cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dislocations in Strained-layer Semiconductor Heterostructures.
Creators: name: Liu, Xian Wei
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The reliability of semiconductor devices depends upon the stability of the constituent materials. Strained-layer semiconductor structures contain a layer whose lattice constant differs from the surrounding layers, resulting in a misfit strain. As dislocations are the main failure mechanism in semiconductor lasers, it is essential to establish whether the stability of these structures is affected by the lattice mismatch and the possibility of relaxation by the formation of misfit dislocations. In this thesis, dislocations in strained-layer semiconductor structures are investigated.

 Relaxation of strained-layer GaAs/InxGa1-xAs/GaAs heterostructures through the formation of misfit dislocations is found to occur in stages. Firstly, generation and elongation of misfit dislocations on threading dislocations during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth have been demonstrated with increasing strained-layer thickness. The onset of this stage has been shown to occur at strained-layer thicknesses below those predicted by the Matthews-Blakeslee (M-B) model. The second stage of relaxation is marked by the formation of a network of 60° misfit dislocations. A third stage of relaxation has been discovered, in which pure edge (i.e. 90°) misfit dislocations are formed in addition to the existing network of 60° misfit dislocations.

 Different mechanisms are found to be responsible for the three stages of relaxation. The M-B model describes the transformation of threading dislocations to generate 60° misfit dislocations. As this affects individual dislocations, it results in only local relaxation. A separate mechanism, which remains unclear but is not dependent on the interactions of dislocations, dominates the formation of a 60° misfit dislocation network. The edge dislocations responsible for further relaxation of the structures are produced by vacancy-producing jogs. These protrude from pre-existing 60° dislocations and trail edge dislocation pairs as they climb.

 It is shown here that as-grown structures with strained-layer thicknesses below the theoretical prediction can be relaxed by the formation of a 60° dislocation network during post-growth thermal processing and bending. Thus the first two stages of relaxation are dependent on both the strained-layer thickness during fabrication, and on the temperature and applied stress of as-grown structures.

 Finally, dislocation motion in strained layer structures has been shown to be slower than that in unstrained structures. Thus the misfit stress acts as an additional resistant force to the displacement of atoms in non-misfit dislocations, even though it drives the formation of misfit dislocations.
A Study on Non-coplanar Baseline Effects for Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph
Creators: name: Yang, Qiu-ping
name: Wang, Feng
name: Deng, Hui
name: Mei, Ying
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a dedicated solar radioheliograph, the MingantU SpEctral RadioHeliograph (MUSER) has a maximum baseline of more than 3000 meters and a frequency range of 400 MHz -- 15 GHz. According to the classical radio interferometry theory, the non-coplanar baseline effect (i.e., w-term effect) would be considered and calibrated for such a radio instrument. However, little previous literature made the qualitative or quantitative analyses on w-term effects of solar radioheliograph in-depth. This study proposes a complete quantitative analysis of w-term effects for the MUSER. After a brief introduction of the MUSER, we systematically investigate the baseline variations over a year and analyze the corresponding variations of w-term. We further studied the effects of the w-term in the imaging for the specified extended source, i.e., the Sun. We discussed the possible effects of the w-term, such as image distortion and so on. The simulated results show that the w-term is an essential and unavoidable issue for solar radio imaging with high spatial resolution.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by RAA
Observation of radiative B -> phi K gamma decays
Creators: name: Drutskoy, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radiative decay $B \to ϕK γ$ is observed for the first time. The branching fraction for the charged $B^- \to ϕK^- γ$ decay mode is measured to be ${\cal B}(B^- \to ϕK^- γ) = (3.4 \pm 0.9 \pm 0.4) \times 10^{-6}$. The photon energy distribution for the $B^- \to ϕK^- γ$ decay is presented. The signal for the neutral $\bar{B}^0 \to ϕ\bar{K}^0 γ$ decay mode is not statistically significant and an upper limit, ${\cal B}(\bar{B}^0 \to ϕ\bar{K}^0 γ) < 8.3 \times 10^{-6}$ at $90% {\rm CL}$, is set. The analysis is based on a dataset of 90 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the Belle experiment at the $e^+ e^-$ asymmetric collider KEKB.
description: 9 pages, 2 pages (7 eps files)
Analysis of Financial Statements: Local Farm Supply, Marketing Co-ops, 2003
Creators: name: Rotan, Beverly L.
name: Rotan, Beverly L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cooperatives
subject: balance sheet
subject: income statement
subject: farm supply
subject: marketing
subject: sales
subject: financial ratios

description: This report updates and analyzes the balance sheets and income statements of local farm supply and marketing cooperatives, comparing 2002 and 2003 and trends over the past 10 years. The data represent four cooperative sizes and types. Common-size income statements and balance sheets compare different cooperative sizes and types. Trends for major balance sheet and income statement items and ratio analysis compare and contrast cooperatives by size and type.
Dairy Cooperative Growth Challenges: Technology, Ingredients (Proteins) and Equity Financing
Creators: name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Ling, K. Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Filtration
subject: process technology
subject: dairy ingredients
subject: milk protein concentrate
subject: cooperatives
subject: equity
subject: tomatoes

description: Filtration separates milk components for use as ingredients in new products or new manufacturing processes. Technology developments in filtration and new manufacturing processes are certain to shape the future of the dairy industry. Some ingredients, such as milk protein concentrate (MPC), casein and caseinate, are almost all imported due to lower prices in foreign markets. When domestic production becomes economically feasible, cooperatives are potential producers of milk protein ingredients, especially in the West region. Research and development, product development and marketing, acquiring manufacturing and processing technology and equity financing are cooperatives’ major challenges. A brief historical review of tomatoes shows how technology has caused profound changes to an industry that strikingly resembles milk.
Non-differentiable angular dispersion as an optical resource
Creators: name: Hall, Layton A.
name: Abouraddy, Ayman F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Introducing angular dispersion into a pulsed field associates each frequency with a particular angle with respect to the propagation axis. A perennial yet implicit assumption is that the propagation angle is differentiable with respect to the frequency. Recent work has shown that the existence of a frequency at which the derivative of the propagation angle does not exist -- which we refer to as non-differentiable angular dispersion -- allows for the optical field to exhibit unique and useful characteristics that are unattainable by endowing optical fields with conventional angular dispersion. Because these novel features are retained in principle even when the specific non-differentiable frequency is not part of the selected spectrum, the question arises as to the impact of the proximity of the spectrum to this frequency. We show here that operating in the vicinity of the non-differentiable frequency is imperative to reduce the deleterious impact of (1) errors in implementing the angular-dispersion profile, and (2) the spectral uncertainty intrinsic to finite-energy wave packets in any realistic system. Non-differential angular dispersion can then be viewed as a resource -- quantified by a Schmidt number -- that is maximized in the vicinity of the non-differentiable frequency. These results will be useful in designing novel phase-matching of nonlinear interactions in dispersive media.
Styloleptus biustus subsp. bahamicus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptus
Styloleptus biustus
Styloleptus biustus bahamicus (fisher, 1925)

description: 2a. Styloleptus biustus bahamicus (Fisher, 1925)
Type locality — Bahamas, Andros Islands: Mangrove Cay. (AMNH). Distribution — Bahamas.
 Leptostylus bahamicus Fisher, 1925a: 3.
 Leiopus bahamicus; Cazier & Lacey, 1952: 52.
 Styloleptus biustus bahamicus; Dillon, 1956a: 159; Chemsak, 1967a: 188 (distr.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 146 (cat.); Browne et al., 1993: 50 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Feed Mill Operations of Agricultural Cooperatives
Creators: name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Cooperatives
subject: feed mills
subject: feed production
subject: feed type
subject: feed sales

description: This report analyzes the feed mill operations of over 200 farm supply and marketing cooperatives. They were surveyed about their 2004 feed mill ownership, production, type of feed produced, method of sales, and feed form. The cooperatives were also asked what animal types they produced feed for and how the feed was sold. Questions asked were similar to ones used in 1984, 1975, 1969, and 1959 surveys. The data was also sorted into 10 standard U.S. farm production regions and 7 feed mill sizes.
The Effects of Serial Casting Duration on Ankle ROM and Mobility in Ambulatory Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy : Systematic Review Final Report
Creators: name: Banda, Alison
name: Deglau, Jessica
name: Okrainetz, Scott
name: Schwab, Klara
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: MPT Systematic Reviews and Research Projects.
Constraints on the circumburst environments of short gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: O'Connor, Brendan
name: Beniamini, Paz
name: Kouveliotou, Chryssa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observational follow-up of well localized short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) has left $20-30\%$ of the population without a coincident host galaxy association to deep optical and NIR limits ($\gtrsim 26$ mag). These SGRBs have been classified as observationally hostless due to their lack of strong host associations. It has been argued that these hostless SGRBs could be an indication of the large distances traversed by the binary neutron star system (due to natal kicks) between its formation and its merger (leading to a SGRB). The distances of GRBs from their host galaxies can be indirectly probed by the surrounding circumburst densities. We show that a lower limit on those densities can be obtained from early afterglow lightcurves. We find that $\lesssim16\%$ of short GRBs in our sample took place at densities $\lesssim10^{-4}$ cm$^{-3}$. These densities represent the expected range of values at distances greater than the host galaxy's virial radii. We find that out of the five SGRBs in our sample that have been found to be observationally hostless, none are consistent with having occurred beyond the virial radius of their birth galaxies. This implies one of two scenarios. Either these observationally hostless SGRBs occurred outside of the half-light radius of their host galaxy, but well within the galactic halo, or in host galaxies at moderate to high redshifts ($z\gtrsim 2$) that were missed by follow-up observations.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Epsilon-near-zero metamaterials for optoelectronic applications
Creators: name: Li, Xin
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: My PhD is focused on the design, fabrication and optoelectronic applications of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials (MMs), which have vanishing real part of the permittivity and support fascinating optical effects, including light squeezing, sub-wavelength imaging, enhanced directive emission and enhanced non-resonant optical nonlinearity. Different approaches have been developed to realise ENZ media, such as tuning the modal dispersion in narrow plasmonic channels, exploiting the natural dispersion of transparent conductive oxides and creating composite structures with metals and dielectrics. As a platform with exotic physical properties, ENZ media also exhibit enormous potentials in combination with tunability and various nanofeatures in the photonic and plasmonic regimes. This thesis demonstrates two approaches to achieve the ENZ condition. One method is to stack metal (Ag) and dielectric (SiO2) layers periodically at sub-wavelength scales. The resulting material behaves as an effective medium with an average permittivity close to zero, and we show that this ENZ medium can enhance the emission of quantum dots. This approach generally requires nanofabrication techniques developed for ﬂat and rigid substrates, for example, the electron beam evaporation, which are not always applicable to micro- and macroscopic devices with arbitrary shapes. To surpass these limitations, we design and experimentally demonstrate an optical freestanding and low-loss ENZ membrane in the visible range, by layering polymer (SU-8) and Ag nano-layers. Additionally, we propose a method to introduce both ﬂexibility and electrical tunability into ENZ media by replacing the metal layer with a 2D material, graphene, in the multilayer model. The other way to obtain an ENZ response is using natural materials which operate in proximity of their plasma frequency, typically here the indium tin oxide (ITO) at the near-infrared range. The ITO thin ﬁlms are deposited using radio frequency magnetron sputtering, and their permittivities are manipulated via controlling fabrication parameters. We succeed in sweeping the zero-permittivity frequency of ITO media by controlling the gas recipe and deposition temperature during the sputtering process. To obtain speciﬁc optical responses, the ENZ ITO thin ﬁlms are designed to be combined with different photonic features, including nanoantenna on microsphere and nanohelix, associated with a direct fabrication approach based on electron beam induced deposition (EBID). Furthermore, this thesis extends the research range by realising the photonic trimming of quantum emitters via various metallic nanofeatures fabricated directly using EBID method. We believe that the interaction of ENZ MMs with EBID approach offers an opportunity to create hybrid ENZ platforms for optoelectronic applications.
Unsupervised Feature Based Algorithms for Time Series Extrinsic Regression
Creators: name: Guijo-Rubio, David
name: Middlehurst, Matthew
name: Arcencio, Guilherme
name: Silva, Diego Furtado
name: Bagnall, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Time Series Extrinsic Regression (TSER) involves using a set of training time series to form a predictive model of a continuous response variable that is not directly related to the regressor series. The TSER archive for comparing algorithms was released in 2022 with 19 problems. We increase the size of this archive to 63 problems and reproduce the previous comparison of baseline algorithms. We then extend the comparison to include a wider range of standard regressors and the latest versions of TSER models used in the previous study. We show that none of the previously evaluated regressors can outperform a regression adaptation of a standard classifier, rotation forest. We introduce two new TSER algorithms developed from related work in time series classification. FreshPRINCE is a pipeline estimator consisting of a transform into a wide range of summary features followed by a rotation forest regressor. DrCIF is a tree ensemble that creates features from summary statistics over random intervals. Our study demonstrates that both algorithms, along with InceptionTime, exhibit significantly better performance compared to the other 18 regressors tested. More importantly, these two proposals (DrCIF and FreshPRINCE) models are the only ones that significantly outperform the standard rotation forest regressor.
description: 19 pages, 21 figures, 6 tables. Appendix included
The Role of Information Technology in the Fuel Ethanol Industry
Creators: name: Crooks, Anthony
name: Dunn, John
name: Crooks, Anthony
name: Dunn, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This USDA-sponsored study used panels of ethanol industry experts and follow-up interviews with plant owners and managers to examine how information technology has affected the structure, organization, and operations of the fuel ethanol industry. The study examined the following questions regarding the future of the ethanol industry: (1) Does the present ethanol industry represent a stable structure or a transitional step toward an inevitable concentration of ownership into the hands of a few large processing firms? (2) Have contemporary information technologies fundamentally changed the information flows, scale of operations, access to markets, conditions of vertical and horizontal coordination, sources of finance, and the competitive landscape for the medium-sized, independent processing firm? (3) To what degree have cost savings associated with better access to information and financing offset the cost savings traditionally associated with horizontal and vertical integration in processing industries? (4) What steps do medium-sized ethanol production entities need to take to continue to survive in this new information-based market environment.
title: The over-representation of black students in suspensions and expulsions from school.
Creators: name: Blair, Maud
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: This study sought to understand the phenomenon of school ‘exclusion’ with particular reference to the suspension and expulsion of black (male) students in secondary schools. The principles of the ‘market’ by which schools are expected to operate are widely viewed as responsible, for the rise in the numbers of children expelled from school. However, it is argued that ‘market’ principles alone cannot explain why black students are overrepresented in suspensions and expulsions to such a high degree.

 The study was carried out between 1992 and 1996 in three schools. It was ethnographic employing mainly interviews, observation and limited documentary analysis.

 The concept of ‘orientation’ was employed to make sense of the choices headteachers make as well as a means of understanding teachers’ relationships with students. It is suggested that schools whose general orientation is towards punishment and not ‘education’ as an integral part of the school disciplinary culture, will be more likely to expel students than find ways of keeping them in school. However, the ethnic significance of suspensions and expulsions requires a different explanation. It is argued that black communities have historically had a troubled relationship with the education system in Britain and that the high incidence of suspension and expulsion of black students can only be understood within this context. I argue that the human rights implications of expulsions are far reaching given the connection between expulsion and an individual’s vulnerability to involvement in the criminal justice system.
Small-Scale Grower Cooperatives in the Northeast United States
Creators: name: Hilchey, DUncan
name: Gillespie, Gilbert
name: Henehan, Brian
name: Hilchey, DUncan
name: Gillespie, Gilbert
name: Henehan, Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: cooperatives
subject: small-scale
subject: fruits and vegetables
subject: northeast
subject: statistics
subject: issues
subject: federation

description: Between 1999 and 2001, managers, directors, and grower members of 25 small-scale fruit and vegetable cooperatives (annual gross sales of $10M or less) in the Northeast United States were surveyed to learn about their organizational characteristics, management strategies, and impacts on members. The results show the critical importance of small-scale cooperatives to their members, and members' farms and families, as well as reveal small-scale grower cooperative organizational fragility and vulnerability. Among the important challenges identified are a general lack of manager stability, underdeveloped business management skills, and maintaining member commitment. However, many respondents are interested in working together to better their industry, and potential areas for such inter-cooperative activities are identified.
TOI-1468: A system of two transiting planets, a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune, on opposite sides of the radius valley
Creators: name: Chaturvedi, P.
name: Bluhm, P.
name: Nagel, E.
name: Hatzes, A. P.
name: Morello, G.
name: Brady, M.
name: Korth, J.
name: Molaverdikhani, K.
name: Kossakowski, D.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Guenther, E. W.
name: Pallé, E.
name: Espinoza, N.
name: Seifahrt, A.
name: Lodieu, N.
name: Cifuentes, C.
name: Furlan, E.
name: Amado, P. J.
name: Barclay, T.
name: Bean, J.
name: Béjar, V. J. S.
name: Bergond, G.
name: Boyle, A. W.
name: Ciardi, D.
name: Collins, K. A.
name: Collins, K. I.
name: Esparza-Borges, E.
name: Fukui, A.
name: Gnilka, C. L.
name: Goeke, R.
name: Guerra, P.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Herrero, E.
name: Howell, S. B.
name: Jeffers, S. V.
name: Jenkins, J. M.
name: Jensen, E. L. N.
name: Kasper, D.
name: Kodama, T.
name: Latham, D. W.
name: López-González, M. J.
name: Luque, R.
name: Montes, D.
name: Morales, J. C.
name: Mori, M.
name: Murgas, F.
name: Narita, N.
name: Nowak, G.
name: Parviainen, H.
name: Passegger, V. M.
name: Quirrenbach, A.
name: Reffert, S.
name: Reiners, A.
name: Ribas, I.
name: Ricker, G. R.
name: Rodríguez, E.
name: Rodríguez-López, C.
name: Schlecker, M.
name: Schwarz, R. P.
name: Schweitzer, A.
name: Seager, S.
name: Stefánsson, G.
name: Stockdale, C.
name: Tal-Or, L.
name: Twicken, J. D.
name: Vanaverbeke, S.
name: Wang, G.
name: Watanabe, D.
name: Winn, J. N.
name: Zechmeister, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery and characterization of two small transiting planets orbiting the bright M3.0V star TOI-1468 (LSPM J0106+1913), whose transit signals were detected in the photometric time series in three sectors of the TESS mission. We confirm the e planetary nature of both of them using precise radial velocity measurements from the CARMENES and MAROON-X spectrographs, and supplement them with ground-based transit photometry. A joint analysis of all these data reveals that the shorter-period planet, TOI-1468 b ($P_{\rm b}$ = 1.88 d), has a planetary mass of $M_{\rm b} = 3.21\pm0.24$ $M_{\oplus}$ and a radius of $R_{\rm b} =1.280^{+0.038}_{-0.039} R_{\oplus}$, resulting in a density of $ρ_{\rm b} = 8.39^{+ 1.05}_{- 0.92}$ g cm$^{-3}$, which is consistent with a mostly rocky composition. For the outer planet, TOI-1468 c ($P_{\rm c} = 15.53$ d), we derive a mass of $M_{\rm c} = 6.64^{+ 0.67}_{- 0.68}$ $M_{\oplus}$, a radius of $R_{\rm c} = 2.06\pm0.04\,R_{\oplus}$, and a bulk density of $ρ_{c} = 2.00^{+ 0.21}_{- 0.19}$ g cm$^{-3}$, which corresponds to a rocky core composition with a H/He gas envelope. These planets are located on opposite sides of the radius valley, making our system an interesting discovery as there are only a handful of other systems with the same properties. This discovery can further help determine a more precise location of the radius valley for small planets around M dwarfs and, therefore, shed more light on planet formation and evolution scenarios.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures
Vortex phase diagram in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Kasamatsu, Kenichi
name: Tsubota, Makoto
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the structure of vortex states in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with equal intracomponent but varying intercomponent coupling constants. A phase diagram in the intercomponent-coupling versus rotation-frequency plane reveals rich equilibrium structures of vortex states. As the ratio of intercomponent to intracomponent couplings increases, the interlocked vortex lattices undergo phase transitions from triangular to square, to double-core lattices, and eventually develop interwoven "serpentine" vortex sheets with each component made up of chains of singly quantized vortices.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex4
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of maturity of Rubus occidentalis on hyperalgesia induced by acidic saline injection in rats
Creators: name: Choi, Geun Joo
name: Kang, Hyun
name: Lee, Oh Haeng
name: Ahn, Eun Jin
name: White, Fletcher A.
name: Cho, Ye Jin
name: Baek, Chong Wha
name: Jung, Yong Hun
name: Kwon, Ji Wung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Styloleptus rhizophorae Chemsak & Feller 1988
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptus
Styloleptus rhizophorae

description: 16. Styloleptus rhizophorae Chemsak & Feller, 1988
Type locality — Belize, Twin Cays. (USNM). Distribution — Belize (Twin Cays).
 Styloleptus rhizophorae Chemsak & Feller, 1988: 185, fig. 4; Chemsak et al., 1992: 147 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Synoptic study of the SMC SNRs using XMM-Newton
Creators: name: van der Heyden, K. J.
name: Bleeker, J. A. M.
name: Kaastra, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of 13 supernova remnants (SNR) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We apply both single-temperature non-equilibrium ionisation models and models based on the Sedov similarity solution, where applicable. We also present detailed X-ray images of individual SNRs, which reveal a range of different morphological features. Eight remnants, viz DEM S 32, IKT 2, HFPK 419, IKT 6, IKT 16, IKT 18 and IKT 23, are consistent with being in their Sedov evolutionary phase. IKT 6 and IKT 23 both have a clear shell like morphology with oxygen-rich X-ray emitting material in the centre. We draw attention to similarities between these two remnants and the well studied, oxygen-rich remnant IKT 22 (SNR 0102-72.3) and propose that they are more evolved versions of IKT 22. IKT 4, IKT 5, DEM S 128 and IKT 5 are evolved remnants which are in, or in the process of entering, the radiative cooling stage. We argue that the X-ray emission from these four remnants is most likely from the ejecta remains of type Ia SNe. Our modeling allow us to derive estimates for physical parameters, such as densities, ages, masses and initial explosion energies. Our results indicate that the average SMC hydrogen density is a factor of ~6 lower as compared to the Large Magellanic Cloud. This has obvious implications for the evolution and luminosities of the SMC SNRs. We also estimate the average SMC gas phase abundances for the elements O, Ne, Mg, Si and Fe.
description: submitted to A&A
Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Weather Losses
Creators: name: Ranson, Matthew
name: Tarquinio, Lisa
name: Lew, Audrey
name: Ranson, Matthew
name: Tarquinio, Lisa
name: Lew, Audrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: impacts
subject: extreme weather
subject: tropical cyclones
subject: extratropical cyclones
subject: floods

description: This report summarizes current research on how climate change is likely to influence future losses from extreme weather events. We consider six types of weather-related extreme events: tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, inland floods, landslides and avalanches, wildfires, and small-scale storms. For each type of event, we synthesize existing research related to three topics. First, we examine research that estimates historical average losses from each type of extreme weather. We find that while there are relatively good data on costs of destroyed infrastructure, there is considerable disagreement in the literature about the longer-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. Second, we summarize evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic growth and storm losses. Our review suggests that increases in GDP and population lead to higher losses from disasters, but that disaster mortality is lower in more developed countries. Finally, we review studies of how climate change will affect future losses from extreme weather. Many studies predict increases in losses under climate change, but the science remains uncertain and some projections suggest that certain types of extreme weather losses may decrease. Overall, based on a reduced-form model that draws together parameter estimates from each of these three strands of literature, we estimate that moderate climate change will cause average extreme weather damages to increase by tens of billions of dollars per year. However, the confidence intervals surrounding our estimates are very wide, reflecting substantial underlying uncertainties.
Holographic entanglement entropy and complexity of microstate geometries
Creators: name: Bombini, Alessandro
name: Fardelli, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study holographic entanglement entropy and holographic complexity in a two-charge, $\frac{1}{4}$-BPS family of solutions of type IIB supergravity, controlled by one dimensionless parameter. All the geometries in this family are asymptotically AdS$_3 \times \mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4$ and, varying the parameter that controls them, they interpolates between the global AdS$_3 \times \mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4$ and the massless BTZ$_3 \times \mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4$ geometry. Due to AdS/CFT duality, these geometries are dual to pure CFT heavy states. We find that there is no emergence of entanglement shadow for all the values of the parameter and we discuss the relation with the massless BTZ result, underlying the relevance of the nature of the dual states. We also compute the holographic complexity of formation of these geometries, finding a nice monotonic function that interpolates between the pure AdS$_3$ result and the massless BTZ one.
description: 24+8 pages, 5 figures
What Total Joint Arthroplasty Outcome Measures are Used by Physiotherapists in British Columbia?
Creators: name: Balik, Danielle
name: Naing, Veronica
name: Voros, Drey
name: Wagner, Belinda
name: Welch, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: MPT Systematic Reviews and Research Projects.
The Impacts of Underground Petroleum Releases on a Homeowner’s Decision to Sell: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
Creators: name: Guignet, Dennis B.
name: Martinez-Cruz, Adan L.
name: Guignet, Dennis B.
name: Martinez-Cruz, Adan L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: housing market
subject: property transaction
subject: discrete time duration model
subject: underground storage tank
subject: groundwater contamination

description: Actual and perceived damages from environmental disamenities may disrupt a household’s otherwise optimal decision of when to sell their home. This study examines this relatively under-investigated topic with an empirical application to petroleum releases from leaking underground storage tanks, like those commonly found at gas stations. The ubiquity and relative homogeneity of this potential disamenity facilitates a difference-in-differences methodology. The results reveal that the optimal timing of home sales is impacted by leak and cleanup events at these disamenities; leading to both selling sooner and delaying a sale, depending on the event, presence of the primary exposure pathway, and the quality of the home. The implications of these results are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Exploring the effects of increasing underutilized crops on consumers’ diets: the case of millet in Uganda
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Toma, Luiza
name: Akaichi, Faical
name: Dawson, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table A1. Calibrated elasticities - Group rural. Table A2. Calibrated elasticities - Group urban-lower quintiles. Table A3. Calibrated elasticities - Group urban-upper quintiles. Table A4. Food composition (based on 100 grams).
Burden Sharing Under the Paris Climate Agreement
Creators: name: Sheriff, Glenn
name: Sheriff, Glenn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: greenhouse gas mitigation
subject: climate policy
subject: distribution
subject: international environmental agreements

description: Two decades after creation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), parties have reached a general political consensus in support of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but debate continues over how to share equitably the burden of mitigation across countries. As part of the December 2015 Paris Agreement, countries submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for GHG mitigation. I analyze these mitigation targets to evaluate the degree to which they resemble any specific burden-sharing proposals. Results could have several applications as the UNFCCC process continues, including simulating how mitigation commitments may evolve as countries become wealthier and considering how increased ambition might be allocated while maintaining the current implicit burden-sharing allocation.
Lax pair and super-Yangian symmetry of the non-linear super-Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Caudrelier, V.
name: Ragoucy, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R12

description: We consider a version of the non-linear Schrödinger equation with M bosons and N fermions. We first solve the classical and quantum versions of this equation, using a super-Zamolodchikov-Faddeev (ZF) algebra. Then we prove that the hierarchy associated to this model admits a super-Yangian Y(gl(M|N)) symmetry. We exhibit the corresponding (classical and quantum) Lax pairs. Finally, we construct explicitly the super-Yangian generators, in terms of the canonical fields on the one hand, and in terms of the ZF algebra generators on the other hand. The latter construction uses the well-bred operators introduced recently.
description: 32 pages, no figure
Testing of eCREAM interface modules
Creators: name: Tronconi, Elisa
name: Catania, Felice
name: Bacchiega, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document details the data extraction module developed as part of WP2 of the eCREAM project, whichaims to retrieve essential information from the emergency department’s health records and hospitaladministrative databases. It specifically reports on T2.4, “Interface specifications for the new ED-EHR” (Lead:Astir; Participant: FBK), which involves defining the necessary specifications for integrating the new ED-EHRwith the eCREAM components, and T2.5, “Development of interface modules on the eCREAM side” (Lead:Astir).This document outlines the work completed thus far on the development and testing of the eCREAMinterface modules, covering:● The current state-of-the-art● Interface specification of the new eCREAM ED-EHR (Emergency Department - electronic healthrecord) with the folder data dictionary● Mapping with FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and FBK’s solution● Development of the eCREAM interface modules● The initial installation of Astir’s data extraction module at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital of the ASLCity of Turin● Detailed steps regarding the installation of the eCREAM interface software production environmentand testing phases.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Voluntary Programs: Did Ohio’s Tox-Minus Initiative Affect Participants’ TRI Emissions?
Creators: name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Wheeler, Will
name: Wolverton, Ann
name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Wheeler, Will
name: Wolverton, Ann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: voluntary programs
subject: toxic releases
subject: air emissions
subject: program effectiveness

description: In this paper we evaluate whether Ohio’s Tox-Minus Initiative had a discernible effect on participants’ emission reductions relative to non-participants. We expect this to be the case if there are private benefits of program participation that outweigh its costs. To investigate whether the Tox-Minus Initiative resulted in greater reductions in TRI-reported air emissions from the top 100 emitters, we use a triple difference approach to compare emissions before and after the program. This is done using both the simple difference in emissions between 2003 and 2012 and a fixed-effects, panel regression. To form an appropriate comparison for participants, we use propensity score matching estimation techniques based on pre-participation attributes. Our results suggest that being invited to the program, regardless of whether a facility joined the Tox-Minus Initiative, produced a significant decline in the absolute level of air emissions. Degree of regulatory attention also appears important, though we find that participants reduced emissions subject to the Clean Air Act by significantly more than non-participants in the post policy period.
AdaMSS: Adaptive Multi-Modality Segmentation-to-Survival Learning for Survival Outcome Prediction from PET/CT Images
Creators: name: Meng, Mingyuan
name: Gu, Bingxin
name: Fulham, Michael
name: Song, Shaoli
name: Feng, Dagan
name: Bi, Lei
name: Kim, Jinman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Survival prediction is a major concern for cancer management. Deep survival models based on deep learning have been widely adopted to perform end-to-end survival prediction from medical images. Recent deep survival models achieved promising performance by jointly performing tumor segmentation with survival prediction, where the models were guided to extract tumor-related information through Multi-Task Learning (MTL). However, these deep survival models have difficulties in exploring out-of-tumor prognostic information. In addition, existing deep survival models are unable to effectively leverage multi-modality images. Empirically-designed fusion strategies were commonly adopted to fuse multi-modality information via task-specific manually-designed networks, thus limiting the adaptability to different scenarios. In this study, we propose an Adaptive Multi-modality Segmentation-to-Survival model (AdaMSS) for survival prediction from PET/CT images. Instead of adopting MTL, we propose a novel Segmentation-to-Survival Learning (SSL) strategy, where our AdaMSS is trained for tumor segmentation and survival prediction sequentially in two stages. This strategy enables the AdaMSS to focus on tumor regions in the first stage and gradually expand its focus to include other prognosis-related regions in the second stage. We also propose a data-driven strategy to fuse multi-modality information, which realizes adaptive optimization of fusion strategies based on training data during training. With the SSL and data-driven fusion strategies, our AdaMSS is designed as an adaptive model that can self-adapt its focus regions and fusion strategy for different training stages. Extensive experiments with two large clinical datasets show that our AdaMSS outperforms state-of-the-art survival prediction methods.
description: The extended version of this paper has been published at npj Precision Oncology as "Adaptive segmentation-to-survival learning for survival prediction from multi-modality medical images"
Alsedà-Misiurewicz systems with place-dependent probabilities
Creators: name: Czudek, Klaudiusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E05, 60G10, 60J05

description: We consider systems of two specific piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval, so called the Alsedà-Misiurewicz systems, and investigate the basic properties of Markov chains which arise when these two transformations are applied randomly with probabilities depending on the point of the interval. Though this iterated function system is not contracting in average and known methods do not apply, stability and the strong law of large numbers are proven.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
Styloleptus taino Lingafelter & Micheli 2004
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Styloleptus
Styloleptus taino

description: 18. Styloleptus taino Lingafelter & Micheli, 2004
Type locality — Puerto Rico, Aguirre State Forest off Rd. 7710 (17°59N, 65°09'W). (USNM). Distribution — Puerto Rico.
 Styloleptus taino Lingafelter & Micheli, 2004: 45, figs. 2e, f.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Taranga DR1: Analysis of TESS Short Cadence data for years 1 and 2
Creators: name: Nandakumar, Sangeetha
name: Barbieri, Mauro
name: Tregloan-Reed, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) was launched in 2018 with the purpose of observing bright stars in the solar neighbourhood to search for transiting exoplanets. After the completion of the two year nominal mission, TESS has provided 2\,minute cadence photometry of over 200\,000 stars. This large collection of light curves opens the possibility to study the statistical and temporal properties of this ensemble of stars. Most of the currently available data pipelines are designed to work on single sector at a time. We present a new TESS data pipeline called {\tt Taranga}, with the purpose of merging multi-sector light curves, whilst performing a period search for all the observed stars, and stores the statistical results in a database. {\tt Taranga} pipeline has three components which 1) processes the PDCSAP fluxes of each sector and creates merged PDCSAP light curve, 2) performs a similar operation on the SAP fluxes, and 3) generates the periodograms of the merged SAP and PDCSAP light curves while performing peak identification. For all the 232\,122 stars observed in short cadence in the nominal TESS mission, we provide the merged PDCSAP and SAP light-curves along with their periodograms. We provide a database that has the statistics of all the results produced from {\tt Taranga} of these stars.
description: 18 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
2019: A Remarkable Year For Agelena labyrinthica
Creators: name: Cann, Alan J.
name: Cann, Julian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Range expansion of the spider Agelena labyrinthica in Leicestershire and Rutland, 2019.