalamic cells
Creators: name: Lim, Yun
name: Seolsong Kim
name: Kim, Eun-Kyoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Knockdown of Bcl-2 diminishes the increase of Beclin1 by palmitate under starvation. Cells transfected with si-scram or si-Bcl-2 were starved in EBSS for 3 h in the presence or absence of palmitate (0.1 mM). a and b Immunoblotting analysis (a) and quantification (b) of Beclin1 (n = 6 per each group). Data are mean ± SEM; **p = 0.0052 vs. EBSS in si-scram, ††p = 0.0019. n.s., no significant difference.
Integral equivariant cohomology of affine Grassmannians
Creators: name: Anderson, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give explicit presentations of the integral equivariant cohomology of the affine Grassmannians and flag varieties in type A, arising from their natural embeddings in the corresponding infinite (Sato) Grassmannian and flag variety. These presentations are compared with results obtained by Lam and Shimozono, for rational equivariant cohomology of the affine Grassmannian, and by Larson, for the integral cohomology of the moduli stack of vector bundles on $\mathbb{P}^1$.
description: 16 pages. This supersedes Section 10 of arXiv:2105.11404v1, which will be updated to omit that section
Additional file 7 of Development and characterization of a Nannochloropsis mutant with simultaneously enhanced growth and lipid production
Creators: name: Ryu, Ae Jin
name: Kang, Nam Kyu
name: Seungjib Jeon
name: Hur, Dong Hoon
name: Lee, Eun Mi
name: Lee, Do Yup
name: Byeong-Ryool Jeong
name: Chang, Yong Keun
name: Jeong, Ki Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Fig. S4. Predicted binding pocket in WT TPP domain. The Mg2+ ion binding site of WTTPP domain was expressed.
Pseudospin symmetry and the relativistic harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Lisboa, R.
name: Malheiro, M.
name: de Castro, A. S.
name: Alberto, P.
name: Fiolhais, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalized relativistic harmonic oscillator for spin 1/2 particles is studied. The Dirac Hamiltonian contains a scalar $S$ and a vector $V$ quadratic potentials in the radial coordinate, as well as a tensor potential $U$ linear in $r$. Setting either or both combinations $Σ=S+V$ and $% Δ=V-S$ to zero, analytical solutions for bound states of the corresponding Dirac equations are found. The eigenenergies and wave functions are presented and particular cases are discussed, devoting a special attention to the nonrelativistic limit and the case $Σ=0$, for which pseudospin symmetry is exact. We also show that the case $U=Δ=0$ is the most natural generalization of the nonrelativistic harmonic oscillator. The radial node structure of the Dirac spinor is studied for several combinations of harmonic-oscillator potentials, and that study allows us to explain why nuclear intruder levels cannot be described in the framework of the relativistic harmonic oscillator in the pseudospin limit.
description: 18 pages, 24 figures, uses RevTeX4, subfigure and caption macros. Revised version according to referee's comments, with typos and some figures corrected
Thematic factsheet - Environmental enrichment for ruminants and equines: the basics
Creators: name: Brunet, Valentin
name: Botreau, Raphaëlle
name: Veissier, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environment
Inspection
Positive emotion
Animal welfare
Ruminants
Equines
Herbivorous

description: This thematic factsheet summarises what is an environmental enrichment with some examples and expected impacts on ruminants and equines' welfare, as well as some general recommendations for inspection in farms and legal requirements.
Optimal Approximate Minimization of One-Letter Weighted Finite Automata
Creators: name: Lacroce, Clara
name: Balle, Borja
name: Panangaden, Prakash
name: Rabusseau, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the approximate minimization problem of weighted finite automata (WFAs): to compute the best possible approximation of a WFA given a bound on the number of states. By reformulating the problem in terms of Hankel matrices, we leverage classical results on the approximation of Hankel operators, namely the celebrated Adamyan-Arov-Krein (AAK) theory.
 We solve the optimal spectral-norm approximate minimization problem for irredundant WFAs with real weights, defined over a one-letter alphabet. We present a theoretical analysis based on AAK theory, and bounds on the quality of the approximation in the spectral norm and $\ell^2$ norm. Moreover, we provide a closed-form solution, and an algorithm, to compute the optimal approximation of a given size in polynomial time.
description: 32 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2102.06860
Craspedophora magnifica subsp. yorki Mathews
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paradisaeidae
Craspedophora
Craspedophora magnifica
Craspedophora magnifica yorki mathews

description: [Craspedophora magnifica yorki Mathews]
COMMENTS: Despite the fact that Mathews (1922: 8) called yorki a new subspecies, this name was supplied in 1922 as a replacement name for Ptiloris alberti Elliot, which Mathews considered to be preoccupied by ‘‘ Ptilornis alberti Gray, 1869 (1870) ’’; Mathews did not indicate a type. However, as noted by Mayr (1962d: 188) the manuscript name supplied by Gray (1870: 105) was a nomen nudum there. Elliot (1871: 580–581) explained that, while he did not generally approve of applying a manuscript name to a new form, in this case he was making an exception and applying Gray’s manuscript name to the smaller Cape York bird collected by Macgillivray; Elliot was validating Gray’s name by providing a description, the type being the ‘‘smaller Cape York bird collected by Macgillivray,’’ presumably the specimen in BMNH annotated as ‘‘ alberti ’’ by Gray.
In 1926, Mathews (1926: 382) summarized his current thinking, noting that the Cape York form had been considered identical to the New Guinea form until Elliot had separated it under Gray’s name ‘‘in preference to giving it a new name.’’ Mathews continued: ‘‘Gray replied that he did not figure it as it already had been figured by Gould and, moreover, he did not agree with the publication of the name, as he did not think the differences he had first observed were valid and therefore he had sank [sic] his unpublished MS. name as a synonym of the typical form. Consequently the name alberti was invalid from its introduction by Elliot, but the error was only corrected in 1922.’’ This date of 1922 refers to Mathews’ introduction of the name yorki as a replacement name, sharing the same type as Elliot’s alberti.
By 1926 Mathews (1926: 378–382), under Mathewsiella magnifica, had apparently decided that because he considered the name alberti to be an invalid introduction, his own description of yorki was a valid introduction of a new name and needed a type. AMNH 677640, adult male, collected at Cape York, North Queensland, 5 September 1911, is said by Mathews (1926: pl. 592, upper fig., opp. p. 378; text p. 379) to be the type of yorki. But as explained above, the type of yorki is the same specimen that is the type of Ptiloris alberti Elliot (ICZN, 1999: 78, Art. 72.7), therefore AMNH 677640 has no nomenclatural standing.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 97, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
WAS BEEINFLUSST DAS IMAGE DER LANDWIRTSCHAFT IM LÄNDLICHEN RAUM?
Creators: name: Petersen, Julian
name: Valina Kruse, Greta
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Petersen, Julian
name: Valina Kruse, Greta
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Image der Landwirtschaft
subject: Wilcoxon-Test
subject: Ordered Probit/Logit
subject: Clusteranalyse

description: In agrarpolitischen Diskussionen ist das Image der Landwirtschaft in der Gesellschaft ein stets wiederkehrendes Thema, welches in den vergangenen Jahren auf vielfältige Weise untersucht wurde. Das Image der Landwirtschaft unter BewohnerInnen des ländlichen Raums wurde dabei jedoch bisher nicht detailliert erforscht. Anhand einer Haustürbefragung in vier ländlichen Gemeinden Schleswig-Holsteins konnten 99 Personen befragt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich Vorstellungen über die Landwirtschaft und Wahrnehmungen der real erlebten Landwirtschaft auch im ländlichen Raum mitunter deutlich voneinander unterscheiden, wobei männliche Befragte die Landwirtschaft im Mittel positiver wahrnahmen als weibliche Befragte. Anhand einer Clusteranalyse konnten ferner sechs Gruppen hinsichtlich ihrer Sicht einer ‚idealen‘ Landwirtschaft identifiziert werden. Die Ergebnisse verweisen auf die Bedeutung sozialer Netzwerke im ländlichen Raum für das Image der Landwirtschaft und können einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung wirkungsvoller Kommunikationsmaßnahmen leisten.
Health Equity Impact Assessment for UBC’s Meal Share
Creators: name: Chan, Rachel
name: Cui, Betty
name: Hsu, Fang-Yu
name: Kwasniak, Anna
name: Meng, Kiki
name: Perera, Malki
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Currently, over 30% of UBC students are food insecure mainly due to high tuition and low income. Food insecurity compromises students’ physical and mental health, and contributes to social exclusion, stigma, and poor diet quality. Food insecurity also disproportionately affects international students, transgender/nonbinary individuals, those with underlying health conditions, and students using student loans. Our group partnered with the UBC Food Security Initiative to conduct a Health Equity Impact Assessment for the UBC Meal Share Program. The goal of the project is to improve food security of equity-seeking groups at UBC through the Meal Share Program. We conducted focus groups discussion with food-insecure UBC Thunderbirds residents to investigate the potential unintended negative and positive health impacts of the UBC Meal Share Program. Participants’ discussion provided the foundation for the Health Equity Impact Assessment. Through the Health Equity Impact Assessment, we hope to increase the Food Security Initiative’s knowledge on the health impacts of and factors promoting participation in the UBC Meal Share Program. Beyond our project, it is hoped that the UBC Meal Share Program would implement more equity-based measures to improve program equity so that the Program can reach people who need it the most. To achieve our objectives, we reviewed literature, conducted focus groups with UBC students, and consulted with a program strategist from a similar program, Swipe Out Hunger. We found that focus group participants appreciated the low-barrier and stigma-free nature of the Meal Share Program. However, most would appreciate more flexibility in the funding source and more extensive promotion of the program. To evaluate our focus group question, we consulted with the Project Manager of the Food Security Initiative and Program Strategist at Swipe Out Hunger, for their feedback. To evaluate our focus group interviews, we assessed the number of participants reached versus aimed and their perceived level of opportunity to share during the focus group through a closing survey. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
O cenário dos livros electrônicos científicos em acesso aberto
Creators: name: Assis, Tainá Batista De
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: O Acesso Aberto à Informação Científica preconiza a disseminação dos artigos científicos em acesso aberto, livres de quaisquer custos de acesso e download. Entretanto, os artigos científicos não são o principal canal de comunicação para todas as áreas do conhecimento. Notadamente, as Ciências Sociais e Humanidades utilizam os livros como principal veículo para o registro e disseminação de seus conhecimentos e avaliação dos pesquisadores da área. Nesse sentido, o depósito, em acesso aberto, dos livros científicos em repositórios institucionais é baixo em comparação às outras produções científicas. Por outro lado, observa-se o crescimento de sistemas agregadores de conteúdo que reúnem os livros científicos e os disponibilizam para acesso dos usuários. Assim, esta pesquisa objetiva levantar e identificar as diferentes iniciativas para apontar a importância desses sistemas para posibilitar a maior visibilidade desses documentos.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
1RXSJ062518.2+733433: A bright, soft intermediate polar
Creators: name: Staude, A.
name: Schwope, A. D.
name: Krumpe, M.
name: Hambaryan, V.
name: Schwarz, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of 50 hours time-resolved R-band photometry of the ROSAT all-sky survey source 1RXSJ062518.2+733433. The source was identified by Wei et al. (1999) as a cataclysmic variable. Our photometry, performed in 10 nights between February 11, 2003, and March 21, 2003, reveals two stable periodicities at 19.7874 and 283.118 min, which are identified as probable spin and orbital periods of the binary. We therefore classify 1RXSJ062518.2+733433 as an intermediate polar. Analysis of the RASS X-ray observations reveal a variability of 100% in the X-ray flux and a likely soft X-ray excess. The new IP thus joins the rare group of soft IPs with only four members so far.
description: submitted to A&A, 5 pages, 6 figures of reduced quality
Additional file 1 of Relationship between mortality and use of sodium bicarbonate at the time of dialysis initiation: a prospective observational study
Creators: name: Morooka, Hikaru
name: Yamamoto, Junichiro
name: Tanaka, Akihito
name: Daijo Inaguma
name: Maruyama, Shoichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Climate resilience in rural Zambia: Evaluating farmers’ response to El Niño-induced drought
Creators: name: Arslan, A.
name: Arslan, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the impacts of the El Niño during the 2015/2016 season on maize productivity and incomes in rural Zambia. The analysis aims at identifying whether and how sustainable land management (SLM) practices and livelihood diversification strategies have contributed to moderate the impacts of the El Niño related drought. This is done using a specifically designed survey called the El Niño Impact Assessment Survey (ENIAS), which is combined with the 2015 wave of the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Surveys (RALS), as well as high resolution rainfall data from the Africa Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2). This unique data set provides an opportunity to understand the impacts of shocks like El Niño that are expected to get more frequent and severe in Zambia, as well as understand the agricultural practices and livelihood strategies that can buffer household production and welfare from the impacts of such shocks to drive policy recommendations.
BERATUNG ALS VERTRIEBSSTRATEGIE? - PRÄFERENZEN VON LANDWIRTEN BEIM EINKAUF VON MILCHLEISTUNGSFUTTER
Creators: name: Petersen, Julian
name: Behrens, Friederike
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Petersen, Julian
name: Behrens, Friederike
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Betriebsführung
subject: Kaufentscheidung
subject: Ordered-Logit Modell
subject: Multinominales-Logit Modell

description: Milchleistungsfutter ist eines der wichtigsten Betriebsmittel der europäischen Milchproduktion. Aufgrund standardisierter Inhaltsstoffe konkurrieren Futtermittelfirmen dabei bisher fast ausschließlich über den Preis und sind aus Sicht der Landwirte als Lieferanten relativ leicht substituierbar. Es wird daher anhand einer Befragung von 76 Landwirten untersucht, ob Futtermittelfirmen durch das Anbieten qualifizierter Fütterungsberatung eine langfristigere Kundenbindung als bisher erreichen können. Ergebnisse verweisen jedoch auf eine starke einzelbetriebliche Heterogenität, bei welcher die Zufriedenheit der Betriebsleiter mit der Milchleistung der Herde sowie weitere sozioökonomische Faktoren ausschlaggebend sind. Im Mittel weisen die befragten Landwirte keine eindeutig positive Zahlungsbereitschaft für eine zusätzliche Beratungsdienstleistung durch den Futtermittelhändler auf, sondern betrachten ein solches Angebot bei abgeschlossenem Kontrakt als Inklusivleistung. Fortschreitender landwirtschaftlicher Strukturwandel könnte die Verhandlungsposition von Milcherzeugern gegenüber Mischfutterwerken zudem weiter stärken.
Social Dendro: Aplicação de técnicas das redes sociais à gestão de dados de investigação
Creators: name: Silva, João Rocha Da
name: Pereira, Nelson
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: A gestão de dados de investigação é atualmente um grande desafio para as instituições de investigação. Os pequenos grupos de investigação, em particular, necessitam de apoio na gestão dos seus dados para serem capazes de corresponder aos requisitos de dados abertos que começam a ser impostos pelas entidades financiadoras. Dado que o trabalho de investigação é tipicamente desenvolvido em ambiente colaborativo, é importante que seja suportado por ferramentas desenhadas para suportar essa colaboração. É neste sentido que tem vindo a ser desenvolvida a plataforma Dendro para gestão de dados de investigação, uma ferramenta open-source, fácil de instalar e usar por pequenos grupos de investigação, que pretende facilitar o armazenamento e descrição dos dados de investigação em preparação para o seu depósito em praticamente qualquer repositório final. Atualmente está a ser desenvolvida uma extensão à plataforma Dendro, que pretende incorporar diversos conceitos das redes sociais na plataforma (incluindo gostos, comentários e partilhas), com o objetivo de tornar a descrição de dados mais dinâmica e fácil de realizar dentro do grupo de investigação. Após o desenho de esboços de interações, o Social Dendro está neste momento em fase de implementação e testes junto de alguns grupos de investigação. Nesta comunicação será apresentado o modelo de dados da plataforma, alguns exemplos de interação e o estado atual de desenvolvimento da aplicação; terminaremos com algumas breves conclusões e algumas perspetivas de trabalho futuro.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
Observation of a Distribution of Internal Transverse Magnetic Fields in a Mn12-Based Single Molecule Magnet
Creators: name: del Barco, E.
name: Kent, A. D.
name: Chakov, N. E.
name: Zakharov, L. N.
name: Rheingold, A. L.
name: Hendrickson, D. N.
name: Christou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A distribution of internal transverse magnetic fields has been observed in single molecule magnet (SMM) Mn12-BrAc in the pure magnetic quantum tunneling (MQT) regime. Magnetic relaxation experiments at 0.4 K are used to produce a hole in the distribution of transverse fields whose angle and depth depend on the orientation and amplitude of an applied transverse ``digging field.'' The presence of such transverse magnetic fields can explain the main features of resonant MQT in this material, including the tunneling rates, the form of the relaxation and the absence of tunneling selection rules. We propose a model in which the transverse fields originate from a distribution of tilts of the molecular magnetic easy axes.
description: 4 pages
Craspedophora magnifica subsp. claudia Mathews
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paradisaeidae
Craspedophora
Craspedophora magnifica
Craspedophora magnifica claudia mathews

description: Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews
Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews, 1917a: 72 (Claudie River, North Queensland).
Now Ptiloris magnificus alberti Elliot, 1871. See Mathews, 1926: 378–382; Hartert, 1929a: 58; Mayr, 1962d: 188; Gilliard, 1969: 117–121; Cracraft, 1992: 15; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 315–327; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 530–531; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 475.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677613, adult male, collected on the Claudie River, 12.50S, 143.21E (USBGN, 1957), northern Queensland, Australia, on 8 October 1913, collector not recorded (no. 36). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews described the adult male and gave the date of collection as 8 October 1913. Mathews had only one such specimen from the Claudie River. No range was given and a description of the female was not included.
This specimen and female AMNH 677614 probably came to Mathews from W. Macgillivray (1918: 211), collected by W.R. Maclennan, on a joint trip to the Claudie River. See also remarks by Mathews (1926: 382).
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
MOTIVE UND HEMMNISSE DER JODSALZVERWENDUNG EINE QUALITATIVE STUDIE IM NATIONALEN BÄCKER- UND FLEISCHERHANDWERK
Creators: name: Dudenhöfer, Christin
name: Fast, Diana
name: Heil, Eleonore A.
name: Dudenhöfer, Christin
name: Fast, Diana
name: Heil, Eleonore A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Jodsalzverwendung
subject: Experteninterviews
subject: Bäckerhandwerk
subject: Fleischerhandwerk
subject: Jodprophylaxe.

description: In der Studie zur Gesundheit Erwachsener in Deutschland (DEGS) im Jahr 2015 wird von ei-nem unzureichenden Jodstatus bei 30% der deutschen Bevölkerung gesprochen. Back- und Fleischwaren leisten einen deutlichen Beitrag zu der täglichen Salzaufnahme laut der Nationa-len Verzehrsstudie II. Aufgrund ihrer hohen Verzehrsmengen sind diese, sofern mit Jodsalz hergestellt, wichtig im Sinne der Jodprophylaxe. Da die Jodsalzverwendung im Lebensmittel-handwerk unzureichend und kaum erforscht ist, wurden im Rahmen einer qualitativen, explo-rativen Studie Experteninterviews (n=28) mit Personen in leitenden Funktionen des Bäcker- und Fleischerhandwerk geführt, die mithilfe einer strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse nach May-ring ausgewertet wurden. Die Studie zielt darauf ab, Hemmnisse und Beweggründe der Jod-salzverwendung in Bäckereien und Fleischereien zu ermitteln und soll als Beitrag dienen, ge-eignete Maßnahmen zwecks Jodprophylaxe der Bevölkerung zu identifizieren.
Additional file 26 of Smarcad1 mediates microbiota-induced inflammation in mouse and coordinates gene expression in the intestinal epithelium
Creators: name: Kazakevych, Juri
name: Denizot, Jérémy
name: Liebert, Anke
name: Portovedo, Mariana
name: Mosavie, Mia
name: Payal Jain
name: Stellato, Claudia
name: Fraser, Claire
name: Corrêa, Renan Oliveira
name: Célestine, Marina
name: Mattiuz, Raphaël
name: Okkenhaug, Hanneke
name: J. Ross Miller
name: Vinolo, Marco Aurélio Ramirez
name: Veldhoen, Marc
name: Varga-Weisz, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 26. Review history.
Acesso aberto à informação científica: diretrizes, políticas e modelos de repositórios científicos para Moçambique
Creators: name: Zimba, Horácio Francisco
name: Waete, Ranito Zambo
name: Mussagy, Aidate
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: Esta comunicação discorre sobre as iniciativas de acesso aberto a informação científica com ênfase em propostas de diretrizes, políticas e acções institucionais e/ou governamentais de diferentes países a nível mundial. Identifica as orientações e recomendações emanadas por organismos internacionais como a UNESCO, a IFLA, em busca de um pano de fundo para propor diretrizes, políticas e acções concertadas, que possam ser aplicadas para o contexto de Moçambique. Para consubstanciar as reflexões, primeiro, faz-se uma radiografia da situação actual do país no que diz respeito a existência de iniciativas institucionais e/ou gorvernamentais de acesso aberto à informação científica, tendo como principal fonte de dados, os documentos institucionais e o quadro legal do sector de ensino superior, ciência, tecnologia e inovação de Moçambique. Em segundo lugar, exploram-se as iniciativas institucionais atinentes a estabelecimento de plataformas de acesso aberto, especificamente, revistas e repositórios institucionais de acesso aberto, no contexto nacional. Em terceiro lugar, resgatam-se as contribuições surgidas nas discussões havidas no I Seminário de Acesso Aberto à Informação Científica, realizado nos dias 9 e 10 de Maio de 2016, na Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, em Maputo, visando o estabelecimento de propostas de modelos de diretrizes e políticas de repositórios científicos de acesso aberto, no contexto moçambicano.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
Covariance matrices of S robust regression estimators
Creators: name: Salini, S.
name: Laurini, F.
name: Morelli, G.
name: Riani, M.
name: Cerioli, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Asymptotic properties of robust regression estimators are well known. However, it is not always clear what is the best strategy for confidence intervals and hypothesis testing when the sample size is not very large, since the distribution of residuals coming from robust estimates has unknown properties for small samples. In the present work we propose an analysis of various strategies for estimating the variance-covariance matrix of the S estimators at the variation of n and p, considering different ρ functions. An adaptive correction strategy is proposed. In addition to the simulation study, an example on a benchmark dataset is shown.
East Mall Redesign between Agronomy and W16th Avenue
Creators: name: Chen, Rocky
name: Fan, Allan
name: Vuong, Lilian
name: Wang, Grace
name: Yuen, Cecilia
name: Zhang, Fiona
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: As requested by the UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program, Team 16 has prepared a detailed design report for the East Mall Redesign Project. The objective of this project is to create a safe environment for all road users along East Mall between West 16th Avenue and Agronomy Road at the UBC Vancouver Campus. This report intends to expand on the preliminary design by showcasing the general road layout and details of the proposed upgrades on East Mall. Virtual site investigations through Google Map and Google Earth were conducted at the beginning of the project to better understand the current road alignments. The key issues and considerations in the development of the design include safety concerns regarding vehicle speeding and pedestrian crossing, collision accidents between parking vehicles and cyclists, overdemand of curbside parking space for field pick-up and drop-off activities, and abundance of asphalt road surface. Taking into account design constraints at the project site, some key design features were developed. These features include two protected bike lanes (one on each side of East Mall), sheltered bus stops on Eagles Drive, additional crosswalks with push activated blinking lights and speed tables, adjustments of on-street parking, and provision of Silva Cells in the median to improve local drainage capacity. In order to provide pedestrian weather protection, a comprehensive design of a canopy along East Mall has been established using HS152x252x9.5, W155x0.5 steel, 10mm cable, and  ” glass. Team 16 recommends UBC SEEDS to move forward to the implementation phase of the proposed road redesign. A set of Issued for Construction (IFC) drawings are enclosed in the report. The expected consulting fee for the project is $414,790 including 8% contingency. The estimated capital cost and maintenance cost is $4,247,263 including 8% contingency. One year has been planned for permit acquisition so that construction begins as early as May 3, 2021, which leads to an approximate end date of October 14, 2022. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Behavioral changes before lockdown and decreased retail and recreation mobility during lockdown contributed most to controlling COVID-19 in Western countries
Creators: name: Deforche, Koen
name: Vercauteren, Jurgen
name: Müller, Viktor
name: Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Lockdown period estimates.
Gestão de dados: Sobreposições ou convergências entre infraestruturas?
Creators: name: Ferreira, Pedro Moura
name: Rodrigues, Bárbara
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: No domínio da gestão de dados, o debate sobre a estratégia mais adequada para a curadoria e preservação dos dados de investigação em Portugal tem ganho uma pertinência crescente. A experiência acumulada nesta área aponta para as vantagens de um modelo em rede que articule soluções de âmbito genérico, lideradas pelas estruturas de coordenação central, e soluções de âmbito disciplinar, dinamizadas pelas infraestruturas de investigação de acordo com as necessidades e desenvolvimentos das diferentes áreas científicas. Nesta comunicação, a atividade dos arquivos de dados em ciências sociais é usada como exemplo para demonstrar as vantagens de conciliar estas duas abordagens.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
On the Sample Complexity of Quantum Boltzmann Machine Learning
Creators: name: Coopmans, Luuk
name: Benedetti, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are machine-learning models for both classical and quantum data. We give an operational definition of QBM learning in terms of the difference in expectation values between the model and target, taking into account the polynomial size of the data set. By using the relative entropy as a loss function this problem can be solved without encountering barren plateaus. We prove that a solution can be obtained with stochastic gradient descent using at most a polynomial number of Gibbs states. We also prove that pre-training on a subset of the QBM parameters can only lower the sample complexity bounds. In particular, we give pre-training strategies based on mean-field, Gaussian Fermionic, and geometrically local Hamiltonians. We verify these models and our theoretical findings numerically on a quantum and a classical data set. Our results establish that QBMs are promising machine learning models.
description: Main text: 11 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary information: 16 pages, 2 figures. We correct a mistake that affected both lemmas 6 and 7. We thank Dhrumil Patel and Mark M. Wilde for identifying this mistake
Dynamics of the tuning process between singers
Creators: name: Urteaga, R.
name: Bolcatto, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical model describing a predictable human behavior like the tuning process between singers. The purpose, inspired in physiological and behavioral grounds of human beings, is sensitive to all Fourier spectrum of each sound emitted and it contemplates an asymmetric coupling between individuals. We have recorded several tuning exercises and we have confronted the experimental evidence with the results of the model finding a very well agreement between calculated and experimental sonograms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Implementação de métricas alternativas no portal oasisbr
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Danielly Dos Santos
name: Camargo, Luiza Moreira
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2016

description: Objetiva identificar a viabilidade de implementação de ferramenta altmetrics para medição de compartilhamento de publicações científicas do Portal oasisbr em mídias sociais. Foi realizado levantamento bibliográfico sobre métodos tradicionais de aferição de impacto e o surgimento de métricas alternativas, assim como os tipos de ferramentas disponíveis no mercado, pagas ou gratuitas. A ferramenta escolhida para teste foi Altmetric API. Após sua implementação no oasisbr, verificou-se que não foi calculado em tempo real o compartilhamento de artigos em redes sociais online, sendo que o compartilhamento no Facebook não foi contabilizado, enquanto que no Twitter o registro foi efetuado com sucesso. Considerou-se que, embora a ferramenta não tenha tido total aproveitamento no Portal, o uso de métricas alternativas é um caminho favorável tanto para o pesquisador, quanto para ambientes de pesquisa online. Dessa forma, torna-se necessário realizar estudos mais aprofundados para que, futuramente, a ferramenta de altmetrics seja implantada de forma efetiva no oasisbr.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 2 (2016): Atas da 7ª Conferência Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto
CONSUMER ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS MOBILE APPS
Creators: name: NAGAPPAN P
name: Dr. N. PANCHANATHAM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ---

description: Abstract

The way consumers are interacting with the brands are been revolutionized through Mobile Apps (MA). Customer experiences on empirical research are less, hence this research aims to analyze how MA integration in shopping can lead to improved customer experience. An online survey was conducted to the consumers of Mobile Apps (MA). Total responses were analyzed using Partial Least squares-structural equation modelling. In addition, the study has practical implications for retailers deploying Mobile Apps (MA) in services offered to their customers.