cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Demand For Water in the Murray Valley, New South Wales: An Application of Linear Programming
Creators: name: Chewings, R.A.
name: Pascoe, Sean
name: Chewings, R.A.
name: Pascoe, Sean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The move to decentralize and develop the inner areas of New South Wales in the first half of the century resulted in the development of several irrigation regions along the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers. Water was supplied to these regions at a low price, resulting in overuse of water and consequently environmental degradation. The increasing emphasis on the user-pays principle in the 1980s and an increase in concern as to the environmental damage in the region has resulted in a review of attitudes by the water supplying authorities. The provision of subsidized water is no longer considered desirable and proposals have been put forward to increase the price of water. in this paper, the results of a study to estimate the responsiveness of water demand to price in the Murray Valley are presented. The results indicate that a policy of cost recovery may result in a short term economic loss to the region, depending on the regime of prevailing commodity prices.
FeCaffe: FPGA-enabled Caffe with OpenCL for Deep Learning Training and Inference on Intel Stratix 10
Creators: name: He, Ke
name: Liu, Bo
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Ling, Andrew
name: Gu, Dian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) have becoming increasingly more popular and important in both academic and industrial areas in recent years cause they are able to provide better accuracy and result in classification, detection and recognition areas, compared to traditional approaches. Currently, there are many popular frameworks in the market for deep learning development, such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Pytorch, and most of frameworks natively support CPU and consider GPU as the mainline accelerator by default. FPGA device, viewed as a potential heterogeneous platform, still cannot provide a comprehensive support for CNN development in popular frameworks, in particular to the training phase. In this paper, we firstly propose the FeCaffe, i.e. FPGA-enabled Caffe, a hierarchical software and hardware design methodology based on the Caffe to enable FPGA to support mainline deep learning development features, e.g. training and inference with Caffe. Furthermore, we provide some benchmarks with FeCaffe by taking some classical CNN networks as examples, and further analysis of kernel execution time in details accordingly. Finally, some optimization directions including FPGA kernel design, system pipeline, network architecture, user case application and heterogeneous platform levels, have been proposed gradually to improve FeCaffe performance and efficiency. The result demonstrates the proposed FeCaffe is capable of supporting almost full features during CNN network training and inference respectively with high degree of design flexibility, expansibility and reusability for deep learning development. Compared to prior studies, our architecture can support more network and training settings, and current configuration can achieve 6.4x and 8.4x average execution time improvement for forward and backward respectively for LeNet.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures and 4 tables
Hemidactylus depressus Gray 1842
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Hemidactylus
Hemidactylus depressus

description: Hemidactylus depressus Gray, 1842 — Non-native; Introduced.
Kandyan Gecko
Singapore records.
Nubilia Argentii — Gray, 1845: 273.— Hoffmann, 1890a: 1196.
Hemidactylus depressus — Boulenger, 1885: 135.— Flower, 1896: 865.—Ridley, 1899: 206.— Boulenger, 1912: 43.—Sworder, 1925a: 64.— Chasen, 1925: 100.—Smedley, 1932: 11.
Remarks. Endemic to Sri Lanka (Somaweera & Somaweera 2009a), a specimen of H. depressus was attained by Argent and is preserved at NHMUK with the locality Singapore (Gray 1845; Boulenger 1885). Boulenger (1912) stated that H. depressus inhabits Sri Lanka, but did not mention whether he found the Singapore specimen dubious. Sworder (1925) did doubt the locality of the specimen and stated that the individual likely reached Singapore as a stowaway. Smedley (1932) also agreed that the locality was incorrect and removed it from Peninsular Malaysia’s checklist. Subsequently, Taylor (1953) corrected and restricted the type locality for N. argentii to “ Ceylon ”, and Batuwita & Pethiyagoda (2012) agreed that the type locality is “ Sri Lanka ”.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Toward standard testbeds for numerical relativity
Creators: name: Alcubierre, Miguel
name: Allen, Gabrielle
name: Bona, Carles
name: Fiske, David
name: Goodale, Tom
name: Guzman, F. Siddharta
name: Hawke, Ian
name: Hawley, Scott H.
name: Husa, Sascha
name: Koppitz, Michael
name: Lechner, Christiane
name: Pollney, Denis
name: Rideout, David
name: Salgado, Marcelo
name: Schnetter, Erik
name: Seidel, Edward
name: Shinkai, Hisa-aki
name: Szilagyi, Bela
name: Shoemaker, Deirdre
name: Takahashi, Ryoji
name: Winicour, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, many different numerical evolution schemes for Einstein's equations have been proposed to address stability and accuracy problems that have plagued the numerical relativity community for decades. Some of these approaches have been tested on different spacetimes, and conclusions have been drawn based on these tests. However, differences in results originate from many sources, including not only formulations of the equations, but also gauges, boundary conditions, numerical methods, and so on. We propose to build up a suite of standardized testbeds for comparing approaches to the numerical evolution of Einstein's equations that are designed to both probe their strengths and weaknesses and to separate out different effects, and their causes, seen in the results. We discuss general design principles of suitable testbeds, and we present an initial round of simple tests with periodic boundary conditions. This is a pivotal first step toward building a suite of testbeds to serve the numerical relativists and researchers from related fields who wish to assess the capabilities of numerical relativity codes. We present some examples of how these tests can be quite effective in revealing various limitations of different approaches, and illustrating their differences. The tests are presently limited to vacuum spacetimes, can be run on modest computational resources, and can be used with many different approaches used in the relativity community.
description: REVTeX4, 19 pages
Metzgeria albinea var. albinea Spruce var. albinea 1889
Creators: name: Schäfer-Verwimp, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeria
Metzgeria albinea
Metzgeria albinea spruce var. albinea

description: Metzgeria albinea Spruce var. albinea
 Chiriqui: Loc. 22, on bark of shrub, 34457, 34473. * Coclé: Loc. 4, on shady earth-covered rock, 34144; 8, on half exposed rock, 34728.
Probably a pantropical species (see Gradstein 2013), in the Americas ranging from Mexico to Chile, from Panama so far known from Chiriqui and Darién.
description: Published as part of Schäfer-Verwimp, A., 2014, Towards a more complete knowledge of the liverwort flora of Panama, pp. 201-234 in Phytotaxa 172 (3) on pages 220-221, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5142583
$ππ$ scattering S wave from the data on the reaction $π^-p\toπ^0π^0n$
Creators: name: Achasov, N. N.
name: Shestakov, G. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of the recent experiments on the reaction $π^-p\toπ^0π^0n$ performed at KEK, BNL, IHEP, and CERN are analyzed in detail. For the I=0 $ππ$ S wave phase shift $δ^0_0$ and inelasticity $η^0_0$ a new set of data is obtained. Difficulties emerging when using the physical solutions for the $π^0π^0$ S and D wave amplitudes extracted with the partial wave analyses are discussed. Attention is drawn to the fact that, for the $π^0π^0$ invariant mass, m, above 1 GeV, the other solutions, in principle, are found to be more preferred. For clarifying the situation and further studying the $f_0(980)$ resonance thorough experimental investigations of the reaction $π^-p\toπ^0π^0n$ in the m region near the $K\bar K$ threshold are required.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Impact of Chlorine on the Internal Transition Rates and Excited States of the Thermally Delayed Activated Fluorescence Molecule 3CzClIPN
Creators: name: Streiter, Martin
name: Fischer, Tillmann G.
name: Wiebeler, Christian
name: Reichert, Sebastian
name: Langenickel, Jörn
name: Zeitler, Kirsten
name: Deibel, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze internal transition rates and the singlet-triplet energy gap of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecule 3CzClIPN, which recently was introduced as an efficient photocatalyst. Distribution and origin of the non-monoexponential decays, which are commonly observed in TADF films, are revealed by analysis of transient fluorescence with an inverse Laplace transform. A numerically robust global rate fit routine, which extracts all relevant TADF parameters by modeling the complete set of data, is introduced. To compare and verify the results, all methods are also applied to the well-known 4CzIPN. The influence of the molecular matrix is discussed by embedding low concentrations of TADF molecules in polystyrene films. Finally, quantum chemical calculations are compared to the experimental results to demonstrate that the chlorine atom increases the charge transfer character of the relevant states, resulting in a reduction of the singlet-triplet energy gap.
Leiolepis triploida Peters 1971
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Agamidae
Leiolepis
Leiolepis triploida

description: Leiolepis triploida Peters, 1971 — Non-native; Introduced.
Malaysian Butterfly Lizard
Singapore records.
“ Leiolepis ” —Hall, 1970: 1271.
Remarks. The MCZ has six specimens of L. triploida that were used by Hall (1970) to examine parthenogenesis in Leiolepis. Hall (1970) wrote that the specimens he “examined were imported from animal dealers in Bangkok (Thailand) and Singapore by Richard R. Ross [and that] [t]he Singapore dealer told Ross that his Leiolepis came from near the Malaysia-Thailand border”. The specimens were also used by Peters (1971) to describe L. triploida as a new species. As the specimens are catalogued under Singapore at MCZ, we include L. triploida here for clarification. Leiolepis triploida is only known from northeastern Peninsular Malaysia (Grismer 2011b).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): MCZ.
Family Scincidae Oppel, 1811 (2 species)
Genus Eutropis Fitzinger, 1843 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Additional file 1 of Mapping evidence on the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the hard and soft tissues of the craniofacial complex in transgender people: a protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Van Den Bosch, M. F.
name: Wiepjes, C. M.
name: Heijer, M. Den
name: Schoonmade, L. J.
name: Jonkman, R. E. G.
name: R. A. Meursinge Reynders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1:. Checklist for the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement.
Metzgeria attenuata Steph.
Creators: name: Schäfer-Verwimp, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeria
Metzgeria attenuata

description: Metzgeria attenuata Steph.
 Chiriqui: Loc. 17, epiphyllous, 2450 m, 30892. * Coclé: Loc. 6, on rotten log, 34195/ A.
A widespread Afro-American species, in the Neotropics ranging from Mexico to Bolivia; first records from Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui) by Costa (2008).
description: Published as part of Schäfer-Verwimp, A., 2014, Towards a more complete knowledge of the liverwort flora of Panama, pp. 201-234 in Phytotaxa 172 (3) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5142583
Cognitive impairment influences the risk of reoperation after hip fracture surgery: results of 87,573 operations reported to the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register
Creators: name: Kristoffersen, Målfrid Holen
name: Dybvik, Eva
name: Steihaug, Ole Martin
name: Kristensen, Torbjørn Berge
name: Engesaeter, Lars Birger
name: Ranhoff, Anette Hylen
name: Jan-Erik Gjertsen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Background and purpose — About one-fourth of hip fracture patients have cognitive impairment. We investigated whether patients’ cognitive function affects surgical treatment, risk of reoperation, and mortality after hip fracture, based on data in the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register (NHFR). Patients and methods — This prospective cohort study included 87,573 hip fractures reported to the NHFR in 2005–2017. Hazard rate ratios (HRRs) for risk of reoperation and mortality were calculated using Cox regression adjusted for sex, age, ASA class, fracture type, and surgical method. Results — Cognitive impairment was reported in 27% of patients. They were older (86 vs. 82 years) and had higher ASA class than non-impaired patients. There were no differences in fracture type or operation methods. Cognitively impaired patients had a lower overall reoperation rate (4.7% vs. 8.9%, HRR 0.71; 95% CI 0.66–0.76) and lower risk of reoperation after osteosynthesis (HRR 0.58; CI 0.53–0.63) than non-impaired patients. Cognitively impaired hip fracture patients had an increased reoperation risk after hemiarthroplasty (HRR 1.2; CI 1.1–1.4), mainly due to dislocations (1.5% vs. 1.0%, HRR 1.7; CI 1.3–2.1). Risk of dislocation was particularly high following the posterior approach (4.7% vs. 2.8%, HRR 1.8; CI 1.2–2.7). Further, they had a higher risk of reoperation due to periprosthetic fracture after uncemented hemiarthroplasty (HRR 1.6; CI 1.0–2.6). Cognitively impaired hip fracture patients had higher 1-year mortality than those without cognitive impairment (38% vs. 16%, HRR 2.1; CI 2.1–2.2). Interpretation — Our findings support giving cognitively impaired patients the same surgical treatment as non-impaired patients. But since the risk of hemiprosthesis dislocation and periprosthetic fracture was higher in cognitively impaired patients, they should probably not have posterior approach surgery or uncemented implants.
The prime number race and zeros of Dirichlet L-functions off the critical line
Creators: name: Ford, Kevin
name: Konyagin, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11N13, 11M26

description: Let $π_{q,a}(x)$ denote the number of primes $\le x$ in the progression $a$ modulo $q$. We study subtle inequities in these functions, with $q$ fixed and variable $a$ (sometimes called 'prime race problems'). It is known unconditionally for many triples $(q,a,b)$ that the difference $π_{q,a}(x) - π_{q,b}(x)$ changes sign infinitely often, although there may be a pronounced bias toward one sign (first observed by Chebyshev in 1853). Similar results for the comparison of three or more prime counting functions all require the assumption of ERH (extended Riemann Hypothesis for the Dirichlet L-functions modulo $q$). In this paper we show that the assumption of ERH is, in a sense, necessary. That is, we prove, for any quadruple $(q,a,b,c)$ with $a,b,c$ co-prime to $q$, that the existence of certain hypothetical configurations of zeros of Dirichlet L-functions lying off the critical line imply that one of the six possible orderings of the three functions $π_{q,a}(x), π_{q,b}(x), π_{q,c}(x)$ does not occur at all for large enough $x$.
Exact soluble two-dimensional charged wormhole
Creators: name: Han, Ji Young
name: Kim, Won Tae
name: Yee, Hee Ju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exactly soluble charged wormhole model in two dimensions by adding infalling chiral fermions on the static wormhole. The infalling energy due to the infalling charged matter requires the classical back reaction of the geometry, which is solved by taking into account of the nontrivial nonchiral exotic energy. Finally, we obtain the exact expression for the size of the throat depending on the total amount of the infalling net energy and discuss the interesting transition from the AdS spacetime to the wormhole geometry.
description: 8 pages, no figures
Additional file 1 of Linking the westernised oropharyngeal microbiome to the immune response in Chinese immigrants
Creators: name: Guo, Jing
name: Zhang, Xiaoping
name: Saiganesh, Aarti
name: Peacock, Christopher
name: Chen, Shu
name: Dykes, Gary A.
name: Hales, Belinda J.
name: Le Souëf, Peter N.
name: Zhang, Guicheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The phylum level of oropharyngeal microbiome compared between newly-arrived and long-term Chinese immigrants. Table S2. The genus level of oropharyngeal microbiome compared between newly-arrived and long-term Chinese immigrants. Table S3. Alpha diversity metrics for pharyngeal swab samples collected from newly arrived and long-term Chinese immigrants. Values represent mean ± SD. Table S4. The comparison of taxa correlations with innate immune response between newly-arrived and long-term Chinese immigrants (paired sample t test).
Metzgeria ciliata Raddi 1822
Creators: name: Schäfer-Verwimp, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeria
Metzgeria ciliata

description: Metzgeria ciliata Raddi
 Chiriqui: Loc. 20, epiphytic, 1950 m, 31008; 22, on bark of shrub, 34465/ B, 34468. * Coclé: Loc. 6, epiphytic, 34189, 34246.
Pantropical, also widespread in subtropical regions of the southern hemisphere (detailed distribution in Costa 2008); first records from Panamá (Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Darién, Panama) by Costa (2008).
description: Published as part of Schäfer-Verwimp, A., 2014, Towards a more complete knowledge of the liverwort flora of Panama, pp. 201-234 in Phytotaxa 172 (3) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5142583
A framework for the description of charge order, pseudo and superconducting gap, critical temperature and pairing interaction in cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: de Mello, E. V. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A unified phenomenological description framework is proposed for the evaluation of some of the most important observables of the cuprate superconductors: the pseudogap (PG) $Δ_{\rm PG}$, the local superconducting amplitudes $Δ_{\rm SC}(r_i)$, the critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$ and charge ordering (CO) parameters. Recently detailed measurements of CO structures and CO wavelengths $λ_{\rm CO}$ are faithfully reproduced by solutions of a Cahn-Hilliard differential equation with a free energy potential $V_{\rm GL}$ that produces alternating small charge modulations. The charge oscillations induce atomic fluctuations that mediate the SC pair interaction proportional to the $V_{\rm GL}$ amplitude. The local SC amplitude and phase $θ_i$ are connected by Josephson coupling $E_{\rm J}(r_{\rm ij})$ and the SC long-range order transition occurs when ${\left < E_{\rm J} \right>} \sim k_{\rm B}T_{\rm c}$. The calculated results of the wavelength $λ_{\rm CO}$, $Δ_{\rm PG}$, $\left < Δ_{\rm SC}\right >$ and $T_{\rm c}$ calculations are in good agreement with a variety of experiments.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Screening by composite charged particles: the case of quantum well trions
Creators: name: Ciuti, Cristiano
name: Bastard, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the screening of an external potential produced by a two-dimensional gas of charged excitons (trions). We determine the contribution to the dielectric function induced by these composite charged particles within a random phase approximation. In mixtures of free electrons and trions, the trion response is found dominant. In the long wave-length limit, trions behave as point charges with mass equal to the sum of the three particle components. For finite wave-vectors, we show how the dielectric response is sensitive to the composite nature of trions and the internal degrees of freedom. Predictions are presented for the screening of a Coulomb potential, the scattering by charged impurities and the properties of trionic plasmons.
Chrysopelea ornata
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Chrysopelea
Chrysopelea ornata

description: Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw, 1802) — Non-native; Introduced.
Golden Tree Snake
Singapore records.
Chrysopelea ornata —K. Lim & F. Lim, 1988a: 27 (Mandai Lake Road).—Sharma, 2007: 187.—Maury & M.-R. Low, 2015: 76 (Perahu Lane [LCK]).—Ng, 2017: 14 (Gardens by the Bay).— Charlton, 2020: 148.—E. Goh & Pek, 2022: 1 (Yio Chu Kang Road).—E. Goh & M. Loh, 2022: 1 (MacPherson).
Chrysopelea ornata ornatissima —Thomas & Boopal, 2014: 51 (Shenton Way).—J. Chua, 2021: 1 (Marina Bay).
Remarks. Earlier accounts of C. ornata in Singapore denote C. paradisi (e.g., Blanford 1881; Flower 1896; Sworder 1923), which was conventionally recognised as C. ornata. It was not until Smith (1943), that the name was used to refer to present-day C. ornata. Nine sightings of C. ornata were made in Singapore. The first was of one caught at Mandai Lake Road on 13 June 1988 (Lim 1988b). The next eight were more recent, beginning with a dead specimen found at a construction site at Shenton Way on 14 May 2013 (Thomas & Boopal 2014), a live specimen found at Perahu Lane in LCK on 14 April 2015 (Maury & Low 2015), another live specimen found at Gardens by the Bay on 1 January 2017 (Ng 2017), a dead specimen collected from OUTR on 20 September 2018, two snakes seen on 13 August 2021 at Gardens by the Bay, a gravid female caught entering a home along Yio Chu Kang Road on 21 March 2022 (Goh & Pek 2022), and one photographed on the fence of a residential building on 16 April 2022 (Goh & Loh 2022). Since C. ornata ranges from India and Sri Lanka eastwards to Indochina and south to northern Peninsular Malaysia (Das 2010), it is believed the individuals in Singapore were either illegally imported pets or entered as stowaways on ornamental plants (Thomas & Boopal 2014; Maury & Low 2015). However, the authors of both these papers overlooked a relatively recent record of C. ornata taken from Endau-Rompin National Park, which expanded its distribution down to southern Peninsular Malaysia (Shahriza et al. 2012). Nonetheless, we consider the specimens from Singapore non-native given they were found at unnatural sites, particularly Gardens by the Bay, which was constructed in 2012 on reclaimed land.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Old Upper Thomson Road: ZRC.2.7398 (20-Sep-2018); Shenton Way: ZRC.2.7022 (14-May-2013).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Subfamily Natricinae Bonaparte, 1838 (1 species)
Genus Fowlea Theobald, 1868 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 254-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Additional file 2 of Mapping evidence on the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the hard and soft tissues of the craniofacial complex in transgender people: a protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Van Den Bosch, M. F.
name: Wiepjes, C. M.
name: Heijer, M. Den
name: Schoonmade, L. J.
name: Jonkman, R. E. G.
name: R. A. Meursinge Reynders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: A. Methods for patient involvement. B. Search strategy in PubMed. C. Data collection forms.
Quantum Vortex States in Bose Hubbard Model With Rotation
Creators: name: Khanore, Mukesh P.
name: Dey, Bishwajyoti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum vortex states of strongly interacting bosons in a two-dimensional rotating optical lattice. The system is modeled by Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian with rotation. We consider lattices of different geometries, such as square, rectangular and triangular. Using numerical exact diagonalization method we show how the rotation introduces vortex states of different ground-state symmetries and the transition between these states at discrete rotation frequencies. We show how the geometry of the lattice plays crucial role in determining the maximum number of vortex states as well as the general characteristics of these states such as, the average angular momentum $$, the current at the perimeter of the lattice, phase winding, the relation between the maximum phase difference, the maximum current and also the saturation of the current between the two neighboring lattice points. The effect of the two- and three-body interactions between the particles, both attractive and repulsive, also depends on the geometry of the lattice as the current flow or the lattice current depends on the interactions. We also consider the effect of the spatial inhomogeneity introduced by the presence of an additional confining harmonic trap potential. It is shown that the curvature of the trap potential and the position of the minimum of the trap potential with respect to the axis of rotation or the center of the lattice have a significant effect on the general characteristics these vortex states.
description: 15 pages, 24 figures
Empirical Analysis on Transfer and Limitation of Land Contractual Management Right
Creators: name: Zou, Xiuqing
name: Zou, Xiuqing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farmland contractual management right
subject: Transfer
subject: Limitation

description: Existing laws have three limitations on transfer of land contractual management right. The survey of 506 farmer households in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangxi provinces indicates that most farmers have the consistent of knowledge of limitation on “transfer being approved by the party giving out the contract in advance” with legislative requirements, but it is not effectively implemented in actual operation. As to limitation on transferee, no matter in cognition of farmers, or in real transfer process, the transferee is not totally limited to farmers engaged in agricultural production and management. For the constraint that the transferor should have stable non-agricultural occupation or stable income source, most farmers agree, but more than half farmers have not confirmed the transfer action in practice.
Semiclassical Scaling Functions of Sine--Gordon Model
Creators: name: Mussardo, G.
name: Riva, V.
name: Sotkov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytic study of the finite size effects in Sine--Gordon model, based on the semiclassical quantization of an appropriate kink background defined on a cylindrical geometry. The quasi--periodic kink is realized as an elliptic function with its real period related to the size of the system. The stability equation for the small quantum fluctuations around this classical background is of Lame' type and the corresponding energy eigenvalues are selected inside the allowed bands by imposing periodic boundary conditions. We derive analytical expressions for the ground state and excited states scaling functions, which provide an explicit description of the flow between the IR and UV regimes of the model. Finally, the semiclassical form factors and two-point functions of the basic field and of the energy operator are obtained, completing the semiclassical quantization of the Sine--Gordon model on the cylinder.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures
Inflammatory cytokine biomarkers of asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections and vaginal dysbiosis: a multicentre validation study
Creators: name: Gamieldien, Hoyam
name: Lennard, Katie
name: Deese, Jennifer
name: Williamson, Anna-Lise
name: Ahmed, Khatija
name: Little, Francesca
name: Abdellati, Saïd
name: Crucitti, Tania
name: Jaumdally, Shameem Z
name: Van Damme, Lut
name: Dietrich, Janan
name: Barnabas, Shaun
name: Jaspan, Heather
name: Gray, Glenda
name: Passmore, Jo-Ann S
name: Bekker, Linda-Gail
name: Masson, Lindi
name: Dabee, Smritee
Publisher: name: BMJ
Year: 2018

description:
OBJECTIVES: Vaginal dysbiosis and STIs are important drivers of the HIV epidemic and reproductive complications. These conditions remain prevalent, partly because most cases are asymptomatic. We have shown that inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1α, IL-1β and interferon-γ-induced protein (IP)-10 are biomarkers for detecting asymptomatic STIs and vaginal dysbiosis (bacterial vaginosis (BV) or intermediate microbiota). This study aimed to validate the performance of these biomarkers in African women recruited regardless of symptoms. METHODS: IL-1α, IL-1β and IP-10 were measured in menstrual cup secretions, endocervical, lateral vaginal wall and vulvovaginal swabs from 550 women from Pretoria, Soweto and Cape Town, South Africa and Bondo, Kenya using Luminex and ELISA. STIs were assessed by PCR, BV by Nugent scoring and vaginal microbiota by 16S rRNA sequencing. RESULTS: Across four study populations and four types of genital specimens, the performance of IL-1α, IL-1β and IP-10 for identification of women with STIs, BV or intermediate microbiota was consistent. Of the genital samples assessed, biomarkers measured in lateral vaginal wall swabs performed best, correctly classifying 76%(95% CI 70% to 81%) of women according to STI, BV or intermediate microbiota status (sensitivity 77%, specificity 71%) and were more accurate than clinical symptoms (sensitivity 41%, specificity 57%) (p=0.0003). Women incorrectly classified as STI/BV positive using the biomarkers had more abundant dysbiosis-associated bacteria, including Prevotella bivia and Gardnerella sp, detected by 16S rRNA sequencing, but not Nugent scoring. Including vaginal pH with the cytokine biomarkers improved the accuracy of the test (82% (95% CI 75% to 88%) correctly classified), although pH alone had poor specificity (61%). CONCLUSIONS: An inexpensive, point-of-care screening test including IL-1α, IL-1β and IP-10 (and potentially pH) could be used in resource-limited settings to identify women with asymptomatic STIs and dysbiosis. These women could then be referred for aetiological testing, followed by specific treatment.
Metzgeria fruticola Spruce
Creators: name: Schäfer-Verwimp, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Metzgeriaceae
Metzgeria
Metzgeria fruticola

description: Metzgeria fruticola Spruce
 Chiriqui: Loc. 20, epiphyllous, 1880 m, 30986.
A widespread neotropical species, known from Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, Cuba, and a single record from Panama, Chiriqui / Bocas del Toro (Costa 2008).
description: Published as part of Schäfer-Verwimp, A., 2014, Towards a more complete knowledge of the liverwort flora of Panama, pp. 201-234 in Phytotaxa 172 (3) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5142583
On the Circular Orbit Approximation for Binary Compact Objects In General Relativity
Creators: name: Miller, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One often-used approximation in the study of binary compact objects (i.e., black holes and neutron stars) in general relativity is the instantaneously circular orbit assumption. This approximation has been used extensively, from the calculation of innermost circular orbits to the construction of initial data for numerical relativity calculations. While this assumption is inconsistent with generic general relativistic astrophysical inspiral phenomena where the dissipative effects of gravitational radiation cause the separation of the compact objects to decrease in time, it is usually argued that the timescale of this dissipation is much longer than the orbital timescale so that the approximation of circular orbits is valid. Here, we quantitatively analyze this approximation using a post-Newtonian approach that includes terms up to order ({Gm/(rc^2)})^{9/2} for non-spinning particles. By calculating the evolution of equal mass black hole / black hole binary systems starting with circular orbit configurations and comparing them to the more astrophysically relevant quasicircular solutions, we show that a minimum initial separation corresponding to at least 6 (3.5) orbits before plunge is required in order to bound the detection event loss rate in gravitational wave detectors to < 5% (20%). In addition, we show that the detection event loss rate is > 95% for a range of initial separations that include all modern calculations of the innermost circular orbit (ICO).
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, revtex4
Resonance-continuum interference in the di-photon Higgs signal at the LHC
Creators: name: Dixon, Lance
name: Siu, M. Stewart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A low mass Standard Model Higgs boson should be visible at the Large Hadron Collider through its production via gluon-gluon fusion and its decay to two photons. We compute the interference of this resonant process, gg -> H -> gamma gamma, with the continuum QCD background, gg -> gamma gamma induced by quark loops. Helicity selection rules suppress the effect, which is dominantly due to the imaginary part of the two-loop gg -> gamma gamma scattering amplitude. The interference is destructive, but only of order 5% in the Standard Model, which is still below the 10-20% present accuracy of the total cross section prediction. We comment on the potential size of such effects in other Higgs models.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Efficient correction of multiqubit measurement errors
Creators: name: Geller, Michael R.
name: Sun, Mingyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors limit the performance of near-term quantum computers and their potential for practical application. SPAM errors are partly correctable after a calibration step that requires, for a complete implementation on a register of $n$ qubits, $2^n$ additional measurements. Here we introduce an approximate but efficient method for multiqubit SPAM error characterization and mitigation requiring the classical processing of $2^n \! \times 2^n$ matrices, but only $O(4^k n^2)$ measurements, where $k=O(1)$ is the number of qubits in a correlation volume. We demonstrate and validate the technique using an IBM Q processor on registers of 4 and 8 superconducting qubits.
U.S. Tobacco Statistics, 1935-92
Creators: name: Creek, Laverne
name: Capehart, Thomas C.
name: Grise, Verner
name: Creek, Laverne
name: Capehart, Thomas C.
name: Grise, Verner
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: world trade
subject: utilization
subject: price
subject: disappearance
subject: supply
subject: production
subject: Tobacco

description: Tobacco, the sixth largest cash crop grown in the United States, is cultivated in 21 States. The United States produces 23 types of tobacco divided into eight major classes of tobacco. Tobacco is used for cigarettes, Cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own cigarettes. The United States is both the largest importer and exporter of tobacco and the second largest producer, behind China. This bulletin presents statistics for tobacco dating from 1935 for some variables. Data are presented for the United Stales and by State for all types. More areas covered are tobacco product output and consumption, leaf acreage, yield, production, price and value by type and State, and supply and disappearance of leaf by type of tobacco. Other statistics include data on prices, expenditures, Government revenues from tobacco products, farm and leaf processing size and Structure, and tobacco program features such as price supports. marketing quotas, and assessments. Foreign production, exports. imports, and consumption of both leaf and tobacco products for selected countries are also presented. U.S. leaf and tobacco product trade with selected countries is also detailed.
A back-door brain drain
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Byra, Lukasz
name: Stark, Oded
name: Byra, Lukasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Migration of unskilled workers
subject: Human capital formation
subject: Depletion of human capital

description: In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that even without the departure of skilled workers, the home country suffers reduced aggregate skill formation. Although as a response to a higher wage rate per unit of human capital in the new equilibrium skilled workers choose to accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled workers in the home country’s workforce fall. The combined effect is a decrease in the average level of human capital in the home country.
The Political Economy of the 1990 Agricultural and Food Policy
Creators: name: Spitze, Robert G.F.
name: Spitze, Robert G.F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy

description: The U.S. Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 involves more than economics. All public policy does. Economic paradigms provide incomplete premises to use in analyses of public policies. As a result, some economists see solely economic irrationality in this new Act. However, economics is only one science among several that provides insight into the decades of public agricultural and food policy from which the 1990 Act evolved.
Better implant survival with modern ankle prosthetic designs: 1,226 total ankle prostheses followed for up to 20 years in the Swedish Ankle Registry
Creators: name: Undén, Alexandra
name: Jehpsson, Lars
name: Kamrad, Ilka
name: Carlsson, Åke
name: Henricson, Anders
name: Karlsson, Magnus K
name: Rosengren, Björn E
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — We have previously reported on the prosthetic survival of total ankle replacements (TAR) in Sweden performed between 1993 and 2010. Few other reports have been published on 5- and 10-year survival rates. Furthermore, there is a lack of long-term outcome data on modern prosthetic designs. Therefore, we compared early and current prosthetic designs after a mean 7-year follow-up. Patients and methods — On December 31, 2016, 1,230 primary TARs had been reported to the Swedish Ankle Registry. We analyzed prosthetic survival, using exchange or permanent extraction of components as endpoint for 1,226 protheses with mean follow-up of 7 years (0–24). Differences between current (Hintegra, Mobility, CCI, Rebalance, and TM Ankle) and early prosthetic designs (STAR, BP, and AES) were examined by log rank test. Results — 267/1,226 prostheses (22%) had been revised by December 31, 2016. We found an overall prosthetic survival rate at 5 years of 0.85 (95% CI 0.83–0.87), at 10 years 0.74 (CI 0.70–0.77), at 15 years 0.63 (CI 0.58–0.67), and at 20 years 0.58 (CI 0.52–0.65). For early prosthetic designs the 5- and 10-year survival rates were 0.81 (CI 0.78–0.84) and 0.69 (CI 0.64-0.73) respectively, while the corresponding rates for current designs were 0.88 (CI 0.85–0.91) and 0.84 (CI 0.79–0.88). Current prosthetic designs had better survival (log rank test p < 0.001). Interpretation — Our results point to a positive time trend of prosthetic survival in Sweden; use of current prosthetic designs was associated with better prosthetic survival. Improved designs and instrumentation, more experienced surgeons, and improved patient selection may all have contributed to the better outcome.
Complexity of magnetic fields on red dwarfs
Creators: name: Afram, N.
name: Berdyugina, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields in cool stars can be investigated by measuring Zeeman line broadening and polarization in atomic and molecular lines. Similar to the Sun, these fields are complex and height-dependent. Many molecular lines dominating M-dwarf spectra (e.g., FeH, CaH, MgH, and TiO) are temperature -- and Zeeman -- sensitive and form at different atmospheric heights, which makes them excellent probes of magnetic fields on M dwarfs. Our goal is to analyze the complexity of magnetic fields in M dwarfs. We investigate how magnetic fields vary with the stellar temperature and how "surface" inhomogeneities are distributed in height -- the dimension that is usually neglected in stellar magnetic studies. We have determined effective temperatures of the photosphere and of magnetic features, magnetic field strengths and filling factors for nine M dwarfs (M1-M7). Our chi^2 analysis is based on a comparison of observed and synthetic intensity and circular polarization profiles. Stokes profiles were calculated by solving polarized radiative transfer equations. Properties of magnetic structures depend on the analyzed atomic or molecular species and their formation heights. Two types of magnetic features similar to those on the Sun have been found: a cooler (starspots) and a hotter (network) one. The magnetic field strength in both starspots and network is within 3 kG to 6 kG, on average it is 5 kG. These fields occupy a large fraction of M dwarf atmospheres at all heights, up to 100%. The plasma beta is less than one, implying highly magnetized stars. A combination of molecular and atomic species and a simultaneous analysis of intensity and circular polarization spectra have allowed us to better decipher the complexity of magnetic fields on M dwarfs, including their dependence on the atmospheric height. This work provides an opportunity to investigate a larger sample of M dwarfs and L-type brown dwarfs.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures