cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hemitrichapion pavidum
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Apionidae
Hemitrichapion
Hemitrichapion pavidum

description: Hemitrichapion pavidum (Germar, 1817)
 Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Iglesias, dint. colonia Beneck, 636 m, UTM 32S 0462391 4355441, 2–16. V.2006, G. Chessa leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex (CNBFVR).
 Notes. This is the first definite record for Sardinia of this species, doubtfully indicated for this region by Abbazzi and Osella (1992), Abbazzi et al. (1995), Colonnelli (2003) and Alonso-Zarazaga (2004). This weevil is distributed in Europe, Siberia, west Asia, the Middle East and Algeria (Dieckmann 1977).
 According to Dieckmann (1977), H. pavidum is monophagous in eastern Germany on Coronilla varia (Fabaceae). Ehret (1990) added Coronilla emerus, Lathyrus pratensis and Ononis spinosa (Fabaceae), although the finding of adults of this apionid on the last two plants is probably only occasional. None of these plants occur in the above-mentioned Sardinian locality; H. pavidum probably feeds on congeneric plant species present in the area (Ballero & Angiolini 1991; Angiolini et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 423
Power Plant – Gas Grid Dependence
Creators: name: Gerad Freeman
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis contributes new knowledge about the effect of the gas grid on the power generation sector and how this effect could inform grid generation resource planning.
In chapter 2, I explore how reliability event reporting standards for operators of the natural gas grid compare to the requirements for power generators. Informed by a quantitative comparison of the numerical thresholds of reporting for gas grid and power generator failure events, I recommend a new reporting requirement for the gas grid that will bring it into line with the requirements for gas-fired power plant operators.
In chapter 3, I examine why gas-fired power plants in the United States have failed because of fuel shortages. I analyze six years of data from a database of power plant failures called the Generating Availability Data System (GADS). Using pipeline scheduling data, I identify areas of the natural gas grid where enough pipeline space may be available so that increased priority fuel contacts could help mitigate fuel shortages at gas-fired power generators.
Chapter 4 examines the economics of distributed fuel storage as a mitigation option for gas shortages at power plants in areas of the U.S. where pipeline space was not historically available. I estimate the additional costs required for New England gas-fired generators to install either distributed compressed natural gas (CNG) storage or oil dual fuel capabilities as fuel security measures at power plant sites. I construct fuel shortage mitigation supply curves using the cost estimates I develop. I also calculate simple payback periods of mitigation options using the cost estimates and foregone energy and capacity revenue stream estimates. I compare the costs of fuel storage options to those of battery storage and demand response incentives.
Thinning around old oaks in spruce production forests: current practices show no positive effect on oak growth rates and need fine tuning
Creators: name: Drobyshev, Igor
name: Widerberg, Maria Koch
name: Andersson, Mikael
name: Wang, Xiaoming
name: Lindbladh, Matts
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The expansion of spruce-dominated forestry in Southern Sweden during the twentieth century has led to a considerable amount of oak (Quercus robur L.) woodlands being converted into stands dominated by planted spruce. The thinning of spruces around oak trees is currently done in Sweden to improve local diversity of insects, oak growing conditions and eventually decrease their mortality. To evaluate the effect of these treatments, we dendrochronologically studied growth of old (100–200 years old) oaks subjected to thinning of different intensity at nine locations in southern Sweden, and compared them to oaks located in nearby pastures. The overall pattern suggests that commonly adopted thinning intensities do not significantly affect oak growth. Oak growth was positively related to oak age and negatively to the amount of dead oak crown. Analyses of correlations between oak growth and summer drought conditions, as reflected by location-specific chronologies of the Monthly Drought Code (MDC), indicated that older trees exhibited generally negative correlations, whereas the correlation remained generally positive for the younger trees, both inside and outside forest stands. We propose that removal of spruces should be primarily done around older and healthier-looking trees.
Constrained fitting of three-point functions
Creators: name: Gurtler, M.
name: Davies, C. T. H.
name: Hein, J.
name: Shigemitsu, J.
name: Lepage, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine matrix elements for $B \to D$ semileptonic decay. The use of the constrained fitting method and multiple smearings for both two- and three-point correlators allows an improved calculation of the form factors.
description: Talk given at Lattice2001(heavyquark), 3 pages, 4 figures
Pharmacophore modeling, multiple docking, and molecular dynamics studies on Wee1 kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Hu, Yanqiu
name: Zhou, Lu
name: Zhu, Xiaohong
name: Dai, Duoqian
name: Bao, Yinfeng
name: Qiu, Yaping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Wee1-like protein kinase (Wee1) is a tyrosine kinase that regulates the G2 checkpoint and prevents entry into mitosis in response to DNA damage. Based on a series of signaling pathways initiated by Wee1, Wee1 has been recognized as a potential target for cancer therapy. To discover potent Wee1 inhibitors with novel scaffolds, ligand-based pharmacophore model has been built based on 101 known Wee1 inhibitors. Then the best pharmacophore model, AADRRR.340, with good partial least square (PLS) statistics (R2 = 0.9212, Q2 = 0.7457), was selected and validated. The validated model was used as a three-dimensional (3D) search query for databases virtual screening. The filtered molecules were further analyzed and refined by Lipinski’s rule of 5, multiple docking procedures (high throughput virtual screening (HTVS), standard precision (SP), genetic optimization for ligand docking (GOLD), extra precision (XP), and unique quantum polarized ligand docking (QPLD)); absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) screening; and the Prime/molecular mechanics generalized born surface area (MM-GBSA) method binding free energy calculations. Eight leads were identified as potential Wee1 inhibitors, and a 50 ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulation was carried out for top four inhibitors to predict the stability of ligand–protein complex. Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA) based on MD simulation and the energy contribution per residue to the binding energy were calculated. In the end, three hits with good stabilization and affinity to protein were identified. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Steiner symmetrization for anisotropic quasilinear equations via partial discretization
Creators: name: Brock, Friedemann
name: Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso
name: Ferone, Adele
name: Gómez-Castro, David
name: Mercaldo, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J92

description: In this paper we obtain comparison results for the quasilinear equation $-Δ_{p,x} u - u_{yy} = f$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions by Steiner rearrangement in variable $x$, thus solving a long open problem. In fact, we study a broader class of anisotropic problems. Our approach is based on a finite-differences discretization in $y$, and the proof of a comparison principle for the discrete version of the auxiliary problem $A U - U_{yy} \le \int_0^s f^*$, where $AU = (nω^{1/n}s^{1/n'} )^p (- U_{ss})^{p-1}$. We show that this operator is T-accretive in $L^\infty$. We extend our results for $-Δ_{p,x}$ to general operators of the form $-\mathrm{div} (a(|\nabla_x u|) \nabla_x u)$ where $a$ is non-decreasing and behaves like $| \cdot |^{p-2}$ at infinity.
Transcriptome characterisation of the intra-mammalian stage of male and female Schistosoma mansoni
Creators: name: Sessler, Andreas Florian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: RNA-Seq
Schistosoma mansoni
Parasitology
transcriptomics

description: Schistosoma mansoni is a member of a genus of platyhelminths whose members cause the disease schistosomiasis. Particularly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, it is thought to be directly responsible for approximately 5500 deaths per year, as well as contributing significantly to morbidity, being responsible for 3.3 million lost disability-adjusted life years. Schistosomes are dioecious and male and female worms find one another and pair in the blood vessels of the host’s liver. This sets in motion a unique feature of schistosome biology, the pairing-dependent sexual maturation of the female worms. Over the course of the next three weeks, the females fully develop their reproductive organs, especially ovaries and vitellarian tissue, to allow for the production of large quantities of eggs, which not only play a crucial role in the transmission of the parasites but are also responsible for much of the pathology associated with schistosomiasis. This thesis aims to explore the changes in gene expression which take place following pairing and result in the sexual maturation of females. To do so, RNA-Seq data was produced from male and female worms from mixed sex as well as single sex infections at 18, 21, 28, 35, 38 and 49 days post infection and analysed to understand when and how gene expression changes in paired worms. Then gene expression was examined in worms that had been removed from their partner to examine the process of regression, where female worms lose much of their reproductive tissue. The last experiments describe examine gene expression in the testes and ovaries of schistosomes, to reveal differences between the gonads of worms from mixed and single sex infections and understand in more detail how these worms may regulate the growth of their reproductive organs, contributing to our knowledge of schistosome biology.
description: Wellcome Trust
Ceutorhynchus resedae
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Ceutorhynchus
Ceutorhynchus resedae

description: Ceutorhynchus resedae (Marsham, 1802)
 Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Domusnovas, sa Duchessa, 371 m, UTM 32S 0464990 4358384, 19.IX–3.X.2006, G. Chessa leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex (CNBFVR).
 Notes. Although this quite uncommon species has been reported from several central and southern regions of Italy and from Sicily (Colonnelli 2003), the collecting of a single specimen at Sa Duchessa is the first record for Sardinia.
 Ceutorhynchus resedae is known from England, several countries of central and south-western Europe, and Tunisia (Colonnelli 2004). Development takes place at the base of stems of Reseda alba, R. phyteuma and R. luteola (Resedaceae) (Colonnelli 2004), the first two plants occurring in the above Sardinian locality (Ballero & Angiolini 1991).
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 423
title: 1961-1962_MOUTON Jacques_Un centre d'extraction d'essences aromatiques à Grasse
Creators: name: Mouton, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Diplôme d'architecte

description: Prix du meilleur diplôme décerné par la SADG.
Strengthening of metastable beta titanium alloys
Creators: name: Bennett, Joe Mancha
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Titanium Alloys
Phase transformations
Scanning/transmission electron microscopy (STEM)
High angle annular dark field (HAADF)
Total Scattering

description: Using current technology, it is now possible to probe material at atomic length scales, increasing our fundamental understanding of material behavior and properties. Metastable $\beta$ titanium alloys are a subset of titanium alloys with huge potential for the aerospace sector. However, they exhibit atomic transformations which, even after 60 years of research, are still disputed. For example, these alloys are strengthened using the $\omega$ phase, but the mechanism by which this phase forms and its stability are still in question. The aim of this PhD project was to investigate the strengthening of metastable Ti-15wt.$\%$Mo by understanding the stability and transformation pathways which make the metastable $\beta$ titanium alloy class unique. Athermal $\omega$ shares the same composition as the $\beta$ matrix and is formed by rapid cooling from the $\beta$ phase field. The classical theory of athermal $\omega$ formation is based upon a diffusion-less mechanism in which consecutive pairs of $\{111\}$$_{\beta}$ planes collapse together. However, latest high-resolution electron microscope observations have suggested chemical alterations occur as well, which give reason to challenge this classical formation mechanism. Two novel methods were explored to determine the nature of the $\omega$ phase: 1) electron imaging of thin material at different collection angles and 2) total X-ray scattering analysis of large volumes of material. Complementary techniques are invaluable since thin foil artefacts were identified. In particular, a new B2 structured phase in the Ti-15wt.$\%$Mo alloy was observed only in thin electron transparent material. Experimental data from the two new methods were compared to simulations. It was found that a frozen phonon description of the $\omega$ structure provided a best fit in both scenarios. The results are therefore consistent with the classical theory of $\omega$ formation but the collapse of the $\{111\}$$_{\beta}$ planes towards the $\omega$ phase is not considered complete.
description: EPSRC Rolls-Royce
Renormalization-Mass Scale Dependence in QCD Contributions to Semileptonic $b \to u$ Decay
Creators: name: Ahmady, M. R.
name: Chishtie, F. A.
name: Elias, V.
name: Fariborz, A. H.
name: McKeon, D. G. C.
name: Sherry, T. N.
name: Steele, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD contributions to the $b \to u \ell^- \barν_\ell$ decay rate, which are known to two-loop order in the $\bar{MS}$ scheme, exhibit sufficient dependence on the renormalization mass $μ$ to compromise phenomenological predictions for inclusive semileptonic $B \to X_u$ processes. Such scale dependence is ameliorated by the renormalization-group (RG) extraction and summation of all leading and RG-accessible subleading logarithms occurring subsequent to two-loop order in the perturbative series. This optimal RG-improvement of the known portion of the perturbative series virtually eliminates $μ$-dependence as a source of theoretical uncertainty in the predicted semileptonic $B \to X_u$ inclusive rate.
description: 4 pages, latex using espcrc2.sty. Write-up of talk given at BEACH 2002, Vancouver
Efficiency and irreversibility of movements in a city
Creators: name: Biazzo, Indaco
name: Ramezanpour, Abolfazl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We know that maximal efficiency in physical systems is attained by reversible processes. It is then interesting to see how irreversibility affects efficiency in other systems, e.g., in a city. In this study, we focus on a cyclic process of movements (home to workplace and back to home) in a city to investigate the above question. To this end, we present a minimal model of the movements, along with plausible definitions for the efficiency and irreversibility of the process; more precisely, we take the inverse of the total travel time per number of trips for efficiency and the relative entropy of the forward and backward flow distributions for the process irreversibility. We perform numerical simulations of the model for reasonable choices of the population distribution, the mobility law, and the movement strategy. The results show that the efficiency of movements is indeed negatively correlated with the above measure of irreversibility. The structure of the network and the impact of the flows on the travel times are the main factors here that affect the time intervals of arriving to destinations and returning to origins, which are usually larger than the time interval of the departures. This in turn gives rise to diverging of the backward flows from the forward ones and results to entropy (disorder or uncertainty) production in the system. The findings of this study might be helpful in characterizing more accurately the city efficiency and in better understanding of the main working principles of these complex systems.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, some labels in Figs. 2 and 3 corrected
Pressupostos macroeconómicos da reforma estrutural do sistema tributário: perspetivas na tributação das empresas
Creators: name: Luther, Gilberto
Publisher: name: JURIS
Year: 2016

description: Com o presente artigo pretende analisar-se os principais elementos de uma futura revisão do sistema de tributação das pessoas coletivas no âmbito da Reforma Tributária em curso em Angola. Considerando que uma reforma duradoura e adequada depende da correta consideração das diversas condicionantes relativas à tributação dos lucros das empresas, é, nesta sede, efetuado um levantamento e análise das melhores práticas internacionais a este respeito e principais critérios de decisão, assim se recolhendo e adaptando os casos de sucesso à situação específica do país. Não obstante a análise levada a cabo, o presente artigo pretende ser, mais do que um ponto de chegada com soluções finais, um elemento dinamizador das discussões a este respeito, fomentando o necessário e enriquecedor debate que nesta fase se pretende.
description: JURIS, Vol 1 No 1 (2016): Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Adérito Correia
Evolution and Geometry of Hot Spots in Supernova Remnant 1987A
Creators: name: Sugerman, Ben E. K.
name: Lawrence, Stephen S.
name: Crotts, Arlin P. S.
name: Bouchet, Patrice
name: Heathcote, Steve R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ground-based near-infrared imaging and {\em HST} optical imaging and spectroscopy of the interaction between the ejecta of SN 1987A and its equatorial circumstellar ring. This interaction has made a transition, from emission originating in just a few ``hot spots'' at restricted locations in position angle around the ring, to a collision producing optical emission over a nearly continuous distribution, with few breaks larger than 45 degrees. The centroids of the first three spots are measured to move at 2000-3000 km/s, which we interpret as a lower limit of the velocity of the forward blast front. Multi-wavelength light curves of the spots show that they do not evolve uniformly, and change significantly on timescales as short as one month; in particular the first spot shows a significant break in its lightcurve. Implications of observed delays between spots appearances are discussed, which leads to a generalized model of hot spot evolution, and suggests that the early appearance of the first hot spot is explained by its inward radial position and a fairly uniform forward blast wave, rather than extraordinary physical circumstances. Data further suggest that the forward blast is reaching the bulk of the inner ring material to the east, the density of which appears higher than elsewhere in the ring. We study the ring geometry, finding evidence suggestive of an intrinsic ellipticity of 0.95, and find lower and upper distance limits of 47.9 +/- 0.92 kpc and 54.4 +/- 2.1 kpc, respectively.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (tentative publication date June 10, 2002); 44 pages, 11 figures
Orchestes (Orchestes) erythropus
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Orchestes
Orchestes erythropus

description: Orchestes (Orchestes) erythropus (Germar, 1821)
 Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Iglesias, Marganai, 700 m, UTM 32S 0462853 4355582, 29.IV–20. V.2004, G. Chessa leg., Malaise trap, 1 ex (CNBFVR).
 Notes. One specimen of this European (Alonso-Zarazaga 2004) leaf-miner weevil was collected at Iglesias, Marganai, and this is the first record from Sardinia of this uncommon species, in Italy only known from Trentino (northern Italy) and Latium (central Italy) (Abbazzi & Osella 1992). However, it is possible that its distribution in Italy is more continuous, owing to the difficulty of separating O. erythropus from the closely related O. tricolor (Kiesenwetter, 1851).
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 424
Minimization of non common path aberrations at the Palomar telescope using a self-coherent camera
Creators: name: Galicher, Raphael
name: Baudoz, Pierre
name: Delorme, Jacques-Robert
name: Mawet, Dimitry
name: Bottom, Mike
name: Wallace, James Kent
name: Serabyn, Eugen
name: Sheldon, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two main advantages of exoplanet imaging are the discovery of objects in the outer part of stellar systems -- constraining models of planet formation --, and its ability to spectrally characterize the planets -- information on their atmosphere. It is however challenging because exoplanets are up to 1e10 times fainter than their star and separated by a fraction of arcsecond. Current instruments like SPHERE/VLT or GPI/Gemini detect young and massive planets because they are limited by non-common path aberrations (NCPA) that are not corrected by the adaptive optics system. To probe fainter exoplanets, new instruments capable of minimizing the NCPA is needed. One solution is the self-coherent camera (SCC) focal plane wavefront sensor, whose performance was demonstrated in laboratory attenuating the starlight by factors up to several 1e8 in space-like conditions at angular separations down to 2L/D. In this paper, we demonstrate the SCC on the sky for the first time. We installed an SCC on the stellar double coronagraph (SDC) instrument at the Hale telescope. We used an internal source to minimize the NCPA that limited the vortex coronagraph performance. We then compared to the standard procedure used at Palomar. On internal source, we demonstrated that the SCC improves the coronagraphic detection limit by a factor between 4 and 20 between 1.5 and 5L/D. Using this SCC calibration, the on-sky contrast is improved by a factor of 5 between 2 and 4L/D. These results prove the ability of the SCC to be implemented in an existing instrument. This paper highlights two interests of the self-coherent camera. First, the SCC can minimize the speckle intensity in the field of view especially the ones that are very close to the star where many exoplanets are to be discovered. Then, the SCC has a 100% efficiency with science time as each image can be used for both science and NCPA minimization.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Torneuma (Torneuma) vastum Stuben 2007, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Torneuma
Torneuma vastum

description: Torneuma (Torneuma) vastum Stüben, 2007 stat. rev.
 Material examined. Sardinia: Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Iglesias, Case Marganai, 725 m, UTM 32S 463890 4355925, 1.IV.2002, L. Fancello leg., 3 ex (CCO, CNBFVR).
 Notes. Three specimens of this taxon, recently described by Stüben (2007) as a subspecies of T. curtulum F. Solari, 1937 from two rather close localities of eastern Sardinia (Escalapiano, and Mt. Narba east of Muravera) were found at Case Marganai, near Iglesias. The known distribution of Torneuma curtulum F. Solari, 1937 is, according to our personal records (Fig. 1), much more widespread than that given by Stüben (2007), who only knew this weevil from Domusnovas, Flumentorgius and Fluminimaggiore, all localities in western Sardinia close to the present one. A specimen of T. curtulum was collected at Mamenga, just a short distance from Case Marganai (where the above-mentioned 3 specimens were found), so the two taxa can be considered as sympatric. This implies that Torneuma vastum Stüben, 2007 (stat. rev.) is a self-standing species, and not a subspecies of T. curtulum. For the subtle characters which differentiate T. curtulum from T. vastum see Stüben (2007), and for their distribution see Fig. 1. Among the inaccuracies of the cited paper by Stüben (2007) are the descriptions of subspecies of the same species the distributional areas of which largely overlap, a circumstance that clearly weakens the even explicit provisional taxonomy proposed by this author. In the future we will publish additional changes affecting the taxonomy of the Torneumatini, which are beyond the purpose of the present paper.
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 424
YIELD GROWTH OF MAJOR PULSES AND THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR OUTPUT CHANGES IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Akbar, Md. Ali
name: Akbar, Md. Ali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The study estimates the yield growth of major pulses in Bangladesh and the factors that influence the output growths of pulses during the period 1973-1992. Contributions of component factors for pulse output growths have been estimated. Average yield of major pulses was very low haveing negligible impact on output growth while their expansion was the dominant factor for increased pulse output growth. Pulse prices did not play any significant role in increasing yield levels excepting for Lentil. Technological progress and varietal development of major pulses have been suggested for augmenting pulse yield in the country.
A new fingerprint matching approach using level 2 and level 3 features
Creators: name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
name: Samaneh Mazaheri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Theoretical Computer Science
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Fingerprint recognition is considered as one of the most popular and reliable techniques for automatic identification due to the well-known distinctiveness and persistence of fingerprints.In an automated fingerprint recognition system (AFRS), fingerprint matching is an important and essential step. The distortion and noise of given fingerprints and the inaccurate feature extractionmake fingerprint matching a very difficult problem. With the advent of high-resolution fingerprint imaging techniques and the increasing demand for high security, sweat pores have been recentlyattracting increasing attention in automatic fingerprint recognition. Therefore, this paper takes fingerprint pore matching as an example to show the robustness of our proposed matching methodto the errors due to fingerprint representation. This method using Onion Peeling algorithm of computational geometry, utilizes Level 3 features in conjunction with Level 2 features for matching. The experimental results on two databases of high-resolution fingerprints demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve much higher recognition accuracy compared with other state-of-the-art pore matching methods. The algorithm has been tested on two databases (NIST 9 database and FVC2006). We have measured the performance of our proposed algorithm in terms of receiver operating characteristics (ROC). For the NIST9 database, at ~11% false acceptance rate (FAR) the genuine acceptance rate (GAR) is ~ 92% and at ~0% FAR, observed GAR is ~74%. For the FVC2006 database at ~0% FAR the GAR observed is 71% and at ~19% FAR, GAR is 89%. Itis concluded that with proposed technique we can have better GAR at low FAR with reduced computational complexity.
MARKETING OF FLOWERS IN DHAKA CITY
Creators: name: Raha, S. K.
name: Sultana, Nasrin
name: Raha, S. K.
name: Sultana, Nasrin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The study is based on primary data collected from randomly selected 30 flower shops (64 percent) out of 47 permanent shops in Dhaka city to examine the marketing system, cost, margin, existing traders' problems and suggestions for their development/improvement. The marketing system is not well organized. Various marketing functions are poorly done. The average marketing cost accounted for 18.67 percent followed by damage (14.68 percent) and shop rent (13.62 percent). Marketing margins constitute about 54 percent of consumers' price of which 27.04 percent is incurred as marketing cost and 36.96 percent retained as traders' profit. Problems faced by traders in Dhaka city are identified along with their suggested measures for solutions. Government assistance both at the production and marketing levels is felt for the proper development of this new enterprise.
2018 VBRC Report.pdf
Creators: name: McFarland, Kent
name: Cox, Ken
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Vermont Bird Records Committee (hereafter VBRC or the Committee) held its annual meeting on 10 November 2018 at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich, Vermont. The 38th annual report of the VBRC covers the evaluation of 50 records involving 28 species and 3 subspecies or ‘identifiable subspecific forms’. Forty-three records were accepted (86%) with the majority decided unanimously.
 There were no first state records for any species during this period. Notable state reports included the second record for Marbled Godwit (​Limosa fedoa)​ , the fourth state record for Pink-footed Goose (​Anser brachyrhynchus​), and third through eighth records for Trumpeter Swan (​Cygnus buccinator​), and other species. There were no rare nesting reports submitted. A detailed list of reports is included.
 The Vermont Bird Checklist remains at 387 species, representing 22 orders and now 63 families. The names of the birds and their taxonomic arrangement follow the American Ornithological Society Checklist of North American Birds Seventh Edition (1998) and 60th supplement (June 2019). The checklist includes one extinct species (Passenger Pigeon [​Ectopistes migratorius]​ ​), two extirpated (Loggerhead Shrike [​Lanius ludovicianus​]​ and Henslow’s Sparrow [​Ammodramus henslowii​]​), six hypothetical occurrences, and nine introduced species. With the addition of Hooded Warbler as breeding in 2017, there have now been 203 species found breeding in the state. The checklist can be viewed and downloaded at http://vtecostudies.org/wildlife/wildlife-watching/vbrc/bird-checklists/​. Species taxonomy and nomenclature follow the 7th edition of the AOS Checklist of North American Birds and supplements (see http://www.americanornithology.org/content/checklist-north-and-middle-american-birds​). Nomenclature for subspecies or ‘identifiable subspecific forms’ follows taxonomy of The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World (Version 2019), available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/​.
Optically-selected clusters at 0.8 < z < 1.3 in the EIS Cluster Survey
Creators: name: Benoist, C.
name: da Costa, L.
name: Jørgensen, H. E.
name: Olsen, L. F.
name: Bardelli, S.
name: Zucca, E.
name: Scodeggio, M.
name: Neumann, D.
name: Arnaud, M.
name: Arnouts, S.
name: Biviano, A.
name: Ramella, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents preliminary results of a spectroscopic survey being conducted at the VLT of fields with optically-selected cluster candidates identified in the EIS I-band survey. Here we report our findings for three candidates selected for having estimated redshifts in the range z=0.8-1.1. New multi-band optical/infrared data were used to assign photometric redshifts to galaxies in the cluster fields and to select possible cluster members in preparation of the spectroscopic observations. Based on the available spectroscopic data, which includes 147 new redshifts for galaxies with Iab<22-23, we confirm the detection of four density enhancements at a confidence level >99%. The detected concentrations include systems with redshifts z=0.81, z=0.95, z=1.14 and the discovery of the first optically-selected cluster at z=1.3. The latter system, with three concordant redshifts, coincides remarkably well with the location of a firm X-ray detection (>5sigma) in a ~80ksec XMM-Newton image taken as part of this program which will be presented in a future paper (Neumann et al. 2002). The z>1 systems presented here are possibly the most distant identified so far by their optical properties alone.
description: 6 pages, A&A, accepted for publication
Simplicial degree in complex networks. Applications of Topological Data Analysis to Network Science
Creators: name: Serrano, Daniel Hernández
name: Serrano, Juan Hernández
name: Gómez, Darío Sánchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 55U10, 62R40, 91D30, 05C82, 82M99, 82B43, 05E45

description: Network Science provides a universal formalism for modelling and studying complex systems based on pairwise interactions between agents. However, many real networks in the social, biological or computer sciences involve interactions among more than two agents, having thus an inherent structure of a simplicial complex. We propose new notions of higher-order degrees of adjacency for simplices in a simplicial complex, allowing any dimensional comparison among them and their faces, which as far as we know were lacked in the literature. We introduce multi-parameter boundary and coboundary operators in an oriented simplicial complex and also a novel multi-combinatorial Laplacian is defined, which generalises the graph and combinatorial Laplacian. To illustrate the potential applications of these theoretical results, we perform a structural analysis of higher-order connectivity in simplicial-complex networks by studying the associated distributions with these simplicial degrees in 17 real-world datasets coming from different domains such as coauthor networks, cosponsoring Congress bills, contacts in schools, drug abuse warning networks, e-mail networks or publications and users in online forums. We find rich and diverse higher-order connectivity structures and observe that datasets of the same type reflect similar higher-order collaboration patterns. Furthermore, we show that if we use what we have called the maximal simplicial degree (which counts the distinct maximal communities in which our simplex and all its strict sub-communities are contained), then its degree distribution is, in general, surprisingly different from the classical node degree distribution.
description: 52 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Soliton-dynamical approach to a noisy Ginzburg-Landau model
Creators: name: Fogedby, Hans C.
name: Hertz, John
name: Svane, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical description and analysis of non-equilibrium transitions in the noisy Ginzburg-Landau equation based on a canonical phase space formulation. The transition pathways are characterized by nucleation and subsequent propagation of domain walls or solitons. We also evaluate the Arrhenius factor in terms of an associated action and find good agreement with recent numerical optimization studies.
description: 4 pages (revtex4), 3 figures (eps)
On the Stable Resolution Limit of Total Variation Regularization for Spike Deconvolution
Creators: name: Da Costa, Maxime Ferreira
name: Chi, Yuejie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The stability of spike deconvolution, which aims at recovering point sources from their convolution with a point spread function (PSF), is known to be related to the separation between those sources. When the observations are noisy, it is critical to ensure support stability, where the deconvolution does not lead to spurious, or oppositely, missing estimates of the point sources. In this paper, we study the resolution limit of stably recovering the support of two closely located point sources using the Beurling-LASSO estimator, which is a convex optimization approach based on total variation regularization. We establish a sufficient separation criterion between the sources, depending only on the PSF, above which the Beurling-LASSO estimator is guaranteed to return a stable estimate of the point sources, with the same number of estimated elements as that of the ground truth. Our result highlights the impact of PSF on the resolution limit in the noisy setting, which was not evident in previous studies of the noiseless setting. Towards the end, we show that the same resolution limit applies to resolving two close-located sources in conjunction of other well-separated sources.
Tychius cupriferoides
Creators: name: Colonnelli, Enzo
name: Osella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Tychius
Tychius cupriferoides

description: Tychius cupriferoides (Ragusa, 1922)
 Material examined. Sardinia: Medio Campidano prov., Gesturi, Giara di Gesturi, 568 m, UTM 32 S 495926 4401318, 15. VI.2004, G. Nardi leg., aquatic net, 1 ex (CNBFVR).
 Notes. This weevil was thus far known in Italy only from Calabria and Sicily (Caldara 1990). The finding of a single specimen from the Giara di Gesturi represents the first record for Sardinia.
 In addition to the above-mentioned Italian regions, Tychius cupriferoides is known from Greece and Morocco (Caldara 1990; Alonso-Zarazaga 2004), and no data have been thus far reported about its habits. The Sardinian specimen was probably resting on hygrophilous vegetation, since it was collected with an aquatic net near a cattle water trough.
description: Published as part of Colonnelli, Enzo & Osella, Giuseppe, 2009, New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *, pp. 421-426 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 425
ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF RURAL WOMEN AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE HOUSEHOLD DECISION MAKING PROCESS IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Begum, Asma
name: Chakrabortty, Krishna
name: Begum, Asma
name: Chakrabortty, Krishna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The present micro-study is concerned with an important aspect of the relation between the poor rural women and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. This aspect refers to the status of poor women in the countryside in Bangladesh, after they started getting a modicum of income from economic activities aided by the credit from the Grameen Bank. More specifically, this study presents the data regarding the association between the economic activity indepedently carried out with the credit received from the Grameen Bank by the women of two villages, viz., Bhatpara and Panchdona, in Narsingdi district of Bangladesh, and differences, if any, in the status of the loanee and the non loanee women.
Fat and Thin Fisher Zeroes
Creators: name: Janke, W.
name: Johnston, D.
name: Stathakopoulos, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that it is possible to determine the locus of Fisher zeroes in the thermodynamic limit for the Ising model on planar (``fat'') phi4 random graphs and their dual quadrangulations by matching up the real part of the high- and low-temperature branches of the expression for the free energy. Similar methods work for the mean-field model on generic, ``thin'' graphs. Series expansions are very easy to obtain for such random graph Ising models.
description: 3 pages, LaTeX, Lattice2001(surfaces)
Symmetry-Protected Topological Phase for Spin-Tensor-Momentum-Coupled Ultracold Atoms
Creators: name: Lei, Zhoutao
name: Deng, Yuangang
name: Lee, Chaohong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a realizable experiment scheme to construct a one-dimensional synthetic magnetic flux lattice with spin-tensor-momentum coupled spin-1 atoms and explore its exotic topological states. Different from the Altland-Zirnbauer classification, we show that our system hosts a symmetryprotected phase protected by a magnetic group symmetry (M) and characterized by a Z2 topological invariant. In single-particle spectra, we show that the topological nontrivial phase supports two kinds of edge states, which include two (four) zero-energy edge modes in the absence (presence) of two-photon detuning. We further study the bulk-edge correspondence in a non-Hermitian model by taking into account the particle dissipation. It is shown that the non-Hermitian system preserves the bulk-edge correspondence under the M symmetry but exhibits the non-Hermitian skin effect with breaking the M symmetry at nonzero magnetic flux. This work provides insights in understanding the exotic topological quantum states of high-spin systems and facilitating their experimental explorations.
VEPP-2000 Project
Creators: name: Koop, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status of VEPP-2000 collider is presented. Implementation of Round Colliding Beams (RCB) concept in the new collider VEPP-2000 is outlined, potential advantages of RCB over the flat colliding beams are discussed. The main design parameters and features of this VEPP-2000 collider are reported.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, talk given at the e+e- Physics at Intermediate Energies Workshop, SLAC April 30-May 2, 2001, T08
Clustering of Four-Component Unitary Fermions
Creators: name: Dawkins, William G.
name: Carlson, J.
name: van Kolck, U.
name: Gezerlis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ab initio nuclear physics tackles the problem of strongly interacting four-component fermions. The same setting could foreseeably be probed experimentally in ultracold atomic systems, where two- and three-component experiments have led to major breakthroughs in recent years. Both due to the problem's inherent interest and as a pathway to nuclear physics, in this Letter we study four-component fermions at unitarity via the use of quantum Monte Carlo methods. We explore novel forms of the trial wave function and find one which leads to a ground state of the eight-particle system whose energy is almost equal to that of two four-particle systems. We investigate the clustering properties involved and also extrapolate to the zero-range limit. In addition to being experimentally testable, our results impact the prospects of developing nuclear physics as a perturbation around the unitary limit.
description: 6+1 pages, 3+1 figures; v2 corresponds to published version
Rhegmoclemina lunensis Haenni & Godfrey 2009
Creators: name: Haenni, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scatopsidae
Rhegmoclemina
Rhegmoclemina lunensis

description: 2. Rhegmoclemina lunensis Haenni & Godfrey, 2009
 Records. C31: 12–17.VII.2006 1 ♂ (CNBFVR).
 Chorotype. A probable European element.
 Italian distribution. Only known from Sardinia.
 Ecology. Unknown.
 Notes. This single male from Sardinia appears to be conspecific with this species recently described from England (Haenni & Godfrey 2009).
description: Published as part of Haenni, Jean-Paul, 2009, The Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Sardinia, with description of a new species *, pp. 440-449 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 442