cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dramatic Changes of Chinese Angola Rabbit Industry from 2011 to 2015: Reasons, Challenges and Recommendations
Creators: name: LI Longling
name: SEEMA Brian
name: WU Laping
name: LI Longling
name: SEEMA Brian
name: WU Laping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Angola rabbit, Rabbit fur, Fur market, Rabbit fur export

description: In recent years, the demand for rabbit fur in international markets has been declining, especially after the "fur hand-ripping" event at the end of 2013 in China. The rabbit fur export of China almost stagnated, and prices dropped significantly. The slowdown of world economic growth caused loss of most fur-skin enterprises. This paper studies changes of Chinese Angola rabbit industry from 2011 to 2015 by focusing on price and trade analysis. The results show that there are two turning points of Chinese Angola rabbit industry, one is the end of 2013, and the other is the mid of 2015. Chinese Angola rabbit and rabbit fur face big challenges, finally some related recommendations are provided.
A Note on One-loop Cluster Adjacency in N = 4 SYM
Creators: name: Mago, Jorge
name: Schreiber, Anders
name: Spradlin, Marcus
name: Volovich, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cluster adjacency conjectures for amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We show that the n-point one-loop NMHV ratio function satisfies Steinmann cluster adjacency. We also show that the one-loop BDS-like normalized NMHV amplitude satisfies cluster adjacency between Yangian invariants and final symbol entries up to 9-points. We present conjectures for cluster adjacency properties of Plücker coordinates, quadratic cluster variables, and NMHV Yangian invariants that generalize the notion of weak separation.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor typos corrected
Integrable quantum field theory with boundaries: the exact g-function
Creators: name: Dorey, Patrick
name: Fioravanti, Davide
name: Rim, Chaiho
name: Tateo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The g-function was introduced by Affleck and Ludwig in the context of critical quantum systems with boundaries. In the framework of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) method for relativistic scattering theories, all attempts to write an exact integral equation for the off-critical version of this quantity have, up to now, been unsuccesful. We tackle this problem by using an n-particle cluster expansion, close in spirit to form-factor calculations of correlators on the plane. The leading contribution already disagrees with all previous proposals, but a study of this and subsequent terms allows us to deduce an exact infrared expansion for g, written purely in terms of TBA pseudoenergies. Although we only treat the thermally-perturbed Ising and the scaling Lee-Yang models in detail, we propose a general formula for g which should be valid for any model with entirely diagonal scattering.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, Latex 2e. v2: typos fixed and comments added. v3: Published version: minor typos corrected, numerical results included and a note added
Praon necans Mackauer 1959
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon necans

description: 107. Praon necans Mackauer
 Praon necans Mackauer, 1959a: 839-841.
 Praon nympheae Subba Rao et al. 1963: 189-191.
 Host. Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (Subba Rao et al. 1963).
 Distribution. Punjab (Subba Rao et al. 1963).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563
Global Table Extractor (GTE): A Framework for Joint Table Identification and Cell Structure Recognition Using Visual Context
Creators: name: Zheng, Xinyi
name: Burdick, Doug
name: Popa, Lucian
name: Zhong, Xu
name: Wang, Nancy Xin Ru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Documents are often used for knowledge sharing and preservation in business and science, within which are tables that capture most of the critical data. Unfortunately, most documents are stored and distributed as PDF or scanned images, which fail to preserve logical table structure. Recent vision-based deep learning approaches have been proposed to address this gap, but most still cannot achieve state-of-the-art results. We present Global Table Extractor (GTE), a vision-guided systematic framework for joint table detection and cell structured recognition, which could be built on top of any object detection model. With GTE-Table, we invent a new penalty based on the natural cell containment constraint of tables to train our table network aided by cell location predictions. GTE-Cell is a new hierarchical cell detection network that leverages table styles. Further, we design a method to automatically label table and cell structure in existing documents to cheaply create a large corpus of training and test data. We use this to enhance PubTabNet with cell labels and create FinTabNet, real-world and complex scientific and financial datasets with detailed table structure annotations to help train and test structure recognition. Our framework surpasses previous state-of-the-art results on the ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2019 table competition in both table detection and cell structure recognition with a significant 5.8% improvement in the full table extraction system. Further experiments demonstrate a greater than 45% improvement in cell structure recognition when compared to a vanilla RetinaNet object detection model in our new out-of-domain FinTabNet.
The Practice of Forest Certification in Canada and the Lessons for China
Creators: name: CONG Zhihua
name: CONG Zhihua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Forest certification, Promotion, Canada

description: Forest certification has become an important governance mechanism of improving forest management. The present situation of forest certification in Canada is introduced in this paper, and the measures for promoting forest certification in Canada are analyzed. By referring to the experience of Canada, several recommendations are put forward for promotion of forest certification in China.
Additional file 3 of The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in primary care
Creators: name: Quanbeck, Andrew
name: Almirall, Daniel
name: Jacobson, Nora
name: Brown, Randall T.
name: Landeck, Jillian K.
name: Madden, Lynn
name: Cohen, Andrew
name: Brienna M. F. Deyo
name: Robinson, James
name: Johnson, Roberta A.
name: Schumacher, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 3:. StaRI Checklist
Literature Review of Agricultural Technology Extension
Creators: name: WAN Jing
name: LIU Ying
name: WANG Manman
name: WAN Jing
name: LIU Ying
name: WANG Manman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural technology extension, Agricultural technology extension system, Agriculture, Literature review

description: Agriculture, as the primary industry, is the foundation of national economy. Agricultural development directly influences political, economic, and cultural construction of a state. Agricultural technology is a key factor restricting agricultural development. How to implement the agricultural technology innovation, agricultural technology extension becomes particularly important. In this literature review, current situation of agricultural technology extension was elaborated. Besides, current research situation and fields of agricultural technology extension were discussed. In the literature collected, researches about agricultural technology extension mainly included following three aspects: (i) theories of agricultural technology extension; (ii) agricultural technology extension system; (iii) behavior and effects of agricultural technology extension. On the basis of research results of literature, prediction was made for the agricultural technology extension and policy recommendations were put forward for agricultural technology extension works.
Dimensional crossover and phase transitions in coupled chains: Density matrix renormalization group results
Creators: name: Bollmark, Gunnar
name: Laflorencie, Nicolas
name: Kantian, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) systems, i.e., three- and two-dimensional (3D/2D) arrays composed of weakly coupled one-dimensional lattices of interacting quantum particles, exhibit rich and fascinating physics. They are studied across various areas of condensed matter and ultracold atomic lattice-gas physics, and are often marked by dimensional crossover as the coupling between one-dimensional systems is increased or temperature decreased, i.e., the Q1D system goes from appearing largely 1D to largely 3D. Phase transitions occurring along the crossover can strongly enhance this effect. Understanding these crossovers and associated phase transitions can be challenging due to the very different elementary excitations of 1D systems compared to higher-dimensional ones. In the present work, we combine numerical matrix product state (MPS) methods with mean-field (MF) theory to study paradigmatic cases of dimensional crossovers and the associated phase transitions in systems of both hard-core and soft-core lattice bosons, with relevance to both condensed matter physics and ultracold atomic gases. We show that the superfluid-to-insulator transition is a first order one, as opposed to the isotropic cases and calculate transition temperatures for the superfluid states, finding excellent agreement with analytical theory. At the same time, our MPS+MF approach keeps functioning well where the current analytical framework cannot be applied. We further confirm the qualitative and quantitative reliability of our approach by comparison to exact quantum Monte Carlo calculations for the full 3D arrays.
A Landau fluid model for warm collisionless plasmas
Creators: name: Goswami, P.
name: Passot, T.
name: Sulem, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Landau fluid model for a collisionless electron-proton magnetized plasma, that accurately reproduces the dispersion relation and the Landau damping rate of all the magnetohydrodynamic waves, is presented. It is obtained by an accurate closure of the hydrodynamic hierarchy at the level of the fourth order moments, based on linear kinetic theory. It retains non-gyrotropic corrections to the pressure and heat flux tensors up to the second order in the ratio between the considered frequencies and the ion cyclotron frequency.
description: to appear in Phys. Plasmas
Experimental Study on Glutinous Variety Improvement of Maize Population Yuzong 5
Creators: name: HOU Benjun
name: LI Li
name: LIN Li
name: CHEN Huanli
name: WANG Minfen
name: WANG Ding
name: XIAO Yun
name: BAI Cuiyun
name: HOU Benjun
name: LI Li
name: LIN Li
name: CHEN Huanli
name: WANG Minfen
name: WANG Ding
name: XIAO Yun
name: BAI Cuiyun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Yuzong 5, Improvement, Sampling, Test

description: The representative samples were selected from Yuzong 5, and the methods of field planting and indoor measuring were employed for investigation and data processing on 894 plants of Yuzong 5. The results showed that the coefficients of variation about some traits of 894 plants were as follows: ear height (19.9%); panicle weight (35.1%); ear length (18.1%); ear row number (19.7%); number of kernels per row (22.5%); grain weight per panicle (36.3%); ear diameter (11.1%). It was found that there was large variation in these traits for various plants which could represent Yuzong 5 for glutinous variety improvement.
Teaching Migrant Students From Myanmar: Professional Development Program to Facilitate Multicultural Competence for Teachers
Creators: name: Arphattananon, Thithimadee
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, the migration of people from Myanmar into Thailand has increased tremendously. Since 2005, when the Thai government officially allowed migrant children to enroll in Thai government schools, there has been a steady increase in the number of migrant students. In such a context, it is imperative that teachers develop multicultural competence, or the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to work with culturally diverse students. However, teachers in Thailand reported that they have not been trained in the knowledge and skills to teach in multicultural classrooms. The study has two main objectives. Firstly, it attempts to design a multicultural education training program that incorporates modules that will lead to building and strengthening teachers’ multicultural competence. Secondly, it implements the training program, and measures the level of multicultural competence of teachers who received the training by comparing them to those who do not receive the training. Results revealed that teachers appraised the module about cultures of migrant students and the module about the rules and regulations in enrolling and graduating migrant students as the most useful. Results from an independent-samples t-test showed that the overall multicultural competence level of teachers who participated in the program was significantly different from those who did not participate; teachers who took part in the training demonstrated a higher level of multicultural competence compared to those who did not participate.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education
The Changes in Anti-oxidant Activity of Roots in Wintering Period under Single Sowing of Alfalfa and Mixed Sowing of Alfalfa and Bromus inermis Leyss
Creators: name: SHEN Xiaohui
name: SHEN Xiaohui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Alfalfa, Bromus inermis Leyss, Single sowing, Mixed sowing, Cold resistance

description: This paper aimed to study the change in MDA content and antioxidant enzyme activity of roots in wintering period under single sowing of alfalfa and mixed sowing of alfalfa and Bromus inermis Leyss. By the single sowing of 4 alfalfa varieties with different cold resistance and mixed sowing of alfalfa varieties and Bromus inermis Leyss, the changes in MDA content, SOD, POD and CAT activity of alfalfa roots throughout the wintering period were measured. Results indicated that after single sowing of alfalfa and mixed sowing of alfalfa and Bromus inermis Leyss, the MDA content of roots showed an up-down-up trend with temperature; the CAT activity increased with the decreasing temperature but decreased when the temperature rose in the spring of the following year; the SOD and POD activity showed an increasing trend with sharp decline in temperature, and decreased when the temperature continued to decline, but increased with alfalfa reviving in the following year. The enzymic activity of the same variety under mixed sowing was higher than under single sowing. The membership function was used for comprehensive evaluation of cold resistance, and the cold resistance under different treatments was in the order of Wega7F+Bromus inermis Leyss>Wega7F>Xunlu+Bromus inermis Leyss>Xunlu>Aohan+Bromus inermis Leyss>Aohan>WL319HQ+ Bromus inermis Leyss>WL319HQ. This was of great significance to the study on cold resistant alfalfa breeding and cultivation in cold areas of northern China.
The Ideological Stance of Multilingualism in Education in Malaysia in the Press 2000-2020
Creators: name: Pillai, Stefanie
name: Kaur, Surinderpal
name: Chau, Meng Huat
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: The past 20 years have witnessed major shifts in language and education policy in Malaysia. This reflects a range of social, economic, and political forces that influence and shape the policymaking in this multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Past research has suggested that language and education policies in Malaysia tend to have two main stances and are generally related to Malay (the national language), English, Mandarin, and Tamil. One stance is related to issues of globalization and employability, and the other is related to national and ethnic identities. In view of these stances, this paper seeks to contribute to the discussion and debates on these issues by empirically investigating inherent ideological positions in official statements published in two newspapers in the past 20 years. Specifically, it adopts concepts from critical discourse studies, and uses methods from computational linguistics to examine official statements from a total of 30,508 Malaysian newspaper articles published between 2000 and 2020. The findings indicate that the role of Malay and national ideology, and the global positioning of English continue to be central concerns in the discussion of language and education in Malaysia. In addition, the importance of learning Mandarin is also emphasized. However, indigenous and minority languages are largely absent in the discourses on education policies in the country. The effects of this exclusion are already apparent in the shift to languages like Malay, Mandarin, and English as a first language, and the increasing number of languages considered to be under threat in Malaysia.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education
Finite-Element Formulation for Advection-Reaction Equations with Change of Variable and Discontinuity Capturing
Creators: name: Haßler, Stefan
name: Ranno, Anna Maria
name: Behr, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76M10, 76Z05, 92C50, 65N30

description: We propose a change of variable approach and discontinuity capturing methods to ensure physical constraints for advection-reaction equations discretized by the finite element method. This change of variable confines the concentration below an upper bound in a very natural way. For the non-negativity constraint, we propose to use a discontinuity capturing method defined on the reference element that is combined with an anisotropic crosswind-dissipation operator. This discontinuity capturing cannot completely eliminate negative values but effectively minimizes their occurrence. The proposed methods are applied to different biophysical models and show a good agreement with experimental results for the FDA benchmark blood pump for a physiological red blood cell pore formation model.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures
Participatory Engagement for Sustainable Innovation in Karen Communities
Creators: name: Yamabhai, Jitjayang
name: Knoop, Riemer
name: Cusripituck, Patoo
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This paper reports on heritage fieldwork by the Mahidol Cultural Anthropology Museum, carried out from 2019 to 2020, with a group of four Karen villages in Doi Si Than, or ‘Four Creeks Mountain’, a valley in the remote Northwest of Thailand. The research aimed to find and introduce sustainable business models in Karen ethnic communities using essential heritage products and intangible practices. Additionally, the community offers an example of Thai integrated farming, which we analyzed as a case of innovative, intergenerational heritage practice, and that we helped turn into a more sustainable economic mainstay of the community. The method used throughout the process was participatory action research blended with social design, as well as building on a long-term engagement. As a theoretical framework, we adapted Design Thinking to Paulo Freire’s Education of Liberation model to create an eclectic ‘Four Creek Mountain’ approach in order to do justice to local circumstances and establish a shared set of explicit social values. We compared the results with de Varine’s concept of the ecomuseum to find a suitable action perspective. The findings show that local heritage practices can successfully be used to re-engage communities with today’s broader society on the condition they are embedded in intergenerational co-operation based on trust, and with social designers (urban curators) acting as connectors, thus ensuring the community’s ownership of the process.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education
Selection and Breeding of Drought Resistant, Water-saving and High-yield Wheat Variety Cangmai 028
Creators: name: YU Liang
name: NIU Liya
name: FU Jing
name: WANG Fengzhi
name: ZHAO Songshan
name: LU Li
name: WANG Weiwei
name: YU Liang
name: NIU Liya
name: FU Jing
name: WANG Fengzhi
name: ZHAO Songshan
name: LU Li
name: WANG Weiwei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cangmai 028, Drought resistance, Variety, Selection and breeding technology

description: Cangmai 028 was selected and bred according to the climatic characteristic of the winter wheat in Heilonggang Basin taking 98 (083) as the female parent and the Canghe 030 as the male parent by “two-row parallel alternate selection” method. Cangmai 028 has characteristics of high resistance, water-saving, high and stable yield, and rich genetic background. This study elaborated selection and breeding background and methods, characteristics, quality, and yield of Cangmai 028.
Teachers’ Perceptions of Cultural Contents in English Language Textbooks Used in Multicultural Classrooms at a Thai Primary School
Creators: name: Saemee, Kulthida
name: Ra, Jaewon Jane
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Textbooks have always played a significant role in the field of English language teaching (ELT). They are the main source that conveys cultural values and information in the language classroom. However, compared to the increasing number of migrants in Thailand, and particularly migrant children in Thai public schools, ELT textbooks have yet to properly take into consideration the reality of the multicultural Thai context. English is currently the most widely used lingua franca in the world, which means that it is shaped by a large number of non-native speakers in various multilingual and multicultural settings and local contexts. Thus, it is no longer sensible for ELT to be solely associated with Anglophone cultures. This study is based on observations in classrooms and semi-structured interviews with three Thai teachers of English at a government primary school in Samut Sakhon province in Thailand. Findings demonstrate that there is a strong need for more cultural content related to ASEAN countries in English textbooks, especially in multicultural schools. Furthermore, this study addresses implications for future ELT practices and materials for Thai primary schools in light of the continuously growing diversity within Thai society.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education
A Study on the Allocation of New Construction Land Use Indicators in Huai'an City
Creators: name: YANG Haiyan
name: HUANG Yuwei
name: YANG Haiyan
name: HUANG Yuwei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: New construction land use indicators, Allocation, Land use internal factors, Comparative analysis

description: This paper makes a comprehensive analysis on the characteristics and influencing factors of regional allocation of new construction land use indicators, and determines the primary indicators from social, economic, external and internal factors. Using Delphi method and correlation analysis, this paper selects indicators and establishes evaluation indicator system. Using entropy method and AHP, this paper determines the weight of indicators, rationally allocates new construction land, and uses the actual data in Huai'an City for case studies, so as to provide a reference for land use planning. In addition, this paper makes a comparative analysis on the land use internal factors as important factors, in order to make the weight assigning more in line with the actual situation of construction land in Huai'an.
Super Heavy Dark Matter Anisotropies from D-particles in the Early Universe
Creators: name: Mavromatos, N. E.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a way of producing anisotropies in the spectrum of superheavy Dark matter, which are due to the distortion of the inflationary space time induced by the recoil of D-particles upon their scattering with ordinary string matter in the Early Universe. We calculate such distortions by world-sheet Liouville string theory (perturbative) methods. The resulting anisotropies are found to be proportional to the average recoil velocity and density of the D-particles. In our analysis we employ a regulated version of de Sitter space, allowing for graceful exit from inflation. This guarantees the asymptotic flatness of the space time, as required for a consistent interpretation, within an effective field theory context, of the associated Bogolubov coefficients as particle number densities. The latter are computed by standard WKB methods.
description: 30 pages Latex, two eps figures incorporated
Praon pubescens Stary 1961
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon pubescens

description: 109. Praon pubescens Stary
 Praon pubescens Stary, 1961: 340-341.
 Host. Nasonovia sp. on Sitobilanthes sp. (Das and Chakrabarti 1991a).
 Distribution. Uttar Pradesh (Das and Chakrabarti 1991a).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563
Inflationary and dark energy regimes in 2+1 dimensions
Creators: name: Christmann, M. H.
name: Devecchi, F. P.
name: Kremer, G. M.
name: Zanetti, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the behavior of three-dimensional (3D) cosmological models. The simulation of inflationary and dark-energy-dominated eras are among the possible results in these 3D formulations; taking as starting point the results obtained by Cornish and Frankel. Motivated by those results, we investigate, first, the inflationary case where we consider a two-constituent cosmological fluid: the scalar field represents the hypothetical inflaton which is in gravitational interaction with a matter/radiation contribution. For the description of an old universe, it is possible to simulate its evolution starting with a matter dominated universe that faces a decelerated/accelerated transition due to the presence of the additional constituent (simulated by the scalar field or ruled by an exotic equation of state) that plays the role of dark energy. We obtain, through numerical analysis, the evolution in time of the scale factor, the acceleration, the energy densities, and the hydrostatic pressure of the constituents. The alternative scalar cosmology proposed by Cornish and Frankel is also under investigation in this work. In this case an inflationary model can be constructed when another non-polytropic equation of state (the van der Waals equation) is used to simulate the behavior of an early 3D universe.
description: Latex file, plus 9 figures. To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
Additional file 2 of The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in primary care
Creators: name: Quanbeck, Andrew
name: Almirall, Daniel
name: Jacobson, Nora
name: Brown, Randall T.
name: Landeck, Jillian K.
name: Madden, Lynn
name: Cohen, Andrew
name: Brienna M. F. Deyo
name: Robinson, James
name: Johnson, Roberta A.
name: Schumacher, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2:. CONSORT checklist for cluster-randomized trials
Enhancing the Performance of Electrically Heated Pavements with Stripes of Thermally Conductive Asphalt Concrete: A Numerical Investigation
Creators: name: Adam, Quentin
name: Segui, Pauline
name: Al-Tabbaa, Abir
name: Bilodeau, Jean-Pascal
Publisher: name: Springer Nature Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: Asphalt pavement surfaces in cold regions are exposed to snow and ice build-ups which require extensive maintenance for safe driving. An alternative and emerging solution to prevent this concern consists of embedding electrical heating elements—so-called ribbons—within the asphalt concrete. An additional concern of asphalt pavements in cold regions is low-temperature cracking which reduces their service life. A mitigation technique for this distress is modifying the asphalt concrete with, e.g., steel fibers. Besides ameliorating the mechanical performance at low-temperature levels, such fibers also enhance the thermal conductivity of the asphalt concrete. This chapter investigated the thermal performance enhancement of electrically heated asphalt pavements as fibers are included within the paving material. The investigation was performed in silico with the two-dimensional heat equation applied to a domain representing a heated pavement; ribbons were modeled as discrete heat sources. Three different paving materials were considered: without fibers, with fibers, and with vertical stripes of asphalt concrete each having a different fiber content across the width of the pavement. The heat equation was applied to an idealized case to calculate the available heat flux at the surface of the three different paving materials. For the considered case, it was demonstrated that stripes of fibers augment the available surface heat flux across the entire pavement width.
title: Pitfalls in EVAR evaluation
Creators: name: Lucatelli, Pierleone
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Emergency
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 86 years-old female patient complaining abdominal pain was admitted to our hospital. An angio-CT showed a dissected abdominal aneurism with signs of impending rupture. Vascular surgeons deployed an aorto-iliac endoprosthesis. Five days after EVAR the patient showed signs of acute right heart failure and angio-CT was performed.

description: 86 years, female
Evaluating the Impact of Problem-Based Learning and Digital Models on Civil Engineering Education
Creators: name: Alavi, Hamidreza
name: Sheil, Brian
name: Brilakis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Year: 2025

description: To address the increasing complexity and sustainability challenges facing civil engineering, an educational approach that integrates theory with practical experience is needed. Traditional methods of teaching often fail to equip students with the skills needed by the industry which later on hampers their job readiness and the development of infrastructure. This study investigates the use of Problem-Based Learning as an integrative feature of BIM in a civil engineering module for the purpose of increasing engagement, problem-solving skills, and comprehension of complex concepts. The research included both pre- and post-class surveys that were directed toward the students and the professor. The pre-class surveys were used for the examination of the anticipated expectations, perceived difficulties, and awareness of PBL and BIM, while the post-class surveys were designed for the estimation of the shift in perceptions, confidence levels, and contentedness. The gathered data were also examined through descriptive statistics and thematic coding. The two approaches, PBL and BIM, were the most positively rated, where instead of discussing the effectiveness of these methods, 62.5% of students mentioned that BIM was the most beneficial tool for deepening structural concepts. The instructor particularly made mention of successful alliances with industry and sustainable direction but pointed to delays in permits and logistics maintenance as big threats. The integration of PBL and BIM in the civil engineering curriculum is found to be a significant aim of improved teaching as students are more motivated to complete course objectives and are more confident when they are exposed to real-life problems of the industry. It is proposed that PBL sessions be held in advance and that new digital resources be designed. Further research should be conducted to find out the effect of such methods on career readiness in the long term.
title: Multi-Wavelength Extragalactic Surveys: Star Formation of IR-Submm Selected Galaxies
Creators: name: Barrufet de Soto, Laia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: This Thesis aims to identify and analyse galaxy populations over a range of redshifts in order to evaluate the star formation history over cosmic time. Explicitly focusing on the infrared to submillimetre regime, I carried out a comprehensive multi-wavelength approach at the North and South Ecliptic Poles (NEP/SEP). I explore four different methods to select high-z galaxies identifying a new sample of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies (DSFGs) producing a legacy catalogue for future spectroscopic studies. These sources are modelled using contemporary spectral fitting algorithms. A detailed comparison of these algorithms concludes that the best results are obtained with the CIGALE package, deriving photometric redshifts and other physical properties. The star formation rate and stellar mass were derived defining their position on the Main Sequence of Galaxies finding a population of DSFGs lying above the MS with high star-formation efficiencies and extreme star-formation possibly due to mergers at early times. A lower redshift counterpart population at radio wavelengths was studied via radio-optical identification and multiwavelength data, calculating photometric redshifts providing better results than simply cross-matching the catalogue with heterogeneous ancillary redshift data. This sub-milliJansky population is then classified by infrared luminosity finding that the stellar mass and gas mass are one order of magnitude higher in more luminous galaxies than in less luminous galaxies. This population is segregated into AGN and DSFGs using a new infrared colour-colour diagrams concluding that using AKARI bands results in better AGN selection than that from WISE. Optical data at the SEP is reduced creating a new catalogue filling a vital gap in the multiwavelength data in this field. This new catalogue is combined with Spitzer and Herschel data identifying a population of Dust Obscured Galaxies at z∼2 the peak of the cosmic star-formation history.
Synchrotron Microtomography and Neutron Radiography Characterization of the Microstruture and Water Absorption of Concrete from Pompeii
Creators: name: Xu, Ke
name: Tremsin, Anton S.
name: Li, Jiaqi
name: Ushizima, Daniela M.
name: Davy, Catherine A.
name: Bouterf, Amine
name: Su, Ying Tsun
name: Marroccoli, Milena
name: Mauro, Anna Maria
name: Osanna, Massimo
name: Telesca, Antonio
name: Monteiro, Paulo J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is renewed interest in using advanced techniques to characterize ancient Roman concrete. In the present work, samples were drilled from the "Hospitium" in Pompeii and were analyzed by synchrotron microtomography (uCT) and neutron radiography to study how the microstructure, including the presence of induced cracks, affects their water adsorption. The water distribution and absorptivity were quantified by neutron radiography. The 3D crack propagation, pore size distribution and orientation, tortuosity, and connectivity were analyzed from uCT results using advanced imaging methods. The concrete characterization also included classical methods (e.g., differential thermal-thermogravimetric, X-ray diffractometry, and scanning electron microscopy). Ductile fracture patterns were observed once cracks were introduced. When compared to Portland cement mortar/concrete, Pompeii samples had relatively high porosity, low connectivity, and similar coefficient of capillary penetration. In addition, the permeability was predicted from models based on percolation theory and the pore structure data to evaluate the fluid transport properties.
Squeeze free space with nonlocal flat optics
Creators: name: Guo, Cheng
name: Wang, Haiwen
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been substantial interest in miniaturizing optical systems by flat optics. However, one essential optical component, free space, fundamentally cannot be substituted with conventional local flat optics with space-dependent transfer functions, since the transfer function of free space is momentum-dependent instead. Overcoming this difficulty is important to achieve utmost miniaturization of optical systems. In this work, we show that free space can be substituted with nonlocal flat optics operating directly in the momentum domain. We derive the general criteria for an optical device to replace free space, and provide a concrete design of a photonic crystal slab device. Such a device can substitute much thicker free space with a compression ratio as high as 144. Our work paves the way for utmost miniaturization of optical systems using combination of local and nonlocal flat optics.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar
Creators: name: -, Anui
name: Arphattananon, Thithimadee
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Myanmar is home to over 54.8 million people, consisting of over 100 ethnolinguistic groups with distinct linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. Since Myanmar gained independence from Great Britain, education has been used as the main political tool for Bamar national assimilation, neglecting this rich ethnic and cultural diversity. Myanmar opted for the assimilationist approach in which non-dominant ethnolinguistic nationalities are vanquished through the use of educational instruction, materials, and teachers’ education, all of which are ‘Bamarcentric’, centered around a single ethnolinguistic identity and language in Myanmar, Bamar. Other, non-dominant ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar have long desired to incorporate their own languages, cultures, and histories into the educational system. In this vein, the National Education Law (NEL), which took effect in 2014, provides the integration of non-dominant ethnic languages and cultural identities into the mainstream curriculum. From this, a modified curriculum framework concerning the integration of indigenous ethnic content was produced in order to promote multicultural coexistence. The present study explores the implementation of the Local Curriculum and integration of non-dominant ethnic content into the curriculum in primary schools through the analysis of the curriculum development process and the integration of non-dominant ethnic content such as local literature, cultural perspectives, and indigenous worldviews. The study was conducted in Kachin, Kayah, Karen, and Mon states and the Yangon region, where a variety of ethnolinguistic groups reside. Using a qualitative approach, the study drew on findings from interviews with 63 participants, four classroom observations, and document analysis from four states and one region. The study revealed that the implementation of the Local Curriculum promotes multiculturalism and social cohesion.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education
Robust Non-Linear Matrix Factorization for Dictionary Learning, Denoising, and Clustering
Creators: name: Fan, Jicong
name: Yang, Chengrun
name: Udell, Madeleine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Low dimensional nonlinear structure abounds in datasets across computer vision and machine learning. Kernelized matrix factorization techniques have recently been proposed to learn these nonlinear structures for denoising, classification, dictionary learning, and missing data imputation, by observing that the image of the matrix in a sufficiently large feature space is low-rank. However, these nonlinear methods fail in the presence of sparse noise or outliers. In this work, we propose a new robust nonlinear factorization method called Robust Non-Linear Matrix Factorization (RNLMF). RNLMF constructs a dictionary for the data space by factoring a kernelized feature space; a noisy matrix can then be decomposed as the sum of a sparse noise matrix and a clean data matrix that lies in a low dimensional nonlinear manifold. RNLMF is robust to sparse noise and outliers and scales to matrices with thousands of rows and columns. Empirically, RNLMF achieves noticeable improvements over baseline methods in denoising and clustering.
Second Order Perturbations of Kerr Black Holes: Reconstruction of the Metric
Creators: name: Loutrel, Nicholas
name: Ripley, Justin L.
name: Giorgi, Elena
name: Pretorius, Frans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the equations for second order perturbations. We develop a procedure that allows us to reconstruct the first order metric perturbation solely from knowledge of the solution to the first order Teukolsky equation, without the need of Hertz potentials. Finally, we illustrate this metric reconstruction procedure in the asymptotic limit for the first order quasi-normal modes of Kerr. In a companion paper, we present a numerical implementation of these ideas.
description: Journal version
Wormholes in AdS
Creators: name: Maldacena, Juan
name: Maoz, Liat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a few Euclidean supergravity solutions with multiple boundaries. We consider examples where the corresponding boundary field theory is well defined on each boundary. We point out that these configurations are puzzling from the AdS/CFT point of view. A proper understanding of the AdS/CFT dictionary for these cases might yield some information about the physics of closed universes.
description: 38 pages, 2 figures, harvmac. v2: minor typos corrected and references added
Operators on positive semidefinite inner product spaces
Creators: name: Bovdi, Victor A.
name: Klymchuk, Tetiana
name: Rybalkina, Tetiana
name: Salim, Mohamed A.
name: Sergeichuk, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 15A42, 15A63, 47B50

description: We give canonical forms of selfadjoint and isometric operators on a complex vector space $U$ with scalar product given by a positive semidefinite Hermitian form, and of Hermitian forms on $U$. For an arbitrary system of semiunitary spaces and linear mappings on/between them, we give an algorithm that reduces their matrices to canonical form.
description: 28 pages
A monopole solution from noncommutative multi-instantons
Creators: name: Correa, D. H.
name: Forgacs, P.
name: Moreno, E. F.
name: Schaposnik, F. A.
name: Silva, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the relation between instanton and monopole solutions of the selfduality equations in SU(2) gauge theory to noncommutative space-times. Using this approach and starting from a noncommutative multi-instanton solution we construct a U(2) monopole configuration which lives in 3 dimensional ordinary space. This configuration resembles the Wu-Yang monopole and satisfies the selfduality (Bogomol'nyi) equations for a U(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs system.
description: 19 pages; title and abstract changed, brane interpretation corrected. Version to appear in JHEP
Additional file 6 of Microbiology testing associated with antibiotic dispensing in older community-dwelling adults
Creators: name: Zhuoxin Peng
name: Hayen, Andrew
name: Kirk, Martyn D.
name: Pearson, Sallie
name: Cheng, Allen C.
name: Liu, Bette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 6 Table S6. Incidence rate ratio for dispensed macrolides and other watch group antibiotics prescriptions by participants’ characteristics
Praon orientale Stary and Schlinger
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mir Samim
name: Dey, Debjani
name: Usmani, Mohd. Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Praon
Praon orientale

description: 108. Praon orientale Stary and Schlinger
 Praon orientale Stary and Schlinger, 1967: 100-103.
 Host. Uroleucon sp. on Sanchus aevensis and Sanchus sp. (Das and Chakrabarti 1991a).
 Distribution. Uttar Pradesh (Das and Chakrabarti 1991a).
description: Published as part of Akhtar, Mir Samim, Dey, Debjani & Usmani, Mohd. Kamil, 2011, A catalogue of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India, pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (151) on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4531563